Chapter 13 Sorrowful Urging Merchant

"How would I have known that those hiccups would make such a big fuss, they originally said that they were just looking for the guns and ammunition that their soldiers stole and sold, and I didn't expect that they would go to copy Gao Sheng. However, Gao Sheng's smuggling of tobacco has already been confirmed, and a full 30 boxes of cloud soil and 40 spears are all major crimes to be killed. Ma Dapeng, who had a shaved green head, was very embarrassed and looked at the county magistrate who hurriedly came to the headquarters of the garrison regiment, but he was thinking about how much benefit he could share.

Huang Chengzhong and their actions were very fast, and after the information that Liu Shizhong and their investigation was confirmed, Huang Chengzhong took more than 50 people to directly surround the Qian family alley where black market merchants gathered. There are many shops in the Qian family's alley, but many of the shops here are doing black market business, and the shopkeeper who looks very kind with a smile on his face may be a black market merchant who pupside down his weapons, and the guy who runs on the street to greet customers may be a black market broker of a certain store, and more than half of the shops in Qianjia Alley are engaged in black market trading.

Huang Chengzhong's excuse is very ingenious, many of the routs who have withdrawn from the front line will often put their weapons and even military uniforms in the pawnshop for money, although this is not allowed, but the mercenary pawnshop does not care about this. Huang Chengzhong first arranged for a few of his wounded soldiers to use the old Hanyang to go to the Gaosheng pawnshop to make a dead pawn, and then led someone to the door to ask for guns, and the pawnshop naturally could not return those guns, so Huang Chengzhong had an excuse to attack the Gaosheng pawnshop.

Dozens of soldiers with loaded guns surrounded the alleys of the Qian family, and the other shops were still guarding the door of their own shops to watch the excitement, but after the soldiers brought out the boxes of tobacco and soil from the Gaosheng pawnshop, these shopkeepers who lived on the black market knew something bad. "You lawless Qiu Ba, I'm going to sue you, do you know whose shop this is?" The old courtier and his men at the Gaosheng pawnshop were pressed down in the middle of the street by the soldiers, and the gray-faced pawnshop shopkeeper was also dragged out of the pawnshop, along with several long boxes containing 40 rifles.

Although the shopkeeper of the pawnshop was shouting loudly, his shaking legs could no longer hide the fear in his heart at this moment, whether it was the possession of arms or the resale of tobacco and soil, it was enough to kill his head, and he now only hoped that his owner could save himself quickly. Those who can open a pawnshop will definitely not be ordinary people, especially those who can open a pawnshop in the Qian family's alley are even more unusual, but unfortunately Huang Chengzhong is a stunned young man who can only fight, since he has copied the tobacco and weapons from Gaosheng's pawnshop, he definitely has no possibility of giving things to Gaosheng's pawnshop.

The shopkeepers who watched along the street saw that the shopkeeper and the old courtier were arrested, so they panicked and hurriedly beckoned their men to close their doors, but their speed was still not comparable to the speed of the rifles in the soldiers' hands. Huang Chengzhong had a list in his hand, which was a list of the information provided by the garrison and Liu Shishi, which included all the shops in the entire Qian family's alley that operated black market business, and Huang Chengzhong only needed to take his soldiers to search those shops according to the list.

Boxes of cigarettes, weapons, ammunition, and in-demand medicines were taken out of the shops, and the shopkeepers and men wept to death, but unfortunately their tears failed to move these fierce soldiers, and there were beatings and shouts from the shops one after another. "See, these medicines alone are enough for the wounded brothers in our two shelters to heal their wounds, and maybe there is a surplus that can be sent to the front line." Huang Chengzhong casually grabbed a first-aid kit from a box, the front-line troops had long since run out of such first-aid kits, and the wounded soldiers could only use strips of cloth torn from their uniforms to bandage their wounds.

One after another, the proprietors of the shops who got the news rushed to the Qianjia alley, but unfortunately they were all blocked out by the soldiers, and after some noise, the proprietors of these shops turned around and went to the county government, and the only thing they could think of now was to go to the county government for help. These people who went to the county government did not know that when Huang Chengzhong started to block the Qian family alley, the people of the 60th Army Shelter also began to raid the warehouses of those black market merchants scattered in the suburbs.

Ma Dapeng's garrison regiment was transferred to Qianjia Alley by the county government, but unfortunately these regimental soldiers who rarely practiced on weekdays were not opponents of battlefield veterans at all, coupled with Ma Dapeng's secret instructions, it was not until Huang Chengzhong and they returned to the barracks with the confiscated contraband that Ma Dapeng's garrison regiment successfully took over Qianjia Alley. In the face of the county magistrate's inquiry, the cunning Ma Dapeng pushed all the things on the Gaosheng pawnshop, no matter when, it is a big crime to possess arms and large quantities of tobacco, and such a crime is enough for the backstage of the Gaosheng pawnshop to weigh their abilities.

