Chapter 279: Someone is Making Trouble (Seeking Monthly Votes)

Someone wants to call a halt to the lottery event!

Starting from the second day after the lottery event began, Wu Feng heard such rumors one after another.

No one said it to his face; it was content relayed by some "friends."

"Heh, I've been guarding against this move for a long time!"

Wu Feng sneered and immediately instructed his media platforms to focus their reporting on the "Public Welfare Promotion Event," doing their best to downplay the fervor of the lottery.

Consequently, from the second day of the lottery, Asia Television's news programs, along with several newspapers led by *Mong Kok News*, shifted their primary focus to the elderly women and aunties in the public housing estates.

The television station dispatched location reporters and cameramen to follow and report on how the elderly women and aunties in the public housing estates were organized by Hung Hing members to participate in the "Public Welfare Promotion Event" together.

With the New Year approaching, watching the elderly women and aunties on TV go to the wet markets, fish stalls, and various general stores to go on shopping sprees was actually quite interesting and stress-relieving.

The newspapers also used various joyful writing styles to describe the liveliness of the "Public Welfare Promotion Event."

The impression given was that Hung Hing was doing charity!

Through television and newspaper reports, the charity work Hung Hing was doing was actually quite credible!

As for the lottery event, they tried their best not to report on it or pay it any mind, acting as if it didn't exist.

In fact, the lottery event was getting more explosive by the day!

Just because the media platforms under Wu Feng didn't report on it didn't mean other newspapers wouldn't.

Every day, prizes with a wholesale value of nearly 30 to 40 million flowed out, causing quite a massive stir.

"I don't know which bastard is actually doing something like this!"

What Wu Feng knew, the other core members of the lottery organizers knew just as quickly.

On the surface, they were just annoyed, but in private, even Jiang Tiansheng couldn't help but want to curse out loud.

In his view, it was just someone who was green with envy and couldn't stand to see them doing well.

Of course, the fact that the lottery's cash flow was becoming more exaggerated by the day might also be the main reason it attracted the covetousness of certain people; that was how he understood it.

After all, the lottery ticket sales on the second day alone approached 500 million.

By the third day, it had directly broken through the 500 million mark!

Such a staggering figure made even the core members of the organizing committee feel it was unreal.

All parties involved were feeling quite excited.

Such massive cash flow and revenue represented far too many things.

The most direct were the subsequent profit shares, followed by the sudden increase in effective connections, as well as political achievements and massive exposure opportunities; these were all extremely precious resources.

"I reckon it's because we've touched the interests of certain people and factions!"

Wu Feng sneered as he spoke: "After all, the residents of Hong Kong only have so much money in their pockets; if we absorb too much, the profits for others will decrease!"

"Does Ah Feng mean the side in Macau?"

Jiang Tiansheng immediately thought of the most likely Black Hand behind the scenes.

"Whether that person in Macau has made a move, I'm not sure!"

Wu Feng chuckled: "But it is an indisputable fact that ever since the lottery event started, the Gambling Halls over in Macau have suffered a massive impact!"

Upon hearing this, Jiang Tiansheng, who had been full of anger, suddenly revealed a look of schadenfreude.

He wasn't sure about other Gambling Halls in Macau, but it was an indisputable fact that the daily cash flow of the Gambling Hall in Hung Hing's hands, whose contract was about to expire, had been cut in half.

Originally, this Gambling Hall had a daily cash flow of several million.

But after the lottery event started, the cash flow wasn't even half of that.

With cash flow like that, the Gambling Hall's profits were already quite meager; dreaming of making big money was just that—a dream.

It was estimated that even after the lottery event in Hong Kong ended, the Gambling Hall would need a long time to slowly recover, and whether it could return to normal levels was hard to say.

However, Hung Hing didn't care!

Once the New Year passed and the contract expired, Hung Hing had no intention of renewing it.

The King of Gambling had already expressed his stance, and there was basically no room for negotiation on this matter.

No wonder Lei Gong of the San Luen Gang in the movie wanted to buy the operating rights of the Gambling Hall in Hung Hing's hands for one million Dollar; at the time, he felt like that old guy might have lost his mind.

Wu Feng didn't understand the specific operating conditions of the Gambling Hall at that time and subconsciously felt that the Gambling Hall in Hung Hing's hands must have had annual revenues in the hundreds of millions.

Yet Lei Gong wanted to take it for one million Dollar; it was simply a classic example of forced buying and selling!

Thinking about it, the plot felt problematic; the fact that the San Luen Gang could force the number one triad in Hong Kong to make concessions felt absurd to the audience.

Now he knew that Lei Gong of the San Luen Gang was just driving the price down.

If the Gambling Hall over there wasn't managed well, it would also suffer losses.

"It's a pity that such an event only lasts for ten days!"

Jiang Tiansheng said with regret: "If it could continue after the New Year, I'd be fine with it even if it didn't make money!"

"How is that possible?"

Wu Feng said amusedly: "The Hong Kong Dollar in the pockets of Hong Kong residents is also limited!"

"If an event like ours continues, the top tycoons in other industries will have objections!"

"Besides, those ghosts from the Hong Kong British Government wouldn't agree either!"

"Harvesting the leeks is fine if we outsiders can sneak in a chance once, but how could they possibly let us continue to drain the wallets of Hong Kong residents?"

Hearing this, Jiang Tiansheng was stunned for a moment, and then his expression turned ugly.

Wu Feng's words reminded him that Hong Kong was still currently run by the ghosts.

"Are there any other factions or people who want to terminate our lottery event?"

However, he quickly adjusted himself, changed the subject, and asked curiously: "If it were just that person in Macau, it wouldn't be enough for us to hear rumors about it so quickly!"

"That's for sure!"

Wu Feng chuckled and said leisurely: "Mr. Jiang, you only need to take a look at those large supermarkets in the bustling areas of Yau Tsim Mong to know just how massive the influence of the event we've created really is!"

"How about it, has our activity affected the business of those big supermarkets?"

Hearing this, Jiang Tiansheng's expression changed slightly, and he asked in disbelief, "That's not very likely, is it?"

But seeing Wu Feng's expression, his heart could not help but sink slightly.

He was truly shocked!

If what Wu Feng said was true, then they had truly offended Li Bancheng and the extremely powerful capital from Japan without meaning to.

The supermarket market in Hong Kong was currently dominated by two large chain supermarkets.

One was opened by Li Bancheng, and the other was controlled by capital from Japan.

It could be said that these two hegemon-level supermarket chain groups were absolute cash cows, with daily turnovers in the hundreds of millions.

Even the supermarket hegemons from the United States that ran rampant across the world, Walmart and Carrefour, had suffered major setbacks at the hands of Li Bancheng and could not gain a foothold at all, which showed the degree of importance Li Bancheng placed on his chain supermarket groups!

(End of this chapter)