National Tide 1980.

Hearing the voice, Guo Kefeng was stunned for a moment, then quickly stood up from the rocking chair, put the cigar on the ashtray, and went to open the door.

When he opened the door, he immediately saw the secretary standing outside with a grim look on his face. He knew it was not good news.

He couldn't help but stare at the secretary, "What's wrong? Is the headquarters going to fire us and dismiss us all?"

The reason why Guo Kefeng deliberately joked was that he wanted to try his best to maintain the relaxed and happy mood of this beautiful day and did not want today's good mood to be wiped out.

However, the secretary had no intention of trying to please him. She quickly handed him several faxed documents and reported to him in a serious tone.

"General Manager, similar situations have occurred in our hotels in Singapore, Kuala Lumpur and Hong Kong. Someone is deliberately causing trouble..."

"Come in and talk."

Guo Kefeng sighed softly, knowing that the situation must be serious.

While taking the documents from the secretary, he let him into his room.

Later, when they returned to the living room, when Guo Kefeng looked carefully at the contents of the paper, he was no longer in the mood to joke.

On the contrary, his blood pressure suddenly rose a lot, and he felt quite angry.

It turns out that the contents of these faxes are news published in the social news pages of newspapers in several cities.

The Pioneer in Malaysia, Lianhe Zaobao in Singapore, and the South China Morning Post in Hong Kong

According to the information, in the past two days, people who deliberately caused trouble appeared in the lobby of the Guo family's hotels in different cities including Singapore, Kuala Lumpur and Hong Kong.

These people all appeared disguised as hotel guests.

Some people fought each other in public, claiming they were fighting over seats, some having disputes while queuing to check in or check out, or some being harassed by the other party.

It would have been fine if they had frightened many other guests, but the problem was that these people were swearing at each other and tearing each other's clothes when they were fighting, which was very disgraceful.

What's worse, they even carried durian meat wrapped in plastic bags with them, and in the middle of the quarrel, they took it out and threw it at each other.

The result was a chaotic hotel lobby that guests avoided, and the smell was particularly unbearable.

Even when the hotel security came out to dissuade them, these people ignored them. In the end, they didn't stop until the police showed up, and they stopped cursing and fighting each other.

Needless to say, things like this had a very bad impact. Not only did it damage the reputation of the Guo family's hotel, but it also made the guests very dissatisfied.

Although the hotel has apologized profusely afterwards, many people moved out of the Guo Family Hotel because they were worried about safety issues or believed that the hotel management posed a safety hazard.

Especially when things like this are published in these newspapers, it will inevitably make the Guo family and its hotels a laughing stock in the entire Southeast Asian business world. It is also a matter of great shame, and I am afraid that people will still talk about it many years later.

Let me ask, with these practices, how can the Guo Hotel, which the Sugar King has high hopes for, declare in the future that its hotel's style and services are of the highest quality?
As a core member of the Guo family, how could Guo Kefeng not be angry when outsiders destroyed his family's reputation?
"Asshole! Who on earth is so bold as to do such a despicable thing to our hotel? What did the group headquarters say? Who did it? Have you found out?"

"Found out."

The secretary replied, "Although those who caused the trouble insisted that they were just drunk or had some mental illness when questioned by the police, they couldn't control their emotions and caused such a thing. But the police everywhere would not believe it. Instead, they found out that their backgrounds were not clean. These troublemakers were almost all small hooligans from Hong Kong. So the police concluded that someone must have instructed them to cause trouble. What's more, someone delivered documents to the front desk of our hotels afterwards, claiming to be responsible for the incident. This further confirmed the incident. However, we cannot use this as a basis to sue these people."

"Delivering documents?"

When Guo Kefeng heard this, he felt more and more that the matter was not simple, and his anger was subsided.

"What documents were sent? Who instructed them?"

"The documents our hotel received actually all had the same content. They were delivered with just a newspaper, but it was a Japanese newspaper from a few days ago. The relevant fax was at the bottom of the documents. This Japanese newspaper also published a news report about a Chinese restaurant being smashed in Japan, and the other party's message was a sentence written on this news report - it's impolite not to reciprocate..."

Following the secretary's words, Guo Kefeng quickly turned to the end to look at the document.

It turned out that the fax was indeed about a Chinese restaurant called "Dan Gong Restaurant" being smashed by Japanese Yakuza.

The handwritten, sarcastic remark was even more shocking on the fax document.

