Chapter 630

In a wolf pack, if someone tries to challenge the wolf king, the wolf king has only two paths to take.

Either tuck its tail and leave the pack in a dejected manner, or fight back fiercely.

Human society is not a wolf pack society, but it is more complex than a wolf pack society.

When someone sent a signal of disobedience to Lanse, they stood face-to-face on a single-plank bridge at the same time.

Their goal is to go to the destination behind the other party, but this single-plank bridge can only support one person passing through, so one person must fall down.

Lanse's words made the guy who spoke unable to step down. In Xiang Yalan, on their own territory, although he is not the leader of the gang, he is also an important character in the gang second only to the leader.

In that lawless land, even if he just didn't like a passerby, he could pull out a gun and kill the passerby without having to bear any responsibility.

From local residents, police, to local government, no one would make him unable to step down because of these "small things."

At most, it is to compensate for a little money, a few hundred Federal Sol.

People always say that life is precious and priceless.

It is indeed very expensive when it is expensive. Those high-ranking masters, in order to live one more day, can burn tens of thousands or even more medical expenses every day, just to breathe a few more breaths of air.

But to say it is very cheap, it is indeed not that expensive. A few hundred dollars, or even ten dollars in some areas, can buy a human life.

In the eyes of this gang representative from Xiang Yalan, he has no awe for life, and for Lanse, he also has no awe.

Now Lanse makes him unable to step down. He certainly can't take out any weapons to give Lanse a shot. The weapons have been taken away.

But he has his own way of fighting back. He stood up directly and then left the venue with his people.

Lanse didn't keep him, just watched them leave, and then gave Elvin a look. The latter nodded slightly, then turned and left here.

Lanse withdrew his gaze and looked at others. "Does anyone else want to leave?"

"If anyone thinks that I invited you here, it's just a farce, then you can leave now."

The scene was silent. No one answered, no one stood up. Before they were sure what Lanse was going to say, they still wouldn't leave.

After waiting for a minute, no one made a statement, and Lanse nodded and said, "Very good. It seems that it was just an accident, so next, I don't want others to interrupt my words."

His gaze lingered for a moment on the faces of several gang representatives he knew to be relatively large, and then he began to recall where he had just said.

He forgot a bit, so he decided to simply restate it from the beginning. "We haven't met before. This is our first meeting, and it will also be the beginning of our first cooperation."

"I know some of you are already impatient, so I will talk directly about some of my thoughts on the Jingang City market."

He signaled the staff to lower a curtain, on which there was a map of the entire Jingang City.

This map is divided into many blocks, and each block has a number.

People looked at this curtain and were at a loss. They didn't know what these things were.

Fortunately, Lanse explained very timely. "This is the sales situation of alcohol in Jingang City over the past week. The actual numbers may have some increases or decreases, but they will not differ too much. It can be used as an important reference basis."

Actually, these bars are not very willing to tell Lanse truthfully how much money they sold, but Lanse has a way to know. Some people will refuse his seemingly rude request, but some will not refuse.

The gang representatives in the audience focused their attention on those astonishing numbers, and the expressions on their faces were changing in various ways.

"Jingang City is one of the important alcohol consumption cities in the southern region of the Federation. According to the conclusions drawn from our latest data, Jingang City can sell at least two hundred million worth of alcoholic beverages this year."

"This is a huge market, and I have confidence that under the control of the Lanse family over Jingang City, the sales of alcohol will rise to a new level."

"Two hundred and fifty million, or even three hundred million, and even with the arrival of the garrison, our sales will only increase more and more!"

"I have a dream, and the dream is that in three years, Jingang City will become the number one alcohol consumption market in the Federation!"

Some people below made exclamations. In terms of making a fuss, gangs are no different from ordinary underclass female citizens. They will also make meaningless exclamations because of things beyond their understanding.

They actually don't know how much alcohol Jingang City can sell in a year, they just know that the sales of alcohol here are very good.

This is the first time they have completely felt the madness of smuggled alcohol!

Before the arrival of Prohibition, the annual income of a gang was only hundreds of thousands or millions, unless they could do things for capitalists and participate in some important financial criminal activities.

Otherwise, most gangs couldn't earn a profit of one million a year.

But with the appearance of Prohibition, making money became much easier, but they still didn't have an intuitive understanding of how easy it was.

Now, they understand.

The huge market made a beast hide in everyone's heart, constantly tossing and jumping, stimulating their heartbeats, making them involuntarily focus their attention on Lanse.

