Chapter 106: Tomb of the Domain Prince, Picture of Beauty
This will happen if you don’t do it right.
Gangs themselves are stuck between the government and the people. They have conflicts with both sides and rely on a delicate balance to maintain them. Once a fight breaks out between gangs, the government can easily intervene.
"Yang Laowu is right. If Jiang An insists on seeking revenge, then the Jianghu in Jiangdu will definitely be shaken, and even be annihilated in one fell swoop..."
From the perspective of a time traveler, Zhou Shi certainly doesn't have any favorable impressions of these gangs, especially the Qinglong Gang, who has had issues with him.
But at the same time, he also understood that gangs were born in the power vacuum of the government and were an inevitable product of the backward social organizational capabilities of this era.
Now that the imperial examination fraud case has come to light, Jiangdu Prefecture is in chaos. If there is another turmoil in Jianghu, Jiangdu will be in big trouble...
Moreover, in this chaos, the restaurant will definitely not be able to ignore it.
Sure enough, in the afternoon of that day, two yamen errands came to announce: From today on, Jiangdu will implement a strict curfew, and it is prohibited to go out after sunset.
This was not unexpected by Zhou Shi, it was all to prevent the two major gangs from having large-scale armed fights in the city - in the past few years, this was a common occurrence.
He actually wanted to know more about the situation at the dock, but he probably didn't know much about the errands either.
To implement a curfew, it is necessary to allocate manpower to duty. The yamen finally concentrated on investigating the Yichunyuan case. Now there is another incident in Jiangdu city, which is endless.
"Shopkeeper, we can't do business at night," Agui said to Zhou Shi.
"If you don't want to do it, don't do it. Let's concentrate on doing the business at noon."
Zhou Shi said it lightly, but he knew very well that Fengde Building had added new dishes and expanded its expenses, but it wanted to cut the business in half. This was undoubtedly a blow.
Speaking of which, it was Zhou Shi who found the evidence in the Wu Zhaokun case, and it was he who told Jiang An about Yang Laowu's death...
"Then am I not half the culprit..."
At midnight, the ghost came to the table. Zhou Zhen was depressed about the curfew and the fight between the two factions, and he was always distracted when greeting the ghost.
"What happened? Didn't you sleep well?" Mr. Mo asked, holding a cigarette rod in his mouth.
"Is there ever a time in our industry when we can sleep well..."
There were so many facts that happened on this day, and Zhou Shi and Mr. Mo spent a lot of time explaining them one by one.
"Evil lady pictures... Well, hearing you say that reminds me of a legend."
"How to say it?"
Mr. Mo blew his smoke pot and said: "It is said that in the middle years of the previous dynasty, the southern vassal kings supported their own troops and started rebellion on the grounds that the current emperor was not the late emperor's biological son. The capitals of the southern states surrendered in defiance of the wind, and the rebels drank in the big rivers. There are big rivers and natural dangers.
Due to the great distance between them and the rich people and treasury in the south of the Yangtze River, the imperial court failed to conduct two conquests and suffered heavy losses.
"The vassal king came to the capital with troops, and the emperor hurriedly fled westward. On the way to escape, a painter asked to see the emperor, saying that his daughter was unparalleled in beauty. If she could offer her to the vassal king as his concubine, he would surely indulge in lustful pleasures and have no intention of usurping the throne.
Let millions of rebels defeat themselves without attack.
"Two years later, the imperial army finally captured the capital, ending this short-lived usurpation. When the army broke into the palace, they found that the three thousand beauties in the harem had long disappeared, and the vassal king hung himself above the main hall.
"And in his arms, he held a picture of a beautiful woman."