Chapter 1524: Step on the market in advance

Li Song didn't stay at Hao Qing's residence for too long. After explaining the matter, he left quietly. He was not worried about Hao Qing's identity being exposed prematurely, because Hao Qing had responded to everything from being imprisoned to being quietly released.

All the written materials had been taken away and destroyed by Li Song. The general judge Wang Yuan did not even know that such a number one figure survived among the water bandits that He Guanzhi mobilized the government troops to exterminate. Hao Qing, on the other hand, kept a low profile while living in Hangzhou City and went out every day.

They all acted under pseudonyms, and no one would associate him with the leader of the water bandits who committed murder and swindled goods.

Taking a step back, even if Hao Qing was eventually captured by mistake, Li Song still had a backup plan to completely shut up Hao Qing in the Hangzhou prison. He could not let anyone who was interested follow Hao Qing's line and destroy the people behind his back.

He Guanzhi was uncovered. Of course, he believed that even if Hao Qing was arrested, he would not confess easily. After all, his family was still under his control, and Hao Qing would not risk their lives.

As for how Hao Qing will finally complete this task, Li Song actually doesn't know yet. After all, several plans proposed by Hao Qing were rejected on the spot because they were too risky. It is really not easy to think of other tricks.

It was easy. However, Hao Qing had already issued a military order and would definitely try to stop the work at those construction sites as soon as possible. Li Song also believed that this guy did not dare to lie to him, so he started taking action according to what the two parties had agreed upon.

Early the next morning, Hao Qing followed the first group of people out of the city. He first went to Yongjinmen and found the place Li Song mentioned to take a closer look at the construction site conditions. Although many people who had passed by here before

At that time, I also noticed that housing construction was starting here, but now that I want to do something about this place, I naturally have to first inspect the environment.

These three construction sites are all to the west of the official road. Hao Qing remembers that it used to be a vegetable field, and there was a business inn and a horse and carriage shop between the three construction sites. Ordinary people passing by here generally would not go there.

Concerned about the purpose of the buildings being built here, if Li Song hadn't reminded him, Hao Qing probably wouldn't have thought that the same boss was behind these three construction sites.

After seeing it in person, Hao Qing also found that his previous idea was a bit too simplistic. There were two courtyards separated between the three construction sites. He wanted to use murder and arson to stop the work at all three construction sites. I was afraid there would be some trouble.

Unless a fire is used to burn down the merchant house and carriage shop together, but these two buildings have courtyard walls, it is easy to leave traces of arson if forced to do so. And Li Song's request to him is to try his best to

Do it naturally and don't leave too obvious evidence for the government to file a case.

This is quite tricky for Hao Qing, who is used to using tough tactics. The tactics he used to use when he was a water bandit were quite ruthless, but he is not very good at using them skillfully. Li Song wants him to do it without leaving any trace.

To achieve his goal, this is indeed not very consistent with his major.

There were forty or fifty people working on each of these three construction sites. Even if Hao Qing wanted to tamper with the construction site, it would be difficult to hide it from others during the day. Hao Qing couldn't help but regret that he shouldn't have agreed to Li's offer so quickly last night.

If the task is not easy, we should talk to him about the conditions again, at least to give him more time and means. In this kind of environment, if we want to stop the construction site, what else can we do besides being tough?

However, Hao Qing is not a person who can't hold his breath. Although he knows that it is extremely difficult to start here, he still patiently wanders around the area.

He found out the number of clerks in the two courtyards. Then he continued to talk about business, walked around the courtyard, and took a clear look at the surrounding environment.

But after he almost finished visiting this place, he began to complain more and more. Because these two businesses were not far from the official road outside the city, they were quite popular. There was an endless stream of caravans coming in and out. Moreover, Hao Qing was looking for a shop.

The local man asked, even at night there would be merchants coming in and out from time to time. After all, this is outside the city, and there is no curfew. Businessmen arriving outside the city at night can only find these places to rest. And before dawn, there will be teams that get up early and set off.

, in this way, it seems that there will not be much safe time for him to operate at night.

Although it seems that no suitable implementation method has been found for this task so far, Hao Qing cannot give up just yet. Li Song made it very clear last night that after completing this task, his family can regain their freedom.

