"This Tong He must have already sold me out!" Let's shift our focus to Ke Xuedong.
When Tong He disappeared for those five days, Ke Xuedong knew that Tong He refused to cooperate with him. So, Ke Xuedong found a way to directly report the counterfeit money issue to the school.
Of course, Ke Xuedong's original intention was merely to punish this ungrateful fellow. He never expected that it would escalate into such a major incident in the end.
When the news media began reporting on Tong He's disappearance, Ke Xuedong thought Tong He had committed suicide, a wide smile on his face. After all, he had only reported the counterfeit money; Tong He's suicide had absolutely nothing to do with him.
But to his surprise, Tong He staged a comeback. Not only did he receive a massive reward of 10 million RMB, but more importantly, this reward was given to Tong He by Huang He.
This meant that Tong He had joined forces with Huang He, and Huang He must have known about his plan to secretly harm Jiangnan.
So, should he flee back to Taiwan province?
Ke Xuedong considered it and felt it was completely unnecessary. He only had the thought and hadn't acted on it. Even if Huang He reported him to the police, he would be perfectly safe.
As for whether Huang He would resort to other methods to deal with him, Ke Xuedong felt it didn't matter. If Huang He used legal channels, the methods would surely be insignificant.
If he used illegal means, then Ke Xuedong would consider it a weapon he could use to destroy Jiangnan's reputation, which he would welcome.
If there were any real problems, he could always return to Taiwan province immediately, and all issues would cease to exist.
Thus, amidst Ke Xuedong's unease, days passed. By July 15th, the fifth day after Tong He received his reward, Ke Xuedong suddenly received a call informing him that a truck belonging to the company, responsible for cargo transportation and dispatch, had been seized.
At first, Ke Xuedong didn't pay much attention. He assumed the driver had been caught for overloading and would just pay a fine; it was no big deal.
But then, more than a dozen police officers stormed into the company and, right before Ke Xuedong's eyes, arrested the manager of the freight department. Ke Xuedong was so scared he went numb, thinking these police officers were sent by Huang He to arrest him.
Later, he learned that the police had actually discovered one kilogram of illicit substances in that truck. This was a major criminal case, and it was only natural for the head of the freight department to be arrested.
"This is a matter for the freight department, it has nothing to do with me!" That night, on his way back to the company dormitory, Ke Xuedong reassured himself. Then, he saw police officers escorting someone out of the dormitory and into a police car. This person was none other than his only trusted subordinate from Taiwan.
"How could he be arrested?" Ke Xuedong sensed danger. He immediately went to the airport to buy a plane ticket, intending to return directly to Taiwan province. However, just as he was about to board, he was also apprehended by a swarm of police officers.
Later, Ke Xuedong found out that the drug trafficker was actually his subordinate, not the head of the freight department.
When he had previously asked his subordinate to find some thugs to monitor Tong He, he had caused his subordinate to become completely entangled with these thugs, even becoming so-called brothers and friends.
Then one day, a thug handed his subordinate a package and asked him to find a way to hide it on their company's cargo truck for transportation from Shanghai to the inland regions.
Because these were supermarket cargo transport vehicles, the police generally wouldn't inspect them, making them very safe.
Ke Xuedong's subordinate wasn't foolish; he guessed what the package contained. However, the "Sixth Brother" offered an astonishing freight fee of twenty thousand. The subordinate, thinking he still had a fallback plan to escape back to Taiwan and seeing the tangible cash, agreed.
Using his connections with several drivers in the freight department, he hollowed out several thick radishes and hid the items inside.
As a result, within ten days, the crime was discovered. The truck driver was arrested and naturally gave up Ke Xuedong's subordinate, who was caught red-handed.
Initially, this might not have seemed to involve Ke Xuedong. However, the subordinate confessed that someone in the freight department had discovered the issue, and Ke Xuedong had suppressed it.
Ke Xuedong claimed he didn't know what the item was and that his subordinate had begged him to keep quiet, so he did him a favor. He claimed he had no idea it was drugs.
But the subordinate stated that he handed over half of his income to Ke Xuedong for expenses, and Ke Xuedong should have guessed what it was because he had seen it before, and he was also an addict in Taiwan province.
And so, Ke Xuedong's story came to an end, and he lost his opportunity for further appearances.
