Chapter 212: Revenge

In the afternoon, outside the Empire Night Nightclub, two guests quickly walked in from the side door next to the main entrance. They went directly to the third floor and knocked hard on the door outside the lobby on the third floor.

It looked like one of them was very familiar with this whole process, and there was even some impatience on his face.

A moment later, the door opened a small crack, and suddenly a special smell that only a casino would have drilled out from the crack.

The eyes of one of the two people lit up slightly.

The person in charge of guarding the door looked at the two of them. One was an acquaintance, but one was a stranger, and it seemed he hadn't been here.

"Your friend?", he stood at the door and asked.

The frequent gambler nodded, "My friend, also likes to play a few hands, we don't like to cause trouble, I guarantee."

The doorman looked at them again, then opened the door, "You'd better not lie, otherwise you know the consequences."

The two squeezed in from the crack. The guy who came for the first time was just about to walk in when he was stopped by the doorman.

"Do you have any dangerous things like daggers or pistols on you?"

The man shook his head, "I'm here to gamble, why would I bring this?"

The doorman stared at his face for a while, "Do you mind if I search?"

The man hesitated, but agreed.

The doorman searched his body and didn't find any dangerous things, so he allowed him to enter and finally warned them one last time, "Don't cause trouble, otherwise I won't be polite to you."

The two thanked him repeatedly and walked a short distance, then lifted the leather-wrapped curtain.

In an instant, a heat wave seemed to rush towards them.

Alcohol, cigarettes, sweat, and the hysterical laughter and curses of the gamblers, all things intertwined, forming endless desires.

The regular customer looked at his friend who was not very familiar. If it weren't for the five dollars, he wouldn't have brought the other party.

"Don't cause trouble, you can leave directly by yourself when you leave, or you can find me and leave with me. I hope you have good luck today!"

He finished speaking and didn't wait for the man to respond to anything. He rubbed his hands, took the money out of his pocket, and went to his most familiar gambling table.

This supports chips, but also supports cash. Sometimes cash is more convenient.

It has to be said that in New Jincheng, except for the chips of the Koda family which are very "firm" and have credibility, people don't recognize other chips very much.

The guy who came for the first time turned around, stayed at every gambling table for a while, then found a gambling table, and took out the ten or so dollars in his pocket.

Soon he was invested in gambling, just like the other gamblers around him, immersed in desire and greed.

In fact, not only here, but several other bars also welcomed some strange guests.

However, they didn't look like police or agents, so they successfully entered the bar.

Just an Empire District has a population of 200,000. No one can guarantee that they know every one of these 200,000 people.

So strangers often come to the bar to consume. Lans's requirement is to ensure that they are not agents of the Bureau of Hazardous Materials, then there is no problem.

These people didn't make trouble after coming in. They bought a beer, or a fruit wine, and stayed in a corner.

In fact, the business of these bars is not particularly good, and it has only started to warm up slightly in the past few days.

Lans made the business bars in the Empire District unable to survive through a low-price strategy. The same wine can make them earn more than ten cents a cup in the Port District, but here it can only earn a few cents.

Everyone knows how to make a choice.

This is actually the inevitable practice of capitalists monopolizing the market. Before the monopoly, they will definitely let profits to consumers crazily.

By means of price wars, all competitors are eliminated. After they monopolize the market share and master the pricing power, what they once lost can be earned back from these consumers many times over.

Although this trick has nothing very profound, and capitalists have used it for many years, sometimes the simpler the means, the more obvious the effect.

The Lans family is gradually controlling the pricing power of alcohol prices in the Empire District, and is also cultivating inertial consumption markets.

It's not that no one has thought about giving Lans some opinions, asking them to raise the price slightly, such as the Red Dog Gang.

But Lans never accepted this request. He seemed to want to carry the low price to the end. This gesture also gradually compressed the living space of taverns and bars in the Empire District to the extreme.

Except for some taverns and bars that have been operating for many years, and they were operated by the Empire people themselves and couldn't move, the others basically moved away.

Then, the price of alcohol began to rise in the past few days. A few cents, to more than ten cents, the more popular the wine, the relatively smaller the price increase.

But if calculated according to percentage, it is definitely not a little.

