Chapter 96

"Su Ping, where's your son?" The vice-principal of Shanghai Experimental School, Zhou Zhiwei, ran to Su Ping's office and asked with a puzzled look, "I just went to Class 5, Grade 1, and the students all said that Jia Hongjian didn't come to class today?"

Su Ping was taken aback and explained, "My son and my husband Jia Lao are out running a press conference or something today. Jia Lao quit his job to start a company... Principal Zhou, is there something you need from my son?"

"Of course there is! Now, the entire city's education system has issued a red-headed document, calling for everyone to learn from Jia Hongjian's spirit of freeing the mind, being pragmatic, upholding truth, goodness, and beauty, and firmly fighting against falsehood, ugliness, and evil... After the other schools found out that Jia Hongjian is our student, they all lined up to invite your son to give speeches, sharing his experience in fighting against fraud... I already have 10 schools booked, and at this moment, where has the main character gone?"

"City-wide learning? Speeches?" Su Ping blinked in surprise. As a mother, she always thought her son's disregard for his own safety in fighting fraud was due to his rebellious phase, combined with the particularly fiery temper he inherited from Jia Gang. She had always wanted to persuade her son to stop, as it didn't earn much money and caused a lot of trouble... But now, it seemed that in the blink of an eye, her son had become a heroic figure like Lai Ning, who sacrificed himself to extinguish a forest fire. How did he become a model figure like Jiao Yulu or Li Suli? (Note) It seems my son has become a hero?

At the same time, Jia Hongjian, who was unaware that he was being invited to give speeches by many schools, was with his father at the post and telecommunications office, picking out a mobile phone. The post and telecommunications office, which combined postal and telecommunications services, had not yet split in this era. If one needed to install a phone or pay the phone bill, they had to go to the post and telecommunications office.

"This is a Motorola brand mobile phone. Motorola is the world's largest and strongest mobile phone company. They were the first to invent the 'big brother' phone and mobile phones..." The staff member was introducing the phone at the small counter in the office.

"The world's largest and strongest? Motorola? Wasn't it just acquired by Google?" Jia Hongjian thought to himself, knowing that Google didn't exist in 1993!

"What about this one?" Jia Gang pointed to another phone.

"This is the Nokia brand from Finland, a new brand. The quality is good, but the brand name isn't as well-known as Motorola's." The salesperson seemed to be trying to recommend the Motorola phone no matter what.

At this moment, Jia Gang turned to ask his son's opinion. Jia Hongjian thought for a moment and said, "Nokia. This company has good quality control. Besides making calls, the phone can be used to crack walnuts, and if you're mugged at night, it can be used as a brick for self-defense. Three uses in one, very cost-effective..."

As soon as he said this, before Jia Gang could react, the salesperson was surprised. She thought Jia Hongjian's words, though somewhat teasing, sounded like someone who had used the phone before. But Nokia had just entered the Chinese market this year! And before this year, mainland China didn't have GSM service! Could it be... "Have you used this Nokia mobile... oh, phone before?"

"Sure, I have," Jia Hongjian replied nonchalantly, clearly not wanting to chat much with the salesperson. In no time, the father and son paid over 10,000 RMB and bought the bulky Nokia 1011 phone.

Looking at the Nokia 1011, with its black plastic shell, large size, and antenna, and a screen as small as a pager, it looked like a cheap cordless phone from the future! Jia Hongjian didn't really like this phone and casually put it in his bag. His father, however, kept flipping through the new phone, muttering, "These days, mobile phones, no, phones are so cheap, thanks to technological progress... Those big brother phones in Hong Kong movies used to cost 25,000 RMB each, and they were hard to get, with black market prices over 50,000 RMB. Now, two of them together cost just over 10,000 RMB... Wow, foreign technology is really good..."

After buying the phone, the two took a taxi to the Shanghai Public Security Bureau. After some inquiries, they knocked on the door of the bureau chief's office. "Chief Lei? Hello, hello, I am Jia Gang, the general manager of Huaxia High-Tech Co., Ltd., and this is my deputy. We are here to entrust the city bureau with security for an auction we will be holding..." Jia Gang said as soon as he entered the office.

To his surprise, the bureau chief didn't seem interested in taking on the job. He frowned and said somewhat discontentedly, "We don't provide security for commercial auctions... Your company might as well contact the security department of our bureau or the International Commodity Auction Co., Ltd., which was established in 1991..."

