One in the light, one in the dark, one in the middle.

Previously, the ledgers were all in Xiaobo's hands, but now there is a real finance department.

The open and covert ledgers are with the CFO, while the covert ledgers are with Xiaobo.

To put it bluntly, if Xiaobomei were to rebel against Xing Baohua, she could simply hand over the secret ledgers to the tax authorities.

Xing Baohua really deserves a lot of punishment.

If a joint-stock company is established, whether in the open or in secret, the ledgers cannot be made public; they must be kept hidden from the public and must be destroyed after the accounts are reconciled.

Destroying it is easy; just set it on fire and that's it.

It's not that simple; many accounts need to be reconciled, especially the publicly disclosed ledgers. Otherwise, if the accounts don't match up, it will cause a lot of trouble.

Therefore, the most accurate ledger is the one kept in secret.

Using a clandestine ledger to maintain the public ledger, adjusting everything from subtractions to additions. There's a saying behind it all.

As for the middle chapter, it was also made based on the secret ledger.

That's for overall financial comparison.

This placed a heavy burden on Xiaobo, so he worked even harder in other areas.

He returned to the lab to continue leading the research and development, only to be called out by his chief secretary again.

This whole mess of trivial matters made Xing Baohua really want to get angry.

The battery research institute and its subsidiaries have been sued.

The reason is the pollution problem caused by the battery factory.

When the battery factory was built here, it was next to a ditch, which was actually a flood drainage ditch and could also be used for irrigation during the rainy season.

Nowadays, most villagers use machine-made wells and rarely use ditches for irrigation.

The battery factory didn't treat the wastewater; it simply discharged the sewage directly into the drainage ditch.

This drainage ditch leads directly to the Zhulong River, which is the main water source for irrigation for farmers downstream.

The Zhulong River flows north, then into the Xiaoqing River, and the water that flows into the Xiaoqing River flows eastward to the sea.

The sewage has prevented villagers downstream from irrigating their fields.

After all, these days, people want to keep the grain they grow for their own consumption.

Who would want to eat contaminated food?

It's not just one or two villages complaining to higher authorities now. It's the entire village and town downstream of the Zhulong River.

It accidentally became a major event.

Since other leaders couldn't handle the situation, they had to ask Xing Baohua for advice.

Actually, Director Xue could handle this. Given the electronics factory's current status and influence in the city, he could easily resolve the issue by simply negotiating. He could also offer some reassurance.

However, the villagers were clamoring for compensation, and Director Xue couldn't make the decision. Moreover, Director Xue, being an old hand, could tell something was amiss from the situation.

If the city wanted to manage it, not so many villages and towns would have come forward to talk about sewage and compensation.

It's already been suppressed.

Actually, Director Xue didn't know that the city was going to give Xing Baohua some eye drops.

After Xing Baohua learned the full situation, he notified the battery factory to suspend operations for rectification.

Then he took people to the battery factory to check on the wastewater situation.

Xing Baohua admitted that he had overlooked this point, and besides, there was no such thing as environmental protection in this matter! The vast majority of factories just discharge water wherever they see a ditch or river.

Otherwise, where would all those stinking ditches and rivers come from?

Even the most famous Xiaoqing River is a polluted river.

After learning about the composition of wastewater at the battery factory, it became clear that even though the batteries are inorganic lithium batteries...

However, it does produce high-concentration organic wastewater.

The wastewater is mainly generated from washing equipment. The volume of water is not large, but the composition is complex.

And they even called it poison.

If farmers use this high-concentration organic wastewater to irrigate their land, it will not only lead to reduced grain yields, but also pose health risks to people who consume it.

Xing Baohua said to Director Xue, "Notify the Municipal Government Office to hold a meeting with relevant personnel from downstream counties, towns, and villages to discuss the matter. Notify the Procurement Department that I need relevant wastewater treatment data and to procure wastewater treatment equipment as soon as possible."

When will the wastewater treatment plant be completed? When will the battery factory open?