Baojian

Chapter 68
Xin Nan's grandfather, Xin Zikai, is also considered a senior in the Jintian Antique Shop, especially for his good handwriting. He is well-known in the domestic calligraphy circle. When many businesses open, they like to ask him for calligraphy. He is very popular. is good.

Literati are naturally embarrassed to talk about money when they write, but those who ask for calligraphy will give a considerable amount of retouching fee.

After Shennan's parents passed away, in order to give his grandson a better education, Xin Zikai asked his friends in Beijing to send Xinnan to the junior high school attached to Beijing University, and usually only returned to Tianjin during holidays and summer vacations.

Therefore, although Xin Nan has been studying calligraphy and painting with his grandfather, he doesn't know much about his business. After taking over the Four Treasures of the Study, he learned some secrets that outsiders in the antique street cannot touch.

On the second day after "Wen Bao Zhai" reopened, a few young people broke into the store and explained the rules to Xin Nan.

The general content of the rules is that if you want to open a shop on the Antique Street with peace of mind, you have to pay them 2000 yuan every month, otherwise the shop will not be able to continue to open.

Xin Nan has just graduated from university, he is young and energetic, how can he be threatened by these gangsters?Before finishing a few words, the two sides had a dispute.

Xinnan's grandfather has a lot of people on this street, and some shops have received the favor of the old man. The noise caused the people around to gather around after hearing the commotion.

They were all people on the street, and they knew each other. As soon as they were persuaded, those gangsters dispersed, but when they left, they said harsh words and refused to pay within three days... smashed the store!
Xinnan is not short of money. When his parents died in a car accident, the other party paid more than 30 yuan. In addition, his grandfather also left him more than 50 yuan in protection fees of 2000 yuan per month. The pressure on him was not great. not big.

But Xin Nan's character is a little serious, no matter how the neighbors persuade him, he just doesn't want to pay the money, he would rather sell the store, and he doesn't want to bow his head to those blackmailers.

There is no lack of familiar faces and respectable people on the Antique Street. At that moment, someone passed the words to those who collected the protection fee. Because of the face of the middleman, the other party did not come to smash the store, but Xin Nan was limited to move within one month. The store left, which is why Qin Feng saw the transfer of the store next to the door.

"Damn it, it's two thousand a month. Does this have a future?" Li Tianyuan opened his mouth in surprise after hearing Xin Nan's explanation.

For the past two days, he has been wandering around the antique street with Qin Feng, and Li Tianyuan knows something about it.

This antique street is nearly one kilometer long and has a circular shape. There are shops on both sides. There are probably at least one or two hundred businesses. If each store charges 2000 yuan for protection, that month's income will be 40 to [-] yuan.

Li Tianyuan, who originally thought that the 20 yuan earned by Qin Feng's layout was a big deal, now the corners of his mouth are almost drooling.

Thinking about how he used to blackmail elementary school students to earn 30 to [-] yuan a day, Li Tianyuan deeply realized the gap between himself and those people.

"What do you mean by that? If you don't want to learn it, why do you want to learn it?"

After hearing what Li Tianyuan blurted out, Xin Nan looked at him with a slightly wrong look, and said, "You don't look like a good person, please go out, my shop doesn't welcome you..."

To say that Xin Nan really didn't wrong Li Tianyuan, he has a full beard, looks like he is 27 or [-] years old, and he has been fighting and extorting since he was a child, and he has done all kinds of bad things, he is indeed not a good person.

Li Tianyuan was also unhappy when he heard the other party's words, and shouted: "Hey, what's so good about a good person? Haven't you heard that good people don't live long, and bad people live for thousands of years? I'm a bad person..."

Children born in the 70s and early 80s were greatly influenced by Hong Kong and Taiwan movies. In those movies, being a good person means being bullied.

That's why people of Li Tianyuan's age, especially some mischievous children, like to label themselves as bad guys, calling him a good guy is tantamount to scolding, and Li Tianyuan is also one of such weirdos.

"Yuanzi, shut up, go to the door and stay..."

Qin Feng stared, interrupted Li Tianyuan's nonsense, drove him to the door, and said to Xin Nan with a wry smile: "Brother Xin, my brother has watched too many Hong Kong and Taiwan movies. In fact, he is not bad. Don't worry about it." blame him..."

"He's such an old man, he has no sense of right and wrong."

Xin Nan shook his head and said, "I think you're not bad, and this store won't be open for a few days. You can take whatever you want, since it's not particularly valuable anyway."

"Brother Xin, I don't want things..." Qin Feng shook his head, pretended to be curious, and said, "I'm just curious, who is so powerful, who said to drive you away, you will be driven away, you won't call the police?" ?”

"It's not the surname Yuan. Why didn't the Liberation Society shoot them all?"

After offending local snakes, the previously crowded "Wen Bao Zhai" also became deserted. Finally, there was a speaker, and Xin Nan immediately poured beans out of the bamboo tube, and told the story of the other party.

