Hong Kong Island: From a small stall to a global supplier

Chapter 165 The battle over the route
On the third floor, Wang Yaotang sat and watched Chu Gudong brew tea. Uncle Lin did not speak either. The room was silent.

After the process was completed, Wang Yaotang picked up the tea and poured it for the three of them. After they drank a cup of tea, Qi Gudong said, "What do you think?"

"That's what I thought."

"Why?" Ti Gudong put down his teacup, his face full of confusion. "There are more than 60 places. As long as you nod your head, you don't have to do anything yourself, and you can get 2000 million a year. Why don't you take the money? Don't tell me it's because of moral reasons."

"No." Wang Yaotang was a little anxious. "Why can't it be because of the condemnation of my conscience? Is my moral quality not high enough?!"

Qi Gudong looked at Wang Yaotang sideways.

Uncle Lin put down his teacup and said, "Ayao, today we are the only three behind closed doors, so it would be meaningless to say this."

Wang Yaotang: So this is how you see me, right?

Ti Gudong spread his hands and said, "Business is about supply and demand. There are buyers before there are sellers. Smoking is said to cause cancer, but it's written on the cigarette box. The country is vigorously producing it."

"Did you do any publicity? You didn't!"

"You didn't force them to smoke. Do you have it? If you don't, it's none of your business. They just wanted to smoke on their own."

"What's it to you? Ah, what's it to you?"

Wang Yaotang raised his hand. "There are only a few people who can smoke. The majority do not smoke. I forbid people from smoking in the place. Without those troublemakers, the place will be safer and can attract more customers. Why should I give up the majority of money to make a small part?"

"Do you know why societies like to be fans, run gambling stalls, run horse stables, and watch the field?"

"Because the people in the club are brainless."

"Let you try to open a KTV or nightclub independently. How many of the Big Four companies can operate completely independently? You can ruin a good business, so you can only sell fans to subsidize it. Don't use your brain."

"I'm different from you!"

"You are not a member of Heshengyi, and you don't need to contribute anything. So what's wrong with the club contributing a little?" Qigudong waved his hands violently.

"Your powder is affecting my business and my reputation!"

Chi Gudong waved his hand and swept the things on the tea table to the ground, pointed at Wang Yaotang's nose and shouted: "The society has survived for the past 30 years by relying on the business of selling fans. The profit of six to seven million a month supports a line of sixty to seventy people and more than a dozen guns. Without these people, Shengyi would have been eaten up long ago!"

"It's just a few million. Is that a lot? I make tens of millions in profit a month. You're crazy to drag me into this!" Wang Yaotang crossed his arms and didn't back down at all.

"A lot?" Qi Gudong stood up suddenly and spat fiercely, "With tens of millions a month, you think you are strong enough and don't need the club anymore, right?"

"Okay, since Cai Shenyao is so powerful, from now on, all the money for the bribes will be paid by Cai Shenyao. I will give you my seat, okay?"

"You loser, the money coming in and out of legitimate banks is closely watched by the bank and the government. If you take it out to make a deal, within half a year, Lao Lian will be watching you closely. You'll be the first one to be arrested!"

"You f*cking think the police let it go after two big sprees. After Ajie beheaded 26 people on Jiujiang Street, the police didn't react at all. Do you think Ajie is the only one who dares to kill people?"

"The society has been supporting people for hundreds of years. They can always recruit gunmen to fight for their lives. Even if they let them blow up the Governor's Mansion, it won't be a problem!"

"Why doesn't the club move? Doesn't it cost money to run it up and down?"

"You are the only one with a conscience, Cai Shenyao. You are the only one who knows that if you die in the drug business, you will go to hell. We fucked your mother and saved your brother. The money we earned by planting flags everywhere was earned by us selling our consciences. If you didn't have the brand of He Shengyi, you, Cai Shenyao, still wanted to plant flags everywhere. You would have been shot to death on the street long ago!"

"That's because you can't keep the business after it's taken away. It's just a fight. The housing estate guys can easily recruit dozens of people, but do you know how to run a business? You can't. You will only make things worse and worse, and a good business will become a money-losing one!" Wang Yaotang also stood up and leaned over to stare at Qi Gudong. "Don't use the relationship with the society to scare me. Why should the society ask our subordinates to pay 20% if it doesn't do anything!"

"The club can use their connections only for development. If they didn't use them before, the club would be half-dead and their name would be taken down any day!"

The two men looked at each other, breathing heavily, neither of them spoke, and neither of them gave in.

"Alright, alright." Uncle Lin stood up with a headache on his face and separated the two. "It's all for the development of the club. What are you arguing about? Yao, the club has been developing for a hundred years and has always been on this path. It's impossible for you to change your ways right after you take over. Brother Dong has worked hard to keep the club going."

"Brother Dong, we are all old now. Times are different now. If the old ways of the society are still useful, they won't decline day by day. Change is a matter of time. Let's listen to the ideas of the young people."

Qi Gudong snorted coldly and sat back down.

Wang Yaotang looked at the two men, one in black and one in red, and sat down with a sullen face.

The current strength of the Tsim Sha Tsui Tong is greater than that of the entire Heshengyi. It is impossible for the two sides to avoid conflicts, and it has reached a point where they must be resolved.

Route battle!

