Putting everything else aside, Wang Hongcheng is a clever fellow. He probed and inquired in various ways, and when asked when he would invest, he made all sorts of excuses and evasive answers.

His bureaucratic tone infuriated Xu Qingyi and Gangzi so much that they almost kidnapped him and took him back to Muye City.

Lin Yifeng understood this very well.

If this guy hadn't been so careful, he wouldn't have been able to keep up his deception for ten years without being exposed.

Although Wang Hongcheng is still at his last gasp, it's just a matter of time before he dies, but no one wants to actively seek death. He remains highly wary of their attempts to win him over.

"Old Guo, if Qingyi calls again tonight, have him call me directly."

"I told him what to do next."

Guo Fengsheng nodded blankly.

The next day at noon, Lin Yifeng had just finished lunch when he received a call from Xu Qingyi.

Xu Qingyi's voice on the other end of the phone was full of guilt.

"Brother Feng, I didn't handle this matter well."

Lin Yifeng simply smiled after hearing this.

Don't worry about it.

"Go to the bank and withdraw the money tomorrow."

"I had Lao Guo transfer 50,000 yuan to you."

"When you meet Wang Hongcheng, give him the money directly, tell him it's a deposit from me, and then have him contact me."

Xu Qingyi was shocked by Lin Yifeng's words.

"Fifty thousand yuan!"

"Give it to this swindler?"

"Brother Feng, this..."

Lin Yifeng interrupted Xu Qingyi from continuing to speak.

"Just do what I tell you to do."

"Don't worry, it's just a mere fifty thousand yuan, it's just bait."

"If 50,000 yuan can solve the problem, then it will save a lot of trouble."

This amount of 50,000 yuan is not much for Lin Yifeng.

But for Wang Hongcheng, who was on the verge of despair, that was a life-saving sum of money.

In the 1990s, 50,000 yuan was more than enough for him to deal with the companies that were pressuring him and to give the government a reasonable explanation.

The plan to lure Wang Hongcheng to Muye City and then coax him to Gongcheng is just the simplest first step.

"Okay, I got it, Brother Feng."

Xu Qingyi agreed and then hung up the phone.

Lin Yifeng leaned back in his chair and took a deep breath.

If he remembers correctly, Wang Hongcheng should be feeling anxious about building a factory in Northeast China right now.

Those companies had already paid deposits, and with their cooperation with Wang Hongcheng, they had invested in his technology in advance. Over the past ten years, he had already spent most of that money, so where would he get the money to build a factory?

Fortunately, the government intervened at a critical moment, giving him a much-needed cash flow, but this is certainly not a long-term solution.

This guy now needs to find another sucker to help him pay off his debts.

Lin Yifeng planned to take advantage of this opportunity to have Wang Hongcheng handle the Japanese companies in Gongcheng.

With his years of experience dealing with local officials in Northeast China, he should have no problem handling a mere city like Gongcheng.

There's so much to say about Wang Hongcheng.

This guy simply deceived the entire Northeast region, causing the surrounding governments to lose 400 million yuan back then.

Of course, this guy's scam was also very simple. In 1983, he released a videotape for the first time, demonstrating to the local bureau chief how water could turn into oil, and then added the product to a car demonstration on the spot.

This process involves working together with the couple to secretly switch the two identical buckets.

This method attracted a lot of attention on television at the time, earning it the title of "China's Fifth Great Invention." This guy then used it to start swindling and deceiving people everywhere.

In 1984, under the supervision of relevant departments, they even performed a feat of turning 11 tons of water into fuel oil.

Although gasoline and several barrels of "water-based fuel expander" were added during the process, the facility actually had an oil field at the bottom. After adding the oil, the valve at the bottom was opened, allowing the oil to float to the top and form an oil film, thus deceiving everyone.

After being witnessed by relevant departments in 1984, this guy can be said to have completely reached the pinnacle of his life.

Since then, this guy has successively launched "expanded gasoline", "expanded diesel" and "expanded fuel", which are actually just oil and water mixed in a certain ratio to barely make the car start and burn.

Anyone with even a little knowledge knows that this will severely damage the engine.

But that's how this guy made a name for himself by traveling around and swindling people.

When Wang Hongcheng was first questioned by the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1986, he broke the contract and refused to continue working. He also took the opportunity to steal a document with the official seal of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and a blank letterhead with the letterhead from the Patent Management Office of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

He went back and forged a document titled "Certificate of Wang Hongcheng's Invention Achievement" issued by the Chinese Academy of Sciences by cutting, pasting, and photocopying, and presented it in various places to deceive the trust of his partners.

This move ensured that no department would bother Wang Hongcheng again, directly giving him the "endorsement" of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Since then, investments have poured in from all over the country. While dealing with other people, Wang Hongcheng has been getting companies to keep investing in him, and he has made a fortune as a result.

The turning point came at the end of 1992 when the local governments of the three northeastern provinces, together with the military, demanded that Wang Hongcheng increase production so that the investment he had received could be used to build a factory.

Wang Hongcheng was completely at a loss and could only keep delaying.

No one knew better than him that his products were good enough for ordinary people, let alone for the military.

The most critical issue was that local governments in the three northeastern provinces were planning to have Wang Hongcheng's first batch of products installed on local buses, replacing all the fuel used in the buses with the "fuel expander" that Wang Hongcheng had turned into oil.

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