Established a thousand-year family from the end of Qin Dynasty

Chapter 299 Shu Han ([-])

two years later
Spring of the fifth year of photosynthesis (AD 182)
Zhuojun
Zhuo County
Heifengzhai

"kill!"

Liu Bei personally took more than 200 carrying handles to kill the village owner of Heifeng Village.

Heifengzhai is a den of bandits near Zhuoxian County. There are dozens of bandits entrenched in it. They plunder the local people all the year round. The government is so corrupt that the military expenditures have been embezzled. There is no money to send troops to suppress the bandits.

Therefore, the government had no choice but to "use bandits to control bandits." Some relatively moderate rangers in Zhao'an used these moderate rangers to suppress those bandits.

There are many ranger gangs in Zhuo County, and Liu Bei's [Jimin Society] is one of them.

Although the imperial court does not allow private individuals to form an army, the regulations are one thing, and whether someone does it is another matter. At least those domestic slaves of rich businessmen and powerful manors, are they really just simple domestic slaves?
Click!

A newcomer from [Jiminhui] is very powerful. He hacked one bandit with one knife, and killed three bandits in a row. He is extremely vigorous.

"Xianhe, who is that man? So fierce?"

Liu Bei, the leader of the gang who was commanding the battle, asked Jian Yong, the dog-headed military strategist beside him.

"Oh, a gang member I just recruited a few days ago is called Guan Yu, and his style name is Yunchang. He seems to be from Bingzhou." Jian Yong, the dog-headed military strategist, replied, and was also very happy that he had recruited such a great young man as Guan Yu.

At this time, another gang newcomer also attracted Liu Bei's attention.

I saw a burly man with a leopard head and ring eyes holding a ring-shouldered knife, shouted, and rushed to the front bravely and beheaded the owner of Heifeng Village.

"Who is that person?" Liu Bei asked pleasantly, he was very excited to have such a powerful person in his gang, he is a capable subordinate.

"It's also a newcomer who just joined our gang a few days ago. His name is Zhang Fei, and his name is Yide. He is a native of Zhuo County. He is still friends with Guan Yunchang just now. They both joined our gang on the same day." Jian Yong replied. .

"That's good, that's good. These two have great martial arts skills and are worthy of reuse." Liu Bei nodded, very satisfied with Guan Yu and Zhang Fei.

After several hours of fierce fighting, Liu Bei's Jimin Society defeated the Heifeng Village that had been entrenched for many years with more victories than the few.

"Brothers, it is your hard work to be able to wipe out Heifengzhai today. All the stolen goods in this Heifengzhai will be shared by you. I, Liu Bei, will not take a cent!" .

If a young and Dangerous boy does not understand the world and only fights blindly, he will be a young and Dangerous boy for the rest of his life.

Liu Bei knew this truth very well, so he not only seized the opportunity given by the elders of the same clan to gain some fame with the great scholar Lu Zhi, but also became a student of Lu Zhi to increase his fame. Under the banner of helping the world and saving the people, the Jimin Society annexed more than a dozen gangs of knight-errants on Zhuojun Road, and became the well-deserved godfather of Zhuojun.

He dared to fight and kill, and always rushed to the forefront in every major event, and knew how to advance and retreat. When encountering a strong enemy, he quickly retreated and avoided its edge first. With this hand, in just four or five years, he Liu Bei He defeated dozens of gangs of knight-errants, big and small, in Zhuo County, and became the most powerful gangster in Zhuo County's underworld.

"Oye!"

"Boss Liu is the best person among all the bosses I have worked with. He knows how to share good things, and he never swallows them all by himself."

"I am willing to swear to the death to follow Boss Liu."

When everyone happily divided up the booty from Heifengzhai, Liu Bei came to Guan Yu and Zhang Fei and said, "Both brothers, can I, Liu Bei, get to know you?"

Guan Yu and Zhang Fei looked at Liu Bei, and then answered one after another.

"My name is Guan Yu, and my style name is Yunchang. My original surname is Changsheng. I served in the army for two years, but because I couldn't understand a tyrant named Huang Shiren in my hometown who oppressed the villagers and robbed the people's daughters, I killed him in a fit of anger. In order to avoid being chased by corrupt officials, Huang Shiren, the tyrannical man, had to change his character and fled to the home of his comrade-in-arms in Zhuo County. Not long ago, we heard that Boss Liu was accepting your younger brother, so we wanted to make a living, so we came here. "Guan Yu replied truthfully, he is nine feet tall (213 cm), and he is very tall, and he looks like a mountain top.

