Chapter 930: Wan Xiaoxing Seizes the Mortal Group

The next morning at nine o'clock.

In front of the Mortal Group headquarters building, four tax bureau vehicles were parked. Wan Xiaoxing got out of the first official car, followed by twelve inspection team members.

The tax bureau entourage, led by Wan Xiaoxing, charged into the group's headquarters with great momentum.

"Everyone, stop what you're doing right now and stand up! Leave your workstations, no operating computers!"

Wan Xiaoxing's voice exploded in the Mortal Group's finance department, like a nail driven hard into wood.

More than twenty people in the finance department simultaneously looked up.

Faced with this imposing female bureau chief, everyone wore expressions of shocked astonishment. No one expected that in Wuzhou, someone would dare to investigate the Mortal Group.

Among those present, no one dared to defy Wan Xiaoxing's orders.

Someone still held a mouse, someone was examining vouchers, someone sat with a tea cup in hand, and a young accountant instinctively reached for the keyboard.

Wan Xiaoxing's gaze swept over them like a blade: "I said, no operating computers! Didn't you hear?"

The accountant's hand retracted.

He swallowed his anger and remained silent.

Finance Director Sun Deli hurried out from the back office, saw the scene, and his face changed. He had worked in finance for over twenty years, had seen tax inspections before, but never such a spectacle.

"Director Wan, what's going on? Weren't you already inspected yesterday?"

"Look closely, this is a seizure order! The Mortal Group is suspected of tax violations; by law, we are now conducting a comprehensive seizure of its financial accounts."

Wan Xiaoxing pulled a seizure order from her briefcase.

She flung it directly in front of Sun Deli.

Sun Deli took the paper, his face instantly grew much graver. The seizure order was genuine—complete with seal, signature, and document number, nothing missing.

He lifted his head and forced out a faint smile.

"Director Wan, could there be some misunderstanding? Our Mortal Group's accounts are audited every year and have never had any problems…"

"Whether there are problems, we'll know after the investigation! Now, please cooperate."

Wan Xiaoxing gave Sun Deli no chance to explain at all.

She turned and barked at the people behind her: "Get to work." A dozen or so inspection team members filed in and began moving things.

File cabinets were opened, vouchers were hauled out stack by stack, sealed with tape, and packed into cardboard boxes.

Some staff tried to intervene and were shoved aside; someone wanted to make a call but was ordered to hand over their phone. The entire finance department instantly descended into chaos.

Sun Deli watched the seized accounts, the flesh on his face trembling.

He gritted his teeth, turned, and hurried out.

"I'm going to find Director Ye."

Hearing that, Wan Xiaoxing merely gave a cold smile, made no move to stop Sun Deli. She pulled over a chair and sat in the middle of the finance department, like a triumphant queen.

Less than five minutes later, Ye Jiaying arrived.

The sound of her high heels striking the floor was steady and unhurried—thud, thud, thud—like stepping to some rhythm, and the people in the finance department automatically made way.

Ye Jiaying's gaze slowly swept over the emptied cabinets, the corridor piled with boxes, the inspection team members guarding the door, and finally settled on Wan Xiaoxing.

"Director Wan, what an imposing presence."

"Director Ye, conducting an investigation according to the law is nothing to boast about."

Wan Xiaoxing slowly rose to her feet, meeting Ye Jiaying's gaze head-on, showing no weakness.

Ye Jiaying walked up to her.

She spoke calmly: "Your first act upon taking office was to investigate my Mortal Group's accounts; you probed for over ten days and found nothing, yet today you brought people to seal the books. Director Wan, you use the phrase 'according to the law' in quite an interesting way."

"Director Ye, not finding problems earlier doesn't mean you have none."

Wan Xiaoxing remained overbearing.

Ye Jiaying smiled: "Then tell me, where is the problem? Do you have evidence? Any clues? Or is someone giving you hints, urging you to cause trouble for my Mortal Group?"

"Director Ye, mind your wording!"

Wan Xiaoxing's gaze instantly turned much colder.

Ye Jiaying's face flushed slightly with anger: "Director Wan, you bring so many people to my company to nitpick, and yet I still have to speak to you calmly about your wording?"

She said.

Ye Jiaying glanced at the accounts being hauled away.

Her gaze shifted back.

It fell again on Wan Xiaoxing's face: "Director Wan, do you even know what you're doing? The Mortal Group is Wuzhou's major taxpayer, employing thousands, and when it absorbed the Zhao Group it even cleaned up a mess for the government. You may investigate me, but do you have any evidence? You have nothing, yet you bring people to seal the accounts! What will Wuzhou's entrepreneurs think? Doing business in Wuzhou, you could be raided at any moment."

Those words were quite heavy.

"Raid"—those two words are essentially an invisible hat, meaning abuse of authority.

At that moment, the faces of these finance department employees were furious to the extreme. The tax bureau's inspection team members seemed to have developed misgivings, with someone stopping their work.

Wan Xiaoxing's face also darkened considerably.

She flared up in anger: "Director Ye, I'm auditing your accounts because your tax payments are abnormal! Because during the Mortal Group's acquisition of the Zhao Group, there were numerous irregular operations!"

"Abnormal tax payments?" Ye Jiaying sneered: "Our Mortal Group's tax payments have been increasing each year—is that abnormal? And the so-called irregular acquisition—the Zhao Group's messy accounts are known throughout the province; I cleaned up that mess for the government, and now you tell me my operations are irregular?"

Speaking, Ye Jiaying stepped forward, closing the distance to Wan Xiaoxing to half a foot.

The two locked angry gazes for a moment.

Ye Jiaying added a meaningful reminder: "Director Wan, I understand that as a new official you want to make your mark with three fiery initiatives. But I advise you to return where you came from; never let yourself be used as a pawn, or else…"

Having said that, Ye Jiaying merely smiled and swallowed the rest of her words.

But this veiled warning clearly struck a nerve in Wan Xiaoxing's proud heart; in that instant, the mortified and enraged Wan Xiaoxing's face flushed crimson.

Wan Xiaoxing coldly glared at Ye Jiaying.

The next second.

He then issued a crazy order: "Come! Handcuff Chief Ye for me! Together with these materials, take them back for investigation!"

As soon as his words fell, the entire venue was shocked.

Finance Director Sun DeLi, unable to bear it any longer, stood up and said: "Director Wan, you're putting on too big an official air?! Does Mayor Lin know you're so arrogant?!"

"Our tax bureau investigates taxes according to law; do we still need to look at Mayor Lin's face? Even if you bring out the emperor himself, this tax still needs to be investigated!"

He has become swollen with pride; this Wan Xiaoqing truly is swollen to the extreme.

She coldly glared at Sun DeLi: "And also this Director Sun, handcuff him together!"