With an offhand remark at the banquet, Li Ye knocked Teng Hongmiao—who might very well have become a billionaire decades later—down from the clouds. And that was not all. Li Ye also held Teng Hongmiao up as a negative example throughout the motor vehicle plant, determined to squeeze every last bit of value out of him.
On Li Ye's second day in Zhuancheng, he had the audit team begin rigorously checking the motor vehicle plant's financial accounts. On the fourth day, he convened a meeting of all the plant's finance personnel and cadres.
"People say flies do not bite seamless eggs. So why did Teng Hongmiao smear mud on our motor vehicle plant when he was withholding the construction workers' hard-earned money?"
"This is a report the auditors roughly compiled. It shows the basic situation of our plant's external settlements over the past five years. I took a careful look, and it was very interesting."
Li Ye waved more than a dozen pages of forms and said sternly, "Our plant's external settlements have been far too arbitrary. For the same sort of payment, some debts have gone unpaid for three years, while others can be settled in three days.
"After Teng Hongmiao's project was completed, he received the full payment the very next day. Not even a quality guarantee deposit was withheld. Yet he still made us play the villain. Can anyone tell me why?"
"..."
None of the finance personnel present spoke, especially those from the former Zhuancheng Motor Vehicle Factory. Their lips were pressed tightly together, though inwardly they were cursing their mothers.
So that's why you went after Teng Hongmiao for no reason at all! You were really trying to go after us?
The First Branch Factory had merged with the Zhuancheng Motor Vehicle Factory, and Wang