Chapter 127: I Don't Want to Complain
Russia and China share a border, although the countries are called "friendly countries", but the political situation is ever-changing, once there is any wind and grass, the Chinese in Russia will be greatly impacted, especially now that the "financial crisis", Russia's economic situation is warm and cold, and some areas are in trouble, there will be a large number of racists jumping out, accusing the Chinese and immigrants of robbing their own people of employment opportunities, and trumpeting the so-called "yellow peril theory" and "Chinese threat theory" , set off a new round of "xenophobia" movement again and again.
Of course, this situation is not unique to Russia, and the status of Chinese in Europe and the United States is generally not high, almost the same as the situation here.
Therefore, if you want to mix better in Russia, "ruthlessness" is an indispensable prerequisite, even if it is a regular domestic trade businessman, most of them will hire personal bodyguards when they get here, and they will take them wherever they go, and those who can't afford to hire bodyguards to protect them generally spend money on the black market to buy pistols to carry for self-defense.
Novosibirsk is a new city, the total number of Chinese is less than 10,000, which is not much, but the whole of Siberia, counting the descendants of Russian-Chinese who originally lived in this generation, has at least a million people.
It was in this situation that Wu Zhong and these people struggled to survive, helping Zhou Lin to organize underground smuggling goods, Zhou Lin contributed money, and they contributed.
In normal times, they can also help the Chinese Entrepreneurs Association in Russia as underground mercenaries to grab a lot of profits in business, such as fighting with local gangs, fighting against foreign forces, seizing control of the market, escorting goods, antiques, drug smuggling and a series of illegal activities.
In the door of people's homes, in the robbers' den, with huge financial wealth, but without the strength to protect themselves, it is equivalent to putting a piece of fat and oily meat in front of a hungry wolf dog, so that it will not be torn to pieces, and it will be eaten and wiped clean, which is strange.
In this world, there are almost no large-scale commercial accumulations that are truly legal. All the businessmen who have received huge profits will be more or less involved in the black, and no one is spotless and clean under the buttocks.
Capital came into the world from head to toe, dripping with blood and filth from every pore.
Again, "Grandpa Marx" said it well: If there is 100 percent profit, the capitalists will take risks; if there is 200 percent profit, the capitalists will flout the law; if there is 300 percent profit, then the capitalists will trample on everything in the world.
As far as Wang Chan knows, as far as Zhou Lin's smuggling trade is concerned, many things are actually more than ten or twenty times more profitable, and what they do is simply "trading without capital".
One bloody lesson after another in history, the naked lessons of the past, have long made all Chinese who make a living abroad understand this truth, if you want to be in other people's homes, not to be bullied blood, broken families, then you must have your own "gun".
At critical times, it can not only protect its wealth and interests from losses, but also strike at its opponents with the most deterrent effect and protect itself from being stumbled and assassinated by competitors.
Those rich people who blindly believe that the local political axe will enforce the law impartially and protect private property abroad are complete dreamers, and they have arrived home with brain-dead brains. In the face of interests, the biggest and most cruel "capitalist" is precisely the political axe itself.
Wang Chan himself knows and has personally experienced it, just like Lei Ting's Jade Bird Building, when encountering disguised provocations from peers, kicking the gym, making trouble in the underworld and beating people, he generally will not call the police, only relying on Jade Bird's employees, security guards and dozens of coaches, it can often have a better effect than calling the police.
This is the reality, and to put it bluntly, there is no such thing as justice or evil!!
It's just that the domestic management is stricter, unlike Russia, where underground gangs are rampant, and they can even run for mayor of a place in a grand manner and control the lifeblood of the local economy. This is unimaginable at home.
However, although the difference between the two is big, they are essentially the same principle.
Siberia, vast and sparsely populated, various cities, public security is generally not good, the power of the political axe is weak, at this time to have its own side of the force, for their own business, this is a very important, indispensable thing.
The most important thing is that most Chinese still firmly believe that "Siberia" should belong to China's territory, which is why the Russians and political axes are doubly nervous.
"How many shooting ranges like this are there?" Through a conversation with a few people, Wang Chan completely ended the embarrassing situation of overseas Chinese in Siberia, and had a relatively clear idea of his current form.
"There are two venues in Novosibirsk, the other is in the west of the city, and the other cities, slightly larger, as long as there are Chinese in the place, there will be a shooting range more or less, all of which were secretly built by the Siberian Chinese Chamber of Commerce, in order to provide a place for people like us to practice, in the end, it is not the wool that comes out of the sheep, we sell our lives, they count the money, hum!"
Wu Zhong gritted his teeth and snorted: "It's like a few of us, we have fought with the Russian skinheads, the mafia, and even exchanged fire with the sea patrol of the Russian political axe, although we are not very old, but at least we have three or four years of combat experience, and we are all first-class good hands among Russian mercenaries." ”
"Hmm!" Wang Chan has fought with the mercenaries of the Lin family, and naturally knows that with the skills of Wu Zhong's eight people, they are no worse than those elite mercenaries who have experienced a hundred battles, even if they are placed in some heavyweight special forces in China, they are also first-class strong soldiers.
