books44 Chapter 158 Bosses who want to cooperate with Lu Yongqiang
Chapter 158 Bosses who want to cooperate with Lu Yongqiang
After Xiyan finished speaking, Situ Haonan hadn't spoken yet, and Liansheng's Fat Cat spoke up, "Xiyan, I think the idea of capturing dragons and tigers is good. It's more appropriate to let Liangzai Qiang handle Xiahou Wu's affairs. If you ask me, why not just let Liangzai Qiang handle all of Xiahou Wu's affairs? We'll be responsible for the money, and they'll be responsible for the labor. If anyone is dissatisfied with Xiahou Wu's early release from prison, we can push Liangzai Qiang out to calm their anger. If Liangzai Qiang can withstand their anger, then why not let him have a share?"
As Fat Cat finished speaking, Situ Haonan, Lei Yaoyang, and Gao Lao said in unison, "Fat Cat, this is a good idea."
Seeing several people express their opinions, Xiyan narrowed his eyes, snorted coldly and said, "I have reminded you that Qiangzi is not a good person. Since you have made up your minds to plot against him, I will not take care of this matter. You should go and discuss it with him yourselves." As he spoke, Xiyan had already opened the door of the private room and left.
Seeing Xiyan leave, Situ Haonan said to the prince and others: "Prince, Ma Wangjian, Wuliang, what are your opinions?"
The three princes exchanged a glance, and the prince spoke up, "Handsome Qiang is one of us Hongxing after all. We Hongxing people never plot against our brothers. Like Little Eyes, we won't get involved in this matter. If you think this is a good idea, then go and discuss it with Handsome Qiang."
After the prince finished speaking, Situ Haonan and Lei Yaoyang exchanged a glance. Lei Yaoyang spoke up, "We at Dongxing have always had a bad relationship with Handsome Qiang. If Situ and I were to approach him to discuss this, things might go wrong. He Liansheng and Handsome Qiang have always had a good relationship, so it seems we'll have to trouble you two, Gao Lao and Fat Cat, on this matter."
Lei Yaoyang paused for a moment, then continued, "Seniors Gao Lao and Fat Cat have come forward to discuss this with Handsome Qiang, so we can't expect them to contribute both labor and money. Therefore, all expenses this time will be shared by several seniors from Dongxing and Hongxing. What do you think?"
Originally, Gao Lao and Fei Mao were reluctant to come forward to discuss the matter with Lu Yongqiang, but after hearing the second half of Lei Yaoyang's words, they nodded in agreement.
Both He Liansheng and the others agreed, and the prince and his men also nodded in agreement.
Gao Lao and Fei Mao had nothing to do with Lu Yongqiang, and they felt it was not a good idea to go to his house directly. Thinking that Lu Yongqiang had always had a good relationship with Da D, they actually contacted Da D and asked Da D to help them arrange a meeting with Lu Yongqiang.
Big D was thinking about when to arrange a meeting with Lu Yongqiang to persuade him to sell the food factory. At this time, Gao Lao and Fat Cat came to him and asked him to help arrange a meeting with Lu Yongqiang. Big D took the opportunity to call Lu Yongqiang.
On Lu Yongqiang's side, after knowing that Big D was planning to target his food factory, Lu Yongqiang asked Shouhou to investigate the trick behind the matter.
Skinny Monkey was quite capable and he figured out most of the problem in just one day.
The story is simple. Dagu Sugar, originally a sugar refinery, was once considered the world's largest. However, with declining profits in recent years, the company sought transformation and began diversifying. While closing the refinery and focusing on packaging and distribution, it also expanded into other businesses, including media and construction.
After several years of hard work, Lu Yongqiang's Juhaochi Food Factory has become quite famous in Hong Kong City. Many people are interested in this high-quality enterprise, but once they hear about Lu Yongqiang's gang background and most of the food factory's sales channels are related to gangs, most people are unwilling to cause trouble.
The Boss Li that Big D mentioned is the younger brother of the chairman of Dagu Sugar Industry. He is the second child in the Li family and has always been in charge of the family's gray industry. He is considered the biggest backer behind Big D.
He has been dealing with social organizations all the time, so he doesn't care about Lu Yongqiang's social organization background, nor does he care about the business involvement between the food factory and the social organization. These may seem like troubles to others, but in his opinion, they are advantages for the development of the food factory.
In the land grabbing business, Big D has lost a lot of points in front of the bosses behind him. Many bosses are already looking for new partners, and this Mr. Li is no exception.
Because of Mr. Le Sanye, Lu Yongqiang actually caught the eye of many bosses. Recently, many bosses have approached Lu Yongqiang for cooperation, but Lu Yongqiang rejected them all.
It’s not that Lu Yongqiang is aloof and doesn’t want to find a backer for himself, but that the bosses who look for him are unreliable.
In the past six months or so, a total of six bosses have approached Lu Yongqiang. Two of them are worth only tens of millions, but they approached Lu Yongqiang because they wanted to curry favor with him.
One of them was planning to open a nightclub on Lu Yongqiang's territory and was trying to get Lu Yongqiang to invest. Lu Yongqiang did not refuse and threw the matter to Duxie, asking Duxie to cooperate with this boss.
