The salesman who had just walked out of a small roadside shop straightened his clothes and headed toward the store across the road. This was not the first store he had persuaded, nor would it be the last.
Shi Haoyun's plan was simple: employ a human-wave tactic and make Every Moment lose in court.
If someone sued Every Moment on every street in every city of every state, it would become a terrifyingly enormous number.
Every Moment would be unable to handle every lawsuit. Once the first lawsuit was won, there would be a second, a third, and many more.
After enough victories had been secured, those cases could even serve as important precedents for future trials of similar cases—juries were not required for every lawsuit.
No one would prepare a jury for minor cases like speeding or singing while urinating. In most noncriminal, nonserious cases, the power to decide the verdict ultimately rested with the judge.
Breach of contract clearly fell into the category that did not require a jury. To avoid mistakes, judges chose successful cases as the basis for their verdicts. Wasn't that perfectly normal?
And that was the plan of Shi Haoyun and the other tobacco companies: drag Every Moment, which was already in serious trouble, into the abyss of litigation.
They had no choice but to respond, but once they did, they would find holes everywhere.
There had never been any room for mercy in wars between capitalists. In the Federation, whenever you had the chance to crush your opponent, remember to put on nail-studded anti-slip shoes.
After the salesman left, a truck stopped outside the store. Two workers entered the shop under the lead of a man who looked somewhat like a foreman.
"I'll take these, and all of Every Moment's cigarettes..." The man