Huo Guang originally thought that he had caused trouble for Huo Zhongru, but he didn't expect that Huo Zhongru was even more excited than him. He looked around Huo Guang and asked, "Where is the injury?"
"On the opponent's head."
"Then we have to settle the score with him, let's go."
Huo Zhongru had brought all the men, and regular county officials were allowed to carry swords, unlike the Stick Gang, who could only carry wooden sticks.
Huo Guang then thought about it, and that's right. Our Han Dynasty has such strong folk customs and abundant martial virtues. When we sit down, we can write poems and write rituals and music. When we stand, we can carry five beards. We can dig the ground with our hoe and fight.
"Please be patient. The Stick Gang dares to touch my son. I'm not done with them today. Be careful not to pull out the knife randomly. It's mainly about scaring. I'm telling you to pull it out again."
"yes!"
After Huo Zhongru arranged things, he took the people to the dock by the river.
Fenshui, as the second largest tributary of the Yellow River, passes through the city of Hedong County. It is an important water resource. The relatively calm water flow of the river has also become an important transportation road for merchants.
The Stick Gang is right next to the dock in Xiahe County.
Huo Zhongru came to the outside of a dock warehouse-type building with ease, kicked in the door and went in.
Bang
As the door was kicked open, sunlight poured into the warehouse, dust was gently floating under the warm ginger light, and Huo Zhongru walked inside.
"Ahem, where are Zhang Er and the other two?"
Zhang Erer, who had his head bandaged in the warehouse, was about to settle the score with Huo Guang and the others, but he didn't expect that Huo Zhongru led his men to kill him first.
They already knew about Huo Zhongru's promotion, and they recognized Huo Guang, but they didn't expect that Huo Guang was going to open the salt shop. They wanted to warn him before, but when he did it, he was fired. Now he is an official and leads troops.
Coming.
The people do not fight with the officials, and they, the mixed merchant gangs, naturally understand this truth better. In the past, Huo Zhongru was just a county official and he had to call him Brother Huo. Now that he was promoted, Zhang Erer had to put on a smile and greet him.
"Brother Huo, what brought you here today? I heard that you got promoted and I wanted to visit you."
Huo Zhongrusheng took out his hand and turned in a circle and said: "You turn in a circle."
"ah?"
"Ah what? If Mr. Huo tells you to transfer, just transfer." The clerk next to Huo Zhongru looked at Zhang Erer angrily.
Zhang Erer immediately gave in and turned around. Huo Zhongru raised his foot and kicked Zhang Erer on the butt, causing him to fall to pieces.
Zhang Erer got up and said with a smile: "Why is Brother Huo so angry? It's all a misunderstanding. I didn't know that the boy who stole the salt was one of yours, and he had a misunderstanding with A Guang."
"Misunderstanding? My son was bullied. You still said it was a misunderstanding. I think you are brave and want to rebel. Take them all back to me and bring them to the county captain's house. I will let the county captain interrogate them.
"Which of these guys has nothing wrong with their hands?" Huo Zhongru was furious and ordered his arrest.
"Brother Huo, Brother Huo, don't, don't, don't, we know we were wrong, we know we were wrong, and I didn't hit A Guang, but A Guang broke my head."
"What happened to breaking your head? You should have been beaten."
"Brother Huo, we know we were wrong and we will never dare to do it again. You don't remember the faults of villains. Please spare us this time."
Zhang Erer and others repeatedly begged for mercy. Huo Zhongru glanced at Huo Guang and Ah Hao, and then said: "If you beat my guy, you have to pay. Zhang Erer comes with me. The others will spare you once. Tell your gang leader and lead
Money to redeem people.”
Without saying anything, a few people took Zhang Erer to the Shaofuyuan. Huo Guang suddenly felt that he had really become a second-generation official.
The younger brothers went to find someone. Huo Guang looked at Huo Zhongru along the way and suddenly thought that Huo Zhongru wanted to use his incident this time to burn out the new official's appointment and establish his official authority.
He gave Huo Zhongrubi a thumbs up and said, "Father, this is a great move."
"What trick?" Huo Zhongru looked puzzled.
