money player

Chapter 6 I'm coming!

Xian Yaowen did not forget about the third young master of the Liu family. He went to Bo Gong'ao first just to hide his identity from others.

Robert was a partner he had carefully made a few days ago and was a partner for a business. He didn't want to leave the impression of kidnapping and extortion to his business partners.

In this world, if you want to live well, you can do bad things, but you must dress yourself up as a good person. When he arrives in Hong Kong, Xian Yaowen is planning to get himself the title of Justice of the Peace.

Back at Liu's house, the two brothers gave ether to the Liu family again, packed up the clothes for the third young master of the Liu family and the housekeeper, and found two pairs of clothes from the room of the eldest son of the Liu family, and then each of them carried one on his back and walked to the beach.

Xian Yaowen had prepared a boat at the beach two days ago. It was too tiring to carry people on the mountain road, so it was more convenient to take a boat.

The islands such as Dachan Island, Sanmen Island, and Neilingding Island outside Bao'an County are still occupied by Chiang Kai-shek's remnants. The sea can turn into a battlefield at any time. The marine police and customs in Hong Kong will not patrol the nearby sea at all. It can be said that it is unobstructed, and there are patrols, so don’t be afraid. The British Hong Kong government very much welcomes wealthy people and strong laborers to go to Hong Kong. As long as you don’t bring trolls, you can pass through the customs.

That is to say, Xian Yaowen not only brought trolls, but also had two meat tickets in hand. It was easy for them to have misunderstandings with the police, so they had to take a relatively low-key route.

There was no problem in rowing across the sea. In less than an hour, the four of them had arrived at the western boundary of the New Territories. They first brought the two who were unconscious to the shore. The two brothers Xian Yaowen also found two large rocks from the shore and put them on the boat. Then, Xian Yaowen rowed the boat to a depth of more than ten meters, jumped into the sea and leaned on the side of the boat, shaking vigorously, and the sea water continued to slosh into the cabin.

As the cabin filled with water, the ship slowly sank. Xian Yaowen dived into the water to confirm the location of the ship's sinking, and then swam back to the shore. After taking a nap, Xian Yaowen took off his wet clothes and threw them into the sea. He put on the suit of the eldest son of the Liu family, and then picked up his horse-branded gun and clicked the safety button.

When Xian Yaowu saw this, he pinched the third young master and the housekeeper one after another to wake them up.

Xian Yaowen stared at the two of them closely, especially the third young master. When his eyes turned from confusion to clarity, he said: "Third young master, I know you are a smart man, and there are some things I want to say in front of you. First, half a year at most , I will send you to London. Once you get to London, the sky is big and you can go wherever you want.

Second, before going to London, I don’t want any misunderstandings to happen between us. You are smart, but you are too young. This world is not as simple as you think. Don’t be smart and just stay with us for a few days. Moon, and then the road goes to the sky on each side.

How about, let us all be simple and not live too tiredly? "

The third young master was stunned for a while and nodded.

"I hope we can cooperate happily."

After Xian Yaowen finished speaking, he looked up at the stars, found the North Star and identified true north, then pointed to the southeast and walked quietly in front.

This walk took more than four hours at a speed of about 6.5 kilometers per hour. From dark to dawn, a group of four people arrived near the Tsim Sha Tsui Pier. It was already around five o'clock in the morning.

Standing on a street with several breakfast stalls, Xian Yaowen looked at his watch, took out a five-yuan Hong Kong dollar from his pocket and gave it to Xian Yaowu, "There is still more than half an hour before the first ferry, let's have some breakfast first. .”

As he said that, Xian Yaowen asked Xian Yaowu to help him block his sight in other directions, and let the third young master watch him take out the gun and activate the safety, then put the gun back into the inner pocket of his suit.

People, like dogs, are unruly and unruly at the beginning. If you want to make them obedient, you have to tame them. Xian Yaowen doesn't think that the neither soft nor hard words he said at the beach will make the third young master lose his temper. Wait for the other person to make a move, and then hit him in a targeted manner until the other person develops Stockholm Syndrome, so that he can relax.

However, not now, he doesn't have time to play with the other party now, so he can only use force to make the other party be a good baby first.

I found a breakfast stall selling soy milk and fried dough sticks. Before I could sit down, Xian Yaowen asked for two old newspapers that had not been cut yet from the fried dough sticks owner and came over to read them. I also ordered ten fried dough sticks and four bowls of soy milk.

