How A Ride-Hailing Driver Comes To Dominate The World? [EN]: Chapter 276

Rewards: Becoming the Largest Shareholder of Mi Tuan Group—What’s Wrong with a Ride-Hailing Driver Having Some Money?

Chapter 276 Rewards: Becoming the Largest Shareholder of Mi Tuan Group

Maya’s abilities were indeed powerful. One phone call from her resolved the issue with the goods.

Pu Chunhua quickly called Yang Chen to report that the batch of goods being transshipped through Jinbai had been successfully transferred to Africa.

Yang Chen also kept his promise and picked up Maya from Tomson Riviera, bringing her to live in the villa.

Subsequently, Yang Chen transferred another 500,000 yuan to her account.

Maya was very happy and said, “Chen, remember to look for me again for such jobs in the future. I can give you some discounts.”

Yang Chen: “Haha… I don’t want to encounter such troublesome things again. It’s too upsetting. Just stay here and don’t worry about the expenses for food and drinks. Use your money to buy some daily necessities. Also, since it’s a bit difficult to earn money now, you should save a bit.”

Maya: “Hehe… Thank you. Then I won’t be polite and will just stay here. I will save money and slowly find a job to support myself.”

Based on her salary requirements, she definitely wouldn’t be able to find a job.

Yang Chen drove out to work, and just as he got off the bridge, he saw Xue Yinong.

Xue Yinong waved, and Yang Chen stopped in front of her.

Xue Yinong: “I have something to tell you.”

Yang Chen waved for her to get in the car.

Xue Yinong got in the car and said, “The research center matter has been settled, but the municipal government’s idea is that we need to solve all the difficulties in terms of funding and technology ourselves. They don’t have more resources for us. The municipal government itself has scientific research projects such as the chip research center, and they must allocate funds to those projects, so there is no extra funding for us.”

Yang Chen: “That’s fine. We don’t need their funding and technical support either, as long as they can approve the establishment of our research center.”

Xue Yinong: “You… you hired another housekeeper?”

Yang Chen: “Are you talking about Maya? No, the goods from Longlian Supermarket were seized in Jinbai. She should be the little princess of Jinbai. I asked her to help solve the goods issue, and as a thank you, I’m letting her stay here.”

Xue Yinong: “The little princess of Jinbai? How did she end up here?”

Yang Chen: “Escaping marriage! She said her family arranged a political marriage for her, wanting her to marry a fifty-year-old man. She couldn’t accept it, so she had to escape. You also know that women have a very low status there. She couldn’t resist, but she wasn’t willing to accept the arrangement of fate, so she could only escape and try her luck.”

Xue Yinong nodded, as long as she wasn’t Yang Chen’s new love. She didn’t care if she was a princess or a queen.

Yang Chen had to drive to pick up passengers, so Xue Yinong quickly got out of the car.

With the research base project approved, their joint venture, Haicheng Jinjiang Development, could start demolition and construction.

These didn’t require Yang Chen’s personal involvement. He just needed to make his requirements clear and ensure that sufficient funds were in place.

Yang Chen’s mind was now full of special passengers, wishing he could drive 24 hours a day.

In the afternoon, around 3 PM, Wang Wangdu, the current curator of the Minghai Art Museum, called Yang Chen.

Since the Aegis Security Group took over the security work of the art museum, Yang Chen had Wang Wangdu, who had been watching the art museum for 20 years, become the curator, replacing Yang Chen in daily management and maintenance.

Yang Chen answered the phone and asked, “Hello, Old Wang, what’s the matter?”

Wang Wangdu quickly replied, “Boss, there is indeed something. First, I want to report to you about the handover of the animal heads. They have been stored in the safe. Then, I also want to report something to you. Manny Antique Art Trading Company from the United States, Farion Art Collection Museum from France, and the British Museum from England want to join us in holding an antique art exhibition in our art museum. Does the boss think it’s acceptable?”

Isn’t Manny Antique Art Trading Company Marshall Kennedy’s company?

Yang Chen: “Yes, you can arrange it.”

Wang Wangdu: “Then which collections can we exhibit? We still need the young master to specify.”