"So, that means the person targeting us is the owner of this restaurant. But... why? What does his restaurant getting smashed have to do with us? Our Guo family doesn't have much business in Japan..."

Guo Kefeng really couldn't understand why the other party did this.

Of course, he couldn't believe that what he said casually was actually the truth.

So the secretary seemed a little embarrassed at this time, and coughed twice. "I just learned about this matter. The smashing of this restaurant may be related to us. According to the headquarters, the manager of this restaurant is married to the Japanese movie star Matsumoto Keiko. In recent years, Matsumoto Keiko bought a production studio and invested in a love movie starring Teresa Teng this year. You should know that this Asian singing queen almost got engaged to Master Ke Cheng back then? Master Ke Yan believes that the content of this movie not only reflects his brother's love history, but also vilifies the Guo family and deliberately smears it. Therefore, in order to prevent the filming and release of this movie, he not only used family resources to interfere with the crew's filming in Singapore, but also found an agent in Japan to handle this matter on his behalf. The ultimate goal is to terminate this film project. As for the agent, he is the boss of an artist agency and seems to be a very capable person in the Japanese entertainment industry. Moreover, he has some background in gangs, and he may also hope to create some pressure on the other party, so he sent people to smash this restaurant..."

"This..." Guo Kefeng instantly realized the embarrassment of the matter.

He knew that his sixth uncle's family had separated the couple, but he didn't want to comment on who was right or wrong.

But I never expected that this incident would cause such trouble again.

From the perspective of the Guo family, he certainly thinks that there is nothing wrong with Guo Keyan's starting point.

Guo Keyan is the youngest son of the Sugar King, and Guo Kecheng, who had a relationship with Teresa Teng, is his biological brother.

The younger brother felt sorry for his brother and didn't want the Guo family's privacy to be made into a movie and let outsiders talk about it. This is understandable from any perspective.

But the question is whether his means of intervention are rather simple and crude, and seem a bit overbearing.

And why did they choose someone with a background in organized crime to handle this matter? Isn't this person a bit too random?

No matter what, if you smash someone's store first, what was originally reasonable seems to become unreasonable.

If the other party was weak, it would be fine if they were afraid. But now they are not afraid and are fighting back with the same means. This punch will be painful for the Guo family.

This is simply a stupid thing that will only hurt yourself for the first time.

"Then...what does the headquarters mean? Do they want me to go back and deal with this matter? Or do they want to ask me about the situation of the hotel in Beijing?"

"Ah, the headquarters said that they will arrange for someone to handle this matter, and someone will go to Japan to negotiate with the other party. It is only natural that they asked about our situation. I have told the headquarters that there has been no similar incident in Beijing for the time being. We will naturally do our best to ensure the security of the Beijing Hotel and do our best to avoid such incidents. However, there is another important reason why the headquarters contacted us, which is that they have found out that the restaurant that was smashed has an official background from the mainland. There are two shareholders who invested in the restaurant, and they are two government agencies in Beijing. One is the service bureau of the Beijing Chongwen District Government, and the other is the famous The famous Temple of Heaven Park. Matsumoto Keiko's husband, who runs the restaurant in Japan, is a native of Beijing named Ning Weimin. He went to Japan only because he was employed by these shareholders. Therefore, the headquarters hopes that we can contact the heads of these two agencies. If we can clear up the misunderstanding and solve the problem from the root, then even if the Japanese are reluctant, he, as a worker, will naturally not be unwilling. This will greatly reduce the difficulty of negotiations on the Japanese side. I think the chairman still doesn't want the other party to make the movie, so I hope we can solve his worries first..."

At this point, Guo Kefeng had roughly understood the meaning of the headquarters through his secretary's words.

Yes, after all, the Guo family has invested too much in the mainland.

Shangri-La, China World Trade Center, and the cooperation with COFCO to establish an oil and fat cooperative company.

Every investment and project here is closely related to the future of the Guo family.

It is indeed not good to fall out with the authorities here.

Not only should we not make the relationship awkward, but we should do our best to maintain and even deepen the friendship.

No matter how small an institution is, it cannot be underestimated, and he cannot leave any hidden dangers or constraints to his cooperation projects.

Therefore, if you discover any misunderstandings or grudges now, of course you should talk them out as soon as possible to resolve the problem.

Guo Kefeng then thought about it seriously and believed that with the current economic conditions in mainland China, these government agencies that invested in restaurants in Japan probably regarded the restaurants as cash cows.