The date of the newspaper was not too early, it was only the beginning of the month, and some news was still relevant. Therefore, as soon as he sat down, Xian Yaowen opened the newspaper and read it.

The third young master was very surprised when he saw Xian Yaowen's behavior. He didn't expect that this black man could not only read newspapers, but also read English newspapers. Do you understand?

Xian Yaowen felt that he should be in line with the character because he couldn't understand it. He only took enough time to look at the picture once and quickly scanned the "South China Morning Post" in his hand, then put it down and picked up another newspaper, "Ta Kung Pao".

After watching it for a while, Xian Yaowen pointed to a recruitment advertisement and said to Xian Yaowu: "Go and try."

Xian Yaowu read the content in the newspaper and said, "Brother, it requires a formal job before you can sign up, and it also requires a high school diploma. I am not qualified."

"Both of these are not big problems. I will help you solve them. There are many defeated soldiers in Hong Kong now, many of whom have guns hidden in their hands. They are living in Hong Kong without friends and penniless. With combat experience, they will inevitably Do some business without capital. The Hong Kong police force is in short supply. If you have similar experience, it won’t be too difficult to get through."

Xian Yaowu said confusedly: "It says that all members of the Special Police Force are part-time. Brother, didn't you say you wanted me to take the police training school exam before?"

"Before, it was because I didn't know that the Hong Kong police force had a special police force. Now that I know it, I think it would be better for you to be a part-timer."

Half a month ago, when he had just time-traveled, Xian Yaowen mentally accepted the fact of time-traveling, and understood the surrounding situation and human relations. He began to plan for coming to Hong Kong, who should he bring with him, and what should he do after he came. , he had already made a plan in his mind.

There is no doubt that the helper he wants to bring is Xian Yaowu. He has grown up with brothers and has a foundation of trust. He can save the process of cultivating each other's loyalty. However, he did not find any business potential in Xian Yaowu.

Instead, after he talked to Xian Guangbing about the land reform situation in the north, and the two discussed how to deal with the Liu family, he took Xian Yaowu for special training to sharpen his guns before battle, and discovered the potential of elite special forces from Xian Yaowu, whether it was fighting skills or shooting. Skills can be revealed at a glance. As long as he receives systematic training, Xian Yaowu will definitely become the king of soldiers.

When doing business in Hong Kong these days, it is difficult to carry out many businesses without a certain amount of force, and it is also easy for others to covet you and break in. He needs to have a legal armed force in his hands. Currently, Xian Yaowu is the most suitable manager candidate. Sending Xian Yaowu to be a policeman is one of his established plans.

It's just that he didn't know that Hong Kong already had a part-time police force. Since it already existed, it would be more in line with his needs to let Xian Yaowu be a part-time police officer to stay away from the corruption in the police force that has been blowing and will become more and more serious.

And according to what Robert said, there are many new prefixes popping up in Hong Kong. They are seizing the docks one by one for smuggling. Even the police dare to beat and chase them in public. There are thousands of people with any prefix. The members of each dock can easily break through 10,000. Sometimes the police need the support of Shigang Military Camp to solve the case.

At this time, being a uniformed police officer is completely a high-risk occupation, so it is better to be a part-time police officer. The frequency of patrolling on the streets can be reduced and the safety is more guaranteed.

"I listen to big brother."

"Ah."

The conversation between the two brothers fell into the ears of the third young master and the housekeeper word for word, which made the third young master sneer. It was really ironic that a bandit became a policeman. Xian Yaowen didn't know what the third young master was thinking, and even if he knew it, he wouldn't care. Some things can't be hidden, and flaws will naturally be exposed when doing it. That's why he would not shy away from telling outsiders in front of others, otherwise they would never know.

When the boss brought the fried dough sticks and soy milk to the table, the four of them started eating.

The fried dough sticks are very long and thick. You can eat half of them with two sticks. They are also very crispy when chewed. However, the oil in the pan must not have been changed for a long time. It has the unique taste of old oil and will not make people feel like enjoying the food. I can think about filling my stomach.

Xian Yaowen ate one and stopped eating. He glanced at the third young master who was devouring his food. He knew that walking more than 20 kilometers in one night must have exhausted this young master. It is not surprising that the soles of his feet are blistering now. It is quite bearable. , I didn’t hear him complaining all the way.

