Before they were identified as gangs involved in organized crime and evil, the word "gangs" would not be written on the faces of the criminal syndicates and evil elements, but on the contrary, some criminal and evil elements still had gold on their faces, saying that they were famous entrepreneurs, philanthropists, deputies to the people's congress, members of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and models of flood fighting and rescue, advanced individuals in supporting earthquake-stricken areas, and even some were rated as model workers.

Strange, you say, isn't it strange?

It is not surprising at all, because the underworld wants money on the one hand, and on the other hand, they also demand safety, because they know what they have done, and they need to use black and violent means to seek wealth, and what should they do if they seek safety?

On the one hand, it is to win over and corrupt political and legal cadres, and on the other hand, it is to package itself and paint itself with a protective color, so that the government does not dare to touch them easily.

This is all a high-level idea, gangs involved in crime have military advisors, and those who do not have military advisors must be clever themselves, otherwise, it will be easy to be defeated.

The early underworld elements, that is, the underworld elements before the 20th century, were still in their infancy, and they usually only fought and killed, as if they were venting their excessive energy, and they would be uncomfortable if they didn't fight a few times.

As long as no one dies, go in and stay for a few days and come out, which is completely reckless.

In the reckless stage, the underworld elements have little economic foundation, and when a few lazy and brave people gather together, they become a gang.

There is no money in the pocket, and if you are in a hurry, you will go to robbery, and robbery is a felony, and once you are caught, the gang is defeated.

If you don't get caught, you will have the original capital all of a sudden, and then you will start to enter the money-making industry, mainly to open game halls, and sometimes to do some illegal business of opening casinos.

Or several people gathered together to extort money, targeting some bosses who got rich first, and the bosses did not dare to call the police if they were blackmailed in order to calm things and calm people, break their wealth and eliminate disasters.

The second is to help people watch the field, compete for territory, collect protection fees, and do these primitive side trades.

But with the development of the times, the progress of the economy, and more and more industries that make money, the underworld must see the money, see which industry makes money fast, and go to which industry to enter, the premise is, of course, the threshold for entry is low, after all, the IQ of the underworld has shortcomings, too high-end, they can't understand, that's blind.

As a result, earthwork engineering, mineral resources, property management, KtV, bathing centers and other industries have become the target of the underworld.

The eldest brother makes a lot of money, and the younger brother drinks soup with him, and there is still a face to go where to do things, not to mention ordinary public officials, even the leaders are stunned when they see them, and they don't want to see these people in general, so the underworld elements are becoming more and more arrogant.

If righteousness does not exist, evil will inevitably rise, and criminal syndicates will begin to take root downwards and sprout upwards.

Taking root downward means invading the grassroots political power, and after the criminal and evil elements have money, they have no political status, so entering the village-level grassroots political power through elections has become a way to improve their political status.

Becoming the director of the village committee, on the one hand, his status has improved, and he has the legitimacy of what he does, and on the other hand, he can also use the identity of the village director to make money everywhere.

Most of the criminal and evil elements who infiltrated the grassroots political power were small minions, and the eldest brother behind them was a little disdainful of being a small village chief, so he began to sprout upward, befriended leading cadres at all levels, became deputies to the people's congress and members of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and turned into celebrities.

Bull nose, right?

became the village director, became a celebrity, and further expanded the wealth map, when it reached a certain level, the evil brother suddenly felt that he wanted to be an underworld? The history of the previous sinful family must be discarded and become a real celebrity.

This began to be whitewashed, no longer doing illegal business, cutting off from the former brothers, behaving as celebrities, and some people succeeded, sincerely to the Buddha, and honestly being good people.

But some people may not be able to succeed, after all, history is continuous, not that he can cut it if he wants to, and if he was slapped in the face before, he will immediately have a younger brother to fight back, and now he is slapped in the face, but he doesn't dare to backhand, how depressing it is.

So, once there is any dispute, don't you still have to shake people? Shake people, cut a fart, wash a white fart, and go all the way to the black.

The underworld who started a business in the early days made a fortune by operating earthwork engineering and other industries, the so-called first rich drive the later rich, and the later underworld wanted to learn from it, but the cake has been eaten by people, and it is not so easy for him to grab it, so if he wants to get rich, he must find another way.

What's the wrong way? That's the Routine Loan.

As soon as the economy is hot, finance is naturally hot, not to mention banks, private financing is also in full swing, which makes the underworld see business opportunities.

Ordinary people may not be able to collect money if they lend it out, but the underworld elements can, because the underworld elements dare to use any means, and they are not afraid that the borrower will not pay it back.

Later, I found out that making money like this is still too slow, it is better to make more complicated ones, I am not simply lending you, but to trick you, lend me 1 million, and finally it is possible to repay 10 million, this speed of making money, is not worse than doing real estate, right?

In the end, real estate developers are working for routine lenders.

Step by step is developing, and if you don't crack down, maybe some moths will pop up.

In comparison, Cao Hongzhi did not become a criminal element from the beginning, and the criminal and evil elements also joined halfway.

Since some of the underworld elements have been in prison with professional backgrounds, there are also those who have not been in prison but can be self-taught.

There are also those who use the underworld as a tool and finally become the underworld.

This is the case with Cao Hongzhi.

The battle for coal requires strength, and Cao Hongzhi may just want to protect the mine at first, but slowly he wants to grab the mine.

And Cao Hongzhi is very thin and weak, and he has often been bullied since he was a child, so when he grows up, he has no sense of security, and after he recruits troops, there are idle people in society around him, and no one dares to bully him anymore.

With a private armed force, it feels good, and his mine protection team, although it is not a private armed force, is equivalent to his private force.

On the one hand, these private forces make the people fearful, and at the same time, they will also make the grassroots government personnel feel timid.

Cao Hongzhi's behavior has long crossed the line, but everyone is busy developing the economy and turns a blind eye to it, and now Cao Hongzhi is also a representative of the listed people's congress.

The underworld is equivalent to a foreign body in the body, or a cancer, and it is impossible to keep it in the body all the time, and it must be removed.