Of course they are angry about their ruined business, but their appetites should also be well satisfied.

According to his idea, if every shareholder who invested in Tan Gong Restaurant lost one million RMB, it would probably be enough to appease their dissatisfaction.

However, although there is a solution, how he goes about negotiating with the other party is a difficult problem.

Based on his understanding of the mainland, it would be impossible for him to meet these shareholders directly, as they would never give him a good face.

He must be introduced by someone of status and position in order to gain enough respect and understanding from the other party.

In that way, negotiations will be more effective.

So he immediately took out his business card and called the head of COFCO Group, with whom he had a pleasant conversation at noon.

According to his thinking, the other party would not help with such a small matter.

In an agricultural country like the Republic, the status of the head of COFCO is definitely among the best, and no one would deny him face.

Therefore, as long as there are such people to act as a go-between, no matter how difficult the problem is, it will not be a problem.

But unfortunately, things turned out to be the opposite of what we wanted.

What Guo Kefeng never expected was that after the call was connected, before he could even tell the other party what he wanted to ask, the other party spoke first.

"Hey, what a coincidence, General Manager Guo, I was just about to call you. So, you also got the relevant information?"

"What news?" Guo Kefeng was confused.

"You don't know yet, this is what happened. There have been some changes in our negotiations. The higher-ups asked us to reconsider the matter, and someone has raised objections."

"Ah? Who raised objections? What's going on?"

Guo Kefeng couldn't believe it. After all, they sat together for a drink at noon because they had signed a letter of intent. At that time, the person in charge kept patting his chest and assuring that this was equivalent to obtaining a "birth permit" and that there would be no more policy restrictions on the cooperation between the two parties.

But the problem is that plans cannot keep up with changes, and the other party has a lot of grievances to say.

"I don't know the details, but I heard that several experts from the Agricultural University informed the higher-ups. They are now questioning whether it is necessary to introduce foreign investment, as the oil and fat refining project is related to people's livelihood but the technical requirements are not high."

Then the person in charge of COFCO seemed to remember something.

"Oh, by the way, I also want to ask you, has your Guo Group offended anyone? Why are these experts from the Agricultural University so opposed to your participation in this matter? Moreover, they also said that your Guo Group is quite domineering overseas. Not only is your business method a bit problematic, but it is also involved with Japanese gang members and has a bad reputation. In view of this, some experts suggested that even if the country needs this refined oil project and needs to introduce foreign investment, it is best to consider several more companies, not just you. Otherwise, if you entrust the wrong person and cause losses in the future, it will be too late to regret it."

"What?" The last few words were like devastating bad news to Kenneth Ko.

He couldn't believe that a stranger would stab him in the back and throw dirty water at him.

Why is even more incomprehensible.

"Leader, please don't misunderstand us. Our Guo Group's reputation is well known throughout Southeast Asia, and no one has ever questioned our integrity. We have always done business in a lawful manner. Moreover, we all attach great importance to our Chinese identity, and have never forgotten the homeland that gave birth to us and raised us..."

Hearing what he said, the other party immediately laughed, "I just asked casually. After all, the Agricultural University said something very detailed, saying that there is a person named Ning Weimin. This person represents the mainland in doing business in Japan, and has a close cooperative relationship with the Agricultural University. However, it seems that he has had some unpleasantness with your group recently. I heard that the movie his wife invested in was deliberately made difficult by you in Singapore, and the loss was not small. Later, you also targeted the restaurant he ran for the mainland. In short, it seems that he was quite wronged. Ah, especially this Ning Weimin. It is said that he once took the initiative to contact you and wanted to resolve the misunderstanding, but he couldn't contact you after trying every possible way. You completely ignored him. Anyway, you have an idea about this matter. Although the old experts of the Agricultural University have retired now, they still have seniority, and their opinions cannot be ignored. Let's talk to the higher-ups again in a few days, and you'd better have an explanation for this matter. Don't lose the big picture because of the small..."

Listening to the other party's advice and education on the phone, Guo Kefeng felt really depressed.

Ning Weimin?
What kind of person is this?
How can you have such a big face?

Is he really just an ordinary restaurant manager? Not really.

Well, before I even had the chance to ask for a favor, he cut off my financial support.

You are the same as Guo Keyan, young and impulsive, doing whatever you want.

It's just your brother's love affair, but the whole family's business has been affected. Look how much trouble you have caused! (End of this chapter)