Chapter 355: Suppressing the Riot

In the Kwai Chung Police Station, as Du Yushan left with his men, order was restored. After cleaning the floor of the Criminal Investigation Division, those who ate ate, those who worked worked, and those who couldn't hold back their gossip and expressed their views on the matter ran outside to gather and smoke.

Zhu Youzai was responsible for finding people to deliver meals to the police station. His big brother was at the police station, and usually it was fine, but now that his big brother was doing things, he had to come over to help and show his face no matter what. Therefore, he had witnessed the whole thing before.

At this moment, looking at Wang Yan who was eating steadily without being affected, Zhu Youzai couldn't help but swallow the food in his mouth, picked up those property deeds, and asked: "Brother Yan, what should be done with these things?"

Wang Yan finished his meal, drank a mouthful of herbal tea, took out a cigarette and put it in his mouth, letting Ceng Rongjiang, who was a bit unable to eat, light it for him, exhaled a puff of smoke, and then spoke: "You see to it that they are all handled. Give the brothers in this police station an extra month's salary each, which is considered to be a shock-relief for them, and handle the rest as before."

Zhu Youzai nodded and put those property deeds into the bag at hand: "Brother Yan, how should that Du Yushan just now be handled? He has thousands of little brothers under him. This time, killing his own nephew will definitely not let it go. Should we strike first?"

Glancing at Ceng Rongjiang, who wanted to speak but didn't dare, Wang Yan waved his hand: "The 14K is indeed powerful, and tens of thousands of people are not easy to provoke. Killing that fat man is a conflict between me and Du Yushan. But if we kill Du Yushan again, it will be a conflict with the 14K. Hong Kong and Kowloon all know that my action ability is strong; if I can't kill him in one blow, he won't make a move. Let's just leave it for now, and wait until he makes a move, then we'll see. You just let people pay attention."

"Then we'll just defend like this? Brother Yan, there's only the thief doing it for a thousand days, there's no thief defending for a thousand days. It's not easy to live in fear all day long."

"When you come out to mix, you have to follow the rules; you should understand this truth. Now people are following the rules. Seeing his own nephew die in front of him, he didn't say anything and even gave an apology, so we have no reason to move him. Otherwise, what do you say? Firefight with the 14K? Do you know how much influence that will have? The one defending against the thief is me, why are you living in fear? Those who have grudges with us now are Yan Tong and those bastards, and this Du Yushan. So, if anything happens, looking for them two is definitely right. By then, even if Du Yushan is killed, the 14K will have to swallow it."

On one hand, he was a policeman with high-level action ability, great courage, and controlled a considerable number of Chinese police officers. On the other hand, he was a billionaire managing many profitable businesses and supporting many workers. If Du Yushan wanted to retaliate against him, there was only one way: assassination. If he didn't kill him once, then Du Yushan would definitely die; it was that simple. Even if Wang Yan didn't do it, the leader of the 14K would kill Du Yushan to give him an explanation.

Like he said, you have to follow the rules when you come out to mix. Of course, it was also because he wasn't strong enough yet. Facing a hooligan gang of tens of thousands of people, he needed to give way a little; otherwise, Du Yushan would have died right here today, and there would be no rules to speak of.

Zhu Youzai nodded: "Do you need me to find some people to protect you and your sister-in-law and the others, Brother Yan?"

"No, I have arrangements. You just take care of yourself. Lose that fat for me as soon as possible, so you can run faster when you encounter things, so you won't be hacked to death by the 14K before I break your legs." Wang Yan turned to look at Ceng Rongjiang beside him and patted him on the shoulder: "You don't have to worry, I'll hold the fort for this matter, just do what you should do. That's it, go do your work."

Watching the two leave, he swept his eyes over the busy plainclothes officers around him and exhaled smoke lightly. Their conversation just now hadn't been covered up, and only when Zhu Youzai said "strike first" did he lower his voice. Therefore, those nearby basically heard it all, and he believed it would soon reach Du Yushan, which was considered an indirect message.

