Chapter 615

After Rogerf left, only his own people were left in the room, so talking was naturally more casual.

"Is it necessary to carry out reform so quickly?" Mero asked, slightly furrowing his brows.

In his view, and even in the view of many others, the Lans family had just established the concept of "peak," and it was the period of rapid family development.

Look, the Five Great Families had already become a thing of the past, and Alberto was about to go to Sumuli Island to die.

Once he dies, the Pasleto family will have no roles left that can stand alone.

Francisco is indeed not bad, but he is still too young, and at the same time, it is not a simple matter for the family to become strong again.

As for those other medium and small gangs, there is no need to put them in the eyes; whoever doesn't submit, just wipe them out.

With Director Bulu's respectful attitude toward Lans now, they can even let police officers and people from the Lans family act together to fire fight or do cleanup work.

In this city, there is no force that can stop the Lans family!

Isn't this just crazy expansion?

Take down all eleven administrative districts, open full bars, open full branch offices.

Now there are so many young people outside who are urgently wanting to join; they can recruit thousands or even tens of thousands of people just by recruiting a bit!

A gang of ten thousand people... just thinking about it makes people excited!

The person who asked Lans was Mero, but in reality, others also had the same thoughts; they didn't quite understand.

Lans glanced at Mero. "This is an interest society; first there is interest, then there is society."

"If we really continue to expand and recruit thousands or tens of thousands of people, then how are we going to reform?"

One question from Lans silenced these people; the inferiority of low education was displayed vividly at this moment; they couldn't find any cases from the things they understood to express their viewpoints.

If you want to convince others, you certainly can't just say "I'm right"; you have to use examples that have already appeared to tell others that doing so is no problem.

At the same time, you have to reason, and say why you do this and what the benefits of doing so are.

But they didn't know, couldn't say it, only knew...

"More people is always better than fewer people."

Lans looked at the person who spoke, Hiram; he was someone who might say this kind of thought.

Lans shook his head. "The more people there are, the more bloated we will appear, and the harder it will be to make changes."

"If you see those wild boars in the wilderness, you will find that they run very fast and have great strength; if wild boars appear in groups, even wolf packs won't easily provoke them."

"But look at the pigs on the farm again; they are clearly bigger; why can't they make the wolf pack feel threatened?"

"I know this is not a suitable example, but it very vividly tells us that bloatedness is not a manifestation of strength."

"When we possess a scale of thousands or tens of thousands of people, we will be very difficult to adjust direction in many businesses."

"More expenditures make us more dependent on high-profit criminal income; once our income has problems, soon the company will be unable to maintain itself."

He paused. "Mero, how much money do we have to give each person each month currently?"

Mero is the general manager of the family; he is responsible for these contents; Lans looks at the materials he writes every two weeks.

"About one hundred and twenty dollars."

Lans nodded. "One hundred and twenty dollars, ten thousand people is one point two million; we also have to shoulder their food, housing, and their clothing."

"We can't let them stand on the street like fools; we have to rent a house or buy a building to let them have a place to work."

"Do they need to arrange vehicles?"

"Even if we don't arrange so many small cars, having seven or eight hundred in total is a must, then van-type vehicles, other vehicles..."

"Every year, just the expenses for this part are over several million; once the prohibition ends, or other accidents happen, and earning money becomes difficult, how do we maintain it?"

Watching these people fall into deep thought, Lans didn't stop because of this, he was still talking.

"When that day comes, whether it's because of income problems or other problems, when we need to reduce our scale, huge contradictions will break out."

"Whose manpower to reduce, whose manpower not to reduce, how to decide?"

"Those young people took risks for the family, although it might not be a very big risk, but at least they shouldered all the risks to work for us and earn money."

"Because of our reasons, we have to let them no longer receive the protection of the family, and we won't give them wages, won't give them a place to live, and food."

"Have you considered what changes these trained people will bring to this society after returning to society?"

"You let them do work that only has forty or so dollars a month?"

"Or is it possible that they will form new gangs, not to confront us, just to maintain their lives like this."

"If they and us have friction, what do we do?"

"What do they do?"

Lans kept shaking his head. "We need to consider all these problems; the more people there are, the fewer options available for us to choose, and we will also become more dangerous."

"Even if we successfully clear out a portion of the people, the influence produced by their crimes outside will also be naturally considered by people as our fault."

"So, gentlemen, this is not a discussion or a debate; this is a predetermined plan."

