CHAPTER 418: CHAPTER 418

Fu Youhan, after safely escaping from the Feng Family, immediately made a phone call to Chi Jing upon returning to the hotel.

"Check who laughed at Xixi on the wedding day."

Chi Jing, knowing that Fu Youhan was planning a reckoning in the fall, promptly started investigating the surveillance footage of the wedding and quickly organized a list.

Once Chi Jing sent over the list, Fu Youhan made another call with instructions.

"For the families other than the Jiang Family, directly investigate their tax issues. If there are issues, expose them; if not, see if they have any cooperation with the Emperor Bow Group, and if so, destroy the cooperation; if not, create cooperation and then destroy it."

In short, the plan was to wreak havoc on those few families, sparing no expense to make them suffer heavy losses as a punishment for laughing at Jiang Moxi.

"What about the Jiang Family?" Chi Jing pressed.

"The Jiang Family? THE ONE Group’s vehicle system cooperation plan will soon be announced, and it will involve the Jiang Family. By then, let Shen Xing step in to negotiate the cooperation with them, letting the Jiang Family focus on components, while Emperor Bow provides technical support and channels."

The vehicle system project was a lucrative opportunity that the Jiang Family couldn’t possibly monopolize.

And since Shen Xing is the general manager of the Emperor Bow Group, him stepping in to negotiate would bring substantial benefits. Given Jiang Tairan’s nature, he certainly wouldn’t give up such a lucrative opportunity.

Thus, cooperation between the two families was certain.

However, given Jiang Tairan’s penchant for quick profits, substandard products would surely arise if he were in charge of producing components.

When that happens, their Emperor Bow Group will take the initiative to expose it, and the Jiang Family will be kicked out of the project.

Furthermore, the stocks of goods accumulated by the Jiang Family, along with their working capital, would also be trapped, and bankruptcy wouldn’t be far off.

"This plan is indeed good, but it will also expose your and Emperor Bow Group’s connection. About the Old Master..."

Chi Jing actually didn’t quite agree with Fu Youhan using Emperor Bow Group to target the Jiang Family at this time.

But Fu Youhan asked him, "Do you think if I don’t use Emperor Bow right now, the Old Master won’t be suspicious?"

Chi Jing was suddenly at a loss for words.

Because lately, whether it was Fu Youhan far in Emperor City or Chi Jing stationed in Yan City, they could both clearly feel that people from Old Master Fu were watching them.

"Since he’s already noticed, there’s no point in us continuing to hide."

After laying out this statement, Fu Youhan continued to instruct on some strategies targeting the Fu Family.

Once the call ended, Chi Jing looked out at the night sky and sighed softly, "Yan City is about to see a change in weather soon."

*

The next morning, THE ONE Group announced the results of the bidding for the vehicle system cooperation.

Jiang Tairan, upon seeing the result, was so delighted he was nearly ecstatic.

He even told his sons, "I thought we had offended Suchen previously, and this cooperation would fall through. I didn’t expect Mr. Lai De to still extend an olive branch to us."

Jiang Guosheng added, "Truly a man who managed to elevate his company to the top three in the world, Mr. Lai De’s magnanimity and demeanor are indeed admirable."

Jiang Tairan nodded, "We must properly express our gratitude to Mr. Lai De later."

What they didn’t know in their amazement was that Mr. Lai De was actually standing in the upstairs office, watching from a distance their joyously naive expressions, with undisguised contempt in his eyes.

In fact, yesterday morning, when Jiang Weiwei was caught cheating, he was also nearby in the room, watching their family’s ridiculous display.

In fact, Jiang Guosheng’s act of bribing the hotel manager to book a room using Mr. Lai De’s personal information had been immediately reported to Mr Lai De.

Because the fool hadn’t investigated beforehand that the hotel was under the ownership of THE ONE Group.

Thus, the hotel staff, who were Mr. Lai De’s people.

How could they possibly allow others to harm their boss?

So regardless whether Jiang Guosheng bribed the manager to book a room or Jiang Tairan bribed the waiter to drug his drink, Mr. Lai De received the news in advance.

From start to finish, Mr. Lai De was watching their monkey show, also wanting to see what their ultimate goal was.

It was only when the adultery-catching scene unfolded that Mr. Lai De realized they were targeting the first lady of THE ONE Group.

This disgusted Mr. Lai De terribly!

Had it not been for not wanting to ruin the strategic cooperation previously established with the Emperor Bow Group, Mr. Lai De would have wanted to throw this group out right then.

Fearing that he could not restrain himself from having them thrown out if he continued to watch those four smug people, Mr. Lai De turned and left the office.

Before leaving, Mr. Lai De did not forget to instruct Secretary Chen: "If they look for me later, tell them I haven’t come to the office today."

Secretary Chen nodded: "Yes!"

About ten minutes later, Jiang Tairan truly came with his three sons to find Secretary Chen.

"Mr. Lai De should be in his position now, we are Jiang Group who just clinched the car-mounted project, I am..."

Jiang Tairan introduced himself to Secretary Chen in a modest manner, hoping to convince Secretary Chen to let them meet Mr. Lai De.

But Secretary Chen did not even wait for him to finish introducing himself before interrupting him.

"Mr. Lai De is not in the office today!"

Secretary Chen had been accompanying Mr. Lai De yesterday and naturally saw the "catching adultery" drama performed by this family in the hotel that morning.

Therefore, facing the pretentiously amiable smiles of this family, he felt disgusted too and couldn’t even wait for them to finish talking.

If it were a secretary from another company, with such an attitude, Jiang Tairan and his sons would definitely have lost their temper.

But Secretary Chen is from THE ONE Group, Mr. Lai De’s chief secretary, whose status is definitely above the little Jiang’s and still controls whether they can see Mr. Lai De or not.

Thus, when Jiang Tairan and his sons were treated rudely, not only did they not dare to fart, but they even tried to smile apologetically.

"When will Mr. Lai De be here? We want to express our thanks to him."

"Not sure. If you want to see Mr. Lai De, go to the lobby and make an appointment with the front desk."

With that, Secretary Chen turned and walked away.

Jiang Tairan and the four people watched Secretary Chen’s retreating figure with some confusion.

"Secretary Chen seems to have an opinion against us," analyzed Jiang Dinghai.

Jiang Jianzhong then said, "Did Mr. Lai De discover something yesterday?"

Jiang Guosheng frowned: "That shouldn’t be possible. We didn’t see anyone from Lai De’s side in the hotel yesterday. Moreover, even if Lai De knew, this project wouldn’t have ended up with us today."

Jiang Tairan was thoughtful.

But just then, Emperor Bow Group’s general manager Shen Xing came up to greet them, throwing out alluring terms, wanting to collaborate with Jiang’s.

Thus, in the face of benefits, Jiang Tairan no longer cared to think about the string of inconsistencies.

They immediately invited Shen Xing to Jiang’s to discuss the cooperation project and terms in depth.

Shen Xing also had a very efficient way of handling matters, without the habit of other corporate executives who like to haggle over price.

He didn’t even play the old stunt of needing to report to a superior, directly giving Jiang’s a satisfactory price.

Jiang Tairan originally wanted to drag it out a bit longer, to see if there were other groups willing to discuss at a better price.

It turns out there were indeed a few inquiring about collaboration intentions that morning; Jiang Tairan inquired carefully, and the concessions from others didn’t reach half of what Emperor Bow Group offered.

Afraid of complications if things dragged on, Jiang Tairan hurriedly met again with Shen Xing, drafting and signing the contract...