In addition, the eight of them are proficient in boxing and martial arts, and the quality of ordinary gangsters abroad is of course much higher. In terms of overall strength, the same weapons, and the same equipment, the eight of them can work together to deal with at least ten times the size of their own enemies. Not to mention hand-to-hand combat, white-knuckle combat, or their specialty, it is more powerful than firearms, ordinary foreigners, they will die if they encounter it. Fighting them head-to-head, fighting to the death, even if the Russian middleweight boxing champion is definitely more than 100 victories.
It's one thing to be able to fight, it's another thing to be able to kill!!
"I don't care about others, what is going on with you now? How can the Chinese Business Association get on the line with the Koreans? Don't you have a good relationship with them, how can the Chinese bully the Chinese?"
Remembering the scene in front of the door of the Black Tiger Hall when he came yesterday, Wang Chan opened his mouth and asked, every sentence was about the idea of the matter. Although he usually says that he is obsessed with martial arts and ignores external objects, a person who can practice difficult and obscure boxing and martial arts to such a level cannot be a waste wood without wisdom.
There was silence in the field first, and then Wu Zhong stared at Wang Chan fixedly for a while, as if he was choosing something in his heart, until after a while, the air seemed dull, and then he said slowly: " The eight of us usually contact Uncle Zhou's satellite phone, every time there is a business to the door, we have to disperse to collect more information, be careful, in order to keep safe, over the years, we can also be regarded as having some friendship with the local gangsters in Russia, and often can get some urgently needed materials in the country. ”
"Just last time, we transported Uncle Zhou's batch of antique cultural relics to the border, and I don't know how the news was leaked, attracting several groups of people to rob it. After this incident, the Chinese Entrepreneurs Association also began to go too far, on the one hand, under the slogan that the Chinese in the world are a big country, and on the other hand, they colluded with the Korean Taekwondo Association in Siberia to coerce us to give up the line and relationship in our hands. Yesterday those people came to me to talk about this matter, when you just got off the plane, and I don't want to let you listen, worry. ”
"It sounds good to say that it is the Chinese Chamber of Commerce, in fact, it is not in the hands of a few unscrupulous rich people, and when we are used, the Chinese family is a family, and they will kick it away if they don't need it, they and Lao Maozi are the same dog, and they make money by squeezing us, when they were oppressed by Lao Maozi, it was better, but now the situation has just improved a little, and they will immediately change their faces, and they will collude with those Goryeo sticks to harm us!" A young man beside Wu Zhong gritted his teeth and said hatefully.
"Those sticks usually rely on the door of the taekwondo club, claiming to be apprentices and coaches, practicing boxing during the day, and coming out at night to fight with people and grab turf, and later learned that it was a large company in Gangwon Province, South Korea, that invested in a gold mine in Siberia, and did not want to take the formal way of mining, and wanted to evade taxes, so they took a fancy to the smuggling channels and connections in our hands....... ”
Wu Zhong explained the incident to Wang Chan one by one, his face was gloomy as if he was about to drip water, and although his tone did not fluctuate, anyone could see the evil fire in his heart from his eyes.
"This time the Chinese Entrepreneurs Association gave us an ultimatum, tomorrow night at 12 o'clock is the deadline, if we don't agree, then those Koreans, will start, although we are not afraid, but they are outnumbered, taekwondo will always have a lot of influence in Russia, once the war starts, we will definitely be driven out of Siberia. That's the way it is, how to do it, you can do it yourself, I listen to you. ”
Wang Chan listened, closed his eyes quietly, and then let out a long breath, narrowed his eyes, and muttered to himself: "Being in a foreign country, I don't know how to help each other, and I have to collude with outsiders to oppress each other, so Chinese businessmen will always want it...... Now that I have come here and become your leader, it is also a matter of course to take a bad breath for you, but it is a good ...... to start quietly when I first arrive here. ”
"Bring me all the information about the people and others involved in this matter, or tell me a detailed map of the city, and in a few days I will put an end to it for you, but from then on you will be obedient to me...... I don't want Zhou Lin's hard work to be ruined in my hands!
The next day, at dusk, by this time, Wang Chan had already circled around the city of Novosibirsk under the leadership of Wu Zhong for a whole day.
Although the city has not been in existence for a long time, it is the third largest metropolis in Russia, and the urban area is no different from some international metropolises at home and abroad, with a small population, but it is very prosperous.
It's just that it's located in the far north, the temperature is too low, the architectural features tend to be warm, and there are no too high floors, and the streets are almost all five or six stories down Gothic buildings, like blocks of bright colors. The fringes of the city are home to large industrial enterprises, and the only trees that can be seen on both sides of the street are pines and firs that remain green in winter.
