Chapter 145: Spoils Agreement
Raccoon Town has a small population, but it is so large that Ling Shizhe estimated that the entire town is equivalent to a quarter of the area of Hong Kong.
The reason is also very simple, Canada is more sparsely populated than the United States, and when the town was built, a large number of square gardens were planned.
These square gardens range from three to five acres to more than ten or twenty acres, plus residential areas, and are villa-type houses for every family, and each villa has a small garden and square.
All the buildings in Canada occupy a large area, and the population is very sparse, with tens of thousands of people scattered throughout the town, and you can't see many people around.
These form a special scenery of the town, which is both popular and quiet and peaceful, without the noise of Beijing/Beijing and Shanghai in later generations, and will not give people a great sense of loneliness because the population is too small.
This kind of scenery is not only in Raccoon Town, but also throughout Canada, and Ling Shizhe has heard that it is a happy life model that the Canadian government strongly promotes.
Canada's per capita GDP is not as high as that of the United States, and its wages are only one-third of that of the United States, but although its social welfare is not as good as that of Europe, it is better than that of the United States, and it is a country with a high family happiness index in the world.
There is discrimination in Canada, in Toronto, Montreal, and the capital, Ottawa, but it is much better than in the United States.
Canada's discrimination against the Chinese is mainly manifested in career promotion and political rights.
Montreal is a French-speaking city, where French is more spoken than English, but in Raccoon Town, which is part Chinese of Montreal, Mandarin is the dominant language and English is a second language.
The first thing people feel when they go to Raccoon Town is that there are a lot of Chinese here, and the major shopping malls and road signs are written in Chinese, and the following is a line of English, which is the change that Ling Shizhe has made since arriving here.
When Ambrera first moved here, Ling Shizhe saw that French was everywhere, the street signs were French, and people spoke in French, thinking that I was a Chinese, and I didn't speak Chinese on my territory, what was French like, so no matter whether the people below were happy or not, it was stipulated that Chinese and Mandarin were the first languages and English was the second language in Raccoon Town.
In the past few years, and more and more Chinese people have come here, and now Mandarin Chinese and Chinese have completely replaced French, becoming the first language here, if you really don't speak Mandarin, you can also speak English, the English here is London English, which is much more standard than other English-speaking areas.
Ambrera's North American headquarters building "Water Cube" is very huge, you can see it from a long distance, although it is not far from the town, but Ling Shizhe has no intention of going over, if you really want to go, you have to die.
Out of the square, a Lincoln diplomat produced by Ford stopped next to him, which was Ling Shizhe's car, and found the driver and bodyguard Zhang Ke smoking and chatting with the two of them in the car.
After the three of them saw Ling Shizhe coming, they greeted him together: "Boss."
Ling Shizhe took a look and found that they were all acquaintances, standing on Zhang Ke's left, wearing a Royal Mounted Police uniform, in his 40s, he was the new sheriff of the town, Cox, the original one had retired.
Standing to Cox's left is a Chinese, in his 60s, dressed in a crisp suit. Although he tries his best to show the appearance of a gentleman, as long as you pay a little attention, you will find that he has a faint sense of Jianghu.
He is none other than one of Ling Zhigao's four King Kongs, the White Tiger Chao Tianjiu.
Turning his head, he found a Ford police car parked across the road, and a policeman with an Asian face was drinking coffee in the car, and when he saw Ling Shizhe looking at him, he picked up a black police hat like a cowboy on his head with his right hand, and saluted Ling Shizhe.
Ling Shizhe turned to Cox and said, "I didn't expect there to be an Asian face policeman." ”
"Mr. Ling, his surname is Zhou, is a Chinese living in Montreal, last year their family moved here, their family opened an open-air café here, is the one you just went to, Zhou was recruited half a year ago, it turned out that three people went to work in the fire department, the position was vacant, I considered that there are more and more Chinese coming here, so I decided to recruit some Chinese, so that we can also communicate with them a little, which is conducive to our security work."
Cox obviously has a flattering element, but Ling Shizhe doesn't mind, the idea is very useful to Cox's sycophants, a small town with Chinese as the mainstream, Ling Shizhe neither wants to see all white police, nor does he want to see all Chinese police, both Chinese and white police, exactly what he expects, they can learn from each other's strengths and weaknesses, which is conducive to the progress of work.
Ling Shizhe beckoned to him, and the policeman surnamed Zhou ran over quickly and said in an extremely standard Mandarin: "Sir, is there any place where I can serve you?" ”
The policeman surnamed Zhou was more than 185mm tall, tall, burly, young and handsome, which left a very good impression on Ling Shizhe and asked, "What's your name and how old are you this year?" Where is the ancestral home? ”
"My name is Zhou Shanxing, I am 23 this year, and my ancestral home is Hei/Long/Jiang." Seeing Ling Shizhe's temperament, Zhou Shanxing was a little nervous, their family just moved here, they heard that the boss here is a young Chinese, seeing Ling Shizhe's temperament, and then seeing his boss and several people around him respect him, smart He vaguely realized that this young man in front of him who was not a few years older than him, ten ** is the legendary Ling Shizhe, the boss of Raccoon Town.
