Chen Taizhong tried his best to find out the news, but Catherine was not very interested. Everything has been settled, and there is not much to do in it. With the size of these two companies, it is easy to detect changes in the stock market.
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"It's not easy for me to ask for help. Have you seen how difficult it was to get my first order in China?" She explained with a wry smile, "I'm not afraid of taking risks. But if the possible benefits are not big, it's not worth my risk. You understand."
What do I mean?
"I understand, you made the right bet on me." Chen Taizhong smiled and nodded, feeling a little secretly in his heart. The Kennedy family is full of adventurers at heart. No wonder they died so many times one after another.
They were all abnormal deaths.
Catherine really wanted to invite him to spend the night at the Vendôme Hotel. She was going to Zurich tomorrow. But the Chen family refused very hard. What a joke. It was okay to come out yesterday. After the cocktail party today, it was not obvious to tell others.
, Isn’t my buddy’s private life very fair?
However, he really made the right decision. Early the next morning, someone called the door. Yes, it was early in the morning and it was not yet light. That is, it was early five o'clock and not yet six o'clock.
There is no room for the doorman, only a small partition made from the north entrance, which is five square meters in size. It is said that there is only one camp bed in it, and only one person can spend the night. But sometimes two doormen want to save trouble, and they often squeeze in
Resting inside. Both of them are here today. Loew was not on duty originally, but isn’t this because something happened on the Internet and he wanted to show off?
What is interesting is that the person who came to disturb the European Union Office so early was not Chen Taizhong but Liu Yuanlin, a non-staff member of the European Union Office.
In any case, the noise of the arrival was quite loud, and Chen Taizhong was harassed and was very alert, so he woke up almost as soon as the person arrived.
Liu Yuanlin slept on the sofa in his room. He directly received the visitor in the room and after chatting for a few words, the two sat in the hall. Chen Taizhong understood clearly in the office that this was what Xiao Liu was doing.
Waiting for you to go out? It's too early now and it's inappropriate to knock on the boss's door.
In fact, Director Chen had already heard everything about what happened, but of course he couldn't show that he was aware of it. After resting for a while, he opened the door and walked out, yawning and muttering, "This big thing...
Morning, what's going on?"
"Boss, are you awake?" Liu Yuanlin quickly stood up and replied with a smile, "My college alumnus came to me to disturb your rest.
"Well, it's okay, it's time to get up." Chen Taizhong nodded casually and looked around again. "Director Qian and the others are leaving today. Please take the trouble to say hello. If you can, don't disturb Director Yuan."
After saying that, he walked back to the office, took out the toothbrush net and went to the bathroom. Liu Yuanlin followed him and pushed the door open. His voice was very low. "Boss, there is something wrong with my classmate. Look,
Can you help him?
"Huh?" Chen Taizhong glanced at him, put the dental bowl to his hand, and nodded slightly. "You go ahead, let me make it clear first. I don't care about unreasonable things."
In fact, he knew everything, but didn't Xiao Liu know that the leader knew? He couldn't help but tell the story again.
He is an alumnus who is one year below him. He came directly to Paris as a graduate student and is currently studying at the University of Paris I. Director Chen interrupted at the right time to show that he was well-informed and said, "Well, it is the largest of the four universities in the Sorbonne. You continue.
Today, this schoolmate came to Liu Yuanlin, not because of his own affairs, but because of another Chinese Lu student in the same student palace as him, who was kidnapped and "is currently extorting money."
To say that the kidnapped student brought it upon himself, that guy's father was an official in Shazhou City, and he usually spent money lavishly, so the kidnapper offered a price of one million U.S. dollars.
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This is where Chen Taizhong is a little confused. You said you asked for help. There is a police station in Paris. There is also an embassy. Why did you just find our European office? "Isn't this Shazhou from Dibei Province?"
"The main reason is that his roommate's father is a cadre. Liu Yuanlin frowned after hearing this. In fact, he also asked his schoolmate this question, "It's not appropriate to go to the embassy to extort so much money. Let's contact the French police."
It wouldn’t sound good if it spread out, wouldn’t it?”
"If you don't have that much money, don't be arrogant." These children don't know how to restrain themselves when they go abroad. Is it easy for their father to do so much?" Chen Taizhong snorted and went out with the toothbrush, "I'll brush my teeth first.
Call your schoolmate in and I'll ask him about it later."
Of course he can be sure that the other party is involved in corruption and bribery. There is no doubt about this. If nothing else, just because the child can provoke someone to extort one million US dollars, one can only imagine how skillful he is in spending money.
