Friday, 3 April 1998.

Deng Weihong, section chief of the Banking Regulatory Department of the Hong Kong Financial Authority, led more than a dozen inspectors to raid and investigate the headquarters of Lin's Bank.

According to the information provided by the Public Division of the HKMA, the reason why the HKMA raided and investigated Lin's Bank was because someone inside Lin's Bank reported in his real name that Lin's Bank was suspected of misappropriating bank depositors' funds for profit, and there was a suspicion of accounting fraud.

At ten o'clock in the morning, Liang Botao, the president of Lin's Bank, was taken away by the Xiangjiang Commercial Crime Investigation Bureau, although Lin's Bank intends to control the outflow of news, but there is no impermeable wall in the world, not to mention that Li Zhiying has already brought reporters to keep an eye on him? !

As soon as the news came out, it shook the whole Hong Kong.

"Apple Daily" deliberately postponed its listing today, and at noon it reported the news that Lin's Bank was under investigation and that the freedom of Lin's bank president Liang Botao was restricted.

Countless popular hosts, well-known editors-in-chief, and public intellectuals made enthusiastic comments on the investigation of Lin's Bank and the restriction of the bank's president Liang Botao's freedom, and said that the Lin Holding Group is likely to be implicated, and Lin Cheng, the chairman of the group, will also follow in the footsteps of Liang Botao and be restricted from freedom.

Li Zhiying, chairman of "Apple Daily," once again went into battle in person, publishing a front-page commentator's article: "Heaven is a good reincarnation, who will be spared by heaven!" implying that Lin Cheng will eventually not be able to escape the punishment of the law and will be imprisoned.

Ming Pao, which has always been the most neutral and most credible in Hong Kong, also published a commentary: The modern God of Wealth turned his hands into clouds and turned his hands into rain, and finally it was difficult to escape legal punishment, which proves that the law in Hong Kong is strict and warns the world not to defy the law.

"Oriental Daily" took a different approach, focusing on the emotional card, reviewing the great achievements of the wonder boy Lin Cheng since he landed in Xiangjiang in July 97, and taking the acquisition of the city bank this year as a turning point, detailing the evil consequences caused by Lin Cheng's arrogant and reckless investment.

As ATV's most direct opponent, Heung Kong TVB's overlord was even more downcast at this time, and the picture of Leung Pak-to, the president of Lam's Bank, being taken away by the Commercial Crime Investigation Bureau, was precisely because of TVB's live broadcast and entered the attention of six million people in Hong Kong.

Phoenix Satellite TV, which has a great influence on the mainland, also reported the news of the investigation of Lin's Bank for the first time, and the host and number one reporter, Lu Qiu Luwei, warned the wealthy people in the mainland who came to Xiangjiang to invest and do business in righteous words in the program, and Xiangjiang is a region with a sound legal system, and must not challenge the legal spirit of Xiangjiang, otherwise they will bear the consequences.

As one of the strongholds of public knowledge in the south, under the influence of Phoenix Satellite TV, the media in the south also joined the ranks of adding fuel to the fire, listing a large number of tragic incidents in which the mainland's richest people went overseas because of their arrogance, ignorance, shallowness, and other low qualities, and violated overseas laws and went to prison, in an attempt to prove that mainlanders are far inferior to Westerners and gentlemen.

Although Lin's Group is not a listed company and cannot have much impact on the company's market value, the revenue of Lin's Group's companies has fallen due to the report of Phoenix Satellite TV.

Lin's father, Lin's mother, and a group of group executives all called one after another, asking Lin Cheng what his situation was in Xiangjiang, in addition to telling the truth to his parents to make them feel at ease, Lin Cheng's answer to them was all answered in eight words: be calm and wait for the changes.

On this day, the Xiangjiang media profoundly interpreted what it means to be a wall and a thousand people pushed through the drum and ten thousand people beat it, except for Lin's "Daily Express" and ATV who still remained silent, all the media joined the ranks of singing Lin Cheng.

The reason why they attacked Lin Cheng on such a large scale was that in addition to Lin Cheng's own great news value, Lin Cheng's arrogant announcement of the construction of the Lin headquarters building of 5 billion Hong Kong dollars yesterday slapped the face of the entire Hong Kong media.

Now that Lin Cheng is mired in a scandal, the Xiangjiang media immediately retaliated against Lin Cheng, eager to step on Lin Cheng with 10,000 feet, so that he will never turn over.

Fearing that the funds of Lam's Bank would be frozen by the HKMA, depositors of Lam's Bank went to the major branches of Lam's Bank to withdraw cash, resulting in overcrowding at the major outlets of Lam's Bank, and the SAR Government also dispatched riot police to maintain order.

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"Cut to death!"

Repulse Bay Li House, Li Xiaochao, Li Zhiying and others couldn't hold back the joy in their hearts, Li Xiaochao took out a bottle of 82-year-old Lafite again and drank the celebration wine in advance.

"Li Shao, your family is really closed, worthy of being the first wealthy family in Xiangjiang, the political power is really breathtaking, not only the Banking Regulatory Department of the Financial Authority, but also the Commercial Crime Investigation Bureau, these two departments are two-pronged, Lin Cheng will definitely die. Li Zhiying said admiringly.

"It's strange that I didn't contact them at all, so why did they cooperate with the HKMA?" said Li Xiaochao suspiciously.

"Hehe, what else can there be? This must be because Lin Cheng usually offends more people and calls fewer people, and he is too high-profile and arrogant, and even the Commercial Crime Investigation Bureau is eyeing him. Swenson sneered.

Mi Dawei nodded and agreed: "Don't you Chinese have a saying that the righteous help the unrighteous and the unjust, now everyone already knows that Lin Cheng has completely lost his power, at this time, if he does not fall into the well and trample him to death, will he still stay for the New Year!"

Li Zhiying nodded again and again when he heard this: "As a mainlander, you should have the consciousness of being a mainlander." What is the biggest characteristic of the mainlanders in the world? That is, poverty!"

Li Xiaochao smiled: "You are talking too much, Lin Cheng is Lin Cheng, it doesn't have much to do with whether he is a mainlander or not, I just don't like him and he steals our limelight, so that we don't have a little dignity in front of our elders, in fact, there is no deep hatred between me and him." ”

As a winner, Li Xiaochao thinks that he is finally qualified to give Lin Cheng, a loser, a little sympathy, in order to demonstrate his benevolence.

"Knock Knock Knock ......"

At this time, there was a knock on the door from the study, and the Filipino maid poked her head in and said, "Second young master, the master called and asked you to go home, saying that he was looking for you on something urgent." ”

"What's the matter with me at this time? Could it be that I have used my family political power to be discovered by the old man?"

With a hint of apprehension, Li Xiaochao said to everyone: "I'm sorry, I'll be absent for a while, I'll go back when I go." ”