Chapter 82 Rejection and solicitation
As the sun sets, the lights in the cafe are dim. Zhao Shanhe's face, who is sitting with his back to the window, presents a deep shadow.
Opposite him, two men, one tall and one short, were young, calm, and the short and old, but impetuous.
Xiaozhuang and Feng Gang sat on both sides, supervising the others, without any intention of interrupting and without saying a word.
All the things they should say have been explained. Whether they can get along with each other and how to get along with each other is not something they can interfere.
Feng Gang and Xiao Zhuang's personality settings are very obvious in the plot and are very trustworthy.
The character Luo Jinghua is quite vague in the plot. Although he takes care of his younger brother, he is not what an older brother should do.
And Yue Lu and Zhao Shanhe have lower trust in him because he has more choices.
After a few minutes of silence, Zhao Shanhe asked, "Why do you want to follow me?"
Luo Jinghua looked at Yue Lu and waited for him to talk first.
Yue Lu's originally calm expression squeezed out a smile, and immediately became funny. "Boss Zhao is a rich man, and he can make money with the boss...ah."
Zhao Shanhe interrupted his joke. "To be honest, your attitude determines my trust in you."
Yue Lu looked at Feng Gang, turned around and smiled and said, "You really don't look like a young man..."
Zhao Shanhe shook his head and said, "Do you just want to consume my patience with you like this?"
Yue Lu coughed dryly and finally became serious. "To be honest, I am not tired of my current life, but I need a peaceful life. My wife died and left a daughter who is five years old this year. I think she can live a normal life."
"Then you don't need to come to me, right? The money you earn is enough to make you live an ordinary life."
"No, that kind of life is too boring. I don't want to be a walking corpse, repeating the previous day's life every day. What's more, the basic salary of 20,000 yuan per month is a bonus for every case. The average salary of Hong Kong is only 5,000 yuan now, and the Governor of Hong Kong is only more than 20,000 yuan!"
"Very honest. So what services can you provide for me?"
"I have a wide network of relationships. I have twenty-seven people who go offline in the entire Xiangjiang River, and more than three hundred people provide information for me. Internationally, I know more than fifty electronic experts and real experts."
"Then you do things for me, how do you deal with these relationship networks? How do you maintain your information network if you don't sell information in the future?"
He was stunned for a moment, then glanced at Feng Gang and asked, "Didn't he say, are you willing to pay for this information? In the past, you had to sell the information to three companies to make a profit, and five companies to make a profit. Now, you can only sell one and get a profit, which is of course safer."
"How much do you spend every month maintaining this information network?"
"These twenty-seven people are directly offline, and the basic monthly fee is 2,000 yuan. The information provided is paid according to the importance of the information, with a minimum of 100 yuan and a maximum of 100,000 yuan. Of course, this is very small, and most of it can be paid for a few hundred yuan. Each offline is provided at least three pieces of information free of charge per month, and the others will only start billing."
Zhao Shanhe learned about it. The system of this information network was formulated very carefully. The importance of each piece of information was not entirely up to Yue Lu himself, but had detailed evaluation standards.
Those informants can know what information is about how much it is.
This cannot be established in a day or two. Yue Lu is indeed a talented person.
"In other words, according to the current consumption level, I can get most of the important information in Hong Kong in just about 100,000 yuan a month? Some of them can even know earlier than the police?"
Yue Lu nodded. "Sometimes there will be some information that can be sold at a high price. I can earn tens of thousands of yuan a month. If I serve as the middleman for purchasing, the profit will be higher. I will not quit if it is not for my daughter."
Zhao Shanhe pondered for a while and said, "It's better to change the way we have been working together. In the future, we will be your fixed buyer and provide you with protection, so that you don't have to give up your high income."
His face collapsed. "Big Boss, it's very dangerous to be an informant. Especially when selling information, sometimes he will be silenced..."
Zhao Shanhe saw that he was just an old fry, and he probably didn't mainly do it for his daughter, but because he is famous now, he is more dangerous.
He can't hide it. If the information cannot be sold, he will not make money, and selling information can be risky.
Zhao Shanhe made a complete profit on his side, which was equivalent to using money to help him maintain the network.
Zhao Shanhe didn't care about these expenses, but was afraid that he would sometimes not be able to help making extra money and would cause trouble for himself.
Such people can use it, but it is uncontrollable and the risk is too great.
He said openly: "Mr. Yue, the nature of your work is destined to not pull you into our team. We can only cooperate. Acquire all your information and provide you with a certain degree of protection. You can offer a price."
He said in a little puzzled manner: "Why? I knew you wanted to do something big since Feng Gang asked me to purchase these equipment. I thought I had an irreplaceable role, but you said it's not possible now?"
