Hong Kong: Rise of the Kings

"I heard that you were fighting with that guy named Du recently?"

At the Li family dinner, Li Xiaohe, the head of the Li family, asked his son Li Zhaoheng.

The eldest brother Li Zhaoyuan and the third child Li Zhaozhen immediately looked at the second child Li Zhaoheng.

Li Zhaoheng took his time, put down his chopsticks, and said with a smile: "It is true, father."

"As the saying goes, the people will not fight with the officials. The guy named Du is also the police chief after all. What good will it do if you piss him off?" Li Xiaohe took the towel from the Filipino maid next to him and wiped his mouth and eyes. But he looked at his son Li Zhaoheng.

"For the thousand acres of land in Tsuen Wan," Lee Siu-hang explained, "I am a businessman and I will consider the gains and losses of profit. Since I dare to go against the man named Du, it means that the profit of the thousand acres of land is large enough."

Li Xiaohe nodded, "So you used Mingbao to spread rumors about Du?"

Li Zhaoheng's expression remained unchanged, "This is what you have taught me. People's support determines success or failure. People named Du have always been good people. This time, I used Ming Pao to pour some dirty water on him, so as to win over some people."

"But now Mingbao has been taken down by him." Li Xiaohe continued to ask, "What should you do?"

The eldest brother Li Zhaoyuan and the third brother Li Zhaozhen heard this and looked at Li Zhaoheng with gloating.

Li Zhaoheng did not look at them at all, but looked directly at his father Li Xiaohe, and said firmly: "This is a good thing and a bad thing."

"How do you say it?" Li Xiaohe was obviously testing his son.

"The bad thing is that from now on, the person named Du will control the three major media in Hong Kong, Oriental Daily, Sing Tao Daily and now Ming Pao. In the future, we will have to restrain our hands in the public opinion war with him."

"The good thing is that Du Yongxiao went to great lengths to win Mingpao, and many people thought he was bullying others and using his power for personal gain. And I have already let people know that Du Yongxiao worked hard to win Mingpao, using despicable means, including extortion, arson and threats... …”

Before his son could finish what he said, Li Xiaohe said, "This is what you call despicable means, isn't it?"

Lee Zhaoheng smiled: "You can do whatever it takes to achieve your goals. This is what you taught me, father. Have you forgotten?"

Li Xiaohe stopped talking.

A moment——

"I'm very curious, how will the person surnamed Du deal with him next?"

"I'm also very curious." After Li Zhaoheng finished speaking, he looked at his eldest brother Li Zhaoyuan and third brother Li Zhaozhen, "Do you have any questions?" He looked provocative.

"What do you mean?" Li Zhaozhen stood up and said angrily.

Li Zhaoyuan coughed twice: "Calm down! Third brother, sit down quickly! We are all brothers, how can we behave like this?"

"Huh!" Li Zhaozhen sat down angrily.

Li Zhaoyuan continued: "As for the second brother, we are caring about you! As long as you are good, it is good for the family, and if it is good for the family, it is good for us!"

"Haha, brother is right!" Lee Zhaoheng laughed, "We are all brothers. If I succeed, you will succeed. What difference does it make to each other?"

Li Zhaoyuan looked embarrassed when he heard this.

Li Zhaozhen's anger emerged again.

Li Xiaohe said calmly: "Okay, let's eat!"

…

Dinner is over.

Li Xiaohe and his three sons first offered incense to their father, chanted sutras, and then taught them a few words before returning to the bedroom where he and his wife lived on the second floor.

Li Xiaohe's wife Lu Yanqun is a lady from a famous family.

When the first generation head of the Lee family, Li Xizhen, was shot and died, the entire Lee family was leaderless, which caused the Lee Group's stock price to decline and its business to be robbed.

At that time, Li Xiaohe was already engaged to Lu Yanqun, but the Lu family was facing great changes and wanted to oppose the marriage to avoid being implicated by the Li family.

But Lu Yanqun was stubborn, thinking that since she was already engaged to Li Xiaohe, she couldn't break the contract, especially when the Li family was in trouble. This was immoral and violated trust.

For this reason, Lu Yanqun is willing to sever ties with the Lu family and marry Li Xiaohe in accordance with the engagement.

The Lu family had no choice but to follow the wishes of their daughter Lu Yanqun. Not only did they not ask for a lot of betrothal gifts from the Li family, but they paid a lot of dowry. This money also indirectly helped the Li family to tide over the difficulties.

After marrying into the Lee family, Lu Yanqun assisted her husband in running the Lee family business. Relying on her family's connections in the British Hong Kong government, she helped Lee establish a soda fountain factory, a large hotel, and a radio station, etc., allowing the Lee family to transform smoothly. From a family that made its fortune by selling pornographic movies, it transformed into a Hong Kong industrialist.

