Spring 2009.
The mainland launched a RMB 4 trillion economic stimulus policy, and massive funds poured into Hong Kong.
Leading stocks including Evergrande, Tencent, Ping An of China, HSBC Holdings, and Industrial and Commercial Bank of China rose across the board, and the Hang Seng Index also rose sharply.
Following the 2008 stock market crash, the Hong Kong stock market bull market has arrived.
After more than half a month of preparatory work, Zhiyuan Investment Management Company started operations. Lin Yue spent more than two months traveling to the Cayman Islands, Liechtenstein, Singapore, Switzerland, and Canada to establish several highly confidential and highly flexible companies.
Offshore companies and trust funds.
Billions of funds are circulating in the account chain, and financial business is carried out around the world.
Autumn 2009.
HK, Southern Islands, Hilltop Villa.
There is an ink painting hanging on the east wall of the study, with green mountains surrounded by mist, winding paths leading to secluded areas, fishermen boating in the distance, woodcutters walking slowly near the pavilion, scholars talking loudly in the pavilion, and cultivators outside the pavilion busy with their work.
On the wooden table opposite the ink painting, an old man who looked about 70 years old opened his laptop, inserted the white USB flash drive into the USB interface, selected the only video file in the pop-up window, and double-clicked the mouse.
When the player starts, what appears in front of you is a video image that shakes up and down, with people wearing prison uniforms inside.
"What do you want to do? I told you not to mess around."
"Old man, brother, I'm in a good mood today. I came here to play with you. Don't be so stingy?"
"If you come here again, I'll call the prison guard."
"Shout, look..."
"..."
As the progress bar continues to move forward, the face of the only viewer of the video becomes increasingly ugly.
At this moment, the mobile phone next to him lit up and buzzed non-stop. There was no name or number on the screen, only an incoming call icon that kept flashing.
He picked it up and put it to his ear.
"Hello."
"Uncle Tong, I am Sima Nianzu."
"Azu? Brother Xiang's son Azu? Why did you remember to call your uncle today?"
"You've received the USB flash drive, aren't you surprised to see what's inside?"
"Oh, Brother Xiang is suffering in there!"
"Uncle Tong, I have to say thank you here on behalf of my father. If it hadn't happened that day, maybe he still hasn't made up his mind to give me the things."
"Azu, what are you talking about?"
"Uncle Tong, stop pretending. You know my dad has a booklet in his hand, which records your insider trading in the stock market over the years. As long as you hand it over to the ICAC, we will divide the land among the landlords.
La."
"Azu, please don't act recklessly, it won't be good for anyone."
"Benefits? My dad went to jail for your crimes. Not only did you swallow up his business, but you also bribed people in prison to kill him. If my mother hadn't been so careful, my dad would have gone too far by now."
"Azu, that's not the case. Listen to me and explain to you."
"I don't want to hear your explanation now. I just want to get back what belongs to our Sima family."
After a short silence.
"Tell me, how much do you want?"
"Oh, I don't need the money right now. I want you to use the power of the Landowners Association to help me deal with someone."
"Azu, you know, the landlord is not mine alone..."
"I don't care about that. If you don't agree, then go to jail with my dad."
Toot toot…
There was a quick busy tone on the phone.
Huang Shitong raised his hand and wanted to throw the phone away, but in the end he did not do so.
…
One week later.
The landlord will reserve the room for a long time.
Luo Minsheng, Chen Zhan, Mai Shengyun, Ma Zhuoqun and others gathered together.
Huang Shitong stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling window, looking at Victoria Harbor and the brightly lit Kowloon Peninsula opposite, smoking a cigar.
On the sofa in the back, bald man Lin Rundong squinted his eyes and looked at the looming place where the wine pouring lady was looming.
As a junior, Luo Minsheng stood in the outer circle with a reserved look.
During the Hong Kong stock market crash in 1973, American capital swarmed in like cats that smelled fishy, ​​harvesting the wealth of investors in the market. Many Chinese-owned companies went bankrupt as a result.
At that time, the top brokers Sima Xiang, Huang Shitong, Chen Zhan, Mai Shengyun, Ma Zhuoqun, and Lin Rundong, with the support of local funders, united to attack foreigners and saved many Chinese companies. Since then, they have been renting this room.
, come here once a week to get together, eat, chat, play cards and so on.
After the millennium, someone gave them a nickname, the Landowners' Association.
At the end of 2007, the Independent Commission Against Corruption investigated a market tampering case against the landlords' association. As the oldest member of the landlords' association, Sima Xiang silently shouldered all the charges and was eventually imprisoned in 2008.
It was at this time that Sima Xiang gave up his membership to the "rookie" Luo Minsheng, thus turning a small stock bank manager into a man of influence who could influence the Hong Kong stock market.
“The night view of HK is so beautiful.”
After standing in front of the window for a while, Huang Shitong turned around and winked at Chen Zhan.
Soon, the female waitress who poured the wine and the male waiter waiting at the door took the tips and left.
Huang Shitong walked to the chair facing the door and sat down.
"I called everyone here today because I have something to talk about."
