I chose one of four options at the start, and I chose the number one clan in Lingnan.

The SUV came to a stop, the door opened, and Lin Ting got out. He was wearing a black jacket and had a cigarette between his teeth.

The area in front of the construction site was muddy, with broken bricks and rusty steel bars scattered on the ground.

Lin Fu stood in front of the Santana, his black cloth jacket torn, his briefcase clutched tightly to his chest, with two young men from Zhongtang blocking his way.

Lin Ting walked over. He took the cigarette out of his mouth and flicked off the ash.

Sun Dazhi stood among the workers. He was wearing a leather jacket and holding a large red megaphone.

He saw Lin Ting get out of the SUV and his eyes darted around.

"Everyone, look closely!" Sun Dazhi shouted through a megaphone, "This is the new big boss! He drives a luxury car, but he won't pay us our wages!"

More than a hundred workers started to panic, and several young workers grabbed shovel handles and banged hard on the stones on the ground.

"Give me the money!"

"Nobody's leaving until they get their money!"

The workers were shouting loudly. Among the crowd was an old man in his fifties, wearing worn-out liberation shoes, his trouser legs covered in mud.

There were also young people in their early twenties, their faces full of anger.

Lin Ting didn't speak. He stood there and put the cigarette back in his mouth.

Five vans drove up from the street behind, and as soon as the doors opened, more than thirty men from Zhongtang wearing black vests jumped out.

They carried seamless steel pipes and lined up in two rows behind Lin Ting.

The sound of orderly footsteps echoed in the puddles.

Seeing this, the workers quieted down, and several men in the front row holding bricks took a half step back.

Sun Dazhi did some mental calculations. The group of people opposite him looked intimidating, but this was a construction site, and he had more than a hundred people on his side. If things really got out of hand, the law wouldn't punish the masses.

He wanted to take advantage of the large number of people to squeeze more money out of the new and old bosses.

If things escalate, the county will definitely put pressure on the business, and in order to start construction smoothly, the new and old bosses will eventually have no choice but to pay money to avoid trouble.

"Who are you trying to scare by bringing so many people?" Sun Dazhi walked a short distance forward with a megaphone in hand.

"What, you owe me money and won't pay, now you want to hit me? Come on! Hit me on the head!"

Sun Dazhi pointed to his head.

Lin Ting exhaled a puff of smoke and looked at Sun Dazhi: "Are you in charge?"

"My name is Sun Dazhi! I'm the foreman of this construction site!" Sun Dazhi patted his chest.

"The previous owner ran away. Now that you've taken over this land, you have to settle your accounts."

Lin Fu came up from behind: "We checked the accounts at the Land Management Bureau. The total amount owed to you for the entire civil engineering project is three million yuan. The Lin family acknowledges this debt."

"Three million? You think you can give me a beggar's money!" Sun Dazhi spat on the ground.

"That's an account from more than half a year ago! During these months of work stoppage, have the brothers eaten, drunk, and taken care of everything for free?"

I'm telling you, with principal and interest, plus compensation for the work stoppage, it'll total ten million!

Lin Fuqi's face turned pale: "This is extortion!"

"Ten million in cash, not a penny less!" Sun Dazhi shouted into a megaphone.

"Brothers, they say our hard-earned money is being extorted! Do you agree to that?!"

"No way!"

"My mother is still in the hospital waiting for money for surgery! If you don't pay me today, I'll fight you to the death!"

An old worker with a wrinkled face and red eyes shouted, holding up a rusty wrench.

The workers' emotions were stirred up again, and more than a hundred people pushed forward.

Lin Fei gripped the steel pipe in his hand and turned to look at Lin Ting: "Grandpa, I'll take some men and tear this Sun guy's mouth off."

Lin Ting raised his hand to stop Lin Fei.

He threw the cigarette butt in his hand into the puddle and stomped it out with the sole of his shoe.

"Ten million," Lin Ting said, looking at Sun Dazhi. "You want cash?"

Sun Dazhi was secretly delighted, thinking that the new boss was afraid of making a big fuss.

He straightened his back: "That's right! Cash only! No money, no way out! And you can forget about starting work!"

Lin Ting turned his head to look at Lin Fei: "Open the trunk. Take the things out."

Lin Fei nodded. He put away the steel pipe and led the four Zhongtang men to the back of the black SUV.

The trunk lid was opened.

Lin Fei and the men carried out four large black metal safes from inside.

Each box was extremely heavy; it took two men to lift one, their arm muscles taut.

Lin Fu ran to the side of the guardhouse, moved out a worn-out folding desk, and set it up in the open space between the two groups of people.

Four black safes were placed heavily on the desk, the metal boxes slamming against the wooden table with a dull thud.

The table legs creaked under the weight, and even the muddy water on the ground was shaken up and splashed.

Sun Dazhi stared at the boxes.

The workers stopped making noise and looked at the desk.

Lin Fei walked to the first box and pressed the combination lock a few times.

Click, the latch pops open.

Lin Fei yanked open the box lid.

Then came the second, the third, and the fourth.

All four metal box lids were opened.

A neatly bundled bundle of 100-yuan bills, like red bricks, filled the entire box and was displayed directly in front of everyone.

The crowd immediately fell silent.

More than a hundred workers stared wide-eyed. They had spent half their lives doing manual labor, and each month they received only small amounts of money.

No one had ever seen so much cash laid out together before; the box full of cash left everyone speechless.

Several workers holding shovels let go, and the shovels fell into the muddy water.

Sun Dazhi's breathing became heavy.

He stared wide-eyed at the boxes of cash.

He was calculating in his mind that once he got the ten million, he would give a hundred or two million to the workers, and the rest would go into his own pocket.

With this money, he can win back all the money he lost on overseas websites.

The new boss was indeed a novice, so easily intimidated, Sun Dazhi thought to himself with a smirk.

He threw the megaphone in his hand on the ground, rubbed his hands together, and walked forward.

"Oh dear, if the boss had just handed over the money earlier, there wouldn't have been so many misunderstandings."

Sun Dazhi smiled and reached into the first safe.

"Brothers, the boss's paid out! I'm going to distribute the money to everyone right now!"

Snapped.

Lin Ting raised his hand and slapped Sun Dazhi's hand.

The force was so great that Sun Dazhi's hand swelled up and turned red. He took two steps back in pain, clutching his hand and looking at Lin Ting.

"What are you doing! Isn't money meant to be distributed?" Sun Dazhi shouted.

Lin Ting walked to his desk and took out a photocopy of an account book from the inside pocket of his jacket.

This ledger is a record that Lin Ting found out half an hour ago using the system's business intelligence database.

Lin Ting slammed the photocopied ledger in his hand onto the pile of red cash.

"You can take the money." Lin Ting picked up a bundle of money from the table and weighed it in his hand.

"But the rules must be followed according to the Lin family's regulations. You don't need to distribute them today; the Lin family will do it themselves."

Lin Ting looked at the more than one hundred workers in front of him and tapped the ledger with his finger.

"Everyone line up and check your accounts one by one."