Rodney reported to Lin Xia the birthday banquet of the Minister of Finance, and reported that because of the frequent visits of the nobles in Xishui Street, the land price is also rising, and many wealthy businessmen in Jiangbei want to come to Xishui Street to buy shops, and the price given is very high, Rodney wants to ask Lin Xia whether the shop is for sale, Lin Xia replied again: "Not for sale." ”

Because Hongxing was established for a short time after all, although there are three industries of Universal Entertainment, Universal Music, and Universal Clothing to protect Hongxing's economic resources, but after selling three brothels, Lin Xia's actual power is only one street, Xishui Street. Therefore, Lin Xia's current positioning for Hong Xing is "peace and development", to put it bluntly, it is not to conflict with other gangs for the time being, and let the brothers cultivate well.

Lin Xia felt that since he was on the territory of Jiangnan, he would inevitably have to deal with Bernie, the deputy governor of the Public Security Bureau in charge of Jiangnan, so he arranged for Bill to entertain Bernie at Universal Entertainment, which could be regarded as Bill's welfare to take care of Hongxing.

Although Bernie had a great time at Universal Entertainment, he didn't say anything about Hong Xing, and he didn't come back since. This made Bill a little incomprehensible, the previous paragraph also asked me to take care of Hong Xing more, why Bernie himself did not show much support for Hong Xing.

The last time Bernie reported to the Governor of the Sheriff's Office that Lin Xia had created a gang, and after being kicked by the Governor, because this incident alarmed the Emperor, Bernie was shocked and mistaken, thinking that the Emperor was going to support Lin Xia. After a while, he reacted, and the emperor just said that he didn't need to worry about it, that is, with Lin Xia, just treat Hongxing as an ordinary gang. But Bernie didn't say anything to Bill's subordinate for the sake of his own face.

Bill truthfully reported Bernie's actions to Lin Xia, and Lin Xia understood what Bernie meant: I came to your venue to play, which is to recognize Hongxing's status in Jiangnan, as long as you don't make too much trouble, I won't care, but I won't have any support for you.

Linxia sent Bill away and called Troy again. Let Troy investigate which boss in Gangnam Bernie is close to. After all, they are all within the scope of the imperial capital Jiangnan, and it is always necessary to understand the official preferences to do the later development.

It only took Troy one day to investigate the results and report back to Lin Xia, who was teaching Mandy a new song at this time. Troy was accompanied by Robben.

When Lin Xia saw Troy coming, he stopped teaching Mandy to sing, and saw Robben again, Lin Xia had a good impression of Robben, after all, it was Robben's "uniform" that inspired Lin Xia to start the transformation of entertainment venues.

Troy saluted Lin Xia first.

Lin Xia understood what Troy meant, and asked Mandy to go down and practice by himself first, after all, Mandy was not from Hong Xing, and Lin Xia didn't want Mandy to be involved in too much of Hong Xing's gang affairs.

After Mandy left, Troy reported to Lin Xia: "It has been found out, Bernie and Yin Deng are the closest." Bernie went to Yin Deng's brothel two or three times a week almost a week. ”

Lin Xia still has an impression of Yin Deng, it can be said that Yin Deng is the largest gang force in the Jiangnan region, and it turns out that he has the support of Bernie, the deputy governor. Moreover, Yin Deng's power is not far from Xishui Street, because the land price of Xishui Street has soared, and Lin Xia has not sold land, which has caused the land price closest to Xishui Street in Yin Deng's hand to rise a lot, so Yin Deng has picked up a lot of soup to drink.

Lin Xia nodded to Troy, saying that he knew, as long as Yin Deng didn't provoke him, Lin Xia didn't want to have any conflict with Yin Deng for the time being.

"One more thing. Troy looked hesitant.

"What's the matter?" Hearing that there was something else, Lin Xia couldn't help but ask.

"This matter was investigated by Robben. After Troy finished speaking, he said to Robben, "You come and report to the boss." ”

"Yes. Robben agreed, and said to Lin Xia as if offering a treasure: "Boss, I have found out the cause of Mandy's father's death." ”

Mandy has been in Hongxing for more than four months, and Lin Xia has not yet told Mandy the news of his father's death, and Mandy's father has always killed himself, but looking at Robben's meaning, it seems that things are not so simple. So he asked Robben, "What's the matter?"

"Once Yin Deng's men came to Hongchen to play, and after he drank too much, he lamented that Mandy had changed from a slave to a star, and I happened to hear him when he said this, so I went to him to inquire, and he said it all with the strength of wine. Robben paused for a moment and said respectfully: "Mandy's father owes money to one of Yin Deng's casinos, and it is a small boss under Yin Deng who manages this casino. After Mandy's father gave the casino 30 gold coins that Mandy had sold, the little boss was not satisfied, so he went to Mandy's house and continued to force Mandy's father to pay back. Mandy's father really couldn't come up with any money, so he could only threaten the little boss with hanging. ”

At this time, Lin Xia had already guessed it, so Robben could only continue: "Who would have thought that this little boss didn't take hanging seriously at all, and made sarcastic remarks, saying that Mandy's father was a scumbag who sold his daughter. In the end, Mandy's father, who should have felt guilty for his daughter, actually hanged himself, and this little boss watched from the sidelines until Mandy's father died. ”

After listening to Robben's story, Lin Xia thought for a while and said to Robben: "You go and tell Mandy the news, it's been four months, and it's time for her to know." ”

"Yes. Robben said yes and went to Mandy.

"It was all because Mandy's father was a gambler, Troy. Lin Xia called Troy.

