How A Ride-Hailing Driver Comes To Dominate The World? [EN]: Chapter 615

615. Discharging Sewage into the Sea? I am Firmly Opposed!

This matter concerns the life, health, and safety of all humanity, and it shouldn’t even be up for discussion.

Yang Chen immediately and clearly refused, saying, “Yoshino, this matter doesn’t need to be discussed in a shareholders’ meeting. I absolutely disagree with the discharge.”

Yoshino Junichiro: “Mr. Yang, we have too much sewage, and we can’t store it anymore. We have no choice but to discharge it. Rest assured, we process everything with high technology before discharge, ensuring it meets international standards. If you’re worried about radiation, I can assure you there’s no need. We have inspection reports from the International Atomic Energy Agency [IAEA, the UN’s nuclear watchdog], guaranteeing no harm to the ocean or human health. We are a country surrounded by the sea, and its importance to us is self-evident. How could we harm ourselves? Don’t you think so?”

Yang Chen: “If it’s harmless, you can drink it yourselves. Why discharge it? Use it to irrigate your farmers’ lands and for your people’s daily use. That little bit of water will be used up quickly, so why discharge it into the sea?”

Yoshino Junichiro: “…”

If the sewage is safe, why discharge it into the sea?

Yoshino’s inability to answer such a simple question is enough to show that the sewage discharged by Toden Group is not safe.

Do they think that buying off the International Atomic Energy Agency to modify data reports will make it a legal basis for harming all of humanity?

Yang Chen: “What’s wrong? Speechless? My attitude is clear: I will not agree to your sewage discharge.”

Yoshino Junichiro: “Mr. Yang, we respect you, and we hope you can respect us. Even if you disagree, if other shareholders agree, the decision can still pass. Even if all shareholders disagree, we can still make the discharge decision through policy means. In short, that sewage must be discharged into the sea. No one can stop it.”

Yang Chen: “Then why the hell are you discussing it with me!”

Yoshino Junichiro: “Mr. Yang spent so much money acquiring our group’s stock, so of course, we must express sufficient respect to you. We hope Mr. Yang can also respect us and agree with our discharge plan.”

Yang Chen: “This isn’t respecting me; you’re trying to harm me. I don’t want to become a demon who endangers the health and safety of all humanity. I will attend the shareholders’ meeting via video, and I will definitely vote against it. I’m hanging up; I have things to do.”

Yoshino Junichiro hung up the phone in anger, muttering some unpleasant words.

Yang Chen holds 38% of the shares in Toden Group. If he is determined to veto the sewage discharge plan at the shareholders’ meeting, according to company law, this proposal really cannot pass.

However, Toden Group has already stored too much contaminated water, and there is not enough space to continue storing it.

There are only three methods available.

First, distribute the water to the citizens for use, but this is undoubtedly murder.

Second, discharge it into the sea, transferring it to all of humanity for “sharing,” using the vast ocean to dilute the contaminated water and reduce the harm to the island nation itself, but this will harm all of humanity.

Third, detonate a hydrogen bomb to remove the polluting elements in the contaminated water through a fusion reaction.

Obviously, the second option is the most beneficial for the island nation among these three options.

In fact, Toden Group has been preparing for the sewage discharge into the sea for a long time and has already laid the discharge pipelines.

They can be said to be determined to proceed. According to their previous plan, the shareholders’ meeting was just a formality.

However, they really did not expect that Yang Chen would acquire 38% of Toden Group’s shares at this critical moment, disrupting their entire plan.

If the proposal cannot be passed at the shareholders’ meeting, then the island nation’s government can only come forward and order the sewage discharge through national policy, which will elevate it from the level of an enterprise of Toden Group to the level of the island nation, and the consequences will definitely be more serious.

Yoshino Junichiro hesitated for a moment and called Chris Le, the president of BlackRock Group in the United States, the real major shareholder of the company.

BlackRock Group controls more than 8 trillion USD in assets globally, involving almost all industries.

Recently, this company took over all state-owned enterprises in Ukraine for free, which made them very happy.

