Chapter 1524
Chapter 1524
Chapter 1524
Li Song didn't stay at Hao Qing's residence for too long, and left quietly after explaining the matter.He wasn't worried that Hao Qing's identity would be exposed prematurely, because Li Song had already taken away all written materials from Hao Qing's imprisonment to his quiet release, and the judge Wang Yuan didn't even know about He Guanzhi's transfer. Among the water bandits that the government army went to exterminate, there was such a person who survived.And Hao Qing was very low-key when he lived in Hangzhou City, and he used a pseudonym when he went out every day. No one would associate him with the leader of the water bandits who murdered and robbed him.
Taking a ten thousand step back, even if Hao Qing misses and is captured in the end, Li Song still has a backup plan to make Hao Qing completely shut up in the Hangzhou prison.He couldn't let someone with a heart follow Hao Qing's line and pick out He Guanzhi from behind.Of course, he believed that even if Hao Qing was arrested, he would not confess easily. After all, his family was still under his control, and Hao Qing would not risk their lives.
As for how Hao Qing is going to accomplish this task in the end, Li Song actually doesn't know at the moment. After all, several of Hao Qing's previous proposals were rejected by him on the spot because they were too risky. easy thing.However, Hao Qing had already issued a military order, and he would definitely try to shut down those construction sites as soon as possible. Li Song also believed that this guy didn't dare to lie to him, so he started to move first according to the part that the two parties had agreed on.
In the early morning of the next day, Hao Qing came outside the city with the first group of people leaving the city.He went to Yongjinmen first, found the place Li Song had mentioned, and took a good look at the construction site.Although I noticed that construction started here when I passed by here before, but now that I want to do something about this place, I naturally have to inspect the environment first.
These three construction sites are all west of the official road. Hao Qing remembers that it should be a vegetable field in the past, but there is a commercial warehouse and a carriage and horse dealership between the three construction sites.Ordinary people who pass by here generally don't care about the purpose of the buildings being built here. If Li Song hadn't reminded them, Hao Qing probably wouldn't have guessed that the same boss was actually behind the three construction sites.
After Hao Qing saw it, he also found that his previous idea was a little too simple. There are two courtyards between the three construction sites. If he wants to kill and set fire to stop the construction of these three construction sites, I'm afraid it will be a little troublesome.Unless it is a torch that burns the storehouse and the chariot and horse dealership together, but these two buildings have courtyard walls, it is easy to leave traces of arson if they are forced to operate.And Li Song's request to him is to try to be as natural as possible, and it is best not to leave too obvious evidence for the government to file a case.
For Hao Qing, who was used to using tough tactics, this was a bit tricky.When he was a water bandit in the past, the methods he used to use were quite ruthless, but he was not very good at using them skillfully.Li Song wanted him to achieve his goal without any trace, which really didn't match his major.
Each of the three construction sites had 50 to [-] people working, even if Hao Qing wanted to tamper with the construction site, it would be difficult to hide his eyes and ears during the day.Hao Qing couldn't help feeling a little regretful, he shouldn't have agreed to Li Song's task so quickly last night, he should talk to him about the conditions, at least give him more time and means.In this environment, if the construction site is to be shut down, what else can I do except to force it?
However, Hao Qing is not a person who can't hold his breath. Although he knew that it would be extremely difficult to attack here, he still wandered around the neighborhood patiently. The number of guys in these two courtyards.Then he went on to talk about the name of the business, walked around the yard back and forth, and saw the surrounding environment clearly.
But after he had almost finished transferring to this place, he complained more and more. Because the two businesses were not far from the official road outside the city, they were quite popular, and there was an endless stream of caravans coming in and out.Moreover, Hao Qing asked the store clerk that even at night, merchants would come in and out from time to time. After all, this was outside the city and there was no curfew. Merchants who arrived outside the city at night could only find these places to rest.And before dawn, there will be teams that get up early and set off. In this way, it seems that there will not be much safe time for him to operate at night.
