Hong Kong: Rise of the Kings

"Some people have certain things, and they have to resort to some tricks, right?"

Watching Li Jiacheng leave, Du Yongxiao sipped the tea gently and said to Yan Xiong.

Yan Xiong nodded: "It's not as good as this boss Li, who doesn't have to drink wine as a penalty for toasting."

"No, he is a smart man. He just assesses the situation and knows what to do and what not to do now."

No wonder this boss Li was so rich in the world in his previous life. His vision for doing business alone is unmatched by anyone, or it can be said that he is absolutely vicious.

He knew that if thousands of acres of land in Tsuen Wan could be developed into villas, he could earn the highest profit in the shortest time. However, he miscalculated that Du Yongxiao was a person and thought that Du Yongxiao was as greedy as him. He wanted to leave Lee Siu-hang and join hands with Du Yongxiao to develop Tsuen Wan. Unexpectedly, in the end, he was tricked by Du Yongxiao and was pulled directly onto the pirate ship.

"What about us next?" Yan Xiong suddenly asked: "Dad, your reputation has been damaged in this secret war. Many people are calling you a traitor!"

Du Yongxiao smiled, "Don't be impatient. I'm waiting for someone. The results will be out soon."

"Who are you waiting for?" Yan Xiong wondered.

Du Yongxiao remained silent.

Yan Xiong looked at Zhuang Dingxian, and Zhuang Dingxian shrugged, meaning that even you, the godson, don't know, so how can I know?

Just when Yan Xiong was suspicious, footsteps sounded from the stairs again.

I heard Datou Wen shouting from below: "Brother Xiao, I have brought the barrister Brando."

Soon, the ghost lawyer Brando came to the box.

He still dressed very seriously, with a black suit, blond hair in a three-part hairstyle, gold-rimmed glasses, and a briefcase in his hand.

Brando was strutting outside and looking down at everyone. When he entered the private room, he immediately put on a smile and showed respect to Du Yongxiao, "Hello, dear Mr. Du, nice to meet you!"

When Brando said these words, there was a look of joy on his face that could not be concealed.

As a big-time ghost living in Hong Kong, Brando's previous life was quite exciting, but no matter how exciting he was, he was at most just a barrister with a lawyer's license, and all he earned was hard-earned money from his words. .

In terms of class, they also belong to the elite class among white-collar workers. To put it bluntly, they are high-end wage earners.

But now he is officially recruited by the Du Group and becomes the senior legal advisor and chief counsel of the Du Group.

It is said that such a position was previously given to a Chinese barrister named Bai Yingjun. Unfortunately, that barrister betrayed Mr. Du midway and was expelled from the Du Group. Now he, Brando, has a chance.

If he was a high-level wage earner before, now he has become the legal advisor of the famous Du Group in Hong Kong and even internationally. He is a senior person in the company. In terms of career and status, he can even be on an equal footing with some tycoons and senior government officials.

Brando knows that as long as he doesn't act like a monster, doesn't do anything, and as long as he firmly holds the position given by Mr. Du today, then he will be a real master in the future.

"You're here, please sit down!" Du Yongxiao said to Brando after the box door closed.

Brando politely put the briefcase aside, then found a seat and sat down, with a serious attitude, as if reporting work to his superiors.

"Thank you for your hard work these days. The group is already very busy and has a lot of trivial matters. Now I have to ask you to take over my personal affairs. I'm really sorry." Du Yongxiao said and handed the file bag on the table to Brando and said with a smile. : "This is my personal contract with Boss Li of Li Jiacheng. I hope you can find some loopholes in the law. The most important thing is to restrain him. Do you understand?"

"This is my honor, Mr. Du! As lawyers, the highest level is to take advantage of legal loopholes, and do so blatantly!" Brando opened the document bag and took a look and raised his eyebrows: "It seems that the other party is doing the same. The masters are also looking for loopholes to contain you——"

"I know this! I know best who Li Jiacheng is, and the barrister Song Bingshu who followed him is not a small role." Du Yongxiao said calmly, "So now it's up to you."

Brando smiled: "When you meet an opponent, you will meet a good talent. I like this Song Bingshu very much. He is a very good opponent! At least it will keep me thinking for a few days!"

"I can give you a few days. The question is, can you fight him?"