Hearing his unkind tone, everyone sat around the table.
"Brother Xiang's son called me a few days ago, and there was so much complaint in his tone." Huang Shitong glanced at the brothers present: "He said that he had Brother Xiang's account book in his hand, recording what everyone had done over the years.
He asked us to agree to a condition for violating the law, otherwise he would hand over the things to the ICAC and send us all to jail."
After saying this, Chen Zhan and others were all stunned.
"Azu? Isn't he abroad? When did he come back?" Mai Shengyun was the most impatient: "What does he want to do? Blackmail the elders?"
Chen Zhan remained silent, and Lin Rundong and Ma Zhuoqun did not speak either.
Huang Shitong said: "You can't say that. His father helped us take the blame and went to jail. The son will definitely complain."
Ma Zhuoqun, who was wearing a bow tie around his neck, said: "We agreed at the beginning that if something happened, the oldest one would be responsible for it, but now he doesn't do it anymore, what do you think this is?"
"Alas!" Huang Shitong sighed: "It's also our fault as elders for not fulfilling our responsibilities. After Brother Xiang was imprisoned, his stock bank collapsed. Sister-in-law and Azu lost their income, and their lives were difficult."
There was a long silence.
Everyone knows that Huang Shitong robbed Sima Xiang of his resources and connections after he was imprisoned, and now he says such things, which is clearly a cat crying and a mouse pretending to be compassionate, but no one dares to say anything, because the current situation in the landlord association is Huang Shitong.
Dominate.
Mai Shengyun said: "That little bastard Azu is trying to do things like others. Isn't the money Brother Xiang earned enough in the past to be enough for mother and son?"
Chen Zhan tapped the table with his right index finger: "Brother Tong, what does he want us to do?"
"He said he wanted us to use the resources of the Landowners Association to help him deal with a person, but he didn't tell us how to do it. He said he would call us when the time comes."
Mai Shengyun complained: "What on earth is this little bastard planning?"
Lin Rundong retracted his arm that was flat on the table and leaned back: "Brother Tong, what are you going to do?"
Huang Shitong glanced at everyone: "I think... we might as well agree first."
There was another long silence.
It should be said that Azu's request is beneficial to Huang Shitong, but not beneficial to others.
Huang Shitong stole Sima Xiang's business. Logically speaking, he has the obligation to take care of the lives of Azu and Xiang's wife. Now that someone has come to the door and pointed out that they want to use the resources of the landlord association, doesn't it mean that others have to pay for Huang Shitong's mistakes?
However, now everyone is a grasshopper on a rope, and Huang Shitong is the strongest in the landlord association and has senior qualifications. They dare not speak out if they have complaints.
"Why are you looking so full of resentment? What I mean is to agree first and hold Azu back." Huang Shitong said: "I will ask Ajin to find him during this period. Have you met Ajin? I have newly hired him.
The bodyguard used to be a mercenary. He just came back from the Middle East and is very good at tracking target locations."
Chen Zhan said: "Since Brother Tong already has a countermeasure, I don't think anyone will object."
Mai Shengyun said: "Then you must catch him, otherwise what will happen if he asks us to blow up the XX Mansion?"
Huang Shitong put the unfinished cigar into the ashtray next to him: "Ronald, what do you think? You had the best relationship before Brother Xiang came in."
"Uncle Tong." Luo Minsheng said respectfully: "I just got married a year ago and haven't had a child yet. I don't want to go to jail. If Liping runs away with someone, I won't be able to hold my head up for the rest of my life."
Everyone laughed when they heard this.
Mai Shengyun said: "As expected, young people think of women first."
"Well said." Huang Shitong said: "If you go to jail, you will have nothing. What we have to do now is to work together to find Azu. We only need to get the account book and put the mother and son in a safe place.
The place to spend the rest of my life is worthy of Brother Xiang."
Chen Zhan, Mai Shengyun, and Lin Rundong responded in unison.
…
At the same time, in an old building under Victoria Peak on Hong Kong Island.
Sima Nianzu looked at the picture on the monitor and snorted: "You hypocritical old fox."
Lin Yue patted him on the shoulder: "Don't worry, there will be a day when he will pay the price."
Sima Nianzu looked back at him: "Thank you very much for my dad's business."
"You're welcome, everyone gets what they need, it's just a win-win situation."
"But you didn't get the account book."
"It's enough that Huang Shitong knows that there are account books. What's more important is that you made that phone call." Lin Yue pulled up a chair next to him and sat down: "As for people, the more money they have, the more they cherish their lives. Greedy people like Huang Shitong
A vigorous old guy will never gamble with his future."
Sima Nianzu looked at him and said: "A soldier never tires of deceit."
"The older you get, the more afraid you are of death." Lin Yue said with a smile and looked at the Cartier couple watch on his wrist. When his fingers touched the keyboard, a face appeared on the monitor.
"Xiaoxiang, how is the situation over there?"
"Brother Yue, everything is OK." Xiaoxiang in the screen made an OK gesture and pressed the enter key of the notebook.
Chapter completed!