June 6th, 1999, noon. The weather was clear. Shanghai pier.
A passenger ship slowly docked at the Shanghai dock. The passengers on the passenger ship slowly walked down the ship ladder. Those who were careful would see that the faces of the disembarking passengers were more or less pale and haggard. The fear and uneasiness in their eyes indicated that something had happened during the journey. However, the last ten passengers who got off the ladder looked relaxed. Other than a few who looked a little pale, the others started to point and talk about Shanghai's customs. The leader was a young man who looked to be in his twenties. He was dressed in a black suit. His handsome and dignified face made people feel that he was very close but very far away. Beside him was a girl who looked to be in her twenties and was wearing a tight red dress. She had a proud expression on her face and her curvaceous figure made the men who walked past her feel their blood boil. There were eight or nine people in suits behind him. They looked like a business delegation, but when they walked in, they all had murderous expressions on their faces. When the 10-odd passenger ships arrived at the hall of the dock, the temperature in the hall dropped sharply. Although the hall was very crowded, all the passengers who passed by them tried to avoid them.
"Didn't I tell you to learn to smile?”The leading young man turned around and told the people behind him.
"Yes, I am. Boss, I've already learned to smile.”One of them replied, forcing a smile.
"Alright! Forget it, your smile is uglier than crying!”The leader said unhappily.
Hearing his words, the people behind him immediately burst into laughter. The people passing by immediately felt the pressure in the hall relax, and their expressions were a little more natural than before.
After the leader saw this, he shook his head helplessly. He thought to himself,'These people don't look like the crown prince even if they wear dragon robes.' He led the crowd to the gate.
These ten people were Xiao Tian's group. After returning to the cabin last night, Xiao Tian immediately got someone to bring medicine and gauze from the infirmary of the passenger ship to bandage the wounds of the injured brothers, especially Li Dong, Xiao Hu, and Wang Sen. The others were not seriously injured after applying some medicine. Zhang Gang and the others began to search every corner of the ship for other tourists. Finally, they found more than a hundred other passengers in a warehouse three floors below the deck of the passenger ship, but all of them seemed to have eaten (banned) and were unconscious, including the captain and other passenger ship service staff. Zhang Gang immediately reported the situation to Xiao Tian. Xiao Tian thought about it carefully and asked Xiao Hu to disguise himself as a plainclothes policeman and pretend that he was injured after subduing the criminals. In fact, Xiao Hu did not need to pretend at all. The wounds all over his body could make people not suspect him at all. Then, he asked Little Tiger to go to the third floor and rescue everyone. After all, Xiao Tian and the others could not be exposed. The only person who could come forward was Liu Zihu. Xiao Tian told Xiaohu a set of words to deal with the captain and others. He tried to give the credit for subduing the criminals to the security guards of the passenger ship so that they could get away.
The development after that was logical. Liu Zihu bravely saved everyone on the ship, but he was willing to be the behind-the-scenes hero and give all the credit to the security guards of the passenger ship. The captain and all the security guards were more willing to accept it after modesty. In this way, they could reasonably and legally hide the assassination of Xiao Tian and arrive in Shanghai safely. As for how Liu Zihu subdued these fierce criminals, everyone on the ship did not think about it. After all, the people's public security was for the people.
Just as Xiao Tian had expected, after leaving the province, the checks in other provinces and cities were not as strict. Xiao Tian and the others easily left the dock and arrived at the bustling Shanghai street.
Shanghai was one of the most famous cities in the modern history of China. It could be said that the history of Shanghai's development was a microcosm of the development of Chinese society. In the old days of China, Shanghai was the economic and cultural center of the entire country. Decades later, there was no doubt that Shanghai was now the economic center of China. Now, Shanghai was filled with high-rise buildings. Almost all of the world's well-known companies had set up branches in Shanghai, firmly establishing Shanghai's position as the economic center of China.
However, in this world, there was right and there was wrong. There was white and there was black. Shanghai's gangs had grown up with its economy. After decades of development, Shanghai's underworld forces had gone from the ground to the underground. They had bid farewell to fighting and killing and were gradually integrating into all aspects of social and economic life. It was not that the Shanghai mafia was gone, but it had changed. Perhaps a wealthy merchant on the street was the big brother of a gang. Unless they had no other choice, gangs would never fight with each other. In the tide of the economy, everyone understood the principle of looking at money. The power of the economy cleverly maintained the balance in the hearts of the gangs.
