Well, Liu Chengyin reached out and stroked a few strands of messy hair that hung down to his ears, and there was obviously a faint black around his eyes. She didn't hear what Yue Qi said after answering this, and then she realized that she was still standing at the elevator door blocking Yue Qi's way. smiled apologetically, and dodged away: "I'm sorry, Mr. Yue, please do it." ”

Yue Qi nodded, rubbed her body and walked into the elevator, just as he stretched out his hand to press the word, he heard Liu Chengyin suddenly oh and asked him: "That...... I mean the girl who lives with you, I just saw her dragging a travel bag at the entrance of the community to take a taxi ......" said and said, there was a smile on the corner of her mouth, and at the same time there was a trace of indescribable expectation.

"What?" Yue Qi's hand stretched out to the elevator to indicate paused in mid-air, and his voice was a little hurried: "You mean that the girl who lives with me is still waiting for a taxi at the gate of the community?" ”

yes, don't you know? Liu Chengyin is a little strange. She thought that this was a conflict between the two people, and the girl ran away from home in a bad mood. Although she had also heard Yue Qi explain that he already had a fiancée, this girl named Li Tianxiu was just a friend. But when she saw Yue Qi's expression when she heard that the girl was still taking a taxi, the relationship between them was more than just a friend.

"Thank you, see you later." After Yue Qi hurriedly finished saying this, he pressed the number key.

Liu Chengyin looked at the slowly closing elevator door, and she didn't know what she was thinking, until she was about to close it completely, she suddenly said, "When are you free?" I'll ask you to dinner! ”

But he didn't hear an answer from inside the elevator, and looking at the jumping appearance on the elevator monitor on the side, Liu Chengyin suddenly felt lost.

Before the elevator door was fully opened, Yue Qi rushed out with an arrow, which startled an old couple waiting for the elevator below. Looking at the young man who rushed out of the door of the unit, the old woman's eyes suddenly had a look that she hadn't seen for a long time, and she said softly to the wife beside her: "Child, dad, do you guess this young man is in a hurry to chase his girlfriend?" ”

The old gentleman, who was already full of white hair, slowly turned around and replied in the same gentle voice: "Well, I think it is, you haven't forgotten when you were young outside, and I chased you like this, right?" …… Don't remember? At that time, you were angry with me because you were pregnant with our big hair before you got married......"

you, old immortal, why are you still talking about this? Let's go, go home...... Look at Da Mao's daughter, I miss her......

Me too......

It seems that he is panting when he is running, which is one of the few times when Yue Qi is in the middle. But this time, he knew that he really wanted to catch up with Li Tianxiu, so he didn't hide anything at all, and ran towards the gate of the community with all his strength at an astonishing speed. Fortunately, there weren't too many people in the morning, otherwise someone would have thought he was a thief who had been caught burglarizing.

In a window on the ninth floor, a delicate face full of tiredness kept watching him run away.

It was Liu Chengyin, after seeing Yue Qi's speed of running, her inexplicable loss had disappeared, and it was replaced by full of questions, who was this young man? How amazing is skill and speed? Do you want to use blood to kill and check......

Maybe it's the first time I can feel my heartbeat so clearly.

When Yue Qi ran out of the door of the community with his hands on his chest, the door was empty, and a Jetta taxi not far away was flashing its turn signal and turning into the fast lane. He slowed down and walked slowly to the stainless steel door of the door, put one hand on it, and then bent down.

Overhead, a silver-white plane whistled across the fresh sky. Behind the fuselage, a snow-white gas trailed behind, as if trying to keep the plane flying forward, but in the end it dissipated helplessly, and finally calmed down......

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Victoria Harbour (Victoria Harbour) is a seaport located between Hong Kong Island and the Kowloon Peninsula in Hong Kong. As Hong Kong is a natural harbour with its wide water and deep waters, Hong Kong is also known as the "Pearl of the Orient", "the world's three natural harbours" and "the world's three major night scenes".

