Chapter 2272: Judging Others by Oneself

Qin Changzhi's brain was like a high-speed machine, thinking rapidly about how to answer to avoid being scolded again. But the thinking time couldn't be too long; making the leader wait would still result in a scolding.

So, Qin Changzhi said while thinking, "Before... they publicly solicited car logo designs in the newspaper with great fanfare, and the prize was 500,000. This move caused quite a sensation."

"Therefore, the establishment of Zhonghua Automobile is not a secret at all. It's just that we don't usually pay much attention to these things, so we didn't know."

"I also heard this news by chance when I returned to Jingcheng last time. In my opinion, Cheng Zhanjun's situation is probably similar to mine. Presumably, someone who knew the inside story specifically told him; otherwise, with his temperament, how could he have waited until now to run to Jingcheng to discuss cooperation with that Shen Mingsheng?"

After hearing this, Yin Mingsheng's tense expression eased slightly; obviously, he accepted Qin Changzhi's explanation. As the saying goes, it's easy to dodge an open spear but hard to guard against a hidden arrow. What Yin Mingsheng feared most was that someone around him was secretly colluding with Cheng Zhanjun, which would be too dangerous for him.

After all, he had only taken office a few days ago, his heels hadn't touched the ground, and he was still on tiptoes. If such a person appeared around him, he would have nightmares even when sleeping.

Yin Mingsheng looked at Qin Changzhi expressionlessly. "You should pay more attention to the people around you. If that old fox Cheng Zhanjun has planted eyes around you, or even bought off your confidants, we won't have any secrets in the future!"

"There will absolutely be no one from Cheng Zhanjun around me."

Qin Changzhi showed a confident smile; this guy had done his fair share of buying off people around political rivals.

Judging others by himself, since he could deal with others like this, he naturally had to be on guard against others using the same means to plot against him.

"It's just!" Qin Changzhi frowned slightly. "The current situation is a bit tricky. The preferential policies I provided to Shen Mingsheng before have already reached the limit, and there is no room for improvement."

"However, now he has betrayed his faith and turned to Cheng Zhanjun's side, which is enough to show that the benefits Cheng Zhanjun promised him must far exceed what I gave. In this way, our next actions may need to be replanned."

Yin Mingsheng's fingers tapped lightly on the armrest of the chair, one after another, his brain turning rapidly with the slight tapping sound.

"Perhaps, we still have a chance to reverse the current situation."

Qin Changzhi nodded hurriedly. "That's right, obviously, Cheng Zhanjun abused the preferential policies for investment attraction; he is already suspected of violating regulations, or even the law. When the time is ripe, you can completely veto his investment attraction plan."

Yin Mingsheng did not express his position immediately but fell into deeper contemplation. After a long while, he slowly opened his mouth and said, "If I exercise the veto power, then next, you can go talk to that Shen Mingsheng again."

"Although in terms of policy, it is impossible to provide more favorable conditions, in other aspects, we can consider giving appropriate compensation. There are always more solutions than difficulties; as long as you use your brain more, any problem can be solved well."

Qin Changzhi's spirit was lifted. "Secretary, should I go to Jingcheng again to talk to the Quan family? After all, Shen Mingsheng is the Quan family's son-in-law. If the Quan family speaks, it will be more certain to reverse the current situation."

"You can!" Yin Mingsheng pondered for a moment and said, "Go after you handle the urgent work on your hands."

"Good!" Qin Changzhi said spiritedly, "In two days, I can handle the urgent matters on hand."

Yin Mingsheng stood up, came to the window, looked at the night outside, and muttered softly, "Cheng Zhanjun should be back, right?"

Cheng Zhanjun didn't move here but had always lived in the Municipal Committee family compound, so Yin Mingsheng didn't know if Cheng Zhanjun was back.

"Logically speaking, he should be back." Qin Changzhi said, "Since it has been negotiated, there are still many things that need him to handle personally, and he doesn't need to stay in Jingcheng to waste time."

Yin Mingsheng slowly turned back. "No matter if he is back or not, after you go to Jingcheng, you must find out what promises Cheng Zhanjun gave Shen Mingsheng. Only by figuring this out can we make targeted arrangements."

