In the Southern Song Dynasty, I competed with Mongolia for the world

Chapter 616 Peace Talk
Wang Baobao looked up at Zhao Yurui and asked, "Do you keep your word?"

"Of course it counts." Zhao Yurui turned around and looked at Zhu Yuanzhang and the others: "So many people follow me every day, why do you think I have the right?"

Zhu Yuanzhang laughed: "Zhao Xiaoqi can help us get rich and give us a house to live in."

Wang Baobao thought about it and finally nodded.

At this point, he has no choice but to agree.

Wang Wu was in the hands of Zhao and Rui, and was deliberately taken to the hospital, obviously to prevent them from turning against him.

Now that we have dealt with Wang Baobao, the next step is to deal with Wu Li.

And it has to be quick. The news of Wang Baobao's failure will probably reach Wu Li soon. Zhao Yurui has to counterattack as quickly as possible and not give the other side enough time to prepare.

The Wu family is a wealthy family in Dinghai. They have many people and can provide Wang Baobao with guns. They must have a lot of guns. This kind of family is not easy to deal with.

"Can I sue him for hiring someone to kill someone?" Zhu Yuanzhang asked.

"No." Zhao Yurui shook her head. It was not easy to sue such a rich man through normal means.

Moreover, Wu Li was not involved. It was his family's servants who were in charge. He could have easily said that he didn't know.

A surprise attack on Wu Li's house would not work either. Not to mention that Zhao Yurui had no gun, only Zhao Yurui himself had one. Even if he had a gun, he would not be brave enough to do it, and that would become a big case.

"Get on board and fuck him." Zhang Shicheng said at this time: "Wu Li often goes out to sea. Let's wait until the high seas and get on board and fuck him."

"Then we need to find a boat to catch up, but that's not easy." said Lao Zhu.

If you engage in a ship-to-ship battle in broad daylight, the other party will definitely be careful.

Zhao Yurui was thinking silently. If he could deal with Wu Li this time, Wang Baobao and the other two would definitely be convinced and would be willing to follow him. If he couldn't deal with Wu Li, these three might turn against him in the future.

There is no need to kill them, so we can keep the three of them as guns.

Wu Li is a rich man. What do rich people fear most?
One is the fear of having their house confiscated, the other is the fear of death.

Wu Li dared to find someone to kill him, obviously he was not afraid of death, or perhaps he felt that Zhao Yurui could not touch him.

"We are barefoot, but Wu Li has shoes." Zhao Yurui said calmly, "The Wu family is wealthy and powerful, with companies, ships, and shops."

"This kind of person is easy to deal with."

"You can wipe out his entire family, but it will only make things worse."

"We come out here to make money."

"First force Wu Li to negotiate and make him pay. If he refuses, we will kill him."

"If it works, keep this account in mind and settle with him later."

Zhao Yurui thought that he was just a small flag with only a gun in his hand, and it was impossible for him to lead a large number of people to kill people at other people's homes.

Try to force a peace first. If that doesn’t work, think of another way.

However, we can’t let Wu Li have it so easy, right?
He arranged for Tang He and Wu Zhen to bring Zhang Shicheng and several others, about five or six people, to hang around in front of Wu's house every day, looking like they were ready to assassinate Wu Li at any time.

This trick worked immediately. The Wu family felt like they were facing a powerful enemy and were scared half to death. After Wu Li came back, he didn't dare to go out casually.

At the same time, he sent people to cause trouble at the Wu family shop. Of course, they would not cause trouble and were not afraid that others would report to the government and the Jinyiwei.

Zhu Yuanzhang sent dozens of the elderly, the weak, women and children to line up in front of the Wu family shop every day to buy candy and other things, but when it was their turn, they either did not buy anything or bought one or two ounces, then turned around and went to the back of the line, repeating the cycle.

In this way, when real customers come and see such long queues, they cannot buy anything and can only go to other shops.

Of course, this did not cause much harm to the Wu family, as the business of one or two shops was not much.

The key is the Wu family’s shipping.

Not long after Wu Li came back last time, his fleet was about to load up and set off again.

As a result, there was no manpower at the dock to help him load the goods, so he could only arrange for workers in his family to transport the goods.

It was just a few days after the fifteenth day of the first lunar month of the following year.

A group of workers from the Wu family arrived at the dock, and a large number of horse-drawn carriages also arrived at the dock at the same time.

The Wu family has goods to ship out to sea.

Workers unloaded bags of sugar from the carriages, preparing to transport them to the ships.

A worker was carrying a bag of sugar and walking towards the dock. When he was halfway there, a man came over from the other side holding a plastic can.

The worker looked at the other party crashing into him and shouted quickly, "Hey, be careful, be careful--" while dodging.

But the other party seemed to do it on purpose and bumped into the worker with a thud.

The jars fell over at the same time, and a huge splash of water poured over their bags of sugar.

