In the Southern Song Dynasty, I competed with Mongolia for the world

Chapter 614 Fear of Death
Zhao Yurui brought Zhao Yusheng, Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhang Shicheng, Chang Yuchun, Zhang Youcheng and others to a street.

The group followed Zhao Yurui around and around in confusion. Zhao Yurui turned around and around along a house, making a big circle of several hundred steps, which left everyone confused.

Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't help but ask Zhao Yusheng beside him: "What are you doing?"

"I don't know." Zhao Yusheng pointed to the courtyard in the middle and said, "This is my cousin's house."

The courtyard house in the middle that looks a bit shabby is actually Zhao Yurui's home.

Everyone had been circling around Zhao Yurui's house for more than half an hour.

At this time, Zhao Yurui and his group were at the main gate of Zhao Yurui's house, which faced the south street.

This is a main street in Dinghai County, about eight steps wide. There is a rice shop and a teahouse opposite, both facing Zhao Yurui's home.

There are alleys on the east and west sides of Zhao Yurui's house, and there are residential houses opposite the alleys.

To the north is another yard, adjacent to his house.

Zhao Yurui pointed to the opposite side and said, "Think of a way to buy the rice shop, the teahouse, and the three houses on both sides. Old Zhu, you are in charge of these things. Anyway, across from my house, along the street, buy as many as you can. We have plenty of money."

Zhu Yuanzhang didn't ask why, but nodded directly: "I understand."

Zhao Yurui pointed to the back of his house (to the north) and said, "The one to the north is Yusheng. Buy it."

Zhao Yusheng exclaimed: "It's Lao Liu's house, Lao Liu may not sell it?"

"Think of a way." Zhao Yurui said in a deep voice: "His yard is connected to ours, we must buy it."

"Okay." Zhao Yusheng had no choice but to say.

"There are small houses to the east and west of my house. You can buy as many as you can. Lao Zhang, I'll leave this to you."

"I understand." Zhang Shicheng nodded.

After Zhao Yurui finished speaking, he took everyone back to his home.

Although his house is a courtyard house, it is not very big. The yard is only more than 20 square meters. There are four rooms in it, all of which were passed down from ancestors. The building is a bit old, but fortunately it is located in the center of Dinghai city and is relatively valuable.

Everyone gathered around a stone table in the yard, and Zhao Yusheng went to pour some water for everyone.

Zhao Yurui said: "I tried to sell my house and asked the price. It is worth about 120,000 now."

At this time, the average salary of an ordinary person in Dinghai County was only about one or two thousand yuan a month, and Zhao Yurui was a member of the Imperial Guards, so he only earned more than three thousand yuan.

It is probably the average person’s ten-year salary income. The housing price can only be said to be so-so, not too outrageous, but not cheap either.

Considering that his house is a courtyard house, it can’t be considered expensive.

"You can bid for the houses around here. The houses that are bigger than mine offer between 150,000 and 200,000 yuan, and the houses that are smaller than mine offer 100,000 yuan or less."

"What if he refuses to sell it?" Zhao Yusheng smiled bitterly.

The Liu family, whose yard is connected to the Zhao Yurui family's, has a house passed down from generation to generation, just like the Zhao Yurui family. They have lived here for nearly a hundred years. How can they just sell it?

"Think of a way." Zhao Yurui said, "Old Liu's son likes gambling, so we can start with that. We need to find a breakthrough point for every household."

When Zhu Yuanzhang heard this, he asked curiously, "Why buy so many houses?"

Zhao and Rui have now borrowed five million from the bank. Apart from a small portion invested in the project, the rest of the money is to be used to buy a house. They are a little confused.

"Don't you want to live here?" Zhao Yurui said in a deep voice, "We'll buy a bunch of houses here, and everyone can move in slowly. We'll live together and take care of each other."

Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhang Shicheng and others were very happy.

They came to Dinghai from other places to work. They used to be laborers at the dock and had no money to buy a house. They didn't expect Zhao Yurui to help them buy a house right away. For a moment, they were all touched.

Of course, there are a lot of people on both sides, hundreds of people and hundreds of families.

According to Zhao Yurui, we should take it slow, starting with those who are closest to us and who work best, and then select and move the families here one by one.

When we have money in the future, we can all move here. Then everyone will be in one community, and any stranger coming in will be able to be spotted at a glance.

Zhao Yurui believes that shops are easy to buy but houses are difficult to buy. If necessary, he can raise the price and buy the houses around his house first.

Of course Zhao Yurui did this because he was afraid of death.

After all the houses in the circle are bought, Lao Zhu and Lao Zhang's people will move in, which means that the whole circle will be filled with bodyguards.

He bought the old Liu family's house next to his backyard and planned to let Zhao Yusheng move in.

The brothers are back to back.

Then the land to the north of Zhao Yusheng had to be bought. In short, everyone within the circle had to be one of our own people.

