Anti-Japanese War, weapons designer at Fengtian Arsenal

Xiang Haigui understood that it was not that he could not survive, but the other party was just worried that if they let him go today, he would cause trouble for Julong Company tomorrow.

Honestly speaking, the moment he saw thousands of people standing quietly on the street outside, he even thought about resigning from his job, let alone causing trouble for the Julong Company.

But he knew that no matter what he said, the other party would not believe him, unless...

He thought of something and immediately got up and ran to the basement.

Li Xiao did not stop him. The villa was surrounded anyway and he could not run away. Even if he ran to ask the police for help using a telegraph, it would be useless because he would have enough time to restart before the police arrived.

Xiang Haigui did not run away. He stayed in the basement for less than a minute and then ran back in a hurry with a file bag in his hand.

He opened the file bag and poured out everything inside onto the table. Most of the things inside were various documents, with a few photos.

Li Xiao raised his eyebrows, picked up a document at random and glanced at it. He understood that this was evidence of corruption and bribery by several local senior officials!

Xiang Haigui explained carefully beside him.

"People in our official circles often cooperate with each other to do... some business. These are the evidences I left behind."

Li Xiao finished reading the documents in a few seconds, picked out two sheets of paper related to Liu Xiang, burned them with a lighter, and asked: "What's the point of giving me evidence against other officials? I want yours."

Xiang Haigui explained: "We all did these things together. If one person leaks it, everyone will be doomed.

If I dare to cause trouble with the Julong Company again in the future, you put this in the newspaper, and my colleagues will be dragged down. Before they fall, they will drag me down with them.

Although I won't be shot, but without the protection of power, wouldn't it be easy for your men to kill me?"

Li Xiao thought about it and nodded: "Well, you are a smart man, you have successfully obtained my forgiveness."

As he spoke, Li Xiao stood up and walked out the door. Xiang Haigui breathed a sigh of relief, knowing that he was alive. Only then did he realize that his back was soaked with sweat. Since he reached his current height, he had never felt so panicked.

Xiang Haigui almost cried for joy, but when he saw that the documents on the table were not taken away by Li Xiao, he panicked. He had already given the handle to the other party, and the other party didn't take it. Did this mean that he was going to be punished again?

"Ah sir! You forgot to take this!"

Xiang Haigui hurriedly gathered the documents on the table and wanted to put them into Li Xiao's hands, but Li Xiao had already walked out of the villa and joined the group of nearly a thousand men in suits.

Before Li Xiao's figure was completely blocked by the man in the suit, Xiang Haigui heard his steady voice.

"I don't need those things. If I want to kill you, it's useless even if you hide in Liu Xiang's personal guards!"

Xiang Haigui's hair stood on end and he completely dispelled the inappropriate thoughts.

Over the next few days, the bicycle shop operated as normal, and after Li Xiao warned Xiang Haigui, no one came to cause trouble again.

Of course, Li Qinwu said that the taxes must still be paid. He just wants to do business in an equal environment and is too lazy to do such a shameless thing as tax evasion.

In such a normal business environment, the business of Julong Company developed quite smoothly, with leisure bicycles sold at a rate of forty to fifty per day.

It is foreseeable that this number will soon drop to 20 to 30 per day, or 10 to 20 vehicles. After all, there are only so many rich men and women in Chongqing, and the market will soon be saturated.

Li Qinwu is not worried about this because Li Jin has developed new sales channels.

Don't forget that Li Jin is a member of the Minsheng Chamber of Commerce. He has already reached an agreement with the Chamber of Commerce to sell 80 men's and women's leisure bicycles to the Chamber of Commerce at a one-time price of 1000 yuan per bicycle.

It is foreseeable that the leisure bicycles that have been tested by Chongqing’s rich brothers and sisters will definitely become popular in other cities of the Republic of China, and orders from the Minsheng Chamber of Commerce will definitely come in continuously in the future.

In addition, the number of Longlong convenience stores increased to more than 50, covering almost all larger villages around Chongqing City, providing Li Qinwu with hundreds of dollars in revenue every day.

The cargo bicycle rental business is also developing in full swing. There are now more than 1000 registered renters. It is foreseeable that in the next two to three years, rickshaws will become an important means of transportation and production for people living in the vicinity of Chongqing.

Of course, when there are more people renting cars, there will always be people with ulterior motives. In order to deal with these people, Li Qinwu designed quite harsh car rental conditions.

The person renting the bicycle must have a clean background and must own real estate and land. The person must clearly state the purpose of the rental, the entire family population, where their ancestors are from, and guarantee in the name of their ancestors to abide by the rental terms. The person must also be guaranteed by a registered village chief before the bicycle can be rented out.

If the renter maliciously damages the vehicle and removes the vehicle parts and sells them to others, he will be subject to extremely severe penalties.

The Julong Company will report to the police to arrest the criminals and require them to compensate for the original price of the bicycles. If they have no money, their land or houses will be confiscated directly. Well, it is so cruel. This can be done by paying the police some money.

Of course, this is not the cruelest thing. The cruelest thing is that Julong Company will blacklist the criminals and their families. From then on, the shops opened by Julong Company and the factories recruiting workers will have nothing to do with this family.

Maybe some deadbeats don’t care about this, but Li Qinwu has another trick up his sleeve: the favorability system of Longlong Convenience Store.

This favorability system is directly linked to the price of goods. For example, if a person appears in a village and sells a bicycle on the black market in the city, after the Julong Company holds him accountable, the Longlong convenience store stationed in the village will change its favorability towards the village to negative 10.

A negative favorability will cause the price of goods in Longlong Store to increase. For example, a ceramic steel bowl that costs one copper dollar will become two copper dollars. Villagers still have to sell it because even with the price increase, the daily necessities sold in Longlong Store are still the cheapest. This is why the villagers will hate the guy who caused their favorability to minus 2.

The villagers will want to drive this guy out of the village and insult his family. If he is not married, it will be even worse. Longlong Store will spread the news that there is a car thief in xx village, and the car thief will be prepared to be single for the rest of his life.

Once this trend was formed, people who dared to damage and sell rental bicycles at will almost disappeared. Of course, there have been extreme cases, such as the current Ergou Village, where the entire village has united together to sell nearly a hundred rented bicycles to the black market.