sbdcsierra Chapter 1834 Song Da proposes planting ginseng
Chapter 1834 Song Da proposes planting ginseng
Chapter 1834 Song Da proposes planting ginseng
It's clear that these three Song bosses are no ordinary middlemen; both the two generations of leaders of the Shao family gang and the landlord Wu Baoguo hold them in high regard.
At this moment, Boss Song spoke, immediately setting a high profile.
When he mentioned that something important had happened, the heads of the four families—Shao, Wu, Zhang, and Sun—all showed great interest.
Wu Baoguo immediately invited the three Song brothers and members of various gangs to a small gathering on the second floor.
By this time, Zhao Jun still hadn't met the leaders of the Zhang and Sun gangs. Seeing the four old gang leaders exchanging pleasantries with the three Song brothers, Zhao Jun didn't move forward too much, but instead followed them to the second floor where the gathering had taken place the day before.
After everyone was seated, the Zhang and Sun families took a moment to nod to Zhao Jun in greeting. Zhao Jun smiled and nodded in response. Then Wu Baoguo asked the Song family patriarch, "Boss Song, you all came from Jiaohe, right?"
"Huh?" Zhao Jun was taken aback by Wu Baoguo's words. Jiaohe was not far from Yong'an Forest Area, and he had been quite a big shot in the ginseng industry in his previous life. How come he didn't recognize these three people?
"No." The eldest son of the Song family held his teacup and smiled. "My two brothers and I arrived in Dunhua first. After arriving at Chief Sun's house, we went to Shulan to meet Chief Zhang."
Upon hearing this, Wu Baoguo turned to look at the old leader of the Zhang family gang and asked, "Old Zhang, what's wrong with you? Why do you need someone to greet you?"
At this moment, Shao Tianpeng gently nudged Zhao Jun, who understood and leaned closer to hear Shao Tianpeng whisper, "Old Zhang is from Xin'an in Liaoning Province, his name is Zhang Fuyou. Old Sun is from Dunhua, his name is Sun Dagu."
No sooner had Shao Tianpeng finished speaking than Zhang Fuyou exclaimed, "Oh my god, Lao Wu, don't even mention it! What's all this chaos over here?"
"What's wrong?" Wu Baoguo asked in surprise. "Why is it so chaotic here? What are you talking about, Lao Zhang?"
“What do you think I’m talking about?” Zhang Fuyou said, “We should have arrived yesterday, but then… that place is called Shulan. We hadn’t gone far out of the city when twenty or thirty people blocked our way.”
"Huh?" Wu Baoguo didn't react for a moment and blurted out, "Who blocked you? What are they doing blocking you?"
"Why are you blocking our way?" Zhang Fuyou said irritably, "To rob us!"
Hearing this, the members of the Zhao family gang exchanged glances. At that moment, Wu Baoguo asked, "So you had someone rob you?"
"No," Zhang Fuyou said. "I saw something was wrong as soon as I saw people jumping out of the woods, so I quickly told Lian Cheng to drive the car around and run back."
At this point, Zhang Fuyou gestured with his hand and said, "I told Liancheng not to care who tried to stop him, just keep charging forward, and that's how he managed to escape!"
"Oh my god!" Upon hearing this, Wu Baoguo subconsciously looked at Shao Tianpeng and said, "Old Shao, is it this chaotic over where you are now?"
“I don’t know,” Shao Tianpeng said. “We didn’t go that way before we came.”
“Yeah!” As soon as Shao Tianpeng finished speaking, Zhang Fuyou chimed in, “After we went back to Shulan, I asked your village for a phone number. Your daughter-in-law answered and said you had all left. Only then did I find Lao Sun.”
Before Shao Tianpeng could respond after Zhang Fuyou finished speaking, Sun Dagu said, "Shulan used to be quite peaceful. Why has it become so strange lately?"
Upon hearing Sun Dagu's words, Zhang Fuyou said, "I heard from the guesthouse owner that these people are not from Shulan; they are all migrants from other places."
Upon hearing Zhang Fuyou's words, the seven members of the Zhao family gang, including Zhao Jun, all lowered their heads. This group had originally robbed people north of Xie Chen's house, but were later stabbed several times by Xing San and taken to Shulan.
“Ah, I was just saying,” Wu Baoguo replied, “I go to Shulan several times every year, and I feel it’s quite peaceful.”
“Peaceful what?” Zhang Fuyou frowned and retorted, “I also heard them say that in Shulan, there’s a tough guy called something like Third Uncle, that guy killed more than ten people in one battle!”
Hearing Zhang Fuyou's words, Zhao Jun and the others looked up, wanting to say a few words in defense of Xing San, when Wu Baoguo said, "Who is this guy? He's so fierce!"
"Ouch." Zhang Fuyou grimaced and said, "I heard that more than ten people were stabbed to death, and several others were injured."
