Chapter 36 Zheng's sequel After

leaving the hospital, Wen Yue and Yi Huai went directly to the company.

In fact, Yi Huai wanted to send Wen Yue home to rest, but she felt that she had rested long enough in the past few days in the hospital and didn't want to go home to lie down again. Yi Huai couldn't resist, thinking that it would be better for her to go to the company, and they could go back together at noon.

Compared with when they just moved to Yisheng Building, Dongjiang Newspaper has increased a lot of employees. "Dongjiang Entertainment Daily" has been established, and the original staff must be insufficient, so a lot of people have been recruited during this period, including two people who resigned because of the conflict with the company because they insisted on exposing the Zhong family.

Originally, Xu Zhenli didn't want to come to Dongjiang Newspaper. She left the original unit because she wanted to do current affairs news and didn't want to stay in the entertainment section.

The two newspapers under the name of Dongjiang Newspaper Group are all in the entertainment field. It is better to stay in the original unit than to switch jobs here. At least there is still hope of returning to the original unit to report on current affairs. If you stay here, you can only do entertainment.

But Huang Zhihao took out several newspapers issued by Dongjiang Newspapers in recent months, folded out the headlines and placed them in front of Xu Zhenli, saying: "In the past few months, we have reported that the eldest son of the shipping tycoon was replaced, and we also reported that the Zhong family hired a murderer, and the Zheng family scandal in recent days... So, although our newspaper mainly produces entertainment news, we actually have no restrictions on news reporting. As long as you can get important news, we dare to expose it."

After hearing this, Xu Zhenli's mind moved slightly, but she was a little suspicious. She was not a young man who had just entered the society. She knew that many units said nice things before joining, but everything changed after joining.

Xu Zhenli had a direct personality and said whatever she thought.

Huang Zhihao laughed after hearing this, pointing to several listed news and said: "You resigned because of the Zhong family's affairs, you should know what the situation was when we published this news. We were not afraid at that time. After the Zheng family's tax and background problems were exposed, they have been suppressing the news, but we still did not stop publishing related news. And the news about the Lin family, you may think that this incident will not offend the Lin family, but you may not know that the fake young master of the Lin family is the brother-in-law of our company's boss."

Who the boss of Dongjiang Newspaper is is not well-known in Hong Kong. After all, Wen Yue is quite high-profile.

Xu Zhenli also knew that Lin Yongkang and Wen Jiaqi had been married and divorced shortly after their backgrounds were exposed, but some things were not made clear and rarely thought of by outsiders, so she was surprised when she heard it.

"Our newspaper also broke the news that the fourth wife of the Wen family cheated on Mr. Wen and made him a father." Huang Zhihao said, "If only the Wen family was exposed, you might think this is a fight between wealthy families, but when these news are put together, you shouldn't think so?"

"No." Xu Zhenli shook her head and said.

"Our boss is really fearless, so you don't have to worry about the company changing its mind after you join us." Huang Zhihao added, "In addition, our newspaper business is still in a state of expansion. When the sales of the new newspaper are stable, we will issue a new newspaper focusing on current affairs. If you still want to do current affairs at that time, you can apply for a transfer, so you don't have to worry about only being able to do entertainment news after joining our company."

At this point, Xu Zhenli's last concerns were also dispelled.

Another reporter was in a similar situation to Xu Zhenli, and was also moved by Huang Zhihao's similar words, so the two of them left their original unit and joined Dongjiang Newspapers a few days later.

In addition to these two people, Huang Zhihao used his connections to recruit several senior reporters.

Huang Zhihao's network of contacts is much wider now than it was a few months ago. Although he has been the editor-in-chief for several years, the treatment of the editor-in-chief of a newspaper that is about to go bankrupt and the editor-in-chief of a well-known newspaper is very different.

A few months ago, when Huang Zhihao was trying to recruit people, he had to beg them humbly, fearing that if he didn't say a word well, they would change their minds and refuse to join the company.