Everyone did what they should do. Ceng Rongjiang fully exerted his professional skills, beautifully wrote reports to clean up and report merit, while other plainclothes officers continued to do what they had done before. Those plainclothes officers who followed Ceng Rongjiang to sweep drugs didn't come back; they were still sealing off those gambling dens and brothels, arresting relevant personnel, and they had to be busy for a while...

The news that Wang Yan killed the nephew of the 14K big boss Du Yushan at the police station spread throughout Hong Kong and Kowloon. People also knew why that fat man had to die, and many even felt he deserved to die.

But considering Du Yushan's status, many people still said Wang Yan was young and energetic, provoking trouble for no reason. As for the matter spreading, people weren't surprised that Du Yushan didn't make any moves. Wang Yan was young and energetic, which was true, but his power was there, and he was a soldier, not a hooligan leader that Du Yushan could move just because he wanted to. Many people couldn't help but look up to Du Yushan because of this; after all, people knew the situation at the time, and Du Yushan's forbearance was admirable. Because of this, Du Yushan's name even went up a level.

This was certainly not a good reputation. A biting dog doesn't bark; it was obvious that Du Yushan was a big wolf dog, and no one liked that.

As for Wang Yan, after this strict crackdown, the cases were closed, the soaring case-solving rate, and the hundreds of catties of opium and white powder found at Fatty Hua's place, plus his own small operations, he was naturally promoted to senior detective sergeant, only one step away from detective sergeant.

In the home in Kowloon Tong, Lei Luo looked at Wang Yan with a smile: "Congratulations on your promotion, Brother Yan."

"It's not being a detective sergeant, what's there to congratulate. But come to think of it, you've been promoted to detective sergeant, and I'm still a detective sergeant; it's a bit hard to lead you."

"Brother Yan is mocking me." Lei Luo laughed: "Du Yushan still hasn't made a move?"

"No." The one speaking wasn't Wang Yan, but Miss Bai who was talking to A-Xia on the side: "Really, that bastard, it makes me have to bring so many people when I go out now."

Miss Bai's resentment was very great. She was someone who couldn't stay idle; how could she stay at home all day? Besides, her Chang'e Tea Drinks was developing very well, and as a big boss, she had many things to do on weekdays. Thinking that she would have to be like this in the future, she wanted to kill Du Yushan.

"It's an extraordinary period." Wang Yan shook his head: "Otherwise, you'll have to bring people when you go out in the future. Now our family is getting better year by year; who knows if there's anyone who's gone crazy from poverty? You'll get used to it."

This was normal, because he had come out to show his face this time, and his family information couldn't be hidden, so many people knew it. Not everyone had reason; if a fool really came to kidnap, money didn't matter, it was mainly that safety wasn't guaranteed.

Miss Bai naturally knew there were many crazy people, curled her lips, ignored Wang Yan, and continued talking to A-Xia.

Lei Luo pondered: "Does Brother Yan intend to defend passively like this?"

"Otherwise?" Wang Yan waved his hand: "You don't need to worry about me, just do your own thing. How are you and A-Xia?"

"With Brother Yan's care, we're naturally good. The children are obedient, and there's enough money to spend; it's good, isn't it?"

Lei Luo was indeed not bad. From what Wang Yan understood, he worked diligently every day, solved many real cases, and was promoted to detective sergeant based on real merit, which Chen Tong had protected. Plus, everyone knew he was Wang Yan's good brother, so he was quite respected wherever he went.

Living in a small Western-style house with A-Xia and the children, his father and younger siblings were also doing well, especially his younger siblings who were studying well. As for his father-in-law, he had asked for work from Wang Yan and was working in Tsz Wan Shan, so he didn't need to worry.

The black money he earned had quite a lot left after deducting the money he owed each month. Although he had to support his wife and two children, it was more than enough to spend, and this life was something he hadn't thought of before, so he was quite satisfied.

