Chapter 145: Accepting evil thieves

The Meng County Wei was so angry that he was not strong: "You can hire someone, Dalang, those three...ah, two streets, I gave you West Street. If you give up one street in the wharf area, it will be considered as reducing the burden. There are thirty teahouses, nine wineries, and more than twenty cargo warehouses on the wharf. Usually, there are people who are waiting for work in the teahouse. Those powerful men cannot suppress them, but if they are well rectified...hehehe...

Dalang, I have not been waiting for you for half a month. You have taken the "power money" from the dock area. According to the rules, you must immediately serve an official in the yamen to convince the public. Well, I will help you choose a small job, that is, help the county yamen arrest a bandit in the sea captain document...

Dalang, you have to think about it carefully. This West Street is the most prosperous area in Haizhou City. You can collect hundreds of volatility money from it every month. After collecting the West Street money from it, you will take out about ten volatility money and hire three or five people to guard the wharf area. In the future, you will reap profits every day. Isn’t this a good thing?”

Shi Chuan shook his head: "Meng County Magistrate, I needed the title of "General" at the time, but it was not to charge protection fees for the purpose. I wanted this position to seek the qualification of a gentry and tax-free treatment. I also hope to use it to legally own weapons and war horses... Well, I admit that I can make a profit, and this kind of life is quite beautiful. I brought the captain's documents, will we clear the two of us?"

County Magistrate Meng was stunned for a moment and immediately took out a notice from his sleeve: "Dalang, since you are straightforward, I'm not polite. I'll give you this sea captain document, and the guy above offered a reward of 300 trump card. I originally planned to wait for you to accept the responsibility of West Street patrol before giving it to you. Since you are so anxious, I'm not polite."

County Magistrate Meng twisted and added embarrassedly: "Dalang, I also know that I was promoted from an official to an official. I will never be able to make progress in my life, but people always have a greed for the sake of the people... Not long ago, a family-killing case occurred outside the outskirts of the county town. Dalang also knew that I had just served as a county lieutenant, but I didn't want this case to be a accumulated case, so the impact was bad. But the yamen runners in our county yamen were not complete, and I was also on the role of "Du Tou". Everyone was ruling.

Since Dalang is so happy, this case is for you - a simple job. After fighting, he fled to his aunt's house in Baihu Mountain. His aunt has more than a dozen tenants under him. I don't know if it will stop him. The murderer is extremely cruel and disagrees with one word. He will destroy all eleven households. You can catch him. If you can't live or die."

In the sea captain's documents, the price of living gangsters is different from that of dead gangsters. County Magistrate Meng deliberately ignored this point. Shi Chuan heard that the other party was just one person, and at most several farmers in civilian clothes might help. He was too lazy to ask in detail. After taking the sea captain's sea captain's documents, he was too lazy to even look at the murderer's name and said directly: "I don't know the way."

The Meng County Wei was overjoyed: "I will send you a yamen runner who knows the way and another guru to identify him. When will Dalang set off?"

Shi Chuan Yangyang took the document of Captain Yanghai: "Simple work, wait until I finish cleaning up the dock area and set off."

County Magistrate Meng nodded happily and pointed to the dock in the distance: "Darang still needs foot strength? Actually, there are all kinds of piers outside the East Gate, and even war horses. You are qualified to ride a horse now, so go buy a few horses for transportation."

Shi Chuan bowed: "Meng County Magistrate is easy to leave, so I will leave the rest of the matter."

County Magistrate Meng left and said, on the roof of the carriage, Huan Niang, who was happily eating animal candy, kicked her legs and pointed to the distance and said, "Brother, look, Duan Xiaopiao is sneaking in the distance. Oh, my brother has to take care of several streets. No wonder Huan Niang has been putting things on the street these days, others have been giving things to others."

Shi Chuan nodded and asked, "Huanniang, do you have a general in your hometown?"

Huan Niang kicked her feet and replied: "Huan Niang used to live in the countryside. There were no such generals in the countryside. I heard that there were people in the city... Oh, I remembered that when Huan Niang was young, a general had come to our village to stay with two companions as hunters. But Huan Niang was young at that time and I don't remember what happened later."

Shizhang looked at Huanniang up and down: "When you were young? - You are young now."

Huanniang laughed loudly on the roof of the car, kicking her feet straight on the roof of the car...

When he was young, Duan Xiaopiao led a dozen blacksmiths to come timidly. At this moment, the sunlight moved to noon. When the shadows on the sundial disappeared, a bell sounded outside the east gate, and various temples rang loud bells. Clergy from different religions sang together, expressing their infinite praise and admiration for the gods.

In the sound of bells and Zen singing and singing, Duan Xiaopiao opened and closed his mouth, unable to hear what he was saying. After a while, the bell gradually subsided and the song gradually became louder. The monks in the temples on the side of the road were knocking on the wooden fish, and the treasures were solemnly reciting **; the Taoist temples rang out, and danced loudly and sang loudly, while various Hu Temples showed their long and thick baritones, praying loudly and praising them. A large number of citizens and business travelers were also stopping and lingering on the streets.

This is the Song Dynasty, an era of openness and confidence.

Haizhou is not one of the best external ports in the Song Dynasty. It is only ranked behind Quanzhou, Guangzhou, Hangzhou and Mizhou. However, even such an inconspicuous port is still full of different beliefs from countries around the world. They are tolerant and polite to each other. The confident Song people never denounced the heretics of those foreign beliefs.

