Chapter 100: Fucking Crazy

On the first day of business, the turnover reached a staggering 106,000 yuan. This meant that inventory costing 50,300 yuan had been sold off that day, almost a third of the entire stock. Such explosive sales left Li Mu completely taken aback, something he had never imagined possible before. Inventory issues were also severe at the moment. In the afternoon, Aunt had already placed an order with headquarters for a total amount of around 150,000 yuan. The biggest problem was how to get this batch of goods delivered as quickly as possible. When headquarters learned about the booming sales here, they also dispatched a special person to find a solution. The plan they came up with was: 25% of the goods would be entrusted to a specialized car transport logistics company that night, using the long-distance bus from Haizhou to Wencheng. The bus would arrive in Wencheng the next morning, and their maximum carrying capacity was 25%, so this 25% of the goods could be used for emergency purposes. The remaining 30% chose railway transport, but it would take until the day after tomorrow to arrive. The remaining 45% also used long-distance bus transport, with 25% waiting for the second direct bus to Haizhou the day after tomorrow, and the other 20% first arriving in Jinling. Li Mu had received over 100,000 yuan in payment that day, so he had ample funds for ordering. Just as the transport issue for the 150,000 yuan was resolved, he had Aunt place another 100,000 yuan order. Aunt expressed that the warehouse space wasn't large, and there wasn't enough room to stack so much. Li Mu solved her concerns with the simplest method. In the small neighborhood behind, rent a civilian residence to use as a warehouse. Keep one bedroom for living, and have our employees take turns staying at the warehouse overnight, with a 50 yuan night shift subsidy per person. Essentially, it's just sleeping there one night, being careful about fire, water, and theft, and resolving any issues promptly. Aunt's eyes lit up. Xiao Mu, you're really too smart. The rental for the civilian residence was very cheap; a three-bedroom apartment in the area wouldn't exceed 500 yuan a month. The three-bedroom apartment was about 100 square meters, which would be more than enough to store goods, and it wasn't too far away either. If needed, sending an employee to pick up goods would only take a few minutes to go and come back, which was perfect. On the second day of business, Aunt had found a suitable civilian residence. More conveniently, it was on the third floor directly above the shop's commercial ground floor, convenient to go home. The whole day on the second day, sales had a certain decline, totaling 95,000 yuan, not quite reaching 100,000, but still leaving Li Mu amazed. After closing the shop, Li Mu returned home and received a phone call from Kong Lingyu. He had already developed a test version of Tieba according to Li Mu's requirements and was starting internal testing. Li Mu requested the internal test address, went to check it himself, and found that from page layout to function presentation, it was much the same as before, except that under Li Mu's requirements, each Tieba had added attention and check-in functions, which were absent in the early stages. It was this minimalist product philosophy that made all behaviors in the community by netizens more efficient. Li Mu was very satisfied with Kong Lingyu's work and told him that if there were no issues with the internal test, to go online as soon as possible. However, during the internal test, try to find and fix all bugs, rather than waiting until after going online and users discover them to fix, as that could easily lead to user loss. Kong Lingyu firmly stated that he would definitely do it. Li Mu asked for an online time, and he gave a time five days later. Li Mu had no objections, and the two ended the conversation. Tieba was currently a major community project that Li Mu wanted to incubate using Yiting Network. Doing the community wasn't just about the product itself, but more importantly about building the community's genes and foundation. Although Yiting Network was still far from profitable, it had already aggregated a considerable number of music fans for Li Mu. So Li Mu wanted to use Yiting Network to lay a local foundation for Tieba, that is, the star fan Tieba section. First, convert the music fans of Yiting Network into the first batch of users for Tieba, and then continue the second round of expansion for Tieba. At the same time, the remarks that Li Mu had previously asked Zhao Kang to publicize online about Wu Dong's hit-and-run escape had also reached a peak in brewing. Due to the high public attention beforehand, once the matter broke out, it was almost impossible to handle. The police had organized people to delete posts in the middle, but this process only lasted a few hours and stopped. It was said that there was internal game-playing within the municipal bureau, and the deputy director Li Jiawei was exposed as having received 3 million yuan in bribes from Wu Dong, and he had secretly organized the post deletions, but the third-in-command Su Weimin timely cut off his back path. His people directly found out that Li Jiawei's subordinates were secretly deleting posts, and then reported this matter to the top leader, Bureau Chief Du Cheng. Du Cheng was about to be transferred to the provincial department at the end of the year. He had originally come to get some gold plating, but in Haizhou City Bureau, although he was the top leader, his roots weren't solid enough. From the day he arrived, the deputy director Li Jiawei often went against him, making him quite troubled. Li Jiawei was a local of Haizhou, having mixed in the Haizhou Public Security system for over twenty years. He had originally thought he could wait until he became a bureau chief, but he didn't expect an empty drop of a top leader from above. He knew that this top leader was here to mix up his qualifications, and he had relations above him, but he didn't care. He was over forty years old and had no room for advancement in the system. His theoretical highest point in his career was being the top leader of Haizhou City Bureau; the provincial department definitely wouldn't transfer him there at his age, and even if transferred, it would be a clear promotion and dark demotion with no real power. So mixing to this position and staying for a few years was about time to retire. Therefore, from the day Du Cheng took office, Li Jiawei wanted to squeeze him out. Once he was gone, he would have hope for the position of bureau chief. If he didn't leave, and he waited a few more years at his age, he would probably not even be able to become a bureau chief before retirement. It was precisely because Du Cheng had always been at odds with Li Jiawei that he very much wanted to promote Su Weimin to the top leader's position before leaving. However, he didn't have any effective methods for such matters. Su Weimin was young and lacked qualifications, so he could only yield to