Although it seems that no suitable means of implementation has been found for this task so far, it is impossible for Hao Qing to give up at this point. Li Song made it very clear last night that after completing this task, his family can be freed again. And this is Hao Qing's biggest weakness.
Hao Qing walked slowly to a tea shed not far from these construction sites on the east side of the official road, sat down and ordered a pot of tea, and pretended to be a passerby resting his feet, quietly monitoring the movement in this area.After waiting like this for about an hour, the tea in the pot was already cold, and Hao Qing still didn't figure out any new methods.
Sitting in this place for too long, Hao Qing was also worried about attracting the attention of interested people. After all, the official roads outside the city are mixed with good and evil people. In addition to the local ruffians, Li Song also told him that every yamen will send eyes and ears here to monitor Nanlai. Passengers heading north, so as not to be mixed into the city by hostile armed personnel in disguise - to put it bluntly, they are afraid that the Haihan people will cause trouble.But the irony is that quite a few of the caravans that come and go on the official road have done business with the Haihan people, and even the goods that are currently being trafficked are from Haihan.
After Hao Qing made tea money, he got up and left his seat, and walked slowly towards the direction of Qiantang River.He still has more than 20 reliable subordinates working at the riverside wharf, and it is necessary to gather this group of people as the manpower for the next operation.However, this group of people does not have such a perfect identity cover as him, and it is very likely that they will not be able to stay in Hangzhou Mansion any longer after participating in the operation, so he has to talk to these people first, and then try to get money from Li Song for them. A settling fee is required, so that they can take them to fight this one with peace of mind.
It is not far to walk from Yongjin Gate to the Qiantang River, and in a short while you will arrive at the several-mile-long wharf area on the river bank.Although there was a far-reaching wharf fire a year and a half ago, the ruins caused by the fire have long since disappeared, replaced by the more prosperous and busy Hangzhou Wharf.After the Zhejiang government half-openly acquiesced in opening up the trading rights of coastal states to Haihan, the trade volume between Zhejiang and Haihan surged, and the number of cargo ships traveling on the Qiantang River also increased significantly compared to before.
The increase in cargo throughput has also brought about a more prosperous shipping market, and more people rely on it for their livelihood than in the past.There are thousands of people engaged in related industries on the wharf along the Qiantang River alone, and the continuous warehouses that are still under construction on the shore also show that the development prospects here are widely optimistic.Of course, the premise is that there will be no more armed conflicts such as the blockade of the Qiantang River by the Haihan Fleet. Once the situation between the two countries deteriorates, the shipping industry will be the first to suffer.
Hao Qing could clearly see many sailboats docked on the shore with red and blue flags on the top of their masts. Not all of these boats belonged to Haihan, and some of them were actually merchants' boats from the Ming Dynasty, just for the purpose of meeting with each other in Hangzhou Bay. The Zhoushan Dinghai Port controlled by Haihan is easy to get in and out of, so the red and blue double-color flag symbolizing Haihan was hung on the mast.Moreover, the businessman soon discovered that there was another added benefit of doing this, that is, no one would come to make trouble. Even the ships of the navy of the Ming army would take the initiative to keep a respectful distance from ships with two-color flags when they saw them.
Hao Qing was living on the Qiantang River back then, so he naturally understood how deterrent the two-color flag is.There was once a water bandit boss who didn't believe in this evil, and hijacked a sailboat with a two-color flag on the river, but he was really unlucky. The owner of this boat was really an agent who had a direct trade relationship with Haihan. Knowing that it was useless to file a complaint in the Hangzhou government, he reported the matter directly to Zhoushan. It is said that he paid for insurance from Haihan to cover all accidents, and by the way, he also hoped that the people of Haihan would stand up and uphold justice.Haihan's response was straightforward. In addition to compensating the agent for the loss, he also offered a reward of 1 taels of silver for the head of the water bandit boss.It took only seven days for the news to spread, and someone took his head to Ningbo Mansion to collect the money. After that, no one in the rivers and lakes dared to easily attack the sailboat with the two-color flag. After all, no one knew the money. Is it possible to make money with life and spend money with life? The best way is not to cause this trouble.
