Chapter 88

"If you obediently get your father to reveal his secrets, I can guarantee that he will be charged with the crime of selling counterfeit and substandard goods, rather than fraud..." Wang Long recalled Jia Hongjian's promise, and returned home with a trembling heart. He remembered how Jia Hongjian had shown him the Criminal Law, which stated that for the crime of producing and selling counterfeit and substandard goods, a sentence of 15 years or more would be given if the amount involved exceeded 2 million yuan. For fraud, especially in cases involving particularly large amounts or particularly serious circumstances, the sentence would be life imprisonment, and property would be confiscated...

Not far from Wang Hongcheng's house, Jia Hongjian and his team were monitoring Wang Long from a temporarily requisitioned civilian house. Ye Jing approached Jia Hongjian and asked, "When you said you could guarantee that he wouldn't be charged with fraud, were you lying to him? We can't influence how the court decides, and in cases like this, the Supreme Court might even get involved, right?"

"I'm not lying to him," Jia Hongjian looked at Ye Jing in surprise, "Although our country doesn't have the common law system's practice of plea bargaining, where the defendant's cooperation can reduce their sentence, think about it. How many influential people at the central and local levels are involved in this? If he were to be charged with fraud, would these people come forward as plaintiffs or witnesses? They would lose face!"

Just as Jia Hongjian had told Ye Jing when he slapped Wang Hongcheng's face, many Chinese officials think first about saving face rather than handling emergencies. Being deceived by Wang Hongcheng was already a huge embarrassment. Could these officials come forward to testify about how Wang Hongcheng had deceived them? Their faces would be ruined! According to Jia Hongjian's understanding, these people would bury their heads in the sand like ostriches, only united in accusing Wang Hongcheng of producing fake goods, not in testifying that he had deceived them, these righteous officials!

Hearing Jia Hongjian's analysis of the officials, Ye Jing turned to look at her father in disbelief. Her father, standing two meters away, nodded slightly, acknowledging that Jia Hongjian's assessment was very likely true. "So you just half-tricked and half-intimidated him into accepting this as a condition?" Ye Jing asked Jia Hongjian in disbelief.

In her eyes, Jia Hongjian was almost like the legendary Zhuge Liang, who was known for his extraordinary wisdom! Although her father could also foresee such things, her father was much older, while Jia Hongjian was much younger! Jia Hongjian was even three years younger than her, yet he knew so much more than she did! And he came from a common family!

Seeing Jia Hongjian nod, acknowledging that he had used the likely future situation as a condition to trade with Wang Long, Ye Jing's eyes sparkled with admiration, "How do you know so much?"

"I don't know that much, I just think a lot. Actually, anyone can do it..." Jia Hongjian said modestly. This was just to maintain his image and appear humble. If everyone could do it, that would be a miracle! If Jia Hongjian hadn't been reborn and had the mind of a man in his thirties in a young body, could he know so much? Was there anyone else under 20 on the planet who could do the same? But he couldn't say that, as the society was still quite traditional and appreciated humble people. Only by being humble could he show that he was both capable and humble, like Newton claiming he stood on the shoulders of giants, right?

Ye Jing was indeed moved by Jia Hongjian's humble image. Her eyes were filled with admiration, surprise, and affection... She was more enthusiastic than a brainwashed fan! It seemed that if Jia Hongjian said the sun was square, she would believe it!

However, at that moment, Ye Jing suddenly noticed her father looking at her and Jia Hongjian with a cold, detached gaze, as if he wasn't at all pleased by Jia Hongjian's clever strategy. She suddenly thought of something, her eyes twinkling, and she asked Jia Hongjian, "But, Hongjian, this kind of approach doesn't seem very good, does it?"

Hearing her somewhat loud question, Jia Hongjian glanced at her, then followed her gaze to the one-armed boss, who had been drawn into the conversation. He cleared his throat and said, "Well... the problem is that a gentleman can be deceived by a method. What is a method? It's the rules by which a gentleman acts. Being too good can limit you, and sometimes it can let the bad guys get away. I believe that to be a good person, you need to be smarter and more ruthless than the bad guys to fight against them. Otherwise, the world will always be one where the bad guys drive out the good, and the good suffer while the bad become powerful. Whether someone is good or bad should be judged by their purpose or the objective result, not by their methods..."

