In troubled times, the strong have to go with the flow, while the little people can only survive in the cracks.
The little people are in danger, so they look for backers one after another, hoping to get rid of the bad state of being at the mercy of others.
Some people fail and some people succeed.
Losers do not have to be sad, and winners do not have to be happy.
Take the little guy Wang Siqiang for example. He was originally just a gangster in Jinmen. Later, he became a disciple of Qi Yuanlong and successfully made the largest Tiandao martial arts gym in Jinmen his backer. He also changed from a worthless little gangster in the beginning.
It turned into a footwear shop at Jiuda Wharf.
With an income of more than 100 yuan a month, Wang Siqiang's life is very nourishing. Compared with the past when he was a gangster and had nothing to eat, it was a huge difference.
Wang Siqiang sometimes visits his friends who used to hang out with him on the interface. Some go to pull rickshaws, some work as waiters in restaurants, and some are still hanging out on the streets, living a precarious life.
Whenever Wang Siqiang sees them, a sense of superiority arises in his heart.
What is the most important thing in life?
You need to have a backer, otherwise you will never achieve anything in your life. What’s the point of living?
Such thoughts continued until he was tied to the execution chair and whipped to death with a whip dipped in salt water.
"Stop fighting, I said, I will say anything..." he wailed.
The agent who was executing the execution sneered and grabbed his hair: "Why are you a practicing martial artist, and you can't bear it after only being whipped for more than ten times? Do you have this kind of backbone?"
"I don't want to die, I don't want to die..." Wang Siqiang burst into tears as he murmured and begged.
"I'm not lying to you, you will definitely not survive." The secret agent chuckled, "How big a crime is it to let Wang Yaqiao go? At the time of Qianqing, it would not be too much to punish all nine of your clans!"
"I didn't know he was Wang Yaqiao, I didn't know!" Wang Siqiang shouted excitedly.
"Then you have to die too." The agent said, "If you cooperate well, I will give you a happy life. But if you want to be a hero, it will be easier. Have you seen the set of torture instruments over there? I will be there one by one.
Use it on you, and when you become a piece of meat, you will beg me to kill you, hahaha..."
Amid the agent's proud laughter, Wang Siqiang burst into tears in despair.
For the first time in his life, he felt that it would be great if he could live a peaceful life on the streets as a little gangster.
What is the most important thing in life?
It's alive.
Jinmen Cai Mansion.
This is the headquarters of Zhongyi Society and the residence of Liu Haiqing, the president of Zhongyi Society and his immediate boss.
In the reception room on the second floor, in addition to the president of Zhongyi Society, there were three other people sitting, two men and one woman.
The two men were Zheng Shanao, the leader of the martial arts industry, and Hu Desheng, the general leader of the Ximen foot movement.
The woman with short hair who still retains her charm is Zou Rong, the director of Tiandao Martial Arts School.
Each of these three people looked solemn, as if they had something on their mind.
Liu Haiqing hurried in, holding an interrogation record in his hand.
After entering the door, his eyes swept across the faces of the other three people, and finally fell on the president. He suddenly stood at attention and saluted, and said loudly: "Report to the director, Wang Siqiang has confessed!"
The Zhongyi Society is an official force, which is no longer a secret in the upper class of Tianjin. It is an organization that makes money for the government. After all, the government personally engages in the illegal business of exploiting people. Talking about it is not a big deal, but wearing it
It would be much better if we had a gang veneer.
But in this room, there are all sensible people, and there is no need to hide, so Liu Haiqing did not hide anything. He just used his official position as his official position.
"Let's talk." The director picked up the teacup and said calmly.
He was the only one here who was in a good mood.
Wang Yaqiao escaped, causing Tengjie, the person most responsible, to be scolded by the Chairman of the Standing Committee. Tengjie put all the blame on Dai Chunfeng, implying that Wang Yaqiao and Dai Chunfeng had a "brotherly" relationship.
But the effect was not very good. I don't know what kind of ecstasy soup Dai Chunfeng poured into the Chairman. The Chairman did not fully believe Tengjie's words and was half-convinced.
Tengjie will definitely find someone to take the blame. Dai Chunfeng will not take the blame. The person who takes the blame will be another one of Tengjie's subordinates, who is the president of the Zhongyi Society.
This made him, the president of the Zhongyi Society, both uneasy and angry.
The irony is that Wang Siqiang is a small person compared to him, the president of the Zhongyi Society, and he is also a small person to the people above him. He can only passively obey the orders of how many things will develop.
He can only wait for his fate to be pronounced.
Just when the director was at his wits' end, Liu Haiqing made a contribution!
