Zhou Shizhai has been working in the Qiwei Escort Bureau for eleven years. Like his senior brothers, he comes from Sun Kecheng's hometown. He knows a little about boxing and sticks, but he doesn't want to torture himself in the farmland to the point of paralysis, so he asked someone to join the Qiwei Escort Bureau.
Escort agency.
The life of a bodyguard is much better than that of a farmer, but as a bodyguard, Zhou Zhai makes it difficult for Sun Kecheng to rest assured - he lacks the calm temperament that a bodyguard should have, or in other words, he is not tactful enough in dealing with people.
The Escort Agency is an existence that walks in the world of black and white. The Escort Master must be both upright and flexible. Although Zhou Shizhai knew that the Escort Agency "eats with friends' food and wears friends' clothes", he did not treat "friends"
" He scoffed, and couldn't stand the shamelessness of his "friend". He would fight if he disagreed. As a result, Sun Kecheng no longer dared to send errands on the escort road. So sitting in a shop and protecting the house became his specialty. But doing
There are also rules in this job: if you encounter thieves, you are only allowed to see them off, and you are not allowed to capture them alive. If you encounter harassment in the store, you can only stop by the order - the escort agency is not the government. It only protects the employer's property and personal safety. It is the government's business to catch the criminals. But Zhou Shi
Zhai broke this rule many times, which caused a lot of resentment in the world. In the end, he had to be transferred to the mule and horse yard as a steward to avoid getting into trouble.
After several years of dull life, shopkeeper Sun, who had become more powerful this day, called him into the locker room and said that the Australian maritime businessman who came last time wanted to buy a house and manor in Qiongzhou and wanted an escort to start the business.
The so-called starting point is that for the sake of safety, large households always have a team of servants to protect their homes. The average servants are from ordinary people. They don’t know how to box and kick, and they don’t know much about the world. This requires specially hired servants.
A bodyguard is hired as a starter. He is responsible for providing martial arts training to the servants, arranging night patrols and other security tasks. He is equivalent to the status of a guest in the mansion.
The responsibility of being a bandit is very heavy, but the pay is good and you don't have to sleep in the open. It is a good job in the escort agency, but you have to be diplomatic and adaptable. Zhou Shizhai used to be a bandit, but later because he was too happy to catch thieves and was not good at it.
Getting along with the master's family was replaced. This time he was actually asked to be the leader again. I couldn't help but wonder: Why does the sun rise from the west?
Although it is strange, it is better to work in this business than to deal with animals in the mule and horse yard. Moreover, the escort agency has recently received a lot of business from Australian maritime merchants and has become their big benefactor. The originally tight life has become a little more relaxed.
The brothers' pensions have also been secured, and they don't have to accept anyone's job. This is the job of the Australian gentleman.
Immediately, I packed my luggage and brought two new apprentices with me - they were the nephews of the bodyguards who died in the service of the escort agency. According to the rules of the escort agency, if the nephews of the bodyguards who died in the service of the escort were willing to take in one or two of them, they would have to take in one or two as usual.
Those whose martial arts qualifications were too poor to become bodyguards were arranged to work as handymen or counter support. These two children were too young, only sixteen or seventeen years old, and were too young to be bodyguards, so they were simply taken by Zhou Shizhai.
Continue to teach. Sun Kecheng's plan is that the escort agency can also save some food expenses - now there are many such children in the escort agency.
It was Ran Yao's idea to hire bodyguards. Although they have advanced concepts and equipment brought from the 21st century, they know almost nothing about the world of society in this time and space. Bodyguards happen to be the most suitable candidates.
——Compared to the third-class government officials who are themselves members of the underworld, their professional ethics are more trustworthy.
Although Dugu Proposal was named the director, the actual business was in the hands of Mu Min. At her request, with the cooperation of the Dongmen City Industrial and Commercial Office, a "security survey" was carried out to conduct a "security survey" on the surrounding environment of the entire Dongmen City.
I learned something about the daily flow of people and the operation of shops and vendors.
After investigation and interviews, we roughly know that the most frequent public security cases in Dongmen City are pickpockets, followed by thefts, followed by frauds and fights, and almost no robberies and murders. Obviously criminals do not dare to openly commit crimes under the eyes of travelers.
But what happened to that large-scale fight that resulted in death? Mu Min personally asked many people with a local interpreter. Many people hesitated and their eyes flickered, indicating that there was something fishy about the matter. Although Dugu proposed, he was highly vigilant and thought that this was
It was a fight between underworld gangs competing for profits, but Mu Min didn't see it that way.
The reason is naturally not that Mu Min believed that there was no underworld in the Ming Dynasty, but the autopsy report made by the health department on the day of the incident. Indications show that the seven people who died were all heavy manual laborers and were still doing farm work shortly before their death. In addition,
, according to her consistent experience, although people may die from time to time in gang fights, the basic premise is that bleeding will not kill people. Most of them use machetes, which look bloody, but the mortality rate is relatively low. They use roasted bamboo to rob indiscriminately.
