Chapter 349

"Mr. Su, I heard that silver jewelry can ward off evil spirits, jade town house, gold is prosperous, and peach wood is auspicious. Your dragon turtle, gold, silver, jade and wood are actually complete. No wonder you have walked flat in the Jianghu all your life and died in good luck." Liao Jingxuan, dressed in black Zhongshan suit, gently stroked the Dragon turtle ornaments on Duobao Pavilion in the living room with his gloved left hand, Turning back, Su Wenting, who was trembling and wiping the cold sweat, said with a smile.

Su Wenting swallowed a mouthful of water, looked at several ring hairpins on the tea table, and opened his mouth with a trill: "Mr. Liao, I..."

Liao Jingxuan made a shut up gesture towards the other party and said in a relaxed tone: "don't worry, you don't need to explain. I know it's none of your business. Mr. Lin asked me to see you. I just want to know who the person who saw you, what he asked you to do and what he told you. You have made it clear that I won't mess with Mr. Su."

"When Mr. Lin xiaoqia saw me, he asked me to help the Lin family. Our Anle hall has followed the Lin family for many years. Of course, I have to do my best. But my people have never started in Macao, and no one has revealed the news." Su Wenting wiped the sweat on his forehead with his hand: "Mr. Liao, it's not as bad as my wife and children, I......"

"Don't worry, Mr. Su. It's my decision to let someone see your wife and children. Mr. Lin doesn't know. I'm worried that Mr. Su may have made a mistake. You really did something you shouldn't do. Just take precautions in advance. Now it's clear that it's really none of your business. I guarantee that the sisters in law and children are safe." Liao Jingxuan turns to Su Wenting, He opened his hands and said with a smile, "do you mean that Mr. Lin xiaoqia Lin has seen you and told you that he had contact with a headless deserter around Song TIANYAO?"

Su Wenting's legs still tremble unconsciously until now. When he heard Liao Jingxuan's question, he nodded again and again: "yes, yes, Mr. Lin xiaoqia told me."

Liao Jingxuan went to Su Wenting, took out Dunhill's cigarette box from his pocket, took out a cigarette and handed it to Su Wenting's mouth. He lit it with a silver plated lighter. He also took one in his mouth: "Mr. Lin said that those who didn't know before were innocent. The Lin family asked you to do things. You have no choice, but from now on, you should know what to do. You have to do things if no one in the Lin family told you."

Su Wenting's cigarette shook in his mouth and squeezed a bitter smile on his face: "I know, I know. In the future, no matter anyone in the Lin family asks me to help, I will inform Mr. Liao first and wait for you to give me an answer."

"They arranged several bad guys to turn themselves in to the Embassy in Macao for the dead. They said they lost gambling in Macao. They borrowed the money of Mr. Lin Xiyuan and Mr. Lin xishen. They were asked for money. They had no money to pay the bill for the moment. They were malicious and killed them." Liao Jingxuan lowered his head, lit his cigarette, closed the lighter with a slap, looked up and said to Su Wenting.

Su Wenting nodded: "OK, OK."

In front of Liao Jingxuan, he can't stand it. This is Lin Xiaohe's confidant. It is said that Lin Xiaohe was the security officer who was responsible for security work for many years when he was a diplomat of the Kuomintang. After Lin Xiaohe resigned and returned to Hong Kong, Liao Jingxuan was also brought to Hong Kong by Lin Xiaohe. Compared with Uncle Bing, the loyal servant of the Lin family who had dealt with before, Liao Jingxuan in front of him made Su Wenting more nervous, at least Bing Uncle Liao never threatened him with his family, but Liao Jingxuan met him today. The gift was the necklaces and rings of his women and the belongings of his children. It seems that as long as he su Wenting is wrong, he is ready to die the whole family.

This is not a Jianghu skill at all. Su Wenting can be impassioned and fearless in the face of many Jianghu people, but he dare not say more nonsense to such people.

"Then don't disturb Mr. Su's rest. Jing Xuan will leave first. He was reckless and lost etiquette today. I will make amends to several ladies and young masters in person in the future." Liao Jingxuan spit out a smoke ring, arched his hands at Su Wenting, and turned out of the living room.

Su Wenting didn't have the strength to go out to see him off. He sat down in the master's chair and gasped heavily.

There seems to be something wrong with the Lin family now? In the past, Lin Xiaohe's subordinates or Lin Xiaocha himself came forward in Jianghu affairs. Why did Lin Xiaohe ask his confidant Liao Jingxuan to come over and ask Lin Xiaocha about his contact with him? How can Lin Xiaohe directly ask Lin Xiaocha about this kind of thing? It's difficult to say that there is some dirt among the Lin brothers?

