With a belly full of question marks, I entered the conference room. As expected, the conference room was silent and the atmosphere was very heavy. More than a dozen supervisors were hanging their heads. Qin Yu sat in the middle of the conference room, his eyes as if they were like a knife, and his face was as cold as ice.

Seeing me come in, Qin Yu said, "Thank you for your hard work for Vice President Cheng. We are having a meeting. Please come and sit here. Let me explain first. I was going to wait for you to come back for a meeting, but tomorrow the National Day holiday will be a big holiday. In order to reduce unnecessary trouble, I want to solve this problem before the holiday. I hope you understand."

I nodded and sat in the position of deputy general manager beside Qin Yu. As soon as I sat down, I saw Long Xiaowei, the dejected business manager, looking at me with a begging gaze. I sighed inwardly, and the thing I was most worried about finally happened.

Qin Yu looked at me and then stared at Long Xiaowei: "Vice President Cheng, in recent days, I have reviewed the transaction records of the last three months and found that the transactions of a batch of seamless steel pipes that Manager Long was responsible for last month had great problems. Putting aside the quality, the price alone is about 10% higher than the highest market price in the past six months. According to the average market price, the company lost at least 700,000 yuan. The company has reason to believe that Manager Long has achieved some unspeakable purpose in this transaction at the cost of damaging the interests of the company. I have asked Manager Long to give a reasonable explanation of this matter, but unfortunately, Manager Long failed to come up with a convincing reason..."

I didn't listen to Qin Yu's words, and I didn't have to listen at all. I knew the whole thing better than anyone else. Taking kickbacks in commercial transactions is common, and I am the same, especially in the building materials industry. Because of the layered contracting system in the real estate industry, the price fluctuations in the building materials market are much greater than those in other industries. However, I am relatively conservative. Generally, when the market price is low, I only buy it in reference to the average price of the previous year. This can be said to be a foolproof approach. Long Xiaowei's batch of seamless steel pipes were purchased at 12% higher than the market price at that time, and he ate 80,000 yuan himself.

This business was signed by Qi Wuping to let Long Xiaowei be responsible when he was not leaving. The specific negotiation was after Qi Wuping left. Even if I was pursuing the responsibility of the leader, I would not find it because it was neither I nor I was responsible. There was nothing wrong with Qi Wuping, because he had left the company during the negotiation, so even if the sky fell, Long Xiaowei could only carry it himself.

When Long Xiaowei talked about this business, I strongly opposed it. The reason was very simple, the loopholes were too big, and one checked and one could not escape. However, Long Xiaowei had just bought a house with a mortgage, and his wife was taken off again. The financial pressure was relatively high. He was a very loyal buddy. He begged hard, so I acquiesced. Later, this kid gave me 20,000 yuan, and I didn't want it. It seemed that this was done right.

"If Manager Long still cannot provide a reasonable explanation, for the benefit of the company, the company may consider asking the police to intervene as an economic case to investigate."

Qin Yu was still continuing, Long Xiaowei was almost crying, and his eyes kept floating towards me.

I secretly greeted the 18th generation of ancestors of Qin Yu and Long Xiaowei. Qin Yu was so fucking ruthless that he actually wanted to call the police. Isn’t this going to kill someone with a stick? Long Xiaowei was too. If he could listen to me at the beginning, why would this be like this? Now, I’m fine, eating shit by myself and asking me to wipe his butt!

"Vice President Cheng, I have been to the company for a short time. I don't know how the company has dealt with such incidents in the past, so I want to listen to your opinions on the handling of this matter first?" Qin Yu kicked the ball to me, and all the supervisors all looked at me, and Long Xiaowei's eyes became even more eager.

I secretly scolded Qin Yu for being shameless. Listen to my opinion. It’s easy to say it. If I say it severely, it will harm Long Xiaowei. If I say it mildly, it seems that I have anything to do with Long Xiaowei. It’s not human affairs inside and outside. If I want me to do it, I don’t even have any door.

I glanced at Long Xiaowei and made up my mind secretly. Long Xiaowei said that he was a brother who had worked together for many years. He must save him, but he couldn't force himself. He had to pay attention to strategy. The most important thing at the moment is to kick the ball back to Qin Yu first, let her bear the pressure on herself, and then find a way.

I said slowly: "I have been in the company for more than eight years and have not had a similar incident yet. It may be difficult for Mr. Qin to find a reference from within the company. Mr. Qin has been a senior assistant at the headquarters for a long time. I wonder if there is any reference to the headquarters?"

After browsing the ground, all eyes were turned to Qin Yu again, and Long Xiaowei's face was even more ugly than crying.

Qin Yu glanced at me and didn't say anything, but I still saw the anger in her eyes. I tried my best to show an indifferent look and slowly took out the cigarette from my pocket. But suddenly I thought that Qin Yu had stipulated the ban on smoking in the conference room after he arrived at the company, so I had to let it go back obediently.

Qin Yu folded his hands on his chest, without saying a word, his pretty face became more and more cold and gloomy, and the whole conference room was silent. More than a dozen supervisors didn't even dare to show off their atmosphere, and the atmosphere was as depressing as if they were dead.

