Chapter 8: Uncle Dong, I Have Another Plan!
Lin Wendong was momentarily stunned. Did Uncle Dong just imply that the leadership position was to be passed on to him?
“By the way, Wendong, what do you think they’ll do if, a month from now, they find no signs of us repaying the loan?”
Lin Wendong pondered for a moment. “Nowadays, we live in a society governed by law. At most, they might gather some gang members to come intimidate us here in Tazhai.”
“But even if they make a move, we’re not afraid of them!”
After years of crackdowns on organized crime, there are no longer large-scale gangs in China, let alone powerful factions. The so-called gangs now are just scattered groups of youths, a few hundred at best, and half of them would run at the first sign of a fight.
But Tazhai was different.
Due to its clan-based structure, thousands of residents share the same surname, and each household benefits from this online loan scheme.
If a fight broke out, every man would fight tooth and nail to protect their own interests.
“If anyone comes to Tazhai for violent debt collection, we’ll let them in, shut the doors, and deal with them inside!”
A cold smile played on Lin Wendong’s lips, and he almost wanted to laugh out loud with a sinister chuckle.
Beside him, Lin Yaodong nodded with satisfaction. By now, he was certain he hadn’t misjudged this young man. The younger generation truly thinks differently from theirs.
“Young people are truly to be feared,” Lin Yaodong thought with admiration.
Lin Wendong had only just arrived in Tazhai but had already led the villagers to rake in tens of millions through online loans, boosting the village’s GDP dramatically.
Who knew what great feats they might accomplish in the future? This was truly impressive!
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By afternoon, outside Tazhai, rows of bulldozers and various construction vehicles were lined up.
“When do we start work?”
“Tomorrow. It’s getting late today.”
“All right, let’s park the vehicles here for now and get straight to work in the morning!”
The road construction company that Lin Yaohua had hired was already in position.
Seeing all these vehicles parked at the village entrance, villagers from neighboring Mang Village grew curious. This impoverished Tazhai seemed to be planning something big.
“Those look like road construction vehicles. Could Tazhai be building a road?”
“Impossible! Tazhai’s poorer than our village. Where would they get the money for roadwork?”
“Then why did they bring so much equipment?”
“...”
The villagers of Mang Village exchanged puzzled whispers at their village entrance. Just then, a few Tazhai villagers emerged from their village, loudly chatting as they passed by.
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“How much did your family get? Ours, counting me, my husband, and eldest son, came to 270,000 yuan.”
“Our family had five eligible members; we pulled in over 400,000 yuan.”
“Thanks to the third branch head, Wendong. He came up with this idea. He even said that just the people in Tazhai aren’t enough. If others from neighboring villages join in, each person could make tens of thousands too!”
...
The faces of the Tazhai villagers were beaming with smiles as they passed by Mang Village’s entrance.
The Mang villagers who overheard were stunned.
“Has Tazhai found a way to get rich? Each person can make tens of thousands?”
“Didn’t you hear them? One family got over 200,000 yuan; another over 400,000!”
“Is there really such a good thing? Let’s tell the village chief right away and have him check it out!”
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“Manager Wang? This is Tazhai speaking—the same Tazhai that borrowed money from you.”
“I wanted to ask you something.”
“If I introduce a client to you, what kind of rebate can you offer?”
“You can give us twenty percent of their loan amount as a rebate? Great, got it.”
Lin Yaodong stared dumbfounded as Lin Wendong hung up the phone.
Yaodong had thought that defaulting on online loans was already pushing the limits of exploiting loan companies, but unexpectedly...
This young man was planning to introduce people from other villages to join in and earn rebates from it?
“...?”
Even Uncle Dong felt a chill run through him and thought: This is just too ruthless!
Lin Wendong, however, felt no guilt.
The loan companies he targeted were all illegal. Though their names sounded respectable, like “Something Financial Limited,” they were no different from old-fashioned loan sharks.
Borrow 100,000 yuan, and with compounded interest over a year, you owed 140,000 yuan. If unpaid, there were penalties—astronomical sums.
Once overdue, your contacts would be exposed, and gangsters would come to intimidate you.
Countless people couldn’t bear the pressure and chose to end their lives.
Now, when these loan companies encountered Tazhai, it was a case of “evil men will be dealt with by evildoers.”
Lin Yaodong rubbed his throbbing temples with two fingers.
“Are the lessons taught in universities these days really that hardcore?”
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“Uncle Dong, I have another plan!”
Hearing this, Lin Yaodong shuddered; his whole body went numb.
“What plan?”
“Next door is Mang Village, right? There are quite a few villagers there. How about...”
Upon hearing this, Uncle Dong’s lips curled slightly: “Then go ahead and do it!”
Lin Wendong arranged for the message to be deliberately leaked to the people of Mang Village.
That was how the scene at the village entrance came about.
...
Once the news reached the villagers of Mang Village, they rushed to find their village chief, Li Youtian.
Li was a man in his fifties.
“What? You heard from Tazhai villagers that one household can earn over 200,000, even 400,000 yuan?”
Li Youtian was so shocked he couldn’t recover for a long time.
Their Mang Village and Tazhai were equally poor, and Tazhai was even worse off.
At least Mang Village had a few toy gun factories.
“Where did they get so much money from?” Li Youtian frowned deeply.
“No idea. They said it was a method found by Tazhai’s newly appointed third branch head, Lin Wendong.”
“Lin Wendong? Isn’t he just a young man? Could it be... Tazhai is involved in something illegal?”
“By the way, they said even with all the people in Tazhai, it’s not enough. If others cooperate with them, each person could make tens of thousands too!”
Finally, one man’s voice held a hint of excitement.
“There really is such a good deal? I’ve got to see what kind of business Tazhai is running!”
Li Youtian’s eyes gleamed as he prepared to visit Tazhai and find out the truth.
Everyone was living in poverty, and suddenly one village gets rich—who could accept that? If they were doing something illegal, Li Youtian would act as the righteous hand of justice and report them.
If not, he hoped they would take him along.
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