Rebellious Contract Beast

"This so-called insurance compensation is really generous, but what should we do if a villain uses it to harm others and defraud them?"

"Don't worry about that, Master Zhu. We have our own way to deal with it."

"Well……"

"Master Zhu, do you agree?"

"Yeah." Zhu Yandong nodded. Because he had been tricked by the Wan family before, he was now afraid of the ropes for ten years after being bitten by a snake. He had to be cautious.

But so far, he hasn't found anything wrong, and the deal seems very reasonable. The only thing he doesn't understand is why a huge plaque should be built on the teahouse.

Jian Zhanming breathed a sigh of relief upon hearing this, thinking that it was finally over.

"So has Young Master Zhu decided when to reopen the business?"

"You can do it anytime. Master Jian, just give us some advice."

"If I make the decision, then after seven days, you send someone to prepare everything, and I will leave the things here."

"Master Jian, take care."

"No need to send it to me."

Seeing that Zhu Yandong finally agreed, Jian Zhanming didn't want to stay any longer. To him, staying here any longer would be a torture.

The eldest son of the Zhu family is hesitant and indecisive. It is obvious that he will not accomplish anything great. Jian Zhanming is puzzled as to why the gang leader must choose such a person?
However, he didn't care what Shen Yi was thinking. Now Jian Zhanming just wanted to leave quickly. He was afraid that if he left too late, Zhu Yandong would change his mind again, and then he would have to persuade the other party again with all his heart.

Watching Jian Zhanming running away, Zhu Yandong was a little confused and then felt speechless.

Are you so terrible?
……

The sky gradually darkened and the snowflakes became lighter. In a house somewhere in the Zhu family mansion, the sound of banging and smashing things came from the study. The servants who were sweeping the snow in the yard looked over in confusion, and then they realized something, looked at each other, and then moved away.

When these sounds finally disappeared, a guest of the Zhu family appeared hurriedly outside the archway. He did not hear the sound coming from the study just now, and naturally did not know what the owner of the study was feeling, so he went in without thinking.

But when he entered the study, the Zhu family's retainer saw the mess on the floor and his colleague kneeling on the ground with his face pressed tightly against the ground. He immediately had a premonition that something was wrong and that he had come at the wrong time.

He wanted to turn around and leave immediately, and come back to report after a while, but it was too late.

Deep in the study, Zhu Yixuan had his hair a little disheveled and was facing away from him. Although he couldn't see the expression on his face, the guest could imagine that his face was definitely extremely gloomy.

Zhu Yixuan had also sensed his presence a long time ago, and his tone was calm when he spoke, neither sad nor happy.

"came back."

"Yes, yes, sir..."

"If you have anything to do, tell me."

"This..." The retainer hesitated. He didn't want to say it, but he knew that even if he didn't want to say it, the other party would force him to say it. He had no choice but to try to make things go in a less bad direction. So he said, "I just went to Mingyan Courtyard. When I came back, I suddenly felt like going to investigate around the Fourth Young Master Zhu's courtyard."

"So what did you find out?"

"Yes sir."

"What is it? If you have something to say, just say it now."

"I, I see, I see..."

"Hmm?" Zhu Yixuan suddenly snorted, turned his head slightly, and revealed a pair of extremely cold and indifferent eyes.

The retainer could not help but shiver. Finally, he had no other choice but to bite his tongue and quickly tell everyone his discovery.

"I saw the Tiger Gang members enter the residence of the Fourth Young Master Zhu. They seemed to be having a pleasant conversation..."

"Zhonghu Gang?" These three words seemed to have touched Dazhu Yixuan's nerves, causing him to turn around and shout at the retainer, "Are you sure that the person you saw was from the Zhonghu Gang?"

"Yes, I am sure they are from the Tiger Gang!"

"Do you know any of them?"

"Have……"

"who is it?"

"Yes, it's Qu Xiangui, the head of Fuhu Hall, and his two followers..." the doorman answered cautiously. As expected, the moment he finished speaking, Zhu Yixuan suddenly kicked the bookshelf next to him as if he was crazy, and the books on it shook, making a rustling sound.

Then he picked up the wine jug on the table and smashed it hard.

The servant didn't dare to dodge and could only take the blow with his head.

He has the cultivation level of the Pure Level. In terms of physical fitness, normally an ordinary porcelain wine jug cannot hurt him.

But who is Zhu Yixuan?

This was a genuine strong man of the Identification Level. The wine jug he threw contained considerable force and hit him on the forehead, causing blood to flow immediately.

