Concerns About the Family Business
"My idea is to add an acylhydrazine group with hydrogen bond donors and acceptors. The yield shown in the Computer Science simulation is indeed not high. At present, Computer Science cannot solve all the problems in organic synthesis. Optimization still depends on human wisdom. With this topic of improving yield in mind, you two can start moving forward with the project." Shen Qi put forward his idea.
The three researchers reached a strategic consensus on the synthesis route of C01C. Whether the final product can achieve the expected results, or even whether the target product can be obtained, needs to be verified by experimental results.
After Old Yan and Cheng Haonan left, Shen Qi's phone rang. It was his father, Old Shen, calling.
Old Shen said he was going to jail and told Shen Qi to come home and take over the family business.
"Dad, can we stop this?!" Shen Qi was even a little angry. Old Shen had gone to great lengths to get Shen Qi to take over the family business.
Old Shen: "Come on, I'll have my lawyer talk to you."
The voice on the phone changed; it was a man's voice, and Old Shen said he was their company's legal counsel.
The man calmly described the events to Shen Qi.
A while ago Old Shen drove out alone to run some errands. After he finished, Old Shen discovered that two suspicious men were stealing his car emblem.
The car is Rolls-Royce, Old Shen just bought.
The Spirit of Ecstasy hood ornament on Old Shen 'Rolls-Royce- Royce, worth tens of thousands of yuan, was a target for thieves.
Because cases of Rolls-Royce emblem theft had been frequent for a long time, Rolls-Royce designers made improvements starting with the previous generation of Rolls-Royce.
The new Rolls-Royce Spirit of Ecstasy hood ornament automatically retracts into the gap between the engine compartment and the front grille after the car is turned off, and automatically rises up after the car is started.
This anti-theft design worked to some extent, but clever thieves came up with new methods.
Old Shen saw that the two thieves had removed the front grille of his Rolls-Royce and forcibly pried off the Spirit of Ecstasy hood ornament.
Old Shen was furious when the brand-new Rolls-Royce was vandalized like this by thieves, and he immediately took action to arrest the thief.
One of the thieves stabbed Old Shen with a knife, but Old Shen, a former soldier, punched the assailant, causing him to suffer a concussion.
Seeing that things were not going well, the other accomplice of the thief immediately fled.
"This... my dad acted in self-defense, he won't go to jail, right?" Shen Qi was shocked; life was more bizarre than fiction.
"The problem is, the police haven't found the knife, and there are no security cameras in that area," the man on the phone said.
Shen Qi understood. Old Shen said the thief stole the car emblem first, and then stabbed Old Shen with a knife after being discovered. However, there was no evidence to support the claim that the thief stabbed Old Shen, and no injuries were found on Old Shen's body.
The thief who suffered a concussion is still in the hospital, while the other accomplice, who is conscious, admitted to the theft but denied attacking the victim with a knife.
Thieves also have the right to life and health; only the judicial authorities have the right to convict thieves.
Old Shen seriously injured one of the thieves, which constitutes an act of retaliation and is therefore a crime of intentional assault.
If the thief attacked first with the knife, Old Shen would not bear any responsibility.
However, the murder weapon was not found, Old Shen was not injured, there were no eyewitnesses, and there was no surveillance footage.
Theft is a criminal offense, Old Shen is also a criminal offense for inflicting a concussion on the thief... This is the police's preliminary conclusion.
"Professor Shen, that's how it happened, but please rest assured, my legal team and I will definitely prove Mr. Shen's innocence," the man on the phone said.
Shen Qi then called his Mom to confirm the situation.
"What the hell... what's the point of this?" Shen Qi really didn't know what to say.
The two thieves gained nothing; they ultimately failed to steal the car emblem and one of them was even injured.
Old Shen is even more wronged; he was originally the victim, but now he may instead bear criminal responsibility!
Shen Qi flew back to Nangang City overnight. He didn't care about his family fortune anymore, since no one was going to fight him for it anyway.
What worries Shen Qi the most is that his father might actually go to jail!
Just as Shen Qi arrived home, good news arrived: the police had found the thief's dagger, and the thief confessed to using the knife to kill the suspect after being discovered stealing the car emblem.
Old Shen acted in self-defense and was not held legally responsible; he paid all the medical expenses for the concussion-stricken thief.
After being discharged from the hospital, the concussion-stricken thief, along with his accomplices, was taken to a detention center.
The case has come to a close, a lose-lose situation for all three parties: the two thieves got nothing and will face legal consequences, while Old Shen lost money.
"Having learned our lesson, how about we get a new car?" Shen Qi didn't object to his dad buying a luxury car, but there were many kinds of luxury cars. Could they get a slightly more understated one?
"I've worked hard my whole life, am I wrong to buy Rolls-Royce and enjoy myself?" Old Shen was still quite upset. He said, "Since you're back this time, let's talk about the company's equity. I'm the largest shareholder, and I will transfer all my shares to you."
"Dad, you broke your bone last year, but your recovery was amazing. This year, you subdued an armed assailant with your bare hands; you were truly impressive and strong. Your health is even better than mine; you could easily be a big boss for another twenty years."
"I'll be 60 in a few years, Shen Qi, you have to give me a straight answer today!"
Old Shen's company is a private enterprise that produces automotive plastic parts and supplies them to vehicle manufacturers.
Plastic parts such as side skirts and interior plastic covers are not technically demanding. The vehicle manufacturer's design department provides digital models and drawings, and the component manufacturers simply injection mold the finished products based on the digital models and drawings for delivery.
Unlike transmissions, which are supplied by only a handful of manufacturers worldwide due to technological limitations, automotive plastic parts are not readily available.
Plastic parts are too easily substitutable, and the competition is fierce. The area where Old Shen's factory is located is full of companies that produce plastic parts.
The main reason Old Shen has been able to build his business to its current scale is because he has good relationships with the relevant leaders and business managers of the vehicle manufacturers. The number of his marketing staff is several times that of his technical staff.
Shen Qi, a scientist, couldn't possibly take over a low-tech private company and fawn over the leaders of a car manufacturer like gods of wealth. He couldn't accept it psychologically. "Nangang Automotive Group, in terms of rank, their chairman isn't even as high-ranking as me. When we attend meetings at ministries, I sit at the head table while their chairman is just an observer. Dad, it's not that I'm being pretentious, but that's the reality. I've become a major shareholder in your company. Do you expect me to beg the CEO of a state-owned enterprise to give me a job?"
Nangang Automotive Group is a large state-owned automobile group with more than a dozen vehicle manufacturers, including its own brand, Sino-Japanese joint venture, and Sino-Italian joint venture.
Old Shen's supporting company supplies parts to the vehicle manufacturers under the Nangang Automotive Group. As a private business owner, Old Shen rarely gets to meet the bigwigs at the headquarters of the Nangang Automotive Group.
Shen Qi is right. Let alone the subordinate vehicle manufacturers, even when the top executive of their group attended a meeting in the capital with me, I sat in the main seat while he could only attend as an observer. I could speak while he could only listen to the spirit of the meeting.
"So, Dad, this isn't appropriate. I can't possibly lower myself in front of a company CEO. But the products you make don't have much technical content; frankly, it's all about getting orders through connections. Ugh, it's a headache." Shen Qi expressed his troubles. Regarding taking over the family business, his attitude wasn't as firm as before, but he still had reservations.