No. 18 Kennedy Road, Wan Chai, Hong Kong Island, the site of the Guangdong Chamber of Commerce.
In the earliest days, this was the place where Shanghai tycoon Du Yuesheng stayed after he fled to Hong Kong. It was also known as the "Hong Kong Du Mansion".
At that time, outside the Du Mansion in Hong Kong, there were rows of cars and a forest of people. Countless Hong Kong rich and famous people, including those from the British Hong Kong government, came to pay a visit to this legendary and all-powerful youth gang tycoon.
Unfortunately, time has changed, and the originally bustling "Du Mansion" has become today's "Guangdong Chamber of Commerce" hall. The people who come and go here are not Shanghainese who talk about "Ala", but Cantonese who talk about "inner monkey".
In fact, there are many business associations in Hong Kong, the most famous of which is the "Chaoshan Chamber of Commerce" that Shi Zhijian once joined. Many Hong Kong tycoons are regular visitors to the Chaoshan Chamber of Commerce, such as financial tycoon Liao Wenlei, industrial tycoon Li Jiacheng, etc.
Compared with the Chaoshan Chamber of Commerce, the Guangdong Chamber of Commerce nominally covers a wider area. However, compared to the "Chaoshan Chamber of Commerce" which mainly focuses on real estate, department stores, and industry, most of the members of this "Guangdong Chamber of Commerce" are engaged in business.
Finance plays stocks!
Therefore, some people from the Guangdong Chamber of Commerce look down upon the people from the Chaoshan Chamber of Commerce, thinking that they are all "land boys" who make money by shoveling land; people from the Chaoshan Chamber of Commerce also look down on the people from the Guangdong Chamber of Commerce, thinking that they make money by playing stocks.
Money's "Paper Boy".
At this moment, the Guangdong Chamber of Commerce is holding its annual election meeting.
As the New Year approaches, everyone has to elect a new chairman of the Chamber of Commerce to lead everyone to make a fortune in the financial market.
Most of those who have the right to vote are members of the Guangdong Chamber of Commerce. Each of them is worth at least one million, and those with the smallest career are also the overlords of Hong Kong's grain and oil industry. For example, Shi Zhijian's old friend "Bi Fafa".
Bi Fafa has made a lot of money with Shi Zhijian in the past few years, but seeing Shi Zhijian making more and more money, the speed is like a monkey in the sky. In just a few years, he has become worth hundreds of millions, while he, an old Hong Kong grain and oil merchant, is still only worth a fortune.
Just a few million, which made him extremely mentally unbalanced.
So at the instigation of his friends, Bifa began to play stocks and often visited places such as the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.
And because he is from Guangdong, he immediately joined the Guangdong Chamber of Commerce. Everyone usually gathers together to drink tea and share stock reports, and he also makes a lot of money.
Bi Fafa was looking up at the election vote check when he suddenly felt someone put a hand on his shoulder.
Bi Fafa immediately curled his lips and said in displeasure: "Brother, do you know that being on someone's shoulder will ruin your life?" When he turned his head, Bi Fafa was stunned, "Why is it you, Mr. Shi?"
Shi Zhijian appeared next to Bi Fafa with a smile.
"Isn't it just me? I heard that you joined the Guangdong Chamber of Commerce. It seems true. I saw you when I came here!" Shi Zhijian smiled and took out a cigarette and handed it to Bi Fafa.
Bi Fa was flattered.
If we say that it was Bifa who helped Shi Zhijian three years ago and provided Shi Zhijian with the grain and oil needed to produce instant noodles.
So now Shi Zhijian's business is getting bigger and bigger. In turn, Shi Zhijian helps Bi Fafa and becomes Bi Fafa's "parents".
A large part of the grain and oil purchases in the grain and oil store run by Bifa are orders from Shinhwa Food Company.
Of course Bi Fa understood this, so no matter how big or small there was for Shi Zhijian, he would always rush to help organize it. For example, when Shi Zhijian's sister was celebrating his birthday, his niece was celebrating his birthday, and during every new year and festival, Bi Fa was very enthusiastic about covering it.
The purpose of the red envelope is to make Shi Zhijian remember him and think about his good deeds!
"Mr. Shi, you didn't come here specifically to see me, did you?" Bi Fafa was quite self-aware and knew that Shi Zhijian would not come here easily.
Shi Zhijian nodded, took out the lighter with a smile and personally helped Bi Fafa light the cigarette.
This time, Bi Fafa was not as flattered as he was flattered. He was simply frightened and said: "What's wrong with this? How can I ask you to help me light a cigarette?" After saying this, he felt extremely honored and comfortable in his heart that Shi Zhijian could help.
Light a cigarette, I guess not many people in Hong Kong can get this kind of treatment.
"I'm asking for your help!" Shi Zhijian clicked, closed the lighter, then looked towards the campaign stage with a smile, and said: "I want to get to know someone, please help introduce him first!"