In its early years, Victoria Harbour was seen by the British as a good port in East Asia, and they did not hesitate to use the war to seize Hong Kong from the Manchu government and develop their maritime trade in the Far East. Hong Kong's colonial history then began. In fact, Victoria Harbour has always influenced Hong Kong's history and culture, and has also led the city's economic and tourism development, which is one of the keys to Hong Kong's emergence as an international metropolis.

Victoria Harbour is a natural deep-water seaport. It was formed about 7,000 years ago, when the sea level was still very low than it is now. At that time, Victoria Harbour was a valley between Victoria Peak and Kowloon. Later, as the sea level rose, the original valley was covered with seawater, and it became the harbor it is today.

It has an area of 41.88 square kilometers and an average water depth of 12 meters. The deepest channel is Lei Yue Mun, which is about 43 meters deep, and the shallowest channel is Yau Ma Tei, which is about 7 meters. The area extends to Lei Yue Mun (about 350 meters wide) in the east, Kak Shui Mun (about 210 meters wide) in the west, and the southern sea area of Tsing Yi in the north. The tidal range of Victoria Harbour is about 1 metre. The harbour includes the islands of Ilha Verde, Little Ilha Verde, Stonecutters Island and Kowloon Rock.

The highest water level in Victoria Harbour was recorded at 3.96 metres, which was recorded during Typhoon Winder in 1962. Due to global warming, large-scale reclamation, freshwater and sediment outflows from the Pearl River Estuary, and currents in the South China Sea, the water level in Victoria Harbour increased by 12 cm in the 50 years from 1954 to 2004, with an average annual increase of 2.3 mm. Between 1987 and 1999, the water level in Victoria Harbour rose at an average rate of 22 millimetres per year, 10 times faster than the global water level, but since 1999, the water level in Victoria Harbour has fallen rapidly.

As Victoria Harbour separates Hong Kong Island from the Kowloon Peninsula, the transport of Victoria Harbour is particularly important to Hong Kong's development. Since the 1890s, there have been ferry ferries between the shores of Victoria Harbour. With the economic development of Hong Kong, the transportation facilities of Victoria Harbour have developed from the original ferry crossing to modern facilities such as the Harbour Tunnel and the Mass Transit Railway.

"To sum up, Victoria Harbour is in a unique position for Hong Kong's foreign trade. Therefore, the freight yard near the port has naturally become a hot cargo, and the largest freight yard is Hong Kong Huitian. That's why its person in charge is so bullish, right? The fat man introduced Yue Qi with a big grin.

Oh, Yue Qi responded: "Fatty, you know a lot." ”

"That's it, we're old Hong Kong." Sun Daming said triumphantly. At this time, the two of them had already walked into the freight yard.

Completely different from the busy scene outside the freight yard, as soon as you walk into the door of the freight yard, you will give people a sense of comfort and open-mindedness. Because the yard occupies too much space, and there is no other cargo except for a few necessary tractors and other wheels, which shows its emptiness, even if the towering loading and unloading tower crane in the freight yard does not feel that it occupies much space, it is very flat cement floor is cleaned, a row of pale red two-story buildings stand in the southernmost side, and the balcony window is facing the blue sea. The breeze blowing in the early afternoon smells reminiscent of the girl just now......

It is definitely a lang fee to have such a large place in a port where every inch of land is valuable, but there is no storage of goods at all. Yue Qi lit a cigarette puzzled, although he also clearly saw the slogan written on the wall next to him (Heavy warehouse, no smoking. ), but still disagreed. What bullshit? None of the goods, afraid of fire? No one is stupid enough to set fire to a concrete floor, right?

Sure enough, a few dock workers wearing yellow hard hats who walked over from the front were not at all surprised by the cigarettes in Yue Qi's hands, because they were also holding cigarettes in their hands. It's just that when he passed by Yue Qi, he still looked back at the two of them.

"It seems that these two buddies are here to fight the idea of Huitian Freight Yard again, right?"

