Chapter 213: You think you're the only one who can call people?

Boss Zhou is here?

Li Qingyuan lifted his head from despair. He saw the tall figure standing not far away. The figure was so familiar. If it wasn't Zhou Ming, then who was it? In that instant, Li Qingyuan was like a drowning man who saw the last straw. It made him so excited that he wanted to cry.

At this moment, Liu Feng had already colluded with Vice President Qian of the shipping company. They had united the Discipline Inspection Commission and the reporters to catch them red-handed here today, slandering them for rigging the bidding, and then announcing the abolition of the bidding results and turning to the supply and marketing cooperative for the project. This idea is very simple to say, but now that they are being caught by the Discipline Inspection Commission, and in front of so many reporters, it is no longer true, but it has become true.

In this situation, Li Qingyuan felt that he had already lost, and even just now he had felt despair. He could not find any solution. At this time, if someone else came over, Li Qingyuan would not believe that there was still any way out, but for Zhou Ming, Li Qingyuan was very confident. He believed that no matter how bad the situation became, as long as Zhou Ming was there, there was still hope for everything.

This is a kind of belief, without any reason to speak of, and even Li Qingyuan himself does not understand why.

'This is Zhou Ming, the owner of the Eight Treasures Congee Company, right? Hello, I am Liu Feng, the general manager of Hangzhou City Supply and Marketing Cooperative. It is really a pleasure to meet you, except that this time of day is a bit inappropriate. However, I never expected this today. Boss Zhou actually has someone like this under his command, but I believe this must have nothing to do with Boss Zhou. It's all this Manager Li's own initiative...'

Liu Feng went up to greet Zhou Ming, but Zhou Ming ignored him and walked straight past him to Li Qingyuan.

'That was careless. How did it turn out like this?' Zhou Ming said to Li Qingyuan, in a kind of gentle rebuke that didn't sound angry.

'I'm very sorry, Boss Zhou. This time I was too negligent. I didn't think they would actually do this. Now I even have to let you, Boss Zhou, come to my rescue. I've really failed!' Li Qingyuan said remorsefully.

'Okay, I don't blame you. You've done a very good job. I'll take care of this next part.'

Zhou Ming smiled and said to Li Qingyuan, then turned to Liu Feng, the general manager of the supply and marketing cooperative. Just now, Zhou Ming's disregard for him made him very unhappy. Now that he saw Zhou Ming looking over, he said unceremoniously, 'If Boss Zhou still wants to say something, please do so next time. We still have things to do here. I believe that the relevant departments will make a decision regarding the fraudulent behaviour of the Eight Treasures Congee Company at this bidding meeting.'

Hearing Liu Feng's words, Zhou Ming's smile grew even wider. 'Liu, you're so arrogant, do your family know?'

Liu Feng was stunned for a moment before saying, "I don't know what you're talking about, but your company's involvement in this incident must be a disappointment to others.'

'You have the upper hand now, so of course you can say whatever you want. If you want to frame someone, you can always find a way," said Zhou Ming.

Liu Feng laughed out loud, 'I always thought that you, Boss Zhou, were a person who could take it all in his stride, but I never thought you could say such shameless things. I admit that I reported to the Discipline Inspection Commission today, but that was because your people really went too far. Not only did you falsify the bidding results at the bidding meeting, but now that the bidding is over, you are still trading with each other behind closed doors. I don't think any upright person could tolerate this!'

Clap, clap, clap!

Zhou Ming applauded for Liu Feng: 'Mr Liu, your words are very well said, but they are useless.'

Liu Feng felt deeply insulted by his intelligence, and glared at Zhou Ming with an expression as if he wanted to devour him alive. Zhou Ming said, 'Alright, I won't say any more. I just want to discuss with you, Mr Liu, whether we can let the people go first. It's pointless.'

'If you, Mr Zhou, beg me like this, it's not impossible to let the people go...'

Before Liu Feng could finish his sentence, Zhou Ming interrupted him, saying, 'I think Mr Liu has misunderstood. I have no intention of begging you, and I also want to win this shipping company's order.'

'Mr Zhou, don't you think that your request is just wishful thinking? What if I say no?' Liu Feng asked with a smile.

'I advise Mr Liu to think carefully before answering, because I think you are a bit full of yourself at the moment, thinking that you are the only one who can order people around?' Zhou Ming said.

'What do you mean, Mr Zhou?' Liu Feng asked.

'Mr Liu, you first conspired with Vice President Qian to get the Discipline Inspection Commission to come and arrest Manager Li and President Wang, and then you called in the press and accused them in front of them. Do you think that this will put you in control of the situation?' Zhou Ming asked with meaning.

If someone else had said this to Liu Feng, he would not have cared, but now it was Zhou Ming saying it, and that made Liu Feng feel the pressure. He frowned and said, 'What do you want, Boss Zhou? Are you trying to interfere with the law enforcement of the Commission for Discipline Inspection, or are you trying to interfere with freedom of speech?'

'I'm not that powerful. I just want to call the police too. Someone here is committing illegal detention,' said Zhou Ming.

Illegal detention?

