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Chapter 683: Chapter 587: Mighty Powers (Please Subscribe!)_1
Evening.
Chai Ren and his wife personally sent Tang Qing to the plane.
Even though his father didn’t get any information this morning, he didn’t care. His father was right, knowing too much could be of no benefit. This was applicable to people of all statuses.
No matter what one’s position, there are things that one should not know, and once one does, it’s hard to get away.
It’s quite good like this.
They cooperate with each other vaguely. Even if something happens and it leads to an international dispute, they can genuinely claim ignorance.
Of course.
The private investigation will not stop.
Just because it’s unknown publicly doesn’t mean it’s unknown privately.
True knowledge and false knowledge, this statement gave Chai Ren a sense of cognitive overload. When he reflects on it, it’s profoundly complex, with a single sentence having so much interpretation. Chai Ren feels like he still has a long way to go.
Tang Kai and Liu Qian were also there to send Tang Qing to the plane.
The two bosses had no urgent matters to deal with, so they arranged to return to Qingyan City after a few days in Beijing. They planned to visit the manor under construction and get the enrollment affairs for Tang Nian’er settled.
"Boss Tang, Boss Liu, have fun in Beijing these few days. You can stay over at the Autumn Palace and I’ll cover your meals and accommodations. I have quite a few things to deal with here, so I can’t keep you company. My apologies to both of you." Chai Ren saluted them with a sort of clench-fist salute.
He had just gotten married.
Today it had been at his place.
Tomorrow, he had to visit his wife’s family house.
The Zhan family was also quite a big family with lots of things going on, he didn’t have much time to show Tang Kai and the others around Beijing.
"No worries, we know you’re busy, you don’t need to worry about us, we’ll just wander around." Tang Kai smiled, saying that there was no way they could ask Chai Ren to accompany them since he just got married, and besides, they weren’t completely comfortable with Chai Ren around, especially Liu Qian, who was always nervous around him.
Moreover, they were not of the same age.
There really wasn’t much common ground.
After exchanging a few more pleasantries.
Chai Ren and Zhan Xi left. Liu Qian and Tang Kai got in the Rolls-Royce, with a soldier driving, a monkey sitting in the passenger seat, and another soldier following in a Mercedes-Benz car. This car was borrowed from Zheng Lin’s hotel as a courtesy vehicle.
Chai Ren drove Zhan Xi to a villa not far from the airport.
In the car.
Zhan Xi voiced her curiosity: "Why is the Tang family given so much attention?"
It wouldn’t be strange for Chai Ren to give them attention, after all, he had many friends, all of whom had prominent backgrounds, but for his father, Chai Guoqiang, to take the Tang family seriously - a business family with little background - was not simple at all.
After all, the father of a prefecture-level city and a deputy director was hardly considered a significant background.
Chai Ren gave a faint smile.
Previously, Zhan Xi wasn’t part of the family and didn’t have the qualifications to understand their family business, therefore things weren’t explained to her. Zhan Xi accepted that they were just friends and, even though she was curious, she didn’t say anything. But now that they were married, she had the right to know some things.
"You should know about the business layout of our family, right?" Chai Ren asked.
Zhan Xi nodded and said, "Yes, it’s mainly related to the extraction, smelting, and sales of metal minerals. What does this have to do with the Tang family? They don’t do this kind of business."
A Jewelry Company? Clearly, it’s not a competitor.
Chai Ren slowly explained, "Here’s what you don’t know: Our family business not only has a relationship with the Tang family’s, but it also has a significant one. There are three main industries in our family.
The first one involved various steel factories as well as special material and mechanical manufacturing factories related to mining. This could manufacture almost all gear required for mining, and involved almost all upstream and downstream sectors in the mining industry.
The second industry is Yunqi Investment, which follows central enterprises around the world to purchase mineral resources, providing our factory with cheap metal minerals, and indirectly reserves mineral resources for the country.
These were the two core industries and the main sources of income for our family before."
Chai Ren paused for a moment before continuing,
"And now, we have a third industry in our family. Unlike ’Yunqi Investment,’ which is a partnership with many members of other families, this one only has two partners - one is me, and the other is a friend of Tang Qing."
"A friend of Tang Qing?" Zhan Xi picked up on the topic quickly.
"Yes, now this third industry has already accounted for more than 50% of our family’s income, which amounts to billions of wealth every year.
Assuming everything goes smoothly, this company will generate a net profit of not less than 3.5 billion RMB for our family next year, and this is just a conservative estimate."
Chai Ren couldn’t help sighing when he talked about this. They made the most money from looting, especially gemstones and precious metal mines. It was like opening a treasure trove gushing money.
Previously, these were randomly being mined by local forces. Now it had become cooperative mining, and they were all very obedient. Because of the loopholes in the local system, they avoided taxes through legal channels, and basically what was mined was money.
