Gu Chang walked into the restaurant with great strides. A waiter had already come up to greet him and bowed diligently.

"Person Gu, are you here?"

Gu Chang nodded and walked straight upstairs. He was a regular customer here, so he was familiar with the door and the road. He went upstairs, walked along the corridor to a private room on the sea, and pushed the door straight into.

There were a few big men sitting around the house. When they saw Gu Chang walking in, they all stood up together, bent down and saluted: "Brother Gu."

"My brothers have been waiting for a long time, please sit down." Gu Chang smiled and clasped his fists to return the salute.

Gu Chang was the escort of the Navy Yamen, who was in charge of the logistics affairs of the Navy Yamen. Although his reputation was not obvious, he was actually in a position of forcing. He was a close confidant of Pan Motang. He was injured in his early years and could not fight. Even the sea was bumpy. However, like Pan Motang, he had also studied, so after Pan Motang defected to Li Ze, he took on this position.

After a few years, he did not disappoint Li Ze's expectations and helped Pan Motang manage the navy in an orderly manner. However, the people who met him here parted ways with Pan Motang a few years ago and still became a pirate several capable subordinates of Pan Motang.

When he was a pirate, Gu Chang could only be regarded as a documentary, of course it was not in the eyes of these people. However, as time went by, Gu Chang got ashore and became the person these people asked for.

Feng Shui takes turns, thirty years from Hedong to Hexi, and thirty years from Hedong to Hexi, the vicissitudes of the world are nothing more than this.

"Brother Gu, thanks to your care over the past year, our brothers have opened up another way of wealth." A strong man with a big beard pushed a package to Gu Chang. "It's easier to attack those islands and rob the people there and sell them than to rob merchant ships at sea. There are more and more sea ships now, in groups, and business is not easy. We are not easy to do with the sea ships with the Tang Dynasty flag, for fear of angering the great leader to come and trouble us."

Gu Chang smiled, looked at the other party, and said, "What are you doing? Every time you did it, you gave me a tap, and I didn't do anything, but I just contacted some buyers for you."

He pushed the package back calmly: "I dare not receive any reward without merit."

The bearded man pushed the bag back again and untied it. Looking at the things inside, Gu Chang couldn't help but change his expression: "Brother, what does this mean?"

"Brother Gu, when you were at sea, we knew that we had no savings. When we got ashore, we only had a few salary. You were asking for a wife, buying a yard, and buying some land shops. Life was very tight. Yesterday, I got to my sister-in-law on the street, and there were not even a few decent jewelry pieces! These things are the little things about our brothers. Just think that we came to have a wedding banquet when you got married! Everyone said?" The bearded man said with a haha.

Gu Chang smiled and tied the bag back again, looking at the bearded man and said, "Brother, when I was still at sea, I was in charge of documents and sometimes money. You all know that I am a cautious person, and I definitely dare not accept this gift. If you have something to do, you will talk about it. As long as I can help, you will naturally help. After all, we have been drifting on the sea together for so many years, and the incense will always be no less."

"Okay, Brother Gu is a cheerful person and a person who values ​​friendship. Then I will just say it." The bearded man looked at Gu Chang and said, "I think you know that our business is not easy now."

"Why is it difficult to do? It should be better to do it. In the past, I had to be sneaky, but now I can trade openly!" Gu Chang said: "The court's taxation is equivalent to acquiesce to this matter!"

"The tax is too heavy." The bearded man sighed: "Because the tax is too heavy, some of the intermediaries that Brother Gu contacted us in the past not only reduced the purchase volume, but also severely suppressed our price, saying that they also had to pay taxes. In this way, the brothers would not make much money, it was just a little hard-earned money."

Gu Chang thought for a moment and said, "But I have no way to help my eldest brother solve this problem!"

The bearded man smiled and said, "Brother Gu, you have it!"

"What can I do?" Gu Chang was stunned.

"Brother Gu, you are the entourage in the Navy's yamen. The logistics equipment of the Navy is controlled by you, shipyards and docks are controlled by you." The bearded man lowered his voice: "As long as Brother Gu lets us deliver the ship in the future, you can park in your Navy's shipyard or dock, and deliver the goods there. The person who receives the goods can pretend to be the Navy's supplies, wouldn't he be able to avoid this heavy tax?"

Gu Chang suddenly changed color and stood up: "Brother, are you trying to harm me?"

"How can this harm you?" The bearded man smiled and said, "For you, this is not a trivial matter. If you raise your hand, your brothers will pass by. If your brothers make a fortune, how can you forget Brother Gu, you?"

