Year: I had a good time when I was young

Chapter 802: Luck is coming and it can't be stopped

Huang Bingyao, Huang Qifa, Le Yan and Ling Feng watched Chu Xiangqian's Rolls-Royce leave, said hello to each other, got in their cars and left the seafood restaurant.

But the four people had different moods.

The Huang brothers were excited, and Ling Feng, after being excited, took the initiative to comfort Le Yan in order to take care of Le Yan's mood.

There were already signs that LeYan would be successful in the future.

Not only is he loyal, but he also has a rare sense of the overall situation.

Although I was complaining in my heart that Chu Xiangqian was so rich, why did he enter the electrical appliance sales industry?
But after complaining, I realized that they were just doing legitimate business and I had no right to stop them, nor could I stop them.

Even after going home to tell my father and elder brother, it was still difficult for Lejia Department Store to make changes.

It is impossible to give up daily necessities and textiles and turn them into an electrical appliance city when the profits are good. Only a fool would do that.

Naturally, Le Yan was not in the mood to chat with Ling Feng at this time. After saying goodbye, he drove home in a hurry to report to his father.

Le Jimin is indeed a veteran in the business world. After worrying about it, he quickly realized that others were not afraid of competing with him at all.

And if you think about it carefully, although the two companies compete, they are not mortal enemies.

After all, Chu Xiangqian only sells electrical appliances.

Le Jimin even thought that he had been running a department store for more than 20 years and had encountered countless competitors, so how could he be afraid of a newcomer like Chu Xiangqian?

Therefore, Le Jimin not only praised Le Yan for not being impulsive, but also said that it was the right choice for him to continue working in the Chu’s Shipping Company.

He also said with a smile that there were many businessmen engaged in the department store business, and one more Chu Xiangqian would not make much difference, so it would not matter if he was missing.

But after Le Yan and his eldest son Le Wen went to bed, Le Jimin, who was in the study, couldn't fall asleep.

What he was most worried and afraid of was not only Chu Xiangqian's wealth and power, but also Chu Xiangqian's great influence in both the black and white worlds.

Not to mention playing dirty with him, Chu Xiangqian doesn't use any unconventional means to deal with his peers, and his peers in the electrical appliance industry are thankful for that.

Moreover, Chu Xiangqian has never failed in his business for several years. For such an opponent, everyone would overestimate his strength as much as possible.

After thinking for half the night, Le Jimin finally felt that apart from digging deep into the profit sources of Lejia Department Store, managing it well, and reserving as much funds as possible to deal with the crisis, he really had no other way to deal with it.

This kind of passive defense was really uncomfortable. For a moment, Le Jimin really wanted to have a good fight with Chu Xiangqian.

Chu Xiangqian is the most prominent rising star in Hong Kong Island in the past decade.

If I could defeat him, just thinking about it makes me excited.

But after he got excited, fatigue surged into his heart and a feeling of palpitations suddenly broke out.

He hurriedly took out a bottle of medicine from the drawer of the desk.

After recovering, Le Jimin shook his head and smiled bitterly. His heart problem had been a big problem that had troubled him for several years.

When I think about myself, I am over 60 years old and I am indeed old. I want to do something, but even if I still have the ambition, my body can’t sustain it.

After sighing for a while, Le Jimin suddenly felt that it was a good thing that Chu Xiangqian fell in love with Le Yan.

Most of the family business will definitely be handed over to the hardworking eldest son, so even if Chu Xiangqian is not around, Le Yan will have to start his own business in the future.

Now following Chu Xiangqian, it can be foreseen that Le Yan’s future should be good.

As for whether the eldest son can keep the family business, he can keep an eye on it while he is around. Now that he is gone, he can only hope that Le Yan can help his elder brother.

As long as one of the two brothers can continue to be wealthy, the Le family will not lose out.

If both of them can keep their family business and start a new business, they will make a lot of money.

Thinking of this, Le Jimin felt that not only should he not fight with Chu Xiangqian, but he should also help him.

Temporary gains and losses don’t matter; the long-term prosperity of the family is the real win.

Of course, this does not mean that Le Jimin will give up his own Parkview business. As long as Chu Xiangqian does not open an electrical appliance mall opposite Lejia Department Store, they will not be mortal enemies.

Even if you know the news in advance, you can raise as much money as possible to deal with the competition.

Already had a huge advantage.

If they can’t survive on their own, there will definitely be some small-scale electrical appliance stores that, along with their counterparts in other department stores that are not doing so well, will not be able to survive.

My colleagues are gone, but I am still here, which is a great time to eat meat.

After all, no matter how powerful Chu Xiangqian is, he only sells electrical appliances.

I was heading in the direction of specializing in daily necessities, textiles, and food. When I think about it carefully, I realize that I am on the same path as Chu Xiangqian.

With this in mind, Le Jimin even looked forward to the opening of Chujia Electrical Appliance City, which would then revolutionize the department store industry.

