83: Chapter 83 exposes the hidden cards of the Beijing elite circle: a strangulation targeting "discourse power".

Just as the atmosphere in the parlor became tense to the point of breaking, as if blood would be shed the next second, Shen Du, sitting on the side, unhurriedly set down the blue and white porcelain teacup in his hand.

He cleared his throat, and his voice, slightly lazy yet dignified, dropped a reassurance into the dead air: "Uncle Wu, Uncle Zhou, Uncle Zhu, everything Uncle Qin just said is true. Regarding this point, I can personally vouch for him."

The gazes of the three, Wu Tianheng and the others, shifted slightly, but they did not immediately stop locking onto Qin Zhengye.

They only glanced sideways at Shen Du, waiting for what he would say next.

Shen Du smiled slightly, meeting the gaze of the three Old Money, and said calmly: "Some time ago, Meituan suddenly encountered an unannounced audit by the tax department. You elders should have heard of this, right?

If it weren't for Uncle Qin leaking the bottom line to me through Brother Tiankuo at the critical moment, revealing the Beijing Circle's hidden pawn in the Tax Bureau, Meituan would probably have had no chance to expand on a large scale in Shanghai.

Instead, it would have been nailed to the maintenance rack of account auditing, having its cash flow drained bit by bit by those with ulterior motives."

Hearing Shen Du personally come forward to vouch for Qin Zhengye, the eyes of Wu Tianheng, Zhou Zhenghai, and Zhu Qingshan finally loosened slightly.

They exchanged a subtle look.

Although the killing intent on them faded a bit, the caution carved into their bones still kept them alert.

"Let's speak plainly."

Wu Tianheng slightly restrained that oppressive feeling, leaned back against the chair, crossed his hands in front of his lower abdomen, and looked at Qin Zhengye with deep eyes: "Zhengye, we have known each other in Shanghai for so many years.

Since Nephew Shen has come forward to vouch for you today, let's skip the empty, probing words.

You must give us the real bottom line today.

What exactly does that group of old guys in the Beijing Circle mean?

How exactly did they set up the chain of killing traps targeting Shanghai?"

After Wu Tianheng finished speaking, Zhou Zhenghai and Zhu Qingshan also stared at him with pressing gazes.

Qin Zhengye knew very well that the current situation in Shanghai was changing too fast and too strangely; it had completely exceeded everyone's expectations.

If he didn't lay out the true cards of the Beijing Circle today, the moment he stepped out of the gate of Bund 18, he would definitely face the craziest and most destructive joint siege from the Shanghai Old Money circle.

At that time, all the assets of their Qin Family in the Yangtze River Delta would have to be buried with the Beijing Circle.

Qin Zhengye exhaled a breath of turbid air heavily.

He picked up the slightly cool tea in front of him, took a sip to moisten his somewhat dry throat, and then began to tell the story: "Originally, the core plan formulated by the Beijing Circle against Shanghai was to first carry out precise, malicious loan withdrawals against Fu Enterprises through banks and various capital channels.

Then, using the undercover personnel they had long deployed in Shanghai, taking advantage of the fatal weakness of Fu Enterprises' broken capital chain, they would circle off the most core new district land plots in Fu Zhaonan's hands at a low price that was almost like robbery."

"Their ultimate goal was to take advantage of this Shanghai New District development plan to logically and forcefully let the capital of various families in the North enter the core hinterland of the Yangtze River Delta.

Even before this, they were already pushing forward the malicious acquisition plan for Meituan and the strangulation of traditional industries like JD.com."

Qin Zhengye gave a self-deprecating laugh and shook his head helplessly: "But who would have thought that this game of chess, which was about to be reaped, would be smashed halfway by someone."

"Before the plan could be fully rolled out, the Shen Family directly parachuted in.

Not only that, those three sons of yours who usually look like they only know about feasting and pleasure, actually seemed to have cleared the joints in advance.

They directly joined forces with Shen Du to turn the remaining mess of Fu Enterprises, Meituan, and JD.com into an iron plate in a short time.

