Chapter 2739 Core Secret
Qin Feng smoked one cigarette after another. Yang Yuxin gave him too much information today, which made Qin Feng feel that his brain was not enough.
"Everything is normal above ground at the chemical plant. It's a regular chemical plant, but underground, there's a massive DU production plant. There's a secret tunnel leading directly to the logistics company. All DP is shipped directly from here to other locations."
"The drug manufacturing business is the Yang family's first cash cow, and the second cash cow is the underground casino. This underground casino is not the small, black casino you think of. The underground casino under Yang Zhihao is very large. It is said that the casino's daily capital volume is close to hundreds of millions. Many big bosses from other places in Ganliang Province come here specifically to gamble."
"Some people describe this as the largest casino in China. Gamblers who don't go to Macau will choose to come here because the stakes are high and it's very safe. Over the years, there has never been an incident. It is said that a police officer once sneaked in to collect evidence and ended up dying inside. The next day, the official report said that two police officers were stabbed to death by criminals who were trying to arrest a burglar."
Yang Yuxin told Qin Feng a story.
Qin Feng didn't say anything. He poured himself a glass of wine, smoked a cigarette, drank the wine, and listened to Yang Yuxin's "story" without saying a word.
It was not until now that he had a rough idea of the entire Yang family's outline, and it was not until now that he knew what the sandbar under his rule looked like, its truest appearance.
"You've been to the Lixin Hotel, right? Yang Zhijie invited you there for dinner, right?" Yang Yuxin suddenly asked.
"I've been there. Is there any connection with this?"
"When you went to the Lixin Hotel for dinner, did you notice how tightly guarded it was? The security was incredibly tight. Besides that, did you also notice that the entire Lixin Hotel covers a vast area? But only a portion of it is open to the public. The remaining half is vacant, and even within the already-built Lixin Group, a large portion of its facilities are still closed to the public."
"They will tell you that this area that is not open to the public is the facility of Lixin Group, used for internal employee training, business receptions and other activities of Lixin Group, right?" Yang Yuxin continued to ask.
Qin Feng recalled it and it seemed to be true. This was indeed how Chen Guohua introduced it to him at that time.
"It seems so." Qin Feng nodded.
"Those tightly fenced and undeveloped areas are where the casinos are located underground, and the buildings of the Lixin Group that are fenced off and not open to the public are where services are provided for the entire underground casino, including accommodation and so on. Just imagine how big this casino is." Yang Yuxin said.
Qin Feng's eyes widened. He didn't expect that the Yang family opened an underground casino inside the Lixin Hotel, the largest hotel in Shazhou.
"The original underground casino wasn't here, but in a remote countryside. Later, Yang Zhijie and Yang Zhihao decided it was too small and wouldn't make much money, so Yang Zhijie founded the Lixin Hotel, and the township government asked for a large piece of land."
"At the same time, under the guise of building the Lixin Hotel, they secretly built an underground casino. In reality, building the Xin Hotel was just a cover; the main purpose was to build the casino. The little money the Lixin Hotel made was nothing compared to the underground casino."
"Yang Zhihao's underground casino business doesn't just profit from taking a cut of gambling money. His biggest profit comes from lending money inside the casino. Some people who lost money want to make up for it, so they borrow money from the casino. The interest is higher than the principal, and they can't leave the casino until they pay back the money."
"If you win money and pay it back, you can leave. If you don't have money to pay, you have to notify someone to send money, including the principal and interest, before you can leave. There is a time limit. If no one sends money after the time limit, you will be beaten. Then you will be cut off your fingers, gouged out your eyes, and the worst case scenario is to chop off your hands and feet. Anyway, all ten kinds of torture will be used on you. Few people can endure it, so many people have lost everything here."
"Remember that beating you witnessed outside the Shazhou Hotel? I secretly investigated and found out the man who was beaten and taken away was a gambler. He lost money gambling in an underground casino and got so desperate that he borrowed high-interest loans from the casino to try to make up for his losses. He couldn't pay back the money and was beaten every day."
"The gambler knew that he would die there if he didn't pay back the money, so he found an opportunity to escape, and then the scene we saw happened," said Yang Yuxin.
"So that's what happened." Qin Feng naturally remembered this incident, but he was never sure what happened and thought it was a fight between hooligans.
"This is the Yang family's most core secret. Drug manufacturing and casinos are the Yang family's cash cow and treasure pot. The entire Yang family's layout is actually developed for these two points. Lixin Group is just a windbreak and money laundering wall for drug manufacturing and casino businesses."
"With the Lixin Group, the Yang family is now engaged in legitimate business. They have transformed themselves from gangsters into entrepreneurs and philanthropists. Yang Zhijie even has multiple political identities. These can effectively conceal and protect the drug manufacturing and casino businesses."
"At the same time, the money from drug manufacturing and casinos is also laundered through the Lixin Group. Look at the Lixin Group's investments in recent years. They've suffered huge losses. In fact, more than half of these losses were intentional."
"Of course, Yang Zhijie's ambitions are too high, but his skills are too limited. He's suffered excessive losses in recent years, and the Lixin Group's capital chain is almost broken. If the capital chain is broken, it will cause big problems. When that happens, the Lixin Group will become the focus, and it will be easy for people to dig up things that should not be dug up. This is exactly what the Lixin Group fears the most."
"You should know why Yang Zhijie forced you to move the No. 1 Middle School in the city to Xinyang City, right?" Yang Yuxin explained again.
"There's no need for me to explain the rest. Throughout Shazhou City, there are countless people who are allies of the Yang family's drug manufacturing and casino operations. Even though they may not know they're involved, they work for them, protecting their operations and gambling operations, given money by the Yang family."
"Do you know now why you encountered so much resistance when you took action against Chang Yunbing, the Executive Deputy Director of the Public Security Bureau? Do you also know why, after you captured Chang Yunbing and were about to launch a large-scale purge in the Shazhou City Public Security Bureau, they reacted so violently and were determined to kill you?" Yang Yuxin said.
After hearing this, Qin Feng suddenly understood. He had been unable to understand why Yang Zhijie would have to be so cruel to him again and again if he simply wanted to move the No. 1 Middle School in the city to Xinyang City. It turned out that this was the key to the problem.