Thinking about this, Chai Ren was not quite calm. Damn it. Importing a tonne of gold with almost a zero tax rate from the place of production and selling it was crazy. He never dared to even think about it, but someone else had done it and it had even become the normal way of doing things.
In addition to these bulk commodities, these precious ores, under the operations of Tang Qing’s friend, had become taxed at the same rate as ’scrap.’ Apart from the ’protection fee’ paid to the locals, the expenses of other links were forcibly reduced.
It was ruthless beyond reason.
Zhan Xi jumped when she heard about the thirty-plus billion RMB. Although her family also did business, they only made a few billions a year, all of them regular operations, nothing too big.
The main aim is to prevent family members from making money out of it. It’s to ensure a necessary standard of living.
"That much? What kind of company makes such a profit?" Zhan Xi exclaimed in surprise.
"You must not have heard of it, ’African United Mining Group’, I hold 51 percent of the shares, his friend holds 49 percent. We jointly develop the mineral resources of various African countries. We pay the money, provide the equipment, and the minerals, and they...they’re in charge of smoothing things out locally." Chai Ren explained.
"We could handle it too, couldn’t we? Did they threaten you?" Zhan Xi’s first thought was a threat.
"No, you’re thinking in the wrong direction, we approached them proactively." Seeing Zhan Xi’s puzzled eyes, Chai Ren continued, "You should know, many African countries are quite chaotic.
Armed groups, tribes, warlords, local hooligans, dark forces, etc. are incredibly complex. We would probably be devoured if we tried to negotiate. We have tried it before and it won’t work; those guys don’t have any moral bottom line and demand excessively.
Chai Ren feels like crying when he thinks about it. When he goes there, no one pays him any attention. They simply want money. However, the friend of Tang Qing directly fetches them out and beats them mercilessly until they behave.
Damn it.
Having a big fist is indeed the hard truth. This company is the best evidence of that.
"Can Tang Qing’s friend handle that?" Zhan Xi wondered.
Chai Ren nodded vigorously: "Yes, they can, quite capable, in fact. Regardless of any force I mentioned above, no matter how brutal, how greedy. As long as he intervenes in the mineral deposits, everyone has to allow us to mine honestly, and even dare not charge protection fees. However, a reasonable fee will be charged."
Zhan Xi held her mouth in awe: "So powerful? How did they convince them?"
This seems like a winning tactic.
Chai Ren thought about it but didn’t explicitly say, "There are many methods. His friend appears to have a wide network of resources in Africa, and also possess considerable military power. As long as they get involved, there’s nothing that can’t be resolved."
Zhan Xi was completely amazed.
"Tang Qing’s friend rarely shows up in person, just sends people to manage the company. Therefore, our relationship with the Tang family is crucial. Although the Tang family only has some money, his friend is a real tough character that should not be offended.
By the way, you should maintain more contact with Tang Qing’s fiancée Lin Jiaxue in the future. Tang Qing is a very sentimental guy. This is very important for our family interests." Chai Ren reminded at the end.
"Got it," Zhan Xi nodded vigorously.
She is the wife of Chai Ren, and naturally, she has to protect the interests of the Chai family. She wouldn’t be surprised if Chai Guoqiang personally met the Tang family and paid great attention to Chai Ren. There seems to be a powerful person behind all this.
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Eleven o’clock at night.
Shanghai.
Tang Qing and his entourage finally arrived at Pudong Airport.
Instead of going back to the villa, they went straight to the house near Fudan and dropped off Miao Ru on the way. Her home was not far from Fudan, marking the end of the weekend.
Back at home.
It was already close to midnight.
Seeing that Lin Jiaxue was a bit sleepy, Tang Qing didn’t do much. After taking a bath, he just held Lin Jiaxue in his arms on the bed.
Soon.
Lin Jiaxue fell asleep.
Tang Qing left the bedroom, closed the door, and teleported to the command room.
It’s past midnight.
Today is the twentieth of September.
And tomorrow is Ling’s day to go to Myanmar. He wasn’t specifically worried about the preparation of the soldiers. He just wanted to understand the progress of the preparation. This time we are going to someone else’s domain and carelessness is not allowed.
Unexpected outcomes might crop up before there are confirmed results.
It has now been five days since Ling took over Su Yu’s territory.
In five days.
With the efforts of the soldiers, the progress was achieved at an incredible speed.
All of Su Yu’s soldiers have been completely reorganized and begun a three-month new recruit training. After the soldiers demonstrated a little bit of their skills, they all obediently accepted the training and started learning to read and discipline.
They can’t fight.
Skills can’t compete.
What’s there to show off about?
It’s better to study and train honestly.
Since the entire defense area is too large and expanded too quickly, the issue of the number of soldiers came up, especially for the forces from Lao Guo and Thailand, they are the key defense targets.
Fortunately, with the vigorous morale of the territory and real-time monitoring from satellites above, the external defense layout is initially set up.
Frightening off those forces was not the biggest concern.
It just declares that...this mountain is mine now.
