Chapter 436: Daoxiang Rice and Grain Merchants
In Southeast Asia, the history of Chinese people going overseas to develop here began in the Song Dynasty.
Compared with the native people here, the Chinese are smarter and more hardworking, so the early Chinese who went to Southeast Asia were generally very rich.
However, this good life ended when the white people colonized the world. After arriving in Southeast Asia, the Chinese who had been developing there for many years ushered in a history of blood and tears.
In Kuala Lumpur at this time, the Chinese accounted for half of the population, and most of the economy, local business, import and export trade, manufacturing, etc. were basically dominated by the Chinese. However, the Chinese were politically oppressed here, and the local government implemented a "Malay" priority policy, so the local politics and military were mainly controlled by the Malays and other local ethnic groups.
This situation is also common in Southeast Asian countries. The Chinese are rich, but have no political and military influence, and often act as fat sheep.
However, the Chinese in Kuala Lumpur at that time, after experiencing the May 13 incident,
Mutual aid associations such as hometown associations and clan associations were established in various places, and then the Chinese gradually lived in concentrated areas, with all Chinese living in the same town or community.
This makes it easier for Chinese people to help and care for each other, and to a certain extent can resist external security threats. Once an emergency occurs, neighbors can respond quickly and provide support.
Why did Wang Yuanchao choose Kuala Lumpur instead of Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand?
The reason is that in this era, the Chinese in Nanyang and Kuala Lumpur are the most numerous and the most united.
The white forces have no troops stationed here. Although they have influence here, they are also seeking to get rid of Western influence and seek independence.
Therefore, Wang Yuanchao chose the transit center as the safest and easiest to hide.
After Wang Yuanchao and his party arrived at Port Klang in Kuala Lumpur, they went directly to the train station after leaving the port and bought several train tickets to Kuala Lumpur and took the train to Kuala Lumpur.
After arriving in Kuala Lumpur, Wang Yuanchao and his party stayed at the best hotel in the area, the Dahua Hotel, which was owned by the Chinese Lu family.
After a night's rest, Wang Yuanchao and his party came to the Chinese Chamber of Commerce in Kuala Lumpur, explained that they were from Hong Kong, and wanted to set up a company in Kuala Lumpur. After renting a warehouse, under the leadership of the Secretary-General of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce, they established a Rice and Grain Trading Company in Kuala Lumpur and opened a company account at the Kuala Lumpur branch of the Bank of East Asia. Then Wang Yuanchao and his party took the car arranged by the Secretary-General to Klang City, which is only five kilometers away from Port Klang, the largest port in Malaysia.
There are a lot of Chinese living here, and they occupy a huge economic industry here.
In the rubber industry, the Chinese have a large number of rubber plantations here, which are used for rubber planting and rubber processing factories, and exported to other countries.
For example, agricultural and sideline products, fisheries, industrial raw materials, fertilizers and other industries are all the key industries of local Chinese.
Industrial zones have been established in Klang City, so Klang City has relatively developed industry, commerce, and import and export trade.
After Wang Yuanchao and his party looked around the industrial area in Klang City, Wang Yuanchao thought it was a good idea to rent a warehouse here as his transit center. First of all, it was very close to the port, so it was very convenient to load the goods onto the ship.
Secondly, the warehouse here is inside the industrial park and is an open warehouse. There are many people and vehicles in the warehouse in the industrial park every day. The open warehouse and the people and vehicles coming in and out can make Wang Yuanchao's warehouse and the incoming and outgoing goods go unnoticed.
So Wang Yuanchao rented two 5,000-square-meter warehouses here in the name of Daoxiang Rice and Grain Company.
Then the group came to Klang City, where Wang Yuanchao bought a 500-square-meter villa and two vehicles for travel, which he placed in the villa.
Wang Yuanchao and his team came to Kuala Lumpur again, rented a small office there, hired two Chinese girls, installed a telephone, and were specifically responsible for contacting local freight companies and contacting local trucks when shipment was needed.
After the group finished their work, a week had passed.
After saying goodbye to the president and secretaries-general of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce, Wang Yuanchao boarded the ship back to Hong Kong.
Wang Yuanchao sat on the deck of a luxury cruise ship, drinking champagne and enjoying the sea breeze as he began to review the past few days.
In fact, many banks in Hong Kong have branches and bank outlets in Nanyang, such as HSBC, Standard Chartered, Bank of East Asia, etc. Wang Yuanchao deliberately opened the company account of the transit company in Bank of East Asia this time in order to avoid financial risks.
Because Wang Yuanchao knew that the so-called confidentiality clauses of the White Bank were all bullshit. As long as the benefits were big enough, anyone could sell out these banks.
Therefore, although the Bank of East Asia is not as big as HSBC, in terms of fund security, it is safest for Wang Yuanchao's funds to have dispersed deposits. The white people at HSBC will not be able to monitor the movement of his funds at any time.
After returning to Hong Kong, Wang Yuanchao gave Hu Meng and others three days off.
After returning to the Repulse Bay mansion, I soaked in the bathtub for a while and asked the maids to give me a careful bath.
Then he lay down on his big bed and had a peaceful sleep.
After an afternoon passed, Wang Yuanchao smelled the fragrance of two women while half asleep. He slowly woke up and opened his eyes. It turned out that Liu Qianqian and Liu Mei had returned. The two women had already taken a bath and were lying beside him to keep him company.
Suddenly a surprised voice came from the room.
"Man, you're awake. You must have worked hard on this long business trip."
Wang Yuanchao was completely awakened by Liu Mei's voice. He reached out and hugged the two girls into his arms, patted their backs, and said, "Well, I'm awake. How have you two been at home recently?"
"Man, we are doing fine at home. We even attended a salon for famous ladies last weekend."
“How’s the salon going?”
"That's a good report, man. You don't know how popular our premium rice is in the salon.
According to the general manager, this salon with about 100 people received unanimous support from these celebrities and ladies, making our Menglishuixiang premium rice highly recognized in Hong Kong's upper class society.
During this period, our premium rice has become the only rice variety eaten by the upper class in Hong Kong every day."
Wang Yuanchao looked at Liu Qianqian with joy. As the company's financial director, Liu Qianqian would be more clear about the data.
Seeing this, Liu Qianqian said:
"Yes, Yuan Chao, now our products have become well-known in Hong Kong's upper class society.
There is an endless stream of orders from Hong Kong’s wealthy class and mid- to high-end restaurants and hotels every day.”
(End of this chapter)
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