Qingming Festival

There are no walls in the world that are completely soundproof.

Especially for a private company like Xihai Company, with so many people talking, the news of the large-scale death of eels at Xihai Company's eel farming base spread quickly in the local area.

In less than two days, it had spread throughout Ryukyu.

Kagoshima Eel Company and Hai Lu Feng Company, which had been secretly paying attention to Xihai Company, naturally received this news immediately.

In a small private room in the company cafeteria.

"Hahaha, serves them right!" Zhang Xincheng burst into laughter.

Jiang Dahai was also beaming, gloating over Xihai Company without any guilt: "This is retribution!"

"Dad, brother-in-law, laugh all you want, but don't choke," Jiang Miao reminded with a smile.

"If I wasn't forbidden to drink, I would definitely have a few ounces to celebrate." Although Jiang Dahai hadn't shown it these past few days, he was still a little worried about the future of his son's company. Now he could finally relax.

Jiang Miao put a piece of roasted suckling pig into his father's bowl: "Dad, health is the most important thing. Smoking and drinking are like poison. Try not to touch them if you can."

"I just said it, I didn't really want to drink." Jiang Dahai didn't usually like drinking. In the past, he would only drink a little when guests came and he had no choice. Now he doesn't touch a drop.

Zhang Xincheng ate a piece of char siu and then asked in a low voice, "A Miao, should we continue to hold back the goods?"

"Yes, continue to hold back. When the news about Xihai Company is completely spread, that's when we will ship the goods."

Zhang Xincheng nodded: "Okay! Anyway, a few days won't make a difference."

Li Zhou, who had just come downstairs, hadn't taken a vacation these past few days and had stayed at the company.

He took a meal box from the meal box cabinet in the cafeteria.

The meals in the company cafeteria were prepared in meal boxes in advance to reduce the queuing time during meal distribution and to facilitate delivery to employees at farms, breeding farms, and the Canned Food Factory.

Just as he was about to find a random seat, he suddenly saw Jiang Miao walking out of the small private room.

Li Zhou walked over with the meal box: "Boss, there have been a lot more farmers calling to inquire about prices these past two days, especially those in Southern Fujian."

"No rush, let the news ferment for a while."

"The boss is truly prescient." Li Zhou picked up a piece of pork chop while thinking to himself:

The boss seemed to know that something would happen to Xihai Company before. Did he find someone to poison them? That's unlikely, and the risk is too great. Wait a minute... Li Zhou was absent-minded, but then he thought of a possibility:

Could it be that confidential formula? Was the formula tampered with by the boss? That's right, the boss definitely wouldn't write the formula directly in the notebook. There must be some secret codes or something that others don't know. I just didn't expect that formula could also cause large-scale death of eels. It seems that from now on, anyone who comes to the company to steal secrets will have to think twice.

In fact, Li Zhou was not the only smart person.

Other people in the company more or less guessed that the stolen formula might have serious problems.

Eastern Ying, Kagoshima Prefecture.

Inside the breeding farm of Kagoshima Eel Company.

Looking at the large number of elvers that had successfully hatched in the breeding pond, Watanabe Junichi smiled with satisfaction.

At this moment, his nephew, Watanabe Hirotada, hurried over from outside and whispered in his ear for a moment.

Hearing this, Watanabe Junichi's eyes flickered, and then the corner of his mouth curved into a slight smile: "Hehe, this Jiang-san is truly a man of hidden depths! He brought Xihai Company to the brink of bankruptcy without making a sound."

"President, several large eel farms in the country have sent emails, hoping to cooperate with us," Watanabe Hirotada added.

Watanabe Junichi shoveled a large chunk of Sea Snow Feed and put it into the cultivation pond, then said with a smile, "Reply to them and say that our eel fry have already been reserved. Tell them to wait for a month."

"Yes."

Watanabe Junichi naturally wouldn't give these eel farming companies eel fry immediately. He knew these guys. Some time ago, they sent a guy named Yamada to Ryukyu to secretly cooperate with Xihai Company and establish a fry company.

