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Chapter 5 Big Election: The Emperor¡¯s Armored Face 304 Lao Chuan Gang ¡°Private Entrepreneurs¡±

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    "Second Master, please make an offer and I'll give it!" The owner of the bamboo shop was the first to stand up and shout, with tears in his eyes. He kept looking back in panic to see how big the fire was in Pi's clothing store. Although the two of them were  There are two buildings, but they are right next to each other. The aisle is so narrow that not even one person can squeeze through. I am really afraid that the fire will spread. The mother-in-law and son at home are trying their best to move things out, and they have to keep rushing to get close to the goods.  The beggars and thieves who come over are like a lioness in distress who needs to keep chasing away the vultures and hyenas that are surrounding her cubs.

    Zha Zhiqing nodded, stroking his chin and calculating the financial resources of the bamboo shop. Then he raised his head and said, "Let's do this. Lao Wang is the closest and gives me fifty yuan; Xiao Li just opened the business and gave me thirty yuan. Mr. Liu opened it."  The employment agency makes a lot of money, so give me thirty."

    Before the other two people could answer, Mr. Wang from the bamboo shop nodded anxiously and said, "I'll give it! I'll give it! But the money is all buried in the goods. I don't have that much money at home."

    "It doesn't matter, just sign this loan contract." Zha Zhiqing immediately took out a loan contract from his arms and handed it to the follower holding the gong, who had already taken out a pen and an ink cartridge with a fingerprint.

    "The daily profit is three points, and the profit is compounded." Zha Zhiqing said one sentence, and the cold sweat on Lao Wang's head started to fall down like a waterfall. This means that the interest for one month is 90%, and fifty yuan can rise to 90 yuan a month.  , and it was still profitable; but he turned around to look at the clothing store that was burning more and more, and heard Boss Pi lying on the ground behind him, howling almost out of breath. He gritted his teeth and took the contract, squatting on the ground and signed it.  .

    Seeing that Lao Wang immediately surrendered, Zha Zhiqing waved his hand.  The fire hose behind them finally turned up its faucet and began to spray water between the clothing store and the bamboo shop to prevent the fire from spreading to the bamboo shop.

    "Where are you two?" Zha Zhiqing asked in surprise, because the two people were whispering to each other and didn't look anxious.

    "Second Master, this is too expensive. We are separated from each other by Lao Wang. Each of us will pay five yuan to treat you to tea. Do you think it's okay?" Mr. Liu asked, nodding and bowing.

    "Excuse me! Fire and water are ruthless, I have love! You want my life but I don't want it. Who else would risk their lives to get in and out of the fire? You want to send us away for five yuan? Do you want to be burned and bankrupt like the old man?" Zha Zhiqing was furious.

    Mr. Liu quickly waved his hand and continued: "No. The east wind is blowing now. The wind direction is wrong."

    "Zha Zhiqing didn't raise his head at all, he just glared at the two bowing guys. He already knew where the wind was coming from, whether it was to put out fires or make money.  Not looking at the direction of the wind is asking for death.

    "Hey. Why doesn't that guy go to Liaofeng to extort money? This will make more money." Mr. Kui asked Fang Bingsheng in surprise. They were all familiar with the routines of firefighting associations, especially private firefighting associations.

    Fang Bingsheng glanced at Zha Zhiqing, who looked helpless in front of him.  Some gloatingly replied: "Because the west side of the clothing store is the territory of the Lao Chuan Gang, not the Annan Gang. They chopped down one two months ago, and the Annan Gang chopped down fifty meters forward, from the restaurant where we ate to the clothing store.  , so this becomes the dividing line.¡±

    As he spoke, he pointed forward in surprise and shouted: "Look! The Lao Chuan Gang firefighting party is coming!"

    Sure enough, there was another rush of gongs ahead, and a team of people came rushing over. The two teams of fire fighters stopped in front of the clothing store like Taishan versus Beidou, crushing the crowd of spectators like dough meeting a rolling pin.  , retreated to one side of the street in total darkness.

