Chapter 420 Li Shengli's Response
Just when the restaurant manager caught Sha Zhu taking the lunch box home, the people from the Industrial and Commercial Bureau received another anonymous report about Li Shengli's factory. This time, after receiving instructions from Director Ma, everyone just went out to deal with the matter.
In order to prevent people on this street from making random phone calls and maliciously reporting others, Director Ma decided to bring people from the Industrial and Commercial Bureau to conduct two more surprise inspections.
Banggeng was among those who were raided. He was setting up his stall on the street near the cinema when suddenly people from the Industry and Commerce Bureau appeared from the intersection.
Bang Geng didn't take it seriously at first. He had both the license and the health permit, so he was not afraid. Besides, his skewers were all fresh, so he wasn't afraid of being checked.
But as I watched Bang Geng, I realized something was not right. These people only checked people like him who sold barbecue, especially those who had been grilling barbecue for a long time.
Banggeng was shocked when he saw this. How did this barbecue guy offend the people from the Industrial and Commercial Bureau? This group of people was so purposeful.
There are quite a few people selling barbecue on this street, and some of them are operating without a license. This time they have run into trouble, but the people from the Industrial and Commercial Bureau did not confiscate their goods but instead issued a ticket. All of a day's income was fined.
After checking one by one, I quickly found Banggeng.
"Hello, please show me your business license." The man wore a red armband and held a folder in his hand. He came up to Bang Geng and asked him seriously.
"Comrade, why are you only checking the barbecue seller?" Bang Geng asked the two people in front of him casually while rummaging through his backpack for the business license.
"Well, someone just made an anonymous phone call to report us. They are simply using our people from the Industry and Commerce Bureau as a weapon. So, our Director Ma analyzed that the person who made the report must be the one who sold barbecue before, so this time we came to conduct a surprise inspection."
The people from the Industry and Commerce Bureau also received instructions from their director. Now, whenever they receive a call reporting Li Shengli's factory, they will send someone to check it out and fill out an inspection report. However, this is not a good idea. They come out to inspect to make a warning, at least to prevent the anonymous whistleblower from being so arrogant and using their people from the Industry and Commerce Bureau as a gun.
“By the way, it couldn’t be you who made the anonymous reporting call.” One of the people from the Industry and Commerce Bureau said in a joking tone.
"No, how could it be me?" Bang Geng was shocked and quickly denied it.
"You're not the best." The two of them looked at Banggeng's stall and then left.
Bang Geng breathed a sigh of relief when he saw the two people leaving. It seemed that he could not continue to make anonymous phone calls to report others.
What Bang Geng didn't notice was that while the two industrial and commercial personnel were inspecting, there was a person staring at him not far away. This person was someone Lee Seung-ri had found from his own security company.
Li Shengli has always suspected that this was done by Banggeng, so he sent people to follow Banggeng. However, Banggeng was still a little cautious when he was making a phone call. The people who followed Banggeng only saw Banggeng making a phone call but did not hear what he said.
However, based on the time when Banggeng called and the time when his factory was inspected, Lee Seungri deduced that it was Banggeng who did it. Coupled with Banggeng's guilty look now, Lee Seungri was really certain about it.
After a surprise inspection by the Industrial and Commercial Bureau, the anonymous reporting calls were indeed stopped, and the people sent by Li Shengli to follow Bang Geng also did not see him making calls.
Li Shengli thought for a moment and tried to decide how to teach Banggeng a lesson legally.
Lee Seung-ri would never do anything illegal. If he really wanted to retaliate against Bang Geng by illegal means, it would be easy, just like what the boss of Tang Niu and Big Joy did to Stephen Chow by giving him a batch of "cheap" beef.
But this is an insult to a cook, and Lee Seung-ri would never do such a thing. So how should he retaliate against Bang Geng next?
Li Shengli thought about it and immediately came up with an idea. Even if Bang Geng started a business, he still couldn't avoid his desire to get something for nothing. The first step was to find two people who were tight-lipped and had some cooking skills. Bang Geng was in the barbecue business, so he would let him cook as much as he wanted.
Li Shengli planned to find two people to surround the banggeng and sell barbecue next to the banggeng at cost price. Li Shengli didn't believe that the banggeng's products could be sold under such circumstances.
Now Lee Seung-ri doesn’t have much other things but a lot of money.
Before he knew it, Li Shengli had become the capitalist he hated the most in his previous life.
When Banggeng's business can no longer continue, he will naturally look for some jobs that can make money faster. This dog will always eat shit, and Li Shengli doesn't believe that Banggeng will become hardworking.
Lee Seung-ri acted immediately. Now was not the time to worry about the cost. He first applied for two business licenses, both of which were for barbecue stalls. However, Lee Seung-ri did something more extreme this time. His barbecue stall not only had beef and mutton, but also some vegetables and seafood. The other stall was teppanyaki, which also had all kinds of products. In this way, no matter what products Banggeng could expand in the future, he could not get rid of the two people next to him.
It's easy to get things done with someone in the court. Not only was Li Shengli's business license obtained quickly, but other hardware equipment was also easily obtained. The barbecue stove, rack and iron net were all brand new.
After being quiet for two days, Banggeng once again came to the street near the cinema.
This time, Banggeng unloaded his barbecue rack from the tricycle with ease and placed it in front of the stall. As soon as he set up the stove, he took out coal and wood chips from a pocket on the side, put them on the rack and started to light the fire.
While he was busy, two tricycles drove up beside him. At first, Bang Geng was too busy to pay attention to the stall next to him. It was not until he heard clanging sounds that he lit the fire on the shelf and looked around.
He saw another stove popping up on both sides of his stove, which made Banggeng's heart skip a beat and he then looked at the two strangers on both sides of him.
When the two men saw Banggeng, they smiled and nodded to him as a greeting, but the smiles on their faces made Banggeng feel that they had bad intentions.
Sure enough, after Banggeng put the meat on the barbecue grill, the two people next to him also took out various meats and vegetables and started grilling them. While grilling, they also put up a sign outside. Banggeng's bad premonition became more and more serious.
During the break of grilling, he stuck his head out to take a look at the two people's signs. He almost fainted with anger when he saw it. The sign showed the price of the two people's barbecue. Bang Geng calculated that the price of the two people's signs was only slightly higher than the purchase price of these dishes.
"Hey, you two, did you make a mistake in pricing?" Bang Geng narrowed his eyes and felt that something was wrong. Could it be that these two were here to cause trouble?
"You're right. We two brothers are here to hone our skills. We don't expect to make money from this." The person on the left of Banggeng explained with a smile.
Bang Geng looked at the man's fake smile and wanted to punch him. He could see that the two men were most likely coming for him.
"Who sent you?" Banggeng came over and asked viciously.
"I don't understand what you are saying." The person who was asked by Bang Geng pretended to be innocent.
Banggeng was very angry but he had no solution. This was an open conspiracy and there was nothing he could do.
(End of this chapter)