Spy Wars: I can get rewards by being a bully!

Chapter 604 Gao Maoxue suffers a heart attack

The teahouses in Tianjin, like those in Beijing, have always been a gathering place for many "well-informed" lazy people. Of course, there are also some high-end teahouses which are places for small business people to talk and exchange ideas.

But today, no matter which teahouse they were in, there was only one topic of discussion - Mr. Gao from the Gao family in the western suburbs vomited blood and fell into a coma, and was sent to the hospital from the Huitong Ticket Office!

"Hey, come on, come on, what's going on? Is Mr. Gao sixty? He lives a life of luxury, why is he vomiting blood?"

A man in his thirties was squatting on a bench in the teahouse, holding a plate of melon seeds in his left hand and constantly picking up melon seeds and putting them into his mouth with his right hand.

He cracked the melon seeds very quickly. Almost as soon as he put them in, he would stick out his tongue and the shells would come out. Some of them fell on his lapels, and there were even two or three pieces stuck to the corners of his mouth.

But no one disliked him, as this was the way things were done in the small teahouse.

This guy used to be a street thug, but he never made a name for himself and could only follow along to cheer others on. He was not a person who could be considered presentable.

But he didn't expect that it was precisely because he could not show up in public that he escaped the office's massive crackdown on gangsters.

From then on, I never dared to have a long braid again, let alone wear magnolia flowers, and I walked with a limp.

However, he did not reform himself. He could no longer run around the streets, so he stayed in the teahouse all day, drinking a pot of tea all day. When he had no money left, he went to work as a flag bearer or carried coffins for others, or he put aside his pride and worked as a porter at the dock for a few days, so that he could drink tea for a few more days.

"Living a life of luxury? You don't know that Master Gao is usually in a miserable state! My cousin's brother-in-law works for the Gao family. Master Gao is strictly controlled by Madam Gao. If you want to keep a concubine, you have to be very careful, for fear of angering Madam Gao!"

"According to what you said, Mr. Gao vomited blood and fainted because Madam Gao was angry?"

"Bullshit! Don't you forget where Mr. Gao was sent to the hospital? Huitong Bank! Mrs. Gao didn't get angry at him at home, but went to Huitong Bank to get angry at him instead?"

"Huitong Piaohao... Sir, can you tell me what is so special about this place called Huitong Piaohao?"

The idle man became excited. In the past, he followed those bigwigs in the social world to serve at dinner parties and heard a lot of so-called secrets from others. He started to show off immediately.

"Let me tell you, this Huitong Piaohao is not simple. The daily life of ordinary people in Tianjin cannot escape from this Huitong Piaohao, and behind this Huitong Piaohao..."

Afterwards, the idle man made a lot of nonsense, saying that Huitong Piaohao had become the mastermind behind everything in Tianjin, from the replacement of the special mayor to the daily life of ordinary people, there was nothing that Huitong Piaohao could not influence!

But everyone was fond of this and listened with great interest. Some people even memorized it secretly and planned to tell their neighbors about it later to show that they were well-informed.

.............

Office, Linze Office.

Today was a rare sunny day, so Lin Ze moved his chair to the window and basked in the sun while watching the people coming and going on the street.

Logically speaking, this was not very favorable for security, but fortunately, the tallest building of the Central Plains Company in the Japanese Concession had been burned down into a concrete frame, and there were no other commanding heights near the office.

Niu Saner knocked on the door and came in, holding a stack of information in his hand.

"Master, I have compiled all the conversations between the eight families at the Huitong Ticket Office, especially what Zhou Jizhi said, and have highlighted them."

Lin Ze took it and thought, wow, could it be that Niu Saner installed a bug in the Huitong Ticket Office? How could he even get the content of the conversation?

After looking through it for a while, Lin Ze handed the conversation back to Niu Saner, "This Zhou family is too good to us. Now that we haven't done anything yet, they are raising money to do business with me. They are really rich, not much less than Brother Miyamoto. They spent one million dollars and used it to squeeze the Gao family..."

Speaking of the Gao family, Lin Ze stood up and stretched his muscles. "Is that Gao Maoxue really so angry that he vomited blood?"

Niu Saner explained: "At the meeting, Zhou Jizhi directly exposed his card. He believed that Gao Puyu's outrageous remarks had greatly affected the interests of the eight families. He would not take other actions to suppress the Gao family because of their old friendship, but the Gao family must exchange the 600,000 yuan bill within a time limit. He said it very frankly, and as a result, the other families also agreed."

"The Gao family has no money, so someone is taking advantage of the situation to rob them?"

"You are wise. You know that the situation is hopeless and Gao Maoxue is powerless to save the situation. You just said that it takes time to raise funds. Zhou Jizhi doesn't need to say anything this time. The Li family requires the Gao family to pay within ten days. As for not having so much cash, the Gao family still has so much land and shops..."

This is the horror of a bank run. Once this happens, the assets in your hands are no longer assets, but fat meat that can be divided up at any price. You have to accept whatever price others say.

"As a result, the Zhang family proposed that Gao Maoxue take out all the land in Tanggu and the large tracts of land and shops in the western suburbs, and then let the other families buy them at a discount. Gao Maoxue was anxious and angry, and cursed a few times. Then his face turned red, and he covered his heart and fell to the ground and couldn't get up."

Well, this is probably due to excessive emotional fluctuations and a heart attack.

However, the information provided by Niu Saner caught Lin Ze's attention. "Does the Gao family still have land in Tanggu?"

Niu Saner pulled out a piece of paper, on which turned out to be the distribution of Gao family's land.

Lin Ze praised: "Good job, Niu Saner, you put the work first, your level is getting higher and higher!"

“These are all your teachings.”

After taking it and looking at it, it turned out that the Gao family's land was mainly in the west, but they somehow also had a large coastal beach in Tanggu.

Lin Ze's eyes lit up.

This piece of land is really a hot commodity!

Historically, starting from the next year, in order to cooperate with the plunder of various materials, the Japs planned to build a new port in Tianjin, and this port was in Tanggu.

However, due to the decline of national strength, the Japanese had no money and the port became an unfinished project.

Coincidentally, the company responsible for managing this project is the North China Transportation Corporation. In other words, as long as enough money is paid, the North China Transportation Corporation has the construction capabilities and technology!

Later, when China ushered in a new look, construction of this port began again, eventually laying the foundation for Tianjin Port.

No matter what the Zhou family or Zhou Xuejin is planning, Lin Ze is determined to take over this piece of land!

"Niu San'er, contact the Zhou family and buy all the land near the sea in Tanggu. It will be of great use to me."

"Yes!"