Chapter 129 The three brothers of the Xing Kun and Zhang families can be said to be the representative figures of the middle and lower classes in the green forest of Taiyuan Mansion, and they are not even as good as Sun Hong, the "mustache" when he was still in Shanxi before.Their own strength is average, their martial arts are not in the stream or at most third-rate, and they do some work that cannot be put on the table, whether it is in the rivers and lakes or in the green forest, they have no status.People in the righteous path see them as thieves, and in the eyes of the green forest or evil bosses, they are also small people who can be sacrificed and used at any time.Of course, Wang Ge didn't expect to be able to do anything with them, but just like in Qingzhou City, these middle- and lower-class people, as a contact point, will produce qualitative changes when the base reaches a certain level.At least at this time in Shanxi, through people in the green forest like his Zhang brothers, it is the best way for him to cut in at a low cost.Wang Ge asked the Zhang brothers to return to their original village, there was no need to escape, the Qi family was now either scattered and ran for their lives, or they were uprooted and completely destroyed, it was impossible to have the ability and strength to take revenge on a little person like them.Even the Qi family, who knew that they participated in the second attack on Master Guo, and whether there were any alive or not, was unknown.And Wang Ge's first task to the three brothers of the Zhang family was to ask them to find those people in the middle and lower green forests who were controlled by the Qi family before, and after the Qi family was destroyed, they were afraid of being implicated by the government, and Wang Ge could provide them with shelter.At the same time, I also went to find out what the righteous sects and martial arts families that were related to the Qi family, and when Guo Xiuzhu began to officially deal with the Qi family-related cases, he had many ways to take the opportunity to let those sects and families cooperate with him.After subduing the Zhang brothers, Wang Ge and Sun Hong continued to Taiyuan.Although he got Dao Yan's consent this time and let him be in charge of Shanxi's intelligence spy affairs, he didn't actually give him too many resources, and only gave him a way to contact the liaison of the Yanwang secret agent in Shanxi.Wang Ge knew that if he went to the liaison person and wanted to receive the secret agents and intelligence resources of the Yanwang family in Shanxi first, with the old monk's vague explanation, he would definitely still have to be ridiculous.And the purpose of his coming to Shanxi was not originally for the existing intelligence resources of the Yan Wang family.So after entering Taiyuan City, Wang Ge did not go to find a contact, but asked Sun Hong to help him contact the local beggar helmsman.Sun Hong, who has been mixed in Shanxi for many years, is naturally no stranger to Xing Kun, the helmsman of the world's largest gang of beggars in Taiyuan Mansion and a first-class master ranked one hundred and seventy-seven on the land list.But he didn't quite understand why Wang Ge was looking for Xing Kun, who was not a good person.In fact, Wang Ge didn't tell him his true identity, and even Zhong Erniu, Liang Bowei, and even the more intimate Xiao Bailong and Nanxiang didn't know, let alone him.From the beginning when he was just coerced by Wang Ge into serving him as a subordinate in Taiyuan, Sun Hong has always thought that he is a person like Jinyiwei who works for the imperial court, and there are bigger bigwigs behind him, and even a huge force.During the period of time after being held hostage to Qingzhou by the three demons of the Five Holy Sects, he was even more convinced of his guess.Wang Ge also told him that he came to Shanxi this time to establish an intelligence network, but he did not say how to get it.It's okay to subdue the three brothers of the Zhang family, but after all, they will be crushed by direct force, and they can't be convinced.But Xing Kun?
Wang Ge obviously didn't know the helmsman of Taiyuan Mansion of the beggar gang before, but he wanted to contact him, what the hell was this for?
Sun Hong, who has some understanding of Xing Kun's personality and style, couldn't help but remind: "Big brother, this Xing Helm Master, it is said that his temper is not very good, he is violent by nature, greedy for money and profit, and it is extremely difficult to deal with. ”Wang Ge wanted to contact Xing Kun, naturally it was not a decision made by a stroke of his mind, but he also understood Sun Hong's doubts, and after thinking about it, he decided to explain to him first, so that he could have a little bottom in his heart, so as not to be flustered when doing things."
If you talk about the most well-informed gang on the Daming River, which one do you think?"
Wang Ge asked.Because he was talking about the beggar gang just now, Sun Hong almost subconsciously replied: "The beggar gang?
”Wang Ge shook his finger: "Wrong, the beggar gang can't even enter the top five." ”Xing Kun was a little surprised, with the scale of the largest gang in the world, the number of terrifying low-level gangs, and the number of rudders all over the world, it stands to reason that even if it is not the most well-informed gang, it should be ranked in the top three."
