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Chapter 544 The truth hidden by the Shen family

(Chapter 119 was censored yesterday, which affected the readers’ experience. Today, I will update a large chapter to give back to the readers and express my apologies!)
"The Shen family has been the white glove of Joshua people since the beginning."

Wang Yunxiao thought to himself that although I still want to spend 2,000 words to explain to you the logical relationship here, considering the filtering system of the harmonious will of the universe, I'd better forget it.

If I accidentally allude to something, I will get beaten even if I wear an Imperial Stormtrooper's helmet.

Just speak with evidence.

"You think the Shen family lost everything in the financial crisis, but in fact they made a lot of money."

"When the president was preparing to develop the coastal area in order to build Tianmen and attract overseas investment, Shen Zhidong volunteered to take on the important task. At first glance, there seems to be nothing wrong with this story. Building houses is to attract overseas immigrants to settle down. The real estate is in the hands of Shen Zhidong, and the rent announced to the public is quite cheap, which can allow overseas immigrants to settle down in the shortest possible time."

"But after the financial crisis, Shen Zhidong's capital chain was broken, and a large number of properties that were originally used as collateral were transferred to foreign banks. The banks then transferred these properties to the Joshua consortium at extremely low prices to cash out."

"According to the account books I found at the Weimar Chamber of Commerce, they took over the title deeds of 1,200 low-rent apartments and other high-, medium- and low-end properties, and then re-entrusted Shen Zhidong's real estate company to manage them. After the market returns to normal, they will increase the prices of buying and renting houses."

"Can't understand!"

Ito Hideaki scratched his head and said, "What's the point of transferring from left hand to right hand?"

"They have to make it so that ordinary people can't understand them, so they can make a profit."

Cheng Xuefei understood what Wang Yunxiao meant and explained to him, "I'll give you a more straightforward example so you can understand. For example, the food standard in your police station cafeteria is pretty good in my opinion, and the price is not expensive. A plate of braised hairtail fish costs only three cents. If you put it in a decent restaurant outside, a plate of braised hairtail fish would cost more than one dollar..."

"It's 25 cents a plate, which is about the same as three servings in the cafeteria."

"Okay, I'm not sensitive to prices, but that's not important. The food in the cafeteria is cheaper than outside. On the one hand, it's because the cost of the internal cafeteria is low, and on the other hand, the bureau subsidizes meals, right?"

"Correct."

Cheng Xuefei raised a finger: "At this time, let's assume that your boss lets his brother-in-law take charge of the food..."

“There’s no need to assume that.”

"Well, suppose he pocketed the money and kept it..."

“There’s no need to assume this.”

"Ito-san, you didn't learn anything else since you came to Tianmen, but you learned how to be a supporting actor, right?"

"Okay, just ignore what I said and continue!"

"What will happen if this continues? The food in the cafeteria will definitely become worse and worse, because the price of food cannot be changed openly, so they can only deduct the wages of the kitchen staff and the purchase money. Or they can pass off inferior products as good ones and take kickbacks from the vegetable sellers."

Ito Hideaki clenched his fists and resisted the urge to complain.

"The food in the cafeteria is getting worse and worse, and everyone will definitely have complaints. The best way to deal with this problem is to fire the brother-in-law and replace him with someone who is responsible for managing the cafeteria."

"But there is another way to fool you. That is to announce to the public that it is not my brother-in-law's problem, but the problem of the canteen itself. Now that life is better, the price of vegetables is higher, the cost is higher, and everyone's tastes are more sophisticated. They are not used to the food in the past. So... just outsource the canteen to my brother-in-law's private catering company. In this way, everyone can eat the standard braised hairtail fish of other restaurants, and everyone will be happy."

"To put it bluntly, the Shen family's methods are no different from the canteen outsourcing we just assumed."

Miss Cheng seemed very professional when she talked about this topic. As a brothel owner, she was best at digging out these little secrets that could not be spoken from other people's words.

"At the beginning, Tianmen was the president's base. Her main sources of funds included textile factories, machinery manufacturing bureaus and international trade. Her long-term strategic planning goal was to develop Tianmen, improve the quality of life of the people, give them money to go to school, train more workers, and then build new factories to continue to expand production."

