The wind blows from the South Sea

Chapter 13 Make a small fortune

After they all left, Feng Guohui rubbed his hands with excitement, feeling an eager desire for Alibaba to open a treasure house, full of unknowns and expectations.

The secret room is behind the dressing table. The door and the dressing table are made into one body. After finally finding a hidden button, the door can be opened. There is an iron door handle inside.

Use the key you found to open the thick door. After entering, you will find a small room with three walls surrounded by shelves.

Boxes were placed on the shelves, and there were boxes and boxes of silver coins. There were about a dozen boxes, estimated to be no less than 4 silver coins, as well as a box of gold bars and a box of jewelry.

There are 22 large yellow croakers and 7 small yellow croakers in the gold bars. The value of the jewelry is temporarily difficult to calculate.

The rest were pounds and francs, worth a total of more than ten thousand silver coins, as well as some store title deeds and IOUs, all placed in different boxes.

If fixed assets are not included, the cash is around 6 to 7 silver dollars, which is a huge amount of wealth.

In addition, there are 6 revolvers and more than fine swords with cold light, including Tang swords, Yanling swords and samurai swords. It has been well maintained and you can tell that the original owner used it to play with it from time to time.

Considering that Shuifang is a gang hall with 600 to 700 people after all, Jin Yagen has been working as a gangster for many years, selling people, selling tobacco, and opening gambling stalls. It is really not much to accumulate this little wealth.

On the public account of the water house

Every month on his own territory, Wilson Road, he collects more than 2,200 silver dollars in protection fees from merchants.

Why are there so many?
  Even though Wilson Road is only about 470 meters long, there are still several small alleys running north and south. There are 11 opium dens, 23 gambling stalls, 45 brothels, and many merchants. It is the busiest in the north of the city near the Surabaya port. of a street.

Most of the so-called 45 brothels have one prostitute in one house, or several prostitutes in one courtyard, and only about 10 have more than six or seven prostitutes.

Several large-scale brothels are basically run by Fuso people. Each has more than a dozen or even more than 20 young Fuso fisherman girls. They are famous for their low prices and good services.

These large-scale Fusang prostitution clinics naturally pay more for treatment.

The protection fees collected by Jianghu halls are calculated based on head count, gambling stalls are calculated based on tables, and opium dens are calculated based on pipes.

Most of these gambling stalls, brothels, and opium dens are owned by Shufang's cousins, or at least have shares in them or are related to them. So I opened it on my own property on Wilson Road so that I could take care of it nearby.

Of course, all this is in the past tense.

Now this land belongs to Nanyang Company. Nanyang Company is not a gangster, but a serious businessman, so it does not charge protection fees, but management fees.

Only the names are different, the core means the same.

If Feng Guohui had a jealous temper, he would not be able to bear the opium dens harming the Chinese people, and would have to force them all to close down.

But after repeated consideration, he decided on this idea.

The opium dens in Surabaya City not only poisoned the Chinese, but also poisoned the local indigenous people. They treated everyone equally in the face of money, including white people.

It's just that white people generally have better economic conditions and spend most of their time smoking in their mansions.

If Feng Guohui takes the lead, he will definitely become the target of public criticism in this industry chain. This is a situation he does not want to see.

Smoking pipes, gambling stalls and prostitutes are all harmful things, but they are almost everywhere in today's world, especially the Fuso government, which exports tens of thousands of young women to Southeast Asia every year just to earn this flesh and blood to subsidize the domestic finance.

Feng Guohui cannot change much by himself.

since the black ship incident

Fuso Country was greatly shocked by the advancement of Western culture. However, the resources on the island were poor, the economic development was extremely backward, and there were no goods that could be exported.

Someone set a crooked idea on women, which started the historical process of millions of fusang women going to Southeast Asia, using their bodies to earn valuable funds for the country.

These women who sold themselves for the country were called "Tang Xing Miss" or "Nanyang Sister". They were mainly from the Shimabara Peninsula in Nagasaki Prefecture and the Amakusa Islands in Kumamoto Prefecture, as well as northern Kitakyushu.