Yang Chen: “Since we are holding an exhibition in our art museum, the main audience is the people of Dragon Country [China]. We can choose some of the lesser-quality porcelain, pottery, and metal products from our collection to exhibit. I will go back and make a list for you later, and you can choose according to the list.”

Wang Wangdu: “Okay. Then I won’t disturb the boss’s work.”

…

Hanging up the phone, just as Yang Chen was about to accept an order, an old woman accidentally fell beside his car.

In this situation, any driver would subconsciously think it might be a scam.

Yang Chen quickly turned on his phone to record and got out of the car, asking, “Old lady, are you okay? I only earn a little over five thousand yuan a month. Can I help you up?”

The old woman quickly grabbed the car to stand up and said, “Young man, don’t misunderstand. I’m not trying to scam you. I haven’t eaten all day, and I feel like my feet are a bit out of control, so I fell.”

Yang Chen couldn’t stand this kind of human suffering, so he quickly put away his phone and stepped forward to help the old woman, saying, “Why haven’t you eaten? I mean, are there any difficulties?”

The old woman: “I came to find the legal aid center, but I couldn’t find it all day. I asked a few people on the road, and they said it was in this area, but I couldn’t find it.”

Yang Chen: “Legal aid center? Do you have legal aid needs?”

The old woman nodded, “Yes! I want to hire a lawyer to help me file a lawsuit.”

Yang Chen nodded and said, “Then get in the car, I’ll take you there.”

The old woman: “Then I have to ask the lawyer how much it costs so I can give you the fare. I heard that hiring a lawyer is very expensive. I have to save all my money for the lawyer’s fees, so I can’t bear to spend money on food.”

Yang Chen: “It’s on the way, no need to pay the fare. What a coincidence, I haven’t eaten since I started driving either. How about we go get something to eat together?”

The old woman smiled and said, “Young man, thank you for your kindness. I just want to find a lawyer quickly. Once I’ve talked to the lawyer, I don’t care if I starve to death.”

Yang Chen nodded and immediately took the old woman to the legal aid center.

Seeing that she couldn’t walk steadily, Yang Chen offered to help her up.

But the old woman waved her hand and said with a smile, “Young man, thank you for your help. I will always be grateful to you. Just take me here. If you come up with me, I’m afraid it will affect your life. How about I give you ten yuan for the fare? Don’t think it’s too little.”

Yang Chen quickly refused, “No need! No need! It’s just on the way. Whether I take you here or not, I have to drive these routes anyway, no need to give me money.”

The old woman smiled and nodded, “Young man, you are so kind. I wish you a happy life and safe travels. You go, don’t let people see us together. Go, go, I can go up by myself.”

Yang Chen smiled and nodded.

The old woman then staggered inside.

Perhaps Dragon Country [China] men all have the ambition of “Wishing for thousands of houses to shelter all the poor in the world.”

The more Yang Chen looked at the old woman, the more pitiful he felt for her, so he parked the car aside and waited for her to come out to ask about the situation.

About half an hour later, the old woman walked out, wiping her tears.

Yang Chen quickly got out of the car and ran over to help the old woman, saying, “Old lady, how is it? Did you talk to the lawyer?”

The old woman raised her tearful eyes and said, “Young man, you haven’t left yet! You leave quickly, don’t affect your life.”

Listening to her, the person she wanted to sue was not simple.

Yang Chen smiled and replied, “It’s okay, I’m just a ride-hailing driver, I don’t care about the future, no need to be afraid of anything. Let’s go eat, we can talk while we eat.”

The old woman was also very hungry, nodded, and followed Yang Chen to a nearby restaurant to eat.

The old woman was so hungry that she devoured three large bowls of rice before stopping.

Afterward, she told Yang Chen about her situation.

The old woman’s name was Wang Xiuying, from Lijia Village, Jiading North District.

She had a son named Zhang Yunlong, who was retaliated against for reporting the village’s factory for secretly discharging sewage. A good person was locked up in a mental hospital and eventually hanged himself in the mental hospital.

Wang Xiuying felt that her son’s death was unclear and wanted to seek justice for him.

