"Okay, you should pay more attention to this matter. Now go out and discuss it with them! You must make sufficient preparations for this matter in advance."
Boss Shan didn't believe that they would just go ashore and do some business, and those people would let them go.
Not to mention anything else, just by occupying this place, they have affected the interests of many local people. Once these people know their details, trouble will probably follow.
"Brother, do we really have to dress like this? It feels so awkward."
The second floor of the big room in the middle is the residence of several heads of family. The area where tables were previously set up for catering was reserved for daily activities and recreation for the subordinates. A slightly larger room on the second floor at the back was converted into a meeting place.
As soon as Boss Shan entered the door, he put on new clothes, but Lao Wu, who was squirming around and feeling uncomfortable, immediately complained to him.
"I'm not happy to have such nice clothes for you. There's so much nonsense. You were still naked when you were born? Why don't you stay naked all the time? I still wear them anyway. I'll get used to it if I wear them more."
Boss Shan was actually not happy, but he knew very well that there were benefits to dressing like this, whether it was to take the opportunity to vent his anger or to stop his subordinates from nagging about this matter, so he simply yelled at Lao Wu
A few sentences.
Obviously, although many people came to discuss and listened to the suggestions of his subordinates, and even tolerated them, the prestige of Boss Shan was still very high. As soon as he opened his mouth, Lao Wu immediately became honest.
"Where's the second child? Call someone here and let's discuss something!" He didn't see the second child. He remembered that he hadn't arranged for the person to go out, so he asked someone to find him.
"...Here we come..." But as soon as Boss Shan finished speaking, the second brother came in immediately and bowed his hands to everyone.
"I apologize. As for the clothes, I didn't arrange them properly and they don't fit well, but I can only make do with it for the time being.
After we have settled down for a while, I will find a good tailor to measure and select fabrics for you.
I want to get something that fits me well and is pleasing to the eye, but now is not the time to talk about that, we may be in trouble, and if we don't handle it well, we may not have that chance."
After the second child finished speaking, everyone turned their eyes towards him, and Boss Shan did the same. He asked everyone to sit down and motioned for the second child to continue speaking.
The second child nodded and explained that it turned out that when he contacted the connections provided by the original shopkeeper, he noticed something wrong. Those people did not have much relationship with the shopkeeper.
After he came back, he was worried and sent someone to inquire. The results confirmed that the two parties did not seem to have any relationship before. The former shopkeeper seemed to have just used some money and asked for some convenience to prevent others from causing trouble.
After listening to this, everyone was speechless. They thought it was a big problem! What happened in the end? At most, they were just cheated and tricked. Although they were very unhappy, compared to the atmosphere created by the second brother, this was much easier to accept.
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"Second brother, weren't you just fooled? Why are you panting like this? It's scary."
The fifth child slapped his chest and looked frightened. The others felt the same way, but the second child's face was even more speechless and anxious.
"It's not that I was fooled, but I was worried that I was being plotted. I asked people to inquire about it and asked several of them. They didn't know the origins of those people at all.
In this case, either the previous person had a real background and was just playing tricks on us, or the person had a big background and they were able to show off those things, so it is obviously unlikely to be the former.
Then this brings up a question. Since the other party has quite a background, why did he give this place to us so easily? All I can think of is what kind of conspiracy there is."
After everyone heard this, they looked at it a little more seriously, but they still didn't care much and felt that it wasn't a big problem?
"Perhaps the business here is unsatisfactory? Aren't most of their bullets unused? Perhaps the business of delivering fish by boat is booming, which has attracted some people's attention, but they don't want to attract attention and cause trouble for no reason.
Or because we are powerful and don’t want to directly conflict with us, or there may be several situations, as soon as we come, they just follow the trend and give this place to us. Anyway, they have recovered the cost, so it is not a loss!"
"...It is indeed possible..." The third child finished speaking, and the second child nodded in affirmation, but then changed the topic and continued to explain to several people.
"But there are also some things that don't make sense. For example, the business is not good. This place has just been opened not long ago, and the business behind the scenes may not be open at all. It can't be said to be good or bad.
What else should I pay attention to? I can’t say, this is just a small part of the business of running boats to deliver fish. If they don’t interfere in the affairs of those who run boats, and only operate this, and show a little strength, others will not take their ideas.
We were powerful, and that was indeed the case at the time, but without the reasons of the first two, it doesn’t make sense to give up business so easily, so I feel that there are still problems that we don’t know about.”
After the second child finished speaking, the fifth child immediately spoke up and asked: "Even if these are unjustifiable, it doesn't really mean that he is plotting against us or has any plans for us, right?
Otherwise, why would they be selling our weapons? They didn’t deliberately hide those weapons at that time, not to mention they also retained shares in this store.”
