62: Chapter 62 Lost 100 Million?

What Liu Yemei did was actually quite simple to explain.

She first analyzed her needs, then determined the specific engineering projects, sorted them according to construction time, and then carried out the longest and shortest ones simultaneously, striving to conduct as many projects as possible at the same time. Beyond that, she also tried to be as precise as possible with construction times so that other replacement projects could be arranged in a timely manner. If she could make the construction switch seamlessly, then she could shorten the construction time as much as possible while ensuring quality.

According to Liu Yemei, "This is just basic time management."

But Wang Shuo, having gone through the hiring process, already understood one principle: any task that sounds simple to describe can become very complicated when actually put into practice. Not to mention that these tasks really test a person's patience and scheduling ability.

After all, this is construction, not programming. Construction projects have a sequence; the latter cannot precede the former, otherwise, the project cannot proceed. Furthermore, the construction process is not always smooth sailing; how to ensure accurate construction prediction times is also a difficult problem, not to mention having to prepare targeted backup plans for every potentially error-prone step.

The difficulty in this...

Anyway, just thinking about it gave Wang Shuo a headache. These things were something Ling was better at.

Looking at the expressionless Liu Yemei in front of him, Wang Shuo couldn't help but feel a bit fortunate. Fortunately, he hadn't fallen out with Chen Xin and driven Liu Yemei away, nor had he been stingy with the 50,000 yuan monthly salary. Otherwise, he would have to face a headache over an empty company right now.

Still lacking experience.

If he assigned Ling to Liu Yemei, let Ling follow Liu Yemei to collect relevant data, and perfect the data in this area, then...

Wang Shuo's eyes lit up, then he shook his head secretly. No, it wasn't time yet. Ling was, after all, still an unfinished product and needed time for further polishing. At the very least, he had to perfect its basic core so it could logically understand commands and emotions.

In the past few days, Wang Shuo had been working on this, had already made some progress, and could even let Ling autonomously collect data. The day for Ling's upgrade was not far off.

"The company's initial preparations are basically complete. Now there are still some things that need you, President Wang, to make decisions on."

"What things?" Wang Shuo, distracted by thoughts of how to upgrade Ling, asked casually.

"Company operations. If a company wants to operate normally, it needs to be constantly profitable. I would like to know, what is our company's main business?"

"Main business?" Wang Shuo paused. "Uh... it seems there isn't one."

"What about flagship products?"

"Uh, none."

"New product planning?"

"None."

"Then what about business already underway?"

"There seems to be one..."

"What about revenue and profit?"

"..."

Seeing Wang Shuo not speaking, Liu Yemei said indifferently, "If this is the case, I estimate your company won't last a week. I suggest you deregister it in advance, pay wages and other expenses, and avoid suffering greater losses."

This girl... has she always been this ruthless?

Wang Shuo thought for a moment. It seemed he had just earned over ten million from Chen Group a few days ago. This money should be able to last a few months, right?

"Wait... there is some revenue..." Wang Shuo touched his head and asked, "Didn't we sign a commission contract with Chen Group? Hasn't that money arrived in the account yet?"

"The money has arrived, a total of 26 million. But this is also the second thing I wanted to report to you." Liu Yemei's indifferent tone seemed to fluctuate slightly, but it returned to normal the next moment. "Please, President Wang, be sure to inform me next time before signing a contract so I can review the contract terms and avoid our company suffering losses."

"Suffering losses?" Wang Shuo, still wondering how there was an extra ten million, was stunned for a moment.

"I have reviewed the commission contract you signed with Chen Group and have a detailed understanding of the business development process and the final product options."

"Is there a problem?" Wang Shuo was a bit curious. This contract was signed between Chen Xin and himself; surely she wouldn't have left any text traps, right?

"There is no problem with the contract itself; one could even say it is very favorable." Liu Yemei adjusted her glasses, a strange glint flashing in her eyes, her tone still indifferent. "But the problem lies with the final product you developed, President Wang."

"I have made specific inquiries with relevant people, and combined with information I learned from other channels, I have finally reached a conclusion..."

"This product..."

"The quote was too high?" Wang Shuo's heart jumped into his throat. Although this wasn't a very important piece of software for him, he didn't want the duck already in his hand to fly away!

Giving money is fine. Refund? No way!

Liu Yemei paused, seemingly made very uncomfortable by Wang Shuo's huge reaction. She adjusted herself and continued, "On the contrary, the price Chen Group quoted you is far lower than the normal market value."

"According to my understanding, the software you provided should not be quoted at less than... in the domestic market right now."

Liu Yemei adjusted her glasses and said word by word, "150 million!"

150 million! Even with Wang Shuo's enhanced brain, he briefly entered a state of system crash. He had already thought 16 million was a lot, and now someone was telling him he had lost over 100 million. What kind of feeling was this?

Do you know what it's like to be hit on the head by a pie? Wang Shuo felt exactly that way right now, and it was a pie that had traveled through the cosmic membrane to hit him on the head.

