Chapter 232: It is illegal to trade stocks on behalf of clients

'Ouch, oh, oh, why is it so lively here today? There are so many people here, and there's also you, Advisor Zhou. Let me guess what's going on here. It can't be that you've deceived your clients here, causing them huge losses, and some clients have come here to cause trouble, right?'

With a strange tone of voice, Jiang Chunhua stepped out of the crowd and came to Zhou Ming, looking at him with a smug look.

Zhou Ming ignored Jiang Chunhua's tone and just looked at him calmly and asked, 'Xiaohua, what is it?'

Seeing Zhou Ming's indifferent tone, Jiang Chunhua's temper flared. He pointed at Zhou Ming and shouted, 'Zhou Ming, don't you dare call me Xiaohua! Let me tell you, it's not me who has a problem today, but you!'

Afterwards, Jiang Chunhua's tone calmed down again, and he turned to Xiaohu and asked, 'Comrade, don't be afraid. There are so many people here, as well as reporters from the newspaper and TV stations. We can all be your advocates. You can tell us what wrong you have suffered and what you have been tricked into doing.'

As soon as Jiang Chunhua finished speaking, Xiaohu immediately pointed at Zhou Ming and said, 'It was their company. Their people tricked me into opening an account here, tricked me into saying that opening an account with them to speculate in the stock market would guarantee a profit, and tricked me into investing all of our family's money. But as a result, just a week later, they lost all of our hard-earned money. And now they're not even admitting responsibility. They've come out in such large numbers just to beat me up!'

'You're full of shit!' Li Yang couldn't help but come out and point at Xiaohu and scold him, 'You're slandering me. When did I ever lie to you about making money from stocks? And when did I ever lie to you about investing all the family money? We've always promoted that there are risks in the stock market and that you need to be cautious when trading stocks. So how could it be that we came out to beat you up?'

Li Yang became more and more agitated as he spoke, and in the end his hands could not help but tremble: 'I think you are actually in cahoots with this Jiang Chunhua, and you are deliberately here to cause trouble!'

A stone stirs up a thousand ripples. Li Yang's last words caused an immediate uproar at the scene. Everyone looked at Jiang Chunhua and Xiaohu in surprise, and even the reporters from the TV station and newspaper pointed their cameras at them.

However, in the face of the gaze of almost everyone, Jiang Chunhua was not at all panicked. On the contrary, Li Hong hurriedly pulled Li Yang back: 'Li Yang, what are you talking about? Do you know that you can't say that, especially not here at this time?'

Why?

This was Li Yang's first reaction, but before he could react, Jiang Chunhua burst out laughing. He turned to the media and the other onlookers and said, 'Did you see that? This is the quality of the cadres at An Guo Securities Company. Now the client has lost money here and is seeking an explanation, but instead of admitting any fault, they are accusing the client of conspiring with others to cause trouble. Do you think there is anything like this?'

As Jiang Chunhua spoke, the other onlookers all pointed their fingers at Li Yang and Li Hong, saying, 'These people from An Guo Securities Company are really outrageous! How can they bully their customers like this? The customer lost money with you, and you're still blaming them? That's really shameless! Where do you people learn to do business like this? This isn't even shop owners bullying their customers, it's just too overbearing! In the future, no matter what, we won't open an account here. A securities company is still the best, at least it's formal, unlike this kind of place, where there's all kinds of chaos...'

Facing the pointing and shaming of the onlookers around him, Li Yang was completely confused: it wasn't like that at all, it was clearly those two guys, Jiang Chunhua and Xiaohu, who were lying, not us!

Li Yang cried out in despair in his heart. Li Hong, the general manager, saw what he was thinking and sighed, saying to him, 'I do understand that this is very strange. It is very likely that this Xiaohu is causing trouble because he was instructed to do so by Jiang Chunhua. But there are so many people here, and they don't understand our past problems with Jiang Chunhua. They will simply side with the underdog, giving Jiang Chunhua the opportunity to play.'

Li Hong felt the stiffness in Li Yang's body and said, 'I know you feel aggrieved and resentful, but there's nothing we can do about it. Who let that Jiang Chunhua be so powerful that he's now in control? As long as Xiaohu causes trouble here, as long as there are media and other onlookers, he can justify whatever he does. We can only passively follow in his footsteps and explain.'

'Isn't this like letting him ride on our necks and shit and piss as he pleases?' Li Yang said, his eyes wide.

Li Hong nodded heavily: 'That's it, there's nothing we can do.'

At this time, Jiang Chunhua over there spoke again: 'It's just like this, reversing right and wrong, using the guise of a securities company to freely cheat us of our hard-earned money. We absolutely cannot trust this place. We should just work together and unite, tell our relatives and friends, and from ten to a hundred, we just want to let such a company go bankrupt, so that it won't have any more opportunities to cheat us of our hard-earned money!'

Under Jiang Chunhua's incitement, first a few people shouted along, 'Let such companies go bankrupt', and then the others joined in, shouting along with them.

