Director Liu gave a slight smile, then immediately signaled with his eyes to the staff member who was about to set the nameplate on the table to stop, and said with a smile, "Since it's a friend of Mr. Shen, of course there's no problem."

After speaking, Director Liu instructed the staff member, "Go invite that Ji Liangyuan, Mr. Ji over to take a seat."

Hearing this instruction, the staff member nodded immediately and hurried off to find Ji Liangyuan.

When Ji Liangyuan looked at Shen Qiang with a surprised gaze and an unwilling expression appeared on his face, Shen Qiang laughed, feeling that Ji Liangyuan really was as Ji Liangchuan had said—on the business field, this guy was indeed very shrewd.

He smiled and chatted idly with the leaders for a few sentences before taking a seat at the table.

Shen Qiang sent a message by telepathy to Ji Liangchuan, "Your older brother has been entrusted to me; do whatever you need to do and don't waste the opportunity."

"Thank you, rest assured."

Shortly after, Shen Qiang saw Ji Liangchuan, who had just received the telepathic message, walk straight toward the entrepreneurs he had been conversing with earlier. When the two brothers brushed past each other, Shen Qiang distinctly noticed both of them exchange a few words through telepathy.

But both of their expressions were very cold.

Clearly, the words exchanged were not greetings.

Soon, Ji Liangyuan took his seat.

Because there was no unnecessary formality,

dishes were quickly served.

At that moment, Shen Qiang noticed that Ji Liangchuan was already chatting and laughing with the entrepreneurs whom Ji Liangyuan had been conversing with earlier and had moved aside to take their seats.

This situation made Shen Qiang smile.

But at the same time, Shen Qiang heard Ji Liangyuan's telepathic message.

"Shen Qiang, you're truly despicable. I worked hard all morning to find some potential clients, and there was a good chance I could have reached a purchase agreement for production equipment with them over lunch. Now you've pulled me here and let Xiao Qi negotiate with them, you're essentially openly stealing my clients."

Watching the very angry Ji Liangyuan, Shen Qiang smiled and responded telepathically, "Yes, I'm openly stealing them, and I think I'm already being quite polite. Because Ji Liangchuan is your brother, when you were drunk and got beaten up, he picked you up and took care of you."

"The reason he does it is that he sees you as his real brother, so he can tolerate your drunken mess and let you stay in Provincial City, but you overstepped by reaching into his wallet and tried to develop your clients in his territory."

"He's helpless because he can't bring himself to act against you."

"But I am different, Ji Liangchuan is my friend, and you are not. You steal my friend's business, and that makes you my enemy."

"As for me, friends are welcomed with fine wine, enemies with a hunting rifle, so since you've made your move now, I might as well tell you that there's an old saying in Huaxia, 'Even a mighty dragon cannot crush a local snake,' and I happen to be the local snake here."

"You can sell Magical Treasures, all I care, but if you want to sell production equipment under my watch, you're dreaming."

Furious upon hearing this, Ji Liangyuan glared at Shen Qiang with a cold look and said, "Shen Qiang, don't push people too far. You insulted my fiancée and broke my nose, a matter I haven't settled with you yet. Now you are blatantly threatening me. Do you think the Ji Family is afraid of you?"

Shen Qiang smiled as he drank with Director Liu.

Then he replied indifferently through telepathy, "The Ji Family won't be afraid of me and will have good relations with me. But you will fear me, because there can only be one equipment agent for the Ji Family in this province, and that's Ji Liangchuan. Anyone else, no matter under what guise, who deals in Ji Family's production equipment within this province, I will view as a serious provocation and will strike with all my might, to show my respect for an enemy."

Upon hearing this telepathic message.

Ji Liangyuan's eyes turned chillier as he telepathically replied.

"You're trying to scare me."

Shen Qiang, who was drinking with other leaders, smiled and calmly transmitted his message, "You can try to continue, or you can ignore my words, but I think if you are smart enough, you'll know it's time for you to scram. Huaxia has twenty-three provinces and five autonomous regions; there's enough money for you to earn for a lifetime."

"If you're even willing to push your own brothers to their deaths and snatch the only bite of food from their bowls, then I won't hesitate to grind your bones to dust, and this is not a threat or so-called warning, but a promise to myself."

Ji Liangyuan remained silent, turned his head to glance at Ji Liangchuan, who was busy chatting warmly with several potential clients he had spent the whole morning to find, and then silently began to eat.

Seeing this, Shen Qiang smiled.

After that, he also let go of his worries and started a lively conversation with the three leaders and seven or eight other heavyweights from the Provincial City's business world sitting at the table.

Except for Ji Liangyuan.

Each of them had a fortune worth more than ten billion.

And when they heard that Shen Qiang owned ninety-eight percent of the shares of Shen's Holding and personally owned famous antique shops like Xiduobao, Datong River restaurants, and Tianyou Pharmaceutical and Health Care Company, all worth over ten billion,

their eyes shone with keen interest, and they expressed their intrigue in the antique and medical industries.

They also inquired about when Shen Qiang's company would go public.

To this, Shen Qiang simply smiled.

Datong River and Xiduobao, along with Tianyou Medicine, which were already private, wouldn't stand for anyone else meddling, and Shen's Holding was not going to give others a chance to interfere.

So, going public was out of the question.

Because Shen Qiang's sources of funds were diverse, he didn't need to go public to raise capital at all.

Therefore, Shen Qiang indicated that it might happen in the future.

But he didn't mention a specific time or any related details.

Those tycoons, of course, understood that this meant Shen Qiang didn't want anyone else involved in his business.

So the topic at the banquet swiftly shifted to another of Shen Qiang's specialities.

That was Nourishing Life.

After all, whether it was the leaders or these business tycoons, they all cared greatly about their health.

And Shen Qiang happened to be a Doctor and also had the extensive traditional Chinese medicine Nourishing Life knowledge from the Medical Saint Inheritance.

Just casually chatting about it made his table companions, the many business heavyweights and three leaders, sit up and take notice.

Not only that, but they knew how astonishing Shen Qiang's Streptococcus Liquid was, so they listened to what he said with utmost seriousness.

One of the tycoons, who recently felt somewhat inadequate in front of his wife, even took out a little notebook, excitedly jotting down a traditional Chinese medicine prescription Shen Qiang had given him.

That not only made everyone at the table laugh until their eyes bent but also prompted the others to jot it down as well.

Unlike ordinary banquets where people would leave after the main course,

in this banquet where entrepreneurs from all over the province gathered, not only did no one leave early, but because of various business purposes, they extended the event very long, so when the banquet came to an end, it was already after one o'clock in the afternoon.

After politely exchanging contact details with the leaders and the tycoons at the table,

Shen Qiang immediately spotted the charming and beautiful teacher Ju Yang, holding her bag and quietly standing at the entrance of the auditorium, watching him.

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