They have also invested in many companies in Dragon Country [China], such as Qiandu [Baidu], Meituan, Ali [Alibaba], Penguin [Tencent], NetEase, Ideal, Weilai [Nio], Xiaopeng [Xpeng], Dami [Xiaomi], Fantasy Computer [Lenovo], Hengda [Evergrande], Country Garden, and Rongchuang.

From their investment list, it can be seen that ordinary enterprises cannot catch their eye; they must be big-name star enterprises.

This also means that they have great influence in countries all over the world, and even in some small countries, they can influence national policies.

The call connected.

Chris Le: “Hello, Mr. Yoshino, what’s the matter?”

Yoshino Junichiro: “Mr. Chris Le, there may be changes regarding our group’s sewage discharge into the sea. Yang Chen, who just acquired 38% of our company’s shares, told me just now that he will definitely veto this proposal. There is no need to discuss this matter at tomorrow’s shareholders’ meeting; it will definitely not pass with him. What should we do now?”

Chris Le: “Yang Chen? Which Yang Chen? The Yang Chen of Xingchen Investment in Dragon Country?”

Yoshino Junichiro: “Yes! That’s him! The one who just beat Goldman Sachs into submission and is still fighting against the Wall Street alliance such as the Lion Fund.”

Chris Le: “Oh, it’s him! He is indeed a character. Now everyone on Wall Street is discussing him when they have nothing to do. This kid’s investment vision is too unique. Whether Xingchen Investment goes long or short, it has never failed, simply treating the world’s stock and futures markets as ATMs. I didn’t expect him to acquire shares in Toden Group. It seems he is here to stop the sewage discharge into the sea.”

Yoshino Junichiro: “Who says otherwise! We have completed all the preparations, and the arrow is on the string and must be released. How can we cancel the plan just because he is stopping it?”

Chris Le: “But according to the law, if he really votes against it, this proposal really cannot pass. If you don’t recognize his shares, it’s equivalent to not recognizing the rights of all shareholders. If you target him alone, he can completely sue you under WTO [World Trade Organization] rules.”

Yoshino Junichiro: “My idea is, can Mr. Chris Le talk to him personally? BlackRock Group controls more than 8 trillion USD in wealth globally. He will definitely give you face. Besides, BlackRock has invested in so many large enterprises in Dragon Country. Even if he doesn’t give you face, he has to give the bosses of those enterprises face, right? So, I think as long as Mr. Chris Le calls him and says a few words, he will definitely agree to this plan.”

Chris Le: “Okay, send me his number, and I will talk to him personally.”

Yoshino Junichiro: “Okay, I will send it to you immediately.”

Since sewage discharge into the sea will bring unpredictable disasters to all mankind, and even the high-level executives of BlackRock Group will inevitably be affected, why would Chris Le actively promote this plan?

There are two reasons.

First, they are not afraid.

A few months ago, the World Health Organization [WHO] had already issued a reminder, recommending that all countries in the world store anti-radiation drugs, including stable iodine, Prussian blue, cytokines, and other drugs for treating vomiting, diarrhea, and infections.

In other words, wealthy people can have sufficient drugs to alleviate or even treat the possible consequences of pollution.

To put it bluntly, they can afford to eat these things as meals every day.

But ordinary people are different.

For example, this Prussian blue, ten years ago, Dragon Country’s national reserve was only 200 tablets. In that year, a family in Chuan Province suffered thallium poisoning, and 100 tablets of the national reserve of Prussian blue were urgently used to save their lives.

With the development of industry and technology, the situation will definitely improve now, but the price is still not affordable for ordinary people.

For example, Prussian blue bottled granules produced by a US pharmaceutical company, 0.5 grams in a bottle of 60 capsules, sells for 98 USD locally in the United States.

According to past experience, once pollution really causes large-scale serious consequences, this drug will definitely skyrocket, and it would be good to be able to buy a bottle for 1,000 USD.

For ordinary people, how many families can afford to take this drug for a long time to fight pollution?

