Halfway through the soup kitchen, Xiao Zhenlei was thinking about the purchase of rubber stocks at Huade Road Villa, and the two girls, Wang Yanan and Cheng Biyao, were already tired and sweating, and they wanted to take them away and hand over the affairs here to Eagle, Song Shijie and others.

But at this moment, there was a commotion from the rear of the deserters, and the sounds of beating, scolding, screaming, and crying also came, Xiao Zhenlei walked to a high place to take a look, only to see hundreds of ruffians wearing green gang costumes coming behind him, these ruffians rushed into the crowd of refugees and punched and kicked, and kept shouting insults.

Sensing the danger, the deserters fled to the side, and the soup kitchen became empty in an instant, and the deserters stood in the distance with bowls in their hands.

After the escapees fled to the side, the hundreds of people in the Green Gang came to the front of the six cauldrons one by one under the leadership of a middle-aged man, the middle-aged man was bareheaded, stout and acquainted, with a face full of horizontal meat, quite a bit fierce, he stood still in front of the six cauldrons and said loudly to Wang Yanan and others who were holding a spoon behind the cauldron: "Mom, call your steward!" ”

When Xiao Zhenlei saw these people coming, his face was already unsightly, and when he saw the big man asking, he stepped forward and hugged his fists and said: "I am in charge here, I don't know what this big brother means by bringing so many people?" ”

"What do you mean? Ho! The middle-aged bald man asked rhetorically, and suddenly sneered: "Your Zhenhua Company has been allowed by the government to open a factory and build a house here, but it has not been approved by my Mingjiang Dragon Cao Gaitian, right?" In Baoshan, one acre and three points of land, only the government is covered, and this is the territory of my Qinggang Shandong Gang. Without my consent, no one wants to make a living here! ”

Xiao Zhenlei said in a deep voice when he heard this: "That's according to Cao Ye's meaning." How can this matter be resolved? ”

At this time, a younger brother didn't know where to get a chair and put it behind Cao Gaitian, Cao Gai sat down and folded his arms and nostrils to the sky: "Your Zhenhua company has been working here for more than a month, right?" Before, Lao Tzu thought that you would go to the government first. Maybe there are more things at the beginning, and when you are busy for a while, you will take the initiative to visit Lao Tzu and give me some tea and money, but now it's been almost two months, and you haven't even come to pay homage to Lao Tzu, do you think you are deliberately slapping Lao Tzu in the face? Lao Tzu will put the words here today, if you don't take out 100,000 taels to buy peace, from now on, don't build this factory. Lay another brick, and Lao Tzu will tell the brothers to knock down a piece! ”

Hearing the number of 100,000 taels, not only the little brother behind Mingjianglong was stunned, but even the escapees who were standing nearby gasped, in the first year of this year, when coolies could only earn sixty or seventy dollars a day, they had never heard of the number of 100,000 taels, and this Mingjianglong asked for 100,000 taels of filial piety when he opened his mouth, it was really a lion's mouth!

"Ha, hahaha??????" Xiao Zhenlei burst out laughing when he heard this.

Cao Gaitian, the dragon of the mixed river, laughed when he saw Xiao Zhenlei. Immediately stood up and was furious: "What? You don't want to give? ”

Xiao Zhenlei smiled and said, "Give it, we will definitely give the money, but this big brother of Mingjiang Long." Are you asking for a little too much? Do you know what the concept of 100,000 taels is? It only costs 100,000 taels for this large factory to be fully completed, and your eldest brother will ask for 100,000 taels, as far as I know. Even for officers and students studying in the Army Academy, the highest monthly military salary subsidy is only one tael or eight yuan of silver, and you know how many soldiers and horses can be raised for 100,000 taels of silver? An army of 5,000 men can be paid for a year! You said that if I give the 100,000 taels to the Baoshan Ge County Order. Tell him that there is a big brother Cao Gaitian who doesn't let us open a factory. This not only cut off my financial route, but also his financial route, what do you think he will do? ”

Cao Gaitian's face changed when he heard this, and he said coldly: "What? Is this gentleman in charge threatening me to mix up the river and Cao Gaitian? ”

Xiao Zhenlei smiled: "Don't dare, please tell me the real price!" ”

The mixed Jianglong didn't know which tendon was wrong, so he refused: "No, Lao Tzu said 100,000 taels, just 100,000 taels, not one less eldest son, otherwise from now on, don't think about starting work, don't think that you can bluff Lao Tzu by lifting the county order out."

Xiao Zhenlei looked at Cao Gaitian coldly, he really wanted to pull out his gun and kill this guy with one shot now, but after killing this guy, the hundreds of people behind him were not all useless guys, if they really wanted to do it, it was impossible for the fifty people of the escort team who had just been training for a month to do these hundreds of green gang men, but if they didn't start work, they would lose a lot of money.

After weighing it in his heart, Xiao Zhenlei gritted his teeth and decided to endure it, "Okay, Boss Cao is ruthless enough, I admit it!" ”

Yan said to Hu Weishan, who was standing nearby guarding against Cao Gaitian: "Old Hu, you ride back to find Mr. Fan, just say what I said, let him withdraw 100,000 taels of silver tickets!"

