Hong Kong Variety Show: The Development Notes of a Boss

Lu Yongqiang slept until almost ten o'clock before getting up, then he packed up. When the two of them went out, it was already past eleven o'clock. Seeing the time, Lu Yongqiang was not in a hurry to go to Jiang Tiansheng's villa, but took Dong Si to eat first, just in time for breakfast and lunch.

After dinner, I went to Jiang Tiansheng's place. When he arrived, it was already two or three in the afternoon.

Jiang Tiansheng actually doesn't like chatting indoors. As long as it's not a confidential matter, he likes to take people to the pavilion in the villa yard to talk, except in bad weather of course.

The weather that day was quite good, and it was no exception. After saying hello inside the house, Dong Si went upstairs to talk to Fang Ting, and Jiang Tiansheng called Lu Yongqiang to the pavilion outside.

Jiang Tiansheng is a man of top-notch abilities and knowledge, but his only shortcoming is that he is narrow-minded and cannot tolerate others being better than him.

Jiang Tiansheng is a good talker. No matter who he meets, he can always find a topic to chat about. And when you chat with him, it's not just small talk, there's a lot of practical stuff.

In Lu Yongqiang's mind, Jiang Tiansheng was actually quite qualified as the leader. When he was the leader, he had a very good relationship with the police, and the police generally would not take the initiative to cause trouble for Hongxing.

Also, although Jiang Tiansheng was very power-hungry, he also worked hard to develop the society. When he was the leader, the society's assets grew steadily.

Jiang Tiansheng and Liang Kun are fundamentally different. During the period when Liang Kun was the leader, although many people made money by following him, there were also many troubles.

Because Liang Kun was a major drug lord, many people on the police side targeted Hongxing, which damaged the interests of many people. This is also the reason why most people chose to stand by and watch when Jiang Tiansheng dealt with Liang Kun.

Jiang Tiansheng and Lu Yongqiang chatted for a while in the pavilion. Lu Yongqiang asked, "Mr. Jiang, have you found the crow from Dongxing?"

Jiang Tiansheng shook his head and said, "Luotuo called me this morning and said he hadn't found the crow yet, but he promised me that even if the crow escaped from Gangcheng, he would give me an explanation."

As Jiang Tiansheng finished speaking, Lu Yongqiang sneered in his heart. It seemed that this old guy was on guard against him and didn't tell the truth at all.

Originally, Lu Yongqiang thought that since the crow was Camel's confidant, Camel would definitely save the crow's life. However, Lu Yongqiang underestimated Camel's ruthlessness.

The crow had a car accident in the middle of the night yesterday and was hit by a truck. It was the crow's luck that he died, as when the accident happened, a policeman happened to be driving by.

The truck that hit Crow saw another car stopped and had no time to finish it off, so it could only drive away. Later, a passing policeman saved Crow's life and sent him to the hospital.

After Crow woke up in the hospital, in order to save his life, he turned himself in and sold one of his warehouses. He is now a criminal, and there are police guarding outside his ward.

The skinny monkey had been keeping an eye on the crow through the nails he had arranged in advance when the crow got into trouble.

After Crow had a car accident, Skinny Monkey sent someone to follow the truck while following Crow to the hospital.

According to the report from Shouhou, after hitting Crow, the truck driver drove to meet one of Camel's bodyguards, took a bag of money from the bodyguard, and then abandoned the car and left. This person is now hiding in Lantian.

Skinny Monkey investigated this person's background.

This man is just an ordinary grocery store owner who has run a grocery store in Lantian for nearly ten years. He has never had any intersection with Dongxing. He is married and has children who are in their teens. His background is very clean.

Lu Yongqiang suspected that this person was from the Dongxing Dark Hall, so he didn't let Shouhou touch this person, nor did he let Shouhou send anyone to monitor this person. He just pretended to know nothing.

As for Crow, Skinny Monkey was bringing people to the hospital to keep an eye on him.

According to Shouhou's report, Jiang Tiansheng's two bodyguards went to the hospital this morning and went back and forth outside Crow's ward twice. Later, they saw two cops guarding the door and could not find any opportunity, so they left the hospital around noon.

Obviously, Jiang Tiansheng already knew the whereabouts of the crow, but he just didn't want to tell Lu Yongqiang.

Lu Yongqiang pondered for a moment, then said, "Mr. Jiang, I heard that Luotuo met Deng Fei from Heliansheng and Lian Haolong from Zhongxinyi some time ago.

"Crow attacked the other lady for no apparent reason this time. Could it be that Camel, Deng Fei, and Lian Haolong have some conspiracy to deal with us, Hongxing?"

After Lu Yongqiang finished speaking, Jiang Tiansheng said, "Ah Qiang, I think you are worrying too much. We, Hongxing, and Tung Sing, are sworn enemies. In fact, it's almost the same as Liansheng and Tung Sing. The hatred between the two sides is not small.

As for Zhongxinyi, they're even more of a competitor to Dongxing. Even if they could cooperate, they wouldn't be on the same page. I heard Lian Haolong and Dongxing's Coke have been fighting over the flour market in Yau Tsim Mong, and there's been a lot of friction lately. They even had a fight not long ago, and many people were injured on both sides."

