Liuzhou is the largest state capital in the Yan Kingdom, but in terms of wealth, it ranks last in the Yan Kingdom, and only Liuzhou City, where the state capital is located, is considered prosperous. It is located in the southern part of the Yan country, with barren land and many barren mountains and mountains.

Although it is poor, Liuzhou City is the largest city in Liuzhou. The Qingliu Grand Canal, which runs through the north and south of Yan Kingdom, passes through the center of this city, and several other water and land trunk roads also pass through here, so the traffic is extremely developed, and it can be called a water transportation hub and a commercial artery. Every year, there are countless merchants and travelers who pass by, which greatly drives the economic and trade activities here, so it is not uncommon for Liuzhou City to become the largest city in the state. In the entire Yan Kingdom, only Liuzhou City can handle it.

In Liuzhou City, there are many large and small car dealers, docks, and boat households, all over the city. There are even more coachmen, coolies, and boatmen engaged in this business, there are tens of thousands of people, and Xue Ba is one of them who makes a living from the docks.

Xue Ba's name is loud, but he has long slanted eyebrows and crooked eyes, and he looks like a ruffian with crooked melons and cracked dates, but because he is brave and ruthless, he fights and does not want to die, but he has become a small gang leader on the dock, with dozens of coolies under his command, and makes a living by helping passing merchants carry goods and luggage, and pulling rickshaws.

Therefore, early this morning, when Xue Ba came to this small dock, several of his dogs hurriedly came over and respectfully said:

"It's early!"

"The overlord is here!"

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When Xue Ba heard these titles, he couldn't help but feel a little fluttering, after all, he could be called "master", which also showed that he was also a figure with status here. So he put his foot on the shelf, and snorted through his nose, even in response to the greetings of these men.

"What a bully, isn't he just a bastard?"

"It's just a mad dog!"

"Haha! haha......"

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A burst of cynical laughter unabashedly reached Xue Ba's ears.

After Xue Ba heard this, his face suddenly sank, and his mood turned bad in an instant. Although Xue Ba was not allowed to stand in the upper echelons of Liuzhou City, because of his perverse temperament, he would not die once there was a conflict. In addition, there are several brothers under his command who have come from the struggle of life and death. If you can't kill all of them at once, there will be endless troubles, so no one dares to mess with them in normal times.

Because everyone knows that it's easy for you to kill him, but no matter how small the cost of killing him and causing his men to retaliate, it won't be worth it.

He slowly turned his head and looked at the dozens of people standing on the other side of the dock, and his eyes fell on a bearded man with a big waist and a round waist, and a little jealousy flashed in his eyes.

If you want to say that the person who Xue Ba hates the most at the dock of Liuzhou City, this bearded man can definitely be ranked in the top three. If someone told him that he could exchange all his family wealth for this bearded man to completely disappear from the world, Xue Ba might not agree. But if he only wants half of his fortune, then he will not hesitate to agree.

No one knows what the original name of this bearded man was, and the people at the dock either called him "Axe Master" or called him "Axe Handle". He is the leader of another small gang, the "Axe Gang", which is said to be the Axe Gang, but in fact it is just a group of scoundrels in the city and porters from the docks, and it is called the Axe Gang just because they help everyone with an axe.

One mountain is still not tolerant of two tigers, not to mention this wharf with rolling financial resources. As a result, the two gangs were not quite right from the beginning, and after several conflicts over turf, the relationship between them became even worse. Now that they have met each other, the two gangs are either pointing fingers, pushing and scolding, and from time to time there will be several group fights.

If his subordinates are still like this, let alone Xue Ba and the axe handle, who are the biggest beneficiaries of this territory. The two looked at each other very unpleasantly. But the strength of the two sides is about the same, and over the years, there have been no less than hundreds of fights, large and small, and no one can take advantage of anyone. Therefore, although both of them want to put each other to death and occupy this dock exclusively, they can only forcibly endure and restrain it for the time being. However, their own pent-up grievances and anger were vented through the verbal conflict between their subordinates, which became a necessary practice for the two every time they met.

No, Xue Ba's subordinates didn't wait for him to signal, and a few sharp-toothed people fought back unceremoniously.

"What kind of axe gang, isn't it just a bunch of wood-splitters?"

"That's it!"

"You think you're great with an axe all day?"

"Return the Axe Gang, shit!"

"Ha ......"

Originally, he listened to his subordinates taunt each other, revealing an axe handle with a smug face, but after hearing this, his face darkened for a moment. Xue Ba laughed, and he patted the shoulders of these subordinates with satisfaction to show encouragement.

Not to be outdone, the men of the axe handle raised the axes they had to carry, and all kinds of filthy and vicious words spewed out in strings. Xue Ba's side will not be polite, everyone is a master with a handle, who is afraid of whom! Naturally, what is not good, what is unpleasant, just choose what to fight back.

Xue Ba and the axe handle, who were their leaders, sat on the sidelines and watched coldly, they were people with some status, so naturally they couldn't join this shrew-like scolding campaign. Both of them are brutal and cold-blooded people, who either kill in anger and disdain to do oral work.

Just as the two groups of people were scolding the sky and the earth, and the autumn water was the same color as the sky, suddenly one of Xue Ba's subordinates exclaimed: "A big ship is coming!"

