Hong Kong Variety Show: Me, the Traffic Enforcement and Control Team?

Both sides were carrying weapons such as baseball bats, knives, and sticks.

"Is this going to be a gang war?!"

Lin Zhengyi watched this scene and thought to himself.

Chapter 907 The Lunchbox War?

"The beef offal is ready, sixty yuan, please!"

At that very moment, the old man selling offal—no, Lin Zhengyi now called him "old man"—quickly handed over the offal he had prepared and called out.

Now!

Lin Zhengyi then understood why no one was buying beef offal anymore.

Ah shit.

Even in the future, the price of beef offal in Hong Kong will probably only be around this amount.

These days, although Lin Zhengyi doesn't eat this stuff often, he knows the approximate price. Ten or twenty yuan a serving is already a lot. Who would buy this stuff for sixty yuan?

No wonder his business is not doing well.

Should!

Thinking this, Lin Zhengyi didn't say anything. He took the beef offal and said, "Wait a minute, let me look for it!"

As he spoke, he took the beef offal in one hand and reached for his wallet in the other.

Because of the hand's position, the speed at which he took the wallet was not only clumsy but also very slow.

Slowly, the crowds from both sides of the alley had almost gathered at the beef offal stall, but Lin Zhengyi still hadn't taken it out.

See this scene!

The old man was already sweating profusely with anxiety and said, "Hurry up!"

As he spoke, he gestured wildly, as if he wanted to snatch Lin Zhengyi's wallet and take the money for himself.

But Lin Zhengyi said calmly, "Wait, don't rush!"

The old man listened, his eyes wide open.

joke!

How could he not be anxious in this situation?

However, as the two groups drew closer, the old man glanced at Lin Zhengyi, gritted his teeth, stamped his foot, and hurriedly grabbed his beef offal stall and ran away!

If he didn't run away, he could already foresee what would happen next.

The two groups started fighting, and his offal stall was affected, overturned, and the offal was scattered all over the ground.

In that case, the losses will be far more than just the beef offal in Lin Zhengyi's hands.

As he watched the other man leave, Lin Zhengyi's lips curled up slightly, but then his hands moved quickly. He took out sixty yuan from his wallet, folded it into a square, and with a slight flick of his wrist, the money flew out and went directly into the old man's cash box without the old man seeing it.

That's right!

What just happened was intentional on Lin Zhengyi's part.

It was just to teach the old man a lesson, to make him think he had lost a bowl of beef offal, and to make him feel a little heartbroken.

After all, if someone dares to charge sixty for something that costs ten or twenty yuan, he'll feel guilty if he doesn't teach the old man a lesson and make him angry.

of course!

He wasn't really short of those sixty dollars; he was just genuinely annoyed.

It's like going to the street to buy steamed buns. A big meat bun that usually costs two or three yuan is being sold for ten yuan by the vendor. Even if you can afford it, you'll still feel unhappy.

That's why he did it on purpose.

However, he eventually paid.

As mentioned before, he doesn't lack the money; he simply wanted to teach the old man a lesson.

Thinking about it!

Lin Zhengyi stood on the street with the beef offal in his hand and started eating.

As for the two groups that were about to engage in a fierce battle

Lin Zhengyi didn't care at all, treating it as just watching a monkey show.

"This offal tastes so-so, no wonder it doesn't have any business!" Lin Zhengyi complained as he ate, while continuing to look around.

And it was at this moment!

The two sides have made formal contact.

The leader of one side was a muscular man wielding a large machete, wearing a vest, and with his body coiled up.

The burly man also had a large, diagonal scar running from his forehead to the corner of his mouth.

The other person was a tall, thin man holding a Guan Gong sword.

"Scarface Qiang, how dare you steal my boxed lunch business? Are you out of your mind?" Guan Gong-style man said fiercely.

"Hmph, Skinny Monkey, is this your first day in the game? Don't you know that business is all about whoever grabs the best deal? I took that lunchbox business from the Le'an construction site, so what?" Scarface Qiang said viciously.

Hear the conversation between the two.

"Pfft!"

Lin Zhengyi, who was eating beef offal nearby, couldn't help but laugh out loud.

what is this?

Is this a lunchbox war?

If this gets out, tomorrow's headline will definitely be this: "Clubs fighting over lunchboxes?"

Just thinking about it makes me feel like I'm in a university.

but!

Despite his amusement, as someone in the anti-triad unit, he knew that the boxed lunch business sounded low-class and not something a triad would do.

Contrary to the facts, the boxed lunch business is indeed a business that many organizations are involved in.

Even triads like Hung Hing and Tung Sing are no exception.

why?

Very simple!

High profits!

Boxed meals may sound insignificant, but in reality, the profit margin is quite high.

For a typical business selling boxed meals, the gross profit margin is usually controlled at 50-60%. After deducting expenses such as water, electricity, rent, and labor, the net profit is usually maintained at 20-30%.

That is, for a 20-yuan boxed meal, after deducting all other factors, the shop owner makes a pure profit of five or six yuan.

But this is a normal business selling boxed meals.

And what about clubs?

higher!

The gang doesn't need a business license, and while normal businesses wouldn't dare use bad or junk food, the gang doesn't have that concern. As long as it won't kill them, they'll use the cheapest and lowest-quality ingredients.

This significantly reduced costs.

The organization can control the gross profit margin at 75% or even 80%. After deducting expenses such as labor and utilities, the net profit is about 50% or even higher.

That's an incredibly high profit.

The gang leader can earn ten yuan from a twenty-yuan boxed lunch.

More importantly, the gang's lunchbox business is usually located on construction sites, and they use gang methods to monopolize the lunchbox business on construction sites.

As a result, the stability of its customer base far exceeds that of normal businesses.

A typical business on a street might have two or three other shops selling the same type of boxed meals, and seven or eight other shops selling different types of fast food, such as soup noodles or wontons.

If a thousand customers walk into this street, then even if the food at a normal business is delicious, it can only take away a hundred or two at most.

However, the gangs always target construction sites, and they use their methods to prevent others from setting up stalls around them.

As a result, the construction workers had no choice but to seek their meals from them.

Of a thousand workers, they can serve nine hundred and ninety. The remaining ten may not buy food due to other factors.

In this way, excluding breakfast and dinner, workers can eat at home, which counts as one meal a day, and their monthly income can reach nearly 300,000 yuan.

of course!

Some people might think, "Can't I just not want to eat?"

you can!

The club won't force you to buy it.

Because then the nature of the matter would be different.

However, because of the club's monopoly, there are definitely no other restaurants around, so you have to go to a very far place.

The only way is by public transportation or by having your own car.

Transportation and fuel costs in Hong Kong are not low to begin with.

If you include transportation and fuel costs, the cost of eating out in other places will be one or two times higher.

Even if you use a bicycle and don't have to pay for gas, because the distance is far and the bicycle is slow, you might not be able to get to work in time after you finish eating.

So, that won't work either.

Ultimately, the best option was to sell the boxed lunches sold by the club.

This exclusive monopoly can bring high profits to the members of the organization. Depending on the size of the construction site, a small site with dozens or hundreds of people can earn tens of thousands a month, while a large site with hundreds or thousands of people can earn hundreds of thousands a month.

and!

The triad can't just work on one construction site. There are so many construction sites in Hong Kong. If you work on ten or eight of them, you can earn one or two million dollars a month, or even more.