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At the election hall, there were many people like Bifa who had made a small amount of money in the stock market. They were all wearing uniform long robes and mandarin jackets. About sixty people were all looking eagerly at the ballot box above.
There are three candidates running for the chairmanship of the Guangdong Chamber of Commerce this time, namely the "financial tycoon" Li Fuzhao from Jiangmen, the "stock king" Deng Bingrong from Zhanjiang, and the "plastic flower king" Li Jiacheng from Chaozhou.
And because Li Jiacheng is relatively tactful and likes to join two parties, he is the main director of the Chaoshan Chamber of Commerce, and now he wants to seek an official position in the Guangdong Chamber of Commerce. In addition, his performance in financial stocks is not outstanding, so in the selection stage
Choosing to withdraw automatically gave the opportunity directly to Li Fuzhao and Deng Bingrong.
Li Fuzhao was born in the Li family, a large family in Hong Kong, which is known as the "Kennedy family of Hong Kong".
The Li family originated in Heshan, Guangdong. Li Shipeng's father, Li Jiacheng, was the first person in his family to go to Hong Kong to "gold dig", but he was just a passing visitor. When Li Jiacheng died, Li Shipeng was just five years old. Li Shipeng started as an apprentice.
With the spirit of struggle, he started from scratch and gradually established the century-old foundation of the Lee family in Hong Kong.
Li Shipeng is a shrewd businessman. He clearly realized that only by learning English can he deal with foreigners and gain a foothold in the business circle controlled by the British. So when he was seventeen years old, he took the initiative to enroll in St. Joseph's Mission School.
He entered the academy and became one of the first batch of Chinese students in the school. He also asked his children to do the same and specially found a foreigner to teach his eldest son Li Guanchun English.
After he became fully fledged, Li Shipeng founded his own shipping company "He Fat Seng", which was mainly engaged in transportation business, that is, transporting Vietnamese rice to Hong Kong.
Soon, he simply founded "Nanhe Bank" and started his own rice import business. Later, it gradually expanded into a one-stop business: buying rice, processing it locally, and then transporting it to Hong Kong. Li Shipeng's business became more and more prosperous, from shipping to
Rice import, from real estate to finance, he became one of the richest Chinese businessmen in Hong Kong in the early 20th century.
In fact, in the past hundred years of history in Hong Kong, the influence of the Lee family has been continuous, and many social elites have emerged one after another, and they have created many "firsts" in Hong Kong: "Hong Kong's first generation of Chinese bankers", "Hong Kong
"The first Chinese judge of the High Court", "Father of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange", etc.
At its most glorious time, the Li family was one of the "Three Heroes", spanning the three major fields of politics, legislation and judiciary, leaving other families in the dust.
As a wealthy young man from this big family, his father taught Li Fuzhao the secrets of stock trading since he was a child. So much so that he knew how to buy stocks at the age of six. However, his famous saying is "never date stocks."
Therefore, when Li Fuzhao came of age, he began to dominate the stock market and became the well-deserved "godfather of the stock market". Coupled with his prominent background, even the four major families in Hong Kong today have to give him some slack.
Compared with the prominent status of Li Fuzhao's family, his competitor Deng Bingrong simply lost out in terms of family background.
Although the Deng family is also famous in Hong Kong, it cannot compare with the Li family in terms of assets and strength. The only thing that can surpass the Li family is its large population!
That’s right!
It’s just a fight!
The Tang family in Hong Kong is the largest family in Hong Kong!
The Tang family in the New Territories is the head of the five major families in Hong Kong. Their descendants are now distributed in the five major villages of Ping Shan, Ha Tsuen, Tai Pu Tau, Kam Tin and Lung Yeuk Tau in the New Territories, with a total population of more than 30,000 people.
Clan ancestral halls can be found everywhere in Hong Kong, and most of them are magnificent, such as the Wanli Ancestral Hall in Ping Shan, Yuen Long, the Tang Kung Ancestral Hall in Songling, Lung Yeuk Tau, Fanling, and the Yau Kung Tong Ancestral Hall in Ha Tsuen.
All the ancestral halls of the Tang family in Hong Kong are incomparable to the ancestral halls of other large families in terms of their majesty and brilliance of history.
It is precisely because of this that Deng Bingrong dared to challenge Li Fuzhao publicly in this election and wanted to compete for the chairmanship of the Chamber of Commerce!
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Ticket checking is currently in progress.
Whoever gets the most votes will be the president of this chamber of commerce!
The people from the surrounding chambers of commerce who participated in the voting also crowded around and talked about it.
"Wow, the ticket checking speed is so slow!"
"Yes, everyone is impatient to wait!"
"Are we actually still checking votes? The result is already obvious!"
As the candidate this time, the 42-year-old Li Fuzhao was sitting in the front candidate area with a cup of tea, his face was ashen. Even though he was accompanied by two directors of the Chamber of Commerce, he was still full of anger, holding the tea cup.
Bu Yang said: "Don't think I don't know, these people, they didn't vote for me! You can tell it by looking at their eyes! Facing me, dodging and hiding! It's a pity that I asked for help when I canvassed for votes.