Seeing that his father's words had made Chief Lei ready to dismiss them, Jia Hongjian, the future wasteful rich second generation, couldn't stand it anymore and interjected, "Chief Lei, don't you want to know how much economic loss would be incurred if the auction item were stolen? I believe the State Council and the Ministry of Public Security would definitely be concerned about how many hours it would take you to solve the case..."

Jia Hongjian's words stunned Chief Lei. After a moment, he looked at Jia Hongjian with a half-smile, as if to say: If Jia Hongjian's next words don't satisfy him, he would dismiss them immediately! "Is that so? How much economic loss would there be?"

"At least 10 billion!" Jia Hongjian, without considering the actual loss, threw out a "astronomical figure" that shocked Chief Lei. When Chief Lei heard the 10 billion figure, he laughed. He had intended to have them escorted out, but before he could speak, he noticed Jia Hongjian's serious expression. Somehow, his words changed to, "10 billion? Explain."

"The secret formula of Ma Junren was bought by our company," Jia Hongjian said quickly and professionally, then took a contract copy from his father's hand. "Please look, in this transfer contract, the transfer price is specified as 1 million RMB..."

Without giving Chief Lei a chance to react, Jia Hongjian pulled out a newspaper from his bag and pointed to an economic article, reading, "In 1993, the estimated scale of the health supplement market in our country will reach nearly 30 billion RMB, and the tax and profit of Guangzhou Sun God Company in the first three quarters alone reached 100 million RMB."

After reading this, Jia Hongjian stared seriously into Chief Lei's eyes and asked, "Chief Lei, you should understand now. If the secret formula is stolen during the auction, the direct economic loss would be 1 million RMB. But then, we would have to investigate whether other health supplement companies have bought the lost formula, and competitors might even have it published in newspapers, causing a significant drop in our sales. If we look at it over 10 or 20 years, is 10 billion really too much? Guangzhou Sun God's sales this year have already exceeded 1.2 billion RMB!"

After hearing Jia Hongjian's words, Chief Lei sat back down, sizing up Jia Hongjian and his father while thinking. He knew that Jia Hongjian's words were somewhat exaggerated, but if the secret formula were stolen before the auction, the Shanghai police would indeed become a focal point of national attention. However, should they be called to provide security for a private company like this? Would they have to stand guard for every small company's opening?

Jia Hongjian noticed Chief Lei's hesitation and said with a smile, "Chief Lei, this is also serving the people..." As he spoke, he pulled out a scroll from his bag. The scroll, about 30 centimeters wide and over a meter long, read, "Free the mind, be pragmatic, serve the people," signed by "Deng X."...

Chief Lei was startled by the signature and suspiciously sized up Jia Hongjian and his father, as if doubting the authenticity of the signature. Seeing Chief Lei's dilemma, Jia Hongjian introduced himself, "Chief Lei, I haven't introduced myself yet. My name is Jia Hongjian. I previously exposed the fraud of Wang Hongcheng in Harbin at Beijing Nanyuan Airport..."

As soon as he said this, Chief Lei believed him. As a high-ranking official, he had heard of the incident, even if he didn't know the details. He knew that very few people in the public knew about Jia Hongjian exposing Wang Hongcheng. If the two in front of him were fraudsters, they wouldn't need to trick him into providing security; they could make more money by tricking businessmen!

"Jia Hongjian's words are very good. We, the people's police, should serve the people! The private economy is an important part of our country's current economic structure! We, the people's police, should certainly cooperate!" Chief Lei said with a smile, as if he had never doubted Jia Hongjian...

Bureaucrats... Sometimes they need a higher official to pressure them to cooperate...

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Note: Li Suli, a bus conductor in the 1990s, was a model conductor known for her excellent service attitude and was widely promoted in the 1990s, similar to today's "Touching China" figures. Jiao Yulu... Does this need explanation? Well, to prevent some younger readers from not knowing, Jiao Yulu was a good official of the people in the 1960s. Born in the 1920s in Shandong, he served in Lankao County, Henan in the 1960s, working tirelessly to combat desertification. He continued to work despite suffering from liver cancer and passed away at the age of 42. His last words were, "Take me back to Lankao and bury me in the sand dunes. I couldn't cure the sand dunes while alive, but I want to see you cure them after I die." Li Xuejian, who played Song Jiang in the 1998 TV series "Water Margin," starred in the movie "Jiao Yulu."

Note: Nokia began focusing on the mobile phone market in 1990.

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