About ten minutes later, Cheng Mo and Zhuo Zhikuan arrived at the villa.
"Xiao Fei, Young Master Xia, Young Master Wang... Hello, everyone!"
Zhuo Zhikuan took the lead in greeting everyone one by one. He noticed that there seemed to be quite a few people in the villa right now, and each one had a more formidable background than the last.
"Brother, what exactly happened?" Cheng Weiyang asked curiously.
Nowadays, the development of the Feiya Group was booming. Because of Qin Ning, everything had been smooth sailing, and they had barely encountered any trouble.
Hongtai Liquor had also merged into the Feiya Group. Logically speaking, nothing should have gone wrong.
"The problem isn't domestic; it's overseas."
Cheng Mo frowned and said, "Aren't we expanding the factory recently to increase our brewing capacity? We planned to import a batch of equipment from abroad. The deposit was already paid, but the supplier in Country Y keeps dragging their feet and delaying the delivery. We sent people to urge them several times, but they simply ignored us. We've hired a lot of workers for the factory now, but without the equipment, we can't start work."
"Country Y?"
Hearing this, Richard, who was busy making tea for everyone on the side, was momentarily stunned before asking seriously, "Which company is it?"
"And this is..."
Cheng Mo and Zhuo Zhikuan looked at Richard curiously.
They had noticed earlier that there was a foreigner here, but they didn't expect him to speak some broken Chinese.
"Hello, gentlemen. My name is Richard, and I come from Country Y. I might be able to help with the matter you just mentioned." Richard placed his right hand over his left chest, bowed slightly, and greeted the two.
This immediately made Cheng Mo and Zhuo Zhikuan feel a bit overwhelmed by the unexpected favor.
One must know that abroad, this is a very respectful gesture. For Richard to be staying in the villa meant that he had also received Qin Ning's approval. Now that he was showing such respect to the two of them, it naturally made them a little flustered.
"It's a company called the Oya Group. We purchased a batch of equipment from them. The deposit has been paid, and the final payment has long been prepared. But looking at their attitude now, it seems they are intentionally stalling the delivery date, most likely to drive up the price," Zhuo Zhikuan explained.
"Didn't you sign a contract? Was there no delivery date specified?" Qin Fei asked curiously.
"Of course we signed a contract, and there is a delivery date. But when we signed it, the delivery date was set for half a year later. We didn't expect the factory expansion to go so fast, far exceeding our expectations. Now the workers have been hired, and everyone is waiting for the equipment to arrive to start working."
Cheng Mo said, "I guess the Oya Group also heard some things about our company and knows we are in a hurry for the equipment. They clearly have the equipment ready, but they just refuse to deliver it early. They want us to pay a higher premium. Brother Zhuo and I approached them once before and were willing to add a bit to the price, but they are too greedy and want even more."
"The Oya Group, is it? I will solve this."
Right at this moment, Richard spoke up from the side, his expression looking rather unpleasant.
With that said, he pulled out a phone and immediately made a call.
"Respected Mr. Richard, why did you suddenly call me?"
On the other end of the phone, in a top-floor office of a skyscraper in Country Y, a young man in his twenties couldn't help but look a bit panicked the moment he saw the caller ID.
"Peter, do you not want to live anymore? How dare you offend my esteemed friends!" Richard cursed directly.
Peter was so scared he almost fell out of his chair and hurriedly said, "Mr. Richard, please don't joke around. I am but an ant in front of you. How could I possibly offend your esteemed guests?"
"You own a company called the Oya Group under your name. Are they supposed to sell a batch of equipment to Huaxia these few days? Since that batch of equipment is already prepared, why haven't you arranged for delivery? You're even intentionally stalling the date, blackmailing my friends, and extorting their money."
"I'm giving you five minutes to handle this now. If there's no result within five minutes, you can wait to go bankrupt before tomorrow morning!"
After saying that, Richard hung up the phone directly.
Then, completely dropping his arrogant attitude from a moment ago, he looked at everyone with a smile. "Please rest assured, everyone. This matter will be resolved very soon."
...
Meanwhile, in Country Y.
After making several consecutive calls, Peter finally understood the entire cause and effect of the situation.
Right now, he wished he could just go and kill the person in charge of the Oya Group. That guy had actually brought such huge trouble upon him. He even dared to offend Richard's friends. If he wanted to die himself, that was one thing, but wasn't this dragging Peter into the fire pit as well?
Angry as he was, he quickly adjusted his mindset and hurriedly dialed Richard's number again. "Respected Mr. Richard, I have already had people start handling the matter. The batch of equipment is currently on its way to the airport. I've dispatched over a dozen planes to have it airlifted to your friends overnight."
