The arrogance started from Chinatown

Chapter 166: I haven’t thought of a two-in-one chapter title yet (thanks to Nuan Yang Ju’s Silver Alliance!)
"That girl is really difficult to deal with!" Chen Zhengwei looked in the mirror. There was a bump on his forehead and his lips were swollen with teeth marks on them.

It hurts when I touch it.

The fact that Lin Changning hasn't mentioned moving back to the martial arts gym for such a long time already shows what she's thinking.

She just won't let you touch me for so long. It's okay if you move me a little, but once you cross her bottom line, she will do this.

Fortunately, we have made another step forward this time.

People's bottom line is constantly lowering.

Chen Zhengwei calculated the time and it had been almost two months. He didn't know when the old man would come back.

Although Lin Changning will be dealt with sooner or later, and if the old guy comes back, there should be no problem in proposing marriage directly to him.

Even if the old man disagreed, Lin Changning might not listen to him.

This girl has a good idea.

But Chen Zhengwei just wanted to give the old man a surprise.

The old man taught him horse stance for more than a month.

After changing into a pink suit and off-white pants and going downstairs, Li Xiwen was surprised when he saw Chen Zhengwei: "Brother, you have a head injury too... I think so does my sister!"

Chen Zhengwei glanced at Li Xiwen, wondering whether he was really stupid or just pretending to be stupid.

Then he kicked him.

When he arrived at the martial arts gym, Lin Changning glared at Chen Zhengwei fiercely when he saw him.

Seeing that Lin Changning had a big bump on his forehead and his upper lip was swollen, Chen Zhengwei finally felt relieved.

What is gender equality? This is it!
Qiao Niang looked at Lin Changning, then at Chen Zhengwei, with a thoughtful expression.

Chen Zhengwu was laughing on the side, but was also kicked in the butt by Chen Zhengwei.

"go for meal!"

While eating, Li Xiwen looked at Lin Changning, who glared at Chen Zhengwei fiercely from time to time, and then looked at Chen Zhengwei, who also had a bad look on his face. After a long time, he showed an expression of sudden enlightenment.

I don’t know what he realized.

"Damn it, I have to meet the Jew in the afternoon, and you want me to go like this?" Chen Zhengwei glanced at Lin Changning.

"Hmph!" Lin Changning raised his neck and glared at Chen Zhengwei.

MMP, just you wait!

Chen Zhengwei became furious and decided to settle the score with her that night.

……

"Brother Wei, how did you do that?"

"roll!"

"Brother Wei, this is..."

"roll!"

"Brother Wei, this dress is so fashionable? It suits Brother Wei very well!"

"Aaron, you are the most sensible! What is fashion sense? What is fashion? I am that!" Chen Zhengwei raised his arms to show off his pink suit.

Aaron is still the best at flattering.

"Come with me to see the Jew later!"

Around three o'clock in the afternoon, three horse-drawn carriages left Chinatown and arrived at a cafe on Montgomery Street.

Two Jewish youths in overcoats were standing at the door of the café.

The carriage stopped, and A'long led his men to get off and surround Chen Zhengwei's carriage before Chen Zhengwei opened the door and got off.

He shoots other people secretly every day, how could I not be on guard?
His carriage is covered with steel plates.

Jamie Mays was sitting at a table in the corner when he saw the door of the cafe being pushed open. A young man wearing a dark coat, a pink gentleman's suit, a white shirt, off-white pants and a hat walked in with someone.

Jamie Mays raised his eyebrows. In this era, the color of Chen Zhengwei's clothes was very rare.

However, combined with Chen Zhengwei's flamboyance, it is a perfect match, with the sharpness and recklessness of a young man.

"Jamie Mays?" Chen Zhengwei handed the coat to Aaron, then sat directly opposite Jamie Mays and looked at him unscrupulously.

Compared with Chen Zhengwei, Jamie Mays is much more traditional and steady.

He was wearing a dark striped gentleman's suit, his hair was neatly groomed, and he had a moustache.

"I prefer people to call me Mr. Jamie Mays!" Jamie Mays said with a smile.

Chen Zhengwei sneered.

"If you want something to drink, I recommend the black tea here!"

"I'm an impatient person and like to get straight to the point. Just tell me what you want to talk to me about?" Chen Zhengwei said directly. He had no intention of drinking here at all.

Jamie Mays looked at Chen Zhengwei. Just as his men had said yesterday, this Chinese man was very arrogant.

Completely different from other Chinese people.

"You killed my friend yesterday! His name is Charles, and he's the president of a newspaper!" Jamie Mays looked at Chen Zhengwei and said slowly.

"He came to me yesterday and said his editor was threatened. He asked me for help, and then you killed him. It makes me sad."

Chen Zhengwei lay on the sofa with his legs crossed, and said nonchalantly.

