Rebirth of the Age of Wealth

Chapter 490 Being Cheated

The two of them lay on the bed and turned off the lights in the bedroom. Only the soft light from the TV made the whole bedroom a bit warm.

Liu Jinhui lay snuggled next to Li Weidong, looking like a little bird clinging to someone, full of happiness.

Since they got married, they haven't watched a movie quietly together for a long time. Of course, those movies with restricted ratings and educational nature cannot be counted.

Besides, it’s impossible to stay quiet while watching a movie like that. Even a monk would have to play the drums and move his mouth instead of using his hands. In the end, it would inevitably end with the two of them panting while running a 5,000-meter distance.

Of course, although the movie has changed this time, the result remains the same. With such a heartwarming scene, if we don’t do something inappropriate for children, I would be sorry for some parts of the movie that should be deleted.

The next day was the weekend, so there was no need to worry about the children being late for school, and they had no scruples in their hearts. They naturally did whatever they wanted, so that the next morning, the two children got up earlier than they did.

But there was Zheng Sijing who got up earlier than them. As soon as Li Weidong got up and before he finished smoking a cigarette, Ding Yuan ran over and told him that Zheng Sijing was here, arriving at dawn.

"What is he here for?" Li Weidong was quite surprised. If Zheng Sijing came to his place, he would usually call him to report, or at least tell his secretary.

Now he came quietly, and he arrived so early. Could it be that something big happened? If something big happened, he should have said it over the phone. He ran over by himself, and the day lily was already cold.

"I don't know. I took the train from Shanghai in the middle of the night last night. I got off the train and went straight here!" Ding Yuan shook his head and said.

"Where are the people?" Li Weidong asked again.

"I came too early. He said he wouldn't disturb you and would rest in your office first!" Ding Yuan didn't know what kind of medicine Zheng Sijing was selling in his gourd, so he could only tell the exact words.

"In my office, why don't we find a hotel to stay and take a rest? What a nonsense!" Li Weidong said and walked towards the office.

Ding Yuan didn't know what to say and could only follow behind. Zheng Sijing insisted on what he could do. He was Li Weidong's bodyguard and not Li Weidong himself. Some words could represent Li Weidong, but he was the one who scored.

If he were an ordinary general manager of a subsidiary company, Ding Yuan's words would have weight and others would give him face, so he could represent Li Weidong.

But for people like Zheng Sijing and Zou Yi who are close to Li Weidong, he is not qualified to represent Li Weidong. If they have something to do, they can contact the boss directly and have this reporting authority.

When Li Weidong arrived at the office, he saw Zheng Sijing sleeping soundly on the bench in the lounge in the east wing specially reserved for visitors.

Sometimes there are too many guests coming, so naturally they can't rush in to report to Li Weidong. They have to be given first and then later. The people behind them can't be exposed to the wind and sun outside, and they have to have a place to rest when they experience the cold winter and heat.

Besides, anyone who can come to Li Weidong to report work, even if he is not the boss of a large company, must have some dignity and a place to protect himself from the wind and rain.

Therefore, the decoration of this east wing room is "very good", absolutely simple, enough to provide shelter from wind and rain, a few chairs, a few coffee tables, and not much else.

Zheng Sijing can lie down on this hard mahogany bench and still fall asleep. It seems that he is really sleepy. The assistant next to him is similar, but there is no bench to use, so it is difficult to raise his head on a chair.

of sleeping.

Hearing the noise, the assistant opened his eyes first and saw that it was Li Weidong. He quickly stood up and said somewhat cautiously: "Hello, Chairman!"

The assistant's voice woke Zheng Sijing, but he moved without opening his eyes and said confusedly: "What time is it?"

"Mr. Zheng, the chairman is here!" The assistant glanced at Li Weidong, walked over quickly, pushed Zheng Sijing, and whispered.

"The chairman is here, where is he?" Zheng Sijing hurriedly sat up and smiled awkwardly when he saw Li Weidong standing next to him.

"What's going on with you? You want to go to a hotel to sleep. This is not a hotel!" Li Weidong looked at Zheng Sijing and said with a smile.

"Hey, it was already after five o'clock when I arrived in Qizhou. I had to go through all the trouble to get to the hotel. It was too troublesome, so I came straight to you!" Zheng Sijing stood up and said with a smile.

"What big thing happened that made a leader as big as you panic and have to rush here overnight on the weekend?"