Don't look at the beggars' big business and the appearance of many people, in fact, the general rudder has no great binding force on the people below who divide the rudder and the altar.Perhaps in some places, because there are many people and rooted in the bottom, the beggars can get all kinds of market news, but no one coordinates and sorts them out, and there is no way to communicate with each other in a timely manner, and the fluidity and timeliness of the news are poor.The overall well-informed is far inferior to those gangs that have more control over the rudder. ”Wang Ge himself has done intelligence collection work in Qingzhou for several years, and has built a complete set of intelligence systems, and he knows very well how difficult it is to make the people below have subjective initiative and awareness of intelligence collection.And how much energy and wisdom is needed to sort out a large amount of messy and chaotic information and get useful information.Wang Ge is naturally well-informed in Qingzhou, and his sources are extremely rich, but once he leaves Qingzhou City, even if it is only in other states and counties in Qingzhou Prefecture, his intelligence gathering ability will be immediately reduced by several levels, and many times, he can only rely on the "Drunken Immortal Building" to inquire about the information he needs.It wasn't until the old monk sent Shen Ping to Qingzhou and let him master the secret agent and intelligence system of the Yan Wang system in Shandong that this situation changed.The beggar gang is not a gang whose main purpose is to listen to news, the people below are all for their own interests, and the informal gang members needless to say, they simply don't want to be bullied and have to join, they have to be driven and exploited, and there is no sense of belonging at all.Even if it is a formal gang, many times what they do is actually no different from other gangs that are mixed in the market, and most of the names of the beggars are just borrowed names, and the control of the general helm over the rudder below is only nominal, and the beggar gang is sometimes more like an "industry alliance".In this case, in addition to the news directly related to the beggar gang, other news, even if it is very valuable, those who hear it by chance may not be aware of it, and if they do, they may not report it to the local person in charge, and they may not notify the rudder or helm of the beggar gang in other places.And although nominally as long as there are beggars, there are beggars.But in fact, the influence of the beggars in various places is very different.The strength of the rudder of the beggar gang depends more on the strength and means of each rudder owner.Like in Qingzhou City, there are also beggars, and there are also beggars' Qingzhou Mansion rudder, but that influence is not to mention compared with Wang Ge's "brotherhood", but it is far from comparable to local gangs such as the Fire Gang and Zhaoxingtang.If Wang Ge has a need, he will give an order, and the helmsman who will help the Qingzhou rudder will do things well.However, the rudder of the beggar gang in Taiyuan Mansion is the more powerful one among the many rudder branches of the entire beggar gang.The reason for this is naturally related to the personal ability of Xing Kun, the master of the rudder.Not only is he a first-class master on the top of the list, but he also has a number of brothers who have been born and died, all of whom are second-rate or third-rate masters.Although he is nominally a beggar, he is involved in a variety of businesses, and in fact he controls a very large industry, which can be said to be rich and powerful.In the entire Taiyuan Mansion, Xing Kun's control over the beggar gangs and ordinary beggars under him is far stronger than that of most of the beggar gang rudders, and naturally, the beggar gangs in Taiyuan have a much stronger ability to collect information than other rudders.If you want to establish Shanxi's intelligence network, it is the most direct and effective to start with the core place of Taiyuan Mansion, and the news network of Taiyuan Mansion is the easiest and most convenient to use directly with the beggars to help Taiyuan rudder.As long as the rudder master Xing Kun is dealt with, the beggar gang Taiyuan rudder will naturally be in his control.Before Wang Ge came to Shanxi, he had naturally already investigated and had a plan in mind, so naturally he would not really come over directly and recklessly, wanting to turn into an intelligence network out of thin air.Wang Ge did not analyze too many things that were too complicated and too detailed for Sun Hong, and directly said his judgment: "The beggar gang may be well-informed in Taiyuan, but looking at the entire rivers and lakes and even the entire Ming Dynasty, it is far from being well-informed.This means that most of their vision is limited to Taiyuan, and they can't see the whole situation.Xing Kun, as you said, is greedy for profit, selfish and tyrannical, but this kind of person also has a characteristic, when facing an existence far stronger than him, he will not have the courage to resist. ”"Far more powerful existence......
Sun Hong muttered to himself, he originally thought that Xing Kun is a first-class master, and there are also masters under his hands, and there are many people.But soon, Sun Hong reacted that Wang Ge was not representing himself!
