After Li Wei and Garvin took their seats, this board meeting of unprecedented scale officially began.
Yet unlike what outsiders might have imagined, during the first hour of the meeting, almost no one took the initiative to speak.
The vast conference room was filled only with the rustle of pages turning.
The moment they received notice of the meeting, they had hurriedly prepared the relevant materials for it. But this time had still been far too rushed. Moreover, their boss and lord would be attending in person, so they had no choice but to prepare with the utmost caution and rigor.
Aside from emergency meetings, most board meetings in previous years had been announced twenty days in advance.
This was also an old tradition of Hogg Mining's board meetings:
After receiving the notice, Zelandia's territorial affairs and Hogg Mining's business reports would be submitted upward through layer upon layer for review.
Matters and topics of lesser importance, or those that could be handled internally, would be resolved ahead of time. Matters of higher importance, or those beyond their authority and ability to resolve, would continue being elevated until they were placed before the board for discussion and resolution.
At that point, the senior executives would give the submitted materials and topics another brief once-over.
It was only that this time, the wait had been a little longer. After all, their Silver Dragon boss had slept for forty-six whole years. What if his brain still had not woken up...?
It was said that some dragons had quite the temper upon waking.
And any decisions made in such a state might very well be catastrophic.
The employees present all agreed that none of them could carry that blame.
As for Li Wei himself, although Fischer had already verbally briefed him on some