The arrogance started from Chinatown

Chapter 30 The news spreads
"Is this the home of that idiot?" Chen Zhengwei asked, looking at the courtyard wall on the street. The courtyard looked quite grand.

This yard is on Sullivan Street, only fifty or sixty meters away from the casino. Facing the street is a two-meter-high brick and stone wall that is seven or eight meters wide, with two wooden doors in the middle.

"Brother Wei, we asked around and this is it!" Yan Qingyou said hurriedly.

There was a lock on the outside of the gate. Chen Zhengwei took the key and opened the lock. The yard inside was about 70 to 80 square meters, twice as large as the original yard.

There was only one two-story brick building inside, with glass windows.

You should know that many houses in Chinatown have wooden windows. When the shutters are closed, the house becomes completely dark.

Moreover, this building occupies a large area, with a single floor of about 100 square meters. The first floor is the kitchen, living room and servants' room, and the second floor has three rooms, two of which are empty.

The furnishings in the room were in pure Chinese style. There were several armchairs in the living room and a pipe on the coffee table.

Chen Zhengwei walked around with the oil lamp and said that he would not live in that house for long.

Isn't this a new place to live?

This kind of brick and stone structure house has much better sound insulation and heat insulation than a wooden house.

And the windows are all made of glass, so the room is bright during the day.

There was also an iron cabinet under the table in the master bedroom. Chen Zhengwei asked the others to go out and wait, and he took the key to open the cabinet, and found a lot of cash inside.

Chen Zhengwei counted them and found that most of them were 20 yuan, totaling about yuan.

In addition to this, there is a title deed to this house.

"Damn, poor bastard!" Chen Zhengwei cursed again. He didn't win much in the casino originally, and he was hoping to win more here.

As a result, such a large Heshun Hall not only collected protection fees and ran a casino business, but also engaged in opium and human trafficking businesses.

He did so many unscrupulous things, but the total amount was less than 9,000 yuan, and with the IOUs it was only 10,000 yuan. Even if he didn't eat or drink and didn't share the money with his subordinates, he would only have enough to draw two tens of draws.

In addition, the deeds to the casino and this house are worth a little over ten thousand in total.

"You deserve to get fired!" Chen Zhengwei threw all the money back into the cabinet in dissatisfaction, 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 set up our own sect?" Yan Qingyou instigated after sitting down.

In his opinion, setting up a hall is the most prestigious thing, and by then they will all be elders.

"Why set up a gang? People like them live on the edge of a knife every day and haven't made much money yet. What future do they have?" Chen Zhengwei sneered.

"Brother Wei, what should we do next?" Rong Jiacai asked.

"We want to open a company, not set up a gang! But there is no rush. You should recruit people first and guard against the gangs around you. Go find a Chinese who knows English in a few days and ask them to learn English well."

When they heard that they had to learn English, everyone sighed.

"Brother Wei, my brain is not good enough. If I could learn it, I would have followed the scholar to take the exam!" Yan Qingfa lamented.

"You don't use your brain and will be living on the streets your whole life! How can you get anything done in the Americans' territory if you don't know their language?" Chen Zhengwei cursed.

"Let's do this for now, you guys go and take care of your own business. Find a few more reliable people, and the casino will be open for business as usual tomorrow!" It turned out that all the people from Heshun Tang in the casino were hacked to death, so of course he had to recruit a few more people.

"Brother Wei, are you still going to open that foreign stall?"

"Of course we should! The rich come to the casino, and the poor go to the foreign stalls to play a few games after work. Why not make money if you have it?"

Chen Zhengwei sent everyone away, then placed the guns on the table one by one to change the bullets.

……

Not far away on Lodz Street, Willy from Danshan Hall hurried to the casino to find the hall leader Dayanchang, and saw several backbone members of the hall sitting there.

"Brother Chang, there was a fight over there in Zhigoutian! Did you know about this?" Willy asked. Willy's father built a railway here, and later his mother brought him here to look for his relatives. After that, he grew up here, not only did he know English, but he also gave himself an English name, Willy.