The singing sounds gradually faded, and Duan Xiaopiao could hear the words clearly. Duan Xiaopiao pointed at the distance and introduced: "Master, I heard that you are here to take over the dock today. I have nothing to do, so I can come here to accompany the master."

After a pause, Duan Xiaopiao added: "Master, I just said that our contract has been in the yamen. When will we start the iron smelting business?"

Shi Chuan raised his chin, but before he could speak, Duan Xiaopiao went out of the road and pointed out outside the east gate, saying, "Master, this is the dock area..."

The dock area outside the East Gate extends for fifteen miles, with a long avenue running through the whole process, with "road" across and "street" vertically. This long avenue is called "Tonghai (Dao) Road". The eighteen streets intersecting the Tonghai Channel divide the fifteen-mile-long Tonghai Channel into a crisscrossing "streets" group, forming the entire dock area.

Duan Xiaopiao looked at the street name in Shi Chuan's hand. It was the one that Meng Dutou had just stuffed it with. The names of two streets were written on it. Duan Xiaopiao was amused: "Master, you have been fooled. The street that Meng Dutou gave you is one at the beginning of the road and the other at the east gate at the end of the road, which happened to be two roads at the outermost end of the Tonghai Road. These two roads are fifteen miles apart, and it will take a long time to run back and forth..."

Shi Chuan waved his hand: "How did you know I was fooled? Maybe this is just right for me."

Duan Xiaopiao smiled and continued to introduce...

When I pass through the contracted security area, the outermost street is close to the sea. The berths of Haizhou City are on this "Left Silent Huabang Street". The other half of the berths are on the "Right Silent Huabang Street" opposite Huabang Street. Therefore, there are many teahouses and cargo warehouses on this street. Of course, loading and unloading workers on the docks are also called "Flowers". And the street close to the east gate has several wine shops, two restaurants, and three temples... This street seems to be more suitable for business negotiations.

The street next to the East Gate is called Jinxiu Street, cloth shops and silk shops. The starting position of the street is occupied by a Buddha temple. It is the monks in this temple who contracted the wake-up service in Dongmen District. Every morning, the monks in the temple will knock on wooden fish, wake up the sleepy citizens along the street, and provide weather forecasts to the citizens... Of course, this service is not free. In the neighborhood they are responsible for contracting, each household has to pay a few copper coins as "scented oil money".

There are two temples outside, one is a Taoist temple and the other is a Tang Dynasty Nestorian Temple - this is a kind of Chinese-style Catholicism that once briefly became the state religion in the Tang Dynasty.

The Song Dynasty was an open era. In addition to Buddhism, Taoism and Nestorianism, there were many kinds of Hu Temples, including Wo Cult (Zoropatra), Islam, White Lotus Cult, etc. The pier area was a place where people bid farewell to their hometowns and went to an unexpected sea. There were the most temples in this place. Gradually, various religious customs were mixed, creating a wonderful atmosphere - for example, Buddhism and Taoism did not originally have the habit of praying for noon, but Nestorian Islam Zoropatra has this habit. When the bells ring at noon, the temples of Buddha and Taoism were not willing to be silent. So, when they came here at noon, the bells and singing sounded.

The street contracted by Shichuan was accidentally located on the edge of Tonghai Road. There were neatly distributed along Tonghai Road, the Maritime Office, the Huyi Naval Army Office, the Batou Naval Army Office, and the Salt Supervision Office. However, because Shichuan's name happened to be on the edge, there were no yamen on the streets and the streets at the end, and even Husi and the tram were not very good at running on these two streets - they were too far from the center, but they were just in the middle.

Well, the outermost street is suitable for building warehouses and smuggling goods; the innermost street is located under the east gate, suitable for connecting locations... County Magistrate Meng probably thought that at that time, he had managed the streets at the beginning and end, so the rest of the streets would be obtained without any effort and subcontracted them to the other generals.

"Zuoxiehuabang Street, usually referred to as Zuoxie Street, Master, our Duan family has a small shop on that street, which is in charge of my third senior brother. It mainly sells some rigging, pulleys and water dragon cranes for boats. Master, Zuoxie Street is the most difficult to control. The street is full of strong flower swaying. These people are fighting and causing trouble, but our blacksmiths are not jealous. The master dislikes anyone, just tell his apprentice..."

In fact, Duan Xiaopiao is not Shichong's apprentice now. The two have never performed the apprenticeship ceremony, nor have they stipulated the intellectual property sharing between the master and the apprentice... Well, Duan Xiaopiao has not promised to take out part of his income to share with the master. So far, the two have only had a cooperative relationship... Oh, even the cooperative relationship is still on paper, but Duan Xiaopiao shouted like this, Shichong does not object - free labor is not suppressed, isn't that stupid?

"You go and call Mu Shun to me. He should unload goods on the dock these days, and he should know the details of Huabangzi." Shi Chuan stood at the entrance of the Buddhist Temple in Dongmen and ordered Duan Xiaopiao: "Cleaning the Zuoxi Lane, I'm just planning to organize the dock workers... Humph, if you dare not accept the responsibility, don't come to my territory for a meal."

Chapter 145: Accepting evil thieves,
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