"Boss, you have something to do with me. Nonsense, of course I have something to do with you. Seeing how restless you were outside just now, it must be something. Now I give you a thing to do. Don't they have them in this city in the Eastern Empire?

Our own people? Aren't they here to monitor us? Do you know where these people are?" Li Cong thought for a while and said, "You can't abandon the near for the far. If you go far away, the time will definitely be delayed. There are 30 kilometers around."

There is no one. It is really difficult to find someone with weight. It is better to just attack the people here.

"Of course I know this. Boss, although I came here with you, I know everything about this city very well. Otherwise, how could I be your bodyguard?" This guy wanted to continue talking to express himself.

Well done, Li Cong, please stop this guy immediately. If you talk nonsense, you can't handle this guy. After he has been in the army for a long time, he has told the soldiers everywhere that his mouth is really broken and cannot be broken anymore.

Okay, okay, okay, okay, I know all the things you said. You have shown your sincerity. I will pay you more than one month's salary this month. Okay, now I have something to give you. How much do you bring with you when you go out?

Ten people go to the East Empire's office in this city, and then you go in and look for trouble. They usually do a lot of evil. No matter what you do, you have to make them angry and bring them something to make them lose face. As long as they dare to give

If we resist, they will start a war. We will fight with them. At this time, Li Cong has no choice but to be a shameless person, otherwise the Linghu family will be in danger.

If this war was initiated by the Eastern Empire, there would be no pressure on Li Cong at all. You would also have no pressure on the people in the fifteen cities now ruled by Li Cong. They would think that the Eastern Empire was in vain.

If you come here for no reason, we just have to fight back. They will know this in their hearts. Even if the Eastern Empire's army comes by then, they will not do anything to open the city gate.

, although they will not help Li Cong and the Cao family merchant army, after all, they were originally members of the same country? We also have to take care of their considerations. As long as they stand still and remain neutral, Li Cong's army will be able to conquer the Eastern Empire.

Li Cong can still guarantee such a thing with the army blocked outside, and the combat effectiveness of the Cao Family Trading Company’s troops is no joke. They can also guarantee this. The guard who just spoke was stunned at first

After a while, I finally understood, isn’t it just to look for trouble? We are the best at this thing.

"Sir, if you want to ask me to do something else, I might not be able to handle it for you, but don't worry about finding a fight. I'm sure I can handle it for you. I'll take someone there right away. See if I can't handle it for you.

It's strange that they were beaten to pieces, the guy said with a smile, but Li Cong grabbed him before leaving. I don't just want you to find something to fight, I have bigger things for you.

If you do it, you have to kill the boss there. Remember, it’s the boss there, not me. Li Cong said with a smile. This guy shuddered all over when he looked at Li Cong. Why would he still kill people? Like this

We have done a lot of things, but we killed an ordinary person for no reason. Forget it, don’t think about it. Now there are conflicts in the Eastern Empire. In the northern battlefield, the Eastern Empire also kills our people. Kill them all.

What's wrong with the two government officials? We can do anything at this time.

Indeed, it can be said that they are very clear about doing such things. If you can't do other things, you may need to find someone to learn from them. But if you can't do such things, then there is something wrong with your brain.

At that time, they already had their own ideas in mind. The Eastern Empire had its own offices in every city occupied by the Cao family trading army. This was also agreed in the original treaty. After all, the entire city was occupied by the Eastern Empire.

For the common people of the empire, the presence of officials from the Eastern Empire can also give them peace of mind, telling them that this is actually still the jurisdiction of the Eastern Empire, but what rights do you have? You have your own rights when you live in this big house.

You have nothing in this house, and we will not recognize what rights you have in this city? This is what the representatives of the Cao Family Trading Company said to Dong Buyi, which made them very depressed.

It's so uncomfortable that I can't even be the master of the territory.

But now that so much time has passed, they have become accustomed to it. They feel that they are very ordinary ordinary people in this city, and they are not the so-called officials before. There are not many ordinary people who go out.

Looking at them, the official attire of the Eastern Empire on their bodies has become a bit common. In the past, whenever they went out, they would blow gongs to clear the way and carry eight sedans, but now they can only walk out, because according to the treaty

According to the regulations, they can ride carriages in the city, but there are strict restrictions on carriages. It is impossible to go out in such a mighty way like before, because you are officials in the territory of the Eastern Empire, not here.

Officials are just ordinary people. Letting you ride in a carriage is already a very good thing.

If you don't want to, that's okay. You can just leave here. We don't want to invite you here. You can go to your own territory. In your own territory, you are still the court officials.

You can do whatever you want? How you bully the people is all your business. The people here have also felt this. In the past, when these officials came out, let alone these officials, even their followers could do it to them.

