Chapter 6 Wind Lingdu
"That man should have come from Shanghai County. He could come alone and snatch the goods from a small caravan. It was probably the Zhejiang merchant who stole the chicken and lost the rice and broke it into the kid's hand.
We should not provoke such people easily, just pretend that we don’t know anything. If we take action, we cannot completely solve the other party, it may leave a lot of trouble." Zeng Guosun said when he heard his subordinates’ report.
In recent years, Zeng Guosun's strength has become stronger and stronger in Fenglingdu. The big reason is his caution. He never provokes people who are ignorant, never provokes officials and big families, so that Fenglingdu can preserve his strength in the four years of clearance and live until now.
"Master, I understand!" After the leader said that, he left, Zeng Guosun stood outside the window of the room and looked at the dock in the distance. His strength was nothing in the hands of some big families, and he would not take action for that little thing!
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When Su Ming came to Fenglingdu, he had no idea what environment he was in now. His murder and evading goods had been exposed!
Su Ming saw rows of water camps on the Huangpu River in the distance, and more than ten ships of all sizes and sizes were docked by the river, which shows that the strength here is not weak, and if he crosses the conflict in Fengling, there may be big trouble.
When I came to a vast plain by the river, there were hundreds of acres of rice planted here. With these rice alone, at least hundreds of people can be supported.
There is a small village in the middle of the rice fields. The village looks relatively simple, but it is quite a small person. When Su Ming enters this village, a young man comes to greet him.
After giving the boy 2 cents, Su Ming was taken to the inn in the village. The proprietress was a woman in rags. She looked only in her 20s and spoke very generously, which made Su Ming play the characters in Water Margin.
Su Ming didn't care about these things. He didn't want to provoke anyone. If someone didn't have any eyes, he would give the other party some good looks. However, he found that the people here were particularly ruling, and the order seemed to be even good in the area managed by the government. At least the people were not all pale and thin.
"Oh, a handsome little brother is here! Do you want to have a meal or stay in a hotel?" Seeing Baosheng coming, the boss's wife went out to greet him enthusiastically. It seemed that people around her were used to seeing this place!
"Live in a hotel, open a single room for me, and then feed two horses. Do you have any warehouses where you can store goods? Move these goods to me!" Su Ming got off the horse and said to the boss's wife.
"One room is 100 yuan, two horses are 140 yuan, these goods... I will collect 60 yuan for you! Don't think that our store is small, the environment is not bad at all. Our store has bacon from Sichuan. Do you want to try it?" The boss said with a smile, looking very enthusiastic.
"Do you have a boat to Jinshanwei here?" Although the boss's wife asked for a price of nearly ten times more than the same inn, Su Ming still took the cloth bag directly from the horse's back and took 3 strings of money to the boss's wife.
"You want to go to Jinshanwei? You have to go to the dock tomorrow morning to check it out. There are ships going south every day in Fengling Ferry, but if you don't get to Jinshanwei, it depends on luck." The boss's wife collected the money and asked the waiter to move the two horses and goods down.
This inn is not big, but the waiters are all big and thick. They look at Su Ming like they look at beautiful women who are stripped naked, but Su Ming doesn't care about it at all.
He still has 10 bullets. If the other party doesn't have eyes, with his skills, he can definitely pay the price and then find a way to escape quickly. He has worked at sea for more than 20 years, and in terms of water nature, he believes that he is no worse than anyone else. The Huangpu River is not far away.
However, the expected danger never came, and Su Ming did not eat the food provided by the inn. Before it was completely dark, he entered the room and told the boss not to disturb him, so he closed the door and lay on the bed.
Everything he encountered today allowed him to see the truest side of these worlds. The city was controlled by the court and aristocratic families, and outside the city was another world. No wonder many martial arts novels were written about the Ming Dynasty, and not all of them were fake.
Although the world outside the city is prey on the weak, there are not many ordinary people. There are many elderly people and children in this village. Su Ming has not seen it in a village controlled by the imperial court. I believe that after seeing it, it will be another scene.
In general, the imperial court and the aristocratic families still control the general development direction of the world. People in the martial arts world can only survive in the cracks. The poor people have no good impression of the imperial court, and it is not an exaggeration to say that they are hostile. A large part of this is the publicity of the aristocratic families to the imperial court.
The wealthy families of aristocratic families and the imperial court are not exactly together, or their struggles are even more intense. It is difficult for the imperial officials to leave the county town. Outside the city, there are the influence of the wealthy families of aristocratic families, and many large families have very close relationships with people from the martial arts world.
After sorting out the information I heard today, Su Ming found that his body was a loyal royalist. He had never thought about the lives of the poor people at the bottom of society, or the Confucian family and country concepts, and had never been to a place like Fenglingdu.
Su Ming has 500 years of historical experience in later generations. He believed in the concept of the country for the people and everyone is equal, which is obviously different from this world. However, he also discovered that many things that are beneficial to him in this world, such as many poor people, and many of them are evading the taxes of the court like mice.
