Chapter 16
"It's the Chu family, it's the Situ family. Pen %Fun %Pavilion www.biquge.info"
All the heroes have the answer in their hearts, and most of the people gathered under the Sikong Gu banner have a very poor relationship with the Chu family and the Situ family, and even many people have offended these two families. After all, those who have received the grace of the Sikong family have already been killed by Mr. Wu. These heroes here naturally have no relationship with the Sikong family. In addition, Sikong's family originally operated inns, taverns, tea stalls, and melon and vegetable sales, which were not very profitable, but the income fluctuated little.
It's just that these businesses don't need too many people to escort them, unlike businesses such as dart bureaus, antique shops, and pharmacies, which make the rivers and lakes red. Although the Sikong family, the Situ family, and the Chu family were the three major families in Jiangning, in fact, there were not many people in the rivers and lakes who had interests in the Sikong family on the surface, and there were only more than ten people.
But back then, the Sikong family, among the three families in Jiangning, was the most powerful. These heroes here don't know the reason, with their wisdom, they probably can't guess what the reason is, but because of Mr. Wu, Sikong Gu knows clearly, what kind of business is Sikong Gu actually doing.
Every time there is a famine or civil unrest, countless displaced people will pour into Jiangning, and even if martial law is imposed, those displaced people will kneel under the root of the wall and build straw huts outside the city. Not for anything else, just for the government to open a warehouse once a day to send porridge, the corn porridge is rough and hard, but the amount is really a lot. Sikong Gu still remembers that on weekdays, these porridges are not distributed to beggars in the city, and only when the disaster victims appear, the official will worry about provoking a civil uprising and causing trouble, but speaking of which, sending porridge on weekdays is not a political achievement, only sending porridge in a disaster year and not causing trouble to the imperial court, this is a political achievement.
There are thousands of acres of fertile land near Jiangning, and there is very little famine, so the victims of the disaster are running here, and these victims are dragging their families with their mouths, which is very inconvenient, and the business that the Sikong family secretly operates is to reduce the burden for them.
Selling children and daughters is just in exchange for food, but the Sikong family runs grain and vegetables, and opens a rice shop and melon and fruit shop, where will there be no surplus grain in his hands?
In every disaster year, it is extremely difficult to exchange a bag of gold, silver and jewelry for a bag of brown rice, not to mention that what the Sikong family exchanged with those victims was a few fat chickens and rice grain that could last for spring ploughing next year! When Sikong Gu first read these files, he also frowned slightly--The Sikong family was so rich that it would be good to give those parents more food than their children in those years? Where is it necessary to give enough rice and grain?
The oldest of the children who were bought were only seven or eight years old, and the youngest was three or four years old, but the younger they were, the cheaper they were, after all, the Sikong family bought these children just to sell them, and they were not willing to spend more rice to support these guys.
If the martial arts qualifications are good, then they will be sold to some small sects, and those sects will naturally need talents if they want to develop and grow, but where do the talents come from? Most of the talented ones will not come to these small sects, and they will want these small sects to go to the rivers and lakes to find them? They may not be able to have these visions, and to a certain extent, they do not have this ability. It takes money to walk the rivers and lakes, it takes money to inquire about the news, and it takes money to open the way for everything to do.
Therefore, it is better to buy the good goods delivered to your door than to spend an unknown amount of money to find them yourself. Of course, once in a while, there are one or two talented people, and the Sikong family will sell them to the charlatan or some other people.
For example, people like Mr. Wu.
And what about those who are not talented? Sikong Gu knows better than others, most of them are begging on the street, although they are lonely, but they are not only lonely, but also lack hands and feet, and they will only say "thank you, uncle" These words have been repeated countless times.
When Sikong Gu begged, he didn't try to communicate with them, but after the exchange, he felt that they were really fools, and sometimes there were a pair of eyes staring at him viciously, as if he was afraid that he would do something to prevent them from "making money". It wasn't until later that Sikong Gu learned that those children had joined the beggar gang.
The one who is known as the number one gang in the world, the beggar gang.
Chivalry is a beggar, and it is also a beggar to ask for food on the street, and on a piece of land, one beggar is enough, and if there is more, people's kindness will become less after they are broken.
While thinking about all this, Sikong Gu's generous words never stopped.
What Sikong family has virtue in Jiangning City, and the people of Jiangning have never forgotten it.
Yes, every time there is a famine, the Sikong family will donate the most rice.
He Sikong's family was tragically attacked by gangsters, and his family property was taken away by some traitors.
Yes, the business of human trafficking, I don't know which one it fell into, according to the dossier, a child has several dollars, and some are dozens of dollars, and when the business of the Sikong family is good, it is not a problem to earn tens of thousands of dollars a year. After all, they are not only running a business in Jiangning, the entire Jiangnan Road is centered on Jiangning, and there are people from the Sikong family walking around every famine year. In the name of disaster relief, in fact, they buy and sell or abduct people, and those who do these things include Zhang Wenwen, the so-called "Three Heroes of the Green Underworld". Those who were killed by Mr. Wu were all descendants of the Sikong family, and they were all people who went to do these shady things.
What providence revives the Sikong family, what the people's prestige returns, and finally draws the sword, the crowd is really a little ridiculous.
If you want to succeed, you really can't rely on these stupid donkeys, looking at their appearance, it's probably not pretending, but really believing these words in my mouth? That Dongfang Ling is especially stupid, I just said it a little miserably, what kind of tears do I have? I can only flash tears, otherwise my credibility will be greatly reduced.
Thus, the formal discussion began. Today is for these heroes to express their opinions and provide some plans, although Sikong Gu already has a draft in his heart, he also knows that if he doesn't give them some credit in this way, they won't let themselves go.
Listening to what these heroes said and what I said, although Sikong Gu felt ridiculous, he was also relieved, because he knew very well that those people would come to visit before noon at the latest. I made it clear that I had a carriage and horses, I didn't go out to greet them the day before yesterday, I didn't arrive yesterday, and if I didn't come today, the two of them would inevitably be a little unkind.
You have to make a show for everyone, don't you? The Situ family and the Chu family are not stupid.
After another half an hour, the heat in the lobby became higher and higher, and after Sikong Gu held back a few yawns, he couldn't bear it in his heart. If the Situ family and the Chu family don't come, are they waiting for me to come to visit? Then at that time, it's not that I owe them a favor, and the two families really don't know how to do business?