Chapter 412: Assassination in the Jiangbei Barbarian Camp
"My surname is Xu! Needless to say, if you don't get money to apologize today and hand over that woman, my brothers will let you guys leave here!"
"Mr. Xu, I spent a lot of money to bring the tea girl from Guizhou. I have already agreed on a new home. It is really difficult for me to interfere like this. But who knows Mr. Xu's discerning eye?
If you want more, three hundred taels will be yours, and we will sign the deed immediately."
At the turn of the afternoon between Shen and You, in a teahouse in the barbarian camp in Jiangbei, Chongqing Prefecture, Xu Dayong and Wu Desheng were negotiating with the local Ren Ya. Seeing the arrogance of the leader of the Zuluzi who came uninvited, Ren Ya also reacted against it.
Xu Dayong's previous attitude was that he had known this for a long time and remained calm; while Wu Desheng who came with him had a livid face, knowing that he had been deceived.
At this time, the outside of the teahouse was filled with trackers armed with bamboo poles, wooden sticks, and pickaxes. At a glance, there were about four or five hundred people surrounding the teahouse. The other tea guests had already fled.
Let's face it, Xu Dayong and the others are still outsiders after all. Although Wu Desheng had guaranteed the ticket before and introduced the trustees, he is now a white man. The number of Ba County Yamen servants is as high as 5,000, and there are many factions in it.
, If he really had as much face as he and Xu Dayong boasted, why would he need to do things for Xu Dayong?
Although he had kindly helped Tea Girl before, the inn was not a long-term hiding place. Even though Xu Dayong used money to silence the boss and the waiter, the news was still leaked.
The cause of the incident was that Xu Dayong wanted to use Wu Desheng to find a yamen official to provide a false guide for the tea girl. Unexpectedly, the secretary of the household that Wu Desheng asked for had been cooperating with human traffickers for many years. When he heard Wu Desheng's story about the tea girl
According to the description, it was concluded that it was the person who was being traced by the Jiangbei gang a few days ago. In order to avoid suspicion, the book office privately informed the official media, who then informed the Jiangbei gang of human traffickers.
The so-called official matchmaker is simply a private matchmaker registered with the government. Starting from the Ming and Qing Dynasties, when female prisoners who have committed crimes pass through a place, they must be accompanied by an official matchmaker, similar to the female policemen in later generations.
Escort function. In addition, it is human trafficking.
Although the Qing government stipulates that human trafficking must be signed by official media, and the origin can be determined before the price is set and the contract can be established, but this kind of thing is just heard. In these days, there are almost no people who are engaged in human trafficking who do not collude with official media, otherwise huge profits will be made.
There is no way to talk about it.
After inquiring about it, the traffickers found that Xu Dayong's group was all very powerful and seemed to have guys on them, so they asked people from the Tonglu Society for help and promised to give them 20,000 yuan when the deal was completed.
The leader of the Tonglu Society is now short of money. Hearing that Beidi Bangchui, who was blackmailed last year, is here again, he can't help but be overjoyed. However, the only way to take action is in the barbarian camp in Jiangbei, and they don't dare to do it in Fucheng, Chongqing.
The reason why the Tongluzi dared to come forward was because in June last year, Gorkha Surbaldab led 3,000 Gorkha soldiers to invade Tibet and successively occupied Nyalam, Jidong Dzong, and Tsongkha Dzong on the southern border.
and other places, besieging Xiegarzong. In July, Qianlong ordered Sichuan Governor Li Shijie and Sichuan Admiral Cheng De to mobilize more than 4,000 Manchu, Han and Tibetan troops to go to Houzang.
At the beginning of this year, although the two sides had privately negotiated a peace, the Gorkhas withdrew their troops. However, the army did not withdraw. As the local force decreased, the government was busy with responsibilities and handling money, food and logistics, and had no time to take care of local security. The war began to rise again.
