Chapter 140 Exposure

Gu Ningwei didn't say anything. He turned his head to look at Gu Zhiguang, sneered slightly, nodded and said, "Let's get started."

Jiang Jin took a deep breath, nodded, opened the document on the projector with the remote control pen, and began his report.

The entire conference room was filled with solemnity.

As Jiang Jin continued his explanation, the conference room became even quieter, and you could hear a pin drop.

Everyone's expression became more and more solemn. Everyone saw that starting about ten years ago, the funds of the "Chengguang" Group began to be transferred out through various means and channels.

One by one, companies with unfamiliar names gradually came into everyone's sight.

Jiang Jin clicked on the information obtained from "Tianyancha" and found that these companies had basically nothing to do with Chengguang's main business and the shareholders were all strangers.

"Wait a moment." Gu Zhicheng interrupted Jiang Jin. With a serious expression, he turned to Secretary Xie and said, "Go and call Lao Lin to the meeting. I'd like to hear his explanation for all this."

Secretary Xie glanced at Gu Zhiguang, stood up and went out to find the financial director Lao Lin.

Gu Zhicheng said to Jiang Jin, "Go on."

Jiang Jin nodded and continued his report. A moment later, Lao Lin followed Secretary Xie into the conference room. Gu Zhicheng gestured for him to find a seat and said, "Lao Lin, I asked you to attend the meeting so that you could listen to their audit report on the group's projects. I also need to ask you some questions in person. You've been with the company for many years and are a veteran. You know the company's situation best."

Lao Lin nodded. When he sat down, he looked up at Gu Zhiguang who was sitting diagonally across from him. The other's eyes were fixed on Jiang Jin. His face, which was always smiling, was as cold as ice, and his eyes were flashing with flames of hatred and anger.

Old Lin was startled and quickly looked away. He sat there with his head down, eyes focused on his nose, nose focused on his heart. His back felt cold, his forehead was sweating, and his ears were buzzing. He couldn't hear anything. He felt his vision go black and his head felt heavy, unable to lift it up.

As the financial director of Chengguang Group, Lao Lin certainly knew what it meant for these things to be exposed. He lamented in his heart, Gu Zhiguang, oh Gu Zhiguang, I have told you many times that these things will be exposed one day, but you never believe it.

An unknown amount of time had passed before Lao Lin heard someone calling him. He hastily raised his head, his eyes unfocused, and looked blankly at the people around him: "Huh?"

Gu Zhicheng frowned and repeated the question: "Lao Lin, in front of all the directors present, can you tell me what is going on with this money?"

"I..." Lao Lin was speechless. He stared at the people in front of him in a daze.

Gu Zhicheng's brows were furrowed and his face was heavy, while Gu Ningwei's face was calm and composed. Secretary Xie was cautious as usual and his eyes were evasive. The others, independent directors and directors of external companies, were all staring at him with serious expressions.

Lao Lin's gaze finally fell on Gu Zhiguang's face, but he saw that he was not looking at him. He was silently holding his precious purple clay teapot, drinking water sip by sip, and seemed calm and composed.

Old Lin was startled. He trembled and said, "I followed the approval process for all these funds. All the leaders had to approve them before they were sent to the finance department. We followed... followed... the process..."

"Follow the procedures?" Gu Zhicheng snorted heavily. He knocked on the table angrily. "Then why don't I know where the money went? Also, if you just pay according to the approval process, then I want to ask you, Lao Lin, are you the financial director or a cashier?"

"I..." Lao Lin was speechless. He glanced at Gu Zhiguang again and defended himself, "Boss Gu, I'm just a financial officer. Many things are decided by your senior management. They involve confidentiality. How can I ask? Besides, even if I asked, no one would tell me. Anyway, I have payment receipts for all funds. Even if they haven't been processed in the OA system, I have paper approval documents."

As a senior financial personnel, Lao Lin is not a fool, and of course he will do his best to protect himself.

So many large sums of money flowed out one by one. If he hadn't checked the documents, wouldn't he have been considered to have embezzled money?

"Where's the document?" Gu Zhicheng asked. "Bring it to everyone to see who approved it. I didn't approve this money anyway."

Lao Lin pursed his lips, smiled, and just sat there motionless.

It has been such a long time, of course Gu Zhicheng would not remember it, but Old Lin did remember it.

Among these cash flows, in addition to the majority of those issued by Gu Zhiguang, there are of course also those shady payments issued by Gu Zhicheng.

If this is put on the table, the earthquake it causes will not be so simple.

Gu Zhicheng frowned and was about to say something when Gu Zhiguang interrupted him, "Of course there are documents. I believe that as a financial officer, Lao Lin would definitely not make payments without approval. As for some documents and contracts, I think it's better to ask him to sort them out and show them to everyone."

"Tidy it up?" Gu Ningwei smiled and said, "Since Director Lin said everything is well preserved, does it need to be sorted out?"

He glanced at Jiang Jin again and asked, "Did you review these approval documents during your audit investigation? Did you check them with the OA system?"

Jiang Jin said: "We have sampled and checked the approval process for these unusual payments and found that most of them are incomplete. When we asked the cashier, they said that some of them had paper contracts and approval documents. Some large payments for non-business purposes were used as group funds for transfers and did not require the chairman's approval, but only General Manager Gu's approval."

As he spoke, he glanced at Gu Zhiguang.

Gu Zhiguang pursed his lips, his eyes gloomy and he said nothing.

Gu Ningwei didn't ask any more questions.

After a while, Gu Zhicheng seemed to give up on his demand to disclose the whereabouts of these funds at the meeting. He was silent for a moment, then said, "How about this, let's do as Mr. Gu said. Lao Lin, you sort out the special payments and then report to the board of directors."

