The biography of Gu Qi, a poor girl

Those who were bought as 'rice meat' were not just converted into slaves and sold to tooth shops as slaves, but more often they were sent to various mines to work as miners. These are private black miners.Most of these private mines are invisible, and it is difficult to recruit useful miners through formal channels, so they need to buy and sell these "rice meat" through pedestrians.Usually, a living person will disappear within two or three months after being pulled in. Because the change of nationality is done through non-official means, the higher-ups will not attract the attention of the person who is gone.

Usually this kind of "rice meat" is not easy to find, and the price is high. If it is not real, it will be hard to survive. No one will sell themselves as "rice meat".Even those who sell their sons and daughters to pay off their debts will only go to those toothmaids.What's more, these private mines don't like to accept women, children and children, and prefer to harvest adult men.

Obviously, at this time, Yuzhou Fubei has become the best place for 'rice meat' business.And how many people here are really unable to survive and are willing to buy themselves, or are forced to become "rice meat", obviously no one cares.

When Shunzi and the others brought back the news they had inquired about today, Gu Qi was boxing in the courtyard, and after a few sets of punches, he seemed to have sorted out his thoughts a lot.

It's not that Gu Qi has never greeted the Pedestrian Gang. On the contrary, whether it was the early days of fleeing famine or after arriving in Jiangling County, he had dealt with the Pedestrians several times. They are all experts in this field.

It can be said that the Pedestrian Gang's staff is almost all over the Dakang Dynasty, and there are still traces of the Pedestrian Gang outside Dakang, but even with such a powerful sphere of influence, the Pedestrian Gang's people are still not as good as the Horse Gang and the Cao Gang. Both of them are new students who are apprehensive and daunted.

Because the Walking Foot Gang is too scattered, from high-ranking officials and dignitaries down to the three religions, all walks of life are the sphere of influence of the Walking Foot Gang. This is their advantage and also their disadvantage. Many classes form various churches. Words meet forces, and most of them are independent and cooperate with each other, and at the same time, they are more afraid of each other.

For example, at this time, it is the people of Hongwentang who control the grain gate of Lushan County.However, what the Hongwentang people said before is that the "rice meat" business in the north of Yuzhou is Liehutang.

Hongwentang and Liehutang, these two names can be seen from the mouth of one person.In fact, many of them come from the mouth of one person.There are more than 50 halls and more than [-] incense clubs in Dakang, and most of these halls and incense clubs have their own management in terms of names, ideas, and business methods.These halls will look down on each other while using the huge power network of the Pedestrian Gang to gain enough benefits and status for themselves.For example, judging from the tone of the vendors and stall owners who came out of Hongwentang on Liuxing Street today, they look down on Liehutang, which specializes in private businesses such as 'rice meat' and 'renzhu'.The same people from Hunting Tiger Hall can't think of Hong Wentang who is clearly doing gangster/road activities but still pretends to name the names of scholars at the entrance of the hall.

And Hongwentang and Liehutang are just two of the walking foot gang's halls in the Central Plains, and there are so many other halls doing various businesses, and naturally there are many conflicts.

This is why the power network of the Pedestrian Gang is enough to make black and white fearful, but at the same time not so fearful, because these forces are really amazing when combined, but in fact, although they will cooperate with each other and exchange news, they cannot be combined at all. No chance to get it together.

This kind of model is a bit like the franchise store model in modern business, where the same brand is linked to do business, but in fact each has its own site and each does its own thing.

Of course, the franchise stores do the same kind of business most of the time, but Xingjiaobang covers almost all the businesses that can be done in the world.

This also means that if the Four Seas Escort wants to take root in Lushan County, it may not necessarily be against the entire pedestrian gang, or it may only be against the Hongwentang family.

It's just that how powerful this Hongwentang is, and how many other halls behind it have a good enough relationship with it to communicate with each other, but it can't be figured out in a short time.

Under such circumstances, it is obviously unnecessary to go head-to-head with Hongwentang.

Maybe sometimes you can break through all methods with one force, but sometimes the bravery of a man cannot play a decisive role.

While Gu Qi and the others were planning how to avoid Hongwentang's actions as much as possible, the study in the backyard of the Lushan County Mansion was also brightly lit.

Liu Shouzheng, who was forty years old, pushed aside the official documents that he had processed today, closed his eyes and pressed his sore forehead softly, opened his eyes after a long time, took tea from the attendant next to him, and took a few sips Moisturizing his mouthpiece, he asked: "I heard that there was news from the city guard this morning, that there are foreigners coming to the city?"

"Yes. There are 11 people in total. They are all young and they came from Yunzhou Mansion." The attendant said.

"Have you found out what you are here for?" Liu Shouzheng asked.

"It is said that they are here to find relatives. The people who came are the young master and his guards of Qishi Commercial Firm in Sanchuan County, Yunzhou Prefecture."

"Looking for relatives?" Liu Shouzheng smiled: "This is a lie."

The attendant was surprised: "Why did the master say that?"

"The people in Lushan County evacuated half a year ago. Why are the families still staying in the county? Most of them left Yuzhou Prefecture and have nowhere to go to find their relatives. The Qi family of Yunzhou Prefecture Young Master's family didn't come to look for relatives early or late, why did they choose this time to look for relatives?"

"Maybe I just found out?"

Liu Shouzheng chuckled and shook his head: "Yuzhou Mansion has been in drought for three years. If you were interested, you would have known about it a long time ago. Why did you wait until the end of the continuous heavy rain and drought in Yuzhou Mansion to find this relative? That's true, I'm afraid this is not looking for relatives, but it seems to be looking for revenge."

"Then according to the master, what are these people here for?"

"They are merchants, and the left and right are just here to do business."

"Business? Given the current situation in our Lushan County, what can we do here?" The attendant was surprised.

Liu Shouzheng took another sip of his tea, with a half-smile: "You don't understand, it's just such a time when it's convenient to do business."

The attendant seemed to understand, but asked: "Then, do you want to bring them to meet the adults?"

"No, it's not urgent." Liu Shouzhao shook his head, and after a while, he ordered, "Let people pay attention to the activities of the Pedestrians these days, and don't let them go too far."

After finishing speaking, Liu Shouzheng looked out the window: "It's raining really hard today."

"Yes, if the situation continues to improve in the future. Master, we will be in the early stages."

"It's not that we're going to make it through, it's that the people in Lushan County are going to make it through, and it's the people in Yuzhou Mansion that are going to make it through."