Since they could coexist peacefully, why did they have to fight and kill? The people in the underworld had their own rules of survival. It was white on the outside, but it could be black on the inside. The white ones were for the police to see. What was on the table was reasonable and legal. What was not on the table was an important source of income for the underworld. Therefore, there were very few gangs that did not smuggle, sell drugs, collect protection fees, or dabble in prostitution, gambling, and drugs. Unless the boss of the gang was someone like Bill Gates, where else would they get such a huge amount of money to feed their thousands of subordinates? However, there were only a few Bill Gates in the world, and there was only one in the United States. Therefore, all the gangs in the world were labeled as smuggling, drug trafficking, gambling, and drugs.
If there were no triads, what was the point of having the police? Everything in the world was complementary. Some people entered the underworld willingly, while others entered the underworld because they had no choice.
Xiao Tian, who was sitting in a taxi, was such a person. He did not want his future empire to be marked with a unique underworld label. He wanted to establish a new order in the underground kingdom, a new order in the underworld. In today's society, illegal underworld organizations could not survive for long. Some could be rampant for a while, some could be arrogant for a few years, but there was definitely no gang that could live freely for a lifetime. In China, one should never underestimate the social order established by the party. One could obey this order, or caress it, but one could never break it. If the Chinese government could drive five million soldiers from the mainland to Taiwan, would it care about a small underworld organization?
The answer was, of course, no.
The underground kingdom that Xiao Tian wanted to establish would be a brand new underworld organization. You could say that I was a triad, but you could not say that I was breaking the law. I wanted to break the law reasonably and legally, kill people, and eliminate my enemies. All of these were the problems that Xiao Tian had been thinking about since he walked out of the North City Prison. When Xiao Tian took a taxi to the bustling streets of Shanghai and saw all kinds of office buildings, hotels, and high-end residential buildings, he was even more determined.
Xiao Tian, who was sitting in the back row, looked at the driver in front and said," Driver, which hotel in Shanghai is the best?”
"Speaking of hotels! There were hundreds of high-class hotels in Shanghai, but recently, a new Grand Hyatt Jinmao Hotel opened on the top floor of Jinmao Tower. It was a five-star hotel! Due to the new opening, all houses are now 40% off!”the driver said proudly.
"Oh! Gold Trade Building!" Xiao Tian muttered to himself. He had studied economics in school and had long known that the Jinmao Commercial Building in Shanghai was the tallest building in China. It was occupied by internationally renowned companies. He heard that the price per square meter was calculated in US dollars.
Shanghai had always been Xiao Tian's dream place. Since he wanted to use the best in Shanghai, he decided to stay at the Grand Hyatt Hotel.
At the thought of this, he immediately told the driver to drive to the Grand Hyatt Hotel. The taxis that the brothers took followed closely behind.
Grand Hyatt Shanghai, the tallest hotel in the world, stood on the streets of Shanghai. It was located in the emerging economic development zone---the "tallest building in China" in the center of the Lujiazui Financial and Trade Zone in Shanghai. It was located at the top of the 88-story Jinmao Tower. The hotel's decoration was very unique. Modern art was integrated with the traditional culture of China. The hotel has a total of 555 luxurious rooms, luxurious and beautiful, the largest area in Shanghai, and you can enjoy the beautiful scenery of Shanghai.
In front of the Jinmao Tower in Shanghai's Pu Dong District.
The doorman saw three taxis standing steadily in front of the door. The doors of the three cars opened at the same time, and ten people got out. Other than a lady in red, the rest were men in dark suits. Other than the leader who looked like a cultured person, the rest of them were wearing suits. No matter how they looked, they looked like thugs with fierce expressions.
The doorman quickly reached out to stop him and said,"Boss, you're-"
Just as he was about to lead his brothers through the door, he was suddenly stopped by a doorman. Xiao Tian's face immediately revealed a displeased expression.
