Hong Kong Storm: The King of Jobs

Chapter 312 89: Windfall

If you put yourself in his shoes, you will realize that Boxing King Sheng would also be angry when he finds out that he is not trusted, but he believes that Handsome Boy Sheng would be happy soon. After all, people become gangsters, hang out in society, and live in the underworld for money, not to be trusted.

"Brother Sheng, don't be angry. When you are in the underworld, you will inevitably be schemed against."

"Lao Ding knows you are short of money, so he gives you the opportunity to make a fortune."

"After the thirty million cash is washed away, Miss Nine will be left with 13.5 million. According to the rules, you take 35% plus the half-cent for tea, which is 6.6 million."

"Brother Sheng, I got 6.6 million just by getting up early. I'll take advantage of this opportunity every time it comes my way."

"Bring two bags, and we'll divide the gold with a big scale!"

Boxing Champion Sheng had a quick mind. The numbers went through his brain for a second and he came up with the answer.

Chi Mengli, who was sitting in the boss's chair, didn't expect that Boxing Champion Sheng had this ability. He asked Dong to go to the accounting office next door to get two boxes after delivering the spinach to Ninth Girl.

The accounting office always has more than a dozen cash boxes with passwords because they deliver money to the silver shop (bank) every day.

Because they were not valuable things, if they were missing or broken, he would apply to buy another one, so Chi Mengli often asked for money to borrow two. Of course, he would not lend them for free. If they were lost, he would compensate according to the market price. If they were returned in the same condition, he would buy them a midnight snack as a thank you.

Convenient with others, convenient with yourself.

Bo Xidong quickly came in with two boxes and placed them on the table.

"This is hard work. After all, I can't get any benefits."

Boxing Champion Sheng once again opened the suitcase brought by Jiu Guuniang and began to count the money in the suitcase.

Chi Mengli looked at Boxing Wang Sheng skillfully counting the money in his hand, and his face suddenly changed. He stared at Boxing Wang Sheng's movements, but a second later, he reached out and picked up the pipe, picked out a Red Double Happiness cigarette from it, put it in his mouth and lit it.

There is no so-called math genius around Boxing Champion Sheng, or rather, this guy is the math genius, and the math genius controlled by Guo Guohao and turned into a tainted witness is a sleight of hand and a warning.

That is to say, all of Guo Guohao's actions have been mastered by Boxing Champion Sheng.

But this is just my guess. Maybe Boxing Champion Sheng is just quick-witted.

That must be the case!
Chi Mengli was a little bit unconvinced about his own unorthodox inference. He decided to test it out and said, "Brother Sheng is indeed the werewolf of Central. He is very smart. He can calculate the numbers in just one or two seconds. He is really smart!"

"This is much better than me. I can't figure out the numbers no matter how much I calculate them!"

Boxing King Sheng, who was counting money, was delighted when he heard the flattery from Handsome Sheng. He said, "That's nothing! Practice makes perfect. When I was a loan shark, I could calculate all the complicated accounts in just five or six seconds."

"My father died early, otherwise with my sharp brain, I would have gone to study at the University of Hong Kong a long time ago."

"Back then, Gao Laofa, Lan Mingde and the other losers couldn't handle their accounts, so they all asked me to step in. They treated me to saunas, stables and midnight snacks, and only then did I help them handle their loan shark accounts."

Boxing Champion Sheng threw the pile of banknotes tied with an elastic headband into the empty suitcase, muttering to himself, reminiscing about the happy days when he was a forty-nine boy in To Kwa Wan.

There’s no escape this time!
Loan sharks are usurers. Back then, curry boys had high salaries, and the main reason for their high salaries was very funny. Because the dialects of the curry boys in different states were not intelligible, when the curry boys talked to each other, they switched to unambiguous and more convenient English.

After all, apart from Tagore, no one cares about ancient Indian languages.

Because the curry boys can communicate normally with the foreigners, they get super high salaries. Also because of their outstanding language talent, these curry boys learned Cantonese in a very short time.

In the land of curry, occupation is not only written in the name, but also in the DNA.

If you want to make a name for yourself, then go and apply to the Indian Institute of Technology. If you want to make a living, then inherit the family business.

The curry boys who were well versed in loan sharking gathered all the money from their colleagues and opened several silver shops and money houses on Delhi Street. They used the money in their hands to lend money. They not only engaged in loan sharking, but also speculated in real estate and land.

You have to know that seventy or eighty years ago, banks did not open their doors to do business, and even twenty years ago, the banking industry did not welcome everyone.