But the factory owner obstructed her in every possible way, using various connections to retaliate against her.

She was forced to sell everything she had, risking her life to find a lawyer to take the case.

As long as she could clear her son’s name, she could give everything, including her own life.

Yang Chen nodded and said, “I understand. I’ll take you to a hotel later, you can rest for one night, and a professional legal team will communicate with you about the case tomorrow. I assure you that as long as what you say is true, the lawyer will definitely help your son clear his name.”

The old woman immediately knelt down excitedly, and Yang Chen quickly helped her up.

The old woman cried and thanked him, “Young man, thank you. As long as you can help my son get justice, I will give you all the money I have, and I can give you my life. Is the lawyer you found good? It’s best if he can definitely help us win the case. Oh, right, he also has to be brave. The lawyers I went to the aid center to find just now didn’t dare to take my case.”

Yang Chen: “Don’t worry! This kind of case is too simple for him, he doesn’t even need to do it himself, his apprentice can solve it.”

The old woman immediately smiled happily, as if she had fulfilled a wish.

Soon, the two finished eating.

The old woman insisted on paying the bill, and the two walked out.

But as soon as they went out, several burly men surrounded them.

The bald man at the head twitched his mouth.

He said, “Brother, don’t cause trouble for yourself. Don’t meddle in things you shouldn’t. It’s not easy for you to drive a ride-hailing car, why cause yourself big trouble?”

The old woman was worried that they would hit Yang Chen, so she quickly pushed Yang Chen away, saying, “Young man, don’t worry about me, you go quickly. I appreciate your kindness, I can’t ruin your life.”

Yang Chen said with a smile, “Don’t pay attention to them, our plan remains unchanged.”

The bald man cracked his knuckles, making a cracking sound, and said, “You really want to cause trouble for yourself, don’t you? Don’t think about yourself, at least think about your family? If you become a mental patient like his son and hang yourself in a mental hospital, have you thought about what your family will do?”

Yang Chen chuckled and said, “A broken factory, look at how proud you are, you’re lawless, aren’t you? Go back and tell your boss, I’m going to take care of this matter, let him prepare to respond to the lawsuit.”

After speaking, Yang Chen waved to signal the bodyguards to come over.

The five bodyguards were already prepared. Seeing Yang Chen waving, they immediately rushed over and pushed the bald man and his group away.

Although they had the advantage in numbers, they were at a disadvantage in terms of size, and the bald man and his group immediately backed down.

Yang Chen helped the old woman into the car, and the bald man and his group did not dare to stop him.

“Brother, you are narrowing your path, even putting yourself on a dead end!” the bald man shouted.

Yang Chen ignored him and drove away with the old woman.

It seemed that the old woman was in danger. If she acted alone, she would probably encounter misfortune.

So, Yang Chen took her to the Peninsula Hotel.

After arriving at the room, Yang Chen called Zhang Xiang and asked him to immediately bring a team that could fight hard battles.

More than fifty minutes later, Zhang Xiang came with four apprentices.

Yang Chen introduced the two sides, and then the old woman quickly told Zhang Xiang and the others about the case in detail.

After listening to the old woman’s description, Zhang Xiang was silent for a moment and then said, “Not a big problem, we have fought this kind of case before. However, this time, Mr. Yang may also need to help, release the news that you and the old lady are relatives, friends, or some other relationship, and you will definitely ask about it. Leave the rest to me, and I guarantee that we can win the case.”

Yang Chen asked suspiciously, “Can I also play a role?”

Zhang Xiang laughed and said, “Mr. Yang, you have a bit of a lack of awareness of your current social status. Let’s put it this way, what you can solve with one sentence, I may need to spend a year or two slowly litigating to solve.”

Yang Chen nodded and said, “Okay! Then I know what you mean. I’ll talk to Chen Qingxia later, and then post a Moments [social media post] or something, so that those who should know will know that I have intervened in this case.”

Zhang Xiang: “Yes. As long as those who should know know that you have intervened, this case will be very easy to handle. Old lady, don’t worry, we will take care of this case and will definitely return justice to your son. Please sign this power of attorney, and we will be fully authorized to handle this case for you in the future. If anyone asks you any questions in the future, you can choose to refuse to answer. When I get to your side, you can answer according to my prompts. Do you understand what I mean?”

