Lu Ming

Chapter 689 Returning to the North (fourteen)
"Southern Banknotes" is the name given to the banknotes with the portrait of Cao Da by the northerners.

For a long time, considering the credit problem, coupled with the bad example of Daming Treasure Banknotes, people in the north have concerns about the south banknotes.Except for the port city business circle, in other traditional areas of the Ming Dynasty, the issuance of southern banknotes is very slow, and the public's acceptance is not high.

Inadvertently insert willows and willows.Traders, especially the branch industries of tradesmen, have a completely different attitude towards Nanchao.

Big buddies especially like this handy and stealthy-carrying equivalent.As long as the southern banknotes can be exchanged for various materials around Tianjin, there is no taboo for them to use them.

Anyway, after finishing work, it is necessary to relax consumption.

As for the credit issue, I don't know if I can see the sun tomorrow. Who cares about international financial issues such as the devaluation of the South Bank note next month, and it's not the Federal Reserve.

The only thing that affects the circulation of southern banknotes among various illegal organizations is the chronic disease of counterfeit banknotes.

Don't underestimate wise people.

A group of people who can make a fake silver ingot into [-] or [-] types of craftsmanship is fully capable of producing several counterfeit banknotes for circulation.

Counterfeit money, it looks a little like it.Anyway, most of the outsiders are uninformed bumpkins, and one day the fools will not be enough.

As a result, local painters, embroiderers, antiques, danqing, gold sales and other industries in Tianjin quickly acted and began to make quick money by taking advantage of the information gap.

The sudden wave of counterfeit banknotes not only made the victims curse their mothers, but also stunned the crowd, and gained a deeper understanding of the execution power of the ancients.

After that, the "163X Financial Anti-Counterfeiting Special Campaign" that was launched urgently is another story.

In short, today the Taihang Gang is able to distinguish the southern banknotes proficiently, which is all because they paid the tuition fees and paid the price before.

Under the watchful eyes of the public, in the end, the master and younger brother in charge of the banknote inspection raised his thumb.

Seemingly drunk, but in fact his eyes were fixed, and there was a trace of nervousness in his eyes, Brother Chen was wrong. It was the head of Taihang Gu, so he showed a brotherly smile, put his arms around the shoulders of the leader of the gang, and laughed and drank the wine in the bowl.

From this moment, it was determined that the two groups of people who dealt with each other sincerely, and finally held a celebration banquet without any grudges.

The joyous scene lasted for a long time.It wasn't until seven minutes into the night, when the wine and dishes were exhausted, that it was the end.In the end, the people who were still able to stay on the table were very neat. There were three of them on both sides.Among the drinkers, they finally became good brothers in their own family who knew everything.

In this delicate atmosphere, Gu Ming finally took advantage of the wine to ask a question he wanted to know: Why did the Guangyi Gang want to fight against the thieves before?
Don't say anything about the uneven distribution of spoils.The share of the horse bandits is not worth it at all, and it should also be popular with the horse bandits and the Taihang gang, which have few people.Gu Ming was at the scene at the time, and he knew very well that the Huobiao incident was planned by the Guangyi Gang from the beginning, and it was a special game.

Facts have proved that the real core characters of the two gangs will not be drunk.

Seeing that he turned to look at his head, Ha Liu, who was originally drunk, also had clarity in his eyes.Seeing that the problem came, he calmly gave an explanation: introversion + personal hatred.

Ha Liu's answer did not meet Gu Ming's expectations, it was similar to what he had guessed in advance.

Compared with the Taihang Gang, which is mostly "infantry" and has weak mobility, the Guangyi Gang and the horse bandits who all have mounts do have a problem of overlapping functions when they "do business".

The so-called one mountain cannot tolerate two tigers, which is probably what it means.

"Don't hide my brother, last year in Duoyanwei, Ma Jieye attacked a convoy. There are brothers and my shares in there."

"Oh, no wonder."

"The rivers and lakes matter. Brother, since I lost my teeth and swallowed blood that day, don't blame me for being ruthless today, Ma Jie."

"Deserve it, deserve it!"

now it's right.There must be a personal hatred, otherwise it can't explain why there are so many horse bandits, why Ha Liu is in the game of Ma Jie.

Putting down the last doubt in his heart, Gu Ming picked up the hard pack of cigarettes on the table and gave it a circle.Then, through the curling smoke in front of him, Gu Ming said sternly: "Brother Ha, although it is the first time to do business in partnership, I think we are destined and I am willing to give you this brother. Not much to say, but it will be useful in the future. Brother's place, brother, just say hello!"

For a long time, from the forbearance of Ha Liu when the three parties assigned tasks, to the boldness of Ha Liu when dividing the spoils, all the details made Gu Ming have a conjecture: Ha Liu really wanted to cooperate with the Taihang Gang.

