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Chapter 308 Don't let people laugh at us!

"Feng, Dongxing raised 120 million, and it's all been sent to me!"

On the phone, Jiang Tiansheng sounded quite surprised: "Camel said that all this money was invested in Xiao Ri Sheng stock market. That old guy really has guts!"

"A seasoned veteran is a seasoned veteran; his skill in leveraging external forces is unparalleled!"

Wu Feng also sighed, "With the opportunity to invest in Xiao Rizi stock market, the matter of Uncle Ben being injured by crows can be glossed over!"

"But aren't the clean money in the hands of these gang leaders of Tung Sing a bit too little?"

The numerous hall masters raised only HK$120 million, which he considered far too little.

"Ah Feng, you think too highly of those guys from Tung Sing!"

On the phone, Jiang Tiansheng's voice was laced with sarcasm: "Most of the hall masters of Dongxing are the type to live for the moment, and it's already quite impressive that they were able to scrape together 120 million in such a hurry!"

Wu Feng was taken aback at first, then suddenly realized what was going on.

Most of the leaders of the Dongxing gang are engaged in business that involves risking their lives.

Such people are naturally prone to developing a spending habit of spending money whenever they have it.

For them, once they are caught and sent to Stanley for further studies, all their savings will be used to benefit others.

For example, Crow, one of the Five Tigers of Dongxing and a favorite of Dragon Head Camel, yet his underlings suffer from "nine meals out of three days." Is that normal?

But that's just how it is!
It's impossible for crows not to make money.

The only explanation is that this guy spends money as soon as he gets it, and he can't hold onto it at all.

"Jiang Sheng, have Camel send a bright and capable fellow with a good head for finance to Xiao Rizi's side!"

Pulling himself back to reality, Wu Feng reminded him, "There are some things we still need to be wary of!"

He was practically ready to call out the name of one of the Five Tigers of Tung Sing, Smiling Tiger, and have him personally mobilized.

This guy is treacherous and ruthless, and he's full of tricks. He's no good; he's a typical villain from the underworld.

Rather than letting him stay on Hong Kong Island and cause trouble, it's better to send him to his little life to stay home as soon as possible.

"Feng, are you worried that the money you earned from Xiao Rizi will be hard to get back?"

Jiang Tiansheng immediately realized what was going on and pondered, "Should we send people over to Hung Hing as well?"

"Alright, better safe than sorry!"

Wu Feng chuckled and said, "If possible, it would be best to get in touch with the Chinese gangs over there!"

"This isn't a big problem!"

Jiang Tiansheng said slowly, "If it involves personal interests, and it's legitimate money that can be made in the open, which triad boss wouldn't value it? Then he really has something wrong with his head!"

"Mr. Jiang, you need to explain this to Camel!"

Wu Feng still added a reminder: "If something unexpected really happens, Dongxing will have to step in too!"

"That's for sure!"

Jiang Tiansheng said matter-of-factly, "There's no reason why they can stand aside when something happens while making money with them. There's no such rule!"

“If other gangs are like Tung Sing, we need to make things clear to them too!”

Wu Feng was slightly relieved and continued, "Mr. Jiang, each gang should open its own financial investment company. Don't mix the investments of many gangs together, or things will get chaotic later!"

"I've asked a professional in finance to handle this!"

Jiang Tiansheng said confidently, "It's the club's operating funds again. Even if they had a few more guts, they wouldn't dare to mess around with this. Do they want to die?"

"That's good!"

Wu Feng smiled and said, "I don't want a good thing to turn into a bad thing because of some unsavory reasons. That would be a loss!"

After hanging up the phone, he couldn't help but shake his head.

Those gang leaders are quite bold; they're really willing to invest heavily.

They weren't worried about their entire investment going to waste; they were quick and decisive.

As far as he knew, not only Dongxing, but also Heliansheng, Lianhe, Shuifang, and the powerful gangs of the Number Gang had all contributed a considerable amount of funds to Jiang Tiansheng's newly opened financial company to invest in Xiao Rizi stock market.

Each company had varying amounts of funds, ranging from 50 million to 100 million, totaling nearly 500 million Hong Kong dollars.

If invested in the Hong Kong stock market, this amount of money would not be small and could certainly cause quite a stir.

Even with twenty times leverage, investing in the small-cap stock market still only yields small, insignificant returns.

However, it is quite remarkable that they were able to raise so much money from top-tier gang leaders, as these guys are the type to not act until they see a clear benefit.

