Chapter Twenty-Eight: The Underworld of the Ming Dynasty

Linkou Village is still as peaceful as before, but on the faces of many people, you can still see deep worry, they have been in the forest for eight days, there is no news at all, how can people not worry? Especially the dog hair father, the dog leftover father and mother, they are even more anxious, they have to quarrel almost every day these days, and the husband and wife can quarrel over a trivial matter, in fact, in the final analysis, it is because they are worried about the child. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The dog hairy father and a few of them have already discussed it last night, if there is no news in a day or two, then everyone will go into the forest to find someone.

Wan Gou Shui and Wan Gou Leg are looking for wild vegetables outside the village at this time, they are Gou Mao's uncle and brother, a little smaller than Gou Mao, their family also ran out of food two days ago, this is still a loss of Gou Mao's father to help some rice, otherwise there would have been no food for a long time.

At this moment, a middle-aged man in his forties waved to Goushui and Doglegs and said, "Come on, come on, you two will come here." ”

Although they didn't know why he called himself, they still went to him, and the middle-aged man stepped in and said: "See, my chicken bus is broken, and the things can't be loaded, as long as you two help me move this thing to Chopsticks Lane in the city, I'll give you five cents each, okay?" ”

Gou Shui and Gou Leg looked at this man's chicken bus, and saw that the wheels had been broken into two or three pieces, and a brand-new official hat chair and a desk were tied to the chicken bus. So what else to say, it's just to sell some strength, and strength is also put away, why not sell it if it can be sold for money?

So the dog water and they helped take down the official hat chair and the case table, and then the middle-aged man carried the case table on his back, the dog leg carried the official hat chair, and the dog water dragged the chicken cart, so he went to the county seat.

After entering the city gate, each person paid a penny to enter the city, which was actually equivalent to the small treasury of the leaders of later generations, and the big head was divided by a few people in power in the county, and the small head was shared by the few people who collected the money, and the court could not get a penny.

Although the court can't get the money, the people still scold the court, because these people collect money in the name of the court, so in fact, many ordinary people, they are forced to rebel by the court, in fact, the responsibility of the court is really not very big, that is, these grassroots problems are these grassroots, these people scrape the ground in the name of the court, make a fortune, and defraud the people.

This is still the court can't get the money, if the court can get the money, it will be even more difficult to get to the place, for example, the painter emperor of the Song Dynasty, like granite, if there is a good granite in the place, pay tribute, and when you get to the place, it will be completely out of shape, and it doesn't matter if you have granite at home, granite is good or not, you will move away when you see the stone, and if you can't move out, you will demolish the house, do you want to demolish it? Okay, take the money. That's really a blatant robbery in the name of the imperial court. How many people have died because of this family, in fact, the emperor really didn't mean that. Of course, the imperial court did not play a supervisory role, and this responsibility is still somewhat there.

Of course, the money for their entry into the city is not paid by themselves, or the middle-aged man went out, after entering the city, they finally arrived at the chopsticks alley, when each of them got the five cents, they really jumped up happily, this is the first time they can remember the money earned with their own hands, how can they not be excited!

However, what they didn't know was that they had been targeted, and before the two of them had walked a few steps, three men in their twenties came to them.

"Where did the kid come from, dare to rob the uncle's business." The man who took the lead asked about the dog's water.

This person's name is Li Sancai, he is the second leader of the Biandan Gang, there are more than 20 main members of the Biandan Gang, mainly in charge of those who move things for people and sell coolies, and live by collecting their protection money, and the gang has been established for more than ten years.

The nature of the Biandan Gang is similar to the underworld in later generations, this kind of gang is as many as a cow in Daming, in all industries in Daming, in various counties, in various places, almost where there are people, there are all kinds of gangs.

The reason why the Ming Dynasty has so many gangs, it is related to his political system, the Ming Dynasty implements the feudal system, the descendants of the heroes, the sons of the dragon, the more they are born, the more they are born, these royal relatives, the sons of the heroes build a piece of manor, then this will inevitably form a land annexation, so that a lot of ordinary people, their land is sold cheaply, or even forcibly expropriated, these farmers who have lost their land have become displaced people.

By the time the Ming Dynasty was established fifty years ago, the displaced people had formed a very large scale, and in the Zhengde period, the displaced people had reached tens of millions of people, and by the end of the Ming Dynasty, the specific number was no longer verifiable, but you can imagine what a terrible point he had reached.

These homeless people may work in the city to make ends meet, or act as domestic slaves, and some of them slowly become hooligans, they form gangs, they form gangs, see which industry is profitable, and forcibly intervene by force, and in this way, they evolve into one gang after another.

How arrogant have these gangs become, trafficking in human beings, robbing homes, abducting and cheating, opening casinos, and doing everything? In the thirty-eighth year of Jiajing, there was a governor named Weng Dali, he had just taken office in Suzhou, as the so-called new officials took office three fires, plus these gangs were too presumptuous, and the people's grievances were too great, so he ordered to crack down on these gangs, but what was the final result? These gangs were entangled together, armed with big knives and axes, and in this way attacked various counties in Suzhou overnight, brought out all the prisoners in the county prison, and then went to the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and cut the door of the Metropolitan Procuratorate directly with an ax, just like that, a large group of people with axes, big knives, and spears rushed directly into the Metropolitan Procuratorate.

Dare to do this to the governor, you can imagine what kind of point their arrogance has reached in the people at that time, the common people dare not speak out, here they have to accept the exploitation of the officials, and there have to accept the oppression of these ruffians and gangs, and the life is really bitter!

"What are you doing?" Dog Water asked.