"My name is Zhang Fei. I used to be a military officer. I was a military marshal in the army. However, the court had no money to raise soldiers and kept cutting troops to save military expenses. I, Zhang Fei, had no background, so I was squeezed out by them, and then I returned to Zhuo. His hometown in the county is farming. Guan Yunchang is my comrade-in-arms. He ran to my house to take refuge after killing people. A few days ago, I heard that you, Boss Liu, recruited younger brothers, so we came here. We have no other extravagant hopes. We can eat as much as we can.” After all, Zhang Fei used to be an officer, and his family used to be a family of small landlords, but land annexation became more and more serious, and their family’s land was annexed by more powerful landlords. Therefore, Zhang Fei's cultural level is still good, and he is eight feet tall (188cm). Just by looking at his height, he must be a good material for fighting and charging.

"With the help of two big brothers, I, Liu Bei, are even more powerful! Hahaha!" After listening to the introduction of the two, Liu Bei not only did not feel disgusted, but laughed heartily. He held up the two callused palms and said to the two: "From now on, the two of you will be my half-brothers, Liu Bei!"

The two of them received such attention from the boss when they first joined the gang, so they were very moved: "I am willing to go through fire and water for Boss Liu!"

"Hey, what else is he called boss? Call me big brother!" Liu Bei, who is very emotional, further drew the relationship between the three of them closer.

The rivers and lakes are not about fighting and killing, but about the ways of the world!

Guan Yu and Zhang Fei looked at each other and smiled, then knelt down on one knee and clasped fists to Liu Bei and said, "Brother!"

"Hahahaha! Good good good good good good good good good!" Corporal Liu Bei Lixian hurriedly supported Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, and said to them: "From now on, we will be brothers and sisters, and work together to make a name for ourselves in this world!"

"I would like to go up the mountain of swords and into the sea of ​​fire for my elder brother!" Guan Yu and Zhang Fei said in unison.

As the saying goes, a scholar dies for a confidant, and a woman tolerates a person who pleases her.

To meet someone who truly appreciates them, what is there not to be loyal to?

Just when Liu Bei was still happy that he had received two capable generals, a young man came to report: "Boss Liu, there are two horse dealers, Jia, who want to buy horses from us."

"En." Liu Bei nodded, and then led everyone back to the gang resident.

two hours later

"It's such a joy to have friends coming from afar." Before the people arrived, the laughter came first. As soon as he returned to the gang camp, Liu Bei laughed enthusiastically at the two horse dealers who smuggled horses: "I don't know how the two gentlemen are doing!" call?"

The two horse smugglers also laughed and said:

"I, Zhang Shiping, from Zhongshan County, heard that Boss Liu is in charge of the horse smuggling business in Zhuo County, so I came here to visit."

"I, Su Shuang, have a cooperative relationship with Lao Zhang and smuggle horses together."

The two merchants said truthfully that they were all merchants from Zhongshan County, and they came to Zhuo County specially to smuggle horses.

The reason why they went to Zhuojun County to smuggle horses was because horses were a strategic commodity. The imperial court prohibited private buying and selling of horses, and only the government could conduct horse buying and selling.

Liu Bei of Zhuojun had the umbrella of Gongsun Zan, and was able to own a large number of black market horses.

Now Zhuojun has formed such a smuggling industry chain: Gongsun Zan smuggled horses from the grassland to Liaoxi County, and then Liu Bei secretly contacted smuggling merchants in Zhuojun near the Central Plains, smuggled Gongsun Zan’s horses to Zhuojun, and finally sold these horses on the black market. Horses are smuggled and sold to horse dealers, and the profits are divided between Gongsun Zan, the umbrella of the white way, and Liu Bei, the boss of the underworld.

This kind of smuggling business started with the defeat of the Han army's expedition to Xianbei.

The Han army expedition to Xianbei resulted in annihilation of the entire army. In order to reorganize the cavalry, Emperor Liu Hong no longer sold officials privately, but publicly sold officials in Xidi, and used the money earned from selling officials to buy horses at high prices. The price of war horses in the Central Plains Therefore, the price has increased from 20 yuan/horse in the period of Andi to the current 200 million yuan/horse.

Wang Bian once said that when the profit is more than three times (300%), the businessman will trample on all laws in the world.

Nowadays, the profit of horse smuggling is as high as six or seven times. It is no wonder that merchants in the Central Plains will try their best to smuggle horses in Youzhou, and Zhang Shiping and Su Shuang are typical examples.

But for smuggling, it is natural to be able to enjoy both black and white, so Liu Bei was able to enter the sea with dragons, jump over the dragon's gate with carp, and use the black market smuggling to take advantage of the opportunity to develop his own personal armed forces.

His senior brother Gongsun Zan provided him with a protective umbrella in the officialdom, while he himself defeated other colleagues, unified the underworld in Zhuo County, and completely monopolized the black market smuggling trade in Zhuo County.

(End of this chapter)