Family feud? There was no point talking about family feuds between societies. In order to grab territory, societies often clashed with each other, and fighting to the death was common. Every time there was a major upheaval in the underworld, I never heard of anyone doing it for revenge, it was almost always for profit.

Seeing that Jiang Tiansheng didn't tell the truth, Lu Yongqiang immediately lost interest in continuing the conversation and changed the subject, saying, "Mr. Jiang, with your analysis, it seems I was really worrying too much."

"Mr. Jiang, I heard that the Transportation Department will release license plates for 1,000-yuan taxis next month. Is this true?"

As Lu Yongqiang finished speaking, Jiang Tiansheng said, "That's true. Of the 1,000 license plates released this time, only 200 are in the city, 500 in the New Territories, and 300 on Lantau Island.

Ah Qiang, you're asking this because you're not interested in these license plates, are you? "

Lu Yongqiang was of course interested in the taxi license plates in Hong Kong. He had read in the news in his previous life that a taxi license plate would be worth millions in ten or twenty years. Although the price was high now, and it would cost hundreds of thousands to get a license plate, but if you think about the future returns, this investment would be a big profit.

Lu Yongqiang nodded and said, "I have too many brothers under my command. I want to find a way for them to make a living. Being a taxi driver is good. Although it is hard work, you can make money.

Mr. Jiang, if you have any connections, I'd really like to get a batch of license plates."

After Lu Yongqiang finished speaking, Jiang Tiansheng did not speak immediately. Instead, he hesitated for a moment before saying, "Aqiang, there's a rumor that after this sale of taxi license plates, Hong Kong City will not sell taxi license plates again for the next few years.

Many people are eyeing these license plates this time. I intend to seize some of them in the name of our society, but it is quite difficult.

Ah Qiang, if you're really interested in this business, you can go to the golf course in Fanling on weekends. Sir Joyce, the Deputy Commissioner of the Transport Department, plays golf there almost every weekend. Sir Joyce is in charge of selling the taxi license plates this time."

Lu Yongqiang smiled and said, "Thanks! I'll go over and take a look this weekend. If I'm lucky enough to get the license plates, I'll register them under the name of the society's transportation company."

Hearing what Lu Yongqiang said, Jiang Tiansheng immediately smiled and said, "Ah Qiang, then I wish you all the best in advance. When the time comes, the license plates will be registered under the name of the society's transportation company. I will instruct Ah Yao to select all the drivers for these vehicles from your Tuen Mun branch."

"Oh right! Aqiang, Sir Joyce likes our country's antique calligraphy and paintings. If you can give him a gift he loves, things will go much easier."

Hearing what Jiang Tiansheng said, Lu Yongqiang nodded in agreement, but he was not planning to give any antique calligraphy or paintings as a gift.

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After staying in Jiang Tiansheng's villa for nearly two hours, Lu Yongqiang took Dong Si away.

Dong Si looked at Lu Yongqiang, who was smiling all the time, and asked, "You are smiling all the time. What good thing happened to you? It's worth being so happy."

Lu Yongqiang shook his head and said, "It's a good thing, but it's not certain whether it will succeed, so I won't tell you for now. I'll tell you after it succeeds."

Hearing what Lu Yongqiang said, Dong Si rolled his eyes and said, "What do you have to hide from me? If you don't tell me now, then don't tell me later."

Lu Yongqiang said, "Okay! I'll tell you what, I'm planning to buy a fleet of taxis. I've just started to get some ideas, so I'm not sure if it will work out."

"Taxis?" Dong Si was stunned for a moment before saying, "Didn't you say that all your funds were invested in the real estate market over the past two years? Why are you planning to invest in taxis now?"

Lu Yongqiang sighed and said, "I have more and more people under me, so I have to find something for them to do. Otherwise, they will all rely on me to support them. Even if I can make more money, I can't support so many people.

I plan to acquire 500 taxis this time. If that succeeds, I can then provide work for 1,000 people, combining the day and night shifts."

As Lu Yongqiang finished speaking, Dong Si said, "But didn't Ah Heng say last month that he had no money in his account? I heard that taxi license plates in the New Territories are the cheapest in Hong Kong. The license plate and the car cost at least 500,000.

You still need to use connections to get these 500 license plates, but you're short of 200 to 300 million. I'm afraid you can't get it. Where can we get so much money now?"

Lu Yongqiang said, "I'm not planning on putting up the money myself. Instead, I'm going to hand over the business to my brothers. I'll organize a fundraiser and ask them to chip in. Together, we can probably come up with a few hundred million."

After Lu Yongqiang finished speaking, Dong Si looked at Lu Yongqiang, hesitated for a moment, and said, "Can I invest money this time?"

Lu Yongqiang glanced at Dong Si, thought for a moment, and said, "Not only can you not invest this time, but even Ah Heng and the others can't. I'm going to give Haizi and the others a chance. They're my trump cards, and they've done murder and arson for me. This investment is a guarantee for them. If something goes wrong someday, with these taxis, their families won't be cut off from their source of income."