Hong Kong Film: Jimmy? Please call me Councillor Li

Chapter 257 Gao Jin: We have taken safety measures

Does the Zheng family have any business in this area, specifically targeting their shoe factory?
The Zheng family is in the shipping business, but their business is very limited in Hong Kong Island; most of it is around the world. They don't have any manufacturing industry.

We have no grudges against each other, so why did we get involved with each other's trigeminal nerves?

"Brother Yuan, what do we do now? The shoe factory has been shut down for two days."

Li Jiayuan felt this problem was a bit tricky. He wasn't afraid of the Fang family, but if the Zheng family were added to the mix...
headache
There are four major families on Hong Kong Island: Chow, Lee, Ho, and Li, who are the older generation. Later, there were four new major families: Kwok, Lee, Lee, and Cheng.

The next four are Li Zhaoji, Li Acheng, and the Guo family who were kidnapped by the tycoon earlier.

As for the last Zheng, it refers to the Zheng family.

The Cheng family can be said to be the leading family in Hong Kong's shipping industry. They almost monopolized half of Hong Kong's shipping industry. Only the Bao family can rival them and be ranked alongside the other few as one of the four major wealthy families.

It's easy to imagine how wealthy the Zheng family is. What Li Jiayuan doesn't understand is why the Zheng family, having no grudge against him, has joined forces with the Fang family to cause him trouble.

The Fang family could be accused of being instigated and sabotaged by Aunt Fang, but what about the Zheng family? What is their purpose? Aunt Fang probably doesn't have any bargaining chips or benefits to offer the Zheng family.

However, this does explain why almost all shopping malls in Hong Kong suddenly stopped renting space to them. The Fang family wasn't qualified, but adding the Zheng family would be enough.

They do have the capability to round up the Home Group, but as for why they don't target other areas, it's probably because they haven't found a place to start.

The tax investigation revealed that Li Jiayuan never evaded taxes. Targeting Jiayuan Property? Don't be ridiculous. First, the Zheng family doesn't have the resources for that. Second, given Jiayuan Property's industry standing, it's hard to say who will survive and who will perish.

Furthermore, they can't target Home Logistics and Home Healthcare because the interests involved are too vast, making it difficult to take action.

Thinking about it this way, it seems that the only place they can target is Jiayuan Shoe Factory. Moreover, the Zheng and Fang families happen to have the resources to control Li Jiayuan's business.

Many goods exported from Hong Kong by sea pass through the Cheng family. If the Cheng family is willing to pay the penalty for breach of contract or offer benefits, those people might actually cancel all cooperation with the Jiayuan Group.

"Ah Long, have you found out why they're targeting us?"

"No."

"Go and call Gao Jin over."

While thinking, Li Jiayuan suddenly thought of someone: Gao Jin. He had heard that this guy was very close to the youngest daughter of the Qiu family, and he had seen the Zheng family members at the Qiu family's house last time.

Could it be that something went wrong with Gao Jin that's why the Zheng family is targeting them like this? Ugh, troublesome.

"Brother Yuan, Gao Jin is here."

"Brother Yuan."

Gao Jin was in a good mood at first, but after entering, he saw the serious expressions on the faces of the people present, and he suddenly felt inexplicably flustered.

"Brother Yuan, what's wrong?"

"I heard you and Qiu Rongrong are quite close. Are you two dating?"

Two seventeen-year-old kids, isn't that puppy love?

Gao Jin's expression changed, and he looked at Bao Wenlong.

"Did the plane say that?"

If the plane were here, there would definitely be trouble again.

Dude, you're using Void Detection, what did I do to you?

There's nothing we can do about it; everyone knows that Feiji has the loudest voice, and it seems like no one else would go around telling people about it.

Li Jiayuan sighed.

"You little rascal, I certainly won't object to you dating. If you're so capable, bring me a nephew right now, and I'll give you a big red envelope. But why Qiu?"

"No, I always take safety precautions."

Li Jiayuan: "!!"

"???"

The three people present, apart from Gao Jin, were stunned and speechless by his words.

Even Li Jiayuan was surprised that Gao Jin would say something like that. He opened and closed his lips, hesitated, and finally swallowed, saying nothing.

But I was so devastated that I couldn't speak.

What a safety measure!

No, I was just saying. Young people these days live such a fast-paced life. Compared to you guys, Huang Lei and I seem so clueless.

No, is Gao Jin that thirsty?

It must be the plane that's causing this. It's one thing for him to go to Portland Street to play, but he also shares his experiences with Gao Jin every day. What has this kid been learning? You're supposed to be a good learner, but you shouldn't be using your learning skills in this area.

Wait, how old is Qiu Rongrong?
1617
At most, it'll be 17, maybe even only 16, oh my god.

Thinking of this, Li Jiayuan cursed inwardly, "This is torture! This is too much torture!"

You two go out first. I want to speak with Gao Jin alone.

Bao Wenlong and Shanji patted Gao Jin on the shoulder.

"Brother, good luck to you."

Gao Jin usually doesn't have many expressions, but at this moment you could see a little bit of unnaturalness on his face.

"Gao Jin!"

Once only the two of them were left in the office, Li Jiayuan slammed his hand on the table with a fierce aura, startling Gao Jin into a tremor.

"Do you know how old Qiu Rongrong is?" "17."

"You know better than he does what the consequences of doing this are?"