, even if you are a provincial cadre, it is impossible to earn so much money for your children to squander, right?
However, he is still interested in taking care of this matter. It's okay if we don't know about the bullying of the Chinese people. Now that we know it, we can't just sit back and watch, right? Corrupt officials. Sons of corrupt officials also have human rights.
After he came back, an alumnus of Liu Yuanlin sat in. His name was Li Qiang, which was quite an ordinary name, but judging from his speech and behavior, he seemed to be very organized.
After chatting casually for a few words, Chen Taizhong heard something interesting, "According to what you said, this kidnapped Cao Yongliang will not let you call the police?"
"He said he wanted to call the police, and his father would be in big trouble." Li Qiang looked at Director Chen calmly and said to himself, "You don't even know this, do you?" "It means to raise money, everyone is now
I think so, one is to see if I can pay less, and the other is worried that "the kidnappers will kill people after receiving the money, um, they will want to fight against each other"
"Are you going to give me money? That's really a lot of money." Chen Taizhong sneered, thinking that that girl's father was desperately searching for people's wealth in China and gave it to foreign gangsters without batting an eyelid. I really feel sorry for this.
It's decided.
Of course, even though he had a good idea, he couldn't be so proactive, right? He couldn't help but snorted again, "Why do you think finding me can guarantee that they won't fight?"
"This Li Qiang glanced at Liu Yuanlin, but he didn't dare to say that he was talking about it when his senior brother was bragging to me. He said that his leader had someone in the Paris underworld. It's okay to talk among alumni, but if he said it in front of the leader, then it would be a big mistake.
Too presumptuous.
Fortunately, his reaction was not particularly slow, and he immediately came up with an excuse the next moment, "I am also urgently ill and seek medical treatment. I heard that Senior Brother Liu is doing an internship in Paris, so I thought maybe he could help me. Then,
Senior brother said that you have a strong sense of justice and that you are well-known in Paris."
However, how could his pretentiousness be hidden from Chen Taizhong's eyes? Although Li Qiang was a few years older than him, he was very good at observing words and emotions. The Chen family, who had been struggling in the officialdom for several years, forced him to
More than just a star.
"Just make trouble for me." Director Chen glared at his subordinates fiercely, with a very hesitant look on his face. In fact, he felt a little aggrieved and panicked. "Brother, I only do dirty work in China, so...
It seems that Paris, in the eyes of you little brats, is he just a guy who does dirty work?
However, since he decided to take care of it, he naturally didn't bother to worry about such trivial matters, so after snorting coldly, he nodded expressionlessly, "Well, I understand, let's do this.
"When you have to pay the ransom, report the time and place to me, but let me make it clear first. Nothing in the world is guaranteed. If Cao Yongliang has been ripped off, there is nothing that can be done." By the way, who is his father?
cadre?"
"It should be the director of Shazhoufu Transportation Bureau." Li Qiang can't lie to people on this kind of issue. With Director Chen's methods, it is really simple to implement this kind of thing. "Shazhou has already sent someone over, it's Cao Cao."
My father, Er Neng, won’t be here for a while.”
"Of course he can't come." Chen Taizhong replied calmly. Are you kidding me? You are a dignified division-level cadre and bureau leader. How can you just leave without a legitimate reason? The Foreign Affairs Office is in charge of your passport.
There is a reason for that. This does not mean that you cannot trust anyone. It is a link in the strict system. If this link is missing, it is a flaw!
This transportation system is really a hotspot of political problems. Chen Concubine sighed a little in his heart and nodded to Liu Yuanlin, "Our business can be expanded to other provinces." Okay, you go out with your friends, I will talk to you later.
Have to send someone away
The ransom for someone surnamed Cao has already reached 1 million. Is it not expensive to get a 100,000 threshold fee? You must know that they are not from other cities and towns, but from other provinces. Ye Ye from other provinces must be able to understand this.
What I mean is, if there are 10,000 department-level cadres in this province and 1,000 division-level cadres, it would not be difficult to increase the number of cadres from other provinces ten times. Who wants him to rush to find an invitation letter?
In fact, Chen Taizhong still has some questions in his mind. For example, who is the other party and why is he so open-mouthed? Are there any unknown grudges and entanglements in the process?
However, since he can earn a threshold fee, why bother to rush for the moment? Anyway, he has already made plans to take advantage of the underworld. If he can avoid exposing himself, he will definitely not expose himself and let others see that he is very involved**
If so, it would be unsightly.
