I was the emperor in the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 1032 Exploring Intelligence
Several people have already been attracted by this matter, and they forgot about shopping for the time being.

But judging from the information they have now, it is impossible to analyze any conclusions at all.

So the few of them decided to find a place to find out more information.

For a city like Cangzhou with a strong Jianghu culture, the most well-informed people are not people from the government, but those who walk around the streets, beg or sell goods.

But such people have complex identities, and it is not easy to filter out the most valuable information from them.

Li Tian and the others have limited time, and they only have more than a day if they are full of plans.

They can only settle for the next best thing and go to relatively well-informed restaurants or romantic places.

But it is inappropriate for Li Tian to take the three girls to the Fengyue place.

So in the end, they can choose a restaurant that seems to have a prosperous business, and they can find some useful news while eating something.

The name of the restaurant they found was Sifang Restaurant. The name was simple and easy to remember. Although there was no deeper meaning, it was simple and clear, and it could be regarded as returning to basics.

This store, with doors open on all sides, is also called Sifang, which means to receive customers from all directions and receive money from all directions.

The storefront is divided into upper and lower floors, and each floor seems to be about half a meter higher than ordinary houses, so that the lighting is more convenient.

The four randomly found a few seats on the second floor of the restaurant and sat down.

Immediately, a waiter from the shop greeted him with a teapot.

"Several guest officials should pass by Cangzhou City, plan to order some wine and food, or try our famous dish unique to Cangzhou, lion's head!"

The waiter in this store looked like a person who would come to work, and he was a clever person, so he could tell that Li Tian and the others came from other places.

Li Tian didn't pay much attention to this, and they came here mainly to inquire about news, and the food and so on came second.

Li Tian took out a silver ingot of five taels of silver from his cuff.

Gently placed it in front of the waiter, and said with a smile on his face,

"Xiao Er, don't be in a hurry to eat. I'll ask you a few questions first. If you answer well, the ingot will be yours."

The shop waiter fixed his eyes on Yinzi, and with a smile on his face, he said hastily,

"Guest officer, feel free to ask, as long as the little one knows, you will definitely know everything."

Seeing this, Li Tian sighed in his heart,

"Sure enough, money can turn ghosts around..."

After organizing his language a little bit, he said,

"You don't need to be nervous, my question, if you can answer it, answer it, it doesn't matter if you can't come back up, but you can't talk nonsense, you know!"

"I know, I know, guest officer, don't worry, every word kept in my little mouth is the truth."

"That's the best. My first question is, I heard that Songhe Hall changed its head half a month ago. Do you know the origin of the new head?"

The shop waiter didn't seem to expect that Li Tian would ask such a difficult question as soon as he came up.

As the manager of several nearby streets, Songhetang has a natural control over these shops. Under normal circumstances, the waiter of the shop does not dare to gossip about them.

But right now, the waiter in the shop hesitated for a while, but decided to tell Li Tian and the others everything he knew.

He moved a little closer to the people and lowered his voice, otherwise the people next to him would seem to hear them, and said to them,

"I shouldn't have disclosed this matter, but since you guys want to know, I'll tell you about it briefly, but if someone asks the guest officers afterwards, don't reveal it. I told you Yours!"

"Okay, okay, you can talk about it with confidence, we are absolutely tight-lipped!"

The waiter swallowed hard, then said,

"If you want to say that the new head of Songhe Hall is indeed a character, I heard that he has just bought several stewards of Songhe Hall within a few days after he came to Cangzhou.

Then, together with several other managers, they coerced the old hall master into the palace.

After all, the old hall master is old, even if he is unwilling to let go, what can he do under the coercion of everyone.

Just like that, in just three days, the huge Songhe Hall changed hands! "

Hearing this, Li Tian said suspiciously,
"What? Listening to what you said, there seems to be quite a lot of people in Songhetang?
How many of them there are! "

The waiter shook his head lightly and said,

"Speaking of which, the number of people who really belong to Songhe Hall is not very large, only a few hundred people.

But Songhetang is a gang with many small gangs clinging to each other.

There are more than a dozen small gangs under them.

The number of these small gangs varies, the few may have less than ten people, just like the Tongyuan Escort, and the many may have three to four hundred people. If they are all added together, there may be two to three thousand people... "

Li Tian interrupted Xiao Er's words again,

"What do you mean, this Tongyuan Escort Bureau that has just been wiped out is also one of their Songhetang's subordinate gangs?"

"That's right, almost everyone in Cangzhou City doesn't know about this matter. If the guest officer doesn't believe it, you can ask anyone!"

Hearing Li Tian's sudden thought here, he seemed to have grasped some key point, but when he turned his head and thought about it, it seemed that he had gained nothing.

He shook his head lightly, then signaled the waiter to continue talking.

"Guests, you may not be able to guess. I heard a steward of Songhetang who often came to eat in the small shop inadvertently mentioned that the master of Songhetang is actually the real steward of Songhetang. In fact, someone else is in charge.

Otherwise, the old hall master, who has been the hall master for decades, how could he be taken away from the hall master's position by a few words! "

When Li Tian heard this, the corners of his mouth could not help but curl up slightly.

The waiter in the shop was right in the end. Ever since Li Tian heard about the organizational structure of Songhetang, he felt that their organization was not as simple as it seemed.

It is not impossible that there is a larger and stronger organization behind it as the actual controller.

However, to be in charge of a guild with thousands of people is already quite remarkable, and there are still people behind such a person, so what exactly is this organization trying to do, what is the purpose of gathering such a huge force.

You know, the imperial court has express regulations.

As long as the number of a gang exceeds a certain limit, it must be filed with the court, provide a roster of all managers, and report to the Yamen every ten days.

This is the rule Zhu Yuanzhang set for the people of Jianghu after he seized the world.

In fact, it is just a coercive means to rely on the imperial court to restrict the Jianghu gangs.

(End of this chapter)