Chapter Eighty-Seven: The Casino Turmoil
When the plot just photographed the dealer giving the first card to Gao Jin and Chen Jincheng,
Wang Jin saw that the security guards outside the theater were arguing with a few thugs, and soon the thugs began to break into the filming place in the casino.
Manager Li had also noticed the situation over there, and hurriedly asked Wang Jin, "Mr. Wang, have you paid the protection fee?"
"What protection money?" Wang Jin was confused.
Manager Li patted his forehead and blamed himself. complained in his mouth: "Mr. Xu is not familiar with the situation, most of the casinos here have to pay protection fees, and filming is another thing!"
Wang Jin understood a little, he seemed to have heard that when filming in this place, he had to ask the local underworld for protection money, otherwise someone would make trouble, but he didn't expect this kind of thing to happen to him.
"Do you want to call the police!"
Manager Li shook his head and said cautiously: "Don't call the police, these are unspoken rules, the police know it, or pay the protection fee!"
Zhou Yunfa didn't have the heart to shoot at this time, and walked over with Liu Dehua to ask what happened. "Yes, Ah Jin, a day of work stoppage is also a loss, and besides, the gangster forces are intertwined, so we don't need to be serious with them. Zhou Yunfa began to persuade.
When a few people were talking, many people upstairs came out to watch the excitement, not knowing what was going on, curious onlookers, pointing at the gangsters in the crew.
Wang Jin smiled, just hand it over, I had heard that the gangsters were rampant before, and it was the first time he faced it, and he came to the middle of the confrontation between the two groups.
"You're collecting protection money!"
The gangster who took the lead saw that the other party sent a twenty-year-old young man out, and shouted impatiently: "The person in charge here will get out of here, otherwise don't blame me for messing with your set!"
Wang Jin said timidly: "Don't, I'm the person in charge here"
"Okay, pay the money!"
The other party's face was arrogant, Wang Jin didn't like it, but he didn't dare to say anything, and asked softly, "How much do you want?"
"Five hundred thousand!"
"What, you want 500,000!"
Without waiting for Wang Jin to speak, Manager Li couldn't help but scold loudly.
The thug squinted his eyes and shouted, "It's 500,000! If you don't pay it today, you won't want to start a show! Don't forget that this casino is covered by our boss." ”
500,000 Hong Kong dollars, Wang Jin still took it, but the matter is a bit big, it is not easy to collect, and how can this casino have gangsters running in to collect protection money, it turned out to be a gang boss, how did Xu Ziming let people find such a casino.
Manager Li pretended to be angry and said: "The protection fee is 50,000 yuan, how can there be a reason for 500,000 yuan, you want to cause trouble!"
The gangster leader revealed the machete he was hiding and said with a smile: "At the beginning, it was 50,000, you are not interested, Brother B let me increase it tenfold! Isn't ten times 500,000! Remember, my name is Ge Xiaogao." ”
The more things were talked, the more stiff they became, Zhou Yanfa was a little worried that it would be out of control, and whispered: "Otherwise, you will break the fortune and avoid disasters!" These Ah Fei can do everything. ”
Wang Jin didn't have any confidence, and he didn't know anything when he came to Macau for the first time to film, what he was most afraid of was being hated by the local gangsters, and he couldn't tell when and where he would suddenly be gone, which made Wang Jin's scalp tingle when he thought about it.
"Let's pay!" Wang Jin almost cried out, and took out a check with 500,000 written on it from his trouser pocket like a cut of meat, which Xu Ziming had told himself to bring in advance, just in case, but he didn't expect it to be killed these days, and it meant 500,000 yuan as soon as he opened his mouth.
took the check handed by Wang Jin, examined it carefully, felt that there was no problem, and then said with a swaggering smile, "Our brother B has the final say in this field, if you are not convinced, you will find our brother B." ”
After sending away a gang of plague gods, Wang Jin's heart was difficult to calm down, he really encountered such a situation for the first time, he had never encountered it before in Hong Kong, but there must be, it is estimated that he was too lucky.
After he hurriedly finished filming a scene of Zhou Yanfa watching cards, a group of people returned to Hong Kong early, "Ah Jin, do you say that we want to talk to Ziming about this matter?" Zhou Yanfa couldn't figure it out, how could Xu Ziming not consider this factor.
Wang Jin spat on the ground and said firmly: "I was cheated out of 500,000 yuan like this, I won't take revenge for this, I will write the two words Wang Jin." ”
Wang Jin did what he said, and after the group of people went back safe and sound, he also quickly dialed Xu Ziming's home, Wang Jin told him in detail what happened in the casino today, saying that the head of the gangster was called B boy, and that the casino was covered by them.
"Well, I know, don't worry, I'll figure this out, and if I shoot tomorrow, I'll send a group of people to protect you. After hanging up the phone, Xu Ziming also encountered the first time that the underworld made trouble, and he had a clear understanding of the matter of renting a casino in Macau in advance.
