Chapter 213: Coercing the Emperor and Sun
"Oh no!"
Lin Qi looked at the cripple whose head flew out more than a dozen steps away with a complicated expression, and from the bottom of his heart, he didn't want to kill the cripple. If possible, he even hoped to be able to settle the dispute with the cripple peacefully in the commercial area.
If the Cripple can cede the business area to the Brotherhood of the Iron Fist, then Lin Qi will let him stay in the docklands and continue to hold his old turf. After all, in the past three years, Lin Qi and the cripple have made many transactions, and all the funds of the Iron Fist Brotherhood are earned from these transactions.
But, but the lame man he wants to monopolize all the profits.
Therefore, Lin Qi can only choose to monopolize it himself.
"Well, Daddy told me that the dark world is like this. You don't kill, people kill you!Go all the way, lame, bless your soul...... If you are willing to make love with the gods, you go to the gods. If you like demons, go to hell. But depending on what you do, it's more likely that you'll go to hell, so you'd better go and accompany the demons!"
"But legend has it that the witches of the demons are more beautiful than the goddesses of the gods?
After a few words of prayer in a casual tone, Lin Qi took out a golden ticket of 100,000 gold coins from his sleeve, and handed it to the tall thug who cut off the lame head with a knife in front of more than a hundred thugs who rushed into the hotel lobby.
The thug shuddered, his hideous face filled with a divine reverence, and he knelt down to Lin Qi, and then took the golden ticket with both hands that would allow him to rise from a pariah. "Great Chief, I swear to the gods and to all the demons that this life of mine is yours!"
Lin Qi nodded happily, and he patted him on the shoulder hard: "Your name, good man!"
The big man coughed vigorously, carefully put the golden ticket into the pocket attached to the meat, and then shouted loudly, "I am Wood, chief! My father was a lumberjack." I've been cutting wood with him in the mountains since I was a kid, so I have a lot of strength!"
He glanced contemptuously at the thugs around him. Wood flexed his arms triumphantly. The muscles in his arms were pounding, each mass the size of an ordinary man's head. He does have extraordinary powers. That's why he can surpass the other thugs. At the critical moment when Lin Qi slashed the cripple away, he was the first to rush into the lobby and cut off the cripple's head with a knife.
Lin Qi raised his axe and slapped it three times on Wood's shoulder like a king canonizing a knight.
"So, Wood, from this day forward, you will be at the head of these three streets, which are centered on the April flowers! These three streets are under your control, and all the monthly taxes are collected by you. You and your brothers will keep 20% of the monthly tax every month, and the other 80% will be sold to me. Can you do that?"
Wood's eyes lit up, and the thugs who looked at Wood with great jealousy trembled with excitement.
This is the heart of the Nancheng business district, where at least 1,000 shops of all sizes are gathered. The monthly protection fee collected from these shops, that is, Lin Qi's so-called monthly tax, is at least tens of thousands of gold coins, and there are nearly 10,000 gold coins in 20%!
And all the bulls, ghosts, snakes, and gods in these three streets add up to only three to five hundred! Lin Qi generously gave them twenty percent of the share, and they would be very rich! If they could really get twenty percent of the share, then the heroes of these three streets would immediately get rid of poverty and become rich!
In the past, when camels controlled the commercial districts, the bulls, ghosts, snakes, and gods in these commercial districts never had a fixed income, and the camels would not give them a fixed share at all. It is nothing more than summoning them when they are needed, and occasionally giving them a small and insignificant reward.
But now, the powerful leader Lin Qi, the powerful leader Lin Qi in the background, and the generous leader Lin Qi actually gave them a two-percent share!
All the thugs fell to their knees at the same time, they worshipped Lin Qi devoutly, and from this day on they would be extremely loyal to Lin Qi, because they could not find a better object of allegiance! Whether it was a camel or a cripple, they had never given such generous terms! Both the camel and the lame man were desperately trying to squeeze them, but they never really cared about them.
At this moment, Lin Qi's status in the hearts of these thugs surpassed that of the gods!
The cripple died, and the ordinary thugs under his command surrendered one after another, and soon became Lin Qi's subordinates. Only a dozen hardcore henchmen of the lame man with nearly a hundred of the strongest thugs are desperately fighting. But as soon as Lin Qi gave an order, thousands of thugs rushed forward, and after a burst of swords and axes, the last of the lame's henchmen were cut into meat sauce.
This is overwhelming strength, and when Lin Qi hits the flying cripple with one blow, the result is already doomed.
