Chapter 63 Protection Fees

When Lei Weidong was about to arrange for people to create Transformers, a phone call from the factory startled Lei Weidong.

This afternoon, a thug went to the factory in the New Territories to ask for protection money, but was beaten away by the factory's security guards!

Hearing the news, Lei Weidong immediately took Liu Wei and Zhao Hongjun to the factory, and rushed to the factory non-stop.

On the road, Lei Weidong kept urging Liu Wei to drive faster, faster! The long road that I usually don't feel aware of, now it feels like a long time to run.

Facing the underworld so quickly, Lei Weidong was both surprised and a little surprised, he had tried his best to keep a low profile, how could the underworld come to the door so quickly.

As long as you do business in Hong Kong, it is impossible to deal with the triad, the triad in Hong Kong is too rampant, and it has penetrated into all walks of life in Hong Kong, as long as you are in Hong Kong, no matter what profession you have, what status you may directly or indirectly deal with the triad.

The sixties and seventies in Hong Kong were the darkest times, when officials were seriously corrupt and bribed, the gangsters were huge, and the whole society was in chaos. Login tycoon, nicknamed "White. Ma Xiru of "Pink Horse", his younger brother "Golden Horse" Ma Xizhen, and Wu Xihao, nicknamed "Lame Hao".

Among them, the Ma brothers occupy two of them, and these are all members of the four famous gangsters in Hong Kong, which shows their strength.

In the early 60s of the 20th century, Wu Xihao poured into Hong Kong with the influx of refugees, and started as a "word flower stall" (gambling), and later changed to a "powder stall" (poison), and as a result, he quickly grew into a famous drug lord in Hong Kong. Its Yiqun, together with New Ngee An, 14K, and Heshenghe, is known as one of the four major associations in Hong Kong, that is, one of the "four major families", with a maximum of more than 100,000 members.

However, Wu Xihao's luck was not good, after the establishment of the Independent Commission Against Corruption in 74, Lame Hao was arrested and imprisoned, and all the backbone leaders of the Yiqun, large and small, were arrested and imprisoned. The Yiqun, which had previously dominated Xiangjiang, also declined, and by the 90s, there were only a few hundred people left.

The history of lame hao in the 90s was later put on the screen by Mai Dangxiong, starring Lu Liangwei. After its release, it was applauded and acclaimed, setting off a trend of biopics in Hong Kong.

The Ma brothers are even more powerful than Lame Hao, and they are responsible for collecting white in Hong Kong. In 1969, the Ma brothers founded the Oriental Press Group, whose main newspaper was the Chinese Oriental Daily, which was strongly pro-Taiwan, and later developed into the largest newspaper in Hong Kong.

In addition to being used for money laundering, newspapers are also used to disseminate drug news.

In 1978, when the Ma family case was discovered, the Hong Kong police received assistance from the US Drug Enforcement Administration, Interpol and the Central Intelligence Agency to arrest Ma Xiru and Ma Xizhen on charges of "operating the largest drug trafficking syndicate ever seen in the Hong Kong colony".

However, because of the notice of the police ghost, Ma Xiru left Hong Kong a few days before the crime and absconded to Taiwan, leaving behind his wife and four children.

Ma Xiru has been living with his mistress on Renai Road in Taipei City since fleeing Taiwan, and has been wanted by the Hong Kong government for decades, and the arrest warrant is still in effect. Therefore, some Hong Kong people refer to the Oriental Daily and The Sun as "white. Pink Newspaper", and Ma's descendants are also collectively referred to as "Bai. Pink Horse", and Ma Xiru died of illness in 1998.

After his brother Ma Xizhen and his son Ma Huanran were laid, Ma Xiru took advantage of the internal relations of the Hong Kong government in Taiwan, and at the same time was guaranteed by some justices of the peace and celebrities, (including the great director Li Hanxiang) gave up the bail and absconded after the brother and the righteous son were released on bail, after which Ma Xizhen also settled in Taiwan and used the criminal proceeds of money laundering to open several legal companies.

The Ma family's legitimate business continues to flourish in Hong Kong and around the world. These businesses include commercial real estate in Europe, North America and Australia; I believe that Oriental Daily is only the tip of the iceberg of the Ma family's assets.

The movie "The Legend of Renault" starring Andy Lau and Maggie Cheung in the 90s and the movie "Money Empire" shot by Wang Jing in the 21st century both describe this period of history in detail.

It's 1977, and it's arguably the most rampant time for the Ma brothers.

