"Is this the house on the street?" Chen Zhengwei asked, looking at the courtyard wall on the street. The courtyard looked quite impressive.
This yard is on Sullivan Street, only fifty or sixty meters away from the casino. Facing the street is a masonry wall two meters high and seven or eight meters wide, with two wooden doors in the middle.
"Brother Wei, we asked about it, and this is it!" Yan Qingyou said quickly.
There was a lock on the outside of the gate. Chen Zhengwei took the key and opened the lock. The yard inside was about seventy or eighty square meters, twice as big as the original yard.
There is only a two-story masonry building with glass windows.
You must know that many houses in Chinatown have wooden windows. With the window panels closed, the room was dark.
And this building occupies a large area, with a single floor covering about 100 square meters. The first floor is the kitchen, living room, and servant's room, and the second floor has three rooms, two of which are empty.
The furnishings in the room are in pure Chinese style. There are several Taishi chairs in the living room and a smoking gun on the coffee table.
Chen Zhengwei walked around with the oil lamp and said that he had lived in that house for a short time.
Isn’t there a new place to live?
This kind of masonry-structured house has much better sound and heat insulation than a wooden house.
And the windows are all glass, so the interior is very bright during the day.
In addition, there was an iron cabinet under the table in the master bedroom. Chen Zhengwei asked others to go out and wait. He took the key and opened the cabinet. There was a lot of cash piled inside.
Chen Zhengwei counted them and found that most of them were 20, about four thousand yuan.
Other than that, there is a title deed for this house.
"Damn, poor guy!" Chen Zhengwei cursed again. Originally, he didn't get much in the casino, but he still expected to get more here.
As a result, such a large Heshuntang not only collects protection fees and engages in casino business, but also engages in opium and human trafficking.
After doing so many unscrupulous things, the total amount was less than 9,000 yuan, and including those IOUs, it was only 10,000 yuan. If he didn't eat, drink, or give any money to his subordinates, it would be enough for him to draw two ten consecutive rounds.
In addition, the land deeds to the casino and this house are worth more than 10,000 yuan in total.
"You deserve it!" Chen Zhengwei threw all the money back into the cabinet with some displeasure, and then locked the cabinet.
After a few people left, they locked the door and returned to the casino.
"Brother Wei, why don't we just establish a court?" Yan Qingyou encouraged after sitting down.
In his opinion, establishing a hall is the most prestigious, and they will all be elders by then.
"Why should we establish a court? They lick blood every day and haven't made much money yet. What future do they have?" Chen Zhengwei scoffed.
"Brother Wei, what should we do next?" Rong Jiacai asked.
"We want to open a company, not establish a court! But this matter is not urgent for a while. You need to recruit people first, and guard against the gangs around me these days. In a few days, I will find a Chinese who understands English, and I will teach you English. I learn well."
As soon as they heard that they wanted to learn English, everyone immediately lamented.
"Brother Wei, my brain is not that good. If I could learn it, I would have followed the scholar to take the exam!" Yan Qingfa lamented.
"Don't use your brain. You will live on the street all your life! How can you do things if you live in the territory of the Yankees and don't know their language?" Chen Zhengwei scolded.
"Let's do this for now. You go and do your own business. Find a few more reliable people. The casino will be open as usual tomorrow!" It turned out that all the people in Heshun Tang's casino were hacked to death, so of course he had to recruit a few more people.
"Brother Wei, are you ready to open that fan stall?"
"Of course we have to do it! Those who have money come to the casino, and those who don't have money go to the food stall to play a little bit after work. Why don't you make money if you have money?"
Chen Zhengwei sent everyone away, then put the guns on the table one by one to change bullets.
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Not far away on Lord Street, Willie from Danshan Hall hurried to the casino to find the hall owner, Da Yanchang, and saw several key members of the hall sitting here.
"Brother Chang, there's a fight over there in Zhigoutian! Do you know about this?" Willy asked. Willy's father used to build the railway here, and later his mother took him here to find relatives. After that, he grew up here. Not only did he understand English, he also gave himself the English name Willy.
The guys in the hall all call him Wei Ge.