Zhao Jun's lips moved slightly, and he was about to interject when he saw the eldest son of the Song family say with a wry smile, "Chief Zhang, if you had told me about this situation earlier, I wouldn't have dared to come and pick you up."
Everyone burst into laughter. Zhang Fuyou laughed and said, "Boss Song, look, after you picked me up, we didn't run into any robbers, did we? Besides, you came with ten or so guns, who are we afraid of? Right? Hahaha..."
Zhang Fuyou was quite amused, but before he could finish laughing, Shao Tianpeng poured cold water on his enthusiasm, saying, "Old Zhang, you didn't run into him before you came. What are you going to do when you get back?"
Zhang Fuyou's smile froze instantly, and he murmured, "Go...go back..."
As he spoke, Zhang Fuyou looked at Sun Dagu and the Song brothers. But when he looked over, the Sun family members and the three Song brothers all inadvertently turned their heads away.
They weren't afraid of those rabble of highway robbers, but they were afraid of the legendary Third Master.
Who is this guy? You might get a beating if you run into a robber, but you might lose your life if you run into this guy. All of us gang leaders here are seasoned veterans, but we've never seen anyone this ruthless in all these years!
If they had known earlier that there was such a ruthless person in Shulan Road, the Song brothers and the Sun family gang would never have gone to pick up Zhang Fuyou.
Despite his age, Zhang Fuyou is a very honest and simple man. He never expected that after he revealed the perilous situation around Shulan, the Song brothers and the Sun family members would start to resent him.
"Huh?" Suddenly, Song San seemed to remember something. After glancing at Zhao Jun, he whispered a couple of words in Song Da's ear.
Upon hearing this, Song Da looked at Zhao Jun with surprise and then asked, "Chief Zhao, I heard from the roadside that the big boss of Beijing bought a sapling of wooden dragon and a sapling of white dragon from you because his men robbed the wooden dragon after they bought it, is that right?"
"Hehe..." Zhao Jun chuckled upon hearing this, and asked in return, "Which sect spread this rumor?"
"Huh?" Song Da was taken aback, then laughed, "Such a big thing, how could we not spread the word in our industry?"
The original reward of 100,000 yuan had already shaken the entire Fangshanxing business. In the end, it was said that a big boss from Beijing spent 200,000 yuan to acquire a seedling of a dragon tree and a seedling of a white dragon tree. How could Fangshanxing not investigate the inside story?
Hearing Song Da say this, Zhao Jun smiled and nodded, saying, "That's true."
Upon hearing Zhao Jun's admission, Song Da pressed further, "Chief Zhao, I also heard that when the man from the capital returned, it was you who saw him off at the plane?"
"Yes." Zhao Jun nodded again, and then Song Da asked, "I heard that you encountered robbers when you were escorting him?"
"Hmm?" Zhao Jun nodded again, but then Zhang Fuyou interjected, "Zhao, so you weren't robbed?"
"No." As Zhao Jun shook his head, he noticed all the gang leaders staring at him. Without waiting for further questions, he laughed and explained, "We have more people and more guns. Once we show our weapons, the robbers run away, hehe..."
Zhao Jun spoke casually, but Sun Dagu, who was standing next to him, asked, "Did you run into that guy called Third Uncle?"
"No." Zhao Jun shook his head and laughed, "That third uncle isn't a robber."
"He's not a highway robber, is he?" Hearing Zhao Jun say this, Zhang Fuyou and the others were finally relieved.
Just as Zhao Jun was about to explain that Xing San hadn't stabbed that many people, Song Da asked him, "Chief Zhao, are you a professional escort?"
There used to be a profession called "escort agency," now it's called "escort service," but very few people do this job now.
After the fall of the Qing Dynasty and the cessation of the hunting and gathering office, the former ginseng farmers and households formed ginseng gangs. These gangs then had the right to manage their own earnings from hunting.
However, the ginseng guild at that time also faced the problem of difficulty in selling its products, which is why the position of ginseng guild manager was created.
Although ginseng gangs did have bodyguards, they were not known for their martial prowess. Furthermore, due to the rarity and value of ginseng, many ginseng gangs at that time established long-term cooperative relationships with the local security escort agencies.
"No, no." Zhao Jun hurriedly waved his hands and shook his head, denying it. "We just happened to be there that day. They said they would deliver it to Changchun for us, and then we would inspect the goods and pay them. Otherwise, we wouldn't have bothered with all that trouble."
Hearing Zhao Jun say this, Song Da leaned forward slightly and asked Zhao Jun, "Chief Zhao, I'd like to ask you, how many guards does your ginseng gang have?"
In Song Da's opinion, if the Zhao family gang didn't have a group of elite soldiers, they wouldn't have been able to repel those twenty or thirty robbers.
At this moment, before Zhao Jun could speak, Shao Tianpeng said, "Boss Song, you don't know, that Third Uncle is Zhao's elder."
