Hong Kong Island: From a small stall to a global supplier

Chapter 185: Bai Dao shows his power! (Please give me a monthly ticket for the third time)
"I'm sorry to have made a fool of myself." Coming up from downstairs, Wang Yaotang laughed at himself.

"I think that by making such a commotion, the production efficiency of your factory can be improved a lot." Lao Dong said with a smile.

"That's right." Wang Yaotang laughed, "Let's have dinner together?"

"No, I have to go find those store owners to sign the transfer contract. It's only a few days. They just agreed to the transfer, and the contract hasn't been signed yet."

Wang Yaotang nodded. This was to ask him for money. "You pay the money first. After the company is established, I will use another company to buy out your shares."

Lao Dong's eyes widened, he raised his hand and pointed at Wang Yaotang speechlessly, "You poor boy, you have a good plan."

"Haha, please bear with me."

Lao Dong turned around and left, cursing.

……

PolyGram headquarters.

Zheng Donghan's brows gradually furrowed as he listened to his secretary's report.

Zheng Donghan, a Taiwanese, is the founder of Diamond Records. He later became the general manager of the record company after it was acquired and renamed "Polydor". He made famous superstars such as Deng Li J, Xu Jie, Tan Yilin, Zhang Xiyou, Beyond, Wang F, Tong A Ge, Li M, and Liu Shua.

He was the president of the Far East region of the international record company, a partner of EMI China, president of Asia, and chairman of Universal's Pan-Asia Pacific region. He later acquired EMI China.

He took a sip of the tea in front of him and thought for a moment, "How many calls for help have you received from music stores in the past few days?"

"More than 70 large street-front stores, except for a few in shopping malls, have called for help."

"Which society is behind this?"

"Eastern Union Society, Mo Shijiu."

"Are you sure it's him? Is there anyone else behind him?"

"I don't know. It happened so suddenly. I can't find much information."

"Well, notify the top management to hold a meeting in half an hour."

In 1974, when the Hong Kong market only sang Mandarin songs, Cheng Tung-han, against all odds, released Sam Hui's first Cantonese album "Ghostly Twins", which launched the market and confidence of Hong Kong people to sing Cantonese songs, which has continued to this day.

In 1979, "Hong Kong Polydor Records" followed its parent company Polygram to reorganize into "Hong Kong PolyGram Records".

PolyGram is the result of the merger of Polydor Records of Germany's Siemens Group and Phonogram Records of the Netherlands' Philips Group. It was the most famous and largest record company in the world before 1999, and is also the oldest record company in the world to date.

Half an hour later, in the conference room, Zheng Donghan sat in the main seat, with Feng Tianzhi and Guan Weilin on his left and right.

Feng Tianzhi, a good friend of Zheng Donghan, is a producer who has produced a large number of records for superstars.

Guan Weilin, Teddy Robin's younger brother, is Principal Tan's exclusive producer.

Glancing at everyone in the conference room, Zheng Donghan signaled his secretary to explain the situation.

"People from the East Union Society? Why would a bunch of gangsters buy a music store?"

"Are you crazy?"

"Want to get involved in the record industry?"

"Why are they a bunch of brainless people?"

"Give it to them, will they run it? Do they think it's a nightclub?"

The meeting room was in chaos for a moment.

After a discussion, they finally agreed that it was other record companies that were pushing it behind the scenes.

Originally, these stores were scattered, so any record company could distribute records without any problem. However, the placement of records, where posters were put up, whose songs were played in the store, etc., all depended on the distribution capabilities of each record company.

Once a record company acquires most of the stores and completes the integration, it will monopolize the distribution channels in Hong Kong Island, and it will be difficult for other companies to compete!

This is something that PolyGram absolutely does not want to see, and the same goes for other non-participating record companies.

Zheng Donghan looked a little dazed. He once thought about acquiring all the music stores to form a chain and control the distribution market, but he gave up after trying several times.

It’s difficult!
Record companies are not associations and cannot resort to those underhanded means. They can only negotiate with each company one by one. However, as long as one company takes action, the other companies will either intervene or block it, and the end result can only be failure.

But I didn’t expect that today there would be a company relying on a community to do such a thing. Do they really think that these record companies are made of clay?
"Then let's do this. I'll go visit the top police officer, Feng Tianzhi, and you contact the media you know to expose this matter. Guan Weilin, you contact our distributors and tell them not to be afraid. This is just a gang, a bunch of rats in the underground gutter. They can't cause any trouble."

"Ok."

"I see."

"Get moving." Zheng Donghan clapped his hands to encourage everyone, then stood up and walked out.

……

Zheng Donghan himself may be nothing special, but it is impossible for him to meet the first brother.

But PolyGram is the world's largest record company, headquartered in London, and is a family business.

In addition, with so many popular singers under their banner being the focus of media attention, if they speak out collectively, they can easily create a wave of public opinion.

Celebrities’ ability to stir up public opinion is indeed far superior to that of others.

The office of the boss. The heads of the four departments, Commercial Crime Bureau, Criminal Records Bureau, Organized Crime and Triad Bureau, and Criminal Intelligence Bureau, arrived one after another.

"I just received a message." Han Yili's eyes swept across the faces of the four people. "The leader of the Donglian Society, Mo Shi, sent his criminals to harass the music stores on the street, causing nearly 200 music stores to be unable to operate normally. He tried to use this method to force these store owners to transfer their stores to the Donglian Society."