Before liberation, there was an overpass in the capital, the Confucius Temple in Jinling, and the "three nos" in Tianjin were the paradise of the people in the rivers and lakes before liberation, and the abyss of crime.

Before the Boxer Rebellion in 1900, the bustling area of ​​Jintian City was in the Matou area, so there was a saying in the poems and essays of people in the Qing Dynasty that "the most prosperous city is Guyi Street, and Gongnan Gongbei City is also good".

The Houjiahou area is densely populated with teahouses, theaters, taverns, restaurants, bathhouses, and brothels.

After the Eight-Power Allied Forces invaded China, the prosperity along the Daguan River, Houjiahou, and outside the North Gate plummeted, and Dongxing-market, a depression of more than [-] mu near this antique street, prospered.

Over time, this depression has formed a market, where there are sellers of Dali pills and fake medicines, snacks of "Zheluo" (restaurant leftovers), those who shave their heads and braids, pull foreign tablets, and set up tea. Wait a minute.

Over time, this market has become bigger and bigger, known as the Nanshi of Tianjin, and another name is "Three No Matters".

There are two theories about the origin of the name "Three Regardless".

Another way of saying it is that because this large depression is in the south of the urban area of ​​China, and in the northwest of the French and Japanese concessions, the three countries all shirk and ignore the cases that occurred in this concession, so it is called "three nos".

Nanshi is not a big place, but it is an active place with three teachings and nine streams and "players". It gathers tea gardens, theaters, restaurants, hotels, shoes, hats, clothing, pastries, candy, tobacco pipes and other shops in Tianjin.

At the same time, it is also a place where Jianghu entertainers "lay down their stalls", such as martial arts training grounds, wrestling grounds, Dali Wan, selling sheep intestines, bean juice and storytelling and a cappella.

As the saying goes, where there are people, there are rivers and lakes, and such a place with extremely prosperous lights, red wine and greenery, naturally, the shadows of those military police, spies, and hooligans are indispensable.

In this "three no-regards" zone, Yuan Huiwen was the one with the most power and the most evil deeds. At that time, it was said that there was Du Yuesheng in the south and Yuan Huiwen in the north.

Yuan Huiwen's father, Yuan Laoxian, was a well-known gangster. Yuan Laoxian had some martial arts skills, and with a special iron shovel in his hand, he gathered more than ten brothers, nephews and nephews to form a tyrant in the Luzhuangzi area.

In the early years of the Republic of China, Yuan Laoxian's brothers died one after another, and Yuan's family gradually declined. Yuan Huiwen was rough in nature, did not study and did not seek to make progress. Under the sect of the boss Bai Yunsheng.

At that time, Bai Yunsheng was the most powerful in the rivers and lakes of Tianjin.

Some people from all walks of life in Tianjin, military, government, business, literature and art, such as Liu Jingshan, the chairman of the chamber of commerce during the Occupation, Wang Haiming, the bully of Muzhuangzi Tianqi Temple, and Liu Xiaowu, the local emperor of Wu County, were all apprentices of Bai Yunsheng.

In addition to worshiping Bai Yunsheng as his teacher and joining the Green Gang, Yuan Huiwen also recognized two godfathers in the early 30s, one was Xie Yutian, the commander of the warlord Li Jinglin's subordinates, and the other was Liu Shouyan, the captain of the Chinese police in the Japanese Concession, which further increased Yuan Huiwen's love. Arrogant.

Relying on these forces, Yuan Huiwen did all sorts of evil in Tianjin City, opened many casinos, and sold tobacco and soil, causing countless families to be ruined and killed. Moreover, Yuan Huiwen once colluded with the Doihara Department of Japan and organized a "plainclothes team" in Tianjin.

In the second year after liberation, Yuan Huiwen, the villainous Jinmen tycoon, failed to escape the law and was sentenced to death in [-]. However, his relatives, friends and minions openly held a grand funeral for him at the time, and even made a fuss. a huge storm,

The Yuan family that Xinnan mentioned is the descendant of Yuan Huiwen. After more than 30 years, Yuan Bingqi, Yuan Huiwen's grandson, began to make trouble in Jintian City again.

Yuan Bingqi is not very old, he is just forty this year, but since the early 80s, he has gathered a group of local hooligans, using the method of intimidation and smashing, in the old "three no matter", that is, Chongren Palace now foot.

Yuan Bingqi inherited the viciousness and cunning of his grandfather Yuan Huiwen, and he was doing a legitimate business in name, but secretly controlled the underground society in Tianjin City and developed it into his money-making tool.

Among other things, the monthly income of this antique street alone can reach hundreds of thousands. In addition to some logistics and freight businesses monopolized by Yuan Bingqi, he has already joined the ranks of billionaires.

Xin Nan didn't know about these things at first, but some uncles on Antique Street told him about them because they were afraid that he would suffer, and now they gave Qin Feng all their brains.

PS: The first update, I was sick, which is also strange, I woke up automatically at 11:50, the fat man is so dedicated, please Sanjiang tickets, recommended tickets!

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