They forcibly intercepted the fat meat that the Beijing Circle was about to eat."

Speaking of this, Qin Zhengye's face became a bit ugly, and his voice was extremely low: "Because I let my son leak the tax plan of Meituan to Shen Du last time, the Beijing Circle's blitzkrieg was defeated.

The Northern circle, in anger, conducted a cruel and rigorous internal investigation.

Many innocent people and pawns who had been lurking for many years were implicated; the commotion in Beijing was very big.

In the end, there was no other way.

Those old guys, in order to accelerate the annexation process, had to jump over the wall like dogs and completely launch the second, crazier plan...",

"Since the original decapitation operation completely went bankrupt, in order to recover the sunk costs and accelerate the annexation process, those old guys directly abandoned all bottom lines and activated a more insidious and deadly Plan B."

Qin Zhengye's gaze swept across the three Old Money leaders opposite, his voice becoming incomparably heavy: "They directly transferred massive amounts of funds abroad, circled a few times in Wall Street and those tax havens, and completely washed away the 'Beijing Circle' label.

Then, wearing the legal cloak of 'foreign venture capital,' they swaggered back into the country."

He reached out and pointed to the data set that Shen Du had just displayed on the big screen: "That is their vanguard.

And this time, their core sniping target is very clear.

They only hit the dual core!"

Qin Zhengye turned his head, looked at Shen Du who was sitting in the main seat and remaining silent, and pointed out the center of the storm without any avoidance: "The first is the 'Spark' ecosystem of Jiyuan Technology.

The second is the offline delivery network of Meituan.

Because now in the entire Yangtze River Delta business world, only these two new species can truly block the flood of Northern Capital.

As long as these two defensive barriers are smashed, the moat that you Shanghai Merchants have worked so hard to build will immediately collapse!"

Hearing this, Wu Tianheng, Zhou Zhenghai, and Zhu Qingshan just frowned.

But there was not much panic in their eyes.

As veterans who had played with capital for decades, if it were just a pure capital consumption war, the deep-rooted local Old Money might not really be afraid of those Northern river-crossing dragons.

Qin Zhengye saw through the arrogance and underestimation of these three old guys at a glance.

"Do you think that as long as you spend money, you will definitely be able to hold your ground on your own turf?"

Qin Zhengye gave a self-deprecating, cold laugh and threw out the most chilling core blade in the Beijing Circle's chain of killing traps: "You don't understand at all.

What the Northern circle fears and dreads most about Spark is not its tens of billions of monthly turnover, but the 'discourse power' it holds in its hands!"

Qin Zhengye pressed his hands on the tabletop, staring fixedly at Wu Tianheng and the others, every word piercing the heart: "Spark can easily screen information and grasp the dynamics of all walks of life through massive big data.

It can even subtly guide the bellwether of the entire society!"

"The Beijing Circle is now throwing heavy money to frantically support Douyin and the Short Video market of the Tencent system.

It is to seize this 'discourse power' before Shen Du completely monopolizes it!

Brothers, think about it...",

Qin Zhengye's voice carried a chilling tremor: "Once they take absolute ruling power over Short Videos and social media, the entire Shanghai business world will become a crumbling wall leaking from all sides in their eyes!"

"At that time, if your real estate projects, Uncle Wu, have any quality flaws, or if there is any capital fluctuation in the Zhou Family's finance, or even if there is a slight hygiene problem in the hotels under your Zhu Family's name...

As long as they just casually bring the rhythm on the platform and create rumors to smear you, they can incite a boycott and run on the entire network within twenty-four hours!"

Qin Zhengye took a deep breath and told the cruelest truth of this century-old business war: "This has long been no longer a conventional business competition.

As long as they master the butcher's knife of fabricating facts and manipulating emotions, it will be easy for them to manipulate you traditional industries and harvest your wealth in the future!"

This cruel deduction about "discourse power" thrown out by Qin Zhengye was like a vicious sap, heavily smashing onto the heads of the three local Old Money.