Gu Ping's words made Li Yifan's suspicions a little, but no matter what, there was always a lingering shadow in his heart.

In his previous life, he had been to the United States many times to carry out missions, and he also had a considerable understanding of the United States.

Since the beginning of the last century, because of the shrinkage of the European Red Shield family in the American market, a large number of family-style consortia have risen rapidly in the United States.

Among them are two of the leaders, the Morgan and Rockefeller consortiums.

Later, because of the First World War, the Red Shield family's business in Europe was hit hard, causing them to tighten their monetary base and further retreat from North America, which led to a further shrinking of their control over American conglomerates such as Morgan and Rockefeller, and also gave these American conglomerates the opportunity to expand rapidly.

After the end of World War I in the last century, the United States relied on a lot of war wealth and quickly rose to the top eight most famous conglomerates.

And after World War II, with the further weakening of the influence of the Red Shield family, these eight major consortia became the foundation of Shijie-level leaders.

However, after World War II, these eight major conglomerates also learned to be more savvy, and they began to retreat behind the scenes, no longer directly involved in the management of American politics, but only selected some of their agents on the stage from time to time, and they also completely hid behind the scenes to control the US government.

After that, the U.S. economy ushered in a golden period after World War II, and it was during this period that the West Coast economy of the United States rose, giving birth to a series of new West Coast conglomerates.

Among them, the most typical are a series of consortia such as the Bank of America represented by Italians, a new type of consortium on the West Coast, and the Texas consortium.

And in the periphery of these big conglomerates. There are a number of other small consortia. Among them, the Chinese consortium is among them. Especially after World War II, the United States lifted the Chinese Exclusion Act that had been established for decades, which ushered in a golden period of development for the consortium on the West Coast of the United States.

Later, the wave of Chinese immigrants in the seventies and eighties made these Chinese consortia develop rapidly.

These conglomerates, often with banks as the core, have moved into a wide range of industries on the West Coast, with real estate being the most important. and the operation of retail department stores.

However, there are very few Chinese who have lived in the United States who have not had the experience of dealing with these Chinese consortia.

And Gu Ping has lived in the United States for ten years, but she has not heard much of this Westpac Investment Group, not only has she not dealt with them, but she has even had little contact, which cannot but make people feel strange.

Could it be that this Western Pacific consortium is really so low-key in the United States?

But this is not the way of modern business, the so-called Chinese people's so-called wine fragrance is not afraid of deep alleys, in this era has long been out of fashion.

In these days, if you want to make your business bigger and stronger. Then you have to get enough publicity to let people know about your business. You want to be involved in your business, that's the way to go.

But this Westpac Group, if it is really that big, then why don't they know such a truth, and they are still playing the game of living in seclusion, which is not very scientific?

Now they are making such a beautiful scene and making such a big noise here in Northern Province, I wish it was a well-known look, but weishenme They don't follow this routine in the United States?

As soon as he thought of this, Li Yifan felt more and more that the origin of this Westpac Investment Group was suspicious.

In the early years, there were many such professional swindler gangs in the developed coastal cities of Guangdong and Guangzhou, and they had a good eye on some local provinces and cities in China.

They often use the banner of some Xiangjiang or Baodao companies, and then go back and forth between the major coastal cities in China in the name of visiting China to investigate and invest.

And they have the halo of foreign capital on their heads, and the chief officials of some cities in China often take what they want because of their thirst for foreign capital.

And they also rely on the cooperation of these blind officials to exaggerate some projects, draw a big pie for these cities, and then rely on this big pie to go to the bank to get loans under the cover of local governments, or talk about cooperation with local businessmen and tycoons.

Then, in various names, they are used to defraud these local governments of funds, or deposits from local merchants.

The amount of money involved in the case can range from a few million to tens of millions or even hundreds of millions, and their methods are very simple, but in those local cities, they are often tried and tested.

As early as the early 90s of the last century, in some cities in the south, more than a dozen such cases broke out every year, and even at the peak, there were dozens of such cases.

