I was reborn without dreams

Chapter 201 This is not a matter for discussion

“Zhang An! You need to know that not engaging in assassinations is a principle of the organization's development, you…”

"What are you barking about? What are you barking about?! Am I part of the organization?! Fuck you, if you have evidence, show it. If you don't, so what if I go around saying I killed him? Fuck you, putting on airs at me?! Why don't you put on a show of righteousness and integrity for the Hu family? Fuck you, what are you?"

"..."

Zhang Da'an, munching on candy, completely disregarded everyone and continued arrogantly, "You want me to stop? Sure, go talk to those soldiers and see if they even give you a second glance. I've put a 400,000 yuan bounty on Hu Xiaozhu's head, but you only need to give them 1,000 yuan a month to make them stop. What's wrong? Can't do it? What's your rush? Once the Hu family is all dead, won't things be peaceful?"

There were quite a few people who came, some even brought weapons. Today, they were all dressed in uniform to make Zhang Da'an realize the seriousness of the matter.

However, Zhang Da'an not only did not restrain himself, but intensified his actions: "I want to meet with those two gunmen in the eastern district. Make the arrangements before lunch tomorrow."

"No! The suspect..."

"You fucking shut the chamber pot right now! Am I talking to you? This is a notice! If you don't agree, Hu Xiancai's son will die in ten minutes."

"You're crazy-"

"Tsk tsk tsk... Scared now, huh? Where were you before? Tell me, how could Lu Weiguo so easily leak my trip to Japan to cheer on the national football team? You said you'd investigate thoroughly, am I the only one who believed you?"

"we need to……"

"You don't need time, and neither do I. I don't care if you're looking for a scapegoat or someone to take the blame; I just want to see your attitude. As for those connected to Lu Weiguo, I'm too lazy to guess whether they're innocent or if it's true; it's none of my business. Either you arrest me now, and the court convicts me of murder, or convicts me of instigation, I have no objection and will plead guilty in court; or I'll continue to have people do it. To be honest, over the years I've recruited so many 'cousins,' there are at least eighty or a hundred who are willing to risk their lives for me. There's no other way; following 'Brother An,' you get nine meals a day."

"Don't fucking get too cocky! You're playing with fire!"

"Nine minutes left."

Zhang Da'an didn't waste any words, propping his legs up on the conference table. "Hurry up, if you don't arrest me today, I'll be busy with my re-employment issues tomorrow. Sigh, there's nothing I can do. An outstanding private entrepreneur like me has always been a strong supporter of national policies. I'm just too damn loyal."

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I knew Zhang Da'an was a complete psychopath, but experiencing it firsthand was truly unpleasant.

It makes absolutely no sense.

"I'm begging you, Comrade Zhang An, even if you don't think about yourself, you should think about your family."

"Old man, have you lost your mind? I'm a fucking orphan—"

Zhang Da'an suddenly roared at a kind-looking old man, grabbed a mineral water bottle and smashed it over his shoulder, yelling, "Fuck your mother, if you can't speak properly, shut up!"

The old comrade looked speechless, but still patiently asked, "What about Comrade Zhang Zhengdong?"

"Anyway, he has children now and has lived a full life. If my uncle is unfortunately assassinated, then it is his fate. I don't care. As for whether my uncle is willing to accept it or not, I can't be bothered to ask."

"..."

"..."

You beast.

Everyone knows that Zhang Zhengdong raised Zhang Da'an, and he didn't get married until he was forty because of this. What a great favor that is!

As a result, you became the top scorer several times, but you completely lost your humanity.

"Alright, don't waste time, there are still six minutes left."

What time tomorrow?

"It will take some time to find the weaknesses of these two guys before lunch."

"What do you mean?"

"It's nothing special. We'll just check later to see if they have any weaknesses."

Ignoring these people, Zhang Da'an got up without explaining, casually tossing away the leftover candy bag, revealing his low-class character.

As he was leaving, Zhang Da'an turned around, raised his hand, and pointed: "We're all from Jiangkou Province. If I eat the meat, can I let everyone else have soup? Besides, I'll take the blame now. But what if the wind changes someday? My head will be..."

popping.

Zhang Da'an patted the back of his neck. "Can't I still lend it to you guys for a bit? A bunch of pig-brains, thinking you can have a good harvest no matter what. You'd better protect me from now on, and I'll make you rich."

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"..."

The words may be crude, but the principle is sound: "cruel officials" deserve to die, but "traitors" don't?

