"If apologies were enough, what would be the point of laws?" Lu Zheng glanced at Zhou Heng with a smile. "No way!"

These two words were like a sharp knife, stabbing Zhou Heng hard in the chest.

Zhou Heng, panting heavily, said to Lu Zheng, "Lu Zheng, are you really not going to let us off the hook?"

Lu Zheng shook his head, and his smile gradually disappeared, replaced by indifference.

Zhou Heng gritted his teeth: "Mr. Lu, it's best to be lenient when you can. Besides, you know how powerful my Zhou family is. If you insist on fighting, my Zhou family will do anything."

Lu Zheng smiled and said, "Whatever you say."

He said it very simply, just two words.

To be honest, Lu Zheng doesn't take Zhou Heng seriously at all right now.

Zhou Heng never expected that Lu Zheng would suddenly say "Whatever you want" to him.

"you……"

Zhou Heng, too thin, pointed at Lu Zheng's nose, but Lu Zheng still said leisurely, "I said, it's all up to you, aren't you satisfied? What, do you want me to say something more?"

"I……"

Zhou Heng really wanted to say something harsh, but Xia Linyu was right there.

Moreover, the recent announcement by the president has proven that Xia Linyu is indeed the future successor of the Xia family.

This means that if he were to provoke Lu Zheng in front of Xia Linyu, his fate would be even worse.

Lu Zheng ignored him and instead turned to look at Li Gu, who had just said little, and the old clan chief, who had spoken the most.

Lu Zheng pointed at Li Gu: "So what are you thinking? Are you planning to surrender, or are you going to fight me to the bitter end? But Li Gu, I think you should fight me head-on. I don't need the Xia family to deal with you anymore. Don't you think your business is declining rapidly?"

Li Gu's eyelids twitched.

Indeed, his online business is being rapidly plundered by Lu Zheng's robot merchants.

Because Lu Zheng's shopping platform is cleaner and has a better ecosystem, there is no price discrimination based on big data, and no push notifications based on big data. Every person shopping on the platform is guaranteed to receive the best recommendations, and there are no fraudulent orders.

Otherwise, if any fraudulent activity is discovered, the account will be banned immediately.

In addition, as long as the products of online merchants are of high quality, they don't actually need to engage in fake orders. Even for novice stores, the system robot will directly push them to customers after confirming the quality.

Because once you buy Lu Zheng's robot, a scanning probe will definitely be included.

For commercial applications, different sensor scanning probes need to be selected based on the specific products being sold.

To sell products on Lu Zheng's robot platform, you must purchase a commercial robot. The price of a commercial robot is the same as that of a regular robot, except that the price of the sensors ranges from one to twenty yuan.

These sensors can be found online; the original price and the price included with the product are the same. Lu Zheng didn't make a single penny of profit; his goal was to ensure the quality of the products.

With these conditions in place, Lu Zheng's business is now absolutely booming.

Conversely, Li Gu will be greatly impacted, to the point that his current business has clearly declined.

Lu Zheng's words were tantamount to directly exposing his true colors.

His eye kept twitching.

Then Lu Zheng turned his gaze to the old clan chief who was still staring at Li Gu in astonishment: "Originally, the business in Mingjia Village could have been done comfortably, and you would have made more money, and so would I, but you had to make trouble."

"And you even chose someone who is about to decline."

"Tsk..."

The old clan chief looked at Li Gu and then at Lu Zheng.

His heart sank instantly.

He knew that Li Gu was no match for Lu Zheng at all. All that flowery talk he'd given before, about how great their company's businesses were...

In retrospect, what he said before was just bragging to himself.

If things continue like this, and Lu Zheng cancels the cooperation with Mingjia Village again, he will be useless as the old clan chief. The villagers will surely kill him in the middle of the night and chop him into pieces.

So he stumbled and ran toward Lu Zheng. As soon as he reached Lu Zheng, he grabbed his hand and said, "Mr. Lu, please give Mingjia Village another chance for Ming Xiang's sake. I promise, I promise I will never dare to do it again."

After saying that, seeing that Lu Zheng did not answer, he turned his head to look at Ming Xiang's parents in front of him, and immediately roared like a wild beast: "You two, don't just stand there! Say a good word for Mr. Lu on behalf of our village!"

Before, he always called Lu Zheng.

He had absolutely no respect for Lu Zheng.

The fact that he's saying this now shows that he's panicked.

Mingxiang's parents snapped out of their shock after being yelled at by the old clan chief.

"Lu Zheng, we agree to you being with Ming Xiang. The village raised us. For our sake, please give our village a chance, just this once!"

Looking at the sorrowful couple, Lu Zheng was speechless.

Do they have to live in the shadow of others their whole lives?

What were they thinking?

Even at this point, it's still like this.

They plead for leniency just because others tell them to? They do whatever they're told?

Lu Zheng ignored them, shook his head and said, "No! No way!"

...

Lu Zheng's words stunned the couple: "No way?"

However, they had lost their previous arrogance and spoke in an unusually soft tone, saying, "Lu Zheng, they are our family. Please, we're begging you, okay? Look at us, the old couple..."

Seeing that Lu Zheng still had the same expression, the couple suddenly turned their gaze to Ming Xiang and said to her, "Xiao Xiang, say something, say something. We are your parents. Your parents have begged you like this. We are family after all."

"Now you know we're family, and you know you're my parents, right?"

Mingxiang's face was also ashen.

How could my parents have become like this?

Since that's the case, Ming Xiang wouldn't make any concessions. She slowly said, "I, Ming Xiang, support Lu Zheng. He did the right thing, Mom. Mingjia Village must pay the price for what it has done. If we really want to resolve this, then we need to hear what Lu Zheng has to say."

The old clan chief, panting heavily, said, "Alright, listen! Listen!"

Lu Zheng said, "It seems you really want to resolve this matter. Okay, if you want to resolve it, I'll make a new arrangement. Listen carefully, I want half of the benefits now."

Previously, Lu Zheng only took 15% of the profits, resulting in an annual loss of 10 million for the entire village. Now, Lu Zheng wants 50% of the profits, which would mean a loss of tens of millions per year.

The old patriarch swayed a few times and almost fell over. How could he dare to make such a decision?