Chapter 33: A secret meeting
Mao Nan's car wound along the mountain road, surrounded by layer upon layer of towering peaks. Some time ago, he had incited the employees of Engineering Division Four to protest and take their complaints to the television station, demanding answers. Now, in the blink of an eye, the project funds had been released. The division had received an initial payment of three million yuan and paid all its employees their overdue pre-New Year benefits and two months of wages, with an extra month's pay thrown in.
When Feng Jianjun had come to Engineering Division Four, making visits and giving speeches, the employees had not necessarily felt any deep bond with him. They had even felt some degree of resistance toward this outsider coming to meddle in their internal affairs. Now, after more than two months without wages, the employees had panicked, protested, and been left on tenterhooks. Then Engineering Division Four had won such a splendid victory, securing three million yuan in project payments and paying their overdue wages, along with benefits the likes of which they had not received in years. Those benefits were enough to cover their children's next tuition payment or expenses for some major event.
Support for Feng Jianjun and Su Licheng was unprecedented.
Now, because Mao Nan had incited the workers, his credibility was completely gone. Everyone who had supported him had switched their wholehearted allegiance to Feng Jianjun and Su Licheng. The employees were simple, after all: whoever could bring them the greatest benefits was the person they would follow.
Mao Nan knew he was getting his comeuppance. Zhong Jianjun had sent him to Wu County to supervise a project. Of all the counties and cities near Xiahai City, Wu County was the most backward, the poorest, and the