"Don't forget, he studied the laws of our British Empire, and he is Chinese. Even under the same conditions, do you think the presiding judge believes in him or me?"

Brando stopped Du Yongxiao with one sentence.

To put it in one sentence, most of the contemporary presiding judges are ghost guys wearing sheep hats and extremely discriminatory against Chinese people.

Du Yongxiao was very opposed to this kind of discrimination, especially on the level of equality before the law, but now he had to admit that if Brando, a ghost guy, and Song Bingshu, a Chinese general, went to court together, Brando would definitely take advantage of his British identity. Light.

"Okay, I believe you!" Du Yongxiao smiled, "Now let's talk about the second thing."

Brando sat upright again, looking like he was listening attentively, "Please tell me——"

"It's just that my reputation has been damaged."

Brando hesitated after listening to Du Yongxiao's words: "There are actually two solutions now. First, use your huge human and financial resources to control public opinion, make public opinion on your side, re-brainwash those people, and let them understand you. As for the second one—"

"Don't hesitate. If you have anything, just say it!" Du Yongxiao urged.

"The second method is that I will come forward on your behalf and directly sue those media that are accomplices to the evil. This will not only help you clear your grievances, but also effectively prevent similar incidents from happening again."

"In that case, why are you hesitating?" Du Yongxiao looked at Brando with a half-smile.

Brando hesitated: "Because if you do this, many people will be involved, especially those newspapers and magazines. The unscrupulous media will probably have to reshuffle from top to bottom, and some innocent people will be implicated."

Brando didn't say it very clearly, but in fact Du Yongxiao already understood it.

For example, the loudest voice this time was Ming Pao in Hong Kong media.

Ming Pao itself has a good personal relationship with Du Yongxiao, except for the columnist named Ni Kuang. Du Yongxiao and Ming Pao have also cooperated before.

However, in order to increase sales, Ming Pao has been constantly making trouble and acting as a messenger of justice in recent years, often publishing some seemingly "justice articles", such as "Pants, Not Nuclear" a few years ago.

This time, Du Yongxiao cooperated with Mitsubishi Group to develop an automobile production line in Tsuen Wan. The original intention was to cooperate with the high-tech here, gradually absorb their superb engine assembly technology, and lay the foundation for the national industry.

Unfortunately, some short-sighted people criticized it as "colluding with the Japanese and squeezing the blood and sweat of compatriots."

And Du Yongxiao, who led this incident, was directly labeled as a "big traitor."

Considering Du Yongxiao's status, many newspapers and magazines in Hong Kong remained silent. Some people with public morality and conscience even took the initiative to call Du Yongxiao to inquire about the real situation. Du Yongxiao would also seriously talk about his development concept of the rise of national industry. In one sentence, it can be summarized as "learning from the advanced technology of the foreigners to defeat the foreigners." Now our automobile industry foundation is too weak, and we must learn the advanced technology of the other side. After we fully absorb and digest it, we can develop a more advanced automobile brand belonging to our own nation.

After learning the truth, these newspaper and magazine bosses admired Du Yongxiao to the utmost, except Ming Pao, which insisted that Du Yongxiao was a traitor and even opened a column in the editorial column: Wealth and Morality; Nationality and Blood.

In this way, people would write articles to criticize Du Yongxiao.

Du Yongxiao could tolerate all these, after all, Hong Kong still allowed freedom of speech on the surface.

However, as Ming Pao played the national card and exposed Du Yongxiao as a traitor, it won the title of "Conscience of the Newspaper Industry" and "Dare to Challenge Authority and Fight Power", and began to be proud and lost itself.

So, everything about Du Yongxiao, whether true or false, was published in one go, completely damaging Du Yongxiao's reputation.

This is intolerable.

Du Yongxiao has done his best for Ming Pao, especially for the president, Mr. Cha Liangyong, also known as Mr. Jin Yong, he has feelings for him, but no matter how deep the feelings are, they cannot withstand the endless slander against him.

Therefore, Du Yongxiao had already planned to attack Ming Pao.

However, as Brando said, if Du Yongxiao wanted to sue Ming Pao by legal means, then according to Du Yongxiao's own ability and manpower, Ming Pao would probably have to be reshuffled.

The editorial column must be cut immediately, and the newspaper may be directly suspended. The president, editor-in-chief, responsible editor, reporters, etc. will all be temporarily laid off.