This conjecture was confirmed shortly after the feast began.At that time, Ha Liu leaked the words intentionally or unintentionally: there are still big business in the year.

At this time, after a series of trial sessions, Gu Ming's words just now truly expressed his intention to cooperate.

"Wait, it's just what my brother said."

Ha Liu held the cigarette between his fingers, and his face was also serious: "There is no need in the future, my brother has a big deal right now, and I want to join forces with my brother to do it again!"

"Speak and listen!"

The next moment, there was only a "crash" sound, but Ha Liu stretched out his arms and swept everything in front of him under the table.

Next, Ha Liuyi took out his wallet from his arms with a solemn face, then opened the zipper, and carefully took out a stack of paper from the interlayer.

Putting the stack of yellowed papers on the table, after Ha Liu spread it out lightly, everyone came over to take a closer look, but it was a map the size of a washbasin.

"This is?"

Glancing at the map, after seeing the city gates, retaining walls, watchtowers and other graphics drawn with ink pen, Gu Ming suddenly felt: "Is it the topography of which Zhuangzi?"

Breathing out a cigarette, Ha Liu stared at Gu Ming for a long time, then made up his mind and said word by word, "An Guogu Family Collection."

When Gu Ming and the three of his confidants heard this, they all took a deep breath: "How brave! It's actually Gu Jiaji!"

Anguo County is just south of Baoding.Since ancient times, Anguo has been the largest medicinal material market in northern China.There are many wealthy merchants here, and it is a place where gold and silver flow.Since Gujiaji is located at the Sanchakou and is just a day’s journey away from Anguo, Gujiaji has undertaken a lot of logistics work along the route of Anguo.

Originally, Gujiaji was called Gujiazhuang, which was just an ordinary Zhuangzi.But the patriarch of this generation of the Gu family is a visionary. After taking office, he wantonly used the superior geographical location to develop various commercial activities. After 20 years, the Gu family village has forcibly made a reputation as a "Xiao'an Country", changing from Zhuangzi to market town.

Such a wealthy market town, without the protection of officers and soldiers, is naturally the focus of the surrounding people.However, the Gu family are not fools. After they got money, deep ditch and high walls, and the earth-fired watchtowers rose from the ground, and the living water was drawn from the Tang River in the north to build the moat, and the ground was impregnable.

A large group of bandits who did not believe in evil had attacked Gujiaji before, and a large group of refugees had done the same thing.As a result, in addition to grabbing some sundries in the peripheral market, the real core of Gujiaweizi, the bandits could not get in, but they also lost a lot of manpower, and the gains outweighed the losses.

So after learning that this piece of paper was the topographic map of Gujiaji, Gu Ming's first reaction was that he bit the iron walnut.But then he suddenly realized: No, Ha Liu has a unique ability to break the door!

Gu Ming reacted instantly, and his heart was full of enthusiasm: Gu Jiaweizi has been famous in the arena for decades, and the gold and silver goods in it far exceed that of a Yixinlong caravan.

In this way, it is only necessary for Ha Liu to open the gate of the enclosure. Isn't this a replica of Wu Huodun?
Gu Ming, who figured this out, looked at the topographic map with eager eyes, and asked, "Brother, what's the charter?"

Ha Liu was well prepared, he stretched out his fingers and clicked a few points on the picture with confidence, first of all, he was tempted: "My brother has been a groom in Gujiazhuangzi for a year and a half, and these places are about the size of the silver cellar. already."

Speaking of this, Ha Liu slammed his fist on the front door on the map: "Old rule, my people blew up the gate of Gu's family with a mine."

"After that" Ha Liu reluctantly looked at Gu Ming: "Brother doesn't have enough manpower, so I have to trouble you, brother!"

"Hahaha!" Gu Ming smiled naturally at this moment.

A caravan similar to the Guangyi Gang is about high-speed maneuvering, coming and going like the wind.Although this combat mode is highly sophisticated, it has a disadvantage: you can only eat fast food, such as grabbing a caravan with its own carriage.

But this time, it was a small town with a huge amount of property.The property here includes not only gold and silver, but also various "trophies" including grain, commercial goods, furniture, and even women and meat tickets.

This kind of dinner, which belongs to a variety of dishes, does not have enough teeth, can't eat enough, and it's all wasted.

Guangyi Gang is sparsely staffed. Even if the gate is broken, there are still many programs that need time-limited follow-up: street fighting, digging silver taels, searching for property, loading trucks and carrying loads to retreat, etc. Work that requires a lot of manpower to do.

Gu Ming now has the same mind as a mirror.The reason why Ha Liu has been releasing goodwill all the time is that it is because of this transaction.

"What did you say afterwards?"

"Old rule, split the account between five and five!"

