Chapter 35 Either at the top or at the bottom
The launch of a major project is definitely not sothing that can be done with just a few words. The business community in Hong Kong Island is waiting to see the joke of the Kowloon Walled City.
Especially the son of the Ho family, who directly said that Lei Luo’s attempt to manage the Kowloon Walled City would certainly fail!
A person who hasn’t even studied for years.
A person who only knows how to oppress the good people and collect bribes.
A lawless social scum!
If he succeeds, I, Ho Junwei, will run around Central naked!
These words, spoken at a banquet, were intentionally spread by the son of the Ho family throughout the Hong Kong Island business circle.
Soon, rumors began to spread, and it was revealed that Lei Luo had offended Ho Junwei in the past. Combining the two, the wealthy people on Hong Kong Island who were just waiting to watch the drama suddenly understood what was going on.
If they had been waiting for Lei Luo to approach them before, now, even if Lei Luo ca to beg for help, it would be useless.
The Ho family is one of the five largest wealthy families on Hong Kong Island, who would dare to provoke them?
Lei Luo, the forr chief detective of the police, was not even worthy of being a shoe-shiner if the Kowloon Walled City didn’t have the support of the police. The business circle of Hong Kong Island was buzzing with excitent. However, Lei Luo seed to have not heard a thing and continued to do his work at the Kowloon Walled City office, day by day.
During this ti, Huo Dong ca to ask if Lei Luo needed any help. Lei Luo’s only instruction was: aggressively acquire land!
Apart from the foundational business of shipping, Lei Luo ordered Huo Dong to abandon all other businesses. Huo Dong only considered it for half an hour before decisively following Lei Luo’s instructions.
During this period, he had already begun to sell off his businesses and so of his assets to prepare for the real estate market. With Lei Luo’s support, Liu Chen had already established a foothold in Kowloon.
Not only that, many of the people who had fled the Digital Gang before had been recruited back by Liu Chen. Even Chen Min, who had been guarding the widow of Li Tai, resigned from his police position and joined Hongxing.
With Liu Chen maintaining order, Kowloon Walled City remained calm and safe. One week later, a dense crowd of gang mbers gathered outside Kowloon Walled City.
These were mbers from various major gangs on Hong Kong Island, specially sent to join Lei Luo’s construction company. Although they were called gang mbers, few of them were actually registered in the roster; most were just peripheral mbers.
The tens of thousands of gang mbers on Hong Kong Island were mostly like this. Lei Luo had anticipated this. In fact, these were the exact kind of mbers he wanted. These people were trying to make a living, but they had no other way but to follow the black path before.
Lei Luo welcod them all and accepted them without hesitation. But the gang that sent over the scattered foot soldiers to fill the numbers had its shares of stock calculations slashed in half.
The various factions were unaware of Lei Luo’s true intentions, thinking that Lei Luo was rely angry at them for sending in unqualified people, and they didn’t dare to argue.
In the end, it was counted that there were over 30,000 scattered foot soldiers, and another 10,000 were formal gang mbers. Most of them ca from large gangs like Yianhui and Heshen, and they were all dissenters.
Altogether, there were nearly 50,000 people, a scale that no construction company on the island could match. The newly ford construction company was called Hong Kong Island Construction, with Lei Luo holding 51% of the shares, and the rest distributed among the gangs (49%).
He had also employed construction companies from the White Eagle side through Sherry, which had now arrived at Hong Kong Island. Lei Luo had already had the blueprints reviewed through connections.
The construction company just had to follow the plans. However, when they saw the crowd of tens of thousands of people and were told that they were apprentices, all the workers’ faces turned dark.
The team leader imdiately approached Lei Luo and said this was an impossible task. But in the face of the several hundred thousand cash Lei Luo tossed out, the leader quickly changed his tune, saying there was no such thing as impossible!
With the lead instructor in place, Lei Luo imdiately divided the 40,000-plus people into several workgroups for the project. These were all people from the sumr country, with blood ties to the nation, and their learning abilities were unquestionable.
Lei Luo put the “Fast Construction Card” into the city block project, and work began imdiately.
The “Fast Construction Card” was unreasonable, as the construction site looked chaotic, yet the efficiency kept improving with an unexplainable speed and stability that the foreign workers couldn’t comprehend.
The construction site leader often muttered, “My God!”
As for the construction machinery, since the local equipnt suppliers didn’t provide it, Lei Luo spent money to clear the way and purchased everything from abroad.
Once the project officially started, Jas finally unified the police departnt’s stance. The higher-ups allowed Lei Luo to mortgage the city block project in exchange for bonds. However, Lei Luo would have to give up his shares as collateral, and if the bonds failed, he would be forced out of the project.
“Alo! I’m putting everything on the line to support you!”
“You must make proud!”
“If this project succeeds, the higher-ups at the police station will agree to promote you!”
“I’ll make sure you beco a senior inspector, second only to !”
Jas spoke excitedly, slamming the table as he talked to Lei Luo, while Yan Tong and Han Zhen next to them showed envious expressions and raised their glasses to wish success.
In Hong Kong Island, it was very hard for Chinese people to attain high positions, even in the police station. However, Lei Luo just smiled and raised one finger at Jas.
“Jas, forget the promotion.”
“I’ll tell you, in the police station, there are only two types of leadership positions.”
“The first type, the highest level, the ones who say and it counts.”
“The second type: the lowest level, the ones who say and actually do.”
The ones who say and do are the ones who have all the practical benefits. Those in the middle might appear glamorous, but to Lei Luo, they were useless.
As the Chief Investigator, Lei Luo had direct command over tens of thousands of officers in Hong Kong Island. Both uniford and plainclothes officers had to follow his orders, and he was closest to the grassroots level of society.
Once the position rises, the power disappears, which is clearly a way to marginalize him. When Lei Luo pointed this out, everyone in the room understood. Their gazes towards Lei Luo shifted entirely.
Jas was stunned for a mont, then slapped Lei Luo on the shoulder.
“Alright, it’s up to you, if you don’t want to do it, I’ll help you take the heat.”
“The premise is that this project succeeds! We all stand to profit!”
Jas didn’t continue because he knew Lei Luo fully understood the stakes. If the project failed, no one would be able to protect Lei Luo, and Jas would imdiately sever ties.
Jas had soone bring over the folder, and inside was the bond issuance permit!
With this permit, Lei Luo’s grand developnt plan could truly be implented!
He smiled and raised his glass, clinking it with everyone around.
“Cheers to everyone, for great wealth and success!”
“Great wealth and success!”
Lei Luo drained his glass, his eyes gleaming with a dangerous, wolf-like light!
Those around him, including Jas, couldn’t help but shiver, sensing sothing monstrous in his gaze…
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