Chapter 49
Seeing that the Jiang family was about to sink deep into the mud, Jiang Yunhan could no longer care about pretending to be cowardly and hurriedly said, “Uncle, we need to be cautious. N Country and Huaxia have not established diplomatic relations. All project cooperation is being discussed and negotiated by Dawei Tianlong itself with N Country. If something goes wrong, the country won’t cover for us.”
Once Jiang Yunhan said this, everyone’s minds seemed to clear all at once.
That was right. N Country and Huaxia had not established diplomatic relations. Otherwise, something like this should have been brokered by the state. How could it be Dawei Tianlong’s turn?
The moment Jiang Yunhan opened his mouth, Zhuang Yi knew things were going badly. Once the matter rose to the national level, entrepreneurs would always think it over again and again. He only hated that he had no official figure to come out and endorse him now, which greatly reduced the credibility of his claims.
He stared at Jiang Yunhan, killing intent already stirring.
Jiang Yunhan knew that the Dragon King male lead had already regarded him as a thorn in his side and wished to kill him quickly. But compared with offending the male lead, he wanted to preserve his current wealth and status even more.
“You really know how to joke. Although N Country and Huaxia have not established diplomatic relations, it is still a sovereign independent country. Such a huge project, witnessed by tens of millions of citizens—could it possibly be fake?” Zhuang Yi said confidently.
Yan Qingwen keenly noticed the other party’s cunning. He was only making everyone focus their attention on N Country, using the credibility of a nation as a guarantee.
However, N Country did not need to pay any price. The one investing in the canal excavation was Dawei Tianlong Group. The one hiring locals to work and paying their wages was also Dawei Tianlong Group. N Country only needed to hand over control of the canal to Dawei Tianlong Group for a hundred years, and that was enough.
If the canal failed to be excavated successfully, N Country would not suffer any real loss.
Quite a few people were once again fooled dizzy by these words.
Jiang Yunhan, however, was not fooled. Since he had already started, if he did not continue exposing the Dragon King male lead’s scam, this matter would probably not be over.
He said, “Of course N Country’s government can’t be fake, but did N Country’s government invest? Did they put in money? Isn’t all the money still coming from Dawei Tianlong, the company undertaking the canal excavation project? And where does Dawei Tianlong’s money come from? Isn’t it from banks and investors? Once Dawei Tianlong takes the money, then uses protests from N Country locals as an excuse to say construction progress has stalled and stops work indefinitely, who will ultimately suffer the losses—N Country or the investors?”
Everyone sucked in a cold breath. Goodness, Jiang Yunhan’s analysis was truly so reasonable that Reasonable’s mother opened the door for Reasonable—reasonable all the way home.
“Our Dawei Tianlong is a super-large enterprise with a market value of two hundred billion. We cooperate with Russia and W Country, with annual orders worth tens of billions!” Zhuang Yi’s follower said loudly.
Yan Qingwen had received the materials sent by Chen Zhien and had already thoroughly figured out the relationship between Dawei Tianlong Group, Qiu Xin, and Zhuang Yi. She had already predicted how Jiang Yunhan would slap Zhuang Yi in the face. So he was simply moving out the contents of The Dragon King Returns.
Since Jiang Yunhan wanted to draw this hatred, there was no need for her to interrupt.
She originally wanted to leave this place of dispute with Wen Hebai, but unexpectedly, the latter was completely engrossed in eating melon. She was holding a handful of sunflower seeds from who knew where and cracking them with great enthusiasm.
Yan Qingwen: “…”
Over there, perhaps because everyone’s earnest and trusting gazes gave Jiang Yunhan tremendous courage, or perhaps because Zhuang Yi’s follower’s arrogant flames looked unpleasant to him, Jiang Yunhan pressed on in one go and exposed Dawei Tianlong Group’s background.
