Chapter 59 Chapter Fifty-ninth: The Leader of the Green Gang

In the winter of that year, Li Sibiao led Zhao Guan to the main altar of the Youth Gang to meet with the leader.The two came to the Wuhan General Altar and waited in the inner hall.Not long after, a servant came in and asked: "The master invites Li Siye and Jiang Tan master to enter the inner study to talk." The two followed a servant to the inner study, but saw a bloated old man sitting on a soft couch. When he saw Li Sibiao coming in, he beckoned to let the two aunts help him stand up to meet him. With a smile on his face, he said: : Fourth brother, long time no see, old brother always misses you!Li Sibiao stepped forward to hold the old man's hand, with tears in his eyes, and said with a smile: "Brother is in good health, brother is so happy!"Sit down, sit down.He personally helped the old man to sit back on the soft couch.

Zhao Guan saw that the old man was over eighty years old, his obese body was wrapped under a thick cotton robe, his eye bags were drooping, his face was full of wrinkles, his beard and hair were thin, and he looked old and faint. He thought to himself: This is Chief Zhao. Didn't expect him to be so old.I heard that the fourth master and the gang leader are friends of the president, and the decades of friendship are really extraordinary. Leader Zhao and Li Sibiao sat close to each other, talking about recent events and past events, sometimes sighing, sometimes excited.Leader Zhao was very excited, and he broke out in a sweat while talking.He asked his aunt to take off his heavy robe for him, and asked another aunt to make two bowls of ginseng tea for Li Sibiao and Zhao Guan to drink.Zhao Guan stood up and thanked him.Leader Zhao raised his head and looked towards Zhao Guan, his eyes were bright for a moment, as if the heroic spirit of the past was still there.Zhao Guan couldn't help but tremble: This old man's body is already very weak, and his ambition has not diminished at all.

Li Sibiao said: "Brother, this is Brother Jiang Hejiang, the new leader of the Xin Wutan.Brother, come and meet the leader.Zhao Guan stepped forward to meet.Leader Zhao nodded and said: The waves behind the Yangtze River push the waves ahead.Fourth Master told me about your method of subduing Zhang Wanqing, not bad, not bad.In the future, it will be up to you young people to help the affairs of the Central Committee.Zhao Guan nodded in agreement. Gang leader Zhao talked with Li Sibiao about the situation in the gang.Li Sibiao said: "Brother recently found out that Yiwu Lin Bochao has a lot of ambitions, elder brother must pay more attention."Leader Zhao nodded and said: I know.Lin Bochao and his son joined forces and made it clear that they wanted to compete for the position of leader.I'm afraid that Ding Wu and Ji Wu will follow suit.Li Sibiao said: Ding Wu's Niu Shiqi's intentions are unknown; Jiwu has recently had civil strife, so he should not intervene.The brothers are only worried that Nian Dawei of Bingwu will support Lin Bochao, which is tricky.Leader Zhao heard this, with a serious expression on his face, and he stroked his beard without saying a word.

After Zhao Guan joined the gang, he already learned some inside information about the gang.The gang leader Zhao Zixiang has been on the throne for more than 30 years, he is old, and his restraint on his subordinates is weakening day by day.Among the ten altars, Jiawu, Yiwu, and Bingwu are the most powerful. Among them, only Li Sibiao of Jiawu altar fully supports Zhao Zixiang, while Lin Bochao and Nian Dawei of the other two altars are independent.Ding Wu, Wu Wu, and Ji Wu are the next most powerful altars. Except Wu Changsheng, the leader of Wu Wu altar, who is Zhao Zixiang's confidant, the other two altars are only superficially loyal to the gang leader.The Geng Wu altar master is Lin Xiaochao, the son of Yi Wu altar master Lin Bochao; after Zhao Guan took over as the altar master, Xin Wu became Li Sibiao's man.The other two altars, Renwu and Guiwu, are relatively small. Although they are loyal to the leader Zhao, they have little strength.Zhao Guan had seen the situation of fighting among four gangs in Baihuamen, and thought: All gangs will inevitably fight among themselves, it's the same thing.

Leader Zhao sighed, shook his head and said: I am old, and they love to fight for the position of leader, so let them give it to them.Li Sibiao had never seen the gang leader so depressed and dared not speak up.Leader Zhao raised his head in thought for a while, and then said: Fourth brother, do you remember when there was a change in the youth gang and your elder brother became the leader of the gang? Li Sibiao said: Yes, brother remember.Leader Zhao said: If Young Master Cheng hadn't insisted on stepping down, how could I have been the leader of the Green Gang?Your elder brother has been the leader of the gang for so many years, at this moment, I only hope that Young Master Cheng will come back and preside over the overall situation of the gang.

Zhao Guan thought to himself: Master Cheng?Did they say he was an uncle?Uncle Cheng once said that his father, or maybe my grandfather's, was once the head of the Green Gang. It turns out that Uncle Zhao gave up the position of Gang Leader Zhao to him.Then I thought: Uncle Cheng is used to wandering around the rivers and lakes, so how could he come to be the leader of this gang? Guo heard Li Sibiao say: "Brother, Young Master Cheng has wandered around the world, he was unwilling to take over the position of leader of the clan back then, and now he is even less likely to intervene in the affairs of the clan."Why didn't big brother decide on the successor of the gang leader earlier?Once the successor is selected, Lin Bochao and the others dare not act rashly.