What's behind Wang Ge?
Although he had never said it to him explicitly, Sun Hong judged from some words and various clues that he had been observing all along, and he concluded that Wang Ge must be a member of the imperial court!
Yes, Xing Kun is no longer a cow in Taiyuan, and no matter how many people there are in the beggar gang, can he compare to the Ming court?
Can it be compared to Jinyiwei?!
Sun Hong's heart suddenly settled, and he asked carefully: "Big brother, then what name am I using, about Xing Kun?"
Shall we come to him, or should we let him come to us?
”"Didn't we have three silver ingots of twenty taels in our luggage?
You give it to him, and you don't have to say anything else, and he will naturally come to us. ”Wang Ge said.Sun Hong was a little puzzled, Xing Kun would come to them if he sent a piece of silver?
Although this Xing Kun is from the Beggar Gang, he is the helmsman of the Beggar Gang, and he is actually very rich, what does it mean to send a silver ingot?
But when he took out the silver ingot from his luggage and looked at it carefully, he immediately understood what Wang Ge meant—the words engraved on the silver ingot indicated that it was an official silver from the emperor's inner treasury!
The imperial court obtained various incomes, and needed to be minted into official silver to facilitate storage, and each ingot of official silver was engraved with the name of the minted silver bureau, and the obvious official silver symbol.The official silver is mainly used to pay military salaries, official salaries, disaster relief, construction, etc., according to the provisions of the law, this official silver cannot be used indiscriminately, and it must be melted into broken silver first.And the use of the official silver in the treasury is even less, and there are not many people who can get it, and even fewer who dare to use it.This inner treasury official silver came out, and it was already obvious that he had hinted at Xing Kun's identity.It was indeed as expected by Wang Ge that after Sun Hong sent the silver out, that night, Xing Kun directly visited the inn where they lived.Xing Kun looks like he is in his thirties, tall, dignified, and wears a silk shirt, looking more like a rich son than a character in the rivers and lakes, let alone a member of the beggar gang.Xing Kun left his entourage outside the inn and entered the room alone, and after seeing Wang Ge, he asked very respectfully, "Dare to ask what your lord is called?"
”This surprised Sun Hong, who stayed in the room.Even if he got Wang Ge's hint and knew that he might be Jinyiwei's person, he didn't tremble like Xing Kun.In comparison, Xing Kun is the helmsman of the beggar gang, a first-class master on the list, and he is also famous in the rivers and lakes.Sun Hong didn't know that this was precisely because Wang Ge said that the beggar gang in Taiyuan was well-informed in the local area and lacked the news of the overall situation.Not long ago, the ordinary people didn't know much about the fact that Qin Cha came to Taiyuan and sent a holy decree to the King of Jin, and even if they did, they wouldn't think it was strange.However, there are certain local forces, especially those who have some relationship with the Jin Palace, but they all know very well that the emperor's decree reprimanding the King of Jin and the King of Jin may have hidden prohibited things, and this time the matter may not be small.Then there was a series of personnel changes, and the officialdom of the entire Taiyuan was shaken, from top to bottom, a lot of people were replaced, and most of the officials who were transferred away were officials who had a good relationship with the Jin Wangfu on weekdays.The biggest personnel change is undoubtedly the change of command in Shanxi.The change of the official seal of Shanxi's highest military leadership body made many people wonder whether the emperor was really going to be ruthless to the king of Jin.The King of Jin is undoubtedly the king of kings and the hegemon of Taiyuan, and there is no comparison with any kind of power and sect, but compared to His Majesty today, the King of Jin is not enough to see at all, and no one will think that King Jin can really wrestle with the emperor and confront him, everything only depends on the emperor's mind.At the same time, the collapse of the Qi family, the killing of Qi Zhenwu, and the fall of the head into the hands of the trusted Shouyang magistrate have also spread in Taiyuan Mansion on a small scale, and the more well-informed people already know a little bit.Although there is no official information, and Guo Zhixian has not officially investigated the case, the end of the Qi family can be basically confirmed.After receiving the official silver with the seal of the inner library sent by Sun Hong, Xing Kun would naturally send someone to check Wang Ge's details, and then it was easy to find out that this ugly man and bearded man had followed Guo Xiuzhu before, and was the key person for Guo Xiuzhu to escape the Qi family's pursuit and even the final counter-killing.After several contacts, Xing Kun naturally regarded Wang Ge as a big man sent by the imperial court to investigate secretly.