Department of Commerce. Fifth floor!
When Zhou Yang and Lu Zhengjun arrived at the minister's office, in addition to Minister Xu, the top leader of the Ministry of Commerce, there were two elderly men in their sixties.
One of them, Zhou Yang, had met before and was Guo Qiliang, the first deputy minister of the Ministry of Commerce.
The other old man was wearing a military uniform, and he knew he was from the military at first glance, but Zhou Yang had never seen him before.
Sure enough, after Minister Xu's brief introduction, Zhou Yang found out that the old man in military uniform was named Li Guangqi, and he was indeed a representative of the military.
Although Minister Xu did not introduce his position in detail, Zhou Yang could tell that Mr. Li's identity was not simple.
Since the big leaders above were still waiting for a reply, they didn't exchange too many greetings.
After Zhou Yang and Lu Zhengjun sat down, Minister Xu said straight to the point: "Comrade Zhou Yang, I hurriedly recalled you to the capital this time mainly because there are some problems with the Scythe Project and I need to communicate with you!"
At the moment, Minister Xu briefly explained the situation.
Although Zhou Yang already knew what happened from Lu Zhengjun, he still listened carefully.
On the one hand, it is of course listening to the leader's speech, and being serious is a necessary rule.
On the other hand, Zhou Yang wanted to infer Minister Xu's attitude towards this matter from his tone and demeanor when he spoke.
Except for those with particularly high emotional intelligence, when anyone talks about something, they will unconsciously add some emotions based on their own subjective judgments.
And some people will be able to infer your attitude or opinion on this matter from just a few words when you speak.
For example, now, when Minister Xu talked about Yan Gengdong's sudden use of a large amount of money for investment without asking for permission, his tone unknowingly worsened and his brows furrowed.
Obviously, the person in front of him was not very satisfied with Yan Gengdong's behavior, at least in this matter.
After telling what happened, Minister Xu looked at Zhou Yang and said: "What happened is roughly like this. The leaders above are a little dissatisfied with this matter and want to strengthen the control of the Scythe Project, but how to do it specifically? Let me hear your opinion!"
Zhou Yang coughed lightly, and then said: "Before I express my opinion, I have something to explain to Minister Xu and Representative Li!"
"whats the matter?"
"Actually, I came up with the idea of investing in the Middle East, and I asked Yan Gengdong to do it. However, since the initial investment scale was not very large, I did not ask the ministry for instructions!" Zhou Yang said.
"Comrade Zhou Yang, are you responsible for Yan Gengdong?" Minister Xu suddenly asked.
"No, this is the truth!"
Then Zhou Yang changed his tone and said again: "And I don't think anyone needs to take responsibility for this!"
"Oh, tell me what you think?"
"Responsibility is relative to mistakes or losses. The money invested by the Sickle Project in the Middle East did not suffer losses, nor did it cause irreparable consequences. This was just a normal business behavior. Why do we need others to bear the responsibility? ?" Zhou Yang said.
"But you spent so much money without asking for permission, that's 100 million US dollars!" Minister Xu said.
"Leader, this has nothing to do with how much money we have. According to our previous agreement with the superiors, the Sickle Project will hand over half of its net profits to the country every year, and the remaining half will be used for investment and research and development!"
Then Zhou Yang continued: "Now we can't break this agreement just because the plan is implemented smoothly and we earn more money!"
Upon hearing this, Minister Xu suddenly fell silent.
Theoretically speaking, what Zhou Yang said is correct, and he agrees with this.
However, the problem now is that the leaders above have opinions on this matter, so this theory has no value and meaning.
"So what do you mean, you don't agree with the higher-ups strengthening control over the Sickle Project?" Minister Xu asked in a deep voice.
Zhou Yang shook his head and said: "No, on the contrary, I very much agree with strengthening the management of the entire plan, but there are prerequisites for strengthening management!"
"What premise?"
"Power is only safe if it is locked in the cage of the system, so the prerequisite for strengthening control is to have a complete system!"
Then Zhou Yang said again: "I understand what the leaders mean. A little-known person can easily use 100 million US dollars in funds. Even if the money is spent for the development of the company, this is beyond This is the imagination of the leaders, so they want to strengthen control!”
"But strengthening control is not just about sending a few people over to keep an eye on Yan Gengdong. Not only will that not have any effect, it will also affect the company's development, and even greatly increase the chances of Yan Gengdong and others being exposed, causing the entire plan to fail! "
As soon as he finished speaking, Li Guangqi, the military representative on the side, suddenly said: "Comrade Zhou Yang, there is something I don't understand. Why does Comrade Yan Gengdong have to hide his identity? Can't he do business openly?"
Hearing this, Minister Xu also looked at Zhou Yang.
In fact, someone had asked him this question before, and he almost didn't answer it at the time.
"Do you know why this plan is called Project Sickle?"
"this..."
Before he could finish speaking, Zhou Yang explained: "As we all know, a sickle is used to harvest crops, and our plan is like a sickle stretched out by the country, but what we want to harvest is not crops, but the whole world. !”
"Harvest the whole world?"
These words shocked Minister Xu, Representative Li and others. This idea is really crazy!
No, if we could only say that this young man was crazy before, but judging from the development of the Scythe Project in the past two years, although they did not reach the height of harvesting the whole world, they also created a miracle.
So we can't say that Zhou Yang's idea is too crazy, we can only say that their structure is too small.
At this moment, Zhou Yang's voice rang in the office again: "Representative Li, if you can run a normal small business and earn as much as three melons and two dates, there is no need to hide your identity, and no one will care about us. !”
"But the Scythe Plan is different. Our plan from the beginning was not just to make a few pocket money. It must be harmless to humans and animals, otherwise it will be easily destroyed!"
"Comrade Zhou Yang, you mean that the country headed by Thief Eagle will take action against that small company on Hong Kong Island, right?" Li Guangqi frowned.
"Haha, no one will care if you make 3,600 yuan a year, but now we make 360 million US dollars a year. Do you think the country headed by Thief Eagle will allow us to develop in peace and contentment?"
Then Zhou continued: "You know, we made all this money from Western countries. We are eating meat from other people's pots!"
Li Guangqi nodded and said: "The imperialists are determined to destroy me. If they know that the company is ours, they may indeed cause trouble!"
Everyone understands the principle of allowing others to sleep soundly on the side of the couch!
It's just that when Zhou Yang heard that Li Guangqi just thought that the thief eagle might simply make a little stumbling block, he couldn't help but sigh in his heart. You still underestimated the shamelessness of those Anglo-Saxons.
This gang of bastards has been using banditry as their profession since ancient times. Once they take action, they are not just a stumbling block. They will kill someone when necessary, and they will even concentrate the power of the country against a company.
It's just that the challenges they face now are not very strong, so they always leave a fig leaf for themselves.
But in the future, a company named Huawei will single-handedly tear off the fig leaf of those bandit countries...
After a moment of silence, Minister Xu suddenly said: "Comrade Zhou Yang, I understand what you mean. Isn't it a bit too much to formulate a system just for one company?"
Hearing this, everyone else's eyes focused on Zhou Yang!
PS: The first chapter has been delivered!
