The arrogance started from Chinatown

Chapter 257 Bribery, Threats

While Chen Zhengwei was lying in bed thinking that he should have higher aspirations, such as finding someone to kill, a group of people far away in Virginia, Nevada were also preparing.

Rong Jiahong and his group first took a boat ride for a day and a half to Los Angeles, and then entered the wilderness of the West.

Along the way, they saw a different side of San Francisco.

In any case, San Francisco is also the largest city in the West and has a good social order.

Even when San Francisco is at its most chaotic, it is still a paradise compared to the wilderness outside.

Near small towns in the west, horse bandits were rampant, some even riding their horses openly in the towns.

Civilians and farmers in the town also walked on the streets with rifles in their hands. Even a small incident or quarrel could turn into a gunfight, and then into a melee.

Rong Jiahong and his men encountered a melee between civilians, horse bandits and sheriffs, and they were drawn into the fight while they were still stunned.

Someone was hit by a stray bullet.

Then they showed those country bumpkins what it meant to have indiscriminate, sweeping shooting like a rainstorm.

After everyone emptied a few magazines, the whole town became much quieter.

They then loaded up their supplies and cautiously moved through the town.

However, not long after they left, gunshots were heard in the town again.

This is the Wild West.

Robbery and murder are everywhere.

If the immigrant pioneer groups coming from the East did not have enough men and weapons, a group of dozens of people would not survive more than ten days in the West.

Rong Jiahong and his men had more people and more guns, but even so, apart from that small town, they once encountered a group of more than a dozen horse bandits who were interested in their horses and the supplies in the carriage.

Then, only a few of the bandits escaped.

In this way, they traveled for eight days before arriving at the Virginia City of Old Silver Mountain.

Old Silver Mountain is a mining district that straddles California and Nevada.

One of the main settlements was Virginia, just across the border from Nevada, California.

So Rong Jiahong and his team are now across states.

Virginia City is more of a town than a city. It rose over the past decade with the discovery of this huge silver mine.

The streets are all gravel and loess, and there are only a few stone buildings, while the rest are the dilapidated wooden houses that can be seen everywhere.

With the violent exploitation by mining companies, this place has begun to decline, but there are still nearly 30,000 people.

But most of them usually live in the mine, and there are less than 10,000 people in the city.

At this time on the edge of Virginia, Rong Jiahong and Rong Jiasheng were sitting on a large rock by the roadside, revolvers in their hands.

"Have you figured out the location?"

"clear!"

A group of people around were talking while checking their guns and ammunition.

Especially the filled magazines. Everyone carries a few loaded magazines with them. They feel that this kind of gun is more and more useful, especially when suppressing the opponent with firepower, the opponent can't even raise his head.

The only problem is that it takes a lot of force to pull the trigger, which affects the accuracy. If the distance is more than ten meters, you have to rely entirely on the terrifying shooting speed and reloading speed to suppress the opponent.

Everyone was busy with their own things and the atmosphere was somewhat dull.

Everyone was still a little nervous, after all, this place was too far away from San Francisco.

"You lead the way later! This is your only chance, Yixingtang can't escape!" Rong Jiasheng turned his head and looked at the other people. These people were from Yixing.

In addition to asking them to lead the way, the team also let several Germans in the team go into the city for a walk in the afternoon to avoid affecting the operation because they were afraid that they might cause trouble.

But with them leading the way, the operation will be smoother.

Li Zhongliang, the younger brother of Zhang Baoshan's concubine, was also there.

"After you kill Zhang Baoshan and other important figures of Yixingtang, you can gather the others and make them lay down their weapons! After all, they are all Chinese, and we don't want to kill too many people."

After a while, the group got up and headed towards Yixingtang's territory.

The Yixing Hall's territory was located on the edge of Virginia City, which was designated as an area for Chinese residents.

The situation for Chinese people here is not very good either, but it is somewhat different from that in San Francisco.

On the one hand, it was because the Chinese were paid low wages, which led to the dislike of miners from other ethnic groups. Another major reason was that when miners from other ethnic groups united to demand higher pay, they also found Chinese miners at the time.

The Chinese miners refused.

……

Rong Jiasheng followed Li Zhongliang through the dusty streets.

