Hong Kong Storm: The King of Jobs

Chapter 141 37: New Way to Make Money
Chi Mengli picked a cannon, but the chicken beard was relatively small, only one level. He picked three redwood fish (100) and handed them to Wang Haiquan, saying gratefully, "Of course I'm interested."

"Thank you three young masters for your kindness. If nothing else, I guarantee that the drinks in this place are the most profitable, and the singers and dancers are the most beautiful."

"I've been thinking recently that although Yau Ma Tei is adjacent to Tsim Sha Tsui and Mong Kok, the quality of the entertainment venues there is so poor. There is only one well-known place on Bowl Lane, but those are all horse stables for perverts to relieve themselves. The quality is uneven, and it is easy to get sick. It is not safe."

"Hong Kong doesn't have much else, but it has a lot of beautiful women."

"Mr. Wang, Mr. Liu, and Mr. Zhao think highly of me. I will definitely make the place look beautiful."

This means spending little money to accomplish big things. If you make your boss happy, then the money will come.

Chi Mengli pushed the mahjong into the pile, shuffled it a few times, and then began to rearrange the cards.

"My father said that when doing business, brothers must be clear about accounts, otherwise there will definitely be unpleasantness in the future. So let's be frank."

"I have also inquired about this period of time. The viewing club gets 10% of the shares. The waiters, singing girls, dancing girls, parking attendants, and reception are all taken care of by the viewing club."

"Since this is the rule, we can't break it. We will only send the manager and accountant, and we won't care about the others. We three companies don't care how many people you send in, as long as it's not excessive."

"But the manager I found is also an old Shanghainese. He has seen the glory of the Paramount Nightclub and the Fairy Palace Nightclub. He has also listened to the advice of Zhang Xiaolin, the nightclub king of the foreign land."

"I always listen to my father telling stories about the past. When he was young, he played yachting on the Huangpu River during the day and went to the Paramount and the Fairy Palace at night. He said that the Fairy Palace was so magnificent."

"It's about how Sir Sassoon was so heroic that he could turn clouds and rain with just a flip of his hand, and how he could raise the price of longevity creams around the world with just one sentence. It's about how Harry spent 100,000 pounds at the Paramount in one night."

"I am fascinated by the style of the older generation. I plan to rebuild the Xiangong Nightclub in Hong Kong. This time I invited Master Ieoh Ming Pei to design the Xiangong Nightclub."

"In six months, we will be able to see the Xiangong Nightclub again in Hong Kong."

Wang Haiquan was so excited at the thought of rebuilding the Xiangong Nightclub that his hands were shaking as he held the cards.

Seeing that Young Master Wang was so ambitious, Chi Mengli had nothing to say except giving him a thumbs up and encouragement.

He knew that Master I.M. Pei had created countless works throughout his life. In the commercial society, as long as Wang Haiquan paid, Master Pei would fly to Hong Kong personally and build a magnificent palace for Wang Haiquan.

However, reinforced concrete buildings are too troublesome to build, and interior decoration is also required, which will take a whole year.

That’s not all. For a luxury nightclub, you have to decorate it. Hong Kong people like solid wood furniture. If it is not ventilated and formaldehyde is released, the guests will get leukemia. If all the guests die, who will come to consume?

It would be much easier to just build a fiberglass structure. With enough manpower, it would take about a hundred days to assemble and construct it, including laying the foundation.

When the temperature in Hong Kong’s history was at zero degrees, there was no need to keep warm. Just add two commercial air conditioners and everything was solved.

Chi Mengli expressed his idea and immediately got the approval of the three young masters. There is no building with glass exterior walls in Hong Kong now. If it is built, it will definitely go down in history.

Wang Haiquan praised Chi Mengli and said that he was smart and different from those stupid people out there.

Just when there was peaceful laughter and chatter in the box, there was a knock on the door. A second later, Ji Mi and his men brought in four fruit plates.

"Brother Sheng, Brother Dong is back, and he's injured."

Ji Mi placed a fruit plate on the small table to the right of Chi Mengli and reported in a low voice.

Spinach Dong is injured! ?
interesting!
Chi Mengli turned the cards upside down and said to Wang Haiquan, "There are three urgent matters. Mr. Wang, Mr. Liu, and Mr. Zhao, I will go and take care of them first."

"No hurry! No rush!"

"I just want to have some fruit, so I'll get busy first."

Wang Haiquan knew that Handsome Sheng was not going to the bathroom to relieve himself. Judging from the expressions of his henchmen, there might be a problem in the place, but it was none of their business.

His family also used to raise gang hawks and dogs. His father now has a quick-shooter to protect him at all times. Twenty or thirty years ago, it was not uncommon for a family to have a famous figure from the Green Gang and a dozen dedicated gang masters.

The Guo family of Yong'an, the Sheng family of China Merchants Steam Navigation Company, and the Jian family of Nanyang Tobacco Company all have their own rapid-fire rifle companies at home.

In the words of his old man, no matter if they are from the underworld or the mafia, they can only be used but not be trusted, because these people only see profit, and those who gather for profit will surely disperse because of profit.

Wang Haiquan understood this point, so he did not follow the example of his predecessors in Shanghai and use his own money to support a gang leader and act as a big mouth behind the scenes. Instead, he only looked for new and popular people in the underworld.

There are two reasons. First, young people can easily find common topics, which makes communication easier.

