Siheyuan: Big City, Small Love

In fact, He Lai really wanted to do something with HSBC so that he could take revenge. Since his spatial ability improved, He Lai hasn't made much use of it.

It would be great if I could take the opportunity to get into HSBC and find its vault.

He Lai suddenly had an idea. If they didn't cause any trouble, why couldn't he do something? It was so stupid that he cried.

Banks like HSBC, Standard Chartered, Citibank and Chase have all made a lot of money from the hard-earned money of the Chinese people.

And now they are taking advantage of the chaos to acquire Chinese banks. He Lai will make them pay the price.

HSBC, in particular, simply became wealthy by relying on China.

HSBC is a banking giant with a history of over a hundred years, and its founding can be traced back to the Qing Dynasty.

During the Tongzhi period of the late Qing Dynasty, China became a semi-colonial and semi-feudal country, and many foreigners took the opportunity to travel to the mysterious ancient oriental country. After an Eagle capitalist came to China, he found that there was no bank in this land. Being good at scheming, he saw a huge business opportunity, so in 1864, he prepared well and came to China again, choosing to establish HSBC in Hong Kong.

The popularity of new things will always be sought after. As soon as HSBC was launched in Hong Kong, it attracted a large number of people to deposit money and trade. Even the Qing government extended an olive branch to HSBC and became their most important customer.

It was precisely because of the Qing government as a super client that HSBC was able to rise rapidly and make huge profits in just a few years.

According to statistics, the Qing government borrowed money from HSBC many times, and the total amount of foreign debt reached nearly 3.5 million taels of silver.

With such a high loan amount, HSBC could live a carefree life just by collecting interest, but the desires of capitalists are endless and they have set their sights on greater and more distant interests.

The Qing government was already in a precarious situation at the time, with its finances shaky and barely holding on.

HSBC saw the weakness of the Qing government and pretended to be generous, saying that they could lower interest rates or simply not charge interest, but in exchange, they hoped to obtain some privileges.

The cowardly and cash-strapped Qing government naturally agreed to this request. In accordance with HSBC's requirements, it opened up management privileges for tariffs, salt taxes, railways, etc. to HSBC.

With these privileges, HSBC seemed to be more powerful and continued to gain huge profits in China.

In this way, HSBC established branches in many places in China with Hong Kong as its base, firmly establishing its foothold.

Since then, HSBC has gradually grown and expanded with the support of China, with its business segments expanding to the Asia-Pacific region and the world, becoming a giant in the financial industry.

Logically speaking, the establishment and development of HSBC are inseparable from China. It can even be said that it has reached its current scale by parasitizing China. Any conscientious and responsible enterprise should know how to give back to the land that nourishes it.

However, HSBC staged a real-life version of the farmer and the snake, stabbing China in the back.

The most famous incident is the Meng Wanzhou incident. As we all know, in order to restrict the development of Huawei, the United States took advantage of the fact that Huawei's chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou was out of the country for work and arrested and detained her on extremely outrageous and shameful grounds, trying to force Huawei to tie its own hands.

The driving force behind this was HSBC, which leaked the information about Meng Wanzhou and Huawei to the United States.

Anyone with a little common sense knows that as a bank, protecting customer information and financial security is the foundation of its existence. Leaking customer information at will is a major taboo in the industry and any bank would consider this a shame.

However, HSBC was blinded by greed and in order to gain benefits from the United States, it threw away its conscience and sense of responsibility and offered Huawei's information to the United States as a token of its allegiance.

In fact, this is not the first time that HSBC has stabbed China for its own interests. As early as during the Northern Expedition, HSBC was afraid that the rise of Mr. Sun would affect its own interests, and secretly funded various warlords in an attempt to stop the Northern Expedition.

HSBC is a bank that will do anything to gain profits. In addition to backstabbing China, HSBC has also been accused of money laundering, fraud, foreign exchange manipulation, etc.

As the saying goes, there is no retribution until the time comes. HSBC's various evil deeds eventually backfired on itself.

This series of actions led China to impose sanctions on HSBC in later generations, and its stock price plummeted instantly.

At this time, He Lai also wanted to let him know the consequences of being an ungrateful person.

He Lai took out a detailed map of Hong Kong and looked at it. He found that HSBC had quite a lot of branches, almost covering the entire Hong Kong Island; and Standard Chartered Bank was not bad either, with quite a few branches as well.

The other two do not have any other branches.

However, the head offices of these four banks are all located in the Central and Western District of Hong Kong Island, not far from each other, especially HSBC and Standard Chartered Bank, which are directly next to each other.

He Lai then began to plan the route. The head office would definitely be the first choice. Other branches would be taken down if possible, but there was no other choice if not.

In the next few days, He Lai started to travel around Hong Kong. The absence of cameras in that era was a benefit, as He Lai only needed to change his face.

The Hong Kong city already had sewers in the 1960s, especially in the most prosperous Central and Western Districts, which were more unobstructed.

In those days, bank vaults were usually located underground, which made it easier for He Lai to get close.

He Lai borrowed a set of clothes from a sewer repairman and was able to enter and exit the sewer freely.

Within two days, He Lai transferred land through space and quickly found the vaults of four banks.

Among them, the underground vault of HSBC Bank is the largest and deepest, which is more than ten meters deeper than the sewer. It seems that the security is quite good. It's a pity that we encountered the bug of He Lai, hehe.

During this period, He Lai also went to the warehouse in Kowloon Port and put all the supplies in the space into it as usual. This time there were too many supplies and the warehouse was not enough, so it was only half full. If he had known earlier, he should have asked Lu Zixuan to prepare a few more warehouses.

The following day, He Lai visited bank branches in other regions and found that the vaults of these branches were very casual. Some of them directly put the money and gold and silver into the office area on the first floor and locked them in the safe.

Some are also in the basement, but He Lai can sense them by touching the ground.

However, He Lai did not rush to act. After all, if he wanted to catch them all, he had to finish it in one night.

He Lai recorded them all.

Inside the villa, Butler Jin asked, "Master, are you going out tonight?"

"Well, I need to go out. When the time comes, have the car ready for me. I need it."

He Lai nodded and said.

"Okay." Butler Jin responded and continued, "Young Master, will you go back tomorrow?"

After all, Butler Jin knew that He Lai usually only stayed in Hong Kong for five to six days.

"Well, I'm about to go back. Please help me buy some things. Just do the same as before. Try to buy as much as possible. Oh, and buy me a few cameras."

He Lai thought about it and said something.

"Master, what brand of camera do you want?"

"Just buy what you like. Anything that's similar will do. You can buy a few more. Don't buy the daily stuff. Also, buy a few more rolls of film."

"Okay, Master."

"Go ahead, I'll take a break."

"Yes."