Chapter 400: Hans Pharmaceuticals
Penang seaside.
A large area was cordoned off here, with black-clad guards guarding a kilometer around it. On the beach, Han Ye-jin was wearing a floral dress and holding her son in her arms, while Hardy was only wearing a pair of shorts. The family was playing in the sand on the beach.
Little boy Bourne was having more and more fun. He sat on the beach, kicking his little legs in the sand. Occasionally, a wave came and hit Bourne's little feet, and the little boy would scream with excitement.
The little guy is tired from playing.
Fell asleep in Hardy's arms.
Han Ye-jin lay on her side on the blanket on the beach, watching the harmonious scene between father and son, and she felt very happy.
"Yejin, I want to discuss something with you." Hardy said.
"What is it?"
"I plan to apply for a resident status for you in the Penang and Malacca Autonomous Territory, so that you can have dual citizenship," said Hardy.
"Why do you have to do this?" Han Ye-jin asked in surprise.
"The parliamentary election will be held soon. I plan to let you enter the parliament and become the speaker," said Hadi.
Han Ye-jin nodded.
She definitely supports the man's career.
"Okay, you do it, but I don't know much about politics. What should the Speaker do?" Han Ye-jin asked.
Hardy chuckled.
"Don't worry, someone will help you take care of everything. After a while, you will gradually get to know the ins and outs of this."
Hadi was not worried about whether Han Ye-jin could be a good speaker. Hadi Group already had a professional administrative team and trained a large number of administrative personnel. Otherwise, he would not have been able to set up a government team for the dominion so quickly.
Hadi's view on so-called liberal democracy
Always sneered.
He is not a great dictator, but he has to protect his own interests. He cannot spend so much money and effort to help those so-called freedom and democracy fighters.
People are selfish.
He was just protecting his personal property.
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The first parliamentary session of the Dominion of Penang and Malacca was held. A total of 59 members were elected, including a dozen British and American binationals, as well as Chinese, Malays, Indians, and representatives of smaller ethnic groups.
Penang and Malacca are divided into two major districts and 24 sub-districts, each with two to three councillors.
Most of them are local gentry and prestigious people. After all, this is the first time, and universal suffrage is not very realistic, so they are directly named.
The first parliamentary meeting produced a Speaker, a Vice Speaker and a Secretary to the Speaker.
Han Ye-jin was elected as the first speaker of the Dominion.
There will definitely be people who think this is cheating and unfair. Hadi is the governor and his wife is the speaker of the parliament. Isn't this a family monopoly of power?
hehe,
Objection is invalid.
The procedure is completely legal.
This is the result of the election of the members of parliament.
Moreover, Hadi wants to use this opportunity to tell everyone that the Dominion is my own home, and you can't do anything to me even if I am a dictator. Being able to engage in formalism is already a respect for democracy.
The Vice Speaker is a dual American-Dominion citizen named William Wallace, which sounds very democratic. The Speaker's secretary is a Chinese.
Their main job is to assist Han Ye-jin in managing the parliament and to be responsible for the normal operation of the parliament when Han Ye-jin is away.
Han Ye-jin will not stay in Penang often. She will continue to live in Hong Kong on weekdays. It is safer there, and there is also her favorite career museum there.
She is the speaker of the House.
It's just a title.
By this time,
The political system of the dominion was basically established.
temporary governor's office.
Chief Minister Peter Smith and Economy Secretary James Ryan are briefing Hardy on the situation during this period.
"Your Excellency the Governor, the construction of the Governor's Palace has begun recruiting teams, and five design companies from the United States and the United Kingdom have applied for the position."
Hardy nodded.
The location of the Governor's Palace was not chosen randomly. Hadi called in the Feng Shui masters Cai and his son from the Hadi Group in Hong Kong. Cai and his son made a complete tour in Penang and Malacca, and finally chose a place with excellent Feng Shui and convenient access.
In the coastal land area, there is a mountain behind it, the terrain is slightly higher, facing the sea, and the area is 1,100 acres.
The main building is not very big, but the garden area is large.
“Your Excellency the Governor, there are a total of 12 confirmed business projects, including the construction of new wharfs in Penang and Malacca. After completion, they can provide local cargo ports and provide fuel, daily necessities and cargo transshipment services for passing ships.”
In fact, Hadi has a better dock project, which is to build a port terminal on the 50 square kilometers of land in Singapore. However, that is a project of the Hadi Group and cannot be confused with the business of the Penang and Malacca Dominion.
"The government office is located on the site and is temporarily using the original government office building while preparing to build a larger government office building."
"The courts, procuratorates and police stations have all been established and are now operational."
"During this period, the number of immigrants increased significantly. In this month alone, the number increased by more than 2,000. The vast majority were Chinese, with a small number of British farmers moving here. There were very few Malayans."
