After Zheng Yi finished saying what he had to say, he took the two newly recruited bodyguards and drove away. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Xu Maofu and the three of them, who had seen the car go away, returned to the office on the second floor of Huafeng Company again to discuss Zheng Yi's appointment, and then recounted all the company's assets according to Zheng Yi's request, and registered the office building, two newly purchased cars, and 15 trucks that had not yet been transported after paying a deposit.

It is always exciting to be promoted and make a fortune, including Xu Shilong, who has just obtained the position of manager of the security department, everyone is in a state of excitement and excitement, the work efficiency has increased exponentially, and the friendship between them has become more harmonious and deeper.

"Maofu, the decision made by the boss today seems sudden, but it is actually deliberate, and it seems that we are completely in charge of Huafeng Company!"

Lai Dingbang, deputy general manager in charge of finance and internal management, looked at Xu Maofu.

Xu Maofu lit a cigarette and analyzed it with emotion: "Indeed, after the delivery of the second batch of arms sold to the Gui department, I felt that Huafeng Company came to life, and I had a hunch that the boss would strengthen the company's management and expand the scale of the company, but I didn't expect him to hand over the entire company to us......

"Lao Xu, you have to hurry up the part you are responsible for, nearly half of the brothers you brought were transferred to the Kowloon Storage and Transportation Company to learn to drive a crane, and half of the remaining 20 people have to learn to drive a car, and the other half have to be responsible for the safety of the company, and they are also responsible for the safety of the construction site next door, and there is not enough manpower!"

Xu Shilong put the two cups of hot tea brought in front of Xu Maofu and Lai Dingbang, puffed up his chest, and replied energetically:

"Don't worry, brother, within three days, I can summon dozens of young brothers who dare to fight, if the company dares to use young and strong laborers from Guangdong Province and Fujian Province, I can even recall 100 people within three days, and dare to ensure that all of them are innocent, obedient and easy to use."

"The boss just asked us to recruit a group of honest and obedient young men as soon as possible, and I didn't say how many people we recruited, did you ask the boss before deciding?" Lai Dingbang is very cautious.

Xu Maofu weighed it for a long time: "I don't think it's too much to recruit 100 people, think about it, after the merger of the Kowloon storage and shipping company, a large number of people will definitely be needed, and it is definitely not enough to rely on the twelve brothers who were originally responsible for security and the twenty-three brothers who just went to learn to drive a crane." ”

"And until now, there are no special loading and unloading teams at Piers 8, 9 and 10, so we have always had work to do before we went to other docks to call people, so how good would it be if we had a professional loading and unloading team ourselves? After all, fertilizer and water don't flow into outsiders' fields! ”

"Also, didn't the boss say that he was going to buy five decommissioned transport ships of the British Navy? There is definitely a need for more manpower on board, and the salaries of the seafarers and security guards on board are very high, so since we are the boss's own fleet, why bother to cheapen others for nothing? ”

"That's right! We brothers are all young people, since we can learn to drive a car or a crane, why can't we learn to drive a ship? If the boss agrees with our idea, it won't take half a year for our Huafeng company to pull up three or five hundred brothers, and there is still that gang in the whole of Hong Kong that dares to provoke us? ”

Xu Shilong, who was in charge of forming the club, was excited, and his eyes were full of anticipation.

Lai Dingbang and Xu Maofu looked at each other for a long time, and nodded in unison.

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On the ferry at the Kowloon Ferry Terminal, two sturdy young bodyguards in suits and leather shoes stood in front of and behind the limousine, vigilantly scanning the surrounding crowd.

Dressed in a thin black tweed coat and black top hat, Zheng Yi leaned against the car door, silently smoking a cigarette as he looked across the strait at Hong Kong Island, where construction was under construction, and all he could think about was the upcoming negotiations with representatives of HSBC and the Royal Navy's Far East Fleet.

In the course of two years, the Royal Navy's Far East Fleet needed to eliminate five military transport ships, but no one cared about it, especially since the second half of this year, the economic development of countries around the world has stagnated, and even the British economy, which claims to be the empire on which the sun never sets, has been deeply affected.

At present, in the United Kingdom, a large number of industrial and mining enterprises are in a state of loss-making operation, the scale of the manufacturing industry has shrunk sharply, and the direct result is that the global shipping industry has been hit hard, whether it is European and American countries or Asian colonies, bankrupt shipping companies abound, and a large number of transport ships are piled up in large and small ports, either waiting for rust and scrapping, or being sold to steel mills by bankrupt bosses at the price of scrap steel.

The global economic situation is becoming more and more severe, and no one wants to take over the five decommissioned transport ships of the Far East Fleet, which are very expensive, and the top management of the Far East Fleet, which urgently needs to sell the old ships and buy new ones, is so anxious that they jump up and down, and the transfer prices announced to the outside world have been lowered again and again, and still no one is willing to take over.

In order to reduce losses, the four major shipping companies in the United Kingdom are reducing their scale and reducing personnel to varying degrees, and small and medium-sized shipping companies are even more unbearable, where can they afford to buy the retired ships of the British Navy?

Just when the British navy's top brass was helpless, Hong Kong Governor Clementi stepped forward and mediated the situation of Hong Kong's Taikoo Shipyard after the asset restructuring and the shipping company of the Hong Kong Cheng family's shipping company to the Far East Fleet Command, and then persuaded HSBC, which has strong assets, to provide 300,000 pounds to the newly established Hong Kong Ocean Shipping Company in the form of a share-based mortgage, successfully facilitating cooperation negotiations between the three parties.

Zheng Lanting, the helmsman of the Zheng family, after repeated considerations, gladly accepted the matchmaking of the Governor, even if the business could not be negotiated, it would not have much impact.

However, if the negotiations are successful, the shipping company under the Cheng family will become the largest shipping company in Hong Kong and Southeast Asia in one fell swoop, and then hold high the banner of British-funded enterprises, enjoy many privileges of the British colonialists, and gradually annex the small shipping companies in Hong Kong and the Southeast Asian colonies through mergers and acquisitions, crowding out, suppression, etc., not only politically win the favor of the British government and army, further consolidate the political position of the Zheng family, but also obtain huge monopoly benefits economically.

As the actual controller of the newly established maritime transportation company, Zheng Yi was very aware of his father's thoughts, and was also willing to hold high the banner of the British colonialists, seek personal gains, and continuously deliver the arms and munitions that were difficult to transport to his own team, so as to provide a safer and more convenient transportation network for the underground intelligence personnel of the party organization, and through close observation and exploration, timely and accurately grasp the policies and military movements of the British colonial government toward China, and explore the collusion between the Kuomintang government and foreign forces. Send the information to the Party Central Committee.

Secondly, the five decommissioned transport ships of the Far East Fleet of the British Royal Navy were all built in the late stage of World War I, with a displacement of between 5,600 and 8,000 tons, although the technology has been backward and is not suitable for commercial shipping, but its thick hull and good wind and wave resistance performance are far better than ordinary long-distance merchant ships.

The only thing that made Zheng Yi feel a headache was that the transfer price of the five military transport ships was as high as 420,000 pounds, although there were 300,000 pounds provided by HSBC, this price was still much more than Zheng Yi's psychological affordability.

Therefore, Zheng Yi made up his mind to keep the price below 350,000 pounds this time, so as to free up funds to buy real estate and land around the storage and transportation yard, and build a taller and larger shipping building and storage and transportation transit yard.