The crackdown on organized crime began with the arrest of the mother-in-law.

Chapter 520 The Way Aijia Supermarket Makes Money

The so-called "Brother Qian" is actually named Qian Youcai.

Qian Youcai holds a high position within the Aijia Supermarket Group, or rather, he can be considered one of the founding members and key contributors to the establishment of Aijia Supermarket.

Back when Qian Youcai was just a small supermarket with a storefront, he already knew the current owner of Aijia Supermarket.

Many years ago, Qian Youcai was just a butcher, a pork seller. He had a good relationship with the owner of Aijia Supermarket Group. One of them ran a supermarket, and the other ran a pork shop. They were on good terms.

It was from that time that Qian Youcai followed the owner of Aijia Supermarket and worked his way up to where he is now. From a butcher who sold pork, he has become a big shot in the entire Aijia Supermarket Group, in charge of the purchase and sale of all raw meat ingredients.

Of course, to exaggerate a bit, it's no exaggeration to say that Qian Youcai is the big boss of raw meat ingredients in the entire Linzhou City.

On the surface, Aijia Supermarket is just a chain of high-end supermarkets, but in reality, Aijia Supermarket's roots have penetrated into various links of the stone wholesale industry.

Aijia Supermarket firmly holds more than 70% to 80% of the market share in the entire Linzhou City.

What Aijia Supermarket looks like on the surface is completely different from what it actually is.

On the surface, Aijia Supermarket is a supermarket, but in reality, its owner started from humble beginnings and controlled a monopoly on a range of essential daily necessities in Linzhou City, including vegetables, eggs, dairy products, and meat products.

If you want to start a wholesale food business in Linzhou, there's no problem, but you first need to get past Aijia Supermarket.

Aijia Supermarket wants to get involved in every intermediate step and take a cut from every single one.

Of course, Aijia Supermarket doesn't extract much money from these intermediaries. Basically, each intermediary can make some profit, but 10% of that profit has to be shared.

For example, if a small vendor selling cabbages wants to do wholesale business, he has to hand over 10% of the remaining money from the cabbages, after deducting costs, to Aijia Group.

If we don't give him the money, we can't do this wholesale business. Either the tires on our trucks will be deflated today, or the cabbages we're hauling will be poisoned tomorrow.

Anything can happen, but as long as you're affiliated with Aijia Supermarket Group, nothing will happen to you.

For the lower-level businesses, it doesn't really matter who they pay protection money to; they're just looking to spend money for safety and peace of mind.

Previously, they paid protection money to the thugs in each farmers' market. This time it's different. In recent years, Aijia Supermarket has taken back all the farmers' markets in the city. On the surface, it's still the same as before, but the actual managers or underground emperors of these farmers' markets have become Aijia Supermarket Group.

Although the commission taken from each sofa is not much, when the total amount is added up, the volume is actually quite large.

Aijia Supermarket accounts for 70% to 80% of the market share of basic consumer goods in Linzhou City.

In other words, 10% of the net profit generated by all these low-income consumers is taken by Aijia Supermarket.

This is practically a golden goose that lays eggs.

After all, everyone needs to eat, drink, relieve themselves, cook, and buy groceries.

In fact, after investigating for some time, Qin Chuan was quite surprised by these situations. He really couldn't understand how Aijia Supermarket could have grown so large.

Controlling 10% of the profits from 70% to 80% of the city's basic consumer goods is simply unbelievable. Even describing it as making a fortune daily doesn't fully capture how profitable Aijia Supermarket is.

While making money, disputes naturally arise wherever there is profit.

Not all small vendors and vegetable and meat transporters want to hand over their money to Aijia Supermarket Group. Therefore, over the years, Aijia Supermarket Group has cultivated a large number of thugs, stationing a dozen or twenty people in each farmers' market.

Crimes such as illegal detention, illegal buying and selling, illegal acquisition, provoking trouble, and intentional injury.

So far, there are at least ten known cases involving murder and Aijia Supermarket Group.

Some people keep filing complaints and writing reports, but all of them have gone unanswered over the years.

Lu Chuan has only been working in the anti-gang crime task force for a few days, but he has already received quite a few letters of complaint, and some of the complaints are quite similar.

Some of the complaint letters even say that they have been written for several years and have been filed until now, but nothing has happened.