Most of the shops nearby are closed, and only a few casinos and opium dens are still open, but the opium stocks here have also reached the bottom.

"Don't point the gun at me, I won't do anything tricky!" Li Zhongliang whispered.

Rong Jiasheng pretended not to hear.

Li Zhongliang came to the gate of a courtyard and knocked on the door. After a moment, a female voice came from inside the gate: "Who?"

"Sister, it's me! Is my brother-in-law here?" Li Zhongliang asked loudly.

"Aliang, you're back?" The woman's voice suddenly sounded a little surprised, and then footsteps were heard.

"Is my brother-in-law here? I have something urgent to discuss with him!" Li Zhongliang said anxiously.

"He's resting inside, come in first." The woman opened the door and wanted to drag Li Zhongliang into the yard after seeing him. Li Zhongliang suddenly covered her mouth and whispered, "Sister, don't make a sound!"

Before the woman could react, several people walked out from both sides of the gate, filed into the yard, and headed straight inside.

The woman was at a loss.

Rong Jiasheng and his men kicked open the door, and saw a tall and strong bald man lying on the bed. When he opened his eyes, he saw several guns pointed at him, and his heart suddenly turned cold.

"you……"

Rong Jiasheng shot him in the chest without saying a word.

Zhang Baoshan had no idea what was happening and was beaten to death on the spot.

Li Zhongliang's sister outside was so frightened that her body went limp: "You...you..."

Li Zhongliang whispered, "Yixing... It's over! Sister, I have no choice! Either he dies alone, or we die together!"

As gunshots were heard in the yard, Rong Jiahong and his men rushed into another yard in the distance and shot anyone they saw.

At the same time, there were intensive gunshots from other places.

Some members of Yixingtang heard the gunshots and quickly grabbed their weapons and ran out of their homes. However, as soon as they reached the street, they were shot to death by bullets from nowhere.

Until no one dared to run around, Li Zhongliang and several others went to gather the Yixingtang members from all over the place.

"Yixingtang is finished. Lay down your weapons and live, otherwise you will die!"

"Li Zhongliang, you traitor!" In a yard, other people started cursing.

"You don't know what happened. San Francisco is Mr. Chen's territory... The one-eyed guy wanted to blow him up with explosives... Now he's taking revenge. This is all the one-eyed guy's fault, otherwise things wouldn't have turned out like this!" Li Zhongliang argued loudly. "Besides, the hall master knew that we took the explosives to San Francisco... Now the hall master is dead, and we are the only ones left. What do you want to choose?"

The Chinese area of Virginia City was in chaos, with gunshots rang out from time to time in the second half of the night.

The Irish gang in the distance were woken up. They walked out of their residences cursing and looked in this direction, not knowing what had happened.

……

The next morning, after the sheriff came to work, he called more than 20 subordinates to go to the Chinese area to check. These were all the people under the sheriff's command.

They knew about the incident last night, and they didn't care about the gunfight in the Chinese area.

As long as the riots don't affect other communities, they don't care how many people die.

Of course, given the situation last night, they had no intention of setting foot into the Chinese community at all.

When these agents had only walked halfway, they were stopped by several Germans who were dressed very respectably in gentlemen's suits.

"Sir, can I take a moment of your time to talk?"

"Who are you? What do you want to talk about?" the leading detective asked with a frown.

"Mr. Sheriff, it's definitely not a waste of time to talk." The Germans in front of him smiled.

The detective in charge frowned and looked at them for a moment, guessing that it might be related to the chaos in the Chinese community last night.

He immediately got off his horse and walked into the coffee shop next to them with a few people. He saw a young Chinese man who was also dressed in decent clothes sitting there. It was Rong Jiasheng.

At a table not far away, there were a dozen young Chinese people sitting.

"What do you want to talk about?" The sheriff took a look at the people in the cafe, then sat down in front of Rong Jiasheng and asked.

Rong Jiasheng took out two thick envelopes from his pocket and placed them on the table.

"This is a gift from our boss to you, Mr. Sheriff!" Rong Jiasheng smiled.

The sheriff looked at them for a moment, then picked up the envelopes. Inside each envelope was a stack of $20 bills, totaling $4000.

