Chapter 121 The Truth Revealed, Zheng's Mother: Zheng Jie Had Been Plotting Against the Zheng Group Since the Arranged Marriage

"Chairman."

At the headquarters of the Zheng Group, a secretary walked into the office of the chairman.

"What is it?"

Zheng Jie looked up at this moment and asked.

"We just received news that someone is currently investigating the mastermind behind those internet companies. According to the information we have gathered, this lawyer has a certain level of cooperation with the Zheng Family. Some time ago, the lawsuit they had with the Su Family was handled by this lawyer, so we suspect that this lawyer is very likely arranged by the Zheng Family."

After hearing this, Zheng Jie put down the pen in his hand.

"It seems they have become suspicious and are wondering why those internet companies supported me with all their might back then."

However, it was already too late for the other party to react at this point; everything had already settled, and even if they had discovered the relationship between these internet companies and Zheng Jie at that time, it would have been of no use.

"Then, do you think we should warn this lawyer and tell him not to continue investigating?"

"Why issue a warning? Lawyers need to make money too, and this matter doesn't have much impact on us. Since the other party wants to investigate, let them investigate. If they manage to find something, then it's to their credit; if they can't, it doesn't matter."

When Zheng Jie spoke, his tone was calm, and he didn't take this matter to heart at all.

"Boss, I understand."

After reporting the matter, the secretary turned and left. Watching the other party's retreating figure, the expression on Zheng Jie's face remained calm.

"The Zheng Family is truly stupid to the extreme."

Zheng Jie's life credo was that every penny must be spent where it counts, so he didn't quite understand why the Zheng Family was spending so much money to investigate these companies. The reason was simple: even if they found out, what could it change?

However, since the other party was willing to investigate, let them do it; he didn't care anyway.

...

When the lawyer saw the information he had obtained, his expression was one of astonishment. After such a long investigation, he had finally discovered that there was indeed a single mastermind behind these companies.

But when he saw the name of this mastermind, the expression on his face was one of disbelief.

"How is this possible?"

Everyone in the circle knew how Zheng Jie had made his fortune. Back when Zheng Tian left because he wanted to pursue freedom, Zheng Jie was forced into an arranged marriage with the eldest daughter of the Su Family, Su Qiaoer, who was the future Chairman of Su Group. She was the Chairman of Su Group, so in that situation, they had no choice but to let this second son enter the company.

They didn't want to let their second son sit in a high position, so at the beginning, they only gave him the status of an ordinary employee. However, they didn't expect that in the following two years, he would display such strong capabilities, helping the company solve one problem after another, and the company's market value kept increasing. In this situation, the Zheng Family had no choice but to let him become the president, otherwise, they wouldn't have been able to convince the crowd.

During the three years he served as president, he continuously arranged his own people and persuaded several shareholders. In the end, although Zheng Tian returned and kicked him out of the position of company president, he had already made arrangements long ago, so in this situation, it was quite reasonable that he successfully obtained the position of Chairman of the Zheng Group.

It's just that people would marvel at his foresight and his preparedness, but the news he had obtained now told him that these internet companies were actually established by Zheng Jie, and the earliest one was established less than a month after he married Su Qiaoer.

"Just how much of a freak is this guy to have been able to establish this company back then?"

Tengfei Group was the first company established by Zheng Jie. This company was currently mainly responsible for instant messaging and gaming businesses. Currently, they had three chat software programs under their banner, two of which were national-level applications; almost every smartphone had to have these two apps installed. There was also one specifically aimed at young people, although the reputation of this software wasn't very good because everyone said it was a must-have for short-term relationships, but the user base was still quite large, with nearly 40 million users logging into this software every day.

As for the other two national-level software, the daily active users were almost equal to the entire population of the country. One can imagine how exaggerated the strength of Tengfei Group was. Moreover, through these massive traffic pools, their gaming business under their banner also developed quite impressively, and the company's total profit could reach a terrifying 300 billion.

Yet, such a powerful company was the first one established by Zheng Jie.

"That is to say, even without the Zheng Group, he would have become a leading figure in this industry. So, the reason he chose to let Tengfei Group acquire shares in the Zheng Group was for the position of chairman in the future, right?"

At this moment, the lawyer had already figured it out. Many people thought his so-called advance arrangements only started after it was confirmed that Zheng Tian had returned, but the lawyer felt it wasn't that simple. In reality, Zheng Jie had likely started making preparations several years ago.

The remaining companies were also not to be underestimated. They started to invest in the Zheng Group one after another in the second year after Zheng Jie became president. At that time, the Zheng Group was in a huge financial crisis and needed massive capital support.

At this moment, the lawyer suddenly felt something was wrong. Why did the Zheng Group have a financial crisis at that time? It seemed to involve a Bank withdrawing loans. Looking at the current situation, the loan withdrawal problem was successfully solved, and these companies also invested in the Zheng Group, allowing them to own shares in the Zheng Group. Looking at the result, the biggest beneficiary was—

Zheng Jie.

It was precisely because of the shareholding of these companies that Zheng Jie occupied a favorable position when seizing the position of Chairman of the Zheng Group, allowing his shares to successfully reach over 50%, leaving the Zheng Family with no ability to resist. So...

The lawyer felt that this matter was very likely arranged by Zheng Jie.

At this moment, the lawyer gasped.

