The country entrusted me to buy an aircraft carrier, Hou Liangping, do you dare to investigate?

Cai Chenggong stood hesitantly at the gate of his factory; it had been three days since he left.

Recently, the company's performance has been poor, and it looks like they will be unable to pay wages. More than 1300 employees at Dafeng Factory will not be able to survive. As the chairman, he sees this and is very anxious.

The business isn't going to recover anytime soon, so he has no choice but to borrow money from outsiders. To be honest, if he weren't desperate, he really wouldn't want to borrow money from others.

After thinking for a long time, I couldn't come up with a good solution. I could only borrow 50 million from Shanshui Group to tide me over, and then I could repay the money once the bank loan came through.

But to his utter surprise, the bank refused to release the loan, which greatly worried Cai Chenggong.

If things continue like this, Gao Xiaoqin will acquire his Dafeng Factory for over 50 million yuan.

He was worried about how he would explain himself if the people in the factory found out.

However, Gao Xiaoqin was not someone to be trifled with. In his desperation, Cai Chenggong could only turn to his childhood friend, Hou Liangping, since Hou Liangping was now in a high position and could surely speak to the person behind Gao Xiaoqin. He asked Hou Liangping to give him a few days' grace so that he could raise enough money.

However, thinking back to that day, Cai Chenggong felt like crying but had no tears left.

That day, the weather was sunny.

Cai Chenggong rushed to Hou Liangping's residence in a hurry.

Although Hou Liangping wasn't there at first, Cai Chenggong was a man of great stature. He had already made up his mind that he would not go back unless he succeeded.

While they were anxiously waiting inside, Hou Liangping opened the door and came in.

When Hou Liangping saw Cai Chenggong, he was also taken aback, and then a smile appeared on his face.

After exchanging a few pleasantries, Cai Chenggong had his things brought up.

Hou Liangping looked at the several large boxes on the ground, then stared at Cai Chenggong with a serious expression and a scrutinizing look in his eyes.

"Baozi, when did the specialties of Handong become Zhonghua cigarettes and Moutai liquor? You're sending me these things, are you trying to send me to jail? And you're sending them here by the case."

Cai Chenggong's smiling face quickly turned serious upon hearing Hou Liangping's words.

"What kind of relationship do we have? I'm a few years older than you. Didn't I take care of you since you were little? And all those naughty ideas were yours when we were kids."

"Given our relationship, this is hardly worth any money. I haven't been to your house in a long time, so I should bring something as a token of my appreciation."

When Hou Liangping heard Cai Chenggong talk about his childhood, he frowned slightly. He hated people talking about their childhood, so he suppressed his impatience and quickly reached out to stop Cai Chenggong from speaking.

"Take the cigarettes, I've already quit. Leave one bottle of alcohol, that's settled."

Cai Chenggong looked at Hou Liangping with a troubled expression, wanting to say something, when Hou Liangping's son ran over.

"Dad, you are back."

Hou Liangping reached out and beckoned.

"Come here, Ranran."

Cai Chenggong looked at the child in front of him, a glint of light flashing in his eyes. Hou Liangping didn't fall for his tricks, but would the child not?

Thinking of this, Cai Chenggong smiled kindly.

"You haven't seen your child for years, they've grown so much!"

Hou Liangping glanced at Cai Chenggong with annoyance and pointed at him helplessly.

Do you remember who this is?

Cai Chenggong said at the opportune moment.

"Call him Cai Dada."

Ranran quickly greeted them with a smile.

"Hello, Mr. Cai."

Upon hearing this, Cai Chenggong laughed, reached into his bag, took out a wad of cash, placed it in the child's hand, and said with a smile.

“When I last saw you, you were only this tall. Even Cai Dada didn’t expect to be able to meet you. Here, take this.”

Hou Liangping frowned when he saw the stack of money.

"Hey, what are you doing?"

Cai Chenggong said nonchalantly.

"This is for the child."

Ranran said happily.

"What a pleasant surprise, Cai Dada, you are truly an angel."

Hou Liangping snatched the money and threw it on the table.

"Don't be surprised, here's Cai Dada back."

When Cai Chenggong saw this, he looked at Hou Liangping reproachfully.

"Monkey, this is no fun."

"Here you go, little monkey, buy whatever you want."

Ranran took the money with a big smile.

"Perfect timing, I want to buy a yo-yo and a game console."

Hou Liangping's face darkened. He glared at Cai Chenggong with displeasure. He thought to himself, "I've been working tirelessly for the Party and the government all day long. It's already a favor that I'm even speaking to you here. And you actually come to my house to offer bribes? If I really accept your gifts, how can I face the Party and the people?"

Thinking of this, Hou Liangping snatched the money and glared at Cai Chenggong.

“Cai Chenggong, do you have to pull this on me in front of the kids? Take it all away, take it all away, cigarettes and alcohol, take all of that away.”

Cai Chenggong was startled by Hou Liangping's sudden action and looked at Hou Liangping somewhat nervously.

"How could you do this in front of a child?"

Hou Liangping didn't even glance at Cai Chenggong, and sent Ranran off to do her homework.

Seeing Hou Liangping's dark face, Cai Chenggong had no choice but to sheepishly put the money away.

"Tell me, what are you doing?"

Hou Liangping gave him a disapproving look, then pointed to the things on the sofa.

"what is that?"

Cai Chenggong looked at Hou Liangping with a puzzled expression.

"The suit, it's custom-made for you."

Seeing Hou Liangping's serious expression, Cai Chenggong hurriedly stood up, holding his suit jacket.

"Hey, I don't need to take this. This is what I do, it's not worth much."

Hou Liangping stood up abruptly.

When will you take my measurements?

Cai Chenggong's eyes darted around.

"The last time you got drunk in Handong."

Hou Liangping's eyes widened, and he mentally marked Cai Chenggong with a big X, declaring that he should never associate with him again.

"It seems you deliberately got me drunk last time."

Cai Chenggong hurriedly said.

“That’s not very interesting. What do you mean by deliberately getting you drunk? You were just happy and drank too much. The head chef was there, so I had him take your measurements. There was no tag on it, so it wasn’t worth much.”

Hou Liangping shook his head silently upon hearing this, then looked at Cai Chenggong with a pained expression.

"Cai Chenggong, you really are ruthless in corrupting revolutionary cadres."

When Cai Chenggong heard Hou Liangping say that, he also became serious.

"Monkey, it's not corruption for your older brother to give you a piece of clothing, is it? If I really wanted to corrupt you revolutionary cadres, I would rely on money, houses, and women. I'm sure one of those could bring you down, right?"

Hou Liangping looked at Cai Chenggong with a righteous expression.

"Then let me tell you something: tax evasion, bribery, the government has so many baskets, there's bound to be one that will put you in."

"Go ahead and build it, but don't expect me to bail you out if you end up in a hole one day."

"Take it or leave it. If you don't, I'll throw it away."