Volume 1 Crossing the Rivers and Lakes and Involving Temples Chapter 35 Collecting Protection Fees
After a month of dismal operation, Fenghualou is gradually on the right track, although the restaurant is not full, but everyone is also busy!
Ye Chen was practicing boxing and martial arts with everyone in the front yard, and in the past month, the twenty King Kongs of the Anjiang Association had not done anything, just practiced boxing, eating, and sleeping in the courtyard every day. Ye Chen knew in his heart that everyone had been suffocated recently, and if they didn't find something to do, they might not be able to figure out what moths would come up with!
Now the people who know about their Anjiang Society are these people in the courtyard plus Huangfu Leng, Ying Qi and Qin Xiaoqin, while the people outside don't know what Anjiang will do at all, and they haven't even heard of this name. Ye Chen's first step is to let An Jiang Club rise on the rivers and lakes first, so that everyone in the rivers and lakes knows that there is such a gang organization.
Ye Chen called Wang Si and said, "You go and find out which shops in this area have paid protection money to the Black Snake Gang, and we should take over these shops." ”
Wang Si smiled and said, "Helper, you don't need to check this, I know." All the large and small casinos, brothels, restaurants, shops, etc. in the west of the city, if there is one, they all pay protection money. ”
Chen Bing on the side said with a smile: "Obediently, it's really hard to collect this protection fee in a month." Let's not talk too much, there are hundreds of large and small shops. ”
Zou Hu's eyes widened and said, "Ye Chen, oh no, helper, then we'll send it later." ”
Ye Chen looked at the few of them and said, "In the future, you can all call me Ye Chen or Chenzi, there is no need to call the helper, listen to the diaphragm." ”
Chen Bing smiled: "That's not good, it should be called, or it has to be called, otherwise after a long time, the people below will not have the heart to respect." ”
Zou Hu echoed: "Yes, since he is the leader of a gang, he has a bit of an honorific title." ”
Wang Si also said: "Helper, I think what they said is right. ”
Ye Chen couldn't help it, but he was really a little embarrassed by the call of the gang leader, so he said: "Let's change my name to the boss in the future!" ”
Everyone clasped their fists and said in unison: "Meet the boss, the boss is mighty......"
Ye Chen interrupted everyone and said, "Zou Hu, you will be in charge of the twenty King Kongs in the future, you will now divide them into two teams, one team will continue to train according to the standards of the military camp at home, and the other team will go out with me to collect protection money!" ”
Zou Hu smiled: "Okay." Then he turned to the twenty King Kong and said, "According to the team just now, the first team will stay at home, and the second team will follow me to the boss to collect protection money." ”
Ye Chen took people from the east side of the Cuihe River to visit one by one, and basically said after entering: "We belong to the Anjiang Society, and we will hand over the protection fee of the Black Snake Gang to me in the future." Some small shops don't want to make a big fuss and affect their small business, so they immediately hand over this month's protection fee, but Ye Chen waved his hand and said: "In the future, it will be collected regularly at the end of each month, and the rest of the time will not be collected." The shopkeeper was stunned and didn't hand over the money in his hand.
Zou Hu didn't understand Ye Chen's actions, if he didn't take the money, didn't the boss think it was too little?
And for those brothel casinos, Ye Chen is unrelenting. There are several brothels and casinos that have raised a lot of thugs, and when Ye Chen reported to his home, the boss actually asked the thugs to drive Ye Chen and the others out, but the top ten King Kongs behind Ye Chen can be shaken by ordinary thugs.
After an afternoon of tossing, Ye Chen and his party had already visited most of the merchants by the Green River. Ye Chen looked at everyone who was still interested at the beginning, but now it is like a frosted eggplant, wilting. pointed to the pawnshop in front of him and said, "Let's go back to drink after this house." As soon as everyone heard this, they immediately mentioned the spirit of the twelve.
Ye Chen turned his head to look at Chen Bing and said, "Second boss, go ahead, I've said everything I have done all the way." ”
Chen Bing rolled up his sleeves and walked inside, who knew that after a while, he saw Chen Bing being framed out by four strong men, Zou Hu said: "It seems that I have encountered hard stubble." Immediately with a wave of his hand, the top ten diamond fish behind him rushed in, only to hear the sound of punching and kicking from the pawnshop, Hu Jie poked his head out and said to Ye Chen: "Boss, it's solved, you can come in." ”
After Ye Chen entered, he found that there were six or seven big men lying crookedly inside. Ye Chen looked at the bookkeeper inside the pawnshop fence and said, "You are the boss here?" ”
The bookkeeper shook his head.
Ye Chen asked again: "What about your boss, call him out." We are from the Chengcheng Anjiang Society, and I will collect your protection money in the future. ”
Suddenly, a man lying on the ground laughed and said, "Boy, do you know who opened this pawnshop?" ”
Ye Chen walked up to him and squatted down, frowned and asked, "Who opened it, I'll listen to what you say." ”
The man slowly sat up and said, "Have you heard of the Double Knife Society, this pawnshop is the territory of Gu Weilong, the boss of our Double Knife Society, boy, where do you come from and where do you go, otherwise when our boss comes, you won't be able to leave if you want to." ”
Zou Hu stepped forward and slapped the man, who knew that he was still scolding and scolding, this move completely annoyed everyone, and he was beaten again. When Ye Chen looked at him again, he had already changed his appearance, becoming fatter and his skin redder.
