Chapter 2490 The Old Man of the Yang Family

Yang Zhijie naturally saw Qin Feng out respectfully. Zhang Xinming was standing outside the door waiting, while Ding Haiyang was chatting with Chen Guohua downstairs.

Yang Zhijie personally opened the car door for Qin Feng and helped Qin Feng into the car.

It was not until Qin Feng's car slowly drove away that the smile on Yang Zhijie's face gradually froze and then became gloomy.

"Mr. Yang, how did the talk go?" Ding Haiyang asked quickly.

Yang Zhijie didn't answer Ding Haiyang's words. He turned and walked into the hall. As he walked, he said to Ding Haiyang who followed him: "Prepare the car. I want to go home to see the old man."

"Mayor, how did the talk go?" Chen Guohua asked Qin Feng.

"Very good." Qin Feng smiled and said nothing.

There are some things that only you can know in your own heart. Qin Feng didn't even tell Chen Guohua. It's not that he didn't trust Chen Guohua, but there was no need to let Chen Guohua know.

Not long after Qin Feng's car drove out of the Lixin International Hotel, Yang Zhijie's car also drove out and drove towards the suburbs.

On the outskirts of Shazhou City, there is a separate villa, or to be more precise, a manor. This is the Yang family.

However, at present, the two sons and one daughter of the Yang family do not live here. Only the old man of the Yang family, Yang Guoqiang, lives here alone.

Lixin Group was founded by Yang Guoqiang. It is said that this old man was a famous figure when he was young. He was mixed up in the underworld of Shazhou when he was young. He slashed from south to north in Shazhou City with a saber. No one knows whether he had committed any homicides or how many homicides he had committed. All we know is that in Shazhou back then, everyone would tremble in fear when the word "Brother Qiang" was mentioned.

Yang Guoqiang started out as a small-time gangster and rose to become a gang boss with just a saber.

After he had people under his command, he began to collect protection fees, opened karaoke bars, bars, etc., and became very successful. However, these were just small tricks. Yang Guoqiang made his fortune by relying on casinos and coal mines.

Needless to say, casinos are the basic operation of the underworld. But entering the coal mining industry is where Yang Guoqiang is really smart, and it is also what makes him different from other gangsters.

The place called Shazhou is actually a treasure land. Although most of it is Gobi and desert, there is a large amount of coal under the Gobi and desert. Moreover, the coal here is not only of good quality, but also buried shallowly, making it very easy to dig and the mining cost is very low.

In that era, the state did not strictly protect coal mines, and everything was decided by local governments, so the situation was very chaotic.

As long as you want to do it and have good relations with the local government leaders, you can be given an area to mine coal.

This was the situation in Shazhou at that time. The entire Gobi coal mining area was forcibly divided into dozens of small coal mines by the local government. They were developed in an unorderly manner, and there was competition and price-cutting among them.

These coal mine owners often have conflicts because of digging beyond their boundaries, grabbing resources, and malicious price-cutting. They even fight with each other, and it is common for people to die. Anyone who can open a coal mine here must have dozens of people under him.

Yang Guoqiang first came into contact with the coal mine because a boss asked him to come and "settle some matters."

After settling several incidents at the coal mine, Yang Guoqiang had a better understanding of the coal mine industry and set his sights on this piece of fat meat.

So Yang Guoqiang brought his people to get involved in the Shazhou Coal Mine. The Shazhou Coal Mine was already very chaotic, and it became even more chaotic after Yang Guoqiang came. Deaths became almost the norm.

On the one hand, Yang Guoqiang led his men to rob and rob the Shazhou Coal Mine openly and secretly, using all legal and illegal means to seize the coal mine.

On the other hand, Yang Guoqiang also knew that fighting for coal mines was not like fighting for territory in the city, where it was not enough to just rely on numbers and fearlessness of death. It was also necessary to have good relations with officials in power.

So Yang Guoqiang began to try every possible means to bribe the leading cadres of Shazhou. In short, he tried every possible means to establish good relations with these leading cadres.

Yang Guoqiang is truly a character who dares to think and act, and is very smart and intelligent.

It only took him three years, and all of the dozens of coal mines in Shazhou were finally taken over by him alone. The entire Shazhou coal mine belonged to Yang Guoqiang alone.

Previously, due to disorderly development and competition, prices were kept low. However, after Yang Guoqiang monopolized the market, prices doubled. The profits were frighteningly high. No one knew how much money Yang Guoqiang made at the Shazhou Coal Mine over the years. They only knew that it was an astronomical figure.

Relying on this coal mine, Yang Guoqiang successfully formed an alliance of interests with many leaders of Shazhou City. Relying on this, Yang Guoqiang began to extend his hand into Shazhou politics, and later even extended his hand to Ganliang Province.

Yang Guoqiang was not satisfied with making money in the coal mine. He established the Lixin Group and used his powerful network in the political arena of Shazhou City to start entering the real estate, municipal engineering, winery, media and other industries. He did almost anything that could make money, and the Lixin Group grew step by step.

Later, the country vigorously rectified the coal mining industry, and state-owned enterprises acquired Shazhou Coal Mine. Yang Guoqiang knew that he could not resist the national policy, but during the acquisition process, he relied on the powerful relationships behind him and went through various operations. It is said that the government spent a lot of money to take the coal mining rights from Yang Guoqiang, and Lixin Group also made a lot of money in this process.

A few years later, Yang Guoqiang suddenly changed his personality and lived in seclusion. He handed over all the underworld businesses and teams under his control to his eldest son Yang Zhihao, who had followed him to conquer the world. He handed over the Lixin Group to his youngest son Yang Zhijie, who had returned from studying abroad. He completely retreated behind the scenes and no longer participated in the Yang family's business.

It is said that because he killed too many people and did too many cruel things in those years, he was afraid of going to hell after his death. Now Yang Guoqiang has begun to believe in Buddhism. He hides at home every day to burn incense, worship Buddha and recite scriptures to atone for his sins.

Yang Zhijie walked into the villa and saw Yang Yuxin sitting in the living room leisurely drinking coffee.

"Sister? Why are you back?" Yang Zhijie was a little surprised.

"Should I be the one asking you this? I come back every week to have two or three dinners with Dad, and although you two brothers are both in Shazhou, you rarely come back to see Dad a few times a year, right? Tell me, when was the last time you came back? During the Chinese New Year, right?" Yang Yuxin asked back.

Yang Zhijie looked a little embarrassed, Yang Yuxin was telling the truth.

Although they are all family, the two brothers lost their mother when they were young, and Yang Guoqiang was always fighting outside and had many women around him, so they did not have a deep affection for their father Yang Guoqiang since childhood. What they saw and heard since childhood made them hate Yang Guoqiang to some extent.

This has led to a relatively weak sense of family affection between the two Yang brothers and Yang Guoqiang. Unless it is absolutely necessary, they basically will not come back.