Chapter 46: Chapter 44: Accident (Vote for monthly ticket, ask for follow-up reading)

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Following Su Jie’s order, Jieke Company received its directives, and one after another, Jieke employees headed in all directions, expanding the insect catching plan to the entire Mande City region.

Especially in over a hundred rural townships and villages, those farmers with meager incomes celebrated with their families, joining the bug-catching team with great enthusiasm.

For a time, streams of people could be seen wandering through the mountains and fields everywhere in the Mande City region.

All of these people were out to catch poisonous insects and snakes to sell to Jieke Company.

At each sales station set up by Jieke Company, long lines formed at the door, with a steady flow of people from morning till night, bringing newly captured Poison Insects to sell.

The sudden surge in the number of insects was too much for the thousand-hand centipede to handle at once, so huge plots of land and warehouses were purchased.

Su Jie specifically called for Chen Yaoguang from Hua Country, along with a group of breeding experts, to transform these warehouses into insect breeding farms, allowing more people to work for Jieke Company.

It wasn’t just the countryside, even a large number of city residents in Mande City joined the bug-catching team.

Because the income from catching insects was far more than the paltry wages earned from their jobs.

On the Jieke Company’s side, the insect catching plan was unfolding with great fanfare, while the local rent-seeking class merely saw it as a joke.

In their view, Jieke Company was simply squandering money and would soon run out of resources and quiet down.

But they waited, and ten days went by, Jieke Company was still thriving.

Twenty days passed, and Jieke Company’s purchasing stations were still bustling with people every day.

A month went by, and Jieke Company’s expansion continued, with the number of employees recruited even breaking through to two thousand five hundred. Hundreds of thousands of people from the Mande Region were working for Jieke Company, catching insects for it.

Even facing an overwhelming number of people, and to protect the local insect resources due to the decrease in the number of Poison Insects brought about by the catching, Jieke Company thoughtfully proposed a measure of breeding insects with people’s help.

They distributed Poison Insects to the local populace for free and taught them artificial breeding, shouting powerful slogans like “Prosper through insect breeding,” “Stride toward well-being, start with insects,” “Want to get rich, let Jieke lead the way,” and so on.

Under this sky-high propaganda and wealth offensive, almost every last labor force in the Mande City region was swept into the insect-catching craze triggered by Jieke.

Now, the rent-seeking elites in the Mande City region couldn’t sit still anymore.

Because people no longer wanted to work for them and only wanted to run to Jieke Company.

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In front of the Jieke Company headquarters building, a jeep drove up, followed by two military vehicles from which a group of soldiers in green military uniforms, holding AKs, jumped out swiftly.

A well-dressed officer in a crisp military uniform and shiny leather shoes stepped out of the jeep, surrounded by a group of soldiers, and strutted into Jieke Company.

The employees inside the building were astonished, unclear what was happening.

It was not until they saw the identity of the leading officer that many employees’ complexions changed, recognizing who he was.

Because this face was all too famous in the Mande Region.

This man was Lu Wenbo, the actual ruler of Mande United Army. To many, he was known as General Lu.

Born into one of the three major families, the Lu Family, he commanded a force of over a thousand in the Mande United Army, armed with a large stockpile of firearms and ammunition, light and heavy machine guns, mortars, rocket launchers, and managed businesses such as taxation, casinos, brothels, entertainment complexes, opium, fraud, and organ trading. He was the undisputed local warlord of the Mande Region.

In the Mande Region, the most sensational thing Lu Wenbo did was that when a large-scale escape incident occurred in a phone scam park under his name, he dispatched troops to surround and suppress the escapees, killing and injuring countless people, with half a street drenched in blood.

Wu Wenbo pointed to an employee and said, “Where’s the manager here?”

“The boss… The boss has gone out to the countryside to inspect the insect breeding farms.”

The employee pointed out shivered, explaining in a trembling voice.

“Are you playing me?”

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Wu Wenbo’s mouth twisted into a sinister smile, and without a word, he pulled out his pistol from his waist and pulled the trigger.

Bang!

The employee who was questioned was shot in the stomach, blood gushing out and staining his clothes red as he fell to the ground writhing in pain.

“You tell me, where is your boss?”

Pointing at another employee, Wu Wenbo continued to inquire with an arrogant air, completely indifferent to the fact that he had just fired a gun in public.

“He really went down to the countryside, I don’t know where the boss is!”

Seeing the fate of the previous unlucky one, the second employee was almost in tears.

The other employees didn’t dare to back him up, all of them trembling, as the AKs of the other soldiers were also aimed at them.

Wu Wenbo snorted coldly, knowing that his timing wasn’t the best, and that the employees didn’t have the guts to lie to him.

“Tell your boss that when he comes back, he must visit my barracks. From now on, your Jieke Company must pay an 80% special business tax, and if you don’t pay, tell him the consequences of offending me here as a Chinese.”

After saying that, Wu Wenbo aimed the gun at the ceiling and emptied a whole clip of bullets.

Then, with a grand wave, he turned and left with his men.

It wasn’t until Wu Wenbo was far away that the employees frantically helped the wounded man up and rushed him to the hospital for treatment.

As for calling the police, no one did such a thing.

After all, the police station was just Wu Wenbo’s lapdog, and what dog would dare manage its owner?

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Lazhi Village!

Su Jie was inspecting a local breeding farm and Chen Yaoguang was by his side.

“Mr. Su, we have helped the villagers rebuild the centipede and scorpion farms according to local conditions. The tropical climate and temperature here are ideal for the growth of these poisonous insects. As long as no serious diseases occur, breeding can be carried out with ease,”

Chen Yaoguang pointed to a small-scale farm, which was transformed from an abandoned mud house. Between the cracks of the bricks and broken tiles, centipedes were seen crawling in and out.

A dark-skinned young man was laboring, scattering mealworms inside as food for the centipedes.

Su Jie nodded and stepped closer, asking the dark-skinned young man, “What’s your name?”

“This is our boss from Jieke Company, Mr. Su.”

Chen Yaoguang reminded the young man, as he often went down to the countryside to teach villagers breeding techniques and many recognized him.

“My name is Miao Lun, are you the big boss of Jieke Company?”

Hearing Chen Yaoguang’s words, Miao Lun trembled all over, excited to come forward and shake hands but was too wary to do so.

“Genuine as can be. May I ask, are you satisfied with your current life?”

Su Jie took the initiative to move closer, pat him on the shoulder, and asked with a kind smile.

“Satisfied, I am of course satisfied. Ever since Jieke Company came here, the money I earn from catching insects has cured my mother’s illness, and I was able to send my sister back to school. Now my family also has shares in the local poisonous insect farm. This is the life I’ve dreamed of day and night,”

Miao Lun’s voice was filled with passion as he recounted the events that had taken place in his life. Nearby, villagers who were working and heard that the boss of Jieke Company came over crowded around, expressing their profound gratitude all at once.

Mr. Su responded with a smile to each of their thanks when Liu Yingying rushed over in a panic and shouted to him, “Mr. Su, something has happened.”