Lu Ming

Chapter 344 Opening of Port ([-])
The urban hooligans are the most hated group of people in any nascent regime.

This class usually commits crimes and commits crimes, and is itself a parasite of society; whenever there is turmoil, taking advantage of chaos, burning, killing, and looting become a must-have repertoire for hooligans.This situation will lead to the new regime having to spend precious time and troops to suppress and restore social order.

The most troublesome thing is that the transformation of this class in the future is also extremely laborious.

You can't expect a hooligan to be a painter or fitter honestly. They are different from farmers and handicrafts. They cannot seamlessly integrate into the new society. They are also tumors in the new society, and they must spend extra resources to transform. out of class.

In fact, the traversers have long experimented with cleaning up the underworld in the city.In Hangzhou, it started with the rectification of the beggar gang, and then gradually extended to the underworld gangs. Nowadays, there is no living space for these gangs in and outside the city of Hangzhou.

However, this so-called social experiment is actually of little significance: the Hangzhou station mostly uses the excuse of fighting for territory to crowd out and disperse these gangsters, and they cannot catch these cancerous tumors on a large scale and throw them into the mines in Taiwan.After all, this kind of refugees are not unattended refugees. They have families, relatives and friends in the city, and the government will intervene in massacres and disappearances.

But to really "digest" this group of people, you have to wait until the time travels to govern the city in the future.Therefore, although the time-traveling people who appear as "masters of the country" don't like to see these urban hooligans, but because they don't directly control the political power, they can only be handed over to the government.

When hundreds of people from the Jiading County Government entered the Yuewang Temple, the next process could only be done in a business-like manner. After all, all the stolen goods were taken, and the most important arrest operation had already been done by someone else.So even though some of the people lying on the ground and screaming were usually acquainted with the yamen servants, they were all tied up by the stern-faced officials and brought to justice.

One thing that satisfied the public was that a large amount of stolen goods and silver coins, as well as some jewelry, were recovered at the scene.

Now everyone's enthusiasm is different.Originally thought that the oil and water were taken away by Master Xiong's servants, but unexpectedly it was still there.It seems that big families are different. They are particular, and they don't look down on so many goods.

With the stolen goods, the attitude of the yamen servants changed immediately.Amidst the shouts, the thieves were put on neck ropes, and all the white servants pulled them away.The well-organized government servants began to direct the apprentices to dig three feet to search for the stolen goods.

In fact, it would be good if one-tenth of these stolen goods could be returned to the sufferer.According to the usual practice, the "relevant people" up and down in the yamen will eventually share this sum of foreign money without any trace or interest.

And this kind of situation is exactly what Master Xiong needs: since the stolen goods have been swallowed, everyone will have a taste of an offensive and defensive alliance, so the punishment room will not easily let these thieves go.

Xiong Dao's purpose is very clear: if it is inconvenient for him to make a move, it is the same to borrow the government's knife.Since there will be a wealthy "port free trade zone" in Jiading in the future, it is better to start attacking these ghosts early.

After sending all the more than 50 thieves into the county government prison, within two days, the county magistrate came to Comrade Fang Wei, and under the impetus of some mysterious force, all the unlucky people were convicted.

Since all the stolen goods were obtained, and the criminal evidence obtained by the yamen servants after being tortured in the prison, the county magistrate is not polite: the old abductee who was murdered and a few small bosses were executed in autumn, and the rest of the small thieves were exiled There are all kinds of tricks in exile, beating the board and going to prison, and none of them escaped.

Now everyone gets what they need: a guy like Laoguai will be extorted from his hidden property by the yamen servants before autumn comes.

Generally speaking, if the operation is done properly, the old guai will be sentenced by the government to be a marquis of beheading before being beheaded, that is, death with a reprieve.However, due to the intervention of a certain mysterious force this time, Lao Guai, who was kept in the dark, is destined to go to the vegetable market to sing a cool song in autumn.

The raid on Yuewang Temple undoubtedly caused an uproar in the world.Since the existence of thieves, the government has never caught so many thieves at one time, and they have stolen both.Generally speaking, even if they want to be arrested, the two parties have negotiated and sent a few people to deal with the errands, so that it will not be so tragic.

Regardless of the crowd eating melons from all walks of life, the one who was really beaten and swollen in this matter was Deng Hu, the big shopkeeper of the shop.

Deng Hu, who never thought that things would turn into such a ghostly situation, has been in a state of schizophrenia these days: sometimes he wants to use his hands to find Xiong Dao to recover the situation, and sometimes he is suppressed by the inquiring about the other party's details. It made him dare not act rashly.

Deng Hu's anxiety was allayed soon after.

What led him to finally recognize the situation was a hooligan who came from Hangzhou.This person was originally a gangster in Hangzhou, but at the end of last year, after Hangzhou gained a firm foothold, he began to intentionally or unintentionally crack down on gangsters. After this guy couldn't stay, he came to Jiading to join his rogue friends.