Because he felt that this person was truly not simple, being able to play like this. It was a deliberate disguise—no, the Zheng Group's financial problems shouldn't have been a disguise; it was just that the Zheng Group's financial problems had indeed occurred.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, his own wealthy companies all invested, continuously acquiring shares, letting his own shares continue to increase. And in the end, after that 10% of the shares were given to Zheng Jie, everything could no longer be changed.

"With such an opponent, it's no wonder the Zheng Family had no chance of winning; he is simply a ruthless person."

Thinking of this, the lawyer sighed helplessly.

At this time, he suddenly took out his mobile phone and dialed Mrs. Zheng's number. Mrs. Zheng was in the Hospital accompanying her eldest son. When she saw the call from the lawyer, she quickly answered it. She knew that if nothing unexpected happened, the other party must have investigated it clearly.

"Mrs. Zheng, the matter you asked me to investigate has been cleared up. It's like this: do you have time now? If you have time, let's meet. This matter is quite troublesome."

Hearing this, Mrs. Zheng frowned.

"How troublesome?"

"Anyway, let's talk when we meet. I think you will be very shocked by this result."

Hearing this, Mrs. Zheng already had a guess in her heart, and she nodded.

"Okay, in that case, I'll come over now."

After hanging up the phone, Mrs. Zheng looked at Zheng Tian.

"Tian, you stay here for a while. I'm going to meet the lawyer. I guess the investigation should have some clues by now."

"Okay."

Zheng Tian didn't say much at this moment, just nodded.

Soon, Mrs. Zheng arrived at the agreed coffee shop, where the lawyer was already waiting. At this moment, the other party was holding a thick stack of documents in his hand.

...

"What's wrong? Did you find out that there is someone manipulating these companies behind the scenes?"

Hearing this, the lawyer nodded.

"Your guess is very accurate. Currently, we have indeed found out. Just as you said at the time, the actual mastermind behind these companies is your second son, Zheng Jie."

Hearing this, the expression on Mrs. Zheng's face was one of disbelief. How is this possible? How could such a few giant companies be established by Zheng Jie? It had only been a few years.

Could he have built up such a large family business?

Impossible, absolutely impossible.

Even now, Mrs. Zheng didn't believe it at first. Perhaps in her heart, her second son had always been an unpromising person, or rather, they didn't think their second son had the ability to do this.

"I understand how you feel. Actually, when I saw this result, I was also a bit incredulous, but this is the truth. Your second son manipulated the establishment of these companies behind the scenes."

"The first company he established was Tengfei Group. After Tengfei Group occupied the field of instant messaging through several of its software, they possessed the largest traffic pool in the world. Then, through this traffic pool, they continuously input into other internet companies, bringing user traffic to them, which allowed those companies to take off logically."

"And according to our judgment, in the second year after he became the president of the Zheng Group, that financial crisis involving the Zheng Group was likely manipulated by him behind the scenes. He just wanted to take advantage of this opportunity to let his companies invest in the Zheng Group and let them own shares in the Zheng Group. In other words, he had actually started plotting for the position of Chairman of the Zheng Group as early as the second year he was president."

Mrs. Zheng clenched her fists upon hearing this. She couldn't accept such a result at all; after all, this was too exaggerated. Just how ruthless could he be, to have started plotting for the position of chairman back then? In his heart, did he never consider them as family from the beginning to the end?

In fact, regardless of the Zheng Family or the outside world, their judgment was that after Zheng Tian returned, the Zheng Family directly made Zheng Jie divorce and stripped him of his position as president. That was when Zheng Jie started to turn to the dark side. But no one expected that long before Zheng Tian returned, Zheng Jie had already made preparations.

"Of course, this is just my judgment; there is no evidence to prove this. It's just that the loan withdrawal by those Banks did have some problems, and there was only one company that had the most serious loan withdrawal, and that was Shengshi Bank."

"And the mastermind shareholder behind Shengshi Bank is... Zheng Jie. It's just that Zheng Jie only owns 39.7% of the shares. Although he is the largest individual shareholder, he does not have full decision-making power, but the Zhou Family owns 12.6% of the shares."

"If the two companies form an alliance, then they would have more than 50% of the shares in Shengshi Bank. According to the regulations, they can pass the decision to withdraw loans in the fastest time."

Mrs. Zheng also remembered the current saying in the circle, which was that Zheng Jie and Zhou Ya had already confirmed their marriage, and even the time for the wedding had been set. So looking at it now, the relationship between the two sides was quite good.

Moreover, at that time, the Zheng Group had a very important project, and it was also because of the help of the Zhou Family that the project was successfully pushed forward. At that time, they thought the Zhou Family just wanted to help the Zheng Family, but looking at it now, was it really like that? Did they want to help the Zheng Family, or did they want to help Zheng Jie?

If they wanted to help the latter, then I'm afraid the two parties had already formed an alliance at that time, so the loan withdrawal of Shengshi Bank was definitely possible.

"This is all the information I have been able to investigate so far. It is shocking and incredible. If we count from the beginning of the cooperation with the Zhou Family, the project he was responsible for one year after entering the Zheng Group was the starting point of their cooperation. If this is really the case, then the other party's plotting probably started even before he became president."

Mrs. Zheng nodded.

"Anyway, thank you for investigating these things. I will have someone transfer the remaining balance to your account."

Mrs. Zheng couldn't accept it in her heart. At this moment, she couldn't even imagine this reality in her dreams. If this was the case, then from beginning to end, this group of people was a bunch of fools in the other party's eyes—no, even worse than fools. They were led around by the nose by the other party. What was the difference between this and a dog?

Thinking of this, Mrs. Zheng's heart was filled with endless anger.