Moreover, the Office in Europe has been setting a relatively high standard recently. Wouldn’t it be very ugly if I were too enthusiastic and was taken note of by the relevant departments in China or France?
Liu Yuanlin led the people out of the room, and Li Qiang asked in a low voice, "Senior brother, are you the leader who has agreed or not?"
Classmate Xiao Liu glanced at his junior brother. He smiled and nodded, "Our boss has a lot to do. It's a good thing that I'm interested in asking you." By the way, Xiao Li, if there is such a thing, you can ask Director Cao.
Do you want us to send him an invitation letter for the inspection at the store? But let me explain first, if we rush it, it will probably cost a little bit.
Xiao Liu is good. Chen Taizhong withdrew his attention and nodded with a smile. He learned the danger of Li Ren so quickly.
The kidnapping case of Chaozhang
The reaction from Director Cao of Shazhou was very satisfactory. He asked Li Qiang to come over and say that it would be nice to get an invitation letter, but it didn't matter if he didn't have one. But he remembered the intention of the Phoenix Office in Europe. As for the cost, it was
Didn't say it.
However, it had only been about an hour since Li Qiang's words were heard, and Director Cao's phone number had already been seen. This was like someone saying hello first and sending a stepping stone, so that he could then come to the door.
In fact, there are some things that are not suitable for those little brats to pass on. On the phone, Director Cao made it clear that he did not dare to agree to the fee because there were too many people watching him, and it was not easy to settle accounts.
, it’s all within the system, and some things don’t need to be explained too clearly. It’s a little unreasonable in theory for an overseas office in another province to help with the inspection.
Director Cao even didn't even ask how much the money was. But at the same time, he also said that no matter whether there was such an invitation letter or not, Director Chen would have some thoughts when he returned.
This person can be regarded as a man who knows how to do things. Chen Taizhong understands in his heart that he may not be counting on the European Office, but he just doesn't want to offend himself. At this critical moment, if anyone in Paris pushes him, the situation will become worse.
The ground is uncontrollable.
This was his habitual thinking in the officialdom, and it was normal at first. Unexpectedly, Director Cao heard that he was about to hang up the phone, and finally gritted his teeth and said, "Director Chen, if you have a way, you can ask any foreign company to give you an invitation."
It's okay if you send me a letter. I'll be grateful to you, brother.
Liao Jian's book is exposed and sunken, and Shan's body is different. It's good to go out for reading.
The co-author couldn't wait that long. Chen Taizhong thought about it and thought that his family had been kidnapped. Everyone agrees with this. We can't just ignore him because he is a corrupt official? We can't let foreigners see it.
Got the joke.
"Okay, give me your fax number. I'll get it done for you within an hour." He made up his mind to help the other party. Of course, there was a very important factor in this, which was the foreign company's influence on the Shazhou Transportation Bureau.
The invitation has nothing to do with his European office, so no matter how deep and muddy the water in the sandbank is, or even if Director Cao is sentenced to Shuanggui in the future, it will not affect his Chen family.
If this were not the case, he would be too lazy to do anything. Before helping others, he would first check whether he would be involved. This is an iron rule in officialdom, and for a corrupt official, who is a complete stranger, he would be called Ge Xiaobu if he got involved.
Come.
Director Cao hung up the phone with great gratitude, and Director Chen made a phone call to Abel. The matter was left to Mr. Shaoke.
And Mr. Abel had a company in his own hands. It was as fast as it could be. About twenty minutes later, Director Cao called again, "Director Chen, don't say anything. We'll see you in Paris the day after tomorrow."
, I have to thank you very much, and we can also discuss some other things."
He had already arranged for someone to reserve a ticket in Beijing, but he couldn't get his passport, so it was useless to say anything. But now it was different, he could arrive in Paris in two days.
"Oh, it's such a small thing, why are you so polite? Who doesn't have children?" Chen Taizhong smiled. After saying a few more words in vain, he hung up the phone, thinking to himself that I should hide away if the time comes, I have to stay with this person.
Distance, if I was involved in a corrupt official in another province, then I would be so unjust and panicked.
The reason why the Chen family has a strong desire to get rid of him is because he feels that this person is not reliable in his work. He always feels that this guy is not only greedy, but also doesn't know how to be an official.
In Chen Taizhong's impression, department-level cadres are very calm. Well, even if his son is kidnapped, it is a big deal, but Lao Cao's behavior still makes him feel a bit reckless.
People like cadres who act recklessly. Even Director Chen thinks so. Anyway, my brother's emotional intelligence has greatly improved and he is no longer as reckless as before.
