Chapter 67: Painstaking
Lu Yixiang relocated most of the Lu Group's industries to Hong Kong, but after the outbreak of the Pacific War, Hong Kong became an isolated island, and Lu Yuting rarely had the opportunity to go to Hong Kong to manage the business there. Fortunately, Lu Yixiang asked Tang Hanzhen of the Shanghai branch to end his business in Shanghai and go to Hong Kong to take care of it, so the business of Lu's Group in Hong Kong can still operate normally, but most of the industries left by Lu's Group in Guangzhou have been shut down, and only a few such as "Baiyun Daily", Hongyun Shipping, Hongji Hospital, and Hongsheng Candy Factory are still operating in a bleak manner.
Guangdong Province is an important production area of sugarcane, so the sugar industry is also relatively developed, Hongsheng Sugar is one of the leaders, almost half of the sugar industry in Guangdong Province is monopolized by Hongsheng, Hongsheng candy is a well-known brand of men, women and children in Guangdong Province.
However, since the Japanese came, there was bombing and the "three lights" policy, and the output of sugarcane in Guangdong was less than half of the pre-war period. So Guangdong's sugar industry has also been hit hard. However, Hongsheng Sugar has maintained a leading position in the industry, because Lu Yixiang has introduced new machinery and equipment, and the cost of sugar has dropped a lot, so Hongsheng Sugar is operating well and can maintain profitability.
Yamada Group once had a Yamada Sugar Factory under its name, but because of poor management, it was in a state of bankruptcy, and the business conditions of Hongsheng Sugar made Yamada very jealous, he had long been jealous of Hongsheng Sugar, and wanted to take it for himself, Lu Yixiang began to fight the idea of Hongsheng Sugar when he was alive, and he secretly sent people to smash the factory and destroy the machine, but he was recognized by the workers of the factory protection team and arrested those hooligans, and those hooligans also confessed, which made Yamada have been ridiculed in the Guangzhou business community.
Now that Lu Yixiang is dead, although Lu Yuting has taken over the Lu Group, but after all, he is young, Yamada feels that Lu Yuting is young and can be bullied, so he doesn't take Lu Yuting in his eyes at all, not to mention that he has the support of the Japanese gendarmerie behind him. Now Watanabe is jealous of Lu Yuting for Yurong's affairs, so Yamada feels that it is easy to destroy Lu Yuting.
So, Yamada sent some Japanese ronins from the Black Dragon Society to Hongsheng Sugar to make trouble.
The old man who guarded the door saw several Japanese ronins in kimonos breaking into the factory in a menacing manner, and hurriedly went to stop them.
"Hey, this is a candy factory, don't be foolish."
The Japanese ronin didn't take the old man seriously at all, pushed the old man to the ground, and then broke into the factory, smashed the office windows, and splashed paint on the workshop.
"What are you going to do?" A stocky middle-aged man walked out.
"Master Geng, be careful that they have guys on their hands." A guy next to him reminded the middle-aged man.
Master Geng is an old worker, who has been working in Hongsheng Sugar for more than ten years.
"You come to our factory to make trouble, we will never agree, brothers, fuck the guys, and get these Japanese dog offalties out."
At the order of Master Geng, the brothers in the factory picked up shovels and machetes and approached the Japanese ronin. Seeing that the situation was not good, the Japanese ronin slipped out of the factory with a rolling belt.
Lu Yuting received a call and learned that something had happened to Hongsheng Candy Factory, so he hurriedly rushed to the sugar factory.
"Master Geng, are we hurt?" Yu Ting is most concerned about the personal safety of his workers.
"No, these shodder shuffles were so scared when they saw us picking up the dicks that they ran away."
"And any of them were wounded?" Yu Ting was worried that if these Japanese ronins blackmailed Hongsheng Candy Factory because of their injuries, he would have to be mentally prepared.
"No, we walked over to them, and before we could do anything, they slipped away. However, Boss Lu, you see, they splashed paint everywhere, and our candy wrappers were in vain. ”
"As long as people are okay, I will re-order these candy papers, everyone will tidy up the workshop, sweep all the broken glass, and ask someone to re-match a few pieces of glass."
"Okay, Boss Lu. Brothers, clean up the factory. ”
Yu Ting called Master Geng to the door of the workshop.
"Master Geng, this group of Japanese ronins won't come here to make trouble for no reason, I'm afraid it is still related to Yamada, you organize some brothers to work here at night, pay more attention, I'm afraid that Yamada will not die, and will take the opportunity to make trouble."
"Okay, I'll tell you to go down."
"Thank you for your hard work, Master Geng, you can take this money first and buy some supper for the workers." Lu Yuting stuffed a stack of money to Master Geng.
"Boss Lu, you are too polite, we are all old employees, and the big guys love the factory like home, we will never let Yamada's conspiracy succeed."
"Thank you! Then please. ”
Yamada was annoyed to see that these Japanese ronins had come back dejected.
