1992, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, Latin the largest city in the Dominican Republic, Santo Domingo is a beautiful coastal city and a favorite holiday destination for many Americans.
"Peter, I didn't expect you to arrive so early. That's great."
At the airport, at the passenger exit, at the boarding point, Wu Wendong, carrying a package, greeted Peterrickson with a smile.
"What's the point? We came here a week early, but we didn't find anything, did we?"
The latter curled his lips and said:
"You know that our captain doesn't like us to act on our own. This is a red line."
Wu Wendong got into the car, fastened his seat belt, and said to Peterrickson in the driver's seat:
"You're still not happy, kid? I heard this is a famous tourist destination. Wouldn't it be nice to come here early to have some fun? Don't think about the mission all day long. There's an old Chinese saying about combining work with rest. You still need to learn more."
Peterrickson stepped on the accelerator and the car quickly left the airport.
What they both spoke was a very niche Chinese mainland dialect, which could be said to be a naturally encrypted language. Even in a public place like an airport, there was no need to worry about being overheard.
As members of the Christmas family team, both Wu Wendong and Peterrickson are very careful when they are outside.
After all, they usually carry out a lot of tasks and can almost be said to fly all over the world frequently.
Last year, they carried out a mission in Moscow for more than a year, and during that time they were almost always picking up money.
Today's Moscow is in tatters and has little benefit left.
Recently, their captain Ding Guanjia received a new mission, which was to carry out a secret mission in an island country in Latin America.
The specific task is not known yet, but the task reward is known.
The total reward is 30 million US dollars. If their team can complete it successfully, each person can get at least 2 million US dollars.
There were fifteen people in their team, and since some of them were still on vacation, not everyone came together.
Peterrickson is a money-hungry guy, so he was the first to come here.
There is a detached villa near the beach. The car is parked steadily in the front yard. At this moment, there are two hot girls and several handsome guys barbecuing under the shade of a tree in the corner of the yard.
In fact, this is a hot coastal city, and barbecue is not a good way to have a meal together.
"Wow, Meiqi and Danweiji are here? Hey, that bastard Du Tianbao is here too. Good boy, I'm not the last one to come, am I?"
Wu Wendong had seen quite a few people before he got off the car, and was immediately amazed.
There are two hot beauties in their team. Don't underestimate them. They are very strong and have amazing reaction abilities.
The most important thing is that their role in the team is not to be the main force such as breaking through and attacking, but to be think tanks, computers, etc., which are equivalent to the brain of the team.
With the arrival of Wu Wendong, their team was finally assembled.
"Meiqi and Danviki have just arrived, so this dinner tonight is a gathering before our mission begins. Starting tomorrow, we will officially start the mission, which means that you only have today to rest."
Captain Ding Guanjia stood up and spoke to everyone.
"Captain, now that everyone is here, can you tell me what the specific mission is?"
Upon hearing this, Zhang Dafu raised questions on behalf of everyone.
Kate, Meiqi, Du Tianbao, Danviki, Peterrickson, Wu Wendong and others all looked at Ding Guanjia with confusion in their eyes.
The latter shook his head and said:
"I'm sorry, I still don't know who the specific target of the mission is. Anyway, everyone, be prepared. The mission to be completed this time must be difficult, otherwise we would not have been sent here."
In the Christmas Family organization, each task has different difficulty levels, and the corresponding task rewards are matched according to the different task difficulties.
When everyone heard this, they didn't think Ding Guanjia was hiding anything, so they just let go and have fun.
After a night of fun, everyone received the task details early the next morning and was looking for someone.
The island country of the Dominican Republic is actually not very big, but the city of Santo Domingo has a large population of million.
If we include permanent residents such as tourists, the number would almost approach 10 million.
To be honest, it is not an easy thing to find someone in a big city with a population approaching 10 million.
"Captain, how can we find someone in such a big place? They must have disguised themselves, or even changed their faces."
Wu Wendong and others surrounded Ding Guanjia and felt for the first time that the task was too difficult.
Tasks like finding people are not their specialty, not to mention that in such a big city, it is like looking for a needle in a haystack.
More importantly, no one can be sure whether the other party is really in this city.
The person they were looking for was Zhuang Yucai, the former head of Bristol Pharmaceuticals.
Over the past few decades, this person has privately made $600 to $700 million through secret channels, or perhaps even more.
Before August 1967, Chen Guohua had developed a high fructose corn syrup sweetener and applied for a patent worldwide.
This patent is specifically registered under the name of the Francis Biological Laboratory of the University of Cambridge, and Bristol Pharmaceuticals is responsible for the relevant patent licensing matters.
That is to say, after 1967, more and more patents were placed under the name of Francis Biological Laboratories and then handled by Bristol Pharmaceuticals.
Afterwards, grain giants such as Archer Daniels Midland Company, Bunge, and Cargill, as well as food-related giants such as McDonald's, KFC, and Coca-Cola Company all paid to purchase Bristol Pharmaceuticals' patents.
The patent fee is 50 million US dollars per year!
Every company that wants to use cheaper sweeteners has to pay, and it costs 50 million US dollars a year.
You can imagine how much profit there is.
Moreover, in addition to the giant companies mentioned above, there are many related companies that also need to use sweetener patents.
For example, chocolate companies and some food processing factories, etc., large-scale companies around the world that want to reduce costs will think of using sweeteners.
Patent fees actually go up and down depending on the size of the company.
There are many companies around the world, such as several food giants in the Dominican Republic, that use patented sweeteners. As the person in charge, Zhuang Yucai has always been conscientious and has not made any extraordinary moves.
However, no one could have imagined that he had already started to make small moves.
