1929 I am a chaebol in the United States

Chapter 183 No Smoking

Hearing that someone opened a smoking den in his territory, Lu Chen couldn't stand it. He saw Fu Mingzhuo still standing there. He walked past Fu Mingzhuo and walked towards his office.

The first thing Lu Chen did when he arrived at the office was to pick up the phone and dial the number of Hong Shui Company.

After answering the call, Lu Chen said directly to the phone:

"I'm Lu Chen. Tell everyone in Hongshui Company to bring their weapons and equipment and come to Lu's Textile Factory."

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Lu Chen repeated this sentence three times, and the person on the other side finally reacted. He immediately said:

"Got it, Boss. I'll go inform Captain Eric and the others right away."

After Lu Chen finished the call, Fu Mingzhuo, who followed him, said at the door: "Xiao Chen, you are planning to arrest someone. This is illegal. We don't have the power to enforce the law."

Lu Chen glanced at Fu Mingzhuo and said, "This is my private place. I can do whatever I want with it."

After saying that, Lu Chen left the office without looking back and came to the factory gate, waiting for Eric and the others to arrive.

More than half an hour later, Eric called Lu Chen from Luca's place, and Lu Chen asked Lao Wang to let Eric and the others in.

Lu Chen looked at the fifteen people led by Eric. Each of them was carrying a submachine gun, and one or two of them were holding a shield.

Lu Chen asked Eric seriously:

"Is everyone here?"

Eric replied, "Everyone is here. I even brought the new members."

Lu Chen nodded, and then said to everyone: "Follow me."

Then Lu Chen asked Fu Mingzhuo to lead the way, and he and his men followed behind.

Under the guidance of Fu Mingzhuo, Lu Chen came to a newly built building. From the outside, the building had five floors, with six rooms on each floor, all connected by a corridor.

Fu Mingzhuo pointed to the second house on the left side of the second floor and said to Lu Chen:

"The smoking den is in the second room on the left on the second floor. Be careful."

Lu Chen nodded and led his men up the stairs on the left carefully. Maybe these people were used to being arrogant, but Lu Chen didn't see anyone taking a walk in the corridor or hallway.

Since this was the case, Lu Chen also became bolder and rushed directly to the door of the smoking house with his men. The door of this smoking house was not even closed, but just covered with a piece of cloth. Lu Chen did not hesitate and rushed directly into the smoking house with his men.

When Lu Chen entered the smoking den, it was like walking into a burning house, with thick smoke billowing inside. In the smoke, people were lying on the bed like they had rickets, holding a large pipe in their hands and smoking desperately.

Lu Chen found a piece of cloth, covered his nose with it, and called out to Eric and the others to arrest everyone inside.

Seeing Eric and the others start to arrest people, these people became anxious. Immediately, five or six people came out from another room and shouted at Lu Chen and the others:

"What do you all do? Who told you to come here to arrest people? Do you know who owns this smoking den? I..."

Lu Chen didn't want to know who opened this smoking den. Before the man could finish his words, Lu Chen had him pinned down. Seeing that Lu Chen and his gang were serious, these idiots panicked and immediately began to flee. But the smoking den was so small, where could they escape to?

Soon, Lu Chen captured all of them. Not only that, Lu Chen also found hundreds of kilograms of opium in the opium den. Without saying a word, Lu Chen confiscated all of it.

During this attack, Lu Chen captured fifty or sixty people. All of them were tied together with ropes and escorted out of the building by Lu Chen and his men.

The people in the building looked at these people in confusion. Some of the middle-aged women began to ask the people next to them:

"What did these people do wrong? Why were they all arrested?"

"I don't know how they arrested so many people at once."

An old lady pointed at a middle-aged man in the crowd and said:

"Look, isn't that Lao Wang from next door? How come he was also caught? Was he caught while climbing over the wall?"

At this time, an old lady who witnessed the whole process said:

"I saw this group of foreigners with guns rushing into the opium den and arresting everyone inside."

Then she pointed to several large boxes being carried out from the back and said:

"Look, are those big boxes filled with opium? There are so many opiums, how much are they worth?"

A group of people quickly looked towards the several large boxes behind Lu Chen's team.

Lu Chen gathered the captured people in a large open wasteland next to the building. Soon the wasteland was filled with people watching the fun.

Seeing that there were enough people, Lu Chen began to shout at the crowd:

"Hello everyone, I'm Lu Chen, the owner of this place. I had the house you live in built by me. In other words, I'm your landlord."

Everyone below began to discuss in a low voice.

"He is our landlord. How come he is so young?"

"I heard that Lord Bao doesn't have a wife yet. Sister Zhu, don't you have several daughters in your family? You should seize the opportunity. This is a rich son-in-law."

Hearing the people below talking about it, Lu Chen frowned and said to the crowd:

"I want to tell you something today."

An old lady below immediately shouted, "Bao Zhugong, if you want to talk about something, if it's a rent increase, forget it, we'll go home now."

Another woman echoed: "That's right, the rent can't be raised, and the water bill can't be raised either."

Lu Chen felt a headache when listening to these aunties. What the hell is going on? When did I say I would raise the rent and water charges?

He shouted loudly to the crowd:

"Be quiet and listen to me. Otherwise I will raise your rent."

When they heard Lu Chen threaten them with rent, the aunties immediately quieted down. For a moment, the scene became completely silent. This made Lu Chen feel a little unbelievable. It was just a rent increase, why were these people so obedient?

Seeing that the scene had quieted down, Lu Chen continued:

"Today I am going to announce a ban to you. In my area, no one is allowed to smoke opium, and no one is allowed to open an opium den. Go back and tell the people you know that if you find anyone smoking opium, you should report it to the Lu Textile Factory. As long as we verify that the person you report is a real opium addict, we will give you a corresponding reward.

If you find someone running a smoking den, don't hesitate to report it to the textile factory immediately. If it's true, we will give you a generous bonus."

Then Lu Chen had the boxes of opium piled up in the middle of the street. Lu Chen pointed at the piled opium and said:

"These are the opium I collected from the opium den. I don't want them either. I will burn them in front of everyone today."

Lu Chen waved at Eric, who immediately brought out a bucket of oil and poured it on the smoke. Lu Chen took out a lighter, lit it, and threw it on the smoke.

A raging fire immediately broke out on the smoke pile.