"How, how are you thinking about it, do you want to come out and report Chen Chaoqun?" In a secret box of a certain restaurant, Chen Jingci, the investigation director of the Independent Commission Against Corruption, looked at the eyed man in front of him and asked.

"Why should I come out to report? I'm afraid, the power behind the Lida Trading Group is beyond your imagination." The man with glasses, about fifty years old, with wrinkles on his face, shook his head when Chen Jingci asked, and replied,

"According to Xiangjiang's laws, if I make a report, I will have to go to court. Otherwise, I will be exposed and they will not let me go."

"Don't worry, we can use witness protection methods to bring you to court, and your identity will be kept absolutely confidential." Chen Jingci patted the bespectacled man on the shoulder and reassured him.

"it's useless!"

The man with the eyes shook his head, not believing what Chen Jingci said at all, "After going to court, as long as Chen Chaoqun's lawyer asks me three questions, then the whole world will know that I, Xu Zhiyao, am the informant."

"Then what do you want? If you don't want to report me, what are you going to do with me? Do you want to listen to your nonsense? Don't think we are being petty, I will tolerate you."

Hearing that Xu Zhiyao was unwilling to come forward to testify, Chen Jingci stood up, walked back and forth in the box twice, turned around, put his hands on his hips, and looked at Xu Zhiyao with an angry look on his face.

"I also want to report it. As a top student who graduated from Xiangjiang University, I hate the illegal behavior of Lida Trading Group, but it is useless. Chen Chaoqun, the legal person of Lida Trading Group, is just a puppet, a puppet introduced to take risks."

Xu Zhiyao shook his head and said with a heavy face, "Lida Trading Group is just a downline of the smuggling group. Chen Chaoqun must have received settlement fees. When the time comes, he will take over the responsibility and live in seclusion for a few years.

Outside groups still smuggle tens of billions of cigarettes every year."

"That's right." Chen Jingci walked up to Xu Zhiyao, looked down at him and said loudly: "Since you think it's not worth it, then come forward and report it. As long as we sue Lida Trading Group, we can continue to dig deeper into what's going on behind the scenes.

Everyone dug it out."

"A lot of people will die in this." Xu Zhiyao looked down at his hands, shook his head and said, "Destroying people's wealth is like killing their parents, not to mention the profits of billions or tens of billions.

In Xiangjiang, tens of thousands of dollars can get the bad guys outside to kill people, hundreds of thousands can hire killers, and millions of the world's top killers will come back. By then, not only you and me, but also our families will be in danger.

"

"It seems that you don't believe me, so I'll tell you a secret." Seeing that Xu Zhiyao refused to take the hard way and was unwilling to come forward as a tainted witness, Chen Jingci unleashed his ultimate move.

"Do you know why I asked you out today? It's because the superiors' tolerance for tobacco smuggling has reached the extreme and they are preparing to launch an operation.

The police force, Independent Commission Against Corruption and other departments will jointly crack down on smuggled cigarettes on the market. What you are worried about is not a problem. No one can use a mantis to control the situation, and Lida Trading Group will be swept into the garbage heap of history."

"It's useless." Xu Zhiyao shook his head and said, "As long as the Hong Kong government imposes huge taxes on cigarettes, smuggling of cigarettes will be unavoidable. No matter how big or severe the action is, it will just change the problem without changing the medicine.

The Money Empire of those days is the best example.

Lao Chen, you and I are both witnesses of that era. The ICAC's efforts were strong enough. It not only allowed the Chinese police to run away, but also put them in jail.

Even those ghost elders did not escape, and even many people in the Hong Kong government were involved.

But with such a strong force, the police have become more honest and no longer as scary as before, but other things..."

"Everything has its consequences. We only need to keep an eye on the Lida Trading Group and don't care about anything else. I will also tell you an inside message. Lei Weidong will be in charge of commanding this operation."

Chen Jingci knew that Xu Zhiyao was right. Black smoke could not be banned in Xiangjiang. Even if the Li Da Trading Group was abolished, the black smoke would not be reduced much.

This is determined by the general environment.