The old woman: “Understood! Thank you, you are all good people. Then I still have more than 200,000 yuan, is that enough for your lawyer fees?”

Zhang Xiang: “Haha… It doesn’t cost that much, we’ll talk about the fees later, I guarantee it won’t cost that much.”

The old woman quickly nodded, revealing a happy smile.

Yang Chen took Zhang Xiang and others down to eat, and told the manager to deliver food to the old woman on time every day. Except for the cleaning lady, no outsiders were allowed to see her.

If anyone broke in, he was to call Yang Chen immediately.

With Zhang Xiang’s help, Yang Chen posted a Moments [social media post] update, stating that he would do his best to help the old woman’s son seek justice, and no matter how much resistance he encountered, he would not give up.

Subsequently, Yang Chen called Chen Qingxia to let her know about this matter and have the Municipal Bureau take over the case and investigate the truth.

As Zhang Xiang said, with Yang Chen’s current social status, his one sentence is more effective than Zhang Xiang’s one or two years of hard work.

Subsequently, Yang Chen asked Qiu Yuhong to order the media controlled by Aegis Security Group to report this news, causing widespread attention, which would help the case be processed faster.

Having done all this, Yang Chen prepared to sleep.

At this time, the system issued a reminder.

“Detected that the host has delivered a special passenger, the current special task completion progress is 5/10. Victory is in sight, please cheer up, host. To celebrate the host’s special task progress being over halfway, the system rewards the host with 25% equity in Mi Tuan Group, making him the largest shareholder of the group. Equity transfer documents and other materials will be delivered tomorrow morning, please pay attention to check them.”

Mi Tuan is the largest food delivery company in Dragon Country [China] and even the world.

Currently, the largest shareholder is Yang Chen, with a 25% stake.

The second largest shareholder is Penguin Technology Group, with an 18% stake.

The founder, Wang Yuesheng, indirectly holds a % stake through multiple companies.

The fourth largest shareholder is Red Three Capital, with a 6% stake.

The fifth largest shareholder is Murong Jun, with a 2% stake.

However, the founder Wang Yuesheng has 51% of the voting rights. The reason for this result is that some shareholders’ shares have different rights, they only want dividend rights, not voting rights, and the voting rights of these shares are given to Wang Yuesheng.

Therefore, although Wang Yuesheng only has a % stake, he is the controlling shareholder.

The system’s rewards are getting bigger and bigger, and this is about to lean towards Penguin Technology.

The next morning, Yang Chen did not run the morning peak. He waited at home for the courier to deliver the equity transfer documents and other materials of Mi Tuan.

It was already ten o’clock in the morning when he went out, but at this time, Chen Qingxia and Zhang Xiang both sent good news.

The Municipal Bureau has officially filed a case to investigate the death of the old woman’s son, which means that the truth will be revealed in the near future.

This is Yang Chen’s current status, a Moments [social media post] update can solve the problem.

…

Around lunchtime, Yang Chen dropped off a passenger at Binhai Jiayuan Community.

From a distance, he saw many people at the entrance of the community. When the car got closer, he saw that it was a century-long alliance between Mi Tuan deliverymen and Ele.me deliverymen against the community’s property management.

According to the onlookers,

the community property management teamed up to beat a Mi Tuan deliveryman. Just as other Mi Tuan deliverymen were passing by, they came to help. The property management relied on their numbers to beat these deliverymen, so these deliverymen called for reinforcements. The yellow and blue deliverymen teamed up to beat the property management.

As everyone knows, the property management personnel in some communities are like overlords. If the owners dare to say a few more words, they will be beaten. They are clearly the personnel hired by the owners to guard the house, but they turn around and beat the owners. Is there any law or reason to speak of?

Some property management personnel seem to inherently hate couriers and deliverymen. As soon as they see someone delivering food or packages, they put on airs and come out to show off their power. It is common for them to take action.

To use what Yang Chen said when he protected Zhang Rui and her grandfather, everyone is an ordinary person, why should ordinary people make things difficult for ordinary people?