    The equipment and personnel of the Lao Chuan Gang Fire Fighting Club are almost exactly the same as those of the Annan Gang: mule carts, water dragons, human water loaders, and of course a group of agile and extremely poor beggars from the gang who are used to rob things at the fire scene.

    Their leader is also a well-dressed big man, and he is quite fashionable: he is in his thirties, with thick eyebrows and big eyes, a set of incomplete yellow teeth, tall, wearing Western bloomers, his shirt is tucked into his trousers, and his sleeves are rolled up to the cuffs.  Around the waist is an army-style pigskin belt with gleaming brass buckles;

    However, his expression is also very eerie. The long scar on the horse's face is really scary. In addition, he holds a hat in one hand and an ax in the other. It is so scary that even if you don't know him, if you meet him in the middle of the night and stare at you, you will be scared.  Kneel down and offer the bag directly.

    "Who is this?" Mr. Kui asked, pointing to the horse-faced man in a suit.

    "His name is Tian Feihong, a Dongguan native. He used to live outside the West Gate of Dongguan. He was said to be good at boxing and kicking. He opened a traditional Chinese medicine shop for a living. He dominated a street and was nicknamed 'Guanmen Hero'. He was later arrested by the Dongguan Public Security Bureau.  He was caught in the anti-crime operation. After being released from prison, he lived in the capital. In recent years, he rose rapidly in the Lao Chuan Gang and became the second in command. Because he remembered the excuses given to him by the lawsuit sticks, he always claimed that he was wrongly accused.  Private entrepreneurs are nicknamed 'entrepreneurs'."

    "Can you be unhappy? How many times have the slums grown in recent years? Let alone 'entrepreneurs' or 'heroes', these?Those gangsters have become leaders in gangs, and it's only thanks to our factory owner's blessing.  "Li Jinren runs factories nearby and knows a little about these people and gangs.

    "Look, they're going to fight!" At this time, Mr. Kui screamed. Unexpectedly, he was so excited. The dark crowd watching was like a whirlpool, and the excited screams gathered into a whirlwind and swept through Water and Fire Street.

    It turns out that unlike the homeowners on the east side who even dared to bargain with the fire department, the neighbors in tears on the west side of the clothing store lined up to beg Tian Feihong to collect the money. Although the wind was not strong and the small building of the clothing store was not big, they let him burn.  The fire was not that big, but it had already set fire to the wooden shed built on the third floor of the grain and oil store next door to the west. Seeing that the fire was about to spread, everyone was extremely anxious.

    "Entrepreneur" Tian Feihong was very proud when he saw that the wind was blowing in his own turf, so he naturally gave the "patriot" Zha Zhiqing a wink.

    The opponent immediately became furious. The Annan Gang was originally an emerging gang. The characteristics of emerging gangs are their ambitions and extreme bloodthirsty. Recently, they have suppressed the Laozhou Gang and are determined to drive away the oldest gang, the Laozhou Gang, to rule this slum.  It was just that the Old Boat Gang had deep roots and was unable to defeat them completely, so there was peace for a while.

    Now it seems that because of the wind direction, I will not be able to get much profit from putting out the fire. How can I not be furious when the other party provokes me?

    "The 'wronged private entrepreneur'!" In a rage, Zha Zhiqing even called out the other person's full nickname, pushed Mr. Liu away to vent his anger, and then took off his silk robe, exposing his tendons.  Flesh and scars, he reached for the ax from the back of his trousers and walked towards the 'entrepreneur' viciously.

    "What do you think? You bastard from Annan, do you want me to send you to hell to find your Yankee brothers?" Tian Feihong, the "entrepreneur" over there, also spit on the palms of his hands, rubbed them, and shook them.  Holding the ax tightly, he jumped out of the car and walked towards the "Patriot" with a grin.

    "Yanlao" is a general term used by some people in Guangdong for compatriots from other provinces and regions. Recently, "Nanlao" refers to Annan people and Lanfang people. The derogatory meaning is enough, and the arrogance is satisfying.