At the beginning, Hao Qing thought about becoming an agent, but he had no official background, and his capital was limited. Even if he had someone and a boat, he still didn't meet the threshold.But when he thinks back now, if he had been more active at that time, took the initiative to manage in Hangzhou, found a high-ranking official to hug his thigh, and then went to Zhoushan Island to get an agent qualification, maybe he would have become a rich man by this time. This is now acting as a watchdog for people.
Time is fate, Hao Qing has nothing to complain about besides lamenting his bad luck.But he walked two docks, but he didn't see his brothers, and he thought that he hadn't come to the dock for only half a month, could it be that these bastards ran away silently?
Hao Qing also knew that it was not easy for his group of people to work hard at the pier, so after receiving salary from Li Song every month, he would send part of it to the pier to help them.And Hao Qing did not forget to promise them that as long as the right time came, he would bring them back to the mountain and share the wealth. That's why these people would stay at the pier by the Qiantang River and wait for the time Hao Qing said.
Hao Qing walked along the river for a long time, and finally saw several of them on another pier five or six miles away from Hangzhou City.Hao Qing greeted these people to the side and asked, only to realize that during the few days he hadn't shown up, something unexpected happened.Under Li Song's strict order, he did not inform these men of his residence in the city, so he could not be notified in time of any situation here.
The first incident was that his subordinates had a conflict with another group of laborers because of competition for the dock business. Sporadic verbal conflicts gradually developed into friction, and finally turned into a fight one evening.However, Hao Qing's group suffered a great loss in the fight, several of them had their hands and feet broken, and in the end they were expelled from the wharf where they originally took jobs.
Hao Qing couldn't help but asked: "You guys are not bad at skills, how could you lose in this kind of pier fight? Could it be that the other party sent out some powerful people?"
He thought that the group of subordinates who stayed outside the city of Hangzhou were all powerful people, killing people and stealing goods was no problem, they would not be able to beat ordinary dock laborers for no reason, and the next answer of his subordinates also left him dumbfounded.
It turned out that another group of laborers who had clashed with them had backgrounds. It only took a moment that day, and a large number of people were transferred from other docks to block them directly on the dock.Although these people have some means, they are hard to beat with two fists, and hundreds of people directly attack them. The resistance measures they can take are only for a moment, and then they are broken up. He didn't dare to take out any sharp weapon.In retrospect, perhaps the other party had figured out their details long ago, and was just waiting for such an opportunity to drive them away as competitors.
So they had no choice but to leave their original territory and come to the riverside, which is farther away from Hangzhou City, to pick up jobs.During this period, they encountered a second accident. A marine merchant recruited experienced sailors to go to Nanyang with the ship with generous remuneration, and promised to disembark at Haihan Country to apply for immigration on the return journey.So some of them couldn't resist the temptation, so they packed up their things and followed.After all, the remuneration given by others is more than ten times higher than that of being a dock laborer, not to mention the opportunity to be naturalized as a Haihan in the future.
How rich the Haihan people are, those who live on the pier, even if they haven't seen it with their own eyes, they have heard various rumors.Those sea merchants who have been to Haihan country all blow up the place as a fairyland on earth, and everyone lives a life without worrying about food and clothing.This is not only attractive to ordinary civilians, even Hao Qing's gang of anonymous desperadoes will still yearn for a stable life.If there is a chance to get this kind of life without working hard, then why not fight for it?At least there is a glimmer of hope to get off to Nanyang with the ship, it is better than being chased here and there like a bereaved dog.
After Hao Qing heard this, he also felt very helpless. Although it seemed a bit disrespectful to do so, if he were asked to stand in the same position to do this multiple-choice question, it would probably be difficult for him to guarantee that he would stay in Hangzhou to fight for an unseen to a hoped future.In addition to sighing that "everyone has his own ambition", he really can't complain about these subordinates who have made different choices.
After leaving a group of people, there are only 15 people left in Hangzhou. Among them, there are six injured people who can only rest temporarily and cannot go out to do things. Therefore, the people sent by Hao Qing, There are only nine people.