"The purpose of developing the seaside area is to create a more stable living environment for overseas immigrants. Whether real estate can make money is not within the president's consideration. Therefore, in her plan, both house prices and rents should be maintained within the acceptable range for ordinary working class people."

"But after the Shen family's manipulation, the direction of the entire plan has changed."

"Look, first of all, the Shen family borrowed money to build the house, and because the capital chain was broken, they mortgaged the property to the bank. In fact, the Shen family did not suffer any losses."

"The bank resold the mortgaged property to the Weimar Chamber of Commerce at a low price to raise cash, and the bank did suffer some losses in the process."

"After the Weimar Chamber of Commerce obtained the title deed and the land deed, it entrusted the Shen family to continue operating the business, and the Weimar Chamber of Commerce received profits."

"Because it is an industry of the Weimar Chamber of Commerce, even if the house price is raised, the President cannot intervene."

"The Shen family made money by operating real estate."

"After house prices rise, ordinary people have to take out loans to buy houses. Banks gain long-term profits and make up for their previous losses."

"After going through so many rounds, everyone is happy."

"Then the question is - if everyone makes money, who loses money?"

…………

Ito Hideaki rubbed his temple and remained silent.

He has been confused.

"Can we just chop them down?"

"No, because they are all operating legally and doing business legitimately." Wang Yunxiao answered on behalf of Cheng Xuefei: "It has been like this since ancient times. Now it's just a new court."

Gentlemen have to eat after all. How dare you overturn the table? Are you trying to kill yourself?
"What should we do? Can't we investigate further?"

Ito Hideaki gritted his teeth. What he hated most was the kind of problem that couldn't be solved with a knife.

"If we couldn't check, we wouldn't be gathered here in the first place."

Yan Yu'an said calmly, "It's only been two years since the establishment of the new government. Various relevant laws are not perfect, but various laws must be formulated step by step. Hasty introduction without careful discussion will only breed trouble. They are just doing legitimate business, which does not mean they have no other illegal activities. If we don't find a way to deal with parasites like the Shen family, are we going to let them grow and leave it to future generations to deal with?"

"Back then, we suffered all kinds of humiliation from the foreigners. The court was corrupt and wolves were in power. There were countless people like Shen Jianzhen who were corrupt and perverted the law. In that dark world, there were still countless people with lofty ideals who searched and fought hard. Now, we have only eaten a few meals of braised hairtail fish. Don't we have the courage to fight these people to the end?"

He looked around at the three of them and said in a deep voice: "The Shen family still has a trump card that they haven't played yet, but it's not for us. If we continue to investigate, I'm afraid we may not be able to get away easily. If you choose to withdraw now, I can understand."

Wang Yunxiao and Ito Hideaki showed contemptuous smiles on their faces at the same time.

Quitting now? Are you kidding me, bro?
Yan Yu'an said this mainly to Cheng Xuefei. The reason was very simple. The family behind Miss Cheng herself was also one of the new nobles that rose after the establishment of the new government.

Yan Yu'an felt that it was enough for her to investigate the Shen family's dark history to this extent. If she continued to investigate, what if the Cheng family was implicated? It was hard to predict. How would she deal with it then?
"You seem to always have some misunderstandings about me, thinking that I am a child from a rich family and that I can't play with you."

Cheng Xuefei said helplessly: "But don't forget that my father's generation was the group of people who followed the president to open up a new world, and you are the latecomers. The Shen family is just a special case. You can't deny the efforts of my father's generation because of the Shen family. Are all the people in the customs system so honest and upright? Are there no traitors among the naturalized people of Fusang? Are all the street thugs as loyal as you, Captain Wang?"

These words made the three grown men look at each other in bewilderment.

Okay, let's not blame anyone.

Yan Yu'an coughed and said seriously, "No one has any misunderstanding about you. I'm just worried that you'll be stuck in the middle and it will be difficult for you."

“There are so many difficult things to do.”

"Well, Miss Cheng, now that we've talked about it, can you answer me a question that may involve the privacy of your family?"

"Why is the Shen family able to train a large number of human skin painters, and your Cheng family also has many people working in the secretariat? Including you, the eldest lady, has now cultivated to the level of advanced outer Dao. Including the Cheng and Shen families, did the group of people who followed the president at the beginning master the deeper secrets of the Twelve Dharma Gates?"

