Save the Bachelor of Heaven

After staying in Fushan for seven days, Xiang Nan and his party returned to Macau.

Accompanying them were more than 100 workers recruited in Fushan.

It just so happened that Xiangnan's Renji Pharmaceutical Factory was about to expand its scale due to too many orders, so it happened to be convenient for these people.

After returning to Macau, Xiang Nan and Zhou Qingquan each contributed 10,000 silver dollars to acquire a large piece of land to build a new factory building and expand the scale of production.

Moreover, the expansion of production scale this time requires not only the expansion of the factory building, but also the upgrading of production technology.

In the past, people washed, soaked, grinded and fried medicines, but now they are preparing to introduce multiple machines. In this way, many processes are handled by machines, and the production efficiency will be greatly improved.

Zhou Qingquan is full of confidence in the future. He believes that after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, the country will surely develop vigorously and the people will surely live a good life.

So they have to produce more medicines and treat more injuries to contribute to the country.

However, Xiang Nan knew that there would be a war of liberation in the future, and peace was still far away.

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Three months later, the new factory started production.

At the same time, the civil war between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party began.

Seeing the war broke out again, the hearts of the people could not help but cast a haze.

But Xiang Nan thinks that if there is no destruction, there will be no establishment, and if there is a big break, there will be a big establishment.

If this country is ruled by the National Party, it will definitely be a dead end. So civil wars were well fought and they deserved to be overthrown.

And Xiang Nan knew that after the civil war broke out, capital would definitely withdraw from the mainland in order to avoid the war. And Macao and Hong Kong, which are separated by a river, are naturally the best destinations.

Therefore, he discussed with Zhou Qingquan to invest and build a building in Xiangjiang together. At that time, there will be no shortage of tenants.

Zhou Qingquan had long admired Xiang Nan's insight.

In three or five years, before the Japanese fully invaded China, he saw that Fushan would fall, so he persuaded himself to move.

At that time, there were two choices when moving, one was Hong Kong and the other was Macau. Xiang Nan urged him to choose Macau. Sure enough, Xiangjiang was invaded by the East in 1941.

During the occupation period of three years and eight months, the population of Xiangjiang dropped sharply from 1.6 million to 600,000. Died to death, wounded to wounded, escaped to escape, and there were scenes of tragedies in the world.

On the contrary, Macau, as the only neutral zone, was free from Japanese invasion. They also survived.

Moreover, Xiang Nan stored a large amount of food in advance, which also enabled them to still have enough food and good food during the war without starving.

From this point of view, Xiang Nan can be said to have an insight into the opportunity, and he can be regarded as exhaustive.

It is precisely because of this that Zhou Qingquan is very supportive of his plan to invest in Xiangjiang Real Estate.

At the moment, the two each paid 300,000 Hong Kong dollars, planning to go to Xiangjiang to buy land and build a building.

During the Anti-Japanese War, although the business of Renji Pharmaceutical Factory suffered heavy losses, under the careful management of Xiang Nan and Zhou Qingquan, not only did it not lose money, but it also made profits year after year.

In nine years, both of them accumulated hundreds of thousands of family wealth.

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Xiangjiang in the 1940s was already quite prosperous.

Its population was once as high as 1.6 million. You know, with a population of over one million, it is already considered a big city. With a population of 1.4 billion, there are only 93 cities with over one million people.

Therefore, Xiang Nan and Zhou Qingquan scraped together 600,000 Hong Kong dollars, and they could no longer buy land in the downtown area.

Fortunately, he knows that Xiangjiang will develop rapidly in the future, and the city will expand very fast, so he focuses on the suburbs that deviate from the urban area. Such as Kowloon City, Sham Shui Po, Wong Tai Sin and other places.

After some comparisons, we finally purchased nearly 400,000 square feet of land in Sham Shui Po at one Hong Kong dollar per square foot, and then built a seven-story residential building for lease use.

As far as Xiang Nan knew, with the outbreak of the civil war, a large number of people flooded into Xiangjiang for asylum.

The population of Xiangjiang has nearly tripled from 600,000 in 1945 to 2 million in 1950, with an average of 100,000 people pouring in every month.

The influx of so many people naturally requires houses. Therefore, building a building now, when the time comes, just wait for the rent to be collected.

The buildings were designed by Xiang Nan himself. The area of ​​the houses is very small, each only 20 to 30 square meters, barely counting as one bedroom and one living room.

Xiang Nan thought that the refugees didn't have much money, and they couldn't afford to rent a big house, so it would be nice to have a small house to accommodate them. Therefore, build smaller houses and lower rents, so that more refugees can be accommodated, and they will not be allowed to sleep on the streets.

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When Xiang Nan first came to Xiangjiang to develop, it was not too smooth.

There are more gang forces in Xiangjiang than in Macau, and they are even more violent. Like Hehetu, Heanle, Heshenghe, Associated British Press, Chaozhou Gang, etc.

Each gang has a prefix, as many as hundreds of people, as few as dozens of people, so it can be said that Xiangjiang gangs are as numerous as a cow's hair.

Moreover, many gangs have a history of nearly a hundred years, which has been passed down from the opening of Xiangjiang in the late Qing Dynasty to the present. He is a veritable local snake, arrogant and domineering.

As soon as Xiang Nan bought land and built a building here, gangs came to collect protection fees.

Based on the principle that one thing more is worse than one thing less, Xiang Nan gave everything that should be given.

After all, he was only here to do business, not to grab territory, so there was no need to fight hard with the gang.

In addition, Xiang Nan also invited rich local businessmen in Xiangjiang to help him match up and greeted the local snakes.

You can ask for money. He will give as much as others give, but don't cause trouble. Moreover, the safety of the ground must be ensured.

Most of the gang forces in Xiangjiang follow the rules. The purpose is to make money, not to make trouble for nothing.

So when Xiang Nan was willing to give the money, there was no conflict between them.

Xiang Nan builds his building, pays a fee on time, and ensures the safety of his neighborhood.

Is it legal? It's not legal. Is it reasonable? Reasonable.

The law and order in Xiangjiang has always been bad. Stealing, robbery, abduction, fighting, extortion... everywhere.

The authorities have always only cared about collecting money and have no regard for the livelihood of the people.

In "Ip Man 2", Hong Zhennan received one hundred yuan from each master and gave it to the police to ensure that the masters can teach boxing smoothly without being troubled by the police; in "Ip Man 3", gang forces ran to the school to smash and loot Burning, the police didn't care, but Ye Wen led his disciples to guard;

"The Legend of 500 Million Inspector Lei Luo", "The Lame Man", "Chasing the Dragon", "O's Triad File", "The Dragon and Tiger Brothers of the Four Families"... Many films also reflected the chaos of public security at that time, The police even rely on gangs to maintain order.

Therefore, paying protection fees may seem illegal, but in fact it is reasonable and reasonable, and it is also a forced and helpless thing.

This situation did not change until the ICAC was established in 1974.

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Half a year later, four buildings and more than 4,000 houses rose from the ground. Based on a monthly rent of 10 to 15 yuan, the cost can be paid back in about one and a half years, which can be said to be very profitable.

However, Xiang Nan's way of making money is not limited to this.

He will build the house and take it to the bank as a mortgage. Then buy land, build a house, and continue to develop in a rolling manner. By 1950, Xiang Nan and Zhou Qingquan had already owned 12 real estates and nearly 30,000 houses, becoming the out-and-out kings of Kowloon buildings.