(End of this chapter)
Li Song didn't stay at Hao Qing's residence for too long, and left quietly after explaining the matter.He wasn't worried that Hao Qing's identity would be exposed prematurely, because Li Song had already taken away all written materials from Hao Qing's imprisonment to his quiet release, and the judge Wang Yuan didn't even know about He Guanzhi's transfer. Among the water bandits that the government army went to exterminate, there was such a person who survived.And Hao Qing was very low-key when he lived in Hangzhou City, and he used a pseudonym when he went out every day. No one would associate him with the leader of the water bandits who murdered and robbed him.
Taking a ten thousand step back, even if Hao Qing misses and is captured in the end, Li Song still has a backup plan to make Hao Qing completely shut up in the Hangzhou prison.He couldn't let someone with a heart follow Hao Qing's line and pick out He Guanzhi from behind.Of course, he believed that even if Hao Qing was arrested, he would not confess easily. After all, his family was still under his control, and Hao Qing would not risk their lives.
As for how Hao Qing is going to accomplish this task in the end, Li Song actually doesn't know at the moment. After all, several of Hao Qing's previous proposals were rejected by him on the spot because they were too risky. easy thing.However, Hao Qing had already issued a military order, and he would definitely try to shut down those construction sites as soon as possible. Li Song also believed that this guy didn't dare to lie to him, so he started to move first according to the part that the two parties had agreed on.
In the early morning of the next day, Hao Qing came outside the city with the first group of people leaving the city.He went to Yongjinmen first, found the place Li Song had mentioned, and took a good look at the construction site.Although I noticed that construction started here when I passed by here before, but now that I want to do something about this place, I naturally have to inspect the environment first.
These three construction sites are all west of the official road. Hao Qing remembers that it should be a vegetable field in the past, but there is a commercial warehouse and a carriage and horse dealership between the three construction sites.Ordinary people who pass by here generally don't care about the purpose of the buildings being built here. If Li Song hadn't reminded them, Hao Qing probably wouldn't have guessed that the same boss was actually behind the three construction sites.
After Hao Qing saw it, he also found that his previous idea was a little too simple. There are two courtyards between the three construction sites. If he wants to kill and set fire to stop the construction of these three construction sites, I'm afraid it will be a little troublesome.Unless it is a torch that burns the storehouse and the chariot and horse dealership together, but these two buildings have courtyard walls, it is easy to leave traces of arson if they are forced to operate.And Li Song's request to him is to try to be as natural as possible, and it is best not to leave too obvious evidence for the government to file a case.
For Hao Qing, who was used to using tough tactics, this was a bit tricky.When he was a water bandit in the past, the methods he used to use were quite ruthless, but he was not very good at using them skillfully.Li Song wanted him to achieve his goal without any trace, which really didn't match his major.
Each of the three construction sites had 50 to [-] people working, even if Hao Qing wanted to tamper with the construction site, it would be difficult to hide his eyes and ears during the day.Hao Qing couldn't help feeling a little regretful, he shouldn't have agreed to Li Song's task so quickly last night, he should talk to him about the conditions, at least give him more time and means.In this environment, if the construction site is to be shut down, what else can I do except to force it?
However, Hao Qing is not a person who can't hold his breath. Although he knew that it would be extremely difficult to attack here, he still wandered around the neighborhood patiently. The number of guys in these two courtyards.Then he went on to talk about the name of the business, walked around the yard back and forth, and saw the surrounding environment clearly.
But after he had almost finished transferring to this place, he complained more and more. Because the two businesses were not far from the official road outside the city, they were quite popular, and there was an endless stream of caravans coming in and out.Moreover, Hao Qing asked the store clerk that even at night, merchants would come in and out from time to time. After all, this was outside the city and there was no curfew. Merchants who arrived outside the city at night could only find these places to rest.And before dawn, there will be teams that get up early and set off. In this way, it seems that there will not be much safe time for him to operate at night.
Although it seems that no suitable means of implementation has been found for this task so far, it is impossible for Hao Qing to give up at this point. Li Song made it very clear last night that after completing this task, his family can be freed again. And this is Hao Qing's biggest weakness.
