Era: Retired from the army at the beginning and returned home - Chapter 301 The liaison officer sacrifices to heaven, and the situation opens up

“Fuck your mother. Master Luo, what should I do now?”

“What else can you do? Sun Tou doesn’t know whether he will live or die. Just follow me. As long as I, Luo Cheng, am here, I can’t treat you badly.”

“Okay, Master Luo, we all listen to you.”

“Zhang Hao, you take them to buy some water and food first. The dock is in chaos now, and there won’t be any work in the near future. Everyone hastily clears the site and rebuilds the house. But it’s just right, give me a space , I will build a big factory here. Liu Qing, please bring some money to do some research and get a construction approval slip.”

“Okay, let’s do it now.”

Xiangjiang, Wanchai Pier, not far from Kowloon District.

At this time, the area around the pier was in a mess, not only at Wan Chai Pier, but also at many other piers.

Luo Cheng really doesn’t understand history. The history he does know is the return in 1997. At most, he knows some movie stars and the like.

Luo Cheng, Zhang Hao and Liu Qing got in touch with the contact person here as soon as they arrived in Xiangjiang. The identity of the contact person here is a Baotou from Wan Chai Pier, whose surname is Sun. People here call him Sun Tou. Most people here don’t know the specific name, but Sun Tou is the liaison here, and Luo Cheng and the others know the name. It’s called Sun Top Dan. That’s right, it’s Top Dan, but there’s no competition these days. Game, only Luo Cheng would think something about this name when he saw it, but others didn’t think there was much problem with this name.

But the current situation is a bit bad. If Luo Cheng knew something about the history of Xiangjiang, he would never choose to run here near the end of July. Because not many days after arriving here, there was a typhoon here, and it was a huge typhoon.

Not long after Sun Toucai met, a typhoon wiped out everyone. The main reason was that Sun Tou was a liaison officer in the country and had a clear conscience. Unlike Baotou, which is the other port and wharf, people put profit first. When such a big typhoon occurs, the priority is to save lives. How can you have the energy to evacuate some coolies?

The wooden houses where some people live here have basically been blown away, and there are old wooden boards and some necessities of ordinary people’s lives everywhere. Homeless people are everywhere, waiting for help from the Hong Kong government. But more importantly, they have to save themselves. Xiangjiang is a British colony. Even if they provide rescue, it is just a pretense and they still rely on donations from other compatriots in Xiangjiang.

And Luo Cheng, who originally came here, wasted a lot of time just to establish the character of Master Capital, not only to show it to the people below Sun Tou. It’s also for others to see. When he comes here, he looks down on this and that. He comes to Xiangjiang just to make money.

By seizing the pier and pumping some water, Baotou can live a pretty good life. But for capitalists, how much money can this bring, so many people in Wan Chai know that there is a young capitalist who wants to make money. But Sun Tou was lucky. He knew some of the young master’s elders in the country, and it was Sun Tou who took care of him when he came here.

Master Luo didn’t have many incense coins when he came here, but he had a lot of gold and silver jewelry. When he came here, he asked Sun Tou to go to some jewelry stores to exchange a lot of money. Many people speculated that if Sun Touguang helped others replace it, he would at least make a lot of difference in price.

Luo Cheng’s character quickly took hold here. But it is also somewhat difficult to develop the situation. Suntou is just the Baotou of one wharf, but there are several wharves in a port. Even if smuggled goods come over, they still have to prevent Baotou from other docks from discovering them. If this is discovered, administrative fees will be indispensable, and the risk of being reported must also be guarded against. That’s not to say you can’t get away with illegal goods, but you must at least have connections in the local police station.

Here in Xiangjiang, there are not as many departments as there are in China. The police department has great power and can control almost everything.

Well now, tens of thousands of people have been left homeless due to a big disaster in Taiwan. The contact person may directly sacrifice to the sky, and this contact person sacrifices to the sky, Luo Cheng will have unlimited mana, and the situation is about to open up.