Lao Lin nodded and secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

Jiang Jin continued to report on the project status of each branch.

…

The meeting lasted from ten in the morning to five thirty in the afternoon and was still not over.

The directors attending the meeting did not have time to go out for meals, so Secretary Xie arranged for the secretariat to prepare meals for the employees and pack them up and deliver them to the meeting room. Even going to the toilet was done in the bathroom inside the meeting room.

Gu Ningwei wanted to keep them locked in the conference room, not allowing them any time to communicate privately. He once wanted to ask Secretary Xie to notify everyone to use their mobile phones, but Secretary Xie felt that this request was impossible.

"It's easy to convince others, but your father and uncle won't agree."

Gu Ningwei pondered for a moment and nodded, "True. There's not much need to do this. I also want to see how many tricks some people can come up with."

Gu Ningwei also specifically instructed Secretary Xie, "Don't make things special for the board meeting. Just have the cafeteria pack the employee meals into boxes and send them upstairs."

Secretary Xie hesitated and said, "Wouldn't that be too shabby? Your dad would scold me."

Both of the old customers have their own separate kitchens for cooking, and their meals are different from those of ordinary employees.

"No, just a regular employee meal, or he'll definitely curse."

Sure enough, Gu Zhiguang just muttered, "This food is too disgusting."

Gu Zhicheng spoke up: "What's so bad about it? Chengguang is such a wretch now, he's lucky to have a free employee meal, what else do you want? There are so many employees in the entire group, I think they have to spend a lot of money on food every day..."

No one else spoke.

Secretary Xie thought, I shouldn’t stop serving meals to employees just because I’m unhappy. Otherwise, I’ll be scolded to death by the employees.

Gu Zhicheng mocked again, "Giving employees a meal is fine, it's employee welfare, but so much money is spent unclearly. How many years can we afford to feed the employees? What do you think, right?"

Gu Zhiguang snorted without saying anything. He took a few bites of the lunch box, pushed it aside, and drank water from the teapot.

No one else dared to say anything.

Secretary Xie looked at these big men who usually showed off their power, eating their lunch boxes and queuing up to use the bathroom. He couldn't help but look at Gu Ningwei and pursed his lips.

He doesn't know about other people's tricks, but among the people he knows, this kid is the most tricky.

The meeting didn't end until ten o'clock in the morning.

For a full twelve hours, they merely reviewed the issues listed in Jiangjin's audit investigation report, and did not form a meeting resolution or minutes.

According to the agenda, if the discussion is not completed, it will continue the next day.

After the meeting, Gu Zhiguang left with Assistant Jin. Gu Ningwei looked at his slightly hunched back and half-bald head, and remained silent.

He was stunned for a moment, then turned around and pushed open the door of Gu Zhicheng's office.

Gu Zhicheng was sitting on the sofa looking at him. They were both silent for a while. Gu Zhicheng tapped his fingers on his legs and slowly said, "What are you going to do?"

Gu Ningwei pretended not to know and raised his eyebrows: "What should we do?"

He sat down on the sofa in front of Gu Zhicheng and continued, "The meeting isn't over yet, and I don't know what to do."

"How could you not know?" Gu Zhicheng snorted, and sneered slightly, "Aren't you the one directing this play? Jiang Jin is just an actor in your hands. Now I want to ask you, how will this play end?"

Gu Ningwei was silent for a while, and a feeling of sadness arose in his heart.

He had never expected that he had worked so hard to investigate Gu Zhiguang's actions for the benefit of Chengguang Group, but in Gu Zhicheng's eyes, he was portrayed like this.

"Tell me, now that the play has come to this point, what are you going to do next?" Gu Zhicheng asked again.

Gu Ningwei was silent for a moment, then suddenly leaned forward and looked at his father intently: "Dad, I want to ask you, were you involved in Gu Zhiguang's affairs?"

Gu Zhicheng was stunned for a moment and scolded, "How could I be involved? I am the legal representative of Chengguang."

"Did you know about this before today?" Gu Ningwei asked immediately.

Gu Zhicheng remained silent.

Gu Ningwei waited for a while and slowly leaned back in his chair.

As he expected, Gu Zhicheng could not have been completely unaware of it, but chose to turn a deaf ear and ignore it.

He was silent for a long while, adjusting his emotions for a long time before he slowly said, "Dad, Chengguang was built by you and uncle. Why do you want to destroy it?"

"Destroy it?" Gu Zhicheng sighed deeply. "Even if I didn't destroy it, could it have come back to life? You young people spend every day browsing the internet and reading newspapers. Don't you know what the real estate market is like right now?"

He slowly leaned back in his chair: "You don't run the household, so you don't know how expensive food, rice, oil and salt are. For so many years, we have been acquiring land and developing it. Some of the decisions were made by us, and some of them..." He paused, snorted sarcastically, shook his head slightly, and didn't continue.

Gu Ningwei remained silent. Of course, he understood what Gu Zhicheng didn't say.

"Chengguang is finished. I just wanted to delay it for a few more days, as long as possible. But you let Jiang Jin pick open this abscess today. What will happen next?"

Gu Zhicheng looked at his son blankly, his face pale and he looked much older in an instant.

"It's not over yet, it won't be over..." Gu Ningwei suppressed the emotions surging in his heart and said softly, clenching his fists: "I will save it."

"Okay, I'll leave it to you. I'm old anyway and can't care so much." Gu Zhicheng looked dejected.

After a pause, he raised his eyes and looked directly at Gu Ningwei: "But you don't understand Gu Zhiguang yet. He won't give up."