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After the stockholders surrounded the CSRC building, Mai Si called Shen Bi.

Mai Si told Shen Bi on the phone that as long as he didn't cause him any trouble, he would turn a blind eye to the affairs between Huifeng Bank and Bank of East Asia.

Therefore, Shen Bi’s request to Pu Weishi was that he should no longer allow people to guide those shareholders to government departments. Once such a situation occurred, he should immediately guide them to direct the focus of public opinion to Lin Haoran.

The most important thing is to act more covertly and cautiously, not to give others an advantage, make it difficult for Max, and avoid attracting unnecessary regulatory attention.

With Max's promise, Huifeng Bank became even more unscrupulous in dealing with Bank of East Asia.

Soon, the branches of Bank of East Asia began to open for business.

Employees from all major branches were present, but many of them had already been poached by Huifeng Bank.

At this moment, they still came to work at the Bank of East Asia, but only to prevent the Bank of East Asia from knowing their ulterior motives so that they could secretly transfer customer information and make final preparations for switching to Huifeng Bank.

In addition, Huifeng Bank also instructed them to secretly disrupt the cash withdrawal process for customers. In the past, they only served one person instead of four or five people. This way, there would be evidence that Bank of East Asia was deliberately delaying the cash withdrawal time.

If they continue to guide customers secretly, uninformed customers will conclude that Bank of East Asia's capital chain is tight and its services have collapsed, thus exacerbating panic and making the run on the bank even more intense.

By that time, customers' dissatisfaction with Bank of East Asia will naturally be reflected, and they will then guide them and unite with shareholders to put pressure on Bank of East Asia.

The plan of Huifeng Bank was indeed ruthless. It not only poached people, but also manipulated these people to stir up trouble in the bank, trying to disintegrate the Bank of East Asia from within and make it collapse under the dual pressure of public opinion and reality.

Little did they know that, under Cui Zilong's investigation, Lin Haoran had already obtained a large number of lists of people who had betrayed the Bank of East Asia and agreed to switch to Huifeng Bank. Most of them had been controlled by the Bank of East Asia, and there was even evidence for many of them!
In the branch, the poached employees pretended to work diligently on the surface, but in fact they slacked off and made excuses to delay processing customer business.

A middle-aged customer stood anxiously in front of the counter holding a withdrawal slip. He had been waiting for nearly an hour, but there were only a few people in front of him.

"You are so inefficient! I am waiting to use the money. When will it be my turn?" The middle-aged customer knocked on the counter impatiently.

"Sir, I'm really sorry. The business volume is extremely large today. We are processing it as quickly as possible. Please wait patiently." The poached teller pretended to comfort him, but his hands were still slow in their movements.

Scenes like this were happening almost simultaneously in the 20 branches of Bank of East Asia.

The employees bribed by Huifeng Bank tacitly implemented delaying tactics, deliberately creating the illusion that Bank of East Asia's services were paralyzed, and cooperating with Huifeng Bank's demands.

The result of this is that more and more customers in the queue are becoming dissatisfied.

Bank of East Asia, Tsim Sha Tsui Branch.

The queue was like a long winding dragon, stretching all the way from Nathan Road to the Peninsula Hotel in Hong Kong, with no end in sight.

The complaints from the crowd were like a surging tide, one wave higher than the other, and like a drop of water suddenly splashing into a boiling oil pan, instantly causing the pan to explode. All kinds of dissatisfied noises intertwined together, echoing throughout the vicinity of the bank.

The temperature in Hong Kong was already very high in June, and coupled with the slow business progress, the people in the queue became even more resentful.

"Could it be that the Bank of East Asia is out of money and is stalling for time on purpose?"

"That's right. I queued outside the bank all night last night. There were only five people in front of me. Now it's been two hours since the bank opened, and it's still not my turn. There must be hundreds of people queuing behind me. At this rate, I can't serve more than a few people in a day. What the hell is Bank of East Asia doing?"

At this time, a middle-aged man who looked quite shrewd frowned and asked loudly: "Do you have any money in the bank? Is your capital chain broken? If you don't have money, tell us earlier and don't keep us waiting here in vain!"

As soon as he said this, the crowd exploded, with all kinds of speculations and doubts ringing out.

"Is it true that we have no money? Is our savings still safe?"

"What should I do? I don't want to lose all my money!"

The poached tellers looked at the chaotic scene, pretending to be very anxious, and apologized to the customers again and again: "Dear customers, we are really sorry. We also want to handle your business quickly, but there seems to be a problem with the system today. The processing speed is very slow. We have contacted the technicians to repair it. Please wait a little longer."

The Bank of East Asia introduced computer systems to manage its business in the late 1970s in order to improve efficiency and provide accurate services. However, these ill-intentioned employees are now using them as an excuse to delay business.

