By so readily betraying his ally in the Lin Family, was Song Tianyao trying to make Lin Xiaohe feel that Lin Xiaokang's sudden emergence was abrupt? Did he want others in the Lin Family to have ulterior motives? Did he want Song Tianyao to continue targeting his other brothers?
Even if one of the three —Lin Xiaoze, Lin Xiao qia, Lin Xiaojie —had ulterior motives, Lin Xiaohe didn't intend to investigate further. The mere disappearance of Lin Xiaokang should be enough to deter them from their inappropriate thoughts. Moreover, these three brothers were far more intelligent and capable than Lin Xiaokang. They should know what to do and what not to do in this situation. And even if he were to deal with them, he wouldn't use the same methods he used to deal with Lin Xiaokang.
Lin Xiaoze currently the Lin Family's front man. Whether he is loyal or treacherous, he needs to stand in front of the Lin Family at this moment and cannot be moved.
Lin Xiao qia was very popular among the old workers of the Lin Family. Moreover, Lin Xiao qia had no ambition. If he really had ulterior motives, when the whole family took refuge in Guangzhou, all the other brothers were scattered in various places. He was the only person in charge of the Lin Family at that time. It would have been easy for him to cause trouble. However, it is hard to say whether he will feel dissatisfied after the incident involving his fifth and sixth uncles.
Lin Xiaojie, the son-in-law of the Ji Family of Bank of East Asia, is young and energetic. He has not been in a hurry to enter the Lin Family business, but has been working for his wife's family in the bank. The most likely candidate is actually this fifth brother. Although he seems uninterested in the Lin Family at the moment, if the Lin Family really encounters a big problem, he is the one who is most capable of taking over the family business in the first instance by leveraging his wife's family's wealth and power, with Bank of East Asia as his backer.
Song Tianyao decisively abandoned Lin Xiaokang. Could it be because Lin Xiaojie was still connected to him behind the scenes?
"Hiss~" Lin Xiaohe had been pondering for too long, and the cigarette between his fingers had unknowingly burned to the end. Suddenly, he burned his finger with the cigarette butt and dropped it onto the carpet. When he hurriedly picked it up, the expensive cashmere carpet had been burned with a small blemish. As he threw the cigarette butt into the ashtray on the coffee table, Lin Xiaohe's eyes happened to fall on a set of jade chess pieces placed on the lower shelf of the coffee table. When he saw the chess pieces, his gaze sharpened, and he finally understood where his worries came from.
Although Song Tianyao has set up a presence in the stock market, he is not in a hurry to make any moves. Instead, he is just creating momentum. From meeting with the head of Jardine Matheson and offering 160 million to acquire Xizhen Properties shares, to raising and lowering the stock price, these methods are only intended to increase the pressure on the Lin Family, not to rush into a war with the Lin Family.
He must have been putting pressure on the Lin Family while simultaneously planning other strategies, launching a two-pronged approach at the same time.
In Chinese chess tactics, this is called "Double Horses Drinking at the Spring"!
A circling attack, leaping left and right! Open attacks and covert strikes, a continuous, swirling barrage!
In retrospect, the tactics used in the stock market were merely Song Tianyao's left-hand attack, while his true right-hand strike was outside the stock market!
Aside from the stock market, the first problem Lin Xiaohe can think of Lin Xiaohe the Lin Family is Lin Yujing and her daughter.
Regardless of whether Lin Yujing was a pawn Song Tianyao was planning to use, Lin Xiaohe was prepared to block that move first. Thinking this, he spoke to his driver/bodyguard, who had quietly emerged from a small bedroom and was dozing on a small chair in the corner since he entered the living room:
"Runsheng, please inform Lawyer Chen and tell him to come here to see me now. I have some things to ask him to do."
The words had barely left his mouth when, before the driver could even reply...
"Ring ring!"
A phone suddenly rang in the quiet living room!
Lin Xiaohe couldn't help but shiver!
Chapter 383 I'm sorry
Jifeng Garden, the Ji Family, is located atop Mount Gough.
Lin Xiaoze, along with Ji Dongpu, with whom he had just had dinner, Ji Dongpu's third son Ji Yueqiang (now a well-known barrister and Legislative Council member in Hong Kong), Ji Dongpu Xuexian (director of Bank of East Asia), and his eldest daughter and son-in-law Fang Bingfen Ji Xuexian, strolled leisurely in the garden. Standing in the Ji Family garden, they could see the bustling night view of Hong Kong in the distance.
The nine Big Brothers of Bank of East Bank of East Asia, who once founded the Bank of East Asia with the ambition to establish themselves in Hong Kong and compete with foreign banks, including Lai Shipeng, Fang Pingshan, Huang Runtang- tong, and Zhou Shoucheng, have all passed away for many years. Now, Ji Dongpu, who once held sway over Bank of Bank of East Asia, is a 68-year-old man with white hair. He is walking slowly ahead, leaning on a cane, listening to his son Ji Yueqiang and Lin Xiaoze reminiscing about the interesting stories of the Ji Family in the past.
Ji Yueqiang was talking about his childhood. Back then, before the Ji Family partnered with the Lai Family Fang Families to establish the Bank of East Asia, Ji Dongpu had founded Dexin Banking House on his own. The whole family of over thirty people was very happy because, in addition to his fourteen children and wives, Ji Dongpu was also supporting his grandmother, aunt, and even his eldest brother's eight or nine children. The family's only source of income was Ji Dongpu's income. As a result, despite owning a bank, the Ji Family lived a very poor life, even worse off than those who worked outside the home.
Ji Dongpu always looked exhausted when he came home, and when his family asked how business was going, he would sigh and lament. So everyone thought that the bank probably wouldn't stay open for long, and that Ji Dongpu would probably have to go back to working as a comprador for the Foreign Devil.
Ji Yueqiang is currently talking to Lin Xiaoze about how, back then, when he had no pocket money, his most extravagant expense was eating a bowl of vegetarian noodles at a noodle stall on the street corner. This surprised his classmates, who asked him, "Isn't your father a bank owner? Why don't you go out for Western food with everyone?"
When family, outsiders, and everyone else believed that Ji Dongpu's Dexin Banking House was not making money, Ji Dongpu suddenly took out hundreds of thousands of Hong Kong dollars and established Bank of East Asia with Li Shipeng, Fang Pingshan, and others. Ji Yueqiang and his siblings, who had never even eaten Western food since childhood, only then realized that their father was not poor, but that they had always thought he was poor.
"After the Bank of East Asia opened, my father couldn't pretend to be poor all the time anymore, so he gave us some pocket money. That's when I went to a Western restaurant with a few brothers for the first time. I ate a big steak and three pieces of bread. While eating, I thought to myself that I had to try all the meats I hadn't eaten in all those years," Ji Yueqing said with a smile.
Fang Bingfen chuckled from behind, "If I'd known you were in such a miserable state back then, I would have treated you to abalone."