"Good!"

Qin Changzhi agreed, glancing at the quartz clock on the wall; it was already nine o'clock in the evening. He wanted to say goodbye to the leader, but opened his mouth and finally didn't dare to say it.

"Alright, you go back." For the whole day today, Yin Mingsheng had been inspecting below, and in fact, he was also tired.

Qin Changzhi hurriedly said, "Alright then, Secretary, I'm leaving. You should also rest early."

Watching Qin Changzhi leave the study, Yin Mingsheng didn't go to sleep immediately but lit a cigarette and sat on the sofa in the study smoking, his eyes slowly dispersing, unfocused, not knowing what he was thinking.

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At the same time, Zhou Andong and his party slowly walked out of the municipal guesthouse.

After dinner, Wang Jianmin pulled Zhou Andong to the reception room to drink tea, and they chatted until now.

Wang Jianmin smiled, enthusiastically stretched out his right hand, held Zhou Andong's hand tightly, and sighed, "Chairman Zhou, after chatting with you today, I have really benefited a lot. If there is a chance, I will invite you to drink again."

Zhou Andong hurriedly responded modestly, "Leader, you flatter me; you really hold me in too high regard. I am just an ordinary businessman, and I only have a little shallow understanding of the commercial and economic fields. In front of an expert like you, I am just showing off."

"You must not say that." Wang Jianmin patted Zhou Andong's shoulder hard. "Tomorrow, the contract will be delivered to the Woolen Mill. At that time, you will officially become Factory Director Zhou."

"I firmly believe that you will definitely be able to use your profound knowledge and outstanding talent to let the Woolen Mill, which is stuck in a quagmire, be reborn from the ashes, soar to the sky, and rush to the peak of glory once again."

Zhou Andong gave a bitter smile. "You must know the current situation of the Woolen Mill much better than I do. Some problems are really intricate and complicated; even if I have the heart to solve them, I am afraid I am powerless."

"Just go ahead and do it!" Wang Jianmin immediately expressed his position. "You must remember that standing by your side, besides comrades-in-arms like Secretary Gu and Miss Zhou, there are also the municipal government, the mayor, and me."

"No matter what kind of difficulties you encounter, come directly to the municipal government to find me. If even I am helpless, then go find the mayor. If the mayor can't solve it either, then we will go to the center together."

Since things had reached this point, what else could Zhou Andong say? He could only indicate that he would do his best.

Wang Jianmin took people and drove away, leaving only the car exhaust drifting in the air.

Zhou Andong turned his head, his eyes fell on Zhou Qianyi beside him, and he said softly, "Tomorrow when signing the contract, remember to bring financial personnel with you. After the contract is officially signed, you go directly to the Finance Department and seal up all the accounts before the last quarter."

"In addition, I will notify the Hong Kong Overseas Trust Bank to send a professional audit team to carry out a comprehensive and detailed audit of the Woolen Mill's financial situation over the past twenty years."

Hearing this, Zhou Qianyi's eyes suddenly flickered, and a smile instantly bloomed on her originally calm face. "I understand!"

Zhou Andong took a cigarette out of his pocket and lit it. After taking a deep breath, he slowly exhaled a cloud of smoke, while looking at Zhou Qianyi with great interest.

"What do you understand?"

"Why you are so persistent in wanting to get 10% of the Woolen Mill's shares." Zhou Qianyi's clear eyes, like autumn water, blinked gently, and the smile on her face became more and more brilliant.

"You are serving as the factory director of the Woolen Mill, and your first task is that you must audit the Woolen Mill's finances. However, the situation of the Woolen Mill is quite intricate and complicated, and it is a large state-owned enterprise."

"If you intend to carry out audit work on its finances, you simply cannot hire a third party to execute it yourself. Because this is illegal and non-compliant, and there will definitely be heavy resistance, so you can only rely on the audit team specifically dispatched by the higher-level department."

"However, the problem lies here; behind the Woolen Mill stands the Yin family. And the Yin family is deeply rooted in Jingcheng, with tentacles everywhere. It is easy for them to insert their own people into the audit group. In this way, even if the audit is really completed, I am afraid we will find it difficult to get true and reliable results."

