mijobooks Chapter 14 Nine Dragons Walled City, Opening Up Channels
Chapter 14 Nine Dragons Walled City, Opening Up Channels
Hong Kong Island, Kowloon Walled City.
The buildings are stacked one floor on top of another, connected in a crisscross pattern to form a residential area.
It is the size of four football fields, but it is home to 20,000 to 30,000 people, and at its peak, it reached 50,000.
Although the demolition project has been put on the agenda, this place is still full of people struggling to make a living.
Many illegal immigrants, after entering Hong Kong, plunge headlong into this walled city.
"Boss, do you have any scrapped motorcycle parts at your dismantling shop?"
Kowloon Walled City is not large, but it has dozens of car dismantling shops that specialize in dismantling vehicles and have a lot of scrap parts.
Motorcycles have been sold in Hong Kong for over a decade and have long become everyday necessities, resulting in a large number of discarded parts.
As soon as they got ashore and exchanged their money, Li Zhi led his brothers straight to the car dismantling shop.
"What the hell? Why are you doing this? Is there someone in charge of this business?"
Kowloon Walled City may appear chaotic, but it still maintains its own order, which is quite well-established.
The Triads manage Kowloon Walled City and have many followers who all need to eat.
The recycling business wasn't very profitable, so the big bosses didn't care about it and let the smaller bosses take over, just to give the underlings a chance to make a living.
"Boss, can you introduce me to someone?"
Li Zhi pulled out one hundred Hong Kong dollars; he was looking for the boss behind this.
With just Li Zhi and his few men, it would be impossible to collect four thousand yuan worth of scrap parts in a single day, let alone sink them all into the Shenzhen River at the same time.
Finding the right channels is the key to this trip.
"Easy. Go up to the third floor, turn right three times, then turn left once. There's a card room there. Go in and find the Tiger."
The car dismantling shop owner pointed to a high place and gestured back and forth, showing Li Zhi the way.
The interior of Kowloon Walled City was complex; in some places, sunlight was not even visible, and only one person could pass through at a time.
After taking several detours, Li Zhi finally found the mahjong parlor that the repair shop owner had mentioned.
"Hey handsome, what are you playing?"
"Get me a private room, I'm here to find Tiger."
Having been in the underworld for two years, Li Zhi understood the rules and opened a private room.
If you want to find the boss, you can't meet him in a noisy hall.
"Wang Hu, nicknamed Tiger, what would this boss like to order?"
Before long, Li Zhi met the person he was waiting for: Wang Hu, who was in charge of managing the recycling work in the northern part of the fortress.
Kowloon Walled City was under the control of the Triads, but it was divided into many factions. The northern part of the Walled City was under the control of illegal immigrants.
Wang Hu was once an illegal immigrant.
"Since you've asked, I won't beat around the bush."
"According to this list, take three thousand Hong Kong dollars worth of goods. Pack the small items and I'll take them. The large items will sink into the Shenzhen River tonight."
"This HK$1,000 is for the brothers' hard-earned money."
Time was precious, so Li Zhi didn't keep them in suspense and directly placed the list and four thousand Hong Kong dollars that Wang Yang had given him on the table.
"I do have all of these goods, but why would I sink them in the river?"
Wang Hu took the list and glanced at it; he already had several tons of these goods on hand.
If we go on several rounds of collection, we can get more than ten tons of goods.
Wang Hu is short of money lately, and his twenty-odd brothers are all waiting for him to eat.
Li Zhi's quote was higher than the steel mill's, plus a considerable amount of shipping costs, so it was definitely not an option to miss out.
"It's a secret. Just one question: can you do it?"
"Once this deal is closed, even bigger deals will follow!"
The fewer people who know about the method of dumping goods in the river, the better.
Li Zhi wouldn't reveal this secret, so he had to lure Wang Hu with the promise of potential future deals.
According to Wang Yang, this is only the first order, and there will be many more and bigger orders in the future.
Even if Wang Hu doesn't do it, Kowloon Walled City is so big, there must be some leaders who are willing to do it.
"Go for it! Why wouldn't we? The goods will be all in place before the rooster crows."
Wang Hu patted his chest and assured them that although he didn't understand, his men needed to eat.
Four thousand Hong Kong dollars may not be much in other parts of Hong Kong Island, but in Kowloon Walled City, as long as you don't get involved in prostitution, gambling, or drugs, it can last for quite a while.
A fool wouldn't make money if he could.
What's more, it's money delivered right to their doorstep.
early morning.
Shenzhen Riverbank.
Hong Kong Island is like a city that never sleeps; even in the early hours of the morning, it is still full of light and noise.
Compared to the glitz and glamour of Hong Kong Island behind them, Lo Wu Village seemed so ordinary.
Although they are separated by a river only a few dozen meters wide, it feels like they are two completely different worlds.
"Luohu, that's a nice place."
Wang Hu stood on the riverbank, gazing at Luohu Village on the opposite bank, the road he had come from.
For their first collaboration, Wang Hu chose to personally take charge to show his sincerity.
After years in the gang, he finally became a minor leader and got the recycling business.
This was the first time a smuggler had approached him to buy goods.
To show his sincerity, Wang Hu delivered more goods, making it a total of four tons.
Since they're all just scrap metal anyway, they won't fetch much, so I might as well do a good deed and consider it clearing out my warehouse.
"Boss, the goods are all ready. We're just waiting for your order to throw them all into the river."
"Very good, give them the small items, and sink the large items in the river."
At Wang Hu's command, several small boats raced back and forth on the river dozens of times, throwing one iron lump after another into the Shenzhen River.
Li Zhi's trip was a great success.
……
Luohu Village.
In front of an ordinary grocery store, the owner was chatting with a customer, while a child was playing marbles in an open space nearby.
People came and went, and no one noticed Wang Yang answering his phone in the corner.
"What? Zhang Baoguo got a motorcycle?"
Wang Yang originally planned to ask Zhang Qiang how many customers he had, but he couldn't get in touch with him.
Wang Yang had no choice but to contact Yang Wenqing and ask him to go find Zhang Qiang.
Yang Wenqing works in a government office and has a landline, making it easy to contact him.
"Yes, Zhang Baoguo got a motorcycle. I heard it's a foreign brand, something like 'Kita'."
"That appearance, wow, it's gorgeous! It stole our thunder!"
"Also, Zhang Baoguo hung up a sign that said 'Free Motorcycle Repair'."
Even as a competitor, Yang Wenqing couldn't help but be surprised by Liang Shui's motorcycle.
This brand is just different, it's so cool.
In this way, all the limelight that Wang Yang had just created was taken over by Zhang Baoguo.
"Go and investigate how he got this car."
Zhang Baoguo's move really surprised Wang Yang.
Wang Yang knew very well that Mutian had not yet reached a cooperation agreement with Yangcheng, so Zhang Baoguo could not have a stable supply channel.
Zhang Baoguo spent a lot of money to buy motorcycles, but without a stable and low-priced supply channel, he still showed them off and promoted them extensively.
Considering his act of repairing motorcycles for free, Wang Yang thought of a possibility.
Zhao Jiahao's disruptive behavior on the streets made Zhang Baoguo see a blue ocean market for motorcycles.
Zhang Baoguo was creating a buzz to get in touch with the motorcycles on Chun'an Street, learn about the structure of various motorcycles, learn motorcycle repair skills, and get a piece of the pie.
This is indeed a good way to quickly learn a skill.
"Oh, Wenqing, there's one more thing."
"Yang, you say it."
"Help me find a plot of land; I want to open a car repair shop..."
Now that the opponent has attacked, Wang Yang has to make a move.