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Chapter 655 : Explosive Revelation
Chapter 655: Explosive Revelation
In this era, the concept of internet brigades didn't exist yet.
Chen Fan and Luo Wenjie used the few thousand trolls they controlled to teach the Zhao family a harsh lesson.
On the first day, posts exposing the Zhao family quickly became popular on several forums.
No matter how influential the Zhao family was, they couldn't suppress all the information.
Immediately, gossip-loving netizens flocked to discuss who exactly this Zhao family was.
Soon, someone claiming to be from Yunhai directly posted to reveal information.
"Everyone in Yunhai knows about the Zhao family. In fact, many people in Yunhai have heard rumors about a lot of things the Zhao family has done in the past."
"I can guarantee that the content revealed in the previous post is all true, because the evil deeds the Zhao family has done in Yunhai would only be worse than what was exposed in that post."
Then this informant dropped several more bombshells.
For example, the Zhao family patriarch used to be involved in organized crime, and would stop at nothing to make money.
They controlled several nightclubs, running all sorts of businesses involving prostitution, gambling, and drugs.
To make money, they would even recruit female students from nearby schools, calling them waitresses, but they were actually hostesses.
At the end of the post, this person also released some photos, all showing young girls accompanying guests in private rooms.
Immediately, the post once again became popular.
Luo Wenjie fully executed Chen Fan's orders.
To keep the discussion about the Zhao family from cooling down, every other day he would arrange for trolls to release some exclusive inside information about the Zhao family.
For example, the dirty dealings in the Zhao family's nightclubs in the past, or how for the sake of business, they would use threats and bribes or even directly break their competitors' legs...
As soon as the daily expose posts came out, the internet brigades Brother Jie had at his disposal would swarm in, immediately pushing the posts to popularity.
In just a few short days, the Zhao family became famous on the internet.
At this time, someone suddenly posted saying that this Zhao family had actually become famous once before not long ago.
It was when someone online had exposed various evil deeds of the Zhao family, and the local and provincial authorities had specially sent a working group to investigate the matter.
But in the end, only a few small fry were arrested, and the matter was left unresolved.
The Zhao family behind it all suffered no losses whatsoever.
As soon as this post came out, many netizens suddenly realized.
So that's how it was.
This was actually the same Zhao family that had caused such a stir not long ago.
At once, many netizens' posts became sarcastic.
"There must be something fishy going on here."
"Do you even need to ask? Of course there's something fishy. I dare say the Zhao family's protector must also be a big shot."
"Obviously. If the Zhao family didn't have someone backing them, how did they escape the working group's investigation last time?"
"Are the people above suicidal? You dare to say this? Aren't you afraid of being traced through your IP address?"
"Anyway, I'm just here for the drama. Hehe, I'm not saying anything."
"What's there to be afraid of? No matter how powerful the Zhao family is, they're just dominating a small prefecture-level city, right? I don't believe they can cover the whole sky with one hand..."
"That's right! Let's make this news go viral and strongly demand an investigation into the Zhao family!"
On the fifth day, facing the surging public opinion offensive, the Zhao family couldn't hold on anymore.
They also held a press conference.
At the conference, the current leader of the Zhao Group, who is also Zhao Longqi's father, stood up and read a document to all the media.
First, all the recent online exposes about the Zhao family were pure slander, maliciously defaming and slandering the Zhao family.
Second, the Zhao family had chosen to report to the police and contact lawyers.
They were currently gathering evidence, and once they had it, they would immediately take legal action against the rumormongers.
Third: The Zhao family advised everyone to be cautious in their words and actions, saying they would not let any internet trolls who smeared the Zhao family off the hook.
Finally, the Zhao family announced they would offer 100,000 yuan to gather clues.
If anyone could provide information about those posting online, the Zhao family would reward the informants based on the importance of the clues provided.
In fact, the Zhao family knew this was all Chen Fan's doing.
Because this time was just too similar to last time.
However, the Zhao family couldn't figure out how Chen Fan managed to find so many netizens to speak for him online.
Now the conflict between the two sides had reached an irreconcilable point of no return.
The Zhao family patriarch finally agreed to Zhao Longqi's suggestion.
No longer hiding anything, they began to send people to closely monitor Chen Fan, ready to assassinate him when the opportunity arose.
In the words of the Zhao patriarch, this guy was too arrogant and excessive.
There was no need to let him continue existing in this world.
Even if people suspected them, he still wanted to get rid of Chen Fan, this troublemaker.
But soon the assassins sent by the Zhao family noticed that Chen Fan hadn't shown his face at all during this time.
He had been staying in Yuhai Garden, and the security forces that Feng Pojun had personally trained for over a month outside the community were all deployed to protect Chen Fan.
Although Chen Fan said there was no need to make a big deal out of it, Feng Pojun didn't dare to relax at all. These past two days he had been personally leading the team, placing his own sentries and lookouts in every position around Chen Fan's community.
The exposes about the Zhao family kept coming one after another.
The drama-loving netizens had gotten used to it, making checking for new dirt on the Zhao family the first thing they did when getting online every day.
Finally, by the tenth day, the Zhao family could no longer bear the pressure of public opinion.
The Zhao family patriarch, Zhao Wentian, had no choice but to make a trip to the provincial capital himself to seek help from their backer.
Soon, the Zhao family's backer in the province began to exert their influence.
Some of the expose posts about the Zhao family online began mysteriously disappearing one by one.
Many netizens realized that a more powerful force had entered the fray.
Seeing posts on one famous forum after another disappearing, this actually aroused the rebellious spirit of many netizens.
You don't want us to discuss it, so we'll discuss it even more.
At once, there was no need for Luo Wenjie's internet brigades to lead the narrative anymore, as most netizens actively joined the army of narrative pushers.
By the thirteenth day, posts about the Zhao family online only remained on Tianya Community without being taken down.
Just when everyone thought Tianya Community would soon cave in as well, and this matter was about to mysteriously disappear, a new post appeared on the forum without warning.
The post title was simple: 《Why Has the Zhao Family Survived Until Now? This is the Answer.》
Then several video clips were uploaded in the post.
These video clips were the bargaining chips Lin Xue had provided to Chen Fan.
The content was simple, all filmed in some secret venues.
The people in the recordings included the Zhao family patriarch Zhao Wentian, as well as some bosses and officials.
There was a large group of men and women, and the content was naturally unfit to be seen.
The post ended with a straightforward explanation of these recordings.
The man wearing a black suit and red tie in the video is the Zhao family head Zhao Wentian, and the other people are the boss of a certain company... the deputy director of a certain bureau... the leader of a certain department...
The last one was the heavyweight, the deputy governor of Donghai Province in charge of economic affairs.