They drink tea and then invite them to watch a show! How heartless!"
"Brother Fu Zhao, you also know that the Deng family is the largest family in Hong Kong. In our Chamber of Commerce alone, there are a lot of people named Deng! Don't say you invite them to tea and watch a show, even if you invite them to go to the Kowloon Flower Boat to enjoy themselves
, they also need to have that kind of courage! As soon as their clan leader says something, who dares not to vote for Deng Bingrong?" Director Wan, who is good friends with Li Fuzhao, said.
"Yeah! I also feel that the Guangdong Chamber of Commerce is getting more and more different! You can meet people named Deng wherever you go! If you count, more than half of the sixty-odd people here are named Deng! Sometimes!
I don’t even know whether this is the Guangdong Chamber of Commerce or the Deng Chamber of Commerce?!" said another director Wang.
Seeing that the ticket checking work was coming to an end, Li Fuzhao felt even more anxious.
He regretted participating in the chairman election this time! This kind of election is meaningless, it is simply a competition for people! No matter how talented and ambitious he is, if he wants to lead the chamber of commerce to stand out among the many chambers of commerce in Hong Kong, the result will be the same.
Street to the end!
Li Fuzhao looked at his competitor Deng Bingrong not far away who kept bowing to everyone and expressing his gratitude in advance, and he felt even more panicked.
He admitted that Deng Bingrong was a formidable opponent. If the opponent was honest and relied on his talent and personal ability to win, he, Li Fuzhao, would be convinced that he would lose without any regrets. However, using the most low-level tactics like this to fight against others seemed low-level.
Deng Bingrong was greeting many people of his own clan to celebrate in advance. When he saw Li Fuzhao looking this way, he took the initiative to lift up his robe and walked towards Li Fuzhao like a big boss.
"Fu Zhao, I'm afraid I'm going to offend you a lot this time! To be honest, I have always admired you. You are very capable. You are really a good hand in stock finance, but you are just a little bit behind being the chairman! Being the chairman is...
You have to be worldly, and you don't have to be strong to be competent! Of course, if you are willing to support me as chairman this time, maybe I will give you a vice chairman to do it! How about it, is it good?" Deng Bingrong smiled and ordered for himself.
Cigarette Road
Li Fuzhao breathed out a heavy breath and said with a smile: "Thank you Brother Deng for your love. I have always adhered to the belief that I would rather be a chicken head than an ox tail! Especially our Li family has a family motto that we have a clear conscience in doing things, even if we are competing for one.
The chairman must also be upright and never use underhanded tactics!"
By the end, Li Fuzhao's eyes were glaring, with a look of arrogance on his face.
Deng Bingrong looked at Li Fuzhao's pretending to be magnanimous, spit out smoke, and said in a disdainful tone: "Everyone can say good things, it just depends on which one speaks beautifully! Hey, the vote checking is about to end, you are a smart person, you should know the result
! Oh, by the way, our family also has a family motto, a cricket with an iron head dies quickly, and a house full of gold and jade will fall like tiles! Don't wait until the results come out before you regret it!"
"Pa!" Li Fuzhao slammed the tea table hard, as if he wanted to fall out, but immediately smiled and said: "I have learned a lesson!" He cupped his fist at Deng Bingrong, and then faced the crowd, "There is no need to check the votes! I automatically abstain! This session
The chairman of the chamber of commerce is Brother Deng Bingrong!"
As soon as these words came out, the scene was in an uproar.
Those who were in charge of counting the votes were stunned. Then you looked at me and I looked at you, not knowing what to do.
A much-anticipated fight between dragons and tigers disappeared in an instant, but instead made everyone feel uncomfortable.
Director Wan, Director Wang and others who have good relations with Li Fuzhao hurriedly stepped forward and said: "Brother Fuzhao, did you make a mistake? Do you want to withdraw?"
Li Fuzhao laughed: "Yes, instead of being embarrassed, it's better to quit! Before the votes are counted, I can save some face!"
Li Fuzhao was so straightforward that Director Wan and others were stunned.
When Deng Bingrong saw this, he was a little shocked at first, but he immediately smiled and slowly held a cigarette between his fingers and said in a disdainful tone: "That's right! You have to know the right time to not talk to me. What can you do? If you give in early, you can get away with it.
Retreat! Besides, I am a man of my word. Since you are so aware of promotions, I will agree to give you the position of vice chairman!"
Li Fuzhao laughed when he heard this, "Sorry! I haven't finished speaking yet!"
Everyone looked at him together.
Li Fuzhao slowly picked up a cup of tea, smashed it to the ground with a bang and said: "See? The cup is broken and the water is spilled! I can't pick it up! Also, I am quite busy now, preparing for the Far East.
I have no energy to care about the affairs of the Chamber of Commerce anymore due to the opening of the stock exchange, so I have decided to withdraw from the Guangdong Chamber of Commerce!"
