Car-hailing Driver: Rewards from Complaints-Chapter 309 - 176: A Second Shareholder Without Ambition Is Not a Good Second Shareholder
Leaving the Jia Ding North District, Yang Chen found a place to park and took a look at President Liu’s information.
His real name is Liu Changxi, with a junior high school education, and he used to be an apprentice at Qianli Car Repair Shop.
But he wasn’t content with his situation and often told his colleagues that he was going to be a big boss someday. The boss couldn’t stand him inciting others, so he got rid of him.
Later, he was tricked into a pyramid scheme and was nearly beaten to death.
After being rescued by the police, he behaved for a while, worked in a factory, and met a divorced woman, and they got married.
But the woman wasn’t someone who settled down either, and after the novelty wore off, she divorced him.
Later he joined the company of his fellow townsman, Liu Changgui.
Liu Changgui’s company is called Changgui Entrepreneurship Consulting Co., Ltd. Officially, it’s a consulting service for those who want to start a business, but in reality, it’s about tricking people into joining their company and then using the company’s tricks to scam others into investing.
Liu Changxi had previous experience in a pyramid scheme, so this job was practically tailor-made for him. He quickly set up a drinking water project and deceived many people into investing.
Logically speaking, these people are indeed committing fraud, using an unrealistic business plan to trick people who aren’t too bright into investing.
Legally speaking, these people are on the right track; they have all the paperwork, products, and genuinely are making efforts to promote, so there’s no legal flaw to pick out.
But anyone with a normal functioning brain can see that his plan is doomed to fail.
"Rent venues for water dispensers nationwide in office buildings, if each water dispenser makes just 1 yuan a day, we’d be making at least 10 million yuan nationwide."
Isn’t this just scamming fools?
Yet there are people who believe it and actually invested money.
Even though this model has obvious loopholes, no one can do anything about it.
After all, no one can confidently claim that their investment will certainly succeed, and just because it doesn’t succeed, an investor can’t demand their money back unless there is an agreement.
Nor can the law punish him just because it fails.
If that were the case, many business tycoons would be in prison because of their number of failed projects.
Yang Chen had looked over the agreement Liu Changxi signed with that girl Wuxing and couldn’t find any faults; if the investment failed or the expected goals weren’t met, the girl could only consider herself unlucky.
Simply put, Liu Changxi and his group exploit legal loopholes to scam naive people out of their money.
Yang Chen called Zhang Xiang to explain Liu Changxi’s information in detail and asked if he had any ideas on dealing with such scammers.
Zhang Xiang’s views were the same as Yang Chen’s; superficially, Liu Changxi and his associates weren’t breaking the law.
But anyone with common sense could see this was a type of fraud, so Zhang Xiang believed there might still be an opportunity to find a flaw.
However, this would require an insider to directly test Liu Changxi, listen to how he persuades people to invest, and then find inconsistencies based on what he says.
If they tried to find faults merely from the agreements and other documents, they’d have no chance.
In simple terms, Zhang Xiang thought that when Liu Changxi attempts to convince someone to invest, he would certainly offer very definite and specific goals as temptations; otherwise, no one would invest easily.
But when signing the agreement, he intentionally turns those definite and specific promises into mere examples, thus exploiting legal loopholes and leaving the scammed investors at a loss.
Now all they needed was to find someone to approach Liu Changxi, record, or capture his deceitful process. With Zhang Xiang’s ability, he would definitely find a breakthrough.
Find someone willing to be deliberately scammed by Liu Changxi?
Hmm?
This method could work.
But who should it be?
This person has to be simple enough, the more naive they appear, the better.
Just then, Zhao Yun sent a message to Yang Chen.
"Sister Yang, are you free? Could you pick me up? I’d like to visit Teacher Wang at the hospital, she’s going for a follow-up today."
Hmm huh?
There’s the candidate.
Yang Chen: "Sure, I’m on my way."
Half an hour later, Yang Chen picked up Zhao Yun at the entrance of Normal University and took her to Longmei Hospital.
Zhao Yun chatted with Teacher Wang for over ten minutes, then quickly came out to find Yang Chen.
"I won’t give you a cab fare; how about I treat you to a meal instead? How about it?" Zhao Yun asked.
Yang Chen: "How about I treat you instead? I need your help with something."
Zhao Yun: "What is it? I’ve always wanted to help you, but never had the chance. Now you’re taking the initiative to ask for my help, finally giving me a chance. You’ve always been the one helping me, and I really feel bad about it."
Yang Chen: "Haha... Let’s go eat and talk over it. What do you feel like eating? Take your pick."
Zhao Yun: "Hmm, anything is fine. If you’re not picky, we can find a clean restaurant across the street."
Yang Chen: "Alright! Let’s go."
The two of them crossed the street and walked into a restaurant that looked relatively clean.
The waitress brought over the menu to Yang Chen and Zhao Yun. While they looked over the menu, the waitress suggested, "Boss, we just got some fresh wild-caught groupers in, only 100 yuan per jin, would you like to try it?"
In the market, if the wild-caught grouper has a good appearance and size, it would also cost over one hundred per jin, or even more expensive.
This restaurant is selling it at only 100 per jin, and it’s already prepared, indeed that’s cheap. 𝙛𝒓𝓮𝒆𝔀𝒆𝙗𝓷𝒐𝙫𝒆𝙡.𝒄𝓸𝓶
"Miss, don’t underestimate us just because we’re plainly dressed. Wild-caught grouper, prepared, at 100 yuan per jin?" Yang Chen asked.