If one could be like a camel, earning enough profit from the stock market in just one month, that would be great, and one could probably raise even more funds to invest.

If the returns are not as expected, their investment enthusiasm will likely fade quickly.

Fortunately, this year is the last crazy day for the stock market!

By this time, the arrangements made by European and American financial groups and national powers have been completely completed, and they are just waiting for the final frenzied harvest, which will not cause too much turbulence in the stock market.

Again!
As long as you're not too greedy, an investment with 20x leverage can still yield fairly stable returns.

In fact, this period is the most favorable time for retail investors in the stock market.

Wu Feng cannot do what the protagonist of a certain Hong Kong entertainment novel does: he can predict and respond to even the slightest fluctuations in the stock market, such as tens or hundreds of points.

All he can do is provide the most accurate information to the people of Hong Kong Island at the most appropriate time.

As long as one isn't too greedy or daring, and has the connections and resources, making a profit from the stock market isn't difficult.

Western financial groups and national powers are all eyeing those big-time financial giants!

For retail investors, there's not much point in paying attention to that.

In fact, almost five years have passed since the Plaza Accord was signed in 1985. During this period, various small-scale fluctuations in the stock market have basically eliminated countless speculative capital, including retail investors, who were too bold and greedy.

The most serious incident was the stock market crash of 1987, which resulted in a significant number of people jumping off buildings.

In any case, Wu Feng used television stations and newspapers to spread the news throughout Hong Kong Island.

Whether Hong Kong Island residents are willing to participate, or whether they have the means and channels to do so, is not his concern; he has already done a great deal.

Right now, he has to personally receive a group of Hong Kong tycoons who are close to the mainland, and even representatives sent by the mainland, so he doesn't have much time to pay attention to anything else.

In fact, he had been looking forward to this day for a long time.

If he could get the backing of the mainland, even if he made a lot of money from the stock market, he would be very confident that he could safely take the money away from the mainland.

There are some things that Hong Kong's wealthy families are willing but unable to do, but once they receive support from the mainland, the situation changes completely; a great power is a great power.

Economically developed regions like Hong Kong and Macau can laugh at the poverty and backwardness of the mainland, but they absolutely cannot deny the mainland's strength; at least, we should acknowledge that.

Of course, reaching cooperation agreements with the mainland, especially with the stock market, is quite difficult.

At that time, China's foreign exchange reserves were quite scarce, so it was impossible to invest too much capital in the stock market. Losses would have had severe consequences. The only advantage was that Wu Feng had industrial factories in mainland China, and on a considerable scale.

At this time, the factory group in Shenzhen, mainland China, was undoubtedly the most famous star enterprise in the special economic zone!

The number of workers alone exceeds 50,000, and the factory area covers hundreds of acres!

Currently, the factory is still expanding, and the number of workers needed is still increasing.

Moreover, the factory group alone provides the country with an astonishing amount of foreign exchange earnings in the tens of millions of dollars every year.

Moreover, the scale of upstream and downstream enterprises and the number of workers involved are even more exaggerated!

Of course, most importantly, the factory group actively cooperates with military industrial units, and its style of doing things is similar to that of large state-owned enterprises, which makes it very popular in mainland China.

Other actions also earned Wu Feng the trust of the mainland!

This is what laid the foundation for cooperation with the mainland; otherwise, it would have been unthinkable.

Fortunately, they can first demonstrate the benefits to the mainland by cooperating with pro-mainland tycoons in Hong Kong.

In fact, the mainland suffered considerable losses during the period of the rapid appreciation of the exchange rate.

Previously, Xiao Rizi had made large-scale investments in mainland China, while also lending heavily to the mainland.

Knowing full well that the United States might force the yen to appreciate, they took advantage of the mainland's lack of understanding of this and demanded that the mainland repay its loans in yen.

This single point alone has cost the mainland a considerable price!

These are all pieces of information that Wu Feng learned when he read urban rebirth novels in his later life.

As for whether that's actually the case, he wasn't entirely sure!
After all, it's not easy for ordinary people to collect this kind of information from the vast amount of online information and find the key information.

Given Xiao Rizi's consistent way of doing things, there's a high probability that this is true.

This is simply the high price we have to pay for opening up to the outside world!

Wu Feng wasn't really angry; he just hoped that by cooperating with the mainland, they could get the mainland to participate in reaping the benefits of the national treasury!
Because of matters related to the football club, Wu Feng and Huo Lao maintained a very good relationship.

This time, spearheaded by Mr. Fok, a group of wealthy mainland and Hong Kong businessmen quickly reached a cooperation agreement with Wu Feng.