Lin Xia instructed Troy: "You take two people, go find Yin Deng, and see what he says first." "Mandy's father's death, although Yin Deng's subordinates are responsible, is ultimately caused by his gambling, but Lin Xia has already regarded Mandy as his own and always wants Yin Deng to give an explanation.

Troy accepted Lin Xia's order and led people to find Yin Deng.

Lin Xia was a little worried about Mandy, so he wanted to go and see, and as soon as he walked to the door of Mandy's room, he heard Mandy sobbing in the room. Lin Xia stood at the door for a while, he didn't think about how to comfort Mandy, sighed, and could only let Yin Deng have some blood.

Because Yin Deng's field has more than a dozen, and Yin Deng likes to inspect various fields, Troy did not find Yin Deng until the afternoon of the next day, Yin Deng listened to the reason why Troy came to him, pondered for a while, and asked Troy to go back first, and would give him an answer tomorrow.

One day later, Lin Xia was listening to Rodney's report on the recent business situation in Hongxing, and Troy came to Lin Xia, and at the same time brought two bags sent by Yin Deng.

After Troy saluted Lin Xia, he handed the bag to Lin Xia.

After Lin Xia took it, he felt that one of the bags was heavy, and when he opened the bag, he saw a bag of gold coins slowly, and there were at least two hundred gold coins by sight. Another bag was opened, and inside was a bloody palm, apparently freshly chopped off, presumably by the hand of the little boss who had forced Mandy's father to death.

After seeing these two bags of things, Lin Xia immediately felt that this Yin Deng was not simple. From the current point of view, although Hong Xing's ability to absorb gold is very strong, his overall strength is obviously more than one level behind Yin Dengbi. And for the death of Mandy's father, this responsibility can only be regarded as half of Mandy's father and the little leader, and Lin Xia is not very reasonable.

Under such circumstances, Yin Deng still sent gold coins and a hand, which shows how deep Yin Deng's city government is.

Sending a hand was to tell Lin Xia that he was responsible for Mandy's father's death, so he cut off a hand to compensate Mandy. And sending gold coins is nothing more than two purposes, first, Yin Deng's land price has risen, which can be regarded as inheriting Lin Xia's favor. Second, because Lin Xia has an aristocratic status, the money should be regarded as a gift to the nobles.

Two hundred gold coins is not a small amount, after all, when Xavier was not included in Hongxing, the monthly profit was only more than thirty gold coins.

Lin Xia handed the two bags back to Troy and gave them to Mandy, although the bags of gold coins were given to him, they should be paid by Yin Deng to Mandy.

Troy took the bag, turned around and was about to give it to Mandy, but was stopped by Lin Xia again: "Don't open the bag for Mandy to see." ”

After Troy left, Linxia asked Rodney to continue reporting.

While listening to Rodney's report, Lin Xia couldn't help but feel a little worried when he thought that Yin Deng had such a deep city mansion, and Bernie was behind him, and he was also his neighbor.

After Rodney finished reporting on the business situation, Lin Xia just sat quietly, Rodney thought that Lin Xia was thinking about the next plan, and did not dare to disturb, and stood aside respectfully and waited for Lin Xia to give instructions for the next step.

Lin Xia smiled, is he too sensitive, Yin Deng is obviously showing favor to himself, and he is still worried about something. Raising his eyes, he saw that Rodney was still standing respectfully, a little embarrassed, and said to Rodney: "I'm sorry, I was thinking about something just now, where did you go?"

"I've finished debriefing. Rodney replied, thinking for a moment, and then saying, "Do you need me to report again?"

"Forget it. Lin Xia shook his hand and continued: "You have done a good job, continue to operate according to your ideas." ”

"Yes. Rodney respectfully agreed, "Boss, there's one more thing. ”

"What's the matter?" Lin Xia asked.

"When I came this morning, a girl from Universal Entertainment reported to me that Yin Deng sent someone to poach people. Rodney reported.

Lin Xia felt a little strange, Yin Deng's family had a big business, who came to Global Entertainment to dig up, suddenly remembered and asked, "Come to dig our singing girl?"

"Yes. ”

"Has anyone been poached?" Lin Xia asked.

"Not yet. Rodney replied.

It seems that these girls still have a conscience, these girls used to pick up customers, since they changed the way they do business, these girls only need to sing on stage, which is much easier than picking up customers. And there are many girls who have their own fans, and in their previous lives, they were equivalent to fourth- and fifth-tier starlets.

"If there is no girl to go, there is no need to care about Yin Deng's people. "Lin Xia just received Yin Deng's money, and it is not easy to pursue it directly.

"But this morning, some brothers heard the sound of singing in Yin Deng's brothel, and the practice was the customer's favorite 'little apple'. Rodney said with a little concern.

Lin Xia also knew that it wouldn't take long for piracy to appear, but he didn't expect it to be so fast, he thought for a while, and said to Rodney: "Let's see the situation first." "When it's over, let Rodney go back to Universal Entertainment first and prepare for business.

It seems that Yin Deng sent two hundred gold coins, and there is a third reason, which is to buy my song. Hmph, it seems that I look down on you, and I want to buy my song for two hundred gold coins, I think you have been the boss for too long, so you should be confused.

In the next few days, all of Yin Deng's brothels imitated the way Universal Entertainment nightclubs operated, set up stages, sang pirated Little Apples, and soon Yin Deng's business improved. And Universal Entertainment has a lot of Mandy's die-hard loyalists, and although the turnover has declined, it is still within the acceptable range.