A pack of cigarettes that costs a few yuan in the Mainland costs dozens of yuan a pack in Hong Kong, which is really too expensive.

Not to mention the high income in Xiangjiang, which is more than ten times that of the mainland, and cigarettes can be more than ten times more expensive.

That income is average, with high income and low income balancing each other.

Unlike the generally poor Mainland, the gap between the rich and the poor in Xiangjiang is too large, far exceeding the world average. The top ten wealthy families account for more than half of the wealth in Xiangjiang.

The most typical one is Lei Weidong. As the richest man in Hong Kong and even Asia, the amount of money he earns every year is an astronomical figure. Lei Weidong is a little unclear about how much he earns.

If you average it out, if there are ten people, Lei Weidong can make them all billionaires. If there are ten thousand or even one hundred thousand people, Lei Weidong can bring their income to the same level as that of the beautiful country.

Except for the rich and those who serve them, most people in Xiangjiang have a lower-middle income income, and many people's living standards are not even as good as those in the mainland.

Although the income in the Mainland is low, only a few hundred yuan a month, cigarettes are cheap and all grades of cigarettes are available, from high to low. This was ridiculed in Huang Hong's sketch Super Life Guerrilla.

If you have one more child, your living standard will be a little worse, and your smoking will also go up a level. From the high-end cigarette Marlboro at the beginning to the mid-range cigarette Daqianmen, after having three children, it will become the lowest-end mass production. If you have another child, it will

If you want to turn it into a cigarette butt, you have to roll it yourself with tobacco leaves.

That is to say, because cigarettes are cheap and divided into different grades, the mainland has the largest number of smokers in the world, which is higher than the population.

Compared with the large-scale production that costs just a few cents a box, Xiangjiang is no good. The cheapest ones cost more than fifty cents, a difference of a hundred times.

For non-smokers, it doesn’t matter how expensive cigarettes are, they don’t smoke them anyway.

But not for smokers.

One pack of cigarettes a day is normal practice for many smokers, and some even cannot stop smoking two packs of cigarettes.

For them, if they go to regular stores to buy cigarettes, the cost of cigarettes per month is hundreds or even thousands of yuan, which is beyond their living standards, so they have no choice but to buy black cigarettes.

For the same cigarette, black cigarettes are half cheaper than regular cigarettes, and you can save hundreds or even thousands of dollars a month.

How to choose, everyone naturally votes with their feet.

"Lei Weidong is commanding it. It seems that the higher-ups are cruel, and they must find a way to get rid of the tens of billions of tax dollars a year." Hearing that the Hong Kong government asked Lei Weidong to be responsible for sweeping up the black smoke, Xu Zhiyao couldn't help complaining.

stand up.

"For Lei Weidong's sake, I will tell you the truth. You also know that Lida Trading Group is an empty shell. As for who is behind the scenes, I don't know. I only know that it has a lot to do with Era Investment."

, you can tell Lei Weidong and ask him to focus on investigating this company."

"Okay, I'll report to the superiors right away." Chen Jingci nodded and reassured Xu Zhiyao that even if Lei Weidong didn't take action, he would still keep an eye on Era Investment.

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"Go and catch Chen Chaoqun." After carefully looking at the information sent by Han Zhibang, Lei Weidong slapped it on the table and ordered.

"Director, Chen Chaoqun is just a puppet. If he is caught, will he alert the enemy?" Han Zhibang did not say anything following Lei Weidong's order, but Chen Jingci, who was following him, couldn't help but remind him.

"I just want to scare the snake and use Chen Chaoqun to make the people behind him panic. Moreover, even if Chen Chaoqun is a puppet, he has been a puppet for such a long time and it is not normal for him to not know anything."

A strange smile appeared on Lei Weidong's lips, "Didn't this information say that Chen Chaoqun was born in a poor family and was admitted to Xiangjiang University through his own efforts?

A few years after graduation, he became the legal person of Lida Trading Group. Although he only held a small share of the shares in Lida Trading Group, he became a multi-millionaire from a poor young man.

