Chapter 491: Can You Even Control That?

The internet these past few days feels like it's celebrating the New Year, and Tenda feels like it's celebrating the New Year too.

Although they were basically just along for the ride while helping President Zhou with this lawsuit, everyone who has a TV basically got their money.

But for everyone, whether they got the money or not didn't matter; anyway, as long as it's President Zhou's business, everyone is definitely going to help out.

At this moment, inside the Legal Department, Liu Kang looks at the materials in front of him, the expression on his face extremely happy; this is a Criminal Private Prosecution Case involving President Zhou!

Within a few days of joining, he learned that there is also a hierarchy of contempt within the Legal Department, and only by achieving a certain milestone can one be accepted by everyone.

He didn't know what that milestone was before, but it turned out he only found out later that one must send someone inside...

Damn it, those who know realize this is a legitimate Company, but those who don't would think this Company is involved in some kind of trouble.

At the time, Liu Kang was still confused; although Tenda files lawsuits frequently, as a legal professional, how could I expect to independently complete a Criminal Private Prosecution Case? I'd have to wait until the year of the monkey!

Who would have thought that only a few days after complaining about it, a case would land on his doorstep.

One can only say that whether it's President Zhou or Tenda, they are both very strange. Oh, right, he is now a member of Tenda too, so that's fine.

In President Zhou's words, handle the matter as it should be handled, no need to look at anything else; based on the other party's current standards, it already qualifies as a crime.

Then let's get to work!

The old rules: first investigate the other party's personal information, apply for what needs to be applied for; these are the required procedures, they must be done.

I don't know why, but ever since joining Tenda, for some inexplicable reason, he always wants to see the expression of those guys on the internet who trash-talk him sitting in a chair, crying and sniveling...

Sigh, maybe this is what they mean by "near vermilion, one gets stained red."

After Zhou Yi arranged the task, he didn't pay any more attention to it; it was nothing more than a person who failed to take advantage and then became furious.

Perhaps it's because this incident was almost entirely publicized online, so before even posting the video, the task progress bar was already full.

That goes without saying; while arranging for the Company to hurry up and finish the video, he also has to prepare to collect the reward!

Although he knows that the reward was already fixed before his task even started, he still can't help but want to wash his hands.

It's just like how we know the result is already determined when we walk out of the exam hall, but we still can't help but fantasize about it afterward...

"System, claim reward!"

"Task reward of 500,000 in cash has been issued."

Hmm, Zhou Yi curls his lip; making such a big fuss, he thought there would be some awesome reward, but it turned out to be just money.

But then again, money is something you can never have too much of, no matter when...

What? I said I didn't like money before?

That was just Pretending to be Cool; after all, money is a good thing.

Looking at the text message on his phone about the money arriving in his bank account, Zhou Yi immediately feels very comfortable.

He is now considered a fairly large client for the bank, so he gets some gifts during holidays and festivals, and sometimes even receives calls with well-wishes.

There is just one thing: the staff there have called him many times wanting him to put his money into fixed deposits, or buy government bonds or wealth management products.

Zhou Yi has refused several times because he is too lazy to deal with the trouble; anyway, with the System, he will never be short of money—if he runs out, he can just do a task.

Time passes slowly, and the internet is still very lively; there are countless people commenting under Peng Shiwen's article, only everyone is praising him.

"Brother, you did well. I support you; you should be this tough!"

"Really, if I were you, I absolutely wouldn't delete it. Everyone thinks you're right..."

"Come on, brothers, comment more, leave more messages. What's wrong with A Yi? You can't just be a coward like this!"

Underneath this, a guy named "Mengnan Zhou" is especially active, calling for all sorts of things.

Consequently, in just a few short hours, Peng Shiwen discovers that the view count on his article has skyrocketed; he feels like he is about to go viral.

Zhou Yi naturally doesn't care about these things on the internet anymore; for him, life has returned to peace.

News comes from the internet from time to time; it is said that the relevant departments are already preparing to formulate regulations in this area, and Zhou Yi thinks it is very necessary.

There really should be specific regulations to regulate this.

In a sense, this is the best way to conserve judicial resources.

Because with specific regulations, if there is a problem, one can just go directly to the relevant departments.

Is the Civil Code useful? Of course it is very useful, but everyone knows that law is law, and practice is practice.

Not everyone has the time and energy to go to Court, and what's more, in many cases, the compensation for Tort damages is not worth the effort.

Another few days pass, and the video content is finally finished.

Although the task has already been completed, the video still has to be posted; it's mainly to share with the audience how he handled this incident.

Closing the bedroom door, Zhou Yi routinely begins the voice-over.

"Hello, dear audience lords, I am your old friend A Yi. Let's talk about this Boot Advertisement in this video."

"The cause of the matter is very simple: I bought a TV, and then I wanted to turn off this advertisement, but the customer service phone line kept giving me the runaround. Anyway, it just couldn't be turned off, so I wasn't happy."