Some intimidation and the like, but now they don’t have that ability. The same goes for them coming out to the people. If there is any dispute on the street? Go to the government. Maybe the people will take advantage of it. People from the Cao Family Trading Company

It can be said that none of the officials from the Eastern Empire have any good impressions. These officials from the Eastern Empire are also having a hard time waiting here. They all want to do some activities up there and want to leave this place quickly.

For them, everything here is no longer so important. Originally, they didn't expect that I would be in this situation when I came here. Although the Cao Family Trading Company said it was a lease, this was still the territory of the Eastern Empire. They were in

Some powers will be exercised here. Of course, they also exercise some powers now. For example, the officials at Cao's Commercial Bank will regularly call them to report on the situation, but they are not equal at all.

It was you who did it when they asked you, and they asked you whatever they wanted to ask you? And there are people closely monitoring you 24 hours a day. Such a life is unimaginable for them. They don’t want to be there either.

If they can continue to stay in this place, if they have a chance to escape from here, they will leave here without hesitation. As for those so-called national interests? This is nothing in their eyes. We can survive

Being happy is the happiest thing.

Not just in this city. When the Cao Family Trading Company occupied fifteen air defense cities, it can be said that the officials of the Eastern Empire are in the same situation now. They only have the official names given to them by the Eastern Empire, nothing else.

Everything is gone. It turns out that they can continue to live at home. But there is nothing above and below the home. Can they fix the home? Of course not, because in their hearts it is like a place of war. I don’t know.

When did the Cao family business take over and the army really took over the place, then what's the use of making the whole house so magnificent? So now they have such a thing, they come here to work during the day, and go to the neighboring house at night

When going to rest in the middle of a process, some officials simply don’t come over for several days, and there’s nothing to do anyway. What are they doing here? It’s better for ordinary people to live comfortably, which leads to the fact that there are no people in their government offices during normal times.

How many people are here.

The Cao Family Trading Company has its own set of bureaucracies in this city, and the Eastern Empire also has its own set of bureaucracies in this city. At this moment, the bureaucracy of the Eastern Empire is the original City Lord's Mansion. According to the original agreement, here is

It was to be returned to the original city lord here in the Eastern Empire, and that city lord was not a fool. He moved among the students and gave a lot of money, then transferred himself out of here, and then went to another county to serve as the city lord.

Although the level of economic development there is incomparable with here, it is the Eastern Empire's own territory after all. Although it was also detailed by Li Cong, there are no people from Cao's business there, only Cao's business has done some harm.

, Relatively speaking, it is much better to live there than to live here. This is also the idea of ​​most city lords. One person who is here in Chengdu now is a very small official in the past. When he sees the city lord, he needs to lower his head.

, but now, she is actually the city lord here, but is he really happy? Impossible, there is nothing to be happy about.

But in normal times, when a very small official was directly promoted to a powerful person like the city lord, he was really very happy, and felt that this was a matter of honoring his family, and he might have to return to his hometown to give himself

The ancestral grave at home has been talking about it for a while, but now, he feels that there is really no benefit to this matter. What will he do every day after he becomes the lord of this city? He even has only two or three followers around him. He can't help it and can't recruit him.

After the Cao Family Trading Company was established, the people here began to receive comprehensive services from the Cao Family Trading Company. It can be said that the entire city's economy revolves around the Cao Family Trading Company. The meager wages offered by the city lord's government are not enough.

If they don’t have enough money to live by themselves, how could anyone come here? Even the two followers who follow me are officially officials appointed by the Eastern Empire. They are also dreaming in their hearts that one day the Eastern Empire can regain this place, and their lives will be easy.

Better.

At first they thought it would only take a few days, but then the days passed quickly, and they thought it might take a few months. After all, the Eastern Empire could not start such a big war now.

, that also requires some necessary preparations, but now a few months have passed, the entire city is under the control of the Cao Family Trading Company, and they have also seen that the people on the street have a different mental outlook from before. They and the Cao Family

The trading houses cooperate very well. If this situation continues to develop, in a few years the Eastern Empire's army may arrive here and these ordinary people will forget that they were ordinary people of the empire before. They will only believe that they are from the Cao Family Trading Company.

All this has been sent to the officials, but the people above them don't listen to this at all and they don't want to care about the affairs of these cities. They still remember the tragedy of the last war, and they don't want this to happen again.

things.

Will Li Cong's few guards come here to cause trouble? After all, this is the highest institution in the entire city, and this is the city lord's palace. In the past, when people came here, they didn't dare to look at it. They would turn around or keep their eyes closed.

He walked over with his eyes lowered and his head lowered. Those guards at the door were no joke, but now you can't even see the shadow of the guards at the door. Even if you look inside, there aren't many people. It's not like the busy traffic situation before.

