Hong Kong Variety Show: The Development Notes of a Boss

Everyone chatted for a while, and after everyone was present, Jiang Tianyang called everyone to a meeting.

This was the first meeting after Jiang Tianyang became the leader, so everyone was very respectful and all twelve leaders came.

Jiang Tianyang didn't need to talk for him. After everyone sat down, he started talking about business.

"Regarding the numbers and such, after the meeting, please go directly to A Yao. I won't waste your time here. Today's meeting is mainly to discuss one thing, the club's nightclub management."

"Ayao, please tell us the details, and then we can discuss it."

Jiang Tianyang gave the order, and Chen Yao picked up the information in his hand and said without hesitation, "Our club has nearly a hundred nightclubs of all sizes. Currently, less than half of them are profitable, and most of them are already in a loss-making state. I will now explain the specific situation to everyone."

As Chen Yao spoke, he looked at the prince who was sitting in the first seat on his right, and continued, "The prince's branch in Tsim Sha Tsui has seven nightclubs, two bars, a nightclub, a massage parlor, a clock hotel, and two mahjong parlors.

Right now, the massage parlor and the clock hotel are basically dead, completely losing money. The two bars and the nightclub, while not losing money, aren't making much either, barely staying afloat. The two mahjong parlors, on the other hand, are doing pretty well, making over 100,000 or 200,000 yuan in profit each month.

As he spoke, Chen Yao turned his gaze towards the pretty mother standing next to the prince.

"My mom's business in Sham Shui Po consists of six nightclubs, two horse-racing stalls, a clock hotel, a massage parlor, a mahjong parlor, and a bar. Of the six nightclubs, except for the mahjong parlor, all the others are losing money."

At this point, Chen Yao emphasized, "The club's nightclub is suffering from severe losses, but Liang Ma's own hometown association and sauna are doing a booming business. Liang Ma, you really have a good management team."

The hometown association was originally called the fellow townsmen association. It was a gathering spontaneously organized by fellow townsmen. When it was first established, it was just for the purpose of keeping in touch and helping each other.

But now it has changed. Many community leaders have set up hometown associations to make illegal profits, engage in pornography, drug trafficking, gambling, etc.

Liang Ma's hometown association is engaged in the flesh trade. After the police cracked down, the society suffered serious damage in several pornographic venues in Sham Shui Po, but Liang Ma's hometown association grew stronger. All the beautiful girls in several venues were taken away by Liang Ma's group. Now several venues are left with only empty shells. Every month, the society not only fails to make money, but also loses hundreds of thousands of dollars.

In the beginning, all the nightclubs in Sham Shui Po were joint ventures between Liang Ma and gangs. When Jiang Tiansheng carried out reforms, these venues were taken over by gangs, and Liang Ma cashed out tens of millions.

After that, Liang Ma stopped running these places and instead set up her own hometown association and sauna, all of which were run by people arranged by the community.

Sham Shui Po was originally Liang Ma's territory. Liang Ma naturally had the advantage of doing the same type of business in her own territory. Since the community took over these venues, the business of these venues began to gradually decline.

In fact, it was not only Liang Ma who did this at the beginning. Many leaders did this at that time. They just got the money from the society and started their own business, and also competed with the society. Everyone had the advantages of location and people, and started their own business. Their business was very good, but the society's business was inevitably affected.

Jiang Tiansheng wanted to implement centralized management, and everyone supported it. But then business declined, which was a bit of a slap in Jiang Tiansheng's face...

Before Jiang Tiansheng's reform, Hongxing could earn millions or even tens of millions every month from these nightclubs. However, after the reform, the income dropped by at least one third and continued to decline.

At that time, almost all the leaders of the major gangs benefited from it, so everyone turned a blind eye to this matter and no one mentioned it or asked about it.

Later, Jiang Tiansheng felt ashamed and asked Chen Yao to talk to the leaders of the major gangs and hand over many venues to the major gangs for operation, finally temporarily stabilizing the income of the nightclubs.

But then the police tightened their grip, affecting many people and causing them heavy losses. To compensate for their losses, many began targeting the clubs' nightclubs, finding ways to take advantage of them. Some applied for renovations and pocketed the clubs' renovation fees. Some even took away all the clubs' resources, including the attractive women and customers, leaving them as empty shells.

Liang Ma is the latter type. She swallowed up the resources of several venues, leaving behind an empty shell. She then turned around and returned the venue to the community on the grounds of being unable to operate it, letting the community bear the losses.

Liang Ma relied on her relationship with Jiang Tiansheng. This old woman was the most greedy. She emptied out the club's several venues in Sham Shui Po, even the equipment inside was so poor that Liang Ma cleared it out.

Chen Yao had mentioned this matter during the meeting. According to him, he wanted Liang Ma to give an explanation, but Jiang Tiansheng stopped him from doing so and the matter ended up in nothing.