"It's just to use this incident to establish official authority, and the other party is the Salt Gang. I just asked their gang leader to come to the Shaofuyuan to prepare for you to manage the salt tax in the future. It's really great to kill two birds with one stone."
Huo Zhongru looked puzzled at first, and then suddenly realized: "Oh~, it turns out it can still be like this. It's right. Let's do it like this. I'll scare him when their gang leader comes later."
Huo Guang was stunned: "Father, isn't that what you meant?"
"It doesn't mean anything, it's just asking their money managers to pay some compensation. These salt sellers are the richest, so we shouldn't let them pay any blood."
Okay, I was overthinking it, but things are indeed moving in this direction.
Not long after they returned, a fat man dressed as a rich man came in carrying two things wrapped in cloth bags. He said with a smile when he entered the door: "Brother Huo, Mr. Huo, it's been a long time since we haven't seen each other. You have been promoted to me."
I don’t know, it really deserves a beating, it deserves a beating.” He came up to him with a smile, and while saying that, he gently slapped the dough with his own hands.
The person who came was none other than Zhu Youcai, the leader of the Stick Gang, known as Wild Boar in the world.
Don't look at Zhu Youcai's cheerful and easy-to-discuss appearance. When he was young, he built his family business by being able to fight hard. His family name was Zhu, but he had no name. Everyone called him Wild Boar. Later, when he became rich, he named himself Zhu Youcai.
What it's like to be in your forties.
"Lao Zhu, how do you control your subordinates now? You led people to cause trouble in the street before, and now you come to beat my son."
Zhu Youcai was still smiling and naturally put the things he brought on Huo Zhongru's table: "Misunderstandings are all misunderstandings. I heard about the matter. Zhang Erer is not sensible. I will take it back later and teach him a lesson. I won't
Brother Lao Huo took action. It is better to dissolve enemies than to end them. Your guy came to my warehouse before and gave me a sap without saying a word. I was eating at the time and almost fainted. Brother Huo, look at this time.
Let’s forget about it.”
Huo Zhongru said: "You guys, the Stick Gang, are getting more and more outrageous. My son wants to open a salt shop, but you still won't let me. So the salt shop is yours to take charge of."
"You are in charge, you are in charge. Needless to say, it must be under your control, Mr. Huo. Zhang Erer and the others just knew that someone was going to open a salt shop, so they came to discuss business. You also know that people from all over the country are from all over the country.
The salt is all transported in by our stick gang, so the salt shop is my customer. In this way, Mr. Huo will still buy salt from me in the future, and I will give you a discount."
At this point, Zhu Youcai's voice became softer and he said: "Brother Huo, we have been in a relationship for many years. You have something to do when you first took office. Brother, I have to make it clear to you. It's okay for Aguang to open a salt shop. He just needs to get salt from me."
, don’t go your own way, it doesn’t matter to us, I lose some and make some, we all have friendship, but don’t blame me for not reminding you, selling salt is not a trivial matter, you should take care of the backstage people who sell salt in the county, so as not to cause any unpleasantness.
"
"Hahaha." After Zhu Youcai finished speaking, he started to fight: "Brother Huo, I'm just a shipper and freighter. I've been doing this for so many years. I just run errands for the county and a few people in the county to make some money.
Thank you for your hard work, please be more understanding."
Huo Zhongru didn't quite understand, but Huo Guang had already heard it. In other words, Zhu Youcai's Salt Gang was engaged in transporting salt, transporting it here from the production area or upstream dealers, and distributing it to salt shops. It was a wholesaler.
However, he has a forward-looking business philosophy of not competing with his own customers for retail customers, and takes on the more difficult and complicated transportation links, so the bosses with sales qualifications in the county are willing to let him go big.
"Gang Leader Zhu, there are some differences between the salt I sell and your salt." Huo Guang said, taking out the little salt he had left, and letting Sang Jin take most of it away, leaving only a small jar.
Looking at the pure white crystal salt, Zhu Youcai looked at Huo Guang with some confusion.
"The purity of my goods is much higher than yours."
Zhu Youcai looked at Huo Guang with a somewhat sullen expression.