Chapter 375

Not long after Ji Wanmei finished her phone call with Lei Tingjun, Ji Xingguo returned.

The car pulled up outside the compound, and Ji Xingguo, who hadn't been drinking, walked in on his own.

As soon as he arrived at his doorstep, he saw a small orange light shining in the yard, which warmed Ji Xingguo's heart.

He pushed open the door and walked inside: "Meimei, Daddy's home."

"Have you been drinking?" Ji Wanmei came out of the living room to greet him.

"I didn't drink. I wouldn't drink with those two foreign devils." Ji Xingguo was quite annoyed when he brought up the social engagements for the evening.

Seeing his expression, Ji Wanmei laughed and said, "If you don't give them any face, won't you make them more wary and think that you're not easy to fool?"

Ji Xingguo chuckled twice and walked into the house with his hands behind his back: "That's not necessarily true. Your old man still has a backup plan. Yang Zhiping thinks I don't understand foreign languages ​​and that I'll believe whatever he says."

"Did you gain anything from your trip today?" Ji Wanmei poured her father a cup of tea after they entered the house.

Ji Xingguo sat down, took a sip of tea, and then said, "They want to use the introduction of technology and foreign investment as bait to lure me into agreeing to transfer 51% of the factory's shares to a foreign company."

"Hmph, that kid Yang Zhiping, today I've witnessed firsthand his glib tongue and two-faced skills."

Ji Wanmei curled her lips dismissively, "This kind of person is destined to achieve nothing great and will not have a good ending."

Ji Xingguo sat upright on the sofa with a furrowed brow. "There's just one thing I still can't figure out."

"What can't you figure out?" Ji Wanmei asked.

"I think the Yang family wants to persuade me to sell more than half of the factory's shares, and then have the two foreign companies, one American and one Japanese, each take over half. This is the premise that I firmly refused to agree to, so he offered this compromise. But if that's really the case, how could those two foreign companies allow a clown like Yang Zhiping to control the decision-making power?"

“I asked and looked at the representatives of those two foreign companies today. The companies behind them do indeed have the proper qualifications, which can be verified.”

"I don't believe Yang Zhiping has such great abilities. As for Yang Changhua, I've known him for over twenty years. Although he deals with distributors and agents all year round, he doesn't have overseas resources, let alone the kind of connections that would allow him to influence the decisions of a foreign company."

Ji Wanmei laughed out loud: "Dad, that's why I sometimes say that you're too upright. You only consider things from a traditional perspective."

She said, "You've already described Yang Zhiping as a hypocritical and treacherous villain. Would someone like him do things the way you do, following the orthodox and righteous path?"

"Of course he used the most despicable and cunning methods."

Ji Wanmei carefully analyzed to her father: "He knows you will have someone check the qualifications and credit rating of those two foreign companies, so he will never let us find any fault with them on the surface. When it comes to putting on a show, I think no one is better than the Yang family father and son."

Ji Xingguo nodded.

Ji Wanmei: "And the identities of those two foreign business representatives are genuine; they are not fake. They are indeed the resident agents sent to China by those two foreign companies."

Ji Xingguo asked, puzzled, "Then where exactly is the problem?"

This is what he struggled to understand despite his deep contemplation.

Yang Changhua and his son Yang Zhiping put on such a big show for him, surely they couldn't really be doing all the work for foreigners?

Even if the factory eventually becomes a foreign-controlled enterprise, all their active mediation and matchmaking will not bring any real benefits to the Yang family.

Where do they intend to profit?

To say that they were doing this for personal gain or to receive benefits from foreign businessmen is completely unnecessary.

Compared to such a big undertaking, the Yang family father and son would probably make even more money from this, given their current power and connections in the factory.

Moreover, Ji Xingguo had heard that foreign companies have a very strict attendance and performance evaluation system for employee management, and it is common for those who are unqualified or fail to meet the standards to be dismissed or fired.

The more perfect and transparent the management system, the less room there is for manipulation. Ji Xingguo himself is an insider and has served as a leader and manager for so many years, so he understands this very well.

Ji Wanmei said, "Dad, you're really confused. The qualifications of those two foreign companies are fine, and the identities of those two representatives are fine, but that doesn't mean the Yang family father and son are without problems."

Ji Wanmei said, "Let me put it this way. What's the name of that Japanese company?"

Ji Xingguo thought for a moment and said, "It seems to be called something like Honda Panasonic Manufacturing Co., Ltd."

Ji Wanmei said, "Okay, what if Yang Zhiping registered a private company in China with the same name before this? Then he promised benefits to have the Japanese business representative come to negotiate with you. After the agreement was reached, the person who signed the contract was replaced by Yang Zhiping's shell company that he secretly registered."

"And the Japanese company representative who had been bribed by Yang Zhiping went back to his superiors and said that the negotiations had failed. For the Japanese company, this was just one of the dozens of Chinese factories they had chosen to invest in that had failed, and it wouldn't attract any attention."

"But through Yang Zhiping's operation, we thought that the shares we signed with the Japanese company would be transferred to the shell company controlled by Yang Zhiping. In the end, they would actually control the factory."

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