Republic of China: Guandong Ginseng King

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On August 20, Qu Shaoyang led a patrol team of 20 to 30 people, left Maoer Mountain and headed for Shuangdianzi.

The group first went to the Xigang Ginseng Garden to check the condition of the ginseng soil.

At the Xigang Ginseng Garden, nearly five hundred feet of ginseng soil were cleared this year.

Qu Shaoyang calculated that it should be enough for planting and sowing seeds.

This ginseng garden covers a large area. With slow development, in a few years there will be ginseng trees that are thousands of feet tall.

There are more than 20 people working on the ginseng field. They have invited experienced ginseng farmers from the surrounding area to give them advice, and they are doing a very good job.

Qu Shaoyang was quite satisfied, and told those people that they would all get rewards after planting ginseng in autumn.

After the boss spoke, all the workers became energized and full of energy.

Qu Shaoyang stayed in Shenyuan for two days and there were no problems.

Just wait to mix some loess into it, turn it over again, and then you can plant ginseng and sow ginseng seeds.

Afterwards, Qu Shaoyang led his men straight to the big house in Tanghekou, and met Li Daishi there.

Qu Shaoyang specifically asked Li Daishi about the location of the Zhan Dongshan gang and their sphere of influence.

After confirming that everything was correct, Qu Shaoyang found a local to lead the way. They chose a mountain area with abundant forests and close to the river, in the upper reaches of the Songhua River, within the sphere of influence of the Zhandongshan Gang.

Through Li Daishi's introduction, Qu Shaoyang found a person in Shuangdianzi who was specifically responsible for recruiting wood gangs, or what the wood gang often called "dressed people."

He promised the other party a lot of benefits, asked them for help, and provided them with about a hundred wooden handles.

Qu Shaoyang was generous and gave a lot, so those well-dressed people were happy to do things for him.

"Don't worry, we brothers will take care of this matter.

I dare not say anything else, but it would be as easy as pie to get you two or three hundred people."

One of them, named Li Fu, patted his chest and assured Qu Shaoyang.

"Then I'll leave it to you all, the more manpower the better.

Especially those who have worked with wood handles before, have experience, and can lead the work, the more of these the better.

Don't worry about the wages. As long as they do a good job, I will make sure they don't lose money."

Qu Shaoyang had agreed with Li Daishi in advance not to reveal his identity, only saying that he used to work on the Yalu River side of Nanliushui.

Nowadays, the South Flow is too strictly controlled and the profit is low, so I changed to the North Flow.

Li Fu and other dressed-up people don't care about anything else. They will recruit people for whoever pays more money.

As soon as they met, Qu Shaoyang stuffed them with red envelopes and even treated them to drinks. Since they had received all the benefits, they had to help out.

In this way, Li Fu and others began to help gather manpower and recruit woodworkers.

Here, Qu Shaoyang sent people back to Maoer Mountain and transferred about a hundred people from the patrol team.

In addition, someone was sent to deliver a letter to Chen Yunhan, asking him to lead two hundred militiamen, all of whom were well trained in guns and ammunition, to Shuangdianzi to carry out the mission.

Li Fu and others were naturally willing to work hard after receiving the benefits. Within a few days, they recruited seventy or eighty woodcutters.

Qu Shaoyang took these pieces of wood into the mountains, cut down trees and built houses first, making advance preparations for production in the mountains.

In early September, Zhou Chuanzhi brought more than a hundred patrol team members, Xingye brought forty or fifty men from the Qu family, and Ermaozi and several other gangsters, all arrived at Shuangdianzi.

By mid-September, Chen Yunhan, following Qu Shaoyang's instructions, arrived with two hundred militiamen, who were actually the same Double-Gun Gang.

Qu Shaoyang entrusted the affairs of the mountain field to Chen Yunhan and Zhou Chuanzhi.

He and Xingye each led a group of people to the place where they had ordered ginseng plants and seeds last year.

After paying the money, I brought back the agreed ginseng seeds and ginseng plants and sent them to Xigang Ginseng Garden. I stayed there for a few days and watched the guys plant the ginseng plants in the fields.

At the same time, Qu Shaoyang ordered someone to send a message to Maoer Mountain, asking Meng Lanxin to lead another hundred patrol team members to Shuangdianzi.

The mountain site chosen by Qu Shaoyang was not in the upper reaches of the Songhua River, but near another tributary, the Songxiang River.

This place is closer to Changbai Mountain and has a higher terrain. Influenced by the main peak of Changbai Mountain, the temperature is lower than that of Shuangdianzi and Maoer Mountain.

In late September, the first snow fell in the mountain area and the temperature dropped sharply.

It just so happened that all the woodcutters in the mountain field had been recruited. Li Fu and others recruited a total of more than 160 woodcutters.

Qu Shaoyang appointed Ermaozi as the head of the mountain field, Yang Qionghua's elder brother Yang Guozheng as the second in command, and several other familiar bosses were also entrusted with important tasks.

Now that we have all the manpower and the weather is suitable, we can start work on the mountain site.

On September 28th, Qu Shaoyang and Chen Yunhan led the woodcutters on the mountain site to prepare to worship the mountain god and hold a groundbreaking ceremony.

The woodcutters carried a black pig, along with firecrackers, burning paper, fruit offerings and other things, and came to the vicinity of the mountain field.

Qu Shaoyang chose an old red pine as the sacred tree and asked Ermaozi to hang red ornaments on it.

Before the Mao Zedong could fix the red cloth to the tree with copper coins, a gunshot was suddenly heard.

Everyone in the mountain field was stunned, not understanding why there was gunfire.

Just as everyone was stunned, a group of people came running down the mountain.

I saw this group of people wearing fur coats, various fur hats on their heads, palm-wide belts around their waists, and guns on their backs.

There were more than twenty people in total, all riding fast horses. They all had upturned noses and fat faces, and looked like they were not easy to mess with.

Anyone with a discerning eye could immediately recognize that these people were bearded men.

The leader of this group of bearded men was a dark-faced man, about 23 or 24 years old.

The man held a whip in his hand and urged his horse forward. He walked back and forth in front of the wooden handles several times before he spoke.

"Who is the boss of this mountain field? How come you don't know the rules?

Don’t you know that this area of ​​forest is under the jurisdiction of our Zhandongshan gang?

You dare to cut down trees without the consent of our boss, I think you are tired of living, right? "

The man sat on his horse, looking like he was looking down on the world. He pointed his whip at the members of the Mu Gang and asked.

Qu Shaoyang and Chen Yunhan looked at each other, and Chen Yunhan immediately understood and waved to the people behind him.

Qu Shaoyang walked out of the crowd, stood in front of the bearded man's horse, clasped his hands together and raised them over his left shoulder.

"Ancestor Bodhidharma is mighty, the flower of the northwest Xuantian, the world's green forest is one family, thank you for the hard work of the word combination."

“Oh, this guy is knowledgeable.

Who are you, kid? How dare you act so arrogant in front of Master Wu?
If you really understood the rules, you should have gone to the flower pavilion to pay your respects to our boss before choosing a site to build a house.

You can only cut trees in this forest after getting permission from our boss and paying tribute."

The man immediately looked at Qu Shaoyang with contempt and didn't respond at all.

"Oh, I'm really sorry. This is my first year managing the farm here. I really don't know the rules, and I didn't know there was anyone managing the farm here.

May I ask which gang you belong to? I will definitely go to meet you someday."

Qu Shaoyang was not angry because of the other party's bad attitude. He still smiled and asked the other party politely.

(End of this chapter)