In addition, after purchasing those shops, Zhao Yurui also planned to let Lao Zhu and Lao Zhang's people run them. Their company needed to expand in many fields and had to have its own shops.

After he gave the instructions, the purchase of the shop was handed over to Lao Zhu.

Lao Zhu is also a ruthless person.

Let’s first talk about the rice shop and teahouse directly opposite the Zhao and Rui families.

According to the market price in Dinghai County, he asked for 200,000 yuan per room.

Unexpectedly, neither company was willing to sell.

Okay, Lao Zhu turned around and left without saying anything.

After a while, a group of old men and women came to the street, wearing tattered clothes. Each of them held a broken bowl and blocked the door of the rice shop, asking the owner for some rice.

The boss was very worried about affecting business, so he gave each person two kilograms of rice.

But after giving it to them, they didn't leave and just sat at the door.

Sit from morning to noon, and then find a place to eat.

The rice shop owner thought they had left, but they came back after lunch, sat there from noon to afternoon, and came back after dinner, sitting there until the rice shop closed.

The boss didn't believe it. He knew someone was targeting him intentionally, so he kept trying to keep up with them. He didn't believe that someone would keep coming without working every day.

But these people are the family members of the brothers under Lao Zhu and Lao Zhang. Some of them are old, some are women, and they cannot do heavy work. Most of them stay at home usually.

They really have nothing to do, so they come and sit at the door of the shop every day, ask for rice first, and continue to sit there whether they are given rice or not.

When customers came to buy rice, they started to make a fuss, saying that the rice was of poor quality and was even moldy.

The boss spent ten days fighting with them and finally couldn't stand it anymore.

Report to the Jinyiwei first. The Jinyiwei said that this is not a serious case and that no one smashed or looted your house, so you should go to the county government.

The chief constable who came was Qi Shan’s son Qi Wei.

He led a few people around and said, "He is fine. He is sitting at your door. We can't arrest him."

"When I have customers they complain that the products are moldy and of poor quality. I can't do business with them," the boss yelled.

The group of people laughed and said, we said that our own rice is of poor quality and some is moldy.

Sure enough, guests arrived soon.

They were complaining that our rice was of poor quality and some was moldy.

The guests felt disgusted when they saw so many people who looked like beggars and were screaming, so they left quickly.

This business can no longer be done, and the Jinyiwei and the county government don't care either.

Finally the boss couldn't stand it anymore and said: "Call your boss and I'll sell it."

The rice shop was the first to be taken over.

I looked at the teahouse nearby and thought, okay, you guys are really cruel.

Without waiting for the group of people to come, he offered to sell it. Lao Zhu followed this line and bought everything he could.

Of course, there were also people who were not convinced, and some even specifically hired someone to drive others away.

The young and strong men on Lao Zhu's and Lao Zhang's sides also rushed out immediately, and the two sides had a big fight in the street.

The other side suffered a crushing defeat.

If the Jinyiwei intervenes again, the other party will have to pay for the medical expenses.

After all this, Lao Zhu spent more than 1.6 million yuan and bought seven shops along the street.

Zhao Yurui let the rice shop continue to be a rice shop, and the teahouse was changed into a restaurant. In addition, a blacksmith shop, a grocery store, and other shops were opened.

Basically including all daily necessities.

Arrangements were made for all the relatives and elders of Lao Zhu and Lao Zhang who were unable to do heavy work.

The two of them were now even more determined to work for Zhao Yurui.

Zhao Yurui did not ask for any other money from these shops. As long as they did not lose money and could be self-sufficient, it would be fine. This was equivalent to supporting them and ensuring that he could get a loan at any time.

It is relatively easy to buy a shop, but it is really difficult to buy a house. He gave this task to Lao Zhang. Lao Zhang was not as ruthless as Lao Zhu. There were some things he could not do, so he just slowly pondered and tried to find a solution. It took a long time and the progress was slow. He only bought four houses in half a month.

Then Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhang Shicheng, Chang Yuchun, and Zhang Youcheng's families moved in first. Everyone lived relatively close to each other, so they could be looked after.

At this point, there were four families living with Zhao and Rui nearby, and seven families lived in seven shops.

In total, there are more than a dozen households near Zhao Yurui.

The Chinese New Year was approaching quickly, and in the blink of an eye, a month or two had passed. Zhao Yurui's project was progressing step by step, and the money he had borrowed from the bank had not been used up. He subcontracted the projects out in the way of later generations, and he would only award the projects to each contractor after carefully verifying their capabilities.

The people who were doing engineering at that time were not as bad as those in later generations. Most of them were willing to work hard as long as they could make money.

On the surface, everything seemed to be going smoothly. He was very busy every day. Sometimes he had to visit the construction site, sometimes he had to go to the flag station, and sometimes he had to go to the dock.

Before the Chinese New Year, Zhao Yurui and his friends did some calculations. In the last few months of this year, after deducting labor and fees from their KTV, each person still received more than 20,000 yuan. On average, each person could receive about 5,000 yuan per month, which was not bad.

