The Sihe River is a large river in Shandong and one of the main water sources of the Shandong section of the Grand Canal, which flows from the northeast of Yanzhou to the southwest and communicates with the Universiade River in Nanyang Lake in the south of Jining.

The river is wide and not crossed, because it is close to the city and there are endless merchants coming and going, and it is busy day and night.

When Chang Yu rested at the ferry, Guo Ren walked around the dock to observe, and saw that the river was wide and the water was urgent, so he asked someone for the price, and the person casually opened a price, and Guo Ren pouted: "There are many of us, can you discuss?" ”。

"Then you have to discuss with us in charge" The big man looked up and down: "The military master is still a good man?" ”

The big man pointed to an awning next to the ferry, and there were several big men under the shed, one of whom was half-lying and nibbling on a watermelon with a fan in his hand.

"This boss, more than 60 of us have horses to cross the river, can we negotiate the price?" Guo Ren walked to the shed, arched his hand, and asked straight to the point.

The swarthy man glanced at him casually: "Twenty taels."

Hey, he gasped, this is too expensive, and muttered: "Grab money."

"! Lao Tzu opened the door to do business, and said who would rob the money" The big man's ears were very pointed, and when he heard the words, he stood up angrily, and pointed at the door of the state with a fan: "If you cross, you will pay the silver, and if you don't cross, you will get out."

Guo Ren also got angry: "Since you open the door to do business, you can discuss, but there is no such a fixed price......" Before he finished speaking, he was robbed by the big man: "Since you don't want a fixed price, then the master will give you another price, fifty taels, don't get out!" The men behind him burst into laughter.

Guo Ren's face was pale, and he smiled angrily: "Sure enough, it's a good man from Shandong!" The open robbery can't be changed, and the secret robbery is robbed! ”

These words exploded in an instant, and the big man was furious: "You fucking scold us for being robbers" As he spoke, he pushed Guo Ren to a footing, and several of his subordinates around him immediately shouted and scolded when they saw this: "Dog, lawless."

Dahan saw a few people with guys, but he was not cowardly at all, raised his arms and shouted: "Brothers, someone has smashed their jobs."

At this call, all the men, women and children on the dock poured over, and there were hundreds of them, and in the blink of an eye, they surrounded several people.

Several people hurriedly drew their swords: "I am an officer and soldier, and you can't rebel!" ”

At the same time, Chang Yu, who discovered the situation, also ran over with a knife and led his subordinates, shouting: "Disperse, disperse!" ”

In the face of Chang Yu's fierce momentum, the people on the dock did not have the slightest fear, let alone the slightest willingness to give way, and still surrounded several people to prevent Chang Yu from passing.

Chang Yu drew his knife and shouted angrily: "Do you have to watch the dock flow into a river of blood?" ”

"Come on, try it if you have the guts!" The swarthy man, choking from afar, Chang Yu raised his eyebrows, and secretly said in his heart, why is he so hard

"This official only asks you one word, are you a bandit or a citizen, if it is a people, it is easy to speak, if a thief wants to kill an official and rebel, then this official really has to try" Chang Yu snorted coldly, and dozens of guards behind him drew their swords and bows, and when they gave an order, they would not hesitate to kill him.

The swarthy man finally changed his expression, Chang Yu and his entourage were unusual officers and soldiers, all of whom were soldiers who came over from the mountain of corpses in the sea of blood, and the murderous aura on his body was not something that ordinary people could bear.

"We are all good citizens, don't buckle our hats!" The big man snorted.

"Since it is a good citizen, it is good to make a living, why gather a crowd to make trouble?" Chang Yu put the knife back into the sheath, took a step forward and pushed away the person who was blocking the way, and slowly approached, and the crowd automatically dodged a way.

"We want to do business well, but we don't allow others to bully" Dahan looked at the young man in front of him, and his heart was full of all kinds of doubts.

"Being bullied?" Chang Yu pursed his lips: "Officers and soldiers dare to move, whoever dares to bully you, if you don't bully others on weekdays, it can be regarded as a good deed."

"We are not thieves, why should we bully others!" The big man shouted angrily, Chang Yu sneered and glanced around, and saw that there were men, women and children around him, and his face was black and yellow, and he did look like a poor person, so his heart moved: "White Lotus Sect? ”

"You don't have to buckle our hats, the White Lotus Sect rebelled, we are not!" Dahan took a step forward and looked at Chang Yu: "If you want to do it, you don't need to find so many reasons, you will accompany you to the end, and we are never afraid of things."

Grain Ship Gang! Chang Yu was stunned!

They are not bandits, but they are the underworld! No wonder it's so arrogant!