When it was getting light, Le Jimin, who had a lot of ideas, even felt that he could take the initiative to ask Chu Xiangqian to open the first electrical appliance store on Hennessy Road in Admiralty, opposite the Lejia Department Store.

It seems that the sales of electrical appliances will indeed be affected, but once the price war is over, several competitors and small and medium-sized electrical appliance stores within a few hundred meters around the Roca headquarters will be eliminated.

On the contrary, it can form a siphon effect with Chujia Electrical Appliance City, which specializes in electrical appliances.

Customers who buy electrical appliances may walk a few steps to the Lejia Department Store across the street to buy clothes, daily necessities and food.

Vice versa, the two companies are not only not rivals, but also mutually beneficial allies.

Of course, the premise for all this is to survive the price war and gain the support of Lejia Department Store shareholders.

Otherwise everything will be in vain.

Le Jimin even thought about helping Chu Xiangqian contact other shareholders of Lejia Department Store and inviting him to invest in Lejia Department Store when the price war was at its fiercest and shareholders lacked confidence.

Anyway, what is being bought are the shares of other shareholders. As for whether Chu Xiangqian will usurp the control of the Le family, he has no idea.

Le Jimin only thought about it for a moment and mistakenly believed that Chu Xiangqian deliberately asked Le Yan to come back and told him that he wanted to open an electronics store.

It is hard to say that Chu Xiangqian had no idea of ​​forming an alliance.

No matter how powerful Chu Xiangqian is, it is better for him to unite with the Le family than to have one more opponent.

If they want to form an alliance, even if Chu Xiangqian is the stronger party, it is impossible for him to have his way.

There is no problem with investing, even if Chu Xiangqian’s shares are more than Lejia, which holds 28% of the department store chain group’s shares, there is no problem.

Le Jimin knew very well that as long as Chu Xiangqian was allowed to invest in the department store group, he would be able to get a 10% or even 5% stake.

In the future, we will be able to rely on funds and connections to gradually fight for control of the board of directors.

It is better to write it down clearly in black and white from the beginning.

His only request was that Chu Xiangqian support Lejia in managing the department store group.

If Chu Xiangqian knew about this request, he would definitely agree to it.

Anyway, he doesn't like managing the company's specific affairs, and he doesn't have the energy to keep an eye on the department store group all day long.

Of course, if the group continues to suffer losses year after year and Chu Xiangqian does not step forward, other shareholders will force the Le family to step down.

It can only be said that Le Jimin is indeed old. Although he still has the ambition to expand, he knows his own business. After he is gone, if Chu Xiangqian is still thinking about Lejia Department Store, his two sons will not be able to stop him.

As for Le Yan, in Le Jimin's mind, although he is smart, he is unreliable.

There is no comparison with the steady and hardworking eldest son.

In case Le Yan is instigated by Chu Xiangqian to compete with his elder brother for the family business, it would be better to deal with this hidden danger before he leaves.

This is fate, or luck.

Although Chu Xiangqian was not jealous of the real estate of Lejia Department Store, he had never thought of seizing Lejia's assets.

Not only is it unnecessary, there is plenty of land to buy in Hong Kong Island.

But he couldn't resist the fact that some people saw how powerful he was and came closer to him.

Although Le Jimin, Zheng Yutong, He Zanyuan and He Chaosheng had different reasons and purposes for approaching him, their purpose was very clear: to join forces and make money with Chu Xiangqian.

To put it bluntly, when your strength reaches a certain level, profitable or unprofitable projects will always appear in front of you.

Sometimes you don’t even have to pay for it, people are willing to give you shares for free.

But giving away shares for free doesn’t mean people are stupid.

Ye Xiaoli lost 30% of Mingda’s shares, but gained endless engineering projects.

After Le Jimin figured out how to deal with the situation, he looked at the clock in the study and saw that it was already past 5 a.m.

He hurriedly got up and told the servants to wait for Le Yan and Le Wen to get up, and asked them not to rush to work.

Wake yourself up and go out to do some work.
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Chu Xiangqian left the seafood restaurant with Sanjiangshui last night, and he smiled and asked Sanjiangshui, "Brother, if you have something to say, just speak up. There's no need to hide our relationship."

At first, Chu Xiangqian thought that San Jiangshui was thinking of climbing up the ladder and being transferred to another police station.

In early summer of 62, when Lan Gang and Fei Bo were promoted to Chief Chinese Detective of Kowloon and New Territories respectively, they thought about transferring Sanjiangshui to Yau Ma Tei Police Station.

He even talked to Ge Bai about this, and Sanjiangshui himself had the same idea.

But Fei Bo was willing to go to the New Territories, and one of the conditions was that his man had to serve as the inspector in Yau Ma Tei.

If San Jiangshui insisted on taking the position of inspector general of Yau Ma Tei Police Station, Fei Bo would not bother him any more.

But San Jiangshui finally gave up on his own. According to him, the Chai Wan Pier was about to be completed and he could not leave at that time.