This sentence immediately made nearly 100 big men who were scolding hotly, hula, all of them shut down, and at the same time turned their heads to look at the river. After all, in these days, nothing compares to drinking wine and eating meat in a big bowl, and if you want to quarrel, you can do it every day, don't delay earning money.

When the big men saw the boat on the dock clearly, they were all excited, it was just a building boat, and it looked like there were many businessmen sitting in it, and Kenben was a big businessman.

It's no wonder that the marina is small, but it's in a great location, and big ships come here from time to time. When the trade season is in full swing, there is a grand occasion when a big ship comes every hour.

The big boat, after stopping at the dock, was the first to step down from the boat. He looks like he is twenty-one or twelve years old, with a delicate appearance and a pair of bright eyes.

This young man was dressed in an ordinary literati shirt and looked like a scholar, and it took a month for Lu Xu to arrive here.

Lu Xu set off from the sect, got on this big boat, and went straight to Liuzhou City near Jiubi Mountain.

As a result, a month later, Lu Xu came to his birthplace in this world all the way and stepped on this inconspicuous dock.

The first thing this dock gave Lu Xu was that it was still so bad.

As I remember in my mind, the whole wharf was made of simple wooden planks, and not only was the place small and simple, but the piles in the east and west corners were full of rotten baskets and broken bags, which were extremely dirty. In the only two bamboo sheds built on the pier, dozens of sturdy men stood on each side, and these men were either shirtless or wearing only short coats on their upper bodies, all revealing a smell of sweat and sourness. Beside the bamboo shed are rows of rickshaw-like rickshaws, which are used to carry people because the dock is some distance from the city.

Now these men are all staring at Lu Xu without blinking at the moment, and some of them have eager eyes in their eyes.

Lu Xu was stunned for a moment, but then smiled slightly.

In this memory, the wharf was like this, and there was an unwritten rule that no matter how many goods the merchants brought ashore carried, they had to pay a rickshaw from the wharf to enter the city. Otherwise, they will be treated badly by these coolie footmen, and they may even be beaten severely.

Lu Xu came this time to go back to Jiubi Mountain to have a look, and he didn't plan to cause any trouble, so he greeted him very honestly:

"I'm going to hire a car, is anyone coming?"

Xue Ba had already retracted his gaze at this time, and through some scrutiny just now, he had already decided in his heart that this young man who had just gotten off the boat was most likely a scholar. There are many such scholars in Liuzhou City every year, and this kind of person generally has a lot of silver. Because only those who are wealthy can afford to read.

However, such a reader is also the best face, and he likes to talk about pomp and circumstance, and he is the best wrongdoer. As long as they compliment them a little bit, these scholars often give a lot of extra money in addition to paying the promised car money. So for those who are employed, it is still a very good business. And looking at the bulging appearance of the two black bags on the other party's waist, I'm afraid it's still a fat sheep with a flowing head.

For such a fat sheep, Xue Ba and the axe handle have an agreement, Xue Ba is Xue Ba on the double day, and the axe handle is the axe handle on the single day. If you want to kill yourself for money, the two of them will share the wealth they get equally. Today happens to be a single day, and it's the turn of the axe.

Thinking of this, Xue Ba glanced at the other side, only to see the axe handle whispering a few words to the subordinates around him, and then a man ran out of the crowd happily and rushed towards the young man.

"Young master, where are you going?" said the man, pulling a rickshaw.

"Into town. Lu Xu snapped and opened the folding fan in his hand.

Immediately, the rickshaw pulled Lu Xu and went straight to Liuzhou City.

Xue Ba looked at the scholar's back as he gradually moved away, and finally withdrew his salivating eyes, he suppressed the surprise in his heart, and couldn't help but turn his head and look at the axe handle opposite. He had a hunch that the two black bags on the other party's waist must have a lot of oil and water in them.

Sure enough, the axe handle was also surprised, and after hesitating for a moment, he still glanced at Xue Ba. Xue Ba immediately understood and walked with him to a shabby square table nearby. The other party is a scholar, or a person, and he has a lot of property on him, which is simply seducing them to make money and kill them.

"Fifty-five accounts!" Xue Ba went straight to the point in a low voice.

"Four or six points, today is a single day, this is originally our business" The axe handle unceremoniously refused.

"Hmph, you have forgotten our agreement, we don't have this kind of thing once or twice, I, Xue Ba, used to split the account fifty-fifty. Xue Ba grimaced and said sharply.

"This ......" the axe handle hesitated, such a fat sheep is rare.

"Hmph! If you think about it for a while, I'm afraid that the people of other gangs will have their eyes on this fat sheep. After snorting, Xue Ba said coldly.

"Okay! That's it, do as agreed. The axe gritted his teeth, and finally agreed.

"Okay, let's catch up with each other, don't let this kid enter the city, it's not easy to do it. Xue Ba hurriedly urged.

"Hehe, don't worry, I'll let that subordinate take him out of the shack outside the city, and now hurry to block them." The axe smirked.

"This is great, hahaha!" Xue Ba showed surprise on the surface, but his heart was cold, and he secretly strengthened his vigilance against the axe handle. If I hadn't said it this time, I'm afraid this guy would have to eat alone. Okay, you axe, I'm going to clean you up sooner or later, and I don't know how many times you've done it behind your back.