To be fair, Second Brother Xu's company had a very strong capacity to generate its own cash flow.
If not for competing with imported goods and forcibly expanding production capacity, it could have gradually gained a firm foothold through its own development.
They truly had not expected the bank to cut off funding at such a critical moment—such a good project, and they would not lend to it? What projects did they want to lend to instead?
Back then, the bank had gone to great lengths to secure the opportunity to lend them money, pestering and pursuing them for quite a while before getting its way.
Fortunately, although the five Xu siblings each had their own affairs, they were fairly united when dealing with outsiders—the other side's tactics were simply too disgusting. Did they really think the Xu Family had no one left?
Together with Second Brother Xu's wife, they scraped together nearly fifty million to help the company through the crisis.
As long as it survived this hurdle, Second Brother Xu's company could adopt a strategy of strategic contraction. Within two years at most, he would be able to repay all its debts and expand outward rapidly once more.
By then, the company would rely on its own ability to generate cash flow and would no longer need to act according to anyone else's wishes.
However, at this crucial juncture, a major client refused to pay for its goods, claiming there was a problem with the paint and demanding enormous compensation. As a result, the company's accounts were forcibly frozen.
The blow was devastating. Upstream suppliers immediately began demanding payment one after another, and the company's cash flow was on the verge of collapse.
After thinking it over, Second Brother Xu could only turn to his younger brother—he swore