His speech, which he had pieced together from various sources, including Zhou Xingchi's movies, made Ye Jing's father look at him with newfound respect. Seeing the change in her father's eyes, Ye Jing added fuel to the fire, "So, your efforts to combat fake goods are also a practice of this idea, right?"

"Exactly, that's right!" Jia Hongjian said with righteous indignation. Since the girl was helping him build his image, he had to cooperate. "As an ordinary person, seeing the market flooded with fake goods makes me very anxious! Seeing the various difficulties the local administrations face in gathering evidence, I have been thinking about how I can contribute to the fight against fake goods..." In no time, he had said a lot to clear his name.

However, as the one-armed boss listened to Jia Hongjian with interest, the police chief Yang suddenly called out, "Boss Ye, they're starting to get the information!" Hearing this, everyone gathered around the machine to listen to Wang Long, who was wearing a wire, trying to get his father to reveal his secrets.

"Dad, what are you doing?" Wang Long asked as he entered his parents' room, "Busy with the experiment? We're going to the Nanyuan Airport in Beijing the day after tomorrow. Don't worry about it... Why do you look so pale? Are you feeling unwell?" Wang Hongcheng asked. "Nothing, I must be tired from playing soccer at school..." Wang Long quickly changed the subject. For the next five minutes, he kept circling around, seemingly hesitant to get his father to reveal his secrets.

However, he eventually asked in a trembling voice, "Dad, isn't it wrong to deceive people? Why don't we stop?" "You little brat! If I don't deceive people, where would you get all the food, clothes, and toys? If I don't do this, could we live in such a big house? If I don't do this, could we know so many important people? Foolish child, you don't understand the world! These days, money is everything! If we keep deceiving for another two or three years, I'll send you to study in America, and I can stop anytime! If we can't keep it up, your mother and I will take the money and run to America to be with you, and we'll live a life of luxury!"

Indeed, the fortress is easiest to breach from the inside. Wang Hongcheng, with no guard up against his son, revealed everything. Jia Hongjian shook his head as he listened to Wang Long, who followed the plan and got his father to reveal various fraud techniques, such as throwing calcium carbide into water to produce calcium hydroxide and acetylene, which, when ignited, would make people think the water was burning. Or when the police chief came to Wang's house to test the water turning into oil, Wang Hongcheng used various tricks to divert him from the living room to the kitchen to see the "oil" that had supposedly been successfully produced, while Wang Qilin secretly replaced the water bucket in the living room with an identical oil bucket...

After Wang Long finished getting the information, Jia Hongjian and the others immediately looked at the police officer operating the machine. The officer nodded, "It's all recorded!" "Great!" Chief Yang was the first to cheer. He had been at odds with the police chief for years, and now he finally had a chance! It was because the police chief was so close to Wang Hongcheng and had personally issued the order to arrest Jia Hongjian that Chief Yang had his chance. Now, with such evidence in hand, he might finally get a promotion!

"Great!" Ye Jing jumped up happily, her excited face flushed as she asked Jia Hongjian, "Hongjian, Hongjian, should we play the recording to expose him before the experiment?"

"Why expose him before the experiment? That would be boring. We should let him jump around a bit more. When he runs out of excuses, we'll play the recording and see what he has to say then!" Jia Hongjian said with a smile.

"Right, Xiao Jia's approach is steady," the one-armed boss Ye said, his mood also quite good. "If we play the evidence too early, he might come up with some explanation, which would be counterproductive. We should let him jump around, sealing off all his escape routes, and then play the key evidence! And... only in this way can we make those who have been supporting Wang Hongcheng come out in the open! We're not just targeting a poorly educated Wang Hongcheng; we're targeting those who have been supporting him with their consciences!"

After saying this, the one-armed boss Ye looked at Jia Hongjian and suddenly found this young man, who he wasn't sure was a sage or a villain, quite likable. At least, he had a lot of clever ideas, was truly smart, and seemed to have a decent character...

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