Dong Qing Shan received Lin Wan Rong's guidance yesterday, took his twenty taels of silver, and with today's victory, solidified his position as the number one in the south city. He was naturally overjoyed, brought a group of younger brothers to the restaurant, prepared wine and dishes, waiting for the arrival of the big boss.

  As soon as Lin Wanrong appeared in the tavern, Dong Qingshan and his underlings stood up straight together and respectfully called out: "Boss!"

  It was obviously a well-rehearsed, uniform voice that shook Lin Wanrong's eardrum. He looked at these little brothers with respectful faces and smiled bitterly in his heart. It seemed that the position of Lao Da was settled for himself. If these guys knew that their Lao Da had become a house servant in Xiao Fu, they would be ridiculed.

  Dong Qingshan booked the second floor of a large room in the wine house, and bled a lot. Originally, if the underworld did well, they didn't have to pay for meals. But Dong Qingshan obviously hasn't realized this yet, plus this site is his own, he can't bear to let the boss waive the bill.

  Lin Wanrong looked at the small brothers under Dong Qingshan and wondered, "There were less than 20 people when they fought just now, how did their numbers double after just a few hours? Are they all just a bunch of good-for-nothings?"

  Lin Wanrong looked at these people and felt worried for Dong Qingshan. It seemed that maintaining the purity of the organization was still very necessary. He now had a bit of a mentor's feeling, guiding Dong Qingshan to grow stronger, which was also a very exciting thing.

  Lin Wanrong pulled Dong Qingshan aside and asked in a low voice, "Qingshan, what's going on? How did so many people show up all of a sudden?"

  Dong Qing Shan's eyes flashed with a hint of cleverness as he said, "Big Brother, this afternoon we went to ransack Li Er Gou's old den and found several hundred taels of silver. These people were some of Li Er Gou's former underlings and some new recruits who joined after seeing us defeat Li Er Gou. I thought since we're currently in need of expanding our forces, so I took them all in."

  Lin Wanrong furrowed his brow and said, "Qingshan, expanding your power is a good thing, but how can you guarantee that they are of one mind with you? Although your current strength is not strong, your current actions must have already attracted the attention of others. How can you guarantee that there aren't any moles sent by other bosses among them?"

  Dong Qing Shan was still young and had no experience with the underworld, how would he have thought of a mole? Upon hearing Lin Wan Rong's words, he suddenly felt enlightened, as if he had been awakened from his victorious joy, his whole body covered in cold sweat.

  Lin Wanrong knew that Dong Qingshan was actually only sixteen years old, and naturally there were still many places to be hammered out. It seemed that this godfather had already made up his mind.

  "Big brother, what should we do?" Dong Qing Shan looked at Lin Wan Rong and asked hopefully.

  For this big brother, he has a nearly worship-like trust, with schemes, means, and ruthlessness. Following such an old boss can lead to a day of success.

  "Company... Society... Group..." Lin Wanrong said slowly and clearly.

  "What's a 'society'?" Dong Qingshan didn't understand this term.

  "To put it simply, a gang is like an organization similar to a gang. We need to build a framework first, and this framework consists of brothers we trust, who are also the most elite part of our gang. For example, the brothers who followed us to fight against Li Er Gou today are all part of our gang's framework. Just like a big tree, you need to have a main trunk before you can have branches. You select influential brothers from among them and form different factions, each led by one of them, and then slowly expand their ranks. Note that the importance lies in quality rather than quantity; we cannot just focus on blind expansion, but must pay attention to cultivating our backbone. With these backbones, they can take on ten times their number, and then the backbones can develop more backbones, making our gang stronger and stronger, so that our enemies will not be able to defeat us."

  Lin Wanrong finished speaking in one breath, took a sip of tea, and left some time for Dong Qingshan to think slowly.

  Dong Qing Shan let out a long sigh, and his eyes shone with determination as he said: "Big brother, I understand what you mean. But these hall masters, we must choose them carefully. They can be incompetent, but they must have absolute loyalty. Power must be firmly in our own hands."

  Lin Wanrong cast a approving glance, and Dong Qingshan finally began to use his brain to think about the problem.

  Lin Wanrong dipped his finger in tea water and drew the organizational structure of the community on the table for Dong Qingshan. Lin Wanrong's original intention was to flatten the community as much as possible, with Dong Qingshan conducting vertical management. However, considering that there were many halls, coordination between them would be difficult, so they first set up three halls and then slowly expanded later.

  Lin Wanrong and Dong Qingshan returned to the midst of their younger brothers, Li Beidou was in the middle of a heated discussion with them about something. Seeing Lin Wanrong return, he immediately pulled him over and said: "Old Big Brother, what do you think we should name our club?"

  As everyone's gaze converged on him, Lin Wanrong stood up and swept his eyes across the crowd, his piercing stare seeming to penetrate into their very souls.

  Several guys secretly lowered their heads, and Dong Qing Shan, who had been silent all along, also noticed the abnormality of these people, with a flash of cold light in his eyes.

  "Not bad, we are called a gang, but does anyone know why we are called a gang?" Lin Wanrong looked around and saw that everyone was listening to him attentively, it seemed that being the boss of an underworld organization was quite impressive, heh heh.

  "Maybe you're from a poor family, maybe you're an orphan. Maybe you're just a small-time hoodlum, but none of that matters, as long as you dare to fight and dare to struggle, as long as you're loyal, the gang is everyone's strongest backing. The gang is about uniting all our brothers together, hugging each other tightly, so no one dares to bully us. And we can bully others at will, whoever doesn't obey, we'll beat them up, beat them until they cry out for their parents, beat them until they don't even recognize their own parents but have to recognize us. Our goal is to dominate Jinling City." Lin Wanrong's evil indoctrination went on.

  The younger brothers burst into laughter, which is a yearning for "a bright future".

  "We won't take the initiative to bully others, but if someone dares to provoke us, we'll take action. We'll chop him off, snatch his silver, snatch his woman, and snatch... his ancestors for eighteen generations." Lin Wanrong's sinister smile infected everyone.

  "Rob his money, rob his woman, rob... his ancestors for eighteen generations." With the help of wine, the younger brothers finally started to get angry, and Lin Wanrong's few words made these would-be gangsters thoroughly enter the profession.

  "Big brother, what's our club called anyway?" asked Dong Qing Shan.

  "Let's just call him Hong Xing then—" Lin Wanrong said, his words measured and deliberate. A strange expression floated onto his face, as if he was desperately trying to suppress a smile.

  In Dong Qing Shan's eyes, he only felt that his brother's expression was very strange, as if he had stolen something from someone else and was gloating.

  After drinking a lot of wine, when Lin Wanrong walked to the entrance of his home, he felt a burning pain on his back. The wound from the fight in the afternoon was still swollen and had not been treated yet.

  Lin Wanrong entered the courtyard, but saw a figure sitting motionless in front of his house.

  "Who?" Lin Wanrong shouted loudly. In this Jinling City, he knew a handful of people.

  "Lin Ge, you're back." A clear voice came, with a hint of surprise.