Chu Xiangqian certainly believed what he said, but he also knew in his heart that once the wharf was built and opened for business, it would be easier for Sanjiangshui and Xiashanbao to smuggle cars and motorcycles from Sakura Country to land.

This is indeed the case. After Chai Wan Wharf was built and began operations, with Chu Xiangqian's tacit approval, one or two smuggling ships would dock in the middle of the night every month, and few people knew about it.

Xiashanbao only needed to spend money to deal with the foreigners at the dock. Since no one was patrolling at night, the cars and motorcycles would have been taken away overnight.

If you go to Yau Ma Tei, you will find that there is more oil and water there, and it is also close to the sea.

However, there are too many goods unloaded at the Yau Ma Tei Public Unloading Terminal. The business of smuggling cars and motorcycles started by Xia Shan Bao and San Jiang Shui in 60. In the past two or three years, many associations have followed suit.

It would be impossible to conceal the fact that we landed at the Yau Ma Tei pier, and there would inevitably be a conflict with other societies.

If someone suddenly goes to someone else's territory to steal business, even if San Jiangshui is the inspector of Yau Ma Tei, it will be useless.

At worst, the lawsuit could be brought to Lan Gang and Fei Bo, and then I could complain to Chu Xiangqian.

The communities in Kowloon and the New Territories tacitly acknowledge that smuggled cars and motorcycles in Hong Kong fall within the sphere of influence of Xia Shan Bao.

Since they didn't go to Hong Kong to steal business, Xiashanbao and Sanjiangshui cannot break the rules.

Of course, San Jiangshui could also go to Yau Ma Tei himself and then find a confidant in Chai Wan to take over his position as inspector general.

But if you think about it, you will know that the new detective will definitely have to share some of the profits, and then Sanjiangshui will inevitably be slowly excluded from this life accident.

San Jiang Shui also offended Fei Bo, and indirectly offended Lan Gang who wanted to stay in Kowloon, so San Jiang Shui thought about it and decided that it would be better to stay in Chai Wan.

Moreover, the sales of smuggled cars and motorcycles seem to be small each year, but after sharing the profits with Xiashanbao, the annual sales are at least three to four million Hong Kong dollars.

Ge Baiming's annual regulatory fees are actually only four million.

The annual fees received by inspectors at this level range from a few hundred thousand to four or five hundred thousand, depending on the prosperity of the jurisdiction.

If San Jiang Shui went to Yau Ma Tei and had to distribute so much money every year, Xia Shan Bao and the new inspector of Chai Wan would definitely not be happy.

Of course, the way detectives make money is mostly through business or by partnering with gangs.

So after San Jiangshui figured it out, he finally decided to stay in Chai Wan.

The companies that Lei Luo owns under the name of Zhuyouzai include a film company, an import and export company, a real estate company and a restaurant.

There are at least a dozen other nightclubs in which the company has invested.

In addition, if those who make money through illegal means want to run their business safely, they have to pay him extra money.

This item alone costs at least tens of millions of Hong Kong dollars every year, because Lei Luo is the one who has the right to allocate land.

Even after Fei Bo and Lan Gang became the Chief Chinese Detectives of Kowloon and the New Territories, they were still concerned about the prestige that Lei Luo had accumulated over the years and always listened to Lei Luo's opinions on this matter.

If three people fight, no matter who wins, the result is that they all lose.

So Lan Gang and Fei Bo were wise enough to let Lei Luo make the decision on this matter.

In return, Lei Luo directly gave up the personnel power in Kowloon and the New Territories.

In name, the personnel authority of the Kowloon and New Territories Police Stations actually belongs to Lan Gang and Fei Bo, but if Lei Luo makes trouble, the two will still be in trouble.

In the early 70s, before Lei Luo escaped from Hong Kong Island, he was known as the 5 million detective, but most of his valuable money were properties and companies in Hong Kong Island.

Just think about it, it is impossible for him to hold 5 million in cash.

The reason why he is so rich is also related to the economic boom of Hong Kong Island in the 6s and 70s, as well as the huge rise and fall of real estate prices.

After Sanjiangshui became rich, he listened to Chu Xiangqian and continued to buy properties.

However, Chu Xiangqian did not tell him to buy a small shop, so Sanjiangshui basically bought newly opened houses of 40 to 50 square meters.

Seeing Chu Xiangqian speak so frankly, Sanjiangshui felt relieved and said with a smile, "Boss, Xiashanbao and I started smuggling electrical appliances from Yinghua at the beginning of the year.

Now that you're in this business again, I'm hesitant to tell you."

After that, Sanjiangshui hurriedly added, "Of course, even if I don't tell you the truth about this business, I will definitely make Xiashanbao stop it."

Chu Xiangqian frowned at first, then pondered in his heart whether Sanjiangshui's words were true or false, and whether his feelings were true or false.

He quickly waved his hand and said, “It’s not necessary. If you don’t do it, someone else will.

Whenever there is any business that makes money, there will always be people following suit.

So my opponents are not smugglers like you, but those wealthy businessmen who followed my example and opened electrical appliance malls.”

(End of this chapter)