Manhattan Reborn 1978

The central and western part of the island country.

Toyama City, Toyama Prefecture.

The warm sun rising in the east slowly dispersed the mist rising from the sea.

Marat Poyezhnev stood on the deck of a speedboat, looking at the few people waiting on the small pier from a distance, and slowly exhaled.

Ten minutes later.

Kihara Nobunari stood on the shore and helped Marat, smiled and asked, "Is everything going well?"

"It's okay~"

"It's just that this time they had a small problem with supply allocation, and the transaction volume was reduced to 12 tons."

"12?"

"What about the remaining payment? You..."

"Bring them all back." Marat saw Kihara Nobunari's hesitant look and waved his hand behind him.

"Still at the last transaction price, they are all on the ship. You can have them moved off."

"...Okay!" Kihara Nobunari secretly breathed a sigh of relief, waved to his subordinate Takimotogawa behind him, pulled Marat to the side, and whispered.

"There is news from Yuri that after we left, Todd Covian of Vidor Company was approached by the Sago family active in the northern region."

"Are you... familiar with this Segu family?" Marat asked after pondering for a few seconds.

"Who is behind him?"

Kihara Nobunari glanced at Takimotogawa and others who jumped on the speedboat, lowered his voice and shook his head.

"I also just found out that the leader of the Seko family, Yusuke Seko, is the most famous smuggler in the northern part of the island country. In recent years, he has made a fortune doing business with the black market traders of Xiong Daguo~"

"However, he is mainly active in Wakkanai Port in Hokkaido, making money by smuggling daily necessities and household appliances to the bear country through fishing boats, and then buying back timber, coal, steel and other commodities."

"and then?"

"Does he also want to get a share of the crude oil spot business?" After listening to Kihara Nobunari's introduction, and then combining the weird situations encountered in this transaction, Marat immediately figured out the important links and sneered. .

"Profit is tempting people's hearts, and there are people who want to reach out!"

"This Yusuke Seko must be just a little person who was thrown out to explore the road, a little shrimp. The people behind him are the ones we need to be careful about..."

"Yes!" Kihara Nobunari took off his leather gloves, took out a notebook from his pocket, wrote a few lines on it and handed it to Marat.

After Marat took it and read it, he nodded slowly and said, "You did the right thing!"

"I'm going to Tokyo right away."

"Okay!" Kihara Nobunari nodded, put away his notebook and asked again.

"What about the next transaction?"

"Will they still deliver the goods in the quantity of 12 tons?"

"Do you need to contact Mr. Popov again and ask him about the situation?"

"Next time..." Marat looked past Kihara Nobunari and landed on several money boxes in Takimotogawa Kaichi's hands, saying with a sarcastic smile on his lips.

"During this transaction, I found out through chatting with them..."

"According to the latest statistics from last year, one out of every six people in my homeland, Xiong Daguo, is a cadre..."

“Who defines the need under the demand-based allocation system that has been in place for many years?”

"cadre!"

"Even the smallest cadres are part of the privileged class and can enjoy high benefits and high treatment that are beyond the reach of ordinary people."

"But according to the supply and demand balance theory of economics, when demand begins to slowly exceed supply, residual demand will be suppressed by a small amount of supply."

"If things go on like this, the dissatisfaction of being unable to meet needs will gradually accumulate and form an active volcano that will erupt at any time!"

Marat took out a cigarette from his pocket, "So, compared with national interests and personal interests, the long-repressed greed in their hearts is the most urgent need to be satisfied!"

"Don't worry~"

"Now the oil crisis has entered a full-scale outbreak stage. As long as we let their shameless and greedy people know that only we can ensure the continued stability of this trade route, they will know how to choose!"

"Okay..." Kihara Nobunari understood. Marat wanted to continue to use more money to win people's hearts to ensure that the transaction could proceed smoothly.

But both of them know that when the greed in people's hearts is completely released, sooner or later the greedy monster will devour everyone.

And the various preparations they have made in advance will allow them to escape from this "evil beast" before it bursts out and bites people~

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The west of the island.

Hong Kong.

The bustling commercial district on the north west side of the island is Causeway Bay.

Causeway Bay originally refers to the bay and its east coast of Victoria Park. It was named because the coastline there resembles a causeway.

The location now commonly known as Causeway Bay was originally called East Point, which means a promontory east of Victoria City.

At the end of the 19th century, due to the inconvenience of having to take a detour or take a boat to get to and from the island through Causeway Bay, a seawall was built to connect the bay, which is now Causeway Road.

This is also the origin of the English name Causeway Bay (Haidi Bay).

In the 50s, a large-scale reclamation project was carried out in Causeway Bay. Part of the land reclaimed from the bay was used to build a traffic artery, and the other part became the current Victoria Park. Keli Island was also connected to the mainland.

Since the 60s, a number of large shopping malls invested by department stores from island countries have opened in Causeway Bay, making it the most important high-end shopping mall and luxury commercial office area in Hong Kong.

The headquarters of Jardine Matheson, which has been rooted in Hong Kong for more than 100 years, is located on Causeway Road in Causeway Bay.

Bill Gutherland was standing on the street holding a briefcase, looking back at the tall buildings with a slight smile on his lips.

Jinshan Construction Company, which was independent from Hutchison Matheson Co. a few years ago, fell into a trap secretly set by its old rival Jardine Matheson Co. in order to complete its plan to make money from its listing. After being defrauded out of money by a securities company, it was also deceived Multiple rounds of hostile takeovers. .

The Kinmen Construction Company, which was deceived twice in a row, was so damaged that it had to "spit out" the entire Kinmen Building before it was lucky enough to breathe its last breath.

Because of the competition for the land to build Kinmen Daxia, I felt that Jardine Matheson had lost face, and I was not willing to let Kinmen Construction Company "get out" so easily. .

It secretly united with a group of "wolves" who had been coveting the high-quality properties under the name of Jinshan Construction Company for a long time, and swallowed up Jinshan Construction Company in its entirety, leaving not even a single bone or scum left. .

However, although Jinshan Construction Company no longer has a British background, the composition of its shareholders behind the scenes is still very complicated. If Jardine Matheson can successfully swallow up Jinshan Construction Company, he wants to purchase the most "handsome" Golden Gate Building in Hong Kong as a whole. , but it’s easier~

Bill lowered his head and glanced at his watch, said a few words to the people following behind him, and then drove away.

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Pei Ho Street, Sham Shui Po.