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Chapter 256 No Mediation Accepted

Some things are truly baffling.

When Li Bancheng became the richest Chinese person in Hong Kong, his net worth was probably just over 30 billion.

That's right. In the 1980s, having a net worth of tens of billions was basically enough to be one of the top ten richest Chinese people.

Of course, that's quite an exaggeration.

It was also in the 1990s, especially after 1997, that Li Bancheng's wealth began to expand rapidly, easily exceeding 100 billion.

The families of Hong Kong's top ten richest Chinese are basically in the same situation.

Around the year 2000, their net worth exceeded 100 billion!
It was the sudden economic boom in Hong Kong that caused the wealth of these Chinese tycoons to expand rapidly, like a snowball rolling downhill.

That's clearly not the case!

The rapid expansion of the wealth of Hong Kong's top tycoons is naturally inseparable from the rapid economic development of the mainland.

Meanwhile, business in Macau's casinos has also started to surge along with the economic development of the mainland!
Putting aside other factors, the fact that the fortunes of that tycoon in Macau have kept pace with those of Hong Kong's top Chinese tycoons is largely thanks to the growing number of wealthy people in mainland China.

Sometimes, reality is just that frustrating!

After all, although Macau is known as the "city of traffic jams in the East," the number of tourists and the amount of money it can attract are limited. It can't rely entirely on wealthy people from Hong Kong and Macau, can it?

They're not stupid; why would they keep letting Australia blockade the market and leech off them?

In his previous life, Wu Feng's home was in a residential compound for employees of a work unit.

He remembered it very clearly; it seemed to be around 1997 or 1998 when a wave of unhealthy practices, such as opening family-run mahjong parlors, suddenly swept through the small county town.

At that time, there were about fifty households in the entire residential compound, but five or six of them opened family mahjong parlors.

Three years later, only three family-run mahjong parlors remained, and business was quite good every day.

What's outrageous is that every year during the Lunar New Year period, the owners of these three mahjong parlors would spend all day going door-to-door in the residential compound demanding repayment of debts, as almost every family had some kind of debt owed to the mahjong parlors.

Ten years later, the two mahjong parlors, which were still thriving, had each bought two high-end commercial properties outside their premises, and also purchased a car worth over 100,000 yuan, making them quite conspicuous in the residential compound.

The other families in the residential compound lived rather ordinary lives.

Unless there is other high income, let alone buying a house or a car, even renovating an old house takes years of slow and painstaking work.

Those two mahjong parlor owners have been privately cursed countless times by other families in the residential compound.

We all work for the same company, so who doesn't know who?
Other families are just getting by, but you're the only one with money to buy a house and a car. Where did you get that money?

Isn't it all earned by taking a cut from the mahjong parlors and profiting from other families in the residential compound?

Twenty years later, none of the old employees in those family compounds had any money left.

If a child in a family doesn't make a name for themselves outside, they can basically only live a mundane and predictable life with their parents in the family compound.

Those two family-run mahjong parlors were still open at that time.

Only the long-time employees who are used to it are still willing to play cards here to kill time.

As for the young people from the family compound, they didn't exactly hate these two mahjong parlors, but they certainly didn't have any good feelings towards them either. They almost blamed all the misfortunes in their families on the mahjong parlors.

For residents of Hong Kong and Macau, the congestion is similar to that on Macau Island.

Making money and getting rich isn't difficult, but maintaining one's status as one of the top Chinese tycoons is a stretch. To think that the wealthy in Hong Kong and Macau are all gamblers is naive. Clearly, with the development of the mainland economy, mainland tycoons are the fresh blood from which Macau's gambling industry is reaping huge profits, the kind that can sustain them for many years to come.

In fact, the person from Macau is quite proactive in order to make more money from wealthy people in mainland China.

North Korea is learning from the mainland's development of special economic zones, and this person from Macau responded positively, opening a casino in Sinui, North Korea, specifically catering to mainlanders.

It's just like the congestion on Macau Island, with one market in the south and the other in the north, drawing in as many tourists as possible from the mainland.

Some people and some things really shouldn't be investigated too deeply!
If it were the 1990s, Wu Feng would never have come to Guangzhou to do something like this.

At that time, going to Macau to enjoy a life of leisure had become a favorite pastime for some wealthy people from the mainland.

Of course, you don't necessarily have to eat spinach when you go to Australia. There is another option: washing rice!

In later news, there are often rumors of mainland visitors losing a lot of money in one night in Macau, the veracity of which is worth considering.

What truly ignited the gambling frenzy in Macau was the prevalence of online gambling.

Any random big shot who gets involved in coding can be involved in amounts in the hundreds of billions.

Of course, back then in Australia, the title of "big shot" was just a fancy name.

He no longer has the authority to dictate the actual distribution of benefits.

At present, the relationship between wealthy people in mainland China and Macau is not close.

Certain forces have not participated in the distribution of interests on the Australian side.

That's why Wu Feng came to Guangzhou!

Through the matchmaking efforts of Chairman Liao of Yindu Group, we successfully made contact with the disciplinary authorities and then began a trial collaboration.

Anyway, with Hung Hing henchmen keeping watch and TV reporters taking photos from time to time, that's enough for now.

As for how long this cooperation can last, Wu Feng doesn't really care!

At most five years. There are some things he can't stop, and those are no small matters that would offend people.

Even so, Wu Feng basically achieved his goal.

As boat traffic jams become more common, they will naturally divert passenger flow from Macau Island.

What Wu Feng wanted to do was actually very simple: he didn't want the person in Macau to take advantage of the economic development of the mainland and make money effortlessly.

Privately, there were also people from the mainland who wanted to act as peacemakers.

Wu Feng's attitude was firm: "In fact, I have already exercised considerable restraint!"

"They've already sent people to do their job, and I've shown considerable magnanimity by not immediately retaliating in kind!"

"In fact, I was just giving face to the mainland side; I had no intention of disrupting the order on the island of Macau!"

"If this were in Europe or America, they would have sent dump trucks or homemade planes, or at worst, a troop of artillery to raid the assembly plant, right?"

"I didn't expect the person from Macau to voluntarily admit defeat. That's impossible. Once things have calmed down in 1988, the matter will basically be forgotten!"

"There are some things we haven't investigated thoroughly, but that doesn't mean we lack the ability to do so. Piracy is a highly taboo subject no matter where it is. Once we have solid evidence, the consequences will be unbearable for that person. That's all I have to say!"

(End of this chapter)