Chapter 694: You'd better be more careful!

Today, Ji Changhai was very happy.

A problem that had troubled him for a long time had finally found a solution.

The industry he operated was relatively traditional, involving the production and export of automotive parts. For example, gears, bearings, crankshaft connecting rods, etc. Over the years, he had done quite well, and his company could be considered a decent one in the field.

Now, with a market capitalization of several billion, he could be considered a very successful businessman.

Otherwise, he wouldn't have invested nearly two billion in the Qianlu Research Institute previously.

However, he had recently encountered a problem.

The car parts he produced all required a type of "special steel," which was a type of specialty steel. Previously, he had been cooperating well with several foreign manufacturers, but they had all suspended cooperation almost at the same time.

The reason given was simple: there had been issues with production capacity recently, and they could only guarantee domestic supply.

He couldn't find a suitable substitute in the short term. Seeing that the orders signed with clients were about to go unfulfilled, he was anxious and asked around through his connections. Just two days ago, an old friend in the industry said he would introduce someone to him.

This person had been frantically purchasing and hoarding a large amount of special steel globally.

If he wanted it, he would have to buy it from this person.

Coincidentally, he was also from Kyushu, which led to today's dinner. Even more coincidentally and worth celebrating, today was the day of his daughter, Professor Ji Muxi's, blind date. Because Huaxia Mobile had achieved success, she finally had some rare downtime.

The person she was going on a blind date with was a young master from the Shanghai Americas Club, whose family was very powerful.

They were in the futures business with assets worth hundreds of billions. He had met this person; he looked good, was handsome, well-educated, and had a good business mind. Currently, he was basically in charge of the family's main affairs and was a very outstanding young man.

However...

It was also a coincidence that the restaurant where his daughter was having her blind date was also here.

Ji Changhai sat in a private room on the second floor, looking down through the antique carved window, and could see the man and woman chatting at a glance. He was so moved that Professor Ji Muxi had agreed to attend the blind date that he couldn't help himself.

He had already started fantasizing about what his grandson's name would be.

"Tell me, what do you think would be a good name for my grandson?" Ji Changhai sat back down and said with a refined smile, "According to tradition, the next generation of males should have the character 'Xi' in their names. But it's not easy to match. You're also an educated person, help me think about it?"

Sitting opposite him was also a Middle-aged Man named Huang Fan, who was considered his old friend.

Huang Fan hesitated, then couldn't help but say, "Old Ji, I have to remind you. Those foreigners who were cooperating with you suddenly stopped their cooperation. Don't you think... it's a bit suspicious?"

"Logically speaking, the economy has been on an upward trend in recent years, so there shouldn't be a serious shortage of production capacity."

"Even if someone bought up their capacity, they wouldn't risk breaching their contract with you just to sell to someone else, right? Unless this person offered a lot of money, a whole lot, enough for them to pay your penalty fees while still making a huge profit."

Hearing this, Ji Changhai couldn't help but frown.

After thinking for a moment, he said in a deep voice, "Huang Fan, how did you meet this person? Now that you mention it, I have the same feeling. It seems like he is intentionally targeting me. Am I understanding this correctly?"

"Very correct, absolutely correct."

Huang Fan nodded seriously and then said, "Do you remember offending anyone? Or, have you done anything? Old Ji, if you tell me now, I might be able to put in a good word for you; I have a good relationship with this person. If we wait until he arrives and something comes out that makes him angry, and he turns against you... don't blame me, your old friend, for not warning you."

Ji Changhai lowered his eyelids, kept silent, and thought back on things.

But no matter how much he thought about it, he couldn't come up with any reason.

"I... really don't know." Ji Changhai shook his head and smiled bitterly, "I don't consider myself a big shot, and I have never done anything that harms others without benefiting myself. You know, my daughter is what I cherish most..."

Hearing this, Huang Fan also smiled bitterly and shook his head repeatedly.

"Alright, you don't need to ask anymore. Old Huang, thank you for your hard work today, you should leave first." At this moment, a young man pushed the door open, patted Huang Fan on the shoulder, and said. He then sat down in the main seat and lit a hard-box yebei.

This person was Zheng Qian.

Huang Fan nodded silently, took a deep look at Ji Changhai, and turned to leave.

Ji Changhai looked at the young man in front of him, surprised and stunned. "You... why is it you?" As he spoke, he seemed to suddenly realize something and stood up excitedly, "You, are you targeting my daughter!?"

He suddenly felt that in this instant, everything made sense.

Yes!

The first time he saw Zheng Qian, he felt very vigilant. This young man was too outstanding, so rich, and had even bought the Qianlu Research Institute, allowing Professor Ji Muxi and others to continue their research there, which was very lethal to young girls.

He felt that Zheng Qian might have really fallen in love with his daughter.

And he had also heard that Zheng Qian was very lecherous!

There were many women around him!

He had gone such a long way around, even purchasing so much special steel globally, just to show him "a little color"? To let him know his power, so that he could force him to submit and be with Professor Ji Muxi?

"I tell you, no way! I will not allow my daughter to be with you!"

"Zheng Qian, honestly, I think you are really a very outstanding young man. I also understand your business war with Shang Yanxiong, and I admire your methods and courage, including this release of Huaxia Mobile, it's very impressive!"

"But there are simply too many women around you!"

"If you were single, I would never hinder you and my daughter from interacting normally, but that's not the case now! Zheng Qian, even if I go bankrupt, and my house, company, and cars are all mortgaged, I will absolutely not agree to you two!"

"No, just no!"

At the height of his emotion, when speaking excitedly, Ji Changhai couldn't even help but start roaring.

His words left Zheng Qian stunned.

He took a deep drag of his cigarette, trying hard to follow Ji Changhai's train of thought, and only then did he slowly seem to catch on. After a moment of silence, he spoke, "Old Ji, sit down. I have no interest in your daughter for the time being."

Note, Zheng Qian said for the time being.

Ji Changhai looked at him suspiciously, "Then why did you go to such lengths?"

"It's like this. Actually, I really thought those things were done by you with subjective malice at first. I hate people who do things behind others' backs the most, so my initial thought was to just kill you and throw you into the sea."

"But after my investigation, I found that you are actually a decent person, a father who loves his daughter very much."

"You don't seem like the kind of person who could do such things. After the final confirmation, I arranged today's dinner. You must have heard about the United States company suing Huaxia Mobile for infringement a couple of days ago, right?" Zheng Qian looked at him indifferently and said slowly.

This statement left Ji Changhai confused, and he couldn't recover for a long time.

He just looked at Zheng Qian suspiciously and said: "I... I have indeed heard of it, but what does that have to do with anything?"

"We thought for a long time and concluded that only in this situation would you possibly have leaked the confidential information. Because of your investment in this research institute, before I took over, the person in charge used a batch of data to pay off debts, right?"

"I later recovered some of that data, but I couldn't recover it completely."

"At the time, it seems the IMB company sent someone to find you, wanting to spend a lot of money to buy the data, and you agreed. They gave you a USB flash drive and asked you to copy some of the data into it, right?" Zheng Qian took a drag of his cigarette and said with a smile.

Ji Changhai nodded, as if realizing something, "That's right, this... so I..."

"Yes, so you passively became a leaker."

"That USB drive was problematic. After you plugged it into your home computer, it directly invaded your home network. I even heard that you used Professor Ji Muxi's computer, right?"

"Sigh... Changhai, you really should be more careful!"