There was a lot of cursing at the scene, and the worker on the opposite side was knocked down, and the bag fell to the ground, and the bag was covered with water.

"Oh, sorry, sorry, sorry." The other party said, and then shouted: "Oh, my salty soda, this is a lot of money, you have to pay for it."

"What did you say? You hit me and my sugar got wet. You have to pay for it."

The two sides immediately started arguing, and a group of porters surrounded them, blocking their way and preventing them from being transported to the dock. The two sides quarreled loudly and almost fought.

Old Li soon appeared at the dock and knew at a glance that Zhao Yurui did it on purpose.

He walked over calmly and found the footman: "How much is your can? We will compensate you."

The workers were unhappy because it was clearly the other party who hit them.

"My soda is not worth much, but you are affecting our work. So many brothers are just gathered here. We will earn hundreds of dollars less for every hour we work."

"Just pay me 100,000 yuan."

"They're robbing money." The Wu family shouted, what's the difference between this and robbery.

The two sides started arguing again, and someone from the Wu family impulsively wanted to take action.

But Lao Li saw several Jinyiwei around, who were watching them from afar and did not show up.

They were obviously waiting for a fight. If anyone from the Wu family dared to take action first, the Jinyiwei would come and arrest them immediately.

Zhao and Rui are really insidious. Lao Li swallowed his anger and signaled the workers not to argue with them and continue transporting the goods.

He came to bargain with the other party.

But the other party insisted that the amount must be one hundred thousand or more and that they would not be allowed to board the ship unless they paid. Dozens of people blocked their way.

Old Li didn't believe it. Don't you want to work with your feet?

Everyone wastes the whole day and you don’t earn any income.

At that moment, Lao Li started to fight with the men.

Of course Zhao Yurui is not afraid of wasting time, as they are making money during this period.

Together with Lao Zhu and Lao Zhang, there are more than 200 porters on both sides, so only a few dozen people are wasted here, which does not affect the normal work of the porters at the dock.

On the eighteenth day of the first lunar month, Wu Li finally couldn't bear it anymore and decided to come out and solve the problem himself.

There are dozens of women, children, the elderly and the weak queuing up in the three shops of the Wu family every day, which makes their shops have no business. These people cannot be beaten and it is useless to scold them. They are very annoying, like flies.

The other party has been queuing for more than ten days and comes every day, causing the Wu family shop to have no business for half a month.

Although the income from the three shops in half a month was not much, Wu Li could not bear the fact that the port could not ship goods.

That day he gathered seven or eight men, half of whom were armed with guns.

After waiting for a while, a bailiff came outside.

This is a member of their tribe, also surnamed Wu, named Wu Cong.

Wu Cong was called over today to escort him to the dock.

"There are five or six of Zhao Yurui's men outside, waiting on the street every day. We are afraid that they will attack me." Wu Li said in a deep voice: "Wang Baobao and his men should have their guns in their hands. My people saw something behind their waists."

Wu Cong said: "I brought two colleagues with me. They will go up there soon to check if they have any guns without permission."

"They just opened fire. This is a serious matter. Zhao Yurui won't have an easy time either." After everyone made some preparations, Wu Li led his men out of the yard.

There were two other yamen officials outside, all wearing uniforms, protecting Wu Li.

Sure enough, Tang and the six of them were not far away.

The six people were divided into two groups of three. They were originally squatting on the ground, but when they saw Wu Li coming out, they immediately stood up.

"Let's go." Wu Cong walked forward with two colleagues.

Tang He and the others did not avoid them, but just looked at them quietly, and followed Wu Li at the same time.

"Stop." Wu Cong led people to stop the six people.

"What are you doing? We are good citizens. What instructions does the chief constable have?"

"Raise your hands, we suspect you are carrying guns." Wu Cong also saw that there was something bulging behind the waists of the six people.

The six people smiled and raised their hands at the same time.

Wu Cong led his men to search and found that six people had a stick behind their waists, like a rolling pin.

"Sir, it's not illegal for us to carry a stick, right?" The six people laughed.

Wu Cong had no choice but to turn around and nod to Wu Li.

Wu Li immediately took everyone into the car.

Wu Congze stopped Tang and the others and asked them where they came from and what they were doing here.

Tang He was not in a hurry and talked to Wu Cong patiently.

In front, Wu Li and a few others got into two cars, but there were many pedestrians on the street, so they drove slowly. Wu Li was also afraid that someone would suddenly jump out from the street and shoot at his car, so he looked very nervous.

At this time, he was secretly regretting not killing Zhao Yurui, as he would be in trouble in the future.

At that time, there were relatively few cars in the Yuan Dynasty, and there were no traffic lights. There were many pedestrians on the streets, so Wu Li actually drove quite slowly when he got out of the car.

Just as they passed a street, a carriage suddenly appeared in front of them, crossing the road and blocking them.

"Be careful." The people in the car shouted immediately.

Wu Li sat in the back row, with a man on each side of him, holding guns and looking outside nervously.