Many ports have been out of work recently, and if there is any work, it can only be done after the typhoon has completely stopped. As for the rest of Baotou, they don’t care whether these coolies working for a living at the port can survive. It’s good to be alive, but it’s impossible for them to use money and food to help these disaster-stricken people.

At this time, it was Luo Cheng’s turn to take action. Not only did Sun Tou’s people follow, but they also asked people to contact people on other nearby docks. If you are willing to follow along, at least you don’t have to worry about food and clothing. Moreover, Master Luo here has promised that as long as they are willing to come over, everyone will directly occupy the entire Wan Chai pier. From now on, Luo Cheng will not pay a penny for the small money spent on transporting people on the pier.

Moreover, as long as they are willing to accept the payment, there will be no problem if the management is changed. Master Luo has paid for the filial piety money. It just depends on whether the other people on the dock are willing to unite and follow suit. Of course, if other Baotou are willing to come out to rescue you now, just pretend that Sun Baotou didn’t say anything.

In this era, Britain still had many colonies, but none of them planned to develop properly. Most of the people who come here to work in public offices want to make money. It’s a pity that Xiangjiang is currently too poor and has no suitable industries. The place is still small. Unlike South Africa, which is backward, at least it has a large area and the land is still fertile. This kind of tobacco, even if you grow some poppy or something, is used as a ‘medicine’. Those who are responsible for management can also make a lot of money.

In Xiangjiang, we are really poor now. Even if we engage in drug addiction, there must be rich people to spend money. It’s not that there aren’t rich people in Xiangjiang, but there are just so many people, so it’s pointless to do it. If ordinary people can make a lot of money, then the audience will be wide and the profits will be high.

Therefore, Xiangjiang’s current financial situation is actually not very good. There are many small factories and workshops, and there are also many tax evaders. Moreover, when taxes are collected, they don’t just put them in their pockets if they want. It would be better for some people to collect protection fees, collect water in various ways, and then personally honor them. They just turned a blind eye.

Therefore, you will see a situation in Xiangjiang, that is, the British here have high positions, but they don’t do anything. As long as the filial piety and money are enough, anything can be said. The people in charge are all compatriots, but if compatriots want to secure their positions, they still have to curry favor with those who don’t care about anything.

With such a management situation in Xiangjiang, it is not difficult for everyone to guess in later movies and TV shows why there were so many gangs and so much corruption in Xiangjiang in the past. The Independent Commission Against Corruption was even established specifically because of corruption. But if you think that the Independent Commission Against Corruption is against the British, you are wrong. When some people become bigger and stronger, they want to dominate Hong Kong.

The people above are not willing to see such a result, because the people above know that as long as there is competition and they crave the power they give them, they will try their best to please them. If it is monopolized by one person, even if the benefits are given, they will be limited.

It’s just a port. As long as Luo Cheng can afford it, he can also provide enough benefits to his superiors. In Hong Kong, it is a capital society. If you have money, it is not easy to get things done in a capital society.

People working here in Xiangjiang now only earn a few dozen yuan a month, based on the exchange rate. Hong Kong dollars are not as valuable as RMB, but one good thing is that prices here are not high, and there are no tickets for shopping.

Luo Cheng asked Zhang Hao to take the money and plan to build a big factory and seize the port here. The cost can be considered high, just a few thousand yuan. Moreover, these several thousand yuan are just the money for tea at the beginning, and the money at the port will not be less every month in the future. Isn’t it nice to just change someone else to show filial piety and get thousands of dollars for nothing?

But Luo Cheng underestimated some people here. A few thousand yuan is still a lot in Xiangjiang now. Xiangjiang has not yet developed. If it were five or ten years later, a few thousand dollars would not be taken seriously.

