A knife in love

Chapter 2957

Although this group of private salt dealers suffered a disastrous defeat, they were not convinced, and after experiencing a disastrous defeat, although they escaped with their lives, their family and friends were slaughtered by Zhang Shicheng. Naturally, they hated the Zhang brothers and swore To destroy the Salt Gang, kill all the Zhang clan, and avenge family and friends.This group of people hibernates in the south of the Yangtze River, while selling private salt for profit, while secretly recruiting troops and buying horses, waiting for the opportunity.Emperor Taizu learned of this, and sent people to spend a lot of money to buy and sell this group of private salt dealers, and asked them to help him deal with Chen Youliang. The Zhang family.

Later, Emperor Taizu defeated Chen Youliang's hundreds of thousands of troops at Poyang Lake, and Chen Youliang also died in the chaos.This group of private salt dealers formed an army of their own, and made great contributions to Emperor Taizu by virtue of their proficiency in water warfare.After Emperor Taizu defeated Chen Youliang, he turned around and marched eastward, and fought with Zhang Shicheng's army in Suzhou and Hangzhou.The private salt dealer had a deep blood feud with Zhang Shicheng, and he was familiar with the situation in Zhang Shicheng's army. They fought bravely and fought for the first place. They all seemed to be crazy, and led Emperor Taizu's troops to several cities.Zhang Shicheng couldn't resist the siege of Emperor Taizu's army, and was finally defeated and captured.Emperor Taizu originally wanted to force Zhang Shicheng to surrender, but Zhang Shicheng would rather die than surrender, and the group of private salt dealers clamored for Emperor Taizu to fulfill his promise and kill Zhang's family to avenge his family and friends.Emperor Taizu weighed again and again, and finally handed Zhang Shicheng into their hands.The private salt dealers first massacred Zhang Shicheng's family members, then humiliated Zhang Shicheng in every possible way, and finally beat him to death with sticks.

It's just that although this group of private salt dealers took revenge, Emperor Taizu knew that they were rebellious and difficult to control, so he had already determined to get rid of them.After Zhang Shicheng was defeated and killed, Emperor Taizu pretended to assign HZ to these private salt dealers and asked them to move to HZ.The private salt dealer got his revenge, and when he was proud, he didn't know that Emperor Taizu had murderous intentions, so he happily marched towards HZ.After arriving in HZ, the soldiers moored their warships in the West Lake, set up camp on the shore, and waited to take over HZ City early the next morning.Unexpectedly, that night, the Taizu's army who had already ambushed inside and outside the city of HZ suddenly attacked on a large scale. First, they burned all the salt dealers' battles, and then besieged the navy camp stationed on the shore.

Although the private salt dealer is brave and good at fighting, he has always fought on water, and he is not good at land warfare.Moreover, the emperor Taizu sent to kill them were all elite soldiers, most of them were cavalry.The sailors were on the shore, unable to fight against the troops sent by Emperor Taizu, they were almost wiped out, and only a hundred people escaped by chance.There were no outstanding figures among these illicit salt dealers who escaped, and they were terrified by Emperor Taizu's cruel methods. Although they escaped with their lives, they could only make a living by selling illicit salt, and never dared to think of revenge. .

After the founding of the Ming Dynasty, although there were still salt gangs in the south of the Yangtze River who sold private salt, their power had declined and they dared not go against the government at all.Later, the Salt Gang was subdued by the imperial court, and they dared not go against the imperial court any more, and even contributed to the imperial court together with the Cao Gang.In order to avoid the pursuit of the imperial court and to distinguish themselves from the salt gang who surrendered to the imperial court, the group of private salt dealers who escaped from the Emperor Taizu called themselves the Qingyan Gang and survived by selling private salt.

Later, the Salt Gang declined, but the Qingyan Gang flourished, not only selling private salt, but also colluding with gangsters and Japanese pirates to smuggle goods at sea and make huge profits.Although there are no martial arts masters in the Qingyan gang, they are rich and powerful. They not only use money to bribe gangsters, but also bribe government officials. Their power should not be underestimated.

Murong Danyan knew that these men in black were members of the Qingyan gang, and he thought to himself, Dad said that although the Qingyan gang is not a gangster gang and has not done any serious evil, but they secretly colluded with the Japanese pirates, bought the goods sold by the Japanese pirates, and robbed them. The stolen goods are then transported to various parts of the Central Plains for sale, which is no different from the bandit leader who sits on the ground and distributes the stolen goods.If it wasn't for Qingyan helping these idiots to buy the stolen goods from the Japanese pirates, the Japanese pirates lost the source of the money, and I am afraid that their power would have faded away.Therefore, although the reputation of the Qingyan Gang in Jianghu is not bad, it is not good either.If it weren't for the care of corrupt officials, this group of young people would have been killed by the righteous way of the rivers and lakes.

Thinking of this, Murong Danyan lowered his voice and whispered to Li Qiufeng: "Brother Li, the Qingyan Gang is not a good person from the leader to the members! They are doing evil here, we must not sit idly by!"

When Li Qiufeng was on duty at the Fusi of Jinyiwei South Town, he heard the name of the Qingyan Gang mentioned by a colleague of the Jinyiwei of the North Town Fusi, and he also saw the cases in which the Qingyan Gang participated in the files in the Jinyiwei archives. , Naturally know that the Qingyan gang has done a lot of dirty things secretly.So after hearing Murong Danyan finish speaking, Li Qiufeng nodded and said in a low voice: "Young lady is right. But the situation is not clear at the moment, let's not make a move yet, let's see what these guys want to do."

When the two of them were talking, the old man in gray said in a deep voice: "If it's something within the Gui Gang, the old man would not dare to talk about it, but this poor boy is not a member of the Gui Gang, and this place is not the Gui Gang Xiangtang. Since I was bumped into by the old man, the old man can't just sit idly by."

When the old man said this, he paused for a while, and then he continued: "Your gang is Han Chinese from Gangzhu Jiang, but this poor boy is from Fusang. No matter how strict Gangzhu Jiang's rules are, he can only restrain Han people, not Matsuda. Fuso people on Rock Island!"

When Li Qiufeng and Murong Danyan heard what the old man said, their hearts shivered, and they couldn't help turning their heads to look at the young man lying on the ground. Suspicions arose in their hearts, wondering how the old man knew that this young man was from Fusang?

Although the Qingyan gang is not a big gang in Jianghu, but they have money in the gang and are backed by the government, so they are used to being arrogant and domineering on weekdays.Relying on the power of the Qingyan Gang, the five men in black here have always been lawless and arrogant.It's just that he didn't know the identity of the gray-clothed old man, so he was quite afraid of him, so he suppressed the anger in his chest and barely broke out.At this time, when the old man in gray blatantly accused the Qingyan Gang and Gang Leader Jiang, how could the five men in black be patient?All of them raised their eyebrows and stared fiercely at the gray-clothed old man.The man in black at the head said with a smirk: "Old guy, don't give you shame! I said a few polite words, you old guy not only doesn't know how to restrain yourself, but you've turned your nose up! Since I gave you If you are shameless, don't blame me for being ruthless!"

After he finished speaking, he waved his right hand lightly, and the two black-clothed men standing behind him pulled out their waist knives, and rushed straight to the old man in gray clothes. He slashed straight at the old man in gray.The leader of the man in black said with a sinister smile: "Although this old guy is a jerk, he has lived a long time after all. God has the virtue of being good at life, so let's just leave him a dog's life. Take his two arms, so we can take care of him." Go back and report to Gang Leader Jiang!"

(End of this chapter)