CH 88.1

It was common in the industry for bidding projects to be intercepted. But for the Lin Group, there had been few cases of it being intercepted in recent years. The Lin Group wasn’t what it used to be. The projects they went after were basically stable. Even if bidding was required, few people would compete with them head-on or it had already been arranged by their people in advance.

At present, there were large manufacturers cooperating. Then suddenly, the project was intercepted. The supervisor’s steady expression suddenly cracked and he immediately went to check the situation.

However, the facts were the same. A project they had been busy with some time ago was suddenly won by a competitor. The competitor that they hadn’t paid attention to before was a small subsidiary company of a foreign group. It stood to reason that the other person should now be fighting a lawsuit with their peers. How could they suddenly raise the budget to compete for the project?

“Did you talk to the people over there about this? Didn’t you greet them and say that this project would be assigned to us by default?”

The supervisor frowned. “The other party found someone to help?”

“Rather than asking for help, the vice president of the company went in person. In addition, one or two small companies found the bidding company for help and the price was raised far beyond our budget.” The person in charge spoke anxiously on the phone. “How to deal with this now?”

The supervisor didn’t know how to deal with this matter and could only immediately go to his superiors to ask for instructions.

It was only when he went to his superior’s office that he realized Yicheng was looking for trouble again today. Several important departments in the group were still dealing with other matters and it was a foregone conclusion that the project was robbed. His superior could only have him find a way to solve the problem of the manufacturers.

A few manufacturers were cooperating and it took nothing more than spending some money to deal with them. Then after spending a few days on this, he suddenly realized that it wasn’t the same thing at all.

Since the funds received were completely insufficient, several rival companies that had been at peace with the group suddenly attacked. In just ten days, many problems occurred. The group could only concentrate on the main goal and deal with the large companies first. The funds on their side became very limited.

The paper report was presented to Lin Shizong’s office. His face turned dark when he saw the report. “Why was this matter only reported at this time?”

The assistant stopped slightly. “During this time, the main personnel was helping with the matter of the Chen Group and this report was suppressed for two days. It was already like this when it reached this side. We have already notified the financial office to approve funding for several major project teams. However, the news in the industry isn’t very good.”

Part of the news in the industry was also presented in front of Lin Shizong. He opened it to find that several important rival companies of Lin Medical suddenly attacked their side in the past few days, especially the projects where there was potential competition. These people uncharacteristically didn’t bite at each other and all aimed at Lin Medical. The company led by them was their long-time nemesis, Yicheng Medical.

Since fighting with Yicheng last year, they had maintained a delicate balance. Now this group of companies directly broke the balance and the Lin Group had become everyone’s target.

Lin Shizong couldn’t think of the reason. Yicheng didn’t have the ability to concentrate so many companies to target the Lin Group. “How did Yicheng do it?”

“News in the industry has leaked. I heard from the management of several large companies that they probably know about the things we did for the bidding before.” The assistant’s face turned slightly pale. “This includes our use of Fu Yanyu to calculate Yicheng, bribing others to bankrupt Fengyu Medical’s project, provoking manufacturers to compete and other things.”

Lin Shizong threw the documents on the table and several sheets of paper were scattered on the ground.

It was a common thing when competing in the industry. Some things were indeed done by the Lin Group but after these things were done, he had already ordered his people to clean up the traces so that it wouldn’t be leaked out.

The assistant didn’t dare to speak. If it was just one thing, they could let the people below solve it as soon as possible.

However, now it was more than one incident and it had spread in the industry. There was no guarantee the Lin Group wouldn’t be targeted by them in the future.

“Where are the people in charge? Find out all about the people in charge. Who spread these things? Check it out right away!”

Lin Shizong’s tone was grim. “Hold a meeting.”

The assistant hurriedly went down to inform them.

Lin Shizong’s hand grabbed the document and veins bulged on the back of his hand. One Yicheng was already like a plaster. A few more could only become more and more annoying. Usually, they had the time and energy to deal with them. However, during this time, they had been concentrating on preparing to bring down the Chen Group. This group of people came out at this time to increase the pressure on the Lin Group.

It wasn’t a coincidence that things broke out at this stage. It was as if someone had done it on purpose.

Lin Shizong finished giving the order and immediately called Gu Shen’s number.

The call connected not long after it rang. Gu Shen’s voice was heard. “What’s the matter?”

Lin Shizong briefly explained to him about the problems encountered by the company. “These things suddenly came out. I don’t think it is a coincidence. It is very likely related to the person in the Chen Group’s meeting room before.”

Chen Shiming had encountered more things during this time and several projects had big problems. Even if Chen Shiming found someone to deal with the situation in time, the pressure on Chen Shiming from the board of directors wasn’t small. Even so, Chen Shiming’s ability to withstand pressure was extremely strong. Under such circumstances, he could last until Chen Jianhong returned to China. The current situation was still within the range of their plan. The Chen Group had already been consumed. Now they just needed to delay for about three days before proceeding to the next plan.

