The Sihai Hall of the Sand Ship Gang.

Hearing Guo Qilin asking Mrs. Shen questions, Elder Niu quickly handed over the land deed in his hand.

Chen Huaixiu flipped through a few pages, gently placed the deed on the table, and asked Guo Qilin, "These place names look unfamiliar to me. Aren't they all east of Huangpu?"

"Ah, it seems so... so what?" Guo Qilin's pupils shrank, obviously the question hit the point.

"As far as I know, the east side of Pudong is saline-alkali land, the west side is muddy ponds, and less than one tenth of the land is arable."

Chen Huaixiu spoke Chongming dialect, which is slightly harder than Wu dialect. His voice was not loud but firm.

"I wonder what the situation is with the 100,000 acres of land given by the Xu family? How much of it can be cultivated?"

As soon as these words were spoken, there was another buzz in the hall.

The county seat of Shanghai is in Puxi, and 99% of the people live in Puxi. Therefore, when people mention Shanghai, they tend to think of Puxi instead of Pudong.

After Chen Huaixiu's reminder, the elders and hall masters suddenly realized that there was a big pit waiting for them here.

Many people immediately became unhappy and stood up and shouted, "Guo Qilin, you colluded with the Xu family to cheat us, right?!"

"That's right. There's not even a single person in Pudong. What's the difference between this and our place?"

"We, the Sand Ship Gang, have 500 ships and more than 3,000 brothers, and we sold them for such a low price. How dare you come back and claim credit for it?"

"I don't agree!"

"I don't agree!"

The top leaders of the Shachuan Gang were so happy for nothing that they felt extremely ashamed and angry.

Guo Qilin tried his best to explain himself, but his voice was no match for the loud voices of the boatmen.

There was a loud bang, and the senior leaders looked in the direction of the sound and saw that it was the gang leader who smashed the teacup.

Suddenly the whole room was silent.

The disciples of the Punishment Hall who were waiting outside the door also rushed to the door upon hearing the noise, waiting for the leader's order to arrest the person.

The leader of the Shachuan Gang has great power and can even bypass the government to resort to lynching and execute gang members who violate gang rules.

Even though these hall leaders don't take Guo Donglin seriously behind his back, no one dares to confront him in person, otherwise it would be a crime of disrespecting the leader!

Guo Donglin waved his hand and asked the people outside to leave. Then he stood up with a dark face, swept his cold eyes over the crowd, and scolded:

"Have you been blown silly by the sea breeze? Where are we going? To Jiangnan, the land that was fully cultivated five hundred years ago!"

"You don't want to go too far, but you don't want to be separated. Apart from Pudong, where else can the Xu family find 100,000 acres of uncultivated land to accommodate our 40,000 or 50,000 people?!"

After a round of beatings with guns and sticks, these guys immediately lost their arrogance.

After calming down this group of idiots, Guo Donglin walked up to Chen Huaixiu, put on a smiling face and said:

"Sister-in-law, I am from Shanghai County. I should know more about the situation in Pudong than you do, right?"

"Of course." Chen Huaixiu turned his head away slightly.

"Okay. Brother will tell you that Pudong is not as weird as it is said to be. There are several towns and tens of thousands of households." After a pause, Guo Donglin continued:

"It's true that the conditions there are not as good as those in Puxi, but the land is fertile and habitable. It's Jiangnan, there's no perfect place waiting for us. As long as everyone works together, I believe everything will be fine in no time."

"Besides, do we have any choice? Dongsha collapsed, Yaoliusha collapsed, how long can Sansha last? No one can tell." He sighed and said with a look of pity:

"From a personal perspective, I certainly don't want to believe that the land where the Sand Ship Gang has lived for generations will disappear one day. But I am the leader of the gang, and I cannot let my emotions get the better of me. I must prepare for the three thousand members and forty thousand family members of the gang."

"Do you know what it means to prepare for a rainy day?" Guo Qilin, relying on his superiors, shouted, "I think few of you know. You don't understand anything and just follow the crowd. Just listen to my big brother."

The gang members were speechless and completely lost their arrogance.

And what the gang leader said was right. The Tianci Salt Field and the county town were all sunk to the bottom of the water, and the Chongming Guards had also retreated to land. Although Sansha was fine at the moment, any normal person would worry whether the same fate would befall them.

Since when, rumors have spread that the entire Chongming will be abandoned by the court, which has exacerbated the concerns of the Shachuan Gang about their survival.

Boss Guo drove Guo Qilin away, and then said to everyone earnestly:

"Whether or not Sansha will collapse, and when it will collapse, is not something we can decide. But we can decide to take action immediately, stop waiting, and find a new home for our gang members, a new home where they no longer have to worry, be isolated on the sea, and no longer be regarded as outsiders by the people of Jiangnan!"

"Yes, it is not perfect and may not meet our expectations. But with the diligence and wisdom of the people of Sansha, we can definitely make it change a little bit every year and a big change every three years. It won't be long before it becomes a land of fish and rice that everyone admires."

"I believe that in ten or twenty years, all of us will be proud of our decision today, and fifty or one hundred years later, our descendants will thank us for our wise decision!"

Boss Guo's reading was not in vain. The same content coming out of his mouth was more convincing than Guo Qilin's. Everyone was actually a little moved by what they heard. They couldn't help but nod their heads and imagine the beautiful new home.

Seeing that the gang members were basically convinced, Gang Leader Guo secretly breathed a sigh of relief. He turned his gaze to Madam Shen. As long as this woman nodded, the matter would be settled.

"Sister-in-law, does what my brother said make sense?"

Mrs. Shen nodded.

He slowly swept his eyes over the crowd again, and asked in a cold voice, word by word:

"I've finished speaking, who's in favor and who's against?!"

"This..." The senior executives looked at each other. They thought that today was just a discussion, but they didn't expect that they would have to express their opinions on the spot.

"Sansha has a population of 40,000 to 50,000, and we can't just move them away. Let's settle things as soon as possible so that we have more time to prepare." Boss Guo said without question:

"We have to settle this matter today! Let me ask again, who is in favor and who is against?!"

"Who is in favor and who is against?!" Guo Qilin also shouted in a bully-like manner.

Everyone looked at Chen Huaixiu. She was the person in charge of the Shen family. Only if she did not object would everyone dare to express their opinions.

Chen Huaixiu frowned slightly, as if it was difficult for her to make up her mind, but things had come to this point and she could not hesitate.

"I do have one thing that I don't understand. Please help me solve it."

"You can tell me whatever you want." Guo Qilin nodded and said, "If you know anything, just tell me. I promise you will be satisfied."

"I have never understood why the Xu family values ​​us so much?" Chen Huaixiu said faintly:

"If they just want us to run shipping for them, they can just hire us. Why do they have to make us move in? Isn't that too kind?"

"Madam, what you said makes sense." Elder Ma nodded and said, "The Xu family is not a charity. It is strange that they gave us 100,000 acres of land to take us in."

"Yeah, that makes sense." Elder Niu also agreed.

Boss Guo gritted his teeth in hatred. He knew why the Xu family wanted to do this, but how could he say it out loud?

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