A little boy of three or four skipped along the broad streets of the New Territories.
He was constantly distracted by things along the road, stopping to look here and there, occasionally unable to resist reaching out and fiddling with them.
That sort of behavior was naturally annoying, but when people turned and saw the man strolling not far behind the child with his hands behind his back, along with the dozen or so sharply dressed men accompanying him, they generally chose to be tolerant.
Zhou Xiaobai, however, could not tolerate it. Seeing the child being impolite, she went over, grabbed him by the ear, and began lecturing him. Wang Yan merely smiled as he chatted with Peng Yunliang and the others...
Ten years had now passed since the major development of the New Territories began, and the changes could only be described as earth-shaking.
Skyscrapers had risen from the ground, roads had been built one after another, and there was even a subway now. Hospitals, schools, and other facilities had also been properly constructed. There were banks, shopping malls, branch offices and headquarters for all kinds of companies; even mainland companies had moved their Hong Kong Island headquarters over to the New Territories.
The development of the New Territories had now spread from the original North District to Yuen Long and Tai Po. All had been built up well, becoming bustling places packed with people...
Naturally, the great families of the New Territories could not have built the area into what it was today on their own. Even the profits from the highly lucrative herbal tea and beverage businesses were nowhere near enough.
Likewise, capitalists from both inside and outside Hong Kong Island lacked the ability to carry out such massive development in the New Territories by themselves, much