"Chairman, I'm here to apologize today!" Zheng Sijing stood up and said respectfully.

"Apology for carrying thorns?" Li Weidong's smoking hand paused, and continued, "Why are there no thorns? Lian Po came here bare-chested and carrying thorns on his back. You are empty-handed. You are obviously insincere!"

Li Weidong did not doubt that Zheng Sijing had done something wrong. Over the years, he had made mistakes. It didn't matter if he made some small mistakes. As long as they were not principled mistakes, Li Weidong was relatively tolerant.

Although Zheng Sijing said something very serious this time and even went so far as to plead guilty, the scene Li Weidong saw when he entered the house made him not believe that there would be any big problem.

If it was a big problem, Zheng Sijing would definitely call and report it as soon as possible instead of coming by train.

Secondly, even if Zheng Sijing came here, he would not just sleep on the chair carelessly, without the slightest clue that anything important had happened.

From these two points, Li Weidong could conclude that it was nothing serious, just a failure of investment, and the maximum loss would be a larger amount of money.

"Uh... Chairman, are you kidding!" Zheng Sijing smiled awkwardly, and then continued: "At the beginning of the year, we invested in a company that develops stock trading software. A few days ago, the company's CEO took the money and ran away!"

"Run away, where did you go?" Li Weidong was quite surprised when he heard the news, and he almost took a puff of cigarette and went back.

They invested in many companies, and of course many failed. After all, venture capital means investing when there is risk. Failure is normal. It is just because of the BUG of Li Weidong that the success rate of Jingwei Investment is much higher than that of similar companies.

However, there are many who fail and even lose all their money. There are not many who take the money and run away, especially those who run away after receiving financing.

He ran away in less than a month. If you think about it carefully, it was like a well-arranged scam. The company was established just to deceive investors into investing money. As soon as the funds were raised, they immediately took the money and ran away.

No wonder Zheng Sijing came to plead guilty. This was a low-level mistake. He couldn't even care about his own money.

"We don't know yet. We called the police and the local immigration department contacted him, but his entry and exit records were not found, but we are not sure if he has any other passports!" Zheng Sijing said honestly.

"How much money did you invest, is it worth it for him to run away?" Li Weidong was a little curious. Embezzling "public funds" and company property are also considered public funds. It is also a crime and requires jail time.

"Ten million in total!" Zheng Sijing said awkwardly.

"Dollars?"

"RMB!" Zheng Sijing suddenly felt that he was a bit hasty in taking the blame this time, as if the boss didn't think it was a problem at all.

"What's going on specifically?" Li Weidong continued to ask. He wanted to hear it and see if Luo Jialiang could find someone to write a script and make it into a movie, with Zheng Sijing starring in his true role.

"Hey, it's time, let's have breakfast together and chat while we eat!" Li Weidong glanced at his watch, it was already eight o'clock.

When Li Weidong and Zheng Sijing returned home, the children saw Zheng Sijing coming in and said hello cordially. They were all acquaintances and the children were no strangers. Besides, when the two children were born, Zheng Sijing and his wife were running around a lot.

help.

It’s not an exaggeration to say that I’ve seen big things since I was young!

"Old Zheng, when did you come here so early?" Liu Jinhui was also surprised to see Zheng Sijing.

Very few people who came to report to Li Weidong came before nine o'clock, because Li Weidong did not go to work at that time.

"This time Lao Zheng made a fool of himself and was defrauded of 10 million yuan!" Li Weidong said gloatingly, not even thinking that the money belonged to him.

"Ten million, who is so bold to call the police?" Liu Jinhui said in surprise. The average monthly salary in Qizhou this year is less than one thousand, and the salary of more than 10,000 people was defrauded. Do you think it is a lot?

"I've reported it, I've reported it!" Zheng Sijing said awkwardly.

At the dinner table, Zheng Sijing told the whole story.

The company was established early last year. The software development was very successful and the promotion was also very successful. It claimed to be able to remind customers of various indicators in a timely manner. The effect was good and the number of users grew rapidly.

As the number of users increased, the company urgently needed to expand, and expansion required money, so it naturally began to seek financing from venture capital companies.

This company itself is located in Shanghai, so it naturally found Jingwei Investment, a big brother in the venture capital industry. After Jingwei Investment investigated it, it believed that it had market prospects and was a high-tech enterprise engaged in software, so it was naturally inclined to invest.

Zheng Sijing read the information and felt that there was no problem, and Li Weidong once mentioned that this industry is definitely an industry that can be invested in.