The other person had his eyes on the second-hand wholesale market in Xingtai. This person had a background in gangs, and his interest in this second-hand wholesale market was nothing more than his intention to resume the black goods business that had been run in Xingtai before.
Running a smuggling business not only involves dealing with all kinds of people, but it is also easy to attract the attention of the police. After Lu Yongqiang pulled down the flag of Xingtai, he had no intention of running this business on his own territory.
As for the second-hand wholesale market, Lu Yongqiang plans to really do the second-hand goods business, but he does not plan to deal in all second-hand goods like before. He only does the second-hand furniture business.
The second-hand wholesale market was divided into two by Lu Yongqiang. The front half of the stores was converted into a second-hand furniture mall, and all stores sold second-hand furniture.
Lu Yongqiang converted the back half of the shop into several renovation workshops. The second-hand furniture purchased would be refurbished and repaired in the renovation workshops and then put on sale in the front store.
The business in the wholesale market is pretty good now. Although he doesn’t make much money, it helps Lu Yongqiang support the families of many of his younger brothers.
This is Lu Yongqiang's usual method of winning people's hearts. Many of the employees in his industries are family members of his younger brothers.
Of the six bosses who were approached, two were looking to curry favor with Lu Yongqiang, while the other four were each worth hundreds of millions and were considered influential in Hong Kong. If they could truly cooperate, it would be of great benefit to Lu Yongqiang.
Although Lu Yongqiang wanted to find a backer, he was not willing to be someone's dog. What he wanted was fair cooperation. Not to say 100% fairness, but at least relative fairness.
These four bosses obviously could not give Lu Yongqiang the relative fairness he wanted. They all looked down on Lu Yongqiang from the bottom of their hearts, and some of them were even plotting to take over Lu Yongqiang's family business.
A boss wanted to invest in Lu Yongqiang's food factory as soon as he opened his mouth. He even took out a development plan and painted a rosy picture for Lu Yongqiang, saying that the factory would be developed in three years and listed in five years.
The pie is drawn very round, but there is no real substance to be seen. The investment amount is only 50 million, but they want a 60% share right away. They say that although the investment amount is not high, they have a professional team that can make the company develop rapidly.
Another boss was even more outrageous. He started by wanting to recruit Lu Yongqiang, saying that if Lu Yongqiang was willing, he could marry into their family. The wife he arranged for Lu Yongqiang was not from the family's direct line, but only the second daughter of a branch branch. Lu Yongqiang was so angry that he almost hit someone.
The remaining two are a little more reliable, but only a little.
One is to agree to support Lu Yongqiang to become the leader of Hongxing. In the early stage, they gave money and connections to support Lu Yongqiang's development, but Lu Yongqiang also had to pay a corresponding price, which was to become the black glove of their family.
This kind of cooperation model is quite standard. Many bigwigs on Gangcheng Road started out this way. People like Han Bin and Lian Haolong started out step by step in this way.
Lu Yongqiang has his own plans for the position of leader of Hongxing. He does not need support from others. He will definitely be able to take the position of leader in two or three years at most.
The other one simply wanted to find Lu Yongqiang to help him. This guy specialized in smuggling high-end cars, and Dasha from Saigon was his partner.
This boss has a deep network of connections in customs and water police, and the cooperation model he mentioned is also very simple.
Every month, he would provide Lu Yongqiang with a batch of high-end smuggled cars, and Lu Yongqiang would be responsible for sales. He would set a reasonable price for Lu Yongqiang, and pay cash on delivery. As for how much Lu Yongqiang would sell the cars for, or how much he would earn from each car, he had no say in the matter.
In addition to supplying goods to Lu Yongqiang, this man also recycles vehicles. For example, in Saigon Dasha, he is in the business of selling stolen goods. If the stolen goods are difficult to sell in a short period of time, they will be sold to this man, who will then take over and either transfer them to others for sale or directly transport them out of the port city. Anyway, he has many ways.
This deal sounded good, and it would definitely make money. A high-end car could easily earn hundreds of thousands of dollars, but Lu Yongqiang finally refused.
The big fool from Sai Kung was beaten to death by Chen Haonan and his brothers in the plot of "Young and Dangerous". He really looked very cowardly.
In fact, this guy is not an easy person to deal with. He is very similar to Jimmy from Heliansheng. He joined the gang not to fight, but to do business.
His territory in Saigon is not big, just a fish dock, and he has only a few hundred people under him. His influence is indeed a bit small, but his business is big.
Half of the smuggled cars in Hong Kong were his work. Besides that, 60% to 70% of all stolen cars passed through his hands.
Not many of his men are professional thugs. Basically, all of them are vehicle mechanics who work as thugs part-time.
In addition to trading in smuggled and stolen cars, Dasha also does modified car business. Many illegally modified vehicles in Hong Kong are shipped from him.
Even Lu Yongqiang had taken care of Dasha's business several times. All the vans and several minibuses under his name were bought from Dasha.
The reason why Dasha was able to grow his business so big was not only because of his business acumen, but also because of the network of relationships he had built up over more than ten years.
Lu Yongqiang thinks he doesn't have the network of connections that Dasha has, so he is unwilling to get involved in the car smuggling business. After all, if he wants to do this business well, he has to deal with both the black and white worlds. Lu Yongqiang has too much to do, so how can he have the energy to manage this business?