Chapter 215: Who Should Be Afraid?

Seeing Yu Xiaohua's reaction, Shen Ci didn't have much of a stir in her heart. This department managing the industrial park had been there since the industrial park was established and had long been a mature system. Even if she didn't come, it wouldn't affect everyone's normal work.

Besides, monthly wages were paid as usual, and the tenants in the industrial park also had to pay rent.

"You sit down first, let's talk slowly."

Yu Xiaohua nodded, but her gaze couldn't help but size up Shen Ci in front of her. She thought the new boss was a middle-aged career woman; she didn't expect her to be so young, about the same age as her daughter.

Shen Ci slowly looked at the office area of the department. The environment was acceptable, and the space wasn't actually large, but because there were very few people on duty, it seemed a bit empty.

"Are there only these employees? Too few," Shen Ci asked.

Hearing this, Yu Xiaohua couldn't help but smile awkwardly, but Shen Ci was the boss, and she couldn't hide it, so she could only tell the truth. "Some employees from other places have gone home for the New Year, and some have been gone for many days. The remaining people are either not going home for the New Year or are locals from Longcheng."

But there were still several days before the national statutory holiday.

Without waiting for Shen Ci to pursue the question, Yu Xiaohua took the initiative to say, "I won't hide it from you, Miss Shen. You haven't shown up for a long time, and everyone has all kinds of thoughts. Many people think you don't intend to take over and want to transfer it again, so the enthusiasm for work is indeed lacking."

"Look at the people we have left; they are all still dutiful, because regardless of whether you came or not, our monthly wages are paid as usual, so we should do our own work."

Shen Ci wasn't angry, because being angry was useless. People had gone back to their hometowns, so she couldn't lose her temper at Yu Xiaohua in front of her.

Her badge said "Financial Supervisor," and she wasn't in charge of personnel, so this wasn't something she could manage.

Even the general manager wasn't on duty.

"You've worked hard. I will give extra rewards to all employees on duty today," Shen Ci said.

Hearing this, Yu Xiaohua smiled, but then she had a sorrowful look again.

Seeing this, Shen Ci's brow tightened. "What's wrong? Are there any other problems in the industrial park?"

Yu Xiaohua sighed. "I'm a financial supervisor. Originally, these things shouldn't be my turn to tell you, but you came today, so I'll let you know."

"Our industrial park has been around for years, but the location is good and the area is large. There are more than a hundred companies as tenants, both large and small. However, there are those who owe rent every year, and it has become more and more serious since last year. Now, there are dozens of companies that have owed rent for more than half a year. We've said all the good and bad things, but we still can't get it."

"Because as soon as the news came out last year that this place was going to be auctioned, these people knew that the boss was going to change. Official land auctions are complicated in this regard, so they thought that after changing to a new boss, what was owed to the old boss would be an old account, and they wanted to write it off. Do you think this is possible?"

"Our accounts this year have a large empty space. Excluding the normal maintenance and expenses of the park, we are actually losing money."

"Plus, you haven't had any news or come over for the past few months, so the attitude of our management department staff toward asking for money hasn't been active, which has further encouraged the arrogance of these tenants who owe money."

"Miss Shen, since you bought this industrial park, I'll tell you the truth. The inside is rotten, and there aren't many reasonable tenants."

Yu Xiaohua observed Shen Ci's expression while speaking. She thought Shen Ci would be furious upon hearing this, but she didn't expect her expression to be calm from beginning to end, as if she were listening to someone else's story.

This made Yu Xiaohua speechless and not know how to continue.

"Miss Shen, you... aren't you angry?"

Shen Ci actually smiled and shook her head. "There's nothing to be angry about. After all, these people are running companies, and they are all legal companies. They can bully you because you are also working for others, but since they are renting my place, I have ways to clean up this mess."

After all, they aren't really hooligans or bandits. It's a society ruled by law; it's not that they can owe money if they want to.

Taking a step back, she, Shen Ci, didn't buy this piece of land to earn the rent of these tenants. What she valued was the future potential of this piece of land.

Yu Xiaohua was shocked by Shen Ci's words, because this tone was really... too crazy!

But soon, she knew Shen Ci wasn't joking.

Shen Ci asked Yu Xiaohua to gather all the employees on duty to the conference room.

The conference room wasn't large, but it didn't seem crowded when everyone gathered, because there were only 9 people in total, plus Shen Ci.

These people stood in a row, looking at Shen Ci with much curiosity.

Shen Ci stood in the center and looked at these people. "My identity must be known to everyone. I won't talk about extra nonsense. I just took over the park, and I can say I'm completely unfamiliar with everything here, so I will do things in my own way. You just need to cooperate with me and obey me."

"I don't know what positions everyone is in or what work you are responsible for, which is not important. What is important is what part of the work I arrange later you can do. You work together to finish the work I arrange before the New Year, and I won't treat you badly."

Hearing this, everyone nodded one after another, because Shen Ci had an extraordinary aura when she said these words.

"Immediately sort and file all tenant information. Sort those who pay rent on time without arrears records into one file, those who owe rent for less than three months into one file, and those who owe rent for three months or more into one file."

"Then inform them in the form of emails and phone calls. Tenants who owe rent must pay the full amount of rent owed before the Spring Festival holiday, otherwise the park management department will conduct a comprehensive cleanup of tenants who owe rent, treat all items inside as garbage, and file a lawsuit against them."

As she said this, someone couldn't help but raise their hand.

Shen Ci looked at that person and signaled for him to speak.

"Boss, we've used this kind of intimidation long ago. They are all dead pigs who aren't afraid of boiling water; they don't care at all."

"Intimidation?" Shen Ci sneered and shook her head. "I never intimidate people. As long as they don't pay the rent before the New Year, I dare to find someone to end their nest."

A company running a company has its nest ended; whose loss is greater is self-evident.

She, Shen Ci, doesn't care about this little rent, but she absolutely cannot let people bully her. She will never be soft on the lessons they should receive.

Hearing Shen Ci say this, the employees were so scared that they looked at each other.

If they really drive people out, wouldn't the rent owed really not be able to be asked back?

"I know what you are thinking. I only lose a few months of rent. I spent more than 220,000 to buy this industrial park; I don't care about that little rent at all. But once their company is cleared by me, what do they lose? Should I be afraid, or should they be afraid?" ===== CHAPTER 216 =====