Rebirth 1980: Marrying my sister’s best friend at the beginning

April 4th, the 25th day of the third lunar month, is a good day to travel!

After several days of preparation, Li Yi, Zhang Ziqiang and Yang Zhiwen boarded a plane heading south to Guangzhou.

Zhou Wen and Xiao Wu had accompanied Zhang Zhen, Jiang Longcheng and others to Hong Kong Island a month ago.

In order to protect the safety of those people in Warwick Company, Li Yi specially appointed Zhou Wen as the director of the company's security department, and Xiao Wu as his deputy.

The reason why they were chosen to take on this important task is that, in addition to the fact that they are both special agents of the National Security Bureau and are trustworthy, more importantly, Zhou Wen is from Guangdong Province and understands Cantonese.

In addition, he and Xiao Wu had followed Li Yi to Hong Kong Island many times to carry out missions, and they were familiar with the situation here. It was most appropriate for them to serve as the heads of the security department.

Of course, in addition to these, Li Yi also has some of his own little thoughts, but in comparison they are not important.

On the day of arriving in Guangzhou, Li Yi did not go to the provincial government compound to visit his father-in-law as usual, but went straight to Lianhua Wharf and then took a boat to Hong Kong Island.

Although Li Yi had limited knowledge of the situation in Hong Kong Island, he was clear that there must be someone behind the scenes fanning the flames.

After all, there is no smoke without fire. Rumors cannot have such a big impact if there is no one behind them.

Moreover, if this matter is not handled properly, it will not only affect the reputation of Xingchen Company, the Chinese Chamber of Commerce and himself, but will also affect the future business development of Warwick Company.

Whether it is a person or a company, once others have opinions about you, the road to cooperation is basically blocked.

Li Yi didn't want Warwick Company to be hated and avoided by everyone before it even started its business here.

To be on the safe side, Li Yi decided to go there early to avoid things from fermenting to a certain extent and ending in a bad way.

This time when he came to Hong Kong Island, Li Yi did not hide his tracks as he did before, but followed normal procedures to enter Hong Kong.

He just wanted everyone to know that he, Li Yi, was back!

If it had been before, Li Yi might not have been so high-profile.

But now it is different. Since someone wants to cause trouble under his nose, if he goes back quietly, people who don’t know will think that he, Li Yi, is scared.

Furthermore, after several consecutive cleanups, all the restless forces in Hong Kong Island have been eliminated.

Whether it is the official side or those social gangs, either they have been defeated like the Hong Kong Police Station, or have simply surrendered to the Chinese business forces.

At this time, Li Yi could already walk around Hong Kong Island freely, so naturally he didn't need to hide his head and show his tail.

Since they had received the news of Li Yi's return to Hong Kong in advance, when Li Yi came out of the port, Huang Lixing, his elder brother-in-law Yang Wenguang and others were already waiting for them outside the dock.

After a brief greeting, Li Yi, surrounded by Huang Lixing and others, returned to Genting No. 1.
Second floor. Study!

Li Yi, Huang Lixing and Yang Wenguang sat down across a small round table.

There was a teapot and several cups on the table, and hot tea in the cups was steaming.

After taking a sip of tea, Li Yi looked at Huang Lixing and said, "Old Huang, what are those rumors about?"

Huang Lixing immediately said: "This matter has to start with the people from Warwick Investment Company. At that time, according to your suggestion, brother Li Yi, Mr. Zhang and others were arranged to study in various departments of our Xingchen Company. In order to let them understand the rules here as soon as possible, I specially convened a meeting of the company's management and granted Mr. Zhang and others some special powers."

"What special power?" Li Yi asked immediately.

"It's nothing, actually. As long as it doesn't involve the company's project secrets and top-secret information, let all departments of our company do their best to help Mr. Zhang and his team." Huang Lixing continued, "My idea is actually to let Mr. Zhang and his team get started as soon as possible, but I don't know how it happened. Not long after, a gossip tabloid outside published that a state-owned company affiliated with the Chinese government has taken over Xingchen Investment Company and is preparing to take over all the assets of Xingchen System. It will also use the huge influence of Xingchen System and the Chinese Chamber of Commerce on Hong Kong's business community to control the economic lifeline of Hong Kong Island and reshape the order of Hong Kong Island's business community."

"At that time, all companies and family businesses in Hong Kong will be nationalized, just like the industrial and commercial transformation carried out on the mainland 30 years ago."

Hearing this, Li Yi's brows suddenly frowned.

He vaguely felt that the people behind him did not seem to be targeting him. No. To be more precise, they were not just targeting him, their target seemed to be the Chinese government.

After all, the purpose of linking Warwick Company with the industrial and commercial reforms at the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China is too obvious.

This is clearly intended to create panic and even stir up hostility among Hong Kong's business community towards the mainland government.

"When did these rumors start? Why didn't you tell me earlier?" Li Yi said.

Huang Lixing said with some annoyance: "According to our investigation, these rumors have been circulating for more than half a month, but we didn't pay attention to them before. By the time we noticed something was wrong, it was already spreading like wildfire outside."

"Do these rumors have a big impact on us?"

“There is some impact, but not much!”

Huang Lixing then continued: "So far, the biggest impact these rumors have had on our company is that they have damaged the company's reputation, causing some citizens to dislike our company, and causing some clients who originally entrusted us with investment to terminate their contracts."

"Secondly, some companies have also begun to doubt our company. Although no company has terminated its cooperation with us, many projects we are discussing have been reversed."

Li Yi nodded, and then asked again: "What about the Chamber of Commerce? Does anyone have doubts about me and the company?"

Huang Lixing immediately said, "No, not really. Although many people have called to inquire about this matter, the members have been united so far, and no one has said anything bad about you."

"After all, everyone knows what kind of person you are. If you or the Beijing government really want to do this, there is no need to go through all these twists and turns. They just need you to take action to defeat these companies and then acquire them as a whole. That will also make everyone a lot of money."

Hearing this, Li Yi breathed a sigh of relief.

"That's good. I don't care what others think of these rumors, but if someone in the Chamber of Commerce doubts me, I will be very disappointed. Fortunately, these members are reasonable!"

Huang Lixing nodded, and then said again: "There has been a new version of the rumor in the past two days. They say that you are quickly transferring assets to the other side, and..."

"And what?"

"They also used Xingchen Investment Company and Dahai Private Equity Fund to absorb a large amount of funds from the public, and then, like Jianing Group, they transferred the money away, leaving an empty shell company for the public."

Huang Lixing then said again: "Affected by this, many clients would rather not receive dividends and terminate their contracts with our company. In just a few days, Dahai Private Equity has lost more than 5 billion Hong Kong dollars in funds."

"Have you investigated the source of those rumors and who is behind this?" Li Yi asked in a deep voice.

As soon as he finished speaking, his eldest brother-in-law Yang Wenguang took over the conversation and said, "I am in charge of this matter. After we learned about the situation, we started to investigate it, but so far, apart from checking a few gossip tabloids, we have not gained anything."

"Those tabloids were suddenly bought out before publication, and then those inflammatory rumors were published. When we tracked them down, we only caught some ordinary employees, and the masterminds behind the scenes all ran away."

"But we won't let those rats escape detection so easily. Give us a few days and we will definitely catch them."

Before he finished speaking, Li Yi shook his head and said, "No need to check!"

Huang Lixing and Yang Wenguang were stunned when these words came out. They all looked at Li Yi in surprise.
(End of this chapter)