Liu Feng laughed heartily as if he had heard the funniest joke in the world: 'Mr. Zhou, did I hear you correctly? Are you saying that the law enforcement of the Commission for Discipline Inspection is illegal detention? There are so many journalist comrades here, Mr. Zhou, please be careful with what you say, don't make a fool of yourself!'

Liu Feng said this while pointing at the surrounding journalists, who were also very sensible and picked up their cameras and video cameras and pointed them at Zhou Ming, snapping away.

Zhou Ming just shrugged his shoulders in vain: 'Whether it's illegal detention is not up to me to decide, but the relevant department.'

Liu Feng laughed even more happily: "Boss Zhou, don't tease me, okay? The relevant department is here? Which department can still control the Commission for Discipline Inspection?'

Zhou Ming didn't explain to Liu Feng, he just took out his mobile phone and dialed a number: "Captain Zhang? How long will it take for you to arrive? The criminal act here is very serious, please hurry to the scene.'

Liu Feng exclaimed, 'Boss Zhou called the police? It seems that you are part of the system, Boss Zhou, and you don't understand what's going on in the system. This is the Commission for Discipline Inspection handling a case, which is the most powerful department in the organisation. The police have no power to intervene, and the Commission for Discipline Inspection can even arrest the police.'

'It depends on the level of the disciplinary committee and the level of the police,' Zhou Ming said.

As if to justify Zhou Ming's words, as soon as he finished speaking, a roar of car engines could be heard, and then a convoy of vehicles arrived. It was a very mixed convoy, led by a vehicle with the license plate of the Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection, followed by two police cars, and finally a jeep and a large military truck, all of them with armed police license plates.

The four vehicles arrived and stopped in front of the hotel one after the other. Several people got out of the cars and all walked up to Zhou Ming. They were the director of the general office of the Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection, the deputy director of the Municipal Public Security Bureau, and the deputy team leader of the Municipal Armed Police Detachment.

After greeting these people, Zhou Ming immediately pointed to the side with his finger: 'Right over there, our company's marketing manager is being illegally detained. They said they were from the Commission for Discipline Inspection, but I don't know if that's true, and I don't know why the Commission for Discipline Inspection would listen to the words of a company's general manager. I was only asking questions and they threatened to arrest me.'

As Zhou Ming spoke, the armed police force was the first to react. At the command of the deputy team leader, twenty heavily armed armed police fighters jumped out of the car like tigers and headed towards Li Qingyuan.

Seeing this, the people there hurriedly released Li Qingyuan and Wang Ping. One by one, they shook their heads and said, 'We are not illegally detaining you. We are from the District Commission for Discipline Inspection. We are here on orders to handle this case!'

At this point, it was the turn of the Director of the District Commission for Discipline Inspection to step forward. He followed the armed police soldiers over and loudly questioned them, 'I am the Director of the General Office of the District Commission for Discipline Inspection. Which unit are you from? Tell your leader to come out. If there is no leader, then take them all back first!'

Under the questioning of the director of the Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection, a young cadre of the Commission for Discipline Inspection came out and said timidly, 'Leader, I am the person in charge of the District Commission for Discipline Inspection Office. I received a report from the masses that a very serious case of violating discipline had occurred here, and I was assigned by the higher-level leaders to come here to handle it. I was just handling the case here, and there was absolutely no illegal detention. Leader, you can see that I haven't even taken them away.'

Under the authority of the director of the Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection, this small cadre directly rambled on and on, even directly giving up the leader.

But that was an internal matter of the Discipline Inspection Commission, and Zhou Ming had no interest in delving deeper. He then pointed at Liu Feng and said to the deputy public security bureau chief, 'And him, he was the mastermind behind this illegal detention. Arrest him.'

Upon hearing Zhou Ming's words, the deputy public security bureau chief gave the order without hesitation. Two strong policemen stepped over and handcuffed Liu Feng in two quick steps.

Liu Feng stood there in shock. In fact, when he saw the hybrid convoy approaching, he was already so surprised that he could not speak. He really could not believe that after reporting the case to the police, Zhou Ming had actually brought these three powerful department officials, all of whom were city-level cadres. Although they were not the most important people in charge, they were still very important officials in the eyes of ordinary people.

It all happened so fast, like a tornado, that Liu Feng couldn't react in time. He even doubted whether he was in the real world or just dreaming, because this was just too dramatic.

However, the coldness of the handcuffs made Liu Feng sure that he was in reality. He then desperately struggled, 'Don't arrest me, I haven't broken the law!'

Zhou Ming found this laughable: 'You think just because you say you haven't broken the law that you haven't? Then why didn't you listen when Manager Li from my company said he hadn't broken the law?'

Liu Feng immediately turned to Zhou Ming and said, 'Boss Zhou, I deeply know that I've made a mistake. I shouldn't have bothered you in the first place. If you want this order, you can have it. Please don't take it personally. Just let me go, I beg you!'

Zhou Ming was unmoved, however, and pointed his finger at Vice President Qian on the other side: 'There's also that one over there, a suspect in this case.'

The deputy director of public security also ordered someone to go and arrest Vice President Qian. Compared to Liu Feng, Vice President Qian was a lot more calm, or perhaps he had simply accepted his fate. He knew that any resistance at this point would be a joke, so he might as well just give up. Who let him provoke the wrong person?

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