The Ming Dynasty system has basically served the royal family and the big family, and the people have been seriously oppressed. If the Ming Dynasty wants to continue to develop and make breakthroughs, it must break the old powerful groups in society and come up with new ways when distributing the cake. But Su Ming knew that the power of the Ming Dynasty would not give up the rights in his hands.
The West has now begun to enter the Age of Discovery, while the Ming Dynasty is still forbidden from the sea. The big family continues to exploit the poor people for their own interests. In his previous life, Su Ming felt heartbroken whenever he saw that there was no shadow of the Ming Dynasty in the history of the Age of Discovery in the West. Now that he has to do something here!
I don’t know how to be Su Ming yet. He is now a son-in-law who has escaped from home and cannot protect himself. Now I will go home first and talk about it when I meet my elder brother Su Ren.
Lie alone in bed and thought a lot. Su Ming had probably found his future development direction in his mind. There was no movement outside the door and window. Su Ming was a little relieved. He closed his eyes and thought about the 34411 coast guard ship in his mind. In an instant, he realized in his mind.
Su Ming first checked the pistol at his sculpting waist, but saw it saying [98.4%]. He remembered that when he put the pistol back in the afternoon, it was shown that it was [73.3%].
So what does this number mean?
Su Ming reached out to his hand and appeared in his hand. Su Ming took off the magazine and checked the bullets inside. He found that there were 14 bullets!
He used 5 at noon today, but now it has become 14, which means that the Type 92 pistol can recover ammunition by itself here. Su Ming was also worried that the bullets would be used up and now he gave a sip.
This afternoon, Su Ming took the pistol back to the sea of consciousness. It has been a little more than two hours. At this recovery speed, about 15 bullets can be recovered in a day, which is the number of magazines.
Thinking of this, Su Ming took out a bullet from the magazine and took it back to the real room and placed it on the bedside. When he came in, he saw that the number on the pistol bag on his sculpture's waist turned into [9.26%], which means that as long as the magazine came out, he could continue to recover.
In this way, Su Ming can actually accumulate some bullets. He just needs to keep the bullets in the magazine unsatisfied.
After calculating the time, Su Ming took out 4 bullets from the magazine. If you encounter an accident later, there is actually not much difference between the 9 bullets in his pistol and 14 bullets. It may be of great use to accumulate some bullets.
Seeing this, Su Ming found that he had two 30 round plastic magazines on his body, which were also 5.8mm bullets. This was a 95 rifle. The magazines could not be used for the Type 92 pistol, but the bullets were the same. If he activated it, would he have 60 more bullets per day?
Back at the inn, he found all the silver and took it into his hands. When the silver was absorbed and disappeared, Su Ming returned to the sea of consciousness and saw that the number 14 taels was written below the coast guard ship of 34411.
I remember that after activating the pistol last night, Su Ming still had 8 taels of silver. Just now, nearly 9 taels of silver were absorbed again. It should be 16 tons, and the lowest was 15 taels, but now it is only 14 taels, which means that the purity of broken silver today is only about 60%.
Click to activate [30 rounds 5.8mm plastic magazine*2], but the magazine was not lit.
"Please activate the 95 rifle first!" A voice sounded in Su Ming's mind.
It seems that you have to get enough 200 taels of silver first, but this task is not easy. The value of the goods you hold should be between 20 taels of silver and 30 taels, and the value of two horses will not exceed 30 taels, which is still far from buying a 95 rifle.
"In this way, don't worry, and when you get to the salt making office, you will consider making money!" Thinking of this, Su Ming took out the sesame cakes he bought today and ate them. When he was thirsty, he drank the water he brought with him.
He put the stool inside the doors and windows like last night, looked at the 5 bullets beside the pillow, pulled the quilt over, closed his eyes and fell asleep.
He was traveling all day, and Su Ming slept very soundly at night. The next morning, he opened his eyes before dawn and saw that the stool he placed last night was fine. His consciousness sank into the coast guard ship. He saw that the pistol magazines had turned into 14 more.
Putting the five bullets beside the pillow into his pocket, Su Ming got up and opened the door. He saw that there was only one waiter wiping the table in the inn, and saw Su Ming's waiter coming over.
"Kei, you've got some sleep! Your horse has been fed. In the morning, our inn made porridge and newly released buns. Should I eat some?" The waiter came to Su Ming and asked.
"Give me a bowl of porridge and 5 buns!" This inn was not as terrible as I thought. If they wanted to do it last night, it would be the best opportunity. At this time, there are so many elderly and children in this village nearby.
And I left after eating, so I couldn’t do anything to myself. It was not easy to find someone to leave the village in this area of water.
"The porridge costs 10 cents, the buns cost 25 cents, and the patronage is received!" the waiter said with a smile.
Chapter completed!