Therefore, Lu Yanqun has become a famous "good wife" in Hong Kong. In the future, after Li Xiaohe's death, she will lead the Li family to new glory.

Facts have proved that Lu Yanqun and her husband Li Xiaohe are very different.

Li Xiaohe likes to start his own business. Since the 1950s, he has founded one after another of his own businesses: United Soda Drinks, Lee Garden Hotel, founded a radio station, etc. Lu Yanqun has no interest in doing business. She does not want to be a "slave to business", but only lets business be her "tool for making money".

Her "golden trick" is: understand that since she can't manage businesses that are "too powerful to make money", she should simply sell those businesses and invest the money in projects that she can control──and she believes The assets you can control are cash, stocks, foreign exchange and property.

Facts have proved that she is indeed a master of "making money": when the U.S. dollar was at a low in 1981 (1 U.S. dollar was only worth more than 5 Hong Kong dollars), she invested the cash she got from selling United Soda in U.S. dollars. A year later, the U.S. dollar rose to 1 yuan to 8 Hong Kong dollars. , nine Hong Kong dollars, she made a fortune; in 1985, she made a fortune from buying and selling Japanese yen.

She once said to the public: "I have never done business myself, nor do I know how to do business. If I like a certain business, wouldn't it be good to buy its shares? If you are optimistic about Chinese real estate, you don't have to go to Shenzhen to look at the site. It's not necessary to work so hard. Buy the high-quality shares of this business, and others will pay for you. What's wrong with that?"

She said this and did it.

In her previous life, Lu Yanqun's investments involved the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, mainland China, Hong Kong and other places, and her investments were mostly successful with very few mistakes. The reason was that she was good at brainstorming and good at listening to and adopting the opinions of financial advisors.

At most, there were 10 professional financial advisors providing her with investment advice.

Regarding property investment, she believes: "The most important thing is to buy a good location. If the location is good, even if it is a little expensive when you buy it, it will definitely appreciate. Just like buying antiques, you should buy official goods. Official goods will definitely appreciate, and civilian goods cannot appreciate. Therefore, for properties in good locations, even if you buy them at a higher price, making money is a matter of sooner or later, and it is inevitable." However, since properties are immovable property, she only puts 30% of her wealth in properties, and uses the rest to invest in stocks, bonds, foreign exchange and assets with strong liquidity. Her assets are 30% in real estate and 70% in liquidity. In terms of distribution, 70% are in Hong Kong and 30% are overseas. She has assets in the United States, Britain, Canada and other places. At this time in the bedroom--"Have you finished the meeting with your sons? I made you some footbath water, it's still hot!" Seeing her man coming in, Lu Yanqun walked over to help Li Xiaohe take off his coat and hang it in the closet in the corner. Li Xiaohe sat down on the narrow double bed and reached out to take off his shoes and socks. Lu Yanqun had already walked over and squatted down to help Li Xiaohe take off his shoes and socks first, and then put the slippers next to the foot basin.

"I can do it myself. I'm tired all day, so I'll rest early." Li Xiaohe said to his wife: "You used to live a life of luxury in your Lu family. After marrying me, you have to work hard. To be honest, I really feel bad."

"What's there to feel bad about? On the contrary, I wouldn't be happy if other women served you to wash your feet. My man, I don't allow other women to touch him." Lu Yanqun rolled her eyes at her husband.

"Haha, I like your jealous look the most." Li Xiaohe stretched out his hand to pinch his wife's face, just like a couple in love.

"Oh, by the way, go get my coat, I have something for you." Li Xiaohe said mysteriously.

"What is it?"

"You'll know after you take it."

Lu Yanqun turned around to help Li Xiaohe get his suit. Li Xiaohe took out a handkerchief from his suit pocket and wrapped something in it. He opened it, but it was wrapped in another layer of oil paper. When he peeled off the oil paper, he saw a roasted sweet potato inside.

Li Xiaohe handed the roasted sweet potato to his wife and lowered his voice like a thief: "Today I went to Wan Chai Pier for inspection and happened to see the sweet potato seller. I remember that when we were in love, you liked to eat his sweet potatoes the most. Try it and see if the taste has changed?"

Lu Yanqun held the roasted sweet potato in his hand and said sweetly in his heart: "Do you still remember? I remember that the old man who roasted the sweet potato was almost 80 years old. Is he still there?"

"No, it seems that he passed away. He was replaced by a young man in his 50s. He should be his son, so I let you try it to see if the taste is the same..."

