"President Zhou, thank you! You saved me, and you saved my factory too!"
"You're welcome!"
With Wang Lei involved, the factory acquisition was quickly finalized. The Risheng Materials factory Zhou Feiyu had originally set his sights on was ultimately acquired by him. The price remained one million, but he only assumed half the debts. Wang Lei deserved the credit for negotiating that down.
After signing the contract, the owner of Risheng Materials thanked Zhou Feiyu with tears in his eyes.
Zhou Feiyu merely replied calmly and declined the man's invitation to dinner. That same day, he completed all the handover procedures and gathered every employee to announce the new company's arrangements.
"...From now on, all of you are employees of Feiyang New Material Technology Co., Ltd. The company is just getting started, so your salaries and benefits will remain unchanged for now. Adjustments will be made later depending on the situation. As for social insurance and the Five Insurances and One Fund, I don't care what irregular practices the previous company used, but at Fei Yang Company, they must be paid properly. I believe everyone can understand that this is good for you as well.
"Also, all production will be suspended for the next three days. I will invest funds into upgrading the production equipment and renovating the kitchen. You will still clock in and out on time every day and cooperate with the company's sorting, organization, cleaning, and personal discipline efforts. We will fully implement 5S improvements from scratch. Your wages will be paid as usual..."
Standing on the raised platform with a loudspeaker in hand, Zhou Feiyu spoke loudly.
There were not many employees below, only twenty or thirty people, but murmurs rose all around. What he had said left them feeling nervous and confused.
A new boss and a new style meant starting over. Naturally, they found it extremely hard to adapt after becoming used to the old way of doing things.
But while the environment was fixed, people were adaptable.
Before long, hearing Zhou Feiyu's obvious intention to grow the company and thinking that work was work no matter who paid them, and that this might not be any worse, the employees all cooperated and complied after Zhou Feiyu finished making his announcements.
With no troublemakers, Zhou Feiyu sighed in relief. He had no prestige here; he only had the identity of "boss."
If someone had caused trouble at this point, he could only have raised the banner of dismissal using his authority as the boss. That would inevitably have made the others feel uneasy as well.
Before dismissing everyone, Zhou Feiyu mentioned one last matter. "This is Wang Lei, head of the company's Legal Department. If you have any labor disputes, financial disputes, or similar matters in the future, you can come to him. Also, Wang Lei made a great contribution to the company's acquisition and saved the new company five hundred thousand in debt. I hereby announce that Fei Yang Company will award Wang Lei a bonus of fifty thousand! I hope everyone will learn from Wang Lei in the future and create value for the new company."
Wang Lei, who stood to his right, had been lost in thought, who knew what he had been thinking about. Hearing those words suddenly, he jolted and turned to stare at Zhou Feiyu in disbelief.
"President Zhou, this..."
Wang Lei was so shocked that he could barely speak.
The employees below were equally stunned by this explosive revelation.
"Fuck!"
"Fifty thousand? That's so much!"
"This boss is generous!"
"They must know each other. Otherwise, how could he get that much?"
All kinds of thoughts rose in everyone's minds. Some were shocked, then envious and jealous; some were shocked, then indifferent; and some curled their lips in disdain after their shock.
Zhou Feiyu smiled at Wang Lei. "You deserve it."
As he spoke, he called over Li Chunling, a petite young woman who served as clerk, assistant, and personnel officer, and instructed her, "Send out a notice announcing the bonus later."
"Yes, Boss!"
Li Chunling hurriedly nodded, with a faint trace of fear in her expression.
Among the twenty or thirty employees, only three actually worked in the office, and all of them were women. Besides Li Chunling, there was one who handled purchasing, administration, and logistics, and another who handled order tracking and shipments.
The finance and accounting work had previously been handled by the Boss's Wife, so she naturally would not be staying on.
After settling matters at the factory and bringing in the equipment supplier he had contacted beforehand along with the factory's technicians to begin upgrading the equipment, it was already past four in the afternoon.
Only then did Zhou Feiyu finally have time to sit in his own private boss's office, make himself a cup of tea, and relax with Li Shihan, who had just arrived in the county town.
"You don't even have an accountant or finance officer now. Hasn't your old classmate agreed to come back and help yet?"
After hearing about the company's situation, Li Shihan smiled and asked.
"Damn, look at me. Ever since I got my Shihan darling, I completely forgot that I have an old classmate in this line of work."
Zhou Feiyu slapped his forehead and quickly called his old classmate Xiao Jianguo, who was far away in Peng City.
"Pah!"
Li Shihan, seated beside him, immediately blushed and couldn't help spitting the word at him before shooting him a glare.
She couldn't help thinking about last night. Zhou Feiyu usually looked so honest, yet who would have thought he had such nerve? He had forcibly kissed her, stolen her first kiss, and then even started getting handsy, climbing the peaks with an accuracy like he had built-in navigation.
If she had not stopped him, that hateful right hand would even have wanted to explore other places.
But she soon remembered how, before bed, Zhou Feiyu had lingered in her room and tried to kiss her again, only for her father to shout from downstairs, "Why are you still dawdling up there? Are you going to sleep or not?"
She couldn't help bursting into laughter. Her father's shout had scared Zhou Feiyu into scrambling downstairs. The embarrassed look on his face had been absolutely hilarious.
"My company's up and running, and I urgently need someone to take over finance and accounting. Old classmate, hurry back and help me."
Zhou Feiyu got straight to the point.
"Fuck, you're serious?"
Xiao Jianguo's astonished voice came through the phone.
Zhou Feiyu pretended to be unhappy. "You don't trust your old classmate that much? You think I'm joking with you? Hurry up. Once you miss this chance, it's gone."
Xiao Jianguo said with a bitter laugh, "You're moving way too fast! Didn't you just come to Peng City last week? You said you wanted to start a business, and now you've already got it going? I can't come right now. This month is only half over, and I can't give up half a month's pay. I've got a mortgage and car loan to repay..."
"What's half a month of pay? Don't worry. If you work the rest of this month with me, I'll count it as full attendance."
Zhou Feiyu immediately said, "Hurry over. I happen to need someone to fill the position. Bring your wife over to work too. I need to ask her about some materials-related issues. She doesn't need to come as urgently as you do, though. She can start working for me next month."
Xiao Jianguo was surprised once again. "Old classmate, you just started your business. You need to watch your spending. Seeing you do this actually makes me a little worried."
"Stop babbling and just get over here. I know what I'm doing."
Zhou Feiyu laughed as he scolded him, then hung up.
The next moment, a transfer red packet arrived on Xiao Jianguo's phone with a ding.
"You have a pending transfer to receive!"
Seeing the bright red transfer notification from afar in Peng City, Xiao Jianguo froze for a moment.
When he opened it, a notification immediately sounded. "WeChat payment received: five thousand yuan."
"Well, this is forcing a duck onto the rack."
Xiao Jianguo smiled helplessly, but he immediately stood up from his seat and headed straight for the Personnel Department. As he walked, he pondered, My wife works in the Mobile Phone Glass industry. He's asking her about material-related issues. Does he want to make Mobile Phone Glass materials too?
Meanwhile, Zhou Feiyu had just put down the phone when he received an unfamiliar call from Peng City.
Seeing that the incoming call was not marked as harassment, scam, or promotional sales, Zhou Feiyu answered it.
"President Zhou, hello. I'm Wu Feng, project director of Hua Long Technology..."
As the voice rang out, a smile immediately appeared on Zhou Feiyu's face.
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