Qin Yu's face became colder and his eyes became more and more firm, and eventually turned into a murderous intent. I saw that she seemed to have made some decision and thought it was bad! She must not let her say it. If she said it, there would be no room for anything to recover, and Long Xiaowei would be finished!

Qin Yu was about to move, and I rushed to instigate: "Mr. Qin, the meeting has been held for so long, so why not give everyone a rest first." After saying that, before she could reply, she waved her hand and said, "Ten minutes of rest."

The supervisors could no longer sit still. Before Qin Yu could agree, they escaped from the conference room one by one. Long Xiaowei walked at the end, and I saw that there was a hint of gratitude in his eyes besides praying.

Qin Yu was so angry that his eyes were thrown at me like two knives. "What do you mean?"

"Mr. Qin, I want to talk to you alone."

"If you have any words, I'll talk about it later." Qin Yu stood up and wanted to leave.

"I only need five minutes, just five minutes." I stood up and stopped her and met her gaze.

She hesitated for a moment: "Come to my office."

In the general manager's office, Qin Yu put his hands on his chest and looked out the window with his back to me: "What do you mean?"

I was not in a hurry and lit a cigarette first. Qin Yu only stipulated that smoking was banned in the conference room but not in the office. And the most important thing for me now is to stabilize my mood and see what words to convince her. Besides, I can't care so much. Long Xiaowei, a bastard, is still waiting for me to help me.

Qin Yu was very upset when she saw that I was actually smoking in her office, so she frowned and didn't say anything.

I cleaned up my thoughts and said calmly: "Mr. Qin, I want to make a request before speaking. I hope you will listen to me patiently and not interrupt me."

"Yes, but you'd better remember that you only have five minutes."

"No problem." I took a puff of cigarette and leaned on the back of the sofa. "First of all, I made it clear that I disagree with your opinion on Long Xiaowei's handling. There are four reasons: First, General Qin had served in the headquarters for a long time and must have a deep understanding of the Hong Kong economy, but the mainland economy is completely different from Hong Kong. The Hong Kong market operates under the constraints of economic laws, and all economic activities revolve around the economic laws. Due to the different systems of the mainland market, the role of economic laws on the market is actually in a secondary position. Any of human relationships and government functions can surpass economic laws. In a word, the economic activities in the mainland can be completely different from economic laws, or even go against the rules;

"Secondly, it is precisely because of this that the mainland economy often has things that you don't want to see, and in the mainland, this is very normal and common. For example, taking kickbacks during the transaction process, you may think that you cannot tolerate and support rape for such things that harm the interests of the company. But have you ever thought about it? This is not just a problem for Long Xiaowei. Now the supervisors outside have one counted one, and more or less the same behavior. If you deal with Long Xiaowei, what will others think? They will be in danger. Can you hand them all over to the police? Is the company's business still done?

"Third, similar behaviors are not only our company, but also the same. We are very popular in the transaction, but we also give it away. If you hand over Long Xiaowei to the police and he explains it all, then this is not a problem for him alone, but a group of people, a large number of people, our company, brother companies, friendly companies, cooperative companies, and even government functional departments will be involved. How can we end up at that time? Who will do business with us in the future?

"Finally, unlike you always at the top, we all work hard from the bottom. Can we be easier today? The shopping mall is like a battlefield. Brothers who have worked together for many years have fallen now. If we don't go and take some damage, we have to hand him over to the police, isn't that ruining them? They all have families, wives, children, and young people. They live under the same sky like us. No matter what they do, they are all for life. Ask yourself, shouldn't we respect them? They have small mistakes, shouldn't we forgive them?"

After saying a long and long speech, I became excited unconsciously. The whole process was better than I thought. It was not only reasonable, beneficial, concise, affectionate, and righteous, but also a little threatening. As for whether I could talk about this cold beauty, only God knows, but I finally deserved the bastard Long Xiaowei.

Qin Yu had turned around to face me at some point. I sighed and said, "I have said everything I should say. I am just the vice president. My function is just to give you advice on how to deal with it. You are the general manager, so you can do it." After that, I got up and wanted to leave.

"Vice President Cheng, do you know?" Qin Yu suddenly spoke to my back.

"What do you know?" I stopped and looked at her in surprise.

Qin Yu slowly walked forward and looked at me and said, "I have always wondered why your reputation on the board of directors is so good. Today I finally understand."

I really want to know what she understood. Before I could speak, Qin Yu walked over to me and threw down a sentence: "Let's go, go for a meeting. You have been talking for eleven minutes just now!"

The meeting continued, and Qin Yu announced the decision to deal with Long Xiaowei: "Due to insufficient investigation of market conditions during the transaction, the company suffered major losses. The company studied and decided to revoke Long Xiaowei's position as manager of the business department, and change it to deputy manager of the business department and take the position of manager, and deduct all year-end bonuses this year."

After announcing the handling decision, Qin Yu's beautiful eyes rolled and gave me a slanted look, as if saying, "Vice President Cheng, should you be satisfied now?"

I looked at her gratefully. Long Xiaowei was even more moved. A big man actually started crying in public. He was so fucking unpromising!
Chapter completed!