Xin Nan's grandfather, Xin Zikai, was considered a senior in the Jintian antique shop. He was especially famous for his good handwriting and was well-known in the domestic calligraphy circle. When many businesses opened their doors, they liked to ask him for calligraphy. He was very popular.
It's not bad.
Literati are naturally embarrassed to talk about money when writing, but anyone who asks for calligraphy will pay a considerable sum of money for writing. This is also the custom. Shennan's family was very well off when she was young, and she has never worried about money.
After the death of Shen Nan's parents, in order to give her grandson a better education, Shen Zikai asked friends in Beijing to send Shen Nan to the junior high school at the High School Affiliated to Beijing University. She usually only returned to Jintian City during holidays and summer vacations.
Therefore, although Shennan has been studying calligraphy and painting with her grandfather, she doesn't know much about his business. After taking over this Four Treasures Store, she learned some secrets that outsiders on the antique street could not touch.
On the second day after "Wenbaozhai" reopened, several unruly young people broke into the store and told Shen Nan some of the rules.
The general content of the rules is that if you want to open a store on Antique Street with peace of mind, you must pay them two thousand yuan every month, otherwise the store will not be allowed to open anymore.
Xinnan had just graduated from college and was young and vigorous. How could she be threatened by these gangsters? Before she could finish a few words, the two sides started to argue.
Xinnan's grandfather was very popular on this street, and some shops were even favored by the old man. People around him heard the noise and gathered around.
They were all people on the street, and they knew each other. After some persuasion, the gangsters dispersed, but when they left, they said harsh words, and if they didn't pay within three days... they would destroy the store!
Xinnan is not short of money. When his parents died in a car accident, the other party paid him more than 300,000 yuan. In addition, his grandfather also left him more than 500,000 yuan after his death. A protection fee of 2,000 yuan per month was very important to him.
The pressure is not great.
But Xin Nan's character is somewhat serious. No matter how much his neighbors persuade him, he is unwilling to pay. He would rather sell the store than bow to those extortion gangsters.
There are also some familiar and respectable people on the antique street. At that moment, someone handed the message to those who collected the protection fee. Because of the face of the middleman, the other party did not come to destroy the store, but restricted Shennan to move within one month.
The store was deserted, which is why Qin Feng saw a sign on the door saying the store was for sale.
"Damn, two thousand a month, is there a future in this?" After listening to Shen Nan's story, Li Tianyuan opened his mouth in surprise.
In the past two days, Li Tianyuan has been following Qin Feng on the antique street, and Li Tianyuan knows something about this place.
This antique street is nearly one kilometer long and is circular. There are shops on both sides. There are probably at least one or two hundred merchants. If each store charges a protection fee of two thousand yuan, it will generate an income of three to four hundred thousand yuan a month.
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Li Tianyuan, who originally thought that Qin Feng's plan to earn 200,000 yuan was a big deal, now his mouth is almost drooling.
Thinking again about his previous behavior of blackmailing elementary school students and earning twenty or thirty yuan a day, Li Tianyuan deeply realized the gap between himself and those people.
"What do you mean? If you don't learn from it, why do you want to learn this?"
After hearing what Li Tianyuan blurted out, Shen Nan suddenly looked at him with something wrong and said, "You don't look like a good person. Please get out. You are not welcome in my store..."
To say that Shen Nan really did not accuse Li Tianyuan unjustly, he has a beard and looks like he is in his twenties. He has been fighting and extorting since he was a child and has done all kinds of bad things. He is indeed not a good person.
When Li Tianyuan heard what the other party said, he was unhappy and shouted: "Hey, what's so good about being a good person? Haven't you ever heard that good people don't live long and bad people live for a thousand years? What's wrong with me being a bad person..."
Children born in the 1970s and early 1980s were greatly influenced by Hong Kong and Taiwan movies. In those movies, good people were bullied.
Therefore, people like Li Tianyuan, especially some naughty and mischievous children, like to label themselves as a bad person and say that he is a good person, which is tantamount to swearing. Li Tianyuan is also one of such weirdos.
"Touko, shut up and go to the door and stay..."
Qin Feng glared and interrupted Li Tianyuan's nonsense. After rushing him to the door, he said to Shen Nan with a wry smile: "Brother Shen, I have watched too many Hong Kong and Taiwan movies. In fact, people are not bad. Don't
Blame him..."
"You are such a grown-up person, you don't have any sense of right and wrong."
Xin Nan shook his head and said, "I think you're pretty good. This store won't be open for a few more days. You can take whatever you want. It's not particularly valuable anyway."
"Brother Xin, I don't want the things..." Qin Feng shook his head, pretending to be curious, and said: "I'm just curious, who is so powerful that he will drive you away as soon as he says he will drive you away? You won't call the police?"
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"If they weren't named Yuan, why didn't they all be shot during the liberation?"
Offending the local gangster, the once bustling "Wenbaozhai" became deserted. Finally, there was someone to talk to. Shennan immediately poured out the beans and told the person's background.