As for what he said before about climbing to a high position and changing the rules of the police force, he felt it was a bit young and energetic; that wasn't something he should do. He just needed to maintain his current state steadily. As for the rest, leave it to his good brother; he just needed to follow the pace without falling behind, obey orders, and listen to commands. He believed that as long as he did his own thing, Brother Yan wouldn't treat him badly.

Wang Yan knew all this, and it was still that sentence: as long as Lei Luo was honest, he would guarantee him a smooth life...

Time passed slowly, and Wang Yan waited for a long time without waiting for Du Yushan's retaliation, and couldn't help but look up to his forbearance a little; he was a ruthless person. He had investigated that the fat man who was killed was the only family member of Du Yushan besides his wife and children, and he was very spoiled. Being able to endure it secretly for so long was not bad.

However, if there was no retaliation, there was none; he didn't care, just following the original rhythm and developing silently.

Expanding factories on a large scale, absorbing police families, and at the same time covering the families of the Marine Police, extending to the families of the prison guards in the Correctional Services Department. From time to time, he swallowed a few Chinese detectives who couldn't hold on and defected, and his prestige among the Chinese in the police force grew day by day. As for Yan Tong and the others, as time passed, they had already shown fatigue. It wasn't that their business didn't make money, but that they didn't have key technology, and the business profit was thin. To support people, they had to expand factories and production, but the market could only absorb a limited amount. With such contradictions, they were now a bit unable to support themselves.

It wasn't that they didn't want to learn from Wang Yan, but without technology, they couldn't even learn. Over time, they could only think of ways in terms of cost. They couldn't lower wages and benefits, so they could only make decisions on raw materials. They weren't good people anyway, and their psychological barriers were a bit worse, but they did it quite well anyway.

Besides that, seeing Bai Fanyu making a lot of money in real estate, they also started to invest in real estate. Letting a group of police families work as construction workers, although relatively tiring and not very ideal, also provided jobs.

Wang Yan had never targeted Yan Tong and the others. Of course, it wasn't about rules or anything; when fighting for power, there was no such thing as rules. It was just that he wanted the black money in the hands of Yan Tong and the others to be spent, not letting them buy houses and hoard land as soon as they had money, and to make contributions to this society. Although the object of contribution was ultimately the Hong Kong government and England, letting more people benefit in the process was what he considered.

On the other hand, the scale of the venues under Yan Tong and other Chinese detectives wasn't small, and it was exhausting to swallow them in one breath, so he just hung them there and let them spend money.

But his approach was another matter in the eyes of Yan Tong and others, because with the snowballing growth of Long Teng, its status in the Hong Kong and Kowloon business world became increasingly important. As long as he spent some effort, he was fully capable of making them go bankrupt, but he didn't do it. Invisibly, this could be considered as conveying goodwill to Yan Tong and others—everyone played within the rules of the police force, fought normally, relied on strength, and didn't engage in small actions. So to a certain extent, it could be considered as making them give up the idea of assassination.

Of course, the main reason they didn't have crooked thoughts was that Wang Yan was strong. Not only was his own combat power high, but he was young, and his power outside the police force was also beyond their reach. If they really made a move, it would be fine if they succeeded, but if they didn't, they would only die. Everyone would calculate this account, so everyone was superficially harmonious.

As for the "sea of stars," now that he had started new materials, computers, communications, etc., he couldn't support full-scale development, so the real vigorous investment was still in computers, the soul of the information technology revolution. Although the time for this was a bit late, compared to the time of the new century, it was much earlier, so it was bound to be large-scale ternary. According to the current time, perhaps it was impossible to completely make the whole world ternary, but occupying half the country was not a problem.

The remaining aspects could only wait for slow accumulation and large-scale investment when the capital in hand was thick.

