Night.

It's past nine o'clock.

"Pair 2"

"Over!"

Three police officers gathered in front of their desks during the day, each with a stack of change piled on hand, and two police officers stood aside, smoking cigarettes and watching with relish. As the only recreational activity during the quarantine case, the police officers were very enthusiastic about playing cards.

The few remaining officers washed up early and lay in their rooms watching TV.

"Poof!"

Suddenly, a rock slammed into the window, causing the officers to turn back.

"What's going on?"

The sheriff who took the lead put down the poker and stood up suspiciously, and then another stone flew in, smashing the window glass directly, making a huge breaking sound. The first stone did not hit the window, as if it were a hint.

He was experienced in handling cases, and realized that something was wrong, so he quietly approached the window, looked at the bottom of the building, and saw five or six plainclothes detectives grabbing flashlights and looking up at the window.

"Hurry up and get up brothers."

He immediately turned around and waved.

The three police officers who followed behind looked at each other, immediately opened their mouths in agreement, and hurried to knock on the door. In the room, the officers lifted their pants and wanted to tie their belts, and two Molotov cocktails flew into the window, exploded, and fell to the ground one after another.

"TMD, what the hell, even throwing Molotov cocktails!"

The officers cursed, and some rushed out in shorts.

"Open the door!"

"Open the door!"

The crowd slammed on the iron door of the building and there was no response.

"Dead ghost, go home and sleep by yourself, don't even send anyone to guard the door, just think about locking the guys in the room." Xie Fa has two assistants transferred from the financial secretary, who are usually responsible for monitoring the work of the guys and transporting materials.

Before, it would be guarded until ten o'clock, but now it will be withdrawn at eight o'clock.

Without orders from above, the officers were afraid of being held accountable and did not dare to go out at night.

There were also people in the Governor's Palace in the security guards of the building, who were responsible for monitoring them on weekdays, but now they obviously couldn't get to the scene, giving the officers plenty of reasons to escape.

"Poof!"

A police officer kicked the iron door to vent his anger, turned around and shouted, "Climb the window and go!" ”

"Okay."

The third floor of the building is not very high, and there are many water pipes on the walls, there are many footholds, the police officers are trained, the difficulty of climbing is low, although there is a fire, but the bottle contains less diesel, and it will not burn at all for a while and a half. The officers returned to the windows and climbed down the pipes and walls.

Of course, the night was dark and there was a fire above, so the officers were inevitably a little nervous.

In addition, the pipeline is slippery and the foothold is small, and the danger is still very great, and an accident will occur if you are not careful. Fortunately, the police officers downstairs were well prepared, and when they saw the guys coming out, they made a gesture, and someone ran out of the alley with a wooden ladder and set up the ladder to the second floor of the guys.

The guys on the third floor only need to hold on to the window, step on the ladder, and change hands to go down the wooden ladder safely.

Ten minutes later, all the police officers came to the surface, and the security of the building also reacted and walked out of the stairs one after another. The plainclothes agent took out the glass bottle again and lit it, and threw it at the industrial building, which was filled with diesel fuel and immediately ignited a raging fire.

"Flash!"

The agents pulled forward and backwards, and fled in a hurry.

Following.

Morning.

Doge's Palace.

Bai Liji received Xie Faxin's report document, smashed the document on the table, and said loudly: "Even the commissioner's office dares to burn it, is the Hong Kong Island Police Force a bandit or a soldier?" ”

Although the Governor-General's Office does not have a real official office, the office address is the Temporary Office, and the office of the Burning Industrial Building does not take the authority of the Governor's Office into account. It was impossible for Bai Liji, as the governor, not to be angry, but he never really wanted to go to war with the police force, so he breathed a sigh of relief and said: "Change the office to continue the investigation and ask the police force if there are any injuries." ”

"The most dangerous thing about working on Hong Kong Island is to get involved in the police force and pay attention to safety when doing things."

He glanced at Xie Faxin.

"Yes."

"Sir."

Xie Faxin's face also became solemn, in the past, in the Financial Secretary, he always heard people talk about how crazy the police force was, at that time he only thought that there was an element of exaggeration, hearing is false, seeing is believing, now he has seen the unreasonableness of the police force, and his heart can be extremely nervous.

The only department on Hong Kong Island that can bring threats and pressure to the top of the British government is the Police Force!

At the same time.

Tai Kwun.

Hao Defu took the document and reported the information he had investigated last night to the chief word by word, and raised his eyes from time to time to look at the chief's demeanor. I saw that the chief was taking a sip and smoking a cigar calmly.

"The Governor's Mansion has appointed a commissioner, and ten brothers have been locked in the office to write about the Patton case?" He Dingxian asked.

"Yes."

"The Governor's Mansion may want to retry Patton's case. ”

This signal is dangerous enough.

"Impossible!"

He Dingxian directly vetoed: "The Governor's Office has signed this case, and the case-handling personnel have been rewarded, and it is not beneficial for the Governor to retry the Patton case, the only possibility is to expand the Patton case and use the Patton case to investigate other officers in the police force." ”

"The governor endured it for several years, and finally he couldn't hold it back."

Hao Defu was shocked when he heard this, and his first thought was to escape the turmoil, but his next move was to raise his head and meet He Dingxian's gaze. Because, there are only two directions to expand the Patton case, the first direction is to pursue Patton's bribery list and search in the commercial direction.