"On the investment company side, more than 60 Malaysian business owners and estate owners have signed agreements with Hadi Investment. Those factories and estates are located in Johor, Kedah, Kelantan, Negeri Sembilan, Pahang, Perak and other places in Malaysia, with a total value of more than 34 million US dollars."
Chief Minister Peter Smith smiled and said: "An interesting phenomenon is that all the business owners and landowners who signed the contract are Chinese."
Huang Henian, the head of the Huang family, saw the crisis and took the initiative to hand over 40% of his property as protection fee, which can be said to be very courageous.
In fact, there are many people like him.
Coupled with word of mouth among the Chinese, and fellow villagers recruiting each other, more than 60 companies joined the Hardy Group in just one month.
This is not Hardy's attempt to take advantage of the situation.
All I can say is that they like each other.
One party wants to seek protection, the other party wants to obtain assets. It is completely a mutual affection.
However, there were also many people who turned away after hearing the conditions of the Hadi Group, because in their view, the Governor was simply robbing by handing over most of his property for nothing, only his robbery was more elegant.
Everyone has their own aspirations.
Hardy doesn't force it.
When there is a chance in the future and something happens to some people, I believe they will understand the benefits of cooperating with the Hardy Group.
He believed that by that time, many people would come to Hardy crying and begging him to take back their shares and assets.
After listening to the report,
Hardy said: "In the future, enterprises here will not focus on heavy industry, because there is no foundation for that. They will mainly choose processing industry and high-tech industry. Southeast Asia is rich in various gemstones, including jade and emerald. In the future, the Dominion will become one of the world's gemstone processing centers."
"Continue to increase publicity efforts on immigration. The Dominion will need a lot of labor to develop in the future. Currently, there are only over 600,000 people, which is still too few. Even if there are more than 6 million, we can still accommodate them."
"The news of immigration should not only be spread in Malaya, but also in Indonesia, Cambodia, Thailand and Myanmar. We should publish articles in local newspapers to tell them that there are enough jobs in the Dominion and that they are safe and stable."
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After Hadi finished arranging his affairs, the Chief Minister and the Economic Secretary left, and Hadi's assistant pushed the door open.
"Boss, I just received a telegram." He handed over the telegram.
The telegram was sent from the United States.
Just one simple sentence:
"Hans Pharmaceuticals exploded."
Hadi thought for a moment and told his assistant, "Go make some arrangements and prepare to return to the United States."
"Okay, boss." The assistant walked out.
Hardy came out of the study and found Han Yizhen, "Yizhen, I have something to do and need to go back to the United States. Can I send you and the children back to Hong Kong first?"
"Okay." Han Ye-jin also wanted to go back. She had long missed the treasures in the museum that had not yet been sorted out.
Hardy's private jet is in Singapore. After a day of packing, Hardy took Han Ye-jin and his son on a cruise ship to Singapore, where they changed to a plane to Hong Kong. As for the cruise ship, it returned to Hong Kong on its own, which was faster.
A few hours later,
Hardy's private plane landed in Hong Kong, and Hardy sent Han Ye-jin and the children back to the Peak Manor, where they rested for one night and flew to the United States the next day.
Hardy stepped off the plane.
Andy came to pick him up, gave Hardy a hug and both of them got in the car.
in the car.
Andy handed Hardy a copy of today's Los Angeles Financial Times. The front-page headline of the newspaper was a report about Hans Pharmaceuticals.
The eye-catching headline: "A shocking scam, Hans Pharmaceuticals, which created the stock market myth, has been falsifying data."
"Hans Pharmaceuticals has been proven to have committed fraud. The special medicines produced by Hans Pharmaceuticals have extremely serious side effects, and their effects are far from the therapeutic effects advertised. They are even worse than the existing drug streptomycin. A reporter's investigation found that Hans Pharmaceuticals also falsified its experimental data in Africa. This is an astonishing scam. Hans Pharmaceuticals is a complete fraud that has cheated shareholders out of their money."
The following is the content of the reporter's detailed investigation.
The first half of last year.
Hans Pharmaceuticals announced that it has developed a specific drug for tuberculosis.
In the second half of the year, it was reported that Hans Pharmaceuticals conducted Phase II human trials in Africa, with very successful results, and moved on to Phase III trials.
During that period, the stock price of Hans Pharmaceuticals began to soar, and it went from a junk stock to a star stock, with the stock price rising to more than $100 per share.
In the first half of this year,
Several Japanese financial investment companies took over Hans Pharmaceutical, and Andy gradually released the Hans Pharmaceutical's circulating shares to allow retail investors to take over.
Through this operation, Hardy made $380 million in cash.
As for the finishing touches, they were handed over to Andy and Henry. During this time, Hadi was busy with matters in Penang and the Malacca Dominion, so he put this matter behind him.
Now is the time.
Andy and Henry punctured the huge abscess directly.
This was certainly a premeditated operation.
"Short?" Hardy asked.
"Of course." Andy nodded with a smile.
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