Chapter 584: Undercurrents Surging

On the other side, Huang Yuan also saw Chen Jiajun walking straight toward him, and many people's expressions turned to shock.

But Huang Yuan had not yet realized the danger of the situation, and he asked the people around him with great annoyance: "Who is this guy! He's too damn arrogant. Someone go break his legs for me later! I won't allow such a cocky person to exist!"

Hearing Huang Yuan's words, the people from the Investment Promotion Bureau were nearly scared into a cold sweat.

And the Hong Kong officials who had been accompanying Huang Yuan also wore looks of terror.

It would be fine for them to say whatever they wanted behind Chen Jiajun's back; even if they cursed Chen Jiajun in private as just a street gangster or a Thug, it wouldn't be a problem.

But to his face, who would dare let out a single fart?

Did they really think Chen Jiajun's current prestige was all accumulated through doing business?

Seeing Chen Jiajun walk over, Ahong Kong official stepped forward, wanting to smooth things over: "Mr. Chen, this matter..."

But before he could finish, Chen Jiajun slapped him aside and said coldly: "This is none of your business, get the hell away from me!"

Seeing the official who had been accompanying them get hit, Huang Yuan was immediately annoyed.

"Yo, it really is a style of the underworld!" Huang Yuan said to Chen Jiajun with a Yin Yang tone: "It seems the work here in Hong Kong hasn't been done well!"

Seeing Chen Jiajun arrive, he already knew who the other party was.

However, he wasn't afraid at all, and having grown accustomed to throwing his weight around back home, he didn't even know what fear was.

A smile suddenly appeared on Chen Jiajun's face.

But Chen Jiajun's subordinates behind him, seeing this look on Chen Jiajun, immediately had a bad premonition.

One had to know that after gaining power, Chen Jiajun's ability to cultivate his composure had reached perfection.

He usually kept his emotions hidden from everyone, but once he showed this kind of smile, it meant someone was about to be unlucky.

"You are Huang Yuan!" Chen Jiajun said softly.

"It is your grandfather here! What of it?" Huang Yuan walked up to Chen Jiajun with an arrogant look, poked Chen Jiajun's chest with his finger, and said: "A loser of a Thug like you dares to put on airs in front of your grandfather? I think you're tired of living!"

Chen Jiajun had confirmed it; this bastard was just a straw bag who didn't understand anything.

So Chen Jiajun couldn't be bothered to waste words with him; he swung his arm around and slapped the kid across the face.

Chen Jiajun was holding back his strength; the element of insult was greater than the element of physical assault.

Otherwise, if Huang Yuan had taken a full blow from Chen Jiajun, his head would have been off his shoulders by now.

With a crisp "Crack!" sound, everyone present was stunned.

It had been many years since they had seen Chen Jiajun personally take action to hit someone.

It wasn't just the crowd that was surprised; Huang Yuan was even more surprised.

Having been a Young Master for over twenty years, no one had ever dared to treat him in such a violent manner.

When he was in Kyoto, even if he got into a conflict with someone, it was always a matter of mediation, compromise, or admitting defeat.

In any case, these things would never fall upon them personally.

But it was different in Hong Kong; Chen Jiajun's big mouth would slap whoever he wanted to slap.

Huang Yuan was stunned by the blow, and clutching his cheek, he pointed tremblingly at Chen Jiajun and said: "You dare hit me!"

"Hit you?" Chen Jiajun sneered and kicked out again, sending this Young Master flying several meters away, where he knelt on the ground, clutching his stomach and groaning in pain.

"Mr. Chen, don't use force!"

The members of the Investment Promotion Bureau, having regained their senses, immediately blocked Chen Jiajun.

This Young Master Huang had a special status; if he were really beaten into a bad state by Chen Jiajun, it would be difficult for them to answer for it when they returned.

Chen Jiajun snorted coldly and said: "Get lost, this is none of your business!"

As he spoke, Chen Jiajun's subordinates swarmed up and separated these people from Chen Jiajun.

Chen Jiajun walked slowly to Huang Yuan, reached out, grabbed his hair, and lifted him up: "Grandson, I heard you're damn arrogant!"

"I'll kill your mother, you dare lay a hand on me, I'll finish you!" Huang Yuan's face was twisted in pain as he shouted arrogantly at Chen Jiajun.

Chen Jiajun sneered and slapped him across the face again: "Come on, I want to see how you're going to finish me! You blind thing, since when is it your turn to throw your weight around in Hong Kong?"

Although Chen Jiajun didn't use his full strength, after these few slaps, Huang Yuan's mouth was full of blood.

