Jinyi Town Mountains and Rivers

Chapter 142 Ding Sanjiao

Ding Sanjiao, the leader of the Cao Gang.There are 30 gangs and [-] coolies under him to make a living on both sides of the canal.

Where there are people, there are rivers and lakes.Where there are rivers and lakes, there are gangs.The five northern provinces are the territory of Yin Shuai Zhao Feihu.Jiangnan is Ding Sanjiao's territory.All the big and small gangs in the rivers and lakes wanted to give Ding Sanjiao some favors.Even some officials of the imperial court paid respect to Ding Sanjiao.

Ding Sanjiao asked Lieutenant Tang: "Why did your Qi family army surround the warehouse of my Cao Gang?"

Deputy General Tang explained: "Someone hid a batch of firecrackers in this warehouse. These firecrackers are going to be shipped to Japanese pirates!"

Ding Sanjiao was furious: "Blood! Do you want to say that the Cao Gang secretly cooperated with Japanese pirates?"

Ding Sanjiao suddenly pulled up his trouser leg, revealing his crooked and lame leg: "Do you know why my leg is disabled? Thirty years ago, Japanese pirates landed in my hometown Ningbo and killed my whole family. Although I tried my best to escape, my leg was hit by a Japanese pirate's blunderbuss, and I was disabled for the rest of my life. The Japanese pirates and I have a bloody feud. Do you know the rules of the Cao Gang?"

Deputy General Tang shook his head: "I don't know. I also ask Chief Ding to enlighten me."

Ding Sanjiao said with a righteous face: "The first article of the Cao Gang's gang rules was originally to kill those who deceive the master and destroy the ancestors. Five years ago, I took the position of the gang leader and changed the first article of the gang rules to 'traveling the Japanese and treason'." Those who kill'!"

Ding Sanjiao couldn't say that he loved the Ming court much.But his hatred of Japanese pirates is real.Caobang Erlang's ancestral home is mostly Jiangsu and Zhejiang.Over the past few decades, Japanese pirates have ravaged the coasts of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and I don't know how many Cao Gang's sons and daughters bear the unshakable hatred against the Japanese pirates.

Before the Taizhou war, Hu Zongxian, governor of Zhejiang Province, sent all the soldiers he could send to Taizhou to reinforce Qi's army.After he finished raising the military supplies, he suddenly found that there was no soldier in his hand to escort the food to Taizhou.

The military situation in the front is like a fire, and if the military supplies and food cannot be delivered, something big will happen!Hu Zongxian racked his brains to find a way.

Hu Zongxian first thought of the Escort.It is said that under a great reward there must be a brave man.He offered 10 taels of silver for Escort Red, hoping that the major Escort Bureaus in the south of the Yangtze River could unite and transport grain and grass to Taizhou together.

Those major bodyguard bureaus who talked about morality all day long were collectively silent at this time.They are afraid, afraid of Japanese pirates like desperadoes.

In desperation, Hu Zongxian thought of the Jianghu gang again.What Jiangnan Tiedaomen, Yangzhou Black Tiger Gang. . . .Hu Zongxian put aside his honorable status as a feudal official, and took the initiative to find the leaders of these Jianghu gangs to show his righteousness-in exchange, he still kept silent.

At this moment, Ding San limped to the governor's yamen of Zhezhi with a cane on his feet.

Ding Sanjiao said to Hu Zongxian: "The Cao Gang is willing to deliver food and grass for the Qi's army! No money will be taken! The Qi's army is fighting against Japanese pirates to protect millions of people along the coast of Jiangsu and Zhejiang! Although I, Ding Sanjiao, was born in a rough place and didn't know a few big characters, But I know that if there is no skin, there will be no hair attached, and if the nest is overwhelmed, there is no reason for the eggs to die!"

Hu Zongxian clasped his fist towards Ding Sanjiao and said, "Brother is really a righteous man!"

Ding Sanjiao replied: "I can't afford to be a righteous man. I just can't just watch the heroes of the Qi family army starve and fight the Japanese pirates!"

