Chapter 616: Great potential

People's gazes fell on those small squares. Even if Lans didn't say it, they knew roughly what these small squares meant.

"Each small square represents a bar's business scope. Within these scopes, only one bar is allowed to operate, which avoids a certain degree of vicious competition."

"I have also operated bars for a period of time, and I know very clearly what kind of consequences this vicious competition will produce!"

He made an explosion gesture with his hand. "Fire fights to compete for customers."

"The profit of liquor is very large, so for everyone, as long as you can defeat the other party, even if you lose some manpower, it is worth it."

People in the small auditorium nodded one after another. How much compensation is needed to kill one person?

Five thousand to ten thousand dollars. Not all gangs can be like the Lans family, compensating ten thousand dollars. Some gangs can compensate three thousand dollars, which is already considered very benevolent by them.

Like some small-scale ones, they don't even mention the issue of pension.

Even five thousand dollars, how many days does it take for a bar to earn five thousand dollars?

If the bar business is good, two days.

In other words, as long as you can grab the customers, even if a dozen people die, it is worth it, because one month's profit is enough to pay these pensions.

From next month on, it's pure profit.

Almost every week, there are gangs fire fighting because of grabbing customers, because of robbing each other's liquor. There are too many such things, but some fire fights are small in scale and almost imperceptible—

It might just be a few gunshots in the middle of the night, and then the fire fight ends, rather than that kind of large-scale fire fight, which keeps ringing, and maybe there are explosions.

But no matter what, a fire fight is a fire fight. There will be people injured, and there will be people dead, as well as huge losses.

Lans looked at these people. "So in each area, only one bar is allowed, ensuring that this bar doesn't need to compete for customers and can also have very good business results."

"There are more than two hundred areas in total here. As you can see, some areas don't have small squares. Those places we haven't included in the management system."

Someone suddenly raised his hand. Lans raised his chin at that person. "What is your problem?"

"Mr. Lans, if we want to operate one of the blocks, what should we do?"

Lans nodded slightly, raised his hand to signal him to sit down, lit a cigarette, crossed his legs, and put his hands on his knees. "Bidding."

"Except for some red squares that are determined by bidding to see who can contract this business area, other green squares are all directly bid for."

"For example, I think this place can provide me with 100,000 dollars in profit, and I want to operate here, so I fill out a bid."

He picked up a bid and demonstrated it. "Fill in the number I can bear in this position, for example, I filled in 40,000 dollars."

"Then I seal it, fill in the target according to the number in the lower right corner of this square, and put it into the box."

"Finally, we will contract this area's bar business rights to the person with the highest bid according to everyone's bid price."

"If the highest bidder gives 50,000 dollars, then 50,000 dollars contracts this area's bar business rights."

"I know you might have doubts about their output, so it doesn't matter. For the first year, our fee will be changed from a fixed bid to a sharing model."

"No matter how much you sell or how much you earn, we take half."

"Starting from next year, based on the bid, and at the same time, we will announce the specific business results."

The small auditorium became lively again, and everyone started discussing these things.

Quite a few of them didn't know each other, didn't know the person sitting next to them, and didn't know the people around them.

But this didn't prevent them from actively discussing these things. They had never encountered this kind of thing before. While feeling somewhat uncomfortable, they vaguely felt that this method was actually a good method.

It avoided vicious competition and fire fights, especially for those medium and small gangs.

The imbalance of strength between them and the medium and large gangs made them have no advantage in fire fights and competition.

As long as competition and fire fights occur, the one who is unlucky is definitely them!

But if according to Lans's statement, they use the contracting system, that means competition disappears, and there is no need to worry about fire fights.

Because the rules are set by the Lans family. Whoever violates the rules is equivalent to confronting the Lans family.

With Lans's personality, he absolutely wouldn't allow gangs that challenge his family to continue to exist.

Many people think Lans is a person who is hard to evaluate. Sometimes he appears very benevolent, not at all like what a gang leader should look like.

He even organized people from the Lans family in winter to go to the New Port District, Empire District, and Port District to distribute relief supplies.

Free food and winter clothes and so on.

These things don't look valuable, but after the quantity goes up, it's not a small number, and it lasted for a whole winter. He used at least one million in this regard.

Gangs can pull out guns to fly bullets at each other for a few tens of thousands of dollars, but he considered nothing and sprinkled this money out. He doesn't look like those gang leaders who are as greedy as hyenas.

But at the same time, he is not a completely good person.

Everyone reached a conclusion: most people who offended Lans disappeared with their whole families. It's rare for anyone to survive alone, or for their family to be safe after they have an accident.

Basically, once something happens, the whole family dies. This kind of practice indeed makes people feel horrified and uneasy.