What Chen Yao said just now was actually a secret trap for Liang Ma. If Liang Ma couldn't help but argue with Chen Yao, Chen Yao would probably bring up the old matter again.

The pretty mother was thick-skinned and was ridiculed by Chen Yao, but she pretended not to hear and kept her head down without saying a word.

Seeing that the pretty mother was not fooled, Chen Yao could only continue talking.

"In Wong Tai Sin, there are a total of 16 nightclubs, four strip clubs, three mahjong parlors, four mahjong parlors, two bathhouses, and three karaoke rooms.

Now half of them have closed down, leaving only four mahjong parlors, two bathhouses, and two karaoke rooms. Of these eight remaining parlors, only four are making money, while the other four are barely able to survive."

The situation in Wong Tai Sin is special. Back then, there were seven or eight society groups making a living here. Almost every society group had its own nightclub. Many of the venues were just used as the society's base and were not for making money at all.

After Hung Hing took over this area, these nightclubs naturally became Hung Hing's industry, but since the venues were not profitable, there was naturally no need to maintain them.

So the space here is half gone, but it has nothing to do with Dafei.

After introducing the situation in Wong Tai Sin, Chen Yao went on to introduce the situation in Tsuen Wan.

"The Tsuen Wan branch has two nightclubs, a bar, and a nightclub. The business is doing pretty well now, with a monthly income of 200,000 to 300,000 yuan."

Tsuen Wan is also a little special. When Big D was running this place, he was focused on developing his gambling ship business and didn't run any nightclubs at all. Later, seeing that Lu Yongqiang's brother's nightclub was doing well, Big D opened a nightclub in Tsuen Wan.

After Lu Yongqiang conquered Tsuen Wan, he simply swapped territory with Dragon King, and Tsuen Wan became Dragon King's territory. Dragon King, however, focused solely on the gambling boats and didn't set up any other nightclubs in the area. The only bar he had was still a savage business.

Zhang Shun was the leader of Tsuen Wan elected by the society. When he took over Tsuen Wan, the nightclubs and bars here were taken over by the society, and they became the society's industry.

There aren't many nightclubs here and competition is low, so business is pretty good and I can make a decent profit every month.

After talking about the situation in Tsuen Wan, Chen Yao began to talk about the situation in Kowloon City.

"The Kowloon City gang has six nightclubs, three mahjong parlors, a sauna, a bar, and a brothel. These six places are basically just barely maintaining their operations. None of them can make any money."

Chen Yao introduced them one by one. Except for the nightclubs in Causeway Bay and Portland Street, the nightclubs in other places were almost half-dead. Businesses involving flesh and blood, such as bars, nightclubs, clock hotels, stables, and saunas, were almost all losing money. Only mahjong parlors were mostly profitable.

Chen Yao put down the information, sighed, and said, "Bosses, you should all understand the situation. So many places have been operating at a loss. Even though our club is big and powerful, we can't afford such a huge loss, right? So, we should all discuss and come up with a safe solution to this problem."

After Chen Yao finished speaking, everyone fell silent. Everyone's interests were involved in this, and no one wanted to be the first to speak out.

Seeing that no one was talking, Jiang Tianyang coughed and said, "I've learned that most of the nightclubs run by societies are in a loss-making state, but the places run by everyone rarely lose money. It seems that the nightclub business is not suitable for centralized management. I'm thinking, why not let everyone run it themselves?"

After Jiang Tianyang finished speaking, no one spoke. Jiang Tianyang glanced at everyone, then looked at Lu Yongqiang and said, "Ah Qiang, you are the 'Martial God of Wealth' that everyone in the martial arts world is talking about. When it comes to business, no one in Hongxing can compare to you. What do you think of my suggestion?"

Lu Yongqiang and Jiang Tianyang had already agreed on a deal. Now that Jiang Tianyang had spoken, Lu Yongqiang could only say, "Mr. Jiang's idea is very good. I support Mr. Jiang's decision. If Mr. Jiang wants me to take over those nightclubs in Tuen Mun, I'm willing to do so. I'll just be taking over the negative assets. As for the price, I hope Mr. Jiang can give me some discounts so that I don't lose too much."

The society didn't have many venues in Tuen Mun, only four in total. Two of them were rented from others, and only two were their own. Lu Yongqiang roughly estimated that the total value of the four venues was less than 20 million. He would indeed lose money if he took over, but the loss would not be large, only 2 to 3 million. However, business is business, and if the loss can be reduced, Lu Yongqiang naturally wanted to reduce it, so he asked for a discount.

After Lu Yongqiang finished speaking, Jiang Tianyang spoke up, "Everyone, I know it's a bit unreasonable to ask you to take over these money-losing businesses, but you all should know why these industries have become what they are today. I'll give you some face, and I hope you can give me some face, too."

"Aqiang just said that by taking over the negative assets, everyone is helping the society. The society will also consider you. The price is negotiable, and we will definitely give you some discounts."