During this period of time, Hong Kong should not stay in Hong Kong and go out to hide and be safe, so as to prevent the internal strife of the Lin family from affecting itself. It is pitiful to say that I am a dignitary leader of the Anle hall and a famous figure in the Jianghu, but in the eyes of these dignitaries, I am just a dog calling around. Of course, it is the same around Lin Xizhen and the Japanese. Up to now, I have white hair in Lin Xiaohe and Lin This is still the case in front of Xiaoqi.

Didn't Zheng Zhizhong from Malaysia say that he was going to invite some big men from Anle to visit his yellow arsenic factory in Malaysia? He just took this opportunity to avoid the limelight in Malaysia and see if Zheng Zhizhong's business is really as big as he said and away from right and wrong.

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"Chun Mei..." Lu Rongfang sat in front of his spacious dining table, smiled and said to Lu Yuanchun in the opposite position: "I used my own big houses as collateral and borrowed a sum of money from your Guangyi bank for me?"

Lu Yuanchun is sipping the jade bamboo Lily quail soup cooked by sister-in-law Ping, an old servant of Lu Rongfang's two brothers and half servants and half mothers. At this time, she has not opened her mouth when she heard Lu Rongfang's words. Lu Rongkang, Lu Rongfang's eldest brother at the table, has looked at his brother first:

"What the hell are you doing? Don't you have two or three hundred thousand yuan? Besides, even if you use money, tell me. How can you bother Yuanchun?"

Lu Rongkang is much older than Lu Rongfang. His eldest brother is like a father. It can be said that the two brothers were from Malaysia in Hong Kong. It was Lu Rongkang who played in Hong Kong and pulled Lu Rongfang up with one hand. It was quite difficult. As soon as he opened his mouth, Lu Rongfang's smiling face immediately turned away, lowered his head and whispered:

"Borrow some money to go to the stock market. I have inside information."

"You think less about opportunistic things, can you concentrate on doing some legitimate business?" Lu Rongkang frowned and looked at his jumping brother helplessly: "look at Yuanchun, one year younger than you Zhong, who has achieved success in his career."

Lu Yuanchun put down the spoon in his hand, smiled at Lu Rongkang and said, "brother Rongkang, brother Rongfang is right. If he needs money, he should borrow money from the bank. Besides, he is not empty teeth. He is ready to take the property as a mortgage, which will also be criticized by you?"

When Lu Rongkang heard Lu Yuanchun help him speak, he immediately raised his head and looked at his big brother: "ah, sister Chun said I did the right thing and borrowed money..."

In the middle of the sentence, seeing Lu Rongkang staring at himself, he immediately lowered his head and whispered the words behind him: "borrow money, it's not that he doesn't pay it back."

"I mean, you should not think about opportunistic tricks all day long. If the money is so good, then there will be less poor people. Unrealistic and steady business is not good. All day, I want to think of some unrealistic ideas. If you are very busy, you can come to help me with trading companies. It is just summer season now. I need someone to go to Thailand to help me stare at the local fruit business." Lu Rongkang said to Lu Rongfang, "even if you borrow money, there are so many banks in Hong Kong, why bother Yuanchun? Guangyi bank is in Malaysia and has no branch in Hong Kong. Do you have to wait for Yuanchun to go to Damascus to help you deal with it? I don't know what you think again. If you talk more, I'll arrange you to go to the Philippines to help me."

Lu Rongfang and Lu Yuanchun have heard the meaning hidden in these words. Lu Rongkang doesn't want his two brothers to have any connection with the Malaysian Lu family.

Lu Yuanchun lowered his head and paused for a moment. When he looked up again, he still had a faint smile on his face: "I know that brother Rong Kang's words are meant to tell me. I know that when the Lu family was in civil strife, brother Rong Kang and brother Rong Fang were forced to come to Hong Kong to make a living alone. Several uncles, including my father, competed for the Lu family's property, but they have already had retribution. So many industries left by my grandfather have now made them look like they are going to be taken away by outsiders, If I say so, brother Rongkang, will you feel more comfortable? "

"Grandpa's estate has nothing to do with our two brothers. We just want to live in Hong Kong safely and steadily." Lu Rongkang said seriously to Lu Yuanchun: "It's good for you to come to Hong Kong this time to attend the University of Hong Kong to build a bronze statue and a memorial bell tower for your grandfather. You can eat and talk with us. As for other things of the Lu family, I don't want to ask, I don't have the ability and I don't have the heart to intervene."

Lu Rongkang, Lu Rongfang, Lu Yuanchun and their grandfathers were Lu You, who were famous in the Malaysian Chinese community. Lu You, Cheng Jiageng, Huang Wenhu and Hu Zhonghan were known as the four heavenly kings of Chinese in Southeast Asia in the early 20th century.

