Chapter 67 The Fate
"Hey, what's wrong?" The ring woke Ye Chen up, he was a little bit upset and answered the phone in a daze. "Hey, brother Ye, something happened, something huge!" Zhang Jingshan cried out emotionally over the phone.
"What happened?" Ye Chen was not sleepy immediately and sat up straight from the bed with Zhang Jingshan's exclamation.
"Brother Ye, just now, the entire Maple Leaf Hotel was confiscated, Sun Tianqi was arrested, and what he built was uprooted! And, um, do you remember that idiot Li Mu? You know his uncle He Jinjun, the Deputy Director of the City Bureau, the second-in-command, also left with the inspection team at midnight. I'm 100% sure that he is down!" Zhang Jingshan was almost incoherent in a hurry.
"And then? What does this have to do with me?" Ye Chen pretended to know nothing about this. Behind that seeming calmness, Ye Chen was ecstatic. Sure enough, the inspection team did not let him down!
How much money he could make from the acquisition of Jinzhong Village mainly depended on when the inspection team would do this. If the inspection team, in pursuit of perfection, stayed put and waited eight to ten more days before making a move, then he could only let Li Changfeng withdraw the shares of more than 20 million dollars.
Shorting the shares of the Four Seas Group could make 20 million dollars top. The acquisition of the houses in Jinzhong Village could skyrocket tenfold! Even if there were only more than 20 million dollars to do this, it was better than missing the opportunity. So he also made up his mind, if the inspection team did not do this in another three or five days, he would definitely have to withdraw the shares even if he would lose millions of dollars in this. Fortunately, it happened, the inspection team finished this faster than he expected.
Zhang Jingshan said, "Yes, brother Ye, it has everything to do with you! You know that the Maple Leaf Hotel and the Four Seas Group are strategic partners, don't you? Besides, the president of the Four Seas Group Li Sihai was a very close brother with Sun Tianqi as everyone knew! Now the Maple Leaf, Sun Tianqi, and even He Jinjun were in trouble, what does this mean? It means that the Four Seas Group is about to be in trouble, too!"
He continued, "It could be foreseen that when the stock market opened, the share price of the Four Seas Group will plummet. We've shorted their shares, and we'd grab the biz. Brother Ye, Bro, have you foreseen this? God, this is amazing!"
Ye Chen felt that Zhang Jingshan was overreacting about this, but he didn't know how deeply Zhang Jingshan resented the Li family. Zhang Jingshan only took out 20 million dollars to short the shares of the Four Seas Group, he would only earn around 10 million dollars at most. Normally, a mere 10 million dollars was far from enough to make Zhang Jingshan so excited. However, what he was excited about was that He Jinjun was going to be down and that the Four Seas Group was about to collapse!
The He family and the Li family had often found faults with the Zhang family over the years. They had slandered the Zhang family all the time, and his father with limited achievements had been repeatedly used as a joke and spread around. Coupled with the long-standing conflicts between him and Li Mu. That's why Zhang Jingshan couldn't help being joyful since they would definitely not be able to survive this. He didn't feel it was a shame since he still couldn't put everything they did to his family behind.
While gloating over the misfortune and getting excited about it, Zhang Jingshan was also impressed to the limit with Ye Chen's intuition about shorting the shares of the Four Seas Group!
"Foreseen? No, no, it was just my intuition that the Four Seas Group is going to have a crisis!" Ye Chen lightly avoided Zhang Jingshan's excitement. These all happened in his last life, and he couldn't get excited after all.
Immediately, Ye Chen changed the subject, "So how much money you put in shorting the shares?" "Uh, brother Ye, not much, I put 20 million dollars! Brother Ye, from now on, you are God in my heart! In the future, as long as you told me how to make money, I, Zhang Jingshan, will definitely not say anything, and rush to it with you!" Zhang Jingshan said.
"20 million, that's good!" Ye Chen smiled lightly. Ye Chen didn't expect that he would willing to take 20 million dollars out to do this with him under that kind of situation. Even if Ye Chen knew that this was an absolute opportunity to make money, he couldn't find anyone other than Zhang Jingshan and Li Changfeng who would believe him.
"By the way, brother Ye, something suddenly came to me." Zhang Jingshan stopped being so excited suddenly. "Yes?" Ye Chen said. Zhang Jingshan thought about it for a while, "Brother Ye, if Li Mu didn't say something bad to you at the rough stone market that day, but instead made friends with you, would you help the Li family get through this crisis?"
Ye Chen smiled, "There is no such thing because this is the fate of the Li family. Even if I did remind him, do you think he would buy it? Even you don't believe that the Four Seas Group, which is in such a good situation, would face a crisis, then what about him?" "Oh, that's right!" Zhang Jingshan said. "Okay, I've gotta go! I need some sleep!" Ye Chen hung up the phone directly after saying this.
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On the next day, Ye Chen woke up as if nothing happened. He made breakfast for his wife and sent his daughter to school without paying any attention to the turmoil last night that was widespread in the world.