"Why don't I go to their barracks in person and see if I can talk to their commander, maybe there is any misunderstanding in between, as long as the misunderstanding is cleared, maybe the things they took away can be returned." Ma Dapeng is a guy who can squeeze oil out of wheat straw, taking advantage of the fact that the owners of those shops have no owners, Ma Dapeng volunteered to be a lobbyist, of course, lobbyists can't go empty-handed, Ma Dapeng took the opportunity to help Huang Chengzhong and them ask for a large amount of food.

"Commander Ma, I really want to thank you for your help this time, brother, otherwise we wouldn't have been able to get so many medicines, the battle on the front line was very miserable, and the troops were short of these medicines, but you helped us a lot." When Ma Dapeng arrived at the 58th Army Shelter with a few truckloads of grain, Huang Chengzhong was busy sorting the medicines. Tang Cheng said that this matter would be carried out in the name of the 58th Army and the 60th Army, as long as the things were sent to the front line, this would no longer be the private action of their two shelters, and the matter was really troublesome, and in the end, they could not be blamed.

Ma Dapeng's attention was obviously not on Huang Chengzhong, his eyes were fixed on the boxes containing tobacco early on, for him, Huang Chengzhong's dry gratitude was far less real than these tobacco soil. The greedy look in Ma Dapeng's eyes made Huang Chengzhong secretly annoyed, but this matter was indeed helped by Ma Dapeng, so Huang Chengzhong could only say with a smile, "Commander Ma, according to what we said in advance, the medicine, food, weapons and ammunition are ours, and you are thirty percent in the smoke, and other things have nothing to do with us." ”

"Yes, yes, that's right, Stationmaster Huang, you are a cheerful person." Ma Dapeng secretly calculated in his heart how much tobacco he could get, and the tobacco was now hard currency, much better than the paper money that he couldn't use. The amount of tobacco allocated to Ma Dapeng is very well counted, all the tobacco and soil confiscated from the Qian family alley are piled together, and Ma Dapeng's adjutant will collect the garrison group's share according to the ratio of 30%, and Ma Dapeng will personally leave a secret mark on the box, and then store it in the shelter first.

Ma Dapeng is obviously a veteran, and quickly divided his own share separately to make a secret mark, and then dragged Huang Chengzhong to a secluded corner. "Stationmaster Huang, the food I brought was made up by those merchants in the Qian family's alley, I didn't come to you to raise your hand, you just need to hand over the shopkeepers and guys you arrested to me, I don't want to participate in other things." Both sides are benefited, this is the usual method used by those guys who eat public meals, and Ma Dapeng is one of the veterans.

Ma Dapeng, who just wants to live well, likes to do such a thing very much, exchanging food for the shopkeeper and his buddies who were captured by Huang Chengzhong, neither offending those merchants nor violating the agreement between himself and Huang Chengzhong, not to mention that the idea of arresting those shopkeepers and buddies was still from Ma Dapeng. Since it was something that had already been said, Huang Chengzhong had no intention of blocking it, and exchanged some useless shopkeepers and men for a few carts of grain.

After sending Ma Dapeng away, Huang Chengzhong immediately organized people to separate half of the medicines, and tomorrow there will be trucks transporting wounded soldiers from the front line, and these medicines will be sent back to the front line to the troops of the 58th Army. Once a person has money in his hand, not only will his tone be much harder when he speaks, but his waist will also be much straighter when he walks, and now Huang Chengzhong is like this, even when he talks to Tang Cheng, he will also show the face of an upstart from time to time.

"Don't be complacent too early, it's important to send those medicines to the front line as much as possible, and drag your 58th Army and 60th Army into the water, so that the responsibility of the two of you will be much smaller, and if things really get serious, there will be someone to help you speak." Tang Cheng didn't care about Huang Chengzhong's nouveau riche face, when he was clearing those bandits in Mengcheng, in the face of mountains of loot, he might not be as good as Huang Chengzhong is now.

"It will be delivered tomorrow, and it will be sent directly to the front line in a truck transporting wounded soldiers, and those commanders should help me say a few good words for the sake of these medicines." Huang Chengzhong replied confidently. I don't know what happened to the 60th Army yet, but if the black market warehouse is raided, maybe there will be a lot more harvest this time. Huang Chengzhong didn't know that the whole of Liuyang was in an uproar because of this incident, Ma Dapeng failed to get back what the merchants were detained, and the angry merchants had blocked the county government and asked the county magistrate to come up with a solution.

"I think, don't mix it with you, what people said is very clear, it's to confiscate weapons and ammunition, don't you see it, the weapons and ammunition copied out of the Qian family's alley are enough for me to equip a company, no wonder people will put on such a big formation." Ma Dapeng naturally wanted to help Huang Chengzhong speak, and when the county magistrate who originally wanted to stand up for those merchants heard this, he immediately went to Changsha for temporary refuge under the pretext of a business trip, and threw those merchants to Ma Dapeng to deal with.