My years of espionage

Chapter 154 The Shack District

The shack areas in Shanghai can be traced back to the Qing Dynasty.

At the end of the 23rd year of Daoguang in the Qing Dynasty (1843), the first batch of shantytowns appeared at the piers on both sides of the Huangpu River.

At the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, various shack areas appeared one after another in the wasteland, ruins, and cemeteries near some industrial areas, including the banks of the Suzhou Creek and other ditches.

Pingjiang Village is one of the large and small shacks along the Suzhou Creek.

Li Hao changed into tattered clothes, and carefully took out half of the steamed bun from his pocket.

He could feel many people around him looking over, staring at the half of the stinky steamed bun in his hand.

He hastily broke off more than half of it and put it in his arms, stuffed the remaining small piece into his mouth, squinting his eyes in enjoyment.

Brother Fan said that he could let the little beggar, Pi Dan, sneak into Pingjiang Village to find out the news.

When Li Hao came to Pingjiang Village and looked at the densely packed small shacks from a distance, he realized that he couldn't do what Brother Fan said.

Brother Fan has never stayed in the shack area, so he doesn't know this kind of place.

Li Hao, who was born as a beggar, knows the situation in the shack area very well. To be exact, Li Hao, who was almost starved to death, knows the poor people better.

The more dirty and messy the slums, the little beggars are the most conspicuous.

No little beggar will come here to beg, because no one will be willing to give a little beggar a bite.

A little beggar with an unfamiliar face came in rashly, and he wanted to inquire about the news. Let alone whether he would be suspected by interested people, he might be beaten first.

……

A tattered, half-buttocked Preserved Egg walked over. Preserved Egg always looked like this at all times.

Preserved Dan cautiously approached Li Hao, "Brother Mouse, I'm back."

While speaking, Pidan looked at Li Hao eagerly.

Li Hao slapped the preserved egg impatiently, "Eat, you know how to eat."

After scolding, I still took out the dirty steamed bun from my arms, swallowed myself, and handed it to the preserved egg with gritted teeth, "Eat it, I will kill you!"

Preserved egg took the steamed bun, and after eating two bites, he still looked at Li Hao eagerly.

Li Hao glared at him, and Pidan shivered with fright, and shrank beside Li Hao.

"Have you found out clearly?" Li Hao asked in a low voice while looking around.

"Understood, Lao San Qiu will go to Sujiawan now, and return to Dungtou in half an hour." Hiding behind Li Hao, the cowering look in Pidan's eyes disappeared, and he whispered.

"Let's go!" Li Hao patted his buttocks and grabbed the preserved egg by the ears. The preserved egg immediately cried and walked away while beating and cursing.

After the two left, in the shack area not far away, two shirtless men withdrew their gaze and stuffed the dagger in their hands under the straw mat.

After a while, a half-grown child ran over, covered his mouth and whispered something to one of them.

"Ask about Qiu Laosan?" The man frowned.

"Fourth Brother, could it be that the Subei Gang robbed Lujia Village, and they are going to rob Pingjiang Village with the Jiangnan Gang?" Another person asked doubtfully.

"Never mind him, the two gangs are not good birds, beat them to death and drag them down." The man spat out the cigarette butt that he had been chewing for half an hour, and was immediately picked up by a lazy man, and the fourth brother scolded him Sentence, also ignored.

"That doesn't matter?"

"Go to hell," the man cursed. "Tell sisters and brothers to stay away from these two gangs."

"Listen to you, brother."

……

Li Hao is very smart, he did not choose to sneak into the shack.

He set his mind on Qiu Laosan, a dung worker in Pingjiang Village.

Qiu Laosan was in charge of collecting excrement from this shack area and another shack area called Sujiawan.

Every morning, the excrement workers pull the toilet cart, yelling and walking through the streets and villages, and the residents come out with the toilet, and pour the excrement water into the toilet in the excrement cart.

The Bureau of the Ministry of Industry has no intention of managing the shacks on both sides of the Suzhou Creek, because there is really no oil and water. However, the Bureau of the Ministry of Industry has a strict regulation, that is, no defecation is allowed, and the excrement must be collected on time.

Originally, there was no such regulation, but later on both sides of the Suzhou Creek smelled like urine, and poop could be seen everywhere.

Feces became a disaster in the city.Therefore, the Bureau of the Ministry of Industry invested in the production of excrement collection trucks and hired cleaners to collect the excrement for each household, and then collected the excrement and transported it out of the city.

In the beginning, the Bureau of the Ministry of Industry provided free excrement collection services for the citizens, and the citizens did not have to pay.

