"Thank you, Section Chief Zhang, thank you, Section Chief Zhang!" Xiangju didn't know what to say, so she just thanked her in a low voice. After all, she had asked many people for help, but nothing could be done. Zhang Tianhao solved it with just one phone call.
"You're welcome, your life is not easy, not to mention Ah Yue, who escaped from the Northeast. If you drink with me, you can thank me." He just smiled and raised his glass.
"Definitely, definitely, when Ah Yue comes, I will definitely ask her to give Section Chief Zhang a toast." Only then did Xiangju smile, and her face looked much better.
While Zhang Tianhao was sitting here drinking, a group of big men arrived at some point outside the Taiping Warehouse. There were at least a dozen of them. They were all big and round, and they looked like they were good fighters.
"Shopkeeper, shopkeeper, you haven't paid the protection fee for this month yet, give me the money, give me the money!"
"Sir, didn't we pay a protection fee of ten oceans the day before yesterday? We are a small business and really don't have that much." When the shopkeeper heard this, he immediately understood and said with a smile.
"Fart, we didn't come to collect the protection money at all the day before yesterday. Did you keep it for yourself or don't want to pay it? Brothers, go in and get it. If you want to open a store here without paying, there is no way."
"Ah, gentlemen, gentlemen, I really paid it, I really paid it." When the shopkeeper heard this, he immediately became anxious and hurriedly stepped forward to stop him.
"Old guy, get lost. Either get the money now, or brothers go in and get it yourself. But you old guy, you definitely don't have any money, just throw it at me."
The leader, Hu Biao, looked quite fierce, even with a look of anger on his face.
"No, no, gentlemen, please let me go. We really have no money. We really have no money. We just paid it. I beg you."
When the shopkeeper heard this, he was immediately at a loss and could only plead for mercy.
"Humph, if you want to swallow the protection money, tear down the door for me. From now on, we will wait here. If we don't pay, we won't leave!"
I was originally going to take it, but when I thought about the trouble that would take three days, I immediately changed my mind. A group of about ten strong men sat directly at the door. Even if pedestrians saw it, they would stay away from it, fearing that they would be affected.
This shopkeeper is no one else, and even the two clerks in the store are not ordinary people. They are both an underground contact point for the Red Party here and a material transfer station for the Red Party.
In another warehouse alone, there was a small batch of cloth waiting to be transported away, but now this group of people just stayed here and refused to leave. This made them unable to transport it away, or even dare to take it out.
The shopkeeper was almost furious. But looking at these big men, he reluctantly took out a few pieces and walked over: "Master, do you think this is a small kindness?"
"Yes, there are five oceans!" The leader weighed the oceans and looked at the oceans in his hands with satisfaction. But he immediately turned his face and cursed loudly, "Since when are we protecting this little, get out of here?
Give us the money and we won’t leave!”
"Ah..." The shopkeeper was stunned for a moment, and immediately had the urge to curse, "Then I wonder how much protection money you want, sir?"
Hu Biao directly raised a finger.
"Ten dollars?"
"Go away, are you sending the beggar? Ten yuan is a hundred, otherwise the brothers will wait here. Xiao Wu, take this old thing for five oceans and buy some wine and meat. We will eat here.
While we wait, it’s old man Di who invited us to eat.”
"okay!"
When the shopkeeper heard this, he was immediately confused. Five Oceans invited them to eat, which was the only money he had, but now it didn't count as protection money.
He immediately understood that the other party was here to cause trouble.
…
In a private house opposite, several people from the Operations Department were watching everything that happened here. They looked at each other and felt a little baffled. After all, this matter had changed a bit too much.
"Xiao Wu, how come these Northeastern guys come here to collect protection money? Didn't they just collect it three days ago?"
"Who knows, things are normal here anyway, I guess they also want to extort some money."
"No, we have been inspecting this place for more than half a month, and we have not found that these Northeastern guys will come to extort money. Moreover, the warehouse business of this family does not seem to be very good. How could they come to blackmail you?"
As soon as the three people analyzed it, they quickly analyzed some of the possibilities, and there might even be some other forces involved here.
"Damn it, let's call the section chief immediately and tell him what happened here."
Soon Xia Yi also received the call and found out what was going on here. His expression changed a few times, but in the end he still endured no movement.
He also didn't understand why the Black Snake Gang from the northeast came to this relatively remote warehouse to extort money.
"Section Chief, I suspect that someone among them is looking for trouble, and they are looking for trouble with us!"
"Is someone looking for trouble?"
"Yes, the brothers are already complaining. After all, there is no money for two months. Now if we can't complete the task, what will the superiors think of us? Are we incompetent or do we want to squeeze you out, section chief?"
A squadron leader analyzed what he had guessed in a low voice, and Xia Yi immediately understood something.
"Damn it, it must be the bastard waiter in the shop. He is responsible for this. Catch him. Catch him now!"
"But if we catch him now, then everything we have done before will be in vain!"
"What else can we do if we don't arrest them? Let them run away? Arrest them. Let the brothers over there arrest them now. Otherwise, by the time they react, everything will be too late."
"Yes, I will inform the team leader to arrest him immediately!" The squadron leader is also a sensible person. There may be Zhang Tianhao behind this, but the problem now is that there is no evidence.
"By the way, where's the waiter?"
"Section Chief Zhang is drinking at Paramount, and is he engaged in chatting with the dancers?" A squadron leader reported Zhang Tianhao's whereabouts in a low voice.
"By the way, give me the waiter's whereabouts throughout the day. Do I want to see where he went?"
"Section Chief, no!"
"No?"
"Yes, he went to the city hall, security group, police station, 57th regiment and other places today, and it didn't last long, and we didn't dare to get close, so our people couldn't follow him very far!"
"Going to these places, could it be that..."
He also knew that Zhang Tianhao was smuggling, and the scale was quite large, but he really didn't dare to mess with these smuggled things. Not only people at the division level were involved, but also people from all over the country were involved, almost forming a huge...
The net made him feel afraid.
"Did you go somewhere you don't usually go?"
"No, Section Chief Zhang doesn't have many hobbies. He drinks, gambles, and drinks tea, and they are all irregular. He just does whatever he wants. It's just that he doesn't even gamble much this time. He seems to be quite busy.
"
"Damn bastard, forget it, leave him alone, let them arrest people, confiscate the materials in the entire warehouse, and then resell them to pay wages to the brothers!"
It can be said that a penny stumps the heroic men. Now the entire Party Affairs Office does not pay them and has to find the money themselves.
"I know, I'll arrange for someone to do it right away!"
The squadron leader also had a serious look on his face. He dialed the number directly and handed it to Xia Yi.
This chapter has been completed!