The group's executives had been summoned to assign tasks in every area before departure and decide who would take part in the offensive.
The heads of each department reported on the progress of their work. Some were doing well, while others were suffering severe losses, and they exchanged intelligence with one another.
"Overall, things are looking good?"
"They're very good."
"This year's profits may grow by seventy percent. The authorities have given us the most favorable tax cuts and subsidy policies, supporting us in every way."
Some projects were losing quite a bit of money, such as the seemingly most promising extraordinary products under the PingAn Brand.
On one hand, marketing costs for a new brand were too high. On the other, this was the stage where they had to lose money to capture the market. In order to keep prices as low as possible, even with all the subsidies and policy support, the more they sold, the more they lost.
Yet they were profitable overall, surprisingly because the resource sites overseas that had fallen into the hands of Redemption and the Life Value Church—including gold and silver mines, oil fields, and more—had brought in enormous net revenue.
None of that was even on the books. The local labor costs were so low that Lu PingAn had barely paid any wages. It was not that he wanted to save that little on manpower, but giving out excessively large "bonuses" in a chaotic world that had only just regained a semblance of order was, in a sense, murder.
Even when the wages were only thirty percent higher than the local rate, Lu PingAn knew of people who had directly resorted to murder for a worker's position. Fortunately, they had not gone mad enough to demand hereditary worker positions, or Lu PingAn