It also reflects his decisiveness and ruthlessness in dealing with these problems, which conforms to people's impression of the "Gang Emperor."

But his benevolent kindness and his ruthless ferocity are mixed together, forming a complex person, a person with fatal charm!

These people came here today, in fact, also because they were afraid of the result of the whole family going to God's side for vacation because they didn't come.

They fear Lans's "rules" and "execution ability," so naturally they will follow them. Then as long as the small gangs bid for an area, they can stably develop.

For those medium and small gangs, this is simply... a super big good thing!

Smiles appeared on their faces visibly. No need to worry about competition and fire fights, they can use more energy on the development of the gang, on making money, and they can bid for more territory in the future, open more bars, and earn more money!

Not to mention catching up with the Lans family, catching up with the current Pasileituo family is probably not a problem, right?

People started asking questions enthusiastically—

"Mr. Lans, I noticed that there are more than twenty plots in the Pulixiya District above, and what I know is that there are two bars on one of the plots."

"If I bid for this plot, how should the two bars on it be handled?"

"Does the business protection here mean that we people won't huddle together, or does it mean that everyone won't huddle together?"

He added weight to the word "everyone," and some people suddenly reacted. There are indeed quite a few places on this map that have bars, and even their bars.

If their bars are not allowed to close, then these so-called protected business strategies are meaningless.

They don't need to compete with people who spend money to bid, but they have to compete with bars that haven't joined the system. Then what is the point of doing this?

Lans had already considered this problem long ago. He pinched out the cigarette in the ashtray. "A good question."

"Before we implement these plans, we will clear out all the bars in the blocks and ask them to leave."

"If they are willing to cooperate, then good, there won't be any problems, and there won't be any contradictions."

"But if they are unwilling to leave, then I have to ask them to leave."

"I know, quite a few of you are also operating bars, and they are in these blocks."

"I also know that your hearts will definitely have some dissatisfaction with my decision, because before this, your operating bars didn't have extra costs."

"But after this plan of mine is implemented, your operation will have extra costs."

"It doesn't matter. If you have problems, if you have opinions, it doesn't matter. You can leave, go to Xigu City, go to Jinxing City, go to Mantenuo, go to... any place you want to go, and where there is no Lans family."

"In those places, no matter what you do, I won't care about you."

"But in Jingang Cheng, in my territory, everything has to follow my rules."

These words are honestly too overbearing, and some people furrowed their brows, but they didn't express anything immediately. They were waiting for a stupid idiot.

Their waiting was valuable, because someone did stand up. "Mr. Lans, I respect you very much, but I also hope you can respect us."

Lans raised his hand to interrupt his words. "Who are you, where is your territory?"

This guy introduced himself simply. That was the leader of a gang with about a dozen people. He operated a bar, right in his own house.

"I have never thought about competing with anyone for anything, and I only operate in my own house. According to your statement, does it mean that when your plan starts, the bar in my house also has to stop?"

His face was clearly filled with an expression of being unable to accept it. If the territory problem might have some uncertainty, for example, how to determine whether a block is Lans's territory?

Then his own house couldn't possibly be the Lans family's territory, right?

That was a house he bought with a loan. He sold liquor to others in his own house. This damn thing also doesn't work?

Lans looked at him very calmly. "It doesn't work."

There was an uproar at the scene, but some people felt that if Lans really intended to do this, then this was the bottom line.

But there must be people who couldn't accept it.

That person's face was filled with an expression of being unable to accept it. "This is too disappointing, Mr. Lans. We can't accept this decision."

Lans smiled. "I don't force you to accept it, because I am just notifying you that the city rules have changed, not asking you whether you can accept it or not."

"You can sell the house, and then take your brothers to other places like I said to reopen a bar, doing what you want to do."

"Or, follow what I said."

"If you neither want to leave nor want to follow what I said, then I can only ask you to settle in Angel Lake."

"I not only have to be responsible for you, I also have to be responsible for other people who follow the new rules, to guarantee their rights."

Hearing Lans's such affirmative words, some people started to cheer.

He is also tough, and there is no change, so for those who are willing to follow the rules, this is even more of a good news.

In this world, there always exist people who are willing to follow the crowd and follow the rules, and there are quite a few.

Not everyone has the courage and strength to resist authority. Instead of being like a fallen leaf on the water surface, being knocked over by a yacht speeding over, it's better to become one of the guests on the yacht.

The person who spoke had his face constantly changing as he sat back. He didn't dare to mess around at this time.

Soon someone raised his hand again. With Lans's consent, he stood up. He was also the leader of a small gang. "Mr. Lans, we... actually don't have any good relationships to get a large batch of liquor."

"If we contract a block, but can't get that much liquor, what should we do?"