The Grain Boat Gang is the predecessor of the Cao Gang, which was later known as the Green Gang. The disciples take Caoyun as their business, and there are many people who join the gang from the north and south of the river.

When the Cao Gang was officially named, it was during the Yongzheng period, and at this time it was also called the Grain and Grass Gang, or Luojiao.

The founder of Luojiao is called Luo Qing, who was originally a Caoyun officer and soldier who served in Miyun, converted to Buddhism, and then retired from the army to study Buddhism for 13 years, established Luojiao to preach among the waterway, docks, boatmen, and fishermen, and almost all the people who made a living in the waterway were his followers.

Therefore, at this time, the Cao Gang was both a gang organization and a religious organization, and it had a great influence at that time.

But Chang Yu is not wrong about one thing, the Luo Sect has actually absorbed a lot of the teachings of the White Lotus Sect, and to some extent the nature is the same, the difference is that the White Lotus Sect likes to expose the rod and rebel, while the followers of the Luo Sect prefer to be the Black Society.

No wonder it's so awesome, it turned out to be the local black and astringent society, Chang Yu just understood, at this time it was the era of rapid development of the grain ship gang, in the north of Zhili and Shandong greatly powerful and then along the canal to Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Jiangxi and other regions, and finally became the world's largest gang, because at that time Luo Qing missionary was the first from the Zhejiang side, so the Cao gang to Wenzhou and Taizhou side of the main gang, Anhui North Jiangbei for the guest gang.

"What do you call Your Excellency?" Chang Yu turned to look at the swarthy man and arched his hand and asked.

Seeing Chang Yu's expression change, Dahan thought that he was scared, and said proudly: "Yanzhou branch rudder Surabaya Tangkou, Wei Changde."

Oh I'm going to go Chang yu wiped the beads of sweat from his forehead and was really worried that he said aoki tang wei xiaobao.

"It turned out to be Boss Wei" Chang Yuyou arched his hand, not only to make a good living: "Why did it become like this?" ”

"The person who asked you" Wei Changde snorted, and then he argued with you and me endlessly and said what had just happened, and Chang Yu's head buzzed when he heard it.

"The wording of the official's subordinates is slightly inappropriate, but Boss Wei can't say that the price of sitting on the ground is unreasonable, and he doesn't bully the common people on weekdays and bullies our officers and soldiers, although this practice is different from the White Lotus Sect's rebellion against officials, but the nature is the same, this is called slaughtering officials!" Chang Yu said with a smile.

Wei Changde snorted: "You even bring a hundred people immediately, it is time-consuming and laborious to use all the ships on my dock, and it also delays other transactions, is it expensive to charge you twenty or thirty taels of silver, how many people and people take advantage of the common people on weekdays, how can it be the turn to spend silver and start to care" said and rolled his eyes: "Do wishful thinking in trading, if you are too expensive, you will leave."

"Yes, go, go, get out......" The surrounding people scolded loudly.

"I don't know whether I live or die", and he scolded angrily.

Wei Changde's eyes were cold: "What's the matter, do the military masters still plan to buy and sell, if that's the case, we are not easy to bully, hehe, now I can understand why the White Lotus Sect always likes to rebel."

Chang Yu grabbed the tenacity who was about to do it, and he naturally heard the meaning of Wei Changde's words: If you use force, the officials will force the people to rebel, which makes him speechless and helpless for a while.

The reason why the Cao Gang is so confident is that in addition to the hardness of the iron itself, it is naturally indispensable to the umbrella of the local government.

The reason why he dared to open his mouth to the officers and soldiers was that the officers and men at this time were too bad, too weak, and too cowardly, and they were sorry for themselves when they encountered a small group of officers and soldiers who did not sit on the ground and raise prices.

It's just that he looked away this time and didn't know that the officers and soldiers in front of him were actually the strongest soldiers of the Ming Dynasty.

But although Chang Yu is annoyed, he can't use force, otherwise how is it different from Liu Zeqing and others and robbers?

So I couldn't help sighing, thousands of troops, corpses, mountains and seas of blood came over, but they were stumped by a group of local snakes.

"Doing business pays attention to harmony and wealth, no matter how powerful your grain boat gang is, it is only begging for food in the rivers and lakes, and this food still depends on whether the government gives you food, you have to be filial piety, if you don't give you food, you will first weigh whether you dare to rebel like the White Lotus Sect!"

Just when Chang Yu was helpless, Wu Zhong rubbed his sleepy eyes and carried the knife slowly, and walked straight towards Wei Changde, a big man wanted to reach out to stop him, but he lifted up and kicked away, everyone was furious, and they were about to pounce, only to see a flash of cold light, and the tip of the knife was already under Wei Changde's neck.

