"When we first began preparing to build the new office building, we planned to complete it within a year and put it into use in fourteen months. But now nearly a year has passed, and we have not even broken ground on the foundation. This fully proves that our original estimate was wrong. I will begin by conducting self-criticism here."
Shang Bin said with a grief-stricken expression, "Although I do not want to give up halfway, after all, this was the first major undertaking after the establishment of our Jingnan Group. We even purchased the initial building materials, and they are piled up on the Sanli River plot, growing mold,
but now a major dispute has arisen over the construction contract. Team Leader Li refuses to pay the site-entry fee, the contractor refuses to enter the site, and most importantly, the relevant person responsible has suddenly vanished. We have no way to even begin investigating the truth."
"Fortunately, from last year to this year, both the land and the building materials have risen in price. If we transfer them now, not only can we pay the loan interest, we may even make a handsome profit,
and our group's new project happens to need funding right now. We can temporarily abandon the new office building project. Once our new vehicles hit the market and the funds flow back in, every problem will be resolved as easily as a knife cutting through butter."
Shang Bin rattled on for ages, loudly extolling all the benefits of "revitalizing assets." It sounded as though it brought a hundred benefits and not a single harm.
But the problem was, that "hundred benefits and no harm" applied only to Shang Bin, not to Li Ye.
There was still no conclusion to Cong Jinhong's matter. If they sold