This dizzy feeling made him feel a bit unreal.

"And this is just the lowest market quote." Liu Yemei continued, "Since the full property rights of this technology are with you, and you have already registered the patent in the company's name, the value will be even higher."

"Wait, wait a minute." Wang Shuo caught his breath and looked at Liu Yemei seriously. "Are you sure?"

"This is the result of my personal investigation." Liu Yemei frowned slightly. Although she was also surprised by this conclusion and even doubted whether the conclusion itself had problems, she did not like others questioning conclusions she had verified.

Wang Shuo shook his dizzy head and suddenly ran off.

By the time he had run to the first floor, Liu Yemei's voice came from behind.

"If you need to call me, you can dial the internal extension at any time; the number is 011."

What the number was, Wang Shuo didn't hear, and he couldn't care less. Right now, his mind was filled only with strings of zeros and that unrealistically large number.

100 million!

To some people, this is just a number for a small goal, but to Wang Shuo, it was a number he hadn't possessed in his dozen-plus years of life, and might never possess in the future.

Originally, Wang Shuo thought he didn't care much about money; after all, when ten million was in front of him, he was just surprised for a moment. Now he knew it wasn't that he didn't care, but that the amount of money hadn't touched his psychological bottom line.

He decided to go and ask.

There was no need to ask Chen Xin. If he was going to ask, he would ask the person who had the final say!

This person's name was... Chen Zhongxuan!

On the first floor, Xu Kexin watched Wang Shuo run upstairs in astonishment, the words "President Wang" still brewing in her mouth, only to be swallowed back down. She rolled her eyes, looked at Liu Yemei standing to the side, and asked cautiously, "Sister Liu, what were you guys just talking about?"

Liu Yemei glanced at her indifferently and walked over to sit on the sofa.

"Is it the company's product?" Seeing Liu Yemei not speaking, Xu Kexin didn't give up and continued to ask, "What product is so valuable?"

"That has nothing to do with you. If there is a situation you need to know about, I will inform you in advance."

What's she acting so stuck up for?

Xu Kexin curled her lip and laid back down on the table, but her mind kept replaying the conversation between the two.

100 million, huh?

Xu Kexin peeked at the stairs.

"The little brother, although a bit young, seems to be an adult."

She quietly clenched her fist.

"Come on! Xu Kexin!"

...

At this moment, Beijing.

In a luxurious villa in the suburbs, young man sat upright on the sofa with a serious expression. In front of him was a huge wall-mounted television. On the television, the figures of several people were gradually appearing.

This was a remote meeting.

young man was very clear about the importance of this meeting. He waved for the nanny nearby to leave, then closed the door before signaling that the meeting could begin.

In the video, a Middle-aged man tapped the table lightly. After confirming that everyone had arrived, he stared at young man in front of him and nodded.

A man on the left side of the meeting spoke, "Your plan failed, and we suffered heavy losses."

"Heavy losses?" young man was not afraid at all and smiled faintly, "If a plan not achieving its expected effect is called heavy losses, then you are right to say that."

"We only look at the results."

"Everything has risks; there is nothing in the world that is absolutely without risk." young man smiled slightly, "Since it is already a venture capital investment, why can't we increase the stakes on this basis?"

"Risk has its limits. In this business of yours, we haven't seen any concrete returns."

"Returns are also for those who are prepared."

"Enough." The Middle-aged man finally spoke, stopping the meaningless arguments of the others, and said to young man, "You have an inescapable responsibility for the failure of this plan; after all, this was your intelligence, and it was also planned entirely by you."

"I do not deny this." young man's face darkened, "I had already reached an agreement with the president of the Central China region of W Company. If implemented according to the plan, the cooperation between Chen Zhongxuan and W Company would only have caused him to fall into an abyss, and we would have been able to smoothly take over Chen Group."

"It is very clear that Chen Group is not that fragile, and Chen Zhongxuan is not as simple as you thought," the Middle-aged man said indifferently.

"It was my lack of consideration; I did not foresee the occurrence of this change." young man sounded a bit low, "There is a problem here."

According to his understanding, such a change was simply impossible to occur, which was the reason he hadn't foreseen it. After all, the timing, the people, and the location were all on his side. There were no other companies in the country that could bail out Chen Group, and time did not allow Chen Group to cast aside W Company and find other companies to negotiate with. No matter how you looked at it, Chen Zhongxuan could only join forces with W Company to save the stock market. As soon as the joint communique was issued, it would be the beginning of Chen Group's collapse.

But this acquisition case, which he had played out countless times and was foolproof, had actually failed.

"Now is not the time to clarify whether there is a problem," the Middle-aged man said indifferently. "We need you to come up with a follow-up plan as soon as possible and continue with the acquisition."

"Understood."

The video ended.

young man leaned back on the sofa, pondered silently for a while, and his eyes looked at the tablet on the table.

On the computer, a report was being displayed.

"Frontier Technology Co., Ltd..." young man muttered to himself.

"What exactly is your background?"