However, things didn't seem to turn out as he thought. Strictly speaking, it was different from what Director Cao thought, because in the afternoon, Chen Taizhong received another call from Director Cao, "Director Chen, maybe I won't be able to go for a while."
La, um. Anyway, I ask you to take care of this matter. Don’t worry, Lao Cao, I will do my job. I won’t let your help go in vain."
Chen Taizhong was naturally confused by him. But after thinking about it again, he understood that even if Lao Cao desperately wanted to save his son, the relevant parties had to consider that if he was really willing to risk everything, he would definitely be directly
I asked the embassy or the French police for help.
Shortly after hanging up the phone, new news came from Liu Yuanlin. The kidnapper had thrown one of Cao Yongliang's little fingers into the trash can in his apartment. This was a naked threat. Although Xiao Cao was renting a house outside,
I have a house and don’t live in the apartment very often, but obviously, this is a good place to convey information.
Li Qiang and another classmate who had a good relationship with Cao Yongliang hurriedly comforted the kidnappers, saying that the Cao family had already arrived, but it would take a while for you to withdraw so much cash, right? So the two sides decided to pay the ransom here and there in the evening.
Let him go.
By this time, everyone was sure that the people who kidnapped Xiao Cao were Chinese, but no one could tell where they were being held.
In fact, in the minds of Li Qiang and others, Director Chen should have used his own strength to find out the whereabouts of the kidnappers. However, Director Chen has not yet found out, which means that the role he can play has been exhausted.
Running out.
Of course, no one could have imagined that Chen Taizhong had the idea of tracking the ransom and taking advantage of the underworld. Therefore, Li Qiang was slightly puzzled that Director Chen was still paying attention to this matter.
But these are minor issues. When you are in a foreign country, someone can help you think about something. It can always make people feel a touch of care and warmth, and Liu Yuanlin can still receive a steady stream of information.
At one o'clock in the morning that night, a dark figure appeared next to a trash can on the street. Someone had thrown two unusually strong large paper bags here half an hour ago. He had been observing it for a long time, and no one nearby paid attention to it.
It was raining lightly in the sky. The shadow opened the large canvas bag that he carried with him, stuffed two half-soaked paper bags into the canvas bag, looked around, turned around and walked away.
"Do you want to follow him?" Li Qiang asked softly in a hotel room in the distance with a night vision telescope. There were three people in this room, but in order to avoid others paying attention, Li Qiang deliberately kept the lights turned off.
"No need." Liu Yuanlin shook his head and patted the person next to him casually. "You two are his good friends. It would be pointless to get yourself involved. Those two who sent the money will follow, right?"
"Do you think Director Chen will follow you?" the one who had been silent asked. Liu Yuanlin chuckled after hearing this, "Why would the boss be interested in following him? However, it is normal for him to send someone to follow him.
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As a result, half an hour later, a call came in, "Forget it, Xiao Li, you don't have to worry about it. I've lost track of him. This guy is too cunning."
The caller was one of the two people who sent the money. This person was said to have some skills in tracking. Director Cao's people also found him privately. One of them was hanging a dark shadow in the distance. Not long after he left, he was found.
He walked to a dark place, moved the car parked there, and drove away.
Ordinarily, this is not a big problem. The person behind him also drove a borrowed car, so the person following him got in the car. The two of them hoisted the car from far away and then near, and walked to the nearest car.
At that time, Jiuchuan found out that the car driven by the other party was the Peugeot that Cao Yongxu was driving when he disappeared.
The Peugeot drove around Paris and stopped in a dark corner. However, there were spotlights slanting on the car window not far away, so the light was acceptable.
The two people who were following them turned off the fire and watched from a distance. They found that the people inside were moving around on their seats, apparently checking whether the amounts of money matched, whether they were old banknotes, and whether there were any mechanisms inside.
After a while, the black shadow bent down, as if sorting out the money, but he didn't straighten up again for a long time. But a guy with an infrared telescope discovered the problem, "Damn, this kid ran away from the sewer."
I'm sorry that the place where the car was parked was chosen by someone in advance. There are spotlights on top so you can see the money, but it's dark below and there are manhole covers that have been tampered with, but no one can see it.
Even if these two people thought of something similar, for fear of alarming each other, they did not dare to follow them immediately to see if someone came to meet them again in the sewer and took the money away, while the person being followed was waiting at the manhole cover.
If the two of them were bumped into each other, wouldn't it be like a chicken-and-egg fight, and they were forced to fight against each other?
