"The Raging Whale Gang is beating people!"
"If you don't cancel the regulation fee, we'll shut down the market!"
"Heavens, open your eyes and see!"
When the Seventh Patrol Squad, to which Zhang Yuan belonged, arrived at the fish market under orders to provide support, they found a complete mess.
Linhe Fish Market lay south of the Dock District and was controlled and managed by the Raging Whale Gang.
Fishermen who made their living on the Celestial Steed River year-round brought their daily catches to the fish market to sell.
The buyers included fishmongers, taverns and restaurants in the County Town, as well as purchasers for wealthy households.
Fishermen entering the fish market not only had to pay the monthly regulation fee, but also had to pay taxes to the Linhe Branch.
These were the rules laid down by the Raging Whale Gang.
They had never changed for decades.
As the overlord of the waters, the Raging Whale Gang left fishermen who wanted to earn a living with no choice but obedient compliance.
Anyone who failed to follow the rules received a lesson from reality!
Yet today, a large group of agitated fishermen were noisily confronting the Outer Hall disciples of the Linhe Branch in the fish market, as though every one of them had eaten bear's heart leopard's gall.
They were not afraid in the slightest!
Such a situation was clearly highly unusual.
The Outer Hall disciples might not have been especially strong.
But just three to five of them could slaughter these troublemaking fishermen cleanly.
How could people who made their living on the water not know the Raging Whale Gang's power?
Had these fishermen gone mad, then?
Zhang Yuan spotted Outer Hall Incense Master Chen Zhize among the crowd.
The latter stood amid a group of disciples,