"You are a businessman and know how to maximize profits, and it is difficult for you to face temptations. Maybe you are sincerely following me today, but when I provide you with a safe environment, you may not be at ease.
Don't rush to refute, you control the information that can be cashed out at any time, and you can get thousands, tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands of dollars by making a phone call.
The operating funds I provide for you are almost fixed. I take my own money and don’t make money by this.
On the one hand, it is fixed income, and on the other hand, it is huge profits. When your safety is guaranteed, can you control yourself from selling information?
Once sold, it may bring risks to me and our team, and I have to be careful.
What I want is a companion who can work with you for the rest of my life. I don’t want to have conflicts over such a thing in the end, or even…”
Yue Lu also thought about it. He himself could not guarantee that he would not sell other information, after all, it was too easy to make money.
Zhao Shanhe’s proposal is actually very good. Helping him bear certain costs and providing him with protection has relieved him a lot of pressure.
At worst, you can sell fewer stores in the future and only sell safe customers.
He nodded and said, "This kind of cooperation is OK, but how much money can you provide every month?"
"You talk to Feng Gang about these things, and you can trade them directly. I won't interfere, I just look at the results."
Yue Lu knew that his conversation had come to an end. He looked at Luo Jinghua beside him. He stood up and bowed to shake hands with Zhao Shanhe. "Then let's do it for now, Zhao Sheng, I'm very happy to know you."
Zhao Shanhe also stood up and shook hands with him and said, "We must keep our cooperative relationship confidential..."
"I understand." When he said this, he couldn't help but look at Xiaozhuang before turning around and leaving.
He had a friendship with Feng Gang, but he didn't have one with Xiaozhuang. Since he was also a member of the killer group, he must know that Xiaozhuang is powerful, which is also a deterrent.
Of course, Zhao Shanhe was not afraid of his exposure, because he would not leave any evidence of his cooperation with him.
Even if he turns against the situation, there is no big problem.
After Yue Lu left, Zhao Shanhe looked at Luo Jinghua. "You are the person guaranteed by Brother Fourth, and I have a higher trust in you. So, why are you willing to follow me?"
Luo Jinghua said calmly: "I have no complicated personnel relationships and no other ability. I am the only one who is myself. All I have is money. Since I came out, I have always been supporting me and spent a lot of money on him. And in my hometown, I still have parents, brothers and sisters, and my life is not well-off."
"I can give you the money, but can you give me loyalty?"
"Of course. If you treat me with your country's men, I will report it to you."
Zhao Shanhe smiled and said, "Then stay. Xiaozhuang, you can arrange a spare car for him and give him another gas card."
Xiaozhuang responded, and Zhao Shanhe said again: "You are from the mainland, have been a soldier, and have been an athlete. I am satisfied with the basic conditions. But you are not very familiar with Xiangjiang. I will give you a week. You have to drive through every street and alley in Xiangjiang, and be familiar with the road conditions no matter where you are. Can you do it?"
"It can be done in just three days, but..." He felt a little embarrassed. "I just returned from European special training and don't have a driver's license in Hong Kong."
"It's okay, just go to the exam, I'm not in a hurry."
Zhao Shanhe greeted Feng Gang. "Second brother, come over and have something to eat, and talk about Yue Lu by the way."
Feng Gang sat over and said with shame: "I have overlooked Yue Lu's complexity, he will indeed bring us risks."
"It doesn't matter. Anyway, we will directly trade cash in the future. We will use confidential lines for daily information, and some information can be built into a shared safe. In short, no evidence can be left in his hands."
"Then continue to cooperate with him?"
"Why not continue? Is there anyone who is more informative than him?"
Feng Gang stopped talking. Zhao Shanhe smiled and said, "However, for the electronics expert, I don't recommend that he introduce the situation in our studio. We should not let outsiders know about it."
Luo Jinghua couldn't help but say at this time: "Mr. Zhao, I have a reliable introduction to people in this regard."
Zhao Shanhe looked at him, he nodded and said, "I am in Europe special training and have a good relationship with a Soviet man. He is a first-class electronics expert and reliable.
In addition, when I was in the army, there were also several comrades from the missile troops. They were familiar with electronics, but they probably couldn't control very precise equipment. But their price was lower, which was similar to the salary of Xiangjiang people, or even lower, so they were willing to come."
Zhao Shanhe was suddenly moved. He didn't need to be too proficient in electronic equipment in charge of monitoring. It was enough to have an expert, and what is more important for others is reliability.
Nowadays, the salary income in the mainland is only a few dozen yuan a month and a few thousand yuan a month, and a large number of people are willing to do it.
Chapter completed!