Chapter 256: Not Accepting Mediation

Some things, when spoken of, are really quite speechless.

When Li Bancheng became the richest Chinese person in Hong Kong, his net worth was probably just over thirty billion.

That's right, having a net worth of ten billion in the eighties basically meant one could become one of the top ten richest Chinese people.

Of course, this was also very exaggerated.

It was also in the nineties, especially after 1997, that Li Bancheng's net worth began to expand rapidly, easily breaking the hundred-billion mark.

The families of the top ten richest Chinese people in Hong Kong were basically in the same situation.

Around the year 2000, their net worths all broke the hundred-billion mark!

Was it because Hong Kong's economy suddenly exploded that these rich Chinese people's net worths expanded rapidly like a snowball?

The facts clearly were not so!

The reason why the net worth of Hong Kong's top tycoons expanded rapidly was naturally inseparable from the rapid development of the Mainland's economy.

And the business of Macau's casinos also began to soar along with the development of the Mainland's economy!

Not to mention anything else, the reason why the net worth of that big boss in Macau could keep up with the increase in the net worth of Hong Kong's top Chinese tycoons was inseparable from the increasingly wealthy people in the Mainland.

Sometimes, facts are just this unpleasant!

After all, although Macau was known as the gambling city of the East, the number of gamblers it could attract and the amount of funds were limited; one couldn't rely entirely on the wealthy people of Hong Kong and Macau, right?

People aren't stupid either; how could they let Macau's casinos suck their blood continuously?

In his previous life, Wu Feng's home was in a unit family compound.

He remembered very clearly that it seemed to be around 1997 and 1998 that the small county suddenly blew a crooked wind of opening family mahjong parlors.

At that time, the compound had fifty households, but five or six of them opened family mahjong parlors.

Three years later, there were still three family mahjong parlors left, and their daily business was quite good.

What was exaggerated was that every time the New Year arrived, the owners of these three mahjong parlors would spend all day visiting the compound to collect debts; almost every family had debts at the mahjong parlors.

Ten years later, the two mahjong parlors that were still standing strong had bought two sets of boutique commercial housing outside, and also bought a substitute car worth over a hundred thousand, which was quite eye-catching in the compound.

As for the other families in the compound, their lives were quite ordinary.

Unless they had other high incomes, let alone buying houses and cars, even renovating their old houses was something they would slowly struggle with on a yearly basis.

Those two families running mahjong parlors had probably been cursed by other families in the compound countless times in private.

They were all in the same unit; who didn't know who?

Other families were living ordinary lives, but you guys had the money to buy houses and cars; where did this money come from?

Wasn't it all earned from other families in the compound through the mahjong parlors' rake?

Twenty years later, those old employees in the compound hadn't left much money in their hands.

If their children hadn't made a name for themselves outside, they basically could only live a plain life with their parents in the compound that could be seen to the end at a glance.

Those two family mahjong parlors were still open at that time.

Only those old employees who were used to it were still willing to play cards there to kill time.

As for the young people who came out of the compound, they didn't have any good feelings toward these two mahjong parlors, not to mention deep hatred; they almost pinned the reasons for their family's lack of success on the mahjong parlors.

The residents of Hong Kong and Macau were in a similar situation regarding Macau's casinos.

It wasn't difficult to make money and get rich, but it was a bit difficult to use this to maintain the status of a top Chinese tycoon; did they really think the wealthy people in Hong Kong and Macau were all gamblers?

Clearly, with the development of the Mainland's economy, the tycoons from the Mainland were the fresh blood for Macau's casinos to make a fortune, the kind that could continue to be eaten for many years.

In fact, in order to better earn money from wealthy people in the Mainland, that man in Macau was quite active.

Learning from the Mainland to develop special zones, this man in Macau responded actively, and then opened a casino in Sinuiju, North Korea, specifically for Mainland people.

It was just right to be in the south and north of Macau's casinos, absorbing Mainland gamblers as much as possible.

Some people and some things really cannot be investigated deeply!

If the time had reached the nineties, Wu Feng would definitely not come to Yangcheng to do such things.

At that time, going to Macau to gamble and have a good time had already become a hobby for some wealthy people in the Mainland.

Of course, going to Macau didn't necessarily mean gambling; there was another choice, which was money laundering!

In the news of the future, there were rumors from time to time about some Mainland visitor losing so much in one night in Macau, and the authenticity of it was worth considering.

What really made Macau's casinos explode completely was the prevalence of online gambling.

Any so-called big boss who rose up by relying on stacking chips could involve amounts in the hundred-billion level.

Of course, at that time in Macau, that big boss just had a nice name.

The actual distribution of interests was no longer his to lead.

At the current time, the relationship between wealthy people in the Mainland and Macau was not close.

Some forces also did not participate in the distribution of interests in Macau.

Therefore, Wu Feng came to Yangcheng!

Through the matchmaking of Chairman Liao of the Yindu Institution, he successfully contacted the discipline-related departments and then tentatively began to cooperate.

Anyway, having Hong Hing underlings responsible for keeping an eye on them, and television station location reporters taking photos from time to time, was already enough for now.

As for how long such cooperation could be maintained, Wu Feng didn't care much!

At most five years; there were some things he couldn't stop, and that wasn't a small problem of offending people.

But even so, Wu Feng basically achieved his goal.

Once gambling ships gradually became popular, they would naturally divert Macau's customer flow.

What Wu Feng wanted to do was actually very simple: he didn't want that man in Macau to rely on the dividends brought by the development of the Mainland's economy and lie down to make money.

In private, it wasn't that there were no entities from the Mainland wanting to be peacemakers.

Wu Feng's attitude was very firm: "In fact, I have already been quite restrained!"

"They have already sent people to want to do things, and I didn't implement equal retaliation at the first time; that can already be considered quite magnanimous!"

"In fact, this can also be considered as giving face to the Mainland side; I didn't intend to disrupt the order in Macau!"

"If it were in Europe or America, it would be either a dump truck or a dirt plane sent over, or at worst, a wave of firearm team raids, right?"

"I didn't think about that man in Macau actively admitting defeat; that's an impossible thing. After 1988 passes safely, the matter basically won't count for much!"

"There are some things we didn't dig deep into, but that doesn't mean we don't have such ability. The matter of pirates is quite taboo no matter where it is placed. Once there is conclusive evidence, the consequences won't be something that man can bear. That's all I have to say!"

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