Chapter 1049 Xiao Peng's Actions
Xiao Peng's actual wealth has always been a source of speculation. A three-million-dollar luxury car every day? That would mean he'd have to spend a billion a year, almost 130 million euros, and that's less than half of his interest.
By this calculation, Xiao Peng must have at least 20 billion in wealth! Or Euros! No wonder he can drive such an expensive yacht to salvage the boat. He really doesn't care!
Unsurprisingly, Xiao Peng's "one thousand and one barrage" incident caused a stir, with online debates swirling around whether he was right or wrong. Was he just desperate for money? He didn't want to donate a penny! While others hoped to attract traffic and boost his profile through online debate, Xiao Peng simply wished he could be banned from livestreaming altogether—the ultimate conclusion being that he was just too rich and willful.
Rich people's temperament is so simple and unpretentious.
When his livestream just ended, many media influencers jumped on the bandwagon to criticize Xiao Peng. But then something happened that left them all dumbfounded: Xiao Peng sued the French state-run media outlet Le Monde! He also announced that his salvage company was withdrawing from France and moving to the Netherlands.
The French were bewildered—who was I? Where was I? What had happened?
We have such a good relationship with Xiao Peng, why did Xiao Peng move the company just because of a disagreement?
This time, Xiao Peng and his team live-broadcasted the entire treasure they salvaged. Besides Burmese rubies, there were also piles of high-quality Colombian emeralds, Indian diamonds, and sapphires! In addition, there were also large quantities of gold coins and silver ingots.
This batch of gold has attracted the attention of countless countries. It is a good opportunity to increase gold reserves, especially France. Zhang Qikun of the Bank of France is overjoyed. This is another good business and he can get another lot of gold!
Ever since establishing a good relationship with Xiao Peng and acquiring a large amount of gold, Zhang Qikun's position at the Bank of France has skyrocketed. Everyone expected him to once again obtain gold from Xiao Peng. But then Xiao Peng suddenly turned against France and moved the company out of the country? Why? There was no warning at all!
It was not until Xiao Peng filed a lawsuit against Le Monde that they suddenly realized: Oh, this is the problem!
Everyone was furious and wanted to beat up the editor-in-chief of Le Monde: "You guys have so much free time! Why are you making up stories about someone else's mother?"
It is said that the French media reported on Xiao Peng in this way at the behest of their superiors.
Why do this? Of course, it's because Xiao Peng isn't French! He's from Daxia! Their so-called "correct reporting" is to smear Daxia! And a Daxia person is doing well in France? That's something they absolutely don't want to see!
So they instructed Le Monde to start making up stories, which, while discrediting Daxia, would bring Xiao Peng closer to the French side, making people feel that France is still the most powerful.
Le Monde, having received such a task, began to write a story with ease, and thus came up with the story of the love-hate relationship of Xiao Peng's family. Unexpectedly, this "news report" caused trouble for France.
Xiao Peng's departure caught the French authorities off guard, and they didn't know how to deal with the matter.
You let the French deal with the Russians? They have experience, but you let them deal with the Daxia people? They really can't do it!
Just like when they took the lead in the EU's sanctions against several unimportant officials of Daxia, the general intention was to express their own attitude, but Daxia retaliated by imposing sanctions on their ten important organizations!
The entire EU was stunned: Shouldn't you protest? Why resort to such direct force? Then they tried to find ways to make amends. Unexpectedly, Xiao Peng's approach to them this time was exactly the same as the Daxia government's!
Make up for it quickly!
The French media's knack for fabricating stories and the Spanish government's knack for shirking their responsibilities are actually quite similar! So, seeing the escalating situation, Le Monde quickly published a lengthy apology, apologizing to Xiao Peng and urging him to withdraw the lawsuit.
The French media don't even know how to write the word "morality".
To give a simple example, when Napoleon was restored, what were the front-page headlines of the same newspaper in Paris for six consecutive days?
Day 1: "A Monster from Corsica Lands at Port Jouan"
The next day: "The unspeakable man-eating demon approaches Glass";
Day 3: "The Despicable Thief Enters Grenoble"
Day 4: Napoleon Bonaparte Captures Lyon
Day 5: "General Napoleon Approaching the Palace of Fontainebleau"
Day 6: His Majesty the Supreme Emperor arrived in his faithful Paris today!
Not only did they apologize, they also took action: they sent people directly to the Netherlands to look for Xiao Peng.
The Netherlands is very lively right now, and people who want to find Xiao Peng are lining up - because the gems salvaged this time are so amazing, countless jewelers, celebrities and the like have gathered in the Netherlands, even Xiao Peng's friend Aimore and his family have gone to the Netherlands.
But no one found Xiao Peng, only Fabian was there. And Fabian was not dealing with these wealth, but dealing with legal issues.
Spain indeed filed a lawsuit against Xiao Peng, arguing that even though the shipwreck was a private vessel, the wealth belonged to the Spanish royal family. They then shamelessly proposed that the Dutch seal up the wealth from the shipwreck.
This request was directly rejected by the Dutch court: Even if it turns out to be your wealth, so what? They salvaged it on the high seas, whoever pulled it out owns it!
Spain also continued to fight back. Since the Netherlands refused to accept the lawsuit, they filed a complaint with the European Court of Justice. After all, Xiao Peng's company is Dutch. However, this posed another challenge to the European Court of Justice.
The Netherlands and Germany are now supporting Xiao Peng - they are still counting on Xiao Peng to make money; while France is considering mending its relationship with Xiao Peng, so its attitude is also ambiguous now.
But Spain was no pushover, leveraging its connections to rally a large group of supporters. Seeing how powerful both sides were, the European Court of Justice had no choice but to strictly adhere to the law, and Spain lost the case again.
Fabian didn't take this official case to heart, but his mind was on Daxia: on behalf of Xiao Peng, he filed a complaint to a large number of domestic media and self-media in the name of the company: the characteristic of these media was that they all forwarded the false reports about Xiao Peng by Le Monde.
Gossip about celebrities like Xiao Peng is always the most important thing for these media. Do they think that just reposting the French media reports will be fine? How naive!
Several media outlets that have been around for decades went bankrupt because of Xiao Peng’s lawsuit!
This incident caused another uproar, with many people again claiming there was "no freedom of speech." However, anyone who said this was immediately lambasted—"Does your so-called freedom of speech mean you can just say whatever you want? If you, as a media outlet, report truthfully, will you be sued?"
This incident has further purified the domestic public opinion atmosphere, and Xiao Peng can be considered to have done a good deed!
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