It's as if only those who wrote "Ode to Chrysanthemums After Failing the Imperial Examination" have truly "trampled the bones of high-ranking officials on the streets." Throughout history, "cruel officials" and "treacherous ministers" have all had similar effects, some more severe than others.

Zhang Da'an, on the other hand, just happened to have opened up a completely new track.

Who the hell knows why the newly appointed top scholar, who was able to secure the title of "Hanlin Academician," turned around and went to Liangshan Marsh to start his own business?
Isn't that insane?

But I've already experienced it; this guy is a lunatic and can't be judged by common sense.

"This idiot has completely gone mad. Who would dare to cooperate with him in this state!"

"He's a 'three-time champion' in public, you have to take responsibility for saying that!"

"Damn it, we're all being led by the nose by him now! I'm going to Beijing! I want to report this!"

"Go ahead, who's stopping you? Don't forget, he made a very good point earlier: what's wrong with Lu Weiguo? If he can leak his itinerary, he can leak others' too. He didn't do a good job of keeping secrets, and now that others have something on him, who's to blame?"

"Which side are you on?!"

"I'm from Jiangkou Province! I'm from Jiangning City! Don't ruin Jiangning City's work performance next year! That's the livelihood of tens of thousands of people, even hundreds of thousands! I've warned you before, this work needs to be done well. Being so hesitant and fearful, the Hu family has power, but doesn't he? His influence is far greater than the Hu family's! He's a 'three-time champion,' involved in both industry and education! Get that straight—"

"..."

The old man who was just scolded by Zhang Da'an as "closing his anus" is now firing on all cylinders, and his ferocity surpasses that of the public security authorities.

The "Zhang'an Industrial Alliance" business, which is now applying for listing in an orderly manner, has been spun off, and "Zhang'an Electronics" and "Zhang'an Culture" will be the key IPO models in the province.

One is hardware, and the other is software; the latter also creates a significant number of jobs.

In particular, the development momentum of color screen mobile phones is very clear, and the value-added services of wallpapers and themes have almost sprung up from nowhere.

Next year will be the year of the ringback tone explosion. In fact, strictly speaking, it has already exploded, because copyright transactions have entered a fierce stage, and many new Internet companies are counting on this to save their lives.

The twelve cities in the province originally didn't have a big appetite, only planning to raise 50 billion yuan together.

As a result, Zhang'an Electronics' "Zhuangyuanxing" became a huge hit, while Jinbang Mobile has signed contracts with mobile companies in multiple provinces and cities. The "Champion V1" is sold at a rate of 10,000 units per province, and it has currently secured contracts in Yuzhang Province, Jianghuai Province, Huzhou City, Qilu Province, and Zhongyuan Province.

That's 50,000 units. Jiangkou Province plans to take a two-pronged approach, directly ordering another 30,000 units, which would make a total of 80,000 high-end machines.

Hundreds of millions in revenue can come easily. As long as they can establish a foothold in the high-end market, with the cultural heritage of Jiangkou Province, it's only a matter of time before they can push high-end machines into the hands of wealthy people in the districts and counties.

The shrewd people aren't stupid; this is a very easy calculation for them.

If the more than 2 billion yuan in revenue from "Top Scholar Star" has little to do with them, then "Champion V1" is a genuine achievement, without any exaggeration.

At the same time, once listed, the more than 2 billion yuan of "Top Scholar Star" may have been irrelevant in the past, but in the future it will be past performance, which is worth making some moves in the stock market.

At this time, due to the great pressure in various places, a super peak of new labor force is about to arrive. It is true that 34 million new jobs were created in the past five years, but a considerable part of them are the work that was originally one job but now it is divided into two, three, four, five, six, seven, and eight.

To put it bluntly, expecting someone who has already made a fortune to share the spoils is almost impossible; they won't even get a broth, let alone meat.

The twelve cities and prefectures of Jiangkou Province have no shortage of "wise people." At this time, the local governments are frantically launching large-scale industrial and labor-intensive industries such as steel metallurgy, petrochemicals, and textiles. It's not that they don't know how to make money.

Silk products, a key export product since the founding of the People's Republic of China, have cultivated a large number of top figures proficient in commerce and trade. However, the Yangtze River Delta region cannot be a testing ground; stability is the core requirement.

So now, is the Xindongweigang Middle School under "Zhang An Education" stable?
Is "Zhang An Electronics" stable?

Is "Zhang An Culture" stable?

