Hong Kong General: The Departed? No, I am the Hong Kong Island Tyrant

Chapter 162 What does an employee breaking the law have to do with the boss?
"Ding dong!"

While Di Qing and Thomas were talking, the elevator door opened and a group of people walked out of the elevator, approaching aggressively.

The leader is none other than Xu Peiwei!

"Handsome Qing, you are involved in multiple crimes including drug trafficking, organizing prostitution, and running a casino. I am now formally arresting you. You can keep your opinions to yourself, but every word you say will become evidence in court in the future!"

As Xu Peiwei spoke, he took out handcuffs from his waist and was about to step forward to handcuff Di Qing, but was blocked by Long Wu and Tang Twelve who were standing next to him.

"What?!"

"Trying to resist arrest?!"

Xu Peiwei shouted loudly, glancing at the two of them with sharp eyes.

The other police officers also looked alert and put their right hands on the holsters at their waists.

Di Qing was stunned, and then his eyes flashed. He looked deeply at Xu Peiwei and said, "Mr. Xu, I am only here to bail out my company's employees. You have so many charges against me right from the start. Do you have any evidence?"

"evidence?"

Xu Peiwei sneered: "Zhutou is your man, right? He has confessed everything you did!"

"Handsome Qing, you are dead this time, no one can save you!"

Pig head...

A hint of coldness flashed across Di Qing's eyes, and he instantly understood Xu Peiwei's plan.

"Sir Xu, can you afford such a big deal?" Di Qing stared at him coldly.

The matter of the place being raided could be a big deal or a small one, and he even called Thomas over for it, just in case.

But I didn't expect Xu Peiwei to play such a big game and actually wanted to frame him?
"You'll soon find out whether I can afford it!"

Xu Peiwei's eyes flashed with a hint of ferocity, and he waved his hand and said, "Catch them! If anyone resists arrest, you can shoot!"

The atmosphere suddenly became serious.

"and many more!"

At this time, Thomas next to him also felt something was wrong. He quickly stepped forward to block the police, turned to look at Di Qing, and asked, "Mr. Di, what's going on? Didn't you say you were only here to bail out your company's employees?"

Di Qing nodded and said, "Yes, Mr. Thomas, today I had several employees playing at the place over on Bowling Street, and they happened to run into the police sweeping the place, so they arrested everyone and took them to the police station."

"Then why did he say that you were trafficking drugs, organizing prostitution, and running a casino?!" Thomas asked.

Di Qing smiled faintly and looked at Xu Peiwei: "You have to ask this Officer Xu. He put such a big accusation on me without any evidence. Who knows what he means."

Thomas immediately turned around and looked at Xu Peiwei, his face dignified: "Sir Xu, I am Thomas, the head of the New Territories Finance Department. You said that Mr. Di was involved in illegal activities. Do you have any evidence?"

Xu Peiwei was originally wondering about Thomas' identity, and his face changed slightly when he heard this. He didn't expect that Di Qing actually found a foreigner as his backer.

Although the Financial Secretary and the police force belong to different departments, the power and background of the head of the financial section of a region are not something that a small chief inspector like him can afford to offend.

But now that things have come to this, he doesn't want to give up easily. He looks at Thomas and says in a deep voice, "Mr. Thomas, this is our police force's business. It has nothing to do with your Finance Department, right?"

Thomas snorted coldly, "Mr. Di is my friend. I am here with him to bail out his company employees. Even if you want to arrest someone, you have to have evidence, right?"

"friend?"

Xu Peiwei frowned and said, "Mr. Thomas, do you know that he is a member of the H society? How dare you be friends with a member of the H society?"

"H society?" Thomas's face changed slightly and he looked at Di Qing.

Di Qing snorted coldly and said, "Sir Xu, Hong Kong is a society ruled by law. You have to have evidence to speak. I am a legal businessman. You say I am H society. What evidence do you have?"

"evidence?"

Xu Peiwei sneered: "Who in Mong Kok doesn't know that you, Handsome Qing, are the boss of the H society? And you want evidence, right? I caught all the people from the H society today, and you came to bail them out, and you still say you are not from the H society?"

Thomas's face turned serious and he said in a deep voice, "Mr. Di, if what he said is true and you really did commit a crime, then our cooperation ends here!"

Di Qing smiled slightly and said, "Mr. Thomas, I can guarantee that I am a legitimate businessman. The only people who came to bail today are employees of my own company. If you don't believe me, you can ask Sir Xu to check. Among the people they arrested today, there are employees of my security company."

Thomas immediately looked at Xu Peiwei, and the meaning was self-evident.

