What Must Come Will Come

By this point, according to the agenda, the meeting should have been over.

Before adjournment, Wang Ye casually asked, "Does anyone else have anything to say? If not, then this meeting will end here..."

Before he had finished speaking, a committee member raised his hand. "Chairman, I have something to bring up."

Wang Ye nodded, not paying much attention to it.

He was not very familiar with that committee member. He only knew that he was from the Second Faction, named Alexander—another exceedingly common name.

Alexander looked to be in his forties, tall and powerfully built, with brown hair and a ruddy face. He smiled before he even spoke, giving the impression of being quite amiable.

Smiling, he said, "My apologies. Normally, I should have reported this matter to you in advance before bringing it up at the meeting. But it came up suddenly. I only learned of it before the meeting, so I had no choice but to raise it at the last minute."

"It's fine. Go ahead, Committee Member Alexander," Wang Ye said indifferently.

"It's like this. I'm mainly responsible for liaising with the Ministry of Energy. This morning, before the meeting, someone from the Ministry of Energy delivered a draft document. It concerns new regulations standardizing exports in the energy industry. The plan is to revoke the energy export rights of certain private enterprises and bring them under state ownership, so that the Ministry of Energy can make unified arrangements for energy exports..."

Alexander said with a genial smile.

Everyone in the meeting room, Wang Ye included, sat up straight.

It was here!

On the surface, it did not sound like such an important matter, but everyone knew exactly who this proposal was aimed at.

Without a doubt, the target was Yukos Group!

And Yukos Group belonged