The thugs began to wash the traces of the battle with all their might, and when the Imperial Capital Guards arrived after receiving the alarm, they all returned to calm, and even the blood of the horses on the April Flower Rain Corridor was wiped clean. No one said a word to the garrison, as if nothing had happened.
Cripple, this name that has been inherited for hundreds of years in the dark world of the imperial capital has quietly disappeared, and now the dark world of the imperial capital has only one name - the Brotherhood of the Iron Fist, and this organization controls the dark world of the entire imperial capital.
While the generals of the garrison army were in vain trying to find some clues in the business district, Lin Qi had already taken a luxurious four-wheeled carriage with a metal box forged from sterling silver, and slowly arrived in front of a mansion in the north of the Victory Palace.
The mansion was surrounded by a huge magic array, and although it was the middle of winter, the house was still warm as spring. Rose branches climb on the fence, fist-sized roses blooming. The contrast between spring inside the walls and winter outside the walls, with roses blooming above the thick snow, adds to the mystery of the house.
The bhikkhus, who was also sickly and even weaker than his father, received the mansion, but he did not receive his father's title, and naturally could not receive the allegiance of his father's former subordinates. Therefore, the bhikkhus was the most isolated among the members of the royal family, and he lived alone in this mansion, and the royal family such as Latus did not even know how he lived on a daily basis.
It was only this time, because of the events in the business district of the southern city, that Latus focused his attention on the monks.
He was actually the backstage backer of the lame man, he actually subdued the cripple unconsciously, and even once mastered the discourse power of the dark world of the entire imperial capital in a short period of time. If it weren't for Lin Qi, I'm afraid that the bhikshus wouldn't know how much time he could hide from the people of the world.
If the bhikshu really squeezed huge profits from the commercial district and profited greatly from all kinds of illegal trade, then it may not be a few years before the bhikshu became the most powerful member of the royal family.
He could even pave the way with money, so that he could inherit the title of Grand Duke of Bordeaux.
Once he has the title of Grand Duke, he can obtain the allegiance of the nobles and knights under his father's command, and he can form his own private army, according to the laws of the Empire, as long as an Grand Duke has enough funds, he can form a standing army of 30,000 men in peacetime, and expand to an army of 100,000 or even 200,000 at any time in wartime!
With a standing army of 30,000 people, except for Mares, who was supported by the emperor, basically no one among the nobles of the empire could compete with the bhikkhus.
So Lin Qi changed into a neat, generous, and dignified dress, and came here with the head of a lame man.
He held the name of Latus in his hand, and solemnly asked the accompanying guards to deliver the name card and visit the bhikkhus.
With the name of Latus, there is no house in the imperial capital that cannot be opened. So in less than ten breaths after the name was thrown, the door covered in rose branches slowly opened, and a thin bhikshu wrapped in a thick fur blanket greeted him.
"Dare to ask Your Excellency?" the bhikshu looked at Lin Qi who slowly walked down from the carriage in surprise.
At this time, Lin Qi, maybe it was because of his divinity? Maybe it was because of the seed of ambition that Long Cheng planted for him? Or was it because his Xuanhu Qi had cultivated to a high level? Anyway, Lin Qi's every move at this time was filled with an indescribable solemn aura, just like those high-ranking big men.
Maybe it's a little younger, but it's a bit of a big guy anymore, and it's no longer like before when people know he's a scoundrel!
Carrying the small sterling silver box, Lin Qi slowly walked in front of the bhikkhus.
The bhikshu stood in the courtyard, and Lin Qi happened to stand outside the courtyard, and between the two was the dividing line between spring and winter. There was a thin layer of snow under Linzi's feet, but a green meadow under the feet of the bhikkhus. Lin Qi looked at the bhikshu solemnly for three minutes, and then smiled faintly.
"His Highness Latus asked me to give you a word! Your health is not good, so you don't have to worry about many things!"
"Stay at home and recuperate, don't spend the day thinking about things you shouldn't be thinking about. ”
"Otherwise, people will die!"
Lin Qi handed the silver box to the bhikkhus, and the other party subconsciously took the box
After a few sobs, two lines of tears suddenly flowed down Lin Qi's face, he looked at the bhikkhus with a crying face, and said bitterly, "Please forgive me for bringing bad news. Just now I passed by the business district, and I saw that the lame uncle was hacked to death with a knife, and his body was chopped into meat sauce, and only one human head was still intact!
The bhikkhus's body tensed suddenly, and he looked at Lin Qi angrily, his eyes turning red.
"If you don't bury a person whose body is dismembered by a knife, you will be punished by the gods!"
Lin Qi gave the bhikshu a cold look, turned and got into the carriage, and then walked away with a soft shout.