"Also, the guy who made things difficult for your friends is a department manager at Oya. This guy has dirty hands and has done this sort of thing plenty of times before. Please rest assured, Mr. Richard, I guarantee he won't live to see tomorrow's sun!"
"Besides that, there is one more thing to report to you. This department manager seems to have colluded with a certain company over in Huaxia, called something like Pinzui Liquor. Please forgive me that my reach isn't that long, so over in Huaxia..."
"Alright, I understand. That's all." Richard hung up the phone, and then he relayed Peter's words exactly as they were spoken.
"Pinzui Liquor?"
Hearing this, Zhuo Zhikuan immediately frowned. "I knew something wasn't right. It turns out they really are the ones playing tricks behind the scenes!"
"What is the background of this Pinzui Liquor?" Cheng Weiyang asked.
"They are the leading enterprise in the liquor industry of our Xi Province. Their business is huge. Recently, they also opened a branch in Bin City. I guess they saw our Hongtai Liquor developing so well and fast, so they thought about suppressing us."
Zhuo Zhikuan said, "Moreover, the person in charge of their branch in Bin City is an old classmate of mine. Back when we were in school, he constantly went against me. Now, he just wants to take this opportunity to strike back and get revenge."
"Pinzui... that sounds somewhat familiar."
Xia Fei pondered for a moment, then said, "I remember now. This seems to be an enterprise under the Jiang family of the provincial capital."
The Jiang family?
Everyone was momentarily stunned upon hearing this.
Wasn't that Jiang Yunshan?
Qin Ning's disciple.
Put this way, the matter seemed very easy to resolve.
"I'll give the Jiang family a call."
Qin Fei spoke up, then took out her phone, found Jiang Yunshan's number, and dialed it.
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to panic—he has a system. As long as an investment target dies, he can claim a reward. And since he is immortal, the one thing he has plenty of is time. ... Countless years later. “Immortal Emperor of Longevity? I invested in him.” “Supreme Celestial Venerable? I invested in him.” “Undying Empress? I invested in her.” “...” “Heh. Once they’ve all died, even the Heavenly Dao will have to kneel and call me Dad.”
e bizarre and supernatural had descended. The previous emperor was a thoroughgoing tyrant; no longer satisfied with human women, he had set his sights on a stunningly beautiful supernatural entity. He met his end in his bedchamber, drained of all his vital essence. As the legitimate eldest son and crown prince, Wang Hao was thus hastily enthroned, becoming the young emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty. No sooner had he awakened the "Imperial Sign-In Intelligence System" than he was assassinated by a Son of Destiny—a classic villain's opening. The Great Zhou, ravaged by the former emperor's excesses, was in national decline. The great families within its borders harbored their own treacherous schemes, martial sects began to defy the imperial court's decrees, and border armies, their pay and provisions in arrears, grumbled incessantly against the central government. Fortunately, the central capital was still held secure by the half-million Imperial Guards and fifty thousand Imperial Forest Army who obeyed the court's orders, along with the royal family's hidden reserves of power, barely managing to suppress the realm. As the Great Zhou's finances worsened and supernatural activities grew ever more frequent, the court sat atop a volcano. Ambitious plotters everywhere dreamed of overthrowing the dynasty, and even some reclusive ancient powers emerged, attempting to sway the tides of the world. At the first grand court assembly, the civil and military officials nearly came to blows, fighting tooth and nail over the allocation of fifty million taels of silver from the summer tax revenues. The spectacle opened Wang Hao's eyes—the Great Zhou's bureaucracy was not only corrupt but also martially proficient, a cabinet of all-rounders. Some officials even had the audacity to suggest the emperor release funds from the imperial privy purse to address the emergency. Wang Hao suddenly felt weary. Let it all burn.
ing gift was a patch of barren land, and disciples were all picked up along the way. He spent fifty years diligently building three "ramshackle little sects," thinking he could finally live a carefree life relying on his disciples. But right at the fifty-year mark, he was suddenly swept away by a spatial rift and exiled to the Chaos Desolation, the Disorderly Ruins. There was no spiritual energy there, only slaughter. Relying on the cultivation feedback from his disciples, Gu Changyuan hacked his way through a sea of blood for eleven hundred years. When the system finally fished him back out, he discovered the ramshackle little sects he'd built back then had developed a rather... unusual style. Hold on... I vanished for a thousand years, so how did my ramshackle little sects become holy lands?!