“What orders worth tens of billions, what business genius, what youngest billionaire—it’s all fake! Your Dawei Tianlong Group’s Qiu Xin is nothing but an underworld criminal who made his fortune by organizing prostitution! He swindled and cheated money in J Country, then went to G City and opened a Morito Investment Company. Back then, when Weilong Group was acquired, the capital injection came from Morito Investment Company. But—”
Jiang Yunhan looked around and confidently revealed even more inside information. “The fifty-billion-yuan order from J Country that supposedly revived Dawei Tianlong Group and helped it smoothly go public through a shell company back then was actually not an order at all, but a loan. The lender was the subsidiary your Dawei Tianlong Company opened in J Country. You were merely moving money from your left hand to your right hand, falsifying accounts, and creating the illusion that you had brought back a fifty-billion-yuan order so you could trick shareholders into buying your stock!”
The crowd was in an uproar. They all ordered their assistants to investigate thoroughly. Some assistants had indeed found some information about Dawei Tianlong Group, but they had not uncovered what exactly was going on with that fifty-billion-yuan order. Their bosses were so angry they began scolding their assistants as useless.
Zhuang Yi and his follower were already extremely shocked, not knowing how Jiang Yunhan knew these things!
Even so, they still had to quibble. “You—you’re talking nonsense!”
“Miss Yan—President Yan, don’t listen to his nonsense!” Zhuang Yi hurriedly explained to Yan Qingwen.
However, Yan Qingwen was currently peeling sunflower seeds. After great effort, she had finally peeled enough seeds and was saving them to eat in one mouthful, only for Wen Hebai to eat them instead. She was so angry she glared furiously at Wen Hebai.
Hearing someone call her, she subconsciously looked over with a face full of anger.
With one sweep of her sharp gaze, never mind what everyone present thought—Jiang Yunhan’s inner thoughts were especially loud.
【Yan Qingwen finally discovered she was deceived? Hmph, if I couldn’t bear to watch everyone be tricked, I wouldn’t bother with her!】
Yan Qingwen said, “I never listen only to what others say. I choose to see with my own eyes.”
She had Chen Zhien hand the information they had found to Wen Hegu, who was closest to them. Wen Hegu flipped through it and discovered it was almost the same as what Jiang Yunhan had said.
Someone leaned over beside Wen Hegu and glanced at it, then immediately exclaimed, “So what Third Young Master Jiang said is all true. President Yan has first-hand information in her hands!”
Everyone fought to borrow this information, while Jiang Yunhan, who had just been in the spotlight, stiffened. Clearly, he had been the one to tell everyone. Why had Yan Qingwen also found these things?
Moreover, compared with his words without evidence, the materials Yan Qingwen had obtained contained detailed information about Dawei Tianlong Group’s finances and business dealings, including when Dawei Tianlong Group’s subsidiary in J Country was established, who the legal representative was, how much registered capital it had, when it obtained the loan, and who its shareholders were. Everything had been dug out thoroughly.
Aside from Dawei Tianlong Group, G City’s Morito Investment Company, Zhonghai Security Group, and other companies related to Qiu Xin were also listed clearly, including which ones had abnormal operations and even when the stock exchange had issued warnings.
Everyone present was a K City entrepreneur. Although not all of them had a net worth of hundreds of billions, they still had tens of millions or hundreds of millions. Those who could reach this position, aside from those who relied on accumulated family wealth, were mostly capable people who had built themselves up from scratch. None of them were fools, and they soon saw clearly that Dawei Tianlong Group was gold and jade on the outside, rotten cotton within.
Zhuang Yi had not expected Yan Qingwen to be able to obtain these materials either. His expression was stiff and foul, killing intent spreading in his eyes. Aside from Jiang Yunhan, Chen Zhien was also placed on his list of people to eliminate. Although he had already grasped Qi Zange’s weakness, Qi Zange was only a secretary. The one truly valued by Yan Qingwen was this chief assistant who did secretary work!
Yan Qingwen added, “Speaking of which, Chairman Qiu Xin once said that he had discovered a copper mine in J Country and even bought a mine, but why haven’t I ever heard that J Country has copper mines?”