"and then?"

He didn't know about this.

But so what?
Jamie Mays stared at Chen Zhengwei. The other party's reaction was different from what he expected. He was even more arrogant and bold than he thought.

This made him quite unhappy.

However, for the sake of his own interests, he decided not to bother with Chen Zhengwei, but he needed to put some pressure on him.

"Of course, this is not the main reason why I came to see you today, if we can reach an agreement on what we are going to do next."

The meaning is very clear. If we can't reach an agreement, then this matter will be dropped as well.

Chen Zhengwei moved his feet under the table, and he had the urge to kick the table over and kill the Jew.

"So what exactly do you want to say? I've said before, I'm an impatient person and I don't like people beating around the bush with me." Chen Zhengwei was a little impatient. He really didn't like people beating around the bush with him.

"Patience is a good quality. It can save you a lot of trouble!" Jamie Mays smiled and said two seconds before Chen Zhengwei kicked over the table and pulled out a gun to kill him: "Opium!"

"Before, the people from Hong Shun Tang took a batch of goods from me in exchange for giving me a portion of the opium market, but you killed them."

"Fuck your mother, I was wondering why Hong Shuntang had so many guns!" Chen Zhengwei cursed directly. He knew what Hong Shuntang had taken from Jamie Mays without even having to think about it.

Hong Shun Tang's main business was opium, and with the support of city councilors, it had nothing to take from the Jews.

If there is any, it is a large number of weapons.

He was curious at the time, how could Hong Shun Tang hide so many guns? If the Investigation Bureau hadn't taken action, he would have been in trouble.

I didn't expect that it was this bastard who sold it to Hong Shuntang.

With a clatter, the Jews at the surrounding tables and Chen Zhengwei's men stood up one after another, and the situation immediately became tense.

"You sold them a large number of guns. Do you know how much trouble it caused me? How many people died? I was just cursing at you!" Chen Zhengwei cursed.

Then the fierce look on his face disappeared and he spoke lightly.

"Keep talking!"

He took out a cigarette from his pocket and lit it, then motioned for Aaron and others to sit down.

This change made Jamie Metz pause, after all, few people could keep up with Chen Zhengwei's pace.

Although Jamie Mays had dealt with many people, he had never seen someone like Chen Zhengwei. He gestured to his men to sit down, and then he continued, "I heard that you don't like the opium business and have closed down most of the opium dens in Chinatown."

"It happens that I am very interested."

"No way, do you really believe it? I'm just saying it!" Chen Zhengwei looked surprised, and his face was almost filled with the words "how can you be so innocent and cute?"

"The opium business makes hundreds of thousands of dollars in profit a year, why shouldn't I make some? The money isn't hot!"

"I just don't sell it in Chinatown, but I didn't say I won't sell it outside."

Jamie Mays looked at Chen Zhengwei for a long time, but he heard something from Chen Zhengwei's words. The influence of the Chinese is only in Chinatown, and they seem to be very close to the Germans recently.

If we want to sell goods abroad, we can't just rely on the Chinese and Germans.

Chen Zhengwei wanted to be an upstream seller and distribute the goods.

"It seems like there is a possibility for us to cooperate?" Jamie Mays said after a moment of hesitation.

"Why not? I love cooperating with others the most! Cooperation leads to win-win results! After all, money is something that one person can never make all by himself. Only through cooperation can you make more!" Chen Zhengwei laughed.

"Cooperation leads to win-win results. I like this sentence!" Jamie Mays said. This was the only sentence that Chen Zhengwei found pleasing to the ear since he came here today.

"I want 70% of the goods in each shipment! The price has to be 50% lower than the market price!" Jamie Mays said directly.

"Fifty percent of the market price, what will I eat and drink? I can only give you half of the goods, and the price is 70 percent of the market price! Also, you are not allowed to sell it to Chinatown!" Chen Zhengwei said directly, pressing the table.

"Sixty-five percent of the goods, fifty-five percent of the price!"

"Sixty percent of the goods! The price is sixty-five percent!"

"60% of the goods, the price is also 60%!"

"Deal!" The two of them decided on the price with just a few words.

The two reached a cooperation, and the situation immediately became much more harmonious.

As for those unpleasant things, neither of them mentioned them again, and there was no need to mention them.

As for Charles... he died in a robbery, the FBI has already investigated the matter thoroughly.

After all, Jamie Mays and Charles weren’t that familiar with each other, and although Charles’ newspaper was of great value… the newspaper was still there, wasn’t it?

"I'll have someone notify you when the ship arrives!" Chen Zhengwei stretched out his hand and shook hands with Jamie Mays, then stood up and led his men away.

When Chen Zhengwei left the coffee shop, a man sat down opposite Jamie Mays and said, "Boss!"

