A knife in love

Chapter 213

Hearing Zhuyue's vicious words, Li Qiufeng couldn't help but frowned, thinking: "These Fusang people are cruel, ruthless, and will kill people if they don't agree with each other. I'm afraid they have not been educated by saints so much. Violent." He said seriously: "Everyone is born of their parents, and killing lightly is not the right way in the world. Let's just let it happen if we don't meet it. If we happen to meet it, we can't watch these people die in vain!"

Zhuyue hummed, but didn't speak again.

At this time the sky is already bright.The three discussed again, and finally decided to see how Qunhao behaved before making a decision.Li Qiufeng and Xiao Zhanpeng defended against the enemy side by side with Qunhao in the Imperial Tomb and Yong'an City, they didn't want Qunhao to recognize them, so they covered half of their faces with cloth.Zhuyue didn't want to mask her face at first, but Li Qiufeng said that dragons and snakes are mixed here, and I'm afraid Liusheng Zongyan's killers are among them, so it's better to be cautious.Zhuyue had no choice but tore off half of her skirt to cover her face.Fortunately, people in Jianghu have all kinds of weird clothes, and the three of them don't have to worry about attracting others' attention.

After packing up, the three of them walked out of the woods.Xiao Zhanpeng untied his mount, and the three of them walked towards the place where Qunhao camped.

At this time, there was an endless stream of pedestrians on the main road, and most of them were from the Jianghu in their attire, and almost everyone carried weapons on their bodies.Li Qiufeng and the other three walked among the crowd, but no one paid attention.

When they got to the place where Qunhao camped, they saw that more than 2000 people had gathered here, and the entire road was full of people from all walks of life.Many people saw acquaintances and stepped forward to say hello.Most of these people are rough and bold men, and they have no scruples in speaking, and they quarreled like heaven and earth.

Li Qiufeng saw that there were a lot of familiar faces in the crowd, so he didn't dare to go among the crowd, and just stood in the corner with Xiao Zhanpeng and Zhuyue.But Xu Chenghe, the head of the Qingcheng faction, and Lin Yilang, the head of the Songshan faction, were among them, talking in low voices with several leaders of other factions.

Xiao Zhanpeng also met Xu Chenghe and Lin Yilang at the top of Yong'an City. When he saw the two of them at this time, he suddenly remembered and said to Li Qiufeng in a low voice: "It turns out that he was the one who spoke just now. I am in Yong'an City. I have seen it, the swordsmanship is very good."

At this moment, someone shouted loudly: "The old man Zuo from Zuojiazhuang in Shanxi has arrived!"

Li Qiufeng's heart trembled, the Zuojia Village in Taiyuan, Shanxi Province was well-known in the Jianghu, and everyone in the martial arts would give him some face.Zuojiazhuang's prestige was not obtained by relying on martial arts, but was actually bought with money.Since the founding of the country by Taizu, the Zuo family has been operating money shops in the north of the Yangtze River.Due to the excellent reputation of the Zuo family's money shops in various places, the business grew bigger and bigger, and gradually penetrated to the south of the Yangtze River.I thought that Jiangnan was originally a rich and prosperous place, and there were many money shops and businesses, but they were all eaten away by the Zuo family.When the Battle of Jingnan broke out, the Zuo family provided a large sum of money for Cheng Zu's army as military pay. When the Yan army went south, the Zuo family's money shops along the way sent money and food for military use.After Chengzu ascended the throne, in order to repay the Zuo family's support for him, he asked the household department to provide convenience for the Zuo family's business.With the support of the imperial court, the Zuo family's business naturally became more and more prosperous. From the capital all the way to Lingnan, the Zuo family's money shop business blossomed everywhere.

The Zuo family's business has become bigger, and they have secretly communicated with martial arts gangs in various places.Some shady silver was circulated through the Zuo family's money shop, which brought great convenience to people in the Jianghu.Therefore, government offices, Jianghu gangs, and even green forest cottages all over the world are respectful and respectful to the Zuo family, for fear of offending the God of Wealth and inevitably cutting off their own fortunes.

Although the Zuo family's business has spread all over the place, it's just that the head shopkeeper has been living in the old house in Taiyuan, Shanxi.With the development of the Zuo family, the entire Zhuangzi where the old house was located was bought by the Zuo family.It is said that the Taiyuan government also sent a battalion of officers and soldiers to station in Zuojiazhuang to act as the guards of the Zuojia, which shows how powerful the Zuojia is.

When Li Qiufeng was in Jinyiwei, he had already heard of the name of the Zuo family.Moreover, Jin Yiwei will receive money from the Zuo family every year, from the commander to the general banner below, everyone has a contribution.It's just that when it was sent up, of course it was not in the name of the Zuo family, but under the banner of the governor of Shanxi.Therefore, when Jin Yiwei handles the case, if the Zuo family is involved in the case, as long as the Zuo family suffers losses, they must investigate to the end.If the Zuo family committed a crime, they would turn a blind eye and let it go.

