A knife in love

Chapter 2956

While speaking, the man in black took two steps forward, pointed at the old man in gray with his right hand, and almost poked the old man's face with his fingertips.

Murong Danyan had just seen the man in black asking his subordinates to beat and insult the young man, and he was already indignant, but now he saw the man in black being rude to the old man, and immediately felt aggrieved.I just remembered that many unexpected things happened today, and I acted recklessly several times. If it wasn't for Li Qiufeng's help, I'm afraid I would have already caused big trouble.Thinking of this, Murong Danyan had no choice but to forcibly endure, but his right hand was already holding down the hilt of the sword, and he thought to himself, if the man in black hurts someone, I must rescue the old man.

Although the old man in gray was being pointed at by the man in black, he was not afraid. He smiled and said lightly: "The leader of your gang, Jiang, is a frequent visitor to Songtianyan Island. I heard that there are several inns and taverns on the island. The guest room and private room that came down, I don’t know if Gang Leader Jiang is also on the island right now?”

The man in black didn't expect the old man in gray to know about this, and his heart shuddered, thinking that our Gang Leader Jiang often came to Songtian Rock Island to do business, and it was a very confidential matter. The adults have taken our money and will not embarrass us, but once the governor's office finds out about it, I'm afraid things will be very bad.This old guy knew that Gang Leader Jiang often went to Songtianyan Island to do business, and even booked guest rooms on the island, so the origin must be extraordinary.

Thinking of this, the arrogance of the man in black immediately dropped by half, he looked the old man in gray up and down a few times, and said in his mouth: "Forgive me for my poor eyesight, may I ask where did the old man get rich?!"

Seeing that the man in black is no longer as arrogant as before, the old man in gray smiled and said, "I'm just poor, how dare I talk about getting rich? Since you are the brother of Gang Leader Jiang, you must also be a great hero." Haojie, why do you need to be as knowledgeable as this poor boy? He has been beaten to such a state by you, and I think the anger in your chest has disappeared, so let him be spared."

Seeing the old man in gray pleading for the boy, the man in black was quite annoyed, but he was concerned about the identity of the old man, so he didn't dare to get angry rashly.So he took a few deep breaths, forced a smile, and said: "The old man doesn't know something. Although we are not heroes, we will not lower our status. We are not as good as this little boy who has no hair. You are in a difficult situation. It’s just that this little thief stole something belonging to Gang Leader Jiang, so we tried our best to catch him.”

When the man in black said this, he turned his head and glanced at the boy who was tied up and lying on the ground, spat hard, and then continued: "Don't look at this kid with a consumptive appearance, Mr. It seems that even a gust of wind can blow him down, but in fact this little bastard is very cunning. We chased him around the island for several days and nights, but we didn’t catch this little thief, and a few other brothers were set by him Injured by the trap. Gang leader Jiang is very strict. Seeing that there are more than a dozen of us, but we can't even deal with a little boy, he was furious. Not only did we scold us, but also several brothers were beaten by Gang leader Jiang. He was beaten so hard that he was almost beaten to death. We brothers have suffered so much because of this brat. Now we have spent a lot of effort to finally catch him. How can we let him go? We have to steal him Find out what he left, and then take him back to see Gang Leader Jiang, and Gang Leader Jiang will release this little thief. Otherwise, I will let this little thief go without authorization, and Gang Leader Jiang will have to punish me."

After hearing the man in black's words, the old man in gray nodded his head and said in his mouth, "Guangzhu Jiang is so angry, I think the lost thing is extremely important. I dare to ask, what did this poor boy steal?"

The faces of the men in black changed greatly when they heard the old man in gray say this.The leader of the man in black smiled, and said: "This is a private matter of our Qingyan Gang, the old man should not ask more questions."

Li Qiufeng and Murong Danyan were startled when they heard the leader of the man in black say "Qingyan Gang".Murong Danyan thought to himself, when I was in Murong Villa, I heard my father mentioned the name of Qingyan Gang.He said that the Qingyan Gang should actually be called the "Qingyan Gang", which is a branch of the Jiangnan Salt Gang.The Salt Gang is not well-known in Jianghu, but in terms of origin, it is older than many gangs in Jianghu.During the heyday of the Tang Dynasty, salt and iron were monopolized by the imperial court, and merchants were not allowed to make profits from it. However, the salt and iron business was a profitable business. Many desperadoes were greedy for money and risked their families and clans by secretly selling salt and iron to make a profit.Among them, private salt dealers bought sea salt from the East China Sea at a low price, and smuggled it to various parts of the Central Plains for sale.Because the private salt sold by private salt dealers was much cheaper than the official salt sold by the government, even though the imperial court strictly prohibited the people from buying private salt, the people still secretly bought private salt from private salt dealers for consumption.The imperial court lost a lot of taxes because of the sale of private salt dealers, and strictly ordered all local governments to arrest private salt dealers.Once the private salt dealers were caught by the government, most of them were beheaded for public display.These private salt dealers were all desperadoes, so they were naturally unwilling to be captured and killed by the government, so they colluded together, established salt gangs, recruited gangsters, and openly confronted the court.

Private salt dealers are all wealthy people with plenty of money in their hands.As the saying goes, under heavy rewards, there must be brave men. The Salt Gang paid for many evil masters and underworld figures in the arena.Although when a large group of officers and soldiers came to suppress and kill, the Salt Gang could only avoid and not fight, but when encountering a small group of officers and soldiers, the Salt Gang was often able to defeat the officers and soldiers and flee.For thousands of years, although dynasties have changed and successive dynasties have hunted and killed the Salt Gang on a large scale, the Salt Gang has not only not been wiped out by the court, but has become stronger and stronger.

The emperor Taizu of this dynasty started in the wilderness. At that time, his biggest enemy was not the Tartar court, but Zhang Shicheng who occupied Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and Chen Youliang who captured Huguang.Zhang Shicheng and Chen Youliang's most capable fighters are navy divisions. To defeat these two powerful enemies, Emperor Taizu must rely on navy divisions to succeed.It is said that Emperor Taizu formed an alliance with Ming Yuzhen, who ruled the southeast coast, to deal with Zhang Shicheng, and at the same time bought a group of private salt dealers to serve as navy to deal with the domineering Chen Youliang.

Before joining the army, Zhang Shicheng was the leader of the Salt Gang and the richest private salt dealer in the world.The reason why he was able to repeatedly defeat the Tartars and other tyrants of the separatist party and occupy the rich land in the southeast was because the Salt Gang had a large number of people, they were not afraid of death when fighting, and they held huge amounts of gold and silver in their hands as military pay and purchases. Grain and weapons.But when Zhang Shicheng led the Salt Gang, a group of people in the gang were not convinced by him and wanted to get rid of Zhang Shicheng and seize the throne of the Salt Gang leader.Unexpectedly, just when this group of people was about to strike, someone rebelled, surrendered to Zhang Shicheng, and exposed the incident.Zhang Shicheng asked his two younger brothers to lead a surprise attack, killing the group of private salt dealers who had betrayed him and almost wiped out the entire army. Only a few dozen people managed to escape from SZ City.Zhang Shicheng hated these traitors to the bone, and ordered their family members and friends to be slaughtered without leaving any dogs or chickens behind.

(End of this chapter)