A few people were chatting about the bidding, and somehow the topic turned to Qian Li.
When they mentioned him, Zhou Zhengyang and Lu Bei both looked indignant.
"Lixing Building Materials has already snatched away several of our clients, often just when we were about to sign contracts, when they suddenly swung in and offered a low price. They're so wicked!"
"The last time I ran into him, he arrogantly admitted he was just taking revenge on me. The problem is, his low-price strategy is completely disrupting the market. I don't know if he has a mental problem. He'd rather not make any money than annoy me!"
Zhou Zhengyang had been holding back his anger for a long time, and even cursed.
Lu Bei is now in charge of liaising with manufacturers and has heard a lot about Qian Li:
"He's got a close relationship with the directors of several building materials factories. We have such good relationships that we have to wait in line behind him when we go to get goods. I wonder if it's because of these good relationships that the manufacturers give him a lower ex-factory price?"
Although Zhou Zhengyang is successful in the business world, he still adheres to honesty and trustworthiness in doing business.
So neither he nor Lu Bei thought in other directions.
But Meng Zhen was different. In her later life, she would often see news reports about a real estate developer's housing quality problems or a government project's shoddy construction.
The reason is all kinds of fraud.
They used substandard building materials to deceive people, and then bribed the inspectors from relevant agencies to issue qualified project acceptance reports.
Problems are often not exposed until an accident occurs.
"What types of customers are there at Lixing Building Materials Store now?" Meng Zhen asked after thinking for a moment.
Zhou Zhengyang recalled: "Most of them are real estate developers. The largest one is Wanshi Real Estate, which is about the same size as Evergrande. The rest are small bosses who develop one or two buildings.
Meng Zhen had an idea in mind.
If Qian Li really buys inferior materials for real estate developers, the ordinary people who bought the properties will be the ones who pay the bill in the end.
I just don’t know whether the real estate developers are aware of this, or if they are just pretending to be ignorant?
Meng Zhen expressed his guess.
Except for Liu Yuzhou, Zhou Zhengyang and Lu Bei were stunned!
Zhou Zhengyang: "Oh my God, sister-in-law, if you hadn't told me, I wouldn't have thought in that direction. It's really possible that they're selling a mixture of good and bad. Every manufacturer has scrap materials, and they usually sell them to private individuals at a low price. For example, some people use them to renovate their own houses."
Lu Bei: "No wonder those manufacturers are so enthusiastic about Qian Li. Judging by the number of his clients, he must have bought up all the scrap materials from these manufacturers!"
Liu Yuzhou was not that shocked because his former colleague Chen Wentao from the geological team had done the same thing before.
Later, when he was tried for deliberately tampering with engineering data, he voluntarily confessed in order to reduce his sentence.
I didn't expect Qian Li to do such a thing.
After realizing this, Zhou Zhengyang and Lu Bei became excited:
"You bastard! I'm going to report the problem to the client!"
"I want to go too! I'm reporting this to the Land and Construction Committee. Using substandard materials to build a building is a safety hazard!"
The two men stood up and wanted to rush out immediately.
Meng Zhen helplessly stopped the two of them: "Don't be impulsive. There is no solid evidence yet as to whether Qian Li is selling a mixture of good and bad materials.
Moreover, for clients like Wanshi Real Estate, the building is already halfway built. Even if they discover problems with the materials, at most they can ask for compensation. The building is unlikely to be demolished and rebuilt anyway, and the ones who would suffer in that eventuality are those who bought the Wanshi property."
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