"From now on, our identity needs to transform from 'independent operators' to 'managers'; our income will be higher than in the past, while the risks we shoulder will be smaller."

"What we need to do is formulate game rules, and then find those who don't follow them and let them learn to follow the game rules."

"We won't even commit crimes directly!"

The future trend is absolutely to solve gangs; any world, era, government will do so.

When economic construction stabilizes and the ruling structure also tends to be stable and mature, they will begin to eliminate those things outside the framework.

Not to mention that gangs, to some extent, are equivalent to stealing a part of their ruling power, so they won't allow the existence of gangs even more.

Of course, a small amount of gangs with backgrounds will still exist, but the era where the whole world is full of gangs like today will be gone forever.

Before becoming a "chip" for some congressman to promote this plan, completing the transformation as soon as possible is the best choice.

Although they might not all be able to understand, these people have an advantage, which is that for things Lans has decided, they won't try to change them again.

Lans rarely makes mistakes in the general direction, or rather hasn't made mistakes; based on the unconditional trust in Lans, no one among them raised any opposing opinions.

After Rogerf left the company, he immediately began to spread these messages; he still has great influence in the Empire District, and not long after, many people knew about Lans's idea of contracting out criminal business.

Even Congressman Williams knew about this matter.

He has eyes and ears on Lans's side; although they are very close partners, this doesn't mean he trusts Lans unconditionally.

Having eyes and ears and passing news—this is the normal situation; the situation where one does nothing and knows nothing is not normal.

"How are you considering it?" On the phone, Congressman Williams inquired.

Lans stated his thoughts very straightforwardly; there was nothing to cover up; after Congressman Williams finished listening, he revealed an expression of surprise.

It's a pity Lans couldn't see it.

For an elderly politician, appearing in such a failure of emotional management to the point of being reflected by changes in expression is very rare.

But he did fail, because he discovered that Lans was smarter than he imagined, and also harder to "deal with."

The "hard to deal with" here doesn't mean he wants to deal with Lans, but refers to Lans's handling method of potential crises, and his lack of blindness.

Any person who can do this at Lans's age would definitely expand unscrupulously and constantly.

Whether it's gangs, capitalists, or any other industry, it's the same.

If some young person in their twenties achieves resource monopoly, they will only more wildly use the "sickle" brought by actual monopoly to wave frantically, harvesting wealth or something else.

But Lans's approach, which clearly has a taste of retreating in the face of danger, doesn't fit his age.

This is more like a choice that an old man in his forties or fifties with mature mentality and rich experience can make; when danger hasn't sprouted yet, he chooses to step back.

After chatting simply for a few sentences, he hung up the phone; Lans's move made his emotions somewhat turbulent.

He left the table and walked to the balcony, lit a cigarette; he also needed to think.

Inadvertently, the desire in the corner of his eye caught Arthur moving his hands and feet on the new maid; looking at the frivolous smile on his face that made people dislike, Congressman Williams suddenly felt a burst of anger.

This... he thought for a while, no matter what he said, it eventually backfired on himself, so he used "this idiot" as the beginning.

He has to find something for him to do; when there is a sufficiently excellent person in front, Arthur's performance, which isn't actually too bad, appears stupid to the extreme.

Both are young people; how come that person has already become an "old fox," while this idiot is still harassing a little girl?

He turned back to the room and picked up the receiver; after seven or eight minutes, Arthur came to the study with a cane, his face ugly.

Not long after, his shrill screams came, along with the whistling sound of the cane...

Accompanied by Arthur's crying, the news was still constantly spreading outward.

In two days, the entire Jincheng realized that the new "emperor" was going to promulgate his laws.

For all gangs, this cannot be considered a good thing, because no emperor will promulgate laws harmful to themselves, but at the same time, it is not a piece of bad news—

Because this emperor is clearly more tolerant.

The gathering place was set at Lans's estate (Mr. Jobaf's estate had been renamed Lans Estate); after three o'clock in the afternoon, people began to gather toward here.

At four o'clock, in the small chapel of the estate, it was already full of people.

What made people feel slightly surprised was that there were actually reporters here.

The Lans family's reform is actually a trend of developing in a good direction from a certain perspective, so after Lans communicated with George, George was willing to report this matter.

It might be possible to let him win a "Golden Newspaper Award" again; no one will think this award is too many.

Today's reporter work was also the most difficult one George had ever done in his life; he also brought three apprentices, and everyone was sweating.

There were too many gang members here; a large area was standing at the door.

