How A Ride-Hailing Driver Comes To Dominate The World? [EN]: Chapter 596

Kidnapping? _What’s wrong with a Didi [ride-hailing service] driver having some money?_

Li Sharong’s fans would never imagine that their beloved idol is now begging Yang Chen to be a judge and score her special performance.

Li Sharong was performing intensely, and Jane said to Yang Chen, “Mr. Yang, you can do whatever you want with her, within reason.”

Yang Chen: “That won’t work, thank you so much. Just watching is already pushing it; I really can’t do whatever I want. Miss Lisa, please stop, put on your clothes, don’t catch a cold. I think… I think it’s very exciting. As for whether those rich people are satisfied, I can’t say. After all, as Jane said, I’m a country bumpkin who hasn’t seen the world. Those rich people play this kind of game every day, so their standards may be relatively high. My opinion isn’t exactly a reliable reference.”

Jane: “Mr. Yang, don’t say that. Your satisfaction shows that Lisa’s efforts have been effective. At least she can satisfy someone like you who has never experienced this kind of performance before. She will practice hard in the future, and she will definitely be able to satisfy those rich people. Lisa, put on your clothes.”

Li Sharong nodded, picked up her clothes, and went aside to put them on.

Jane asked in a low voice, “Is Mr. Yang interested in joining the Dawn Society?”

Yang Chen immediately shook his head and replied, “I don’t want to. I’m used to being free and unrestrained, without any constraints, and I don’t want to join any organization.”

Jane: “With Mr. Yang’s status and ability, if you join the Dawn Society, you will definitely become one of the few high-level people at the top of the pyramid. No one can order you; only you can order others.”

Yang Chen: “Haha… Thank you for your suggestion, but I still don’t want to join. I don’t even want to manage my own company, how could I be willing to join any organization? My dream is to drive a Didi every day to pass the time. I don’t provoke others, and others don’t provoke me. I will be satisfied.”

Jane understood what Yang Chen meant, so she didn’t continue to press the issue.

At this time, Li Sharong put on her clothes and sat next to Jane.

Jane ordered: “Lisa, quickly offer Mr. Yang a glass of wine to thank him for appreciating your performance.”

Li Sharong quickly poured a glass of wine, held the glass with both hands, and said to Yang Chen, “Mr. Yang, this glass of wine is for you. I apologize for the previous offense and thank you for watching my performance.”

Yang Chen: “That won’t work, how can you do two things with one glass of wine?”

Jane: “Haha… Mr. Yang is right. Lisa, you have to offer two glasses of wine.”

Li Sharong smiled and nodded, and said, “Okay, then I will first apologize to Mr. Yang with this glass of wine, and I hope you can forgive my ignorance.”

Yang Chen smiled and nodded, picked up the wine glass, and took a sip.

Jane and Li Sharong didn’t dare to force Yang Chen to drink the whole glass; just a gesture would be enough.

After Li Sharong finished drinking, she quickly poured another glass and said, “Mr. Yang, this glass of wine is to thank you for your suggestion.”

Yang Chen smiled and nodded, and took a sip.

Li Sharong quickly drank this glass of wine again and then sat obediently beside him, listening quietly to Yang Chen and Jane chatting.

Because Li Sharong’s Crazy Horse Show [a famous Parisian cabaret] will start the day after tomorrow, she and Jane will take a plane to France early tomorrow morning.

Yang Chen chatted with them for a while and then let them go back to the hotel to rest.

Yang Chen just drank some wine. Although it doesn’t affect his driving, it is an iron rule not to drive after drinking.

He found a hotel nearby and booked a room to rest.

In the evening, at six o’clock, Ren Nana called Yang Chen to go out to play, but he refused.

Tonight, he still has to short Qualcomm, Nvidia, and Intel [major semiconductor companies]. Yang Chen doesn’t have time to play with a group of young girls.

Yang Chen had dinner in the hotel restaurant and then drove away.

There is still some time before the US stock market opens. Yang Chen did not go to Xingchen Investment immediately. He logged on to his Didi account, took two orders, and then went to the company.

As soon as he went online, the system pushed the order. Yang Chen selected the order with the closest pick-up point and grabbed it, and then followed the navigation to find it.

Yang Chen came to the pick-up point and was about to call the passenger when a girl walked over in a hurry, followed by a drunken man with yellow hair.

The girl walked to the passenger seat and opened the car door. Just as she bent over to get into the car, the yellow-haired drunk grabbed her hair from behind, pulled her back hard, and dragged her out.

“Ah! Ah!” the girl screamed in horror.

“Damn! What are you doing?” Yang Chen shouted, and quickly got out of the car and chased after him.

The yellow-haired man was full of alcohol and looked like he had drunk a lot.

