The Chen Mansion on Sai Ying Pun East Street on Hong Kong Island covers an area of nearly two acres, and the green brick walls are covered with ivy. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Inside the wall, two rococo style western-style buildings are hidden in the greenery, and the whole courtyard looks unpretentious from the outside, the exterior walls of the two western-style buildings are mottled and ordinary, but the interior decoration and layout are extremely luxurious.

In the hall of the three-storey main building, Chen Jiongming, the former overlord of Liangguang, and three Hongmen bosses from Nanyang gathered together, Chen Jiongming, who is more than half a hundred years old, has lost a lot of weight than two years ago, his temples have been dyed frost white, and the original iconic German mustache has been replaced by a carefully trimmed mustache, but the smile on his face is very natural, and his complexion is much better than two years ago.

The four old brothers, who are also the leaders of the Hongmen Sect, have been separated for many years, and when they get together, they always have endless words to say, and they have endless feelings for the past, and they have been talking enthusiastically all afternoon, sometimes sighing and sighing, sometimes laughing loudly, and the servants standing around and the bodyguards outside the door are also deeply infected, and their hearts rise and fall with the laughter and sighs of the masters.

Before you know it, everyone's conversation has turned to the big Christmas cocktail party to be held tomorrow at noon.

Chen Jiongming, who was smiling, was unhurried to refill a cup of kung fu tea for the old brothers, and truthfully answered the inquiry of his cousin Chen Huanming, who came from Sin Chew:

"The younger brother received the invitation five days ago, and I heard that the entire Chinese community in Hong Kong has only received 20 invitations this year, and among the eight major chambers of commerce, only the Guangdong Chamber of Commerce and the Jiangsu-Zhejiang Association established this summer have been fortunate enough to receive the invitation of the Governor."

"Brother Shangguan is far away in Manila, and he was able to receive an invitation from the Governor of Hong Kong half a month ago, which shows that the prestige of my brother has spread far and wide."

The patriarch of the Shangguan family in Manila, who had a ruddy face, laughed: "Brother Xian smiled, where is the foolish brother as capable as you say, it is all the credit of Brother Zheng Lanting and Brother Zheng Xian, and I am afraid that the high-ranking Governor does not even know who I am." ”

The crowd laughed again.

Cai Zongxian, an overseas Chinese leader from Batavia, asked with interest: "Brother Shangguan, I heard that you and the Zheng family jointly established a large shipping company?" ”

"Oh? Fourth brother, did you also receive news over there? Shangguan asked with a smile.

Cai Zongxian, who has dark skin and a large skeleton, picked up the hot fragrant tea in front of him: "How can such a big thing be kept?" The whole South Seas spread! I heard that you also bought five decommissioned large ocean-going carriers from the British Royal Navy, which made the hearts of the major families of Java and Borneo itch, I really admire the virtuous brother! ”

Shangguan laughed, and after laughing, he reported seriously: "I won't hide it from you, the newly established marine transportation company still has 25 percent of the shares of the Lin family in Fujian Province, and our Shangguan family only has 22 percent of the shares, and the family of Hong Kong Justice Viscount Rochester holds 10 percent of the shares. ”

"In addition to the five big ships just mentioned by the fourth brother, the shipping company also has three 10,000-ton ocean-going cargo ships in the British Portsmouth Military Port for transformation, and two months later will transport a large number of customized machinery and equipment, special steel and cotton wool and other goods from the United Kingdom, one of which will berth at the port of Mumbai, India, loaded with 8,000 tons of flour and sent to Shanghai."

"In the future, two of the three 10,000-ton cargo ships will be used on the Shanghai-San Francisco route, one will run the Hong Kong-UK route, and the remaining 10,000-ton cargo ships will be used from Hong Kong to all parts of the South Seas...... At that time, please take care of the fourth brother and the Hongmen brothers from all over the country! ”

Cai Zongxian was stunned, he didn't expect the shipping company in which the Shangguan family was a shareholder to be so large and had such a deep background.

