Chapter 72

Lin Ruyu was chatting with her son about the layered holding structure, while Lin Ruxue was discussing recruitment matters with Li Yi.

"Aunt, I've already posted high-salary job ads online. I should have received quite a few resumes by now. You and Aunt can go through them for an initial review to see if there are any suitable candidates. Give me your opinion. Also, I've gathered some information on high-end talents. You and Aunt can select from them. If you like any, we can start poaching them."

"Poaching? What do you mean by poaching?" Lin Ruxue asked.

"Whenever we see good talent in other companies, we can poach them!" Li Yi chuckled.

"Other people are working just fine. Why should they be poached by you?"

"Why? Because I can offer them ten times their current salary! Money can make the devil grind!"

"How much money do you have? If someone wants a million a month, can we poach them?"

"Of course, if they really have the ability, you can offer them ten million a month."

"My dear nephew, a few billion won't be enough for you to play with like this!"

"Don't worry, trillions and billions are about to be in my hands. You only need to focus on spending, so what's there to worry about!"

Lin Ruxue was speechless. But in today's society, which is a money-driven society, if the Ruyu and Ruxue Group offers ten times the salary, no one would be unmoved. Earning in a month what they usually earn in a year, who wouldn't switch jobs?

Actually, Li Yi could handle the task of screening talents and poaching from other companies on his own. He could collect these data, quickly browse through them, analyze them, and even call them to negotiate the poaching price.

The reason he handed these tasks to his mother and aunt was to cultivate their abilities. People need to grow step by step; you can't expect to achieve everything at once. Starting with small tasks on Earth, they could eventually manage a star system, a plane, and then thousands of planes.

While chatting with his aunt and mother, Li Yi also completed his personal business at the securities company. He chatted and joked with the staff while secretly analyzing all the stock trading software.

"Sure enough, there are bugs!"

For Li Yi, the software on this low-tech plane of Earth was riddled with fatal bugs, but current technology couldn't detect them.

Li Yi quickly exploited these bugs to secretly use the remaining funds in all the stock traders' accounts for his operations.

In the capital, Mr. Zhang, a wealthy businessman, was about to buy 100 shares of Capital Steel. But when he clicked to confirm the transaction, the system showed insufficient balance!

"How is that possible? My account has over a hundred million in liquid funds!"

Mr. Zhang quickly checked his balance and found that he indeed had over a hundred million. He clicked to confirm the transaction again, and this time the system didn't show insufficient balance but instead showed the transaction as successful.

"Phew, this lousy software, giving random warnings, scared me!"

Mr. Zhang shook his head and didn't take the incident seriously. He didn't know that all his funds had actually been used by Li Yi, who had temporarily returned some to him when he saw he wanted to trade stocks.

Thus, the funds of millions of stock traders were manipulated by Li Yi. Soon, the entire stock market began to soar.

"Heaven, why is the market suddenly surging so much today!"

"Right, many stocks are soaring. Are they about to hit the limit up?" All the stock traders in the Shenzhen and Shanghai markets screamed in unison.

The saying goes, "Buy when it rises, not when it stops." Many people hurriedly bought those hot stocks, but then found that those stocks suddenly plummeted...

This day was destined to make many stock traders jump off buildings. The abnormal fluctuations of many stocks left countless speculators with huge losses.

"Alright, that's enough for today, or it will be too obvious."

Calculating the profits for the next trading day, the amount had already reached 99.9 billion. Li Yi whistled softly.

For him, earning 99.9 billion was just the beginning. He had already commissioned multiple agencies in the United States, Europe, and Japan to handle his stock and futures trading in those countries. The international financial markets were where he would truly shine. Those markets were more mature, with no limit up or limit down, and no T+1, making it easier to make money.

The money earned in the securities and futures markets, Li Yi would then distribute to different companies. He had already commissioned multiple agencies in the Cayman Islands, British Virgin Islands, and Bermuda to set up shell companies. Using different company names, he would disperse large sums of money, so no one would notice that money from all over the world was continuously flowing into his pocket.

Li Yi planned to first acquire several securities and futures companies for his personal stock and futures trading. With his trading skills, the transaction fees alone would be enormous, and he couldn't let others profit from them.

Next, he would acquire banks and fund organizations, and then control industrial companies, forming a true conglomerate.

Of course, earning all the money on Earth was not Li Yi's goal. He wanted to use this money to advance Earth's civilization rapidly. To Li Yi, Earth was as primitive as a million-year-old hominid group. Not to mention comparing it to medium and low-tech civilizations, even compared to ancient native cultivation civilizations, it was far behind.

From the information Li Yi had, this place might become a battlefield for a primitive cultivation civilization in a few decades.

Even if they could defeat the native cultivators in this battle, it wouldn't be a significant achievement. In adjacent planes, there were countless higher-dimensional planes. They currently had no interest in this low-level three-dimensional plane, but if Li Yi upgraded this plane, it would immediately become a juicy target for medium and low-tech civilizations, a goal for expansion.

"Earth's growth still has a long way to go!" Li Yi sighed softly as the BMW car stopped in front of the office building opposite No. 16 High School.

As a student, Li Yi couldn't drive into the school, but the parking lot in the office building opposite the school was available for rent, so he parked his car there.

Looking at the familiar yet unfamiliar school gate in the distance, Li Yi felt a myriad of emotions.

"Three million years since I've been here, how nostalgic!"

This time, he came to the school to reminisce about his youth.

Everyone has a youth, but not everyone can revisit their old haunts and find everything unchanged.

"Ha ha, Xiao Ting is still fixated on her top student. How amusing. Actually, I could go back to school for a couple of days and relive my youthful days."

Due to the time spent on financial business, stock trading, and futures trading, it was already past 9:00 AM. Li Yi strolled to the gate of No. 16 High School and found the campus quiet, with all students in class.

Old Qin, the gatekeeper, saw Li Yi and immediately gave him a cold look. Although he couldn't name all the problem students at No. 16 High School, he recognized their faces, and Li Yi was one of them.

"What are you doing here?" Old Qin asked coldly.

"I'm here to attend school." Li Yi replied calmly.

"What time is it? School is about to end, and you're just coming to attend school!" Old Qin bellowed.

However, as a gatekeeper, he couldn't let students leave early, but he couldn't stop them from entering.

"Call your homeroom teacher first, then come in! Which class are you in, and what's your name?"

"Class 3, Grade 1, Li Yi."

Old Qin quickly called Li Yi's homeroom teacher, Luo Xiaoyao.

Luo Xiaoyao was in class when she suddenly heard Old Qin say Li Yi had come, and she immediately flew into a rage.

You little brat, you skipped school for half a week last week, and neither your parents nor your teachers could find you, and you still dare to come back?

"Old Qin, tell him not to go to his class, but to wait for me in the office!"

"Alright." Old Qin hung up the phone and coldly told Li Yi, "Teacher Luo wants you to wait for her in the office!"

"Alright, I'll go there now." Li Yi walked slowly through the school gate and headed to the homeroom teacher's office.