Liu Haiqing not only found out the trajectory of Wang Yaqiao's escape, but also seized Wang Yaqiao's autographed letter to Dai Chunfeng!
In the letter, Wang Yaqiao made rude remarks about the Chairman of the Standing Committee and was extremely disrespectful.
With this letter, the blame for the inability to pursue Wang Yaqiao can be completely passed on to Dai Chunfeng, and he will be safe!
The reason why he is still sitting here now is, firstly, he wants to find out whether there is a direct connection between this Wang Siqiang and Dai Chunfeng; secondly, Wu Xing and Jixing are in trouble this time, which is a good opportunity to extort money.
"According to Wang Siqiang's confession, around 5 p.m. on June 27, the 21st year of the Republic of China, Henry, the French chef on the Princess Mary cruise ship, found Wang Siqiang and asked him to use the money to deliver goods to the ship's kitchen for fifty oceans.
Taking advantage of the opportunity, a Chinese young man with the pseudonym Li Qiang bypassed three rounds of identity verification and was sent to the ship."
"Wang Siqiang said that at that time, Henry claimed that Li Qiang was his friend. He hoped to use this method to deceive the captain and secretly take him to Hong Kong Island. He himself did not know who this Li Qiang was. He did this just for the sake of
Fifty oceans…”
"Idiot!" Zheng Shanao couldn't help but shake his head, "Idiot..."
Liu Haiqing glanced at him and continued: "Now it has been verified that this Li Qiang is the Wang Yaqiao we have been looking for. In other words, Wang Yaqiao did escape from Tianjin through this line."
"Wang Siqiang claimed that this incident was his own doing and had nothing to do with Tiandao Martial Arts School or Jixing. He was just greedy for money. Whether this is true or not cannot be confirmed, but we found out at Wang Siqiang's home
I received a handwritten letter from Wang Yaqiao to a friend of his!"
Having said this, everyone present had different expressions.
"Since he doesn't know who Wang Yaqiao is and he only wants fifty oceans, what's going on with this letter?" The director snorted displeasedly, "This Wang Siqiang clearly didn't tell the truth! How did you interrogate him? Such a back and forth.
Do you dare to show me your contradictory confessions?"
Don’t you know what’s going on with this letter? Are you still asking me what’s going on?
Liu Haiqing complained in her heart.
The letter was the letter to Dai Chunfeng. Regarding the source of the letter, Liu Haiqing made up another set of explanations that could justify it, but it had nothing to do with Wang Siqiang.
The reason why he said this was also due to the instructions of the director, who insisted that he have something to do with this letter and Wang Siqiang.
Why does the director do this?
The answer is simple - for blackmail.
He wanted to make a big fuss about this letter and achieve the effect of killing two birds with one stone. It could not only help Tengjie get rid of the sand Dai Chunfeng that the chairman mixed in the Lixing Club, but also make some blood flow from the foot and martial arts.
He spends money here to avoid disaster.
This was within Su Yi's expectation. Su Yi was sure that the greedy director would not let go of this opportunity to make a fortune.
But what Liu Haiqing doesn't understand is that he thinks that the director is brazen enough to extort foot and martial arts, so it must be something he can easily catch.
Even if you can't knock out a lot, you can still knock out a small amount. In short, you will gain something.
But according to Su Yi's speculation, the director will be disappointed this time and not meet his expectations.
Could it be that among the three people in front of me, there is a powerful character who can make the director give up his greed?
"It was my subordinate who neglected his duty." Liu Haiqing was filled with distracting thoughts, but on the outside he showed a cooperative expression of fear, "My subordinate was also afraid that you, Director, and several distinguished guests would be impatient, so after Wang Siqiang's initial confession, he immediately handed over his first-hand confession.
Bring it to you for review. The interrogation is still going on, our next step is to interrogate clearly the origin of the letter, and what role Wu Xing and Jixing played in this matter!"
The director's face softened slightly and he waved his hand: "Let's continue the interrogation."
"Yes!" Liu Haiqing saluted, turned and left.
After Liu Haiqing left, Zheng Shanao said to the director with a solemn face: "President Li, I can guarantee on behalf of Wu Xing that Wu Xing had no knowledge of this matter. It was just this idiot named Wang Siqiang who did it privately!"
"It has nothing to do with footwork." Hu Desheng said in a loud voice, "There are more than 70,000 people in footwork, a mixture of good and bad, and all kinds of religions. Everyone wants to get involved. There are a few black sheep, it's normal."