They are usually girls born into poor fishermen's families. People called "Nvxuan" first look for girls in poor mountain villages. They then bought them from their relatives and then sold them to people called "concubines" to take them overseas. This was promoted as a glorious act of devotion, so it was called the Women's Army.

There was a movie called "Wang Xiang" in the Fusang Kingdom in later generations, which described the tragic fate of these Nanyang women. Most of them died in a foreign country and could not return to the Fusang Kingdom for the rest of their lives.

These Nanyang sister's tombstones, with deep attachment and unwillingness, all face the direction of Fusang Island.

Back to topic
  At this stage, we should not be too dazzling, nor should we be too maverick.

The so-called Jianghu is not only about fighting and killing, but also about human relations, and being in harmony with the world is the kingly way.

Feng Guohui did a simple calculation

In terms of protection fees alone, Shuifang can receive 2 to 6 silver coins a year. Adding in the large casinos like Jinyu Tower he opened, human trafficking, and tobacco, his annual income is estimated to be no less than 7 to silver coins.

But at the same time, there are also expenses. So many brothers have to eat, drink, and support their families. If they are injured in a fight with other gangs, they have to pay for soup and medicine, and if they die, they have to pay pensions.

In addition, it has to be paid to the tax collector, who is the boss of the city, and the family should be about the same.

after nightfall
  The guys who went out to search houses came back one after another. This time they searched 23 houses in a row and brought back a large pile of house deeds, IOUs and more than silver coins in cash, which filled the table.

Feng Guohui did not hesitate. After gathering everyone, he publicly announced a generous reward to Hu Laohu and gave Hu Laohu, Zheng Xiucai and Ma Ganqiang the priority to choose the house.

After all, these 23 households have their pros and cons. The good thing is that they are quiet and exclusive courtyards. The bricks and stones are not afraid of rain or moisture, and their value is much higher.

It's a wooden house, but it's crowded together with other families, so the conditions are naturally much worse.

After the three of them picked out the house deeds with glowing faces, Feng Guohui called up ten key people headed by Lin Ada and assigned the residences one by one.

Then he collected the bounty for everyone, and distributed the bounty on the spot according to the amount of 100 for the leader, 50 for the leader, and 30 for the assistant.

Besides
  Feng Guohui also promised to give each person two sets of clothes and a pair of shoes. In the next step, he would try to buy helmets, breastplates, swords and shields, etc., and equip them all for the brothers.

In the evening, half a piece of pig was killed for stew. Each of the brothers had a large bowl of braised pork and enough white rice and steamed buns. Although they were open to eating, drinking was not allowed.

It was originally expected that the mule and horse caravan would set off tomorrow, but was delayed by the incident in the water house. The date could only be postponed to two days later.

The entire Nanyang Company was filled with a lively and exciting atmosphere, with laughter and laughter everywhere, and a heroic scene after victory.

After eating and drinking in the evening, the staff were divided into two groups, and one group returned to Nanyang Company to keep watch. After all, Jin Yutang did not have such a big place for everyone to stay.

Another group of more than 30 people rested in the Jinyu Hall. There were beds in the big casino here for the gangsters to rest, to prevent anyone from causing trouble in the casino at any time.

After everything is arranged
  Feng Guohui hummed a little tune and returned to his small courtyard from the side door with satisfaction.

At this time, the woman at home had prepared a hot water bucket, as well as hangover soup and hot towels. After drinking the hangover soup, she served fruits.

When Feng Guohui lay down comfortably in the hot water bucket, a few tender little hands were caressing his body. This atmosphere, this enjoyment... was simply amazing.

This evil feudal society!

"Ahem, you guys go out first, wait for me to soak for a while, then come in and rub my back." Unable to bear it any longer, Feng Guohui coughed twice and drove people away.

In fact, his unusual movements had already made several maids extremely embarrassed, and their hearts were beating wildly in fear.

After hearing the master's instructions, Rumeng ran away with his head lowered and a smile on his face.

Well, it's finally quiet.

(End of this chapter)