Leader Zhao shook his head and said: Things are not that easy.As soon as the heir is elected, Lin and Niu immediately act rashly.I don't have anyone under my command who can overwhelm everyone, so I can't easily establish an heir. Zhao Guan thought to himself: You can't choose an heir, why don't you learn from my Baihuamen and come to a martial arts competition to win the clan leader?He didn't know that Baihuamen only had three hundred people at that time, and it was not difficult for the head of the third hall and the fourth hall to compare poison and martial arts to determine the head of the door; but the Green Gang had tens of thousands of members, divided into the main altar and the ten altars, each altar The main forces are huge, and they do not give in to each other. They are compared with each other in terms of territory, number of people, wealth, and martial arts. The situation is a hundred times more complicated than that of Baihuamen.

Gang Leader Zhao shook his head, closed his eyes for a while, and when he opened them, his eyes shone brightly, like a sleeping lion waking up, he beat the table with his fists and said: The unity of the gang is the most important thing!If they are allowed to go on like this, the Qing Gang will definitely split up and get out of hand.If the Green Gang is destroyed in my hands, how can I have the face to meet the past gang leaders?Fourth brother, I will send someone to persuade Lin Bochao and Nian Dawei, can you settle it? Li Sibiao said: "Brothers must do their best."Zhao Zixiang said: "It's so hard for you."The two talked for a while, and Li Sibiao and Zhao Guancai resigned.

Zhao Guan couldn't help asking: Fourth Lord, Chief Zhao has been the chief of the chief for more than thirty years, why hasn't he cultivated an heir?Li Sibiao sighed, and said: The leader of the gang is always hesitant about this matter.Alas, I've told him so many times, and he can't listen.To be honest, I don't know who the eldest brother should be?More than a dozen of his own children and grandchildren are not talented, and his five sons-in-law are mediocre.These people have been fighting with each other for the inheritance rights of the Youth Gang for many years. The gang leader knows that they can't afford it, so he has been reluctant to establish an heir.If he is asked to be an outsider, his sons-in-law will refuse to accept it and will make trouble.well!Now that the several altar masters are restless, it is not easy for the help master to do so!

Seeing that he was so worried, Zhao Guan thought to himself: Fourth master is very loyal to the gang leader.To be honest, he is the most qualified to succeed the gang leader in this youth gang, but he didn't try his best to compete with Lin Bochao and others for power and profit, but only imagined for the gang leader. This kind of loyalty is really rare.Bian said: Fourth master, there is such a difficulty in the gang today, brothers will definitely try their best to help the gang leader and maintain the main altar.Li Sibiao felt very comforted, and said: "Brother Jiang, the current situation is very difficult, but as brothers in the gang, we must have the courage to know what is impossible and do it."

Zhao Guan agreed with his head, but he thought in his heart: It's not appropriate for this gang leader to be so distressed.He grew up with his mother, and although he became the head of the Baihuamen and the Xinwutan of the Qing Gang, he never had any ambitions. He didn't know that most of the heroes in the world have the ambition to unify the world and lead the people, such as Zhao Zixiang and Li Sibiao. He is one of the best; after decades of painstaking efforts to gain power and status, how can he let go easily? But it was said that Zhao Guan returned to Hangzhou with Li Sibiao, and Li Sibiao asked him to visit Nian Dawei in Tianjin.Zhao Guanxian wrote a letter and sent it to Tianjin Bingwu Altar, saying that the new Xinwu Altar Master hoped to come to ask the Nian Altar Master for advice, but actually he was going to test Nian Dawei's intentions. The Green Gang started with river transportation. Since Emperor Yongle of the Ming Dynasty paid attention to water transport and vigorously dredged the river, the domestic shipping was busy and the ports communicated with each other, so the Qing Gang prospered.Over the past few decades, the Green Gang has grown in power and has dominated the water transportation of the Yellow River and Yangtze River, becoming the leader in the shipping industry.All the altars in the gang are located in the big shipping towns. Tianjin, where Bingwutan is located, is a big shipping port. Many freights use this as the starting point. Although it is not as rich and prolific as Suzhou and Hangzhou, it is also one of the best shipping companies in China along with Quanzhou and Guangzhou. important town. Before Zhao Guan left, he discussed with Li Sibiao's father and daughter the strategy of persuading Nian Dawei.Li Sibiao said: Nian Dawei is the son of Xiaoshun, the late elder of the gang. The Nian family has controlled Tianjin for many years and has great influence. The gang leader has always given their family three points.This year, Dawei was a businessman through and through, with no martial arts morality, so he persuaded him with his interests. Li Huamei said: Lin Bochao controls Zhengzhou, Henan, and Nian Dawei controls Bohai Bay. The two have cooperated a lot and have a close relationship. Nian Dawei must know that Lin Bochao has different ambitions.But I heard that Lin Nian also often had conflicts over the sharing of shipping costs. To persuade him not to follow Lin Fan, he had to let him know the strength of the general arena, and give both favors and threats. Zhao Guan smiled and said: I know.First scare him so that he dare not move, and then tell him the benefits of not rebelling.It's best that the general altar can give him more sweetness and so on, so that he can feel at ease. Li Sibiao said: The leader said that it is not a problem to give him more benefits.As long as he doesn't follow Lin Bochao to rebel and cause trouble, and the gang is stable, why worry about having no money?The property in the gang was originally shared by the brothers. The Nian family has a lot of money and there are many people under it, so I should keep more.Zhao Guan nodded in agreement, and then asked: Does this person have any excuses? Li Sibiao said: The Nian family is a big family in Tianjin with a family and a business, and the relationship with the officialdom must be very good.This kind of people has a handle, and probably has a way to let the officials cover it for him.Zhao Guan tilted his head and meditated, and said: I will visit Tianjin secretly, just adapt to the situation.