Chen Jiongming asked unceremoniously: "Brother Shangguan, junior brother, I still have some spare money, now more than half a hundred years old, decades of pursuit has been in vain, the only way to be honest is to be a rich man, so I want to make some investment, do you see if you can do a favor and let the younger brother also join the shares?" ”

The patriarch of Shangguan stroked the beautiful long beard on his chin, and seeing that Chen Jiongming was not joking but very serious, he thought about it for a moment and said honestly:

"That's it, tomorrow at the Christmas party, I'll go to Lanting with you to ask, although you don't have any relationship with Lanting, but he knows you very well, last night I drank with the dog in his house, and he asked me if your illness was cured? Let me bring you a message inviting you to be a guest when you have time. ”

Chen Jiongming's spirits perked up: "Brother Lanting really said that? ”

The Shangguan patriarch nodded, took a sip of the rich kung fu tea, put down the teacup and told the brothers:

"Before, we all thought that the Lanting virtuous brother who could become the civil affairs chief of the British colony as a Chinese was a rare person in a century, but after I met the second son of the virtuous brother Lanting, I knew that the Zheng family was full of talents."

"When we were drinking last night, we talked about a lot of things about Brother Jing Cun Xian (Chen Jiongming), and what shocked me was that the second son of the Zheng family had a very high evaluation of Brother Jing Cunxian, and he was extremely sorry for the failure of Brother Jing Cunxian, and I was very surprised after listening to his analysis, and I also agreed with his point of view."

"Zheng Ergongzi's original words are: General Chen Jiongming is not despicable enough, his character is too kind, he is not ruthless enough, and he is too generous to the generals and colonels under his command, which leads to the loss of strong military discipline constraints under his command, and in just two years, he has rapidly transformed into a group of arrogant soldiers who are vying for power and profit, and they have lost the spirit of unifying Guangdong Province at the beginning!"

Everyone looked at each other, very interested in this second son of the Zheng family.

Chen Jiongming's face was pale, and his heart was like a knife: "Brother, is the second son of the Zheng family the same Paul Zheng who has many technical patents?" ”

The Shangguan patriarch nodded slightly: "Not bad!" All of you here are my old brothers from Hongmen, and I want to tell you something confidential, and I hope you don't spread it. ”

Several Hongmen leaders immediately sat up straight and nodded to the Shangguan patriarch in unison.

The Shangguan patriarch sighed slightly, and said in a low voice: "The second son of the Lanting Virtuous Brother has another name, called Zheng Yi!" ”

"Zheng Yi? Seems to have heard it somewhere? ”

Chen Huanming and Cai Zongxian looked at each other and nodded, but they couldn't remember it for a while.

Only Chen Jiongming's heart was shocked, and he was stunned for a long time before he asked in a trembling voice: "Is it from the Whampoa Military Academy that Zheng Yi?" ”

The patriarch of Shangguan nodded heavily: "It's him, I only found out after meeting last night, this son has lofty eyes, hides but does not reveale, polite, but not angry and arrogant, if it weren't for the honest confession of the virtuous brother of Lanting, I would never have dreamed of the young Junjie who drank with me, half a year ago, he was a decisive communist army general Zheng Yi who made the Kuomintang government and the army smell." ”

"Fortunately, my youngest son hit him off at first sight, and he has been wandering around with him for the past two days, and my nephew Shangguan Yong, who stayed in his hometown in Putian, was also a company commander under Zheng Yi, but fortunately, now they have all left the communist army, unloaded their armor and engaged in business, and they are doing very well at present."

Several Hongmen bosses were shocked, and Chen Jiongming, whose face had turned from white to red, had slowly stood up and respectfully made a request to the Shangguan patriarch:

"Brother, can you inform the younger brother, the younger brother wants to visit the Zheng Mansion tonight!"