Return of the King, Dominating the City-Chapter 1511 - 1496: Don’t Tempt Fate

Regarding the counterattack from the Wen Commerce Association’s Liu Tianbao and Lin Rong, Song Yun had anticipated it long beforehand. Moreover, Song Yun was not surprised at all that they found him so quickly. Why? Because the incident with Lin Rong’s dairy company happened right in Sunan, which Song Yun controls. Furthermore, Lin Rong has connections in Sunan, so when the milk recall incident broke out, Lin Rong’s men tried to manage those connections. However, those connections ignored him, hence the exposure of this event.

It must be mentioned here that in Shen Zhou, when any incident occurs, the first thought on the responsible person’s mind is typically not how to handle the situation, calm the victims, and offer compensation or apologies. Most people’s first reaction is how to manage relations.

In the eyes of many, the lives of ordinary people are not worth much. For instance, if your product has issues and kills a few people, compensation is secondary. The key is to suppress the matter. Therefore, the first thing you should do is manage relations, ensure that those who can help you are on your side, and then consider the victims afterwards.

This fact alone indicates that, in some matters, life being insignificant has already become a societal norm. When someone dies in school, the family might learn about it after several good days. If a person dies because of a faulty elevator on a construction site, any news media are barred from interviews. When a train collision kills a group of people, the first action is to bury the train. When a truck crosses a bridge that collapses, not only does the person die, but they are held responsible for overburdening the bridge, even though billion-dollar bridges can’t support a few trucks, which is utterly flawed.

In a society where human life is worthless, speaking of other matters is simply laughable. Discuss those things only when your life is secure; don’t dream of flying before learning to walk.

In the current milk recall incident, without Song Yun’s manipulation behind the scenes, the outcome would surely be bribing all levels to make the issue disappear, and the victims would receive little compensation, mostly just a few boxes of milk along with a refund of the previously purchased milk.

This is how a large portion of Shen Zhou’s enterprises operate.

However, this time, Song Yun’s intervention ensured the matter couldn’t be suppressed, leading to an investigation into why it couldn’t be concealed. Discovering Song Yun’s manipulation was not difficult upon investigation.

Since they knew who orchestrated it, and given Lin Rong’s existing enmity with Song Yun, the counterattack was swift.

Even as Song Yun simultaneously exposed the scandal of Liu Tianbao’s company, causing its stock price to plummet, the Wen Commerce Association, being an integrated business alliance, started attacking Song Yun’s industries almost immediately.

The companies under Song Yun’s control were all severely battered.

Numerous orders were canceled, countless previously negotiated deals fell through.

In just under a day, Song Yun’s losses amounted to billions of renminbi.

Nevertheless, all of these losses were anticipated by Song Yun, so despite his rapidly evaporating assets, Song Yun remained unflustered.

Why?

Because that property from Abe Jinming finally reached Song Yun’s hands.

Song Yun promptly transferred a large sum of money to his account and instructed Zhao Yan to manage it.

Zhao Yan didn’t let the funds stagnate; instead, he swiftly divided them across various enterprises.

This is a protracted war.

Song Yun continued his daily routine of attending classes, seemingly unaffected by the financial storm he orchestrated.

One week passed.

During this week.

All the industries controlled by Song Yun officially went to war with the Wen Commerce Association, while the strength of the Wen Commerce Association gradually revealed itself.

After a week of warfare and confrontation, Song Yun’s enterprises showed signs of fatigue, whereas the Wen Commerce Association resembled a tireless generator, continuously pressuring Song Yun. Although their losses were multiple times greater than Song Yun’s, they simply had too much money.

With relentless funds, they countered the plummeting stock prices from negative news initiated by Song Yun, buying any stocks people sold without regard for costs.

Similarly, Zhao Yan’s traders were secretly doing the same, albeit in a more clandestine manner.

In this commercial warfare, around ten percent of the stocks of Wen Commerce Association’s conglomerates were sold, and nearly five percent of these were acquired by people arranged by Zhao Yan.

Don’t underestimate this five percent; through prior stockpiling and other maneuvers, Zhao Yan now holds significant shares in numerous companies, enough for Zhao Yan to become the major shareholder of these companies.

The matter did not conclude here.

A week later.

Lin Rong was taken away by personnel from the Ministry of Public Security for involving illegal materials.

Yes, Lin Rong was taken away.

The vice chairman of the Wen Commerce Association was arrested by police for suspected smuggling, illicit shipping, and selling banned items, along with charges of tax evasion, bribery, and other crimes.

The news caused a shock within the Wen Commerce Association.

Almost everyone was astonished that the vice chairman of the Wen Commerce Association could be taken away so easily.

The Wen Commerce Chairman immediately protested to the ZJ provincial system, which responded with helplessness. The other party sent down personnel directly, and due to principle avoidance, their chief could only remain passive in this matter without any way to assist. Thus, the entire ZJ system could only exert external pressure on those from the Ministry of Public Security.

Applying pressure was quite straightforward: the person you detained is a major taxpayer. With his absence, ZJ suffers daily economic losses, and his absence causes stock prices to plummet, triggering a chain reaction affecting surrounding enterprises. Are you trying to sabotage ZJ’s economy?

Under pressure, the Ministry of Public Security presented the signed document by No. 1, along with evidence related to Lin Rong’s case, directly to the pillar of ZJ.

Consequently, the ZJ system fell silent; no one at such a critical moment dared recklessly provoke the big shots.

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