Before liberation, there were overpasses in Beijing and Confucius Temples in Jinling, and the "three no-minds" in Tianjin and Tianjin were paradises for people in the world and a source of evil before liberation.
Before the Boxer Rebellion in 1900, the prosperous area of Jintian City was in the Matou area, so there was a saying in the poetry of the Qing Dynasty that "the most prosperous area is Guaiyi Street, Gongnan Gongbei City is also good."
The area behind the Hou family was densely populated with teahouses, theaters, taverns, restaurants, bathhouses and brothels. It was the entertainment place in Jintian at that time and was known as the "Golden Pot".
After the Eight-Power Allied Forces invaded China, the prosperity along the Daguan River, behind the Hou family, and outside the north gate plummeted, while Dongxing Market, a piece of depression of more than 100 acres near this antique street, prospered.
Over time, this depression has formed a market, where there are sellers of Dali pills and fake medicines, snacks such as "Zheluo" (restaurant leftovers), haircuts and braids, Western movies, and tea.
Wait for the spread.
Over time, this market became bigger and bigger, and was called the Nanshi of Jintian. It also had another name, called "Three No Matters".
There are two theories about the origin of the name "Three No Matters". One theory is that "no one cares about mass graves (where dead people are buried casually), no one cares about fights, and no one cares about cheating and abduction."
Another theory is that this large area of land is located south of China City and northwest of the French and Japanese concessions. The three countries have refused to do anything about the cases that occurred in this concession, so it is called "Three No Matters".
Nanshi is not a big place, but it is an active place for various religions and "players". It has a concentration of Tianjin's tea gardens, theaters, restaurants, hotels, shoes, hats and clothing, cakes and candies, tobacco pipes and other shops.
At the same time, it is also a place where Jianghu artists "leave their stalls", such as a martial arts training ground, a wrestling ring, a powerful pill, selling sheep intestines, bean juice, and storytellers and acapellas.
As the saying goes, where there are people, there are rivers and lakes, and in a place like this that is full of bustling lights, red wine and greenery, the shadows of military police, spies, and gangsters are naturally inevitable.
In this "Three No Matters" zone, the one with the most power and the most evil deeds was Yuan Huiwen. At that time, there was a saying that Du Yuesheng was in the south and Yuan Huiwen was in the north.
Yuan Huiwen's father, Yuan Laoxian, was a well-known gangster. Yuan Laoxian had some martial arts skills and wielded a special shovel. He gathered more than ten brothers and nephews to form a tyrant in the Luzhuangzi area.
In the early years of the Republic of China, brothers Yuan Laoxian died one after another, and the Yuan family gradually declined. Yuan Huiwen was rude by nature, did not study or seek progress, and fought in the neighborhood all day long. He wandered around in the "three no matter" all day long, and later became a member of the Qinggang
Under the disciple of the boss Bai Yunsheng.
At that time, Bai Yunsheng was the most powerful person on the Jianghu Road in Jintian.
Some people from the military, political, industrial, commercial, literary and artistic circles in Huijin, such as Liu Jingshan, the president of the Chamber of Commerce during the Japanese occupation, Wang Haiming, the big bully of Tianqi Temple in Muzhuangzi, and Liu Xiaowu, the local emperor of Wu County, were all disciples of Bai Yunsheng.
In addition to taking Bai Yunsheng as his disciple and joining the Youth Gang, Yuan Huiwen also recognized two godfathers in the early 1930s, one was Xie Yutian, the commander of the warlord Li Jinglin, and the other was Liu Shouyan, the captain of the Chinese police in the Japanese Concession, which further increased Yuan Huiwen's reputation.
Arrogant and arrogant.
Relying on these forces, Yuan Huiwen committed all kinds of evil in Jintian City, opened a number of casinos, and sold cigarettes, which caused the death of countless families. Moreover, Yuan Huiwen also colluded with the Japanese special forces of Doihara to organize a "plainclothes team" in Tianjin.
In the second year after liberation, the Tianjin tycoon Yuan Huiwen, who was full of crimes, failed to escape the law and was sentenced to death in 1950. However, at that time, his relatives, friends and minions openly held a grand funeral for him, and even made a fuss.
A very big storm,
The Yuan family mentioned by Shennan were the descendants of Yuan Huiwen. More than thirty years later, Yuan Huiwen's grandson Yuan Bingqi began to make trouble in Jintian City again.
Yuan Bingqi is not very old, he is just forty this year. However, since the early 1980s, he has gathered a group of local ruffians and used intimidation and smashing methods to establish the "Three No Matters" in the past, which is now Chongren Palace.
Stand firm.
Yuan Bingqi inherited the ferocity and cunningness of his grandfather Yuan Huiwen. He was doing legitimate business in name, but secretly actually controlled the underground society in Jintian City and developed it into a tool for making money for him.
Not to mention anything else, the monthly income of this antique street alone can reach hundreds of thousands. With Yuan Bingqi's monopoly on some logistics and freight business, he has long been promoted to the ranks of billionaires.
Xin Nan originally didn't know about these things, but some uncles on the antique street were afraid that he would suffer a loss, so they told him all this. At this moment, they all blamed Qin Feng.
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