Jianghu I am the only one

Chapter 29 Mind

The main task of the East and South cousins ​​of the Shenmu Gang is to inspect the forests encircled by the Shenmu Gang for illegal logging by other groups.

In addition, in order to open up new forest farms, you need to show off your strength, or when you compete with other gangs for territory, you also need to help the brothers.

In such a force, the ordinary gang members are not actually the bottom, the real bottom are the loggers, just like the bottom of the platoon gang is the platoon workers.But lumberjacks are not gang members. Even if there are rival gangs who want to grab the territory, as long as they abide by the rules of the world, they will generally not attack ordinary lumberjacks, at least they will not kill them.

In fact, in this world, Jianghu people are bound by both Jianghu rules and imperial court laws.

Since the power of the imperial court began to weaken more than a hundred years ago, gangs in the rivers and lakes have gradually increased, and various fights and killings have become more and more serious, which has obviously affected the order of the people. relevant administrative instructions.

If the parties involved in the fight or murder case are members of Jianghu gangs, the government can ignore them.To put it crudely, that is to say, let them eat black and eat black, and dogs eat dogs. Since they joined the Jianghu gang, they deserved their death.

But at the same time, another message was conveyed to the people in the rivers and lakes - our government can ignore how you fight and kill people in the rivers and lakes, but you can't do it to ordinary people, let alone innocent gentry and government personnel. Otherwise, they must be investigated to the end and punished severely.

In addition, decent Jianghu people have the rules of not harming ordinary people, so after the Dayu court issued this administrative instruction, all kinds of fighting and killings among the people were indeed greatly reduced for a time, and they were restricted to Jianghu people.

However, now at the end of the dynasty, the power of the imperial court has further weakened, whether it is the rules of the world, or the court decrees and policies, the binding force on people has been greatly reduced, and because of this, the world has become more and more muddy.

All of the above is what Ouyang Ye learned when talking with Chen Yan.

Of course, their main topic is definitely not these, but to see if the family members of the dead gang brothers and the disabled gang members can be arranged to make a living in these industries.

Those who are old, weak, women, children, and disabled are definitely unable to do logging, but they can always do laundry and cooking, right?

But after Chen Yanyi said, Ouyang Ye knew that some of the family members of the deceased brothers had been arranged in this way in the past, and after years of accumulation, the positions for such logistical work were already full.

Therefore, if you want to arrange people to go in again, unless the Shenmu Gang acquires a new forest farm, logging ground, or opens up a new industry.

"Young master, in fact, some relatives of the deceased brothers should be more willing to go back to their hometown and live with their relatives. Excluding these people, there may not be many people who really need to help arrange their future livelihood. The old man did not agree with it before. This matter is just that the gang will be unable to support it if it accumulates over time, it’s not that it’s really impossible right now.”

Hearing what Chen Yan said, Ouyang Ye also realized that he had ignored the thoughts of those dead brothers and relatives, and nodded immediately: "In this case, these people will trouble Mr. Chen to make arrangements. As for the future, I will find a way to help them Opening up a new industry will definitely not make this a difficult problem for the gang."

Chen Yan smiled, cupped his hands and said, "The old man will wait and see."

Saying this in his mouth, Chen Yan secretly shook his head in his heart: This young gang leader is still too young.Open up new industries?It's not that easy.If not, why has Ouyang Hu founded the Shenmu Gang for more than 20 years and has been in the logging industry all the time?

However, it is normal for the new lord to succeed to the throne and be ambitious. If you stay in this turbid world, you will know what can be done and what can't be done.

Seeing Chen Yan's tone of voice, Ouyang Ye could probably guess what he was thinking, but he didn't care - when he finished the matter, Chen Yan's expression would definitely be wonderful when he recalled today's thoughts.

"Young Master." Li Qin appeared in front of the front hall, clasped his fists and said, "I have found out what you explained."

"Come in and talk."

After Li Qin came in, he bowed his hands to Chen Yan and said, "My subordinate asked a few friends to find out. Although He Chun and Tian Yunong knew each other, they were not very close. The platoon is notoriously greedy for money, and the subordinates feel that in all likelihood, He Chun has taken advantage of Tian Yunong, so they will rescue him."

Hearing that He Chun probably took money to help Tian Yunong, not out of loyalty, Ouyang Ye felt that this matter would be easier to handle.

He nodded and said, "In that case, it's hard work for you to go on another trip and pass a message to the leader of the Shunliu platoon through your friends in the platoon, saying, 'He Chun rescued my Shenmu gang traitor. Tian Yunong, please give an explanation to Shi Paitou."

"Yes." Li Qin clasped his fists neatly, then turned and walked away quickly.

Now that the aftermath was discussed, Ouyang Ye gave Chen Yan the roster, account book, land deed and other money records found in Tiexianmen's lair today, and asked him to prepare the money needed to reward the brothers tonight. .

As for whether Chen Yan is trustworthy, Ouyang Ye thinks that there is no such problem.Before that, Chen Yan helped Ouyang Hu manage the accounts for 20 years, and he often handled a lot of money, so he wouldn't be tempted to add a few thousand taels of silver and a part of the fixed property of the iron wire gate.

Most importantly, it is impossible for Ouyang Ye to manage all the affairs of the gang by himself. Even if he has any ideas about financial management, he will have to wait until he has secured his position as the leader of the gang before he can implement them.

Coming out of the front hall, Ouyang Ye went back to Dongkua courtyard to have dinner first, and then went to visit the injured gang members.

Although today the brothers of the Shenmu Gang already know that he has enlightened, his thinking is like a normal person, and he has seen his martial arts and majesty, but it is estimated that in the minds of some gang members, his image is still vague and not specific, let alone Returned.

Therefore, if he wants to help people return to his heart, he must do more things.

Ordinary gang members live in the southern part of Shenmu Commercial Bank - several rows of wooden houses have been built here. There are single gang members who live in one house, some families who live in one or two houses, and single people who live in one house. house.

In Ouyang Ye's memory, although this area is not very clean, it is still clean on the whole due to the cleaning of some brothers and family members. Usually there are some gang children playing in the alley between the rows of wooden houses. It was quite peaceful.

However, when Ouyang Ye walked into this area tonight, he felt that it was full of depression, sadness, and even despair.

Along the way, women were crying softly in many houses, and in some rooms, there were injured people moaning uncontrollably. Even those rooms that were silent were releasing a sense of depression.

Originally, Ouyang Ye wanted to visit the injured gang members room by room, and told them that a meeting would be held in half an hour, and he would pay compensation to the brothers who died in battle, and reward those who made meritorious deeds, so as to gain people's hearts.

But at this moment, he suddenly wanted to understand—to these ordinary gang members, what happened today was nothing short of a disaster.

This brutal fight was not for fighting for new territories, nor for punishing those enemies who violated the interests of the Shenmu Gang, but a disaster caused by several high-level members of the gang fighting for the position of the gang leader!
Even if they wiped out the iron wire gate that took the opportunity to attack, they couldn't bring back the people who died because of it.

And many people here didn't need to die originally.

So what is there to celebrate about such a "victory"?

Standing between rows of wooden houses, listening to the sounds of sadness or pain around, thinking about these, even though Ouyang Ye never considered himself a good person in his past and present lives, he stopped all utilitarian thoughts in his heart.

When he came back to his senses, he heard Dr. Cen's voice mixed with the muffled groans of pain from the cabin in front of him, and he walked in.

[Second update.Qingming went back to the countryside, sorry for the late arrival of this chapter. 】

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　　There are many rains in the Qingming season, and pedestrians on the road want to break their souls.

　　
　
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