People immediately scolded him, telling him to go back to the countryside and not lose face. Others said they could sell liquor to them, and others could cooperate with them.

Lans also smiled and raised his hand to press virtually, letting people quiet down. "Originally this matter would be said a little later, but now since someone has brought it up, then I will also talk about it."

"I released all the bars. I believe as long as your brains aren't too stupid, you will know that this will definitely let you earn money."

"So besides the bar problem, we also have a new rule."

"From the time of formal operation, all liquor will be shipped uniformly by me."

The small auditorium started discussing again with a buzz. Lans waited for them to discuss for a while and said, "The price of taking goods from me won't be higher than what you take. Besides my own liquor, we will also talk to the suppliers on Xiang Yalan's side."

"We will use our advantages to lower the price of liquor, ensuring you can earn money, and we can also earn money."

"Besides this, we can also provide liquor aged for many years, more types of liquor, ensuring that the bar supply is constantly updated."

"For those of you gangs whose channels are not convenient, the situation where you can't get goods won't happen again in the future."

"What you need to do is to take out a delivery note, then check the liquor you need to sell, and then give us a call."

"Within one hour, the liquor you want can be delivered to any place you specify within the scope of Jingang Cheng!"

"At the same time, I can guarantee that as long as you take goods from me, even if your liquor is piled up on the road, there won't be people from the Hazardous Materials Administration coming to check!"

"But if someone privately destroys the situation of our overall unification and privately takes liquor from other smugglers."

The corners of his mouth slightly curled up. Although he didn't say anything, everyone could feel that it was definitely not a good development!

The leader of the small gang sat back with satisfaction. This is actually a common problem for many small gangs.

They have little capital, small influence, and can't get goods at all.

They can only wait for the secondary distributors, that is, the splitters who smuggle liquor, to add price and distribute it to them.

"I have released all the bars, and I believe that as long as you aren't too stupid, you know this will definitely allow you to make money."

"So, beyond the issue of the bars, we have one new rule."

"From the moment operations officially begin, all alcohol will be shipped uniformly by me."

The small auditorium began to buzz with discussion again. After Lan Si let them discuss for a while, he said, "The price for picking up goods from me won't be higher than what you are currently paying. Besides my own alcohol, we will also negotiate with the suppliers over in Xiang Yalan."

"We will use our advantages to drive down the price of alcohol, ensuring that you can make money and we can make money too."

"In addition to this, we can also provide aged alcohol and more types of alcohol, ensuring that the bars' supplies are constantly refreshed."

"For those of you gangs with inconvenient distribution channels, the situation where you can't get goods will never happen again."

"All you need to do is produce a delivery order, check off the alcohol you need to sell, and then give us a call."

"Within one hour, the alcohol you want can be delivered to any location you specify within the borders of New Jincheng!"

"At the same time, I can guarantee that as long as you source your goods from me, even if your alcohol is piled up on the street, there won't be anyone from the Hazardous Materials Bureau coming to investigate!"

"But if someone privately undermines our unified situation and takes alcohol from other smugglers on the sly..."

The corners of his mouth curled up slightly. Although he didn't say anything, everyone could feel that it definitely wouldn't be a good development!

The leader of a small gang immediately sat back down, feeling satisfied. This was actually a common problem for many small gangs.

They had little capital and small influence, so they couldn't get goods at all.

They could only wait for secondary distributors—that is, the smugglers who broke down the bulk shipments—to add their markup and distribute to them.

Alcohol that cost fifteen dollars a bottle might end up selling for over twenty dollars after the distributors added their markup. If they weren't willing to accept this price, then they would have no alcohol to sell.

Import directly from Xiang Yalan?

Those shipments were worth hundreds of thousands per boat; no one would make a trip for your three or five thousand, or twenty or thirty thousand dollars.

So, from a certain perspective, Lan Si doing this also solved the big problem of small gangs not being able to get goods.

For those gangs that could source their own goods, it wasn't necessarily a good thing, but it wasn't necessarily a bad thing either.

It was still that same point from Lan Si: if you can accept the new rules, stay.

If you can't accept the new rules, you can leave.

But if you aren't willing to accept the new rules and aren't willing to leave, then that is being presumptuous.

Presumptuous people, presumptuous gangs, and families generally don't have very good endings!

The meeting would last until the evening. Lan Si had to talk to them about many things, such as the specific operating conditions of the bars, and whether Lan Si, who planned to officially change the "Lan Si Family" to the "Wanli Group," would send people to participate in the management.

If the bar operators in the two areas had conflicts, how to resolve them, or how to stably and effectively improve business performance—Lan Si had to talk to them about all of this.

The main thing was to put their minds at ease: there was great potential in this line of work!