After the Taizhou victory, Hu Zongxian once said with emotion: Eight points of the credit for the Taizhou victory should be attributed to Qi Jiajun and Yu Jiajun, and two points of credit should be attributed to the Cao Gang!

It is said that the Cao Gang is connected to the Japanese, and all the soldiers of the Qi family army will not believe it.

Deputy General Tang looked at He Liu.

He Liu walked up to Ding Sanjiao, cupped his hands and said, "He Liu is the Fusi of Jinyiwei North Town."

Ding San looked He Liu up and down: "I don't have a good opinion of Jin Yiwei, except for your sixth master."

Ding Sanjiao is so powerful, he naturally has many friends in the officialdom.

He learned from those officials that in order to raise military pay for the Qi family army, He Liu did not hesitate to become a "mad dog" and forced five high-ranking officials in the south of the Yangtze River to spit out the dirty money they got from selling smuggled salt.

When Ding Sanjiao heard about this, he thought He Liu was a man.

He Liu was a little flattered.He said respectfully: "Thanks to Chief Ding for his love."

Ding Sanjiao asked He Liu: "Why did the sixth master bring Qi's army to encircle the warehouse of the Cao Gang?"

He Liu replied: "Master Ding will know when he enters the warehouse."

In the warehouse, more than 500 firecrackers are neatly stacked together.

Ding Sanjiao's expression changed: "Where did these firecrackers come from?"

He Liu said: "I haven't found out where it came from. But I know exactly who it's going to—these firecrackers were going to be shipped to the Japanese pirates along the coast of Jiangsu and Zhejiang. The pirates along the coast of Jiangsu and Zhejiang have been wiped out by the Qi family army. The gangsters wanted to sell it to Japanese pirates along the coast of Fujian."

Ding Sanjiao was furious: "Did someone from the Cao Gang do it? The warehouse of the Cao Gang cannot be released without a warrant above the sub-owner!"

He Liu nodded, and told Ding Sanjiao everything about Lin Dasheng being threatened and forced to transport firecrackers from Beijing to Jiangnan.

Ding Sanjiao's face was livid: "I thought he was framed by someone. I even went to the prefect of Taizhou, Fan Cheng, to beat someone. According to what you said, he is really a master of Japanese."

He Liu asked Ding Sanjiao: "Master Ding, what do you plan to do with Lin Dasheng? I want to intercede for him. After all, his whole family was taken hostage, so he had to..."

Ding Sanjiao waved his hand and interrupted He Liu's words: "The rules of the gang are as big as the sky. It is a capital crime to be involved in the Japanese. Even if the chief minister of the cabinet intercedes, our Cao Gang will still use our own family law. No matter what his reason is The reason is that he has already violated one of the three bottom lines of the Cao Gang. I don’t care how your yamen deal with him, as long as he walks out of the Taizhou government office alive, the Cao Gang will immediately decapitate him!”

He Liu asked Ding Sanjiao: "Dare to ask Gang Leader Ding, what are the three bottom lines of the Cao Gang?"

Ding Sanjiao blurted out: "Don't collude with the enemy and treason the country, don't oppress the people, don't sell friends for glory."

He Liu secretly laughed in his heart: Maybe what Lao Hu did more than 40 years ago, in the eyes of the Cao Gang, he was selling his friends for glory.Touched one of the three bottom lines, that's why he was so deeply jealous.

Ding Sanjiao asked He Liu: "Master Liu, according to what you said just now, the culprit of Tongwa has not yet been found. Our Cao Gang has eyes and ears all over the south of the Yangtze River. If you need my help, just ask!"

He Liudao: "I want you to help me find someone. This person is also from the Cao Gang, named Wang Fa."

When Lin Dasheng made a confession that day, He Liu had a strong intuition: there must be something wrong with Wang Fa, Lin Dasheng's right-hand man.

Ding Sanjiao said: "You are talking about Wang Fa, the beater of Qingyun Hall of the Cao Gang? I heard that this man has been missing for a long time! Could it be that he is also a traitor? I hate people who are traitors. Our Cao Gang I will do my best to help you find him."

He Liudao: "Then I will thank Chief Ding first!"

(End of this chapter)