The next morning, Liu Ji and Wei Hu delivered the money for buying horses and the money for buying the Tartar heads to the inn where Sun Hao was staying.

Liu Ji sent someone to deliver 2,880 gold cakes, each weighing one or two taels.

Wei Hu and his men brought over 6,460 silver cakes, each weighing one tael.

These two types of gold and silver cakes, both weighing one or two taels, are also the most common gold and silver coins in Liang State. They usually have words and patterns engraved on the surface when they were cast.

Looking at the large box of gold cakes and the two large boxes of silver cakes, Taishi Ci couldn't help but say to Sun Hao with emotion: "Master, fighting the Tartar cavalry is really profitable.

I suggest that we take some time out of the city and take a look around. Those Tartar raiders who come to the border are organized by their own tribes. Each group of Tartar cavalry is small in number, so it will be easy for us to defeat them."

Although because his uncle Liu Dongqi left eight thousand taels of gold for Sun Hao, Sun Hao did not need to worry about money for the time being when he came to Ganyang City.

But when Sun Hao saw that the Tartar heads and Tartar war horses could be exchanged for so much money, he couldn't help but be tempted.

These powerful generals under his command were either at the "90th level" or the "80th level". As long as they were careful, fighting a group of two or three hundred Tatar cavalrymen would be as easy as picking up money.

"Okay, after I buy the house, I will lead my brothers to make a fortune."

Following everyone's advice, Sun Hao has decided to settle down in Ganyang City, so he plans to buy a big house.

In the afternoon, Sun Hao took Taishi Ci, Pang De, Yan Liang and Wen Chou and followed a dental dealer introduced by the innkeeper to choose a house.

After looking at three houses in one afternoon, Sun Hao and his friends felt that the area was too small and it would be very crowded for more than a hundred people to live in it.

The ivory merchant hesitated for a moment and said to Sun Hao, "Master Sun, I do know of a large house in the East Market that can easily accommodate not only more than a hundred people, but even five or six hundred.

But besides being a bit expensive, buying that house is also a bit troublesome.”

Each side of the city wall of Ganyang City has five gates, and the main gate in the middle of the four walls is called Dongyang Gate, Nanyang Gate, Xiyang Gate and Beiyang Gate.

The two main roads connecting these four main city gates divided the 36 districts of Ganyang City into four cities, namely East City, South City, West City and North City.

Each of the nine districts in the city is named with numbers, such as Dongyifang, Dongerfang... until Dongjiufang.

The Xilinmen Inn where Sun Hao and his friends are staying is located in Dongsifang, East City.

"As long as the house is suitable, it doesn't matter if the price is a little higher. But what do you mean by trouble?" Sun Hao asked the ivory dealer.

"Master Sun, the owner of that mansion has offended a member of the Qingyun Society's Double Flowered Red Stick. So even if someone wants to buy that mansion, if they can't get the consent of that member of the Qingyun Society, they'll probably run into a lot of trouble."

Hearing that the mansion was related to a Double Flower Red Stick from Qingyun Society, Sun Hao couldn't help but frown.

Chen Haonan, the founding emperor of the Liang Kingdom, was originally from a gang and started his career with the power of the gang. He eventually ended the nearly 100 years of war and turmoil in the Central Plains and established the Liang Kingdom.

The internal hierarchy of the gang that Chen Haonan had established was subsequently imitated by gangs across Liang State for hundreds of years.

According to the five levels set by Chen Haonan, the gangs are divided into Yellow Grass, Green Skin, Red Stick, Hall Master, and Dragon Head from bottom to top.

Huangcao is a nominal member of the gang who has never worshipped in the incense hall, and Qingpi represents the ordinary members who have worshipped the gang’s founder.

Only when a Qingpi is promoted to a Honggun can he be considered a middle-level member of the gang and have the opportunity to become the boss of the gang in each neighborhood.

The red stick actually means the gold medal fighter, and the double-flowered red stick represents the fighter with the best martial arts skills in the gang.

At the level of red stick, there is also a white paper fan which acts as a military advisor, and straw sandals which are responsible for the gang’s external liaisons.

The hall master is considered a high-ranking member of the gang, and usually only the red sticks are qualified to be promoted to hall master.

The leader of a gang is the master of the gang, and is basically a hereditary family.

As the most important commodity distribution center for East-West trade, Ganyang City has also bred fertile soil for the development of gangs. Currently, there are hundreds of gangs of all sizes in Ganyang City.

Among them, there are seven most powerful gangs, each claiming to have tens of thousands of members, collectively known as "one family, two gangs and four halls and societies."

It is said that even the governor of Ganyang Army, Cao Tingjin, and even the six generals of Ganyang Army, had to give some face to the seven major gangs. After all, part of the military expenses of Ganyang Army had to be raised by these seven major gangs.

The commercial tax in Liang State was extremely low. The Ganyang Army supported the various gangs in collecting monthly fees from merchants, which was equivalent to increasing the commercial tax in Ganyang City in disguise.

The fees collected by each gang will be handed over to the Ganyang Army as military expenses in proportion, and the Ganyang City government office will also get a share of the fees collected by each gang.

The Qingyun Society is one of the "Four Societies", and the Chihu Gang that Sun Hao encountered outside Dongsheng Gate is one of the "Two Gangs".

Although Sun Hao had just arrived in Ganyang City, he had heard of the names of the seven major gangs.

Sun Hao felt that it was not worth it to offend a Double Flower Red Stick from Qingyun Society in order to buy a house, so he ordered the dentist to help him continue to look for other houses.

But sometimes, the more you don't want to cause trouble, the more likely it is to come to you.

When Sun Hao, Taishi Ci and the other three returned to Xilinmen Inn, they found that a group of people were blocking the gate of the courtyard where Sun Hao lived and were confronting Yan Liang, Wen Chou and others.

The dentist who had taken Sun Hao to see the house also came back with Sun Hao because he had an appointment with the owner of the Xilinmen Inn to have a drink in the evening.

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