Chapter 388: Ready to go
At noon the next day, Zheng Yi, who had already been invited, did not attend the large-scale Christmas banquet held by the Governor's Palace, nor did he stay at home or inspect the construction site above the Kowloon Ferry Pier, but continued to stay at the former Taikoo Shipyard in Sai Wan. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
This 1,000-acre industrial zone, which has been owned by the Zheng family, is still building walls, expanding factories, and officially changing its name to "Far East Machinery Manufacturing Company".
After more than a month of reorganization, Far East Machinery Manufacturing Company has gradually embarked on a high-speed track of healthy development, and has become an industrial group company with clear property rights, reasonable division of labor, perfect system, and total assets of up to one million pounds.
On 18 December, representatives of Sir Zheng Lanting, who owns 67.5 percent of the shares of the Far East Machinery Manufacturing Company, Viscount Rochester, who owns 10 percent of the shares, and Swire Pacific of Hong Kong, which owns 22.5 percent of the shares, held the first board of directors meeting and formally appointed Zheng Yi as the deputy general manager of the group company and the manager of the precision machinery manufacturing plant, with full authority to manage the production and sales of weapons and equipment.
Covering an area of more than 280 acres, the precision machinery manufacturing plant is located in the southwest corner of the entire industrial zone, with six production workshops and 14 factory warehouses, and three new factories for the production of automatic rifles are still under construction.
In order to ensure the absolute safety of weapons production, Zheng Yi submitted to the board of directors for approval and began to build a solid fence 850 meters long and 3.5 meters high, enclosing all production workshops, factories and two villa-style office buildings in the middle, leaving only a well-guarded doorway leading to the south gate of the industrial zone.
The security company dormitory and training ground under construction are located on the south side of the factory gate, less than 50 meters away from Zheng Yi's office building and design office, and it will take two months to fully put it into use.
During the Christmas season, all managers and workers are given five days off, except for the construction workers who are responsible for the construction of the factory and the fence.
Near noon, more than 500 construction workers stopped their work to start lunch, and two black cars slowly drove into the gate of the factory that had not yet been built, bypassed several trolleys full of red bricks, and drove straight to the front of the office building to stop.
Three men in top hats and trench coats quickly got out of the car and strode into the building amid the respectful greetings of several guards.
In the spacious and simple office on the second floor, Zheng Yi was checking the hand-drawn drawings on the desktop with Xu Fanyi, a tall personal bodyguard, and saw Xu Maofu, Lai Dingbang and Xu Shilong arriving, nodded, and continued to discuss with Xu Fanyi in a low voice.
A few minutes later, Xu Fanyi put away the hand-drawn drawings and said goodbye in a low voice, seeing his nephew Xu Maofu respectfully greeting him, smiling slightly and patting Xu Maofu's shoulder, nodding to Lai Dingbang and Xu Shilong, who were standing respectfully and solemnly, and strode away.
The footsteps were far away, and Xu Maofu quietly exhaled his turbid breath, pulled over a chair and sat in front of the wide mahogany desk.
Zheng Yi motioned to Lai Dingbang and Xu Shilong to find a stool to sit down, lit a cigarette, and joked with Xu Maofu: "Xiaofu, why do you always look at your uncle like a mouse seeing a cat every time?" He's only six years older than you, so you two should have a common language! ā
Xu Maofu shook his head helplessly: "What I'm most afraid of is him...... He was better before he was vulgar, every time I took the school my martial arts skills were mostly point-to-point, who knows what medicine he took wrong, after coming to Hong Kong, the whole person has changed, in the past six months, every time I go home, he has to fight with me, every time he is beaten to death by him, I knew this, I would not have asked my father to call him to Hong Kong. ā
Lai Dingbang, who knows the inside story, is very happy, he knows that Xu Maofu's uncle Xu Fanyi is from Wudang, and he is a low-key and highly skilled Taoist priest, who only came to Hong Kong at the beginning of this year to open a museum for Xu Maofu's father to teach apprentices.
More than 50 young people who moved to Hong Kong from Huangzhou have been learning martial arts from Xu's father.
After Xu Fanyi's arrival, Xu's father, who was busy with affairs, was much more relaxed, if Zheng Yi didn't stay in Hong Kong, Xu's father was very worried about the safety of his son, and Xu Fanyi, who was both civil and military, was full of gratitude to Zheng Yi, otherwise no one would be able to make a master like Xu Fanyi willing to put down his shelf and serve as a bodyguard.
Xu Shilong, who didn't know the inside story, was full of doubts, but he was embarrassed to ask, looking left and right, and he was extremely uncomfortable.
At Zheng Yi's suggestion, Lai Dingbang took the lead in reporting the results of the secret investigation in the past few days:
"Chen Yinzhou, the boss of the Zhangzhou Gang, lives in the house next door to the Yau Ma Tei Neighborhood School, and has a wife, two concubines, and four daughters.
"According to my repeated investigations with Lao Xu, I found that the Chaozhou Gang and the Fuqing Gang have the best relationship, but they have no dealings with the Zhangpu Gang and the Tong'an Gang, and they are constantly in trouble with the Chaozhou Gang and the Huizhou Gang."
"In late June, Cai Zhenhan, the second child of the Zhangzhou Gang, had a fight with several minions of the Chaozhou Gang, it is said that it was for a new prostitute (jinv) girl, and the two food stalls in the Guangdong Street Night Market were overturned, and the two sides injured each other, but no one died, and that night the boss of the Zhangzhou Gang invited Lin Dingnan, the director of the Guangdong Chamber of Commerce, to be a peacemaker, and the Zhangzhou Gang lost money."
"At present, it seems that the Zhangzhou Gang does not seem to have the intention of continuing to deal with Song Jiaxiong, it is estimated that after grabbing the dock, Song Jiaxiong believes that Song Jiaxiong has confessed."
Zheng Yi looked at Xu Shilong, who wanted to speak and stopped: "Old Xu, if you have something to say, just say it." ā
Xu Shilong hurriedly said: "The Zhangzhou Gang is different from other gangs in Fujian Province, they are the same as the Chaozhou Gang, the Huizhou Gang and other gangs, and they pay tribute to Lin Dingnan, the head of the Guangdong Chamber of Commerce, every New Year's Day. ā
Zheng Yi nodded: "I know about this, I can tell you unmistakably that the Zhangzhou Gang has nothing to do with the Guangdong Chamber of Commerce, and the gangs from Guangdong Province may not all be taken care of by the Guangdong Chamber of Commerce. ā
"Understood."
Xu Shilong secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
Zheng Yi looked at the lazy Xu Maofu: "Are the manpower ready?" ā
Xu Maofu smiled: "A one-sentence matter can be pulled out at any time." ā
Zheng Yi pondered for a moment and made a decision: "New Year's Day is coming, postpone it for a few days, and start after the fifth day of the first month." ā
"Dingbang, Lao Xu, you continue to send people to follow the two bosses of the Zhangzhou Gang, it is best to find out where they like to fool around at night, and it is best if you can kill them outside."
"In addition, inform Song Jiaxiong, let him wait patiently, don't make anything happen, before you start, it's best to let Song Jiaxiong go to a crowded casino to play a few games, or go to some other place that can prove his innocence."
"Understood!"
Lai Dingbang and Xu Shilong replied in unison.
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PS: Today is the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, and Xiaohuo is here to greet everyone! I wish you all good health, happiness, smooth work and study in the new year, and all the best!