Chapter 83 Chapter 83

In September 1997, Lai Changxing and Zeng Mingna reissued their marriage certificates.After all, time is not forgiving, and Zeng Mingna, who is about to turn 40, suddenly cared about the so-called status. The central government decided to set up a task force to investigate and deal with Yuanhua. Lai Changxing was distraught and lucky, seeing that the situation was irreversible, he fled in a hurry.Zeng Mingna naturally followed her into exile.When absconding in fear of crime, she took away many core confidential documents of the Yuanhua Group and many domestic and foreign bank accounts with locked passwords, which brought many difficulties to the investigation work of the special case team.Due to the failure of some accounts to be frozen, the statistics and sealing of Yuanhua Group's assets have been greatly "reduced", and the country's huge losses are difficult to recover in full.

Lai Changbiao plays an important role in the group, and he holds the important position of executive director.Lai Changxing made public appearances all day long, struggling to weave a network of relationships.He is in charge of the internal affairs and participates in the overall planning of the company's smuggling business.He is decisive and has high prestige in the company.Cigarette smuggling is the highlight of Yuanhua, and Lai Changbiao is responsible for the specific planning and behind-the-scenes manipulation. Now, Lai Changbiao has become a vegetative state that is both closed and dormant.

Of course, all this is inseparable from Zeng Mingyu, another great leader of Yuanhua.Since the two families of Lai and Zeng are married, their power should be equally divided.Lai Changxing originally arranged for his brother-in-law to be the executive director of Yuanhua in Hong Kong. As the smuggling business in Xiamen Yuanhua became more and more prosperous, the business of the stall in Hong Kong became increasingly sluggish.The siblings cooperated internally and externally, and in September 1998, Zeng Mingyu successfully usurped the throne and seized power.Zeng Mingyu is recognized as a figure in the "young faction" of Yuanhua Group and a hegemonist.After he himself served as the executive director of Hong Kong and Xiamen Yuanhua, the smuggling activities of the Yuanhua Group have reached their peak.

In the struggle between family powers, Lai Changbiao, who has been left behind in power, is naturally unbalanced. He drinks heavily every day, frequently goes to entertainment venues, and gets drunk with young ladies. One night before the Spring Festival in 1999, Lai Changbiao and a group of followers went to a nightclub in Xiamen to seek stimulation from the opposite sex.In the karaoke hall, Lai and another gangster quarreled endlessly over a beautiful girl, and then they fought violently.In the panic and chaos, Lai Changbiao's bodyguards took beer bottles and danced wildly.When the wine bottle fell heavily on Lai Changbiao's head, the bodyguard realized that he had hit his owner by mistake, but it was too late. His face turned ashen, and he knelt down to beg for mercy on the spot. He was so frightened that he lost control of his urine.

The bodyguard disappeared mysteriously the next day. Regarding this point, some people speculated that Lai Changxing sent someone to kill him to vent his personal anger, and some people said that he had already fled before the Lai family took revenge.There are various versions of the saying, in short, more bad luck than good.However, it is said that it was another person who was brought to court to pursue the crime.The truth is in the hands of the judge. Unexpectedly, the drop of the beer bottle turned Lai Changbiao into a half-dead vegetable.When they were taken to court, Lai Changbiao, the culprit in the cigarette smuggling case, was lying numbly in the hospital, half asleep. He had completely lost any perception.He should have been severely punished by the law. Now this vegetative person cannot appear in court for trial, so he really "gets away with it".

In June 1999, Lai Changxing fled abroad, the group had no leader, and Zeng Mingyu was in charge of the entire company.Even in the face of such a severe situation, this "young and strong faction" still did not stop the rudder wheel of Yuanhua, a large smuggling ship.Until August 14, Zeng Mingyu learned that Zhuang Rushun, deputy director of the Provincial Public Security Department, and Yang Qianqian, director of Xiamen Customs, had been arrested, and felt that the situation was serious.Before fleeing, he quickly summoned Lai Shuiqiang to Jinjiang to meet him, and asked Lai Shuiqiang to take over Yuanhua's stall as the "acting manager".After explaining to Lai Shuiqiang some routine work that must be dealt with in the near future, he left in a hurry.In the afternoon of the next day, Zeng Mingyu called Lai Shuiqiang at Xiamen Airport and told him that he was about to board the plane to the Philippines.He also said that he would call Lai Shuiqiang after arriving in the Philippines.Of course, the kite broke and he was never heard from again.