He didn't dare to move, let alone cry out in pain. He maintained his previous posture and waited in fear.

After doing all this, Zhu Yixuan obviously felt that it was not enough to vent his anger. He smashed the objects around him until his hair was disheveled and draped over his shoulders like a devil crawling out of hell. He overturned the huge bookshelf that was two people high and directly to the ground. Only then did he stop his crazy behavior and shouted with heavy breath: "Get out! All of you get out!!"

After hearing what he said, how could the two people in the study dare to stay here any longer?
He said "yes" and quickly stood up and ran out of the study. As the two left, the study became quiet. In this atmosphere for an unknown period of time, Zhu Yixuan gradually calmed down.

The violence in his eyes subsided, and he sat among a pile of smashed furniture and other items, wondering what he was thinking about.

After a while, he came to his senses, stood up, straightened his clothes, and then walked with a stern face to the wall about two feet to the right of the southwest corner of the study.

Click~click~
No one knew what Zhu Yixuan had done, but a sound of a mechanism turning was heard from inside the wall, and a hole quickly appeared in the originally flat wall. Inside the hole was a secret compartment, and a box could be clearly seen in the secret compartment.

Zhu Yixuan took out the box and opened it without saying a word. There was not much inside, only an ancient token the size of a palm. Such a big box seemed a little too empty for just such a token.

However, he did not care about these. After taking out the token and turning it over, he saw the word "Xuan" written in a flamboyant style. If He Jianchuyun was here, he would find that the pattern and carvings on this token were exactly the same as the Tian Zi Ling of the Lonely League that she got in Daoguo Township, except for the different words engraved on it.

"Leader of the Tiger Gang, you forced me to do this..."

……

After the Tiger Gang annexed the Wealth Gang, it had a very good deterrent effect. There was no movement from the Blood Brotherhood Alliance, and no one knew what they were doing. The Pillow Knife Society also became quiet. Shen Yile's peace and quiet also prevented the Tiger Gang disciples from causing trouble.

No longer had to ask the old witch to take him to the Shen Mansion early in the morning to do business, and he had a long period of leisure time.

I have to say that Qu Xiangui is a rare talent. For many things, Shen Yi only needs to say a word and he can get them done for him. Over time, Shen Yi is a little reluctant to part with this guy.

As for the Luo family, the Zhonghu Gang had originally agreed to give the Black Tiger Hall's territory to the Jucai Gang, but ended up annexing the Jucai Gang the next day. This was indeed a very audacious act, and they did not take the Luo family seriously. In the eyes of others, such behavior was simply courting death, and it is no exaggeration to say that the Zhonghu Gang was fickle.

But what does it matter? Shen Yi didn't care at all. He was targeting the Luo family, and it would be a pity if he couldn't cheat them.

Of course, he had also thought about what would happen if he offended the Luo family, but Shen Yi didn't care. After all, the rules were there. If the Luo family had the courage, they could just break one and see.

The Tiger Gang killed people from the Luo family, and the price was the Black Tiger Hall's territory as compensation. Now that the compensation has been paid, it means that the matter has been resolved.

As for the Jucai Gang "stealing" the orders from the Zhonghu Gang, each party should be held responsible for this matter.

Since the Jucai Gang dared to steal the Lord's order, the Zhonghu Gang had reason to flatten and swallow up all the territories and industries of the Jucai Gang. After all, as one of the three major gangs, the majesty of the Zhonghu Gang cannot be challenged. This is a serious fight between gangs and has nothing to do with the four major families.

If the Luo family suffers as a result, the Zhu family behind the Tiger Gang will not stand idly by either.

However, the Luo family seemed unable to accept this and sent people to argue several times. However, Shen Yi did not even give them a chance to complain and simply had them driven away.

Generally speaking, the Tiger Gang didn't have any major problems, but it would be hard to say what would happen if they lost the support of the Zhu family.

So it is not yet time to separate from the Zhu family.

In addition, following the arrangements of Jian Zhanming and Zhu Yandong, advertisements of those teahouses have been posted on billboards in some places in the city. The locations were chosen very well, and anyone passing by would be able to see the content promoted in the advertisements.

After the teahouse opened, what happened next was pretty much as Shen Yi had expected. With the storytellers telling stories in vivid detail, the threshold of the teahouse was almost trampled down by people who wanted to listen to the stories.

After hearing the first half of the story, some people were so eager to know the subsequent plot that they could not sleep all night. They would wait in front of the teahouse early the next day just to get a good seat.

