History of Hong Kong Island

Chapter 277 Join if you can't beat it
Affairs.

In the Commercial Licensing Section, in a tea room, the Section Chief Andrew was wearing a white shirt and asked with a smile, "Mr. Miao, what does this mean?"

"Chief An, you've worked hard recently. It's a little thing. Take it and be happy." Wearing a suit, Miao Shengjin pushed a check forward, folded his hands together, and smiled: "The dangerous brand's license needs to be secured." The section chief is worrying."

"30 million Hong Kong dollars."

"It's not a small amount." Andrew picked up the check and said aloud: "As for the license plate, the director is very concerned about it, and it may not be possible to complete it."

"There are people from us in the bureau." Miao Shengjin didn't change his face, and stated: "It's just that Section Chief An granted us the license, and absolutely no one will stop him."

Andrew nodded slightly, folded the check, put it in the inner pocket of the suit, raised the wine glass in front of him, and signaled, "I will try my best."

"Thank you."

Miao Shengjin drank the wine in a big mouth, sat on the sofa, and asked again: "Has anyone from the Wharf Group contacted you?"

Andrew's expression was stunned: "Wharf also wants to join the auction? You haven't looked for me!"

"Haha." Miao Sheng laughed out loud as he watched Andrew pretending to be stupid.

Half an hour later, Andrew opened the door and sent the Chinese manager out of the office. He watched the Chinese wave away respectfully, with a smile on the corner of his mouth.

He returned to the office, picked up the phone, and dialed a series of numbers deftly: "Dudu."

Hong Kong Island Telephone has been developed to automatic connection, and only international long distance calls can be made manually.

"Which one?"

The call was connected quickly.

"Tom Sekel", the president of Wharf Group, was sitting in the office, listening to Andrew's voice: "Mr. Sekel, the boss behind the Yau Ma Tei Ferry has come to see me. As you said, the money will be accepted. No way."

"Tell them to let their guard down."

"Thank you, Andrew." Tom wore a custom-made suit with a lapel collar, a silk scarf in his breast pocket, and a cigar in the corner of his mouth. If he messes with our acquisition plan, then we should give him a little pain."

"In Chinese language, this is called reciprocity."

Andrew was still a little apprehensive, and said, "Yau Ma Tei Ferry is now supported by the Chinese police force. I have heard of the method used, and it is quite spicy."

"Should the three of us sit down and talk?"

Tom Sekel is only a professional manager of Wharf and has no shares in Wharf, but he is the spokesperson selected by the "Sassoon family".You must know that the Sassoon family, as the most famous family among the Jews, has great influence not only in Hong Kong Island, but also in former colonies such as India and Singapore.

It is the largest shareholder of Wharf Group, with Jardine Matheson and the Keswick family behind it.

As a small license section chief, he naturally didn't dare to offend Sai Keer, but he also felt that the Hong Kong dollar was hot, so he hoped to change it.

Tom Sekel, smoking a cigar, said in a deep voice, "Andrew, the police force is not limited to Chinese."

"I will discuss this matter with the chief of the police force. With the constraints of the high-level police force, the Chinese police do not dare to act recklessly."

Andrew was full of courage when he heard the words, and nodded: "Okay!"

"Mai sir, this is a 5.00% stake in the Star Ferry, with a market value of 100 million Hong Kong dollars." Jockey Club, VIP private room, Tom handed a document to the opposite side, took out a pen at the same time, put it on the document and said: " As long as you sign, these shares are yours."

Mai Jingtao crossed his legs, leaned on the sofa, looked at the documents unmoved, slowly cut the end of his cigar, and asked aloud: "Seker, what is the share price of 100 million Hong Kong dollars for Wharf Group?" It's a drop in the bucket."

"But I don't think Wharf will do charity and give money to one person for nothing."

Tom Sekel nodded, and said clearly: "As a businessman, when you make an offer, you must buy something."

McIntosh lit the cigar with a lighter, threw the cigar on the table, and made a crisp sound: "Tell me, what do you want?"

"Mai sir, I want you to have someone suppress the Chinese police fund, to be precise, suppress the Chinese below." Tom Sekel said: "It won't take long, as long as the Chinese police are allowed to bid for the dangerous brand license bidding project Can't do anything wrong."

"Mai sir, you can't even do this little thing?"

Facing Sekel's question, Mai Jingtao was angry and angry. It wasn't the Chinese who was angry, but Tom, the ghost! Damn, the Chinese in the police force are so easy to suppress, why does Hong Kong Island support so many people? Does every foreign firm suppress the Chinese businessmen under their hands?
You ask such words!
It is simply disrespectful!

"Hehe." Mai Jingtao still kept his face calm, smiled twice, spread his hands and said: "I can't do it, you can find someone else to help."

Tom Sekel's complexion changed suddenly. Facing the director's anger, he had to laugh and said, "Sir Mai is joking, if even you can't suppress the police force, who else on Hong Kong Island can help me?"

"No matter how many Chinese police officers there are, and no matter how deep the interest network behind them is, they are still under the jurisdiction of the Hong Kong Island Police Force."