"I don't like him!" Jamie Mays said in a deep voice.

"But for the sake of profit, I can endure it!"

He knew that Chen Zhengwei had just become the boss of Chinatown and was not familiar with the opium business, so perhaps he could find an opportunity to bypass him.

……

"Brother Wei, what did you talk about?" Aaron asked after he went out.

Chen Zhengwei waved his hand casually without answering.

When he got back to the carriage, he looked thoughtful.

He was indeed planning to sell the next shipment to the Jews, and that would be the last shipment. After all, they didn't know what was happening in Chinatown, so there would definitely be more shipments coming.

He was not planning to sell 60% to the Jews, but all of it, in order to squeeze out as much capital as possible from the Jewish Jamie Mays.

After all, Jamie Mays is just a Jewish gang leader. Even if he has some social status, he won't have much money.

If I ask someone to destroy that batch of opium, can I cut off the Jews' funding chain?
If the capital chain is broken, how can he support his subordinates? Then we can defeat him without fighting.

Then he could take over the Jewish property and make a fortune.

Why sell opium? There is no way to make money like that.

After sorting out his thoughts, Chen Zhengwei pointed to his temple and said to Aaron: "What's the point of doing business and fighting? You need your brain!"

Aaron: “Ah?”

……

At night, Lin Changning sat by the bed with two knives, looking at the door.

She didn't even know what she was waiting for.

However, Chen Zhengwei never came back.

Lin Changning looked at the time and it was past 12 o'clock. He breathed a sigh of relief, raised his hand and placed the knife beside the pillow, then turned off the kerosene lamp.

A day later, the construction team finally came to Chen Zhengwei with the drawings.

In the office, a blond-haired man held up a blueprint and described it to Chen Zhengwei: "Mr. Chen, according to your requirements, you will need 300 workers of various types, which requires strong management skills."

In fact, the whole project is not too big. It mainly requires breaking down walls, construction, modifying the layout in the early stages, and subsequent decoration, which requires a large number of different workers.

"If we do everything according to Mr. Chen's request, the total cost will be $230,000!"

"Are you robbing me?" Chen Zhengwei crossed his legs and looked at the other person with an unfriendly expression.

Damn, how much did I spend to buy this building? The renovation cost so much more than buying the building!
"No, no, this is already the lowest price." The other party was startled and said quickly.

"The main reason is that the materials are very expensive. After all, Mr. Chen wants the best. He wants to make this the most luxurious club in San Francisco! In fact, we don't make any money at all. As long as we do a good job here, it will be the best advertisement and bring us endless income."

"Then are you going to give me the advertising fee?" Chen Zhengwei asked with a turn of his eyes.

"Ah?" The other party was a little confused.

"For example, can you pay me a portion of the advertising fees from your subsequent continuous income?" Chen Zhengwei asked with a smile.

"Mr. Chen, you must be joking!" The other party laughed dryly.

"Let's do it this way, but instead of 300 workers, we'll need 400. Except for those irreplaceable professional craftsmen, all the rest will be Chinese workers!" Chen Zhengwei waved his hand.

He was really just joking, he's not a bad guy.

"As for on-site management and communication with Chinese workers, I will arrange for someone to assist you!"

"We will do as you request!" The other party thought about it and nodded.

After the other party left, Chen Zhengwei rubbed his temples and said, "Damn, no money."

Moreover, you never know when the opium ships will arrive. Although it is not the sailing season now, only the sailing ships are affected by the ocean currents, while the iron steam ships can still sail.

A shipload of goods would cost at least 100,000, and there is also 230,000 to build the club...

I currently have 90,000 yuan in cash, and I need at least 240,000 yuan.

In a month, adding up all my industries, minus the money I paid out, I should have a profit of more than 30,000 yuan, but there is still a gap of more than 200,000 yuan.

And my own expenses are not small.

Chen Zhengwei thought about it and came up with quite a few methods.

One way is to borrow money from the bank and find a way to swallow up the Italians. Another way is to raise funds from wealthy businessmen in Chinatown and sell bonds.

After all, there are so many wealthy businessmen in Chinatown, so it's not too much to collect 100,000 or 80,000 yuan? It's not like I won't pay them back.

Even if they have no money, they can go to the bank to get a loan.

Chen Zhengwei thought about it and decided to start with the Italians first and then see how big the gap was.

After all, he is a man who cares about his reputation.

"Wanyun, go and ask someone to call the scholar over!" Chen Zhengwei ordered Wanyun.

A moment later, Xiucai was called over: "Brother Wei! Is there anything I can do?"

"Ask Greater Poland and Schultz to find out what's going on with the Italians!"

As soon as Rong Jiacai left, Chen Zhengwei thought about it and came up with a better idea.

(End of this chapter)