Of course, the most are groups of tall and burly Russian natives wearing leather boots and tweed coats, hurrying to and fro on the streets, the first snowfall of the year, in the city did not stay, perhaps the streets were sprinkled with snow melting agent, in short, the snow turned into mud, walked over, splashed everywhere, very dirty.
When the sun set early, Wang Chan himself got out of the car, casually found a restaurant opened by a Chinese on the side of the street, ate something, and asked for a pot of tea, looking very leisurely.
On the side of the road opposite him, about five or six hundred meters away, there are five-story small buildings facing the street, red bricks and white roofs, full of exotic atmosphere. In front of the building, next to the side of the road, a parking space with a single parking lot was painted, and seven or eight off-road vehicles printed in Korean were parked.
This is the goal of Wang Chan, the resident office of the Korean Taekwondo Association in the Siberian Far East.
Today is the deadline for the Chinese Entrepreneurs Association to give Wu Zhong and his group, and if nothing else, before 12 o'clock in the night, all people, including the participants of the Chinese Entrepreneurs Association, will come here to gather.
After all, Wu Zhong has also lived here for so many years, and has his own specific sources, and when Wang Chan came out, he had already investigated everything clearly. This taekwondo federation is equivalent to the Korean merchants' association, most of the Korean businessmen in Russia are under his protection, a total of two or three hundred coaches, go out to various gyms to teach taekwondo during the day, and come back at night to rest.
Therefore, the power is indeed not small. Every night, after the main hall is closed, there are specific people who patrol back and forth, all of whom are taekwondo experts sent by local Korean gyms.
Around five o'clock in the afternoon, it was getting dark.
The weather in Siberia, before morning and evening, is cold, often when it is dark, there are no pedestrians on the road except for the vehicles that are hurrying to and fro.
Wang Chan drank three pots of piping hot tea in one go, replacing wine with tea, and stood quietly in the darkness at the corner of the street, the overflowing cold wind seemed to be unable to blow through his thin summer clothes at all.
The dim street lamps could not be seen even five steps away, and the slush on the ground was frozen into ice, and in such weather, people could not leave even a footprint, and it was a good time to kill people.
The figure is always detouring in a dark corner, Wang Chan walked around in a circle to the back of the brightly lit taekwondo association, glanced at no one on the left and right, bent his knees, jumped up, and the human hand easily grabbed the eaves three or four meters high from the ground, five fingers forced, the body shook slightly, brushed, turned upside down, and gently and skillfully landed on the narrow platform outside the first floor.
This Korean building is an old building, the outside is red brick, natural color, without any decoration, although the inside has been renovated, but the outside structure is to maintain the original style, between each floor there are about half a meter wide small platform, close to the window, the role is roughly equivalent to the current balcony.
However, where Wang Chan turned up now, it was not a serious room, but a bathroom on the second floor, which was specially used for the students here to take a bath.
Wang Chan was about to stretch out his hand to break the bolt in the window, when at this moment, a sudden sound of water sounded and came into his ears. But someone was taking a shower. Wang Chan frowned for a moment, and then remembered that it was the time when the taekwondo hall was closed, and the students who had practiced taekwondo for several hours would enter the bathroom to wash their bodies at this time. But now he is standing outside the window of someone's house, such a big living person, although the sky is dark, there are few pedestrians on the road, but it is not absolutely nothing, if it is a long time, it is difficult to guarantee that he will be seen by others, and there will be a commotion at that time, and he will be caught as a thief, wouldn't it be a bad thing!!
Suddenly, there was a shaking of the figure in the window, and seven or eight more students walked in and approached the window.
Wang Chan didn't have time to think about it, he hurriedly exerted his strength under his feet, his body moved, the whole person moved sideways, and his limbs moved together, as if a huge gecko crawled to the drainage pipe more than ten meters away from him at an incredible speed. Immediately afterwards, his hands were clenched into tiger claws, and he slashed at the wall again and again, grabbed it with one claw, and half of his palms were deeply embedded in the brick wall, crushing the red bricks, and his body seemed to be just going up and down the ladder, taking turns to pick and move, and he was actually sticking to the wall and climbing all the way to the top of the building.
It's so fast that the whole process doesn't even take more than fifteen seconds.
Once when he was in Harbin City, Wang Chan had climbed Jinhai Tower, and the familiarity of this set of actions was also the magical effect produced by the sudden explosion of his physical strength. It's just that his boxing skills and martial arts are far better than they were then, so it's not like last time, he can only climb up from the balcony, and change a section of the wall that goes straight up and down.
In addition, the years of the Russian house are not short, and the red bricks are not as good as reinforced concrete, so Wang Chan climbed to the top of the five-story building all the way, and he was really flexible and agile like an old cat climbing a tree, and he grabbed the bricks into powder, silently, and was not noticed by anyone.
It seemed that he was familiar with the road, Wang Chan walked a few steps on the roof of the building, selected a place, and hung the whole person upside down, like a golden hook upside down, just hanging on top of a window under his head and feet.
(To be continued)