Chapter 1580

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Protagonist:

Li Xiulan

Zhang Sheng, expressionless:

"Business matters, speaking honestly, you women find it hard to have long-term vision. You think those benefits I gave Wang Erhai were all free handouts?"

Speaking honestly, Zhang Sheng actually didn't want to tell Deng Hongyun about this.

Because even if he told her, she wouldn't understand.

What business doesn't involve cutting flesh?

If you don't pluck a single hair, it's fundamentally impossible to make the business grow strong and large.

Especially when it involves setting up schemes to manipulate people's hearts, you have to be even more willing to put up heavy capital.

As the saying goes, 'unwilling to let the child go, can't catch the wolf' — that's the principle.

"Then tell me, what exactly are you thinking!"

Deng Hongyun hurriedly asked.

She indeed didn't understand.

And it was precisely because she didn't understand that she had to ask.

If she understood, she couldn't be bothered to ask Zhang Sheng.

Right now, seeing Zhang Sheng made her nauseated; she involuntarily thought of the scene of him in bed with other women.

And she happened to have mysophobia, so she even felt a bit of physiological disgust.

Zhang Sheng then said:

"This mask factory is bait, a bait that can help me get a handle on Wang Erhai."

Deng Hongyun was even more puzzled:

"That mask factory isn't large in scale, its capacity isn't high. Even if it shut down and went bankrupt, it probably wouldn't hurt Wang Erhai's muscles and bones. How do you use that mask factory to get a handle on Wang Erhai?"

Zhang Sheng smiled:

"This is exactly why I want to give him an opening. Right now the mask factory's scale is indeed not large, but if sales volume picks up, supply exceeds demand, then he'll definitely increase capacity. To increase capacity he has to expand scale. At that time I'll find a third-party company to cooperate with him, take massive quantities of masks from his factory. Once he's produced them, I'll pull the stool out from under him. You guess, with that many masks stockpiled in his warehouse, what will happen to him?"

Deng Hongyun's complexion twitched slightly:

"You actually thought this far ahead?"

Then she came back to her senses:

"No, you scheming against Wang Erhai like this, what benefit does it have for us?"

Zhang Sheng laughed:

"The benefits are many! As long as Wang Erhai falls into difficulty, I can manipulate Wang Xiaohua through Wang Erhai. Speaking honestly, Wang Xiaohua, this little steel ball, is the major worry in my heart that makes me lose sleep and appetite. Only by getting a handle on him can I have peace of mind."

Deng Hongyun was even more puzzled:

"I heard that Wang Xiaohua is just a township cadre right now. What are you afraid of him for?"

Zhang Sheng couldn't help revealing a contemptuous gaze:

"They all say you women have long hair and short knowledge. Sure enough, it's not false. You've followed me for so many years, how come you still haven't cultivated a forward-looking vision?"

Deng Hongyun, belittled by Zhang Sheng like this, saw her complexion turn ugly.

However, she also had no way to refute anything, because she indeed couldn't see what was so fearsome about Wang Xiaohua.

Zhang Sheng then said:

"The current Wang Xiaohua isn't scary, but the future Wang Xiaohua will definitely be very scary. Especially certain traits on him are what we merchants fear the most!"

Before, Zhang Sheng had also thought about whether to use special means to erase Wang Xiaohua from this world. For a period of time, he was even already itching to act.

But his inner rationality still made him forcibly suppress this thought.

One, because it hasn't reached that desperate point yet.

Two, because if the matter was exposed, he would be doomed beyond redemption. After all, no matter how small Wang Xiaohua's official post, he is still a state civil servant.

Three, even if his scheme succeeded, and he did it cleanly without leaving traces, managing to luckily escape legal punishment, those county leaders would definitely start distancing themselves from him.

After all, no one likes a businessman with no bottom line. The biggest taboo in this circle is making others feel 'when the rabbit dies, the fox grieves'.

So after deep consideration, Zhang Sheng still restrained himself, then adhered to his original plan: that is, to get a handle on Wang Xiaohua through Wang Erhai.

If once doesn't work, then twice. If twice doesn't work, then three times.

Anyway, Wang Erhai is right by his side. He has plenty of opportunities.

As long as they don't tear faces, he tries again and again. There will always be one time that succeeds!

Zhang Sheng at this time spoke again:

"Wang Xiaohua will definitely rise step by step in the future. Once he rises up, if I still don't have his handle, then even if I'm not killed by him, I'll be suppressed by him. At that time starting to act would probably be too late. After all, us merchants struggling against people who hold power — since ancient times there haven't been many winning chances."

Zhang Sheng can be said to have a very strong sense of crisis.

He didn't relax his vigilance just because he now steadily sits as the number one in the county town's real estate industry. On the contrary, he remains vigilant in times of peace. Seeing any place or person unfavorable to him, he immediately moves to press down that sprout.

He has already lost count of how many such sprouts he has pressed down.

But now, arriving at Wang Xiaohua's side, he pressed down several times, yet discovered none of them could be pressed down smoothly.

This made him even more intensely aware of danger.

Deng Hongyun, however, still didn't understand:

"I truly don't understand why you think so highly of that kid Wang Xiaohua! I know that kid was once our county town's top scorer in the college entrance exam, but I feel his ability is probably just so-so. He's just a bit better at studying, that's all. He's fundamentally not worth fearing!"

Zhang Sheng didn't know whether to cry or laugh:

"Where did you see that he lacks ability?"

Deng Hongyun immediately retorted:

"If he truly had ability, would he run back to the mountain pass of his hometown to be a lowly grassroots civil servant? In this day and age, which university student doesn't run outward? Those from Tsinghua and Peking University, right after graduation, are in big cities outside earning annual salaries of a million, while he, Wang Xiaohua, returns to his hometown to be a grassroots civil servant with a monthly salary that tops out at two or three thousand!"

Zhang Sheng smiled bitterly and sighed:

"Saying your hair is long but knowledge short, you still won't admit it! Is earning a million a year outside so impressive? Even if one becomes a leader of a big company, that is merely a business elite; still that same sentence: officials are forever greater than merchants, no matter how much money commerce earns, it cannot compare to a casual word of power."

Zhang Sheng had experienced too much in this small county town, so he would have this kind of realization.

Deng Hongyun yet again countered him:

"Since you think so highly of being an official, why didn't you go be an official back then?"

Zhang Sheng smiled:

"You think I didn't want to? It was that I had no opportunity! When I was studying, my family background was bad, I was suppressed severely, in the end I couldn't even finish my studies, forced to wander far from home... Sigh, let's not speak of those things. If we're to chat, let's chat about the present, chat about the future, chatting about the past is meaningless!"

The past held only endless suffering to eat and unending poverty to endure; Zhang Sheng had also fought his way up from the bottom to now, he truly was unwilling to recall past matters, just as he now never goes to eat sweet potatoes, taro, and such things.

Because in the past he had already eaten them until he vomited.

At this time Deng Hongyun dry-laughed hehe, mocking sarcastically:

"Since you think so highly of Wang Xiaohua, why not marry your daughter to Wang Xiaohua!"

Of course, this was her ironic words; Zhang Sheng's daughter was her daughter, asking her to marry her precious daughter to that little dwarf Wang Xiaohua, honestly she would not be willing in a hundred ways!

However Zhang Sheng said:

"You think I haven't tried probing? That Wang Xiaohua fundamentally looks down on your daughter!"