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"Oh? Then we should get ready to welcome our guests."
After listening to Ahua's explanation, Li Jun smiled slightly and slowly said.
Ten minutes later.
A Mercedes-Benz is driving on the mountain road of Victoria Peak.
Inside the car, Li Bancheng closed his eyes slightly, seemingly trying to rest, but he couldn't calm down at all.
At this moment, his heart was turbulent and his thoughts were in turmoil. Li Bancheng had not experienced this feeling in a long time, this feeling of extreme unease, waiting for others to judge him.
'Squeak~'
At this moment, the Mercedes-Benz slowly stopped in front of Villa No. 37, Taipingshan.
"Private property, no unauthorized entry."
A man with a blank expression walked up to the Mercedes-Benz and said coldly.
"I am Li Bancheng, and I am looking for Mr. Li Jun."
Li Bancheng spoke very politely to the gatekeeper.
"Hold on."
The gatekeeper spoke expressionlessly and in an extremely cold tone.
A few minutes later, the villa gate opened, and Li Bancheng's Mercedes-Benz slowly drove into the villa's yard and stopped in front of the villa.
"Mr. Li? Brother Jun is waiting for you inside. Please come with me."
As soon as the Mercedes came to a stop, Ahua opened the rear door and spoke to Li Bancheng, who was sitting in the back seat.
"okay, thank you."
Without the slightest hesitation, Li Bancheng got out of the car and followed Ahua into the villa.
When Li Bancheng entered the villa, he immediately saw Li Jun sitting on the sofa in the living room.
"Mr. Li, hello."
This time, Li Bancheng took the initiative to greet Li Jun first, and no longer had the arrogance that he originally had as the leader of the four major real estate developers.
"Old Li, come and sit down, I'll show you something good."
Li Jun patted the sofa next to him and said to Li Bancheng with a smile.
Confused, Li Bancheng walked over to Li Jun and carefully sat down on the sofa not far from him, feeling even more uneasy.
For someone like Li Bancheng, what terrifies him most is not any specific event, but the unknown. This fear of the unknown keeps him constantly shrouded in a sense of unease.
After Li Jun finished speaking, Ahua, who was standing to the side, turned on the TV and videotape player, put a videotape into the player, and pressed the play button.
Soon, the television screen showed footage of the foreign lawyer William Shang, representing HSBC, demanding payment from Li Bancheng in the conference room of the Changjiang Group headquarters building.
"..."
Seeing this, Li Bancheng broke out in a cold sweat and turned to give Li Jun a deep look.
However, at that moment, Li Jun also looked at Li Bancheng, which startled Li Bancheng so much that he subconsciously avoided Li Jun's gaze and did not dare to meet Li Jun's eyes at all.
"Old Li, you've come at just the right time. It's 3:33 now, and in 27 minutes, Asia Television will broadcast this news on their 4 o'clock news program. I just wonder whether the people of Hong Kong Island will be surprised or delighted when they see this news."
Li Jun said to Li Bancheng with a smile.
“Mr. Li, I, Li Bancheng, admit defeat this time. I am right here in front of you, at your disposal. I only ask that you leave a way out for my Li family.”
After watching the video on the tape, Li Bancheng fully understood that once the news of being abandoned by HSBC spread, Changjiang Group's reliability in the Hong Kong stock market would plummet.
What awaits Changjiang Group is a sharp drop in its stock price, followed by short selling, ultimately leading to either bankruptcy or a fire sale of the company.
Now Li Bancheng has no way out. He will die whether he advances or retreats. He might as well cooperate with the way Li Jun has arranged for him to die. He only hopes that Li Jun will be magnanimous and leave a way out for the Li family.
Hearing Li Bancheng's almost pleading words, Li Jun smiled slightly and said slowly, "Old Li, is there a way for your Li family that you can't rely on me for but on yourself?"
"Mr. Li, what do you want me to do?"
Upon hearing Li Jun's words, Li Bancheng immediately asked.
"Changjiang Group is a big pie, it'll be a bit difficult to eat it all..."
Li Jun said quietly.
“Mr. Li, I can transfer all my shares in Changjiang Group to you. Then you will be the largest shareholder of Changjiang Group, with a shareholding ratio of more than 51%, and you will be able to have absolute control of Changjiang Group.”
Before Li Jun could finish speaking, Li Bancheng immediately made his promise.