Now it is much simpler. He just calls them to ask if they are willing to change jobs. If they are not willing, he will contact the next one.

Some people don't even need him to call them specifically. When they hear that Dongjiang Newspaper is recruiting, they will take the initiative to apply for the job after comparing the treatment.

So in less than a month, the number of employees at Dongjiang Newspaper has almost doubled. However, the office here is large, so even if the number of employees doubles, it is still more spacious than before.

Wen Yue walked into the office and saw the employees busy in the cubicles. She couldn't help but feel a sense of accomplishment. This was her career!

After entering the office, Wen Yue called Huang Zhihao as usual to find out about the company's situation during the days she was away.

Huang Zhihao took the report and reported the sales of the recent issues of "Dongjiang Entertainment Daily", saying: "Recently, the news related to the Zheng family has been very popular. Our headlines in recent issues are all related to the Zheng family, so the sales are very good, which is a good start, but..."

"Just what?"

"The boss of the printing factory we have cooperated with for a long time called me today and said that he can no longer cooperate with us in the future," Huang Zhihao said hesitantly, "I suspect that the Zheng family put pressure on them."

Wen Yue was not surprised to hear this. Although the Zheng family is on the decline, Zheng Xingguo has built such a large family business from scratch, which is definitely not a vegetarian.

Even if he forces Qin Shuzhen to apologize to Wen Yue, Zheng Xingguo can't pin all his hopes on unknown factors. There must be a Plan B.

But after guessing that she was the one who leaked the information to the major media, Zheng Xingguo could not use coercion and bribery to Dongjiang Newspaper as he did to other newspapers, so he could only cut off their escape route.

Wen Yue asked: "Have you contacted other printing companies?"

"I contacted several, but the results were..." Huang Zhihao sighed.

Wen Yue thought for a moment and said, "You can contact a few more families and find out how Zheng's family greeted them. If it was bribery, we will pay them money. If it was coercion, we will see if we can persuade them to call the police. If there is really no other way, the worst that can happen is that the newspaper will be blank tomorrow. Anyway, the Zheng family will not be able to jump around for a few days."

The Zheng family can strangle the throat of Dongjiang Newspaper not because they are so powerful, but because Dongjiang Newspaper is too weak. If they change to a larger newspaper company, the Zheng family will not be able to use this method to deal with them.

But the Zheng family's trick is not very clever. If Wen Yue's only channel for exposing information is Dongjiang Newspaper, there is no problem in strangling them.

But after the Zhong family was exposed for hiring a murderer, all major media in Hong Kong are now happy to accept anonymous submissions, especially since the Zheng family failed to receive the news in advance and suppress the scandal before it broke out.

Now the Zheng family's problems have fermented, and anyone with a discerning eye can see that this company is going to fail. Small newspapers may be bought, but large newspaper companies will not miss this wave of traffic.

So the Zheng family's attempt to strangle the Dongjiang newspaper industry at this time will not only fail to suppress the scandal, but will also anger Wen Yue.

As soon as Huang Zhihao left, Wen Yue asked the system to sort out another wave of anonymous letters and send them to TV stations and those large newspapers. Considering that the information to be exposed this time was bribery, she also asked the system to send a letter of denunciation to the Independent Commission Against Corruption.

Because the information provided by the system was detailed enough, the ICAC acted very quickly. After receiving the anonymous letter in the morning, they went to Zheng’s house in the afternoon and took away a group of people, including Zheng Yanze.

After the Zheng family scandal broke out, reporters kept coming downstairs of the company. Zheng Yanze was taken away, and the next thing was that a TV station reported the incident.

After the news came out, the difficulties faced by Dongjiang Newspapers were solved. Around five o'clock in the afternoon, a printing factory that had cooperated with Dongjiang Newspapers finally agreed to take over the printing of newspapers that Dongjiang Newspapers was going to publish the next day.

