Anti-Japanese War, weapons designer at Fengtian Arsenal

Now the villagers of Ergou Village are immersed in a sea of ​​joy, and every household is as festive as if it were Chinese New Year. The reason for the joy is that the village chief has taken the lead and asked every household in the village to go to Longlong Store to rent a car, and then sell them together to the black market dealers in the city. Every villager got 10 oceans, which is the income they would have to earn by working in the fields for half a year or even a whole year.

The head of Ergou Village, Zhuang Youtian, arranged a grand banquet with more than 20 tables set up on the open space in the village so that all the villagers could have a meal to replenish their energy. This was the only time that Ergou Village had held a grand banquet in the past five years.

Since the warlords' infighting in Sichuan, the villagers' lives have become increasingly difficult. Ergou Village has not been so lively for a long time. Zhuang Youtian feels that his decision is correct.

Villagers kept flattering him at the dinner table, and with every word of thanks, Zhuang Youtian became a little elated. He felt that he was even more glorious now than when he got married.

But his son Zhuang Changshu was very worried and whispered beside him: "Dad, if you lead the villagers to sell other people's cars, will it cause trouble?"

Zhuang Youtian scoffed at his son's worries. He pointed at the villagers in front of him who were beaming with joy and said, "Look, every family here has received 10 yuan. Every family can replenish their oil and water. When was the last time that everyone ate meat so happily? His Julong Company is coming to cause trouble? We will work together to drive him away!"

"Yes! Let's work together to drive him away!"

When the villagers heard Zhuang Youtian’s words, they immediately agreed!

Zhuang Youtian was quite satisfied with the fact that he could command the support of hundreds of people. At this moment, he felt very powerful. This was the power of power!

But his son Zhuang Changshu didn't think so. Zhuang Changshu often worked in the city. He heard people say that the group of people from Xiaoliangshan were wiped out some time ago. It was said that it was because the people from Xiaoliangshan went to rob the bicycle shop of the Julong Company and were all killed by the thugs of the Julong Company.

Xiao Liangshan was a place that ordinary people like them could not afford to offend, but it was easily dealt with by Julong Company. His father dared to instigate the villagers to fleece Julong Company and asked them to come to him for revenge. What would be the consequences...

Zhuang Changshu was sweating profusely. He had worked in the city longer than in the village and knew more. He knew that some people could not be provoked and that if provoked, he would suffer great disasters.

But now the matter is done. His father did this while he was working without discussing it with him, otherwise he would definitely stop his father's stupid behavior.

You know, Longlong Convenience Store and the village chiefs who act as guarantors will establish a very good cooperative relationship. Every month, the village chiefs will help Longlong Convenience Store to urge people who rent bicycles to pay the rental fees. If anyone doesn't come, the village chief will go to their door to ask. In this way, those who don't pay and those who deliberately damage bicycles will have nowhere to hide.

Correspondingly, Longlong Store will give each village chief an amount of 40 copper coins, allowing him to buy daily necessities in Longlong Store. It is foreseeable that with the development of Longlong Store, such benefits will only increase.

Now Zhuang Youtian has chosen to make enemies with Longlong Convenience Store for temporary interests. Zhuang Changshu feels that his father has become confused.

Just when Zhuang Changshu was at a loss, suddenly, five constables in black clothes and a young man in a suit and tie came to the village entrance.

Zhuang Changshu felt a chill in his heart. He knew the young man. He was the owner of Longlong Convenience Store, a quite friendly person. Now he had brought the constable with him. Didn't something happen?

The other villagers also saw people coming to the village entrance, and they were all panicked. They didn't even eat the food at the banquet. The whole place was silent, and everyone looked at the six people with avoidant eyes.

Li Liangwei is Li Qinwu's alter ego who runs the Longlong Grocery Store. He quite likes this job, selling all kinds of cheap goods to rural people to make their lives better. This not only satisfies his vanity to change the status quo, but also brings him real benefits. He devoted himself to this job and privately wrote a novel called "I Opened a Grocery Store in the Republic of China".

Originally, everything was going well at the No. 39 Longlong Store he managed, and goods were selling very smoothly. However, he encountered some difficulties when selling the car rental service to the villagers, as the villagers were not interested in it.

Li Liangwei is not anxious about this. Several previous convenience store managers encountered the same difficulties, and they have developed a complete set of coping methods.

For example, when restocking Longlong Grocery Store, he would have people drive tricycles to deliver the goods to show the villagers the efficiency of tricycles in transporting goods. He would also have the villagers in his village ride bicycles to visit the neighborhood to stimulate their competitive spirit.

Generally, if you do this, someone will try to rent a car in less than a week. As long as one household buys it, it will create a broken window effect, and other villagers will start asking about the car rental service. After hearing that the price is so low, most villagers will choose to try it.

Oh, by the way, Li Liangwei also developed a new service. There is no car rental fee in the first month, and the vehicles can be rented out to villagers for free.

His proposal greatly increased the probability of villagers going to Longlong Store to rent a car. This suggestion was also promoted, and other Longlong Stores also implemented the strategy of free first month.

On the second day after Li Liangwei implemented the free strategy in Ergou Village, almost all the villagers came to Longlong Store to rent a cargo bicycle. The village's guarantor, Village Chief Zhuang, also cooperated with his work and explained the situation of each household clearly, which made his file-building work very smooth. 2 bicycles were rented out that day.

Li Liangwei felt that the work was going quite smoothly and he wrote about it in his novel "I Opened a Small Shop in the Republic of China", but what happened next gave him a heavy blow.

After the one-month trial period, he thought that the 92 households would come back to renew their contracts, but after waiting for a long time, no one renewed their contracts the next day. In addition, the Longlong Store, which used to have people coming in and out every day, was no longer open to the public. When he walked on the village path, the villagers looked at him evasively. Only then did Li Liangwei realize something was wrong.

Li Liangwei ran to the home of the village chief to ask what was going on, but he frowned as soon as he entered the yard. The cargo bicycle that was originally placed in the yard of the village chief had disappeared, and all the labor force in the village chief's family was still at home. This made his bad premonition reach its peak.

The subsequent conversation further confirmed his idea. He asked Village Chief Zhuang where his bicycle was. Village Chief Zhuang kept talking about other things.

Li Liangwei didn't bother to argue with him and ran to other villagers' homes to check the situation. The result made him feel extremely chilled. All the bicycles of 92 households in the village were gone!

This situation has also occurred in the Longlong convenience stores opened by other clones. Villagers secretly took the bicycles to the black market in Chengqu to resell them, but this is the first time that the whole village has sold them together.

Although Li Liangwei is usually kind to others, he is also decisive enough when encountering things. He immediately returned to the Longlong Convenience Store, closed and locked the door, then contacted Li Qinwu and told him about the bad incidents here. Then he went straight to the city government office to find the constable.

The Julong Company had a good relationship with the Chongqing government because it donated 100 specially designed police bicycles to the government to be used as patrol vehicles by the detectives.

This police bicycle has been redesigned so that short sticks, shields, long sticks, and spears can be mounted on the sides. Its black and red colors make it look quite majestic, with a bit of the flavor of later police motorcycles.

In addition, the Longlong Grocery Store now has its influence everywhere, and many of the constables' family members work as laborers in the Longlong Grocery Store. So as soon as Li Liang went to report to the police, the constable immediately sent five people to go to the village with him to check.