Ten-cent beer rose to fifteen cents, plus an ounce of potato wine, it would be twenty-five cents.

This price is really not cheap, but it is much better than bars in other regions.

With the series of actions of the Bureau of Hazardous Materials during this period, the price of alcohol is still rising.

The rise in the price of Lans's bars made the business of those bars under Ailike's name warm up slightly, but it was just a little bit.

An ordinary day, in the evening, these people returned to the same place. Fleming listened to them talking about those bars and had no interest.

Bars can indeed make money, but how much money can bars in the Empire District make, and he also heard that the business there is not very good.

This also made him a little depressed. Ailike and some industries are decent legal industries. These industries cannot provide Ailike with so much money in the short term.

In this period, only two kinds of businesses can make money quickly.

The first is finance, and the second is criminal trading.

Just when Fleming suspected whether Ailike had any other business that hadn't been discovered, one of his men walked back from the outside with an excited smile.

"Boss, they opened a casino in the Empire Night, eight gambling tables!"

Fleming's whole person was like a plant watered with water in the next moment, and he stretched out all of a sudden.

"Did you see it with your own eyes?"

The man nodded, "I know a few friends in the Empire District. We used to participate in some gambling games together. I found them to understand the situation, and they found someone to bring me in."

"It's on the third floor of the Empire Night. There are many people, and it can provide them with thousands of dollars in revenue every day!"

Some smiles appeared on Fleming's face. He encouraged his men, and then picked up the phone.

"I remember we moved the gambling tables of the Empire Night, right?"

The other end of the phone was his cousin, currently responsible for some of the family's casino matters.

"Yes, I arranged for people to move them, and all the gambling tables and gambling tools were pulled back. What's wrong?"

"My people said that their casino is open again now, and they even placed eight gambling tables!"

The opposite side seemed to be shocked by this news, and stopped for two seconds, "No one talked to them about putting gambling tables. This casino was made by themselves. What do you want to do?"

Before, the mayor's agent, Lawyer Aosen, also didn't get along with them, because the Koda family not only didn't give them a lower "tax rate," but also required them to follow the rules.

This is actually a very difficult thing to handle. If the mayor agreed to the equal tax rate they requested, it would mean that the mayor bowed his head to the Koda family and local forces.

So he couldn't agree.

For the Koda family, if they agreed to the mayor's request to lower the tax rate, then does it mean that the congressmen who opened casinos should also lower the tax rate?

Should other people with relationships also lower the tax rate or even not collect taxes?

Then the entire gambling industry in New Jincheng would be completely rotten. This is the bottom line, and they cannot shake it!

Both sides have reasons not to compromise, and finally broke up unhappily.

Now, they opened the casino secretly again, which is equivalent to giving the Koda family a slap in the face. The tone of Fleming's cousin carried a trace of anger.

"There are two ways."

"First, we take the legal channel and let Charlie take people to seal the Empire Night."

"They don't have a license, illegal operation, we have a suitable reason to do so."

"But the significance of doing this is not great. Charlie, that old dog, is cunning. He will at most catch some small minions. This not only fails to play a deterrent role for those who try to do something, but may also encourage their ideas."

"The second way, we rush this casino."

"Doing this can not only let those who are always testing us understand that even the mayor must follow our rules here."

"Besides that, it can also let me vent my anger."

Beaten by Ailike, this outsider mongrel, although Fleming didn't show any manic emotions, he did lose face.

His cousin thought for a while and said, "You decide, if you need to mobilize manpower, I can help you arrange it."

Fleming took a deep breath, "Thank you, I want to mobilize more people and handle his bars as well."

His cousin laughed, "No problem, I need two days to gather manpower and arrange things. We will do it in two days."

Fleming seemed to think of something and asked, "I heard that the so-called Lans family is helping them operate these places."

His cousin didn't care at all, "Small role, haven't heard of it, don't care!"

Hearing him say this, Fleming didn't continue to investigate. After all, the person who was completely handling the gangsters and social affairs in the family was his cousin, not him.

The things he learned were definitely not as detailed as his cousin.

At this time, his mood became better. There are still two days left!

He now can't wait to see Ailike's face that is blue with anger. ===== CHAPTER 213 =====

He is now somewhat impatient to see that face of Eric's, which is flushed blue with anger.