bacchusnovels Chapter 154 Don't Mess with Lu Ran
Chapter 154 Don't Mess with Lu Ran
Zhang Weijun also realized that he had accidentally let something slip.
But it was too late for regrets.
Lu Ran shook his head and sighed: "Originally, at most I would have hired a lawyer to sue you and make you pay some money."
"But I didn't expect you to be accepting bribes to do favors for others. That's malicious behavior, and you could end up in jail."
"Tsk tsk, what a great prospect, what a pity."
"Boss, we were wrong, please let us go!"
Zhang Weijun was terrified. He was a law student, so he knew what kind of punishment he would receive for his actions.
The clearer you are, the more guilty you feel.
Lu Ran nodded: "I'm not an unreasonable person. Tell me what you know, and I might be able to write you a letter of apology."
"Okay, okay, I'll tell you."
"Lord Wei, don't believe him."
He Xiaojia was clearly more composed than Zhang Weijun. At this moment, she remained clear-headed and was not intimidated by Lu Ran's scheme.
However, often, good skills are useless if your teammates are terrible; no matter how skilled you are, you'll still lose stars.
Lu Ran patted Zhang Weijun on the shoulder and said, "He won't let you talk now, but when you get to the station, he might be the first to sell you out to reduce your punishment. Anyway, I recorded what you just said, so I have evidence. Do you think you can fool him in the station?"
Zhang Weijun swallowed hard, but ultimately couldn't withstand the pressure.
"It was Chairman Liu of Xinghe Electric who invited us here to collect negative information about your factory, to find a breakthrough to cause trouble in the factory, with the aim of making a big fuss, getting it on the news, and then using the media to completely suppress you."
Lu Ran understood immediately.
Isn't this the same tactic he used against Wang Dongnian last year—collecting dirt on him and attacking his online presence?
Sure enough, business warfare is just that simple and straightforward; it all boils down to just a few tricks.
"Where are the things you filmed?"
"Hey Zhang, are you fucking an idiot? You believe everything he says? I haven't found any recording devices on him yet. We've been tricked."
He Xiaojia was almost furious.
He searched his entire body but found no recording device. It was obvious that the man was lying and trying to trick them.
But his teammates were such a liability that they confessed everything honestly, and he couldn't stop them no matter what he wanted to do.
Zhang Weijun, who was about to hand over the items, then realized what was happening.
After carefully checking himself and finding that he indeed did not have any recording equipment, he glared angrily at Lu Ran.
"Are you bluffing me?"
Lu Ran shrugged: "Now, it doesn't seem to matter anymore. I advise you to honestly hand over what you filmed, and I might consider giving you another chance."
"You have no evidence, why should I ask you for a chance? I haven't broken the law."
Knowing that Lu Ran hadn't recorded the conversation, Zhang Weijun finally decided to fight back.
However, it was too late.
Lu Ran smiled and took out a voice recorder.
"I didn't put any recording devices on you just now. I know a little about the law. It's wrong to eavesdrop on others without their knowledge."
"But the recorder has been working continuously since I arrived, and we have also discussed the content of the recording equipment, which means you know that I have been recording before and now, so it does not constitute eavesdropping."
"Everything you just said now becomes valid and legal evidence, Attorney Zhang. Do you think that's enough to send you to jail?"
Lu Ran shook the voice recorder in his hand.
This voice recorder was used by Cheng Ning to record key points of her daily work, and it came in handy.
Zhang Weijun was so angry when he realized he had been tricked that his face turned green.
"You, you, you!"
But even though he was furious, he had no choice but to back down, because what he had just confessed was far more serious than his previous conversation with He Xiaojia.
If someone really tries to mess with him, he'll definitely be in deep trouble.
After much pleading, he finally obediently handed over a USB drive containing footage he and He Xiaojia had filmed inside the factory over the past two months.
He Xiaojia was no longer in the mood to stop it.
Lu Ran was very strong, and it was impossible to stop him by force. He only hated himself for entrusting such an important thing to such an idiot teammate.
Lu Ran took the USB drive and asked, "There's no backup, is there?"
Zhang Weijun shook his head: "No."
"You'd better tell the truth, or I'll definitely hire the best lawyers to sue you to death."
"Boss, really, there isn't any."
After threatening the other party and confirming that they indeed had no other backups, Lu Ran finally stopped.
A few minutes later.
When the police car arrived, Wang Xiaoyan was at work and couldn't come over, so Lu Ran handed the two of them over to the police officers and called Qi Ji to come over and accompany the police officers to the station to make a statement.
Finally, Lu Ran asked Liu Nini to contact a professional lawyer in another city so that they could sue those two guys and Xinghe Electric together.
Lu Ran wasn't surprised at all that Xinghe Electric was targeting him.
Besides the existing conflict with the Liu family, the most important point is that Xinghe Electric's roots are in Chengjiang, and they will inevitably become competitors, and direct competitors at that.
With such a large operation in Chengjiang, it's impossible for the Liu family not to notice.
Upstream Media and Qianhai Hotel failed to bring him down; on the contrary, he became increasingly aggressive, even venturing into the electronics industry. It would be abnormal not to suppress him in advance.
There is another crucial reason, which Lu Ran deduced was the most direct reason why Xinghe Electric took action against him.
A month or two ago, he won 3% of Xinghe Electric's shares through a lottery system, becoming a shareholder of Xinghe Electric.
The rewards obtained from opening the system boxes were all purchased under his personal identity, so it would be very easy for Xinghe Electric to find out his true identity as a shareholder.
Secretly buying shares in someone else's company would make anyone nervous.
Therefore, Lu Ran had long been prepared for all of this, especially the movements of Xinghe Electric.
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at the same time.
Liu Shenghui remained resentful and unable to swallow his anger after being publicly carried out of the Qianhai Hotel.
But he certainly couldn't go against Qianhai Hotel on his own, and he also knew that the owner of Qianhai Hotel knew Dong Ge and his second brother.
If a real fight breaks out, it will be family fighting family.
However, Liu Shenghui was really angry. He was a member of the Liu family after all, and Qianhai Hotel didn't even give him face. If he didn't ask the boss behind the scenes for an explanation, how could he face going home in the future?
So Liu Shenghui went to his second brother's house.
In the living room, Liu Shenghui told his brother all the grievances he had suffered, hoping that his second brother could stand up for him.
However, before his second brother could speak, his nephew Liu Xian, who was standing next to him, stood up immediately after hearing the news.
"Third Uncle, you don't know yet, the Qianhai Hotel has changed owners, do you?"
"The current boss is called Lu Ran. That guy, even my brother Yan, brother Jia Chao, and Uncle Dong have all suffered at his hands. Why would you mess with this scoundrel?"
Liu Shenghui was stunned upon hearing this.
Hearing that Dong Ge had suffered a loss, he could hardly believe it.
It wasn't until Liu Xian recounted the entire story of Lu Ran and the Liu Wanglin families that Liu Shenghui understood what was going on.
Good heavens! He was wondering who this person was who could cause Dong Ge's luxury car business, which he had run for more than 20 years, to plummet and suffer heavy losses. He never expected that it was the new owner of Qianhai Hotel, the person he wanted to take revenge on this time.
"Let me tell you about Uncle San. Luckily, our family didn't make enemies with Lu Ran, otherwise I might have suffered at his hands too, just like Brother Jia Chao and Brother Shao Xian, and now I'm drinking alone every day."
"This guy is amazing. I don't know where he got so much money. He's like a cockroach, you can't kill him no matter how hard you try, and he's getting more and more awesome."
"So I advise you to just forget about it and not mess with Lu Ran."