So there was a lot of drumming and flower-passing, and finally the office of the household secretary sent a message to Wu Desheng that the tea girl's matter would be easy to handle, and he would be the go-between. They would make an appointment to go to a teahouse in Jiangbei and have a clear talk with the tea girl.
As soon as Xu Dayong heard that he was going to Jiangbei, he knew something was wrong. He was holding back his anger and wanted to deal with the group of grunts. He was worried that he would not have a chance. This year was no better than last year, so he first asked Wu Desheng where the teahouse was.
, and after a secret discussion with Zhang Beihai, Zhang Beihai divided his thirty men into six groups. The next morning, he took a boat to Jiangbei in advance and ambush the restaurants and restaurants around the teahouse.
Xu Dayong waited here for lunch, leaving the two of them to look after the tea girl to prevent any accidents. Then he took four of his subordinates, Wu Desheng, and the county government secretary's office, and walked to Chaotianmen and took a boat to Jiangbei.
The two parties met at the teahouse. At first, the man Ya was very polite and said that he could sell the tea girl to Xu Dayong for fifteen taels of silver. Unexpectedly, halfway through the conversation, the book clerk excused himself to go to the toilet and left.
The leader then led a large number of his trackers to surround the teahouse.
Xu Dayong glanced at the ringleader who blackmailed him last year, turned to Wu Desheng and grinned: "Mr. Wu, do you know who he is?"
Wu Desheng pointed at the leader of the group and scolded him: "Kang Er, if you gather people to blackmail you during the day, you are not afraid that the government will punish you!"
Kuang Er laughed and said: "Mr. Wu, you used to be an errand in the Yamen, so I respect you as a lord. However, Mr. Rentian has dismissed you from your errand, so let's not be a big deal!"
As soon as he finished saying this, several people around him laughed, and one person said: "It's true that cracking melon seeds brings out bedbugs. There are all kinds of benevolent people. This brother is here to complain about the injustice of the second brother Li.
What does it have to do with blackmailing?"
Wu Desheng was so angry that he trembled all over, knowing that he had been trapped.
Xu Da drank up the tea in the cup with one sip and poured it for himself. He said, "Kuang Er, I swindled you out of more than one hundred taels of silver last year. How can you spend it all so quickly?"
Kuang Er said: "Mr. Xu, don't speak so harshly. Why are you lying? Besides, I have so many brothers under Mr. Kuang, and one hundred taels is not enough to fill the gap between my teeth."
Xu Dayong said: "I heard what you said, what's going on, is the market going to grow?"
Kuang Er said: "Li Er wants three hundred taels from Li Er. As for me, since Mr. Xu is an acquaintance, let's put it together, five hundred taels! Brother, I won't get involved in this matter."
"What a fucking toad, yawning," Xu Da looked at Kuang Er with squinted eyes and asked, "What if I don't give it?"
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Kuang Er spilled the remaining tea in the previous clerk’s teacup, reached out to snatch the teapot at Xu Da’s hand, and said with a vicious expression: “Then
Mr. Xu, please stay with me for a while. I will send you away when I get the money."
Xu Dayong thought for a while and said to Kuang Er: "Then this matter has nothing to do with Mr. Wu, let him go first."
"Mr. Xu is a righteous man! There is nothing to do with Mr. Wu here."
When Wu Desheng heard this, he felt relieved, but he couldn't live with his face. He cupped his hands and said, "Mr. Xu, if it weren't for Wu's gullibility..."
Xu Da raised his hand to stop and said: "Mr. Wu, don't talk anymore. After I finish taking care of things here, I will have to trouble you to come forward later. Please go back and rest first. We can talk about anything tomorrow."
After hearing this, Wu Desheng knew that he must not be kind. He thought that he had no strength to restrain the chicken, and after thinking about it, he sighed and walked through the crowd towards the river.
