Chapter 1108

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Protagonist:

Li Xiulan

Huo Guoqiang could clearly have agreed immediately when Wang Erhai first proposed banning employees from messing around with the song and dance troupe, but he deliberately waited several days before turning around and agreeing!

This maneuver seemed a bit superfluous!

But in reality, there are all kinds of hidden machinations here!

If he had agreed from the start, the employees below would only think this rule was proposed by Huo Guoqiang, and Wang Erhai was merely a mouthpiece.

If that were truly the case, the employees' dissatisfaction would not all be poured onto Wang Erhai at all, but would instead be entirely splashed onto him!

But bringing this matter up again after several days was different.

The employees below would only think that Wang Erhai had privately persuaded Huo Guoqiang, which was why Huo Guoqiang overrode all objections to establish this rule!

Huo Guoqiang rewarding Wang Erhai thirty thousand yuan in front of everyone was to tell everyone that this was all proposed by Wang Erhai; if you have any dissatisfaction, vent it at Wang Erhai, but don't take it out on the company's interests!

The biggest beneficiary of establishing this rule was Huo Guoqiang!

Yet it required Wang Erhai to bear all kinds of adverse consequences!

This is where Huo Guoqiang's cunning lies!

Sure enough, several more days passed!

This rule began to produce its "medicinal effect" on Wang Erhai.

On the County City Side, there was a major order awaiting acceptance; Wang Erhai issued a directive requiring several department leaders to collaborate on processing some documents, but those department leaders verbally agreed perfectly fine, yet dragged their feet in every way, obeying in name only while opposing in deed.

Wang Erhai was left with no choice and could only go confront them face-to-face, giving them a severe tongue-lashing, only then did they get the matter done!

Facing Wang Erhai's criticism, they naturally nodded and bowed, apologizing and admitting fault obediently.

But this delay affected the progress of subsequent work, which made Wang Erhai terribly vexed!

This was merely one of the incidents!

Later, many directives needed to be conveyed downward from his side, and the people below all perfunctorily muddled through in various ways!

He wanted to fire those people, but lacked the authority; after all, firing executives required the unanimous consent of both Huo Guoqiang and Wu Moli — his word alone didn't count!

Additionally, these department leaders all had some clout; Huo Guoqiang also couldn't possibly drive them away over such a trivial matter!

Huo Guoqiang instead came to tactfully reproach Wang Erhai:

"General Manager Wang, you need to handle the coordination and communication between departments well. Recently, many matters going down from your end have had far too low efficiency, seriously affecting the company's operations. Not that I'm criticizing you, but you also can't be too high-minded. You should build good relationships where needed — don't think that just because you're their leader, you can have the final say. This authority comes from bottom-up support, not top-down intimidation. Besides, we're a company, not a state apparatus, not the military — there's not much top-down intimidation. It's more of a community formed around interests as the pivot. If the people below don't listen to you, how will you continue your work afterward?"

Wang Erhai could only endure Huo Guoqiang's criticism.

He also felt Huo Guoqiang's words had a certain logic.

The people below didn't listen to him, and he couldn't fully grasp the punishment mechanism in his hands — it was far too easy for them to hollow out his authority!

Continuing like this, in the end he would likely be left as nothing but a figurehead!

"General Manager Huo is right; I will do my utmost to handle coordination and communication well!"

Wang Erhai walked out of Huo Guoqiang's office with a dusty, bedraggled look.

It could be said he was depressed to the extreme.

There was even a moment when a thought popped into his head: why not just resign and be done with it!

Just keep the equity, forget everything else!

Throw in the towel and quit directly!

But thinking it over, he was very unwilling!

This isn't just a matter of interests; retreating in such a sorry state would be too useless, wouldn't it!

However, if he wanted to reshape his image and authority in the company, how could that be easy?

Especially in the current situation, the people below have very obviously banded together to squeeze him out, to hollow him out!

Just as Wang Erhai was worrying over this matter, Wu Moli came knocking.

"General Manager Wang, if you continue like this, you might just be kicked out of the game!"

Wu Moli put it very plainly.

Because if Wang Erhai was kicked out, her odds of fighting Huo Guoqiang would be slim.

Especially now that Huo Guoqiang has established a rule: those executives wanting to use the song and dance troupe's women must all obtain his, Huo Guoqiang's, approval!

The moment this rule came out, it was equivalent to cutting Wu Moli's control over the song and dance troupe by more than half!

So Wu Moli now also has a sense of crisis, which is why she came to find Wang Erhai to discuss this!

Hearing Wu Moli speak to him like this, Wang Erhai felt very surprised:

"General Manager Wu, didn't expect you to actually care about me, huh?"

Wang Erhai gave a bitter laugh.

Wu Moli said:

"How could I not care? If you're out, I'll probably be out before long too! Right now Liguo Mountain has already penetrated the urban market, the pie is growing, and I don't want to be squeezed out at this juncture!"

Wang Erhai laughed:

"You put it quite bluntly."

"There's no one else here, so of course I speak straight when I have something to say — no need to beat around the bush. After all, we're both from this county, while Huo Guoqiang is an outsider!"

Wu Moli played the fellow-townsman emotional card, then added:

"In my opinion, you shouldn't have made a proposal that brought you absolutely no benefit in front of so many people back then!"

Wang Erhai gave a bitter smile: "Who could have thought such a tiny proposal would have such a huge negative impact on me? You tell me — what should I do now?"

Wu Moli said:

"What else can we do? Go apologize to them one by one!"

"Apologize?" Wang Erhai was stunned, then his face showed a look of resistance.

You have to know he is one of the three major partners of Liguo Mountain; making him go apologize to subordinates, wouldn't that make him lose even more authority?

"It can't be called an apology either; it should be said, go build good relations with them one by one!"

Wu Moli corrected her own wording.

But Wang Erhai shook his head:

"How to build good relations? They're all guarding against me!"

Wu Moli said:

"I'll run cover for you; you bring the sisters from the Song and Dance Troupe, visit them one by one, give them benefits, and naturally you'll be able to quickly unite them! After all, they want to eat meat, so they definitely can't let go of face to go submit an application to Huo Guoqiang, and if they want to sneak-eat, they also can't get past me. At this time, if you give them an opening, they'll absolutely be very grateful to you. If you can further deliver some benefits to them, then they'll absolutely be eternally grateful to you!"

Wang Erhai's face was full of surprise:

"What you're describing, isn't that just dirty, sordid power-sex transactions?"

Wu Moli laughed speechlessly:

"General Manager Wang, stop pretending to be noble, okay? Back when you and Liu Meiqi got together, wasn't that also the result of a power-sex transaction?"

Wu Moli's words could be said to have struck the depths of Wang Erhai's soul.

Making him fundamentally unable to refute!

Can only say, the underlying nature of the business world is perhaps just like this.

Nothing but benefit exchange, power-sex exchange.