"Here, including us, there are about forty or fifty gangs transporting those liquid golds for the alcohol market of this city."

He raised his hand, and the picture on the curtain behind him became a front photo of a bar counter. The liquor cabinet was full of various wine bottles, many of which were producers, and they were sitting here today.

Then the screen switched again, appearing some pictures of identifying the brewing scene, some people with dirty bodies wearing handcuffs, standing beside some brewing tools.

"In addition to you, there are some underground small workshops providing alcoholic beverages for bars."

"Alcoholic beverages, alcohol, is not an easy thing to manufacture. Inferior alcohol may cause unpredictable terrible consequences."

"These small workshops that brew alcoholic beverages privately without experience will also disturb our normal market reputation."

"So the market must be standardized and have rules."

"Starting from October, we will severely crack down on the incident of alcohol without permission entering Jingang City, whether it is a smuggling team or a private brewing workshop, all are within our scope of crackdown."

"But we don't have that much energy to handle all alcohol and channels. This requires us to maintain it together."

He said and paused. The pictures on the curtain behind him were constantly changing, and slides were being switched manually.

Some news reports about drinking inferior alcohol appeared on the curtain. These were internal materials obtained from the Hazardous Materials Management Bureau, dripping with blood.

"Just as I said to you initially, you don't know me, don't understand me, and are completely unfamiliar with my style."

"But it doesn't matter, you can ask around. I am a person willing to be responsible, whether to my subordinates, my partners, my friends, or to the people in this city who bring us benefits through consuming alcoholic beverages!"

"Considering these situations that have already occurred, I have set a few rules."

"First, starting from today, all alcohol producers entering Jingang City must pay a security deposit to me, to the Lanse family, according to your output scale."

"This fee accounts for 3% of your total output. That is, if you sold one million worth of alcohol to Jingang City this year, then you need to give me a deposit of thirty thousand."

"This thirty thousand is not taken away by me, but placed here with me."

"If someone has a medical accident because of drinking your alcohol, their medical expenses will be deducted from this deposit."

"In the second year, you need to make up for the deficiency, and because of your poor reputation record, the scale of this security deposit will increase."

"Of course, if any of you don't intend to continue cooperating with us, at the same time as ending the cooperation, we will also return the deposit to you."

"Second, in order to avoid some inferior alcohol being dumped into a high-quality market like Jingang City, we will adopt an access system." "In addition to needing to pay an access deposit of 30% of your total input alcohol price, you also need to pay a special fee of 10% of the total price of input alcohol beverages every year, which is used to maintain the market and crack down on illegal smugglers and private brewing alcohol."

If people heard the first rule and felt that it was barely acceptable, then for this second rule, they couldn't quite hold it.

Someone raised their hand, and Lanse raised his chin. "What is the problem with this gentleman?"

The person who stood up was short and fat, wearing a formal suit that was obviously a size too small, which made his stomach look particularly large.

"Mr. Lanse, I can understand the deposit for medical treatment, but this access deposit and some special fees, are they not quite reasonable?"

He asked very tactfully, but everyone could hear the dissatisfaction in his tone.

Lanse seemed not to have heard it, explaining patiently.

"If the alcohol you input causes trouble due to quality problems, this money will be deducted directly as a punishment. The purpose of doing this is to let you pay attention to its quality when producing."

"It can not only bring happiness to people, but also bring harm to people."

"I don't want the residents of this city to buy your terrible products with the money they earned with difficulty for the sake of happiness, not only not getting happiness but also making my reputation follow and be damaged."

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"I believe that when you realize that if you try to fool us on quality and safety, you will lose a large sum of money, you will be extra careful when producing these wines."

"As long as you don't mess around, this money will always exist. When you don't intend to continue cooperating with us, I will return it to you."

"It didn't become my money, nor did it go into my pocket. It's just the key for us to witness and ensure that we trust each other in the process of cooperation."

"As for the special fee..."

Lanse was silent for a moment. "Police, Hazardous Materials Management Bureau, Fire Department, Prosecutor's Office, Customs, City Hall, State Government, and even the Navy!"

"Do you know how much public relations fee and human favor I need to spend to let your wine be placed on the liquor cabinets of those bars and sold openly?"

"Asking you for 10% is just a very small part. Gentlemen, this is already my greatest sincerity to you."

"If there is any other wine to enter Jingang City later, then its fee will exceed 10%!"

The short and fat gentleman who asked the question couldn't help saying, "Too much, Mr. Lanse. If... 2% or 3%, we can accept it."