This kind of thing raised in a greenhouse was no match for a big shot like Chen Jiajun.

He hadn't been tough for long before he was scared.

Thinking Chen Jiajun really intended to beat him to death on the spot, he hurriedly screamed and begged for mercy.

"Trash, you come out to stir up trouble without even asking who the other party is. I really wonder how you've lived this long!" Chen Jiajun smashed his head hard against the ground, then stepped on his face and twisted it a few times.

This caused Huang Yuan so much pain that he let out a scream like a young girl.

"Mr. Chen, isn't this going a bit too far!"

At this moment, a man in a suit walked out.

Chen Jiajun turned his head to look and said coldly: "And what kind of thing are you?"

"I am Kuang Zhili, a Superintendent of the Operations Department." Kuang Zhili walked up to Chen Jiajun, neither humble nor pushy, and said: "Assaulting an ordinary, law-abiding citizen in front of a Police officer—this isn't right, is it, Mr. Chen!"

Hearing this Kuang Zhili's words, Chen Jiajun was amused to the point of anger: "Are you teaching me how to do things now? A mere Superintendent doesn't seem to have the qualifications, does he?"

"According to the Basic Law and the Police Force Ordinance, any Police Constable has the right to intervene when witnessing a violent incident." Kuang Zhili tilted his head and said: "It seems I have that qualification!"

Chen Jiajun suddenly laughed, then punched Huang Yuan again and said provocatively: "I hit him again, what can you do about it?"

Kuang Zhili smiled slightly and said: "Then I can only invite you back to the police station!"

"Is that so? Try it!" Chen Jiajun kicked Huang Yuan, loosened his shoulders, and said: "It's been a long time since I drank coffee at the police station! Back when I was a street thug, I was invited by you Police to drink coffee every three days."

Chen Jiajun never shied away from his background and spoke openly.

After beating Huang Yuan, Chen Jiajun's temper had dissipated quite a bit.

He also realized that something was wrong with this matter.

A Young Master coming from back home who offended him would surely have had someone introduce him to the situation.

Logically speaking, if they weren't asking someone to mediate, they should have left Hong Kong immediately.

To still be lingering in Hong Kong, waiting for him to come knocking, is clearly illogical.

"Sigh, Mr. Chen, don't make things difficult for these underlings!" At this moment, a middle-aged man walked over and said to Chen Jiajun with a chuckle: "The young man doesn't know any better, there's no need to hold it against him!"

Chen Jiajun turned his head to look, and immediately found it amusing: "Huang Bingyao, you old fellow, you're not dead yet!"

"I'm retiring next year!" Huang Bingyao puffed out his big belly, smiling like a Maitreya Buddha.

Who could have imagined that this guy was once the number one fighter in the Police Force, the "Scissors Kick"? Chen Jiajun speechlessly waved his hand and said: "Forget it, since you're here, I'll give you some face!"

Chen Jiajun had some friendship with Huang Bingyao; back in the day, Chen Jiajun also operated within his jurisdiction.

This guy had let him off a few times, and this favor was one Chen Jiajun had to return.

After speaking, Chen Jiajun grabbed Huang Yuan by the hair and lifted him up from the ground, saying: "Kid, I'll give you one day. Play whatever games you want with me! Call people, have your family come find trouble for me, whatever! But after one day, you'd better get out of Hong Kong. If you're a day late, I'll have you lose one of your body parts! Did you hear me clearly?"

"Heard... heard it clearly!" Huang Yuan didn't dare to talk nonsense now, nodding his head like a bobblehead as he hurriedly spoke.

After throwing Huang Yuan out like trash.

Chen Jiajun turned around and walked away directly.

However, before leaving, Chen Jiajun said to Kuang Zhili: "Kid, go back and tell the people behind you that you are on my blacklist! Since you want to play, I'll play along with you properly!"

Saying this, Chen Jiajun led his people away with a flourish.

With such an interlude, the Investment Promotion Bureau's cocktail party could no longer continue.

The people from the Investment Promotion Bureau immediately sent Huang Yuan to the hospital.

The aftershocks of this incident were also taking effect; Chen Jiajun beating Huang Yuan in public served as a harsh reminder to those officials who were fawning over this Young Master Huang.

Therefore, within the day, many investors, including the Li Family, withdrew their investments one after another.

The Investment Promotion Bureau panicked on the spot; the current situation was that not only had they failed to secure any investment, but they had also severely offended a business tycoon like Chen Jiajun.

This caused the Chinese Chamber of Commerce, which had originally been in close cooperation with the mainland, to encounter all sorts of problems. After all, everyone knew that Huo Yingnan wanted to hand over the position of the next chairman of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce to Chen Jiajun.