So, the result is that wealthy people suffer very little harm, but ordinary people will suffer from diseases on a large scale, and even die.

The second reason is actually the same as the first reason.

Once the pollution spreads and causes very serious consequences,

people all over the world will have to buy these drugs for prevention and treatment, which will definitely become another gluttonous feast for global pharmaceutical giants.

BlackRock Group has invested in Pfizer and many other top pharmaceutical companies, and these pharmaceutical companies have absolute say in markets other than Dragon Country.

Once pollution causes serious consequences, they can lie down and count the money.

Some people may ask, do these people still have humanity?

In their view, 20% of the white race in the world created all the wealth, and the remaining 80% of the people can only live by their grace, and living is wasting natural resources.

In order to eliminate the population that wastes resources in their eyes, they will even actively develop viruses that do not exist in nature and release them into nature for human infection.

First, they can make and sell antidotes to make money, and second, the garbage population in their eyes will decrease wave after wave.

Once the polluted water is discharged into the sea and causes large-scale harm, billions of people around the world will suffer from cancer, and the era of pharmaceutical giants lying down to make money will come, and the shareholders who invested in these pharmaceutical giants will also make a lot of money.

Therefore, Chris Le will spare no effort to promote the sewage discharge plan.

Even if Yang Chen, who has caused major losses to many Wall Street giants, tries to stop it, he has to find a way to persuade him.

Yang Chen had just finished acupuncture for Aunt Liu when Chris Le’s call came.

Just now it was a number from an island nation,

and now it’s a number from the United States. Why is he suddenly so busy today?

Yang Chen answered the phone and said, “Hello.”

Chris Le quickly greeted him and introduced himself.

Yang Chen: “Oh, did Yoshino ask you to call me?”

Chris Le: “Haha… Mr. Yang is right. It was indeed Mr. Yoshino who called me and said that Mr. Yang, you are going to veto the sewage discharge plan, so I called to have a good chat with Mr. Yang.”

Yang Chen: “There’s nothing to talk about. I will never agree. I know what you’re thinking. You can afford anti-radiation drugs and are not afraid of death, and you have invested in so many pharmaceutical companies. As long as the discharge causes serious harm, you can make a lot of money and satisfy your white people’s ’80/20 rule’ elimination plan. But I can clearly tell you that there is no room for negotiation on this matter with me. I will bet everything I have and absolutely will not let you succeed. You descendants of robbers are just lacking in cultural heritage and don’t know what it means to ‘a gentleman loves money, but earns it in a proper way,’ or what it means to ‘build a broad mansion with thousands of rooms to shelter all the poor and make them happy.’ You don’t have this kind of mind and humanity, but I do. Don’t even think about making me collude with you.”

Good heavens, Chris Le prepared so many arguments, but before he could say a word, Yang Chen scolded him so badly that he didn’t know what to say.

However, now that he had made the call, he had to say what was on his mind.

Chris Le: “Mr. Yang is really too aggressive. Today, we are not discussing the differences in our values, but just discussing the discharge plan on its merits…”

Yang Chen immediately interrupted: “No need to discuss. There is no room for negotiation on this. I’m hanging up; I have things to do.”

Chris Le wanted to continue persuading him, but Yang Chen hung up the phone directly.

This is really freaking unbelievable. How can there be such a stubborn person?

Chris Le didn’t believe it. Is there anyone in this world who dislikes having too much money?

If there is, it must be because they don’t have enough money.

With this thought, Chris Le called Yang Chen again.

Chris Le: “Mr. Yang, don’t hang up the phone. Let me finish. From the conversation just now, I can see that Mr. Yang is a straightforward person, so I will be straightforward and not beat around the bush. As long as Mr. Yang agrees to the discharge plan, I can introduce Mr. Yang to invest in international pharmaceutical giants such as Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, and Bayer. In this way, we are not afraid of what consequences it will bring, but afraid that it will not bring serious consequences. The more serious the consequences, the more money we make. Mr. Yang, just start thinking and imagine what it would be like to earn 10 million USD as soon as you open your eyes every day? Does what you insist on, ‘build a broad mansion with thousands of rooms to shelter all the poor and make them happy,’ still have any meaning?”

