He immediately shuddered and hurriedly called below to cancel the payment and instruct someone to call and inform Yamaguchi Seiko.

Tell them that there is no reason for the chamber of commerce to bear their company's liquidated damages.

After making the call, he let out a long sigh of relief.

Originally, this matter had nothing major to do with him or the chamber of commerce, at most it was just a matter of inadequate supervision.

Previously, he had directly had the chamber of commerce buy back two machine tools at a high price, which already counted as making amends.

Logically, it should have already offset the mistake.

But he blamed it on his greed, trying to take advantage of this matter to suppress the other party.

He wanted to use the suppression of the other party to enhance his own prestige among the people.

To him, this matter seemed exceedingly simple, after all, they were the ones in control of the technology.

For them, it was a piece of cake!

However, never did he expect that the situation would reach such a state; it was like lifting a stone only to drop it on his own foot!

The most crucial part was that the stone wasn't even in his way, he had forced himself into this situation.

Nevertheless, there was still a solution to this issue.

That was to disassociate himself as much as possible.

As for the life and death of the Yamaguchi Clan, what did it matter to him, Xiao Quan??

If the Yamaguchi Clan was gone, there would still be the Xiao Zhe Clan and the Bodaji Clan.

Faced with his future, he could naturally afford to sacrifice a few pawns.

But even though he had to give up this pawn, he still wanted it to be of maximum use to him.

So he immediately made a call to the chairman's office of Yamaguchi Seiko.

Only to receive a notification that the call could not be completed.

After a bit of thought, he found the Great Elder of the Yamaguchi Clan's phone number in his contacts.

"Moshi moshi, this is Xiao Quan. The chamber of commerce just received some news, but I couldn't reach Junichiro, could you please pass the message on?"

The Great Elder of the Yamaguchi Clan, upon hearing it was President Xiao Quan, immediately answered respectfully.

But after hearing the following words from Xiao Quan, there was a moment of confusion.

After quite some time, he finally regained his composure.

Just as he was about to ask further, the other party had already hung up the phone.

This left the Great Elder at a loss.

After quite a while, he finally took a deep breath and immediately called the other elders aligned with him.

As for Yamaguchi Chunqilang, he was nothing more than a puppet.

How could he be consulted on matters like this?

Less than three minutes after the call was made, the other elders had already arrived at the Great Elder's office.

"Baka! What on earth is going on? How does the Nuclear Manufacturing Group possess so many precision machine tools?? Could some faction have sold them?"

"No, that's impossible. There isn't any other faction in the world, apart from us, that can produce such machine tools. According to the chamber of commerce, Nuclear Manufacturing managed to replicate them within a month."

Although everyone was reluctant to believe this result, the facts were right in front of them.

Even if they didn't want to accept it, they had no choice.

Once everyone had said their piece, the Great Elder knocked on the table to interrupt everyone, before saying with a very grim expression:

"Right now, what we should be considering isn't how the other party got the machines.

We need to think about how to recover our losses and prevent the shareholders from withdrawing their investments."

As soon as these words were spoken, the room fell into silence.

Indeed, it wasn't just Yamaguchi Chunqilang who was worried about disinvestment; the elders were even more concerned.

Although each of them was a shareholder, behind Yamaguchi Seiko, there were several renowned major investment conglomerates supporting it.

If they learned about the current situation of owing compensation worth 150 billion and losing 70% of their clients, they would undoubtedly choose to withdraw their investments.

This was something they didn't even need to think about. After all, these capitalists would never make risky investments.

Now that things had reached this point, there had to be an explanation to the big-time investors no matter what.

Not only to the investors but also to those opposition faction elders who demanded an explanation.

After some discussion, these elders set their sights on the family.

Yes, they wanted Yamaguchi Junichiro to take the fall.

After all, from start to finish, it was Yamaguchi Junichiro who had been strongly advocating for Yamaguchi Seiko's cooperation with the chamber of commerce.

"Great Elder, should we gather all the elders now to question Chunqilang properly?"

As soon as this suggestion was made, the people present exchanged glances and nodded in agreement.

Once everyone confirmed with each other, they all stood up and headed outside.

Within five minutes, all the elders present in the group were gathered together.

After the Great Elder briefly shirked responsibility, he led over a dozen elders aggressively towards the chairman's office.

However, when they arrived outside the chairman's office, even before entering, they heard some unusual noises.

This caused everyone to frown slightly, unsure of what was happening inside.

It was the Great Elder who first pushed open the door to the chairman's office, but they didn't see Yamaguchi Chunqilang.

Instead, it was an elder standing at the door who frowned, pointing to the door of the side secretary's office and saying:

"Great Elder, there's noise coming from inside there, could it be in there?"

Saying that, without waiting for the Great Elder's response, he stepped towards the secretary's office.

With a creak, the door opened, and everything inside the room was suddenly exposed to the outside.

But when they saw the scene inside, everyone was momentarily stunned, followed by a surge of fury.

At that moment, in the secretary's office, the little secretary's work clothes had become tattered, while Yamaguchi Chunqilang was stark naked.

This, however, wasn't too surprising, as such incidents were quite normal in Plaster Country; almost everyone present had done something similar.

But Yamaguchi Chunqilang was now quite ~

How should I put it, this guy was tied hand and foot to the bookshelf with several ropes, and his eyes were covered with a lacy blindfold.

In his mouth, he was even holding a high-heeled shoe.

Due to the loud noises, the little secretary holding a whip beside Yamaguchi Chunqilang was completely frightened.

Her half-raised whip froze in mid-air, and her mouth was wide open.

Bound as he was, Yamaguchi Chunqilang, after waiting for a while without feeling the whip, also sensed something was wrong. However, with his hands and feet bound and eyes covered, he couldn't see what was happening.

Fortunately, his mouth was only holding the shoe, and he reluctantly spat it out before speaking:

"'Won't it be fun' What's wrong, my queen?"

As soon as he finished his words, a loud slap resounded...

It was precisely this whip that snapped Yamaguchi Chunqilang back to his senses:

"Baka!! You stupid bitch! How dare you really hit me! Let me go, see how I won't beat you to death!!"

But what awaited him was yet another series of lashes.

This made Yamaguchi Junichiro howl and struggle wildly, desperately attempting to free his hands and feet.

Finally, after a violent struggle, the not-so-secure knots on his wrists finally came undone.

Once he pulled the blindfold from his head, a familiar face came into view.

Instantly, Yamaguchi Chunqilang let out an even more miserable wail...

[To be continued....]

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