Hong Kong 1980: The Savage Era

Chapter 552: Redeem the person at the fastest speed

the next morning.

All the newsprints and magazines under Fujia Newspaper Company reported the incident, saying that the criminals intended to kidnap Luo Qihong and demand a huge ransom, just like they kidnapped Wang Dehui, chairman of Chinachem Real Estate Company.

Luo Qihong's reputation was far superior to Wang Dehui's, so this news quickly became the front-page headlines in Hong Kong and even the world. Under pressure, the Hong Kong government even sent a mobile force to protect Luo Qihong 24 hours a day.

The Commissioner of Police personally held a press conference and said that if anyone dared to cause trouble in Hong Kong, the police force had the power to control everything. The criminals who followed Mr. Luo were also looking for him.
"Are these criminals crazy? Luo Daheng has more than 20 bodyguards around him, and they dare to kidnap him."

"Luo Qihong is too rich. Even his servants are worth tens of millions. Who else should we kidnap if not him?"

"If the police force was useful, they wouldn't even know who the criminals are now."

Soon, the kidnapping incident became the talk of the town in Hong Kong and sparked heated discussion.

Deep Water Bay Golf Course.

Luo Qihong held a golf club with a cold expression, "I don't know who it is, but the other party must be someone powerful."

Li Zhaoji said, "The closer we get to 97, the more those people want to take risks. Ah Hong, your incident has alerted us. My son has grown up, and it is time to strengthen the security force."

Li Zhaoji didn't want to say anything unlucky, fearing that it might come true and he would be in tears at that time.

Cheng Yutong was even more afraid. He had two sons, but only Cheng Jiachun could inherit the family business. The other son was already useless. If something happened to him, like what happened to Wang Dehui, wouldn't it be...
"If it weren't for the fact that someone needed to take care of Hong Kong's business, I would have wanted to go out and hide. Fourth uncle is right, the public security in Hong Kong is indeed much worse." Luo Qihong said.

As 97 approached, the British officials in the Hong Kong government were busy making money and had no time to care about maintaining public order.

However, with the Luo Qihong incident, the Hong Kong government will not be as lazy as before and will take action.

In fact, the Hong Kong government is under great pressure. Many Chinese legislators have expressed strong dissatisfaction with the current public security issues, but the police believe that this is difficult to solve and have requested more funding from above, but unfortunately their request was rejected.

Now, legislators are taking advantage of the Luo Qihong incident to impeach the police station for its inaction and are demanding that the Independent Commission Against Corruption take action and launch an investigation into the management of the police force.

"Jinyan has gone abroad. If you leave again, it may cause a sharp drop in the stock price of your company." Cheng Yutong persuaded Luo Qihong not to do things without considering the consequences.

Luo Qihong nodded slightly. He was indeed in a bad mood at the moment. He recalled the scene in a movie in his previous life where Guo Bingxiang lived in a dog cage. He immediately broke out in a cold sweat. It was really depressing.

In order to ease the atmosphere, Luo Qihong changed the subject and said, "Uncle, the electric light company has been developing very well recently. It has won many power plant projects in the mainland. Do you have any plans to issue new shares?"

Today, the market value of the Electric Light Company exceeds HK$500 billion, ranking 20th among the top 13 blue-chip stocks. It holds shares in 7 power plants in the Mainland and has also spent huge sums of money to acquire several energy companies in South America.

The electric light company has not paid dividends for three consecutive years. All the funds have been used for investment. In fact, the market value is far lower than the actual asset value.

"There is no such plan. Even though the electric light company continues to expand, it still has sufficient funds. I plan to distribute dividends next year to give back to shareholders for their investment." Li Zhaoji said. He understood that Luo Qihong also wanted the electric light company to continue to expand and even wanted to increase his shareholding.

However, Luo Qihong's shareholding increased, and his position became more unstable, so he could not issue new shares.

"Well! Uncle Tong, I heard that Brazil is carrying out privatization recently. The country's mineral resources are very good. Do you want to cooperate with me?" It's not that Luo Qihong's strength is not enough, but he wants to share the risk of investment.