The second point is that the new celebrities in the underworld are short of money, so they will do what they are paid for, without hesitation and with fighting spirit.

The synonym of youth is poverty.

This sentence is very well said!
Chi Mengli didn’t know what Wang Haiquan was thinking, but even if she knew, she would still give a thumbs up to Young Master Wang.

The new celebrities in the underworld have cleaner pockets than their faces, so of course they will do things for money.

After he walked out of the box, he glanced at Wang Haiquan and others who were chatting and laughing. After the door was closed, he said to Ji Mi, "The mahjong game cannot be disbanded. If the bosses don't have fun, they will be blamed."

"Jimmy, go call Xiaozui and ask her to bring the girls here in person. Three bosses, each with two girls to play with. Ask her to choose the ones with sharp heads and who can talk. They must arrive within ten minutes." "I'll charge her by the hour, plus the night show fee. We're all old friends, so ask her to give me a discount."

"She doesn't want to leave either. She should stay and play mahjong with the bosses."

"If the bosses are happy, I'll treat her to a midnight snack. If they're not, I'll throw her into the stable on Bowling Street and let her relive her old dreams."

After Chi Mengli finished speaking, he walked down the stairs to the office upstairs.

Ji Mi did not follow him upstairs, but ran to the front desk to call Shanghai City Nightclub.

The corridor in front of the office on the third floor was filled with Bocaidong's henchmen, all with bruises on their faces.

When these thugs saw Chi Mengli appear, they all stood up straight and hid the cigarettes in their hands behind their backs.

"Brother Sheng."

"Brother Sheng."

"Brother Sheng."

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Chi Mengli's face turned pale. He didn't answer and pushed the door open to enter the office.

Inside the office, Bocaidong was lying on the sofa with a cigarette in his mouth, while Huogou and Huanxi were holding medicinal wine, pouring it on the man's body, rubbing it vigorously to relax his muscles and activate his blood circulation.

Chi Mengli walked to the sofa and saw that Bocaidong's back was covered with bruises and purples, and knew that this guy had suffered a bad fate at the hands of Do.

"You went to see an old friend and got beaten up like this. How come you are such a loser now? You can't even handle a woman?"

"Could it be that after Do and I broke up peacefully, he fell off a cliff, found the Nine Yin Manual, and mastered the peerless magic skills?"

When Bocaidong heard the boss's teasing, he quickly took off the Camel cigarette from his mouth, pressed it on the ground and extinguished it, saying with a wry smile: "It wasn't Sister Do who did it, it was Silly Laosha."

"He brought more than 100 people from Yuen Long across the harbour to Yau Ma Tei just to support Do Jie. I brought fewer people and suffered a loss."

"But this loser didn't get any advantage after I punched him in the face."

"Pounce, be gentle!"

Spinach Dong yelled and asked Fire Dog to be gentler.

"Get away."

Chi Mengli picked out two cigarettes of Hongshuangxi from the cigarette box, lit them with a Zippo lighter, put one in his own mouth and stuffed one into Bo Xidong's mouth, letting the fire dog and Huanxi avoid them. He took the safflower oil, poured it on his palm to warm it, pressed it on Bo Xidong's bruises, and rubbed it hard.

"Don't scream or shout. Just bear with it. If the blood clots are not rubbed out, you'll suffer tomorrow."

"Who is Sha Lao Sha? I've never heard of him. Yuen Long is really a place of turmoil! A few years ago, there were Da Lao Yuan and Gao Lao Fa, and now there's Sha Lao Sha."

"It looks like they are all from the Lao generation!"

"According to what you said, Do has made up his mind to go against me?"

Chi Mengli asked Bo Xidong to scream more quietly and rubbed him without leaving any space with his hands to help him loosen the blood clots.

"Do sister has changed, she is not the same as before!"

"Brother Sheng, you should have a good talk with Sister Do. Among all the girls you dated, only Sister Do is sincere to you. The others are just playing around with you."

"It hurts! It hurts."

"Brother Sheng, you should let Huo Gou and the others do it! Your hands are too strong."

Being injured and unable to control his foul mouth, Chi Mengli shook his head helplessly, stepped aside, and let Huo Gou and the others continue to rub the bruises.

"My godchild had his head blown off by someone, and my best friend was injured. Ah Dong, this is not what you said. Do is really doing this for my own good."

"Do is working for Tian Si. I have checked clearly. The knifeman last time was hired by Tian Si."

"I don't know how much this devil woman Do was involved in, but the South Asian knifeman from Tiansi came to my house immediately."

"They are all traitors!"

"You have been hiding something from me recently. Can you confess it to me?!"

(In fact, I also suspect that the story about young Hardong spending 100,000 pounds in the Paramount in one night is just nonsense. Old Hardong is rich, but he is really the kind of person who ties money to his ribs with wire. He likes to buy houses and land all his life. The most outrageous thing he did is to buy a small half of West Lake.)
(The Ten Scenic Spots of West Lake were directly changed to Eight Scenic Spots of West Lake, although the Japanese invaders later took care of it.)
(You should know that in 28, the bald captain's brother-in-law Ziwen went to buy tanks from the British. He bought a total of 12 Carden Lloyd Mk VI ultra-light tanks, 6 trailers and accessories, with a total price of 15770 pounds, an average of about 1126 pounds per tank and related accessories.)
(At this price, £100000 would buy about 88 light tanks.)
(End of this chapter)