"Isn't it just for this matter that so many people are here?" Someone immediately answered, and the person who spoke was Lan Yarong.
"Is the fight finished now?" Dayanchang asked.
"After the beating, some people from Heshun Hall ran away, and the remaining people had their thumbs broken and were thrown out. They were lying on the street." Willy said after finding a chair and sitting down.
"Where did this group of people come from? How is Zhi Goutian doing? And his great cause..." Dayan Chang asked.
If you break your thumb, you won't be able to hold a weapon for a short time, and you won't even be able to hold a gun.
As a result, these people will be useless for two or three months, and they will have to recuperate and eat, drink and relieve themselves.
"Zhi Gou Tian and Daye were both beaten to death!"
After hearing this, everyone immediately knew that Heshun Hall was really finished.
"These people are all strangers... I don't know where they came from. There are about thirty or forty of them. They probably came from the same place." Willy also heard this from other people.
It was so late at night that there was no way to count the number of people. As a result, the number of more than 20 people was reduced to thirty or forty.
As soon as he said this, the other person next to him, Fanshu, was nicknamed Fanshu, not because he sold sweet potatoes, but because he was stupid.
"There are only thirty or forty people. Brother Chang, how about I take people to fight those people away and knock down Sullivan Street?"
"Why fight? You don't even know who the opponent is, how many people there are, and how many guns he has. No wonder your name is Sweet Potato!" Lan Yarong mocked.
"Lan Yarong, what did you say?" Fanshu was furious.
"I'm not wrong, you are just stupid..." Lan Yarong spread his hands.
"Okay, don't make any noise! If you want to fight, don't rush in. Find out the situation first. Lan Yarong, I'll leave this matter to you." Dayan Chang said.
Although Sullivan's Alley is not as prosperous as Lord Street, it is still a large area with casinos, opium dens, and many residential areas.
Especially since the fight over there has just finished, maybe everyone is injured now and can be swallowed without paying too much.
By then, Danshan Hall's momentum and strength would be much stronger, and he couldn't help but be tempted.
But he had to find out the situation first. Then make an appointment with Xu Dafu, the master of Ansong Hall.
Ansongtang's site is Tavern Street, and Heshuntang's site is separated by Jefferson Street.
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Not only Danshan Hall, He Ansong Hall, and Heshun Hall had such a big event, it spread to most of the halls in Chinatown in a short period of time.
Although the number of people in Heshun Hall was not large, they were still brave enough to fight and kill. No one expected that they would be cleared out by a group of strangers, and many of them died.
Many people were looking around at the intersections around Sullivan's Alley.
In addition to Danshan Hall and Ansong Hall, who are discussing whether to swallow up Heshun Hall's territory, there are others who are waiting to see the situation.
In a teahouse, several southern Fujian businessmen gathered together, all looking unhappy.
"What's going on? Why did it suddenly become like this?" A person said while smoking.
Behind Heshun Hall are these Hokkien businessmen. When Dog Tian started his business, they provided a lot of funds.
Zhi Gou Tian not only protects their business, but they can also get a sum of money from Zhi Gou Tian every month.
As a result, no one expected that such a group of people would suddenly appear and kill Zhi Gou Tian.
"It is said that those new faces wanted to open a Tibetan stall in Sullivan's Alley, and then Zhi Goutian had someone smash it up, and the two sides formed a feud.
Then at night, the other party led people to kill Zhi Gou Tian, and the people in Heshun Hall were dispersed. Many people died. Zhi Gou Tian and his subordinates Daye and Ah Huo were all beaten to death. "
Another person sighed.
As soon as he said this, everyone else was speechless. No one expected that just because of a fan stall, the chaos in Heshun Hall would be wiped out.
"It's useless to think about anything else now. Let's think about what we should do." Another person knocked on the table and said.
"Find a suitable candidate, give him a sum of money, let him gather other people together, and then recruit troops to take back the territory." Someone suggested.
They have done this kind of thing once, and as long as it succeeds, it will be a hugely profitable business. Now of course they want to do it again.
Regardless of the money they get from the Tangkou every month, they are all from southern Fujian. Of course, they need a Minnan Tangkou to protect them so that they can feel at ease.
Others nodded in agreement.