Although making money was definitely the goal, he wanted these eel farming companies to know who would be the boss in the next few years.

At least until other fry cultivation companies mastered the artificial breeding technology for eels, Kagoshima Eel Company and Hai Lu Feng Company would be the market monopolists.

As long as they reaped the first wave of profits, when other companies developed the technology, they would join forces with Hai Lu Feng Company to dump eel fry and drive down the price.

On this point, Watanabe Junichi was very grateful for Xihai Company's explosion, which caused other companies attempting to steal secrets or imitate them to become hesitant and uncertain.

In fact, other related companies focusing on artificial eel breeding technology were indeed startled by Xihai Company's tragic accident.

In just three days.

In Xihai Company's four hundred mu of fish ponds, all 650 tons of mature eels died, without even the possibility of being made into eel canned food.

It wasn't that Wang Da Fu and others hadn't thought of selling the eels to nearby eel canneries, but unfortunately, the cannery owners weren't fools either.

The large-scale death of Xihai Company's eels was now almost common knowledge in Ryukyu, especially among people in the relevant industry, who knew many inside stories.

Which cannery would dare to buy such eels that died so suddenly and on such a large scale to make eel canned food? It would be like an old man eating arsenic – tired of living.

There were even a few eel canneries in Ryukyu that, because they had previously cooperated with Xihai Company, were worried about being implicated and quickly issued announcements stating that they had not purchased eels from Xihai Company recently.

"Hehe, is this what they call kicking a man when he's down?"

Wang Da Fu slumped dejectedly in his office. The office was filled with smoke, and the ashtray was overflowing with cigarette butts.

"Dad! This is bad, the bank is asking us to provide a loss report for this accident and is going to freeze our accounts," Wang Yongli rushed in.

"It's over! Everything is over!" Wang Da Fu lit another cigarette, his eyes lifeless.

Bang! Zhang Biao kicked the door open with a few of his subordinates: "Wang Da Fu, you've caused me to lose so much money. I'm not done with you over this."

"Hehe, Zhang Biao, what are you not done with me about?" Wang Da Fu spread his hands and asked back with an indifferent expression.

"You!" Zhang Biao clenched his fists, but didn't dare to actually strike. He was just talking tough; it was unlikely he would actually get rid of Wang Da Fu.

This accident indeed caused huge losses for Wang Da Fu and the other two.

To breed eel fry as quickly as possible, they had bought a large number of mature eels in Ryukyu and Southern Fujian in the past two months, purchasing 573 tons of eels. The average purchase price for each ton of mature eels reached 92,000 Hua Yuan, totaling 52.71 million Hua Yuan.

In addition, they expanded the site, added two hundred mu of fish ponds, and built supporting indoor breeding bases.

They invested nearly 100 million in total.

What was even more serious was that he had received deposits from many farms, and this money also amounted to over 20 million.

Then, the more than seventy tons of mature eels that the company had originally raised also died, resulting in another loss of several million.

Although Wang Da Fu had tens of millions in assets, much of it was fixed assets, and his cash was only about ten million.

Those farmers and companies who had previously placed orders had already brought people overnight to surround Xihai Company and Wang Da Fu, demanding the return of their deposits.

This situation instantly drained the capital chains of Xihai Company and Wang Da Fu.

Now, banks, equipment companies, and engineering companies were also worried about Xihai Company's repayment ability, demanding that Wang Da Fu pay as soon as possible, or provide the company's profit situation, or increase collateral.

Just as the few people were arguing noisily,

A dark figure flashed past the window.

Bang!

"Ah ah..."

"Someone jumped!"

"Quick, call an ambulance..."

"No use, they're gone."

"Isn't that a shareholder of Xihai? Wang Da Fu wouldn't be thinking of jumping too, would he?"

"Not good, everyone rush in, we must make Xihai return our deposits first."

Wang Yongli quickly opened the glass window and looked down, only to find that it was another shareholder of the company, the bald, glasses-wearing old man, who had jumped.