After two days of trouble, this guy was shocked to hear that Hangzhou's shopkeeper Xiong had come to Jiading, so he hurriedly asked Deng Hu to see what Xiong Dao and his group had done in Hangzhou.

After Deng Hu heard this, cold sweat broke out on his head: The sworn brother of the leader of the Hangzhou Beggar Gang?Behind him is a big man with tens of thousands of pirates?
In an era when there is no Internet, no TV and newspapers, and the transmission of news depends on travelers with letters, ordinary people are actually extremely closed, even the so-called urbanites.

So unless Deng Hu has a news network and transmission channels at the level of a gentry, and he has to care about professional news as far away as Hangzhou and Fujian, otherwise a local stick like him in the county will not be able to find out the details of Xiong Dao.So this time he was lucky, he happened to have someone who knew the details of Xiong Dao, otherwise,
After figuring out that he had kicked himself onto the iron board because he took on a small job, Deng Hu immediately invited the middleman—Du Yaren to bring a gift to Mr. Xiong to apologize.

However, there is no such thing as him at all.When Du Yaren came out of Helou, the garden now called Xiongfu, the news he brought back was very cold and hard-core: take the head of Zhang Sutan and Wu Meng to make amends.

"That red guy from a foreign country bullies people too much!" After hearing the news, Deng Hu slammed his fist on the table.

On the seventh day after the thief put Laoguai Lingdang in prison, Zhang Sutan's Mr. Wu finally ushered in a phased ending.

In the early morning, a large number of people came to Zhangsu beach.

Most of these people are Xiong Dao's subordinates, and a few are officials and civilians in soap clothes.And when Wu Sanye heard the news and came to wait and hide in the pasture, what greeted him was a puff of black smoke.

Yes, these outlanders are starting to burn.

A group of peasants with their mouths and noses wrapped in wet cloths began to burn the grass with long torches.It didn't take long for a large area of ​​fire and billowing black smoke to appear on Zhangsu Beach—after the trestle was burned, the other half of the means of production that Wu Sanye depended on for his survival was also finished.

The barren grass beach is an important means of production. It can block sight, hide private salt and fugitives, and allow Wu Meng and his gang to run amok and dominate in it.

Now the weedy beach is gone.The burning operation lasted only three days, and Zhangsu Beach was wiped out including the surrounding grass.

Wu Meng, Mr. Wu, is not even qualified to negotiate now, because the tricks played before have ruined his character: He said he would think about it for a few days, but he went to the bank to buy the business of burning the building, and now the building has not been burned , I started to sit up by myself.

Originally, the third master and his gang planned to be reckless.However, after the burning, on the sweeping river beach, the third master and his men were hit hard by the dog legs sent by the landlord: 400 meters away, five muskets easily beat the third master so hard that he was so terrified that he ran away with his head in his arms.

The aggressive confrontation was temporarily over in this way.

The reason why I say temporarily is because Wu Sanye did not die under the musket, but ran all the way to Taihu Lake with the remnants, hid among the bandits, and slowly licked his wounds.

But now that this incident has evolved, Deng Hu, who is playing the game, has become the most injured one: Mr. Wu can run away, but he, who has a big family and a big business, can't.

At this time, the shopkeeper Deng Hu Deng undoubtedly thought that the shooting of the gun was a trivial matter of burning down the building?This person was also caught by you, the building has not been burned down, and dozens of thieves have been picked up, so why is he so stubborn?

However, what he didn't know was that the people who traveled through the city attached great importance to the matter of eradicating the city's hooligans.If you don't start now, the damage caused by these goods will be multiplied when the port is built in the future.

This is called the mouse pulling the shovel with the big head behind.In fact, Mr. Xiong didn't expect that it was Wu San's and his gang's business, but in the end it would be involved in Deng's business. Well, it's just a matter of taking over.

Ever since, Deng Hu, who had no hope of communication, was forced to enter a state of cold war with Xiong Dao.

Daxing has raised its vigilance now, if Xiongdao can't catch the current situation, there is no way to fight in the county, so it can only be a temporary cold war - wait for the flaw to be found, the example of Laoguai is there.

When Mr. Xiong was demolishing and cracking down on local hooligans, the land acquisition operation headed by Yu Bende was already in full swing.

Compared with Master Xiong's side, Yu Shuban's side has more retail investors, so the tasks are still relatively heavy.But the good thing is that Yu Shuban is playing accounts, money and land deeds here, which is not the same as Xiongdao's fighting and killing.

The first one to be stationed by Yu Shuban's land expropriation team was Zuojia Village not far from Gaoqiao.

Zuojia Village has a large population, with nearly [-] households. In the village, the surname Zuo is the common surname, and there are many other Zhao Qiansun and Li Xiao surnames.

After Yu Shuban came to the village with Yaren and accountants, without saying a word, he first bought a few pieces of land at a premium with money.

(End of this chapter)