“Yue Lai——!”
Suddenly, Lu Zhinan's angry roar came from upstairs.
Everyone looked at him, wearing a black windbreaker and with messy hair and makeup, as he walked down the spiral staircase slowly.
"Mr. Lu."
Yue Lai was overjoyed. He didn't expect that Lu Zhinan would finish talking with Lu Zhishu so quickly.
"Let's go," Lu Zhinan said.
"Okay," Yue Lai followed immediately.
Before going out.
Zong Zheng was unhappy, "Lu Zhishu is just going to let you go like that?"
Lu Zhinan smiled and turned around, "What else? I'm his younger brother. He can't call the police to arrest me. How is he going to explain to my parents when he gets home?"
Zong Zheng clenched his fists, feeling unsatisfied.
We mobilized so many brothers to come here today, but we just let the hateful person go so easily. It’s really hard to swallow this.
However, the fact that Lu Zhinan was able to come down from the upstairs safely meant that Lu Zhishu intended to let him go.
Han Chen noticed that Zong Zheng was unwilling to give in, so he pulled him slightly and shook his head, signaling him not to stop.
Zong Zheng suppressed his anger and could only stop pursuing the matter.
After Lu Zhinan and Yue Lai left, Zong Zheng pressed on, "What's wrong with Lu Zhishu? Isn't he afraid that if Lu Zhinan lets him go, he'll come back to cause trouble for him?"
"No," Han Chen said. "Lu Zhishu contacted me a few days ago and discussed with me a way to 'expel' Lu Zhinan from Dongjiang. The auditors stationed at Jinghang just happened to report some issues yesterday, and the materials have been sent to the disciplinary inspection department. What a coincidence... it's in my second brother's hands."
Zong Zheng suddenly realized, "So you guys had planned this long ago!"
Han Chen: "Without this arrangement, force alone will not solve the problem. Unless Lu Zhishu has the courage to kill Lu Zhinan in Dongjiang, but do you think this is feasible?"
Zong Zheng: "How can we allow this to happen if someone dies?"
Han Chen: "So, the best way is to take action from Jinghang to contain Lu Zhinan. Besides... Lu Zhishu has long intended to overthrow his family."
Zong Zheng: "He doesn't care about his parents anymore?"
Han Chen: "If his father hadn't been putting pressure on him and forcing him to do things he didn't want to do, he probably wouldn't have thought of doing such a drastic thing. Differences in ideology and philosophy can't be erased by blood. Just like good and evil can never be reconciled. People are selfish. For the sake of their own long-term interests and long-term life, what's the point of killing relatives for the sake of justice?"
Zong Zheng: "Lu Zhishu has already thought of a way out."
Han Chen: "He's not stupid, he knows exactly what he's doing. It's a pity that he's still one step behind Lu Zhinan. The news of Jinghang's accident will only come out tomorrow. Today, Shen Pan was taken away by Lu Zhinan first."
Zong Zheng: "Is Lu Zhishu deliberately letting Lu Zhinan go back to deal with Jinghang's affairs? Why doesn't he just let Lu Zhinan stay in Dongjiang? It would be best if he didn't have time to go back to deal with Jinghang's affairs, so that Jinghang would be in as much chaos as possible."
Han Chen: "Playing the long game to catch the big fish. Lu Zhishu's ultimate target isn't Lu Zhinan, but his father behind Lu Zhinan. If Lu Zhinan doesn't go back, it'll be just the right time for his father to cut the Gordian knot and push all the problems onto Lu Zhinan, leaving him sitting on the fishing platform. Maybe it'll be harder to find evidence against his father in the future. People learn from their mistakes and won't reveal their true colors again. In their family, as long as his father doesn't fall, he'll still be the boss and will still use his children as tools. To put it bluntly, even if Lu Zhishu doesn't go back and Lu Zhinan falls, who knows what other 'illegitimate children' might be fostered. Don't underestimate the 'reproductive' ability of those at the top of the social chain. Ninety-nine percent of those who have been disciplined have lovers, and having several half-brothers is commonplace."
Zong Zheng: "Lu Zhishu is surprisingly not blinded by hatred, but has such a long-term vision."
Han Chen: "Since he fled the imperial capital, he wasn't just escaping the past, but...he was accumulating his own strength to fight against his family."
Zong Zheng: "No wonder he's always reluctant to ask for help. It turns out he also struggled through that kind of quagmire. It's hard to believe that he used to be the same kind of person as Lu Zhinan."
Han Chen: "Why else would Lu Zhinan want to kill him? It seems that Lu Zhishu's escape from home was more like a betrayal to Lu Zhinan, a betrayal by an accomplice who suddenly turned against him. In order to eliminate the traitor, he must kill him completely."
Zong Zheng: "What happened to his family is terrible."
Han Chen: "I'm afraid... this is just the tip of the iceberg."
There is something even more worrying here.
Lu Zhinan has contacts with his fourth brother Han Ze. Han Chen feels that the contacts between the two of them are not just a chance acquaintance that has created some kind of connection.
The key to the problem is whether there is an exchange of interests.
However, now the brothers have different thoughts. Even if Han Chen asks Han Ze directly, Han Ze will not tell him the truth.
Zong Zheng reassured, "After Lu Zhinan's outburst this time, are you sure he won't bother Lu Zhishu again? How about I find a few more brothers to protect him and Shen Pan for a while?"
Han Chen: "It's not that he won't bother Lu Zhishu again, it's that he won't come to Dongjiang again. Lu Zhishu said before that after Lu Zhinan took over Jinghang, he had business dealings with debt collection companies in order to make the accounts look good."
Zong Zheng was surprised: "Falsifying accounts?"
Han Chen: "Yes. They package their own debts and sell them to a covert collection agency. They have a book balance of 10 million, and sell it for 5 million. The accounts show a 10 million transaction return, but the actual collection is 5 million. Once the 10 million book balance is transferred to the collection agency, the company is responsible for collecting the debt from the debtor. As long as they can recover at least half, they'll make a profit. This is a common tactic banks use to deal with bad debts. If this happened to Beijing Airlines... they'd probably use some fake project as a cover. That way, Beijing Airlines could convert the 10 million debt on its books into other expenses, or even turn it into profit, which would make the financial statements look much better."
Zong Zheng: "Can debts still be bought and sold?"
Han Chen: "In the financial market, what can't be bought and sold?"
Zong Zheng: "These bosses who play with money really know how to play with money."
Han Chen: "I personally don't like the current situation where 'everything can be financialized.' The overall economic shift away from the real economy and toward the virtual economy is not a good thing."
Zong Zheng: "What you said is exactly the same as what Fu Chenghai said. He absolutely hates financial capital and is determined to invest in the real economy and manufacturing. His Chenghai Group is so huge, but not a single subsidiary is dedicated to investment. Regardless of the size of the subsidiary, they are all in the real economy. He also owns two factories. Other large companies that have grown up in the manufacturing industry have reduced their assets to avoid risks and make quick money, replacing heavy assets with light assets. His two factories are all heavy assets. They have been operating in debt for a while now, and it was all the Chenghai Group that filled the holes for the two factories, which barely kept the funds flowing."
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