Although the problem was solved, this incident also reminded Wen Yue.

If you want to have the right to speak, it is not enough to have a newspaper under your name. Those powerful bosses can choke her throat by just saying hello to the printing factory.

In order to prevent such a thing from happening again, Wen Yue decided to buy a printing factory, but she did not have much savings.

Wen Yue came here in early May. At that time, her original body had almost used up the pocket money she was given that month. However, she asked Wen Rongsheng for the pocket money that was less than her in the past three years, and the money that Wen Rongsheng promised to give her after the pocket money was increased twice, which added up to 4.6 million. This month, she received all the income, which added up to 2.48 million.

So after she came here, all the deposits added up to a little over 7 million.

Her personal expenses are not large. First, because she has been here for a short time and has not learned how to spend money like rich people, and second, she has been busy earning money to survive in the past two months and has not gone out shopping.

But the miscellaneous expenses are not small. For example, although she moved to the Yi family, she still has a servant in Qingshui Bay, and the monthly salary is a large sum of money. There are also expenses for servants living there, electricity, water and food expenses are not small, the garden needs to be maintained, the swimming pool needs to be cleaned, and all the money is flowing out.

The original body also raised a horse, but because it is a bit old, it can't run well in competitions, so it needs to be raised, which is another expense.

The monthly salary and bonus of the seven bodyguards is more than 200,000 yuan, and this is the expenditure after Yi Huai pays for the vehicle and equipment expenses. If she needs to pay for these two sums herself, she estimates that she will not be able to save any money.

Of course, Wen Yue does not have much savings at present. After deducting various expenses, she still has less than 5 million yuan on hand.

Dongjiang Newspaper had just made a profit, so it was not appropriate to withdraw too much funds. It was not known whether Zhuang Hui could get money. Even if he could, he was not willing to spend much, so the money she could use was no more than 6 million.

The land in Hong Kong was very expensive. 6 million was a bit of a stretch to buy a printing factory. It would definitely be enough to buy a printing workshop, and maybe there would be some money left.

But the equipment in a printing workshop was definitely not as good as that in a printing factory, and newspaper printing had higher requirements for equipment, so buying a workshop would not solve the problem unless she spent a lot of money to buy equipment. But

in this way, the cost might still be about the same as buying a printing factory directly.

Since she still couldn't save money after all the trouble, she might as well not waste her energy and wait until next month's pocket money comes down, or go to the bank for a loan.

She is the daughter of the richest man, her husband is also a well-known rich man, and she also has a personal fund and a well-run newspaper company under her name. It shouldn't be a problem to borrow 18 million.

After making up her mind, Wen Yue called Zhuang Hui and asked him to pay attention to whether there are any printing factories that have gone bankrupt and sold recently to see if there are any that are suitable for the price.

Although Zhuang Hui didn't know what happened to Dongjiang Newspaper today, he was a professional manager with a good business sense. Printing factories and newspaper companies are upstream and downstream, so he understood what Wen Yue meant as soon as he heard it. After asking about her budget, he agreed to ask someone.

After hanging up the phone, Wen Yue called Huang Zhihao to the office and asked him to help find out. He had been the editor-in-chief of newspapers for so many years, and there were many small printing factories near Yongli Street. His network of contacts in this area was wider than Zhuang Hui's.

Although the matter was handed down, the cultural industry in Hong Kong was prosperous, and the printing industry was also in a period of vigorous development, so it was not easy to find a suitable one in a short time.

Before there was news about the printing factory, the Zheng family had a result in advance. In

the past ten years, the Hong Kong stock market has been very prosperous. Most companies will think about going public after they become big, and the Zheng family is no exception.

It's just that the stock market is a double-edged sword. If the company develops well, it can drive the stock price to rise continuously, which is icing on the cake. But if there is a problem with the company, the stock price will easily collapse and become the last straw that breaks the camel.