"Well, almost, let's go, let's go, let's go to Xiao Wu's place to play first, and see if I can find a new job by the way......" A few people walked out slowly as they spoke.

Yue Qi suddenly turned around: "Hey, these guys." ”

Hearing someone shouting, the workers all stopped and turned around, looking at Yue Qi with a very strange look. One of them, a dark-skinned middle-aged man in his 40s, asked suspiciously, "This gentleman, you called us?" ”

Yes, Yue Qi took out a cigarette and handed one over to everyone, then took off the ink-colored glasses he was wearing and asked casually: "Dude, I'm from Causeway Bay, and I'm going to rent a freight yard in Huitian this time, but why is this freight yard not angry at all?" ”

After several people took the cigarette and looked at each other, the middle-aged man smiled helplessly: "This gentleman, you are not familiar with our situation here." Huitian has had no goods to store for nearly half a year. ”

What's going on? Yue Qi is interested, such a large freight yard, it can't be said that it is a daily income, but it can't be left vacant: "This master, can you tell me what's going on?" Why doesn't Huitian have any goods at all? Isn't this a typical lang-fee? In fact, what was even more strange in his heart was that Huitian was in such a prime location, and there was no reason not to earn it with white silver. On the other hand, since it has been idle for a long time, why did Huitian suddenly ask for a tenant by public bidding not long ago?

The middle-aged man looked in the direction of the small western-style building, lowered his voice and said, "I said buddy, you don't know." Originally, Huitian was very prosperous, but since the change of general manager, oh...... If it weren't for the fact that the contract was clearly written in black and white, we would have found another job......"

Yue Qi immediately found out that he and Song Kangchun had made a mistake, that is, they did not have a clear background investigation of Zhang Qianjian. In the past, he always thought that Zhang Qianqian was at most a freight yard owner, but now he doesn't think so.

"Zhang Qianqian, General Manager Zhang, isn't he afraid of losses?" Yue Qi pretended to be very interested and asked, "These big brothers, can we go outside and find a place to have a few drinks?" Drinking and talking? In fact, he is really interested in Huitian.

Hearing that someone had a treat, those people immediately smiled, and agreed repeatedly, forgetting even about going to Xiao Wu's place to have a hand.

In a fast food restaurant that didn't seem to match the surrounding environment at all, after a few beers were swallowed, the swarthy faces suddenly turned black and red, and the words gradually increased.

"Sir, you don't know you're a local. Buddies, I still advise you to go somewhere else to find the freight yard, as for Huitian...... Listen to buddy, you better don't want to fight here. One of them, a young man who looked a little quiet, gradually began to talk more after two glasses of wine.

Why? Yue Qi deliberately asked casually with a skewer of grilled Harley.

Alas...... While the young man sighed, he didn't forget to pick it up again and was poured into a big mouthful before saying: "More than two years ago, Huitian was directly managed by the Kowloon District Government, and at that time, this freight yard was not so big. But now? I don't know what's going on, most of Huitian's current shares have been bought by a South Korean, who teamed up with the Zhang family, one of the four major families in Hong Kong, to bid for the owner at a low price beyond imagination. ”

Oh, Yue Qi is a little strange, although he doesn't know much about economics, he can also calculate that if such a yard is leased to those cargo owners at a loss, the loss is definitely not a small number, what is there in it?

“…… What do you think, which owner doesn't want to take advantage of it when he sees it? They would rather delay the time of import and export than store the goods in Huitian. At that time, we were really busy with our work for more than half a year. Of course, Huitian's cheap rental at any cost may be hit the hardest by the surrounding freight yards. The Zhang family is one of the four major families in Hong Kong, with a big family and a big business, backed by overseas connections, although Huitian's monthly income is not enough to pay the Hong Kong government for a day, but it has attracted cargo owners, and at the same time hit the surrounding small freight yards. In this way, the loss-making operation is half a year, and the surrounding shippers will not be able to sustain it. Although I heard that they also jointly resisted Huitian, but later there was no news, and the only result was that those small freight yards were slowly bought by Huitian at a high price. ”

Yue Qi looked at Sun Daming, who was also at a loss, and suddenly remembered a word in his heart: vicious monopoly!