The gangsters in the gang all called him Brother Wei.

"So many people are here, isn't it just for this matter?" someone immediately responded. The person who spoke was Lan Yarong.

"Is the fight over now?" asked Dayanchang.

"The fight was over. Some of the people from Heshun Hall ran away, and the rest had their thumbs broken and were thrown out, lying on the street." Willy said after sitting down on a chair. "Where did these people come from? How is Zhigoutian? And his subordinate Daye..." Dayanchang asked.

If your thumb is broken, you won’t be able to hold any weapon for a short period of time, not even a gun.

As a result, these people will be useless for two or three months, and they still have to recuperate, eat, drink, defecate and urinate.

"Zhigou 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, and they are probably from the same place." Willy also heard this from other people.

It was late at night and there was no way to count the number of people. As a result, more than 20 people were reported as 30 or 40.

As soon as this was said, another core member of the gang named Fanshu was tempted. His nickname was 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 some people to beat those people away and take down Sullivan Street?"

"What are you fighting for? You don't even know where the enemy comes from, how many people there are, or how many guns they have. No wonder you are called Sweet Potato!" Lan Ya Rong said sarcastically.

"Lantya Rong, what did you say?" Fanshu was suddenly furious.

"I'm not wrong, you're just stupid..." Lan Ya Rong spread his hands.

"Okay, stop arguing! There's no rush to fight. Find out the situation first. Lan Yarong, I leave this matter to you." Dayanchang made the decision.

Although Sullivan's Alley is not as prosperous as Lords Street, it is also a large area with casinos, opium dens, and many residential areas.

Especially since the battle over there had just ended, maybe everyone was injured now, so it wouldn't cost too much to swallow them up.

By then, Danshan Hall's reputation and strength will be much stronger, and he will be tempted.

But he had to find out the situation first, and then make an appointment with Xu Dafu, the head of Ansong Hall.

Ansongtang's territory was Tavern Street, and it was separated from Heshuntang's territory by Jackson Street.

……

Such a big incident happened not only in Danshan Hall, Ansong Hall and Heshun Hall, but also in most of the halls in Chinatown in a short time.

Although the number of people in Heshun Hall was not large, they were brave enough to fight and kill. No one expected that they would be wiped out by a group of strangers, and many of them died.

Many people were looking around at the several intersections around Sullivan's Alley.

In addition to Danshan Hall and Ansong Hall who were discussing whether to take over Heshun Hall's territory, there were some others who were watching the situation.

In a teahouse, several Minnan businessmen gathered together, all looking unhappy.

"What's going on? Why did it suddenly become like this?" a man said while smoking.

Behind Heshuntang are these southern Fujian businessmen. When Zhigoutian started his business, they provided a lot of funds.

Not only does Zhigoutian protect their business, but they can also get a sum of money from him every month.

As a result, no one expected that such a group of people would suddenly appear and kill Zhigoutian.

"It is said that those new faces wanted to open a stall in Sullivan's Alley, and Zhigou Tian asked someone to smash it up, and that's how the two sides became enemies.

Then at night, the other party brought people to kill Zhigoutian, and the people of Heshuntang were also dispersed, and many people died. Zhigoutian and his subordinates Daye and Ah Huo were all beaten to death. "

Another person sighed.

After saying this, everyone else was speechless. No one had expected that Heshun Hall would be ruined just because of a foreign stall.

"There's no point thinking about anything else now. Let's think about what to do." Another person knocked on the table.

"Find a suitable candidate, give him some money, let him gather other people together, recruit more soldiers and take back the territory." Someone suggested.

They have done this kind of thing once, and as long as it was successful, it would be a very profitable business. Now of course they want to do it again.

Regardless of the money they get from the hall every month, they are all from southern Fujian, so of course they need a southern Fujian hall to protect them and make them feel at ease.

The others nodded in agreement.

(End of this chapter)