Just like the scandal of Zhongshi, which caused the stock market to crash, and the reluctance of former customers to shop in the store, which eventually led to bankruptcy, Zhengshi’s bankruptcy also followed the same process, and even happened faster. After all,

Zhongshi’s boss was responsible for the scandal, and the products sold in the supermarket were fine, while Zhengshi’s products failed, and the foundation of its business was in trouble.

After the news broke, Zhengshi’s stores were crowded with customers who wanted to return the goods, and some emotional people even moved furniture out of their homes and smashed or burned it in front of the store employees.

Moreover, Zhengshi not only had problems with its products, but also was exposed for financial fraud, so Zhengshi’s stock price fell even faster.

When the news broke that Zheng Yanze's bribes were taken away, even if Zheng Xingguo stepped in to save the situation, he couldn't stop the stock's downward trend.

Zheng's, which was already short of funds, fell into even greater financial difficulties. What was worse was that banks that had a good relationship with Zheng were unwilling to lend to him again, and even those who had lent him money before began to urge him to repay.

So it didn't take long for Zheng's to declare bankruptcy.

Zheng's scandal seemed to be huge, but in fact, the value of eating melons that Wen Yue gained from these melons was less than two million.

Two million may sound like a lot, but you have to know that during this period, Wen Yue exposed more than just the Zheng family melon. There were at least three big melons that made the front page, and five or six other small melons, all of which had their eating value calculated separately.

Wen Yue asked the system for data. Among these melons, the one with the highest eating value did not exceed 700,000, and the lowest was a few thousand, which was just enough to cover the cost of buying evidence.

However, compared with the previous melons, the gains this time were not bad, but it was incomparable to the exposure of the murder of the Zhong family.

But the big gain from exposing the Zhong family was because six innocent people died. Although Wen Yue wanted to earn more eating value to survive, in comparison, she was still willing to expose the Zheng family melon, which did not cause any casualties.

In addition, Wen Yue exposed the Zheng family's gossip not only for the sake of eating gossip value, but also to get rid of Qin Shuzhen, who was secretly trying to take revenge on her.

So after the Zheng family went bankrupt, Zheng Yanze was arrested and imprisoned, Zheng Xingguo died of a heart attack, Qin Shuzhen and Zheng Yanhai lost everything and were driven out of the house they had lived in for decades.

Wen Yue was generally very satisfied with this harvest.

...

With the Zheng family's affairs coming to an end, Zhong Lan's car crash into Wen Yue also came to a conclusion.

Because Zhong Lan was not an adult and Wen Yue and the other two were not seriously injured, the judge did not sentence him heavily, only one year and three months, and he was not in prison, but in a juvenile detention center, with relatively good conditions.

If you ask Wen Yue whether she is satisfied with the result, the answer is of course no. However, Wen Yue has no intention of appealing. Firstly, given Zhong Lan's age, it would be difficult to get a heavy sentence if he appeals. Secondly, at his age, having a criminal record means half of his life is already ruined, not to mention that he became deaf after waking up, so he is doomed to have difficulty achieving anything great in the future.

As long as he lets the bodyguards around him be more cautious after he gets out of prison, there is no need to pay too much attention to this person.

Speaking of bodyguards, Wen Yue has several more people around her. In addition, Yi Huai has equipped Wen Yue with four bulletproof cars, and reminded her at the same time: "When you go out in the future, don't take a fixed car. Choose randomly every day, so that others can know which car you are in at a glance."

Wen Yue cherishes her life, so she naturally agreed.

In fact, he didn't need to say it. She has been choosing cars randomly when she went out these days, for fear that the previous incident would happen again.

Compared with Yi Huai, Wen Rongsheng is not a very competent father.

He only took time out of his busy schedule to visit Wen Yue once on the day she was hospitalized. He didn't stay for long. After making sure that Wen Yue was not seriously ill, he left in half an hour.