"You want to bribe me? Who is your boss? What do you want me to do?" The sheriff looked up at Rong Jiasheng expressionlessly, and no one else could tell what he was thinking.

"No, this is a gift, a kindness from our boss! Our boss is not here, he has a big business, this kindness will be very good for you."

"I can see that!" The sheriff glanced at the envelope in front of him.

He spent 4000 yuan right away, so he is really rich.

The mining companies here are richer, but they have their own mining protection teams and don’t care about the local sheriffs at all.

"But you haven't answered my question yet!"

“Our boss’s surname is Chen!”

"Chinese?" The sheriff raised his eyebrows.

"Yes, but I suggest you not to mistake him for those Chinese!" The German young man opposite smiled.

"Some of our compatriots live here. I heard that they are not doing well. Our boss is very worried about them, so he would like to ask you to take care of them! As for the matters in the Chinese area, let us handle them ourselves!" said Rong Jiasheng.

The sheriff stared at Rong Jiasheng for a long time, then spoke slowly: "What if I refuse? Bribe the sheriff, and I can put you in jail right now!"

He was not testing the waters, but was really considering the issue.

"You'd better not do that!" Rong Jiasheng said with a smile.

"That will kill people, a lot of people!"

Then his face began to turn colder and his eyes became fierce: "Take the money and go back!"

"If you don't want a bullet to fly into the street one day!"

"Are you threatening me?" The sheriff slammed the table with a cold face, one hand already on his waist.

Several sheriff's assistants behind him also put their hands on their waists.

But the Chinese around were doing the same thing.

Tensions immediately mounted in the coffee shop.

"We have already extended our goodwill, it just depends on whether you accept it." Rong Jiasheng's eyes were fierce and he did not give in at all.

"Even if you catch me, our boss will send someone else over, and then you won't have a choice, Mr. Sheriff!"

"Besides, there are tens of thousands of Chinese people in Old Silver Mountain. Can you catch them all?"

Then Rong Jiasheng leaned back.

"It's your choice, Sheriff. Do you want to take the money and make everyone happy, or do you want to get yourself into trouble?"

The sheriff looked at him for a long time, his face changing from gloomy to happy.

He didn't expect that the Chinese, who have always been weak, would be so tough this time.

It seems that these people in front of me are completely different from the Chinese in Old Silver Mountain.

The most important thing is, as the other party said, there are tens of thousands of Chinese in the Old Silver Mountain. If these people are hiding inside and cannot be identified at all, how can they be caught?
After a while, the sheriff let go of the gun at his waist: "Stay in your territory and don't cause me any trouble!"

"It seems we can reach an agreement!" Rong Jiasheng smiled again.

"Don't worry, our boss just doesn't want his compatriots to be bullied. As long as others don't cause trouble, we won't do anything!"

"Please take good care of me in the future, Mr. Sheriff!"

The sheriff collected the two envelopes of money and left.

After going out, I asked someone to find out what happened in the Chinese area yesterday.

Rong Jiasheng also achieved his goal and believed that the sheriff would not act rashly.

Chen Zhengwei's style of doing things has always been to bribe first, and if bribery fails, then to intimidate, and if that still doesn't work, then to kill the other party.

Of course, sometimes the first two steps are skipped directly.

So Chen Zhengwei also instructed Rong Jiasheng to find a way to bribe the sheriff's men in private, and if necessary, to replace the sheriff directly.

Soon, both the sheriff and the gang in Old Silver Mountain learned the news.

The Chinese gang here has changed its boss.

In addition, there are many Chinese people wearing decent gentlemen's suits who seem out of place here. These people are brutal and will pull out guns if they disagree with something.

In the next half month, there were several clashes between the original Old Silver Mountain gang and these Chinese.

……

"Mr. Chen, I'm glad to have accomplished your mission and finally made it!"

At the club, several carpenters carrying boxes found Chen Zhengwei.

"Let's see!" Chen Zhengwei immediately became interested, and then he saw the carpenter take out a slot machine and a roulette machine, both of which were half-human-sized wooden boxes.

The slot machine's reels and patterns are in the front. There are three reels in total, and each reel has a different pattern.

Pull down the lever next to it and the wheels will start turning.

(End of this chapter)