It’s not that the people at the police station are not interested in these thousands of dollars. After all, after taking the money, whether you can get the dock depends on your ability. However, this typhoon incident did give Luo Cheng, who had just arrived, an opportunity. But Luo Chengcheng’s establishment is good. He is a master of domestic capital. There are domestic industries and assets that want to escape and be transferred.

To raise such a fat animal, I only gave it some wool, but I didn’t even taste the meat. Moreover, Luo Cheng wanted to take over the entire port as soon as he arrived, and he didn’t want any water pumping or anything like that. It must be smuggling. If someone else takes over the entire port, it will save some people affected by the disaster from causing trouble. The tea fee will be enough.

But Luo Cheng, they kept the money they sent to the police station, but they had to sit down and drink the tea together. So the police station asked Zhang Hao to go back and tell Luo Cheng that there was a teahouse in Xiangjiang that tasted delicious barbecued pork. Three days later, Inspector Zhou invited him for morning tea.

When Zhang Hao came back with his people, he told Luo Cheng about their appointment for morning tea. He must have wanted to see Luo Cheng for something, and there was nothing he could do about it. It would definitely not be to kill him. Luo Cheng came here and asked himself that apart from setting up a character, he had not done anything extraordinary. If you don’t want Luo Cheng to take advantage of the port, you can tell him directly, and the money has been accepted. You must have the character of a bribe taker.

Basically, there is no problem for Luo Cheng to ‘rob’ the docks, build factories and build houses.

Luo Cheng really didn’t understand the appetite of the police station here. If it hadn’t been for the impact of the typhoon, a few thousand dollars wouldn’t have made the superiors willing to change people at the dock. Be mature and not raw. People are used to being filial. Only if you show a lot more filial piety can the superiors relent.

You must know that the salary of police officers in Xiangjiang is also very low now, and they only rely on tea money. There was a plot adapted from a real event in the early films of Xiangjiang, in which an old man saw a man falling from the fifth floor with his own eyes, and then called the police over.

Then the police came, but several other people also came to the scene. They said that the place belonged to so-and-so, and they paid the police some money and asked the police to leave. When the old man saw the police officer leaving, he said it was a dead person, but the police officer told the old man not to mind his own business.

Dealing with the police station was originally what Luo Cheng wanted to do. If the typhoon incident hadn’t happened, Luo Cheng would still be thinking of ways to contact people at the police station. When the typhoon blows, he can ‘pick up’ a port and find a site to build a factory, which also gives Luo Cheng a way to reasonably contribute to the police station.

It’s just a pity that the liaison officer was sacrificed to heaven, and his whereabouts are still unknown at least for now. Otherwise, the matter of gathering other dock personnel can be left to Sun Tou, and then a gang will be established~~ I was wrong, it was a dock chamber of commerce, and Luo Cheng did not need to come forward.

But now Luo Cheng has to do it himself, so he can’t just become a gang leader. But the characters of Zhang Hao and Liu Qing were established as soon as they came. They were just bodyguards paid by Luo Cheng, the kind of loyal ones. If someone has something to do, they only look to Luo Cheng. Who will look to you as a bodyguard? Being good at fighting is useful. You have to have money.

So Luo Cheng couldn’t hide behind the scenes, so he had to step forward and take over Sun Tou’s stall first, and then recruit others.

But Luo Cheng doesn’t have much money at the moment. Gold is both valuable and worthless these days. It’s not valuable because the RMB only costs more than one yuan per gram, but it’s actually valuable. Gold weighs heavily, so if you get some on the way, one or two kilograms can cost thousands of yuan. In China, how many years can ordinary people save up to 1,000 yuan from their salary?

Moreover, when today’s capitalists leave the country, they take small yellow croakers with them. The price of small yellow croakers in Xiangjiang is more expensive than in China. When Luo Cheng and Zhang Hao came here, they didn’t bring many Hong Kong dollars, but the little yellow croaker brought some. Because you came to Hong Kong through formal channels, the currency restrictions are huge. Besides, it doesn’t make sense for you to come from China and bring a lot of Hong Kong dollars in order to establish your profile.