"I found Lawyer Fang and wanted to ask Lawyer Fang if this lawsuit could be fought, and then Lawyer Fang asked me, 'Why do you want to turn it off?'"

The video accompanying this passage is the chat between Zhou Yi and Lawyer Fang in the coffee shop.

Not to mention the audience, even Zhou Yi himself was confused when he heard this.

One can only say that Lawyer Fang's train of thought has always been so... strange.

"I also didn't expect that one could think about problems this way, and then I felt my train of thought open up..."

The voice-over work proceeds very quickly because this episode of the video is not long.

The Company's Self-Media Studio now understands video production very well; do the audience want to see those tedious tasks in the middle?

No, what everyone wants to see is satisfaction!

Although we can already imagine that scene in our minds, we just want to see it; it will bring us a special sense of satisfaction.

Therefore, the video focuses on the communication calls with those TV Manufacturer bosses later on.

And it very thoughtfully contrasts it with the previous content: look, people are just cheap; when things were discussed nicely earlier, it wouldn't work.

Nothing worked no matter how you said it, and they even had an attitude of "so what if you win?" But then, when they saw thousands of people suing, they instantly cowered.

Some netizens commented that these companies have forgotten the power of people uniting, but Zhou Yi does not agree.

They simply think that no one will be so serious with them, which is why they are so unscrupulous.

The voice-over was finished, and after reviewing it from start to finish without any issues, Zhou Yi thought for a moment and wrote the title.

"Can't turn off the Smart TV boot advertisement? Learn about the collective litigation of sixty thousand people!"

This is not nonsense; the number of people who have signed up has already exceeded sixty thousand, heading straight for seventy thousand!

Just as he was about to click upload, Zhou Yi seemed to suddenly remember something and added another sentence at the end: Oh right, for those who were cursing online, I have already started the procedures. Everyone take your time, don't be anxious.

After uploading, he made a phone call to Lawyer Fang; he wanted to drink some alcohol tonight.

Although everyone already understood the situation, they still couldn't help but click in after seeing Zhou Yi's video, triggering another wave of enthusiasm.

Although the video was not long, it explained everything that needed to be explained in this collective litigation.

It actually made the netizens understand these companies better, because Zhou Yi attached all the data he had investigated inside.

Perhaps for ordinary people, it's just a TV.

But with annual sales of tens of millions of Smart TVs, even if each one only earns a few hundred yuan in advertising fees, this number is not small.

What is the cost for the TV Manufacturer? It is the TV itself...

This allowed many people to intuitively realize how huge this profit is.

However, people like Yuan Jie did not have any major emotional fluctuations throughout the process, because they already knew all of this.

Finally, at the end of the video, Yuan Jie heard that sentence.

"Well done! I said it, A Yi's revenge lasts from morning till night; this kind of person must be properly educated!"

Don't look at how there don't seem to be many such people, but they are disgusting.

In Yuehai City, Peng Shiwen also saw the video, and his face suddenly turned extremely pale.

He hurriedly deleted the video; that should make it fine, right?

He didn't say anything excessive either; A Yi wouldn't fixate on him, would he?

However, not long after the video was deleted, the door to his home was knocked on.

Peng Shiwen tremblingly went to the door to look, and saw several police officers standing outside.

He really filed a Lawsuit; he just felt uncomfortable at the time and vented a little, so why couldn't he just let him go?

Peng Shiwen did not know that this time, in order to be faster, Liu Kang specifically came to Yuehai City to initiate a Private Prosecution.

Yuehai City is a county-level city, so just going directly to the local Court is fine.

The Yuehai City Court had never had a Criminal Private Prosecution before; this time it was also very novel, and the process went quite fast.

Liu Kang kept Zhou Yi's instructions in mind; the original intention was to educate the other party.

If the other party's attitude is good, then withdraw the Lawsuit; if the attitude is not good, then do whatever needs to be done. Anyway, he, Zhou Yi, definitely won't participate.

Everything is the job of you, the Lawyer.

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The hot summer is already halfway through, and barbecue and beer stalls are everywhere. As usual, they found a good place, and the three of them sat down and started feasting.

After a few drinks, Lawyer Fang opened the floodgates.

"Let me tell you all, that previous video, the one uploaded by a student of Professor Tong, has now been sued by Haili, hahaha!"

Lawyer Fang was laughing wantonly there, while Zhou Yi and Zhou Xinran looked confused. Is this... very funny?

But the person opposite was Lawyer Fang.

"Haha, it's so funny."

Lawyer Fang's recent research has made great progress; after all, such a case is something other lawyers have no possibility of doing at all.

Using this case to write a thesis, just ask who could compete with it!

There are many entertainment venues near this street, such as non-chain KTVs and the like, and there are always many young ladies coming out for late-night snacks.

Lawyer Fang was a bit tipsy, and the topic inevitably veered into some aspects that could not be detailed, such as the crime of gathering a crowd for promiscuity...