"Brother Yuan, I..."

"What else do you want to argue?"

He had only asked a question, but it turned into such a huge scandal. Li Jiayuan was stunned. He decided to put the shoe factory issue aside for now and deal with the problem of this young couple first.

He didn't want someone to suddenly come to his door one day and take away a minor girl under the pretense of raping her.

Gao Jin looked somewhat aggrieved, which made Li Jiayuan furious. Of all people to mess with, this guy had to pick on Qiu Rongrong. What if Qiu Degen found out?

You mustn't fall out with him.

"Brother Yuan, Qiu Rongrong came to see me that day and invited me out to dinner. I never expected her to drug my food."

"!!!"

"Watt, what did you say?"

My brain can't keep up, my brain can't keep up.

Li Jiayuan thought this was the limit, but he didn't expect there to be another expert.

Judging from this, it was Qiu Rongrong who pushed Gao Jin, and she even used drugs on him.

Are young girls these days really this fierce?
That makes sense. Gao Jin would never actively flirt with girls; he's always the one being flirted with. So, you can't really blame Gao Jin.
But these two are only so young.

Li Jiayuan's head started to throb even more.

"Early romance is fine, I don't care, but remember, you absolutely cannot cause a death, otherwise we and the Qiu family will have no way to deal with it. It's best to keep this a secret. You should appease that young lady and wait until she's a little older."

"Of course she won't bother you anymore. Qiu Rongrong is immature, but you mustn't act foolishly."

Li Jiayuan was incredibly tired. What a mess of nonsense this was! If things continued like this, he'd practically become a nanny, having to deal with kids' early romances.

In his view, Gao Jin's relationship with Qiu Rongrong was just a passing fancy and would end sooner or later. As long as nothing serious happened now, everything would be fine.

Gao Jin nodded seriously. He knew this matter was of utmost importance. He could be affected, but the company's interests absolutely could not be harmed because of him.

Therefore, he always maintained a bottom line. Moreover, Qiu Rongrong was just bold, not stupid. She knew what this was about, so she was always careful and did not do anything more outrageous.

Gao Jin was pleased with himself, but his company got into trouble. The Zheng Youwei he saw at the Qiu family last time was the second-generation son of the Zheng family.

It's estimated that this person wanted to form a marriage alliance with the Qiu family, but found out halfway through that he had been robbed of his wife. He seems to be furious and ready to fight to the death.

But that kid wasn't up to any good either. He was probably five or six years older than Qiu Rongrong, who was still a high school student. This guy was already eyeing her. What kind of good person could he be?

He just wants to become Qiu Degen's son-in-law so he can seize power in the family in the future. This kind of drama is common in Cantonese opera.

Once you have doubts about the direction and goal, you need to think of solutions, reconcile with the Zheng and Fang families, and then apologize.

That's unlikely, and he didn't actually do anything. He couldn't bring himself to lick someone's boots after someone kicks him while he's down.

In any case, it's just a homestead shoe factory. The worst-case scenario is that the homestead shoe factory will close down, and the equipment will be sold or destroyed.

They only lost money on the equipment, and Jiayuan Shoes has already recouped its costs during this period.

In reality, what he lost was the profit he could have earned in the future.

Li Jiayuan's refusal to back down is not due to arrogance or conceit, but rather because the current situation at Jiayuan Group prevents him from yielding.

Jiayuan Group has just been established and possesses an extremely large market industry. At this time, if they bow down to anyone who tries to take a step on them, it would undoubtedly show the outside world that Jiayuan Group is weak.

This is like introducing blood into the ocean, which will attract more apex predators. Once these predators realize what's happening and swarm in, the Home Group may not be able to withstand such an impact.

Therefore, this battle must be fought, and it must be fought with strength and style. No matter who you are, if you want to mess with me, you should be prepared to have a piece of your flesh torn off.

Peace talks are not even on the table. As the saying goes, a weak country has no diplomacy. How can it attract more followers if it doesn't demonstrate its strength?

The current Jiayuan Group can afford to lose money. Not counting the operating revenue of all companies in the Jiayuan Group, there are more than 2 billion yuan in his personal account alone.

He's willing to risk ruining even a family-run shoe business.

A few days later, Jiayuan Shoes' situation became even simpler. At first, it was just that the shopping malls were not cooperating, but later many distributors stopped ordering shoes from Jiayuan Group. It was clear that the other party wanted to wipe them out completely.

office

"Brother Yuan, what do you think they really mean? Are they really going to fight us to the death?"

In the office, Hua Di, Shan Ji, Fei Ji, Gao Jin and several others sat around a round table, with a pile of various documents they had been investigating about the Fang and Zheng families in the past few days in front of them.

Since they've come knocking on our door, we should definitely give them a gift in return; it's only polite to reciprocate.

Li Jiayuan's expression became even more somber.

"I suspect this is a test. Would Zheng Youwei dare to make such a fuss without the approval of an elder?"

At first, he really didn't expect it, but in the past two days he has slowly come to his senses. It seems that Jiayuan Group is too outstanding and has begun to arouse the envy of some people, so they have begun to make moves to test the waters.

Upon hearing this, anger surfaced on everyone's faces.

Li Jiayuan rested his head on his palm, remained silent for a long time, and then opened his eyes and looked up again, his gaze more resolute than ever before.

"Since they want to test us, let's play along to the end."

(End of this chapter)