The car in front stopped first, and two people got out and yelled at the people in the carriage, asking them to leave quickly.

The people in the carriage nodded, pulled the carriage hard, and slowly moved away.

At this time, a child about ten years old, holding a few bouquets of flowers, walked towards their parked car.

When the people in front saw this, they immediately ran over, stopped the child, and scolded him away.

Wu Li was sweating profusely when he arrived at the dock, as he was afraid of everything along the way. He didn't expect it would be so difficult to get out.

At this time, he regretted even more. He should have sent his own people to kill Zhao Yurui directly, or just let it go. Killing Zhao Yurui with one blow would have caused endless troubles.

It was even scarier when we arrived at the dock, there were foot traffic everywhere.

Lao Zhu and Zhang Shicheng have unified the wharf. The combined number of their staff is over 200. But there are definitely more people doing this work at the wharf. There are some outsiders and small groups, which together have hundreds of people. Now they are all under the command of Lao Zhu and Lao Zhang.

There are also others who do odd jobs.

For example, if someone’s family is in urgent need of cash, he may have worked yesterday and is off today, so he goes to the dock and find Lao Zhu and Lao Zhang to help unload goods for a day and earn some part-time money.

There are quite a few of these people.

In short, Wu Li looked at the dense crowd on the dock and felt that all of them were Zhao Yurui's people.

He used to ignore these people because they were all at the bottom of society.

But after they united, with the support of Zhao Yurui and guns in their hands, they became difficult to deal with.

At this time, Lao Zhu and Lao Zhang at the dock also knew that Wu Li had arrived.

The two men stood on two high places, surrounded by their own people.

Some of the labourers were working, while others were surrounding them, staring at Wu Li's steam paintings with eager eyes.

Wu Li stood beside the car and thought for a while: "Go and call their leader over."

He didn't dare to come over, so he asked his subordinates to call Lao Zhu and Lao Zhang.

Soon someone found them, and Lao Zhu and Lao Zhang smiled and walked up to him with a swagger.

"I'll pay you double what Zhao Yurui gave you, and you'll join our Wu family." Wu Li planned to offer a high price to defeat Zhao Yurui first, and it would be easier to deal with the two later.

"Hahaha." Lao Zhu and Lao Zhang laughed.

Old Zhu turned around and pointed at the many people behind him: "Boss Wu is easy to talk to once he opens his mouth. It's very simple."

"Zhao Xiaoqi supports hundreds of us and also helps hundreds of us buy a house for each household so that we can live in Dinghai."

"Bullshit." Wu Li cursed in his heart. How is this possible? How much would this cost?

He obviously thought it was impossible that anyone would spend so much money to support subordinates.

"Boss Wu doesn't believe it?"

Wu Li sneered: "Can Zhao Yurui afford it?"

Even if they could afford it, no one would do such a thing.

"So Boss Wu must understand that if anyone dares to touch Zhao Xiaoqi, we will kill his entire family." Zhang Shicheng grinned.

When Wu Li heard this, he knew it was impossible to bribe these people.

"Fire." Suddenly someone shouted on the dock.

Wu Li's men turned around and saw that their boat, which had been docked at the dock for several days, had suddenly caught fire for some unknown reason.

Wu Li was furious, knowing that Zhao Yurui must have sent someone to sneak onto the ship and then set fire to it.

Is arson the only trick this bastard has?

I really want to set fire to the Jinyiwei’s small flag post.

Wu Li angrily said, "We have paid the fire fee, but you still don't put out the fire?"

"Oh, yes, we can put out the fire. Come on, put out the fire." The porters on the dock were slow and had no intention of putting out the fire.

Wu Li could only ask his workers to rescue them.

Fortunately, the fire was set during the day and was meant as a warning, not a real burn, so it was put out in a short time.

Wu Li knew at this time that Zhao Yurui also wanted to negotiate with him.

"Call Zhao Yurui." Wu Li said at this time.

But the person who came to him said, "Zhao Xiaoqi asked you to go to Xiaoqi's office to find someone."

Are you worthy enough to call Zhao Yurui here?

Only you can go see him.

Wu Li hesitated for a moment. He didn't want to live in fear every day, and he didn't want his goods to be stuck at the dock every day, so he finally decided to go meet Zhao Yurui.

The two sides were in a stalemate for more than half a month and were on guard against each other for more than half a month. Wu Li was the first to give in and finally decided to negotiate.

Just as Zhao Yurui said, Zhao Yurui is barefoot, he can afford to waste time, but Wu Li cannot.

That afternoon, Wu Li's car arrived at the gate of Xiaoqi Station.

A house is being built in front of Xiaoqi Station, and dust is flying everywhere. Zhao Yurui is renovating Xiaoqi Station and adding more people, so the scene is still quite chaotic.

Wu Li looked at the small flag station, took a deep breath, and strode in.

(End of this chapter)