When Li Qiang heard this result, he also sighed. He didn't know how criss-crossed the sewers in Paris were, but he knew that he would probably not be able to find anyone if he went into the sewers. Apart from other things, he only said that the various pipelines in Paris were crisscrossed.
It comes from the sewer, including wires and communication cables.
"I can only hope that these guys keep their promises." He sighed and looked sideways at Liu Guolin. "Brother, please go back too. It's so late. Don't affect your work tomorrow." Who would have thought that these people are so cunning?
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He said this because he thought that even if Director Chen arranged for someone to follow him this far, he would definitely lose him. Little did he know that the person he was alluding to was hiding and looking at the ground with interest.
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It would be too pointless to expect Chen Taizhong to go into the sewers, but luckily he has a clairvoyance, so the shadows are walking underground, and he can't walk on the ground, and occasionally he has to pay attention to avoid passing cars.
After the black shadow walked through for a while, he climbed out. A car was parked where he came out. It was a very popular Renault car. This time, he was not afraid of others following him.
After walking not far, the Renault drove to a public parking lot, and the people in the car got out. They walked empty-handed into a dilapidated house not far away.
The light was very bright at this time. If the two followers were following, even without Chen Taizhong's eyesight, they could still see that under the extremely low sunhat that protected the rain, there was a face of a completely yellow man.
His face looks very handsome.
After the man entered the room, he walked down the stairs to the basement. In the basement, a fat and white guy was tied to an wrought iron guardrail. One look at the guardrail, and you knew where it came from.
"Cao, I got the money." The handsome man sneered and stepped forward to kick the fat man. "I hope your old man won't play tricks, otherwise I won't mind ruining his reputation."
"Meng Yong, Meng Yong, you chill me so much." Fatty Bai took a breath and glared at the other party fiercely, "Isn't it just a woman? Isn't it just a hundred or so? Damn it, your family needs that.
Or is it something my family lacks?"
When Chen Taizhong heard that the two of them knew each other, and that the kidnapper named Meng Yong seemed to have some tricks in his family. But because of a woman, everyone fell out, and he became a little annoyed for a while. I said, there is no way to tease the director like this.
"Brother, if I had known it wasn't a foreigner, I wouldn't have come. Do you think I'm idle?"
However, since he was already here, he was not in a hurry to leave. He just wanted to hear whether this guy named Meng Yong had colluded with foreigners or something.
Coincidentally, he wanted to hear it, so Meng Yong was willing to tell him, or maybe he finally got one million. Maybe because he was in a good mood, he actually started talking to himself.
I'm sorry that Meng Yong is also an overseas student. His family is in the mining business and he has a lot of money. His father sent him to study abroad. Over the past few years, he spent a lot of money but learned nothing. So he didn't have the shame to go home after returning to China. From Beijing
After getting off the plane, we went missing with our family. The fact is that Mr. Meng found a job as a waiter in a hotel in Beijing.
Meng Yong and Cao Yongliang are very similar in Paris. Anyway, it sounds like they have known each other for a long time. They don’t care about each other when it comes to spending money. Meng has a girlfriend who is quite beautiful and she is also in Paris. Everyone is very considerate.
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After Meng Yong worked as a waiter, he still kept in touch with her, but he couldn't make calls on the phone, so he could only write letters. As a result, half a year after he returned, he heard that his girlfriend was picked up by Cao Yongliang and later dumped her child.
I was beaten twice and became a little abnormal. I heard that he followed a black man and disappeared without a trace.
When Meng Yong heard this, he was immediately furious. He also had a bit of a young master's temper, so he broke into several doors in Beijing, got a sum of money, and ran to Paris to settle the account with Cao Yongliang.
In his opinion, although he loves that woman very much, but since she is a flirt, there is no need to cherish her too much, but no matter what, it still hurts, isn't it? In addition, the one who pried him into the corner was actually his good friend Cao Yongliang.
Don't bully your friends' wives. Do you know that you are numb?
People, you can't do this! Meng Yong has grown up a lot since he was afraid to go home, but at the same time he still has a self-destructive mentality. He simply kidnapped Cao Yongliang and asked his family to redeem him with one million.
What kind of bullshit is this? Chen Taizhong only felt that he was watching a low-quality romance film. He was so angry that he showed his body and kicked Cao Yongliang unconscious. A negative supporting character like you is really annoying.
Hate, do you know it?
Seven thousand two hundred words. It has fallen to the seventeenth place again. It is a strong call for monthly votes.
