Reborn with Consumption System

Around 5:30, in a private dining room at the Sheraton’s Chinese restaurant, Han Lie finally met the legendary figure, Li Zhaohui.

"Mr. Li, I’ve heard so much about you!"

"Teacher Han, it’s your name that really resonates with me!"

The two stood in the middle of the living room shaking hands, giving everyone the impression that—they did not match, damn, they did not match at all!

Mr. Li was about 1.7 meters tall, weighed nearly 200 pounds, with long hair parted in a greasy middle, and his eyes squinted into slits when he smiled under his glasses.

Han Lie stood 188 cm tall, a full head taller than the other, with perfect looks and physique, an amiable demeanor, and a magnetic voice.

When shaking hands, Han Lie naturally stood straight, so Mr. Li had to strain his neck to look up at him, which looked exceptionally awkward.

Actually, Mr. Li was quite displeased inside, but since he needed someone’s help now, he could only force a smile.

Luckily, with small eyes, it wasn’t easy to see his true emotions.

Next, they were introduced to Zhang Hong.

The Mining Province Finance Club is still independent and hasn’t been incorporated by this president of the financial technology industry association yet, so when Wang Qiwei introduced him, he simply said, "This is the renowned financial expert, Teacher Zhang Hong, the chief economist of the Huaxia Financial Think Tank."

This guy had a face full of fat and looked like a thug, yet he wore a pair of gold-rimmed glasses, pretending to be cultured.

Han Lie had no good attitude towards this big fraud.

There was no enmity, he wasn’t worth offending Han Lie over.

Mainly because this fellow had done quite a lot of nasty things in the past.

Like fervently promoting household financial management, pouring chicken soup, and then recommending all kinds of unreliable products to housewife fans.

Han Lie also reaped the credulous ones, but he targeted the gamblers who willingly played the fool in the stock market.

Players who enter the field are athletes; at worst, it’s just routine competition.

But this person often collaborated with small platforms to deceive unsuspecting housewives into a slaughterhouse.

Additionally, he fervently advocated for deregulating the internet finance sector and encouraged local governments to recklessly use CT platforms for financing, and so on.

In short, he had a crooked mind and was a real pox on many ordinary people.

Han Lie was quite annoyed with such hyenas.

With a shallow handshake, he immediately exposed the other’s shortcomings with such a condescending attitude: "Teacher Zhang looks unfamiliar, from which institution did you graduate? Where have you worked?"

Zhang Hong mumbled a response: "I have worked at the Agricultural Bank, and for several years, the private banking development report of the Agricultural Bank was my handiwork..."

"Wow, what a coincidence!"

Han Lie smiled maliciously: "Shen Xing from Dream City’s Agricultural Bank is a good friend of mine, originally from the provincial bank, and now the former leader is in the head office’s personnel department, shall I call him over for you to catch up?"

Zhang Hong’s expression changed, hurriedly smiling and declining: "Not appropriate, not appropriate, today I came to consult Teacher Han and Mr. Li, I only brought my ears, not my mouth, how can I steal the limelight like this?"

He was a bit quick-witted, and this excuse was quite appropriate.

But how could Han Lie let him off easily?

Dared to steal my thunder, prepare to face the consequences!

Even if the attempt failed?

Still not okay!

Smiling, he continued to dig a pit: "Teacher Zhang, you’re an economist, and the economic systems in the country are distinct, mainly the five: Qingbei, Fu Jian, and others. I mainly interact with folks from Fu Jian, I wonder which master Teacher Zhang studied under? Let’s see if we share any connections so we might even call each other brothers?"

Zhang Hong was so flustered that he was sweating.

Anyone knowledgeable knows that in the domestic economic field, there are only a few origins, and someone who’s done a bit of research can easily figure it out.

Zhang Hong could bullshit when lying to others, anyway, there were no repercussions, but not when facing Han Lie.

In case he pulled the wrong tiger skin, and the guy knew, a simple chat would expose him!

"Ahem, ahem!"

He coughed twice, looking left and right: "I usually move around the Imperial Capital, giving lectures and going to the Qingbei Academy of Social Sciences, currently focusing on theoretical research in financial technology, and I’m recommended as a visiting professor at Imperial Capital Jiaotong University by Professor Zhang Qiusheng."

Han Lie pondered for a moment and immediately retrieved this person from his mental list.

"Professor Zhang?"

Han Lie gave a light laugh: "An expert in corporate mergers, a member of the Accounting Standards Committee, has done projects for the Securities Regulatory Commission."

Just this one smile made Zhang Hong’s hair stand on end.

Bloody hell!

You’re familiar with anyone randomly brought up?!

In fact, of course, not familiar, without prior contact, one can’t claim to be familiar.

But during the day, when Han Lie monitors stocks, he’s so idle that less than 10% of his brain’s processing power is used, so he casually opens another screen to skim through economic papers.

If he finds something valuable that provokes thought, he reads carefully, recording the author’s name, work unit, and other research achievements, effortlessly.

Just talking about domestics, he has almost memorized all the professors’ names offering finance and economics courses at universities ranked 211 and above in economic faculties.

A total of less than 1400, so easy.

And this wasn’t even intentional memorization, for a 89-point intelligence, it’s basic operation.

Zhang Hong became honest, not daring to have any spare thoughts, even starting to feel that coming today was too rash.

If he had known earlier that Han Lie was so ungracious, why come to be humiliated?

Dammit!

He cursed inwardly, but outwardly he still appeared calm as usual; after all, as a professional swindler, his emotion control and thick skin were top-notch.

However, Wang Qiwei possibly didn’t understand the situation, and in front of the many accompanying bosses, excitedly boasted about Zhang Hong.

"Teacher Han, President Zhang often lectures at the Academy of Social Sciences and was the first to promote the deregulation of private equity funds after the reform and opening-up, praised as the father of Huaxia’s private equity funds. You should exchange more ideas, and let us financial laymen broaden our horizons too!"