The printing factories that provide printing for Ming Pao, the transportation companies that provide transportation, and the small vendors who make a living by selling Ming Pao will all be affected.

It can be said that Du Yongxiao attacked a newspaper company, but affected the entire industry chain.

"So Mr. Du, I hope you can think clearly about which method to use to deal with this matter." Brando reminded Du Yongxiao again.

In Brando's view, if Du Yongxiao wants to calm things down quietly, it is best to use the first method, controlling public opinion to brainwash the people. This is the simplest and most effective method.

But——

"Lawyer Brando, since you asked me this question, you should already know which method I will choose." Du Yongxiao stood up from his seat and walked behind the foreign lawyer, gently placed his hands on Brando's shoulders, and said in a low voice: "You have a smart brain, but your eyes are not far enough. If I use the first method, it will be very simple, direct and effective. However, in that case, both opponents and enemies will think that I am trying to "keep things quiet." Do you know what the word "keep things quiet" means? "

"No, you don't know, because you are British and don't understand the doctrine of the mean that we Chinese highly respect, but it is this doctrine of the mean, It will kill many people! Keeping things quiet means being a coward and a loser! Maybe in this way, I can earn a reputation of being broad-minded, but for my enemies, what they see is my cowardice! "

"I am a businessman, and also the Commissioner of Police of Hong Kong. I command more than 20,000 police officers. Do people like me dare to be labeled as cowardly? Of course not! Because once I have such a label, many people will ride on my head and push me in the face!" Du Yongxiao put his head on Brando's shoulder, his expression was slightly ferocious, and his tone was full of murderous intent: "So, I want to kill one to warn the hundred!"

After saying this, Du Yongxiao fell silent. When he looked at him again, he had already returned to his seat.

Brando's heart was surging. For the first time, he felt Du Yongxiao's unparalleled aura and the power of his words that shocked people.

Kill one to warn the hundred!

Only a tyrant would say and do this!

And Du Yongxiao,

He is the real big boss!

With a sigh of relief, Brando smiled brightly at Du Yongxiao again: "I understand, Mr. Du! As your chief lawyer, your troubles are my troubles, and your requests are my work! Since you want to kill one to warn the rest, then I will obey your orders and start with Ming Pao!"

"Yes, starting from tomorrow, I will represent the Du Group and you, Mr. Du, to formally file a complaint with the Hong Kong Ming Pao Industrial Group, accusing them of causing reputational damage to you and the group itself, causing mental harm to you, and causing huge economic damage to the Du Group, and demanding compensation from them - 100 million Hong Kong dollars!"

Boom!

The scene exploded.

Yan Xiong and Zhuang Dingxian looked at Brando, the foreign lawyer, in disbelief. Claiming 100 million?

So cruel?

Brando was confident because he knew how big the Du Group was. Not to mention anything else, the Phoenix Pharmaceuticals under the Du Group alone made hundreds of millions of US dollars a year! It was US dollars, not Hong Kong dollars!

Not to mention Hengchuang Real Estate, Paramount Fox Films, PolyGram Records, and Shunfeng Express under the Du Group--

Even so, Brando thought that claiming 100 million from Ming Pao was still too little, at least 300 million or 500 million would be worthy of the giant Du Group.

But in this way, Ming Pao would probably collapse directly.

After all, a newspaper of Ming Pao's size would have no way out if it was fined 100 million.

"That's it, there's no need to discuss this matter again!" Du Yongxiao raised his head, no longer ferocious, his eyes bright, his face calm.

"Then Mr. Du, wait for my good news!" Brando stood up and bowed to Du Yongxiao, a gentleman, and then looked at Du Yongxiao.

Du Yongxiao rubbed his face twice: "Yan Xiong, see you off!"

"It's godfather!"

Yan Xiong wanted to see Brando off.

"One last question, Mr. Du, do you really want Ming Pao to pay the price?" Brando picked up the briefcase and stared at Du Yongxiao seriously.

Du Yongxiao nodded: "Don't do to others what you don't want others to do to you! At least those who work in newspapers should understand this principle!"

"See you tomorrow!" Brando turned and walked out of the box. Du Yongxiao looked at the back of the foreign lawyer and said: "Big Head Wen, arrange four people to take good care of him - now the wind and waves are strong, there are all kinds of people!"

"Yes, Brother Xiao!"