Spy Wars: Red Shopkeeper

Chapter 99 Benevolence and Righteousness
"No resistance?"

Sheng Wenyi in the office was quite surprised when he received a report call from his subordinates. He had originally prepared the military police to kill a chicken to scare the monkeys, and the person to be killed was Zhang Xiaolin, the big chicken.

Who knew that his subordinates said that the arrest was very smooth. Apart from the owner and the clerk of the store, the rest were drug addicts. The Qing Gang members who usually guarded the store were either not there or had walked away from a long distance, without any resistance.

"Very good, go ahead, I'll block everything that needs to be blocked. You're welcome."

As long as these people's shops evacuate the SH city area, Sheng Wenyi's goal will be achieved, and he doesn't need to worry about anything else.

Just as I put down the phone, it rang.

Ding-ling-ling. Ding-ling-ling.

"Hey."

Lu Ying's voice came from the phone: "Stop it now, you're going to be in big trouble."

"What trouble?"

"The Green Gang is smashing foreign businesses!"

"Just smash it, what does it have to do with me?"

"You really don't understand? If you continue to block it, these foreign merchants will unite to protest. When public opinion in the concessions is suppressed, the Japanese will probably blame you, and you won't even be able to get past the consulate."

"Haha, I'm not from the consulate, it's none of my business." Sheng Wenyi sneered, "This is an order from the Military Police Headquarters. The Military Police Headquarters just needs to support me. If everyone is like the Green Gang, smashing up foreign shops for no reason, how can we do our job?
By the way, Chief Lu, since you know they are from the Green Gang, then go and arrest them."

With a bang, Lu Ying hung up the phone.

"Still angry." Sheng Wenyi curled her lips and put down the phone, but it rang again just as she put it down.

"Hey."

"They are smashing my shop." This time it was Fu Xiaoan's voice, and there was obvious anger in his voice.

Sheng Wenyi said calmly, "A lot of shops were smashed. You have so many shops, so they will definitely be affected. Don't worry, I will compensate you when the time comes."

"It's not a widespread attack, it's intentional to destroy my shop! It's not just one, it's at least five already, and every one of them is on fire, except for mine!"

"Is there such a thing?" Sheng Wenyi frowned after hearing this.

This was a completely unexpected move.

"Stop it first! This is clearly revenge against me, and you're deliberately reminding me!"

"We can't stop now. If we do, won't that mean we're scared? And what can we do if we stop? How can we get a good price if we negotiate with them?"

After Sheng Wenyi said this, Fu Xiaoan fell silent. This choice was difficult to make.

If you continue, you will continue to get hurt, but if you don't continue, you will also get hurt.

Sheng Wenyi said, "Call Lu Ying and ask him to arrest the man. I told him he wouldn't listen, so calling him will definitely work."

"It's useless! Do you think Lu Ying is a three-year-old child?" Fu Xiaoan said in a deep voice, mixed with anger: "You asked him to close the shop, but that was an order from the Japanese. You asked him to arrest the Green Gang, but he definitely won't put in any effort."

This made sense. Sheng Wenyi frowned and thought about it. What armed forces does Shanghai still have? Military police, police station? His eyes lit up. "Let the secret service headquarters take action and classify them as members of the Military Control Commission? At most, we can give them labor fees?"

This is a good idea. Fu Xiaoan thinks it is feasible. If the secret service headquarters takes action, they can kill people directly, which will have a very strong deterrent effect.

"I'll go and fight. You better hurry up and seal everything off as soon as possible. Also, he's confiscated all the warehouses at Wusongkou. I have to compensate him for my shop, right?"

"Okay, I see."

On the other hand, Li Shiqun received Fu Xiaoan's request and naturally agreed to let Wu Sibao take people to arrest the person.

The Secret Service Headquarters operates in a completely different style from the police.

Nowadays, police officers are slow in doing their work. Everyone knows that it is not worth risking their lives, as they just earn enough money to eat, so they just try to get by one day at a time.

But the people in the secret service headquarters are, after all, former secret agents, with strong execution and combat capabilities, and they are ruthless.

When the first wave of people appeared, they captured two groups of Green Gang members who were in action.

When the news of the appearance of the secret service headquarters reached Zhang Xiaolin's ears, he immediately asked Gu Yansheng what to do with these people. They had suffered too much loss in fighting with the secret service headquarters.

"When these guys start using guns, they're all really good at shooting. I can't fight them, because then the nature of our actions will change. We'll become real anti-Japanese elements."

"Okay, I got it. I'll take care of it. Wait for my call."

Gu Yansheng picked up the phone and called Li Shiqun: "Hello, Director Li, I'm Gu Yansheng."

