Chapter 753: Targeting the economy of a country
Xu Cheng put his hands on his cheeks and began to ask questions.
“Who is behind you?”
Liu Xianming: “Hiroshi Shitsuno.”
Li Chao searched up this name in their computer data system in the other room, and all of his information was gathered when he entered the country.
He said to Xu Cheng through the headset, “Mr. Fang, he’s a Wei Nation citizen.”
Of course Xu Cheng knew that he was from Wei Nation, and the Dragon Division had their eyes on this person from the beginning. His identity was a sensitive matter with his background in the Sanko Group, and Xu Cheng knew about their connection during his assassination of the Shanling Consortium. That was why the Dragon Division had been watching him since he entered the country, and suspected his purpose when they found out he was trying to get close to the North Gate members.
“Who is Hiroshi Shitsuno?” Xu Cheng asked.
Liu Xianming: “One of the three major group leaders of the Sanko Group, a contender for the seventh generation successor.”
Xu Cheng: “Why are you running this clubhouse?”
Liu Xianming: “To get connected with the wealthy people for him. A lot of the events on the yacht party are favored by those rich men. Hiroshi Shitsuno is responsible for getting the Four Gates together, and the money earned from the wealthy people goes back to the Four Gates. They will collaborate and protect this chain and no matter what the rich people want to do, the Four Gates would be responsible for getting it to them, whether it is women or drugs or something more exciting. Two-third of my assets goes to the Four Gates, and Hiroshi Shitsuno is doing this so the Four Gates would follow his orders.”
Li Chao had cold sweat running down his back listening to the conversation from the outside.
Xu Cheng: “Then what’s the purpose for getting connected with the wealthy people?”
Liu Xianming: “Uniting the wealthy people in Shangcheng would be equivalent to uniting one-fifth of Huaxia’s wealthy people. It’s the financial center here and all the companies and wealthy groups here are very capable, so with their support, it is equivalent to grabbing Huaxia by the throat.”
Xu Cheng: “So as of now, which tycoons has Hiroshi Shitsuno reached an agreement with?”
Liu Xianming: “The largest ones are part of the local Shangcheng Chamber of Commerce, led by Wang Tian. That group of local rich people are close with Hiroshi Shitsuno, and there’s a massive group of tycoons both inside and outside of the province.”
Xu Cheng: “These rich people aren’t stupid, they can’t be just here for the sake of joining the club right?”
Liu Xianming: “Correct. They’re here for the supreme power behind Hiroshi Shitsuno. I don’t know what organization it is, but after those people met with Hiroshi Shitsuno, they always keep in contact and my club has become a bridge for them. Once they find Hiroshi Shitsuno, he then has a way to help them evade taxes by sending their money to offshore companies.”
Xu Cheng narrowed his eyes.
Tax evasion was an inevitable lure for any company, the profit was simply too huge.
Many company’s profits end up minimal because of taxes, but if there was a safe method for tax evasion, then any business would be eager to join the club!
But if they really allowed Hiroshi Shitsuno to earn profit from those companies evading taxes, then there would be nothing left to contribute to national GDP.
This was equivalent to grabbing money from the country, and trying to interfere with the public finance.
Xu Cheng: “I think it’s a thief’s den, right? What else do you know? Why would the Four Gates be suddenly bribed into working for him?”
Liu Xianming: “The source of the drugs comes from the Miguchi Group behind Hiroshi Shitsuno. The East Gate did not want to cooperate with him at first, but they were able to provide the East Gate with smuggled Wei Nation goods! For example, luxury cars and high-end electronic products; and with the East Gate in charge of the portside transport, they have a very convenient option for smuggling these goods. Then the South Gate Food Plaza needs to meet with increasing competition, so they decided to smuggle the drugs. The North Gate started a security company, and to be honest, they’re still doing their old business and my clubhouse uses their connections, making it a good way for them to get away.”
Xu Cheng thought, No wonder the East Gate dared to intervene, the benefit was too great.
Hiroshi Shitsuno had a purpose, he wanted to revive the four Gates and make them take his orders.
Then the force Liu Xianming was referring to had to be the Capital Society!
Xu Cheng: “What about after grabbing Huaxia by the throat? What else do you know about Hiroshi Shitsuno’s plan?”
Liu Xianming shook his head. “I don’t know much; I can only guess that they want to empty the domestic enterprises and get them listed in foreign countries.”
Li Chao felt a surging feeling inside.
Their purpose was equivalent to targeting the economy of a country! What kind of power would dare to do this?
Xu Cheng was also shocked listening to their plan.
No wonder it was the Capital Society with such a great scale!
If they were to succeed, with Shangcheng as their first step spreading to its surroundings, then the Huaxia national public finance would lose trillions in revenue!
By then, the stock market would become unstable, and another financial crisis would break out.
Every country’s greatest fear was another financial crisis, because it would cause that country’s economy to pull back by at least five years.
The Wei Nation had it several times, back in the nineties when the Wei Nation was rich enough to buy the M Nation, but it was all destroyed by a financial crisis making their country become a mediocre nation until this day. Huaxia then took its position and became the leading country in Asia in terms of economy. Huaxia’s economy was too stable, so stable that it made the Western countries envy them, because no financial crisis was able to affect them deeply.
As for the other countries in Asia like the T Nation etc., all suffered from the financial crisis, and only Huaxia managed to escape; mainly because its governing body was different from the others. However, that was also something the Capital Society didn’t want to see, because it would be difficult for them to intervene.
Xu Cheng felt that he had collected the information he needed so he snapped his fingers.
Liu Xianming’s body suddenly shook, looking like he was awakened.
Xu Cheng smiled at him and said, “Thank you Mr. Liu for your cooperation and willingness to confess everything.”
“What did you say? What did I confess? Don’t try to put those fake evidence on me, I didn’t say anything.” Liu Xianming said in a deep voice: “My lawyer is waiting outside the police station to pick me up when the time comes, don’t mess around with me.”
Xu Cheng packed up the documents and then casually put on his mask.
“Go tell your lawyer that there’s no need to pick you up because I’m afraid you’re going to get a life sentence for your crime!” Xu Cheng said as he got up and left.
Liu Xianming struggled in his chair and shouted, “You’re police, how can you mess around?”
That was when Li Chao walked in and said, “Liu Xianming, take a look at this.”
He handed Liu Xianming the video recording, which showed Liu Xianming confessing everything he knew.
Liu Xianming’s expression changed instantly, and he struggled to get up as he shouted. “I did not f*cking say anything! I didn’t! That is certainly not me!”
Cold sweat came down his forehead.
Li Chao leaned down in front of him and said, “Now you will be imprisoned for the crime of dealing drugs.”
Liu Xianming roared, “I don’t admit to that!”