The process was not pleasant. Wen Rongsheng never understood what Wen Yue was doing. He felt that running a newspaper would not only not make much money but would also easily offend people, so he advised her to close the newspaper company.

Wen Yue directly confronted him, saying that if she closed the newspaper company, he would ask her to come back and be the president of Lirong?

Wen Rongsheng was speechless when he heard that.

He did not guard his daughters to the extent of prohibiting them from working in the company, but Wen Yue said she wanted to be the president, and she obviously wanted more than just a position or a few shares.

He favored boys over girls, and always felt that the bulk of the family property should be left to his son.

Wen Rongsheng called today, and it was also related to his precious son - Wen Jiadong, who had been in the UK for more than half a year, came back.

In order to welcome the return of his beloved son, Wen Rongsheng decided to hold a family dinner and specially called Wen Yue to bring Yi Huai back for dinner.

When Wen Yue first heard about this, she didn't want to go.

The mother and daughter of the third wife were still in the UK and had not returned. It was called a family dinner, but in fact it was a reunion dinner for Wen Rongsheng and the second wife's family of four. Why would she, an outsider, go there?

But Wen Yue thought about it and realized that men become bad when they have money, not to mention Wen Jiadong, a young master who has lived in a honeypot since childhood and has a lot of fun.

But Wen Jiadong has no gossip at all. No matter how you think about it, he seems to be a cat. It would be unreasonable for her not to check in and meet him.

Of course, it is also possible that Wen Jiadong is really a gentleman with no gossip.

But such a result was not a loss for Wen Yue, at most it was just a waste of time for a meal.

But then again, the food at the Wen family was always good, and tonight was a welcome banquet for the return of the only child, so the ingredients would definitely be better, and it would not be a waste to go there for a meal.

Wen Yue thought about it and stopped hesitating, saying, "Okay, I'll talk to Ah Huai."

After hanging up the phone, Wen Yue told Yi Huai about going to the Wen family for dinner in the evening.

...

At 5:30 in the afternoon, more than a dozen black cars drove into the Wen residence on Barker Road one after another.

Wen Jiaqi saw this grand scene in the hall and couldn't help muttering, "Pretentious!"

How far away was the Yi family? It would only take a few minutes to drive there. Her family was not a monster, so was it necessary to drive so many cars just to have a meal? Wen Yue has never been so ostentatious before!

Hearing her daughter's muttering, Chen Baoqin said, "Be polite to people who come in later."

"Why?" Wen Jiaqi looked dissatisfied. She felt that if Wen Yue hadn't been involved, Lin Yongkang's background would not have been exposed so quickly, and she would not have become a laughing stock in the circle of wealthy families. Until now, she is too embarrassed to go out and meet those sisters. Asking

her to be polite to Wen Yue would be better than killing her!

Seeing the expression on her eldest daughter's face, Chen Baoqin felt a little annoyed. She felt that after the divorce, her daughter's personality became more and more lonely and she would not listen to reason at all.

But this was her daughter, so no matter how upset she was, Chen Baoqin could only explain the truth to Wen Jiaqi: "Your brother has done well in the past six months in the UK, and now he is the only male in the family, so it is a foregone conclusion that he will inherit the family business."

Hearing this, Wen Jiaqi's expression softened a lot, and she even looked a little proud.

Although Lin Yongkang was born in a humble family and was a big liar, after his background was exposed and he was imprisoned, her marriage with him became the biggest stain in her life.

But most marriages between wealthy families are maintained by interests. As long as her brother can inherit the family property, it will not be difficult for her to find a wealthy heir as her husband in the future.

"The more critical the situation is, the more careful and cautious our family should be," Chen Baoqin warned. "Although your daddy values ​​male offspring, Wen Yue and the two from the third room are also his daughters. The stronger and more impolite you are in front of them, the more your daddy will feel sorry for them, and the more property he will give them in the future."

Wen Jiaqi frowned: "Will it be so?"