Looking at Di Qing's calm expression, Xu Peiwei suddenly had a bad feeling in his heart. In order to avoid more trouble, he gritted his teeth and said, "Mr. Thomas, this is an internal matter of our police force. We will investigate the specific situation ourselves. Please don't affect our investigation, Mr. Thomas!"

Thomas snorted coldly: "Mr. Xu, are you using the police force to pressure me? Do you want me to call the top brother of your police force?"

"This……"

Xu Peiwei's face changed, but there was nothing he could do. He could only grit his teeth, turned his head and looked at the female police officer beside him, and ordered: "Go check the identities of those short mules to see if there are any employees of his security company."

"Yes, sir!" The policewoman immediately turned around and went upstairs.

The atmosphere fell silent again.

After a while, the female police officer returned and walked to Xu Peiwei's side, whispering, "Sir Xu, we checked and found that more than 30 people arrested were employees of the Qinglong Security Company and had formal employment contracts."

Xu Peiwei's face suddenly turned ugly.

"How is it? Sir Xu, I didn't lie to you, did I?" Di Qing said lightly.

Thomas was relieved to see this.

Xu Peiwei gritted his teeth and said, "Even if they are employees of your company, so what? They were all involved in illegal activities tonight. How can you prove that they have nothing to do with you?"

Di Qing looked at him like a fool: "Sir Xu, they have committed crimes. If they can be released on bail, then release them. If they can't be released on bail, then arrest them and lock them up. What does it have to do with me? They are just my employees, not my sons. Even if they are my sons, there is no law in Hong Kong that stipulates that a son's crime must implicate his father, right?"

"What about the others?"

Xu Peiwei looked grim: "I arrested more than fifty people tonight. Apart from these thirty or so, how do you explain the others?"

Di Qing said coldly: "Sir Xu, you are not stupid enough to be a policeman, are you? I only bail out employees of my company. What does the crime of others have to do with me?"

"you……"

Xu Peiwei stared at Di Qing and said, "You're playing this trick on me? Do you really think that you'll be alright if you deny it?"

"I can not understand what you say."

Di Qing said calmly, "Sir Xu, if you have evidence to prove that I committed a crime, arrest me. If you don't have evidence, let me go through the formalities as soon as possible and bail out my employees. Mr. Thomas and I have work matters to discuss. I am afraid that you, Sir Xu, cannot afford to pay for the delay with your salary as Chief Inspector."

Thomas also temporarily suppressed his doubts and stepped forward and said, "Mr. Di is right, Mr. Xu, since you have no evidence to prove that Mr. Di committed a crime, you have no right to arrest him."

Xu Peiwei's face suddenly became even uglier. He didn't expect Di Qing to be so decisive and directly deny his relationship with Zhutou and others. In addition, Thomas, the head of the New Territories Finance Department, was obstructing him. At this moment, he was really in a dilemma.

He would not be willing to let her go just like that.

But if he didn't release him, he didn't have enough evidence to arrest Di Qing at the moment. What's more, Thomas was on Di Qing's side. Even if he wanted to detain Di Qing for 48 hours on the pretext of investigation, he couldn't do it.

"Mr. Xu!" Seeing that Xu Peiwei was still not moving, Thomas said in a slightly heavier tone, "If you don't go through the formalities, I'll call your brother."

Xu Peiwei came back to his senses and stared at Di Qing. Then he took a deep breath and waved his hand, saying, "Let him go! Take him to go through the formalities!"

Although Hong Kong Island will be returned to China in a few years, it is still a British colony after all, and the foreigners are the boss. He really can't afford to offend a foreign finance chief!
"Mr. Di, please follow me." The female police officer in charge of the formalities stepped forward to give instructions.

"Thank you, madam." Di Qing smiled slightly, glanced sarcastically at Xu Peiwei beside him, then straightened his suit and followed.

Thomas, Long Wu, Tang Twelve, and community lawyer Fang Weizhong also went upstairs together and came to the office area of ​​​​the Organized Crime and Triad Society.

Seeing Di Qing coming, the eyes of many gangsters who were being questioned suddenly lit up, and they all stood up and shouted, "Brother Qing!"

"Brother Qing, are you here to bail us out?"

Di Qing's expression remained unchanged. He glanced at everyone and shouted, "All those who have registered to work for the security company, come and apply for bail."

"Brother Qing is here to bail us out!"

"Me! I'm from a security company, I want bail!"

"And me, I started work this morning too!"

The gangsters who had completed the employment procedures today were overjoyed. They stood up and rushed over to apply for bail.

But the rest of the people were stunned.

"They're arranging bail, what about us?"

"Yeah, what about us?"

Di Qing glanced coldly at the remaining twenty or so people.

When he invited them to dinner last night, he had already given them the opportunity to go to the company today to complete the entry procedures.

Tang Twelve had been dealing with this matter in the company during the day, which meant that time was tight.