The thrusts with brute force looked a bit like a large-scale fight in the countryside.
Sure enough, within a few days, someone came to collect the body. Only then did we know that the whole story was that the villagers from Village A came to the welfare community to buy things, drank tea and ate dry food at the tea stall set up by the villagers from Village B at noon, and got into conflicts over some trivial matters.
Unfortunately, some of the nearby stalls were set up by villagers or relatives and friends of Village B. Naturally, the villagers of Village A suffered a big loss and were beaten into panic and fled. On the one hand, it was for revenge, and on the other hand, it was to guard against retaliation. Both sides prepared weapons.
As a result, it ended up like this once the fight started.
"To be so ruthless for such a trivial matter? You are so ignorant and backward!" Dongmen Chuiyu was surprised.
"We have no control over armed fighting, and we can't control it," Mu Min said. To her, this is not news. The habit of rural fighting still exists in many places in the country even in the 21st century. There are often intertwined stories behind it.
Complex economic, regional, cultural, and resource disputes, as well as years of grievances, make any small incident trigger a large-scale fight—not to mention that it is more likely to cause trouble now that the farmers are slack.
"What we have to ensure is that no one is allowed to cause trouble here in Dongmen City. So this time the matter cannot end like this."
"Everyone is dead, what else can be done?"
"When a person dies, isn't the body still there? Are the people from the two villages who want to collect the body here?"
"They are all resting in the inn. Do you want to bring me to see you?"
"No, send someone to tell them that they will pay a fine of five taels of silver for each corpse, and the coffin will be considered as a gift from us, and the cost price will be one tael. It must be paid within seven days, and if it exceeds the deadline, it will be thrown into the sea."
"Ah?" Dongmen and Dugu both stared, "Well, doesn't the Executive Committee require us to treat the indigenous people well?"
"There must be a bottom line in kindness. Let the people around us see the consequences of using a knife on our land." Mu Min said with murderous intent.
Dugu proposed and slapped the table excitedly: "It should have been like this a long time ago! I told the executive committee that only strict punishment can ensure peace. According to me, if you catch a thief or something in the future, you will cut off his hand!"
Let’s see if anyone dares to steal from my land in the future! If you treat me well, they’ll all creep on us!”
"Just cut off the hand and pass." Mu Min said to Ran Yao, "Team Leader Ran, what legal standards do we follow when enforcing the law?"
"Just follow the Public Security Management Punishment Regulations. This is ready-made." Ran Yao specifically talked to the people of the Executive Committee about these issues. This actually involves legislative issues. The time traveler has no time to deal with this at the moment, so naturally
We have to apply existing regulations first.
When Ma Peng came back from work that day, he saw a new notice posted on the bulletin board at the entrance of the camp. Many workers gathered around to read it. Zhang Xingjiao shook his head and read the content on the notice: "Recruiting policemen...10 people...
18 to 25 years old... Height is over 160 cm, in good health... Food, salary, 2.5 work points per day, half a kilogram of rice, and bonus are included..."
There was an uproar at this point. Some workers said: "2.5 work points. I only got 1.5 work points on the busiest day. The team leader only got 2 work points. Now I get 2.5 work points all at once!"
"Didn't you listen? Registration is limited to employees. Originally, employees would get more than us!"
"Why? They all do the same job, why can he get more money?"
"If you don't want to, you can change your job."
"You have to work for 12 months, or you have to perform particularly well."
Ma Peng didn't really want to go at first, because he heard that this job was similar to that of a yamen servant in the county government. He was responsible for catching thieves in the market. He was afraid of death, and secondly, he felt that it was not decent to do this job. But now my mother
Living with him, although the short-haired master gave him an extra 1.5 work points per day in accordance with the "support obligation" standard, the mother did not get free meals, so life was a bit tight. Now there is a rumor in the camp that he will be given
The employee's salary was increased, and he regretted why he listened to Fu Buer's words and didn't become an employee. Now that he had such an opportunity, he would have missed it in vain.
But the next day he went to the commune office to apply. Although he was not an employee, Ran Yao saw that he was in good shape - it was really not easy to find a man over 160 centimeters tall - so he nodded and asked some questions
Afterwards, he was called to a small room at the back, took off his clothes, measured it with a ruler, and then stood on the trembling floor scale. Finally, he was approved to join the indigenous police force.
First, there are ten days of learning fighting skills, including using the fastest way to hold someone else's joints, fighting with a special-looking short wooden stick, and then teaching how to find suspicious people, patrolling and sentrying, interrogating pedestrians, tracking and chasing, and holding ropes.
The technique of binding. A short-haired man named Li Jun taught them how to use shields and short wooden sticks to form an array to fight against large groups of mobs. He also asked them to engage in actual combat confrontations with laborers. These things were very complicated, and Ma Peng was illiterate.
It is more difficult to learn, but fortunately, time travelers mostly use demonstration teaching methods, teach step by step, and make many models and pictures to demonstrate.