Chapter 2: The Gou Brothers
Although I know that the ancient Japanese were short, this one is too short. Is he about 1.4 meters?
Yan Xu had no choice but to ask the Japanese farmer, who knelt down and trembled as soon as they met, to stand up. After looking him up and down, he was very dissatisfied.

Not only is he short, but he's also skinny. With that physique, he can't even fight in a battle. Even if he goes to an elementary school, any kid in the third grade or above would be able to pin him to the ground and beat him.

What made Yan Xu even more speechless was that after recruiting them, he would be responsible for the Japanese farmers' food, clothing, housing, transportation, eating, drinking, and defecating.

Then, not giving up, he recruited another foot soldier, thinking that he was a soldier after all, so he must be better. As a result, he was a little better, but only a little.

A foot soldier is a little taller and stronger than a Japanese farmer. He holds a bamboo spear that is not much longer than a mop. He can shout and stab, and then that's it. His fighting ability may be at the level of a bad boy in the fourth grade of elementary school holding a mop, but not higher because his conscience will hurt.

This is too misleading!

If he had no choice, Yan Xu would have uninstalled this broken system on the spot!

Of course I couldn’t bear to give it up in the end, after all it was a golden finger.

However, recruitment requires a large amount of food. Even if coarse grains are used, the quantity is measured in tons. The time is also urgent, and it may be impossible to get it without some connections. So Yan Xu picked up his Nokia and called Gou Qiang, the manager of his own supermarket.

Gou Qiang was not a stranger to his predecessor, because Gou Qiang's mother died of dystocia when giving birth to his younger brother, and his father passed away early, so Gou Qiang and his younger brother Gou Hu grew up eating at other people's homes. After Yan's father became wealthy, he took good care of the two brothers and funded their schooling.

Unfortunately, the two brothers were not good at studying. Gou Qiang was better, but he failed to get into university. Gou Hu dropped out of high school before graduating, so they followed Yan's father early on.

Although he was not well educated, Gou Qiang was calm, versatile and good at socializing. Therefore, after Yan's father opened the supermarket, he handed it over to him. Sure enough, he managed it in an orderly manner. There was no need to ask about the purchasing channels, and he handled everything properly. It was because of the complete range of goods and proper management that the supermarket opened by the Yan family was so prosperous.

As the younger brother, Gou Hu is young, but he has a hot temper and is aggressive. He has made a lot of friends with like-minded people and sometimes helps Yan's father deal with some things that are inconvenient to handle.

This is not surprising. It is impossible for Yan's father to have earned such a huge fortune smoothly, especially in the chaotic early years. If your fists are not strong enough, no matter how great your abilities are, they will be useless because the other party will not listen to reason with you.

Only if your fist is strong enough will the other party talk to you about reason and rules, and only then will you have the opportunity to display your intelligence and talents, especially in villages and towns.

The reason why Father Yan could become the richest man in Goujiazhuang was not just because of his kindness, otherwise he would have been taken advantage of long ago.

Although Yan Xu had an ordinary life in his previous life, he understood these principles, so after traveling through time, he deepened his relationship with the two of them.

Fortunately, the three of them grew up together, and Father Yan had always treated them well, so after Father Yan passed away, the two brothers immediately made their stand on his side, otherwise Yan Xu would not have inherited the family property so smoothly, even though he was a legitimate heir.

No matter how rich he is, he is still an outsider to Goujiazhuang. He will not disappear even after 20 years. Of course, Yan Xu is not stupid. The two brothers have expressed their support for him, so he naturally has to respond and show that he is not an ungrateful person. Therefore, he specially took out three layers of the profits from the supermarket and gave them to the two brothers, two layers for the eldest brother and one layer for the second brother.

This ratio is just right, neither too much nor too little. If it is too much, it will seem that you are trying to curry favor with the two of them, which will put you in a weak position. If it is too little, it will be no different from slapping the two brothers in the face, and will instead make people feel resentful.

However, no matter what Yan Xu did, he was not Yan's father after all. He had no direct favors for the Gou brothers and lacked prestige. If he could not come up with any means in the future, the brothers would probably change their minds sooner or later. After all, one had brains and the other had fists. There would be so many opportunities to make a fortune in the future. No one would be willing to keep helping a mediocre person make money as a thug, not to mention that the temptation to become the host is not so easy to suppress.

This is also one of the reasons why Yan Xu finally chose to accept the system, because he had no one to rely on and the only thing he could trust was the system.

After calling Gou Qiang to find a way to get a batch of coarse grains, Yan Xu found the car keys, drove the Santana out of the gate, and walked out along the cement road that his family had helped build in the village.

It was around nine o'clock in the morning, but Yan Xu didn't see many people in the village. The farmlands on both sides of the road were mostly taken care of by elderly people, looking a bit decadent.

There is no way. With the development of the times, young people all know that farming is not as good as working to make money, so fewer and fewer young people are willing to stay in the village. Now most of the people left in the village are the elderly and children. There are really few young people, because even in the eyes of some old people, those who stay in the village and don’t go out to work to make money are all losers.

This is because they are afraid of being poor. Now there is enough food to eat, but not enough money to spend. If they don't think of ways to make money, they have to be humble and ask others for money whenever there is any problem at home. Farmers also have to save face, and no one wants to be inferior to others, so going out to work has become a trend.

Yan Xu had no way to deal with this, because even if another twenty years passed, the situation in the countryside would remain the same. Farming was too hard, and the effort and reward were completely disproportionate. Even if one went to the city to carry bricks, the money he could earn at the end of a month would be more than what he earned from farming.

Relying on the memory in his mind, Yan Xu drove to the town.

Yan Xu was also born in the 1980s in his previous life. He was 20 years old in the year 2000, about the same age as now. However, having always lived and worked in the city, he really had no impression of the towns and villages of that period. Although he has been here for half a month now, he still felt like he had traveled through a movie, because the sense of time was so strong.

Compared to the lack of vitality in Goujiazhuang, Qingquan Town is quite lively. There are many street vendors, and no one seems to be managing them. There are also many young people coming and going, unlike the village which lacks vitality. There are even fewer young people than telephone poles in the village.

This is mainly because there is a large winery nearby. The brand is not only famous locally, but also well-known in the city. Therefore, it has boosted the local economy and left many young people to work. In comparison, Yan Xu, the richest man in Goujiazhuang, is not even close.

Of course, it depends on who you compare with. At least in the town, Yan Xu, the richest man in Goujiazhuang, still has some weight and fame.

On the most prosperous street in the town, there is a supermarket that occupies four shops on two floors. It is opened by the Yan family. From needles and thread to seeds and fertilizers, from cigarettes, alcohol, sugar and tea to home appliances, although there are not many brands, it has everything that is necessary.

To put it simply, it is a small department store under the name of a supermarket, but it has a complete range of products and affordable prices, which is why it is popular among local people. It has constant customers all year round, especially during festivals, so the store has to prepare stocks a month in advance.

(End of this chapter)