And when they engage in such fraud, the first thing they will do is to deceive the rulers of those cities and hit them with a silver bullet offensive.

In the earliest days, it was to send money, then to send gold watches, to give various gifts, or to receive the rulers of those cities, to go abroad to be chic and inspected......

and so on, the main thing is to completely stun these incumbents, and then in the next cooperation, these incumbents will unconsciously become the role of accomplices with them.

Generally speaking, after the case is discovered, these people in power will desperately cover up their official hats to help these so-called investors cover up and cover up their crimes.

And such cases, generally to Zuihou, often end up with a meeting, anyway, after a year, Zuihou has cracked a few cases at all.

However, Zuihou is often unlucky for the banks in those cities, or those local merchants, who have suffered heavy losses, and Zuihou has not been able to seek justice.

Merchants can only think that they are unlucky, and of course the bank can not suffer such a loss in vain, often zuihou will pass on their losses to the local people in various names, anyway, zuihou is unlucky or the people.

In the late 90s, such fraud cases had attracted the attention of many people in power in the south, so such methods were becoming less and less effective in the south.

However, these fraudsters turned into a gang and began to move to the north, after all, the ideas of those in power in the north were themselves more backward than those in the south, and they were more likely to be pulled down by them.

On the other hand, after the outbreak of such a case in the south, the general politicians will desperately cover the lid and prevent this matter from spreading, so in such cases, the rulers of some cities in the north often have no experience in dealing with these scammers because of the opaque information.

So in the future, they will be frequently succeeded by those scammers, and the courage of these guys is getting bigger and bigger, and the means are getting more and more clever.

Everywhere he went, he used high investment as a gimmick to attract the attention of local officials, and then used a powerful silver bullet offensive to pull down some key officials, and then used various means to defraud in the city, Zuihou donated money to escape, and then it ended up in nothing.

Think about it a few years ago, in Bincheng, when Yang Yuhe first came to power, he almost encountered this scene, but it was still the local gang in Bincheng who deliberately dug a pit for him.

At that time, if it weren't for Li Yifan's alertness, he deliberately tapped the phone calls of those fraudsters, I am afraid that Yang Yuhe, who was anxious to change the situation of Bincheng officialdom, would also have made a big mistake at that time.

However, according to Li Yifan's experience, these scammers generally choose some third- or fourth-tier cities where the economy is not developed and the news is very closed to commit fraud.

After all, the larger the city, the higher the acceptance of information, so they are afraid of leaking their identity or means, and generally rarely choose to operate in second-tier cities.

As for the first-tier cities, it is needless to say, they dare not show their faces in the first-tier cities.

This time, however, the so-called Western Pacific Group was menacing, and it was not a small phenomenon, not only did they swagger over from the United States on two special planes, but they also received Vice Governor Jin's attention and reception.

Even Vice Governor Jin personally convened an economic meeting in the province, so that the business people in the province and the heads of various cities could cooperate with their business actions.

With such a big momentum and such a high level of officials involved, are these Americans really liars?

If it's really liars, then these people are too bold, right? But can this scammer drive a special plane? Such a panache would be a liar?

For a while, even Li Yifan felt that it was difficult to judge, on the one hand, he felt that these guys from the Westpac Group were a little suspicious, but on the other hand, the other party's attitude of spending a lot of money and treating money like dung made him feel a little hesitant.

So for a while, he also felt embarrassed.

Just when Li Yifan was talking and laughing with Gu Ping and talking about some topics, on the other side, Tang Tian, who had been dancing with Chen Jiexi on the dance floor, had been quietly paying attention to the scene on their side.

To be honest, when she suddenly saw Li Yifan today, she was also stunned, she didn't expect to meet him here.

And during this time, her emotions towards Li Yifan have always been very contradictory, she has always been a little conflicted about Li Yifan fooling around with other women, she doesn't want to believe it, she doesn't want to believe it, but she can't believe it! (To be continued......)