Fire is a common phenomenon, so the Police Department has a special fire extinguishing team, so there is no need to worry too much.

But the fire was not small, and Ye Chunqiu had to care. When he asked his entourage, where did the entourage dare to be negligent, he quickly asked.

After a while, the servant came back and reported, "Your Highness, there was a fire at the dock, but it was a bit complicated. The hundreds or thousands of foot forces on the dock had a dispute because of the demands of merchants to raise the price. The quarrels had a very big fuss. The Patrol Bureau and the Investment and Merchants Bureau had already dealt with it, but... but for some reason, the fire was actually lost. The foot forces were still in a state of great trouble. The foot forces were angry and refused to let the firefighting team in..."

After hearing this, Ye Chunqiu felt that things were not very simple.

Coolie and the lowest level of foot strength have always been the group that people are most likely to ignore.

This is actually easy to understand. After all, most of them do not have any skills or abilities, and there are even many people who do not know big words and live entirely by labor. But, they are the easiest groups that can gather together and gather hundreds or thousands of people at any time. Once these people make trouble, they are actually the most troublesome.

But then again, their demands for causing trouble are not completely unreasonable. After all, no one is willing to be exploited, and every piece of copper they earn is their own blood and sweat.

Merchants have rich food and food, so why do they have to squeeze out even this little money?

Ye Chunqiu was silent for a moment and said, "Let's go and take a look."

Ye Chunqiu didn't think this was an occasional incident, but the entourage was stunned for a moment, thinking that the scene was complicated. At this time, Ye Chunqiu was obviously a little risky when he went there, but he nodded, organized a team of guards, changed into casual clothes, and prepared muskets around his waist, and then followed Ye Chunqiu all the way to the east pier.

The closer it is to the East Wharf, the more sparsely populated it is. I believe many people dare not approach the fire source. But if you get closer, you can see hundreds of police officers holding vine shields and pointing at sticks to gather. The personnel from the General Police Bureau arrived at the scene as soon as possible. In addition, relevant officials also arrived one after another.

Sun Qi was in a panic and very sad.

He, the director of the Investment and Merchants Bureau, had to come. After all, the East Wharf is the most important business road for waterways. Every day, there is a steady stream of goods sent to Qinhuangdao, and then loaded the goods onto the ship and sent to various countries. In other words, this is the main road for commodity exports. Although the railway has been built now, this waterway still carries more than 40% of the commodity transportation.

Now something happened here, and I don’t know how many goods will be affected. Sun Qi was very angry. How could a fire appear? It was broad daylight. There were so many people coming to the wharf. Once a fire broke out, it should be able to be put out immediately. Unexpectedly, such a big disaster was brewed.

But when people arrived here, they realized that the fire was a small problem. The real big problem was the foot strength and foot strength caused trouble. In fact, there were intermittent times, but like now, it was the first time that the big trouble was so big.

The general foot strength is just for a few specific merchants, and dozens of people are just a fight. It is easy to solve the problem after mediating each other. While hundreds or thousands of people are targeting all the merchants, this is too unusual.

This matter is somewhat related to the China Merchants Association. Sun Qi seemed to be worried. In the distance, all kinds of shouts did not stop. Thousands of feet surrounded the passage of the dock and were confronting the firefighting team. From time to time, someone sternly said: "Come the silk merchant named Wang, and he asked someone to hurt our brother. If he did not hand over the person, he would never..."

"There is another man named Sun. Our brother was injured a few days ago, but he actually..."

This contradiction broke out, and Sun Qi's expression became colder. He knew that this was not a solution, and people... would definitely not be able to deal with it, but these feet were all strong and had various weapons in their hands, so they should not be underestimated.

But how can it be done if you keep confronting each other like this?

At this time, several people from the firefighting team were lifted down, all of whom were bleeding.

Sun Qi became more and more annoyed, and cursed at the people of the Police Station: "For such a big thing, what does the Police Station do to eat? Why didn't there be any slight noise in advance? Now it's too late to make up for the sheep. The fire must be put out immediately, and the dock must restore order today. Otherwise... do you know how much money you will lose in one day? Can you bear this responsibility?"

Several people from the Police Station were pale when Sun Qi scolded him, but they looked depressed, and they didn't know about it in advance.

At this time, someone suggested: "If you act strongly, you may not be able to rely on the police alone. The police are insufficient in equipment. If you rely on these vine shields and wooden sticks alone, you may not be able to disperse them. It is better to... use the new army."

The meaning of using the new army is to directly transfer the new army and use guns and cannons.

Sun Qi's face slammed and glared at the man. It might not be the same as that time, but at that time, I was afraid that the scene would be bloody and that so many people would die, the consequences would be even more serious.

He said coldly, "That's a big deal." Even he, a good man, couldn't help but curse and swear, and then said, "Even if you take a step back and want to use the new army, the new army will never pay attention without His Highness the military order. What I want is to restore order, not to create greater chaos."

At this time, everyone in the Police Force was silent.

Killing but not killing directly, beating... The police may not be able to take advantage of it. There are thousands of people, and they are all facing strong men who work on the dock. If you really want to fight, the police will definitely be inseparable from casualties, and it may not be difficult to please.

Someone said, "Why... please come Mr. Wang?"

Sun Qi was stunned for a moment and asked in confusion: "What Mr. Wang?"

"Mr. Wang has a high reputation. As long as he comes forward, things will definitely not be difficult to solve. There are many warehouses in this dock that are his business, and they usually..."

Sun Qi paused for a moment, then sneered: "Then why don't you go and invite me."

"This... I'm humble, I think that if I invite him at will, I'm afraid he may not be willing. If I can work with Director Sun, things will be easier."

Sun Qi couldn't help but feel a little angry, but after thinking about it carefully, it was indeed the case. He came to restore order and reduce the anger of the laborers. This is Qinglong, and it is not the final decision that the official can say. If you ask him to come, why should he come? Since you want to invite him, you must have an attitude of inviteing him.

He thought about it and nodded, "Where are the others? Get the car and take me there."
Chapter completed!