However, it had to be said that his "strengthening pill" was still effective. Although his current development speed was also very fast, it was really far behind the strengthening pill. Ever since he successfully developed the universal version of the strengthening pill in his former empire by gathering the strength of the whole country and the work of a century, he had never lacked money, and everything was smashed with money. Now he had to consider whether withdrawing funds would affect the development of other aspects, which had many concerns and was boring; it was indeed difficult to go from luxury to frugality.

But Wang Yan had also figured it out now. Just spread the stall, give out the information, and let it progress by itself; he didn't worry too much. Except for occasionally inspecting the situation of various departments of the company, the rest of the time was mostly spent taking care of children at home, or going out for a walk with Miss Bai as a family.

He didn't need to worry about the police station at all; the hooligan gangs in the jurisdiction were all very honest. The nephew of the 14K big boss had been shot, and they didn't say anything; no one thought their life was too long. The remaining uniformed and plainclothes officers weren't trash either. Whether it was various disputes, fighting, or murder cases in the jurisdiction, they could basically do a good job.

His biggest role in the police station was to ensure fairness and justice, let the uniformed and plainclothes officers who had merit get the rewards they deserved, promote those who could be promoted, and give some symbolic comfort to those who couldn't. There was no other serious business. He didn't even go to the police station two or three times a month...

In this way, three years passed, and time came to October 10, 1956.

This was a big day, because on this day, a riot occurred in Hong Kong, which was also the riot with the highest number of deaths in Hong Kong's history, known as the Double Tenth Riot.

The original Lei Luo relied on Bai Fanyu's help and was promoted to detective sergeant because of his merit in suppressing the riot. Wang Yan was also waiting for this day, because ordinary merit wasn't enough for him to be promoted.

Not to mention the suppression of him by Yan Tong and that group of Chinese detectives, the foreign devil high-level officials were now also a bit wary of him. Because another three years had passed, his business empire had already sat in the number one position in Hong Kong. Since he was so rich, not to mention desperately winning over Chinese police officers in the police force, he had also intervened to win over other disciplined services. No one knew what he wanted to do.

What the foreign devils thought didn't matter, and suppressing him didn't matter either. After all, his prestige had already arrived, and he was only missing a merit that couldn't be suppressed to be promoted to detective sergeant in a justified manner. Today was a good time for him to earn merit.

Night, ten o'clock, Sham Shui Po.

Wang Yan puffed on a cigarette and looked at the quiet street. Beside him were Chen Tong, Ceng Rongjiang, and two other detectives from other places, and behind him were hundreds of fully armed police officers. In the distance, there were a few foreign devils, smoking cigars and pointing, saying something in a foreign language.

Chen Tong took a puff of his cigarette and asked: "You've protected your wife and children well, right?"

"Someone is guarding them, and Kowloon Tong is mostly rich merchants of the foreign devils, so they wouldn't dare to really rush in."

Originally, there were people from the 14K participating in this riot, and as a big boss of the 14K, Du Yushan was definitely participating, so it was inevitable that he would take advantage of this opportunity to retaliate. Being able to hold back for three years was not bad.

As for how it was inevitable, it was because the scope of the original riot was only in the area from Kowloon to Tsuen Wan, but this time it had reached the North District and Yuen Long, which happened during the day. The impact of thousands of people, the factories under Long Teng were basically all in those two places, and today they were almost all impacted once. Besides that, the Chang'e Milk Tea shops operated by Miss Bai in prosperous areas were also smashed once. If this wasn't Du Yushan, it would be strange.

Fortunately, it was just a few stubborn employees who were seriously injured, as well as some other minor injuries, and no lives were lost. As for the losses, equipment damage needed to be repaired, and liquidated damages had to be paid for delayed delivery of orders, and the benefits generated during this period also had to be calculated. With Long Teng's business volume, that wasn't a small amount. Although it hadn't been counted yet, it would be at least ten million. This was 1956, when the salary was only two hundred or so; ten million was truly a large sum of money. With such losses, Du Yushan's death was worth it.

