Chapter 31: The Trend of the Wandering Knight! (Please Follow)

Wu Feng soon learned that his Tangge's targets were the nearby Garden Street and Tongcai Street.

The core objective, however, was Xintian Street; he wanted to plant his flag in this red-light district!

Mong Kok has three famous red-light districts; the most well-known is naturally Portland Street, followed by Shanghai Street, and the one with the worst reputation is Xintian Street.

But even if its reputation is the worst and the class of its nightclubs is the lowest, the illicit profits are definitely not small!

Wu Feng naturally had no interest in Xintian Street and directly took on the task for Garden Street and Tongcai Street.

He did not act rashly, but habitually scouted for intelligence first.

It didn't even take half a day for the situation on Garden Street and Tongcai Street to be basically cleared up.

As the saying goes, counting on low-level scum to keep a secret is worse than counting on them to change their nature and become good boys; after a few beers, they'll spit out any secret.

The ones entrenched in those two streets were merely three small gangs, the kind with very weak strength.

There was no other reason; those two streets were full of merchants doing legitimate business, with not much illicit profit to be skimmed.

Garden Street is what later became the very famous Sneaker Street, with most businesses dealing in sportswear and sneakers.

As for Tongcai Street, it is the later world-famous Woman Street, with most shops catering to women.

The gangs hanging around these two streets only had "protection fees" as their main source of income, at most supplemented by usury and running small gambling dens; they were all small-scale, poor-ass gangs.

Dealing with them, given the strength of Wu Feng's subordinates, was truly too simple.

But he didn't want to stain his hands with blood, and there were ways to handle that!

Over the next three days, the bosses of the three gangs entrenched in Garden Street and Tongcai Street all met with trouble.

One boss was caught on the spot while dealing pills; being a veteran addict himself, he was estimated to be heading to Stanley Prison for a ten or eight-year "refresher course," basically rendering him finished.

Another boss had a fierce conflict with a veteran gambler in his own small gambling den and was accidentally beaten into critical condition, currently undergoing emergency treatment in the hospital.

The last boss, while out having a good time, was stabbed several times by a streetwalker he had previously harmed; although he didn't die, he was completely crippled.

When the police rushed over, they didn't even dare to touch the injured boss, because the streetwalker who had been so cruelly harmed had a venereal disease, and the knife was smeared with her own blood.

It was just such a coincidence that the bosses of the three gangs entrenched in the two streets all met with trouble, and their respective gangs were suddenly left without a leader and in total chaos.

At this moment, Wu Feng dispatched many of his underlings to go over, easily scattering all three small gangs and becoming the sole gang power on the two streets.

In such a situation, not to mention the gang scum outside, even the people from Hong Yi themselves felt it was inexplicable.

Those were two whole streets, and they were taken by Wu Feng so easily?

Those with sharp minds naturally saw some clues and felt much more wariness, or even fear, toward Wu Feng.

Those without brains really thought Wu Feng's luck was so good it exploded, and he had easily picked up a huge bargain!

After all, Garden Street and Tongcai Street had a dense commercial atmosphere with many legitimate merchants, and just collecting "protection fees" brought in quite a lot of Hong Kong Dollars every month.

Tangge was also quite speechless about Wu Feng's "luck," but he still let Wu Feng become the only Hall Master of Hong Yi, with Garden Street and Tongcai Street as his main territory.

Of course, Wu Feng's territory on Shanghai Street still remained; Tangge was in no hurry to take it back.

Wu Feng was not a fool either; he planned to gradually hand over those nightclubs under his command that were not very legitimate and prone to problems to be managed directly by the gang.

In fact, he valued the commercial atmosphere of Garden Street and Tongcai Street even more.

Whether it was sportswear or sneakers, he was very familiar with them!

As for the various beautiful clothes women wear, and the even more attractive various types of lingerie, he had seen even more varieties and quantities in his past life.

As long as he was given a sufficient platform, he could become the next clothing tycoon in less than three years!

Unfortunately, it was unlikely the Hong Kong British Government would open such a door!

For Garden Street and Tongcai Street, he had his own plans and ideas!

Whether they would succeed was another matter, but the ideas and plans in his heart were definitely grand; once partially completed, they could easily spawn several multi-millionaires, which was no exaggeration at all!

Once the new territory was quickly stabilized, the next step was to reward merit.

This time, the hall under Wu Feng's control promoted three high-ranking members!

They were the Red Pole Zhang Yong, the White Paper Fan Wang Zhi, and the Straw Sandal Li Xin!

They were all new rising stars in the underworld under Wu Feng, and half a year ago, they were all Blue Lanterns of the gang!

This move caused a stir throughout the gang. Especially the Blue Lanterns, who were all excited and eager to become the next lucky ones.

In just a few short days, hundreds of Blue Lanterns gathered around these three!

Fortunately, after these three were promoted, they immediately went to Garden Street and Tongcai Street to preside over the situation and did not stay on Shanghai Street to be an eyesore, so it didn't cause much resentment among the veteran Four-Nines.

As the saying goes, those two newly captured streets didn't have much gray income!

Regardless, as a Hall Master of Hong Yi, the number of Four-Nines under Wu Feng quickly approached two hundred, and the number of Blue Lanterns exceeded six hundred; his strength was expanding drastically.

The gang affairs belonging to him were almost finished, so Wu Feng devolved the management matters to the three high-ranking members, while his attention was placed on other aspects.

Time had already reached November of '86, and the temperature in Hong Kong had begun to drop, which did not affect the daily lives of ordinary citizens.

Recently, one newspaper had been quite prominent, and its circulation was rising again and again.

Not only did it attract the nervous attention of peers in the newspaper industry, but it also became one of the entertainment choices for many Hong Kong citizens; the novels in it were too brilliant and attention-grabbing.

That's right, this newspaper was the Mong Kok News under Wu Feng!

Ever since it serialized the martial arts novel Zhu Jia and the suspense-horror novel Legend of the Northeast Hunter, the newspaper's sales and popularity began to climb gradually.

Where had Hong Kong novel readers ever seen a wandering knight like Zhu Jia?

There were no plots of revenge in the novel, no content about snatching divine manuals, and even less ambition to dominate the underworld; what there was, was only the behavior of a wandering knight upholding the way of the knight-errant, very much in the spirit of the Mohists.

There was chivalry, punishing the treacherous and eradicating the evil, and protecting the peace of the local area. Combined with the cultural landscape of the early Han Dynasty, readers were immersed in it and couldn't stop.

The key was that although Zhu Jia's martial arts were not bad, ordinary people could become a wandering knight expert like him through constant training and persistent effort.

That's right, in the novel, Wu Feng deliberately added some basic military martial arts training methods.

It wasn't that there was something wrong with his brain, but that Hong Kong novel readers just liked this style!

If one could train according to the novel's description, one could see results in a short time, which was much faster than learning martial arts in a martial arts school; the effect was similar to fast-track methods like Muay Thai, and the sensation caused at that time was truly astonishing.

Of course, Wu Feng did not bring out military combat techniques, otherwise, it might really cause a bad reaction, and he didn't want to bring trouble upon himself.

And when the novel's readers learned that there really was a knight-errant named Zhu Jia in the early Han Dynasty, the sensational effect can be imagined.

Let me say, I will change the content regarding Deng Bo of the Wo Shing.

I am speechless; the movie timeline is 2005, how could there possibly be a list of all the chairmen on Baidu?

Seeking follow-up reads, seeking collections, seeking monthly tickets.

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