Chapter 3 Section 3 Internal Contradictions Are Increasingly Sharp

When the "4.20" task force settled in Xiamen and began to strictly investigate the smuggling and corruption cases of Yuanhua Group, some people in Xiamen privately discussed that if the vice president of Yuanhua Group had not turned against Lai Changxing and reported to the central government, the smuggling insider might always be a secret.This kind of statement only reflects the accidental side of the incident. When members of the task force chatted with local ordinary people in Xiamen, they heard them complain: Yuanhua smuggling is an open secret.It would be better to check it earlier, so that so many people will not be involved!

Indeed, at that time, Xiamen Island was full of boats and boats, and the land was full of traffic; merchants gathered, and the hustle and bustle was all for profit.The Lai Changxing Group controls the "customs clearance" channel, and then controls the smuggling activities in the entire area of ​​Xiamen Island, which is also a rare and typical phenomenon in the whole country.The reason is that Lai Changxing weaves a huge network of power allocation with various means to satisfy people's desires.The smuggling market in Xiamen is booming, and its influence has radiated across the country.

The Yuanhua Group focused on money as a corrosive agent, which not only corrupted the civil servants and the camp of state-owned enterprise officials, but also corrupted the internal personnel of the company.In particular, the key members of the Yuanhua Group's top management responsible for smuggling, while corrupting others, their own corruption is getting worse.It can be described as feasting and feasting, drunkenness, playing with women into a sea of ​​desire, and gambling all night to get addicted to excitement.And it all comes down to money.Over time, the phenomenon of intrigue and mutual rivalry within the group has become more and more serious.Some backbone smugglers have become accustomed to smuggling a few tickets on their own behind the back of Lai Changxing. After the Spring Festival in 1999, Lai Changxing talked about his worries with his close friends many times: "Hou Xiaohu (the vice president of the group) has a big heart, and they only get money out of their own pockets. They are very public outside. Karaoke hall Li gave the lady a tip of 2,000 yuan. If there is a problem, the company has to come forward to settle it.

Lai Shuiqiang and Lai Changtu once stated indignantly: "Where is Yuanhua's surname Lai? The Zeng family controls the financial power. Yuanhua's money is in their hands. There are also people from the customs such as Hou Xiaohu, Wang Shuangmin, and Wang Taicheng. Both made hundreds of millions of dollars!" The words of the two Lai brothers at least reflected from one aspect that the rivalry of interests in the Yuanhua Group has become incandescent.Sooner or later, the conflict between them will break out.Among Lai Changxing's smuggling backbones, the reason for the increasing centrifugal tendencies is that they themselves believe that smuggling with their lives is not worth what they get.The vice-president ×××, who has a lot of criticisms about Lai, also told his close friends about Lai's greed: "The oil business was introduced to Lai Fat by me and the boss of Kaiyuan Company. It was originally agreed to be 50-50%, but Lai is not trustworthy, and the actual 30% is 70%. We also admitted it, but the 30% Lai often procrastinates on paying the bill."

Therefore, with the expansion of smuggling profits, the conflict of interest between Lai's group and the smuggling gang controlled by him has become increasingly acute.Lai Changxing was able to push his smuggling "career" to the peak, relying on a network of relationships made of money, and he indulged in the power resources in the hands of government officials bought for him in the network. Li Jizhou, the former deputy minister of the Ministry of Public Security, is one of the important figures in the network. He accepted huge bribes from Lai Changxing, and used his power to escort Lai many times and illegally interfere with the investigation of law enforcement agencies. In 1996, through his connections, Li ordered Shenzhen Customs to release a illicit cargo ship worth 120 million yuan that was seized by Lai Changxing.When the ship arrived in Xiamen, it went through the fake re-export procedures through the relationship of Yang Qianxian, and re-exported to the Philippines empty ship.The smuggled goods such as automobiles, chemical raw materials, and computers were kept in the country for sale.

Ji Shengde, the person in charge of an intelligence department of the army, once affiliated Yuanhua Company as an enterprise in the ministry to provide strong backing for Lai's smuggling. These are two important figures who have fallen into the law and their crimes have been publicized in the newspapers.Back when Lai Changxing smuggled his "career" glory, he borrowed a lot of power and convenience from these two figures.Such a high-level power holder can be played by Lai Changxing in the palm of his hand. Ordinary people will be dumbfounded by the fact that no matter how rich their imagination is!