Hao Qing walked slowly to a tea shed not far from these construction sites on the east side of the official road, sat down and ordered a pot of tea, and pretended to be a passerby resting his feet, quietly monitoring the movement in this area.After waiting like this for about an hour, the tea in the pot was already cold, and Hao Qing still didn't figure out any new methods.
Sitting in this place for too long, Hao Qing was also worried about attracting the attention of interested people. After all, the official roads outside the city are mixed with good and evil people. In addition to the local ruffians, Li Song also told him that every yamen will send eyes and ears here to monitor Nanlai. Passengers heading north, so as not to be mixed into the city by hostile armed personnel in disguise - to put it bluntly, they are afraid that the Haihan people will cause trouble.But the irony is that quite a few of the caravans that come and go on the official road have done business with the Haihan people, and even the goods that are currently being trafficked are from Haihan.
After Hao Qing made tea money, he got up and left his seat, and walked slowly towards the direction of Qiantang River.He still has more than 20 reliable subordinates working at the riverside wharf, and it is necessary to gather this group of people as the manpower for the next operation.However, this group of people does not have such a perfect identity cover as him, and it is very likely that they will not be able to stay in Hangzhou Mansion any longer after participating in the operation, so he has to talk to these people first, and then try to get money from Li Song for them. A settling fee is required, so that they can take them to fight this one with peace of mind.
It is not far to walk from Yongjin Gate to the Qiantang River, and in a short while you will arrive at the several-mile-long wharf area on the river bank.Although there was a far-reaching wharf fire a year and a half ago, the ruins caused by the fire have long since disappeared, replaced by the more prosperous and busy Hangzhou Wharf.After the Zhejiang government half-openly acquiesced in opening up the trading rights of coastal states to Haihan, the trade volume between Zhejiang and Haihan surged, and the number of cargo ships traveling on the Qiantang River also increased significantly compared to before.
The increase in cargo throughput has also brought about a more prosperous shipping market, and more people rely on it for their livelihood than in the past.There are thousands of people engaged in related industries on the wharf along the Qiantang River alone, and the continuous warehouses that are still under construction on the shore also show that the development prospects here are widely optimistic.Of course, the premise is that there will be no more armed conflicts such as the blockade of the Qiantang River by the Haihan Fleet. Once the situation between the two countries deteriorates, the shipping industry will be the first to suffer.
Hao Qing could clearly see many sailboats docked on the shore with red and blue flags on the top of their masts. Not all of these boats belonged to Haihan, and some of them were actually merchants' boats from the Ming Dynasty, just for the purpose of meeting with each other in Hangzhou Bay. The Zhoushan Dinghai Port controlled by Haihan is easy to get in and out of, so the red and blue double-color flag symbolizing Haihan was hung on the mast.Moreover, the businessman soon discovered that there was another added benefit of doing this, that is, no one would come to make trouble. Even the ships of the navy of the Ming army would take the initiative to keep a respectful distance from ships with two-color flags when they saw them.
Hao Qing was living on the Qiantang River back then, so he naturally understood how deterrent the two-color flag is.There was once a water bandit boss who didn't believe in this evil, and hijacked a sailboat with a two-color flag on the river, but he was really unlucky. The owner of this boat was really an agent who had a direct trade relationship with Haihan. Knowing that it was useless to file a complaint in the Hangzhou government, he reported the matter directly to Zhoushan. It is said that he paid for insurance from Haihan to cover all accidents, and by the way, he also hoped that the people of Haihan would stand up and uphold justice.Haihan's response was straightforward. In addition to compensating the agent for the loss, he also offered a reward of 1 taels of silver for the head of the water bandit boss.It took only seven days for the news to spread, and someone took his head to Ningbo Mansion to collect the money. After that, no one in the rivers and lakes dared to easily attack the sailboat with the two-color flag. After all, no one knew the money. Is it possible to make money with life and spend money with life? The best way is not to cause this trouble.