"I know all this!" The second child was almost bubbling with anxiety as he said, "I just think they are a bit deliberate in selling weapons. After all, it's just our first time to deal with each other, and I didn't say that their plan was to play against us.
But I’m worried about what’s wrong with it…”
Boss Shan raised his hand to interrupt his second brother, and said, "It's better not to explain yet. The more you explain, the more confused we will become. So let's talk about what you suspect is wrong first!"
After listening to it, the second child also realized that he might not be able to explain clearly if he continued talking like that, so he nodded and gave the result directly.
"I suspected that either those people had caused some trouble, or that this place might be in trouble for some reason, so we just gave up the land as soon as we came.
They gave up this place because the other party wanted to cause trouble, and now this trouble has probably fallen on us. The other party deliberately left their weapons to us, probably because they wanted us to be in front.
Even the other party found it troublesome, and they deliberately provided us with guys. It will definitely not be a small trouble, so I said that if we don't deal with it well, we may get into trouble."
After hearing this result, it was too easy to understand the previous analysis by the second brother, but everyone was numb. Just now, I was thinking about having a big fight! But now... haha...
But immediately he couldn't even hehehe. The boss asked the fourth child to tell everyone what he had discovered. They were immediately confused. Ni Ma, this is really a mud horse. He thought he was going to the shore, but he ended up in a mud pond!
"Fourth, try your best to get as many bullets as you can, whether it's rifles, pistols, or boat guns, get as many as you can.
Especially the ship guns, let’s see if we can get a few more, but don’t get them in the surrounding areas, run as far away as possible, keep a low profile and be careful, we can’t let anyone find out the details.”
After the second child finished speaking, the fifth child couldn't help but ask: "Can't we withdraw? Why do we have to stay in this muddy water and fight hard?"
"Where else can we retreat? Back to Taihu Lake? There is no peace there, and the marine police are keeping an eye on us. If we retreat to another place, the government may not care about it, but we have more and stronger colleagues!
Moreover, we spent a lot of money this time, and we don’t have much money left. If we retreat and run away again, we won’t be able to survive, and we will have to risk our lives here to survive.”
"...Sigh..." After the second child finished speaking, he sighed and said helplessly: "I blame you for this. I made a mistake and brought everyone here..."
"...Okay, okay..." Boss Shan waved his hand, interrupted the second brother, and said: "I don't blame you or anyone else for this matter. Jin Asan attacked early that day, and there was a group of marine policemen behind him. If it weren't for
You proposed to come here in time, I'm afraid you will explain it that night.
As for the matter at hand, we are not being arrogant. We should make preparations first. If trouble comes, then we will have a good fight with them. If we don't make a name for ourselves, then everyone will always want to touch the tiger's butt."
Boss Shan decided on the matter and turned his attention to the fourth child. The fourth child thought for a moment and then spoke bravely.
"Brother, I will try my best to do what the second brother just said. It shouldn't be a big problem. Now we have changed the guns. There are quite a lot of box cannons and rifle bullets. With a little more effort, we should be able to get them.
Quite a few.
There's no guarantee that the ship's gun can still be used, and there's no guarantee that you can get as many bullets as you want, but I think you can reload it yourself with the shot shells. I'll just go get some gunpowder and flash caps.
There are thousands of flash caps in a small bag. The store where I bought the boat gun before has them. They can also get special propellant. They roll the paper shells themselves. They use a stick similar to the barrel of the gun to roll them up.
Just dip it.
How they did it, I secretly took note of it. Iron sand can be used for the gun, and iron beads are not difficult to get. I was in the city before and saw someone selling these things as slingshot marbles."
"...Very good..." Boss Shan nodded with satisfaction, and continued to give instructions: "In addition to doing this, the information must not be leaked, and we cannot let people conduct sneak attacks. If the trouble is really too big, we will stay away from the limelight and communicate with others.
Deal with it for a while."
Boss Shan made a few final remarks, but did not say anything completely, lest some people would be frightened into panic and their military morale would be shaken before the incident happened.
For the subsequent communication arrangements, Boss Shan tried his best to lead the conversation in a relaxed manner. When the arrangements were completed, he turned around and returned to the room, but Boss Shan frowned and did not let go.
"Is there anything else?" He was thinking about it, and when he was about to close the door, Shan realized that his second brother had followed him.
"Brother, I want to open a phone line!" After entering and locking the door, the second brother explained the purpose to Boss Shan in a low voice.
"What the hell? Why are you doing that?" Boss Shan looked stunned after hearing this. He didn't even know the phone number, but he really didn't understand what he was doing.
"For contact purposes, I'm going to secretly pull a line to the surrounding towns, so that our inquisitors don't have to come here to report in person.
There are so many people here, and with us coming in and out like this, it is easy for others to touch us. You also know the importance of information. If someone touches us, we will become blind, then..."