The next day, Xie Wan took Zhang Qiushan out alone.
The detectives monitoring the door didn't notice it at all.
After taking Zhang Qiushan back to the hotel, Xie Wancai asked, "Zhang Ke, don't be nervous, I don't doubt you.
I just have something that is not convenient to ask in the office, so I want to talk to you in private."
Only then did Zhang Qiushan relax.
Xu Bing poured tea for Zhang Qiushan, and the three of them sat at the table outside the suite. Xie Wan took a notebook and took notes as he asked questions. It looked like a formal interrogation, and Zhang Qiushan took a sip of tea to calm himself.
"Xiao Xie, ask whatever you want. I can swear that I am really innocent in this matter."
Xie Wan said: "Recall all your itineraries for this trip to Hong Kong."
Zhang Qiushan emphasized: "I really spent the whole day with the two engineers looking at the equipment."
Xie Wan asked: "Is Li Baihe coming too?"
Zhang Qiushan shook his head. "She didn't participate in the early stages. She only got involved when it came to the contract stage."
According to Zhang Qiushan, they visited the production lines of five plastic factories during their visit to Hong Kong. The two engineers selected the relevant equipment based on the actual domestic situation and the advantages of these five production lines.
All these equipment needed to be imported from Germany. Through Yaozhitang Plastic Factory, they contacted the German manufacturer's office in Gangcheng and signed a contract.
Xie Wan asked: “Wouldn’t it take a long time and be expensive to import equipment from Germany?
Isn’t there a similar device locally?”
Zhang Qiushan said: "Yes, at the beginning the office contacted the local equipment production line for us.
We came here after we heard that Changjiang Plastics was going to dismantle a production line and sell it at a discount for only $500,000.
However, after arriving in the port city, the two engineers proposed to visit several more plastic factories in the port city.
I saw the imported equipment in Yaozhitang. It has obvious advantages. Its efficiency is several times that of the Hong Kong-made equipment, and it is brand new.
The people from Yaozhitang helped us contact the office of the German manufacturer in Gangcheng. Although the production line cost 800,000 yuan, the other party assisted us in applying for a loan from HSBC, with a down payment of 280,000 yuan and the balance to be paid in three years.
The conditions were so favorable that we called our boss in China and he agreed to purchase this full range of equipment from Germany.”
Xie Wan frowned. If this was true, Changjiang Plastics’ old production line would be sold to us for 500,000 yuan. It was really a bit of a rip-off.
She asked, "Who contacted Changjiang Plastics?"
Zhang Qiushan said, "It's Ji Wen. He does most of the office's external relations work."
Xie Wan learned a lot of details about the equipment procurement before asking Xu Bing to send Zhang Qiushan back.
Xu Bing asked Xie Wan: "Do you want to ask Ji Wen to come and find out in private?"
Xie Wan shook his head, "Not for now, even if I ask now, I won't get anything.
Let’s go to these plastic factories and learn more about them.”
With the help of Sang Biao, the gangster boss, who was paving the way and building connections, Xie Wan spent two days running around to all the plastic factories that Zhang Qiushan and his team had contacted. He also disguised himself as a customer and met with the representative of the German equipment manufacturer.
And through Chen Ziqiang's friend, I checked the German equipment manufacturer and found that it was indeed a regular manufacturer and there was no problem with the contract at all.
But now, due to Li Baili's death and the loss of the payment for the goods, the date of the contract advance payment has expired.
Of course, because this money is the down payment and the down payment has not yet been made, the contract between the two parties has essentially not yet taken effect. On the surface, there is no additional financial loss.
But if the 280,000 yuan cannot be recovered, Sichuan Province will definitely not purchase this production line.
Every day, Xie Changle would report to Xie Wan about his interactions with Zhang Qiushan, Jiao Yongxin and Ji Wen in the office.
At first, he thought Ji Wen was the most suspicious. The next day, he thought Jiao Yongxin was more suspicious. After another day, as he became more familiar with them and his feelings for them grew warmer, he felt that both of them were innocent.
Xie Wan listened patiently to him chattering about the details and did not deny Xie Changle's judgment.
On the third day, Xu Bing asked Xie Wan, "Boss, do you have any idea?"
Xie Wan asked back: "We have traveled to so many places and met so many people in the past two days. What do you think?"
Xu Bing said: “I feel that their purchase this time was a very wise choice.
Although I don’t know anything, it is definitely more cost-effective to spend HK$800,000 to buy brand new imported equipment than to buy equipment made in Hong Kong.”
Xie Wan nodded, "Yes, that set of Hong Kong-made equipment, although the initial investment of several manufacturers was over one million, it was after all several years old.
Changjiang sold it to us with a depreciation of RMB 500,000, which seems reasonable on the surface, but it is extremely unreasonable when compared with the new equipment imported from Germany.
Ji Wen said he didn’t know about this new imported equipment before. Do you think he really didn’t know about it?”
Xu Bing shook his head. "He must know that he has been in Hong Kong for more than two months. In addition to being responsible for the delivery of those foreign trade orders, his main job is to be responsible for the preliminary investigation of the procurement production line.
Zhang Qiushan and the two engineers had only been here for a few days, but they had already found out about the new German equipment in Yaozhitang. How could he not have found out about it?"
Xie Wan nodded, "Of course, it is possible that he really didn't know, or that he was greedy for cheapness, so he recommended Changjiang's old equipment to the organization."
Xu Bing hesitated again and said, "But when we took Ji Wen and Jiao Yongxin's photos to ask the porridge shop owner and the bank clerk, they all said that the people who accompanied Li Baihe were not them or Zhang Qiushan.
There must be another man out there."
Xie Wan and Xu Bing went to the office, but as soon as they arrived at the door, they were stopped by two Hong Kong police officers.
"Who are you? What is your relationship with the people inside?"
The last time Xie Wan and Xu Bing came here, the security was very lax, and they easily slipped into the building. There was no one guarding the door of the office.
I originally thought that the Hong Kong police's investigation into this case was just a formality, but I didn't expect that they would send someone else to keep an eye on it today.
Fortunately, Xie Wan and Xu Bing both had Hong Kong City resident identity certificates issued by the Special Service Department.
After the two detectives finished reading it, they asked them to go back to the police station together.
Xie Wan and Xu Bing looked at each other. If their identities were leaked, someone must have notified the police.
With their fighting power, it would not be difficult to get rid of the two Hong Kong policemen, but it would add a lot of trouble.
Xie Wan shook his head slightly at Xu Bing, and the two of them obediently followed the two detectives back to the police station.
They were taken into an interrogation room.
The two men handled the routine interrogation easily, and soon a foreign detective arrived.
The man called himself Howard, and was the inspector of the Kowloon area. He was tall, blond, blue-eyed, about forty years old, and had an arrogant look on his face.
He spoke Chinese with a heavy accent and checked Xie Wan and Xu Bing's identification again.
“This is fake!
Do you know that forging a Hong Kong government identity document will result in at least 15 months in prison and deportation? "
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