Chapter 3199 — Han Jingyi's Plea
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When Vice President Ouyang brought him the news, Wei Zhao was shocked, and furious as well. This was nothing short of outright counterfeiting, and he did not need to think twice to know who was behind it: Kang Jingming. The man loved this sort of trick—the Kang family had done the same thing back in the day.
"Brother Lin, I'm under tremendous pressure at the Cultivator's Chamber of Commerce right now. Quite a few of the sects that had agreed to attend today's auction simply didn't show—they went straight to the Xuandan Sect to buy instead. Sure, the medicine cauldrons auctioned today still brought in a billion yuan, so on the surface it looks fine, but the enthusiasm for bidding is clearly lower than before. And with the Xuandan Sect selling in such huge, unlimited quantities, it won't be long before the market is saturated. The cultivator market is only so big, after all, and our customer base is fixed. Once these people have bought the Xuandan Sect's cauldrons, they won't be buying ours. So the Chamber is now split into two camps. One faction keeps lobbying the Grand Elder President to drop your products and take on the Xuandan Sect's instead!" said Vice President Ouyang.
"I understand. Let me look into it and I'll put together a proposal for you," Wei Zhao said gravely.
"All right, Brother Lin, I'll wait for your word!" Vice President Ouyang was naturally on Wei Zhao's side, but the Cultivator's Chamber of Commerce was not his to command. Even with an elder backing him, the pressure was still enormous.
Wei Zhao had barely hung up when Liu Jinghan's call came in. He picked up at once. "Jinghan. What happened? Has Kang Jingming managed to counterfeit the medicine cauldrons? Did he get hold of the manufacturing data?"
"Brother Wei Zhao... I wanted to talk to you about this too. It was my negligence..." Liu Jinghan said, full of apology.
"What happened?" Wei Zhao asked.
"The most important part of our first-grade automatic medicine cauldron is the source code in the microcontroller. That source code has always been in my own keeping, stored in the vault in my office," Liu Jinghan explained. "But Kang Jingming found my father and used him to open my office door and get into the vault. He copied the source code off my computer..."
"Liu Tianli?!" Hearing her explanation, Wei Zhao's expression turned ugly. Last time, out of regard for Han Jingyi's plea, he had let the Liu family off—and now, of all things, Liu Tianli had pulled another stunt like this! Wei Zhao wanted nothing more than to kill him on the spot. "How did he get into the office? And how did Kang Jingming find him?"
"My current office is the one my father used to have. After he stepped down, he went to a drug rehabilitation center. Since leaving the center he's been living in a sanatorium. What I never expected was that Kang Jingming would track down my father and tempt him with forty cartons of cigarettes laced with drugs, just to make him open the office and the vault! Because it used to be my father's office, he still had a key—and I never reset the vault's passcode and fingerprint data, so naturally my father could get in..." Liu Jinghan explained, somewhat helplessly.
"Jinghan, last time I let Liu Tianli off because of a friend! But he didn't repent—far from it, this time he's landed me in an even bigger mess. This time I definitely won't let him off. I hope you can understand!" Wei Zhao had murder in his heart this time. Liu Tianli was a man who truly enraged him. Letting him off last time was one thing, but to show no remorse now—there was no need for Wei Zhao to spare him again.