Chapter 489: Someone comes to collect the land fee
The three of them came to Director Yang's house. Director Yang's wife had already received a call from the man, so she came to the kitchen and started working.
However, her cooking skills are that of home-cooked meals, but she is very willing to add oil, salt, soy sauce, MSG, and condiments.
Meals made with oil and ingredients like this smell delicious.
But in this day and age, there are several families who are so willing to add condiments to their meals.
As soon as Su Mingzhe entered the door, he smelled the fragrance in the kitchen, picked up the apron very skillfully, and said with a smile:
"Auntie, when we come here from now on, I will just cook and cook. If you keep taking my job, I will have to bring gifts next time I come over."
"You kid, I've only made two special dishes. The final meal still depends on you."
Director Yang's wife smiled and gave up the power of chef, then looked at Zheng Juan and Wang Yafang, and asked in surprise: "Xiao Su, which of these two girls is your partner?"
"This is my partner Zheng Juan, Juanzi, and this is Wang Yafang, Fangfang."
"Juanzi, Fangfang, come on, let's drink tea in the living room, and leave the kitchen to Xiao Su."
Director Yang saw that Zheng Juan still wanted to roll up her sleeves and go into the kitchen to help, so he quickly pulled her to the living room.
She and Director Yang regarded Su Mingzhe as their nephew, and were used to Su Mingzhe coming into the kitchen to cook for them.
However, Zheng Juan and Wang Yafang were guests for the first time, so they definitely couldn't be allowed to cook.
When it was almost six o'clock, Su Mingzhe had prepared a table full of delicacies, and Director Yang arrived belatedly.
Director Yang washed his hands and invited everyone to sit at the dinner table: "We welcome Juanzi to settle in Mulan County today. Wife, go and open a bottle of red."
"OK."
Director Yang's wife asked Wang Yafang and Zheng Juan to sit down. She smiled brightly and went to get the wine.
On weekdays, when the Yang family invites others to have banquets, they usually drink white wine and rarely red wine.
There is an old saying that goes, ‘No party is complete without wine’.
Chinese people treat people to dinner and drinks. Even two strangers can be called friends after a drink.
Wang Yafang has a good nature, and her initial hostility towards Zheng Juan slowly began to dissipate after a few glasses of wine.
Just as the five of them were enjoying themselves, drinking wine, eating, and singing songs, the incarnation of Xiangjiang received some bad news.
Someone comes to the company to collect the land fee!
The land fee is also the protection fee.
It is a common thing in Xiangjiang for businesses, big or small, to be charged land fees.
Su Mingzhe kept buying properties in Xiangjiang. In order to manage the leasing of these properties, he also opened a Jinlong property company to manage the properties under his name.
It stands to reason that "when in town, do as the Romans do." Since Su Mingzhe was doing business in Xiangjiang, he should follow the trend and pay a land fee to the local snake society.
However, because Su Mingzhe's properties were bought by Lard Boy as a middleman, the big bosses of the society were not sure about Su Mingzhe's background and backing, so they never came to collect the land fees.
Several months passed in the blink of an eye.
A few days ago, New Year's Day passed.
The beginning of the new year is also the day to settle accounts at the end of the year.
Lardboy checked the accounts with several societies and found that Su Mingzhe's Jinlong Property Company had not paid the land fee, so he immediately asked what was going on.
Several big bosses expressed their concerns, but to their surprise, the bastard Lardboy said on the spot that he and "Yesong" were just casual acquaintances and had nothing to do with each other, and that everyone was just doing business.
Lardboy's statement is like giving these associations a shot of blood.
In the past few months, Su Mingzhe purchased more than 20 real estate projects and thousands of street-facing shops.
The real estates and shops are all located in prosperous areas, with a market value of more than one billion, and annual rents of up to tens of millions.
If the rules for collecting land fees are followed, these associations can collect at least nearly one million in land fees from Su Mingzhe's property company.
Therefore, after receiving Lardboy's statement, these society bosses sorted out their accounts, then aggressively ran to the property company and demanded the land fee.
If it's a little bit of money, for example, given to a company like Kwok's Sun Hung Kai and hundreds of thousands of people, the incarnation of Su Mingzhe will be lazy and save the trouble, just pay them some money and send them away.
As a result, I don’t know what these societies thought, but they asked for five million as soon as they opened their mouths.
Currently, there is no such number in the general ledger of Jinlong Properties.
Since they had nothing to do with each other, Su Mingzhe was not prepared to coddle them.