Wang Sen quickly went forward and said to the doorman,"I heard that there's a new hotel up there. We want to stay in the hotel."”
"The building has a rule that men need to wear a suit and tie to enter, but you-? "And you look like-" The doorman suddenly felt the two sharp eyes of the leader shooting at him. He was so stunned that he did not dare to say the words "underworld".
"What are we like? Like the underworld?" Xiao Tian narrowed his eyes and said," That's right, we're gangsters! We just want to stay in the hotel today. Why can't we?”
"But the hotel has rules…" the doorman said timidly.
"Those are your rules, your rules. But now, my words are the rules! Let's go!" Xiao Tian said coldly.
With that, he walked towards the lobby of the building.
The doorman was pushed aside by Wang Sen. Yang Ming, who was following behind, pointed at the doorman's forehead with his eyes wide open, meaning to be careful.
The doorman was so scared that he broke out in a cold sweat and stood at the entrance of the building in a daze.
Xiao Tianyi walked into the lobby of the Jinmao Building and took the elevator to the top of the Jinmao Building to the newly opened Jinmao Grand Hyatt Hotel.
As soon as Xiao Tian and the others stepped out of the elevator, the entire hotel lobby suddenly opened up. It was elegant and magnificent. It was indeed a five-star hotel! 'If it was me in the past, I might not be able to enter this place in my entire life.' Xiao Tian sighed in his heart. Not to mention Xiao Tian, Zhang Gang, the three Guardian Deities, and the others were even more shocked by the luxury of the hotel. The ancient books said that the palace was grand and elegant, so it was probably just so.
Everyone came to the hotel's front desk and saw the price tag of the room. It was even more shocking. The price of a Grand Hyatt room was 3073 yuan per day, and a Grand Hyatt luxury room was 3505 yuan per day. The most ridiculous thing was that the VIP suite was priced at 4766 yuan per day. This was the style of a five-star hotel. Xiao Tian thought to himself that even the lowest room here was only enough for one day.
Xiao Tian looked at the price of all the rooms and asked for five Grand Hyatt's luxury view rooms (double). The price was 3649 yuan per day. After 40% discount, it was 2189 yuan per day. The five rooms cost more than 10,000 yuan per day. The waitress at the bar was surprised to see such a handsome young man book five luxury rooms at once. She was even more attracted by Xiao Tian's masculine face. She wished that the check-in procedures would be more troublesome so that she could take a look at it for a while.
When the brothers saw Xiao Tian's action, they thought that in this life, only with their boss could they stay in such a good five-star hotel.
Xiao Tianbian asked,"Are you satisfied?"”
The brothers nodded their heads in satisfaction.
"Humph! You guys are too easily satisfied. In less than three years, I will open a five-star hotel in Shanghai. At that time, you can stay there as long as you want. "Haha," Xiao Tian said.
The waiter at the bar counter thought that the young man in front of him must be joking. He thought that opening a five-star hotel was like opening a roadside inn. However, none of the brothers doubted Xiao Tian's words at all. As long as Xiao Tian's words were the truth, then it must exist. Therefore, when Xiao Tian said that he would open a five-star hotel in Shanghai within three years, he would definitely be able to open it.
There were five rooms. Since Feng 'er was a woman, she could occupy a luxurious room alone. Xiao Tian gave Feng' er the best room facing the Huangpu River. Feng 'er was so happy that she shouted long live. Of the remaining four rooms, Xiao Tian and Li Dong stayed in one, Zhang Gang and Wang Sen stayed in another, and the Dragon Tiger Brothers stayed in the other. The remaining room could only be filled with an extra bed, which made the three Kings extremely happy.
Just like that, the fugitives who had escaped from the prison in the north of the city were staying in the most luxurious five-star hotel on the tallest building in China. Xiao Tian thought that even the FBI would not be able to imagine it. Although it was a little expensive, Xiao Tian thought it was worth it.
If a person wanted to live with dignity, they had to change their lifestyle first.
If a person wanted to be respected by others, he must first have a reason to be respected by others.
That was what Xiao Tian thought and did. Staying at the Grand Hyatt Hotel was the first step to realizing his dream.
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