I opened the door with a huff, thinking who was there so early, and then I saw that it was Cai Xiaobing.
“Captain, come on, let’s go to Suran. It’s really hard for me to stay here all day, so I’ll go with you to Surran to give Liu Rong some trouble.”
I was furious: “Comrade Cai Xiaobing, we don’t start work until nine o’clock at Suran!”
Cai Xiaobing squeezed in and sat on the sofa waiting for me.
I had no choice but to wash up, eat a bun, and then go out with Cai Xiaobing to Junran.
I was too busy lately to come to Surroundings, and since Han Kun had “died”, I wasn’t very welcome there either.
The last time Han Kun and I had a blatant falling out, Han Kun forbade me to break my contract with Ju En and we had a public falling out, which forced many of the company staff to take sides – most on Liu Rong’s side and a few on mine.
Gan Ling appeared to be on my side, but in fact the old man was so slippery that he knew that Han Kun was not dead.
The uncles who started the business with my father had all expressed their allegiance to me, but at this point they were all looking for opportunities not to attend the shareholders’ meeting.
Now Junran is actually controlled by Gan Ling, and Liu Rong has a lot of power, as for me, I am really just a mascot.
It was only 9 o’clock when we arrived at Suran. Cai Xiaobing didn’t know that Liu Rong wouldn’t be at the company at this time, and there is no other company in the world where the majority shareholder punches in and out of work.
When we arrived at the office, it was right in the middle of rush hour, everyone was looking for a parking space in the car park, and there was a group of people rushing towards the front desk where they clocked in.
“Zhang Chao? What brings you to the office today?” Cai Xiaobing and I were wandering around when suddenly a man shouted out to give way and then crashed through the middle of us, while muttering, “Damn, coming to the company to cause trouble again.”
“You wait.” My hearing was sharp so I could hear his whispered foot bath to himself and I laughed, “What did you say, bro? How am I in the way?”
He was a little embarrassed, but it was rush hour and quite a few people were gathered around us, so he admitted to it in front of so many people, and he got his face down again upstairs.
“Mr. Liu said that, if you have the guts to go to Mr. Liu, don’t come and play hard to get with me.” After saying that, he pushed me away and tried to leave, but I had long since stretched out a foot, just in time to trip him up.
“Ouch, what do you want?!” He cursed as he covered his face, which was sore from the fall.
I put my hands on my waist and laughed, “Nothing, just informing you that you’re fired and I’ll find someone to take your place.”
“You, you’re not qualified, how can you fire me for such a reason? I am an official employee of the company, you can’t do that ……”
I laughed, “Oh, then help me think of a better reason. I can’t say that I think you’re one of Mr. Liu’s people and we’re already at odds, so I’ll have to fire you and replace you with one of my own.”
He was even more shocked, he didn’t expect me to say this straight out, this was openly declaring war with Liu Rong, and not giving him any face at all.
“Go and get three months’ salary from the personnel department.”
It was time to go to work and everyone was flying around punching in, but at this time, everyone was as dumbfounded as if they had been under a fixation spell, staring at us blankly.
I looked to the crowd and said directly, “I’m not hiding anything from you. I have come here today to eradicate the henchmen. All the employees who are related to Liu Rong, I will fire all of them. I, Zhang Chao, don’t say anything in plain sight, so if you guys don’t want me to humiliate you, you can resign yourselves.”
“What?!”
“Has Zhang Chao gone mad?”
“Shhh, keep it down, you don’t want to do it anymore?”
“What’s going to happen? One of our sections was founded by Liu Rong, are we all going to lose our jobs now.”
“How is that possible? It must be Zhang Chao’s way of scaring us. Didn’t Zhang Chao used to be very good-tempered? What’s this recent irritation?”
“Let’s not think too much about it, anyway, let’s be careful with our words and don’t take sides in the future, whether it’s Zhang Chao or Liu Rong, we’ll stand in the middle in the future.”
“Yeah, we’re just ordinary employees, don’t get caught by him straight away, he won’t give us a hard time.”
A few employees discussed cheekily and then took the lift upstairs in the frightened bed.
I called Gan Ling as I entered the lift and asked him to help me prepare for a meeting with all the middle and senior staff to come to the meeting room.
Ganling was surprised: “What do you want?”
I didn’t hide it from Gan Ling, so I just said, “Nothing, just cut off all of Liu Rong’s party, for the good of our Junran.”
“Young master, you can’t do that, Liu Rong is not that easy to move! He has two salesmen under him, and the business generated by these two salesmen can be said to support half of our company. If you go after Liu Rong’s henchmen, the company will lose a lot of money!”
I said, “Then fire everyone but them ……”
“Zhang Chao, you don’t understand company management, don’t meddle in it!”
“You don’t understand what I’m going to do either, just do as I say and call them all in.”
Cai Xiaobing shrank to the side and said, “Captain, isn’t this a bit too much? We want to seek revenge on Liu Rong, but you don’t have to drag the whole of Junran into it.”
I laughed, “Shut up, do I look like a brave man with no strategy to you, Captain? Come with me and you’ll see.”
When I arrived at the conference room, Gan Ling had already found all the middle and senior management in the company with blackened faces, and all of them were furious, their faces were blacker than pig’s liver.
“Zhang Chao, you have something to say, what do you really want?”
“I heard that you want to eradicate dissidents? Who gave you so much power?! Let me tell you, Junran is a conglomerate company, a shareholding company, not a house you are playing with alone. You do have shares and the right to vote, but according to the company’s constitution, you have no right to meddle in personnel.”
“That’s right! This is outrageous, what gives you the right to fire us? It’s true that we did a bit more work for Mr Liu, but Mr Liu has been good to us, we’re returning the favour!”
“That’s right, how many orders and business do me and Old Five bring to the company in a year, are you going to fire us both too? ”
“That’s right, you’re not qualified to fire us, if you really want to fire us, fire me and Xiao Liu too, we’ll live and die with the rest of our colleagues!”
These people shouted in unison, and the conference room was instantly filled with people cursing at me.
I shouted for silence, ignoring their curses, and said, “I’m here to give you all a pay rise, you’re all old employees of the company now, it’s time to raise your benefits. Everyone’s salary, increase by twenty percent ……”
Just after my words, the whole office was quiet, all a bit frozen in disbelief at my words.
“Zhang Chao!” Just at this time, Liu Rong kicked open the door and burst in, pointing at my face and cursing, “What are you doing?”
“What am I going to do?” I asked with a smile.
“What gives you the right to fire these employees? Which of the company’s rules and regulations did they violate?” Liu Rong was furious and said, “I demand that a shareholders’ meeting be held immediately, you have no management power over the running of the company.”
I said, “Do my words not count?”
“Nonsense, of course your words don’t count! Don’t listen to him, people, it doesn’t count.”
I laughed, “Then you talk to them.”