The rest of the crowd was in an uproar, not daring to act rashly, and shouted and scolded one after another.

"Don't" Chang Yu hurriedly shouted, he was afraid that Wu Zhongzhen would be killed, arousing public anger and making the mess difficult to clean up.

"If you dare to kill me, you won't be able to go to this river" Wei Changde is also a man, and his face does not change and he said coldly.

Moreover, Wu Zhong picked up his chin with the tip of the knife, and said with a disdainful expression: "If it weren't for the fact that you are now in the government, you are really not enough to see these hundred and ten people" said and put the knife back into the sheath: "Your grain gang lives on the river, but have you forgotten whose river it is?" As long as the court gives an order, you will lose your livelihood, so many people have no food, should they go to the mountains to become a coward, or do they learn from the White Lotus Sect to rebel? ”

"There's no need to bluff me" Wei Changde didn't eat oil and salt: "I'm afraid that the imperial court won't dare to let tens of thousands of people have nothing to eat at once."

"Afraid, it doesn't mean that you don't dare, even the officers and soldiers dare to extort, why doesn't the court change to an obedient one" Wu Zhong smiled: "I know that you are the head snake of the land, and there is your backer in the government" said and pointed at Chang Yu: "But your backer is not worthy of lifting shoes for us adults, that is, King Lu has to give three points of courtesy when he sees it, as for the governor of Donghe, hehe, I'm afraid I can't say a word."

The Governor of the East River, whose full name is the Governor of the Shandong River in Henan, is in charge of the waterways of the Yellow River Canal in Shandong and Henan, and is said to have the same rights as the Governor of Shandong, and his yamen is located in Jining, less than 100 miles away from Yanzhou.

Wei Changde listened to this, his eyes narrowed into a slit and looked at Chang Yu carefully, this person is young, but even the vassal king has to give three points, who is he?

Seeing it with his followers, one by one the tigers and bears are murderous, they are by no means ordinary soldiers, could it be...... Something suddenly remembered in my heart.

He is from the Cao Gang, and he can hear a lot of news from the mouths of merchants coming and going from the south to the north every day on the dock, for example, the great eunuch of Dongchang who is now powerful in the government and the opposition!

After months of fermentation, Chang Yu's achievements and prestige have long been not limited to the north, and at this time, even Nan Zhili has been like thunder, saying that he is young and brave and invincible, good at fighting and killing.

"Your Excellency's surname is Chang?" Wei Changde suddenly clenched his fists and asked respectfully, and his subordinates were dumbfounded.

Chang Yu smiled bitterly, it seems that he is so famous now that he even hears of the head of a black club.

"Now that you know my name, can you cross the river for ten taels of silver?"

"Yes, yes, yes!" Wei Changde didn't know whether he was excited or frightened, and suddenly became stammering.

Maybe it's because he's excited, he's heard too many rumors about this little eunuch, and almost all the merchants going south will spit and talk about this young eunuch who turned the tide with his own strength, what Taiyuan resisted hundreds of thousands of enemies, and the Tartars fled in embarrassment outside the gate, and the King of Baoding Mansion Qin killed millions of thieves and chased the Tartars for thousands of miles...... Anyway, this person is said to be like a god, like a god of war, but one thing is very sure that this eunuch is very young and a teenager!

I actually saw a real person today, and I couldn't even see the slightest hint of eunuchs.

Maybe it's a little scared, after all, the rumored little eunuch kills people like hemp, whether it is a thief army or a Tartar, he doesn't live if he falls into his hands, and he likes to use human heads to build a view of Beijing......

Thinking of this, Wei Changde was in a cold sweat, he was because the Cao Gang was powerful in Shandong and had a strong background, so when he encountered ordinary officers and soldiers, he didn't buy it at all and would blackmail.

That's why he opened his mouth for twenty taels, but in fact, five taels of silver was enough.

If it was really a rumor, if he had angered him just now, I was afraid that there would be a river of blood at this time? Wei Changde began to congratulate himself on his vision.

Standing on the opposite bank, looking at the subordinates who were busy crossing the river on the dock, Chang Yu's expression was slightly helpless, and the invincible eunuch of Dongchang in the battlefield had to rely on fame in order to cross the river.

But Wu Zhong was even more helpless, pretending to be a lowly person, threatening and intimidating, and after working for a long time, he couldn't reach the name of an adult.

"Maybe by your name, we have already crossed the river?" Chang Yu quipped.

Wu Zhong shook his head: "They are not thieves and they are not real Jianghu people, they don't eat my set." ”