Since manure can be used as fertilizer and can be recycled for a fee, the Concession Ministry of Industry saw a huge business opportunity, so they used their brains to collect manure fees from the citizens, and then sold the manure to farmers to start a no-cost business of "sitting and eating two ends". .

Later, the excrement collection business of the Bureau of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce was compressed because of the emergence of "dung tyrants".

Today, the streets, alleys, and shack areas of Greater Shanghai have formed a huge "dung industry chain" controlled by various dung tyrants, and "dung tyrant wars" often break out.

Li Hao knew that this area of ​​four or five shacks, large and small, was divided up by the Jiangbei Gang and the Jiangnan Gang.

He had inquired that just a few days ago, in Lujia Village next door, in order to snatch the sphere of influence for collecting dung in Lujia Village, the dung tyrants of the Subei Gang blocked a car controlled by Wuxi dung workers of the Jiangnan Gang in the morning. car.

Members of the Subei gang put their fingers into the dung truck, dipped it in their mouths, tasted it, and said to the Wuxi dung workers, "Your dung is not as good as ours."

Afterwards, they overturned the dung carts and fought with each other until the Jiangnan gang conceded and handed over the dung collection business in Lujia Village.

Of course, Li Hao didn't want to get involved in the manure business. What he was looking for was Qiu Laosan, a manure worker in Pingjiang Village. If anyone knew the best about every household in the shanty town, it was definitely not the manure worker who collected manure water every day. belongs to.

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Qiu Laosan worked hard to pull the toilet cart. The toilet cart full of excrement weighed [-] catties, which was really difficult.

Qiu Laosan leaned forward, the calluses on his shoulders were rubbed red by the belt pulling the cart, and it was hot and painful.

At this moment, I saw a group of people approaching from a distance.

Seeing the clothes and style of these people, Qiu Laosan hurriedly moved the toilet cart to the side carefully as much as possible. These people are not easy to mess with at first sight.

It's just that he was careful enough, the wheels just ran over a stone, a bump, the dung water in the toilet splashed out, just in time to sprinkle a few drops of dung water on the last person who passed by.

Qiu Laosan was terrified, quickly put down the toilet cart, waved and bowed to apologize.

"You old wretch!" The man dressed in a short jacket slapped Qiu Laosan straight away.

Qiu Laosan was slapped, and when he saw that this person wanted to beat him, he quickly dodged.

"Old wretch, how dare you hide!" This person was about to kick when he came up, because the short gun at his waist inside the outer coat was exposed because of his large movements.

Qiu Laosan was terrified, and knelt down directly, and was kicked to the ground by the opponent.

"Hu Bin, stop!" Wang Kangnian, who was walking in front, heard the movement behind, and scolded Hu Bin with a gloomy expression.

He looked down on some of his subordinates, and some guys were not qualified agents at all, no different from local hooligans.

This Hu Bin is a typical example. Is this the time to play prestige?

His men suffered heavy casualties in the arrest operation last night, so they could only bring out these crooked melons and dates that he usually despises.

Seeing that the team leader stopped him, Hu Bin resentfully stopped.

Wang Kangnian glanced at the cowering Qiu Laosan and frowned. This is a cowardly Chinese. With such a person, how could the country be strong?

……

"Old man, do you know how to get to Sister Yang's house?" Wang Kangnian asked, "Sister Yang works in Huacheng Tobacco Factory."

"Sir, you, you, you mean, the dead sister of the Yang family?" Qiu Laosan said in a panic.

"That's right." Wang Kangnian winked at Hu Bin, and Hu Bin took out a nickel and handed it to Qiu Laosan.

Qiu Laosan's eyes lit up, and he reached out to grab it.

Hu Bin put away the money.

"Turn south, go straight, the third row, go to the No. 18 shack." Qiu Laosan said immediately.

Wang Kangnian nodded in satisfaction, turned and left.

Qiu Laosan looked at Hu Bin.

Hu Bin just threw it away.

Qiu Laosan hurriedly turned around to pick it up, but he still didn't catch it, and the nickel fell into the toilet feces.

He himself was kicked again by Hu Bin behind him, a toilet was overturned, and Qiu Laosan was covered in excrement and urine.

"Immortal, eat shit!"

……

Ten minutes later, Qiu Laosan, who was full of feces and urine, was pulling the toilet cart and struggling to climb the hill.

Li Hao, who took a detour from a small path, saw it from a distance and immediately guessed that this person was Qiu Laosan, a manure worker.

Li Hao immediately hid in the grass on the side of the road cleverly.

Then, Qiu Laosan, who was bending over and lowering his head to pull the cart, heard the sound of running. He tried to raise his head, and saw a little beggar in tattered clothes with leaky buttocks, running towards him without saying a word, using all his strength Help him push the cart.

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