Taifenglou, a time-honored restaurant on Meishi Street outside Qianmen.
In the private room on the second floor, Lin Sanqi and his son Lin Kushen sat facing each other, and the waiter began to serve the dishes:
"Comrades, this is the recipe for our Taifenglou's signature dishes: fried shrimp, stir-fried tripe, dried mandarin fish, fried bell peppers with double sauce, braised three-diced fish, and jujube paste."
Lin Kucan looked at the table full of delicious dishes and waved his hands repeatedly:
"Alright, alright. There's no need to serve so many dishes just for the two of us, it won't be a waste if we can't finish them."
The waiter thought, "It's truly a case of the rich feasting and drinking while the poor freeze to death on the streets. What era is it, and these two are still acting like this? I really don't understand how difficult this country is. Please go outside the Third Ring Road and take a look at the rural areas of Jingxiao."
Lin Sanqi didn't know that the waiter next to him was complaining in his heart, he just smiled:
"Dad, since it's just the two of us, of course we have to eat as much as we can. If there were outsiders here, I wouldn't dare go out to a restaurant openly and order a table full of delicious dishes."
At this time, the waiter went out and closed the door. Lin Sanqi glanced at him and sighed, saying:
"Besides, if you don't eat it now, it will be years before you want to eat it again."
Lin Kucan was about to pick up his chopsticks when he heard his youngest son say this. He was so frightened that he almost dropped his chopsticks on the table:
"Qizi, I don't understand what you're saying. Do you think the country will continue to face difficulties and food supply will be difficult to obtain, or is it that my father is already terminally ill and has not much time left, so he can eat whatever he wants?"
Lin Sanqi burst out laughing: "Dad, I didn't expect you to be so humorous."
Lin Kushen started picking up the dishes again and asked calmly:
"You asked me out specifically, so you must have something to discuss with me. You don't want your mother and wife to know. It's something big. Tell me, I can handle it."
Lin Sanqi put down his chopsticks and replied seriously:
"Dad, I really have something to discuss with you. This is a major matter concerning our Lin family, but it is definitely not a bad thing."
Lin Kushen kept using his chopsticks, his eyes fixed on the food, and said casually, "Go on."
"Dad, I reported this to Leaders Cheng and Jing a week ago. I want you, Mom, my eldest brother's family, and my second brother's family to settle in Hong Kong..."
Poor old Dr. Lin’s chopsticks almost fell on the table again.
"I spoke with Leader Jing on the phone last night. The higher-ups are still studying this matter, and it's very controversial. But Leader Jing told me that, based on the most important leadership principle, he tends to agree to my request."
Lin Kucan took a deep breath and suppressed the shock in his heart:
"Qizai, you mentioned this to me before, and I thought you were joking. Now tell me, why do you insist on sending our whole family to Hong Kong? You have to understand that Hong Kong is a foreign country. It's hard to leave, and even harder to come back. The key is what will you do if we leave?"
Lin Sanqi thought that he had a God's perspective and knew that the country would be in great trouble in the next few years, and a "rich man" like Lin Kucan before the liberation might not be able to escape it.
But you can't say this. No one will believe you if you say it. Instead, your superiors will be disgusted and think you are slandering the country.
"Dad, this is what I am doing. I am starting to develop my own business in Hong Kong, mainly in two areas.
On the one hand, my patented anti-tuberculosis drug is produced in Hong Kong, which involves some patent licensing, which is a huge sum of money worth hundreds of millions of dollars. I must have someone I trust to manage the situation.
If some foreign manufacturers come to me for cooperation or to purchase patents, and I'm not in Hong Kong, I'll definitely need someone to help me negotiate and collect the money. You're my father, who else can be my agent?
I also invested several million dollars in a pharmaceutical company in Hong Kong. I owned 60% of the shares, and my fifth and sixth uncles owned 40%. I offered four secret formulas for the drug, and the market was booming. I could see the company expanding quickly.
Dad, you see, I can trust my fifth and sixth uncles, but our eldest wife has not been in Hong Kong for a long time. Money is attractive to people, and after a long time, my fifth and sixth uncles will inevitably feel dissatisfied, thinking that we only have dry shares and they are doing all the work.