The chief shopkeeper of the Zuo family of this generation is named Zuo Sheng, and it is said that he is nearly eighty years old, and everyone calls him "Old Master Zuo" without naming him.He was old and rarely showed up, and his sons were all in charge of the business. Unexpectedly, he would show up here today, and the group of tycoons immediately became a sensation.

Li Qiufeng and Xiao Zhanpeng stood outside the crowd, but they didn't want to join in the excitement.Xiao Zhanpeng said with a smile: "It seems that money is much more useful than martial arts in the world. There are money shops of the Zuo family everywhere in Fujian, and even the government wants to give the Zuo family face. My old man often admonishes us brothers Well, the government and the Zuojia money shop must not be offended, because one of them is power and the other is money. This is the most terrifying thing among all things in the world."

Li Qiufeng said: "Senior Xiao's words are indeed good. If you don't have money, no matter how good your martial arts are, you will be hard to do in the Jianghu. Which of these Jianghu figures in front of you doesn't run a business? If you want to make money , I’m afraid I have to deal with Zuo’s money shop. Mr. Zuo is the God of Wealth of these people, and when the God of Wealth arrives, how can there be no reason not to greet him?”

When the two were talking, they saw a large sedan chair carrying eight people on the western road.There were more than a dozen servants in green clothes walking in front of the sedan chair, but there was a man in the front riding a tall horse, dressed in brocade clothes, with an arrogant demeanor.There were two maids walking on both sides of the big sedan chair, holding silver vases or tea sets in their hands.After the big sedan chair, more than a dozen people followed.These people were either on horseback or on foot, and there was a yellow-clothed monk with a fierce face, and he was not a good person at first sight.

Qunhao stood respectfully by the side of the road.The man in brocade riding a tall horse came in front of the crowd, reined in his mount, but did not dismount, and said triumphantly, "Is Hu Jishi, head of the Diancang sect, here?"

As soon as he finished speaking, he saw a short, fat middle-aged man squeezed out from the crowd, walked quickly to the brocade-clothed men and horses with a smirk on his face, bowed and said: "This junior, I wonder what orders the Chief Steward Zuo has? "

Although the Dian Cang Sect was not listed among the top ten sects in Jianghu, it was also a famous and decent sect that shocked the southwest.The leader, Hu Jishi, is well-known for his 36-way Diancang swordsmanship, and is a first-class master with a considerable status in the martial arts.Unexpectedly, seeing a housekeeper of Zuo's family today, he actually held the gift of disciples.What's more, the head of a faction is like this, which shows how powerful the Zuo family is.

The left housekeeper didn't even raise his hand, and said to Hu Jishi: "Master Hu, we can't wait any longer for the money. If the deficit in this account drags on, we won't look good."

When Qunhao saw Butler Zuo discussing money with Hu Jishi in public, everyone's faces changed.It should be known that most of the people in the rivers and lakes here are inextricably linked to the Zuo family's money shop.This Hu Jishi didn't know which money was not repaid, and he was forced by the Zuo family in public. The embarrassment can be imagined.Many gang leaders who owed money to the Zuo family secretly worried that the big butler Zuo would find themselves in trouble next.

Hu Jishi was still smiling, nodding his head and saying: "Please don't worry, Mr. Zuo, at the end of the year, the money will be delivered to the Zuojia money shop in Dali. There was frost at the beginning of this year, and the tea harvest was not good. In previous years, the harvest has been reduced by half, it’s not that the money has not been paid back..."

Butler Zuo sneered and said, "It's true that the tea is in short supply. It's just that you, the Dancang faction, destroyed Wuyunzhai in Lincang, so there will always be three or four hundred thousand taels of silver."

As soon as Butler Zuo said this, cold sweat appeared on Hu Jishi's forehead.Most of the martial arts people in the Central Plains don't know what Butler Zuo said, let alone where Wuyunzhai is.It's just that people from the rivers and lakes who were born in Yunnan know that Lincang Wuyunzhai is the base camp of Yunnan salt owls.Salt and iron are monopolized by the government, and private trading is strictly prohibited.Yunnan is also located in the remote southwest, and it is extremely difficult to transport salt, so the income from selling salt is extremely high.Although the imperial court has extremely strict control, there are still many private salt dealers who take risks.More and more of these people formed a gang and set up a village in Lincang, called Wuyun Village, which controlled more than half of the private salt trade in Yunnan.After Wuyunzhai grew up, it not only had soldiers in the village, but also bribed the government from all over Yunnan, and the private salt flowed all the way from the southeast coast to Yunnan.Wuyun Village has made a fortune and is known as the richest village in the Southwest.It's just that such a big piece of fat was swallowed up by the Diancang faction.

(End of this chapter)