"More importantly, this matter must be fast, and we must catch the other party off guard. If we follow the conventional process step by step, those crucial account books may disappear at any time, and even the Finance Department might suddenly catch fire for no reason."

"Therefore, no matter what, we must get the Woolen Mill's shares, and the quantity is secondary. As long as we can become a shareholder of the Woolen Mill, we can quickly seal up the finances according to law and regulations, without leaving them half a chance to breathe and respond. Moreover, we have the right to hire a third-party financial audit team to conduct a comprehensive and in-depth audit of the Woolen Mill's finances."

Zhou Andong laughed. This girl hadn't stayed in the mainland for a few years in vain; she even knew about the fantasy-like occurrences of state-owned enterprise finance departments often catching fire.

"Completely correct!" Zhou Andong took a drag of his cigarette. "So, those audit teams in our country are all unreliable and cannot be trusted, even the two internationally renowned accounting firms that have just entered the domestic market and started business won't work."

"These foreigners don't have a damn good thing about them. Don't look at how they label themselves with professionalism and integrity on the surface, but in reality, their professionalism and integrity are all built on money. For their so-called professional ethics, I don't believe in them at all, so I must use my own people."

Speaking of this, Zhou Andong paused. "Originally, I thought about transferring financial personnel from the Yugong Group to help, but after thinking carefully, I felt it was inappropriate."

"If it were just simple audit work, that would be fine, but the Woolen Mill is large in scale, its business is extremely complex, and the integrity and accuracy of its financial records definitely have problems."

"The financial audit work of looking back twenty years involves too long a time span, and the Yugong Group's finance department can't do it. Therefore, we must find a professional audit team, and the scale and experience of the team are the top priority."

"If the scale is too small, with such a large workload, it is estimated that it will take three to five years to complete. If there is no experience, some hidden important problems are difficult to be discovered."

"Therefore, the only choice is the Overseas Trust Bank. After all, they are our own people, completely trustworthy, not to mention they also have extremely rich audit experience and can dispatch a powerful team composed of dozens or even hundreds of people anytime, anywhere!"

In this era where computers have not yet been popularized, all document materials exist in paper form, which undoubtedly brings huge challenges to audit work, because auditors have to flip through the mountains of paper page by page, carefully looking for every detail that might have problems.

Especially since the audit and account checking time needs to be traced back for a full twenty years, such a long period of time is simply a huge project. Even if an elite team composed of dozens of people is organized, it is difficult to complete this task without a year or a half.

However, for Zhou Andong, he does not need to finish all the audit work. He only needs to concentrate on completing the audit of the last few years, with the goal of obtaining conclusive evidence of some people's violations of law and discipline, so as to be able to deal with these people according to law and regulations.

And after the twenty-year financial audit is all over, whether those who have been promoted, transferred from their posts, or have long retired at home, if anyone is found to have problems, he will record the names of these people one by one in a small notebook and then hand them over to the city. As for how to deal with these people later, that is none of his business.

"Remember!" Zhou Andong reminded again. "You must pull Wang Jianmin to go to the Finance Department together, and as a shareholder, put forward a request to him, requesting a comprehensive audit of the Woolen Mill's financial situation."

"And, before the third-party professional audit team officially enters, seal up all account books properly according to legal procedures. Only when Wang Jianmin is present and he nods and agrees in person will you not encounter resistance, and no one will dare to stop you."

"Otherwise, you won't even be able to enter the door of the Finance Department, let alone carry out follow-up work. Because in the eyes of those people, your so-called shareholder status is nothing."

Zhou Qianyi couldn't help but snort coldly. "These people are actually so arrogant and lawless; it's really lawless!"

"Law?" Zhou Andong chuckled. "Only when they want to talk about the law with you will they know the law. If they don't want to talk about the law with you, then there is no law in their eyes; there is only power."

"They believe in and follow power. Whoever holds greater power in their hands and whoever has a higher official position, they listen to that person. Therefore, for this kind of person, you must accurately grasp their Achilles' heel."

"Only when they deeply realize that once you exert a little pressure, they will face the danger of losing their lives, will they become honest, obedient, and obediently listen to you." ===== CHAPTER 2273 =====