Chapter 429: Jiang Rourou's Grand Ambition
As January drew to a close and the countdown to the Spring Festival began, schools likewise welcomed the winter break.
Chu Xiner had already returned home, and Chu Mo likewise put his plans to return home on the agenda.
Ever since the last assassination attempt, the relationship between Chu Mo and the Lin family of the megacity had officially improved. On the surface, the two families still appeared as competitors, but in reality, they had already begun a series of covert collaborations.
The Fan family's three hundred and sixty jewelry stores did not choose to shut down, because doing so would definitely alert the eight great clans to the collaboration between the two families. Thus, to avoid detection by the clans, Chu Mo and the Lin family maintained a competitive relationship on the surface, with various collaborations taking place in secret.
Although Lin Youzhi was ambitious, he said something very fitting, that even without the Lin family of the megacity, the eight great clans would still send other families to restrain Chu Mo's development. It was better to maintain the status quo than to let the clans send new people to restrain him.
When the time was right, the Lin family would become an important chip for Chu Mo to strike at the eight great clans.
As for the Motorbike Gang that put him in danger last time, Chu Mo naturally would not let them off the hook. The day after his secret meeting with Lin Youzhi, he completely dismantled all of the Zhao family's influence in the megacity and recruited all their forces.
Chu Mo had seen the strength of those motorcycle gang members before; although they were just street thugs with mediocre abilities, their strength lay in their numbers. Having seven or eight hundred thugs together could be quite intimidating, and although they lacked in strength, they could serve as a meat shield in case of emergency.
So, with the idea of increasing his strength, Chu Mo had the detective agency step in and directly recruit the entire Motorbike Gang.
After a comprehensive restructuring, according to Jiang Tao's report, the Motorbike Gang had a total of nine hundred and thirty members, a couple hundred more than expected. However, their organization was mostly loose with no strict discipline, which was one of the reasons for their low combat effectiveness.
According to Jiang Tao's plan, each of these nine hundred and thirty motorcycle gangsters would receive a salary of ten thousand RMB as entry-level detective agency employees.
Naturally, they had to accomplish tasks for the money they received. With a salary, they were to accept management and restraint. Jiang Tao would send people to train these scoundrels with the most intense training programs. Those who could endure to the end and showed potential would become official members of the detective agency, enjoying the qualification for promotion in benefits.
As for those with no ambition, content to just scrape by, they would become peripheral members, only able to receive the most basic salary each month. In case of emergency, these peripheral members would serve as the existence of a meat shield.
Jiang Tao had extremely detailed plans for dealing with the Motorbike Gang, and Chu Mo simply reviewed them before agreeing to all his plans. If everything went smoothly, the detective agency's combat capability might increase significantly in a month, which would be a nice surprise for Chu Mo.
As for the forty-nine female bodyguards, in the end, all of them stayed. However, they too would undergo special training, and their trainer was the head coach of the Twelve Golden Phoenixes, a woman named Chen Yue.
The detective agency's affairs were in full swing, and at the same time, Hua Country's richest woman, Liu Manli, also came to the megacity. Chu Mo held a secret meeting with this legendary woman. The Liu family, which Liu Manli represented, is mainly involved in real estate. With Chu Mo's secret funding, Liu Manli and he joined hands to secure a plot of land in the megacity.
This land covered an area of five hundred and seventy acres, in a prime location that had not been seen in recent years. Eventually, Chu Mo and Liu Manli secured it for a price of thirty-five billion and four hundred million.
Together they planned a high-end villa district on this land, intending to make it the most top-tier villa luxury neighborhood in the megacity within the next three to five years, positioning it two levels higher than the Emperor Xuan Villas where Chu Mo resided.
By then, Chu Mo might move out of Emperor Xuan Villas.
The Liu family, represented by Liu Manli, naturally needed to find a bigger backer to avoid being eroded by the eight great clans. Currently, in Hua Country, the only one with the capability to stand up to the great clans was the Chu family. Therefore, both Liu Manli and Chu Mo were very sincere in this collaboration, and it went very smoothly.
However, the one thing that slightly disappointed Chu Mo was that the Liu family in Zhongzhou still had made no move regarding their invitation to the top British scientist, Charles Robert.
Although he had anticipated this, the fact that he could not invite this top scientific luminary left Chu Mo somewhat disappointed.
Charles is a national treasure-level scientist of Britain, and Chu Mo had previously asked the Rothschild family to intervene, and later had the British princess Wei'er Mina step forward, but to no avail.
For this top scientist, Chu Mo was even willing to offer a staggering fifty billion, but the other party remained unmoved. Even though Chu Mo possessed endless assets, he had no solution for someone who was not driven by power or money.
As for Liu Peng, the Family Head of the Liu family in Zhongzhou... Chu Mo surmised that this clan leader of the eight great clans, even if capable, probably would not truly make a move to help him.
"Mr. Chu, this is an invitation from Miss Yang Duoer of the Yang family of Capital City. In three days, a large-scale evening party will be held at the Chang'an Club in Capital City, and the Family Head of the Yang family, Yang Tianxia, will attend!"