Chapter 296: Who Doesn't Know How to Disgust People? (Seeking Monthly Votes)

"Ever since Li Bancheng took control of Hong Kong Electric and bought out the Number Six Wharf in Kuaiqing, he has completely established his momentum!"

Li Xin imitated Wu Feng's tone of voice and spoke eloquently: "I reckon you Big Brothers aren't too keen on getting into a direct conflict with the Li family, so let's just disgust them for a bit first!"

What people fear most about Li Bancheng is not his own strength, but the HSBC Bank behind him, and the powerful energy that HSBC Bank represents.

HSBC is known as the supreme ruler of Hong Kong, and that is not just talk.

Li Bancheng is the white glove pushed forward by HSBC Bank.

His predecessor was Bao Chuanwang, whose body had already developed major problems!

If not for the full support of HSBC Bank, it would have taken Li Bancheng at least another five to ten years of effort to become a top-tier tycoon among the Chinese in Hong Kong.

Anyone in Hong Kong with any real power knows exactly what happened when Li Bancheng "swallowed the elephant" to take over Hutchison Whampoa back in the day!

Anyone who believes the rumors outside and truly thinks Li Bancheng relied on normal business methods to take over Hutchison Whampoa must have something wrong with their brain.

In later web novels, among the genre of stories about being reborn in Hong Kong to do business, only the early ones had plots where the protagonist snatched Hutchison Whampoa from Li Bancheng.

In later Hong Kong business rebirth novels, very few authors write like that anymore.

There is no other reason; everyone knows the score in their hearts!

Rather than saying Li Bancheng's business methods are formidable, it is better to say that HSBC Bank directly handed Hutchison Whampoa over to Li Bancheng to manage.

In fact, HSBC Bank also relied on a group of Chinese tycoons while grasping the pulse of the era, which is how they suppressed the other old-fashioned foreign firms in Hong Kong and became the undisputed supreme ruler of Hong Kong.

Only one certain officialdom novel is more reliable, where they participated in the struggle through state power and, combined with a series of preemptive moves, managed to take over Hutchison Whampoa a step ahead of time.

Li Bancheng has developed to this point, and has basically stabilized his position as the number one Chinese tycoon in Hong Kong.

As mentioned earlier, this is not just the result of his own outstanding business ability and excellent management skills, but also the result of the HSBC Bank faction behind him fanning the flames.

The title of the richest Chinese in Hong Kong can help the HSBC faction do many things.

Especially being able to transfer large amounts of Chinese capital from Bangkok Bank over to HSBC Bank.

In short, in one sentence: Li Bancheng is truly not someone to be trifled with.

If they were to fight him head-on, it is highly probable that many societies would suffer a huge loss!

But if they just want to disgust him, that is not much of a problem.

Li Xin threw out a story directly and let the Dragon Heads and sitting bosses present look it over.

After they had read it, he smiled lightly: "In the name of all our societies, let's film this story into a movie and then screen it on a large scale!"

"It's just disgusting someone, as if no one else knows how to do it?"

Luotuo, Deng Bo, and the other Dragon Heads and sitting bosses looked at each other with strange expressions.

"This idea is indeed not bad, and it can at least disgust someone!"

"What else do you want to do, go head-to-head with the Li family? I reckon your old bones couldn't handle it!"

"Indeed, this is the only way; let's vent some of this pent-up anger first!"

"Hehe, these rich people are probably most afraid of this!"

"That's the only way; if we don't do anything, I reckon we won't have much of an appetite for a while to come!"

"Hmph, let's do it this way for now; I hope the Li father and son will like it!"

"..."

Once the Dragon Heads and sitting bosses had decided, they immediately took action.

Many directors in Hong Kong have experience in shooting this type of crime movie and can do it well.

But if you ask who shoots it the best, it should be Mak Tong-hung.

The "Long Arm of the Law" series this guy filmed is quite famous and also has quite a realistic touch.

Not only that, this guy has a very close relationship with the societies.

Otherwise, he wouldn't have dared to be so unscrupulous when filming movies, even almost burning someone alive in a car, and the actor didn't dare to cause him trouble afterward.

Mak Tong-hung, having accepted the task, did not dare to show any arrogant or unruly attitude.

With so many society Dragon Heads and sitting bosses watching, if he let even the slightest bit of dissatisfaction show, the result waiting for him would definitely not be good.

Fortunately, the story Li Xin gave was quite complete; as long as he filmed according to the plot threads, it was basically OK, and there was no need to spend any extra thought.

Hong Kong filmmakers are also famous for being extremely fast at shooting and producing movies.

It took a mere twenty days for the movie to be completed and to start screening on a large scale.

This time, the many Dragon Heads and sitting bosses wanted to disgust someone through the movie, so this movie, "The Shocking Kidnapping Case," was screened in almost all of Hong Kong's mainstream cinema chains simultaneously.

As soon as the movie was released, it caused a huge sensation!

The movie's plot itself was very engaging, and the audience watched it with great interest.

In addition, the content of the movie was clearly targeting a certain Young Master Li; every audience member who saw the clues was excited, as if they had just eaten a big piece of gossip.

There was no need for the Dragon Heads and sitting bosses to mobilize their power; because of the viewing craze, various entertainment newspapers took the initiative to follow up with reports, making the movie's influence and fame spread across all of Hong Kong at once.

Young Master Li had been feeling a bit baffled over the last few days.