Xu Dayong turned his head and watched Wu Desheng walk away. Then he suddenly picked up the tea cup and smashed it on the ground. There was a loud crash and it shattered on the ground.
"Hey, you're still playing with the idea of breaking a cup." Kuang Er was stunned for a moment, and then he laughed, and the few grumblers next to him also laughed maliciously.
Just when Xu Dayong finished throwing the cup, a thick black pipe came out of the window on the second floor of a stilted restaurant opposite the teahouse. However, the merchants and residents of the surrounding stilted buildings were all looking at the teahouse, and there was no sign of it.
People noticed the strange "black pipe".
There was only a soft click, and in the lightning flash, Kuang Er in the teahouse suddenly shook his body. He leaned back for a moment, and then lay motionless on the Eight Immortals table.
The several ringleaders nearby were all stunned and didn't understand what was going on. This was a teahouse, not a tavern. Why was the second brother drunk?
At this time, a sharp-eyed person next to him saw a dark red liquid dripping from under Kuang Er's crouched body. It was not tea soup at all. He was startled, and he leaned over to take a closer look before confirming his guess, and was about to scream.
, it fell to the ground with a bang, and the bench next to it fell over with it.
At this time, all the ringleaders in the teahouse realized that something was wrong. They were so frightened that they took two steps back. A bold guy leaned over and put his hand on the nose of the fallen person.
When I checked it, my face turned pale with fright.
"Wang Gui is dead!"
As soon as this statement came out, not only Renya but also the grunts and trackers were shocked.
Xu Dayong pretended to be surprised and said: "Ah, how come they are all drunk in the clear sky? Hurry and help them go back to rest."
When the ringleaders heard this, their faces turned pale with fright. Even though they were shouting that they were going to be beaten or killed, they really didn't dare to kill people in the downtown area. In the first few years, those who dared to rob and kill in the downtown area,
All were sentenced to Lingchi and Zhanlijue by the government.
"You, you, you..." A Tuluzi leader stammered for a long time, then suddenly pointed at Xu Dayong and said: "You are a member of the Yuanjiao!"
"Fuck you! My arms have always been like this and I haven't moved! He was obviously drunk at noon!" Xu Dayong rolled his eyes at the man, and then looked at the man named Li Er.
He said, "What's the matter? Do you want to sign the deed?"
Li Er almost peeed with fright. Two people died suddenly on a sunny day. It must have something to do with the man named Xu in front of him throwing a cup! But Xu Dayong sat leisurely with his arms folded, and even his four
His subordinates were also sitting behind him, not moving.
"Mom! Someone is killed, run away!"
With Li Er's scream, the trackers outside the teahouse exploded. Many of them were deceived by the grunts with five cents, saying that they would have fifteen cents after the event was completed. They started fighting in groups.
The momentum is not bad, and no one is afraid of losing his life.
At this moment, there was chaos inside and outside the teahouse. Xu Dayong stood up, dusted off his clothes, turned around and walked out with four of his men. At this time, a grunt rushed over and shouted: "Xu, you can't leave!"
Unexpectedly, as soon as he finished speaking, his whole body felt like a heavy hammer, and he immediately fell to the ground. In the restaurant on the second floor opposite, Zhang Beihai said to the men holding guns: "There is also that Ren Ya, let's go together."
Clean it up!"
As four or five people died in the "Xingshun Hao" teahouse, the streets and alleys near the river in the Jiangbei barbarian camp were all exploded. Here were the trackers running out, and over there were the trackers who heard the news and ran over to watch the excitement.
, for a while the street was crowded with people, people were bumping into each other, and there was a lot of noise and chaos.
During the time when Xu Dayong and four of his men were walking out hurriedly, whenever someone shouted "Don't let that guy go, keep him", that person would immediately throw himself to the ground, and soon
There was a puddle of blood underneath him.
Until he took the people on board the boat and left, from the teahouse to the riverside, seven or eight people died one after another.