No matter what the reason is for them not to go through the entry procedures, since they are not employees of the company, it has nothing to do with me.

In the days ahead, I wish you good luck!
Soon, the bail procedures were completed, and a total of more than 200,000 yuan was paid including the fine.

Afterwards, under the watchful eyes of a group of Organized Crime and Triad Bureau officers including Xu Peiwei, Di Qing left in a swagger with a group of henchmen... oh no, a group of company employees.

The remaining twenty or so people also understood Di Qing’s meaning at this time. This meant that he would ignore them and let them fend for themselves!

For a moment, everyone's faces were pale and dejected.

"Brother Qing doesn't care about us anymore, what should we do?"

"If I had known, I would have gone there today to complete the entry procedures!"

"Will Brother Qing expel us from the club?"

"Damn it, it's all Pighead's fault..."

Listening to the noise, Xu Peiwei became even more annoyed and yelled, "Shut up!"

"Take them all to the holding cell!"

After saying this, Xu Peiwei walked into the interrogation room with a sullen face, ignoring the insults from the group of dwarfs.

Zhutou was still locked in the interrogation room, with a cigarette in his mouth. When he saw Xu Peiwei coming in, his eyes lit up and he asked expectantly, "Mr. Xu, how is it? Did you catch Di Qing?"

"Catch your mother!"

Xu Peiwei couldn't bear it any longer, and slapped the cigarette out of Zhutou's mouth with his backhand, and said coldly: "Di Qing doesn't admit that you are his younger brother, so you're on your own!"

"what?!"

Pighead was stunned.

Xu Peiwei took a deep breath, suppressed his anger, stared at the pig head and said, "You still have one last way to go. Do you want it or not? It's your choice!"

"What...what road?" Pighead asked stupidly.

"Become a police informant!" Xu Peiwei said coldly.

……

"Mr. Thomas, I'm so sorry to bother you with this trip so late tonight."

After leaving the O building, Di Qing immediately thanked and apologized to Thomas.

Thomas' eyes flickered as he glanced at the colorful group of 'employees' behind Di Qing, then looked at Di Qing and said coldly: "Mr. Di, I don't care what background you have besides being a businessman, but I only welcome investment and cooperation from law-abiding businessmen."

"I don't want such bad things to happen again in the future and affect the reputation of the government. You should understand what I mean, right?"

He was obviously not a fool. After what happened tonight, he understood that Di Qing was more than just a businessman. He must have a social background.

But now that things have come to this, he doesn't want to make a wasted trip.

No matter what Di Qing's private identity is, as long as Di Qing can bring him political achievements, they are friends, and he can also ignore Di Qing's plot against him tonight.

However, if anything like what happened tonight happens again and causes trouble due to something unrelated to business, it will have nothing to do with him.

Di Qing could naturally hear the subtext in his words, but he didn't care. He smiled and said, "Please rest assured, Mr. Thomas, my company is absolutely legal and compliant, and the situation you described will never happen again."

"So much the better!"

Thomas's expression eased slightly, then he looked up at the sky and said, "There's no need to sign the contract. Come to the Finance Department to see me tomorrow and we can discuss cooperation then."

"You are a smart person. You should know the consequences of playing tricks on me. Since I can get you out of the police station, I can also send you back in."

Thomas looked deeply at Di Qing: "Mr. Di, don't doubt whether I can do it!"

Di Qing's expression remained unchanged: "Don't worry, Mr. Thomas, I will definitely not let you down."

"Twelve, help me take Mr. Thomas home."

"No need, I have my own car!"

Thomas waved his hand, then turned and walked towards the parking lot, where a Crown was parked. Thomas' secretary was already waiting in the car.

Watching Thomas' car leave, Tang Twelve walked up and whispered, "Brother Qing, this foreign guy doesn't seem that easy to get along with. Do we really want to cooperate with him and invest in the New Territories?"

Di Qing said calmly: "Whether we can get along well or not depends on how much benefit we can give."

"He wants political achievements, and we want to make money. It's a win-win situation. There's no need to offend him over such a small matter."

"What's more, the New Territories is currently the main area for government development. We will have to go there sooner or later anyway, so it doesn't matter if we go there now."

Tang Shier nodded, then turned to look at the police station, a trace of murderous intent flashed in his eyes, and asked: "What about Pighead and the others..."

When Di Qing heard this, a hint of coldness flashed across his eyes, and he said, "Let's talk about it when we get back."

Everyone got into their cars, drove out of the police station and headed towards Temple Street.

In a van parked on the roadside in front of the police station, Le Huizhen saw the iconic black Toyota leaving, her eyes suddenly lit up, and she quickly shouted: "It's out, hurry up, follow it!"

(End of this chapter)