Directly instruct the secretary to notify these societies and ask them to wait for two or three days before coming back.
These club bosses thought that 'Ye Song' was trying to intercede with Lard Boy, so they didn't put it in a difficult position. They said a few harsh words and turned around to leave.
Su Mingzhe returned to Xiangjiang overnight to deal with the matter.
The next day, when Su Mingzhe entered the company, the female secretary Linda ran over nervously:
"Boss, a dozen real estate companies called today, saying they are interested in our property and asking if we have any intention to sell it."
When Su Mingzhe heard this, he knew that those who wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to acquire his real estate were just trying to add insult to injury. He was not in a hurry and calmly came to his boss's chair and asked:
"What companies are there?"
"There are Henderson, Bilian, Lanjiang..."
Linda reported more than a dozen companies at once according to the size of the other company.
"Do we have any dealings with these companies on weekdays?"
Su Mingzhe absorbed the incarnation memory and knew that these dozen companies were backed by police bosses.
For example, the backstage of Henderson is the ghost guy Ge Bai.
The background of Bilian is Xu Legong.
The background of Lan Jiang is Lin Gang.
…
It stands to reason that if you want to add insult to injury, you must get accurate information in advance.
These companies all have the background of police chiefs. Su Mingzhe could easily guess that the one who wanted to start his own business must be a police chief.
If you can't withstand this wave of attacks, there will be a second wave, and even a third wave, and a fourth wave, until these guys swallow all their property.
Su Mingzhe has been around so many world planes and has seen too much about such things.
Usually when encountering this kind of thing, you only need to do two things.
The first thing is to lighten up your muscles.
The second thing is, whoever reaches out will chop off his hand.
"Okay, I know about this. If you call me again, I will reject it directly and say that we have strong funds and will not consider selling the property at all."
After Su Mingzhe gave instructions to his female secretary, he asked her to go out and make phone calls to reject those companies.
After those companies got the news, they all called their backends to report the incident.
I don’t know if it was a coincidence that these big guys were meeting at the police station to discuss the issue of ‘fees’ for the new year.
The original meaning of ‘fees’ refers to various fees collected by the government from all walks of life, which are reasonable and legal income.
However, the ‘regulatory fee’ that everyone is talking about today is actually the ‘top fee’ collected by Lardboy on his behalf, also known as ‘protection fee’.
As Xiangjiang's economic development situation gets better and better, the annual fees are also rising.
Xu Legong, as the setter of 'fees', also needs to work with others to come up with a proper and reasonable plan on this matter.
At this time, after receiving a report from his subordinates that Jinlong Properties refused to sell the property in his hands, Xu Legong felt that he had lost face for the first time and slapped his hand on the table:
"Get rid of your mother, a big gangster comes to Hong Kong and doesn't understand any rules!"
The other police chiefs didn't know the reason yet, so they looked at Xu Legong.
Xu Legong did not hide anything, and directly told Su Mingzhe that he wanted to be an iron-headed doll, and then asked several other Chinese detectives:
"Who's going to deal with him?"
Today's meeting is a high-level meeting. Except for some ghost guys, there are only four Chinese people.
In addition to Xu Legong, the other three Chinese chief detectives are Lin Gang, Wang Tong, and Yan Tong.
The three people looked at each other.
Finally, Yan Tong raised his hand and said:
"Jinlong Property Company is located in West Kowloon. That is my territory. I will handle this matter."
"Then this will trouble Sir Yan."
As the head of the four Chinese chief detectives, Xu Legong cannot do everything himself.
According to the rule of 'Whose area is responsible', this matter should have been solved by Yan Tong.
In order to establish his authority, Yan Tong did not waste any time. He called the boss of the society who had joined him when he left home: "Hey, Boss Zhu, I have something to do here. You can go and take care of it... It's Jinlong Property Company... Just watch."
It’s taken care of...that’s it.”
After Yan Tong called the boss of the society, he thought for a moment and then called the fire and health departments in Kowloon and asked them to send people to the properties owned by Golden Dragon Properties to join in the fun.
Without causing some trouble, how could I have the nerve to open my mouth wide and swallow such a huge cake in one gulp during the negotiations later?
After receiving the call from Yan Tong, Mr. Zhu did not waste any time and quickly dispatched troops to look for trouble at the properties owned by Jinlong Properties.
It's just that they leave the team faster and close the team faster.
I don’t know what happened, but as soon as these horsemen and people from the government entered those buildings, they felt unbearably itchy all over their bodies. When they opened their mouths, they couldn’t help but laugh, as if someone had tapped their laughter acupoints.