Gu Chang shook his head slowly and said, "Brother, I have settled down in the past few years since I got ashore. Although I have not made much money, I can be regarded as having a family, a house, a wife and a baby. You don't know the power of the Tang Dynasty's laws, and I don't know the power of the inner guards, Yixing Society, and the supervisors under Li Xiang's rule. I have a deep understanding of the power of the Imperial Palace, Yixing Society, and the Censor. Sorry, I can't do this, and I don't want the family to be sent to the Western Regions."

Leaving these words, Gu Chang turned around, walked out, walked to the door, turned around, looked at the people in the room and said, "Brother, I advise you not to have such an idea. If you still want to do business in Haixing, be honestly abide by the law here."

Seeing Gu Chang leaving without looking back, the few people in the room looked at each other and sat down after a while. If Gu Chang refused to agree to this, they had no choice.

"Otherwise, I will take someone to tie his wife and son, and I will not be afraid that he will not submit." A thin man said viciously: "When I was at the sea, I saw us so little. Now I have shaken up and I don't have any feelings."

"At that time, you could easily throw him into the sea and drown him at any time. Can you do it now?" the bearded man sneered.

"I can still kill him easily now!" the thin man snorted coldly.

"Forget it, Gu Chang is an important figure in the Navy's Office now. If something happens to him, we can't get it." The bearded man shook his head and said, "You old man Pan, you really want to anger him. We really have no choice but to mess up on the sea. The previous few times you came, you didn't see their navy warships, so how could we compare to it."

"What should I do next?"

"Let's have another way. Thank you for your hard work and money. Make money like this first. Let's talk about it when you find another way!" The bearded man raised his glass of wine with some depression: "This Gu Chang left like this if he didn't even drink a glass of wine. It seems that he won't have to contact him again in the future. He will not see us again."

Several people sighed and the bearded man stood up and prepared to close the door. The big table of banquets cost a lot. If Gu Chang didn't eat them, they still wanted to eat them so as not to waste it.

As soon as he walked to the door, a door next to him suddenly opened. A man who looked like a shopkeeper walked over and bowed with fists: "Zeng Dazhuo, you are polite."

The bearded man narrowed his eyes and looked at the other person vigilantly. However, one hand made several gestures behind his back. The few people in the room had already touched their hands to their waists.

"Who are you? How do you know me?" asked the bearded man.

"I'm also going to take the sea to ask for food. If I haven't even heard of Zeng Shou and Zeng's boss's name, how can I stay at sea? Zeng's boss's boss, can I come in and have a detailed discussion with you?" The man who looked like a shopkeeper bowed and smiled.

After looking at the other party for a while, Zeng Shou laughed and said, "So you have been waiting for us brothers here for a long time, right?"

"Yes, some people want to see Zeng Dazhuan, but the one who is the dragon who sees the head but not the tail is difficult to find. Later, I finally found that Zeng Dazhuan often appears here, so I booked such a plan to wait for the rabbit. I will not hide it from the boss. I have been here and I have been here for a whole month."

"Dare you ask me about your surname?"

"I dare not let my surname be exempted."

"Shopkeeper He, please come in there!" Zeng Shou turned sideways and gave in.

Manager He strode in without fear at all, and sat down in a few pairs of eyes staring fiercely at him.

Zeng Shou closed the door, sat opposite him, and said, "Shopkeeper He, I wonder who wants to see me? It would cost such a big week?"

Manager He smiled and looked at Zeng Shou and said, "It seems that you have a very unpleasant conversation with Master Gu? The talk has collapsed?"

Zeng Shoulai said with consent, "I can't say it, but he is timid and can't do some things in the future."

"Yes, the slave business is indeed not very profitable under Li Ze's current policy." Manager He smiled.

"Whose person are you?" Zeng Shou was a little surprised. When he heard Manager He's tone, this guy was naturally not from Wuyi.

"I'm sure that the boss Zeng Dazhuan is the one from Lingnan." Manager He smiled and said, "The one who wants to have a good talk with the boss is the young commander Xiang Zhen of Lingnan."

"He, what do he want to see me?"

Manager He smiled and said, "What do you think when I saw Gu Chang's majesty today?"

Zeng Shou suddenly fell down.

"It's not to be hiding Zeng Dazhu's family. Our Lingnan is now working hard to expand the navy. A great expert like Zeng Dazhu's family is the talent of our young marshal whom we have been thinking about day and night. As long as Zeng Dazhu's family is willing to go there, our young marshal will definitely be more important."

"How can you vote here?" Zeng Shou smiled: "You want to bully us for a long time on the sea. Don't you know who is stronger and who is weak?"
Chapter completed!