"Well"

Speaking of this, Gu Ming touched his chin and finally weighed it: Although the Taihang Gang contributed, the key to entering Gujiaji Haipi is the landmine in Ha Liu's hands.

After using half a cigarette to finally understand the big issue that science and technology is the primary productive force, the master of Gu no longer struggled, and he also punched the map: "Just make this vote with your brother!"

"Brother is proud!"

The leader of the Ha Gang, who was overjoyed when he heard this, immediately pushed the topographic map of Gujiaji in front of Gu Ming when the advance map on the table was not: "Brother take this map, I will send someone down the mountain to check it. If there is anything wrong We can also deploy in time.”

"really?"

Even if he knew that the other party had a unique landmine in his hand, so he had no fear, the leader of Gu was also moved by the pride of the leader of the Ha gang at this moment.Putting away the map, Gu Ming made up his mind: "Brother, when will you start?"

"Well, I'm afraid it will be a year later."

The leader of the Ha gang quickly explained the whole story: "It costs 200 taels of silver to shake the landmine. I have to go back to Tianjin to open the joints and buy a round before the Chinese New Year."

Gu Ming knew that Ha Liu had worked odd jobs with officers and soldiers, but he didn't expect this guy to have his own unique source of goods by relying on this experience.After thinking about it, Gu Ming, who was experienced in robbery down the mountain, put forward his opinion: "The action can't be delayed until the fifteenth day of the first month at the latest, otherwise the caravans will travel and the guards will be more troublesome."

"Just by brother!"

Coordination to this point, in the seventeenth century when communication relied on roaring, was already a tactical operation of precise coordination.

Next, Ha Liu arranged the itinerary: he himself will leave for Tianjin tomorrow, and he will come back with the mines before the fifteenth day of the first lunar month at the latest.He will leave the second master Tu Erye as the liaison officer.

Master Tu immediately exchanged a few words with the liaison officer from Taihang.The two parties finally agreed that the liaison officer would meet at a contact point near Anguo somewhere around the eighth day of the first lunar month.At that time, the two sides have agreed on the time and place of assembly, and the main force will be assembled before the fifteenth.

When Shang talked about this step, the real purpose of tonight's banquet was achieved.The time is already late at night.

In this way, the exhausted two-way men and horses hurriedly dispersed to rest.

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Early the next morning, Wu Fazheng, Master Wu, squinted his eyes and was awakened by the sunlight shining through the crack of the door.

Squinting his eyes and shaking his head a few times, Wu Fazheng finally remembered that he had become a bandit's meat ticket, in a dark wood room with no windows and only doors.

Looking sideways, the short and stout shopkeeper Wu has not woken up yet, and is lying groggy in the haystack.

"Ugh."

Master Wu, who originally planned to get up and look through the crack of the door, stopped moving.He was afraid of waking up shopkeeper Wu.

Shopkeeper Wu is getting old, and he has been fighting again and again. In addition, since yesterday, he has not entered the water and rice, so it is better to fall asleep, so as not to get up and suffer.

Just thinking of this, Master Wu's stomach growled involuntarily.

No way, bear with it.There are ferocious bandits outside the door. Master Wu dare not mention human rights protests at this time, otherwise it will not be worthwhile to have both ears cut off.

Yesterday's battle, Yi Xinlong's remaining living people were all tied up by bandits and turned into meat tickets.

After the night walk, most of the guys were locked up in the donkey and cow sheds in the mountain villages.Only Master Wu and shopkeeper Wu, as "high-end" meat tickets, got into the business single-room firewood room.

That's it.The bandits seem to be very busy since last night, and no one cares about the human rights and health of the meat ticket.Until this morning, there was not a drop of water or a grain of rice in the business firewood room.

Fortunately, Young Master Wu knows the procedure, so he is not very worried about the future and his own life.

Since it was laborious to tie the meat ticket instead of slashing it with a knife, then the bandits will definitely contact the merchant to redeem the person.After the company gets the news, it will definitely pay enough money to get the people back first.

As for revenge, that's another story.

The above are all default programs.Over the years, Yi Xinlong has experienced many situations where the caravans have lost their hands and captured people, so he naturally knows how to deal with them.

It just takes a while for now.

Just as Young Master Wu was leaning against the wall, silently reciting the Spring and Autumn Period, and trying to suppress the gastrointestinal protests, there was a clattering sound on the door.

The next moment, the broken door was pushed open by two robust bandits with knives outside, and a not tall figure appeared in front of Young Master Wu in the backlight.

"What, don't you recognize me?"

Seeing that Young Master Wu squinted his eyes and didn't respond, someone chuckled lightly, "You have to slash your brother with a thousand swords when you speak, so you can't recognize your face?"

"Huo expensive! It turned out to be you!"

The angry Wu Fazheng instantly understood who was coming.

(End of this chapter)