Before HSBC boss Shen Bi came to power, accounts with less than 500,000 yuan in HSBC not only had no interest, but also required an annual custody fee of 300 yuan. After Shen Bi came to power, the threshold for custody fees was lowered to 200,000 yuan and the custody fee was reduced to 200 yuan.

Moreover, banks do not engage in external credit business. If you want to apply for a loan from HSBC or Standard Chartered, you need to see a letter of credit. Even if the letter of credit is qualified, it still requires a guarantee from a bank shareholder, and it is even possible that the bank shareholder is using his personal deposits to borrow money.

You should know that Hong Kong is full of private banks. Even the four giant Chinese banks, namely, Bank of East Asia, Tai Seng Bank, Bank of East Asia and Hong Kong Chinese Bank, only do business with Chinese people. If they want to borrow money, they also need shareholder guarantees. The Hong Kong Chinese Chamber of Commerce will issue letters of credit, and the loan interest rate can sometimes reach 20%.

But even so, the bigwigs of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce still need to frequently pay money to help these four banks tide over difficulties.

In other words, before HSBC relaxed its credit threshold, there was no so-called credit loan in Hong Kong. Even mortgage loans required more than double the collateral.

Therefore, after the money houses of the curry boys were put into operation, their business could be described as booming. Even in the later stages of development, the Chinese in Hong Kong would also seek loans from these curry boys.

Because the curry boys were in charge of the streets at that time, they would pay attention to people who were borrowing money. If there was a possibility that they would run away, they would take back the collateral in advance. This could be considered an early form of police-civilian cooperation.

Moreover, Curry's loan sharking bank requires all kinds of collateral, which also functions as a pawnshop. Pots, pans, rags, wives, land, and even children can be mortgaged.

In Hong Kong decades ago, if you made money from a brothel and wanted to live a happy life with a home and land, you would take the money to Curry's money shop, pawn your wife, and live a quiet life.

If you are unlucky in the future, you can sell your pawned wife back. Curry will charge you a handling fee and calculate the money based on the pawn date.

The reason why the loan sharks are called loan sharks is that they will make a big hole in their earlobe and put a penny into the hole. As long as you see a loan shark dressed like this, you know he is a loan shark.

However, later, because of India's independence, 80% of the curry boys took the money back to India, and 90% of the loan sharks who ran money houses also left, and all these businesses were transferred to Hong Kong gangs.

Don't think that usury is a low-end industry. It is also part of the financial industry. Just to calculate the interest, you need to know high school math because compound interest is involved.

It was thanks to Wen Gui, a handsome scholar, that Shuifang was able to fully understand the loan shark business and the rice-washing process. Even so, the loan shark business had a high runaway rate of 80%, and only a few fools would pay back in full.

As I said, why should you pay back the money you borrowed with your own ability?

Besides, the people who borrowed the money were gangsters, and these guys always walked away with just a backpack.

(History is a cycle. Dear leaders and bosses, does this history sound familiar to you?) Therefore, loan sharks who are able to become big loan sharks will even have a place in the hearts of the bosses and decision-makers in the society. Generally, good things that come to the fore will benefit these loan sharks.

Through her intuition and the bragging of Boxing King Sheng, Chi Mengli was able to roughly determine that the math genius beside Boxing King Sheng was not an important assistant to this dead loser, but a smokescreen.

Don't judge a book by its cover. You can't judge the depth of the ocean by its depth. I am just being too arrogant.

Judging from Boxing King Sheng's actions, this well-hidden thug is not going to take away the suitcase that Jiu Gu Niang was holding, but to take the new password box.

Seeing this, Chi Mengli put out the cigarette in his hand into the ashtray, opened the drawer of the desk, and took out a stack of bills worth a total of 10,000 yuan.

This is the banknote that Guo Guohao sent through Ruan Wen last time, with a total of 300,000. Each banknote has been specially processed and sweat has fallen on it. As long as it appears in a bank or a casino, there will be a reaction and the large banknote detector will also record it.

He was sweating. He did not give all the 300,000 with special marks at once. He kept half of it just to prevent any emergency.

Look! This emergency has come!

After the stack of banknotes went into his sleeves, Chi Mengli took out another piece of chewing gum and threw it into his mouth. Then he looked at Boxing Champion Sheng and said calmly, "My mouth feels bitter after I smoked. Want one?"

Boxing champion Sheng, who was counting money, raised his head with a confused look on his face and looked at Handsome Sheng. When he saw the chewing gum in Handsome Sheng's hand, he quickly shook his head.

Chewing gum and crossing his legs, Chi Mengli looked at Boxing Champion Sheng and counted the banknotes. The extra money in one box was the capital after the Ninth Girl finished floating, which had to be transported to Tuodi and handed over to Shenxianjin. The smaller money in the other box was the water fee for the society.