Therefore, when Ling Shizhe asked, he always had a respectful attitude, and he answered honestly.
asked him a few simple questions, and Ling Shizhe let Zhou Shanxing leave.
Then he said to the men, "This young man is good, there is good security here, Cox, I am very satisfied with your work." ”
"Thanks, that's what I'm supposed to do."
Then Ling Shizhe said to Chao Tianjiu again: "Uncle Jiu, this place has developed, and there are more and more people coming here, are there any other forces that have reached out here?" ”
Ling Shizhe said with obvious meaning, the sixties and seventies were the most rampant era of the North American underworld/gangs, not to mention the rest, just the Chinese, such as Hongmen, Qinggang, Zhigongtang and other overseas Chinese underworld gangs are simply everywhere, it can be said that there are Chinese there, there are these Chinese underworlds.
Not only these traditional triad organizations, but also some emerging Hong Kong and Taiwan triad organizations such as 14K, New Ngee An, and Zhulian Gang have reached out to overseas Chinese communities.
The underworld opened by these Chinese is quite fucked, specializing in blacking out their compatriots, doing anything that hurts the heavens and reason, Ling Shizhe doesn't want the place he has built up with great difficulty to be ruined by these people.
Chao Tianjiu had followed Ling Shizhe for so many years, knew his thoughts, and replied: "Seventh Young Master, after the development of this place, there were indeed some unsightly people some time ago, who came here to make trouble, but they were all cleaned up by us and Cox, and now they dare not come." ”
Cox nodded and said, "Yes, Mr. Ling, you can rest assured here, with us, no one can fight the idea here." ”
"Very good, but you still have to pay attention, you still have you," Ling Shizhe pointed at Cox and Chao Tianjiu with his finger, and said: "The two of you are the two forces that maintain the law and order of the town, you must sincerely cooperate to protect the town, so that people can live happily here, this is our territory, we must protect him." ”
"Mr. Ling, rest assured, Mr. Chao and I will cooperate sincerely to maintain this place." Cox glanced at Chao Tianjiu and said.
He knows very well what kind of person Chao Tianjiu is, and he also knows Ling Shizhe's background, the two of them are born cat and mouse, and now Ling Shizhe asks the cat and mouse to cooperate to maintain law and order here, Cox knows that he must first make a statement.
Sure enough, after hearing Cox's statement, Chao Tianjiu also made a statement, swearing that he would cooperate well with Sheriff Cox and maintain the law and order of Raccos Town.
Ling Shizhe nodded with satisfaction with the two of them, and said: "Very good, I believe you will not let me down, in addition, I will add a new rule here, you will inform the mayor of the town later, there can be no nightclubs here, let alone drug abuse, drug trafficking and prostitution happening here, there can be no overt or dark, understand?" ”
The two nodded, and after a while, Cox said again: "Mr. Ling, Mr. Chao has set up a security company here, and the merchants who have always come here have collected a certain amount of security management fees every month, Mr. Ling, you know, this is not in accordance with Canadian law." ”
Ling Shizhe looked at the two of them and understood what Cox was referring to, after Chao Tianjiu and his group of brothers moved here, they set up a security company, and in the name of public security management, they collected some protection fees from the merchants here.
It's nothing if you collect protection money, anyway, it's like this all over North America, as long as the law and order here is managed well, and no one comes here to make trouble, but the police represented by Cox have opinions, a gang of gangsters to maintain law and order, why do you want them to do the police.
At this time, Chao Tianjiu said: "Seventh Young Master, my brothers don't read anything, and they usually make a living by being security guards for others, if you don't charge some security fees, the brothers can't live!" ”
"But we police maintain law and order, and we don't charge them anything." Cox said.
Damn, after a long time, it turns out that those police are bothered about those protections.
After thinking about it, Ling Shizhe felt that it was impossible to return the protection money collected, but it was obviously not good to take out the benefits at all, although this money was not very much, it was also eye-catching.
After thinking about it, Ling Shizhe simply divided the protection fee into three, the security company, the police station and the fire department simply took one-third each, and some of the so-called security guards of the security company were converted into volunteer policemen and some were turned into volunteer firefighters.
In addition, the fire department and the police station will be expanded a little more, and they will be expanded in the future anyway, and some people are recruited from the security company, so that everyone can share the benefits together, and they can also cooperate sincerely.
After listening to Ling Shizhe's fertilizer distribution plan, the two also fully agreed, as for the expansion of the police station and the fire department, the police and police uniforms and new fire trucks and other equipment needed will all be purchased by Ambrera Company.
Those volunteer police officers and firefighters, Cox will train them, and they don't need Ling Shizhe to worry about it.
In order to better form a community of interests, Cox suggested that Ling Shizhe take out a sum of money every year to sponsor the Raccoon Town Government, which is not much, 20,000 or 30,000 Canadian dollars a year is enough.
After some discussion, everyone finally reached an agreement, the spoils were successfully concluded, and all that remained was to notify the town's fire department and the town's mayor.