Yang Chen: “Who the hell are you looking down on? If I earn less than 100 million USD as soon as I open my eyes, I have to blame myself for making a wrong decision and whether the employees are being lazy. You want me to imagine the experience of earning 10 million USD a day? How can my experience be good? Damn it!”

Chris Le: “…”

Although BlackRock manages more than 8 trillion USD in assets, their role is “investment management,” not really owning these assets. The company’s last year’s net profit was 4.5 billion USD, so Chris Le’s perception is that earning 10 million USD a day is the ceiling.

But he didn’t know that the money earned by Yang Chen’s company, plus the dividends from invested companies, means that an average daily net profit of less than 100 million USD is considered a loss for the year.

For example, Xingchen Investment recently counter-sniped the Goldman Sachs Group’s short selling of gold, and in just half a month, it made a net profit of more than 5 billion USD through the stock and futures markets. This is after deducting the gold bars and gold bricks purchased by Yang Chen and Wang Jia Yi.

Chris Le actually used earning 10 million USD a day to lure Yang Chen, which is really ridiculous.

Since money cannot lure Yang Chen, then connections and status can always lure him, right?

Chris Le continued: “Okay. I can also use BlackRock’s relationships in more than 30 countries and regions around the world to help Mr. Yang expand his business and network, and help Mr. Yang enter the markets of these countries.”

Yang Chen: “Not at all. As long as my technology and products are advanced enough, other countries will line up to do business with me. I don’t need to personally enter those markets. Including your United States, other countries are still queuing up to ask us for more quantum chips. Do you think I need to use your relationship to enter the US market?”

Chris Le: “…”

He couldn’t find any bargaining chips to lure him?

Let’s be sincere.

Chris Le: “Mr. Yang, we really need you to agree to the discharge plan. In this way, you set a condition. As long as we can meet your requirements, we will definitely not refuse.”

Yang Chen: “I have made it very clear that there is no room for negotiation on this matter.”

Chris Le: “Okay! Then there’s nothing to say. However, I still have to tell Mr. Yang that you cannot stop Toden Group’s discharge plan.”

Yang Chen: “Then we’ll see!”

Chris Le sneered and hung up the phone.

As Yoshino and Chris Le said, if Yang Chen, as the second largest shareholder, prevents the discharge plan, they can only start from the national level.

In short, the discharge plan is imperative, and no one can stop it.

Yang Chen never fights a battle without being sure of victory. He immediately called Zhao He, the director of Xingchen Machinery Factory under Xingchen Defense Group.

Yang Chen: “Director Zhao, is our ‘Wind Control Technique’ ready?”

Zhao He: “It’s been ready for a long time. We are just waiting for Mr. Yang’s order, and we can take it out for testing.”

Yang Chen: “Okay! You prepare now. After nine o’clock tomorrow morning, I will send you a message. Upon receiving my message, you immediately create a typhoon near Fukushima, Japan. The power doesn’t need to be too great, just enough to cause seawater backflow.”

Zhao He: “Okay, no problem! However, Mr. Yang, we have only tested level 8 winds on a small scale before, and we have not officially tested typhoons above level 12. It may not meet the requirements, or it may exceed the control range.”

Yang Chen: “It doesn’t matter. We are doing experiments. How can we succeed in one go? We are new technology, and a little error is normal. Anyway, it’s not our place, so who cares if it exceeds the standard.”

Zhao He: “Haha… I understand. I will call people to prepare now.”

Yang Chen: “Okay!”

They want to discharge into the sea?

I’ll let the seawater flow back to see if they dare to discharge into the sea.

This BlackRock seems to be quite arrogant. Yang Chen doesn’t like them very much.

Yang Chen called Jin Ming again and said, “Jin Ming, Happy Lantern Festival.”

Jin Ming: “Thank you, Mr. Yang, and Happy Lantern Festival to you too. Do you have any instructions?”