The four department heads frowned and looked at each other. They noticed the confusion in each other's eyes. It was obvious that they didn't know about this.

Han Yili didn't say where the news came from. He was the boss and didn't need to explain to his subordinates. "The Black Society's high-profile actions are a provocation to Hong Kong Island's laws and social order, and a serious threat to Hong Kong Island's business environment. If there is one, there will be another. If the Black Society wants to monopolize the record industry today, will it monopolize the film and television industry tomorrow? Will it re-establish Hong Kong's order the day after tomorrow?"

The four of them looked at each other in bewilderment. Not to mention that the problem of Hong Kong's social groups is deeply rooted and has taken root in all aspects of the social system. To a certain extent, indulging the behavior of social groups in order to split the Chinese and fix the class is also a secret strategy of the police. Now you are talking about these things again...

You are a high-ranking official, so you have the final say.

After a sigh and a scolding, the four of them left and briefly met each other. They immediately began to investigate and found out that it was true. However, because these hooligans did not commit any illegal acts, the police could not do anything about it. The problems of some small vendors were not worth the police's effort, so they were suppressed in the four major police districts and not reported at all.

However, since the boss has spoken, it doesn’t matter whether there is any illegal behavior.

After the message from headquarters was passed down, the four major police districts immediately took action, and batches of police officers were sent out to start arresting people.

……

Lao Dong was signing a contract with the other party in a music store. His men began to count the money for payment. The boss sat there with a gloomy face. The clerk watched in the corner with a frown, worried about his subsequent work, even though Lao Dong said everything would remain the same.

Suddenly the phone in the store rang. The boss didn't want to answer it, but it kept ringing.

"Answer it. It's still your store now, so maybe there's business." Lao Dong said with a smile.

The boss sighed, walked over and picked up the phone. After listening to a few words, his brows gradually relaxed, and a hint of joy flashed across his face before being quickly suppressed.

After a while, he hung up the phone, walked dejectedly to Lao Dong's side, picked up the triplicate contract on the table and started to look through it.

Next to him, the lawyer glanced at Lao Dong, and seeing that the boss didn't say anything, he chose to shut up.

The boss sighed, took out a cigarette, put it in his mouth, and lit his lighter.

He glanced secretly at them, then suddenly grabbed three contracts and clicked on them.

The fire started and the smell of burning paper woke Lao Dong up. Looking at the burning contract, his brain was a little slow to react for a moment. Is he crazy?

The lawyer reacted quickly and rushed towards the table, but was dodged by the boss.

The boss ran away with the burning contract, and Lao Dong yelled, "You are crazy, catch him!"

After a lot of chaos, the boss was knocked to the ground. After the fire was put out, only half of the contract remained, and the signature area had been burned.

The boss's face and hands were covered in black, and he lay on the ground laughing.

Lao Dong's face turned black and he kicked the boss in the stomach, "You dare to play tricks on me? Are you looking for death?"

This acquisition was done without any action from the beginning to the end. Just a little harassment was already very restrained. Do these people think they are really weak and can be bullied!

Just as he was about to have his men beat him up, the door to the store was pushed open and several men in uniform walked in. "What are you doing?"

Lao Dong frowned, looked at the policeman, then looked at his boss lying on the ground. Is this what you rely on?

Ha, ridiculous!

The younger brother behind him walked up and glanced at the shoulder badge, and said to the police chief, "Sir, what's the matter? The store is closed today and we are not accepting customers."

The sheriff glanced at the people in the store, tilted his head and looked at the person lying on the ground, "Are you the boss? What's going on?"

"They are from a gang. They have been harassing me every day these days and forcing me to sell the store to them. If I don't agree, they will beat me." The boss got up from the ground.

"What the hell are you talking about? Be careful, I'm warning you." A younger brother shouted angrily.

"Ha, you're so impressive to threaten people in front of the police." The police chief sneered, "Ladies and gentlemen, the police now suspect you of extortion for a huge amount of money. Come back with me and cooperate with the investigation."

"Stupid boy, get it clear, this is..." The younger brother was about to report the name of Donglian Society, but was stopped by Lao Dong.

He walked over and looked him up and down, "Sir, did someone call the police just now?"

The chief of the police station didn't know Lao Dongjiu, but the order from above made it very clear that the Donglian Society used gang methods to threaten, intimidate and blackmail people, and judging from this man's demeanor, he was at least a big member of a gang.

It’s only a few thousand dollars a month, there’s no need to cause trouble for yourself, “No one called the police.”

As he spoke, he raised his hand and pointed upwards.

Lao Dong thanked him and said, "Let's go and cooperate with the investigation."

"Mr. Chen, thank you for your help."

"I see."

"I'll make a call."

The sheriff looked at the lawyer, then at Lao Dong. It seemed that this person was not just a gang leader, so he gave him face by making a gesture of invitation.

After a while, after asking about the situation, Lao Dong's face turned gloomy. Almost all of the 300-odd thugs sent out were caught, and the four major police districts took action at the same time.

Damn, didn’t Cai Shen Yao say that if it’s normal business competition, nothing will happen?
Damn it!

He walked to Lawyer Chen and told him to contact Wang Yaotang immediately to explain the situation, and then go to the police station to bail him out, before following him out and getting in the car.

(End of this chapter)