Cheng Yutong shook his head and said, "I have recently made large investments in the mainland, and with the hotel industry in various countries, I am struggling now. You should find someone else."

New World Development and Wheelock both have securities and stock investments, but the scale is very small. The reason is that Cheng Yu-tung does not like stock and securities investments, so the capital recovery rate is particularly slow, resulting in the subsequent development not keeping up.

Moreover, New World Development did not reserve enough land ten years ago, and now it cannot make a lot of profit from residential development. Zhang Ziqiang was very bold. Seeing that kidnapping Luo Qihong failed, he turned around and planned to kidnap other people.

On May 5, Zhang Ziqiang kidnapped Li Zeju in Deep Water Bay just like he did in his previous life, but Li Jiacheng did not make it public and secretly raised cash to pay the ransom.

Of course, such a large-scale cash mobilization attracted the attention of the bank, and the police also sent people to inquire about the matter.

Li Zeju is the successor that Li Jiacheng has cultivated with great effort. It is very cost-effective to redeem his eldest son for a mere HK$10.38 billion.

Since Zhang Ziqiang came to the Deep Water Bay villa to negotiate that night, the incident ended before the police could react. Li Jiacheng did not want to offend those desperate criminals and strongly denied the incident afterwards, so Zhang Ziqiang and others went unpunished.

However, the Hong Kong media are good at gossip, and it is impossible for the matter to be without any trace. Coupled with the influence of the Luo Qihong incident, they are more certain that Li Zeju's kidnapping is true.

The Luo family's Deep Water Bay villa.

Luo Qihong forked up a piece of fruit and smiled slightly, "Of course it's true. They should be in the same group as the group that tried to kidnap me before. But when they saw that kidnapping me was hopeless, they turned to Li Jiacheng's son."

"10.38 billion! He is worthy of being one of the top five richest people in Hong Kong. He raised the money in just three days." Luo Qixing exclaimed.

"That's the heir. It's just 10 billion." Luo Qihong understood Li Jiacheng's approach. If something happened to his heir, he would not blink an eye even if he was asked for 20 billion.

To know how big the business empire of the Li Ka-shing family is, in 95, "Modern Pictorial" published the market value of 33 new blue-chip companies in Hong Kong. The market value of Hutchison Whampoa and Cheung Kong Holdings alone exceeded HK$2000 billion, not including the overseas industries of the Li Ka-shing family.

Hearing this, Luo Qixing glanced at his own son and nodded. He might do the same as Li Jiacheng and quickly pay the ransom to ensure his son's safety.

"I think the kidnappers will move on to the next one after they have spent all their money," Luo Qixing said.

Because kidnappers don’t understand investment, and bold people don’t care about money, it’s too easy to make money.

Once they have spent all the money, they will definitely use the same method to rob money.

Luo Qihong certainly agreed with his elder brother's analysis. "Even though he has 10 billion, he can't stop spending it. He might kidnap important figures from other wealthy families soon."

He has decided not to go to any remote places in the next few years, only to move around in the city, and to have bodyguards with him at all times.

"Husband, if I was kidnapped, would you take 10 billion to ransom me?" Bai Jinyan suddenly asked.

Luo Qihong nodded seriously and said, "Take it. I will definitely raise 10 billion in cash in the shortest possible time."

He was telling the truth. Bai Jinyan was worth far more than 10 billion Hong Kong dollars, and they were already an old couple. There was no need to be so heartless, and he was not a stingy person.

Bai Jinyan spoke in a joking tone, but she didn't expect Luo Qihong to answer her so seriously. Bai Jinyan was suddenly moved, and she also felt that Luo Qihong was telling the truth.

Chen Yusan on the side looked at Luo Qixing and wanted to ask but didn't ask, perhaps because she felt it was unlikely to get the answer she wanted.

"Brother, what if something like this happened to my sister-in-law?" Bai Jinyan glanced at Chen Yusan and asked for help.

Luo Qixing thought for a moment and said, "Although I don't have that much cash, I will borrow it from Ah Hong. People's safety is the most important thing."

(End of this chapter)