After the Huns retreated, King Yong'an Chen Su led a town of imperial guards to station in Ganyang City and let the imperial guards take over the entire defense of Ganyang City.

At the same time, King Yong'an requested that the left and right guards of Ganyang Army, the cavalry units of the front and back guards, and 13,000 family soldiers of the six generals of Ganyang Army be temporarily stationed outside the city on the grounds of preventing the Huns from returning.

Even the two thousand armored soldiers led by Sun Hao received orders to garrison outside the city. This made Sun Hao feel that a storm was about to come. Perhaps this was a sign that Prince Yong'an was going to purge the gangs in Ganyang City.

Sun Hao's premonition turned out to be accurate. After the Xiongnu army completely withdrew from Pizhou, the imperial guards immediately began to arrest the core members of various gangs in the city and confiscate the assets of each gang.

Although Prince Yong'an had promised to show leniency to the Sanshui Association, Sun Hao still quickly contacted Luo Xuan and asked her to send someone to deliver gold cakes worth two million strings of cash to Prince Yong'an.

Half a month later, when Sun Hao returned to the city with two thousand armored soldiers, except for the seven major gangs in Ganyang City, the other hundreds of gangs had all been uprooted by King Yong'an, including the sixteen gangs that were originally ranked in the second tier in strength.

The number of core members of various gangs who had their heads chopped off exceeded two thousand.

On the afternoon of the day when Sun Hao returned to the city, Yong'an King Chen Su sent someone to invite Sun Hao to the provincial government office. Also invited to the provincial government office were the leaders of six other gangs.

"You gangs that have been entrenched in Ganyang City for many years are indeed extremely wealthy.

I will not hide it from you. Through the cleanup of the more than one hundred gangs in the city over the past half month, I have confiscated at least more than 60 million strings of cash, not counting the 10 million strings of cash that your seven gangs combined have presented to me as tribute.

With these 70 million strings of cash, I won't have to worry about the military expenses of the seven imperial guards next year.

However, this king has always hoped to build another town for the Imperial Guard. I invited you here today to beg for alms from your seven gangs to raise funds for the establishment of the Eighth Town of the Imperial Guard."

As soon as Prince Yong'an Chen Su finished speaking, Jiang Mingshan, the leader of the Zhongyi Sect, said cautiously, "Since the prince wants to build a new town of imperial guards, our Zhongyi Sect is willing to donate another one million strings of cash."

Feng Geng, the leader of the Red Tiger Gang, also said, "My Red Tiger Gang is also willing to contribute another one million strings of cash."

At this time, Yong'an Prince Chen Su suddenly slammed the table and said, "Do you think I am a beggar?

You must understand that if someone hadn't interceded for your seven gangs, your heads would have been hanging on the city gates."

Seeing that Prince Yong'an Chen Su was angry, the seven leaders, including Sun Hao, immediately knelt on the ground.

Sun Hao finally understood that Prince Yong'an Chen Su had called the seven of them here just to extort money. If the seven of them wanted to leave the provincial government office today, they would probably be skinned alive.

Yong'an King Chen Su then snorted coldly, "Don't think that just because the generals of the Ganyang Army are backing you seven gangs, I won't dare to deal with you.

If someone doesn't know what's best for him, I don't mind continuing to use some thundering methods.

What's more, now the seven of you are all captains of the seventh rank of the imperial army, and you should share the worries of the imperial court.

This king does not ask for much. Counting your previous contributions, each guild will only need to make up five million guan."

The six gangs, namely Zhongyi Sect, Chihu Gang, Dulang Gang, Anshengtang, Heyitang and Brothers Society, have close ties with the six generals of the Ganyang Army.

The Qingyun Society, which was swallowed up by the Sanshui Society, was backed by the previous governor of Pizhou.

If Sun Hao had had a conflict with another gang among the "One Family, Two Gangs and Four Halls", there might not be the Sanshui Club today.

No matter which general family, they will not sit idly by and watch the gang with which they are closely related be swallowed up by a new force.

Facing the powerful King Yong'an, none of the seven most powerful gang leaders in Ganyang City dared to say a word of "no".

Seeing that all seven people agreed to make up the five million strings of cash, Yong'an Prince Chen Su finally smiled, "That's right, this prince likes smart people the most.

I called you here today because I have good news to tell you.

After careful consideration, I have decided that from now on, the fees in Ganyang City will be collected by your seven gangs from merchants, and the territories of the banned gangs will also be divided among you seven.

Of course, the division of fees must be in accordance with what I have set.

From now on, 30% of the fees collected in Ganyang City will go directly to the Imperial Guards, 40% to the Ganyang Protectorate, and 20% to the prefecture government. Each of you gangs can keep 10% of the fees."

Prince Chen Su of Yong'an originally planned that the provincial government and the Ganyang Army would jointly collect fees from merchants in the city.

However, Cao Tingjin, the Grand Commander of the Ganyang Army, told Prince Yong'an that a previous Grand Commander of the Ganyang Protectorate had forcibly transferred the right to collect fees from various gangs to the Ganyang Army and the provincial government.

Unexpectedly, the collected fees became less and less, and were all embezzled by the officials and generals in charge of the matter.

Finally, the Grand Commander of Ganyang Protectorate had no choice but to return the right to collect fees to the various gangs.

After hearing what Cao Tingjin said, and because Prince Yong'an didn't want to make things too awkward with the generals of the Ganyang Army, he kept all seven gangs.

While the other six gang leaders left with mixed feelings, Sun Hao was left alone by Yong'an King Chen Su.

"I previously tried to recruit Xiong Kuohai with the position of a sixth-rank general in the imperial guards, but he refused without hesitation. Do you have anything to say about this?" King Yong'an Chen Su asked Sun Hao in a deep voice.

More than ten days ago, Prince Yong'an sent someone to call Xiong Kuohai to the provincial government office and offered to recruit Xiong Kuohai in person.

Not to mention a sixth-rank general of the Imperial Guards, even if Prince Yong'an made Xiong Kuohai the third-rank commander of the Imperial Guards, Xiong Kuohai, who was summoned by Sun Hao from the "annual signing system", would not defect to him.

Sun Hao smiled bitterly and said, "Your Highness, please calm down. When Xiong Kuohai returned that day and told me what happened, I scolded him severely.

However, he is unwilling to leave me because he is like a brother to me. I hope Your Highness will forgive me."

Yong'an Prince Chen Su smiled slightly, "Don't worry, I'm not a petty person. Since Xiong Kuohai is unwilling to join the Imperial Guard, I won't force him.

But it would be a waste of a brave general like Xiong Kuohai to join your gang.

This king hopes that you can serve as the commander-in-chief of the Ganyang City Guards. As for the position of the leader of your gang, you can let others take it.

If you wish, you don't need to pay the remaining three million strings of cash."