Fu Jianzhi's flight was scheduled for the evening. Before takeoff, his slender secretary not only escorted him to the airport but also chased after him for two hundred meters in the terminal, her eyes brimming with tears.
"Young Master Fu!" The slender-waisted secretary cried, her voice trembling with tears. "You'll come back, right? No matter what happens at tomorrow's extraordinary shareholders' meeting, you'll come back, won't you?"
Fu Jianzhi knew what he was worried about, and helplessly pulled his sleeve back, sighing, "Yes, I will. When have I ever not come back?"
"But this time is different. Neither you nor Chairman Fu will be here tomorrow. Your people can't control Fu Chengyu and his gang at all. Who knows what unreasonable demands they might make?"
Fu Jianzhi sighed deeply, "Let him be, this is a small matter. If you don't let go and let me go, that will be a big deal."
"Mr. Fu, tell me the truth, do you already have a backup plan? At least give me a straight answer, otherwise I'm scared."
Fu Jianzhi refrained from saying "What's it to me?" and showed no pity for the woman, striding confidently to register.
The slender-waisted secretary watched Fu Jianzhi walk away, wiped away the two tears she had squeezed out, turned around with a swaying waist, and casually dialed Fu Chengyu's number. "I didn't get anything useful out of him. Your brother seems to be in a lot of trouble. Something must have happened to him this time. He hasn't even booked his return flight yet."
"Is it because your acting is bad?" Fu Chengyu asked, sounding a little dissatisfied.
The slender-waisted secretary snorted impatiently, "My acting is bad? Of all the people you've arranged over the years, I'm the only one who ended up as your brother's secretary. He either plans to come back and settle accounts with you slowly, or he's keeping his mouth shut and really doesn't intend to say anything."
“You’re with him every day. Knowing him as you do, what tricks could he possibly have up his sleeve?” Fu Chengyu pondered.
"What your brother's backup plans are none of my business. Isn't that just a matter for your Fu family?" The slender-waisted secretary opened her online banking account, glanced at the balance, and seeing that Fu Chengyu had indeed kept his promise and the money had arrived, her expression softened a little. "His backup plans... are nothing more than the Yu family, the Xu family, and the Ye family, but tomorrow's meeting is an internal matter for your Fu Group, and I don't think it's appropriate for these families to interfere... the Ruan family... Ruan Chen?"
Fu Chengyu's expression hardened, and he hung up the phone immediately.
All things considered, if Fu Jianzhi were to entrust such a big matter to a reliable person, it would only be Ruan Chen, whom he trusts the most.
No, to be precise, it was Ruan Chen, whom I once trusted the most.
After Ruan Chen returned, she only met her younger brother twice. Once was when Ruan Chen was with her, and the other time was when Fu Jianzhi privately invited Ruan Chen to the Xicheng Bookstore, which he was working on.
However, the person who was planted next to Fu Jianzhi said that Fu Jianzhi looked very upset when he came back that day, probably because he had a big fight with Ruan Chen and they parted on bad terms.
Fu Chengyu had his brother's call records from this period pulled up, but couldn't find any clues.
Even if we take a step back, what means could Ruan Chen, a woman who is only somewhat talented in academics, possibly have to help her good younger brother?
It seems Fu Jianzhi intends to come back and settle scores later.
Fu Chengyu smirked and reconfirmed the details of tomorrow's extraordinary general meeting with the shareholders, striving to get the Fu Group to return all the profits from the previous seven years as dividends.
Then Fu Chengyu contacted a bank manager and a private lending company he was familiar with, and after finalizing the plan, he waited smugly for Fu Jian to fall into the trap.
He meticulously planned a scheme. Now that the year is almost over and the profits have been distributed, the R&D department will be pressing for the first quarter's R&D payments in January, a full 50 billion yuan, which Fu Jianzhi will definitely not be able to come up with.
Next, he will look for banks to mortgage his private property, but that won't be enough. So, his next step will be to look for private lending institutions. He just needs to plant a trap in the contract and wait for it to explode.
Fu Chengyu was lost in a beautiful fantasy about this scene.
He knew that this would also cause huge losses to the Fu Group, but he couldn't care less. Anyway, this loss wasn't fatal. The elders of the family could chip in and come up with a solution to help the Fu Group get through this crisis.
As for how things have come to this... it's entirely their own fault.
Fu Chengyu fiddled with the windproof lighter, reminiscing about his past—initially a chosen one, Zhanlu's destined pilot, but later Zhanlu abandoned him and chose Fu Jianzhi, and the resources that used to belong to him began to gradually flow towards Fu Jianzhi.
In the end, even the Fu Group came under his control.
But Fu Chengyu clearly remembered that when he was a child, the elders in his family, including his father, had all said that everything in the Fu family would belong to him in the future.
They made a mistake first, so how can they blame themselves for being too ruthless?
The extraordinary general meeting of shareholders was held as scheduled on the second day.
With Fu Lin and Fu Jianzhi absent, Fu Chengyu naturally took the seat of honor. Listening to the arguments below and watching these people fiercely debating whether or not the profits would be divided, he felt bored but also had a slight sense of cat-and-mouse thrill.
Fu Chengyu had watched the show long enough. He tapped the table, coughed twice in a mock manner, and prepared to end the farce and finalize the profit-sharing plan.
Although the debate raged on, two-thirds of the people still supported Fu Chengyu's suggestion: to distribute all the profits accumulated by the Fu Group over the past seven years as dividends, amounting to a total of 35 billion yuan.
After distributing the 35 billion yuan as dividends, it means that the Fu Group will not have enough funds to support research and development, marketing and other activities in the first half of next year or even the whole year. The remaining funds on the books will only be enough to maintain the company's basic operations next year.
More than two-thirds of the shareholders who support dividends are aware of this, but they don't care. They only want short-term gains and getting the money in hand is what matters. Anyway, the Fu family is a large and powerful family, and they are sure they can keep the group from collapsing.
Just then, there was a knock on the door.
Fu Chengyu's heart tightened. Knocking on the door at this time was probably a backup plan prepared by his younger brother.
The people who came looked like a top-notch legal team; their consultation fees were probably calculated by the hour.
"We have been entrusted by Mr. Fu Jianzhi to discuss matters related to the year-end dividends of the Fu Group with you."
The lead lawyer was trembling with fear when he said those words, because it was a lie.
The person who commissioned them was surnamed Ruan; this was a statement that Ms. Ruan requested they make.
Based on professional ethics, the lawyer initially refused, but Ms. Ruan directly doubled the legal fees.
"How is that possible?" Fu Chengyu's reaction was exactly what they expected. "President Fu didn't mention this before he left. I think we need to verify this with our President Fu first."
“Mr. Fu is on a plane right now, and you definitely can’t contact him,” the lead lawyer continued, stating the script that Ms. Ruan had arranged long ago. “However, Mr. Fu Jianzhi has issued a power of attorney, so we are indeed qualified.”
Seeing that Fu Chengyu still had doubts, the lawyer added, "Furthermore, if our identities are indeed false, Mr. Fu Jianzhi will expose us as soon as he returns. This contract that we finalized on his behalf will not have any legal effect, so you don't need to worry about our identities."
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