The second direction is to investigate Patton's corruption network within the police force and reach into the police force, and Hao Defu, as the head of the anti-corruption department, did not investigate Patton's corruption network before, which is itself a fault and is extremely easy to be replaced.

The most powerful way is to hug his thighs and seek He Sir's support, and He Sir obviously saw what Hao Defu meant, and said loudly: "You go and say hello to Sir Ge, Sir Kunxian, and Sir Yifu, so that they can get ready and clean up their tails." ”

"As long as the anti-corruption power is in our hands, we will be safe."

Hao Defu stood up and replied, "Yes, sir!" ”

Ho Ting-yin actually wants to keep the anti-corruption power in the hands of the police force all the time, and always check himself, only check the things he wants to investigate, but whether there is a Governor's Office or not, the legislative power is in the hands of the Governor's Office, if the Governor is determined to set up an independent anti-corruption office, then the police force has nothing to do, but as long as it does not deliberately exacerbate this incident, the Governor's Office actually has no reason to set up a disciplined force. After all, there are many funds, resources, and processes to be invested in the establishment of a disciplined force.

Bai Liji has indeed promoted the economic development of Hong Kong Island, but is the tax collected enough for him to use it like this? Historically, it was only during the MacLehose period that Hong Kong Island had the funds to establish the Independent Commission Against Corruption. For the sole purpose of enlarging a case that has already been concluded, the establishment of a disciplined force, the Auxiliary Secretary for Administration, the Financial Secretary, and the Security Bureau will probably have their opinions, and public opinion will not necessarily support it.

However, He Dingxian suddenly realized that his use of the anti-corruption room to eliminate political enemies should be very convenient, easy to use, and easy to learn in the eyes of Bai Liji, right? Whatever Bai Liji wants in the end, there is no doubt that anti-corruption power will become a sword for the two factions to compete for.

Two months later, one afternoon.

Wharf Group President Wren formally met with hundreds of warehouse owners and officially announced that Wharf Group refused to accept bank bills from other banks except for the cheques of "Defeng Bank". He did not name any Chinese-funded bank in the whole process, but the spearhead was directly aimed at Mingde Bank.

Mingde Silver is only a small silver number, belongs to the nature of the bank, after the war by operating the dollar exchange business, because of the good exchange rate for the dock owners, over time, to the bank accumulated a group of very loyal customers.

Because the shippers are doing maritime trade, they often need to exchange US dollars for transactions, and the interest given by the Mingde Silver is a lot, so there are often shippers who deposit the payment in the Mingde Bank, so that the Mingde Silver has grown from hundreds of thousands of dollars to more than 10 million Hong Kong dollars.

It is somewhat famous in the Chinese money industry.

Wren's move not only attracted customers to Wheelock's silver account, but also caused customers to go to Middlebury to ask for payment.

In the past ten years, Mingde Bank has invested heavily in real estate, and although the yield is high, the cash flow has already bottomed out, and the income is distributed to depositors, leaving a heavy position in real estate to pursue business expansion.

But if you don't have cash flow in your hands, no amount of assets is equal to zero.

As soon as the financial turmoil comes, it's all over!

And the day after Rennes met with the cargo owners, there was news on the wharf that the Mingde Silver was unable to pay the silver tickets held by Wharf. The shippers were wondering how Wharf could suddenly refuse to accept their cheques, and they immediately felt that it made sense when they heard the news.

As the saying goes, there is no wind and no waves, and when it comes to the safety of funds, everyone has the mentality that they would rather believe what they have, not what they don't have, and rush to Mingde Bank to pay first.

In the evening of the same day.

East Tsim Sha Tsui.

In the treasury of the Mingde Bank, the big boss "Zhou Weimin" was wearing a white shirt, looking at the table full of checks with a desperate face, and said to the three shareholders: "The more than 3 million Hong Kong dollars in the treasury have bottomed out, and the counter has just sent another 2 million Hong Kong dollars in checks. ”

"This money can't be cashed out before the early morning, and early tomorrow morning, I'm afraid that customers who want to withdraw money will line up at the door of the money bank."

One shareholder said: "Mingde Bank has been in business for more than 30 years, and there has never been such a thing, and it must be the British foreign bank behind the ghost." ”

"Even if you go to the Chamber of Commerce to borrow this money, you have to take it out if you go to Haojiang to find Gao Kening to borrow usury, as long as you can survive the first two days, your reputation is guaranteed, and the silver number will still be saved."

One has been a silver trumpet for more than thirty years.

It's hard for shareholders to give up.

Zhou Weimin sighed with a bitter face: "This is not a matter of two million Hong Kong dollars, it is rumored all over the world that Mingde Silver has lost a lot of money in real estate, and if you want to stabilize your position, I am afraid you have to withdraw more than eight million in cash." ”

The expressions of the three shareholders were stunned, because the valuation of Mingde Yinhao's assets has indeed shrunk a lot, but the property market has been chasing up for five or six years, and it is normal for a correction of one or two years, right? The economic development of Hong Kong Island is so good, in fact, the shareholders of the silver number feel that it is right to chase real estate.

Someone squeezed them!

(End of chapter)