Rebellious Contract Beast

Today is a very important day for a simple reason. As soon as Shen Yi woke up in the morning, he went to Peng Mansion to "punch in for work" as usual, just like the previous few days, in order to learn as much as possible about the internal affairs of Zhonghu Hall and the interests involved with various forces.

On the way, he called Qu Xiangui, who was temporarily the head of Fuhu Hall, and asked him to go to the warehouse to count the money that Jian Zhanming had looted yesterday and give a specific amount.

But what surprised him was that the four million taels of valuables in the warehouse were not only silver, but also his favorite small yellow croaker!
It wasn’t much, probably about four or five thousand taels, but it already made him feel extremely happy.

If he had known that there was gold, he should have asked the ghost soldiers to go and pull the treasure in first, and then he should have taken care of it first!
In fact, it is not his fault that he was so careless. After all, in a bimetallic monetary system where gold and silver circulated in the market at the same time, if ordinary people had both gold and silver in their hands, they would of course store the most valuable gold and spend silver when buying things.

If everyone does this, in the long run, the amount of gold circulating in the market will become less and less. It is said that one tael of gold is equal to ten taels of silver, but in fact one tael of gold is equal to twelve taels or even fifteen taels of silver.

Shen Yi hardly ever saw anyone using gold to trade in the markets, big or small. Even in a gold-eating beast like the Ghost Market, people mostly traded with silver.

He ordered someone to bring the small yellow croaker. Looking at the golden legends all over the ground, Shen Yi's eyes were also flashing with bright golden light.

many!
Too much!
This is an unprecedented sense of satisfaction!

He seemed to have become his childhood self, getting a lot of his favorite toys. He would pick up each one of them and play with them, and couldn't let them go. He was so excited that he even couldn't sleep at night.

But he was no longer an innocent child after all, and the novelty of adults would always pass quickly. Not long after, he put down the ingots in his hand, feeling a little bored, and his sanity returned.

He couldn't help but wonder why Western dragons loved gold so much?

Could it be that gold has some kind of magical effect on Western dragons?

And you don’t know if you haven’t tried it yourself?
Shen Yi tapped the table with his paw twice, and picked up another gold ingot. His eyes were filled with hesitation and a bit of expectation. After a while, his eyes became firm and he threw the gold ingot directly into his mouth.

Under the crushing of his steel teeth, the gold, which was originally soft in texture, was quickly chewed into pieces by him. Overall, it had no taste. If you had to say it, it still had a little metallic bitterness, but it was very light. If you didn't taste it carefully, you couldn't taste it at all. There was a faint sweet aftertaste when swallowing it.

I thought it would be the same as expected, that the gold would be transformed into a huge amount of red gas after entering the stomach, but it turned out that Shen Yi was overthinking.

The moment the gold entered the space inside the body, it was strangled and completely destroyed by the other red energy on the spot, exactly the same as what happened when he ate the soil.

Eating gold does not bring you any benefits.

"Eh~" Shen Yi couldn't help but look down on him. In that case, this gold would be useless to him! It was just a currency with higher purchasing power.

But even though he thought this, he just couldn't control his instincts and had an innate love for gold, so the next second he looked at the gold on the table with a painful look on his face.

With that bite just now, not only a small part of the red gas was lost, but also a large number of small yellow croakers!
What a loss!

I wouldn't have tried it if I had known.

His eyes fell on the small pile of gold beside the table. These were gold ingots, too much and too small. Maybe people are like this. When there are too many of something that is extremely scarce, it becomes less precious. Although the gold bar that Qiu Ruixian gave him before was only one piece, he played with it for more than a month and didn't feel bored at all.

He planned to find an opportunity to melt all the gold and turn them into super-large gold bars weighing 50 kilograms, which would be more interesting to play with.

Yesterday, Jian Zhanming and his men looted about four thousand taels of gold, which was still a little short of five thousand taels, but it was enough, enough to melt into eight gold bricks.

Thinking of this, Shen Yi's eyes lit up again.

Tuk-tuk-tuk~
There was a knock on the door. Shen Yi was startled and quickly put all the gold ingots in front of him into the storage space. Then he said in a deep voice: "Come in."

Soon the door was opened, and through the curtain, he saw a figure carrying a box walking in, followed by a ghost soldier.