Yang Chen stepped forward and hit his biceps twice, and the pain made him let go immediately.

“What are you doing? Robbing in the street?” Yang Chen asked.

The yellow-haired man threw away the hair in his hand, pointed at Yang Chen, and said, “It’s none of your business, mind your own business.”

The girl hid behind Yang Chen, crying, and said, “I don’t know him!”

Yang Chen: “Don’t know him? Forcibly flirting?”

The girl nodded and said, “I was eating noodles inside, and he insisted on adding me as a friend. I didn’t want to, so he bought my bill, and then came to add me as a friend again. I still didn’t want to, so I gave him the money, but he didn’t want the money, he just wanted to add me as a friend. Then I quickly called a car and came out, and he chased after me to pester me.”

The yellow-haired man hiccupped and said, “I bought you the bill, why are you still pretending to be noble? I gave you face, didn’t I?”

Yang Chen: “There’s no need to waste words with this kind of rogue, just call the police.”

The girl nodded and took out her phone to call the police.

The yellow-haired man panicked immediately, pointed at the girl, and threatened, “Dare to call the police, I’ll kill your whole family! And you, just drive your car, why are you meddling?”

Yang Chen kicked him away and said, “Keep your mouth clean; if you dare to curse again, I’ll pull out your front teeth!”

This kick directly kicked the yellow-haired man away, which shows how powerful it was.

The yellow-haired man hit the roadside ornamental tree and didn’t respond for a while.

The girl panicked immediately and quickly hung up the dialed police call.

“Brother, you kicked a little hard, let’s not call the police, otherwise what if the police come and take you away? Call an ambulance, he doesn’t seem to be moving,” the girl said.

Yang Chen: “No need to call an ambulance, just call the police.”

Girl: “Brother, calling the police may cause you trouble. Why don’t you leave, and I’ll stay and deal with it.”

Yang Chen: “If something really happens to him, it’s useless for me to leave now, the police will still find me. If he’s okay, then I don’t need to leave.”

While the two were talking, the yellow-haired man woke up.

They have no chance to work hard. In this era, it is also a kind of luck to have the opportunity to climb up through their own efforts.

Yang Chen: “What’s your name and what do you do?”

Girl: “My name is Liu Jingyi, and I’m a nurse.”

Yang Chen: “That’s a hard job, and there are many backdoors [connections or influence]. If the performance is not very good, it is really difficult to stay in a big hospital. Which school did you graduate from?”

Liu Jingyi: “Shuangdan University School of Medicine [a top-tier university in China].”

Yang Chen: “Ah? That’s a double first-class university [China’s initiative to develop world-class universities]. Graduates from this school can dominate all the major hospitals. You don’t need to be too nervous, really. If you say you are a clinical major, it may be difficult for undergraduates to find a job, but you are a nursing major and graduated from this school, you can find a job with your eyes closed.”

Liu Jingyi: “But I want to enter Longmei International Hospital. The competition there is too fierce, and they are all graduates from famous universities. If it is an ordinary tertiary hospital, then I really don’t have to worry too much.”

Yang Chen: “Oh, I see. As far as I know, Longmei Hospital does have very high requirements. The starting point for nursing majors must be graduates from 211 and 985 universities [top-tier universities in China]. However, you don’t need to worry too much, your hard work will definitely be rewarded. I guarantee that you will definitely be able to stay, believe in yourself.”

Liu Jingyi smiled sweetly and said, “Thank you for your blessings, brother. I hope I can stay. Can we add each other as friends? If I am officially hired by Longmei Hospital, I will treat you to dinner.”

Yang Chen: “Okay! I’ll add you when we get there.”

Liu Jingyi nodded happily, breathed a sigh of relief, and calmed down.

A moment later, they arrived at their destination.

Yang Chen parked the car and added Liu Jingyi as a friend.

Liu Jingyi: “Brother, what’s your name? My name is Liu Jingyi.”

Yang Chen: “My name is Yang Chen.”

Liu Jingyi: “Yang Chen? Haha… Really? Same name as Boss Yang [referring to Yang Chen himself].”

Yang Chen: “Yes, it’s a coincidence.”

Yang Chen smiled and put away his phone, picked up the cash on the dashboard, and stuffed it back into Liu Jingyi’s bag.

Liu Jingyi quickly opened the bag and wanted to take the money out and give it to Yang Chen again, and said, “Brother, don’t dislike it, take it first. If you use it, it’s a little bit of my heart. If you don’t use it, then of course it’s a good thing. When I get a regular job, I’ll treat you to dinner, and you can give it back to me. That’s settled, bye, my roommates are waiting for me, I have to go find them.”

After speaking, Liu Jingyi opened the car door and ran away.

Yang Chen wanted to chase after her, but he couldn’t park here for a long time, so he had no choice but to give up and changed to transferring the money back to Liu Jingyi in the form of WeChat transfer.

