Since we need to choose a new place to plant the Body Tempering Grass, we can consider harvesting the current batch that is still growing. Of course, we still need to wait until we have decided on a new location.
As for which village in the surrounding area has the most vacant fields, Li Xingkong really didn't have a sure answer. If he wanted to expand the scale of planting, he would have to go to the township and ask the relevant personnel at the land bureau. After all, all the arable Earthly Capital in the surrounding area is recorded in the township.
Li Xingkong didn't need to make a special trip to the township. He had a classmate who worked in the township government office, so he could ask his classmate to take a look for him.
When you have someone helping you from within, everything goes very quickly.
Sometimes Li Xingkong wonders, what has going to school brought him now?
Is it knowledge? There's far more to learn in cultivating immortality than in school.
Is it experience? He's focused entirely on his own affairs all day long, oblivious to what's going on outside, and hasn't gained any experience. After all, if he were more knowledgeable, he wouldn't have been so easily fooled in the Prisoner Continent.
Thinking about it carefully, the most valuable thing the school left him is this network of contacts. Putting aside those who have drifted apart, he still keeps in touch with his close friends from school, and they often get together and help each other.
Especially now, no matter what you do, you can find several friends in related industries who can either give you theoretical guidance or make things easier for you.
Of course, it's not acceptable to only want to enjoy without putting in any effort.
Although, in the eyes of his friends, Li Xingkong had stayed at home after graduation and didn't have a proper job, and seemed like there was nothing to rely on.
But honestly, when you have someone in your social circle who's always available and you can delegate anything to them without any hassle, then you know how useful that person is.
After all, most young people work in other places these days, and their elders at home are bound to have some kind of illness, big or small, or have to move or do other things that the elderly can't do, and it's not worth it for the young people to come back. Having someone like this is undoubtedly equivalent to fulfilling one's filial duty.
If you pay someone from out of town, you have to consider their character; if you invite a friend over for a meal, you can just leave them a key.
While tending to the vegetable garden at home, he waited for news from his friend and kept an eye on the next moves of the Cherry Blossom Wind Group.
With such a huge blunder in the contract, it's impossible to expect Cherry Blossom Wind Group to obediently pay up. They can accept spending a small amount of money to resolve the issue, but they definitely cannot accept losing a piece of their own flesh over a small matter.
And as long as they are not prepared to pay this money, Li Xingkong's first objective will be achieved.
This is intended to sow discord between the interests of the villagers and the Cherry Blossom Wind Group.
After all, Cherry Blossom Wind Group is now his rival, and if everyone takes his money, their interests will naturally lean towards them. If Cherry Blossom Wind Group then gives them some encouragement, will he still be able to grow his Body Tempering Grass? He'll have to watch over it every day, and he'll be essentially tied up.
But if the group reneges on this agreement and refuses to pay, then things will be different; the entire village will be brought into their united front.
When the group's people arrive, the whole village will launch a verbal attack, which will be much better than it is now.
Even if he were willing to pay the original amount to renegotiate the agreement with the village, it would be too late.
Everyone knows the story of the boy who cried wolf; no one will give him a second chance. After all, the first agreement has already been renegotiated, so who knows if they'll revise it again?
As for the villagers not receiving their money, what does that have to do with Li Xingkong? It's the Cherry Blossom Wind Group that's refusing to pay, not him.
He's an innocent person; who could possibly cause him trouble in this matter?
After all, he received the least amount of money according to the plan, and the others were afraid that he would object.
After having lunch at home, Li Xingkong noticed some activity at the Cherry Blossom Wind Group in the afternoon.
There's no way around it. This amount is not insignificant even within the entire group. At least ordinary employees wouldn't be able to make decisions involving such a large sum. The fact that this contract was even generated and successfully signed is a huge problem for the entire group.
It's not that we can't afford it, but rather that it indicates a problem within the group's entire contract signing process.
Money matters are external issues, so this is a minor matter. The other party is just a village. The group's public relations department has plenty of experience in handling these kinds of things. Suppressing information, giving it the cold shoulder, and finally dragging it out for ten or eight years, then spending a little money to resolve the issue is all common practice.
However, if internal processes go wrong, that would be a real problem. With such drastic changes, coupled with the internal factional struggles that already exist in large enterprises, this incident could act as a fuse. How much trouble it could cause would depend on whether Li Xingkong intervenes.
The group's board members in charge of Li Xingkong's matter were completely dumbfounded at this moment.
It was originally a minor matter, and I used the group's standard methods, but the problem arose from the contract.
By the time this issue reached him, it had already been discussed at a meeting of the entire group's top management. After all, following this incident, the group's trust in him had plummeted to rock bottom.
The fact that they even invited him to a meeting to apologize is already a consideration for his many years of service to the group and his significant contributions.
If it were someone else, they would have been pinned down in a concrete pile and sunk into the sea by now.
If he really orchestrated this whole thing, that would be one thing, but the problem is that he himself has absolutely no idea what went wrong.
The contract drafting process involves many checks; he doesn't have the ability to bribe everyone.
Besides, there's no benefit to me in throwing this money away. Am I supposed to accept a 900 million yuan kickback?
In this situation, he was no less than being burned at the stake.
For some unknown reason, this excuse was seen as a joke by the group, so clumsy that even a three-year-old wouldn't believe it.
This director doesn't seem like such a foolish person to directly offer a contract worth 1 billion. Isn't that just blatantly self-destruction? Any normal person would try to make the changes to the amount so that no one could spot the problem.
After holding an internal meeting to discuss the matter, they concluded that this incident was likely the result of escalating factional infighting within the group.
As for this director, the group only gave him two options.
Either he goes to Thailand for surgery now, returns home to become an idol and is forced to pay off his debts; or he's given five days to find the cause of the problem. If he handles it well, he can retire normally; if he doesn't, he can just be thrown into the sea.