Of course, Xu Ziming knew that Macau's casinos had an indescribable relationship with the underworld forces in the eighties and nineties, and the people he sent had already made it clear to the people who spoke about this casino, and they were not disturbed during filming, but they didn't expect this incident to happen.
"Hey, Mr. Tong, today my friend is filming on the first floor I rented from you, why do your subordinates come to collect protection money. After the other side was connected, Xu Ziming said bluntly.
Xu Ziming is very disgusted with dealing with gangs, and this child was also a backbone member of a gang in Macau before this season, but there are a few people in Hong Kong and Macau who open casinos and good men and women, but Xu Ziming doesn't know much.
Xu Ziming's words were a little rushed, Tong Jiqian on the other end of the phone didn't have a temper, who called Xu Ziming a rich man, heard about it, and hurriedly explained: "Mr. Xu, you have wronged me, I transferred all the people you rented to watch the venue to another casino of mine, and these people who make trouble are definitely not my people." ”
"Not from your field?" Xu Ziming asked.
"Mr. Xu, you have to be trustworthy, I took your money here, and put you together, how can I open this casino. Tong Jiqian was very sure, with a hideous look in his eyes, and he also wanted to know clearly who was coquettish in his casino.
Xu Ziming also knows this truth, since Tong Jiqian said no, but he thinks that it may be done by other people in their gang, "Mr. Tong, is there anyone in your gang called B Zai?" Xu Ziming clearly remembered Wang Jin and he said that the people who made trouble said that their leader was called B Zai.
Tong Jiqian didn't hesitate at all, and said directly: "Mr. Xu, there is no one named B boy among the relatively famous people in our gang, if you guess correctly, it should be that other gangs are deliberately coming to make trouble." After thinking about it, Tong Ji felt that this was the only possibility.
After a phone call, since Tong Jiqian denied that it had anything to do with them, who made the trouble about this matter, Xu Ziming couldn't think clearly, there were too many gangs of all sizes in Hong Kong and Macau, Xu Ziming really didn't have the energy to investigate, and the last thing he wanted in his life was to involve the gang.
Investigate he will definitely send someone to investigate, it's just a matter of energy.
The security company has now begun to operate normally, and the first and second batches of security personnel have completed normal training, and in the past few days, he has also been accompanied by Zhang Bing, Pan Weiguo, Li Guozhong and others, and has inspected them who already have actual combat capabilities. Some of them stayed as security guards for the company and enjoyed the favor of Xu Ziming, while some of them were hired as bodyguards by some wealthy people in Hong Kong under the arrangement and management of Zhang Bing and Sun Wugao, but the remuneration was chosen and negotiated by the company.
Regarding the housing of these security guards, Xu Ziming and his third uncle Xu Shixun also agreed, and the result was better than expected, Xu Shixun sold a newly built real estate in the Kowloon area to Xu Ziming cheaply, worth 200 million.
Although this kind of expenditure completely solves the problem of the existing and new personnel of the security company, Xu Ziming has enough money on hand. The operation of the security company is still in a state of loss, in addition to the fact that the rich people in Hong Kong have a shallow awareness of hiring bodyguards, Xu Ziming has to continue to recruit Xinyuan, the third batch is still in training, and after recruiting the fourth batch, he has asked Zhang Bing to stop recruiting.
After exhausting the two billion funds pledged by HSBC, he did not use it for this, but had other things to do. Xu Ziming now really has less than 200 million money on hand.
Judging from Sun Wugao's statistics, there are nearly 600 employees in the security company, and in addition to the workers, there are about 550 real security personnel. Excluding those who have been hired and are responsible for the company's daily duty safety, as well as those who have not yet been trained or are being trained, there are only 50 people who can really be drawn.
But Xu Ziming believes that as long as there are thirty people, there will never be any more trouble tomorrow, and Wang Jin's "God of Gamblers" can definitely be carried out normally.
After being busy with these things, Xu Ziming found himself lying alone on the side of the spacious and comfortable bed, since the end of "Volleyball Girl", Guan Zhilin did not let Xu Ziming pick her up, but went home by herself, after all, she had to take care of her father.
That's fine, Xu Ziming has gotten used to it these days, after all, he hasn't given anyone any name now, and the media rarely reports on the relationship between the two, Xu Ziming doesn't want to think about it after thinking about it.
He put his hands on the back of his head, and inexplicably remembered the last words that the charter king and himself said after they came out of the court.
"You are all very rich, you can enter other industries, how can you choose to be a small shareholder in the entertainment industry and put too much energy on that. Your choice is too surprising to me, if after Wharf, you help your Xu family to make a big real estate, I Bao Yugang absolutely believe that you can succeed, maybe it is not your third uncle who brings you today, but you and your third uncle come together. ”
Xu Ziming sneered in his heart at the time, and if he thought about it now, he felt that he would still have that choice, but the problem of Xinyi City was indeed beyond Xu Ziming's expectations.