"Hello, Director Gu, is there anything I can help you with?" Li Shiqun asked with a smile.

"Look, I heard your people are arresting people on the street. Please release them first and ask them to withdraw. I'll go over and talk to you about this. Ask my sister-in-law and Wu Sibao to come with me."

When Li Shiqun heard that his wife had to be there, he knew it was related to money. He didn't know what was going on, but it was obviously okay to stop.

"Okay, I'll wait for Director Gu to come."

"I'll leave now."

Gu Yansheng put down the phone and called Zhang Xiaolin: "Let your people continue. Li Shiqun's people will not be arrested."

"So fast?" Zhang Xiaolin was shocked.

Is it true that the people at the Secret Service Headquarters are so easy to talk to? I just put down the phone.

Zhang Xiaolin called his subordinates in doubt, but within two minutes his subordinates replied that all the captured people had been released. He even tried to continue smashing and looting in front of the people at the secret service headquarters, but they didn't care.

So they smashed it even harder.

Amazing!

It was so amazing. Zhang Xiaolin knew about the movement of people in the secret service headquarters either from Fu Xiaoan or the military police headquarters, but Gu Yansheng actually handled it with just one phone call.

He gained a new understanding of Gu Yansheng's abilities.

Gu Yansheng called Lu Bowen and said, "Which warehouses can be shown to people? Tell me a few addresses. Okay, I'll note them down. Tell the people at the warehouse and I'll bring someone over to take a look later."

Gu Yansheng put down the phone and went out to the secret service headquarters.

As soon as he entered the room, Li Shiqun smiled and said, "Director Gu, I pulled the people back after you called me. Mayor Fu told me that this group of people are suspected of being members of Chongqing. I need an explanation, otherwise it will be difficult for me to explain."

"How could there be so many Chongqing elements? Fu Xiaoan is using chicken feathers as a token to deceive you. I will tell you about this later." Gu Yansheng sneered and nodded to Ye Jiqing: "Hello, sister-in-law."

Ye Jiqing smiled, "Director Gu, I heard that there is progress on our business?"

"Yes, today I will show a few bosses the results of my hard work. Where is Captain Wu?" "Here I come."

Speak of the devil, and here it is! Wu Sibao came running in from the doorway, gasping for air. "I'm so tired! I ran all the way here, and just as I got there, I was called back. What's going on?"

"Let's show you some good stuff, let's go."

"What's so mysterious about this? What good stuff can it be?" Wu Sibao saw that Gu Yansheng had something else to say: "Hey, Director Gu, the information you gave me last time was not accurate. I'm so disappointed."

Last time, Wu Sibao wanted to recover his losses in one go, so he placed a large bet, but now he is still stuck. If he had not firmly believed that the insider information was useful and had not gritted his teeth and scraped together the money to pay the margin, he might have been liquidated again this time.

"I'll tell you about this later, but you bought in at 70 yuan, and now it's 65, right? 5 yuan is only 7 or 8 points, so your loss isn't that big, right? It's normal."

"70? I got in at 80! You forgot how much I asked you to pay. I said 80, but you said it could be 100."

"80?"

"Yeah, and I added leverage, how could it be only seven or eight points?"

Gu Yansheng thought about it carefully. It seemed that at this price, the loss on a single transaction was 15 yuan. With leverage, twice that would be 30 yuan. The loss was indeed a bit too much. This person was so unlucky.

A natural beacon of light.

To be honest, Gu Yansheng really thought that the price could reach 100 at that time. After all, it was winter, and the logic of cotton yarn price increase was correct. In order to make a profit, Fu Xiaoan would definitely raise the price, and this logic was also correct.

As a result, the Japanese wanted to issue military bills. This black swan situation was really unsolvable.

We drove them a long way and found that the storage costs in a more remote warehouse were cheaper.

"arrive."

Gu Yansheng got out of the car. The manager had already received the notice and was waiting for the boss to arrive and came over to greet him immediately.

Gu Yansheng smiled at Li Shiqun and the others and said, "Seeing is believing. Everyone has worn the clothes, but not everyone has seen this cotton yarn. I'm talking about the entire warehouse of cotton yarn. Open it."

"Yes, open it." The manager immediately sent his men to open the door.

Along the way, several people had already been aroused by the intuition of getting rich. Now when the door was opened, they widened their eyes and looked into the warehouse.

Gu Yansheng was right. He had never seen such a large warehouse of cotton yarn before, especially since it was his own.

The door that was usually closed for fire prevention was opened, light entered the warehouse, and several people walked in.

The entire warehouse, from left to right, is filled with bags and stacks of cotton yarn. To be honest, the cotton yarn is nothing special, but it feels completely different when it’s your own.

