Crossing the Sea to Keep an Appointment (continued)
So Tang Boqi brought two cans of beer and came to the pier to enjoy the night view of Victoria Harbour.
There was finally some movement at the dock gate after even the old white man had rowed away in his boat.
"Sir, you can't go in!" The India security guard stopped the two young men who were about to enter the dock at the iron gate.
Tang Boqi turned around and saw Lin Xiaokang, the sixth young master of the Lin Family, Lin Xiaoda, the seventh young master, standing outside the iron gate, waving at him, each holding a beer in their hands.
"Sir, that's my guest. I invited him. Would you like me to show you my United States passport again so I can call the consulate to apply for a new one? Or could you let them in now? That would save us both a lot of valuable time." Tang Boqi stood up, crossed the small dock square, walked to the iron gate, and smiled at the two dutiful India security guards.
An India security guard with thick lips, wearing a green uniform, said to Tang Boqi, "Sir, you are United States, so you can enter the dock, but they are China person."
"They are two China students studying in the United States, my classmates." Tang Boqi took out a few small bills and stuffed them into the other man's pocket, then said gently to the India security guard, "There's no military base here, just a pier. It offers a better view of Hong Kong's night scene. This is a small tip. Please don't leave me to enjoy the view alone."
"Okay, don't stay out too late." The two India security guards exchanged a glance. Anyway, Tang Boqi was United States, and it wasn't a big deal for United States to be allowed in and out of Queen’s Pier. It wasn't like they were told that United States weren't allowed to invite China friends into Queen’s Pier.
Tang Boqi thanked the two men, and a security guard unlocked the iron gate. Lin Xiaokang and Lin Xiaoda walked in from outside, and the iron gate was closed again from the outside, seemingly completely isolating Hong Kong from this quiet pier.
Like Tang Boqi, the two walked onto the pier, not caring whether it was clean or not, and sat down casually. They opened their beers and took a refreshing sip in the evening breeze.
"Today, a company called Zhaofeng Trading issued an announcement preparing to issue new shares. On the announcement, I saw the names of Song Tianyao and that female lawyer named Angie Perlis. Undoubtedly, that's a company controlled by Song Tianyao." Lin Xiaokang loosened his tie slightly, unbuttoned his top button, leaned back, and rested his hands on the pier to relax as he spoke.
Lin Xiaoda, who was about the same age as Tang Boqi, said from the side, "This means that Song Tianyao has found money and is raising funds by issuing new shares. However, I think Song Tianyao could have directly accepted an investment through his Xianrong Company. Why go through the trouble of creating a listed company to issue new shares? Wouldn't it be better to secretly accept an investment directly to hide the source of his money?"
"Money can be hidden deeper in the stock market. Song Tianyao must have a licensed securities firm. The money won't appear directly in the stock market; it will only go into his securities firm, which will then sign an underwriting or distribution agreement with Zhaofeng Trading. Therefore, the stock doesn't even need to go through the stock market; the money has already entered Zhaofeng Trading's account. People who follow the stock market only know how much money Zhaofeng Trading has, but they don't know where the securities firm gets so much money to buy up Zhaofeng Trading's new shares. Of course, they don't care. They only know that a securities firm is optimistic about Zhaofeng Trading's stock, so what will happen next Zhaofeng Trading?" "The stock price of the Zhaofeng Trading will rise. Once the price reaches a certain level, the brokerage firm, together with Song Tianyao, will then dump the shares. Those who lent him money won't have to worry about not getting their principal back, and they'll even make a profit. Song Tianyao will have raised the money, and those who lent him money will have made money—a win-win situation. The only ones who will suffer are the ordinary investors who blindly follow the trend when the stock price rises." Tang Boqi made a rising gesture with his hand, then smiled, "Sometimes you have to admit, Song Tianyao is a truly clever man. I had just thought of this trick and was about to use it when he already used it."
"How's Fourth Brother doing?" After chatting about Song Tianyao for a bit, Lin Xiaoda couldn't help but ask Tang Boqi the real question.
Lin Xiaosen, Lin Xiaoze, and Studwell all agreed with Tang Boqi's plan to make money in the stock market. They even hired Tang Boqi as the deputy general manager of one of the listed companies, Prosperity Rubber, to work with Studwell. The compensation was a combination of stocks and cash.
Tang Boqi took a swig of beer. "We plan to issue new shares using the same method, then continuously drive up the price of Prosperity Rubber with various positive news, then dump the shares and leave with the money, using the profits to buy back the shares."
"Brother Six, won't Third Brother and Fourth Brother blame us for doing this? The Lin Family needs unity right now, but we're thinking of secretly making a profit from this information." Lin Xiaoda then looked at Lin Xiaokang, who was quietly lost in thought beside him, and asked.
Lin Xiaoda is the youngest and doesn't have much in common with his older brothers. He's only close to Lin Xiaokang and Lin Xiaojie. However, after Lin Xiaojie married the daughter of the Ji Family of Bank of East Asia, he started to focus on helping the Ji Family. After all, Lin Family older brothers are all capable of handling things on their own, so it wasn't his turn as the fifth brother to step up. Therefore, Lin Xiaojie took a different approach and went through his father-in-law. However, Lin Family recently took over the Soda Factory that Lin Xiaokang was managing, which means he has been pulled back into the family business.
On the contrary, Lin Xiaokang and he are now two pitiful people in the Lin Family. They are both high-achieving students who have studied abroad, but money and family business have nothing to do with them now. They are known to outsiders as Young Master Kang and Young Master Da, and they seem to be living a glamorous life. In reality, they may not even be able to come up with the capital of a few hundred thousand yuan to start a business with others, and they need their older brothers to make decisions.
He learned from Tang Boqi that his brothers were planning to manipulate stock prices to make money, so he was immediately tempted and decided to secretly make a fortune in his own name. As long as he had money, even if he didn't get a share of the family business, he would still have the capital to do some other business, so that he wouldn't be in the embarrassing situation of appearing glamorous on the outside but actually having no money in his pocket.
Of the three, the oldest, Lin Xiaokang, hadn't interrupted when Lin Xiaoda and Tang Boqi were chatting. He only spoke when Lin Xiaoda asked him a question. But those few words caused the beer cans in Lin Xiaoda and Tang Boqi's hands to fall to the ground with a thud, the cans bubbling as they slowly sank into the dark seawater.