Chapter 1483: Rural Absurd Past Events Chapter 1483: One Whale Falls, Ten Thousand Things Are Born

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Protagonist:

Li Xiulan

Liu Xinwen's investigation results will probably take a year and a half to come out; outsiders don't know what's going on, but insiders already all know.

As the saying goes, when the tree falls the monkeys scatter; with Liu Xinwen this big tree fallen, many businesses in the county town that leaned on the Liu family naturally fell along with it.

The most obvious case is Liu Lianqiang's Lianqiang Building Materials — one could say that overnight, countless partners came to terminate contracts with him, and in a single night Liu Lianqiang came to see through what is called the cold warmth of human relations in this world.

Although the Liu family is very powerful and still has great influence in the city, in this small county town only Liu Xinwen alone was propping things up; people doing business in the county town only recognize the county town's backer.

After Lianqiang Building Materials fell, another large piece of fat meat appeared in the county town; countless businessmen smelled opportunity and flocked into the building materials business.

Among them, naturally, was this old fox Zhang Sheng.

This day Zhang Sheng took the initiative to find Wang Erhai and put forward his proposal:

"Erhai, now that Lianqiang Building Materials has already withdrawn from the Shangang Town project's building materials supply, how about this — the two of us set up a building materials company together, then wrap up the building materials for that Shangang Town project; additionally, if there are project developments on the county city side, our building materials company can also go dock with them."

Wang Erhai couldn't help but stare blankly, completely not expecting that Zhang Sheng would actually take the initiative to hold out an olive branch to him.

His first reaction was:

Zhang Sheng wouldn't be trying to screw him over again, would he?

However Zhang Sheng was very sincere:

"I know you've already spent quite a lot of money on the Shangang Town project; the building materials company's early-stage funds will all be contracted by me; as for shares, we'll split fifty-fifty, but there's one premise — decision-making authority on strategic direction must be controlled by me; you only need to be responsible for running operations well."

Zhang Sheng laid out considerable sincerity.

Wang Erhai's brows furrowed slightly:

"General Manager Zhang, I don't understand."

Zhang Sheng asked with a smile:

"What's there not to understand? Just say it outright; we count as friends across generations, don't be so overly polite."

Wang Erhai then said:

"Then I'll speak directly: General Manager Zhang, you have so many relatives and friends; with your ability and connections, this building materials company obviously can earn a lot of money; I don't understand why you wouldn't give this large piece of fat meat to your relatives and friends, but instead give it to an outsider like me."

Zhang Sheng laughed:

"Erhai, you're being a stranger saying that; what you said isn't wrong, this is a large piece of fat meat, and I should rightly give it to my relatives and friends — and you, aren't you one of my relatives and friends? At least I truly treat you as a good friend."

Zhang Sheng's face was full of sincerity, speaking as if it were truly so.

If Wang Erhai hadn't been screwed over by him before, he probably really would have believed his ghost talk.

"General Manager Zhang, if you put it like that it's meaningless; how about you go find someone more suitable instead."

Facing the temptation, Wang Erhai chose to politely refuse.

He was no longer that reckless greenhorn of the past; all kinds of experiences had given him a better memory and added a few degrees of composure.

Zhang Sheng hurriedly said at this point:

"Alright then, I'll open the skylight and speak plainly: the reason I chose to partner with you to open a building materials company, on one hand is because I value your character and ability, on the other hand is because I value your Third Brother's future development potential."

"How did this get dragged onto my Third Brother?"

Wang Erhai didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

Zhang Sheng then said:

"You probably still don't know, right? The reason we have the chance to set up a building materials company is because Lianqiang Building Materials fell; and the reason Lianqiang Building Materials fell is because Liu Lianqiang's fourth uncle, the Finance Bureau's top leader Liu Xinwen, was taken away by the Discipline Inspection Commission; as for why Liu Xinwen was taken away by the Discipline Inspection Commission, that was your Third Brother's handiwork."

Wang Erhai was astonished:

"My Third Brother is just a township poverty-alleviation grassroots cadre; what virtue and ability does he have to topple the County Finance Bureau's top leader?"

Zhang Sheng's expression turned serious:

"I also think it's impossible, but the fact is exactly so; therefore, for the sake of your Third Brother's face, I choose to partner with you to open this building materials company; you can rest assured, I absolutely cannot screw you over — after all, I only want to make friends with your Third Brother, not make enemies."

Wang Erhai still hesitated:

"Wouldn't this cause my Third Brother to violate regulations?"

He didn't want his own business matters to leave a stain on his Third Brother in officialdom.

Zhang Sheng however said:

"How could this possibly violate regulations? He serves as his official, you do your business; which legal provision stipulates that a cadre's brothers cannot do business? Besides, we're just partnering normally; all fund flows will go through compliant channels; rest assured, it won't affect your Third Brother."

Wang Erhai listened to Zhang Sheng's words and also felt they made sense.

Moreover in this world there are also not a few cases of brothers where one goes into commerce and one into politics.

The most famous is that Cao Boss, who earned hundreds of billions, then publicly said he does business without relying on his older brother at all — it's all his own ability.

But actually everyone knows that if he didn't have a brother in a provincial department, his business absolutely could not have reached this scale.

This is also a way of power monetization.

And legally there is no plugging of this loophole, nor is it possible to plug it; after all you can constrain an official, but you cannot possibly constrain his brothers and sisters — after all their brothers and sisters also need to eat and live; going into business is perfectly normal.

As long as there is no obvious money-power transaction, doing business within the tacitly permitted rules, then even the law can't do anything about it.

However, Wang Erhai still did not immediately agree, but said:

"This I have to go ask my Third Brother; if he agrees, I agree; if he doesn't agree, then you can only go find someone else to partner with."

Seeing Wang Erhai like this, Zhang Sheng was somewhat at a loss whether to laugh or cry.

"You as the older brother, how come everything still has to be asked of your younger brother? Aren't you afraid if word gets out people will laugh at you?"

If it were Wang Dashan, hearing Zhang Sheng's words he would absolutely feel his face had no light, his dignity completely lost; but Wang Erhai is different — he doesn't feel there's anything shameful at all, instead saying calmly:

"Between brothers where is any high or low? The lesser ability listens to the greater ability; the dumber head listens to the smarter head — isn't this a very normal thing? General Manager Zhang, don't use words to provoke me; you just said I'm your cross-generation good friend, did you forget?"

Zhang Sheng was stunned, let out a dry laugh, and then hurriedly smoothed things over:

"Sorry, I just now spoke without consideration, truly embarrassed, I apologize to you! Then go ask your Third Brother, if we can start a building materials company together that would be best of all, if not we're still friends! No matter how you put it, Liguo Mountain Renovation Company being able to have its current business performance, that's all thanks to you, Erhai, as CEO!"

Zhang Sheng could truly be described as able to advance and retreat, able to bend and stretch; these words were spoken without leaking a drop.

On the surface he seemed to respect Wang Erhai's choice, but actually he was hinting to Wang Erhai that the two of them had long ago bound their interests together because of Liguo Mountain Renovation Company.

Regardless of whether they would partner to start a building materials company, it already did not affect his indirect conveyance of benefits to Wang Xiaohua.

Just that starting a building materials company together would be able to bind those interests even more tightly.