Whether attending gatherings with friends of his own age or working at the company, it seemed that the way others looked at him had a somewhat strange meaning.

It felt to him as if they were looking at a monkey in a zoo, which made him feel very uncomfortable.

But for the moment, he didn't know what had happened, and he couldn't just get angry for no reason, right?

It wasn't until his dear younger brother called him to reveal the answer that he knew what was going on.

Just thinking about his dear younger brother laughing gloatingly on the other end of the receiver gave him the urge to hit someone; it was just too disrespectful to him as an older brother.

Before getting off work, he did a little disguise and ran straight to the nearest cinema to watch the movie.

The one he chose was, naturally, the movie his dear younger brother had told him about, "The Shocking Kidnapping Case."

When the movie started and he saw the plot inside, Young Master Li's face gradually turned ugly.

In fact, the movie plot was actually very simple and not complicated at all.

It was just a group of Big Circle Boys who had no stable source of income in Hong Kong, so they could only engage in "zero-dollar shopping," robbing gold shops and watch shops, and selling the goods through the black market to make money.

These Big Circle Boys live a life of licking blood off a blade.

It's just that they are ruthless, but the local Hong Kong triad members responsible for handling stolen goods are even more ruthless.

For the various gold jewelry and expensive watches they rob, they are only willing to pay thirty percent of the market price to acquire them.

In other words, even if the Big Circle Boys manage to rob goods worth two million with great difficulty, the money they can actually get their hands on through the black market is only about six hundred thousand.

For the Big Circle Boys who hang their heads on their trouser belts, this is naturally far too little.

From the six hundred thousand in earnings, they still have to split it into several shares, with each person getting at most a little over one hundred thousand.

Even from this hundred-thousand-plus, they still have to deduct the costs of previously purchased firearms and ammunition, as well as medical expenses after getting injured; having three to five thousand left to spend at the end is already quite good.

This kind of "zero-dollar shopping" model is clearly very unfriendly to the Big Circle Boys.

But they have no other ways to get rich, until they saw a news report, and suddenly their minds were opened.

The content of that news report happened to be about a top tycoon in Hong Kong being kidnapped, and his family finally spending ten million Dollars to safely ransom him back.

At that time, the Big Circle Boys watching the television were stunned, and for a moment, they didn't know what to say.

Damn it, they hang their heads on their trouser belts and work themselves to the bone just to earn a few tens of thousands or a hundred thousand.

Yet someone else can easily pocket ten million Dollars in a single kidnapping; it simply makes them feel ashamed to show their faces.

At the same time, they were also very confused; could it be that the tycoons of Hong Kong are so easy to kidnap?

Then, the tycoon who had just been ransomed back on the television expressed his views to the reporters, which deeply shocked the Big Circle Boys, making them wonder if this guy had something wrong with his brain.

Things like how the cost of hiring bodyguards is high, and that since he pays taxes to the Hong Kong government, the police should protect his safety, and so on.

At that moment, a Big Circle Boy watching the television couldn't help it and spoke up, mocking, "Does this guy have something wrong with his brain? How could he say such childish things?"

"Isn't Hong Kong the same kind of place as the Shanghai Bund during the Republic of China era?"

"Back then, the wealthy people who hung around the Shanghai Bund concessions would have to be brain-damaged to entrust their own safety to the concession police station. I don't know how this tycoon managed to get to where he is today."

This plot point could be considered a well-intentioned reminder from Wu Feng.

In normal history, a certain top Hong Kong tycoon was kidnapped and eventually went missing; the time seems to be next year?

If seeing this plot in this movie leads to some changes, that would naturally be for the best.

That's right, the story Li Xin brought out was given to him by Wu Feng.

The subsequent plot of the movie is that these Big Circle Boys plan to learn from advanced "money-making" experiences and switch professions to become kidnappers, with the first target selected being the eldest son of the richest Chinese man in Hong Kong.

Of course, the richest Chinese man in Hong Kong in the movie is not surnamed Li, but those who know, know.

With the prepared catching the unprepared, the eldest son of the richest man soon fell into the hands of the kidnappers.

The following plot is how the eldest son of the richest man suffers in the hands of the kidnappers, and how the kidnappers go directly to the richest man's home to demand money.

These plot points naturally learned from the methods of a certain legendary king of thieves that hadn't been pulled off yet.

In short, the so-called eldest son of the richest man in the movie is nothing special.

If there are ruthless people in the underworld determined to target someone, wanting to kidnap or even commit other illegal acts is not a difficult task; it's just a matter of whether one can bear the consequences.

Anyway, when Young Master Li saw this plot, a thin layer of cold sweat couldn't help but break out on his back.

What made him feel most uncomfortable, or rather, what filled him with fear, was the plot where, after the eldest son of the richest man in the movie was kidnapped, his own younger brother's various actions and the purpose behind them were revealed.

He looks very concerned about his own brother's safety, but the things he does and his negotiations with the kidnappers intentionally or unintentionally irritate the kidnappers' nerves.

Seeing this, he naturally subconsciously projected himself into it, feeling a bit of empathy.

Although the eldest son of the richest man was safely ransomed back at the end of the movie, Young Master Li, who was watching, could not calm down for a long time, his mood turbulent and very uncomfortable.

His first reaction was that the movie was filmed quite well; at least he could get into it.

Then came rage; this movie is a blatant reflection, isn't it? Did it really think he couldn't tell?

(End of this chapter)