Even if my fifth and sixth uncles have no objections, what about my fifth and sixth aunts? Or what about my cousins? Will our eldest family's property be slowly eaten away? People's hearts are unpredictable, so we have to be on guard.
Lin Kushen asked, "Which four secret medicines are they?"
Lin Sanqi replied:
"One is the secret medicine of Mr. Xiao's family, Qingxin Zhengfeng Pills; one is the Duanxueliu of Mr. Shi's family; another is the Aoaojiao of Mr. Han's family; and the last one is the famous medicine of Hu Jian, Pien Zai Huang, provided by Mr. Ding."
Lin Kucan burst out laughing:
"You're being treated like a real son. I've given you all the secret recipes passed down from my ancestors."
Lin Sanqi also laughed: "I have more than eighty secret recipes like this. I just picked four to test the waters. I didn't expect them to become such a hit."
This red is not only popular in Hong Kong, it was also selling well in 2014 and was in short supply.
Lin Kucan said thoughtfully at this time:
"I've wanted to go to Hong Kong since 1949, so I have no objection to it. But judging by the current domestic situation, I'm afraid it's not just about your personal business, right? Are there any deeper considerations?"
Lin Sanqi knew that although his father looked cheerful on the surface, he actually understood the situation in his heart, so he told the truth:
"Given the domestic situation, it's not wise to stay. If you don't leave now, you'll have to leave in the future. Leaving now is a leisurely process, but leaving in the future might be forced by disaster. Dad, don't ask too many questions about some things.
Another thing: once we get to Hong Kong, the money from the pharmaceutical factory will belong to our family. However, the money from the patent will be split in half. Half will be kept by our family, and the other half will be used to support the country and smuggled back to China in exchange for supplies. This is also the condition for letting you leave."
Lin Kucan pointed at himself with his chopsticks and asked in surprise:
"Do you think my old bones can handle this? Smuggling is not for ordinary people. To put it nicely, they are called heroes, to put it bluntly, they are all desperate criminals. Did you find the wrong agent?"
Lin Kushen’s concern is a very realistic issue.
What was the purpose of the foreigners launching the war? It was for money, to dump their own goods, whether it was teeth or something else.
Since the late Qing Dynasty, people in Huadu have seen all kinds of foreigners doing business. Which one of them didn't use cannons and guns to pave the way?
Whether it was the Americans and the Dutch in the late Qing Dynasty, or the Japanese in World War II, they were all desperate criminals. To put it nicely, they were officials and businessmen, but to put it bluntly, they were no different from pirates.
Even the domestic compradors in the Thirteen Factories in Guangzhou all maintained a group of private armed forces ready to engage in a fight at any time.
As a native of Huadu, Lin Kucan naturally understood that making a living from overseas trade was not something a scholar could do.
Lin Sanqi had already prepared a solution, so he comforted her:
"Dad, don't worry about that. When you go to Hong Kong, just be a Justice of the Peace and maintain the image of a practicing Traditional Chinese Medicine practitioner. In my report to my superiors, I also proposed ways to ensure the personal safety of our family and the stability of our business.
They will then swim across the sea to the Xiangjiang River and become employees of our pharmaceutical factory, effectively serving as our private security guards."
Lin Kushen was shocked again:
"Qizi, your move is too big. Aren't you afraid of arousing the vigilance and expulsion of the Hong Kong Eagle Government? The people in the Political Department are not just there to eat and do nothing."
"No, Dad, these people are not coming here as a group. I am letting them swim to Hong Kong in groups of two or three. We will not provide any help beforehand. We will just wait for them to enter the city and get Hong Kong residence permits.
Then, we'll keep them under the guise of recruiting them. They'll officially be employees of Lingnantang Pharmaceutical Company, but privately they'll become our foundation-building team. Who would dare to bully us?
The local gangs in Hong Kong are just a group of street thugs. What kind of heroes can emerge from such a small place?
So when the local Hong Kong gangs faced off against the Big Circle Gang, they were almost completely defeated and had no power to fight back.
To put it bluntly, Hong Kong's local gangs are just a group of dogs kept by wealthy people. They have close ties with the police and are the main source of black money.
The Big Circle Gang's interference affected too many of Hong Kong's wealthy and government officials, and they resorted to official power, forcing the Big Circle Gang to withdraw from Hong Kong. (End of this chapter)
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