However, Mai Jingtao chuckled, and said bluntly: "Can't you see that? The Chinese in the police force have already formed their own faction! If they continue to develop, they can completely throw away the Hong Kong government and play on their own. It’s just police service.”

"But it is impossible for the Hong Kong government to control the Chinese in the police force. They can only cooperate and even respect."

Tom Sekel hasn't dealt with the police force for a while, and he didn't expect the situation to change so quickly. If even the chief of police can't manage the Chinese police force, who can curb the expansion of the Chinese police fund?In terms of business, with the current momentum of Chinese capital, there is also the support of the Chinese police force.

In the next ten years, British investment will become more and more difficult.

But Sai Keer, as the president of Wharf, is not an ordinary person. After thinking about it, he felt that Mai Jingtao was sitting on the ground and raised the price. Can add another 50 cash."

"The shares cannot be more than one point."

Mai Jingtao was taken aback for a moment, and said with a sneer, "Is paying so much for a license worthwhile?"

"Don't let the Yau Ma Tei Ferry, or in other words, as long as the British capital doesn't let the Chinese capital grow stronger, it will make money." Sekel's thinking is very clear.

Mai Jingtao nodded: "There is still room for maneuver in this matter. After all, there is now a police fund in the police force in addition to the Chinese Police Fund, and the Hong Kong Island Police Union has completed registration and has more than 700 members. "

As the largest and earliest formally established union in the Hong Kong Island Police Force, theoretically speaking, all police officers should join the police union.

But apart from British and Indian police officers, only a small number of Chinese police officers have joined the police union.Because Lei Luo, Chen Li, Chen Zichao, Qian Weishan and others have already released rumors that the Chinese police will set up a trade union belonging to the Chinese, and most of the Chinese police will naturally not join.

Of course, Lei Luo and others did not say that Chinese policemen cannot join the police union.After all, trade unions are free to enter and exit, so there are still some Chinese policemen who join the police union.

"I will hand over the 5.00% of the shares to the police union, and let the police union come forward to help you withstand the pressure of the Chinese Police Fund." Mai Jingtao felt that Sekel's words were right, not to let the other party grow, some kind of In terms of perspective, it is a kind of victory.

Therefore, he would take the initiative to hand over the interests in his hands and throw them out to let the police fund compete with the Chinese police fund.

Tom Sekel showed a smile on his face and nodded slightly: "Thank you, Sir Mai."

As long as there are high-level support from the police force, there will be no fear of revenge from the Chinese police in the future, such as commercial investigations from the anti-corruption office, arrests from the serious crime team, and even shootings by associations. The business is all in the bag.

Leave a little hard work, or the identity of the Chinese inside, to the Chinese businessmen.

It is also necessary to attract a wave of blood from Chinese businessmen through finance.

Because the foreign firms colluded with the high-level Hong Kong government and have natural advantages in various policies and licenses, which are not for the Chinese to compete on an equal footing, and they even eat at both ends every day, making the Chinese lose everything.There is no need to be afraid of the Chinese using extreme methods, because the Chinese bosses can at most hire a few gang killers, but the foreign firms can directly let the police do things, justifiably destroying people's families.

But now that the power of the Chinese in the police force has risen, foreign firms are not only afraid to raid their homes anymore, but also become worried about business competition.Because the Chinese can already use political power to retaliate just like them.

"How could it be so troublesome in the early years." Tom Sekel sighed slightly after leaving the Jockey Club Club.

In the final analysis, the rising status of the Chinese on Hong Kong Island and the change of offensive and defensive positions between the ghosts are just a small profile of the development of the two nations and countries.As insignificant as a human being, it cannot change the storm of the times.

When the Licensing Division and Wharf were simmering with bad water, planning to sever the Chinese Police Fund.However, Mai Jingtao took a share transfer letter, found Yifu, the chairman of the Police Foundation, and handed him the document: "Sir Yifu, this is the share sent by the Wharf Group, the Star Ferry Company, five point."

"I'm going to use him to fund the police union fund, welcome?"

Yifu was sitting in the office, looking at the shareholding book in his hand, a little confused: "Sir, this"

Mai Jingtao leaned on a chair, pressed his hands, and said calmly: "As the chairman of the police union and the chief of police, I should also do something for the police union."

"Let the police union continue to grow, let the union fund develop healthily, and make contributions to all police officers."

Yifu suddenly came back to his senses, took the equity certificate, and said in a deep voice, "Thank you, sir!"

He understood that it turned out that Sir Mai wanted to use the shares of the Star Ferry Company to join the foundation and play with them.There is a saying, if you can't beat it, join. As a member of the foundation's board of directors and the highest officer of the police force, you have the opportunity to turn against customers within the union.At the very least, the two sides will not fight against each other politically, which can be regarded as a kind of softness.

This kind of softness is also of great benefit to Yifu. As long as Yifu is willing to cooperate and form a political alliance with Sir Mai, there will be no resistance from the higher police chief in the future, and it will definitely happen naturally.Of course, this is from Mai Jingtao's point of view, in fact, Yifu has already begun to feel sorry for Mai Sir.

(End of this chapter)