"I asked you to smash Lu Yuting's sugar factory, and you were actually kicked out. What a bunch of useless rubbish. ”
"The workers of the convoy are not afraid of the sky or the earth, and they pick up shovels and machetes and force them on us, and they are outnumbered, and I am afraid that we will suffer, so they come back." A Japanese ronin explains to Yamada.
"How many Chinese scared you like this? What a bunch of wretchedness. In this way, you continue to go to the factory in the evening, and this time let them taste the taste of barbecue. Yamada had a sinister smile on his face.
"Hay."
Late at night, the group of Japanese ronin, dressed in Chinese-style short fights, took advantage of the dark moon and high wind, secretly climbed in from the fence, and then poured gasoline from the roof.
A member of the patrol factory protection team saw a black shadow on the roof, and quickly shone the flashlight towards the black shadow, the black shadow was startled, couldn't dodge, and stepped on a lot of roof tiles, which woke up the other members of the factory protection team.
"It's not good, I smell the smell of gasoline, little Japan is coming to burn the factory, everyone get out of here quickly and call the fire station to put out the fire." Master Geng hurriedly ordered the other team members.
Sure enough, there was a fire on the roof, and everyone hurried to put out the fire.
"Master Geng, we caught an arsonist." The members of the factory protection team pushed a guy dressed in black in front of Master Geng.
Master Geng grabbed the man's hair and pulled it up: "It turned out to be you." Do you think that if you dress as a Chinese, we won't recognize you Japanese dog miscellaneous? Ah Wei, watch closely, don't let this bastard slip away. ”
"Well, I know, Master Geng." Ah Wei shoved a rag stained with engine oil into the Japanese ronin's mouth.
Soon, the fire was brought under control, and after a while, the fire was extinguished. Master Geng looked at the sugar factory, there were two factories with varying degrees of damage, but fortunately, most of the workshops and warehouses were intact.
Yu Ting received the call and immediately rushed to the factory from home.
"Boss Lu, you are here, you see, this is done by the Japanese ronin, they want to burn down our sugar factory, but fortunately they found it in time, so they did not cause a catastrophe, only burned the roof of the packaging workshop and the warehouse where the sugar cane was stacked. Fortunately, the sugarcane has been almost used, otherwise the loss would have been greater. ”
"What about the brothers in the factory? Are there any injuries? ”
"No, everyone is very vigilant, so no brothers were injured."
"Master Geng, you said on the phone, catch a Japanese ronin, what about people?"
Ah Wei looked at it and tied it up in the workshop.
"Let's go and have a look."
Yu Ting walked into the workshop and saw Ah Wei looking at the Japanese ronin, his hands tied behind his back, and his mouth stuffed with a rag. When the Japanese ronin saw Lu Yuting coming, he wanted to stand up with a chirp, but was kicked down by Ah Wei.
"Be honest with me." Ah Wei shouted.
Lu Yuting walked up to the Japanese ronin, took the rag out of his mouth, and then found a chair to sit down.
"Say, who sent you to burn the factory?" Yu Ting's eyes shoot directly at the Japanese ronin.
The Japanese ronin said a lot of Japanese.
"Boss Lu, what did he say?" Master Geng couldn't understand what this Japanese ronin was shouting there, pulling his neck.
"He said he's Japanese, what can we do with him?" Lu Yuting smiled: "It seems that the Japanese also have a lot of hard-mouthed ducks, Ah Wei, let's do it, beat him until he begs for mercy." ”
Ah Wei grabbed the Japanese ronin and punched him down, and the Japanese ronin was beaten to the point that his nose was blue and his face was swollen, and he begged for mercy again and again.
Lu Yuting sat next to him drinking water and looked coldly at the Japanese ronin on the ground.
"Alright, Ah Wei, stop." Yu Ting gestured to Ah Wei.
Ah Wei stopped, Lu Yuting squatted down, looked at the Japanese ronin with a blue nose and swollen face, and asked him in Japanese, "What's your name?" ”
"My name is Hideo Fujii." The arrogance of this Japanese ronin just now is gone.
"Who told you to burn down my factory?" Yu Ting then asked.
"It's President Yamada." Hideo Fujii directly confessed to Kazuo Yamada, which was not surprising to Yu Ting.
"How many of you are here?"
"Six."
"Where do they live?"
"It's in the Japanese kaikan near Shamian. Ask Boss Lu for mercy and let me go. Hideo Fujii shouted forgiveness.
"I can't let you go now, if you can identify in court that Yamada instructed you to burn the factory, I can consider not pursuing you." Yu Ting makes a request to Hideo Fujii.
"If you do this, President Yamada will not let me go." Hideo Fujii felt a panic in his heart, he knew that Yamada was a ruthless person, and if he knew that he had betrayed him, he would definitely be severely punished.
"If you don't, I won't let you go. Think about it, Mr. Fujii. Yu Ting didn't back down at all.
Fujii lowered his head and was silent, and when Lu Yuting saw this, he stood up, turned around and walked outside the workshop.
"Okay, Boss Lu, I am willing to cooperate with you, please let me live. Boss Lu, I promise you. Fujii shouted hysterically behind Lu Yuting.