Gu Ping's words made Li Yifan's suspicion slightly less, but no matter what, there was always a lingering shadow in his heart.

He has been to the United States for missions many times in his previous life and has a considerable understanding of the United States.

Since the beginning of the last century, due to the shrinking of the European Red Shield family in the US market, a large number of family-style consortiums have rapidly emerged. With the opportunity of great development in the United States, these consortiums have developed rapidly.

These include two of the top players, Morgan and Rockefeller Consortium.

Later, due to World War I, the Red Shield family's business in Europe was hit hard, causing them to tighten their money and further retreat from North America, which led to further shrinking control over local American consortiums such as Morgan and Rockefeller, and also gave these American consortiums the opportunity to expand rapidly.

After the end of World War I in the last century, the United States quickly rose up the most famous eight consortiums by making great money in war.

After World War II, as the influence of the Red Shield family further weakened, these eight consortiums became world-class consortiums.

However, after World War II, these eight major consortiums also learned more savvy. They began to retreat behind the scenes and no longer directly participated in the operations of American politics. They just chose some of their agents from time to time on the stage, and they completely hid behind the scenes to remotely control the US government.

Later on, it was a golden period that the US economy ushered in after World War II. During this period, the US West Coast economy rose, thus giving birth to a series of new West Coast consortiums.

The most stylish ones are the new consortium on the West Coast represented by the Italians, with Bank of America as the core, and a series of consortiums such as the Texas consortium.

There are some other small consortiums around these large consortiums, among which the Chinese consortiums are among them. Especially after World War II, the United States lifted the decades-long Chinese exclusion bill, which made the consortiums on the West Coast of the United States usher in a golden period of development.

Later, the Chinese immigration wave in the 1970s and 1980s allowed these Chinese consortiums to develop rapidly.

These consortiums often focus on banks and then enter all walks of life on the West Coast to the field, among which they focus most on the operation of real estate and retail department stores.

And almost no Chinese who have lived in the United States have ever had any experience in dealing with these Chinese consortiums.

Gu Ping has lived in the United States for ten years, but she has never heard of this Western Pacific Investment Group. Not only has she never dealt with them, she has even rarely had contact with them. This is surprising.

Could this Western Pacific consortium really be so low-key in the United States?

But this is not the way of modern business. The so-called theory that the Chinese people say that wine is not afraid of deep alleys has long been no longer popular in this era.

In today's day by day, if you want to make your business bigger and stronger, then you must do enough publicity so that people know your business and want to participate in your business. This is the kingdom.

But if this Western Pacific Group is really that big, how could they not know this truth? It is still playing the hidden world and living in the world. Isn’t that scientific?

Now they are making such a glorious and famous in the Northern Province, and they want to be well-known, but why don’t they follow this routine in the United States?

When Li Yifan thought of this, he felt more and more that the origin of this Western Pacific Investment Group was suspicious.

There are many scammers these days, and they are all very brave. In the early years, there were many such professional scammers in a developed coastal city in Guangdong and Guangzhou. They have targeted some local provinces and cities in China. At the beginning of reform and opening up, they lacked experience but were extremely hungry for overseas funds and committed crimes on a large scale in the coastal areas of China.

They often use the banner of some Xiangjiang or Baodao companies, and then deal with major cities along the coast of China under the name of visiting domestic investment.

The halo of foreign investment and the ruling officials of some domestic cities often ask for their demands for foreign investment.

They also rely on the cooperation of these blind officials to exaggerate some projects and draw a big pie for these cities. Then, relying on this big pie and the cover of local governments to go to banks to get loans, or talk about cooperation among very local merchants and wealthy businesses.

Then, in various names, we defrauded these local government funds or the deposits of local merchants.

The amount involved in the incident can be several million, while the amount of the high can even reach tens of millions or even hundreds of millions. Moreover, their methods are very simple, but in those local cities, they are often tried and tested.

As early as the early 1990s, in some southern cities, more than ten such cases broke out every year, and even at peak times, as many as dozens.

When they engage in such a fraud, the first thing they will do is to fool the rulers in those cities and use silver bullet attacks to hit them.

At the beginning, I gave money, then gold watches, various gifts, or received the rulers of those cities, and went abroad for a leisurely and a round of investigation...

There are various methods, mainly to completely wipe out these rulers, and then in the subsequent cooperation, these rulers will unknowingly become accomplices who cooperate with them.

Generally, after the incident, these ruling people will try their best to cover up because of their official hats, helping these so-called investors to hide and hide their crimes.

Such cases usually end in the end, but the meeting often ends. After a year, there are only a few cases that are finally solved.

But the one who was unlucky in the end was often the banks in those cities, or the local merchants, who suffered heavy losses and could not seek justice in the end.

Merchants can only think of themselves as unlucky, and of course banks cannot suffer such losses in vain. They will often pass on their losses to the local people in various names. Anyway, the people will be the ones who are unlucky in the end.

By the late 1990s, such fraud cases had attracted the attention of many rulers in the south, so such means were increasingly reduced in the southern area and were no longer effective.

However, these fraudsters transformed and began to fight in the north. After all, the concept of the rulers in the north was itself behind the south and was more likely to be pulled down by them.

On the other hand, after cases like this broke out in the south, ordinary people will try their best to cover up the matter and prevent the incident from spreading. Therefore, in such cases, the rulers in some northern cities often have no experience in dealing with these scammers because of the opaque information.

So later, those scammers were more and more successful, and these guys were more and more courageous, and their methods became more and more clever.

Every time I go to the place, I use high investment as a gimmick to attract the attention of local officials, and then use a powerful silver bullet offensive to pull some major officials off. Then, I use various means to cheat in this city, and finally donate money to escape, and then it ends in vain.

Think about this scene a few years ago, when Yang Yuhe came to power, he almost encountered this scene, but it was the local gang in Bincheng who deliberately dug for him.

If it weren't for Li Yifan's alertness that he had specially eavesdropped on the phone calls of those fraudsters, Yang Yuhe, who was anxious to change the situation in Bincheng's officialdom, would have fallen into a big fuss that time.

However, according to Li Yifan's experience, these scammers generally choose third-tier or fourth-tier cities with less developed economies and very congested news to engage in fraud.

Generally, they rarely involve second-tier cities. After all, the larger the city, the higher the acceptance of information, so they are afraid that their identities or means will be exposed, and they usually rarely choose to move in second-tier cities.

As for first-tier cities, there is no need to say that they dare not show their faces in first-tier cities easily.

But this time, these so-called Western Pacific Groups are coming in full force and have a considerable appearance. Not only do they drive two special planes from the United States in a swagger, but they also received attention and personal reception from Vice Governor Jin.

Even Vice Governor Jin personally held an economic meeting within the province to allow business people in the province and the supervisors of a city to cooperate with their business actions.

The momentum is so great and the officials involved are so high. Are these Americans really liars?

If they were really liars, then these people would be too brave, right? But can this liar drive a special plane? Will such a style be a liar?

For a moment, even Li Yifan felt it was difficult to judge. On the one hand, he felt that these guys from the Western Pacific Group were a bit suspicious, but on the other hand, the other party's attitude of spending a lot of money and treating money as dirt made him feel a little hesitant.

So for a moment, he also felt embarrassed.

Just as Li Yifan was talking and laughing with Gu Ping and talking about some topics, Tang Tian, ​​who had been dancing with Chen Jiexi on the dance floor, was quietly paying attention to the scene on their side.

To be honest, when she suddenly saw Li Yifan today, she was also stunned, and she didn't expect to meet him here.
Chapter completed!