"Yes, sir!" Hu Weishan promised to turn around and leave.

It wasn't until more than an hour later that Hu Weishan and Fan Zhiyong rode over at the same time, and Cao Gaitian had been sitting there for more than an hour, and the little brother next to him didn't know where to get a pot of tea and made him a cup of tea, so he sat there drinking tea, shaking his head and humming a tune.

Fan Zhiyong got off the horse, walked up to Xiao Zhenlei and took out the silver ticket and handed it over: "Sir, this is 100,000 taels!" ”

Xiao Zhenlei didn't answer, and directly shook his head at Cao Gaitian: "Send it over!" ”

Fan Zhiyong glanced at Cao Gaitian, turned around and walked over and handed the silver ticket to Cao Gaitian, Cao Gaitian waited for so long, where would he have thought that Xiao Zhenlei really found someone to send him 100,000 taels, took the silver ticket and looked at it, only to know that this was the real 100,000 taels of silver ticket, he raised his head and laughed.

"Hahaha, Zhenhua Company really knows each other, since your company is so acquainted, then today I Cao Gaitian will talk to the word, don't look for your trouble, you can continue to work, however, you have to remember that every month today, you must send the protection fee on time, 10,000 taels a month, if it is not delivered by then, then I Cao Gaitian has to bring my brothers over again, brothers, go, let's go back, today I Cao Gaitian made a fortune, and you also follow Lao Tzu to eat and drink spicy."

"Oh, oh, oh??????" The hundreds of little brothers that Cao Gaitian took with him immediately coaxed loudly when they heard this, and they were so excited that they supported Cao Gaitian and walked away in a commotion.

Xiao Zhenlei watched the hundreds of people and horses go away with a blushing face and was silent, Hu Weishan and others rushed over and said unwillingly to Xiao Zhenlei: "Sir, just suffer a dumb loss and let them take away so much money?" ”

Xiao Zhenlei didn't speak, he reached into his pocket and touched the cigarette, it can be said that this time is the most cowardly since he crossed over, no, from the beginning of his previous life to the present, but what can he do if he doesn't grit his teeth and endure it? Cao Gaitian brought too many people this time, many times the number of escorts, even if Xiao Zhenlei was a traverser and his own strength was superior, what could he do? He wouldn't be so stupid as to think that his people could compete with ten times more people than his own, even if he had a gun in his hand, after all, he had limited bullets, and it was not an automatic rifle, so the firepower was limited.

Lighting a cigarette and taking a few puffs, Xiao Zhenlei exhaled the smoke and said slowly: "What can we do about the situation today?" Don't give? If you don't give it, you can't start work, you will lose a day if you delay it for a day, and if you drag it for ten days and a half months, the loss will be more than 100,000 taels, fight with them? How to spell it? There are only 60 people on our side, and there are nearly 500 people surnamed Cao, although they are all ruffians and have no combat effectiveness, but they are better than many people, if we really want to fight, we will be angry, we can't do it, unless we sneak attack and kill them by surprise, let them mess up, but in broad daylight, we can't do it at all, rather than our more than 50 people are lost here, it is better to endure this breath, this revenge will be avenged sooner or later! ”

Everyone was silent when they heard Xiao Zhenlei's words, but their resentment towards Cao Gaitian in their hearts was even greater.

None of the dozens of people in the on-site escort team spoke, and the escapees and construction team members who came up not far away were standing still. Xiao Zhenlei smoked a cigarette until a cigarette was finished, then threw the cigarette butt on the ground and ordered: "Okay, continue to give porridge, Hu Weishan, you are responsible for maintaining order here, if anyone does not come in order, stop the porridge, and tell them that they will never give porridge again from now on, yes, these insensitive people, eating Lao Tzu and drinking Lao Tzu have been for several months, this kind of thing happened today, no one came to help, if Lao Tzu feeds these porridge to the dog, the dog knows how to wag its tail a few times!" ”

Hu Weishan clenched his fists and said in a deep voice: "Understood! ”

Xiao Zhenlei shook his head at the eagle again, the eagle walked over, the two walked side by side to the construction site office, Xiao Zhenlei said: "It seems that the training of the escort team should be accelerated, and the equipment should be solved as much as possible, the number of people is still too small, from tomorrow to recruit people in the name of expanding the escort team, expand the number of escort troops, recruit all the time, recruit a company to train a company, there is no limit to the number of people, I will solve it on the official side, but the specific number of escorts must be concealed externally, and internally, only a few of us can know." Tomorrow I will find someone from the construction team and ask them to build another fence on the open space over there, which will be used as a training ground and a rest camp for the time being, and you will find someone to put barbed wire around it and set up obstacles to prevent anyone from prying eyes. In addition, Song Shijie and Wang Yaqiao will come over, and we will have a meeting in the afternoon."

"Okay, I'll go and inform!" (To be continued......) R1292