I laughed and said, “Don’t worry, I didn’t call you here to pay your bills. Old Gan will be back in a moment, so let him get busy while you sit and relax.”
Old Huang cut in, mockingly saying, “Fine, fine, it’s good not to pay the accounts, it’s better if you let Old Gan go through the books, there are so many accounts for him to check, I don’t know when he will be able to find them all.”
There was a soft laugh of disbelief at the bottom, everyone was silent, but in their hearts they knew.
“Settle down for a moment, you’ve all been called here today to exchange feelings.” I laughed, “I know, checking the accounts will certainly make many employees uncomfortable in their hearts, although I am a young proprietor, but the foundation in the company is not stable, I will have to rely on everyone’s help in the future.”
Xiao Xie was upset, he probably couldn’t understand why I wanted to please him. In his mind, I am the boss of this company, what else can I not do?
In fact, those people said that Xiao Xie was right, this guy was indeed an a*s-kisser, but not a bad one, maybe it could be important.
“Mr. Xiao Zhang, we can’t afford to be entrusted by you, you should ask another person.”
“Yeah, we don’t have much of a friendship with you to liaise with either.”
“No, I have to go home to pick up the kids.”
Everyone said something, even Old Gump’s men, who had been silent, looked at me suspiciously, not knowing what I was doing.
The opponents I had met before were all violent people, the kind who would throw fists at the slightest movement.
But this time it was different. These guys would not throw punches, but they would play pa*sive resistance with me without violence.
I smiled and said, “Don’t be in a hurry, listen to my story first, and if you don’t think it’s good enough, you can just leave if you want to.”
They didn’t know what medicine I was selling in my gourd and held unkind expressions as if they were waiting to see me laugh.
“As you all should know, I was in the army back in the day. I enlisted into the Army as a newbie who didn’t know anything, and soon became a platoon leader and the one who trained the newbies.”
“Chief Zhang, what exactly do you want to talk about?” Old Huang grunted and said impatiently.
I said, “There are a lot of urban diseases in soldiers nowadays, at home they are all spoiled by their parents, and some are really untalented and are stuffed into the army through the back door to find discipline. What kind of place is the army? Can it be a place to spoil such people? It doesn’t matter what your status is, once you’re here, firstly, you have to obey orders! Secondly, you still obey orders! And thirdly, obey orders! But those young lords and boys won’t listen to me, will they?”
“Why are you telling us this, to make us feel sorry for you?”
I laughed, “Don’t you want to know how I trained them afterwards? If they didn’t obey, they ran ten rounds, were locked up and punished by washing clothes. But soldiers aren’t afraid of that, you know what they’re most afraid of?”
Xiao Xie muttered, “If you’re not afraid of this, what else are you afraid of?”
“What they are most afraid of is being expelled from the army and going home. Everyone in the countryside knows they’ve come to be soldiers, and if they’re expelled from the army and go home, it’s even worse than beating them up, and this kind of second-rate kids are most afraid of being looked down upon by their parents.”
The crowd whispered, but Old Huang was the only one who was silent, and after a while Old Huang asked without good humour, “What are you trying to say? Are you trying to tell us that you are good at training people? That you can make people listen to you? If we don’t listen to you now, we’ll listen to you later? Ridiculous, I don’t have time to listen to your boring jokes, I’m leaving ……”
As he stood up, I said, “Old Huang look you’ve misunderstood me again, I really didn’t mean that. I mean people, even if they are crazy, they still care about their families. Old Huang, do you have a family?”
“What do you mean?” Old Huang felt a bit off.
I said, “Do you want to call your daughter? She’s only five and might miss you a bit.”
The smiling expression on Lao Huang’s face froze and he asked me with a frown, “What the hell do you mean? Are you threatening me?”
“Why don’t you call Weiwei?”
“F**k you!”
Old Yellow practically climbed across the table to grab me by the collar of my shirt, I subconsciously tried to duck but restrained myself and let him grab me right in the face.
This was not something I really wanted to do, but there was nothing I could do about it!
Huang hammered his fist into my face, even though it didn’t hurt.
I wiped the blood from the corner of my mouth and said, “Gentlemen, I don’t want to blackmail you with such tactics. This is really a helpless act. We are all in our own way, and I can’t help it.”
One by one, they started calling their own families with iron faces, and after a few minutes, except for those who had been on my side from the beginning, the rest of them looked worse than iron.
I had a lot of faith in Zhao Zichen’s efficiency, this guy didn’t get to be the head of the Red Lantern Society by blowing it out of proportion.
“Zhang Chao ……” Old Huang’s throat held for half a day and popped out with red eyes, “Do you really think you’re a match for General Manager Liu? You have checked the accounts, so what can you do? How many people up and down the company are listening to you. You’re no match for Liu Rong at all!”
“I know, I didn’t take him as a rival either.”
Old Huang said, “We all know who you are, you’re not really capable of anything, you’re just born well and can be cast, what would you be without Junran?! What would you be to fight with Liu Rong!”
It was probably the fact that I had my daughter in my hands that had made him completely out of his mind, and for him to say these words would be suicide for his career.
“Do you really think I’m afraid of you just because you control my daughter? Oh, you have controlled so many people in one breath, where did you get the connections? It’s only still using Junran’s people.” Old Huang gritted his teeth and laughed, a venomous laugh, “Just wait until you see the joke on yourself.”
After saying that, he took out his mobile phone and dialed a number, looking at his expectant look, I guessed it should be for Liu Rong.
The others looked similar to him, these people also hoped that Liu Rong could come out to save them, but they didn’t dare to be so open.
I just watched him quietly on the phone and watched him look at me with a sense of gloating anger after he hung up the phone.
After waiting like that for five minutes, Old Huang’s phone rang again, and he humbly called out to Mr Liu, then waited for the good news.
When he did, not only did the good news not come, but Old Huang was as stiff as a rock.
“What? What do you mean? Can’t care? It’s not Junran’s people?!”
The crowd erupted, and Old Huang looked at me like a monster, holding his phone with a bewildered look on his face.