So many people shouting together was very powerful, it was almost as if they were going to bring down the roof of the hall. All the reporters here aimed their cameras at these angry people, trying to record this precious moment, and the crowd shouted even harder when they saw the cameras coming.

Li Hong subconsciously took a step back at the momentum, and Li Yang also despaired. He wanted to explain, but he simply didn't know what to do.

Not only Li Hong and Li Yang, but also the cadres of other securities companies were all at a loss, completely at a loss for ideas. In particular, Xiaohu's account manager was almost paralyzed on the ground. He knew that he was definitely finished. Although he knew very well that apart from being obsessed with stock trading for others, he had not violated any rules, and that everything was of his own making, who would listen to his explanation at this time?

But just as the crowd was getting really excited, a calm voice suddenly said, 'Everyone, please be quiet for a moment.'

The voice seemed to have a magical effect, and the cries of the crowd, which had been gaining momentum, gradually died down. Everyone focused their attention on one person, and that person slowly walked out. It was Zhou Ming.

'Huh? I wonder what advice Consultant Zhou has for us?'

Jiang Chunhua asked provocatively, but in fact he was very uneasy. He had arranged the rhythm just now with great difficulty, and had asked a few people to set the pace in the crowd. He never expected Zhou Ming to silence it with just a few words. Coupled with the fear of having been arrested and taken to the police station after losing to Zhou Ming before, his heart could not help but pound.

Zhou Ming looked up and down at Jiang Chunhua a few times and said, 'This doesn't seem to have anything to do with you, does it?'

Jiang Chunhua was enraged by Zhou Ming's disregard and said angrily, 'Why doesn't it matter? I'm here to expose you on behalf of the people, to expose all your dirty and ugly side!'

Jiang Chunhua shouted angrily, but Zhou Ming simply ignored him and turned to ask Xiaohu, 'Hello, comrade, you came here to complain today, right? You said that your account manager traded stocks for you and you lost money as a result, right?'

'That's right, so I'm here today to seek an explanation.'

Xiao Hu said, but his tone was not as strong as before, because for some reason, when facing Zhou Ming, he felt an inexplicable sense of guilt.

Zhou Ming also sensed his guilt, but still didn't say anything. He just turned to Xiao Hu's account manager and asked, 'Manager Sun, you did trade stocks for your clients, didn't you?'

Manager Sun hurriedly said, 'Consultant Zhou, I did trade stocks for the client, but it's not my business if he lost money. It's all because he operated recklessly, not me...'

Before Manager Sun could finish speaking, Tiger jumped in, saying, 'This Consultant Zhou, right? Listen to your own people, they all say you traded stocks for the client. I remember that the rules of your An Guo Securities Company don't allow trading stocks for clients. Now he did it and I lost money. You must give me an explanation!'

When Xiaohu started talking, he was still quite unsure of himself, but the more he talked, the more confident he became, and in the end, he glared at Zhou Ming.

Zhou Ming gave a gesture of calm and said, 'I know everything about your situation. Stock trading on behalf of clients is actually an illegal act that disrupts the order of the securities market. So let's do things by the book and call the police, shall we?'

On hearing Zhou Ming's suggestion, Manager Sun and Xiaohu reacted in opposite ways. Manager Sun immediately slumped, almost collapsing, because he never expected that he would be arrested just because of a moment of greed! Over there, Xiaohu was very happy and gave Zhou Ming a thumbs-up, saying, 'That's the way to do it! But Advisor Zhou, you can't just arrest people, can you? I still lost so much money, and that was all the hard-earned money of our family!'

Greed is the mother of all vices!

This was Li Yang's first reaction after hearing Xiaohu's words, but Zhou Ming just looked at Xiaohu and said very calmly, 'I said everything would be handled impartially. When the public security police arrive, we will listen to what they say about how to deal with it.'

Xiaohu could not object to this, and then Zhou Ming called the police in front of everyone. Since Anguo Securities was not far from the municipal party committee, the police car soon arrived at the door. Several police officers quickly walked in, saluted, and asked, 'Hello, what happened here?'

Hearing the police ask, Xiaohu said, 'Hello, police comrade, it was this securities company that cheated me out of my money, you have to arrest them all!'

The police looked at Zhou Ming with confusion, and it was only then that Zhou Ming stepped forward and said, 'Police comrade, the situation is this, we have a case of stock speculation on behalf of others, I hope you can come and deal with it impartially.'

Zhou Ming then gave the police a brief account of the incident. The police officer immediately waved his hand after listening: 'So that's what happened. According to the latest policy issued by the Nanjiang Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government, stock speculation on behalf of clients is a very serious illegal act that disrupts the order of the securities market and is considered an economic crime. I need to take the suspect, Manager Sun, back to the police station for investigation!'

Xiaohu clapped happily next to him: 'That's great, someone like that should be arrested!'

But Xiaohu's joy turned into tragedy as soon as it began, because the police immediately handcuffed him as well: 'Voluntarily asking to trade stocks for others also constitutes an illegal act of disrupting the market economic order, so you need to come with us as well.'