Moreover, this company is relatively advanced in this industry and has a high possibility of becoming the leader. The principle of Jingwei Investment is that as long as it is a company that has the potential to become the leader in the industry, they will invest.

No matter how big the market is, the leading company must be the company with the largest market share. As long as you invest in the leading company, you will have an advantage in this industry and the profits will come.

At this time, technology stocks were in the ascendant. As long as the valuations of technology-related companies were good, Jingwei Investment analyzed and negotiated with the technology company, and finally decided to give the company a valuation of 100 million, investing 10 million to account for 25% of the shares.

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Zheng Sijing also thought at the time that after a period of development, it would be another technology company listed on Nasdaq.

But God played a big joke on him. Just as he was preparing to ring the bell on Nasdaq for the three companies that were about to be listed, he received a call from China.

After the company's investment is completed, according to regulations, it must send its own specialists to serve as company executives, mainly to supervise and inspect the company's financial status and improve the corporate governance system.

This commissioner is a veteran and a master. He has done this job in several companies. It is difficult for him to catch the usual tricks. This time it was proved again. In less than a month, he discovered some things.

question.

The software developed by the company has many users, but very few active users. After careful investigation, most of the IP addresses initially activated by these inactive users were concentrated in a certain number range, and even one number range had several activated IP addresses.

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After checking the company's original financial accounting vouchers, we found that many of the software sold had no payment records or very few mismatched records. It was confirmed that the company's user data was fraudulent.

Although Zheng Sijing was surprised, he thought it was just data falsification. As long as there was no problem with the track, the company was still in the front-running stage. There was a high chance that it would be the first to reach the finish line, but the management needed to adjust.

As the bell was ringing in the United States, Zheng Sijing did not have time to come back to deal with the matter, so he asked the commissioner to hold on tight and at least watch the 10 million invested by the company, and wait until he came back to find a way to adjust the management.

It was just the day after Zheng Sijing came back that the money in the account disappeared. Within half an hour, the money from the company account was transferred to more than a dozen accounts, and these accounts have now been verified to be underground banks.

The underground bank has also disappeared. They are best at shooting and changing places. It is obvious that the money has flown out of the country and the person in charge of the company cannot be found. Its whereabouts are self-evident.

"Ten million cannot suddenly disappear. It must have been planned long ago, but what can these ten million do?" Li Weidong shook his head in confusion.

Even if Zheng Sijing can drive him out of the company's management, the shares in his hands are still there, and Jingwei Investment can only obtain them through normal means. Even if the company is not worth 100 million now, it will definitely exceed this amount in a few years.

Zheng Sijing looked at the boss and was speechless. How could it not be 10 million? He used 10 million to test people. How many could pass the test?

Besides, people don’t know whether this industry really has a future. Starting a business is basically about crossing the river by feeling the stones. If you fall into the abyss in the next step, you will have nothing, and you will still be reliable in front of you.

"Yes, the economic investigation department also said that it conspired with more than a dozen underground banks at the same time to disperse funds to achieve rapid remittances. It was planned and premeditated, and the money was likely to go to Hong Kong and Macao."

"However, the flow of funds in Hong Kong Island is too fast, and it is not easy to trace. The economic investigation department is powerless and can only issue a wanted order. No one knows the effect!"

Zheng Sijing continued to add that although Hong Kong Island is their home base, trying to find more than a dozen million-dollar capital flows in this world financial center is like looking for a needle in a haystack.

"If the money is in Hong Kong Island, the person may be there. Check it carefully for me to see where this person has gone. Make inquiries to see which underground banks know about this. Follow the clues and find the person for me!" Li Weidong is not!

I can't afford to lose this money, but I just feel a little useless. If I say it, my ancestors will be killed.

"Yes, Chairman, I am personally responsible for this!" Zheng Sijing stood up and promised, and then continued: "This is caused by my work error. I will bear all the responsibilities and compensate for the losses!"

"Old Zheng!" Liu Jinhui sat nearby and listened. After hearing Zheng Sijing's words, she quickly said in a reminding tone.

What Zheng Sijing said was a bit exaggerated. Profits belong to the boss and losses belong to the employees. How can this be the case? It is okay to admit mistakes and take responsibility, but it is wrong to bear losses.

"You take responsibility, and you compensate?" Li Weidong put down the chopsticks in his hand, looked at Zheng Sijing and said slowly.

(End of chapter)