But in fact, when the other three Chinese tycoons were just ignorant children, Lu you had become a figure like the godfather of Malayan Chinese. The four heavenly kings were just legends of later generations. Strictly speaking, only the influence of the four on the region at their peak, and the other three, even Cheng Jiageng, were inferior to Lu you.

Lu You's life is quite legendary. His surname is Huang. His father died when he was born. His mother died when he was five years old. At the age of six, his sister, who was dependent on each other, also died because of weakness, sickness and overwork. Only Lu You became an orphan. The villagers pity Lu you. They introduced Lu you to a local landlord named Lu Xian, signed a deed of sale to work for the Lu family, changed Huang's surname to Lu's surname, and named Lu You, because Lu You is smarter and more mature than other children of the same age. He knows how to watch his words and looks. Lu Xian likes Lu you very much. He took Lu you as a slave and is regarded as half of Lu Xian's son. Even when Lu you was 13, he helped Lu you get married with a child adoptive daughter-in-law. However, Lu you worked long-term in Lu's family and paid too little money. Now he has a child adoptive daughter-in-law wife, which is even more difficult to make a living. He has no choice in Lu You's career Lu, when he felt that he was going to be poor all his life, he happened to be favored by the piglet traffickers who sold Chinese workers' piglets. Seeing that Lu Yousheng, 14, was strong, the piglet traffickers took the initiative to lend Lu you money, let Lu you redeem himself, and then took him to Malaya as a miner to make money.

At that time, in order to speed up the development of Malaya's resources, the British colonial government needed a large number of cheap labor, so it provided rich remuneration through Hong Kong foreign firms, shipping companies and compradors, sent piglet traffickers to Guangzhou, Shantou, Xiamen and nearby villages and towns, relied on the tricks and rhetoric of piglet traffickers, and stole Chinese workers to Malaya by means of deception or even kidnapping Work.

Lu you sold himself to a pig dealer for 60 yuan and gave 20 yuan to the landlord Lu Xian, which was regarded as redeeming the deed of sale and leaving 20 yuan for his child's adoptive daughter-in-law and wife to settle down. After paying the fare to Malaya, there was little left. Lu You almost crossed the ocean with only a few copper coins in his pocket I went to Malaya.

Most of the piglets basically entered the mine, and it was difficult to get away. Lu you was lucky. He was smart and eye-catching. He also worked as a long-term worker since childhood. He ate and lived hard. After working hard in the mine for three years and completing the contract period, he was favored by the foreman in charge of the work. He did not change and extend the contract in private to keep him in the mine forever, but waited until the contract was over, Lu you went to work in a tobacco and wine firm at the foreman's house. Working in a tobacco and wine firm for three years is naturally different from that of a miner. The tobacco and wine firm deals with the British all day. Lu You took the opportunity to learn some English and save all his poor wages. Through the British people he met, he took the opportunity to borrow money from several fellow villagers, He opened a small tobacco and wine business with the British.

After the tobacco and wine firm had been open for three years and had a savings of two or three thousand lakhs in his hand, Lu you began to move other thoughts. The most profitable thing in Malaya was the mining business. He heard that the Lalu area was rich in minerals, so he handed over the shares of the tobacco and wine firm to his fellow countrymen, took some cash and went to Lalu alone to look for opportunities to take shares in the mining business.

As a result, after he arrived in Lalu, Lu you found that things were not as simple as he thought. Lalu was indeed rich in minerals, but there were also many Chinese. The local Chinese were divided into two gangs to compete for mine business. One was Yixing triad and the other was Haishan Jiande hall. 100% of the Chinese who came to Lalu had to choose to stand in line. There was no third choice. In this area, The hatred and killing of Chinese gangs are out of control. Every day, the two gangs will have bloody events because of various events, and there are often hundreds of armed fights. If you don't join one of them, the two gangs will find trouble with outsiders at the same time. Lu you reluctantly chose to join the Yixing triad, and didn't dare to say that he came to Lalu area with cash to take a stake in the mine business, I just said I had studied as a cook and wanted to find a job here.

At that time, the gang was still loyal to its members. Lu you wanted to find a job. The gang helped him find a job as a cook and purchaser in a tin mine. A few months after joining the gang, Lu you saw clearly that only the big people in the two Chinese gangs were qualified to partner with the British in mining business in this area, otherwise outsiders would have money in their pockets, It's also the end of being robbed by Yanggu.

Lu You, who has a clear understanding of the reality, almost risked his life to fight. When the gang is in trouble, he tries his best to accumulate wealth through procurement. After five years of fighting in the gang, Lu You is cruel and fierce enough and understands English to communicate with local Britons. At the age of 25, he has become a big man of Yixing triad in Lalu area, In 1872, Lu You's mine was officially opened, but it didn't last long. In 1873, the Yixing triad and Haishan Jiande hall broke out the biggest bloody conflict in several years. Thousands of people on both sides clashed in various villages and towns in lard. Lu You's mine was destroyed by nearly 1000 members of Haishan Jiande hall, All the mining equipment and houses were set on fire, and the miners were either hacked to death or injured, or ran away.

