It's already September, Branch Director Bru called Lance to ask whether the regular fee would be collected this month or not.
Lance told him to stop from this month on, because Lance's people had already started collecting the new sanitation fees.
He had rebranded these protection fees as "sanitation fees" and established a new company called "Wanli Cleaning Company".
The main business of this company is to provide environmental cleaning services to customers, and all the merchants in the Imperial District and Port District are their "customers".
Others didn't quite understand, they couldn't comprehend why Lance would bother to set up a company specifically for this matter and then collect the money.
It's important to know that if it's a business operation, this money would be taxable; the standards they used to collect were low already, and paying taxes would reduce it even further.
Perhaps only Sean, who had started attending university, understood a bit, but not entirely.
