I use ghosts as cash machines

It's a pity that Chu Shengtian is not a weak "prey" who can be manipulated by others.

In his early years, Chu Shengtian was known as "Mad Dog" and became almost a household name in the east of XX City.

According to rumors, Chu Shengtian was just an ordinary carpenter at the beginning, doing house decoration business with his wife in his hometown.

The couple already had a child at that time, and the child's academic performance was very good. However, there were no decent junior high schools and high schools in the small county, so the couple combined their efforts and simply moved the family to XX City.

The two set up a store in Chengdongpan, and while doing individual hardware retail business, they and their friends also took on some decoration and other work through the store.

The child also successfully transferred to a junior high school in XX City.

Although I can't make much money, my life is still lively, prosperous and happy.

The family was supposed to live happily like this, but as soon as they established themselves in the city, they encountered a group of ruffians.

A group of people smashed up their store without saying a word.

Later, the surrounding merchants told Chu Shengtian that these people were collecting protection fees.

Throughout the east part of the city, individual merchants with no background have to pay "sanitation fees" every month, otherwise a group of gangsters will gather to cause trouble in the store from time to time.

Originally, Chu Shengtian thought that when he came to his hometown, he would do as the Romans did and he would just pay the protection fee. As long as he paid the protection fee and stopped causing trouble, it would be fine.

In that era, no matter where you went to develop, you had to spend money to smoothen relationships.

But I didn't expect that the troublemakers always came to harass my wife because she was good-looking.

Chu Shengtian usually didn't stay in the store due to work reasons, so he never noticed it.

At first, Chu Shengtian's wife tolerated it on her own, not wanting to cause any trouble to her husband, but then the gangsters were no longer satisfied with the verbal teasing and started to use physical violence.

The woman couldn't bear it anymore and told her husband all about it.

After Chu Shengtian heard about this incident, he closed his store for a few days.

Nearly a month later, his hardware store reopened.

On the opening day, the same group of gangsters who used to collect protection money came again, clamoring for him to pay back last month's money.

But this time, Chu Shengtian didn't give him any more money.

Instead, he called a group of brothers and gave the gangsters a good beating.

Hun Yu returned home.

During this month, Chu Shengtian returned to his hometown once and persuaded a group of "unemployed vagrants" from his hometown to come to XX City for development.

No one knew how he persuaded them, but a group of people followed Chu Shengtian to this unfamiliar place for them.

The gangsters who collect protection fees confront the gangsters from Chu Shengtian's hometown.

No one benefited from it, and both sides saw blood.

The gangsters came to make trouble several times in a row, but were beaten back by the group of people gathered by Chu Shengtian.

Later, things became more and more troublesome. If he was allowed to continue to develop, lives would be caused.

The police had no choice but to sit idly by and ignore the situation. Since both sides were committing atrocities, they called for reconciliation between the two parties.

Chu Shengtian said that he originally wanted to come to this land to do business honestly, but he was bullied by others, ridden by others, and his family was hurt, so he wanted to set up a "Merchant Self-Defense Organization" Rise up and resist.

It's okay to want to reconcile, but you have to apologize to your wife.

Apologizing is just a trivial matter. Chu Shengtian is smart. He asked the gangsters to apologize to him in front of many merchants on the street.

Those merchants who had been squeezed for a long time saw that the once arrogant and domineering gangster actually apologized to others.

So they ran around telling each other and rejoicing.

Some merchants who were also bullied saw hope of resistance, so they also found Chu Shengtian privately, asking him to protect them too.

This is of course also part of Chu Shengtian's plan. This is also the way out he came up with after being silent for more than a month.

Like most peasant uprisings in history, under severe tyranny and excessive oppression, the government will force the people to rebel.

Fortunately, Chu Shengtian resisted successfully.

After Chu Shengtian protected several merchants in the east of the city and beat away the troublemakers, everyone swarmed into Chu Shengtian's "self-defense organization."

Let’s all join together to protest against the unfair treatment we have suffered before.

I started to refuse to pay "health fees".

If any gangster dares to come up and cause trouble, he will be beaten back by the "self-defense organization".

If someone is injured, this group of merchants will pool their money together to pay for medical expenses.

After all, compared to paying "health fees" and being harassed, basically everyone is willing to pay some of the medical expenses of those who truly protect their own interests.

In this way, as more and more merchants joined, Chu Shengtian's "Merchant Self-Protection" organization grew rapidly in a short period of time.

The strength of this organization comes from the masses.

The power of people's hearts is naturally powerful.

For example, if the government wants to build infrastructure, it may cut off water and electricity, which will affect merchants' business. You only need to say hello to Chu Shengtian in advance, and most of the merchants will cooperate well and not cause trouble.

Or if a boss wants to develop in the east of the city, as long as he has a good relationship with Chu Shengtian, he will probably be able to start construction on this site smoothly.

Because of this, Chu Shengtian made friends with many powerful or wealthy "big shots" during this period.

Less than a year later, Chu Shengtian's second son was born, namely Chu Yucheng.

This was originally a good thing that everyone was happy with, but unfortunately, Chu Shengtian's wife had a dystocia and died of hemorrhage during delivery.

Chu Shengtian was heartbroken, and since the birth of his second son, he had established the "Chu Group".

The group's main business is real estate development, including decoration.

Chu Shengtian's self-defense organization, which was originally a gangland-like organization, gradually became clear.

By now, they seem to have drawn a clear line from before.

Yin Zongyang said bitterly: "I'm just a mad dog. Why are you pretending to be a wolf with a big tail? And now you're involved in student aid and charity? Damn you!"

The company opened by Chu Shengtian was getting bigger and bigger, and Yin Zongyang tried every means to find excuses for several years, whether it was framing the case or setting up traps to lure him.

However, Chu Shengtian is very cautious. Not only does he never make mistakes, he also strictly controls his employees.

I'm surprised that I haven't caught anything in all these years.

On the other hand, for Yin Zongyang, cracking down on gangsters and evil has already become the mainstream of society. Because the economic situation is getting better and better, everyone is working hard to manage their own lives, and no one wants to join the gangsters.

The "Yihe Hui" attracted fewer and fewer new people, and many illegal channels were blocked by the police.

Although Yin Zongyang later listened to "my" advice and established a company to develop real estate, he did not manage it carefully. Instead, he focused most of his energy on money laundering and loan sharking.

His career development has suffered setbacks, and Yin Zongyang has become increasingly moody in recent years.

His opponents beat and scolded them at every turn.

On this day, he called "me" to his side.

"Last week, our Maohua Group was still losing money. If this continues, it won't be long before I can completely declare bankruptcy."

"I" took a deep breath, knowing that what was coming was inevitable: "What do you want me to do?"

Yin Zongyang: "Since you ask that, I won't be polite. I hope you can start with Chu Shengtian's son."