Chapter 83: Shen Mo Is Forced to Work

So, Zhao Shan and the others were truly done for.

They had brought it upon themselves.

Shen Mo followed Liu Yue's orders and personally saw Zhao Shan and the others out of the company, maintaining a warm attitude and a smiling face from start to finish.

Right before leaving, Zhao Shan said dejectedly to Shen Mo: "Son-in-law, could you put in a word for us?"

Shen Mo shook his head slightly: "Old man, I'm just a son-in-law who married into the family."

He wasn't crazy—why would he go plead with Liu Yue for a group of strangers?

One had to know that every plea spent a piece of their relationship.

Shen Mo and Liu Yue's relationship was indeed good, but it couldn't be wasted on ordinary people.

Shen Mo let out a slight sigh.

Despair showed on Zhao Shan and the others' faces—what were they going to do next?

They all had families to feed.

Although each of their families had some small assets, they couldn't just sit around and drain them dry.

Besides, Jinghai was big, and living here wasn't easy.

Shen Mo watched Zhao Shan and the others leave.

In the very end, some among them were angry, indignant, feeling that the Liu Group had wronged them, had schemed against them.

But no matter how angry they were, it was useless.

They couldn't beat the Liu Group, and the key was they really didn't have the moral high ground.

When Shen Mo returned to the office, Liu Yue was chatting with the group's HR and Finance departments about labor costs.

By HR's calculation, this round of internal personnel changes at the Liu Group could save two million in labor costs a year.

By Finance's calculation, this round of internal personnel changes at the Liu Group could earn an additional seven million six hundred thousand a year, at the very least.

Liu Yue's assessment was that, added together, they could buy Shen Mo a sports car.

Shen Mo was greatly alarmed and quickly waved his hands in refusal.

【Really no need to buy a sports car, those things are expensive, picky about roads, and costly to maintain—truly no need to buy one.】

【If you absolutely must buy something, you could get a few domestic off-road vehicles.】

【Otherwise, investing in new energy would be pretty good too.】

【I always feel new energy is the big shot of the future.】

Shen Mo's heart was surging with excitement.

Liu Yue smiled slightly, had Shen Mo sit beside her, and let him listen in on the changes brought about by the group's HR and financial development.

Mainly, the Finance Director and the HR Director kept presenting their proposals.

Because both their jurisdictions involved the group's cost expenditures.

HR's proposal to Liu Yue was broadly about cutting costs.

HR proposed that they could appropriately lay off a portion of employees, or trim the HR structure.

Liu Yue asked Shen Mo for his opinion.

Shen Mo asked, puzzled: "Is the group going bankrupt?"

"Why suddenly trim the HR structure?"

The Finance Director replied calmly: "Not at all, our company is operating well in every respect. The company's overall loans don't exceed twenty percent, working capital on the books is sound, and there are no bad debts."

"The HR Director is just putting it forward as a routine matter."

【Smooth operator.】

Shen Mo was stunned and looked at the HR Director.

The other calmly nodded.

The Liu Group rarely laid people off, because most employees were long-time staff of the group, many having inherited their parents' positions.

Although it sounds absurd, it really was the case.

Most left voluntarily.

The biggest change ever was reducing employees' social insurance and housing fund contributions.

From one thousand per person down to eight hundred.

Nothing else beyond that.

Large-scale layoffs had basically never occurred.

But every HR Director would bring it up every now and then.

Because the personnel structure was just too bloated.

The Finance Director began reporting on the financial situation.

Just as the director had said, everything was in perfect order.

The Liu Group had its own operating model.

So much so that during the period Liu Yue was away from the group, relying on Liu Xinhua checking in from time to time, it still ran very well.

Payments to outside suppliers and vendors were settled on time.

Money owed to the Liu Group by others was also collected on time.

Investments made in the group's name had all received their quarterly dividends. The subsidiaries' required "tribute" to the parent company had all been delivered.

Funds needed for the group's internal procurement, sales, and publicity all complied with regulations.

The only surprise was that this year's publicity expenses were quite a bit lower than in previous years.

Mainly thanks to Liu Yue and Shen Mo becoming famous.

One could say conditions were perfect.

After the Financial Director finished her report, the HR Director spoke again: "President Liu, do the subsidiaries' HR structures need to be reorganized?"

Liu Yue's brow furrowed slightly as she ran through the situation of every Liu Group subsidiary in her mind—there was no problem.

Why would the HR structure need to be touched?

"Did something happen?"

The HR Director, a middle-aged woman named Liu Yan, said seriously: "It's nothing major. It's just that while you were away, some subsidiary general managers raised the issue that personnel allocation was inconvenient and unfair."

"They said HR authority sits with the company, and group recruitment sometimes sends people who don't quite meet their requirements."

"The same goes for dismissals."

"They also pointed out that nowadays many post-2000 young people, because their families are well-off and they have capital, bring up quitting at the slightest thing."

Liu Yue frowned: "Is that so?"

"Why didn't the Internal Control Department ever tell me?"

Liu Yan looked a little awkward, but still nodded.

Although she wasn't like the Financial Director Li Mingming next door, who had grown up together with Liu Yue, she had also been sponsored by the Liu Group.

So she needed to be accountable to the Liu Group.

Shen Mo saw how honestly she admitted it, and raised an eyebrow.

【By the way, the Liu Group has sponsored so many people—how come none of them climbed into Liu Xinhua's bed trying to replace Liu Yue in the Liu Family?】

【Tsk tsk, the novel didn't reflect reality. Unhappy.】

Liu Yue was a little annoyed.

Shen Mo's train of thought was just absurd.

Liu Yue looked at Li Mingming: "Pull up last year's financial audit reports for each subsidiary. I want to review them again."

Then Liu Yue dialed the Internal Control Department.

Before long, a middle-aged man walked in.

His answer was also very simple: there hadn't been any problems within the group recently.

Liu Yue nodded, said nothing more, and let him leave.

On this matter, Liu Yue only had Liu Yan write down a list of the subsidiaries that had lodged complaints.

This small meeting came to an end.

Liu Yue pulled Shen Mo to look over the subsidiaries' financial reports.

After going through them once, she had someone bring the previous two years' reports to review together.

"Financial reports best reflect where a company's problems lie."

"If a company's finances show no problems for three consecutive years, then even if there are issues, they're minor ones."

"If the financial situation suddenly declines for two consecutive years."

"That proves the group has a serious problem."

"Just like this Huilin Company we've invested in."

"Look at it—two consecutive years of declining performance, and the general manager Zhan Lu is also one of the people Liu Yan wrote down, who believes HR appointment authority should rest with the head office."

【Awesome.】

Shen Mo said he'd learned something.

Liu Yue then found four more subsidiaries: Huifeng, Huihe, Huiyun, and Huitian.

All of them belonged to the "Hui" generation.

These five subsidiaries were built with the group's investment and operated independently.

Their main business was also relatively simple—all of them ran furniture brands.

Their operations largely overlapped with the parent company's, covering low, mid, and high-end markets simultaneously.

But none of them held a particularly large market share.

This made Shen Mo couldn't help sighing inwardly.

【You think if you don't buy from the Liu Group, the money you spend elsewhere isn't still going to the Liu Group?】

Liu Yue looked at Shen Mo and smiled: "Hubby, go make a trip."

Shen Mo was shocked.

"Me—am I qualified?"

【No way, why are they assigning me work again? This soft-rice life of mine is getting more and more different from what I used to fantasize about.】

Liu Yue smiled. Qualified.

(End of Chapter)