CHAPTER 718: CHAPTER 718

Lin Fan asked Wei Yue’er to stay in the car and wait for him, and then got into Li Zhen’s car.

"Mr. Lin, those two guys, I’ve already reprimanded them, and I’ll strengthen my discipline over my subordinates in the future. Such things won’t happen again," Li Zhen said cautiously.

If Lin Fan hadn’t been present today, those two Blonde Hair would have been able to help that middle-aged woman bully people, which is obviously wrong.

Lin Fan smiled slightly and said, "It’s okay, they’re all mixed up in the underground, expecting them to reform quickly is a bit unrealistic, let’s take it slow."

The two Blonde Hair reprimanded the middle-aged woman because Lin Fan was present, and said some morally right things, which means they are still salvageable.

Li Zhen said, "Yes."

Lin Fan said, "I called you here not because of such a trivial matter, but because of the Wei Family. What’s the current situation with the Wei Family’s project?"

Li Zhen knew that Lin Fan had called him for something important.

"Mr. Lin, it seems the Wei Family is determined to promote their project in Yun City. Recently, the Wei Family’s publicity has been very vigorous, basically having their ground promoters in every community. But rest assured, Mr. Lin, most of their promotion has failed under our intervention," Li Zhen said.

The Jiangnan Wei Family initially attempted to unify Yun City’s underground to kickstart their community project but failed, and the underground was unified by Lin Fan.

Both Lin Fan and Li Zhen opposed the Wei Family’s project, and under Li Zhen’s intervention, the Wei Family’s ground promoters found it difficult to enter communities for promotion, greatly hindering their work.

Li Zhen said, "Mr. Lin, rest assured, we haven’t done anything illegal, like smashing Wei Family’s booths—there’s been no such thing."

Lin Fan said, "That’s good, we need to fight but can’t give anyone a handle. We can employ appropriate means."

Li Zhen said, "Yes, Mr. Lin, but... we can disrupt Wei Family’s offline promotion, but they’ve also done significant online advertising, which we’re powerless against."

Because of Wei Family’s online promotion, their community project made certain progress, such as in the Lijing District where Liu Mengjie lives, turning the community project into a successful pilot.

Lin Fan said, "Then we’ll retaliate online."

Li Zhen said, "Mr. Lin, about the Mortal Group airport bombing incident, I also learned that this must be the Wei Family’s revenge and warning to you, right?"

Lin Fan nodded, "It’s indeed the Wei Family’s doing. After the bombing incident, Wei Tiansheng’s eldest son, Wei Jisheng, approached me, saying he could settle it for me, his condition being my submission."

Li Zhen said, "Oh," and continued, "Mr. Lin, of course, couldn’t submit to them. The Wei Family is being too excessive, even doing such things."

Lin Fan said, "Not only will I not compromise with the Wei Family, but I’ll treat this as their formal declaration of war. It’s always been them attacking and us defending, but next, we’ll take the initiative to attack."

Li Zhen said, "Mr. Lin, you asked me to find vegetable farmers—is this the initiative attack?"

Lin Fan indeed had a plan. Earlier he squeezed in some time to message Li Zhen, giving him a task to find those vegetable vendors and farmers hurt by the community project, helping them make short videos to denounce the harm caused by the community project.

Li Zhen didn’t know specifically what Lin Fan wanted to do but could guess this was to deal with the Wei Family.

Lin Fan said, "Is the short video prepared?"

Li Zhen said, "It’s ready, Mr. Lin, please take a look."

Li Zhen opened his phone and played a short video for Lin Fan to watch. In the video was an old vegetable farmer with a weathered face, red-eyed, tearfully lamenting his misfortune. Since the community project started, customers haven’t been buying his vegetables. The market was monopolized by the Wei Family, cutting off their livelihood.

After watching, Lin Fan nodded and said, "It’s filmed well. Short videos are very popular now, spreading quickly and having a big impact. This time, I’ll use this video’s fermentation to launch an online opinion war, making everyone aware of the harm of the Wei Family’s project."

Li Zhen became excited upon hearing, thinking Mr. Lin is indeed impressive. This move surely will give the Wei Family a direct hit!

Li Zhen then smiled wryly and said, "Mr. Lin’s plan is excellent, but I don’t understand online promotion well, and I don’t know how to do it."

Lin Fan smiled, "You don’t need to worry about this. You’ve done your part; next, leave it to me."

According to Lin Fan’s plan, the next day this short video would be uploaded online, fermenting and creating public opinion. With public opinion, it will attract attention.

The Wei Family aims to monopolize, and once opposing public opinion forms, naturally someone will intervene.

This is what Lin Fan referred to as the appropriate use of means, as only then can Wei Family be dealt with.

Sure enough, the next day, under Lin Fan’s arrangement, the short video appeared on Huaxia’s most popular short video platforms, drawing public attention.

"Community project, this is the capitalists monopolizing the market. Initially, they attract customers with low prices through subsidies, and once the market is monopolized, the capitalists’ nature is exposed, and they start exploiting."

"It’s all the capitalists’ conspiracy!"

"In this capital game, the most harmed are the vegetable farmers. They work hard to grow vegetables, but no one buys them. In the end, they either have to switch industries or sell at low prices to the capital."

"Capital ultimately monopolizes the market, controls the source and customers, pricing power goes to the capital. On the one hand, they can buy vegetables from farmers at ultra-low prices; on the other, they sell to customers at high prices. Customers have no option but to buy from them, getting exploited."

"This can be said to be the basic method of monopoly, always successful. Capitalists are too evil!"

After learning the truth about community projects, netizens spoke up to criticize, creating a storm of curses online.

"Absolutely can’t let capitalists succeed, we must fight against monopoly!"

"I personally will not participate in community projects!"

"I still prefer going to the market to buy vegetables, although community projects are indeed cheap, but you can’t be greedy for this cheap stuff!"

Currently, capital is spending money on subsidies, and customers indeed have cheap deals, but once capital monopolizes the market, customers become slaughtering lambs, at mercy to be exploited, capitalists wielding the sickle, reaping the profits, laughing in the end.

"Outrageous!"

In the Wangu Group Mansion, seeing the flood of online criticism, Wei Tiansheng couldn’t sit still and jumped up in anger.