With their participation, the Chinese capital flowing into Xiao Rizi's stock market has finally reached a certain scale.

At this point, Wu Feng was no longer so conspicuous among the many Chinese capitalists.

Of course, he has the most funds, but the outside world simply doesn't know that.

This was not yet the internet age!

Even for those powerful financial groups in Europe and America, it wouldn't be easy to find all of Wu Feng's financial fronts around the world without spending a great deal of money and effort.

Preparation is key to success; lack of preparation leads to failure!

Wu Feng's deliberate planning over the past few years is not so easy to see through.

After discussing the cooperation details, Mr. Huo specifically asked Wu Feng to stay behind.

"Wu Sheng, according to the TV and newspaper advertisements, your European team and Jiang Sheng's team should be arriving in Hong Kong Island in about two weeks, right?"

Old Huo cut to the chase: "Could you let them play a few more matches then?"

"What, are there any other teams interested?"

Wu Feng asked curiously, "It's best to have some strength, otherwise if you perform too poorly, you might be looked down upon!"

"The Hong Kong team, and the mainland national team!"

Huo Daheng chuckled and said, "Wu Sheng, don't talk big. I know very well what kind of teams those two European teams are. They're not exactly strong teams!"

Ha ha……

At this moment, Wu Feng really couldn't say much, so he simply nodded and agreed to Elder Huo's request.

If fans from later generations were present, they certainly wouldn't be as composed as Huo.

Batistuta, Rivaldo, Redondo—these three names alone are enough to resonate deeply.

Not to mention top stars like Laudrup, Ebesande, Larsson, and Okocha.

With such lineups, these two football teams, if they can unleash their full potential, would have no problem creating a so-called "youth storm" in Europe.

Right now, they are still relatively unknown.

Before demonstrating sufficient strength, Wu Feng shouldn't make any boastful claims.

Unexpectedly, the mainland national team also wanted to get involved!
Clearly, it was influenced by the Guangdong-Hong Kong Cup Champions Football Tournament that started before the Lunar New Year!
In fact, the two head coaches of the newly reorganized European football teams were quite reluctant to travel all the way to Hong Kong Island, a place they had hardly ever heard of, to play a friendly match.

Unfortunately, this was the club owner's decision, and you can't fight city hall.

In addition, both team coaches are still rookies in the football world, so they don't have much of a temper.

Even the so-called "madman coach" Bielsa in later generations was a rookie coach who had never coached a first team before. He couldn't go crazy at this point unless the club's demands crossed his bottom line.

In fact, at this point, the two inexperienced head coaches were already stunned by the strength of their young players.

I originally thought that the players in the Dutch Eredivisie relegation team and the English League Two strong team were of average ability.

But when they started to gel with the team that had assembled early, they were surprised to find that things weren't like that at all.

The young players that both teams bought this summer are incredibly talented!
They had started preseason training together, little did they know that none of the players Wu Feng brought in for the team were the so-called late bloomers.

It won't be long before their strength shocks the Dutch Eredivisie and English League Two.

Meanwhile, Dongxing Camel received a call from Jiang Tiansheng.

After hearing this, he immediately summoned Smiling Tiger and ordered, "Take some of the gang's elite thugs and go to Little Life's place to keep an eye on things!"

"Boss, why are you suddenly sending me to Xiao Rizhi? What's the purpose?"

Smiling Tiger was completely bewildered and asked curiously, "The clubs on the 'Little Days' side are no joke!"

"Just go if I tell you to. Why all the nonsense?"

Camel, displeased with the reprimand, saw Smiling Tiger's puzzled expression and explained, "Just now, Jiang Tiansheng from Hung Hing called me. He's worried that the money we made from investing in Little Life's stock market might be blocked!"

"Therefore, we hope you will send a respected leader to oversee the situation and, while you're at it, make some connections with the Chinese gangs in Xiao Rizi's area. If nothing goes wrong, that would be great, but if something does happen..."

"If something really goes wrong, I'll definitely make a big fuss about it!"

The smiling tiger's eyes gleamed, and he said in a deep voice, "Boss, you should have said so earlier! I would have gone to Xiao Rizi's place right away!"

"Yes, I reckon Hung Hing, and Lien Sing, will all send their leaders over there!"

The camel instructed, "When the time comes, you all need to cooperate well and not become a laughing stock!"

"Don't worry, boss, I won't do anything reckless!"

The smiling tiger made his assurance with a grin, but his eyes kept darting around.

(End of this chapter)