"You are smart, but you are a bit young. I wonder if the better you behave, the more wary I will be of you?"

A thought came to Xian Yaowen's mind and he concentrated on drinking the soy milk. The soy milk here was good, you could taste the brine, and it was very strong. The soy milk added with soy sauce condensed into blossoms of tofu, which was...

After the boss nearby blew his nose, he kneaded the dough directly without washing or wiping his hands. When his forehead sweated, he wiped it with the cloth covering the dough. After wiping it, he put it back on the dough. Xian Yaowen had to comfort himself - no. It's not clean, but you won't get sick if you eat it.

After breakfast, a group of four people boarded the Star Ferry across the sea. After disembarking on Hong Kong Island, they hurriedly went to apply for identity cards, spent some money, and stuffed themselves, without looking at the scenery. In a whole morning, The four of them had street papers.

After eating noodles on the roadside at noon, Xian Yaowen found a newsstand and bought all the newspapers on the market, whether they were for that day or not, as long as they were available, he bought them.

Then, the four of them came to Victoria Harbor. Xian Yaowen forced himself to read the newspaper, while Xian Yaowu looked at the two young masters who were already sluggish. They toiled for a whole night and a half, and after eating two full meals, this was when sleepiness hit them. When he got pregnant, Xian Yaowen didn't even think about finding a place to sleep because he still had a lot of things to do in the afternoon and had to "stay up".

After spending more than an hour reading the newspaper, Xian Yaowen found a place where he could make phone calls and made several calls in succession, including to the sales hotline of the real estate company, as well as to gold shops, banks, roast goose shops, etc. at.

Reading newspapers and making phone calls allowed Xian Yaowen to summarize a lot of information:

20. The current property price in Hong Kong is 30-22 HKD per square foot. The most expensive areas are in Hong Kong Island and Kowloon. Remote locations are cheaper. Houses in Sham Shui Po are relatively easy to rent and can be sold for 25- HKD.

At this time, property sales were mainly based on whole buildings, and the number of buyers was extremely limited. They were mainly wealthy businessmen who immigrated to Hong Kong from mainland cities such as Shanghai or returned overseas Chinese commonly known as "Jinshan Abo". This situation has seriously restricted the development of Hong Kong's real estate industry.

But there are exceptions.

In 1947, Cambodian overseas Chinese Wu Duotai saw that the real estate market was in the ascendant and had great development potential, but his funds were limited. After purchasing land and building a house, he had to sell the entire building before he could cash out. After careful consideration, he consulted with the lawyer from Gao Luyun Law Firm, a law firm with which he had regular business contacts, and finally invented the "tiered sales" sales system.

During this period, real estate developers were operating on a small scale. They usually built 2 to 4 houses for sale. The industry generally called this method "speculating on four hot meats", and there were unwritten rules. The houses built were usually It will be four floors and will not exceed five floors, otherwise it will require approval from the Governor in conjunction with the Executive Council.

Through the property sales advertisement in the newspaper, Sin Yiu-man learned that there was a four-storey house with an area of ​​1000 square feet per floor in the northern part of Cheung Sha Wan in Sham Shui Po near Lei Uk Estate and Cheng Uk Estate, which is the future location of Lei Cheng Uk Estate. The price 10 Hong Kong dollars, this is his favorite goal. He can buy it and live on the fourth floor, rent the second and third floors to office white-collar families, and rent the first floor to others to open shops, preferably restaurants.

This building was just built this year. It can avoid the new tenancy control legislation enacted and promulgated by the Hong Kong government in February 1947 in order to curb the increasingly violent wave of rent increases and forced evictions and encourage owners to repair buildings damaged by war. .

The new law controls the rent of post-war buildings and stipulates that the rent must not exceed the pre-war rent level. However, there are two situations that are not included in the control. One is the newly-built buildings after the war, and the other is the owner re-building with 100 times the pre-war rent in the area. For the houses built, both types of buildings can be rented according to the current market value.

Xian Yaowen calculated that it only takes six or seven years for the money to buy a house to be repaid. Buying a house is a very cost-effective thing.

Second, Xian Yaowen also called several recruiting units and roughly inquired about salaries. Combined with the price of Sham Jing Roast Goose at 4 yuan a piece, the Vitasoy milk subscription price for the whole year, and the prices of several newspapers, he arrived in Hong Kong. I have encountered prices along the way. I just asked the rickshaw driver to find out how much work they can do in a day and how much they have to pay to the rickshaw dealer.