The conflict lasted for several months, and many mines in larv were paralyzed. Finally, the local stationing officers of the British colonial government personally interviewed the two Chinese gangs for mediation.

However, although the dispute stopped, Lu You's business came to an end. Just when Lu you was discouraged and ready to leave Lalu area, the British garrison officer of Perak state to which Lalu belonged was assassinated by Malayan aborigines. The British colonial government was furious and sent a large number of British troops to Perak state to crush the soil. The British troops needed food and pay. Lu You seized the opportunity and relied on his understanding of English, With his guild identity, he got a contract to supply food and salaries for the British army. Relying on this contract, Lu You, who seized the opportunity, made the first big money, a full 50000 lakh coins.

With this money, in Perak state, where the British troops settled down, Lu you immediately partnered with others to start a mine again. The business was booming. In six months, the wealth expanded from 50000 yuan to 150000 yuan, tripled. However, the price of tin fell sharply, and Lu you lost almost 150000 yuan.

Fortunately, thanks to his relationship with the British army, he managed the garrison officer of Perak state with his remaining thousands of lakhs and won the contract for contracting tax in gandingwen area of Perak state. Later, with the rise of tin price and contracting tax, Lu You's wealth soared again. By 1981, Lu You's wealth had been nearly 500000 lakhs. At the age of 36, he was sold to Malaya from the age of 14, After 22 years of fighting, he became the leading figure among the Chinese in gandingwen area.

In 1982, 23 years after Lu You left home, he withdrew his shares in the mine and exchanged them for cash to return to his hometown. Lu You's daughter-in-law's wife was still waiting for him to return. Lu you stayed in his hometown for four years and decided to return to Malaya to continue business. At that time, men went abroad and few people brought their families. During the past four years, his wife was not pregnant and worried about his wife's loneliness. Lu you bought a baby for his wife, Then he paid for a family shop in Guangzhou, the provincial capital, recruited a group of reliable workers and servants, and left a sum of money for his wife to rely on. Then he went to Malaya again.

This time, Lu you went to Kuala Lumpur for development instead of Singapore and kandinwen. Now he has a lot of money and got acquainted with the most powerful British garrison officer in Kuala Lumpur. At that time, it coincided with the fire in Kuala Lumpur, and most of the city was burned down. There is nothing to be done and there is an urgent need for reconstruction. The British entrusted Lu you to recruit Chinese workers to build Kuala Lumpur. Lu You, the pig in those days, He became Lu You, a pig dealer, and began to make a real fortune.

By virtue of his good relationship with the British, Lu you not only dabbled in the Chinese industry business, opium business, tobacco and wine business and tin mining business, but also won the contracted tax business in four states. Only the taxes in four states brought Lu you no less than 5 million lakhs a year.

By 1896, one third of the residential buildings in Kuala Lumpur were owned by Lu you. All the Opium businesses in Kuala Lumpur were owned by Lu you. Lu You also held gambling cards, tobacco cards and liquor cards in several Malaya states. Gambling cards, tobacco cards and liquor cards did not refer to a simple business license for opium shops, casinos and restaurants, but a franchise. On behalf of the whole state, only Lu you could legally open a winery, Opium factories, casinos, and other people who want to open opium shops, casinos, and sell alcohol must obtain Lu You's consent. Lu you was appointed as a member of the Selangor State Council and a member of the Health Bureau. He became a social celebrity in Malaya and was valued by British officials of the colonial government. He owned 20000 acres of land in Selangor, and he relied on Annexation in various regions, Among the large number of Mines purchased, there are more than 100000 miners working for Lu you.

In 1897, Lu you signed a contract with the British colonial government to construct the road project from Kuala Lumpur to pengheng Wendong. The colonial government provided Lu you with preferential conditions and allocated 4000 acres of mining land to him in Wendong, which could be exempted from mining land tax for 21 years.

Even because there are too many workers under Lu You, after applying to the government, Lu You issued silver tickets and used the printed silver tickets as money to pay the workers. With this silver ticket, workers can buy anything, tobacco, alcohol, opium, gold, grain, clothes, vegetables and even real estate in the business under Lu You's name. In many areas of Malaya, The silver notes issued by Lu You are more popular with the people than the notes issued by the government.

By the time of Lu You's death, his industries in Malaya included contracting taxes, tin mining, real estate, rubber planting, coconut, coffee, coal mining, shipping, trade, engineering, gold mining, automobile agency, finance, stocks, etc., almost covering all industries in Malaya.

In Lu You's peak period, the Chinese in Malaya were divided into three types: those who worked for Lu You and those waiting to work for Lu You, Lu you.