Even the stability of "Zhang An Health" is questionable. It should be noted that this coincides with the period when 80 pyramid scheme cases were uncovered in the first quarter. The Luzhou Administration for Industry and Commerce ordered the two transformed Amway companies located in the city to immediately cease their illegal pyramid scheme and disguised pyramid scheme activities and to conduct self-rectification.

In the second quarter, "Zhang An Health" products directly became transitional products for some Amway groups in the secondary market.

That is, they obtain goods from the provincial distributor of "Zhang An Health" and then conduct extensive direct sales.

Similar to the previous model, but the only difference is that they made a more exquisite gift box for secondary packaging, which led to "sky-high prices" in a considerable number of regions.

The reason is that after the picture of the "exam god talisman" was published online, classic replicas appeared instantly. As a result, many rural markets that Ma Shuang had never operated in were directly connected by these outrageous things and even more outrageous things like underground "churches".

At one point, at the junction of three or four provinces, elderly men and women at a large market in southeastern Henan asked "Fengyi craftsmen" to bring back some "top scholars and golden lists" from Pengcheng City.

They handcraft their own exquisite solid wood gift boxes locally and then resell them through cross-border e-commerce for high-end marketing.

This incident became so outrageous that the "Exam God Talisman" gold medal sparked a bidding war among three jewelry stores for the agency rights, with the copyright fee reaching a staggering 20 million yuan.

In other words, it wasn't published in the newspapers; otherwise, with the help of news reports, the impact would have been even more extreme.

"Zhang An Electronics" and "Zhang An Culture" together are aiming for a scale of 80 billion to 100 billion. Taihu City has made all the preparations. Even after hearing that Zhang Da'an killed five more members of the Hu family in Hong Kong and Xiangshan'ao, these financial fanatics in Taihu City were popping champagne and shouting "Good job!"

The problem now is that the "Zhang An Industrial Alliance" has too many good things. "God Slayer" has been dominating the charts for a long time and has become the benchmark for the domestic game industry.

The game-related merchandise industry it spurred also set records. The "God Slayer" themed internet cafes spread rapidly throughout the province through franchising. The substantial profits from the sale of game cards enabled the franchised internet cafes to form the first batch of stable game studios. The market for "virtual assets" expanded from the scale of membership purchases to the level of the antique market.

People can't imagine how a bunch of code could fetch such outrageous prices in the virtual world, but it is precisely in this emerging market of "virtual assets" that the "code brokers" of Xiangshan'ao have sensed a business opportunity.

The emergence of various third-party game asset trading platforms has further promoted the detailed division of labor among game studios.

The "Gold Farming Studio" and the "Treasure Hunting Studio" have a clear division of labor and do not interfere with each other. However, the highlighted membership badges of "Gold List Blog" and "Chat Bar" have led the nouveau riche to start sharing their "wealth" on public platforms. It is a simple and crude way of "flaunting wealth" that attracts countless praises.

Most importantly, the internet has made the act of "flaunting wealth" much safer, creating a barrier that is both close at hand and far away.

These are things that relevant departments in Jiangkou Province have been tracking for a long time, because they all involve taxation and jobs. The "God Slayer" has indirectly created more than 100,000 jobs. Whether it can reach the threshold of 200,000 is hard to say, but in general, 100,000 is easily achievable.

How long did it take?
If you want to bring in 100,000 truck drivers directly, you first need to sell tens of thousands of trucks to have 100,000 truck drivers.

One hundred thousand jobs mean that tens of thousands of people will be working diligently and creating benefits, which is exactly what the current sharp contradictions urgently need.

Anyone can cut taxes, but whose taxes to cut is a different matter.

As I said before, making pancakes is both the most difficult and the easiest thing to do.

Zhang Da'an wasn't just a parasite in some lucrative industry in the province; he was practically pure incremental growth, and this growth couldn't possibly operate in isolation from his status as a "three-time champion."

Once the "three-time champion" collapses, future expectations collapse. Capital is an extremely honest thing, and it runs faster than anyone else.

Those who have already been put on the spot only pray that the "three-time champion" will really live to be nine thousand years old. Anyone can die, and it doesn't matter if the Hu family is wiped out, as long as the "three-time champion" is alive.

In the past, people gave the Hu family face and addressed them as "old comrades" or "seniors." That didn't mean that the "shrewd people" of Jiangkou Province were no match for the Hu family. When it came to hard power, even "Lord Beijing" wouldn't be able to make a difference. It's just that the tradition of "sitting merchants" is like this: they can make money by being friendly with anyone.