"Hehe, Lao Li, you misunderstood me. Ninety percent of your Changjiang Group's assets have been mortgaged to the foreigners. If I take over your Changjiang Group, wouldn't I also have to work for the foreigners to pay off their debts?"
Li Jun smiled slightly and spoke slowly.
"..."
Upon hearing Li Jun's words, Li Bancheng was stunned. His biggest bargaining chip was Changjiang Group. If Li Jun didn't even care about Changjiang Group, then...
“Old Li, I need you to do something for me for 700. After it’s done, I can let your son Li Zehao leave Hong Kong Island with 1 million Hong Kong dollars.”
Li Jun looked at Li Bancheng and spoke slowly, word by word.
After all that hard work, Li Jun of Changjiang Group naturally wouldn't let it go, but Li Jun had more important things for Li Bancheng to do.
"Mr. Li, what do you want me to do?"
Li Bancheng's expression hardened, and he looked at Li Jun, slowly asking the question.
"Old Li, here's what you're going to do next..."
Li Jun smiled slightly and said calmly.
"Mr. Li, you...you're not kidding me, are you?"
At this moment, Li Bancheng's face was filled with shock. He never expected that Li Jun would be so crazy...
"Old Li, do I look like I'm joking right now?"
Li Jun stared at Li Bancheng, his tone calm, but it sent a chill down Li Bancheng's spine.
"Okay, Mr. Li, I understand what you mean. I just hope that after this is over, you can keep your promise and leave a way out for the Li family."
Li Bancheng looked at Li Jun, nodded slightly, and said very solemnly.
"Old Li, you have no right to negotiate with me. All you can do now is to do things my way out, that's your only way out!"
A cold glint flashed in Li Jun's eyes as he slowly spoke.
[203] The heartless Hong Kong governor drove out Lee Tsang-fat's entire family; this is the consequence of being a dog for foreigners.
When Li Jun and Li Bancheng met at the Taipingshan Villa.
At the Governor's residence, HSBC manager Shen Bi also met with Governor Peng Jiakang.
"Governor, Li Jun just came to HSBC to see me and said..."
Shen Bi recounted in detail to Peng Jiakang the circumstances of his recent meeting with Li Jun.
"Manager Shen, although it's a pity, your choice was right. The information about Swire Group must not be exposed, otherwise it will have a huge impact not only on us, but also on the entire Hong Kong government and the entire United Kingdom."
Peng Jiakang said slowly.
It was no secret that Swire Group was involved in the opium trade, and that wasn't what Peng Jiakang was afraid of.
What he feared was that another business deal of Swire Group would be exposed.
That business was human trafficking.
Beginning in the late 19th century, Swire Group began collaborating with Chinese compradors to sell Chinese people to countries like America and France as slaves and servants, forcing them to perform various physically demanding tasks.
The Western Railway, built by Amilica, was almost entirely constructed by Chinese laborers. A total of 20 Chinese laborers were worked to death while building these railways.
Moreover, even in the 20th century, when even black slaves were no longer being sold, Swire Trading Company continued to traffic Chinese people. Moreover, their methods evolved from initially deceiving Chinese people into working to directly kidnapping them, using all sorts of tricks and deceptions.
At least one million Chinese were trafficked by Swire Group to various parts of the world as slaves.
This only includes those who were sold alive; several times that number of Chinese died on transport ships.
The foreigners at Swire Trading Company didn't treat Chinese people as human beings at all. In order to save costs, they would often transport thousands of Chinese people on a single cargo ship.
During the Qing Dynasty, these foreigners would tie the Chinese people's braids together to prevent them from escaping. As a result, the sanitary conditions in the ship's cabins were predictably poor, and entire cabins of Chinese people often died.
Swire Group's human trafficking transactions were tacitly approved, and even supported, by the Hong Kong British government.
The Hong Kong British government even granted Swire Group a monopoly, encouraging them to "expand and strengthen" this business.
Swire Group's business was forced to end only after the revolution in the north succeeded.
But the hands of this foreign firm were already stained with the flowers of the Chinese; every penny they owned bore the blood and tears of the Chinese.
That's why Peng Jiakang, Shen Bi, and other foreigners didn't dare let Li Jun get his hands on the internal information of the Swire Group.
“Governor, there is one more thing.”
At this moment, Shen Bi continued to speak.
"Ok?"
Upon hearing Shen Bi's words, Peng Jiakang's expression, which had relaxed somewhat, changed slightly.