It has surpassed 99% of the people in Xiangjiang. Even if such a person is a puppet, he is also a smart puppet. He knows what he can and cannot do, which is the best breakthrough. As long as he opens his mouth, things will be simple.

"

"Will it be so easy? Chen Chaoqun will be willing to speak." Chen Jingci shook his head inwardly, but since Lei Weidong has already decided and Han Zhibang has no objection, he should not interrupt as a little person.

Soon, Chen Chaoqun was taken from Lida Trading Group to the police station.

Ma Jun first confiscated Chen Chaoqun's mobile phone and other communication tools, and then threw him in an interrogation room with two high-power ventilation vents. He stayed there for several hours.

The air conditioner was turned on very low, and Chen Chaoqun, who was only wearing a white shirt and thin pants, soon couldn't bear the cold. He walked around the interrogation room to keep warm by consuming physical energy.

"Did you learn from the ICAC? You also made two vents in the interrogation room. Is there cat poop coffee underneath?"

Seeing Chen Chaoqun helpless in the interrogation room, Han Zhibang thought of Lard Boy. He spent his days in such an interrogation room and almost collapsed in the end.

"It can only be said that we can learn from it, not learn from it. You didn't learn from Huo Qilin." Lei Weidong shrugged and said with a smile, "As for the cat poop coffee, when he calms down, someone will bring it to him."

"The air conditioner is too cold, can you turn it off?" Chen Chaoqun, who was shivering from the cold, made a fuss in the interrogation room and even banged the table and smashed the chairs, but no one paid attention to him.

When his throat finally started to feel hoarse and dry, the door of the interrogation room finally opened, and a policeman walked in with coffee. When he saw someone coming in, Chen Chaoqun immediately asked loudly.

"I'm sorry, the air conditioner switch is broken. Please bear with it for a while, or drink a cup of coffee to warm yourself up." In response to Chen Chaoqun's complaint, the policeman who came in smiled and put the coffee in his hand on the table.

"All right!"

Seeing that the other party was polite and went out, Chen Chaoqun had no choice but to drink coffee to keep warm. At this time, a cup of hot coffee was better than nothing.

"puff!"

What kind of broken coffee is this? It tastes too bad and tastes like shit.

Ninety-nine percent of people who have never drunk cat poop coffee will spit it out when they drink it for the first time. Chen Chaoqun is no exception and spits it out directly.

"What kind of broken coffee is this? You want to kill me, give me water, give me water." Chen Chaoqun, who felt his mouth was full of the smell of cat feces, begged loudly for mercy.

"This person has such poor willpower that he jumped before the trial." Looking at Chen Chaoqun's ugly appearance in the interrogation room, Lei Weidong couldn't help but shake his head.

"He's a puppet who hasn't seen many big scenes. It's good to be like this." Ma Jun smiled and helped Lei Weidong open the door of the interrogation room.

"You are, Lei Weidong!"

Looking at the figure walking in from the door, Chen Chaoqun rubbed his hands and couldn't believe it. How could he, a small person, disturb such a big person? He was dead this time. Not to mention himself, it was his backer who met Lei Wei.

Dong also wants it.

He couldn't help but exclaimed immediately.

"Yes, it's me." Lei Weidong nodded, walked to the chair in front of him and sat down, crossed his legs and looked at Chen Chaoqun with a half-smile, "Do you know why I brought you here?"

"I...I!" Chen Chaoqun swallowed subconsciously.

No matter what happens, go to the Three Treasures Hall.

As the legal person of Lida Trading Group, he knows that Lida Trading Group is engaged in illegal business. It is definitely not a good thing to come to him this time. If you can't say it, you must not say it. If you say it, you will be jailed. The black hands behind will not let go.

Live your own.

"Why don't you want to say it? You should have heard my name. You should know the consequences of not saying it. I am not an ordinary policeman. Don't talk about you. Even the gangster behind you is a bastard in my eyes. I waved my hand.

It will be destroyed.

To be honest, if the people of the Eagle Country weren't suppressing me, I wouldn't be involved, but since I'm involved, I have to show off. The Lida Trading Group alone is not enough, I also need some sacrifices."
To be continued...