dear Wendy,
I encourage you to play Chinese Chess game. Play until you win your first game against the game developer. Only from keep wining the game will teach you to be patient. Withdraw and wait is best option for corruptions.
Whoever move first lose. Wait for the right time 将。
remember the Chinese word for 赢。it consist of 5 elements.
亡 字 disaster/ death waiting for you at the top if anyone of the 4 elements were missing.
Win as if you never win.
One good strategy is to change your lawyer. Play with the billings they send you. Most of their bills are dodgy accounting. Lawyers take many cases at same time and they are stuff with billings and accounting. Some anyhow bills to wrong customers. So stuff them with billing discrepancies and you see they fumbles before you. Once they get agitiated they will see you will take legal action of the bills and you can complaint to AG office of their corrupt accounting practices and evasion of GST and taxable income.
Then you can talk terms with them once t=you get their tails - fraudulent misrepresenting of billing is a crime .... hahahaha
Then they will listen to you and take instructions from you once you get their tails. Don't be afraid of lawyers, they have law practice lience to lose if they stuff up their billings. Jeuses sais play with sword die with the the sword.
Play the blame game on the lawyer and see they fumble and weakness. Use the 'act as deterrent' on the lawyer with vexatious blame they lose their legal practice license if they stuff up your case. Lawyers talked between/ among themselves on cases they deal with. Win or lose is up to them to decide upon.
So play their lawyers between lawyers blame game and you see lawyers back off and become enemies of themselves. Once the become enmies they fight tooth for tooth with you. Who don't want to protect their own license from suspension? Stuff them with bribe money or GST, tax evasion which they must declare taxable income for their company and personal income. They want good roads and peace security but are not willing to pay their share of taxes to get them.
remember, lawyer need to registered a business company, have a legal practice license, pay GST, pay company and personal taxes to practice law. All businesses are under tax office and pay taxes, and no diff to lawyers just another business people must pay taxable income.
Once they prefer cash and once cash money is pass to them they are dead meat. These vultures are merciless people and make them lose and suspended their legal practice licence is the best option.
Play with the wolf and they bring their killed chickens to you.
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Fighting Fire With Fire
China reluctantly decided to destroy the Western opium trade by flooding the market with domestic opium. It was a painful decision, for Chinese rulers held that production of opium, for any reason, would “provoke the judgment of Heaven and the condemnation of men.”
It certainly provoked Britain’s condemnation, which resented China’s infringement upon her private opium monopoly. By 1876, China was earning over 1.5 million annually from opium, but Sir R. Alcock told the House of Commons that China would gladly abandon the trade if Britain stopped her own trafficking.
Five years later, Sir R. Alcock, the stalwart anti-opium crusader, sold out.
http://www.amoymagic.com/OpiumWar.htm