"Hahahaha." Wu Sibao was the first one to get excited. He took two quick steps inside and touched the cotton yarn, touching one package here and one package there. His expression looked so happy.

Gu Yansheng accompanied Li Shiqun and the others as they walked around and explained, "This is just one warehouse. There are several more. You can go and see them later if you want."

"How many bags are there in total?" Ye Jiqing asked curiously.

"6000 for a package."

"How much is a pack?"

This brings us to the point.

Gu Yansheng looked at the cotton yarn and said bluntly, "100 per bag."

"So that's 60? How much of that is ours?"

"Most of it is yours, probably less than 80%."

"Less than 80%? That means there must be 450,000?" Ye Jiqing's eyes lit up. This number was even more than he had imagined!
"Director Gu, your ability to make money is amazing."

She and Wu Sibao initially invested only 8 yuan, but the stock market doubled and the cotton yarn price more than doubled.

Ye Jiqing looked at Gu Yansheng with amazement. This was the real God of Wealth.

She decided at this moment that from now on, whatever Gu Yansheng said would be the truth and everything he said would be right as long as it was business matters.

Li Shiqun, who was standing by, felt the same way. Although he was a bit reserved and not as expressive as women, this was real money that Gu Yansheng had earned for them, so to say that he admired him would be too light.

"Director Gu's ability to make money is indeed the strongest among anyone I have ever met." Li Shiqun flattered him calmly.

There is nothing shameful in flattering someone. It's what you should do if it's for money.

After laying the groundwork for so long and raising their psychological expectations, at such a happy moment, Gu Yansheng had to talk about something unhappy.

"But." Gu Yansheng's smile faded.

"But what?" Ye Jiqing asked immediately.

Gu Yansheng frowned, paused, and sighed, "Now something has gone wrong. The person who promised me 100 is going back on his word and has directly lowered the price to 55. He's trying to trick us."

"Who is it?" Ye Jiqing asked.

"Who is it? You even dare to cheat us of our money? Are you tired of living?" Wu Sibao, who was touching the cotton yarn, ran over when he heard the words. The words sounded like he was going to kill someone.

Li Shiqun guessed: "Could it be that Director Gu is talking about Fu Xiaoan?"

There are not many people in Shanghai who can handle such a large amount of goods. Considering today's events, it is not difficult to lock on the target person.

Gu Yansheng frowned and nodded. "Yes, it was Mayor Fu Xiaoan. I wanted to sell the goods at a high price, so he came to me and promised to buy them all for 100 yuan. Only then did I keep the goods for him. Now that he sees that the price of cotton yarn is not good, he has turned against me. Captain Wu, you should be very clear about the recent price of cotton yarn."

Stock god Wu Sibao understood this all too well. "The market price has indeed fluctuated greatly recently, but since he agreed to the price, he must accept it at that price. Why would he deny us his money? I'm almost broke, and I'm counting on this money to make a comeback."

Ye Jiqing chimed in, "Yes, the money must be paid. We should be honest in our work, right? Fu Xiaoan is not a poor man. Is it meaningful to owe us this little money?"

Gu Yansheng looked at Li Shiqun and said with a look of surprise, "Director Li, Fu Xiaoan asked you to arrest the Green Gang members. This is an internal matter of the Special Agent Headquarters. I have no control over it. But before he pays the money, if you help him, wouldn't that be unkind to me?

I just can't accept this. He blames me. If it happens once, there will be a second time. If everyone follows his example, how can I do business after this gets out?
Anyway, I have one thing to say now: if Fu Xiaoan doesn't buy this batch of goods at 120, this matter will not be resolved."

"It's indeed unkind, but Director Gu, we at Shiqun didn't know about this in advance. Shiqun, we can't help you with this." Ye Jiqing is now a die-hard fan of Gu Yansheng.

"And it really should be 120. This isn't just a breach of contract; it's also a mockery of Director Gu's reputation. When we do business, we can talk and negotiate. But if someone doesn't understand, wouldn't Director Gu lose face?

I think a 20% price increase is too little compensation.

Originally, this matter was all Fu Xiaoan’s fault.”

Wu Sibao spitted, "If I had known it was Fu Xiaoan who ordered the arrest, I would have smashed his shop as well. Brother, I also support Director Gu's opinion. He must take this batch of goods for 120 yuan, not a penny less. If there is no punishment for our mistakes, how are we going to get along in the future?"

Li Shiqun smiled at the two men's anxiety and said, "I didn't say no. I'm definitely on your side on this matter. Director Gu, we have to find a way to urge Mayor Fu to return the money."

(End of this chapter)