924 [Reign as the King].
The mute apprentice who was going to pick the snake never thought that Kang Yongren would be so bold that he dared to pick the snake himself--- and he picked the thickest and most ferocious king snake, and he was a little shocked for a while.
You know, even if he has been working here for a long time, he is still a little scared in the face of so many snakes, and he will be bitten if he is not careful.
Not to mention the other guests, few people dare to come here to pick snakes in person, most of them are slaughtered, show them, and then make snake soup after they are satisfied.
At this moment, Kang Yongren had a snake wrapped around his arm, but his eyes looked at his younger brother Kang Yonglian and the invited guest Le Jun, and asked them, "How about this?"
Kang Yonglian was almost stupid, this is a snake, it will bite!
Le Jun coughed calmly and said, "Very good." ”
"In that case, that's it--- it looks quite fat!" Kang Yongren said with a smile, and said to the stunned mute apprentice, "Borrow a knife." ”
Without waiting for the dumb apprentice to reply, he snatched the sharp knife from his hand, walked to a large willow tree, raised the knife in his hand, and thrust the sharp knife into the head of the snake and nailed it to the willow tree.
The king snake's head was nailed, and it was convulsed in pain, and its thick body kept writhing.
Kang Yongren was unmoved, and picked up a skinning knife again, and peeled off the entire snakeskin with a sharp knife.
But when I saw that the skinless king snake's red and tender flesh was exposed, it writhed even more because of the pain.
Seeing this scene, Kang Yonglian covered his mouth and wanted to vomit.
Le Jun, who had not changed his face, also had a sudden change in his face, and he couldn't bear to look at it anymore.
Kang Yongren seems to enjoy this cruel process.
The rhythm of the piano rings in his head.
Kang Yongren accompanied the rhythm of the piano, beat the beat--- dig the snake gall, take the snake's blood, and did it in one go.
This hand even dumbfounded the dumb apprentice.
Kang Yonglian was really about to throw up.
Le Jun felt a chill in his back.
Suddenly, Kang Yongren had snake blood on his hands, his thumb and index finger pinched the snake gall that seemed to be still wriggling, slowly walked to Le Jun's side, and said to him with a smile: "This fresh snake gall is very replenishing--- you are a guest, please go first!"
As he spoke, he put the snake gall on Le Jun's mouth.
What do you mean?
Swallow snake gall bladder raw?
"Mr. Kang, you are too polite. Le Jun hurriedly refused. "It's better to let Kang Er Gongzi enjoy such a good thing!"
Kang Yongren smiled slightly, "Look at his current appearance, can you still enjoy it?"
Le Jun turned his face to look, but saw Kang Yonglian bending over and retching.
Lejun: "......"
Kang Yongren: "What, don't give face?"
"Hehe, how could it be?" Le Jun smiled and opened his mouth.
"That's right! It's very supplemental, believe me!" Kang Yongren threw the snake gall into Le Jun's mouth.
Le Jun only felt a fishy and bitter breath rushing to his nose, and his teeth and tongue didn't even dare to touch the snake gall, and swallowed it directly into his stomach.
"Well, that's good!" Kang Yongren patted Le Jun's shoulder with his bloodstained hand and said with a smile: "I will soon know the benefits of this snake gall!"
As he spoke, he turned around and washed his hands, cleaned up his ---, and instructed the mute apprentice to take the snake to the snake king Tao to make snake soup.
Here, Le Jun couldn't help but be the same as Kang Yonglian, and couldn't help bending over and retching.
……
In the fist-sized soup bowl, there is steaming snake soup,
The snake soup is fragrant, and the breath is mixed with some traditional Chinese medicine.
Although I knew that this bowl of snake soup was delicious, after watching the scene just now, neither Le Jun nor Kang Yonglian could eat it.
Kang Yongren seemed to like eating these very much--- he was sweating profusely and heartily.
took out a handkerchief and wiped the sweat oozing from his forehead, Kang Yongren looked up but saw that Le Jun and the fine guy Kang Yonglian hadn't moved their chopsticks yet, so he said: "Why don't you eat --- while it's hot, it will smell fishy when it's cold!"
Le Jun and Kang Yonglian, you look at me, I look at you.
Suddenly, Le Jun seemed to remember something, hurriedly reached out and picked up the briefcase he brought, hurriedly took out a pile of materials from it, handed it to Kang Yongren and said: "Mr. Kang, these are all engineering agreements signed by your Kang's Construction and George--- I have taken them all!"
Kang Yongren nodded, picked up a napkin and wiped his mouth, took the information and looked through it carefully.
It turns out that as the largest wealthy family in Hong Kong, in addition to some invisible industries, the Kang family operates the most real estate, and Kang's Construction is the largest private property of the Kang family.
Nowadays, Hong Kong's labor costs continue to rise, coupled with Hong Kong's trade unions constantly clamoring to "improve workers' salaries", "improve workers' welfare", etc., so that labor employment costs continue to increase--- especially in construction.
