The provincial government office in Ganyang City and the Ganyang army stationed in the city rarely intervened in conflicts or even fights between gangs.
Therefore, although the provincial government and the Ganyang Army received the news that Sun Hao led his men to raid the five streets of Qingyun Society in Dongerfang, they did not take any action.
This also made Sun Hao breathe a sigh of relief. He no longer had to worry about the pressure from the government for the time being and could concentrate on dealing with the counterattack of Qingyun Society.
In a cellar of the Xinglong Casino, Sun Hao looked at the boxes of gold, silver, and treasures, as well as a large amount of armor, bows and crossbows, and swords and guns. He asked Zhang Hu in shock, "Are all the things in here Luo Xiu's?"
Under the pressure of Sun Hao, Zhang Hu finally chopped off Luo Xiu's head as a token of his loyalty.
Tonight, they will raid Luo Xiu's territory. Sun Hao specifically instructed everyone to kill as few people as possible.
Even those official members of the Qingyun Society who had paid homage to Luo Xiu mostly joined the Qingyun Society just to make a living, so Sun Hao felt that there was no need to kill them all.
Moreover, after Sun Hao took over Luo Xiu's five streets, he also needed people to maintain Luo Xiu's original business, such as the thirteen gambling houses of various sizes and sixteen brothels on the five streets.
Brothels are much lower-class than brothels and are smaller in scale, usually with only a few or a dozen girls serving customers.
In a brothel, guests can drink, write poetry, and enjoy singing and dancing, but a brothel only deals in the flesh trade.
Currently, there are about 150 brothels in Ganyang City, and the number of prostitutes is more than four times that of brothels.
It was precisely because of Sun Hao's instructions that only more than forty of Luo Xiu's men died in the process of seizing Luo Xiu's territory.
Intimidated by the ferocity of Sun Hao's men, almost all of Luo Xiu's other men surrendered.
Among them were more than one hundred dealers in thirteen gambling houses, and more than one hundred pimps in sixteen brothels who were responsible for making tea, pouring water, and soliciting customers.
Even Zhang Hu, Luo Xiu's head horse, faced with the choice between life and death, chose to live.
Zhang Hu nodded and said, "Master Sun, Luo Xiu has never married, and Xinglong Casino is his base.
He put almost all his belongings in this cellar under the Xinglong Casino."
"The gold and silver cakes here combined are worth at least two hundred thousand strings of cash.
If you add in jewelry, antiques, calligraphy and paintings, as well as weapons and armor, I'm afraid even 300,000 strings of cash wouldn't be enough to hold it back.
"As far as I know, Luo Xiu has only been a Red Stick of Qingyun Society for a few years. How did he accumulate so much wealth?" Sun Hao asked Zhang Hu with some doubt.
Zhang Hu then explained, "Young Master Sun, Luo Xiu's methods of making money are extremely ruthless. In recent years, there have been several merchants whose families have been ruined by Luo Xiu.
In addition to thirteen gambling houses and sixteen brothels, Luo Xiu was also the owner of seven grain stores, five pawnshops, four inns, three warehouses, two restaurants and three teahouses. These twenty-four stores were all seized by him.
By the way, the deeds to all the shops should also be placed in the cellar."
Upon hearing this, Sun Hao immediately ordered Taishi Ci, Dian Wei, and Huang Zhong, who had entered the cellar together, to start looking for the house deed.
Soon Huang Zhong found a small wooden box containing many property deeds. The box contained not only the property deeds of thirteen gambling houses, sixteen brothels and twenty-four other shops, but also the property deeds of seven mansions.
According to what was written on the title deeds, the seven houses were all of considerable size, and one of them was actually adjacent to the large house on Taoxi Street that Sun Hao had just purchased.
In addition, there were many IOUs from gamblers in the small wooden box, and the interest rates were shockingly high.
On one of the IOUs, a gambler named Song Hui owed a gambling debt of 100,000 strings of cash. The monthly interest was 20,000 strings of cash, and the interest was compounded.
"Who is this Song Hui?" Sun Hao asked Zhang Hu.
"Song Hui is the biological son of Song Peng, the owner of the Song Family Troupe, the most famous Liangqu troupe in Ganyang City.
Luo Xiu had wanted to open a brothel before, but he had no women with both talent and good looks, so he set his sights on several leading actresses of the Song family troupe.
More than two months ago, Luo Xiu set up a trap for Song Hui, the young master of the Song family troupe, and made Song Hui owe a gambling debt of 100,000 strings of cash. Now the interest has compounded to 172,800 strings of cash.
If Song Hui and his father cannot repay the money this month, they will have to pay an additional 34,560 guan of interest next month."
Liangqu is a traditional opera of the Liang State. The role of Huadan is mostly played by young women. Only young and beautiful women can be Huadan in the Liangqu troupe.
Although he despised Luo Xiu's method of forcing women of good families into prostitution, when he heard Zhang Hu mention several of the Song Family's leading actresses, Sun Hao immediately thought of the tasks of the "annual signing system".
Sun Hao placed Song Hui's IOU back into the small wooden box, closed the lid, and handed the box to Taishi Ci. "With these deeds, Luo Xiu's five streets are truly ours. Now it all depends on whether we can hold off the Qingyun Society's counterattack."
"Bang——"
Sun Zhe slammed his fist on the table in front of him and said angrily, "Does he think that with the more than a hundred fierce soldiers left by Liu Dongqi, he can run rampant in Ganyang City?
If he really kills Luo Xiu, Qingyun Society will definitely not let it go!"
Wei Hu advised from the side: "General, calm down. It is Luo Xiu who has gone too far and has implicated Young Master Sun Hao in our feud. Young Master Sun Hao has no choice but to fight back.
Also, news just came in that Young Master Sun Hao's men have already seized all of Luo Xiu's territory in East Second Ward, and have even repelled a wave of reinforcements from the Qingyun Society."
Sun Zhe continued angrily, "Even if each of his hundred or so brave soldiers can fight ten of us, the Qingyun Society has at least four to five thousand people who can fight.
Once all the elite members of the Qingyun Society are transferred there, it will be difficult for him to leave his body intact."
Wei Hu immediately asked worriedly, "General, what should we do?
We can't just sit there and watch Young Master Sun Hao get hacked to death by the Qingyun Society, right?"
Sun Zhe gritted his teeth and said, "As his father, I owe him this.
Ah Hu, gather all the family soldiers immediately, put on armor, and equip them with powerful crossbows.
You rush over with your family soldiers and bring that brat back to the camp of the Third Brigade of the Left Guard at all costs.
I don't believe that people from Qingyun Society dare to attack the military camp!"
When Wei Hu heard this, he immediately said excitedly: "General, don't worry, I will definitely rescue Young Master Sun Hao!"
Sun Zhe's tone suddenly became melancholy, "After this incident, Zuowei Dutong is in trouble.
I gave Cao Tingjin so much money before, but it seems it was all wasted."
"General, it's not that serious, is it?
Didn't we just have a battle with Qingyun Society?"
"It was through Cao Tingjin's mediation that we were able to reconcile with Qingyun Society.
Cao Tingjin is very concerned about his reputation, and now we are confronting Qingyun Society again, which is equivalent to slapping Cao Tingjin in the face."
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