However, this is the reality. The people who persecute the grassroots the most are often the grassroots themselves.

Once these people have a little bit of power, they will try to use this power to harm people.

Yang Chen is now a major shareholder of Mi Tuan. Although he is not the controlling shareholder, he can still have a say. Seeing that Mi Tuan’s deliverymen are being bullied, he certainly cannot sit idly by.

Yang Chen got out of the car and walked over to learn about the situation from the Mi Tuan deliveryman.

The property management personnel who beat people came from Tianxuan Property Management Co., Ltd.

Tianxuan Property Management Co., Ltd. is a newly established property company, and it is the same company as Tianxuan Security Company. The boss is Ye Xuan.

Hearing Ye Xuan’s name, Yang Chen couldn’t help but smile.

Ye Xuan had told Yang Chen before that he wanted to form a company to replace Aegis Security Group.

It seems that his speed is very fast, the company has been successfully established and put into operation.

At this time, more than a dozen vans with the words “Tianxuan Security” printed on them stopped next to them.

Then dozens of people rushed down and started beating these deliverymen.

Seeing that reinforcements had arrived, the property management personnel who had been lying on the ground begging for mercy were energized again and launched an attack on the deliverymen in cooperation with Tianxuan Security personnel.

Although the deliverymen are out in the wind and rain, their physical fitness must be stronger than those who sit in the office.

However, facing professional security personnel, they still couldn’t beat them, and they were quickly knocked to the ground.

Yang Chen wanted to stop them, but he and his five bodyguards obviously couldn’t stop this melee of more than a hundred people.

Besides, who would believe him if he told everyone that he was the new major shareholder of Mi Tuan?

However, Yang Chen was not idle. He recorded the whole process, and these will be evidence in the future.

Soon, the police arrived. Except for the deliverymen who suffered a big loss and didn’t run, the people from Tianxuan Security ran away almost completely.

People now post even the smallest things on Douyin [Chinese version of TikTok], and such a gimmicky video will definitely be posted on Douyin [Chinese version of TikTok].

Sure enough, soon, the entire network was filled with video news of the yellow and blue alliance fighting against the community property security.

Subsequently, Mi Tuan and Ele.me official Weibo [Chinese version of Twitter] and Douyin [Chinese version of TikTok] posted new updates.

In short, they expressed shock and separation, and both companies would investigate to the end and must seek justice for the deliverymen.

Netizens also came to join in the fun.

“The yellow and blue have been fighting for so many years, and now we finally see them joining hands.”

“When can we cancel the property management? To be honest, the current property management is like an overlord. Owners have to pretend to be grandsons in front of them, let alone deliverymen.”

“I still don’t understand why there is such a thing as property management. I spent three generations of savings to buy a house, but I was bitten by a dog guarding the house. I have to hide from the dog every day when I see it. How depressing is that.”

“This time, if Mi Tuan and Ele.me, oh, no, it should be Penguin Technology Group and Alibaba Group, don’t show an attitude to protect these riders, the image awards of these two companies will plummet.”

“Is the boss of that Tianxuan Property and Tianxuan Security now shivering? He has offended the two major groups of Penguin and Alibaba at once. Who can stand this, brother!”

…

Seeing the angry messages from netizens, Yang Chen felt that the opportunity had come.

So, Yang Chen asked Yu Shishi to call Mi Tuan’s board secretary, and he wanted to propose a shareholders’ meeting in the capacity of a major shareholder to discuss the response to this beating of the deliverymen.

Mi Tuan’s shareholders come from all over the world, and many shareholder representatives certainly cannot attend the meeting in person.

The board secretary notified those shareholders who could not come to the venue that they could participate in this shareholders’ meeting via video conference.

The time was set at 4:10 PM tomorrow, after the Hong Kong stock market closed.

Ele.me is not a listed company, but the major shareholder Alibaba also sent a notice to the shareholders to convene a shareholders’ meeting, scheduled to begin at 3:00 PM tomorrow after the A-share market closed. The theme of the meeting was also to discuss the response to this beating of Ele.me deliverymen.