The world begins with Hong Kong movies

Chapter 279 Someone's causing trouble (Seeking monthly votes)

Someone wants to stop the lucky draw!

Starting the day after the lottery event began, Wu Feng began to hear such comments.

No one said this to him directly; it was something that some 'friends' relayed.

"Heh, I was prepared for this!"

Wu Feng sneered and immediately instructed his media outlets to focus their reporting on the 'people-benefiting promotional activities' and downplay the popularity of the lucky draw.

So, starting from the second day of the lottery event, ATV's news programs, as well as some newspapers led by "Mong Kok News," focused their reports on the elderly women in the public housing estates.

The television station sent reporters and photographers to follow and report on how the elderly women in the public housing estates were organized by Hung Hing members to participate in the 'people-benefiting promotional activities'.

As the Lunar New Year approaches, watching grandmothers and aunties shopping at the vegetable market, fish market, and various general stores on TV is quite interesting and relaxing.

Newspapers also used various cheerful writing styles to describe the lively atmosphere of the "people-benefiting promotional activities".

It gives the impression that Hung Hing is doing good deeds!

According to television and newspaper reports, Hung Hing's charitable work is quite reliable!
As for the prize draw, try not to report on it or pay attention to it; just pretend it doesn't exist.

In fact, the prize draw is becoming more and more popular every day!
The fact that Wu Feng's own media platforms did not report on it does not mean that other newspapers did not report on it.

Every day, prizes with a wholesale price of around 30 to 40 million are released, causing quite a stir.

"I don't know which bastard did such a thing!"

What Wu Feng knew, the other core members of the lottery event organizers also learned about quite quickly.

On the surface, he was just unhappy, but privately, even Jiang Tiansheng couldn't help but want to curse out loud.

In his view, some people are just jealous and can't stand to see others doing well.

Of course, the ever-increasing turnover of the lottery event may be the main reason why some people covet it, and that's his understanding.

After all, the lottery sales on the second day of the lucky draw approached 500 million.

By the third day, it had broken the 500 million mark!
Such astonishing figures were so unbelievable that even the core members of the organizers felt it was unreal.

All the parties involved were quite excited.

Such a large turnover and revenue represent so much.

The most obvious benefit is the profit sharing afterward, followed by a surge in valuable connections, political achievements, and numerous exposure opportunities—all invaluable resources.

"It's likely that the interests of certain individuals and forces have been touched upon!"

Wu Feng sneered, "After all, the residents of Hong Kong Island only have so much money in their pockets. The more we absorb, the less others will benefit!"

"What does Ah Feng mean, the Australian island?"

Jiang Tiansheng immediately thought of the most likely mastermind.

"I don't know if the one from Australia made a move!"

Wu Feng chuckled and said, "But since the lottery event started, the gambling scene on the Australian side has been greatly impacted, that's an indisputable fact!"

Upon hearing this, Jiang Tiansheng, who had been furious, suddenly revealed a gloating expression.

It's unclear about other gambling establishments in Macau, but it's an undeniable fact that the daily revenue of the gambling hall owned by Hung Hing, whose contract is about to expire, has been halved.

Originally, this hall had a daily turnover of millions.

However, after the lottery event started, the turnover was less than half of what it should have been.

With such low turnover, the profits of the gaming halls are already quite meager; making big money is just a pipe dream. It's estimated that even after the lottery events on Hong Kong Island end, it will take a long time for the gaming halls to recover, and it's hard to say whether they will ever return to normal levels.

However, Hung Hing didn't care!

When the contract expired after the year was over, Hung Hing had no intention of renewing it.

Wang had already made his intentions clear since they were blocking the way, so there was basically no room for negotiation.

No wonder, in the movie, Lei Gong of the Triad wanted to buy the casino operating rights from Hung Hing for one million dollars. I thought to myself, has this old guy lost his mind?

At that time, Wu Feng did not understand the specific operation of the gambling hall, but subconsciously felt that the gambling halls in the hands of Hung Hing had an annual revenue of at least hundreds of millions.

Lei Gong wanted to acquire it for one million dollars, which was a prime example of forced buying and selling!

The plot seems problematic; the Triads forcing Hong Kong's top triad to concede is absurd to the audience.

Now we know that Lei Gong of the Sanlian Gang was just trying to drive down the price.

If the restaurant over there is congested and doesn't operate well, it will also incur losses.

"Unfortunately, this event only lasted for ten days!"

Jiang Tiansheng said regretfully, "If we can continue like this after the New Year, I'll accept it even if we don't make money!"

"how is this possible?"

Wu Feng chuckled and said, "The amount of Hong Kong dollars held by Hong Kong Island residents is also limited!"

"If we continue with activities like this, top players in other industries will start to complain!"

"Besides, those foreigners in the Hong Kong British government wouldn't agree to it!"

"It's enough that we, who are not on their side, get away with this once. How could we possibly be allowed to keep emptying the wallets of Hong Kong Island residents?"

Upon hearing this, Jiang Tiansheng was first taken aback, then his expression turned ugly.

Wu Feng's words reminded him that the foreigners were still in charge in Hong Kong.

"Are there any other forces or individuals who want to stop our lottery event?"

However, he quickly recovered and changed the subject, asking curiously, "The one from Australia alone wouldn't have made us hear about it so quickly!"

"I am very sure of that!"

Wu Feng chuckled and said leisurely, "Mr. Jiang, you only need to go and take a look at the big supermarkets in the bustling Yau Tsim Mong area to see just how influential our event is!"

"What, has our event affected the business of those big supermarkets?"

Upon hearing this, Jiang Tiansheng's expression changed slightly, and he said in disbelief, "Isn't that unlikely?"

Seeing Wu Feng's expression, his mood couldn't help but sink slightly.

He was genuinely shocked!
If what Wu Feng said is true, then they have unintentionally offended Li Bancheng and the extremely powerful Xiao Rizi Capital.

At this time, the supermarket market on Hong Kong Island was dominated by two large supermarket chains.

One was opened by Li Bancheng, and the other was controlled by Xiao Rizi's capital.

These two dominant supermarket chains are veritable cash cows, with daily turnover in the hundreds of millions.

Even Walmart and Carrefour, the American supermarket giants that dominate the world, suffered major setbacks under Li Bancheng and could not stand firm at all, which shows how much Li Bancheng values ​​his chain supermarket group!

(End of this chapter)