"Look, Zhou Yi, although the regulation is that three or more people will constitute a crime, if some big brother plays wildly and does something like a threesome, does it actually count..."

Because if it counts, then it's a bit scary.

Seeing that the topic was about to go off track, Zhou Xinran coughed heavily. You two have drifted off, haven't you? I'm still sitting right here!

And I don't even understand the things you are talking about...

After the meal and drinks, everyone was happy and went home to sleep.

Zhou Yi had a good dream all night.

The next day, Zhou Yi was woken up by bursts of noise outside the window.

With sleepy eyes, he looked around. He didn't sleep in the bedroom he usually lives in last night; he was drunk and just entered a random bedroom. This is the bedroom near the Fire Department corridor.

In the summer, the windows were open, and bursts of fragrance kept drifting in, along with bursts of noisy sounds.

Zhou Yi got up and looked out the window, and immediately saw that in the middle of the Fire Department corridor, several young people were making a barbecue.

Setting up a charcoal stove and sprinkling all kinds of seasonings into it, they really knew how to play.

But Zhou Yi's brows furrowed. He vaguely remembered that when he was at the Yuefu Residential Quarter, Community Office staff had once done publicity that it is not allowed to light fires inside this building!

In modern Small Residential Districts, the Fire Department aspect is very important, because if a fire starts due to carelessness, the losses caused will be very serious.

After thinking about it, Zhou Yi got up, tidied up, and opened the door. He prepared to tell those young people that this is indeed very dangerous.

His window was open and very close to where they were barbecuing. It was summer, and if a Mars drifted in and landed on the quilt, it could catch fire in minutes.

It sounds like making a mountain out of a molehill, but one sentence Zhou Yi learned from the Fire Department when running his Company is: when it comes to safety issues, you can never be too cautious!

Like in many factories, there are some regulations that look quite inexplicable.

Leading to many more procedures for doing certain things.

But you have to know that as long as a regulation can be written there, it is because there have been lessons learned from experience!

His is a large flat; he is the only household in this unit, and the fire escape corridor connects to another unit.

At this moment, outside the door, several young people were having a good time.

They were all students from Guangming Road Middle School near the Guangming Peak Residential Quarter, all middle schoolers.

It's just that children grow fast these days; although they were middle schoolers, they were quite tall, so Zhou Yi mistakenly thought they were young adults, when in fact they were all children.

Jiang Zifeng was the one in charge of grilling, and he was also the one who called everyone over; his family is a resident of the unit next door.

It was summer vacation, and since they were all young, they were always thinking about doing something exciting.

Someone suggested having a barbecue themselves, but they had nowhere to do it.

Jiang Zifeng thought of this place because he had previously seen his father barbecue here.

So today, he called several classmates over; of course, primarily the female classmates among them.

"Hey, hey, hey, the seasoning, the seasoning, hurry up!"

Someone nearby said: "Zifeng, is it okay for us to grill here? I think I just saw someone looking at us from that window over there."

Jiang Zifeng said casually: "What are you afraid of? We aren't at his place; this is the fire escape corridor, what does it have to do with him?"

They were basically all in their teens; at this age, they had just grown a bit, but they still had the habits of children, and the word "fear" didn't exist in their minds at all.

Just as he finished speaking, a voice sounded from the side: "How about everyone stops for a moment? We aren't allowed to have open flames in our building; it's not safe."

Zhou Yi tried his best to maintain a polite attitude.

Because he could see clearly now that it was just a few children there.

Hearing this, the few young people all turned their heads to look, and Zhou Yi revealed a smile.

However, the response from the other side was a direct: "Who are you? Is it any of your business?"

Zhou Yi was stunned; had this kid eaten gunpowder? Speaking so aggressively, even more aggressively than Xu Yufeng back then.

"I am a resident here; this isn't a matter of whether it's my business or not, it's mainly about safety—it's easy to start a fire," Zhou Yi said again.

"That still doesn't concern you!" Jiang Zifeng said directly: "We aren't lighting a fire at your house, stop being a busybody..."

"When my dad and the others grilled things back then, nobody cared! Why are you so troublesome!"

Fine, if it were before, Zhou Yi might have argued a bit, but now... he couldn't even be bothered to speak, especially with these half-grown boys.

If he said something slightly too harsh, who knows what might happen.

So Zhou Yi stepped back a few paces and took out his phone.

"Hello, yes, I want to report this; there are people lighting fires in the fire escape corridor at Guangming Peak Residential Quarter, please come over and take a look quickly."

Putting out fires is the Fire Department's business, and fire safety is also the Fire Department's business.

But for this kind of thing, it's better to call the police.

I was delayed by something today, so there is only one chapter; three chapters tomorrow.

Thanks to Hanhan Yao Kuai Kule, Desirekyo, Wenchidage, Feimaowuyu, and Yanyu087, thank you brothers for the tips, thank you.

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