In Northern Europe, South America, Africa, Argentina, the Middle East, Southeast Asia and other places, many food companies need patents such as sweeteners to reduce their production costs.
It just so happens that these places are areas where Chen Guohua and his team have extremely weak surveillance. In addition, the Internet in these places was not developed at all in the 1970s and 1980s. Even if Chen Guohua wanted to use the Internet to monitor these places, it would be difficult.
This gave Zhuang Yucai an opportunity to take advantage of and make enough money in the past twenty years.
Two years ago, Zhuang Yucai suddenly resigned because he had reached retirement age.
After retirement, Zhuang Yucai did not return to China to settle down, but went to North America instead.
Originally, this matter was nothing big, but some time ago, Chang'e Intelligence discovered some abnormal data in the background of Apple and other companies, so it conducted an investigation based on this abnormal data.
Only then did Chen Guohua realize that someone wanted to take action against Apple, hack into Apple's firewall, and make some money.
In this time and space, the Internet, which has been emerging since the 1970s, has become very developed in North America in 1992, and the number of Internet users has already exceeded 150 million.
With such a huge number, cyber hackers also come along.
Some hackers think they have good skills, so they want to challenge everything, but they don't know what the consequences will be if they challenge Apple.
So, after Chen Guohua defeated these hackers, he also had them arrested.
At this time, Chen Guohua suddenly noticed some abnormal data and discovered that the Wall Street wolves were cheating.
As white glove companies, after the dramatic fluctuations in the 1970s and 1980s, there are not many companies left that were run by the wolves of Wall Street.
Although there are not many such white glove companies, Chen Guohua will continue to have people add more and acquire shell companies to supplement such white glove companies.
These white glove companies have a lot of money, and they do things secretly, which may not be discovered sometimes.
Even though Chen Guohua and his team have arranged extremely strict financial audits and supervision, there will always be a time when the devil is always stronger than the god.
Now that he had discovered these termites, Chen Guohua would naturally not let them go.
During the crackdown, Zhuang Yucai's funds were discovered.
Zhuang Yucai is also a talented person. He actually used several names, but his loopholes are very obvious.
That is, the man with white gloves who appeared in the bank's surveillance camera could not possibly have tens of millions of US dollars in funds.
Several people in a row had tens of millions of US dollars in funds, and they used several layers of money in a highly consistent manner. This was clearly telling Chen Guohua that there was something wrong with this person.
why?
Chen Guohua is extremely familiar with the white gloves incident.
Zhuang Yucai's tactics are exactly the same as the ones Chen Guohua used before.
Therefore, Zhuang Yucai, who was exposed, was quickly caught by Chen Guohua.
However, what made Chen Guohua speechless was that this bastard was quite cunning and never showed up.
The most important thing is that this guy has most likely changed his appearance.
Because the few white gloves that Zhuang Yucai brought out would come to Santo Domingo every once in a while, but it was unknown what they were doing specifically.
This is roughly the situation, so it is impossible to catch Zhuang Yucai through the Internet. Chen Guohua can only issue tasks and arrange people to catch Zhuang Yucai.
The details of the mission were definitely not told to Ding Guanjia, Wu Wendong, Peterrickson and others, but the general situation of Zhuang Yucai and the situations of those white gloves must have been told to Ding Guanjia and others.
Even so, to be honest, it is still quite difficult to find Zhuang Yucai in this city where the Internet is not very developed.
Just as Ding Guanjia and the others were discussing how to get started, on the other side of Santo Domingo, in the wealthy area of the city, Zhuang Yucai also smelled something was wrong.
Zhuang Yucai is a bold and careful person, and he is well-informed about many things.
He was able to secretly earn more than 10 billion US dollars in assets over the past few decades, so he must have some outstanding qualities.
Santo Domingo is located in the Caribbean Sea, in Latin America. The city has a large population and there are many good and bad people.
Therefore, after retirement, he chose to enjoy his old age here because this place is big enough and the Internet is not so developed.
If the truth ever comes out in the future, he will have enough time to escape.
You know, he is only sixty years old this year. He feels that he can live to eighty or ninety years old, so he doesn't want to stay in prison for the rest of his life, or even be sent to see the King of Hell by a peanut.
Today, he felt particularly nervous, as if something bad was going to happen.
In the hospital, Zhuang Yucai hadn't even seen his white gloves yet. When the doctor explained that he was in good health, he was already thinking about running away.
"No, I can't wait any longer, I have to leave now!"
The more nervous Zhuang Yucai became, the more anxious he became. He didn't dare to stay in Santo Domingo any longer.
So, Zhuang Yucai hurriedly packed his luggage and then went out to sea on a luxury yacht.
He went directly to the neighboring country, then flew directly to South America by a small plane, and then changed to other means of transportation. It took more than two days before he arrived in the city of Rio de Janeiro in South America.
The heat in South America knows no seasons, so Zhuang Yu came directly to this place just to hide away for a while.
At the age of 65, he can still run so fast, which is enough to show how cautious he is and how much he values his life.
Because he exercises every day and attaches great importance to his physical health.
This guy has a wife and children, but no one outside knows about it except himself.
With Zhuang Yucai's shrewdness and years of experience, he naturally knows how to hide himself.
The reason why he didn't go directly to find his wife and children this time was naturally because he was afraid of being caught up.
In Santo Domingo, Ding Guanjia and his men were still looking for someone, but they didn't know that their target had already left the city.
The enemy's cunning is beyond imagination.
Moreover, Zhuang Yucai's means of transportation are always to avoid places with surveillance cameras, so it is extremely difficult for outsiders to find him. (End of this chapter)