"He's gone..." Lu Yanqun Qun's expression darkened, he broke open the sweet potato and took a small bite, "The taste hasn't changed, but something is missing."

"Everyone will leave, and I will leave in the future, and I will probably leave before you." Li Xiaohe reached out and gently pulled his wife to sit next to him, then put his arm around her waist and said, "So you don't have to be sad, I just want you to be happy."

"You are not allowed to say that." Lu Yanqun looked at Li Xiaohe, covered his mouth and said, "You have to stay with me for the rest of my life, even if you have to leave, we will leave together!"

Li Xiaohe laughed: "You are silly, I have a heart disease, you are more I'm much healthier! I don't want you to be like me, because I'll be sad. Promise me that even if I'm gone one day, you'll be strong, because the Li family can't live without you! "

"Yes." Lu Yanqun nodded and leaned her head on Li Xiaohe's shoulder, "But don't we still have Yuan, Heng and Zhen? They're all so old, they can support the Li family..."

"Hey, you've hit the point." Li Xiaohe sighed, "As the saying goes, one monk carries water to eat, two monks carry water to eat, and three monks have no water to eat! The three sons you gave birth to are too outstanding, so outstanding that they look down on everyone, and they don't We are of the same mind!"

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"Now I am still here, I can still scare them. If I leave, I am afraid that the Li family will be torn apart!"

"It's not that terrible, right?" Lu Yanqun asked, "After all, they are all your children, at least they have your excellent genes."

As if he sensed his wife's doubts, Li Xiaohe gently touched her hair and said, "I will analyze it for you. Although the eldest brother Yuan is outstanding in ability, he is weak and sickly. If he is allowed to manage the Li family in the future, he will become the second Tang Gaozong Li Zhi, and the power will be taken away by his wife's lineage sooner or later."

Li Xiaohe's worries are not unreasonable.

When the Li family was facing bankruptcy, in order for the family to survive, Li Xiaohe took the initiative to help his eldest son marry into the Deng family, a famous family in Hong Kong.

The Deng family has rich industries in Hong Kong and operates many businesses, such as shipping, real estate, hotels, and department stores.

The head of the Deng family has long been eyeing Lee's companies, and he married his daughter in order to use his daughter to annex the Lee family's property. I want my daughter to learn from Wu Zetian, change Tang to Zhou, and become the head of the Li family.

"Hey! The third child, Azhen, is young and energetic, and extremely conceited. It's okay to let him charge into the battle, but not to help defend the city. When a general fails to charge into the battle, he will at most be punished by military orders. If he fails as a defender, he will be defeated. , will destroy the country! So he is only a general, but not a handsome man, let alone a prince!"

"Isn't there also the second child, Ah Heng? He's quite good." His wife Lu Yanqun said.

"Don't worry, I was about to talk about him." Li Xiaohe let out a long breath and hugged the woman in his arms tighter: "He is indeed very good. In terms of ability, he is better than his eldest brother and third brother. In terms of means, in terms of means, The strategy is a lot like me, but there is one flaw—"

"What shortcomings?"

"He thinks highly of himself and looks down on anyone." Li Xiaohe said lightly, "For example, this time, he provoked someone he shouldn't have provoked!"

"You mean... Du Yongxiao?" Lu Yanqun also knew some inside information at home.

"Yes, that's the person!" Li Xiaohe sighed, "Although I am not familiar with this person, I know many of his deeds through many channels. Fighting Yanxiong, stepping on Lei Luo, defeating Chen Zhichao, these are all at the lowest level. Hong Kong real estate tycoon Li Zhaoji, Hong Kong industrial tycoon Li Jiacheng suffered losses at his hands! Baili Qu, the judicial boss of the British Hong Kong government, and even the Governor of Hong Kong, MacLehose, were all defeated by him! How to win?"

After Li Xiaohe finished speaking, his expression turned gloomy again.

It was the first time for Lu Yanqun to see her husband so melancholy, and it was a young man she had never met before.

"Ahem, you make him sound like a god, but he is still a human being after all. Besides, although our Ah Heng thinks very highly of himself, he never underestimates his enemies. This time he had a close fight with Du, and in the end At least you haven’t lost yet, right?”

Li Xiaohe nodded, "Maybe you're right, I'm too old and worrying is unfounded."

"You are not unfounded, you worry too much." Lu Yanqun rubbed her face against her husband's chest, "Don't think too much! I think Ah Heng will definitely win, and the guy named Du is not a fussy person. Besides, he is older than Ah Heng. You’re still young, even if you practice in your mother’s womb, you can’t possibly surpass Ah Heng in every aspect!”

"Well!" Li Xiaohe hugged his wife tightly and closed his eyes: "Our Li family will not lose! Never!"