This person was Qu Xiangui. Shen Yi had already memorized his figure, so it was not difficult to recognize him.

As soon as he came in, Qu Xiangui bowed to the curtain, and then said, "Boss, I have packed everything you wanted according to your wishes."

"Nothing else?"

"No, it is absolutely true. A total of 4,300 taels of gold."

"Just leave it to my ghost soldiers."

"Yes, boss." Qu Xiangui nodded when he heard that, and quickly handed the box in his hand to the Yin soldier next to him, who then passed it to another Yin soldier standing behind the curtain, and finally the box was placed in front of Shen Yi.

He glanced at it and looked completely unconcerned, then casually put the box into the storage space and said, "You did a good job. Take your men to the warehouse again and get 20,000 taels of silver. This is my reward for you."

Qu Xiangui was stunned for a moment, then he was delighted and said quickly: "Thank you, Boss!"

"You deserve it. No need to thank me. Just do your job well and you will get more rewards like this in the future. Now tell me, how is Qu Ye doing?"

"Everything is fine with Hall Master Qu. Most of the people have chosen to surrender. It won't be long before the White Tiger Hall will return to its original state."

"No thorns?"

"Yes, there are, but they have all been resolved, so there is no need to worry."

"What about Jian Zhanming? What's going on with him?"

"The spy sent me news this morning that everything is normal in Master Jian's Red Tiger Hall and nothing out of the ordinary has happened. You can rest assured, Master."

"Well... continue to have people keep an eye on Jian Zhanming. If anything happens, report to me immediately. Get out."

"Yes!"

Qu Xiangui clasped his fists, glanced at the ghost soldier standing next to him, and did not dare to stay any longer. He turned and walked towards the door. But just as he took a step out, Shen Yi, for some reason, called him again.

"wait a moment."

"Boss, is there anything else you want to tell me?"

Shen Yi pondered for a moment, and soon a hoarse and low voice came out of his mouth: "Peng's Mansion, tsk tsk ~ I don't like this name very much. I'll give you one day today to have someone go and change it."

Upon hearing this, Qu Xiangui had an expression of "as expected", and it was obvious that he had expected something like this to happen.

"Boss, what do you think should be changed to?"

"Let's change it to Shen's Mansion."

"Shen's Mansion?" Qu Xiangui was stunned again. The identity of the new gang leader behind the curtain was very mysterious. No one knew who he was, but everyone had guesses.

This new gang leader should be from one of the four major families in Jiangzhou City, but I’m not sure.

The Peng Mansion changed its name, and the other party among the four major families did not use any family's surname, but used the surname Shen... Qu Xiangui had already begun to think about those people with the surname Shen in Jiangzhou City, but he did not dare to think about it for too long. After all, it is possible that the new gang leader did not want people to know which family he belonged to, so he quickly said: "Yes, gang leader, I will do it right away."

The door closed again and the room became quiet again.

Shen Yi took out the box that he had put into the storage space before, opened it and checked it again. The amounts were all correct. This Qu Xiangui could be considered honest.

Shaking his head and closing the box, he picked up a notebook from the side at random. But after opening it and seeing the densely packed numbers one, two, three, and four on it, he suddenly realized that he had already learned most of the information about the Tiger Gang in the past few days. What remained was the monotonous and boring cash flow record, which made people not interested in reading it seriously. If there was to be a check on the accounts, this job should be left to the people below.

Hey, I have to say that the trivial things recorded in the Ghost Tiger Hall are interesting to read.

Realizing that there was nothing more worth knowing, Shen Yi certainly couldn't sit here all day. After ordering a few ghost soldiers to guard here, he opened the secret compartment and left the house.

Because of the change of gang leader, the Zhonghu Gang has been in chaos recently. The surviving flag owners as well as Mingyue, Jian Zhanming and others have been dealing with the disobedient members of the Zhonghu Gang. As for those who are willing to obey, since they cannot be managed for the time being and in order to make it easier to divide them, they are temporarily stuffed into the Fuhu Hall, and will be reallocated later.

Because of this, Shen Yi wandered around Peng Mansion and found that the place was full of Tiger Gang members who had nothing to do, gathered together to play "Four Seasons Cards" and yelled.

