Chapter 41: I was innocent all along
Quite a few white-collar workers had gathered here, along with students in groups of three or five.
At a nearby café table, Su Can spotted Li Lan holding a cup of coffee, lost in thought.
He hurried over and sat opposite her, setting his cap aside. "What's the situation now? How did such a huge oversight happen? Didn't Mr. Tang know about this enormous debt before he came on board?"
"Here's what happened. The former head of the Donglin Group had a daughter studying abroad. When he died, she rushed back to take over the business. But having studied overseas since childhood, she was completely unfamiliar with the economy, personal connections, and politics here. Once the former head died, the people in that enormous enterprise scattered like monkeys when their tree falls. The same happened at the Hong Kong subsidiary. Construction payments for several Donglin property projects failed to come through. There were debts, and they couldn't get the assets moving. The entire business chain ground to a halt. His daughter began looking for talented people to manage the Donglin Group's vast assets, but several successive managers used empty-handed financial maneuvers to siphon away large sums. It was one heavy blow after another.
"Later, through an introduction from the chamber of commerce, she found Mr. Tang. He was appointed the new general manager, taking over all the group's operations in Shanghai. But this wasn't a straightforward appointment-he had to bring his own capital and use his own money to fund new business. Mr. Tang brought forty million with him when he became the new general manager of the Donglin Group. The cooperation agreement stipulated a sixty-forty split once the business produced returns, with him at the helm of Donglin. We actually had the