At the beginning, Hao Qing thought about becoming an agent, but he had no official background, and his capital was limited. Even if he had someone and a boat, he still didn't meet the threshold.But when he thinks back now, if he had been more active at that time, took the initiative to manage in Hangzhou, found a high-ranking official to hug his thigh, and then went to Zhoushan Island to get an agent qualification, maybe he would have become a rich man by this time. This is now acting as a watchdog for people.
Time is fate, Hao Qing has nothing to complain about besides lamenting his bad luck.But he walked two docks, but he didn't see his brothers, and he thought that he hadn't come to the dock for only half a month, could it be that these bastards ran away silently?
Hao Qing also knew that it was not easy for his group of people to work hard at the pier, so after receiving salary from Li Song every month, he would send part of it to the pier to help them.And Hao Qing did not forget to promise them that as long as the right time came, he would bring them back to the mountain and share the wealth. That's why these people would stay at the pier by the Qiantang River and wait for the time Hao Qing said.
Hao Qing walked along the river for a long time, and finally saw several of them on another pier five or six miles away from Hangzhou City.Hao Qing greeted these people to the side and asked, only to realize that during the few days he hadn't shown up, something unexpected happened.Under Li Song's strict order, he did not inform these men of his residence in the city, so he could not be notified in time of any situation here.
The first incident was that his subordinates had a conflict with another group of laborers because of competition for the dock business. Sporadic verbal conflicts gradually developed into friction, and finally turned into a fight one evening.However, Hao Qing's group suffered a great loss in the fight, several of them had their hands and feet broken, and in the end they were expelled from the wharf where they originally took jobs.
Hao Qing couldn't help but asked: "You guys are not bad at skills, how could you lose in this kind of pier fight? Could it be that the other party sent out some powerful people?"
He thought that the group of subordinates who stayed outside the city of Hangzhou were all powerful people, killing people and stealing goods was no problem, they would not be able to beat ordinary dock laborers for no reason, and the next answer of his subordinates also left him dumbfounded.
It turned out that another group of laborers who had clashed with them had backgrounds. It only took a moment that day, and a large number of people were transferred from other docks to block them directly on the dock.Although these people have some means, they are hard to beat with two fists, and hundreds of people directly attack them. The resistance measures they can take are only for a moment, and then they are broken up. He didn't dare to take out any sharp weapon.In retrospect, perhaps the other party had figured out their details long ago, and was just waiting for such an opportunity to drive them away as competitors.
So they had no choice but to leave their original territory and come to the riverside, which is farther away from Hangzhou City, to pick up jobs.During this period, they encountered a second accident. A marine merchant recruited experienced sailors to go to Nanyang with the ship with generous remuneration, and promised to disembark at Haihan Country to apply for immigration on the return journey.So some of them couldn't resist the temptation, so they packed up their things and followed.After all, the remuneration given by others is more than ten times higher than that of being a dock laborer, not to mention the opportunity to be naturalized as a Haihan in the future.
How rich the Haihan people are, those who live on the pier, even if they haven't seen it with their own eyes, they have heard various rumors.Those sea merchants who have been to Haihan country all blow up the place as a fairyland on earth, and everyone lives a life without worrying about food and clothing.This is not only attractive to ordinary civilians, even Hao Qing's gang of anonymous desperadoes will still yearn for a stable life.If there is a chance to get this kind of life without working hard, then why not fight for it?At least there is a glimmer of hope to get off to Nanyang with the ship, it is better than being chased here and there like a bereaved dog.
After Hao Qing heard this, he also felt very helpless. Although it seemed a bit disrespectful to do so, if he were asked to stand in the same position to do this multiple-choice question, it would probably be difficult for him to guarantee that he would stay in Hangzhou to fight for an unseen to a hoped future.In addition to sighing that "everyone has his own ambition", he really can't complain about these subordinates who have made different choices.
After leaving a group of people, there are only 15 people left in Hangzhou. Among them, there are six injured people who can only rest temporarily and cannot go out to do things. Therefore, the people sent by Hao Qing, There are only nine people.
(End of this chapter)