Ye Chen looked at this pig's head and asked, "Isn't this Xu Jing's territory?" Xu Jing has trampled to death for a few months, how did it become the territory of your boss Gu Weilong. ”
The man didn't dare to make a mistake anymore, and said obediently: "After the death of Xu Jing of the Black Snake Gang, the Black Snake Gang also dispersed. Some people ran to our Shuangdao Club, in order to show their sincerity, they also brought a lot of land deeds, so that part of Xu Jing's property fell into the hands of our Brother Long, and a few of us showed Brother Long. ”
Ye Chen pointed to the bookkeeper and asked, "He is also from your Double Knife Society?" ”
The man replied: "No, he turned out to be the bookkeeper arranged by Xu Jing here, and there was no suitable person after we took over, so we didn't replace him." ”
Ye Chen said with a smile: "Go back and tell you Brother Long, just say that the Anjiang Society in the west of our city has taken over the territory of the Black Snake Gang, and it is best for him not to set foot in the west of our city in the future, otherwise don't blame me for taking it down with your double sword club in the north of the city." After speaking, Ye Chen kicked him and told him to go back and report the news.
After a few people left the pawnshop, Ye Chen directly took them back to the front yard of Fenghua Building, ordered people to serve wine and food, and everyone began to drink and talk. During the banquet, Wang Si whispered to Ye Chen: "Boss, there are more than 100 people under the Double Knife Society, and we only have about 20 people here, what if they come to the door?" ”
Ye Chen smiled and asked, "Does anyone outside know where our An Jiang will be?" ”
Wang Si suddenly reacted and said with a smile: "You are still the boss, you are powerful." As he spoke, he picked up his glass and said, "Boss, I respect you." I know that you think that I am a member of the Inspectorate, and I am always a little estranged from me, but I don't blame you, and please don't blame me, my duty is to say, and I know what to say and what not to say. ”
Ye Chen smiled: "It's okay, our goal is the same, and I believe that your boss Qin Xiaoqin will not pit me." Wang Si nodded and drank the wine in his hand.
After drinking with everyone, Ye Chen came to the very edge table alone and stood still, looked at the five people on the table and said, "It's been almost a month since you came to me, and I basically haven't said anything to you." The brothers below are very strange about your identity, but the funny thing is that I, the boss, don't know either, I only know that you came from the imperial city. But I need to know your names anyway, or I'll be too embarrassed as the boss. ”
Seeing that the middle-aged man who looked a little thinner and weaker, he got up and hugged his fists and said, "Please don't blame, the five of us don't have names, only code names." ”
Ye Chen suddenly remembered the punishment of the teacher in the village before, if anyone did not listen carefully to the teacher's teaching in class to solve their doubts, he would let him stay and copy rare characters after school. At that time, he and Chen Bing always exchanged words and didn't take classes seriously, so they also copied a lot of rare characters, some of which he still remembers vividly.
Ye Chen dipped his fingers in the wine, and wrote five words on the table, "魑, charm, 魍, 魉, kui", looking at these five words, the corners of the five men's mouths showed a slight smile, for some reason, the five of them liked these words. Ye Chen looked at them and said: "The name is given by the parents and elders, I don't dare to do it for me, if a few people don't dislike it, you can replace it with these words!" ”
The five of them immediately got up, picked up the wine and drank the glass with Ye Chen. The man at the head said: "In the future, we will be the five ghosts of Anjiang, and we will be the ghosts and ghosts." ”
Ye Chen said with a smile: "Being able to get a few strong generals is the blessing of my Anjiang Society." After saying that, he drank it all with everyone.
In the ancient house in the south of the city, Gu Weilong, the boss of the Double Knife Society, looked at the six or seven people lying on the ground in front of him, hating his teeth itching, his skills were not as good as others, and he lost his face, what is the most important thing to come out and mix? Face!
Gu Weilong is about fifty years old, but he looks full of energy, as if he is not a man over half a hundred years old. He listened to one of the men report on the various actions of Ye Chen and his subordinates, and the more he listened, the more angry he became, and said that the territory of the Black Snake Gang would be taken over by Anjiang, and he didn't take their Double Sword Society in his eyes at all!
Gu Weilong called his subordinates and asked, "Where did they come from, why have you never heard of their names before?" ”
The people under my hand, you look at me, I look at you, all of them are stunned, and they don't know where to start, because no one has heard of Anritsukai!
Gu Weilong then left the ancient mansion with a few people, and went to visit a person he usually offered, so he didn't need to stay any longer at this critical moment.
But after an hour, Gu Weilong returned to the ancient mansion and found nothing. That man didn't know where Anritsukai came from, let alone when it was founded, and he hadn't heard of any new gangs in the neighborhood!
He looked at his men and ordered: "From tomorrow onwards, all my business in the west of the city must be guarded by more than ten people, and if you meet these people again, you will come back immediately to report it." Also, let people go out to check if there are any strangers in the city recently. If so, don't alarm them, let me know in time, I don't believe I can't find them yet. And they were commanded to depart.
In the small courtyard, Ye Chen kept sneezing, and Chen Bing said with a smile: "I guess someone is scolding you behind your back!" ”