Shen Yi was very unhappy.

What's the point of sitting idle like this?

We have to find them something serious to do. We can't keep these people for nothing.

But what should we find for them to do?

He wanted to send them as laborers to places where people were needed to do hard labor and earn money for himself. After all, they were all strong and efficient at work.

But the problem is that the Tiger Gang is notorious in Jiangzhou City, and no one is likely to want them. Even if someone wants them, they can only fill in a part of them, which is far from enough. As for sending them to work as thugs to guard other people's shops, this is also the business of the White Tiger Hall.

Rubbing his paws, Shen Yi jumped down from the roof and began to ponder.

There is a rumor in Jiangzhou city that the Tiger Gang has more than 6,000 members. In fact, this is a bit exaggerated. To be honest, the number of Tiger Gang members is actually around 4,000.

Among these more than 4,000 gang members, three-quarters are just peripheral members, and there are only less than 1,000 people who can truly be considered disciples of the Tiger Gang.

There is also a big difference between inner members and outer members. The former have a fixed salary every month, and a lot of them are in the range of five hundred coins and two hundred coins. Those who have made great contributions to the Tiger Gang will also receive generous rewards, which is equivalent to formal employees in the company. If you ignore the nature of the gang, this is a very good job for ordinary people.

As for the latter, they are not even temporary workers. They are just a group of young people who worship underworld organizations. They are registered in the Tigers Gang, but they will not be paid any wages. On weekdays, these peripheral members do evil things everywhere in the name of the Tigers Gang. The key is that they are full of passion, so when there is a fight between big gangs, these peripheral disciples are often cannon fodder, and only their relatives will feel sad if they die.

However, there are no outer members in Peng Mansion now, and it is the inner circle of formal members who are in an idle state.

How to arrange them is not a very difficult problem. Shen Yi's mind turned, his eyes lit up, and then he came up with an idea.

Not only does he have to make arrangements for these inner circle members, he also has to bring in the outer circle members!
The latter is important. After all, with so many people, you can always find a few talented people.

Because of the existence of the Zhonghu Gang, he was able to skip the step of primitive capital accumulation, and since he already had the people, the next step was to directly start the disorderly expansion of capital and replace the gray and black industries within the Zhonghu Gang. It was time to give the world a spiritual shock.

Thinking about this, Shen Yi turned back and ordered the Yin soldiers to call back Qu Xiangui.

……

A few days later in the morning, Yang Bo hurriedly called Yang Bayuan out with a letter in his hand.

"Steward! Steward!"

"What happened? Did the young lady come to the winery?"

"No! The young lady didn't come. Only Futian came."

"That coachman? What's he doing here?"

"He brought a letter for Miss, saying that Miss asked you to open it and read it with your own eyes."

As Yang Bo spoke, he handed the letter over. Yang Bayuan took it puzzledly and opened it. A piece of beautiful handwriting appeared on the paper.

After a quick look, his face turned pale the next second.

Noticing his abnormality, Yang Bo also took a look and asked, "Manager, what is written on it?"

"Miss asked us to postpone the opening for a few days."

"It's nothing, but why are you…"

"The young lady also asked me to go to the Peng Mansion..."

"This..." Yang Bo was stunned for a moment. He had only been in Jiangzhou City for a short time. How could they not know that the Peng Mansion was the headquarters of the Tiger Gang?

Although the winery and the Evil Tiger Gang have developed some relationship after the last incident with He Dawu, this does not mean that the entire Tiger Gang is no longer an enemy.

Asking him to go to the headquarters of the Tiger Gang, isn't that courting death?
"What should I do?"

"Did Futian tell you what else the young lady said?"

"No, the driver said that the young lady had an important matter for you to take care of." Yang Bo shook his head and then asked, "Steward, what is the important matter that is not written on it?"

"No, the lady just said that you will know once you get there, it has something to do with our Luoxiangzui Winery."

"So are you going or not?"

Yang Bayuan hesitated for a moment, then gritted his teeth and nodded, "Go, the young lady won't hurt me, go and take a look."

After saying this, he asked Yang Bo to call Li Rong over, and then he went upstairs, put on the armor he brought from the Zhao family, protected himself tightly, and finally got on the carriage and left the winery.

...(End of chapter)