It was only when he checked his phone, he saw He Jinjun, the Deputy Director of the Jiangzhou City Bureau, was investigated, and what was going on inside the Maple Leaf Hotel and what Sun Tianqi had done were already on the hot news.
People also focused on the Four Seas Group now. All the relationships among them were shown in the news, including the partnership between the Four Seas Group and the Maple Leaf Hotel, the relationship between the president Li Sihai and Sun Tianqi, and He Jinjun, the former Deputy Director was Li Sihai's uncle.
All of a sudden, people dug up everything related to them one after another, and the Four Seas Group was immediately under public opinion. "Boycotting the Four Seas Group! Strictly investigating the Four Seas Group!" The voice was like a sweeping trend formed in the tsunami!
Even if the public relations department of the Four Seas Group tried its best to clear the relationship with the Maple Leaf Hotel, it was completely useless under public criticism. It never rained but it poured. In the swept of public opinion, the bad history of the Four Seas Group was also dug out.
At the moment Hong Kong stocks opened, the share price of the Four Seas Group plummeted by 10%. The stock price worth over 40 dollars now fell directly by 10%. However, everyone knew that this was just the beginning.
In the coercion of the public opinion, the Commercial Investigation team and Jiangzhou's Economic Investigation Department, as well as the Industrial and Commercial Taxation and other departments quickly launched investigations into the Four Seas Group.
By the time the stock market closed, the shares of the Four Seas Group fell by 32%. In one day, its market value lost billions of dollars.
"Brother Ye, where are you?" Zhang Jingshan called Ye Chen. Outside of the Bauhinia Kindergarten, Ye Chen, who had just picked up Youyou, was about to take a taxi, "I'm picking up my daughter from school. What's the matter?" Ye Chen asked.
"Brother Ye, let's go out to celebrate this victory. I've called Changfeng! Let's have dinner together." Zhang Jingshan said in a good mood over the phone. "Well, I have to go home and cook for my wife and daughter. We'll catch up next time!" Ye Chen said.
"Changfeng's company is having a dinner party, I don't think your wife is going home for dinner. Just take the kid and come over!" Zhang Jingshan said. "Changfeng's company is having a dinner party?" Ye Chen was stunned.
"Yes, didn't Yinuo tell you? Brother Ye, I'm in the middle of something right now. To save some time, I will send a driver to pick you up to the company, and then we meet with Changfeng, okay?" Zhang Jingshan hoped.
Ye Chen paused and thought about it. He asked Ye Youyou, "Youyou, do you want to go out to dinner with dad?" "Yes, yes!" Although she liked what Ye Chen cooked for her, she jumped for joy when she heard that they were having dinner outside.
After asking Youyou's opinion, Ye Chen answered on the phone, "Okay, I'll ask Yinuo later, if she doesn't come back, then I'll go with Youyou. You don't have to send a driver, I'll just take a taxi and go to your company." "Okay, see you."
Ye Chen just hung up the phone, and he was about to call Chen Yinuo, and she was calling him at the very moment. Just like what Zhang Jingshan said, Chen Yinuo said that she wouldn't come back for dinner because of the dinner party in the company.
Ye Chen simply brought Youyou and went directly to Zhang Jingshan's Yunshan Network Company. At the moment he walked into the Yunshan Network, the girl at the front desk came over immediately with a smile on her face, saying, "Hello, Mr. Ye, Mr. Zhang had arranged a VIP lounge for you, please follow me. He will come to you as soon as he finished work!"
"OK, thank you!" Ye Chen nodded. When he was about to follow the girl to the elevator, the elevator door opened, and a middle-aged man walked out with a briefcase with a smile on his face.
He passed by, but nobody knew that Ye Chen was stunned in an instant. Under the flood of his memory, he felt that the man looked familiar. Right after that, he subconsciously looked back at the man who was leaving.
"Mr. Ye, what's the matter?" Seeing this, the girl asked in amazement. "Who was that?" Ye Chen asked. "Uh, I'm not quite sure about this, but I knew he was here to find Mr. Zhang, the client that Mr. Zhang met just now!" She answered.
"Client? Zhang Jingshan's client?" Ye Chen frowned and could not help thinking. He was not sure of anything before he got knowledge of that man. After all, in his last life, he had never met this man, only saw his photos on the Internet. However, once he remembered where he had seen this man in his last life, he realized that this would be a disaster for Yunshan Network Company, and Zhang Jingshan!
"20 million, that's good!" Ye Chen smiled lightly. Ye Chen didn't expect that he would willing to take 20 million dollars out to do this with him under that kind of situation. Even if Ye Chen knew that this was an absolute opportunity to make money, he couldn't find anyone other than Zhang Jingshan and Li Changfeng who would believe him.
"By the way, bro, something suddenly came to me." Zhang Jingshan stopped being so excited suddenly. "Yes?" Ye Chen said. Zhang Jingshan thought about it for a while, "Bro, if Li Mu didn't say something bad to you at the rough stone market that day, but instead made friends with you, would you help the Li family get through this crisis?"