Li Jiawei's next-in-command, and he himself couldn't openly operate in the provincial department to help him. First, it wasn't worth it, second, he was down here to get some gold plating, and he didn't want the provincial leaders to think he was starting to support his own people in the local area so soon. However, after Su Weimin fed back this matter to Du Cheng, Du Cheng realized that the opportunity had come. Whether the online remarks were true or false was one thing, but the fact that Li Jiawei had secretly deleted posts showed he was already guilty. After careful analysis, Du Cheng and Su Weimin, both former criminal police officers, after several analyses, felt that the online claims were mostly accurate. If Li Jiawei had really taken 3 million yuan from Wu Dong, then Du Cheng would be overjoyed, not only avenging the grudge from these two years, but once he left, Su Weimin would take over as bureau chief, and he would have his own team in the local area. Thinking of this, Du Cheng began to operate. After careful analysis, Du Cheng felt that he wasn't suitable to directly lead people to thoroughly investigate this case. After all, Li Jiawei had deep roots, and with a 3 million yuan embezzlement amount, he would definitely get desperate, and at that time, he might fight with him to the death and no survivors, which wasn't worthwhile. Moreover, stepping back, even if he really succeeded, he would leave an extremely bad impression in his colleagues' eyes: a ruthless hand against his own subordinates around him, making people stay away. Therefore, Du Cheng decided to bring in reinforcements from the provincial department. He called his old superior and poured out his troubles privately. He first described the case situation, then said that now the public attention was extremely high, and if he didn't break this case now, he would be scolded by the public. If he really followed the online exposed information to investigate, he was afraid Li Jiawei would try his best to obstruct, even marginalize him. So please the old superior to help, let the provincial department send people down to investigate. If this case could be successfully solved, the police-public relations would definitely have a qualitative improvement, and the image of the public security in the people's eyes would also be more noble. Because Jinling also had a lot of content about this case on the internet, Du Cheng's old superior also knew the seriousness of this case. Upon hearing that the deputy director was secretly deleting posts, he immediately knew that the deputy director probably had involvement in sheltering and bribery, and he immediately exploded. That night, he convened an emergency meeting, selected an investigation team, rushed straight to Haizhou, and thoroughly investigated the hit-and-run case. This old superior also knew in his heart that a case with great public indignation was a troublesome matter for local officials, but for the provincial department, it was a great thing. As long as the provincial department sent people down, whether this case could be solved or not, they were down to collect faith; the public would definitely give them thumbs up, a good thing, what else would there be to hesitate. The next morning, Haizhou Daily and Haizhou Morning News announced to the public that the provincial department had organized an investigation team overnight in response to the hit-and-run case that had occurred a few days ago, and they would arrive in Haizhou today to start investigating this case. Upon hearing this news, citizens cheered and posted one after another, expressing their anticipation for the provincial department investigation team to seek justice for the wronged farmer couple. Upon this news spreading, Wu Dong panicked. He called Li Jiawei, and the first sentence was: Director Li, people from the provincial department are coming down to investigate the case. What should I do if they get to me? Li Jiawei heard the panic that could not be hidden in Wu Dong's tone. In fact, he was also anxious, he was also panicked. He had received the 3 million yuan, and if it really came out, he would also be finished. Li Jiawei analyzed the pros and cons, everything was on Wu Dong's body. If the investigation team found Wu Dong and opened the breakthrough from Wu Dong, he would be finished. Although it didn't warrant the death penalty, his career was definitely finished. How long he would spend in prison was uncertain. Therefore, Li Jiawei calmed himself and said to Wu Dong: You fled after causing a death in a hit-and-run, that's seven years or more! More importantly, you killed two people, and this matter has aroused public indignation. If it falls into the judge's hands, it will definitely be judged from heavy to light, definitely over ten years! Wu Dong panicked. He wasn't a future energy tycoon who would dominate the Southern and Northern, he was now just a coal dealer with some fame in Haizhou. It was easy to smooth things over with local relationships, but once people from the province came to investigate himself, he could say he didn't know where to send the money. At this time, Li Jiawei made a gradual inducement: In my opinion, you'd better run away quickly. It's best to flee overseas to avoid the limelight. Li Jiawei most hoped that Wu Dong would run away, and more hoped he could escape to overseas, because as long as he disappeared, it would be very difficult for this case to be traced back to himself. However, upon hearing this, Wu Dong didn't fall for it as Li Jiawei thought, but exploded instantly and roared: Mom, you want me to run? If I run, isn't that telling the whole world that I did it? But if you don't run and get caught, what then? Li Jiawei panicked inside and asked a follow-up question. Get caught, I deny it! Anyway, the car has been processed, where do the police find evidence that I killed someone? If they ask where my car is, I say it was stolen. Li Jiawei's mind flashed, and he blurted out: How about this, you find a trustworthy person, give him a sum of money, and if they find you, let him come out to take the blame for you. Wu Dong asked: If it's sentenced, how long will it probably be? Uncertain. Li Jiawei said: Death penalty is impossible, starting from seven years, the highest is life imprisonment. Understood. Wu Dong breathed a sigh of relief. It wasn't a matter of life or death, so to spend some money, find a subordinate, this matter would definitely be settled. It was estimated that with an asking price of 1 million, there would be many people rushing to come. Once he figured out this principle, Wu Dong felt somewhat unhappy in his heart, secretly thinking that he shouldn't have panicked after the hit-and-run and gone to ask Li Jiawei for help, only to be squeezed by him for 3 million yuan. If he had known to directly spend money to find someone to take the blame, it would have been much easier and more worry-free! This Li Jiawei, why didn't he say this solution earlier, only after he himself was scared now, did he tell himself this solution, really cowardly!