Based on the above-mentioned figures, he has roughly deduced that the current median income in Hong Kong is around 120 yuan, and the average income will be a bit higher, perhaps as much as 180 yuan.

The numbers may not be accurate, but he believes they won't be too far off, because his original intention is to pursue real numbers, and the data he refers to are all representative, not the kind of economic census that sets the tone first and then pretends to make up the data. , he doesn’t need to fool himself at all.

Third, based on a report in the "Overseas Chinese Daily" and the memory in Xian Yaowen's mind, starting in 1947, banks in Shanghai, Sheep, and Hong Kong formed a triangular arbitrage relationship to exchange huge amounts of mainland funds from legal currency into Hong Kong dollars. , foreign currencies or gold and silver are speculated in Hong Kong or fled overseas.

Affected by the impact, Hong Kong’s “counter-selling” gold accounts and gold jewelry shops have sprung up like mushrooms after a rain. Before the war, the total number of gold shops in Hong Kong was less than 100, but in the early post-war period there was a rapid increase to more than 200.

Gold speculation in Hong Kong was at its peak, and gold prices rose and fell sharply, mainly depending on the rise and fall of gold prices in Shanghai and Yangcheng and the supply and demand for gold in Hong Kong. Banks, banks and even banks in Hong Kong all participated in speculation, made huge profits, and triggered an unprecedented speculative frenzy in Hong Kong's financial market.

In April this year, the Hong Kong government issued a decree to restrict the trading of pure gold in accordance with the requirements of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Agreement. Starting from July, the gold traded at the gold and silver trade market will be changed from pure gold with a purity of 4% in the past to industrial gold with a purity of 7% or %.

However, during the period of gold import and export controls, the supply of gold in the Hong Kong market continued. This is because after World War II, Portugal was not a member of the IMF and did not have to fulfill its obligations to restrict the sale of pure gold. Merchants importing gold in Macau only need to pay import taxes. Unrestricted.

Hong Kong gold merchants use Macao as a gold import base, purchase gold from Europe and South Africa, re-export it to Macao via Hong Kong, declare customs and go through import procedures in Macao, melt the imported pure gold in Macao, and recast it into 5 or fine gold. taels of gold bars and then smuggled from Macau to Hong Kong.

After gold merchants buy gold from Europe or South Africa, most of it is sold in the Hong Kong gold futures market. The free US dollars that gold merchants buy and sell gold are also discharged through Hong Kong's free foreign exchange market.

In this case, banks and banks with good relationships with gold merchants can engage in large-scale gold and foreign exchange transactions and earn huge profits from them. A typical example of this is Hang Seng Silver. It can be said that most gold traders in the Hong Kong gold market follow Hang Seng Silver. The founder of Hang Seng, Ho Sin-heng, even serves as the chairman of the gold and silver trading center.

There is a saying that the bigger the storm, the more expensive the fish. The more illegal and prohibited the trade, the easier it is for prices to skyrocket. The price of gold in Hong Kong has recently exceeded 720 yuan/tael.

[Sima Jin was used in the Qing Dynasty, one pound is 16 taels, one tael is 37.5 grams, a total of 600 grams (604 grams with a long decimal point to be precise). Hong Kong has been using Sima Jin both at that time and now, so if Unless otherwise specified, the weight of one kilogram in the article is mostly 600 grams.

The unit of measurement for gold in the middle and late period of the Republic of China was one-sixteenth of 500 grams, or 31.25 grams. This was not only a legal requirement at the time, but also supported by a large amount of physical evidence of gold bars left over from the Republic of China period.

The standard small yellow croaker is one tael, which is 31.25 grams, and the large yellow croaker is twelve taels, which is 312.5 grams. However, there are very few very standard large and small yellow croakers on the market, and the purity is generally not up to standard. ]
The 72 small yellow croakers that Xian Yaowen and Xian Yaowu carried could only be sold for about 4.3 even if they were sold at the best price. What's more, no gold shop has ever recycled gold according to the market price, given the current gold market. , maybe the price reduction will not be too severe, but if it can sell for 4, it will be Amitabha.

Although he only had such a small amount of money, Sin Yiu-man still planned to make a living by buying the building in Lei Cheng Uk Estate. He needed a debut ceremony to tell the business community in Hong Kong - I'm coming!

(End of this chapter)