The question raised by Yan Yu'an made Wang Yunxiao's heart move.

He had indeed suspected before that the Shen family had too many human skin painters, and felt like he had poked a hole in the human skin den. He killed one in Cangzhou and killed four more when he returned to Tianmen.

Can this thing be wholesaled?
Among the twelve methods, the one that focuses most on teamwork is the Fubing Method, which can be cultivated collectively. Other methods require certain talents. Except for Chen Yan and Xiao Hulu, no one in the school has shown the talent of Qi Zhao and Ling Guan until now.

Is a human skin painter who is an outsider of the Qizhao Dharma so worthless?
"Of course there are secrets, but they may not be what you think."

Cheng Xuefei glanced at the people present, stretched out her hand to lift the hair that fell beside her ears, and said softly: "You should all know the essence of the Twelve Dharma Gates, right?"

“You mean cognition?”

"Yes, cognition is the shaping of one's three perspectives. So-called talent is the difference in one's cognition of the world. The way the world looks to you determines how you are suitable for practicing the corresponding method. The reason why most ordinary people do not have talent is actually that they lack a complete understanding of the world."

"The Twelve Dharma Gates are not some ancient secret book handed down from the ancient times, but a cultivation system specially developed by the President in order to deal with the natural disasters brought about by the tides of time and space."

"Of course, the President could not accomplish such a feat alone, so when developing this cultivation system, he sought the opinions of many authoritative figures. It can be said that it was a collective effort. Both Shen Jianzhen and my father personally participated in the research and discussion process, so naturally they knew more about the inside story than others."

Cheng Xuefei picked up a piece of hairtail and said, "The difficulty of choosing to go fishing in the sea and sitting in the cafeteria waiting to eat fish is naturally different. That's why the same method can be divided into the right way and the wrong way. The practice method of the wrong way can't be said to be so evil, it just requires lower talent and is faster to practice."

"Take the Chess and Edicts method for example. The talent required for the Righteous Chess and Edicts is extremely high. Only a very small number of people with high education and strong will can remain calm and not fall into hysterical madness when they witness the truth of this world with their own eyes."

"But the situation for the outsiders is much simpler. They only need to understand the secrets of the human body. Originally, the advanced profession for the outsiders should be called surgeons. Doesn't it sound serious? But surgeons also require high talent, so in the end they gradually degenerated into human skin painters, which sounds even more weird."

"After all, it's easy to dissect a human body. All you need is a sharp enough knife. But it's very troublesome to remove the lesion and suture the wound to save the patient. It requires a vast amount of modern medical knowledge."

Wang Yunxiao had to admit that what Miss Cheng said made sense.

The same is true for the righteous methods of the government soldiers. The training seems simple, but what is really important is not the military training, but the cultivation of trust between each other. The core idea is collectivism.

The best that Wang Yunxiao could do was to get these brothers who grew up together to be on the same page with him. If it were someone else, for example, the Second Team of the Special Agents Department, it would be extremely difficult to cultivate an unreserved sense of trust among them.

Everyone has selfish motives.

Relatively speaking, the practice of external methods is much simpler and more in line with human nature - as long as I am strong enough, I can handle everything, and it doesn’t matter whether I have teammates or not. It is a form of personal heroism.

Then the reason why the Shen family was able to train a large number of human skin painters becomes obvious.

As long as there are enough cadaver teachers?

"Take a rest after dinner, and then go investigate Yamazaki Pharmaceutical in the afternoon."

Yan Yu'an thought for a moment and concluded, "Whether it's the overseas immigrants who disappeared in the dwarf shack, the samurai and ninjas of the Fusang Nation-Saving Samurai Association, or the materials needed by the Shen family to mass-produce human skin painters, the clues all point to Yamazaki Pharmaceutical. Ito, Captain Wang, you two will follow me this afternoon. Let's go together. If we encounter any danger, we can take care of each other."

"As for you, Miss Cheng... go back and find out more about Shen Qingxi's background. The key point is Aunt Yun beside her. I always feel that Shen Jianzhen will not let us continue the investigation so easily. Who knows what this old guy is up to!"

(End of this chapter)