Everyone present knew that the Yan family was the true expert in the copper mining industry. The mines owned by the Yan family truly existed, not the kind of company that inflated transaction volume with copper while not actually having a single mine.
Everyone here worked in real industries. A company like Dawei Tianlong Group, which had no real industry at all and relied entirely on scamming investments to make money, was what they looked down on the most.
At once, every gaze looking at Zhuang Yi was like they were looking at garbage.
Garbage could still be divided into recyclable and non-recyclable. Zhuang Yi was nuclear wastewater that would pollute the ocean even if dumped into the sea.
“You people are truly bold, daring to humiliate our Dragon King!” Zhuang Yi’s follower angrily shouted at everyone.
Wen Hegu had a fiery temper and immediately laughed and scolded, “Dragon King? Then I’m the Queen Mother of the West! Which sea do you rule? What sea’s Dragon King are you? Don’t tell me you’re the Dragon King of the waters near Fukushima?”
Scamming money all the way to their K City—did he really think K City’s major families were soft persimmons?
Zhuang Yi stared at Wen Hegu with a sinister gaze. Facing everyone’s sneers, mockery, and curses, anger had already built up in his heart. But the one who disappointed him the most was Yan Qingwen. She was the woman who had hurt him the deepest!
The Yan family, Jiang family, and Wen family—very good. He remembered them all. He would make them pay for the humiliation he suffered today!
Zhuang Yi stormed out of the place with his follower.
And so this farce came to an end. Of course, only temporarily. Jiang Yunhan knew that Zhuang Yi would definitely retaliate against them, but thinking of the Wen family and the Yan family, he decided to drag them out to withstand the male lead’s anger. After all, they were women the Dragon King male lead had set his eyes on. No matter what, the Dragon King male lead would not hurt them, right?
Even if Yan Qingwen had not heard Jiang Yunhan’s inner thoughts, she had no intention of letting Jiang Yunhan perfectly vanish into the background. Facing everyone’s praise, she smiled faintly and said, “If not for Third Young Master Jiang, I wouldn’t have thought to investigate Dawei Tianlong Group. Speaking of which, we really have Third Young Master Jiang to thank! Right, did Third Young Master Jiang investigate him in advance? Otherwise, how could you know so much?”
With these words, she skillfully gathered everyone’s gazes onto Jiang Yunhan.
Jiang Yunhan cursed inwardly and had no choice but to brace himself and play dumb, saying things like he had also read the news, but felt something was wrong, and coincidentally, an investor he knew had received a warning from the Ministry of Commerce, so he had been moved to investigate.
“Young people really are impressive!” Everyone praised Jiang Yunhan one after another.
Jiang Zanghua and Jiang Yunqin, who had been left out on the side, felt rather unpleasant inside. Jiang Yunhan from the second branch was almost stealing the spotlight from their main branch.
Yan Qingwen and Wen Hebai did not care about these matters. After the dinner ended, Yan Qingwen said to Wen Hegu, “I think that Zhuang Yi is not simple. I had people investigate him, but they couldn’t find anything, which shows that the force behind him is not simple either. Now that all of us have been targeted by him, everyone should be more careful.”
Wen Hegu nodded. “I’ll tell Dad, Mom, and the others when I get home. You two should be careful too.”
She looked at Wen Hebai and wanted to remind her of something, but thinking that there were now four people protecting her, plus Yan Qingwen worrying about her, she swallowed those words back down.
After parting from Wen Hegu, Wen Hebai patted her chest with lingering fear and said, “When Big Sister looked at me just now, I thought I was about to be scolded again.”
These words hit Yan Qingwen’s funny bone for some reason. She burst out laughing and said, “You didn’t do anything wrong. Big Sister won’t scold you.”
Wen Hebai froze, then the corners of her mouth lifted. “Hehe, Wife, you called her Big Sister!”
This meant that from the bottom of her heart, Yan Qingwen had already started treating them as one family, right?