As long as there's food, that's fine.

Just as they were taking a couple of bites of something hot, or having saved up enough money to enjoy a fresh meal, they suddenly saw the cook rush out of the restaurant with a cleaver, then run across the street to a big hotel and start hacking away...

This hurt and saddened the diners.

However, the next day, her fragile heart was once again subjected to repeated crushing blows.

Zhang Da'an met two gunmen, one named Hu Huai'an and the other Hu Anqing, though their real names were not those. Hu Huai'an's real name was Pan Qingjiang; Hu Anqing's real name was Qian Jiedu.

Before they were arrested, Zhang Da'an had already thoroughly investigated their hometowns.

"Brothers, this is a new era. We don't need to pledge allegiance to others anymore. Don't risk your wives, children, and even your own parents just to repay the Hu family's kindness and life-saving grace, will you?"

In what wasn't an interrogation room, Zhang Da'an turned on the projector. "I'm a cultural figure involved in education, and I prefer intellectual methods to physical ones. I know you two brothers are tough guys, so I'll skip the torture and go straight to the point. Please look at the big screen."

Zhang Da'an picked up the extendable pointer and tapped it on the screen. "Mr. Pan, are you more worried about your son, your wife, or your elderly mother?"

"Ok?"

When Pan Qingjiang looked up, he probably couldn't see clearly because the brightness was a bit too high.

"It's my fault, it's my fault. As an excellent educator, I actually made this basic mistake."

While apologizing, Zhang Da'an jogged over to pull up the curtains.

At this moment, Pan Qingjiang saw clearly that on the screen, his wife, children, and parents were all tied up, and several people wearing Zhong Kui masks were standing around them.

"I'll let your mother... ugh!!!"

He had barely uttered a curse when Tang Jianqiu, who was standing next to him, stuffed a rag into his hand.

Zhang Da'an also stopped smiling, picked up the microphone and said, "Chop off one of his mother's fingers."

The scene shifts slightly, and a person drags out Pan Qingjiang's mother, slams her onto the table, and chops her off with an axe—clean, swift, and without any hesitation.

"Well!!!!!"

Pan Qingjiang struggled wildly in his chair, his eyes blazing with anger.

Tang Jianqiu pulled the rag out of Pan Qingjiang's mouth. The veins on Pan Qingjiang's neck bulged, and he was about to start cursing when Tang Jianqiu shoved it back in.

"Chop off another finger."

Zhang Da'an smiled without expression and said, "Your wife, children, and parents can also see your performance through this camera. Brother, think it over carefully. Are you going to continue cursing me, or do you want to talk to me about your life and dreams? Think it through before you open your mouth."

With a glance, he signaled Tang Jianqiu to pull off the rag again.

"mom!!!!!"

"OMG!!!"

"mom--"

At this moment, Pan Qingjiang was already sobbing uncontrollably, crying and shouting as he looked at the screen.

Even though she looked at Zhang Da'an with eyes full of hatred, as if she wanted to devour him, Zhang Da'an still smiled and said very kindly, "It's truly touching. You're such a filial son, unable to bear seeing your mother suffer so much. So, if you don't answer the questions properly, I'll chop off your mother's fingers one by one, one by one, one by one... Then down her arm, segment by segment, one by one... Oh dear, I don't even want to think about it. Just thinking about it makes my whole body ache. I'm an educated person, and I'm most afraid of pain."

crunch...

Pan Qingjiang was grinding his teeth to powder, while Qian Jiedu, standing to the side, looked completely dazed.

A true warrior has no weaknesses.

If you have a weakness, why would you become a suicide squad member?

"Who sent you to kill me... You can answer that, can't you?"

"..."

"Chop off another finger."

"I'm considering it—"

"No."

Zhang Da'an still had a smile on his face, then turned around to look at the woman as her third finger was chopped off. He put his hands behind his back and turned his head slightly, saying, "I can't even tolerate your hesitation, understand?"

Suddenly, Zhang Da'an seemed to be pondering a serious question: "What do you mean, what if we chop up your master surnamed Hu and feed him to the dogs...? Or should we just forget it and actually raise dogs?"

"..."

"Let's feed it to the fish in the Yangtze River instead."

After saying this, Zhang Da'an raised his hand and said to Tang Jianqiu, "Make a note of this: starting this year, I will not eat Yangtze River fish for the next two years."

"Yes."

Tang Jianqiu opened his notebook, bit his pen, and scribbled down notes.

(End of this chapter)