At first, because there were people inside the hall who were jealous of the huge wealth of the dock and wanted to pick fruits, causing a big fuss, Lei Hu was not too annoyed and wanted to just throw away, or even leave Zhongyi Hall altogether.
Hall leader Qin Bao was shocked when he heard Lei Hu's confession. He firmly disagreed with Lei Hu letting go and even threatened to make the jealous senior officials look good.
No need!
Seeing Qin Bao's resolute attitude and the close relationship between the two, Lei Hu couldn't really let go. However, he objected to Qin Bao's rough methods and made it clear that since the other party was interested in the dock affairs, he would simply cut off a piece of it.
Just let him take charge of the region.
Let's see if this guy has the ability to manage things well, and then we can make a decision.
As a result, the matter was settled like this.
The senior management of the port, who was jealous of the interests of the terminal, happily took over the management of part of the terminal. Unfortunately, he could not hold on after only half a month.
This guy was so soft in front of the foreigners that he brought out the arrogance of some of the foreigners. He caused a lot of troubles in the past half month, causing the dock and the hall to lose a lot of profits.
No need for the hall leader Qin Bao to do anything, and no need for Lei Hu to express his attitude. The other hall leaders unanimously decided to take down the guy and directly kicked him out of the Zhongyi Hall.
As for the dock, Lei Hu still continues to manage it, and others cannot handle it at all. The trouble of just one foreigner is enough to make the senior management of the hall unlucky enough to be pushed out to quell the dissatisfaction within the hall.
After that incident, there were no voices within the hall that had other ideas about the management of the dock. It wasn't that they didn't want to, but that they didn't have the ability.
That’s it for other places nearby. Places like Chancheng Wharf, which has frequent business dealings with foreign merchants, are no joke if something goes wrong.
Even the government will not allow trouble, and no one in the hall can afford the consequences.
Zhongyi Hall has entered a period of steady development, and there are many ways to make money, especially with the wharf, which is a great tool for attracting money. Just doing some peripheral supporting businesses is enough to keep the hall's senior officials fed and drunk, and it can also take care of the brothers and even the hometown.
Relatives and friends, no one is willing to take great risks to cause trouble.
Within a year, several large farms were built in the countryside around the dock. The largest one was naturally owned by the militia, which directly arranged more than fifty young people from the militia to serve as farm workers, specifically providing vegetables, meat and eggs for the dock.
Don't live a prosperous life.
Many senior officials in Tangkou followed suit and established several small and medium-sized farms, ranging in size according to their strength. Through the ecological recycling farm model promoted by Leihu, each of them operates supporting specialty agricultural products, which together serve as dock agricultural products.
Suppliers have made a lot of money in just a few months, and several farms have earned their capital back.
Not only that, but also the newly established fishing fleet, as well as supporting industries such as garment workshops, most of which have fallen into the hands of senior officials in the hall. Through the crowd effect of the dock, the business is quite good, although the money earned is not as good as that of the dock.
A lot, but not a lot.
Today's Zhongyi Tang is not a pure gang organization. It has begun to transform into a business group. Of course, it will inevitably require force to protect their growing interests.
In these turbulent times, this is a necessary means to protect yourself and your property.
As for the traditional gang businesses before Tangkou, they are no longer under the discernment of these high-level officials who are starting to get rich, and they are just maintaining a form.
The small amount of fixed protection fee collected is only needed to stabilize the market, otherwise they would have withdrawn this kind of work that requires a lot of manpower and material resources and does not gain much good reputation.
After doing business, the senior officials at Tangkou had ardent requirements for a stable environment in Chancheng. They wished that I would hold a Qinghai Qinghe Banquet so that they could expand their business to the entire Lingnan and even the entire Jiangnan region.
Of course, we can only think about such things, but after the hall leader Qin Bao comes over and brings great news to everyone, such an ambition is actually not an unachievable goal.
The official purchase matter, which was previously proposed by Lei Hu and handled personally by the hall leader Qin Bao, has now taken shape, and it won't be long before the hall's senior officials will have a layer of official skin on them.
They are all fictitious titles. Unless they have real-duty positions in Chancheng and surrounding prefectures and counties, they will not leave Chancheng easily. Zhongyi Hall does not have that much financial resources and resources, so the senior officials of the hall are allowed to become real-time officials.
But having an official career makes it much easier to do many things. At least you don't have to worry about communicating with the officials in surrounding counties.
Although the effect of using money to clear the way was good in the past, it was very unstable. If the officials in the surrounding prefectures and counties were a little shady, all the previous large investments would be in vain.
Some officials are even more exaggerated. They only care about money and will do any dirty thing in order to get more money. The senior officials of Zhongyi Hall have many types of businesses, and they have been disgusted by them many times before.
But they have nothing to do with the extremely greedy officials in the surrounding counties. They can't just kill people for some money. They are all rich people now, and they no longer have the habit of licking blood with the blade of a knife.
The reason why they encountered such a depressing situation is that they are citizens and officials, and they are really not polite when they are punished.
It's good now that they all have a layer of official status. They don't need to be cautious when dealing with officials from surrounding prefectures and counties in the future. Even if the other party looks down on their bought official status, they won't go too far.
The high-level officials at the hall were all well aware of these situations, and they were all in high spirits, ready to go all out and take action as soon as they got their official bodies.
After telling the news, all the senior management of the hall left one after another. They all had a lot of business and affairs to be busy with, but they had no time to waste their energy in staying in the hall.
"Ahu, how are you doing lately?"
Qin Bao called Lei Hu, and the two of them went to the yard behind the entrance of the hall together, and asked his younger brother to cook some side dishes for them, and they ate, drank, and laughed.
Lei Hu has been running between Bao Zhilin and Pier in recent times. He hasn't come to Tangkou very often, and he hasn't seen Qin Bao for a while.
Of course, the relationship between the two people will not be alienated by this. As the Zhongyi Hall stall gets bigger and bigger, everyone has endless things to do. It is no longer too hard to imagine spending the whole day together like when they first came to Chancheng.
It's possible.
Regarding this situation, Qin Bao didn't know whether to say yes or no.
Now that the hall's senior officials and even the elite gang members have their own businesses, they are less concerned about the hall's affairs. Even Qin Bao himself is the same. However, the hall of Zhongyi Hall must not be broken up, otherwise what will happen?
No one can explain the accident clearly.
The situation outside has also begun to become unstable. Daqing and Dongying are about to fight. There are also new gangs rising inside Chancheng. One after another, he feels very bored...