To outsiders, these people seem crazy.
Fortunately, a few of these people were smart and ran out to call for help.
At this time, several people with poor cardiopulmonary abilities were laughing so hard that they couldn't breathe, and many people laughed so hard that their jaws were dislocated.
When the ambulance arrived, more than 100 people were sent to the hospital for rescue.
Boss Zhu was very upset when he heard that his subordinates had come to report, and he directly sent several teams to go to several properties under the name of Jinlong Property to cause trouble at the same time.
As a result, no matter how many people Mr. Zhu sent or who he sent, they were all itchy and laughing desperately.
Only then did Boss Zhu feel something was wrong and quickly reported it to Yan Tong.
"Uncle Tong, this matter is a little weird. I feel like I'm being humiliated. How about we find some experts to talk about it?"
"Where in the world can you get a lower head?"
Yan Tong didn't believe a word of what Mr. Zhu said.
However, as time went by, the heads of various government agencies also received news that the subordinates they had discharged were all sick and hospitalized.
All these officials are afraid of death.
Seeing that something was a bit strange, he quickly told Yan Tong about it.
After receiving calls from several people one after another, Yan Tong began to be cautious:
"Pujie, this Jinlong Real Estate really doesn't have a head-turning master, does it?"
Yan Tong is a real villain who "seeks advantages and avoids disadvantages". Seeing that Jinlong Real Estate is so difficult to deal with, he subconsciously prepares to avoid difficulties and wants to pass the blame.
And the only person he can blame can only be Xu Legong, the leader of the four chief detectives.
Xu Legong, as the head of the four major Chinese detectives in Hong Kong in the 1960s and 1970s, was also very busy.
If you have time in the morning, go to the police station.
In the afternoon, he would walk around and make connections.
Because the Spring Festival is coming soon, there are banquets and parties everywhere.
Xu Legong couldn't find an excuse to refuse.
When Yan Tong found Xu Legong, Xu Legong was playing golf with some ghost guys.
After Yan Tong arrived, he could only stand aside and listen honestly.
"Sir Yan, didn't you go to deal with Ye Song's matter? Was it settled so quickly?"
Xu Legong said goodbye to several ghost guys, and when he saw Yan Tong waiting for him honestly, Xu Legong, who was well versed in human relations, immediately understood that something must have gone wrong.
However, this did not stop him from ridiculing Yan Tong's "clear praise but actual criticism".
When Xu Legong did not take up the position of Chief Inspector, Yan Tong did not have a harmonious relationship with Xu Legong, and he also taught many of Xu Legong's subordinates a lesson.
As the saying goes, when it comes to beating a dog, it depends on the owner.
Ma Zai, who was bullied by Yan Tong, seemed to Xu Legong not to give him face.
Now that Yan Tong is not doing things well, Xu Legong will definitely ridicule him, otherwise he will no longer be Xu Legong.
"Brother Le, something happened."
Yan Tong was under the eaves now, so he had to lower his head, smiled awkwardly, and quickly told the story:
"This thing is really weird. I have sent people to find many doctors, monks, and Taoist priests, but nothing was found wrong. I even drank a lot of talisman water, but it didn't work at all."
"I said, Sir Yan, could you please use your brain more? If you can't solve the problem, it's not that difficult to solve the person who caused the problem, right?"
After Xu Legong heard the ins and outs of what Yan Tong said, he subconsciously felt that the matter was very difficult. Naturally, he was even more reluctant to take over, lest he could not solve it himself and lose his face as the head of the four chief detectives.
However, Xu Legong also gave Yan Tong a nod.
After all, the cause of this incident was that Jinlong Property did not give face to all the police bosses.
Xu Legong said, turn around and leave, not giving Yan Tong a chance to blame.
Yan Tong watched Xu Legong leave with a gloomy and ugly expression:
"This Xu Laohu is slipperier than that bastard Lardboy!"
Xu Legong refused to take over, but the matter still had to be resolved.
Otherwise, Yan Tong's face would have been pressed to the ground and rubbed.
Yan Tong thought about Xu Legong's words, returned to the police station with a sullen face, obtained an arrest warrant, called two teams of plainclothes officers, and then decided to personally lead the team to arrest Su Mingzhe.
It's about four o'clock in the afternoon.
Yan Tong stood at the door of Jinlong Property Company for more than ten minutes, and finally waved his hand to let his confidants in, while he hid back in the car.
A gentleman does not stand under a dangerous wall.
His life is very valuable, so don't risk it for such a trivial matter.