Then the dock revenue and other shop revenues are calculated and added to the company’s total revenue, and then the dividends are distributed to each person.

The most important ones, including Zhao and Rui, Lao Zhu and Lao Zhang, can all get more than 50,000.

Their younger brothers also earned a lot more than before.

This year will definitely be a happy one, and everyone will make money.

Although the bulk of the profits were made by Zhao Yurui and others, their business was much better than before, and everyone knew that Boss Zhao was helping them buy houses and was chatting with the people nearby.

As the Chinese New Year is approaching, the atmosphere of the New Year can be seen in the nearby streets, and many people have already started preparing to decorate with lights and lanterns.

Wang Baobao and his clansmen Wang Wu and Wang Zheng were walking slowly on the street, pushing a cart of New Year's goods.

Wang Baobao has been following Zhao Yurui for two months, but has never found an opportunity to take action.

He was very careful in his actions and had been observing and tracking for a long time beforehand.

It turns out that Zhao Yurui was more careful.

Zhao Yurui also knew that he had offended too many people by charging fees and arson, so he was always accompanied by a large number of bodyguards when going out.

Wang Baobao discovered this after close observation.

Zhao Yurui never has a fixed time to go out every day.

He is the small flag officer of the small flag station and the top leader, so working hours don’t matter at all.

At the earliest, Zhao Yurui went out before six o'clock, and at the latest, he went out after lunch.

Sometimes he would not go out for the whole day. The longest time he stayed at home was two days before going out. I don’t know what he did at home.

Wang Baobao wanted to observe the pattern of Zhao and Rui's actions, but found that there were no rules at all and they were completely unpredictable.

This is really a headache.

There are rules for going to work or going home, but Zhao and Rui have had no rules for the past two months.

Wang Baobao knew that Zhao Yurui was very careful and would not let others discover his pattern.

But Wang Baobao still discovered a pattern.

As long as there are several people coming to Zhao Yurui's house, it means that Zhao Yurui will go out that day.

Moreover, those who often follow Zhao Yurui every day are basically familiar with their faces.

Those who often followed Zhao Yurui were Zhao Yusheng, Chang Yuchun, Zhang Youcheng, Lin Bin, and Ma Gang.

These five people would come to Zhao Yurui's door every morning.

Originally everyone lived quite far away, but later Zhao Yurui rented a house nearby, and Zhang Youcheng and Chang Yuchun moved in first.

I plan to buy a house later and have all five families move in, so it will be more convenient.

These five people basically followed Zhao and Rui all day long. Sometimes when Zhao, Lin and Ma were not there, Chang Yuchun and Zhang Youcheng would definitely be there.

Wang Baobao had no choice but to ask Lao Li to take action without delay until the New Year.

In his opinion, as long as it is the New Year, Zhao Yusheng, Chang Yuchun and others will definitely go home.

When Old Li heard this, he thought it made sense, so he asked them to delay it until the New Year.

Now that the Chinese New Year is approaching, Ma Gang went home first. Two days ago, Ma Gang did not show up again, and Wang Baobao felt relieved.

He bought a cart of New Year's goods half a month before the Chinese New Year, and sold them on this street every now and then, and occasionally went to the next street.

In the ninth year of Emperor Wu of the Yuan Dynasty (1349), the Spring Festival fell on the th day of the first lunar month.

On January 15th, Lin Bin also returned home.

On the 16th, Zhao Yusheng was also not there.

He had moved next door to Zhao Yurui's house and successfully bought the yard next door, but he went back to his hometown to pick up his parents before the New Year and was not at home.

At this time, the only people following Zhao Yurui were Chang Yuchun and Zhang Youcheng.

After seeing this recently, Wang Baobao cursed inwardly, asking, "Don't Chang and Zhang need to go back to their hometown?"
There's really no need for that. The two of them and their families are all in Dinghai, and they live right opposite Zhao and Rui's house.

The two of them happened to go in and out with Zhao Yurui.

January 17th, there are still two days until the Chinese New Year.

Early in the morning of that day, Chang Yuchun and Zhang Youcheng arrived at Zhao Yurui's house. After a while, the three of them walked out of the door together.

Chang and Zhang both changed into new clothes, which they had just bought recently. They looked very smart after putting them on.

The Jinyiwei Xiaoqi Branch also had an early holiday today. Zhao Yurui took the two of them to meet Sister Mei today to discuss opening another KTV on this street after the Chinese New Year.

Just a few steps out of the door, Zhao Yurui looked up and saw a cart parked in front of a shop diagonally opposite his home.

The shop has not been bought yet because Zhao Yurui has little money left.

When Zhao Yurui looked up, there was a person in front of the cart looking at them.

When the two looked at each other, the other immediately lowered his head.

Uh, Zhao Yurui was very sensitive and immediately felt something was wrong.

"That cart looks familiar. Did you see it a few days ago?"

(End of this chapter)