The Birth of Shanghai's First Conglomerate

Chapter 357 The Silent Martial World

The top floor of the Shanghai Cloud Club.

At this moment, a group of old brothers are sitting around the huge, luxurious private club halfway up the mountain.

Gao Hu, Zhang Tao, and Chang Fu, along with their wives, were also here.

Tong Zhelan and Song Yanxi also arrived at the same time; something big had happened in Shacheng.

If it weren't for the intervention of law enforcement, the news of the catering giant Fei Yang Yang closing all its stores in the city would probably have spread throughout the country immediately.

You think you can just close the store like that? He even used over two thousand people to surround a top-tier private hospital in the city.

This news, if not earth-shattering, is certainly a huge scandal if it gets out.

No wonder the local authorities are trying so hard to cover it up.

"Old Chen was quite impulsive this time!"

"If he hadn't acted so impulsively, I would have almost forgotten that he was once the toughest man in Wangcun, who dared to chase a group of thugs all over the streets with a knife."

"Yes, Old Chen's temperament has become too good over the years, and this time we crossed his bottom line."

Gao Hu recalled: "Back then, Old Chen was so fierce, fearless of heaven and earth. Even now, when he goes to Shacheng, he's a dragon crossing the river. Han Shan is the real local tiger. You haven't been there for a long time, so you may not have heard of him."

"This is the most famous 'Mountain Master' in Shacheng. After midnight, he is the veritable cash king of Shacheng, someone who can pull out a billion yuan in cash at any time."

"This guy has a legendary underground casino. Those who can gamble there are either rich or powerful. His most valuable resource is the important connections he has with people through this underground casino."

“Let me tell you something I know. A famous entrepreneur from a neighboring city borrowed 1.2 billion yuan from him and eventually repaid more than 4 billion yuan, including principal and interest. Because of this debt, the Qilong Street project, which was very famous in the neighboring city, was completely halted and left unfinished.”

"So exaggerated?"

Xiao Chun asked with some doubt, "He borrowed over ten billion and is willing to repay over forty billion?"

"What can we do if we don't return it? Han Shan has been secretly locked up there by him."

Gao Hu said, "Han Shan is beyond your imagination. He locked up this entrepreneur from the neighboring city for half a year. Afterwards, he reported him several times, but it was all useless. Instead, he suffered even more severe retaliation. Almost no one in Shacheng dares to mess with him. Everyone knows that this person is not to be trifled with. After all, there are too many people who owe him gambling debts. There are all kinds of people in his family."

"Is Brother Chen in danger?" Xiao Chun asked nervously.

"Then you are overthinking."

Gao Hu snorted, "At most, Han Shan is just a local tyrant. Old Chen has invested so much across the country over the years, and he's the biggest investor in new energy vehicles in China. If anything happens to him, the entire Shacheng will be thoroughly investigated, and everyone will be implicated. The investigation team from Beijing will intervene directly with the highest level of authority. Nobody dares to take that risk. Even if Han Shan himself wanted to do it, no one would allow him to."

"So what exactly is the situation now?"

"What else could it be? Old Chen himself was dissatisfied with the outcome."

Before Gao Hu came to Beijing, he ran a hot pot restaurant in Shacheng, so he knew the situation there best.

"There's a saying you've all heard: 'It's easier to see the King of Hell than to deal with his underlings.' No matter how deep Old Chen's foundation is, his wealth isn't just in Shacheng. His connections in various places are deeply entrenched. If a nobody like him wants to directly dismantle a private hospital worth tens of billions, others definitely won't allow it, and he won't achieve the result he wants. In the end, we'll see who backs down first."

"It's not that complicated!"

Even with her pregnant belly, Song Yanxi still exudes confidence; she truly trusts her man.

“I understand the whole story. I won’t go into the reasons why it happened, but my husband didn’t mention his name before my grandparents were hospitalized. They just thought it was just a cold and wanted to save money, so they stayed in a regular ward. As a result, they were ripped off. My husband would never care about more than a million yuan.”

"The key issue is that Grandma is dying. Zhang Shilin has said before that she will not live for more than a month. No matter how much treatment she receives, it will be useless. Her body has been completely drained. She is an elderly woman in her eighties and has been forced to undergo several completely unnecessary surgeries."

“You think my husband wouldn’t have thought that what he did would make the people sitting in Shacheng unhappy, and would also make the capital market uneasy.”

"To put it bluntly, he doesn't care anymore. In the face of human life, none of this matters. The most important thing is that he wants to get justice."

"Why does disaster always target the unfortunate? If my grandparents had mentioned his name before they were hospitalized, even if Han Shan had ten times the courage, he wouldn't have dared to cut my grandmother."

If it weren't for her pregnancy, Song Yanxi would have gone to Shacheng long ago.

Why would we be discussing this so much?

How could she not know what her husband was thinking? To put it bluntly, he wanted to seek justice for his grandmother before she died.

They only used Liu Xiangfeng as a pawn to take the fall and bear the consequences.

Totally impossible.

Now look what's happened, everyone's in an uproar.

People in Hanshan are probably wondering how Liu Xiangfeng, that damned bastard, could have run into such a powerful outsider.

Even they themselves probably want to push him out and kill him eight hundred times over right now. As for Shacheng, they are definitely not satisfied with Chen Pingsheng's actions.

If everyone did what he did, wouldn't a city have been in chaos long ago?

But now there are thousands of people holding signs over there, suing a private hospital.

Those with connections were trembling with fear.

It's okay, they just curse and swear.

The matter definitely needs to be quelled as soon as possible, but the key question is: who can quell it?

The province is taking this matter very seriously and has repeatedly ordered a thorough investigation.

After all, they really went too far.

No wonder people made such a fuss; they literally took a life.

The key point is that it stayed in that place for more than ten years.

It's easy to calm things down, but who knows how many victims there are?

If you try to quell the situation now, a huge loophole will be discovered later.

You should take responsibility for this!
We're stuck here.

As for the local media, they all knew something big had happened, and they just stared at each other blankly.

Why don't you go and report it?
You should go...

I have a stomach ache.

My wife is pregnant.

My mom got married.

There are a whole host of reasons, but no one dares to act as an unsung hero at this time.

Life is hard for everyone, and being a good person is a problem that has been around for a century.

Local residents were also puzzled. Logically speaking, such a major event should have been known to the Urban Life Channel, which focuses on news about people's livelihoods.

It's as if it's invisible.

When the situation is unclear, they only broadcast trivial and innocuous news.

As for newspapers and media, they were even more outrageous.

Not a word was mentioned.

As I said before, the waters run deep.

In the struggle between the newcomer and the local tyrant, anyone who dares to meddle like a novice will be punished later.

The silence can often be broken with just a tiny, wavering compass.

Chen Pingsheng's actions, which have become such a big fuss, are certainly not without purpose.

He was waiting, waiting for the victim from this private hospital to appear.

He was also waiting for those who had been persecuted by Han Shan to come to him.

Once these people appear, he is fully confident that he can change everyone's attitude.

Combating organized crime and eliminating evil is not just a simple slogan.

It is indeed Operation Thunder.

Do those bigwigs who have whitewashed their image really think no one will bother them anymore?
Chen Pingsheng refused to believe in such superstitions and was determined to put his ideas into practice.

He saw his grandmother off on her final journey, so that the old lady could pass away peacefully.

Bad people are only a minority; most people are still trying to live their lives.

It's just that being a good person is really difficult.

(End of this chapter)