Due to the explosive customer flow, the business of surrounding shops was boosted to a certain extent. Countless vendors set up stalls near the teahouse and made a lot of money.

In order to maximize the benefits, Shen Yi let the disciples of the Zhonghu Gang spread the word that any teahouse in Jiangzhou City that was interested in cooperating could go to the Red Tiger Hall to discuss it. They had to pay a franchise fee before cooperating, and the teahouse that agreed to cooperate had to hand over 30% of its daily revenue to the Zhonghu Gang.

As for those teahouses that intended to cooperate, no matter whether they were from the Luo family, the Zhu family, the Chen family, the Xu family, or even the Wan family, Shen Yi accepted them all.

However, since everyone is accepted, there will of course be different treatments. If the teahouse is opened by ordinary people or ordinary businessmen, or if it is opened by the Chen family, the Zhu family, or an ordinary chamber of commerce that has no grudges against them, the profit sharing will be the normal 30:70. But if the teahouse has the background of the Luo family, the Xu family, and the Wan family, then the profit sharing will be 50:50 or even 70:30.

Agree if you want, get lost if you don’t. There are plenty of teahouses willing to cooperate anyway.

Faced with such an outrageous profit-sharing demand, the teahouses of Luo, Xu and Wan had no choice but to agree. There was no other way. Other teahouses had exciting new stories to tell, while theirs was still telling old stories that had been heard countless times. It would be strange if they could have any business.

The new story is in the hands of the Tiger Gang and can only be obtained from them.

I was completely forced.

In order to prevent the teahouses that chose to cooperate from breaking the agreement after receiving the new storyline, Shen Yi specially had people draft countless contracts and cunningly signed the words "Zhu Family" on the Party A line.

As long as he dared to violate the terms of the contract, he could easily pull the Zhu family out. After all, with such huge benefits, the Zhu family would surely not give up.

In addition, Shen Yi also sent people to make some arrangements for those teahouses that were willing to cooperate, and divided the place for listening to books into five areas, namely luxury boxes, ordinary boxes, lobby seats, hard seats, and standing tickets.

The prices range from low to high, namely five cents, twenty cents, five hundred cents, five taels of silver and thirty taels of silver. The first two prices can ensure that ordinary people can also hear the stories, while the last three are mainly aimed at those who come from wealthy families or are simply from aristocratic families.

Oh, by the way, the franchise fee is also divided into four levels, namely 5,000 taels, 8,000 taels, and 12,000 taels. The 5,000 taels is the standard level, which is just a franchise. For teahouses that pay 8,000 taels or 12,000 taels of franchise fee, the Tiger Gang will use billboards built in the city to promote them. You get what you pay for. The more franchise fees you pay, the more aggressive the promotion will be.

Among them, a teahouse belonging to the Chen family directly paid a franchise fee of 30,000 taels of silver.

After hearing this, Shen Yi immediately mobilized one-third of the billboards in the city, hung up the teahouse's sign, and promoted it to the utmost, with a time limit of seven days.

The fourth tier is more special. There is no specific amount. If it is low, there is no franchise fee. If it is high, it is only two thousand taels of silver. It is mainly aimed at small teahouses opened by ordinary people themselves. If they are willing to come, they can come, and if they don’t want to come, there is no pressure.

Anyway, Shen Yi, the storyteller in the teahouse, didn't intend to do this job in a long-term and stable manner. His real goal was to cheat all the four major families.

When the new story becomes widely circulated and is no longer so novel, the business of those small teahouses that did not choose to cooperate will gradually recover.

It’s a pity that there is no time to get the Lin family and the Wu family of Jiangzhou involved, but it doesn’t matter, there will be plenty of opportunities in the future.

The most important thing for Shen Yi now is the Tianxiaren Group that he founded. Since it is a group, it naturally needs financing. Of course, with the current financial resources of the Zhonghu Gang, it can easily support the entire Tianxiaren Group, but what's the use of having so much money?

Being able to preserve wealth is the real thing, so financing is a particularly important step. He needs to bind the interests of all major forces to the Tianxia Group and let them spontaneously become the defensive armor of the Tianxia Group. The Zhu family is far from qualified. The Lin family and the Wu family, two families with Xuan-level masters in charge, are the appropriate choices. If a hidden family with a Ming-level saint is willing to participate, it will be even better!
Those big forces protect the Tianxiaren Group, which is also a disguised way of protecting themselves. When they grow up and become stronger than everyone else, they will kill them and eat them up. It's so delicious~
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