Chapter 283 Gu Beixiao, the Business Genius!

The finance staff hesitated for a moment, but seeing Su Yue's unquestionable demeanor, they obediently took out several thick ledgers from the locked metal cabinet.

Su Yue flipped through the pages one by one.

When she saw Gu Beixiao use a batch of old lathes and parts discarded by military factories—which were practically scrap metal—to cleverly exchange for tens of thousands of yuan worth of steel bars, cement, and a considerable amount of working capital, a calculating smile finally appeared on her lips.

What a brilliant move to "exchange trash for gold"!

Gu Beixiao, this business genius, really gave her a huge surprise.

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The atmosphere in the military region's disciplinary committee's inquiry room was serious.

The head of the investigation team, a stern-faced middle-aged military officer, slammed a document on the table.

The whistleblower, Wang Dahai, sat opposite him, speaking with conviction and fervor as he accused Gu Beixiao of his "crimes."

“Team leader! I’d swear on my party loyalty! Gu Beixiao is a huge corrupt official! That batch of special steel and high-grade cement is worth at least 30,000 yuan on the market! But he only recorded 5,000 yuan in the pharmaceutical and medical equipment factory’s accounts! He pocketed the entire 25,000 yuan difference!”

After listening, the head of the investigation team turned his scrutinizing gaze to Gu Beixiao, who had remained unusually calm throughout.

"Comrade Gu Beixiao, do you have anything to explain regarding Comrade Wang Dahai's accusations?"

All eyes were on Gu Beixiao.

He slowly stood up, his face showing no anger at being wrongly accused, but rather a strange calm.

Following Su Yue's instructions, he answered word by word: "Reporting to the team leader, I have nothing to explain."

"Because of this batch of building materials worth 30,000 yuan, I actually only spent 5,000 yuan."

These words shocked everyone present.

The whistleblower, Wang Dahai, almost burst out laughing. Wasn't this just admitting guilt without being asked?

The head of the investigation team also frowned deeply.

However, Gu Beixiao's next move froze the air in the entire interrogation room.

He took out a thick stack of contracts and ledgers from his briefcase and calmly presented them to him.

“I didn’t embezzle a single penny. This batch of building materials was obtained by exchanging a batch of old, worn-out parts that the military region’s auto repair shop had been stockpiling for five years and were about to be scrapped and sold as scrap metal with the local agricultural machinery station for a batch of tractor parts that they urgently needed.”

"Then, I used this batch of tractor parts to trade with another machinery factory that was on the verge of bankruptcy for their only valuable semi-automatic production line."

"Finally, I sold this production line to the Hongxing Canned Food Factory, which urgently needed to expand its production scale, and received 30,000 yuan in cash. I then used 5,000 yuan of that to buy back the batch of building materials that our laboratory urgently needed through their internal channels."

With each sentence Gu Beixiao spoke, the investigation team leader's eyes lit up a little more.

After hearing the entire legendary exchange process, he picked up the stack of ledgers, his hands trembling slightly.

He wasn't looking at the ledger.

He was witnessing the birth of a business genius!

"Excellent! What a brilliant way to revitalize state-owned assets!" The investigation team leader slammed his hand on the table, his gaze towards Gu Beixiao filled with undisguised admiration and praise. "Not only did you not embezzle, but you also used a pile of scrap metal to create tens of thousands of yuan in value for the country and the military region! This is a great achievement!"

The whistleblower, Wang Dahai, was completely dumbfounded.

He stared blankly at the pile of ledgers he couldn't understand at all, his mind completely blank.

How did his fatal blow, his meticulously prepared killing move, turn into... a pledge of allegiance to the enemy?

This doesn't make sense!

However, before he could recover from the immense shock, the investigation team leader's next words plunged him into an abyss.

The head of the investigation team abruptly changed the subject, picked up another document, and his voice instantly turned icy cold.

"Wang Dahai! Just yesterday, the Discipline Inspection Commission also received a formal complaint against you!"

"The whistleblower letter states that you colluded with Liu Jianjun, the deputy director of the logistics department, for a long time, and used your position to repeatedly resell military supplies to the local black market for personal gain. The evidence is conclusive!"

"Guards! Take both of them away on the spot! Isolate and investigate them!"

Two heavily armed guards rushed in, one on each side, and immediately lifted up the limp Wang Dahai.

Wang Dahai's face was ashen; he knew he was finished.

He never dreamed that he would be the one stalking the cicada, unaware of the oriole behind him.

He thought he was the hunter who drew his bow and shot an arrow, but little did he know that from the very beginning, he was the cicada caught in someone else's net.

After the incident, the military region not only exonerated Gu Beixiao publicly as quickly as possible, but also commended his advanced deeds of "revitalizing state-owned assets" as a typical example of reform and innovation at an internal meeting.

A few days later, a new appointment letter was delivered to the Gu family.

Gu Beixiao was promoted again for "making significant contributions to revitalizing state-owned assets and exploring diversified business models," and was appointed as the director of the newly established "Military Region Diversified Business Office," raising his administrative rank by one level.

This brand-new department was specially created for him by the military region.

Gu Beixiao's business acumen has received the highest level of official recognition, and his future looks bright.

The second son of the Gu family has become the most sought-after business star in the entire military region.

Just as the Gu family was immersed in joy, an urgent phone call broke the tranquility.

The call was from the person in charge of the laboratory construction site; he sounded extremely anxious.

"Comrade Su! Something terrible has happened! You need to come quickly! The expert team from Beijing and our local experienced workers are arguing at the construction site! They're about to come to blows!"

Su Yue and Zhang Huilan rushed to the construction site immediately.

On the construction site, two groups of people were locked in a tense standoff.

On one side was a young expert in a suit and tie whom Zhang Huilan had brought from Beijing.

On the other side were dozens of local veteran technicians dressed in overalls, their faces full of resentment.

A respected senior technician with gray hair in the Hainan Island military industry system was so angry that he trembled when he saw Su Yue and Zhang Huilan.

Pointing to a design drawing that had just been airlifted from Beijing, filled with intricate pipework and precision instruments, he angrily rebuked it in front of everyone:

“We’ve been building socialism all our lives, and we’ve never seen anything like this! It’s all about constant temperature and humidity, aseptic operation, and importing ridiculously expensive equipment from abroad! This isn’t scientific research; this is the crooked path of capitalist hedonism and corruption!”

"We can't do this job! I'm not doing it either!"