However, their explanation did not calm the customers' anger, but instead made them more suspicious whether the bank was deliberately using system problems to delay time.

"System problem? Isn't your bank's system usually working fine? Why did it have a problem today? I think you are just making up excuses on purpose!" shouted an irritable customer.

"That's right. The deposit amounts are written in black and white on the passbooks in our hands. You must give us a definite answer today as to whether we can withdraw the money!" Another gray-haired old man also waved the passbook in his hand excitedly and shouted with a flushed face.

"Zhang Zhiyong, what's going on? Why is your service so slow today?" Branch President Wang Mingyuan strode to the counter and stared at the poached teller Zhang Zhiyong sternly. The teller's heart tightened and cold sweat broke out on his forehead, but he quickly pretended to be calm and replied hesitantly: "President, the system seems to have a problem today. The service is very slow. There is nothing we can do."

Wang Mingyuan frowned, he keenly sensed that something was wrong.

As the branch president, he is familiar with the bank's system. Although some minor problems may occur occasionally, they will never cause the business processing speed to be so slow.

Especially with today's computer systems, since computer technology is still at a relatively backward stage, business can actually be handled semi-manually and semi-machinely, with computers playing more of an auxiliary role.

He looked around, seeing those poached employees who seemed busy but were actually slacking off. He secretly understood what was happening.

Because he had been invited to meet with Dashan and knew that Huifeng Bank was poaching people from Bank of East Asia.

Now it seems that these people have obviously been poached.

However, Dashan had already told him that he just needed to pretend that he knew nothing.

As for the follow-up matters, arrangements have already been made.

The president did not expose their behavior. Instead, he stood in front of the customers and said loudly: "Everyone, please calm down. Our bank has sufficient funds and there is no capital chain break. We will handle the business as soon as possible and solve your problems."

When the employees heard the president's speech, they were immediately delighted, thinking that the president did not notice their abnormality. However, their hands still maintained that leisurely and perfunctory attitude, thinking of continuing to act according to the instructions of Huifeng Bank and continue this "play".

Similar things are happening in all 20 branches.

It is worth mentioning that Huifeng Bank did not poach the presidents of any branch this time, and these presidents had been secretly instructed by Dashan to cooperate with the overall deployment of the head office, pretending to be unaware of the internal personnel changes, and wait for the opportunity.

At this moment, both Lin Haoran and Huifeng Bank were implementing their plans step by step.

Especially the people on Lin Haoran's side, with their cooperation, Huifeng Bank's plan seemed to be going very smoothly.

When the news was fed back to Huifeng Bank, Pu Weishi was immediately surprised.

It went so well.

It was almost noon in Pu Weishi’s office at the head office of Huifeng Bank.

"Mr. Pu Weiss, it's chaos, it's all chaos! The customers queuing up at various branches of the Bank of East Asia are getting more and more anxious, like a volcano about to erupt. With just a little guidance from us, the situation will be completely out of control.
In addition, in the stock market, the stock price of Bank of East Asia plummeted to HK$3 per share, but the market was stagnant and the trading volume was very small.

Shareholders are full of anger and complaints, and many have even called on everyone to go to the Bank of East Asia headquarters to ask for an explanation. I think the time is ripe and it’s time to act! ”

A subordinate who was responsible for collecting market dynamic information excitedly reported to Mr. Pu Weishi, the executive director of Huifeng Bank.

His so-called action was to guide shareholders and customers queuing to withdraw cash to carry out large-scale protests, which would completely push Bank of East Asia to the forefront of public opinion, and preferably trigger severe intervention from regulatory agencies, so that Bank of East Asia would collapse directly under heavy pressure.

The government agencies in Hong Kong give face to British-owned companies, but they will not give face to Chinese-owned companies!

Today, although the price of Bank of East Asia's shares is shockingly low, basically no one dares to bet on it, and the number of such people is decreasing.

The end result is that although the stock price has been falling, the trading volume has not increased.

Pu Weishi sat on the chair, crossing his legs, as if everything was under his control.

He looked calm and said to his subordinate calmly: "Okay, let's do it!"

"Okay, I'll do it right away!" After receiving the order, the subordinate hurriedly left Pu Weishi's office.

"The show is about to begin!" Pu Weishi took out a cigar from the drawer, lit it, took a deep breath, and slowly exhaled a cloud of smoke, his eyes full of pride and calculation.

Things went much more smoothly than he had imagined.

Originally, Pu Weishi thought that these employees' slacking off would definitely attract the attention of the presidents of each branch. Although they would not be investigated, Bank of East Asia would probably take action.

But now it seems that the top management of Bank of East Asia has not taken any substantive measures to respond, and everything is proceeding according to their preset script.

This made Pu Weishi more confident, and he felt that Bank of East Asia was trapped in a jar and could not escape the disaster. (End of this chapter)