After the content of Li Xiaomu's speech in the second half entered the main topic, Li Guangzhi was listening at the same time, and at the same time sorting out and analyzing what he said. Hearing Li Xiaomu's last words, he pondered for a while and said:

"Lao Li, judging from the situation you introduced earlier, your concern is not unreasonable. Unless we can let Nu Luoquan and the Northeast Gang fight, and completely defeat or subdue the Northeast Gang. Otherwise, the threat will always exist. ”

"But this way," he shook his head and said, "Dayong's face may not be able to say that the boss of Luo Quan is angry, and I won't let Dayong do this." As I said early on, we're here to make money, not to mess with the dark. It's too dangerous for the gang to fight, and I'm definitely not going to let Dayong get involved. ”

Li Xiaomu nodded helplessly and agreed: "This method will definitely not work, let's not talk about the danger or anything, we can't take such a big benefit to ask Luo Quan and the Northeast Gang to do the opposite." The gangsters also have to eat, and if you don't have enough benefits to take, no matter how big your face is, it is impossible for them to help you fight. ”

Li Guangzhi scratched the stubble on his chin, and said to Li Xiaomu thoughtfully: "Lao Li, you are right, interests are the driving force behind all problems. These three gangsters want to get rid of you, aren't they just jealous that you can make money in this business? It's just that the current interest space of the insiders in the case is too small, and they won't have anything to eat if you are there, so they have to drive you away. ”

He patted Li Xiaomu on the shoulder, and said in a somewhat eager tone: "Lao Li, have you ever tried to think about it from a different angle." If we can make the business of insiders bigger, so that the profit margin can accommodate more people, will it be considered to solve the contradiction with these gangsters to some extent? ”

Li Xiaomu looked at him with a confused expression, as if he didn't understand the meaning of his words at all.

He explained: "I have a vague idea about how to develop a new way of working as an insider. If this idea can be successfully realized, the profits from the business of the insiders should be able to support the expansion of our small group to 200 people. ”

"As long as we can control some of the key points in this new way, and are not afraid of being turned against customers, then we can take the initiative to invite those gangsters to work together. These gangsters are all mothers with milk, as long as the benefits we give are big enough, maybe these gangsters will work for us in the future. ”

Li Xiaomu finally understood what Li Guangzhi meant this time, he opened his mouth slightly in astonishment, and hesitated for a while before saying, "Guangzhi, are you thinking about things too simply?" Do you really have such a powerful way? ”

Li Guangzhi shook his head with a slightly wry smile and said: "I just have a general idea now, this method is not feasible on the streets of Kabukicho now, if it is feasible, I haven't thought about how to operate these specifically." ”

He raised his hand and looked at his watch, then sat up straight and said to Li Xiaomu: "Lao Li, whether my idea can be formed in the end depends mainly on how well I understand the customs and customs in Kabukicho Street. It's not too early now, I think let's not think about it so much for now, or as I said before, you can take me to familiarize yourself with the environment here. ”

The three of them came out of the store at about nine o'clock in the evening. This is the busiest time of year in Kabukicho Street.

The buildings on both sides of the street are almost covered from top to bottom by colorful neon signs and light boxes, and the whole street seems to float above a sea of lights as far as the eye can see. Those dense signboards and light boxes, or ambiguous, provocative and funny texts, or sexually seductive and seductive images of half-naked girls, are all seducing the inner desires of people in the middle of it.

Li Guangzhi and the three of them strolled along this street of desire, and from time to time they were stopped by solicitors outside the shops along the street to solicit business.

"Sir, do you want to eat? We have some of the best teppanyaki chefs in all of Shinjuku, and we have special prices right now. ”

"Ani KI (big brother), do you want to take a shower and relax? The service from the girls in our shop is superb! ”

"Gentlemen, let's have a drink at the store, Asahi draft beer is 200 yen a cup, and the drink question (all-you-can-drink) is only 980 yen per person!"

The trio bypassed one solicitor after another. Li Xiaomu introduced to Li Guangzhi as he walked: "Now that business in Kabukicho Street is sluggish, many regular stores have to hire people to solicit customers at the door, but there was no such chaos here in the past two years. ”

He added: "Actually, these people can be regarded as our peers, but they basically only attract domestic customers, and they will only stand in front of their own stores, and there is no competition between them." ”

Li Guangzhi looked left and right, and asked: "Lao Li, the one who asked us if we wanted to take a bath just now should have been soliciting customers for the "Collecting Pu" store." There is the Shinjuku Ward Hall right next to here, so can you also open a "Pu" store here? ”

The so-called "Shupu" shop is a Japanese homonym for the English "soap-land", which is another name for a single bathroom, a major category of Japanese custom shops.

In the 50s, the Japanese government promulgated a new "Buying and Buying Spring Prevention Law", which stipulates that in all custom shops, customers are not allowed to have substantive relations with practitioners. As a result, the custom shop of the single bathroom quickly became popular.

The single bathroom, in fact, is a hybrid of a brothel and a bathhouse. In order to comply with the law, the restaurant only provides customers with a private bathroom and a girl to accompany them. As for what happens to guests and bathmaids in closed bathrooms, it's all personal freedom, not the shopkeeper.

This statement was acquiesced in by the government at the time, and was further confirmed in the newly revised Act on the Prohibition of Customs, Business, etc. As a result, this type of custom shop, which was originally called a "hammam", was created and quickly became a major player in the entire Japanese custom industry.

On the surface, it is still stipulated that there is no "this time" between guests and bathing women, but they can provide guests with a variety of non-substantive services. For example, the "mat game" that can be seen in many bath-themed love action movies in later generations - the guests lie on the air mattress in the bathroom, and the bathing lady is covered with slippery foam rubbing on the guests, which is the reserved item in the "Receiving Pu" store.

In later generations, the "Guan-style service" that has been certified by the ISO9000 has many service items, which are also learned from the Japanese "general collection" store at this time, and then carried forward.

In the 80s, a Turkish student was dissatisfied with the term "hammam" and protested to the Japanese government through the embassy. The Japanese government, which is especially face-loving in front of foreigners, has been very kind enough to ban the term "hammam". As a result, the clever Japanese shop owners simply gave their shop a very intuitive and apt name - "Soap Land", which was later shortened to "Shopu".

"Collecting Pu" and "Snaku" are the two basic industries in the Japanese customs industry, so Li Guangzhi, who was formerly in Sapporo's Susukino Happy Street, also knows something from the memory of his predecessor.

According to the 1984 revised Law on the Prohibition of Customary Businesses, etc., it is not allowed to open "general collection" shops in schools, residential areas, and around government offices. That's why Li Guangzhi was curious, the Shinjuku Ward Office is not far from the side, how can there be a clerk from the "Collecting Pu" store openly soliciting customers outside.