Yang Chen: “It’s like this, check which companies BlackRock has invested in our country, which funds it controls, and which stocks these funds have invested in. Don’t miss a single one. Find out everything and report it to me.”

Jin Ming: “Okay! I’ll check it right away. It’s a holiday today, and some information needs to be inquired from other colleagues, so it may not be so fast. Are you in a hurry for this information?”

Yang Chen: “Not very urgent, just as soon as possible.”

Jin Ming: “Okay, I’ll do it as soon as possible.”

Yang Chen: “Okay. I’m hanging up; I’m busy here.”

Jin Ming: “Okay.”

After finding out which companies the funds controlled by BlackRock have invested in Dragon Country, Yang Chen will teach them a good lesson.

After resting for a while, Yang Chen and Liu Naixin started filming again.

Many people are on vacation today, and there are many people traveling, so there are naturally more cases of violating traffic regulations. The two filmed more than a dozen in the afternoon.

However, even if they filmed so much, there were no special tasks.

Yang Chen was too tired in the afternoon, so he didn’t want to drive anymore at night. After sending Liu Naixin home, he went straight home.

Yu Shishi went home to spend the holiday with her family, and Yang Chen felt quite lonely guarding the empty villa alone.

With nothing to do, let’s browse Douyin [TikTok in China].

Today is the Lantern Festival, and whether it’s public accounts, big and small internet celebrity anchors, or ordinary users, they are all posting videos of family reunions, which made Yang Chen feel even more lonely.

“No, I have to have children early to make the family lively. What’s the point of living alone?” Yang Chen said to himself.

He usually doesn’t feel anything when he’s alone, but when it comes to the Lantern Festival with thousands of lights, the loneliness of being alone becomes unbearable.

Yang Chen continued to browse videos, and Douyin pushed a music anchor to him. Yang Chen was immediately attracted by her heroic appearance.

He saw her dressed as Dongfang Bubai [an iconic androgynous character from wuxia fiction], playing “A Man Should Be Self-Reliant” [a popular patriotic song] with a guzheng [a Chinese plucked zither], which looked really cool.

It’s been the rule since ancient times to reward those you are satisfied with.

Yang Chen swiped ten carnivals [expensive virtual gifts on Douyin] in one breath, and the live broadcast room instantly became lively.

“Oh my god, Boss Immortal Star has appeared again!”

“Is this just pure liking, or is this anchor going to die?”

“Anchor, Boss Immortal Star has given you a gift, you quickly ask him if he just likes you, or if you are going to die.”

…

However, the anchor was only focused on playing the guzheng and didn’t look at the comments.

After she finished playing this song “A Man Should Be Self-Reliant,” she looked up at the comments.

Seeing the comments in the live broadcast room refreshing at a speed that the naked eye couldn’t capture, the anchor was obviously shocked.

Looking closely at the real-time online number of people, it was actually 100,000+, and she was immediately confused.

“Oh my, am I popular? Why are there so many people tonight?” the anchor said with a puzzled look.

She quickly swiped through the comments to see, and then she realized that Boss Immortal Star had come and given her 10 carnivals.

Anchor: “Boss Immortal Star, thank you for the carnival. Everyone is asking me if you just like my guzheng playing, or if I’m going to die. Ah? Why am I going to die? How can you curse me to die on this big holiday? Are the tens of thousands of people who came here tonight all here to curse me to die?”

Comments.

“Haha… Whoever Boss Immortal Star pays attention to has to die. Unless he just likes them. Last time, Yang Da Mi was paid attention to, and she was so scared that she almost cried. You should quickly ask Boss Immortal Star if he likes you or if he sees that you are going to die.”

“Many of the internet celebrities that Boss Immortal Star has paid attention to have died. After they died, he unfollowed them. So far, only Yang Da Mi is an exception. After he paid attention to Yang Da Mi, Yang Da Mi didn’t die.”

“Yang Da Mi is a celebrity, so it’s understandable that Boss Immortal Star is following her as a fan. But all the internet celebrities he has paid attention to have died without exception. The anchor is an internet celebrity, so she should die soon.”

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