The Po Leung Kuk was originally established to combat the illegal trafficking of women and to uphold the Mui Tsai system. In other words, in the eyes of the first generation of Po Leung Kuk Big Brother, the illegal trafficking of women could be considered a crime according to the Britain, but the Mui Tsai system, in which parents sold their daughters to others through indenture, could not be classified as a crime. This was an ancient custom of the China community.
Po Leung Kuk could organize militias, watchmen, and other groups to combat the trafficking of women and donate money to the Britain, but it also demonstrated to the Britain the difference between arranged marriages and slavery.
Because at that time, every Po Leung Kuk tycoon had dozens of maids and servants in their homes, and according to Britain law, these maids and servants were all slaves under the feudal system and should be unconditionally freed.
Back then, Po Leung Kuk, which had bribed and manipulated several governors of Hong Kong Po Leung Kuk, and the Britain Overseas Colonial Department fought dozens of times over the legality of the Mui Tsai system. In the heat of the moment, a Britain journalist who had come all the way from London to investigate died mysteriously in a sewer.
The two sides have been fighting over this issue since the early days of Po Leung Kuk, for more than 60 years, and there is still no real winner. Although the Britain Overseas Colonial Department has repeatedly issued documents demanding that Hong Kong thoroughly investigate the issue of Mui Tsai, successive governors of Hong Kong have always adopted a delaying tactic and appeased London.
Angie Pellès' mentor, Juliana Abbey, is from London and has a natural fascination with these kinds of Mui Tsai cases because, regardless of the outcome, just getting the case started will garner her enough attention in London and could even earn her a feminist label.
After discovering that Lin Yujing was Mui Tsai, Juliana Abbey said that the lawsuit should be launched immediately, but Song Tianyao refused to agree, saying that he could not use his own life and the lives of everyone around him to exchange for the rise of an old Britain woman.
In Ji Wenming's view, Song Tianyao was not wrong, Juliana Abbey was not wrong either, the only one who was wrong was Lin Xiaohe. This guy's mind and vision were really sharp. Back then, he completely thwarted the Lin Family's daughter's idea of fighting for the family property!
"Mr. Song, to be on the safe side, perhaps we should put the court matters aside for now?" Ji Wenming asked Song Tianyao after a moment's thought.
Song Tianyao lowered the finger from between his eyebrows and slowly opened his eyes. "Lower? With Po Leung Kuk in Po Leung Kuk, I wouldn't dare to make a move on the Mui Tsai. But the Lin Family still has other matters to settle. A sister fighting a murder case for her brother, Po Leung Kuk shouldn't be able to handle that, right?"
Chapter 395 Launch
"Sir, from last night until the early hours of the morning, there were several large-scale brawls between the Sai Wan Harmony Heroes, Wo On Lok triad, resulting in serious casualties. The report from the newly appointed Chief Detective Chief Inspector of Hong Kong Island District, Lai Man-yau, has been submitted to your desk."
"Sir, the Security Branch received a call from the Labour Department requesting rentals. This morning, a large number of workers from the construction industry union went to the Labour Department to strike and protest, blocking traffic. There are currently about six or seven hundred people. The Labour Department hopes that the Security Branch can send personnel to persuade or disperse them. The Security Branch transferred the call to the Police Force office, asking the Police Force to send personnel to disperse the demonstrating workers."
"Sir, the Political Department of the Police Force called six minutes before you came in to ask if you had arrived at the office and delivered a document."
Inside the Hong Kong Police Force Headquarters office, Police Department Chief Duncan Mackintosh, China real name is MacIntosh, had just sat down in his chair when he heard his assistant flipping through his notebook to report on the work arrangements for last night and today.
He is a China expert. In his early years as Police Department Chief in Singapore, he had a lot of dealings with the local Chinese community. Mandarin is practically his second language, and he can even speak a few words of various dialects, such as Cantonese, Hokkien, and Hakka.
"Since when do we need to be notified of something as trivial as a brawl between two gangs? I don't care how many of those damned Chinese die. Let Li Minyou handle this. He can't even handle something this small. Did Liu Fu promote him because he thinks I haven't scolded him enough? I..." Mai Jingtao tapped the table with a relaxed expression, cursing in fluent Chinese. He casually opened Li Minyou's report and hissed, "That bastard... 78 dead, 231 seriously injured or disabled? Are the Chinese fighting World War III in Hong Kong?! Does Li Minyou think the position of Chief Detective of Hong Kong Island is..." I feel uncomfortable and need to find a quiet corner to calm down! How could such a report be true? Reject it! Tell him to think through the casualty figures before releasing them. Don't let me see such horrifying numbers again. I'm soft-hearted and can't bear to see too many casualties. Also, tell that bastard that if I read this news in the newspapers, especially the English ones, or if the Governor's Office or the Chief Secretary and other bigwigs hear about it, I'll announce to the public that Lai Man-yau, as a police officer, colluded with gangsters and disrupted public order. Even if he wanted to be transferred to guard the countryside, it wouldn't be possible. His best fate is to spend the rest of his life in prison! Tell him that!
"Yes, Sir!"
MacIntosh tossed Lai Man-yau's report off the table like trash, then impatiently picked up a second report, grumbling, "This report ruined my good mood this morning. My daughter even made me fried eggs this morning... Arrange two to three hundred police officers? Does the Labour Department think the police are all idle and on standby for the Labour Department at all times? Only one hundred people? Let those India from the Riot Squad go and arrest people. I like India because India never care what those poor China bastards are up to. If they don't listen to advice, they just arrest them and make their families come to the Police Station to pick them up..."
"Sir, the India officers who rejoined the team after the war all had their contracts expire and were allowed to leave the team two weeks ago," the assistant said softly, interrupting MacIntosh's reverie and reminding him.
Since India's independence, India police officers working in the Hong Kong Police Force have been eager to return Hong Kong, even though they hold a slightly higher status than local India in Hong Kong.
MacIntosh signed his name at the end of the report with a fountain pen and handed it to an assistant, "Damn India, the newly recruited Pakistan are still in police academy training and they're already in a hurry to go home... Fine, have the Central Police Station and Sheung Wan Police Station arrange fifty Uniformed Branch, and then transfer eighty Riot Squad from headquarters to go there. Have the Labour Department find out the reason for those poor bastards' strike. Is it because the China bosses are withholding their wages or the Britain bosses are helping them accumulate interest? If it's the China person are withholding wages, have the Labour Department deal with those employers. Don't always let those China bloodsucking businessmen exploit the poor, and then have the Britain clean up their messes. China police are not as reliable as India police; when they're asked to arrest people, they just go through the motions."