Ye Chen smiled, "There is no such thing because this is the fate of the Li family. Even if I did remind him, do you think he would buy it? Even you don't believe that the Four Seas Group, which is in such a good situation, would face a crisis, then what about him?" "Oh, that's right!" Zhang Jingshan said. "Okay, I've gotta go! I need some sleep!" Ye Chen hung up the phone directly after saying this.
...
On the next day, Ye Chen woke up as if nothing happened. He made breakfast for his wife and sent his daughter to school without paying any attention to the turmoil last night that was widespread in the world.
It was only when he checked his phone, he saw He Jinjun, the Deputy Director of the Jiangzhou City Bureau, was investigated, and what was going on inside the Maple Leaf Hotel and what Sun Tianqi had done were already on the hot news.
People also focused on the Four Seas Group now. All the relationships among them were shown in the news, including the partnership between the Four Seas Group and the Maple Leaf Hotel, the relationship between the president Li Sihai and Sun Tianqi, and He Jinjun, the former Deputy Director was Li Sihai's uncle.
All of a sudden, people dug up everything related to them one after another, and the Four Seas Group was immediately under public opinion. "Boycotting the Four Seas Group! Strictly investigating the Four Seas Group!" The voice was like a sweeping trend formed in the tsunami!
Even if the public relations department of the Four Seas Group tried its best to clear the relationship with the Maple Leaf Hotel, it was completely useless under public criticism. It never rained but it poured. In the swept of public opinion, the bad history of the Four Seas Group was also dug out.
At the moment Hong Kong stocks opened, the share price of the Four Seas Group plummeted by 10%. The stock price worth over 40 dollars now fell directly by 10%. However, everyone knew that this was just the beginning.
In the coercion of the public opinion, the Commercial Investigation team and Jiangzhou's Economic Investigation Department, as well as the Industrial and Commercial Taxation and other departments quickly launched investigations into the Four Seas Group.
By the time the stock market closed, the shares of the Four Seas Group fell by 32%. In one day, its market value lost billions of dollars.
"Bro, where are you?" Zhang Jingshan called Ye Chen. Outside of the Bauhinia Kindergarten, Ye Chen, who had just picked up Youyou, was about to take a taxi, "I'm picking up my daughter from school. What's the matter?" Ye Chen asked.
"Bro, let's go out to celebrate this victory. I've called Changfeng! Let's have dinner together." Zhang Jingshan said in a good mood over the phone. "Well, I have to go home and cook for my wife and daughter. We'll catch up next time!" Ye Chen said.
"Changfeng's company is having a dinner party, I don't think your wife is going home for dinner. Just take the kid and come over!" Zhang Jingshan said. "Changfeng's company is having a dinner party?" Ye Chen was stunned.
"Yes, didn't Yinuo tell you? Bro, I'm in the middle of something right now. To save some time, I will send a driver to pick you up to the company, and then we meet with Changfeng, okay?" Zhang Jingshan hoped.
Ye Chen paused and thought about it. He asked Ye Youyou, "Youyou, do you want to go out to dinner with dad?" "Yes, yes!" Although she liked what Ye Chen cooked for her, she jumped for joy when she heard that they were having dinner outside.
After asking Youyou's opinion, Ye Chen answered on the phone, "Okay, I'll ask Yinuo later, if she doesn't come back, then I'll go with Youyou. You don't have to send a driver, I'll just take a taxi and go to your company." "Okay, see you."
Ye Chen just hung up the phone, and he was about to call Chen Yinuo, and she was calling him at the very moment. Just like what Zhang Jingshan said, Chen Yinuo said that she wouldn't come back for dinner because of the dinner party in the company.
Ye Chen simply brought Youyou and went directly to Zhang Jingshan's Yunshan Network Company. At the moment he walked into the Yunshan Network, the girl at the front desk came over immediately with a smile on her face, saying, "Hello, Mr. Ye, Mr. Zhang had arranged a VIP lounge for you, please follow me. He will come to you as soon as he finished work!"
"OK, thank you!" Ye Chen nodded. When he was about to follow the girl to the elevator, the elevator door opened, and a middle-aged man walked out with a briefcase with a smile on his face.
He passed by, but nobody knew that Ye Chen was stunned in an instant. Under the flood of his memory, he felt that the man looked familiar. Right after that, he subconsciously looked back at the man who was leaving.
"Mr. Ye, what's the matter?" Seeing this, the girl asked in amazement. "Who was that?" Ye Chen asked. "Uh, I'm not quite sure about this, but I knew he was here to find Mr. Zhang, the client that Mr. Zhang met just now!" She answered.
"Client? Zhang Jingshan's client?" Ye Chen frowned and could not help thinking. He was not sure of anything before he got knowledge of that man. After all, in his last life, he had never met this man, only saw his photos on the Internet. However, once he remembered where he had seen this man in his last life, he realized that this would be a disaster for Yunshan Network Company, and Zhang Jingshan!