C390 First Move
Ma Dong wanted Li Ergou to intimidate him first in order to more or less intimidate a group of people. When the time came, they wouldn't be so easily killed, which wouldn't result in a high safety factor.
However, Ma Dong had underestimated the tenacity of the mobile company's construction workers. When Li Ergou went to deter them, they showed incomparable stubbornness. In Li Ergou's words