Only the remaining items in the box brought by the Ninth Girl belong to her.

"Brother Sheng, I've already ordered. Do you want me to help you order the rest?"

Boxing Champion Sheng wiped the sweat from his forehead, put his hands on his hips, and looked at Chi Mengli.

"Thank you so much, Brother Sheng!"

Chi Mengli stood up and walked to the two boxes to be taken away. He took out a stack of banknotes from the box with the smaller amount, scraped it with his hand, put it to his nose and smelled it, enjoying the charming smell of ink, and then threw it to Bo Xidong.

Bo Xidong took the money, scraped it with his fingertips, and put it into his pocket.

After his trusted henchmen had taken their share, Chi Mengli wanted to take his own share as well. He took out three thick stacks from the big box and put them in his trouser pockets.

Boxing King Sheng, who was busy counting the money, saw Chi Mengli taking money out of the box that had already been counted. His brows immediately frowned and his mouth opened and closed, as if he wanted to speak.

Seeing that Boxing King Sheng was about to speak, Chi Mengli took out two thick stacks of banknotes without any hesitation and stuffed them directly into Boxing King Sheng's hands.

"Anyone who sees you can have a share, so don't be polite."

After giving the boxing champion his hard work fee, Chi Mengli did not sit idle. He opened the elastic band of a thick stack of banknotes, counted them in his hand, and after counting out 88,800, he threw it on the desk and said loudly: "88,800, I will give it to you if you give it to me."

"It's a good omen!"

"It's almost the end of the year! If you make money, I'll make money too. If you're prosperous, I'll be prosperous too."

Chi Mengli shook his sleeves as he spoke, and a thick stack of banknotes hidden in his sleeves quickly slid into his palm and merged with the banknotes in his hand.

In order to facilitate transactions, the banknotes that the Ninth Girl brought were all large gold bulls worth one thousand each.

Guo Guohao was also well prepared, with everything from redwood fish at one hundred dollars a piece, to big bull at five hundred dollars a piece, to big golden bull at one thousand a piece. All he had to do was to melt the banknotes into the pile of money.

Boxing Champion Sheng, who received the hush money, didn't say much. After all, he was also a passing god of wealth, and a few tens or hundreds of thousands less was not a big deal. With so much money, it was normal for him to get dizzy counting it.

In addition, the water fee paid by Jiu Guang this time was very sufficient, so even if the paupers in the furnace reported it to Lao Ding, Lao Ding would not care.

After working hard all morning, if they don't take a few tens of thousands of dollars to relax their bones, even the loyal Lord Guan in heaven would feel pity for these poor people if he knew about it!

After finishing her tricks, Chi Mengli tied up the loose bills with an elastic headband and threw them into the suitcase.

"Brother Sheng, the betting station has been opened, and the money is rolling in! This way of making money was created by you, Brother Sheng. I heard that there is a math genius around you, Brother Sheng, who has come up with odds that are sure to make the bookmaker win."

"We are all brothers, Brother Sheng, you won't hide anything, right? That would be unbrotherly!"

"We all make money together. What societies, what gangs, what bosses, these are all fake. Only the money in your pocket is real."

"What's that phrase that the four-eyed people always say? That's right! Put the money in your pocket and it's safe! The money in your bank account is real!"

"If you want to be loyal and righteous, then do you still want to make money?"

Chi Mengli spat the chewing gum in his mouth into the trash can and began the second round of attempts.

Boxing King Sheng smiled proudly and said, "Are you talking about Xiao Zong?"

"He is a genius. I heard from his professor that Xiao Zong is the most gifted mathematical genius. He will definitely win the Nobel Prize in Mathematics."

"Brother Sheng, are you interested in Xiao Zong?"

It’s really terrible to be uneducated!
The Bomb Prize includes astronomy and biology, physics and chemistry, literature and medicine, but not mathematics.

It’s not that the bomb master Mr. Nobel did not attach importance to mathematics. Mr. Nobel himself had a good talent for mathematics, but the hatred of having his wife taken away was unbearable for anyone, so there was no mathematics award in the bomb award.

Chi Mengli cursed in his heart, despising Boxing Champion Sheng for his lack of education, but said with a smile: "Brother Sheng is surrounded by capable people, unlike me, who is surrounded by fighters with muscles growing to their heads and can handle everything on their own."

"Introduce talents to me, and we can make money together."

"No need to mention more. From now on, Brother Sheng, the water fees and deposits for your boats will all be discounted by half."

"I am a new horse who doesn't know the way, and I need you, an old horse who knows the way, to guide me!"

(End of this chapter)