Sun Tou must have been blown into the sea by a typhoon at the dock, and Luo Cheng had to contact the country himself. Explain the situation and immediately ask the industrial zone to deliver the goods to Shenzhen City. Once the time is right, they will ‘pretend’ to smuggle it over. There are a lot of homeless people here now. He wants to recruit people, but the money he has will not last long. The main reason is that he has spent thousands of dollars to honor others.

There was a big typhoon in Xiangjiang, and the contact person in China was also anxious. Of course, it was impossible to arrange only Sun Tou as the contact person in Xiangjiang. But now Sun Tou can’t be contacted, and Luo Cheng and the others have just passed by, and they are still taking care of Sun Tou. The other contacts are all in different areas, and it will take time to line up people to check the situation.

While everyone was waiting for the news, Luo Cheng’s call had already been placed at the Shencheng Port Call Center. There are still wired telephones now. Calls in Xiangjiang can only be connected to Shencheng. If you want to call other places, you have to be transferred.

Luo Cheng reported the situation here. The typhoon disaster was very serious. When the typhoon blew, Luo Cheng and the others hid in the center of the city. But the houses of people living here at the dock are all made of wood and cannot withstand typhoons. Even Sun’s head may be gone. The only good news is that Luo Cheng gathered people here and sponsored some expenses of the local police station here.

We can only talk about sponsorship. According to the rigid-minded people in the country, if you want to bribe someone, I guarantee that someone will be on the line. Anyway, let the people in Shencheng contact the industrial zone as soon as possible, transfer a batch of goods first, and wait for Luo Cheng’s follow-up notification. In order to save the compatriots affected by the typhoon, Luo Cheng no longer has much funds.

Luo Cheng didn’t say anything about recruiting coolies to occupy the entire port. Speaking of this, it was another violation of regulations. Zhang Hao and Liu Qing were arranged by Qian Qian’s parents. Whatever Luo Cheng does, they won’t say anything in private.

The Wanmen Tea House is usually named a big tea house, and its scale is basically not too small. But in Xiangjiang, teahouses are not really places to drink tea. You can also drink tea, but they mainly mean dim sum shops.

Eat egg tarts, barbecued pork buns, xiaolongbao, fried dough sticks and soy milk, etc. Even siomai, chicken feet, and sausages can be eaten in teahouses. However, today’s teahouses are not affordable for just anyone. It’s not that teahouses are expensive, but that ordinary workers can’t earn much money in Xiangjiang.

Even those who like morning tea, owners of small factories and workshops, all go to small teahouses. Unless the teahouse is entertaining guests to discuss business, there are very few people who come to the teahouse for daily consumption.

Inspector Zhou asked Luo Cheng to have morning tea three days later at the Wanmen Teahouse. By coincidence, some Baotou from Wan Chai Pier also gathered together. For those of them to be Baotou, they would be surrounded by at least two or three people. of. Otherwise, how to manage and how to pump water will be left to Baotou to run alone.

It was impossible for Luo Cheng to just pick up the livelihood he had managed to earn on the dock. But the current situation is also very troublesome. Those who work as coolies have lost their houses and are no different from refugees. If they Baotou show up, it doesn’t mean they are asked to help. It’s just a loan and will be paid back later. But there are a few people who are willing to lend it, and there is a dock. When the typhoon passes, why are we worried about people who have no work to do? Why should we lend it to those people?

But it doesn’t matter that everyone is like this, but someone like Luo Cheng appears and goes to rescue them. We also need to gather them so that we won’t be pumping water when working on the docks from now on.

So they Baotou are discussing what to do. It is definitely not possible to go to Luo Cheng for trouble now. Because many people affected by the typhoon have not yet been resettled. If we take action now, it will arouse public outrage. But if they don’t do it now, there must be a charter for how to deal with him in the future. If they really do nothing, it is definitely impossible for their livelihood on the dock to be lost like this.