On the other side, after finishing their attack, Zhang Beihai and others quickly dismantled their weapons, wrapped them in several bags and straw mats, and took advantage of the chaos to follow the flow of people and return to the south bank by boat.
In the evening, the news spread across the river, and the entire Chongqing Prefecture was in a sensation. Chongqing Tongzhi Yamen in the north of the Yangtze River sent a large number of officials to surround the teahouse three floors inside and three floors outside. At night, the entire Chongqing Prefecture was under a curfew, and a large number of soldiers
Take to the streets to patrol.
However, by the next morning, the news from Jiangbei had completely changed. Many people were talking about yesterday's events in wine shops and teahouses, saying that a group of demons from the Yuanjiao came from nowhere, and they followed Zulu.
He went on a shopping spree and finally used evil methods to kill dozens of people, robbed a large amount of gold and silver and fled into the mountains.
Wu Desheng also heard about the incident in Jiangbei early in the morning. After thinking about it for a while, he felt that it must be related to Xu Dayong. He had a hasty breakfast and was thinking about whether to go to the county government to report the case.
Someone knocked on the door outside the hospital. When he walked over to ask, he heard a familiar Northland accent coming from outside the door, which immediately made him tremble and almost wanted to climb over the wall and escape.
"Is Mr. Wu at home?"
When Wu Desheng tiptoed back to the back door of his house, as soon as he opened the door and stuck his head out, he saw another familiar face coming over.
"Hey, Mr. Wu, where are you going so early in the morning? Mr. Xu and I have something to discuss with you."
Seeing Zhang Beihai cupping his fists and smiling, Wu Desheng's face turned uglier than his dead mother.
"I, I, I empty the toilet!"
At the same time, thousands of miles away from Chongqing, in Funing County, three men wearing old jackets, each carrying a baggage, walked into a restaurant in the city with a dusty look on their faces.
"What do the three guest officers eat?"
"Here are thirty steamed buns, a plate of pig head meat, another plate of pig meat, and two bottles of wine. Forget it, I don't want the wine. Let's bring three bowls of noodle soup."
Just as the store clerk was about to leave, a rather handsome-looking man among the three stopped him and asked: "Servant, I want to ask you something, how do I get to Xujiazhuang in Sheyang Lake?"
"Go out of the east gate and walk along the Wusha River for twenty miles. There is a large village by the river."
After hearing this, the handsome man nodded and waved the waiter to go. Then he turned to the other two and said, "Brother, we are finally here."
The person who was called Senior Brother said "Hmm" and then said: "After dinner, I will find a clothing store to change my clothes first."
"What's wrong?" The handsome man looked down at his clothes and thought there was nothing wrong with them.
Another person next to him said: "What the senior brother means is that the clothes of the three of us don't look like those worn by people who are fleeing. Especially you, Qingwen, you look like a teacher when you put on the robe, no!"
"Oh. Senior brother is still thoughtful." The handsome man chuckled and scratched the back of his head.
These three are the three disciples of the Heshen martial arts master Chang Naizhou who were invited out by He Shen last year. They are Chai Rugui, Gao Liugeng and Li Qingwen. Among the three, Gao Liugeng is still a supervisor. Last year, he saw the disciples brought by He Shen
After receiving the letter, he decided to eradicate the traitors for the imperial court.
However, because Chai Rugui had gone to Shanxi before and did not return home until the end of February, the three of them postponed their trip until March. They planned to dress up as refugees and take a boat from Sheyang Lake to Beihai Town.
At this time, the hidden reward of 10,000 taels of gold has spread throughout the northern and central provinces, and everyone who heard about it was moved. Didn't I say before that the Jiangnan area is currently hiring long-term workers to take care of food and housing, and the annual salary is only
Combined with one tael of silver. The official price of 10,000 taels of gold is 120,000 taels of silver. Although this amount of money cannot be said to be as rich as the country, it is certain that generations of people will have enough food and clothing.