Of course, whether it is Yiqun and New Yi'an, 14k, Hesheng and that club, Lei Weidong is now hitting a stone with an egg, but as long as Lei Weidong is given time, Lei Weidong believes that with his knowledge of more than 30 years beyond the times, he will definitely be able to develop to a huge strength that can easily crush them.

After all, Lei Weidong's future goals are the big conglomerates in the United States and Europe. In comparison, the pond in Hong Kong is too small.

Hurried to the factory, and Lei Weidong was relieved to see the scene, there was no blood or tools left after the crowd fought. There was no scene of a police car calling, everything was the same as usual, which made Lei Weidong feel that someone was joking with him.

However, seeing Wu Dong standing at the door to greet him, He Sanshui and Chen Xiaolong had serious expressions on their faces, and Lei Weidong felt that the matter was true.

"Boss!" Seeing Lei Weidong's car arrive, Wu Dong, He Sanshui, and Chen Xiaolong hurriedly went up to say hello.

"Wu Dong, what the hell is going on!" Lei Weidong grabbed Wu Dong, who was walking in the front, and asked:

"Boss, it's not very convenient here, let's go into the house and talk!" Wu Dong didn't expect himself to be so unlucky, and wanted to shoot a sycophant on the horse's feet. However, Wu Dongren was very clever, and he brought things over as soon as he spoke.

In Lei Weidong's company, Lei Weidong, Liu Wei, Zhao Hongjun, Wu Dong, He Sanshui and others, as well as several newly promoted security department leaders, sat together.

"Okay, don't say anything, tell me about the situation!" After sitting down, Lei Weidong interrupted the polite words and directly introduced the theme.

"Yes, boss, here's how it is!" He Sanshui, who was elected by everyone, told the details of the matter.

After listening to it for a long time, Lei Weidong finally figured out what was going on. Because the factory is close to Tseung Kwan O, it can be said that the geographical location is relatively remote, and there are some villages nearby. The degree of prosperity is far from that of Kowloon and Hong Kong Island.

The people here live in poverty, so there is no oil or water. Those big clubs such as Yiqun and New Yi'an, 14k, and Heshenghe don't look down on this place at all. This area is basically a void for the power of the community.

Where there are people, there are rivers and lakes, but there are no big associations. There are still a lot of small hooligans and gangsters, after all, the current atmosphere in Hong Kong is like this, and almost every family is mixed with the underworld.

In the area around Jingtian Village, there are one or two hundred gangsters of all sizes, divided into three gangs, namely the Tiger Gang, the Viper Society, and the Jackal Society. These three families are almost the same, and they all have dozens of brothers, which is of course far from those big associations in Hong Kong.

At present, there are tens of thousands of brothers in major associations in Hong Kong. It's just that most of them are low-level Troubled Boys or peripheral members, and the real core members are only dozens or hundreds.

The Tigers, Vipers and Jackals are just small shrimps outside, but they are a tyrant in the vicinity of Jingtian Village. After all, there are no tigers in the mountains, and monkeys are kings.

Because the gangs are all villagers of their own village, and everyone is a villager who has to save face, these three gangs mainly bully the foreign population and collect protection money. When you are idle and have nothing to do, you flirt with the big girl and the little daughter-in-law in the village, and there is nothing wrong with it.

When Lei Weidong's factory was first launched, because there was no work, those gangsters didn't pay attention to it.

Later, the popularity of "The King of Paintings" made the factory busy. The machine is spinning day and night. Every day, those delivery and incoming cars are one by one.

Such a hot scene made the thugs red-eyed. It's just that there are dozens of big men in the factory as security guards, patrolling around the factory every day. Those thugs didn't dare to provoke.

People die for money, birds die for food, and the trucks one after another are all money! The bosses of the three gangs who watched drooled. Everyone wants others to start tango first, try the details of this factory, don't mention the iron plate. It took nearly a month like this, and finally the boss of the Viper Club couldn't hold his breath anymore, and sent a few gangsters to the factory to collect protection money, but he didn't dare to ask for an extra 5,000 yuan.

At that time, Wu Dong was in charge of the security guards on duty in the factory, and for Wu Dong, who had been a soldier in the mainland, he was most unaccustomed to such a thing as collecting protection money, and he did not report it to the higher-ups, nor did he ask others to do it. Wu Dong, who was finished, remembered his responsibilities and hurriedly reported to the top. By the time Lei Weidong was notified, the matter would have already been over.