As for Chen Jiajun, he didn't even put someone of Huang Yuan's caliber in his eyes.

Today's incident made Chen Jiajun realize that Huang Yuan was just a front.

Just a fool being used by others.

The person truly in charge was hiding in the background and had not shown their face.

"Investigate for me, who exactly is pushing this behind Huang Yuan!" Chen Jiajun issued an order to the people in the Information Department.

Just as he finished speaking, Huo Yingnan came looking for him: "You kid, you actually went over to beat someone up!"

Chen Jiajun spread his hands and said: "Nan Ge, this is someone testing me! That fool Huang Yuan is just a pawn."

"Hmm?" Hearing Chen Jiajun's words, Huo Yingnan's expression immediately turned gloomy: "Who is it?"

Chen Jiajun shook his head and said: "I don't know yet, but these guys' methods are very clever! Pushing a fool like Huang Yuan out to challenge me, just to test me out!"

Huo Yingnan asked with some concern: "What do you plan to do?"

Chen Jiajun sneered and said: "That depends on whether this Young Master Huang is smart enough. If he's smart enough, he should roll back to the mainland now, so I won't have an excuse to strike at him again! If he's stupid, then some things can't be blamed on me!"

"Tsk, you kid..." Huo Yingnan originally wanted to say something more, but seeing the look in Chen Jiajun's eyes, he said quite helplessly: "Alright, alright! I'll try my best to mediate for you, don't make things too stiff!"

Chen Jiajun sneered and said: "That depends on whether this kid knows what's good for him!"

In the hospital, Huang Yuan regained consciousness.

The intense pain all over his body made him unable to stop sobbing, just like a woman.

The official from the Investment Promotion Bureau was completely at a loss now, constantly making phone calls to report the incident to his superiors.

"How could it end up like this? What are you people good for?" The superior official blasted the people from the Investment Promotion Bureau.

This made the official from the Investment Promotion Bureau feel extremely aggrieved: "Leader, it's not like you don't know what kind of person that kid from the Huang Family is; can we control him? Now that we've offended Chen Jiajun, no one in Hong Kong dares to invest! All our plans have gone down the drain!"

Hearing this, the leader of the Investment Promotion Bureau felt as if he had been struck on the head with a club, and he said sternly: "What did you say? Which Hong Kong businessmen have withdrawn their capital?"

"That's right, everyone has withdrawn!" The official from the Investment Promotion Bureau said helplessly: "Offending Chen Jiajun here in Hong Kong—do you think those Hong Kong businessmen will look at it? Even if they aren't on his side, seeing us cause so much trouble, who would dare to invest!"

"You... you trash!" The leader of the Investment Promotion Bureau was so angry he couldn't speak for a moment.

He regretted it immensely in his heart; had he known that this brat Huang Yuan could cause so much trouble, he would never have let him into the Investment Promotion Bureau's team in the first place.

"By the way, Leader, Huang Yuan was beaten into the hospital by Chen Jiajun himself, and he is currently undergoing treatment." The person from the Investment Promotion Bureau added.

Then, the sound of a table being slammed came from the other end of the phone: "Are you people sick? Why did you let that kid offend Chen Jiajun? What on earth did you do?"

Cold sweat broke out on the official from the Investment Promotion Bureau as he recounted the whole sequence of events.

At this point, the leader of the Investment Promotion Bureau simply gave up: "Don't worry about that kid Huang Yuan anymore. This matter has nothing to do with us. Let the Huang Family solve this; you stay out of it!"

After speaking, the leader of the Investment Promotion Bureau decisively hung up the phone.

Subsequently, in the hospital room, one could hear Huang Yuan's miserable crying, seemingly sobbing as he complained to someone.

Leaning in to look, it was discovered that the Huang Family had sent people over.

The official from the Investment Promotion Bureau breathed a sigh of relief on the spot and said to his subordinates: "Let's go, this has nothing to do with us. If anyone asks, don't embellish anything, just say what you saw, understand?"

Inside the hospital room, several men in suits looked at the bruised and swollen Huang Yuan on the hospital bed, smoking in silence.

No one had expected things to develop to this point.

Huang Yuan was sobbing as he complained to his family, saying how arrogant and overbearing Chen Jiajun was.

But the people from the Huang Family were not stupid; they had long since asked the people from the Investment Promotion Bureau about the course of events.

Flirting with someone's wife and getting beaten like this—if this got out, the Huang Family would have no face left.

"What wife? That's just an actress! Just a whore!"

Huang Yuan roared at his family.

