The Female CEO Falls in Love with Me

(The computer was down for many days, finally went and bought a new one. Bought a computer today, installed it, copied data, spent the whole day... Sorry for the update.)

Li Yan paused for a moment to give everyone some time to digest the speech. One who does not manage a household knows not the cost of firewood and rice. For ordinary employees, they can only roughly know a performance value, but specific costs involve business secrets that the average person will not know or care about. It's like a movie, where extras need to act for a day to earn a day's pay; the cost budget and actual box office recovery are not their concern.

Everyone just feels that today's living costs have risen, so salaries should naturally rise as well, and it's just an increase without negating everything existing now. Therefore, these tens of millions were not mentioned lightly. Hearing this figure and comparing it, indeed, the proportion is not low.

"Perhaps you don't understand what this implies, maybe you will say this has nothing to do with everyone, it's the factory manager's issue, the boss's issue. But as you can feel, the price increase has put pressure on everyone, and similarly, it has brought more pressure on the factory's raw materials, logistics, transportation, and packaging processes. You see doing ten percent more this month than last month but earning the same amount; what you don't see is the company shipping out ten percent more and only earning the same production value, which is even harder!"

Li Yan's words were quite straightforward. Rationally speaking, everyone also felt he had some point, but emotionally couldn't accept it, feeling he was defending the capitalists, trying hard to utter such words to quash everyone's demand for a raise, which was unacceptable.

Just as the crowd began to get stirred up, Li Yan continued, "We have investigated this incident thoroughly. I also represent headquarters in putting forth the most sincere solution to provide everyone with an explanation."

Everyone slightly quieted down, preparing to listen to what he had to say. If it was nonsense, they would make a bigger scene. If it was within an acceptable range, then they would discuss it further.

"Problem one, the finance manager Hu Jiaping has an issue of embezzling public funds. He also fabricated accounts to add this to costs, making the company's financial records even worse; in other words, if this issue didn't exist, a portion of the funds would be distributed as bonuses and benefits to everyone, although not a huge sum, every hardworking employee would receive a reward!"

As soon as these words came out, the whole factory was in an uproar. The employees were chattering, not expecting their demands to instead let headquarters catch a worm in the system, and precisely because of this worm, some were outraged, some gloated, some didn't believe such words… The management was also surprised, especially straightforward people like the production deputy manager Fan Shao. They had just seen Hu Jiaping's flattery making Li Yan quite pleased, so how did he sell him out so quickly?

There were also a few shrewd people who began to recall and reflect on the meeting just now, feeling that the peculiar Mr. Li from headquarters at that brief meeting was not as simple as everyone initially thought!

In fact, it was indeed not that simple! If he merely wanted to manipulate people and find a couple of obedient folks, Li Yan would be too bored! As he told Zhang Yurong, he was too lazy to look at those reports, documents, and data; he preferred looking at people. With sharp and meticulous observation, coupled with further analysis based on studied psychology, he was merely using brief contact to discern who was genuinely for the factory and who was acting for personal gain.

From his entering without speaking to subsequent smoking, he was actually observing people. Everyone's expressions fell into his eyes, and he essentially analyzed their characters. People like Fan Shao, genuinely for the company, weren't many, more were just muddling through, even if the factory closed down due to a strike, they would just immediately find another one without regrets. Besides these majorities, there were a few individuals who felt guilty about his mysterious envoy demeanor!

Hu Jiaping was such a person. Although he appeared relaxed and confident throughout, even with a hint of a smile, initiating conversation with Li Yan, and saying the pleasant things Li wanted to hear, in others' eyes, this was despicable flattery, but in Li Yan's view, he was still guilty! Advancing by retreating, defending by attacking, preferring to let others, including Li Yan, view him as a flatterer, rather than discover more problems.

Li Yan merely detected a few people with issues; the real doubts were corroborated while discussing factory issues with Zhang Yurong. The areas where Zhang Yurong expressed dissatisfaction and discovered problems were exactly related to the people Li Yan felt guilty about, hence he called in Li Minghui for careful investigation, and indeed found the problem...

Of course, due to time issues, and also not being able to make it too big at once, Hu Jiaping became a typical example, killing the chicken to scare the monkeys, while also acting as an abandoner quickly satisfying doers like Fan Shao.

At this moment, Hu Jiaping was already ashen-faced, not expecting Li Yan to hide a sword in a smile, even saying he needed his cooperation, but in reality using him completely as cooperation!

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"Quiet down, there's a second problem. This one is even more direct than Manager Hu. It's about the few colleagues who led the charge this time, which means everyone's representatives." Li Yan smiled, "Multiple choice: 1. They are passionate young men seeking happiness for everyone; 2. They are using everyone to force the hand of high-ups for personal goals. How would everyone choose?"