Yan Qingwen belatedly realized it. She restrained her smile and put on a stern face. After a long while, she said, “It’s not the first time I’ve called her Big Sister.”
Back when Wen Hebai often came to the Yan family to play, Yan Qingwen would also call Wen Hegu “Big Sister” along with Wen Hebai. Later, after she became more sensible and understood rules, she changed how she addressed her.
Wen Hebai did not dwell on it. She held Yan Qingwen’s hand and said, “Even when I didn’t do anything wrong before, she would still scold me, so I think it’s because you were by my side that she didn’t scold me. This is all Wife’s credit!”
Yan Qingwen looked at her amusedly and did not refute anything.
Zhuang Yi had been slapped in the face at this business dinner filled with big shots, which was equivalent to being blacklisted in K City. Li Jinglei had not expected that the honest young man he thought he knew was actually the president of a fraud group—yes, Dawei Tianlong Group had already been defined by all sectors in K City as a fraud group.
Once the news spread, those who previously held stock in related companies began selling or reducing their holdings one after another.
Qiu Xin was at the key stage of negotiations with the president of N Country. When he heard that domestic investors were withdrawing their funds and running away, and that the image he had painstakingly built had been ruined overnight by Zhuang Yi, he was so angry he fainted on the spot and was taken to the hospital.
However, he had nowhere to voice his grievances. Who asked him to be only a worker working for Zhuang Yi?
A call came to his phone. He had just answered and had not yet had time to complain when a burst of scolding came from the other end. “Useless trash! You can’t even handle this little matter!”
Qiu Xin’s heart nearly seized. “Dad, if it weren’t for Zhuang Yi—”
“Shut up. Is the Young Master’s name something you can call directly? Also, don’t call me Dad. I don’t have such a useless son!”
Qiu Xin’s knuckles whitened around the phone.
“Shenji Sect has already noticed something abnormal. I don’t care what method you use. Even if you use yourself as a shield, you must ensure the Young Master’s safety!” the man on the other end ordered again.
After hanging up, Qiu Xin smashed the phone onto the floor.
Just because he was an illegitimate child who could not be brought into the light, he had never been treated as human since childhood. Even trash like Zhuang Yi could easily climb over his head. Now that Zhuang Yi was being watched by Shenji Sect, his father wanted to push him out as a shield?!
On the other side, Zhuang Yi also angrily called Qi Zange. “You useless thing, why didn’t you stop Yan Qingwen?”
Qi Zange had long since learned what happened at the dinner. She pretended to be confused and asked, “Stop what?”
“Stop her from having people investigate Dawei Tianlong Group!” Zhuang Yi looked down on Qi Zange even more, not knowing how this woman had managed to get the position of intelligence spy.
Qi Zange was even more speechless. “I wasn’t at the scene. How was I supposed to stop her?”
Zhuang Yi choked, then said, “I don’t care what method you use. Hurry and get rid of that woman Chen Zhien!”
Qi Zange’s heart tightened, but she deliberately said lightly, “I only steal commercial secrets. I don’t do murder or arson.”
“As long as she is by Yan Qingwen’s side, she will always be a great disaster. Either draw her over to our side, or sow discord between her and Yan Qingwen and force her out of Yan Group. I will help you rise to the top and obtain the chief assistant position. That way, you can get even closer to Yan Qingwen, steal Yan Corporation’s commercial secrets, and report back to Shenji Sect. As for Chen Zhien, leave her to us.”
After hanging up, Qi Zange hurriedly went out.
It was already after work. Based on that woman Chen Zhien’s usual habits, she must have run off to drink at a bar again. Now that Zhuang Yi had set his eyes on her, when she got drunk would be the best time to make a move.
What a worrying woman!
Chief Assistant Chen: Because she was too capable, she brought a fatal disaster upon herself.
Secretary Qi: You really are very, capable.
After this plotline is finished, it’ll temporarily be time for the young couple to talk love.
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