Chapter 440

What?

After hearing the Hearing Hearing Heishanyang's scream, Leon couldn't help but be slightly startled.

He had only just learned the news of the "Devil Suit" before setting off, and now, less than three hours later, he had actually found the whereabouts of one of the "Sheep Innards"? Was his luck really that good?

Amidst the Hearing Hearing Heishanyang's impatient urging, Leon narrowed his eyes and thought for a moment. He didn't rush directly into the room, but turned back to look at the nameplate on the door, and then called out to the security manager to ask:

"When I passed the conference room behind just now, I seemed to hear someone talking about the public water pipes. Who is in there?"

"That's Conference Room No. 2. As for who is in there... let me check."

After his psychological defense line was broken, the security manager had no psychological burden to sell out the company. He simply took out the itinerary for visiting guests from his arms and flipped through it with a swish.

"Found it... it's representatives from the River Bureau of the Road Administration, the Water Conservancy Bureau of the Ministry of Agriculture, the Charle Department Store, and several old noble families such as Lionheart Laien, Tower Shield York, and Rose Ma Sai Ni.

According to the itinerary sent to me, they have occupied that conference room for almost three days. They should... should be discussing compensation..."

Hmm? It really is related to the water pipe matter?

Leon originally just wanted to find an excuse to get some news about the sheep innards. Anything about hearing someone talking about water pipes was naturally just made up.

But unexpectedly, this accidental hit had actually guessed right. The people in that conference room were really related to the public water pipe incident.

After sighing at his good luck, Leon pointed to the conference room behind him, then grinned slightly and gave the security manager a smile that said "you know."

"This... I really can't do this..."

After seeing Leon's expression, the security manager couldn't help but shiver, and then begged with a bitter face:

"I'm just a small manager in the security department! Taking you to the archives to flip through records is the limit of what I can do. I really can't sneak into this.

The people holding the meeting inside are not people I can touch at all. A small person like me doesn't even have the qualifications to look at the meeting minutes, you..."

"Don't worry, I don't want you to help me sneak in, I just want to remind you of some security loopholes."

After reaching out and patting the security manager on the shoulder, Leon reminded him softly:

"Your company has had a lot of trouble recently, and those barbaric mobs outside just came to harass you again today. You should also be vigilant.

For example, right now, the Road Administration, the Ministry of Agriculture, the Charle Company, old noble families... with so many important guests participating in the meeting, how can there be no security personnel on duty at the door?"

"..."

Looking at the security manager, whose expression seemed to have realized something, Leon demanded:

"There should be clean uniforms in your security department's duty room, right? Help me find one that fits me... hmm... one security guard is a bit strange, how about calling another honest and quiet security guard to guard the conference room with me?"

After hearing Leon's request, the security manager's breathing stagnated. He instinctively hoped that this devil would have less contact with people who might lead to his exposure, so he gritted his teeth and took the initiative to propose:

"How about, I stand guard here with you..."

"No, no, no, you are the manager of the security department, how can you stand guard yourself? What's more, you have more important tasks to do." After flatly rejecting the security manager's proposal, Leon ordered calmly:

"While I'm standing guard here, please go to the archives and find a way to bring out the relevant files. For those documents that really can't be brought out, copy the key parts and put them in your office. I'll come to get them after the guard duty is over.

Hmm... to avoid me taking the wrong thing, put it under the family photo on your desk. Oh, and looking at the badge on the uniform in the photo, your wife seems to be a teacher at the Victor Parish Primary School? If I'm not mistaken, your daughter should also be going to school there, right?"

In the eyes of the security manager, who had suddenly become terrified, Leon withdrew his hand from his shoulder, smiled gently, and encouraged him with eyes full of encouragement:

"It's really great. Your daughter is so lively and cute, and your wife, who is a teacher, is gentle and beautiful. You are also a mid-level employee of a large company. Your life is already more fulfilling than 90% of the people in the capital.

So, promise me, you must be a good husband, and even more so, a good father. Don't let them down, okay?"

"I'm sorry, I can't promise you this."

After reading the compensation plan in his hand, which had already been revised to the seventh version, the middle-aged man with long golden hair shook his head and refused calmly:

"Starting from raising funds to renovate and expand the municipal water pipes, our Laien family has invested a lot of money in every round. The dividends for these two years have barely broken even.

If we follow this compensation plan, not only will this year's dividends be deducted, but even last year's dividends will have to be returned. Our Laien family will not accept this."

"Our York family also disagrees."

"The Ma Sai Ni family opposes it."

"Three of the six directors have already refused, so it seems there is no need to continue this round of voting."

After looking at the expressions of the people in the conference room, the moderator in charge of the meeting shook his head and said to the middle-aged woman on his left with an ugly expression:

"Mrs. Charle, although you invested the most in the process of establishing the hydraulic company, I still suggest that you revise the proposal again. The naive solution you hope for is absolutely impossible to pass."

"Revise... how else can this plan be revised?"

I don't know if it was because the patience was worn out by the tug-of-war for several consecutive days, or if it was angered by the sarcasm implied in the moderator's words.

Although crow's feet had already appeared at the corners of her eyes, the middle-aged woman, who was still very beautiful, stood up abruptly, faced the cold gazes of the others, and asked angrily with her willow eyebrows raised:

"We only take 30% when we pay dividends, but we have to pay 50% when we compensate! How else do you want to change it? Do you want us to let Charle Department Store bear it all!"

"Mrs. Charle, please calm down."

After the middle-aged woman finished venting her anger, the middle-aged man from the Laien family bent his knuckles, tapped the table lightly, and said indifferently:

"We didn't say let Charle Department Store bear it all, we just have objections to the method of compensation. Compared to finding those so-called victims and compensating them one by one, we hope to handle it more 'flexibly'."

"For example, directly split off the other five businesses besides water supply, such as energy, irrigation, and sewage, and then establish a new company, let Charle Hydraulic Company pay all the money, and then just let it go bankrupt."

Looking at the woman opposite who was full of shock and anger, the middle-aged man leaned back into the sofa behind him and added calmly:

"Since this problem occurred in the water supply business, the compensation should stop at the profits obtained from the water supply business. There is no need to implicate other parts of the hydraulic company. I personally think this is a very reasonable result. What do you think?"

(End of chapter)