Winner takes all!

Wang Yaotang will never retreat!

"Ayao, the business of the gang's fans will not end up in the hands of old guys like us. We are really doing it for ourselves. We sell off the things we have and cash out directly abroad. We do so much for the gang." "Fans, huh, it's been hundreds of years. Have you seen people and organizations with bad endings?" Wang Yaotang sneered, "Let's not talk about the distant past. You think He Shengyi is very special. He bought off the connections from top to bottom. Haha, what about the four big demolition families and Yiqun? They fell apart with a government order."

"The government has been stepping up its crackdown on drug trafficking over the years. If lightning strikes our heads, everyone will die!"

"With the help of fans, the club can make a profit of about 5000 million a year. If you think the money is dirty, that's fine. The club can stop doing it, but how is the hole filled?" Qi Gudong snorted, without saying whether he agreed or not, but just asked in a deep voice.

“Sometimes I really don’t understand.” Wang Yaotang shook his head and said, “You have a golden bowl in your hand, why are you still begging?”

This one sentence made Qi Gudong and Uncle Lin look unhappy.

"Have you bought vegetables?" Wang Yaotang asked.

The two were stunned. This must be a joke. What are their identities? They haven't met each other for many years.

"Go ask someone how much a pound of cooking oil, rice, chicken, duck and fish cost in Hong Kong Island now."

Ti Gudong raised his eyebrows, turned his head and shouted downstairs: "Ah Sheng, Ah Sheng, come up."

On the second floor, Ah Sheng stood up suddenly and ran upstairs. He heard the loud noise upstairs clearly and his heart was about to jump out of his chest with nervousness, fearing that both sides would have a quarrel.

"Grandpa." Seeing the broken teapot and teacups on the ground, he quickly lowered his head to reduce his presence.

"Go ask about the current market prices of cooking oil, rice, chicken, duck, fish and meat."

"Okay." He turned around and went downstairs again.

Wang Yaotang didn't say anything, neither did Qi Gudong. Uncle Lin rubbed his brows. The tea was gone, so he could only sit there.

After more than ten minutes, Ah Sheng finally ran up again, "Grandpa, 12-18 grams of cooking oil, 4-7 grams of rice, chicken, duck, fish and meat, depending on the quality..."

(Hong Kong uses the Sima Jin, one Jin is 16 Liang, 604.8 grams)
"Okay, Ah Sheng, you can go down." Wang Yaotang interrupted.

Ah Sheng took a look, waved his hand, and immediately turned around and ran down.

“知道北边一斤菜籽油、花生油多少钱一斤吗？计划外的1块2左右，折合港币3块6，大米折合港币9毛。”

"Are you talking about the sound of imported food?" Chigudong and Uncle Lin looked at each other.

"A gang, of course it's smuggling!" Wang Yaotang said unhappily, "Smuggling one ton of cooking oil can earn you 1.6 yuan, 10 tons is 16 yuan, 1000 tons is 1600 million yuan, 3000 tons is more than what you can earn from smuggling powder."

"How many years will it take to be sentenced to adultery? How many years will it take to be sentenced to smuggling? There is no need to use so many connections. It is enough to get through a customs office!"

“You can actually earn more!”

"You must be kidding. The price difference is indeed huge, but where can we find so many tons of cooking oil?" Qi Gudong frowned. "With the standard of living in the north, it's hard to get enough to eat. Otherwise, there wouldn't be so many people swimming across the sea every year."

Wang Yaotang rolled his eyes. "The population of Guangdong is 10 times that of Hong Kong Island. According to regulations, each person consumes half a pound of oil per month, and the annual consumption is 15 tons. This is just Guangdong. It would only take a word to adjust a few thousand tons for export and foreign exchange."

"It doesn't matter if the company is registered in Hong Kong Island or somewhere else. Just purchase in US dollars. Once the money is in place, they won't care whether you pour the oil into the sea or what you do with it. It's only a few dozen kilometers. A big plane can make three trips a night, which means a profit of 24 a night!"

"After we won the convoy from Dezidui before, I thought you guys would be more enlightened, but... " Wang Yaotang spread his hands, "You don't know how to eat even though the rice bowl is already in your mouth."

Tigudong and Uncle Lin looked at each other. In the minds of these community leaders, the North has always been a place of poverty and hunger.

Smuggling, that’s all smuggling from developed countries like Europe and America.

What they heard now really broke their inherent ideas.

Sheng Wo, Sun Kee and Tiao Lu eat in the agricultural products line between the mainland and Hong Kong Island, but in fact they are paying the price of the food, as the price will be increased after each hand.

Smuggling does exist, and it is all about smuggling cars, electrical appliances, small commodities and the like from Hong Kong Island to the mainland.

There is nothing in the Mainland that they like...

But they really couldn't find any fault with Wang Yaotang's words.

"Ah Yao." Qi Gudong's face was full of wrinkles when he smiled. "As you said before, the garment factory moved to the mainland, and finally it was handed over to you to operate. We have never been to the mainland, and we don't know much about it. With our identities, we dare not have any contact with the officials there."

"look……"

"Uncle Dong wants me to do it?" Wang Yaotang laughed, "Then how do we settle this account?"

These words made Qi Gudong's face change suddenly.

(End of this chapter)