"You also said that the alcohol market in Jingang City is very large. Even if it is 2% or 3%, this is also a large sum of money!"

Others also nodded constantly. Calculated according to the market scale of two hundred million, 2% or 3% is four million to six million. It is not a small amount of money to earn so much money in a year.

Lanse shook his head. "It's not calculated like this. I give you two million. Can you find a member of Congress to do something for me now?"

"I don't have the intention to discuss with you, nor do I have the intention to discuss this number with you. I am just telling you a fact that you need to understand and know."

"You can be dissatisfied with my pricing, or you can not send the wine here. As long as it is not in Jingang City, not on my territory, you can do whatever you want!"

"But on my territory, as long as you want to sell your wine here, no matter who you are, you must listen to me!"

The expressions of some people became ugly again. Everyone is not a good thing. Violence, crime, murder, for them, it is like daily life.

Lanse's tough attitude of not giving face also indeed annoyed some of them.

Those who were slightly more polite proposed to go back early to consider, or the idea of reporting the news to their gang big boss, taking this opportunity to leave.

And those who were not very polite left the scene directly.

Lanse also let people record their gang names and product records. It is very simple to leave here today, but if you want to return here tomorrow, it is not a matter of 10%.

The 10% he requested is actually 10% of the sales. If the cost is used to amplify this number, it may be 20% or 30% of the net profit.

After these people left, only twenty-seven or twenty-eight gangs remained at the scene.

Nearly half of the people left, but Lanse's face could not see the slightest embarrassment or anxiety. He performed exceptionally calmly.

He crossed his ten fingers and buckled them in front of him, then spread them out. "Actually, their initiative to leave is good for you who stayed."

"Fifty-something gangs share a market of two hundred million, and each one can only occupy one point something percent on average, but if twenty-something share it, the average is 4%."

"The market is constantly growing, but the competitors are constantly decreasing. Gentlemen, you have grasped the pulse of the era!"

He paused and smiled. "If you have any questions, you can ask now. Of course, those who intend to leave can also leave. The door is at the back."

Zabri raised his hand, and Lanse signaled him to stand up. Then he asked, "Mr. Lanse, I am Zabri, from the Marcus family."

"I have a question. Our main business is smuggling, but we don't produce wine. If we want to let those wines enter..."

Lanse nodded slightly. "This is indeed a problem, but my idea is that you can use a customized way to customize a batch of wine belonging to you from those wineries that provide wine for you."

"You arrange for people to supervise their production and press a part of the payment. As long as there is no problem with this batch of wine, Jingang City welcomes you!"

Zabri sat back with satisfaction. The Marcus family does not have its own winery. They buy various cheap wines from other places for sale. This is also the main business of many smuggling groups at present.

Smuggling a car, or smuggling some raw materials, or even selling some slaves, population, the profit of a ship is at most one or two thousand.

But selling wine, the profit of a ship may be much more than these.

Zabri is on a bigger stage. He can understand the meaning of these words Lanse said, and he can even imagine that when people around find that Jingang City sells alcohol semi-publicly, how crazy they will be!

Those alcoholics will definitely come to Jingang City from all directions. By then, the alcohol market in Jingang City will really expand constantly as Lanse said!

Later, some people asked some questions, and Lanse answered them patiently.

It's not that he didn't think about monopolizing the market, but the risks brought by monopolizing the market are definitely much greater than his opening up the market.

Many Federal people don't understand this truth. When the upper level, the ruling class hopes to use someone, something to establish authority and teach others rules, they will definitely choose the most authoritative and largest scale!

Lanse has been refusing to become the "largest."

Seeing that almost everyone had no problems, David (representative of the Holy Bell Party), who had been silent, stood up. "Mr. Lanse, some people say you are a local, but some people say you are an immigrant. I am very curious about this."

Lanse looked at David, who could not see any emotional changes, and frowned slightly. "This has nothing to do with what we are going to talk about today."

David laughed a few times. "That's right, you are right. It was me who asked a topic that shouldn't be asked." After he finished speaking, he sat down and talked to the people around him.

Lanse's gaze lingered on him for a moment before shifting to others. "Is there anything else you want to ask?"

"If not, you can go back and discuss with your people. We will start implementing it soon."

"Of course, if anyone wants to try to challenge it, it is also completely fine."

Looking at these people who seemed to accept but not necessarily sincerely accept, Lanse felt that he still had to use some people to establish rules.

Some people are like this. If you don't make them afraid, they won't know how to be in awe!

(End of chapter)