And this is Hao Qing's biggest weakness.

Hao Qing slowly walked to a tea shed not far from the construction sites on the east side of the official road, sat down and ordered a pot of tea, pretending to be a passerby taking a rest, and quietly monitored the activities in this area. So and so

After waiting for about an hour, the tea in the pot had already cooled down, and Hao Qing still hadn't figured out any new method.

After sitting here for too long, Hao Qing was also worried about attracting the attention of interested people. After all, the official roads outside the city were full of people. In addition to the gangsters, Li Song also told him that each yamen would send spies here to monitor Nan Lai.

Passengers going north to avoid being disguised as hostile armed personnel sneaking into the city - to put it bluntly, they are afraid that the Haihan people will cause trouble. But the irony is that a considerable number of the caravans coming and going on the official road are doing the same thing as the Haihan people

Through trading, even the goods being trafficked now come from Haihan.

Hao Qing paid for the tea, got up and left his seat, and walked slowly towards the Qiantang River. He also had more than twenty reliable subordinates working at the riverside docks, and he had to gather these people as pick-ups.

The manpower that came down to carry out the operation. However, this group of people did not have such complete identity protection as him. After participating in the operation, they would most likely not be able to stay in Hangzhou Mansion anymore, so he had to talk to these people first, and then try to

Li Song asked for a settlement fee for them, so that he could take them to this game with peace of mind.

It's not far to walk from outside Yongjinmen to the Qiantang River. In a short time, you will reach the several-mile-long dock area on the river bank. Although there was a far-reaching dock fire a year and a half ago, it is no longer visible today.

The ruins caused by the fire were replaced by the more prosperous and busy Hangzhou Wharf. After the Zhejiang government semi-publicly acquiesced in opening up the trade rights of coastal states to Haihan, the relationship between Zhejiang and Haihan

Trade volume has surged, and the number of cargo ships plying the Qiantang River has also increased significantly compared with before.

The increase in cargo throughput has also brought about a more prosperous shipping market, and more people rely on it for their livelihood than in the past. On the wharf along the Qiantang River alone, there are dozens of people engaged in related industries.

Thousands of warehouses under construction on the shore also show that the development prospects here are widely optimistic. Of course, the premise is that there will not be another armed conflict like the Haihan Fleet blocking the Qiantang River. Once the two sides

As the situation in the country worsens, the shipping industry is the first to suffer.

Hao Qing could clearly see that many sailboats docked on the shore had red and blue flags hanging on the top of their masts. Not all of these ships belonged to Haihan. Some of them were actually ships of Ming merchants, just to sail with Hangzhou Bay.

The Dinghai Port in Zhoushan controlled by Haihan was easily accessible, so they simply hung the red and blue flag symbolizing Haihan on the mast. And the businessmen soon discovered that there was another additional benefit of doing so, that is, it would not

If someone is looking for trouble, even if it is a Ming navy ship, if it sees a ship flying a double-color flag, it will take the initiative to keep a distance.

Hao Qing was working on the Qiantang River, so he naturally understood how powerful the two-color flag was as a deterrent. There was a water bandit boss who didn't believe in this evil and robbed a sailboat with the two-color flag on the river, but he was really unlucky.

Well, the owner of this ship is really an agent who has a direct trade relationship with Haihan. They knew that it would be useless to report it to the Hangzhou government, so they directly reported the matter to Zhoushan. It is said that they paid for it in Haihan.

I bought an insurance policy there that would compensate for any accidents, and I also hoped that the Haihan people would stand up for justice. The response from Haihan was quite straightforward. In addition to compensating the agent's losses, they also offered a reward of 10,000 taels of silver to the water bandit.

The news about the boss’s head had only spread within seven days before someone took his head to Ningbo Mansion to collect the money. After that, no one in the world dared to attack the sailboat with the two-color flag. After all, no one could

I don’t know if I can still spend this money if I have a life to earn it. The best way is not to cause this trouble.