"Shut your mouth, you fool!" At this moment, a middle-aged man scolded Huang Yuan: "If it weren't for your grandfather lowering himself to ask us, I wouldn't care if a fool like you died! What kind of place do you think this is? Who do you think Chen Jiajun is!"

The middle-aged man was Huang Yuan's uncle, and also the president of a company.

Huang Yuan was still a bit unconvinced and said unhappily: "Isn't he just a gangster? What's the big deal!"

"You..." Huang Yuan's uncle was so angry he laughed, and said coldly: "Just a gangster? Whose gangster has assets of over a hundred billion US dollars? Whose gangster can manage a multinational corporation spanning the three major regions of Asia, Europe, and the Americas? Whose gangster can join the United States' California Consortium as a Huaxia person? Whose gangster dares to charge into the lair of drug lords in a place like Colombia and slaughter the drug lords themselves?"

"Ah?" Huang Yuan was dumbfounded the moment he heard his uncle say this.

He was truly an idiot; he had only heard that Chen Jiajun was a gangster from Hong Kong.

He had absolutely no realization of what kind of person he had provoked.

Huang Yuan's uncle continued: "Do you know that when Hong Kong returned, it was Chen Jiajun who accompanied the elders of the family into the banquet hall? Do you know that because of you, this idiot, acting recklessly in Hong Kong, a large amount of investment from the Investment Promotion Bureau has been left with nowhere to go?"

"I am telling you, if this matter is not handled well, after you go back, it is possible your grandfather will execute you with his own hands!"

Hearing what his uncle said, Huang Yuan finally panicked: "This... what do I do!"

"What do you do? We still have some face; it is still possible to plead for you!" Huang Yuan's uncle said irritably.

But Huang Yuan's expression became somewhat unnatural at this moment.

This naturally could not be hidden from a shrewd person like Huang Yuan's uncle; he immediately had an ominous feeling and asked with a trembling voice: "What did you, this idiot, do again?"

Huang Yuan could only bite the bullet and say: "Just now, the Hong Kong Police came to find me, saying they could help me handle this matter!"

"You... you stupid pig!" Huang Yuan's uncle was almost angered to death; disregarding Huang Yuan lying on the hospital bed, he raised his hand and slapped him again.

Originally, relying on the face of the Huang family, as long as the etiquette was done properly, and by pulling in Huaxia merchants like Huo Yingnan to persuade, it might have been resolved by setting up a few tables of wine and offering an apology.

But he did not expect Huang Yuan to be so stupid that he didn't even know he had been used as a knife for others.

Now it was completely troublesome!...

Police Station, the Commissioner's office.

After Cai Yuanqi took office, he had always been conventional, with nothing special and no mistakes, appearing to be a quite mediocre Commissioner of Police.

There was no problem with safely muddling through until his term ended.

But Cai Yuanqi himself was not simple; he was originally from a wealthy merchant family in Hong Kong, had once studied abroad at the University of Exeter in England, and had served in England's government departments afterward.

He was tied very closely to England.

It was only when news spread that Hong Kong would return that Cai Yuanqi quickly untied himself.

And he cleanly and decisively cut off all contact with the Gweilo of England, and even those classmates had no further contact.

Logically speaking, a person with such a background definitely could not hold such an important position as Commissioner.

But he had the support of the Hong Kong Local Faction.

The old home side did not want to sour relations with the Hong Kong Local Faction right from the start, so it counted as appeasing these Local Faction people. Secondly, they did not want to appear too aggressive upon first arriving.

So they went with the flow and put Cai Yuanqi in this position.

Cai Yuanqi heard the report from his subordinate and immediately laughed, saying to Kuang Zhili: "Do you have the guts to go to Chen Jiajun's residence?"

Kuang Zhili was silent for a moment, and said to Cai Yuanqi: "Are we really going to move against Chen Jiajun?"

"Heh heh, Chen Jiajun's foundation in Hong Kong is deep-rooted; how could we possibly shake this Great Buddha?" Cai Yuanqi said with quite a bit of self-awareness: "We are just putting on a show for others!"

Kuang Zhili immediately understood the ins and outs of it, took a deep breath, and said: "Good!"

Cai Yuanqi smiled, patted Kuang Zhili on the shoulder, and said: "Rest assured, as long as Chen Jiajun is a smart person, he won't touch you!"

Kuang Zhili nodded and immediately headed to the Operations Department to prepare to take people to do the job.

Although Kuang Zhili did a good job of keeping things secret, in the Operations Department, Wen Bin was the boss.

Even the Deputy Minister of the Operations Department was not as effective as a single word from Wen Bin, and very soon Wen Bin received the news. (End of chapter)