The director said: "I completely trust you two. When it comes to Wang Yaqiao, I don't have the say, it's the chairman who has the final say. Whether you have anything to do with this matter, whether you know about it or not, firstly, it depends on what Wang Yaqiao will do."
The second confession that comes down depends on the Chairman’s own thoughts. I am only responsible for finding out the facts and then reporting everything to the Chairman truthfully.”
The director is well versed in the ways of officialdom. As soon as the two old foxes broke off their relationship, he brought out the chairman of the committee to scare people, and even used a light Tai Chi push to remove himself.
Since we have to clarify it, everyone should clarify it. Let the "facts" speak for what the outcome will be.
What are the facts?
The facts are the confessions of Wang Siqiang.
But now Wang Siqiang is in the hands of the director and is being tortured by him.
Since ancient times, aren't there many cases of people being beaten into submission?
What Wang Siqiang wants to say, how he wants to say it, and to what extent he wants to say it, are completely under the control of the director!
What if the top four kings were beaten and turned into talking nonsense, would the martial arts and foot arts also recognize such a "fact"?
Zheng Shanao, Hu Desheng and Zou Rong looked at each other with twinkling eyes.
They are all thousand-year-old foxes, and what the director wants to do cannot be hidden from them.
Strictly speaking, Wang Siqiang let Wang Yaqiao go without permission. Whether it was martial arts or footwork, Wang Siqiang would be implicated to a certain extent. After all, Wang Siqiang was both a martial artist and a footworker.
But in reality, things definitely cannot work out that way.
This is an era where personal rule is greater than the rule of law. If there is friendship and face, everything can be justified.
If there is no friendship and no face, then we can only deal with official matters.
Everyone here is a good person, but now, although the director has not broken his face, he has made it clear that he wants to make the three people here bleed.
The matter was legal and compliant, but the three of them felt as if they had eaten dead flies.
If you use your power for personal gain and use your power to suppress others, how can you convince people?
"Then let's go to trial!" Hu Desheng snorted coldly and spoke first. "I'll tell Uncle Ba what the outcome of the trial is. The footwork is not mine, Hu Desheng's. If something happens, Uncle Ba will take care of it. What does it have to do with me?
snort!"
Who doesn’t know how to threaten people? If you threaten me with the Chairman, I will threaten you with Bayanqing!
Who is the greater threat?
Then the benevolent sees benevolence and the wise see wisdom.
How could the chairman of the committee care about the dirty things going on in the small business if he is so high up?
But Bayanqing is a boss with unique skills. If your Zhongyi Society digs and eats in Bayanqing's territory, how much you can eat depends on Bayanqing's face.
The director smiled and said: "The account of Jiuda Pier is handed over to you, Boss Hu. Don't you, Boss Hu, take tens of thousands of real gold and silver every month? It has something to do with you when you take the money, something will happen."
It has nothing to do with you? Is there such a good thing in this world? "
"Li, don't play with me like this!" Hu Desheng scolded unceremoniously, "Everyone knows what you want, so stop using the tiger skin as a banner and just say it clearly.
what do you want?"
The director shook his head and sighed: "Boss Hu, Boss Hu, you really don't know how serious this matter is. Let me tell you this, a little Wang Siqiang can't make a difference. No one believes that he can talk to Wang Yaqiao
What kind of relationship is there? There must be someone behind him to instigate him, so he dares to do such a bold thing."
"Who could this person be?" The director looked at Zou Rong, "Is it Director Zou who has been so kind to him?"
"Still the highly respected Mr. Zheng?" The director looked at Zheng Shanao again.
Finally, he looked at Hu Desheng: "Is he still your most capable assistant to Mr. Ji Xingba, Mr. Hu?"
This was already a clear threat, and the director looked so bad that the faces of the three of them became very ugly.
The director said: "We are old friends. To be honest, I really don't want this matter to be involved with any of you. Now I am telling you that we can still sit together and discuss things.
"
"If it were the people above - the three of them - would they really take the law of the country as a joke? People would die!"
The director's words struck a chord in the hearts of the three of them.
What are they most afraid of?
The biggest fear is that someone will indiscriminately arrest all the relevant responsible persons first.
Although this matter would eventually result in a loss of money and avoidance of disaster, at that time, they had lost all face.
But even though the Director said so, does he really dare to do this?
Unless he doesn't want to be part of the gang anymore.
Otherwise, once it arouses the resentment of all the forces in the industry, and everyone unites to boycott him, and they will play tricks on you without giving you a clear answer, will he have a good end?
Therefore, the director did not dare to directly arrest these three for blackmail.
It is in this broken but unbroken situation that he can gain maximum benefits for himself without breaking through the bottom line of these three people.