Kang's construction requires a lot of labor, but the rising wage cost of workers also makes Kang's a little unbearable.
At this time, Kang Yongren privately contacted the warden George of Stanley Prison, and through several times of wine and food, as well as a few visits to the nightclubs of the rich, he finally got through the relationship and signed a "project contract contract" with George in private.
Through this contract, Kang's Construction can hire prison inmates to work for them at a salary of two-thirds below the market price.
Through this contract, Kang Yongren successfully completed the development of real estate projects such as "Kang's New Century", "Kang's Carnival" and "Kang's Forest Peninsula" with the help of super cheap labor such as prisons.
As a result, Kang's Construction has saved seven or eight billion yuan in salary expenses.
Of course, during this period, the prison warden ghost George also made a lot of benefits through Kang Yongren--- to be precise, he bought at least two villas and three yachts in London, England.
These dark transactions are the "soft underbelly" of Kang's construction, threatening Kang Yongren and the companies he controls at all times.
Now that Hong Kong has entered 1996, it will return to the motherland in another year.
The ghost George was not greedy enough, and wanted to threaten Kang Yongren with these materials before leaving, making him pay 50 million hush money.
Who is Kang Yongren, he has always disliked compromise for those who threaten him, and he doesn't like to "spend money to eliminate disasters", so he bribed George's wife and brother, that is, his brother-in-law Le Jun, and directly put the ghost George in prison.
You are unkind to me!
Don't think that my name is Kang Yongren, and I will be kind to you.
……
After reading the "black materials" in his hand, Kang Yongren took out a lighter from his arms and lit the materials, and when all the materials were boiled, he waved them and threw them into the trash can--- the flames were blazing.
"I'm sorry, Mr. Kang! Although I sent that ghost George to prison, this time I was escaped by the surname Song. Le Jun glanced at Kang Yongren and said apologetically.
"It's okay!" Kang Yongren said with a smile, "Originally, I didn't want his life, I just wanted to scare him--- after all, the murder of a Justice of the Peace during the inspection would cause a great reaction in society." ”
"I'm relieved when you say that. Le Jun sighed that Kang Yongren's move "kills two birds with one stone".
It not only removes the opponents who threaten them, but also intimidates the enemies who oppose them.
Kang Yongren picked up a wet towel and wiped his hands and said: "As for what you have to do now--- it is actually very simple leak the arrest of George, and I want the whole of Hong Kong to know what scandal has happened in this prison." ”
Lejun: "That's ......"
"In this way, the reputation of the prison will become more and more stinky, and the surrounding land prices will be affected--- and we will buy it on a large scale!" Kang Yongren's eyes shot a trace of coldness, "I want to take out three billion to buy five billion worth of land near Stanley!"
When Kang Yonglian heard this, he couldn't help but be moved: "Big man, isn't this too presumptuous? Three billion is not a small amount!"
Kang Yongren bared his white teeth and said with a smile: "Have you ventured? I have already discussed with those Brits in private--- Stanley Prison is about to be relocated to Lantau Island, there is already a prison on Lantau Island, it doesn't matter if there is one more--- but this place is different, without this prison, the value of all the land here will be doubled!"
"When the time comes, our Kang's Construction will empty all Hong Kong Island, and the entire island will belong to our Kang family, we can build it as we want, and develop it as we want--- and the value of the land will not be 3 billion, but 30 billion, 300 billion!" Kang Yongren became more and more excited, and flames erupted from his eyes.
Kang Yonglian was also excited when he heard it, he only felt that this eldest brother Kang Yongren was too sharp--- buy land at a low price, and then sell a house at a high price, in the future, the Kang family will occupy Hong Kong Island and become a veritable "island owner", how majestic and glorious it should be.
Le Jun was drenched in a cold sweat when he heard it.
He didn't expect Kang Yongren to be so ambitious that he wanted to relocate Stanley Prison and buy the entire Hong Kong Island!
If, according to Kang Yongren's plan, George was imprisoned, Stanley Prison became notorious, and the Hong family took the opportunity to buy land near the prison at an ultra-low price; and then the British government of Hong Kong ordered the prison to be relocated, and then the Hong family came forward to rebuild Hong Kong Island, wouldn't it really be the king and hegemon?
Thinking of this, Le Jun was even more sweaty.
Seeing Le Jun's shocked look, Kang Yongren enjoyed his reaction--- after all, this was his great idea, and anyone who heard it would be surprised.
"Okay, Mr. Lejun, since I tell you so much, it is equivalent to treating you as my own, do you understand what I mean?"
Le Jun is still surprised.
Kang Yonglian touched him, "My brother asked you something!"
Le Jun hurriedly said, "Understood! Of course I do!"
"That's good--- snake soup!" Kang Yongren pointed to the soup bowl in front of Le Jun, and then smiled proudly: "Today I invite you to eat snake soup, and I will invite you to eat abalone in the future!"