The crowd dispersed from the meeting room.
The steady, all-business composure on Zhao Chen's face vanished instantly, turning into a chilling sharpness:
"She's getting anxious, and she's not just playing defense."
Chen Xi brought up the records:
"She steered the pressure toward 'Personnel Upheaval' and completely avoided mentioning her own hidden risks.
However, the loan renewal difficulty and cash pressure she deliberately played up seem exaggerated in their data—compared to the bottom line plan we calculated internally, the conditions she preset are the harshest possible."
Zhang Qingxue hit the nail on the head: "She is doing two things:
First, laying the groundwork of 'external causes' for any future cash flow issues;
Second, creating panic. If we get scared by the short-term payment dilemma she described, what is the most straightforward 'solution'?"
Zhao Chen walked over to the whiteboard, his pen tip gliding across it:
"Either sell off core assets on the cheap, or bring in 'Lifeline Funds'. When that time comes, who has cash on hand and can also 'understand' the company's predicament?"
Chen Xi suddenly realized: "Her 700 million trust fund. They can use harsh conditions to harvest high-quality assets or equity at low prices."
"Right." Zhao Chen wrote down the logical chain of "Debt Panic → Asset Fire Sale/Equity Dilution → Behind-the-Scenes Harvesting",
"She isn't reporting difficulties to me at all; she's laying out a 'rescue' trap that we are forced to jump into."
Zhang Qingxue nodded:
"That's why you elevated the agenda to 'Reshaping Confidence', just to break out of her 'firefighting' framework."
"Exactly." Zhao Chen put down his pen, his gaze burning like a torch,
"Debt is just the symptom; confidence is the root. Clearing our guarantees and standardizing our systems is our way of proving to the market the new management's determination for Bone Scraping