    The Old Boat Gang is not a vegetarian either. The roots of the Old Boat Gang existed when there was no factory in Shiligou: they were a group of poor men who lived and ate on a few boats. They harvested reeds and sold them for fuel or materials for mat weaving. They often used their fists to drive  They followed other poor men who collected reeds. They monopolized this barren land and tidal flat and considered themselves the masters here. Of course, this barren land could not even fill their stomachs. They did not even have any illusions about the destiny God had given them.  It's just that he and his ship are slowly rotting in the quagmire.

    But later, factories and docks were built, and people flocked to this wasteland, but the Old Boat Gang did not leave. They quietly watched the changes of the times, the vicissitudes of the sea, and watched the familiar wasteland turn into a crowded settlement.  In this area, they thought that the reeds they relied on for survival had dried up and disappeared, and that they and the old ship would decay and rot here.

    They thought wrong.

    They were still bleeding and sweating, but their harvest changed from reeds to living people and huge numbers of people. They began to harvest people, the poor, and squeezed food, women, opium and even gold and silver from the poor.

    Relying on the unity and ruthlessness they learned during poverty, the Old Boat Gang became prosperous. They monopolized wasteland land, monopolized building materials and water sources in slums, monopolized black products such as opium and prostitutes, and monopolized the job opportunities of most of the coolies who applied for jobs at the factory docks.  , they became the invisible masters of the slums.

    But when there are more people, rebels will inevitably come out to compete with the overlords. The Annan Gang appeared: as the name suggests, their founders were a few smuggled Annan workers. In the foreign slums where they were unfamiliar, they saw themselves.  Outsiders are arbitrarily humiliated by local gangsters, their wives and daughters are raped and sold into prostitutes, and the money they have earned with their own blood and sweat is taken away;

    The strong-blooded people resisted angrily, sacrificing themselves at first, but the blood will not be shed in vain, blood is a sacred sacrifice; more and more outsiders began to use the blood of these victims as sacrifices to unite together, and then the blood flowed  Get more, enough to get their own territory and job opportunities. This is the Annan Gang.

    They are not only Annan people, but also Guangxi, Hunan, Fujian, Japanese, and Korean people. Anyone who is discriminated against or insulted because they cannot speak Cantonese should join the Annan Gang and become the "New Kingdom" of the slums.  Of course, the labor, servants, and soldiers must pay "taxes" to buy the order obtained by blood.

    Violence is the foundation and source of order, and profit is its motive, everywhere except Jesus Christ.

    Now on a "new continent", two new kingdoms have appeared. It is conceivable that what awaits the land is endless war, until one side is extinct or both sides are familiar with each other and recognize the other. Shiligou does not have the conditions for the latter, so the two gangs  There were frequent fights and killings. It was not until the past two years that the factory owners and real estate owners, the source of vitality, came forward to mediate. The two families sat down to negotiate for the first time and delineated a territory that no one would believe.

    No, the Annan Gang recently felt that its power was greater and out of proportion to its original territory, and began to provoke wars. Both sides had a winner and a loser. No one could do anything to the other, but no one was convinced, because neither side had blood yet.  To the extent that it makes oneself despair, or in other words, as a new gang, because it has enjoyed too many sweets and grown rapidly, the upper limit of its own pain has increased at the same speed as the pleasure of the sweetness.

    People are never satisfied.  (To be continued)There were frequent fights and killings. It was not until the past two years that the factory owners and real estate owners, the source of vitality, came forward to mediate. The two families sat down to negotiate for the first time and delineated a territory that no one would believe.

    No, the Annan Gang recently felt that its power was greater and out of proportion to its original territory, and began to provoke wars. Both sides had a winner and a loser. No one could do anything to the other, but no one was convinced, because neither side had blood yet.  To the extent that it makes oneself despair, or in other words, as a new gang, because it has enjoyed too many sweets and grown rapidly, the upper limit of its own pain has increased at the same speed as the pleasure of the sweetness.

    People are never satisfied.  (To be continued)
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