Chapter 48: Chapter 46: Entering the City
Seeing the villagers growing more and more excited, Su Jie dropped his final bombshell and announced the benefits of joining the Security Departnt.
“Those who now wish to sign up for the Security Departnt, co here to the right-hand side to sign your na, and after screening, you can beco a mber of the Jieke Security Departnt.
At the sa ti, I solemnly declare that anyone who joins the Security Departnt, if a family mber falls ill, will receive dical coverage from Jieke Company, children can attend school for free, and enjoy a monthly salary of 4,000 Hua Yuan.
If you are injured in combat assigned by the Security Departnt, the company will subsidize your salary, and in the event of death, in addition to substantial subsidies, your family will be taken care of by Jieke Company. We will see to the elderly until their last monts and raise the children.
The sole purpose of establishing the Security Departnt is to protect the employees and property of Jieke Company and to combat all organizations and forces that seek to harm Jieke Company, including the Mande United Army I ntioned earlier. Are you willing to join?”
Upon hearing this, the villagers, previously fueled simply by enthusiasm, beca even more excited.
Such a salary was nearly ten tis what they used to earn.
With the other benefits and treatnts added, even those villagers who initially wanted to back out were now eagerly signing up.
Even if it ant serving in the military for the Chan Country Governnt, it couldn’t compare to these terms.
It’s just risking our lives, after all!
Since they had nothing to lose and there was money involved, who would be afraid!
Suddenly, the registration spot almost burst with the crowd of villagers.
Queuing up were not only young n but also middle-aged uncles and won in their forties and fifties.
In terms of warfare, the Chan Country has always had a fierce culture. Being a multi-ethnic country, the conflicts among different ethnic groups over so many years have long embedded warfare into their bones, so there was no psychological burden or fear whatsoever.
“Don’t be nervous, now it’s our turn to control Mande City, it’s others who should be afraid.”
Su Jie stepped down from the stage and, noticing the fear in Liu Yingying’s heart, naturally reassured her.
“Are we going too far with this?”
Liu Yingying didn’t doubt Su Jie’s ability, but she was still struggling to adjust to the fact that Jieke Company, which she thought was just a regular business, was now taking on the major task of overthrowing the local warlord’s rule.
“Everyone else wants to plunder our assets, are we not allowed to fight back?”
Su Jie patted Liu Yingying on the shoulder and chuckled, “Look at these villagers, enthusiastic about joining our Jieke Security Departnt; this already proves we are on the right path.”
Liu Yingying hesitated for a while, finally nodding slowly.
Even if she wanted to oppose it now, it was already impossible. Su Jie’s will was not sothing she could influence.
“Su Jie, you are right,”
biting her lip, Liu Yingying made up her mind.
“You will see my success, and soon, this place will beco Jieke Company’s territory, to take and to rule as we see fit.”
Touching Liu Yingying’s delicate face, Su Jie did not hide his ambition for the Mande City area.
Watching Su Jie’s confident and ambitiously lit eyes, Liu Yingying felt her heartbeat quicken unexpectedly, finding the man before her even more charismatic.
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After Jieke Company announced the establishnt of the Security Departnt, within just three days, it had swept through hundreds of villages and towns around Mande City.
Previously, Jieke employees who bought Poison Insect in the countryside transford overnight into recruitnt officers, using loudspeakers to canvass the streets and alleys.
Hearing the news, applicants to join flowed in continuously, and every recruitnt station in the townships was packed with villagers.
After three days of screening, eight thousand young and able individuals officially beca employees of the Security Departnt, and this was the result of a stringent selection process.
If they were let loose, the number would have doubled.
The rapid actions of Jieke Company were too swift; before the Mande United Army could react, the Jieke Security Departnt had already been established.
And right after its establishnt, the newly-ford Jieke Security Departnt, after brief training, received orders to eradicate the longstanding cancer of the Mande United Army in Mande City.
Suddenly, on the muddy roads leading to Mande City from various villages, old tractors, vans, and three-wheeled vehicles were cramd with people.
mbers of the Jieke Security Departnt, dressed in blue uniforms and ard with spears, carrying homade guns, and holding detonators, sat in the dump beds of tractors, forming long lines converging from all directions toward Mande City.
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In front of a police station in Mande City.
A few policen were stunned, watching as the endless, mighty procession of tractors approached.
The black smoke spewing from the tractors lingered and rose, nearly covering half the sky. From a distance, it looked like a steel torrent made up of tanks.
“What’s going on? What are they trying to do? Are they staging a rebellion?”
A policeman, full of confusion and disbelief, wondered; yet before he could figure it out, a volley of gunshots rang out.
Bang bang bang!
The range and accuracy of the homade guns were too poor. The security mbers in the dump beds of the tractors only aid roughly, and the bullets flew off to who knows where.
Unfortunately, these policen were not elite forces; on the contrary, they indulged in eating, drinking, gambling, and prostitution on ordinary days and were only placeholders. At the critical mont of life-and-death combat, they simply lacked the courage to draw their guns.
“Don’t shoot, don’t shoot, don’t kill us! We surrender, we surrender.”
A group of policen lay trembling on the ground, offering no resistance until the barrier was broken through and a large number of Jieke Security mbers disard them.
“This is for the tis you bullied people.”
A group of Jieke Security mbers grabbed the policen; so of whom had previously been bullied and extorted. Naturally, it was ti for a beating, which left the policen howling like ghosts and wolves.
After this minor episode, the vast army of the Security Departnt marched mightily into Mande City.
The residents of the city were equally baffled, then saw with their own eyes, under the guidance of so Jieke employees, how the Security mbers coordinated and stord into gambling dens, brothels, opium factories, fraud parks, and several mansions of the powerful and rich.
All of these were the properties of Wen Bo, as well as those officials in cahoots with him.
Having dominated Mande City for many years, Wen Bo had beco sothing akin to an emperor.
The number of people colluding with him in Mande City was countless, and these businesses had been expanded and strengthened by him, turning into money trees sustaining the Mande United Army.
There weren’t many people guarding these properties, and the weaponry was outdated, with few firearms.
For Wen Bo saw himself as the Emperor of Mande City, wondering who would dare to provoke him.
Therefore, when mbers of the Security Departnt arrived, those fraudsters and bouncers in the gambling dens were flabbergasted by the sheer number and fierce onslaught of the Jieke Security Departnt.
Even though the Jieke Security mbers were ard only with homade and hunting rifles, and even though they were also a disorganized crowd, the two sides’ ineffectual combat still easily overwheld and even directly led to surrenders from the majority.
In just a few short hours, Mande City had been completely taken over by the Security Departnt.
Besides Wen Bo’s enterprises, other strategic locations such as the local power station, governnt buildings, TV stations, airports, and granaries were also seized.
The number of various captured individuals, mostly Wen Bo’s henchn and colluding officials, tallied up to seven or eight hundred people.
And only by then did Wen Bo, stationed far away in the military barracks, receive the news and explode in fury.
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