Chapter 309: To Achieve Great Things Through Small Means (Second Update)

So Lan Ting developed a new habit - every evening at 7 o'clock, he would turn on the TV and watch the flagship news program.
This news program has been on for decades, consistently broadcasting at 7 o'clock. The entire nation is probably familiar with it, perhaps even too familiar. Many people can have the TV on, treating the news program as background noise.
Thirty minutes, not too short or too long, the program has a fixed format, starting with domestic news before going to international news.
But the actual content is quite rich.
Lanting Xuan finished watching with relish and even attempted to discuss it with Wei Dongyan.
However, at this moment, Wei Dongyan remained silent and didn't utter a word. She would only listen until the end without expressing her opinion.
Lanting Xuan wanted to ask further, but he would only say, "I don't know much... Maybe... Probably... I don't know..."
It's perfunctory.
After a few times, Lanting Xuan stopped asking him and called Deputy Minister Xue directly to get clarification.
On this day, she finally saw news related to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission requires domestic firms to provide the audit working papers of all Chinese companies listed in the United States.
Lanting Xuan is not in the finance field and does not know the significance of this audit working papers.
She casually checked online and learned that this was the audit records of auditors for listed companies.
It seems to be very detailed and complicated, but it includes all the trade secrets of the audited company.
Of course, we can't just give it away.
Lanting Xuan will immediately call Deputy Minister Xue to consult on this matter.
Deputy Minister Xue said, "I am not involved in technology and do not understand the technical details. However, I know that, first of all, we must protect national interests. Regardless of where it is listed, it cannot harm national interests. Secondly, we also need to protect the interests of domestic companies. Similarly, regardless of where it is listed, it is our country's company, and this point cannot be shaken."
兰亭暄明白了。
可没几天，兰亭暄就在网上看见热搜，说我们国家很快就要和美国的证据监管委员会，就审计工作底稿问题达成一致。
Minister Mao, who is responsible for drafting policy work at the Financial Department, also assured reporters that our country will protect the interests of domestic listed companies. This is also in the interest of our country, and this will not be shaken.
At first, Lanting Xuan saw this trending topic and had an intuition that something was not right, but upon careful consideration, she couldn't figure out any problem.
Then, she went through all the content in the trending topic, including the enthusiastic discussions among netizens, and suddenly understood why she felt that something was off.
Because Director Mao's speech is not exactly the same as Vice Minister Xue's clarification.
Vice Minister Xue's clarification is explicitly divided into two points: first is national security interests, and second is the interests of domestic companies listed overseas.
It is obvious that the interests of these companies cannot conflict with the interests of the country.
In other words, handing over these audit working papers must not harm the national interests.
If there is any harm to the national interests, it is impossible for the country to approve the submission of these audit working papers to Americans.
But Director Mao only mentioned the second point and didn't say a word about the first point.
What's more, in his speech, he even portrayed the interests of these domestically listed companies overseas as national interests, which at first sounds very high-profile, but is actually a clear case of concept substitution.
Why did he raise this issue?
At 9:30 p.m., Lan Tingxuan started to look at the stock market trading situation in the United States.
As a result, as soon as the market opened, the stock prices of domestic companies listed overseas soared again.
There are no limits on daily price gains or declines in overseas markets, thus the price movements can be quite extreme.
On average, these Chinese companies listed overseas saw a daily increase of around 60%.
The highest increase was 100%, while the lowest increase was around 20%.
It's a great success for these companies' stocks!
Lanting Xuan currently has no stocks in her stock account, and she is still holding cash.
Due to the audit working papers, the stocks of these companies plummeted, and many stock prices were cut by half.
现在才涨了一天，绝大多数股价都没涨回到原来的水平。
不过比前几天的状况好多了。
兰亭暄当时还没想明白这跟阮威廉有什么关系。
However, the next day, she noticed a piece of news from overseas stock market.
This news stated that Zeus Fund from the United States has exceeded profit expectations this year and will invest more in domestic companies listed abroad.
This news also attracted many investors, and coupled with the crazy gains of those companies the day before, it convinced many people that the stock prices of these companies were severely undervalued and would rise.
And they are indeed rising, they have been rising for several days, and almost all of these companies' stock prices have reached their 52-week highs.
This performance is very impressive, even in the free-fluctuation U.S. stock market.
Lan Tingxuan just realized that in Ruan William's investment portfolio, most of the stocks are probably from these companies.
Previously, these companies suffered a huge decline, so he had to step out from behind the scenes and come to China to seek opportunities.
Look, he doesn't even need to falsify to boost the stock prices of those companies. He intuitively finds relevant personnel from national departments to endorse him.
At that time, the stock prices of these companies fell, one was due to severe falsification, and the other was due to issues with the audit working papers.
The US securities regulatory exchanges have threatened to delist these companies if they do not provide audit work papers.
In such cases of delisting, stock prices will quickly fall below one dollar, becoming junk stocks.
阮威廉手里的投资组合如果都是这种股票，那肯定损失惨重。
所以他回国找路子。
兰亭暄对卫东言说：“阮威廉刚开始应该是想通过我，搭上薛副部吧？后来见薛副部油盐不进，才转移了目标。”
Wei Dongyan agreed with her opinion and said, "Perhaps there are other goals, but for now, his main focus is solving problems within his own company."
"I thought he was here to support Mei Jinhuan," Lan Tingxuan sighed, "but if we can't strike him, it's highly likely we can't strike Mei Jinhuan."
Weidongyan said at this time, "You said last time that Ruan William showed you a family portrait in his house, and all four children had congenital physiological defects, right?"
"Yes, three of them clearly have Down syndrome, and one daughter has limb deformities."
Weidong Yan said, taking out his phone and showing her a few photos.
"Do you see any problems with these people?"
Lanting Xuan looked carefully at them.
These photos were all taken by Ruan William with people, and they looked like family portraits. The children in them all had some kind of problem, more or less.
"What's going on?" Lan Tingxuan frowned and asked.
Wei Dongyan said, "I had a friend investigate William Ruan overseas, and this is what they found out unexpectedly."
"Accidents?"
"Hmm, these are all William Ruan's homes and children. In fact, he has more than one family. On the surface, he has a legal wife and legitimate children. These are his kept mistresses and illegitimate children."
Lanting Xuan gasped, "So many?! There must be at least thirty or more children?! Does he have a breeding syndrome?!"
Weidong Yan smirked, "He has money and power, in that kind of environment abroad, this is not illegal."
Lanting Xuan looked at each photo one by one and suddenly noticed that the last photo was not in the form of a family portrait, but a photo taken in a foreign amusement park.
The photo seemed to have been taken a long time ago, with a yellowish color, and there were many people in the photo, in bright and colorful outfits.
In the amusement park, there are various roller coasters, carousels, and slides, and there are people dressed as clowns selling balloons everywhere.
In the corner of the photo, an old man with gray hair is holding a balloon and squatting on the ground, talking to a girl who looks about four or five years old.
The little girl smiled like a flower.
And standing next to the little girl was a smiling woman, who was none other than Mei Jinhuan from her younger years!
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