Since the Lans family unified their clothing, now the entire Jincheng underground world seems to be setting off such a trend.

Everyone has made some small designs on the appearance and unified them, because doing so makes people feel they are very solemn and cool.

This also brought a huge visual impact!

The last gang leader arrived at the venue a few minutes early; after being searched, he was allowed to enter the small chapel.

He didn't feel he was offended; during the Five Great Families period, when they went to see people from the Five Great Families, they also had to be searched.

Although people say life is priceless, in reality, it still has high and low prices.

When the last leader arrived at the small chapel, he was immediately stunned by the small chapel packed with people.

Everywhere he looked were leaders of various gang families; they were only allowed to come in one person, but there were at least two hundred people here.

Under the guidance of "staff," he found a place to sit down, wiping his sweat while greeting people around him.

Some he knew, some he didn't know; he actually hadn't thought there were so many gang families in Jincheng, of course, everyone here hadn't thought so.

The time pointed to four-fifteen; Erwin walked onto the stage and patted the microphone. "Quiet."

The noisy scene became quiet in an instant.

Although these people were all young, Lans and them, no one would look down on them.

After Erwin waited for the scene to become quiet, he returned to the outside of the stage; soon Lans walked in from outside.

He walked with a lot of style; the moment he appeared, the spotlight fell on him, dazzling, making people subconsciously hold their breath and concentrate.

"Just now they told me that 179 Bosses came today; thank you all for your trust in me, being able to come here to participate in such a gathering that might feel absurd and ridiculous in the eyes of many people."

People under the stage immediately catered to Lans's words, saying some beautiful scene words.

Lans smiled and nodded; after waiting for them to talk for a while, he raised his hand and pressed it virtually. "Actually, we invited a total of over 240 Bosses to come, but clearly, not everyone is willing to trust me once."

Quite a few leaders under the stage laughed; actually, some of them didn't trust this matter very much either, but considering they were indeed not as good as the Lans family, and Lans's reputation wasn't too bad, they took the risk to come.

Others found various reasons not to come; their idea was very simple: leave a buffer zone.

No matter if what Lans was going to say was a good thing or a bad thing, as long as they didn't come to the scene, they could not express their stance immediately, leaving time and opportunity to deal with it.

If what Lans said was a good thing, really like what people rumored, he completely abandoned the criminal business facing the crowd, then those who didn't come would soon find their way to apologize and then join in.

If what Lans said was a bad thing, then they would have enough time to deal with it—whether to choose to leave Jincheng, or resist the Lans family, or choose to obey, they all had time to think and deal with it.

As long as they didn't need to express their stance on the spot, they had many choices.

However, they didn't know that Lans was not the Five Great Families, and he was even less like those people like Bandi, still thinking about weighing the pros and cons.

They made the wrong calculation this time.

Lans raised his hand and pressed it virtually, letting people become quiet. "The gangs of Jincheng are one family; we all live in this city, looking for profit in this city, looking for everything to live on."

"We are a whole, but now, some people are unwilling to become a whole with us, destroying the new rules I set."

"So..." He looked at Erwin. "Record those who didn't come and their gangs; they don't need to exist anymore."

The small chapel, which was originally slightly noisy, became quiet in an instant, leaving only the sound of breathing.

Someone pushed a sofa and a small tea table onto the stage; Lans sat down, crossed his legs, and lit a cigarette. "I know, some of you might think I am very overbearing and unreasonable."

"But I think this is not overbearing and unreasonable; I invited everyone; even if some people really couldn't come, they could arrange a representative to come."

"But they not only didn't even have a representative come, they didn't even personally tell me why they couldn't come."

"This is disrespect to me!"

"My friends will definitely respect me."

"Those who don't respect me must be my enemies!"

He flicked the ash. "Don't talk about those unhappy things; talk about the reason we gathered here today."

"Recently, some rumors about us have been talked about outside, for example, the Lans family will no longer personally operate any bar."

There was some commotion in the small chapel; Lans also revealed a smile; he nodded. "Yes, this is true."

"Including the Empire District, Port District, any district, we are going to re-divide the way of operating bars."

"The Lans family will no longer operate any bar business, and at the same time, we will cut my territory into different sizes in a certain way and contract it out."

"Only one bar is allowed to exist in each area, which ensures the profit of each operator."

A huge city map suddenly appeared behind Lans, but it was different from an ordinary map; it only had an outline and at the same time was cut into many small grids...