At the beginning, Hao Qing also thought about becoming an agent, but he had no government background and limited capital on hand. Even if he had someone with a ship, he still did not meet the threshold standard. But when he thinks about it now, if he had a quick mind at that time,

Some people take the initiative to do some business in Hangzhou, find a high-ranking official to support them, and then go to Zhoushan Island to get agent qualifications. Maybe they have already become rich by this time, and they will not be like the watchdogs they are now.

Time is fate, and Hao Qing has nothing to complain about except lamenting his bad luck. It is only right to settle the matters in front of him first. But he walked to two docks, but he did not see his brothers.

, I thought to myself that it had only been half a month since I showed up at the dock. Could it be that these bastards just ran away without making a sound?

Hao Qing also knows that it is not easy for his group of people to work hard at the dock, so after receiving the salary from Li Song every month, he will send part of it to the dock to support them. And Hao Qing did not forget to promise them that as long as

When the right time comes, they will definitely make a comeback and share the wealth, so these people will stay at the dock by the Qiantang River with peace of mind, waiting for the opportunity that Hao Qing said.

Hao Qing walked along the river for a long time, and finally saw a few of them on another pier five or six miles away from Hangzhou City. Hao Qing called these people aside and asked, and then he found out

In the days when he didn't show up, there were indeed some emergencies. And under Li Song's strict order, his residence in the city was not informed to these subordinates, so he could not be notified in time if something happened here.

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The first thing that happened was that his group of men had a conflict with another group of workers because of competition for dock business. Sporadic verbal conflicts gradually developed into friction, and finally turned into a fight one evening. And Hao Qing's men

This group of people suffered heavy losses in the fight, and several of their hands and feet were broken. In the end, they were expelled from the dock where they originally took the job.

Hao Qing couldn't help but ask: "You are all very skilled, how could you lose in this kind of dock brawl? Could it be that the other party sent some powerful people?"

He believed that the group of men who stayed outside Hangzhou were all powerful people. They could kill people and steal goods. There was no reason why they couldn't defeat ordinary dock workers. The answers he received next made him dumbfounded.

It turned out that another group of workers who had a conflict with them had a background. It only took a moment that day to transfer a large number of people from other docks and directly block them on the dock. Although they

There were some means, but it was hard to beat four hands with two fists. Hundreds of people attacked them. The resistance measures they could take only lasted for a moment, and then they were dispersed. They didn't even dare to use hidden weapons.

Take it out and use it. In retrospect, maybe the other party has figured out their details a long time ago and is just waiting for such an opportunity to take action and drive away their competitors.

So they had no choice but to leave their original territory and come to the riverside farther away from Hangzhou to pick up work. During this period, they encountered a second incident. A maritime businessman recruited experienced sailors with generous rewards to follow them.

The ship disembarked in Nanyang, and promised that they could choose to disembark in Haihan country to apply for immigration when they returned. So some of them could not resist the temptation, so they packed up and left. After all, the remuneration they offered was better than that of working as a dock laborer.

That’s more than ten times more, not to mention the opportunity to become a Haihan citizen in the future.

How rich the Haihan people are? Even if they have never seen it with their own eyes, those who work on the docks have heard rumors. Those maritime merchants who have been to the Haihan Kingdom all describe the place as a fairyland on earth.

Generally speaking, everyone lives a life without worries about food and clothing. This is not only attractive to ordinary people. Even among Hao Qing's group of anonymous desperadoes, there are still people who yearn for a stable life. If you don't have to work hard,

There is a chance to get this kind of life, so why not try to fight for it? It is better to go to Nanyang with the ship and at least have a glimmer of hope than to be chased around here like a lost dog.

After hearing this, Hao Qing felt helpless. Although it seemed a bit unloyal to do so, if he were asked to stand in the same position and take this multiple-choice question, it would be difficult for him to guarantee that he was willing to stay in Hangzhou to compete for a place that could not be seen.

In addition to sighing that "everyone has his own ambitions", he really couldn't complain about his subordinates who had made other choices.

After leaving a group of people, there are only fifteen people left in Hangzhou. Among them, there are six injured who have broken muscles and bones and can only rest temporarily and cannot go out to do work, so Hao Qing can use the manpower dispatched by Hao Qing.

, there are only nine people.
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