As soon as Shao Tianpeng said this, the entire 170-180 meter space on the second floor fell into complete silence; you could hear a pin drop.
Dozens of people watched Zhao Jun silently. The Pang family members who arrived later, especially Pang Zhendong and his son Pang Gaoming, were so frightened that they kept swallowing their saliva.
Previously, when they mentioned how powerful the Third Uncle of Shulan was, the Pang family didn't really care. They thought that if they avoided Shulan altogether, they would never encounter such a powerful person.
But after hearing Shao Tianpeng say this, they realized that the one who stabbed more than a dozen people to death and injured several others was actually Xing San, who had been eating and drinking at Zhao Jun's house every day.
Normally, it wouldn't matter if it was Xing San, but they had caused trouble for Xing San before, which is why they had fought with him.
At this moment, Pang Zhendong looked at Pang Gaoming, and Pang Gaoming also looked at Pang Zhendong. Pang Gaoming, with a pained expression, whispered to Pang Zhendong, "Dad, what do we do? Did I push that old man that day?"
Pang Zhendong pursed his lips. Originally, Pang Zhendong wanted to take revenge on Zhao Jun because of the secret, but at this moment, he had no such thoughts. He just hoped that Zhao Jun and Xing San would not hold it against him.
At this moment, Zhao Jun had no time to pay attention to Pang Zhendong, because Song Dazheng asked him, "Chief Zhao, did your old man really stab so many people to death?"
Zhao Jun was about to explain for Xing San, but Song Da's question gave him the opportunity. Just as he was about to answer, Shao Tianpeng said, "There weren't that many. Last time, Zhao's subordinate said that seven were stabbed to death and six were injured."
Zhao Jun: "..."
Li Ruhai: "..."
Wang Qiang, Zhang Yuanmin, Li Baoyu, Xie Chen, and Zhao Jinhui: "..."
The misunderstanding that arose during our visit to the Shao family was never resolved, and now it has only made things worse.
Zhao Jun opened his mouth, wanting to say that it was fake, but he didn't know where to begin.
At this moment, everyone looked at him differently. A ruthless man who killed seven and wounded six in one battle was a rare sight after 49.
In an instant, whether it was the several ginseng leaders, the three Song brothers, or even Pang Zhendong and Pang Gaoming, they all made up their minds that they must not become enemies with the Zhao family gang.
The dozens of people in the room remained silent, the atmosphere instantly freezing. Wu Baoguo, the host, gave a dry laugh and asked Song Da and the others, "Boss Song, Lao Zhang, Lao Sun, have you had lunch yet?"
“We’ve eaten, Chief Wu.” Song Dadao: “We ate in town before we came here.”
"Then why don't you come eat here?" Wu Baoguo said, "I have everything here, it's all ready-made."
“No, Lao Wu,” Zhang Fuyou replied, “Boss Song said he was afraid of causing you trouble.”
"Oh dear, what trouble is there?" Wu Baoguo looked at Song Da and said with a smile, "Boss Song, you're too kind."
"Hehe..." Song Da laughed and said, "It's not just being polite, Wu. Why? We said we weren't coming at first, but then we suddenly showed up, and we were afraid you weren't prepared."
Upon hearing Song Dayi's words, Wu Baoguo followed up by saying, "By the way, Mr. Song, did you say back then that you had something important to tell us?"
"Ah, yes," Song Da responded, then looked around at the other ginseng gang leaders. When he met Zhao Jun's gaze, Song Da nodded politely, but he did not do so to the other leaders.
After looking around, Song Da said, "All of you foremen are capable people in the ginseng industry. We all know that in recent years, the Ji'an government has been cultivating forest ginseng in the area where Foremen Zhang's family lives, right?"
Upon hearing Song Da's words, the members of each gang remained expressionless, except for Wang Qiang and his six comrades from the Zhao family gang, who looked at each other in bewilderment.
This is the difference in background. Before they joined Zhao Jun, the six of them had barely seen a club, so how would they know what ginseng grown in the forest was?
But they lack depth and substance; they have depth and substance in their heads.
Zhao Jun remained calm upon hearing this, knowing that the forest ginseng Song Da mentioned was artificially cultivated.
At this point, Song Da continued, "Recently, the technology for cultivating ginseng under forest cover has reached its third generation, and I heard that the cultivation area is going to expand to our Fusong area."
Hearing Song Da's words, Wu Baoguo, a local resident of Fusong, looked completely bewildered.
The other leaders also looked bewildered, because they had never been involved in this business before.
Zhao Jun's composure was different from theirs, because he knew that the third-generation forest ginseng cultivation technology would not be officially applied to various artificial cultivation areas until 90 years later.
He didn't know what kind of medicine Song Da was selling, but then he heard Song Da say, "I have this technology now, and I want to cooperate with you all. Since you've all been in the forest area for many years and have been involved with ginseng, I'd like you to grow it, and I'll buy it. What do you all think?"
(End of this chapter)