The problem was that the person who used trickery to expose Jiang Yuze hadn’t yet shown up to assist Chen Shiming.

That person was like a time bomb. Lin Shizong would always be uneasy until he was completely caught.

Gu Shen was silent for a while after listening to Lin Shizong’s words. “News from the industry?”

Lin Shizong said, “I haven’t received any rumors before this. It obviously broke out in the past few days.”

“Are you sure it isn’t a problem with someone in your company?” Gu Shen asked again.

“It is unlikely.” Lin Shizong was a cautious person. The people who handled these things were the backbone of the group and they had always been tight-lipped.

On the other side of the phone, Gu Shen waved off the others and his expression sank a bit.

Gu Shen said, “It can only be him.”

Lin Shizong’s concerns were clear to him. In order to catch the person in the meeting room back then, he also sent many people to investigate. In the end, he only locked onto a few people as the suspicious ones. However, he sent people to observe them and didn’t observe any major problems.

This person hid too deeply and knew far more than Chen Shiming and the others.

The reason why Gu Shen forced Lin Shizong to act earlier wasn’t only to eliminate the hidden danger as soon as possible, but also to find this person. Since this person cared so much about the Chen Group, it was impossible for him to not take action when the Chen Group encountered difficulties.

It was just that he thought the other person would help the Chen Group solve the problem, but he directly attacked the Lin Group.

“I’ll help you continue to check this matter. Pass the information to me.”

Gu Shen frowned. “You solve your own problems first. This matter won’t affect our plan.”

Soon, the information from Lin Shizong’s side arrived at Gu Shen’s side. The assistant handed over the tablet and everything that happened in the Lin Group recently was clearly visible.

The assistant also took advantage of this time to send other documents. “Sir, the few people we have focused on before have shown no other suspicious behaviors so far. When we followed, we didn’t find any contact with the Lin Group’s competitors. They also didn’t meet with Chen Shiming and the others in private.”

In other words, the people they listed on the suspicious list were either vigilant and had hidden themselves or they really had nothing to do with the meeting room.

After speaking, the assistant fell silent and looked at Gu Shen.

Gu Shen finished reading the documents with calm eyes. Suddenly, he sneered. “The other person is provoking us.”

The assistant paused slightly, “Provoking?”

Gu Shen directly turned the page and pointed to a few time points. “Is this familiar?”

The assistant had been helping Gu Shen run to the Lin Group’s side during this time. So he reacted quickly the moment he saw these time points. His eyes were a bit shocked. “Isn’t this when we…”

“That’s right.” Gu Shen’s eyes were gloomy. “It is the time we targeted the Chen Group.”

The information on the Lin Group being targeted by competitors listed all the problems encountered in the past half a month in detail. It was obvious that such a premeditated targeting rhythm was controlled by someone behind the scenes. The other person didn’t seem to be worried about being discovered by them. This series of behaviors against the Lin Group was like a public declaration of war.

Their means against the Chen family were orderly. They detonated the layout in the Chen Group one by one and finally dragged the Chen Group into a situation where everything couldn’t be recovered.

This person hiding behind the scenes also used this method. He mobilized the Lin Group’s competitors one by one, using unknown means to make these people start targeting the Lin Group one after another.

The moment they finished targeting the Chen family, the other party also moved.

It was as if they were retaliating tit-for-tat, provoking him in a more subtle way.

Not only did this person know about their arrangements, but he even had some means against the Lin Group.

By fighting with him in this way, it showed the other person was deeply scheming. Even if the Chen Group was currently encountering difficulties, he could arrange other things in an unhurried manner. It was as if everything was in hand and he was looking at them like he was watching a jumping clown.

It was the first time Gu Shen encountered such an interesting opponent. He couldn’t find the other person and the opponent was the first one to dare to come at him like this.

“This is the type of person I hate the most in my life. He is arrogant and self-righteous.”

Gu Shen covered the documents. He admitted that he was irritated by this person.

In addition, this matter wasn’t over yet. Not long after Lin Shizong and Gu Shen hung up the phone, people from the local Industrial and Commerce Bureau came to the headquarters of the Lin Group.

In fact, Lin Shizong wasn’t afraid of evidence. Even if that person submitted the evidence to the Industrial and Commerce Bureau to report him for monopolizing the market or a malicious competition, the legality of the evidence was still open to question. It was just that when he questioned the investigation by the Industrial and Commerce Bureau, the other person said, “We didn’t receive an anonymous report but a real-name report.”

“What do you mean?” Lin Shizong paused.

“Yicheng Medical, Fengyu Medical and other companies reported using their real names and the other party also provided evidence.”

The investigator took a serious attitude. “Now your company is being suspected of unfair competition. Please cooperate with our investigation.”