Yang Chen was about to continue taking orders when Qiu Tian called him.

Yang Chen: “Hello, Xiaotian.”

Qiu Tian: “Brother Chen, the person Zhang Qiang and the others asked the intelligence department to investigate is a bit unclean. He spent more than ten years in detention centers and prisons for fighting, intentional injury, robbery, and drug use. He just came out last year and went to Macau as soon as he came out. He came back yesterday, and some of the people with him are from local gangs in Macau. This kid is very vigilant. He doesn’t click on the links sent to him by the intelligence department. Now the intelligence department is trying other methods to invade his mobile phone to see who he is in contact with. I will report to you immediately when there is more definite news. But you must be careful and don’t run around outside alone.”

Yang Chen: “Damn! I said why he was so arrogant. Okay, I got it.”

Qiu Tian: “Okay. Hanging up.”

Originally, Yang Chen wanted to take two more orders, but now he gave up the idea.

The yellow-haired man said that he remembered Yang Chen’s license plate number, and he came with members of the local gang in Macau. If they really blocked him, it might be dangerous.

If it’s a bare-handed fight, Yang Chen is naturally not afraid of anyone, even if there are ten or eight of them, he is not afraid.

But if the other party has weapons, that’s another matter.

For safety’s sake, he won’t pick up passengers anymore. He’ll go to Xingchen Investment and wait for the US stock market to open.

United States, Apple headquarters.

Today, Apple will hold an online conference. Kurk [likely a stand-in for Tim Cook] came to the company early in the morning to supervise the employees to prepare.

Affected by Longwei’s [Huawei’s brand name in the story] mate60Pro and the ban on Longguo [China] civil servants, Apple’s stock price has been falling for the past few days.

The shareholders are all anxious, and everyone is pinning their hopes on this new product launch, hoping that this new product launch can drive Apple’s stock price to rise.

Not long after, the US stock market opened.

Unsurprisingly, Apple’s stock opened lower again.

Subsequently, Apple’s online conference began.

This year’s conference uses a video splicing model, which is to shoot a video of the person in charge of different departments introducing the performance of the new product, and then splice these videos together to make a conference.

But the normal press conference can be said to have no highlights, and it is constantly emphasizing “environmental protection”.

Now investors can’t stand it anymore and directly vote with their feet to sell Apple’s stock. Before the press conference is over, Apple’s stock price has been beaten to 173 US dollars per share. Compared with the 198 US dollars per share before Yang Chen shorted it, it has fallen by 25 US dollars per share in less than a week, and the market value has also fallen by 400 billion US dollars.

At this time, Buffett [Warren Buffett], who was watching the market, frowned.

Since he started buying Apple stock 7 years ago, Berkshire [Berkshire Hathaway] has invested 54% of its investment in Apple so far.

Therefore, Buffett is anxious to see Apple fall like this.

But he can’t do anything now, because Longwei’s return as king must take back some market, and Apple’s stock price must fall to a reasonable level.

As an experienced investor, Buffett can accept Apple’s stock price falling.

But what he cannot accept is that Apple’s future prospects are terrible.

Buffett is very opposed to Kurk moving Apple’s production line to India, because the industrial base and worker quality there cannot be compared with Longguo. The fact that the yield of Apple 15 is only 50% is the best proof.

As Longguo people become more and more sober, the sales of Apple mobile phones in Longguo will definitely decline significantly.

Previously, Longwei Company encountered difficulties, but the Longguo government did not take reciprocal measures against Apple. The only reason was that Apple’s production line was in Longguo, and Longguo could still make money through Apple’s production line and solve the employment problem of a large number of workers.

As Apple gradually moves its production line to India, Longguo will no longer be able to obtain sufficient revenue, so now Longguo’s attitude towards Apple is becoming more and more tough. Not allowing civil servants to use Apple mobile phones is the first step.

Buffett believes that as the production line in India expands, Longguo will eventually take reciprocal measures against Apple.

At that time, Apple mobile phones will lose their largest market, and annual shipments will be reduced by tens of millions. It will be impossible to maintain a market value of more than two trillion US dollars.

Therefore, Buffett is now struggling whether to clear his position and leave or continue to wait and see if the situation improves.

While Buffett was thinking, the secretary rushed in.

“Mr. Buffett, something bad is happening. Xingchen Investment has released a short-selling report on Qualcomm, Nvidia, and Intel! These three companies all have our shares, and we may be in big trouble,” the secretary reported anxiously.

Buffett suddenly woke up and said, “What? Shorting three companies at once? What does he want to do!”

Buffett quickly turned on the computer and carefully checked Xingchen Investment’s short-selling reports on Qualcomm, Nvidia, and Intel.