Of course, Mr. Huang He had absolutely nothing to do with this matter. Everything was the self-inflicted karma of those people. Huang He merely happened to learn of the intelligence and sent someone to report it.
In fact, none of these actions were carried out by Huang He, but by Liu Xiangjiang. Ke Xuedong had bothered him repeatedly, and Liu Xiangjiang had long wanted to crush this pest.
It was only Liu Xiangjiang who had the connections in Shanghai to discover such clues and then report them.
And what was Huang He doing at this time?
He was diligently disrupting his Jiangnan Group, pushing it to the brink of collapse.
The matter began with Huang He's current national reputation.
Huang He's 60 million RMB was not spent in vain. In fact, Teacher Yuan's words were only half right; Huang He also intended to put on a show.
It was quite remarkable that since June, almost the entire Chinese public opinion field had revolved around Huang He. Every word, every action of Huang He almost caused a huge stir across the country.
For example, the rescue in June and the current Huang He Award – two major hot topics, arriving one after another, keeping Huang He in the spotlight.
The advantage of this was that almost all Chinese citizens recognized Huang He, and Huang He had almost become the most famous and positively portrayed entrepreneur in the country. xxs壹贰
Although some could see the strong element of showmanship involved, it was 2002, not 2021. The public's thinking was still very simple.
Patriotic, loyal to the party, with very simple nationalistic feelings. As long as anyone did something good for the country and the nation, they would gain Huang He's favor.
Initially, when Huang He was rescuing people, some criticized him for putting on a show, for wanting to profit from the fire. The evidence was that Huang He's Jiangnan Mang He sales had greatly increased, reaching almost four months of previous sales in just one month. Many blind box stalls were completely sold out. Therefore, it was suspected that the fire incident was orchestrated by Huang He, designed to boost his product sales.
Such conspiracy theories were endless, but they finally came to an end with the release of an investigation report. The culprits were a few local thugs who were denied entry by the internet café manager for being underage and sought revenge.
They bought gasoline from a gas station, spread it on the carpet to conceal their actions, and then locked the outer door of the internet café, which was merely hung with a lock, effectively sealing the door.
This investigation result was shocking, but it also cleared Huang He of suspicion. Although some people still clamored that Huang He was the mastermind, otherwise, how could such kind underage individuals commit such heinous acts?
However, this was not important. What mattered was that the authorities only believed factual evidence. All factual evidence indicated that Huang He had merely happened to be there at the right time, and the entire incident had nothing to do with Huang He.
But it was true that Huang He had made a fortune. Just as the public was about to develop an aversion to Huang He, he announced the establishment of the Huang He Award, worth 60 million RMB, donating all the money he earned to the country's scientific research endeavors, especially awarding it to scientists universally admired like Lu Xun and Yuan Longping. Huang He also received high praise from Mr. Yuan Longping and Mr. Tu Youyou, which solidified Huang He's persona.
From then on, as long as Huang He didn't expose any explosive scandals, his image would be difficult to shake in the short term.
Of course, any scandal involving Jiangnan Group would also harm Huang He. To prevent such a situation in the future, a round of internal self-reflection activities began within Jiangnan. At a group meeting, Huang He put forth an unprecedented slogan.
This slogan was the "Three Nevers" slogan: "Mistakes can be tolerated, but crimes cannot; losses to oneself can be tolerated, but losses to customers cannot; errors can be tolerated, but moral failings cannot."
The core meaning of this slogan was very simple: Jiangnan could kindly tolerate unintentional errors, but absolutely would not tolerate malicious violations of morality and law or actions that harmed customer interests.
This slogan was not just a mere utterance. On one hand, Huang He established a supervisory department within the company to monitor everyone from senior executives to all employees.
On the other hand, he directly published this slogan in the form of advertisements across the pages of over 100 major newspapers nationwide, even buying out entire pages.
In addition to printing these three slogans, the page also listed thirty complaint phone numbers.
At the same time, Huang He promised in the advertisements that anyone who discovered criminal behavior, customer deception, or moral failings by any Jiangnan Group employee, whether a customer or an internal employee, should immediately preserve relevant evidence and then call these 30 complaint phone numbers to report it.
The company would immediately confirm the evidence, and upon confirmation, the individual would be immediately suspended for review, and the police would be alerted to take over the investigation and ascertain the truth of the matter.
Is this Huang He trying to self-destruct his own company?
This was the first reaction of everyone who saw this news.