They are just two manifestations. When people come here, they will even stop and start pointing at the house with the people around them. They say how beautiful this place used to be, but what has become now? Just please.

We all disappeared when we went in. Of course, there will be some curious people who went in. Go in and see if anyone will stop you when you are picked up at the door. But you can't enter other people's houses. This is their private property.

In the past, the City Lord's Mansion was a place for litigation. If you had any disputes with neighbors, friends or even strangers, just pick up the drum and bang it. But how can anyone come here to litigate now? Absolutely not, just two

A three-year-old child also knows that the sound of drums here has not been heard for nearly a year. No one comes here. There was a war here a year ago, and no one came here a year later.

They all know that if they want to do something now, they should go to the tribunal of the Cao Family Trading Company. That is where things are done. If there is any dispute, it will be mediated for you and it will be legally binding. If anyone dares to disobey, he will be punished immediately.

You will be arrested. What is the use of regulating it here for you? No one will admit it. Even the sufferer himself is not willing to come to this place and fight a lawsuit for such a period of time, which is a waste of his money, ability and energy. In the end, there is

What? Nothing?

As a result, the City Lord's Mansion, the highest authority here, is already what it is now, so naturally there is no need to mention other places. In other places, it can be said that the official appointed by the imperial court is playing there, and there is no other one.

There are only one person working in a large official yamen now, and that person is not working when he comes in, because there is nothing to do? Most of them come here at noon to take a walk around to fulfill their duties.

responsibilities, but no one can be found in the afternoon. If they are not in this city at home, they may not be able to find anyone for several days. Such bureaucrats can be said to be of no use. Of course

Some people's homes are in this city, and they will still come here. If people ask them where they work, they won't say that they are officials of the Eastern Empire government. This will be looked down upon.

Well, this is only slightly better than being a beggar, but it is completely different from before.

Another very important thing is that if you are an official of the Eastern Empire, you have to wait until the people from Caojiashan Bank come to find trouble. They will also come here to talk about some trivial things, just to embarrass you.

, every time they come to look for trouble, there will be a large number of ordinary people behind them. When the ordinary people see that the authority of the Eastern Empire government has been reduced to this level, how can they still have illusions about sending you the national flower in winter? That is absolutely true.

It's impossible. They will think that the Eastern Empire is in ruins now and has been bullied into this state by the people of Caojiashanxing. Do we still need to wait for them to come back? Of course it is impossible to wait for them to come back. It will not change after they come back.

Our current life is countless times better than before. At least we won’t starve to death now, and there will be rice in the rice vat at home. Food is important, and other things will take care of themselves.

You have to work hard on your own, and Cao's Firm can't take care of everything for you.

It seems that some workers working on the docks used to be very tired doing such things, but they only had an income of about one hundred pence a day. When they went out to buy food, drink and other things, they just took the money back.

My family's monthly net income is only about three taels of silver. That's still a whole day. You can't get sick or be lazy and work all the time to earn such an income. If you get sick for some reason, the whole family can't even eat.

It's impossible. This is the life these porters lived during the rule of the Eastern Empire, and there are other things such as the government and how they pay taxes and part of their income. The Cao Family Trading Company performed well in this regard.

It's very good. They won't come to collect taxes. As long as your income exceeds ten taels of silver, they will come back to collect taxes. If it doesn't exceed, they will also give you some subsidies. Such a thing is something you never dreamed of.

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That is, the life of dock workers is different now from before. Although they are still working, their hearts are different from before, and their mental outlook is also different. Many of the things they think about are how to deal with this in the future.

Live a better life, make yourself better, and make your family better. They now come to work full of energy in the morning, and although they go home exhausted at night, their income now is higher than before

What's going on with the doubled income? For example, those who came to collect protection fees in the past no longer dare to come. As long as they change their access to the dock, the soldiers on Tao's house will invite them to the house over there.

Just enjoy the taste of the whip. If you people want to come out to work, we welcome you. If you are looking for trouble, that's fine. We are not afraid anymore, we are just looking for trouble. There are countless fish in the sea to eat.

A taste of human flesh. If you want to go in and try it, we will never stop you. He will send a boat to take you in.

When they come here, half of their income will be taken away by these gangsters. They all belong to various societies. Li Cong does not want to absolutely ban these societies, but these societies that drink human blood must be banned. You can do some

For other things, it is of course possible to collect protection fees, but this protection fee must have a limit. 10% per month is enough. If it is more, it is absolutely not allowed. Of course, the same is true for the money you receive.

We have to do certain things for people. This city has established a huge police system, which is the patrol and the like in the past, but they also have things that they can't see. They can't just call in the police for every little thing.
To be continued...