Buffett: “Alas… it was in my expectation. When the quantum chip came out, I guessed there would be such a day. The chips produced by Longxin International [Chinese semiconductor manufacturer] before were all for domestic use in Longguo. After more than a year of preparation, they can now be mass-produced and supplied to foreign markets. The global chip market is so big. Longxin International has contracted the 300 billion US dollar market in Longguo every year. Now Longxin International is going to come out and compete with Qualcomm and others for the international market, which means that the profits of old chip manufacturers will definitely decline significantly. Yang Chen is really ruthless. Our three major chip factories are being shorted by him at the same time. Not only can he make money, but he can also strike a blow to our country’s chip market, and he can also make Longguo’s chip industry proud.”

Secretary: “Then what should we do now? Do we want to fight him?”

Buffett: “Fight him? How to fight him? No one can do anything. Forget it, forget it, quickly take advantage of the fact that we are still profitable and clear the stocks of these three companies.”

At this time, the president’s office of the Lion Fund.

The secretary is reporting to President Phil Tass on the situation of Xingchen Investment shorting Qualcomm and other companies.

Phil Tass frowned and said, “This Yang Chen is really difficult to deal with! Our shorting of Longgai [Chinese stocks] stocks has not been successful yet, and he has shorted Apple and then shorted Qualcomm, Nvidia, and Intel at the same time. If he succeeds in shorting these three companies, we will lose face and become the laughing stock of the world. In this way, you quickly contact other companies, and we will issue a research report together, bullish on Qualcomm and other companies, and use our reputation and authority to give investors confidence. We must protect the stock prices of these three companies. Do it immediately, don’t delay for a second.”

The secretary nodded and quickly contacted the teammates of the short-selling alliance to issue a research report.

At this time, Xingchen Investment.

Jin Ming: “President Yang, there should be no problem, the stock prices of those three companies are steadily falling.”

Yang Chen: “Okay. Everyone has worked hard. It’s getting late, everyone go home and rest. Tomorrow is the 29th, everyone can stand on the last shift and go home for the New Year.”

The employees immediately clapped and cheered, and they can receive the award tomorrow night.

Yang Chen waved goodbye to the employees and left the company.

As soon as he left the building, Qiu Tian called him.

Yang Chen: “Hello, Xiaotian, what’s the matter?”

Qiu Tian: “Brother Chen, the intelligence department has successfully invaded the yellow-haired man’s mobile phone and found many secrets. Is it convenient for you to receive the file now? I’ll send it to you on WeChat.”

Yang Chen: “Yes. Send it here.”

Qiu Tian: “Okay.”

Yang Chen got into the car and locked the doors and windows.

Qiu Tian sent a document, and Yang Chen quickly opened it to take a look.

The yellow-haired man’s name is Liu Kang. He has been a frequent visitor to detention centers since he was 15 years old. He has done everything from fighting, molesting women, robbing, stealing, etc.

Restricted by the “Law on the Protection of Minors”, the law has not dealt with him.

As soon as he turned 18, this guy raped a girl. Because of the serious nature of the crime, he was imprisoned for 5 years.

After coming out, he still didn’t change and started doing his old tricks again. He spent more than 300 days a year in the detention center. The second year, he was sent to prison again for burglary.

Because it involved crimes such as burglary and he was a repeat offender, he was sentenced to ten years.

He met a person named Huang Fei in prison. After being released from prison, he went to Macau with Huang Fei.

This Huang Fei is very powerful. He is a member of the Macau Big Circle Gang [a Triad organized crime group].

In the past, there were often figures of the Big Circle Gang in Hong Kong police and gangster films. Huang Fei is this kind of person.

Huang Fei and Liu Kang and his gang came back with a mission. Their goal is to kidnap Huang Chaoxin, the daughter of Huang Hongsen, chairman of Macau Entertainment Group.

Yang Chen has never even met Huang Hongsen and doesn’t want to care about their family’s affairs.

At this time, Qiu Tian called.

Yang Chen: “Hello, Xiaotian.”

Qiu Tian: “Brother Chen, something bad is happening. Just now we tracked Liu Kang and his gang to star-bar. Huang Chaoxin and Ren Nana and others are drinking there.”

Yang Chen: “Ah? Quickly send someone to deal with them, I’m rushing over now. Damn, I just told President Ren at noon that I would protect Miss Ren’s safety in Haicheng, and something big is about to happen.”

Qiu Tian: “Okay, I’ll send someone to deal with them right away. Brother Chen, don’t take any risks.”

Yang Chen: “It’s okay, I know what to do.”

Yang Chen didn’t see a life countdown for himself and Ren Nana, which means they won’t be in any life-threatening danger.

Hanging up the phone, Yang Chen quickly called Ren Nana, while starting the car and heading towards star-bar.