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Chapter 1380: Chapter 1229: Charity Dinner (Please Subscribe!)
September 15th.
Now.
Two weeks have passed since the last ’near’ attack.
It’s also been a week since Faulkner kicked the bucket. The situation is developing in the direction he desires, with the ’invisible hand’ bringing more and more ’bystanders’ into the fray.
Every day.
All sorts of incidents occur.
Making them work overtime every single day.
Today, traces of the enemy appear here; tomorrow, an important member of the subordinates disappears, with clues pointing towards Faulkner and others; the day after, someone else involved in the investigation goes missing.
And the day after that.
Clues to the missing personnel pop up everywhere.
Just like that.
The incidents grow exponentially.
They are overwhelmed with work.
Massive personnel movements.
They also gradually expose the true scale of ’Kovalro’, of course, to Tang Qing. To others, it remains a ’mysterious and formidable’ behemoth.
Since his appointment.
The new person in charge has been submerged in trifles, his subordinates are constantly worn out, but despite paying a substantial price, they still are bamboozled, taking advantage of the chaos, the fighters have managed to catch quite a few fish.
Those ’escapees’.
Some have been ’captured’ one after another by the fighters.
Slowly gaining trust.
For such an effect to be achieved, Faulkner’s demise has played an indispensable role, only thus can some disappearances seem justified, mistaken for betrayal to the organization like Faulkner or for harboring ulterior motives.
This move,
In the whole scheme,
Is crucial.
The greatest diversion for the implementation of the plan.
What’s left,
Is to continuously drain ’Kovalro’s existing organizational structure through this ’simple’ method, replacing it with new blood. This day won’t be too far away, at the latest by the end of next year, it will be achieved.
Next.
Pluck the feathers slowly.
...
Today is Saturday.
At the villa.
Chai Ren has come to visit.
However.
He’s an ’unwelcome guest’.
As soon as he arrives,
He insists on eating the foolish crab.
Thus, Tang Qing painfully steams the ’only remaining stock’, and Chai Ren gorged on it without speaking a word. Finally, after two hours, he managed to finish the whole foolish crab.
Afterwards.
An afternoon,
Was spent clutching his belly ’playing dead’ on the sofa.
And he still expects Tang Qing to accompany him to some charity dinner.
Initially,
Tang Qing wasn’t much interested.
But he agreed anyway, taking it as a chance to go out for a stroll. However, as soon as he hears it’s to donate to the Myanmar Medical Fund, he gets intrigued, wanting to see who these people donating ’to him’ really are.
The Myanmar Medical Fund has only been established for a bit over twenty days.
Yet,
It’s already more famous than the majority of global foundations.
Suddenly,
Journalists seem to have no shortage of news materials, as the official website of the Myanmar Medical Fund announces the amount received in donations every day, with the lesser amounts being over a hundred million, and the greater reaching several hundred million dollars.
It’s madness.
This world.
There really is such a thing as money being offered just lying down.
You should know,
The people from the Myanmar Medical Fund have only issued a notice and an account number, and haven’t made any further announcements since, yet the money hasn’t seemed to slow down in its flow into their hands.
It’s pure profit.
Once in their hands, it is a black box operation, and with a large number of cancer patients returning home cured every day, the Myanmar Medical Fund makes the news daily.
For a while,
It was the envy of many.
Even.
Some foundations even came to ’beg’ and see if they could get support for their cause, but they all got rejected. The meat in my mouth, you think I’ll let you have it to fund your own projects? Dream on.
In the short term.
It’s only taking in, not giving out.
Tang Qing had investigated the source of these funds. Aside from the money sent back by the Fighters, most of it was donations from tycoons, almost none from the younger ones, mostly the older ones.
These people.
Are getting older.
Their attitude towards money is no longer what it used to be.
Those with higher awareness.
Might even donate nearly half their fortune. This time Chai Ren came just because a company under his subsidiary companies was invited. He came with the purpose of freeloading a meal and casually agreed; it had been a while since he last saw Tang Qing.
A whole summer vacation.
Tang Qing was mostly in Japan.
He passed through Shanghai Stock Market several times, but Tang Qing was not around.
...
In the evening.
After digesting the food.
Chai Ren became lively again.
"Tang Qing, later on, don’t take it too seriously," Chai Ren cautioned after getting into the car.
Tang Qing was startled.
"What? Bait and switch?"
"Not exactly, this kind of charity dinner, well, it is donating to a foreign foundation after all, it’s impossible for all of it to end up in the hands of the foundation. If you really wanted to donate, you could do so directly," said Chai Ren.
"They take a cut?" Tang Qing was surprised.
"Pretty much, consider it a handling fee. At least thirty percent to start with. If you’re more generous, fifty is not impossible. You have to know that this kind of dinner is actually just a show."
"Everyone doesn’t really care about what it’s really used for. Otherwise, if they truly wanted to donate, why don’t they do it usually? Later on, don’t be too vain and try to stun the crowd," Chai Ren explained.
"I see."
Hearing that someone wanted to skim ’his’ money.
Tang Qing decided not to give a penny.
Face?
Bro.
He’s the richest man.
Penny-pinching.
Who could bite him for that? As for competing with others, please, he’s not that idle. Competing for things he likes is one thing, but competing to give money away, he’s not that enlightened.
"Will you come home for Mid-Autumn Festival?"
"Yes."
"Having a Private Jet is convenient."
"You might as well just buy one yourself."
"No, it’s useless just sitting there, I’ll help you break it in."
"I’ve never heard of breaking in an Airplane."
"That’s what you don’t understand, Airplanes and cars are the same, they both need breaking in and use to bring out the best performance of the equipment..." In order to hitch a ride on the plane, Chai Ren started his blarney.
...
Tang Qing listened quietly to Chai Ren’s nonsense.
Although he talked about freeloading.
Chai Ren had a sense of measure.
Unless going abroad, he would occasionally borrow it, usually sticking to scheduled flights. Others are reluctant to lend cars because they fear they might be damaged, but this concern doesn’t apply to Tang Qing.
His vehicle.
If you can damage it.
Good luck!
All equipment far exceeds military specifications.
And it is continuously being improved. Basically, the exterior of his Airplane remains the same, but every month there would be significant updates to the equipment. After half a year, most parts would be replaced with the latest Technology.
In the Training Area.
Under various extreme environments.
There are also several test planes running tests day and night.
Damaged from use?
Even crashing them would be hard!
It’s not just the Airplane.
Even the commonly used cars in his garage.
Every month, a new batch would replace the old ones, which would be thrown into the security warehouse or be recycled. This kind of ’wasteful’ behavior, Tang Qing has ’educated’ himself countless times.
Then.
He continues to make more.
For Laboratories with mature recycling technology, the cost of a brand new Bulletproof vehicle can be pushed down to almost 200,000 Asia Dollars, meaning, it’s almost zero cost to replace a vehicle.