Although he had discovered the movement earlier, he couldn't stop it. Because the impact of thousands of organized people couldn't be defended against no matter what. If he had started the group earlier, a big melee of thousands of people would also be unprecedented, and in the end, they would still find him to settle the account. If he were a hooligan, it would be fine, but his current identity determined that he couldn't do that, so he could only be like that. And looking back, he was going to settle the account with the 14K, and calculating it inside and out, the losses wouldn't actually be as great as imagined, and were within the acceptable range.

Because of the different development of the riot, he couldn't determine whether the hooligan street appearance at 10:10 in the evening would happen again. So he just let the police officers in various places stand by, without directly mobilizing them. Later, he received news and confirmed that it would happen, so he started to conscript. The reinforcements from other regions were on the way, or had already arrived at the designated location to intercept.

If you really want to talk about it, his action this time didn't even have a report, and to a certain extent, it violated discipline. The few foreign devils smoking on the side were all at the Superintendent level, and they were brought over to prove the formal compliance for him, and at the same time, he reported it to the current Commissioner of Police, Maxwell, and received verbal permission.

But no matter what, he mobilized the police force of other regions in violation of regulations in the capacity of a senior detective sergeant. However, he wasn't afraid of the trouble later, because this demonstrated the extent of his power in the police force. Foreign devils weren't fools, and they would compromise when they should. He was twenty-seven years old this year, and although he was still young, they couldn't use age, merit, and prestige to talk to him anymore. So this time, the detective sergeant position was stable.

Chen Tong pondered: "Will Du Yushan bury gunmen among those people?"

"That's for sure. This time, if he doesn't kill me, he will definitely die. He held back for three years before making a move, and now that he's finally found an opportunity, he's bound to fight for it."

"A-Yan, a gentleman doesn't stand under a dangerous wall. You'd better go. It's too dangerous here; it's not worth risking your life for that bastard Du Yushan."

"The brothers were called by me, and this time it can be considered as doing things for me, so how can I leave? Today I want to see if Du Yushan has the ability to kill me. Uncle, don't persuade me anymore; they've already come. You're old, so don't take risks; go chat with the foreign devils."

After speaking, Wang Yan jumped onto the sidecar motorcycle, raised his arms and shouted: "Brothers, what we are about to face is a group of thugs. The first priority is to protect your own safety, and the second is to suppress the riot. If you are unfortunately injured or lose your life, please rest assured that I will be responsible to the end. I will stand at the very front; if anyone is to die, I will die first. Everyone follow me closely, do you understand?"

"Yes, sir." Hundreds of police officers responded in unison, spreading far away on the street crowded with buildings.

Wang Yan nodded with satisfaction, jumped off the motorcycle lightly, held a shield in one hand and a police baton in the other, and watched the team holding the Blue Sky and White Sun flag on the opposite side shouting slogans and walking towards this side.

"Illegal gathering and parade, please disperse as soon as possible, otherwise we will take necessary actions."

The police officers behind repeated Wang Yan's warning loudly, not saying they hadn't been warned.

The people coming from the opposite side were basically all from the 14K; how could they listen to their warning? They still walked forward shouting slogans, thousands of people blocking the street, full of pressure.

"Advance!"

Wang Yan shouted loudly, bent down to raise his shield, and the police baton knocked on the shield, making a clattering sound, while stepping forward at the same time. The people behind also had the same posture, following closely behind him, advancing towards the opposite side.

The foreign devils had long been sitting in the car, with the car head facing the opposite direction; if anything went wrong, they would run away immediately. Chen Tong didn't run, lit a cigarette and watched from behind...

The two sides walked towards each other on the street, one side with thousands of people shouting loud slogans, the other side with hundreds of people, the shield knocking became more and more urgent, and the clattering sound became more and more annoying.

Within a hundred meters, the two sides soon collided.

Wang Yan, who was at the very front, saw clearly that when they were a few meters away, the people at the very front of the opposite side accelerated and jumped high, heading straight for him... ===== CHAPTER 356 =====