"Of course it will. Your daddy has never liked the house to be too noisy and hopes that the family can live in harmony," Chen Baoqin whispered. "So the more harmonious our family is and the more we take care of the other two rooms, the more at ease he will be in handing over more of the industry to your brother."

Wen Jiaqi gritted her teeth. Except for her biological Wen Jiadong, all the brothers and sisters in the family, she didn't like anyone else.

So when it was revealed that Wen Jialiang was not her biological son, she was secretly happy for a long time. She also always fantasized about the scene where her brother came to power and the daughters of the first and third wives would compete to please her. After

Wen Yue caused her divorce, she hated her sister even more. She often cursed her behind her back. Knowing that she had a car accident a few days ago, she was very sorry that she was not hurt.

In her opinion, Wen Yue caused her divorce, so it was not excessive for her to confront him.

But Chen Baoqin's words did remind her that her daddy was biased. Wen Yue caused her divorce before, not only did he not punish her at all, he even increased her pocket money!

Every time she thought of this, Wen Jiaqi couldn't help but have a heart attack.

Wen Yue caused her to divorce, but she was still treated so well. If she really bullied others, her father might really give her more shares.

Thinking of this, Wen Jiaqi said, "Okay, I won't offend her."

Chen Baoqin was satisfied and said in a gentle tone, "It's good that you are sensible."

After the mother and daughter finished whispering, Wen Yue and Yi Huai walked in from the gate. When Chen Baoqin saw them, she hurried over to greet them and said with a smile, "Ayue and Ahuai, you are here."

Wen Yue came here to check in at the melon owner and didn't want to cause trouble, but seeing Chen Baoqin's smile and wolf grandmother's tone, she couldn't help but said, "We are not familiar with each other, so there is no need to be so intimate."

Hearing this, Wen Jiaqi, who had just promised not to provoke Wen Yue, couldn't help but said, "My mom is the elder after all, what do you think?"

Wen Yue didn't feel embarrassed at all, she just said, "This sounds a little familiar?"

Wen Jiaqi suddenly remembered that she had argued with Wen Yue about this matter last month, and she lost the argument, and her face suddenly turned ugly.

Not only Wen Jiaqi, but Chen Baoqin also remembered the previous incident. The smile on her face froze, and she chose to give in: "Since you don't like it, I will call you by your full name from now on."

"Okay." Wen Yue nodded and asked, "Where is Daddy?"

"Daddy is talking to Jiadong in the study!" Wen Jiaqi spoke up, "Jiadong has performed very well in the past six months in the UK, and Daddy is very satisfied with him. Moreover, he is now the only male in the family, and he will definitely inherit the family business in the future. So when he came back, Daddy called him into the study to discuss business."

Wen Jiaqi said as she thought, what if Wen Yue was favored? Women are naturally inferior to men in gender. No matter how partial her daddy is to her, he will never hand over Lirong Group to her, nor will he ask her to go into the study to discuss business.

The more Wen Jiaqi thought about it, the happier she felt. She looked at Wen Yue with a look of pride.

Wen Yue naturally saw Wen Jiaqi's pride, but brothers should settle accounts clearly. She and Wen Jiadong are siblings from the same mother, and it is impossible for Wen Jiadong to give her money for nothing after inheriting the family property. And Wen Rongsheng cares more about boys than her, so Wen Yue doesn't quite understand what she is proud of.

Maybe mentally retarded children are happier.

Wen Yue no longer pays attention to Wen Jiaqi, and pulls Yi Huai to the study to find someone.

Just as she walked to the door of the study and was about to raise her hand to knock on the door, the door was opened from the inside. Wen Rongsheng walked out first, and saw Wen Yue and Yi Huai with smiles on their faces: "You are here, Jiadong, your second sister and second brother-in-law are here."

He took a step forward and let the young man behind him walk out.

As Wen Jiadong walked into Wen Yue's sight, a system prompt rang in her mind:

[Ding - there is a melon! ]