Sure enough, I heard the middle-aged man who had been drinking sullenly next to him say: "Hui Tian's hand is really good, hit and buy the peers around him at a low price, and then sit on the ground and raise the price after they are all defeated." Hehe......" He sneered and continued: "Don't look at those shippers at that time, they all wanted to come to Huitian cheaply to order a place, but now their payment is several times the money saved at that time. ”

Didn't the Hong Kong government notice this? Don't they care? Sun Daming asked angrily.

"Why don't you care? But the 30-year contract on the contract clearly states that Huitian has the final say on how to operate. The Hong Kong government has nothing else to meddle in except for giving Huitian a card in terms of taxation. The middle-aged man shook his head: "The rental price of Huitian is now four times as much as two years ago. However, now in addition to Huitian, the rest of the cargo yards in the port are far away from the wharf, and those cargo owners can only helplessly leave Huitian and seek far. Originally, I heard that a company had negotiated with Huitian a few days ago, and was even about to sign a contract, but Zhang Qianjin didn't know why he changed his mind, and he had no work to do until now. So that we people have been walking until now, and we are not leaving. ”

No wonder, Yue Qi nodded secretly.

"What kind of business do you have, sir?" The docker, who had not spoken, asked.

Me...... I am in the steel business, and I am here to see Huitian today. Yue Qi replied casually.

Oh, if you want to rent it in Huitian, you have to get through at least one important link.

What? Yue Qi was very interested, indeed he decided to rent Huitian, not for anything else, because he faintly felt in his heart that the Korean behind Huitian was not simple, maybe......

"Do you know why Huitian has not yet come to stock the goods? Just because the Kowloon government could not interfere with the rental price of Huitian, it could counter Huitian by raising the unacceptably high taxes and fees to Huitian. ”

Yue Qi was stunned: "Through high taxes? How can this be Yue Qineng? ”

Nothing is impossible, since Huitian dares to play monopoly, Chu Liangyu is not afraid to raise the high tariffs on goods entering Huitian Yard. Anyway, Hong Kong is a special administrative region, and there is the support of the Chinese government behind it. The middle-aged man replied lightly.

Interestingly, for the sake of a small freight yard, Chu Liangyu, a high-level person in charge of taxation, and the government were involved? Yue Qi's eyes lit up.

Yes, the quiet young man replied: "As long as you do business well in Hong Kong, the government will support you unlimitedly, but if you want to play the Western set of business methods, you will never let your family dominate." Think that the quantum fund was so bullish back then, didn't it also return in front of the Chinese government? We support the government, but we also need to work. ”

"This master, listen to what you mean, if you want to enter Huitian, the first premise is to pass Chu Liangyu's pass?" Yue Qi gradually became a little bigger, but he also realized that as long as Datang occupied Huitian, then the entire steel market in Hong Kong would depend on Datang's face, and at the same time, he also understood why Chen Ming was desperate to squeeze out Datang. But is Chen Ming sure to convince Chu Liangyu? This made Yue Qi very confused. It seems that it is better to go back first and discuss it with Song Kangchun and them.

After a few people chatted casually, Yue Qi and Sun Daming said goodbye to the workers with kind words and took a taxi back to Datang.

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"We didn't expect that a mere Huitian freight yard would be involved in so many things." After listening to Yue Qi's general description, Song Kangchun and Gao Qingcheng were also a little incredulous.

Well, Yue Qi's fingers tapped lightly on the table, looking at the outside thoughtfully: "Huitian...... There are also Koreans in the Zhang family...... The water is very deep. After speaking, he turned his head: "Sister Xiaochun, you go and check Chu Liangyu's address, I'll go over." ”

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