Chapter 349

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Protagonist:

Li Xiulan

The difficulties Wang Dashan and Wang Erhai faced were not just the question of whether they could still send three hundred thousand yuan home for the Spring Festival; there was an even bigger problem staring them right in the face:

How to pay this month's employee salaries?

Shanhai Real Estate currently had nine employees.

Besides the first batch of hires — Zhang Xiaoyun, He Jiayi, and Xie Xuewen — there were six additional salespeople.

Their base salaries were all around three thousand; base salary alone cost nearly thirty thousand yuan a month.

All the money the company earned now went to pay compensation; the two brothers had no cash on hand. If salaries couldn't be paid, the employees would definitely have complaints.

Sure enough, this morning when they came to work, He Jiayi and Xie Xuewen — these two veteran employees — came to Wang Dashan to submit resignation applications.

Seeing this, Wang Dashan felt very displeased, very depressed.

Some employees can only share wealth, not hardship.

Still, he suppressed his inner emotions and persuaded them to stay in a gentle, polite tone:

"Xuewen, Jiayi, you're the first batch of employees at Shanhai Real Estate. You've been doing a good job. Why suddenly want to resign?"

After all, for a real estate brokerage company like this, the core value lies in capable salespeople; only by retaining quality salespeople can more profit be created.

And Xie Xuewen and He Jiayi — their monthly sales performance was actually not bad at all.

If they left, it would absolutely be a significant loss for Shanhai Real Estate.

"General Manager Wang, I want to take advantage of the Spring Festival to go home for blind dates. If I find a partner, I'll develop my career back home. I probably won't come back to Guangzhou after all. My parents are both back home, and I'm their only daughter; they need me to take care of them."

He Jiayi said this.

Wang Dashan knew He Jiayi was making excuses, but he couldn't call her out to her face; he could only sigh helplessly:

"Marriage and children are indeed a major life event. I understand your choice... Xuewen, what about you? Why are you resigning?"

Xie Xuewen said:

"General Manager Wang, I'm not feeling well physically. I want to use this Spring Festival period to go home and rest properly. I might not come out to look for work until April or May next year. Real estate sales pressure is too great — not just physically, but psychologically I've also endured tremendous pressure."

Xie Xuewen couldn't even be bothered to find a proper excuse; he just casually made up one about poor health wanting a rest.

He's tall and big, and physically robust. His Moments are often filled with photos of him going to the gym after work. How could that be someone in poor health?

It was very obvious that whether it was He Jiayi or Xie Xuewen, both saw that Shanhai Real Estate's momentum wasn't right and wanted to flee quickly.

But you can't blame them either; seeking advantage and avoiding harm is human nature.

Now Shanhai Real Estate might not even be able to pay this month's salaries; it's normal for them to run.

Wang Dashan had no qualifications to criticize them either.

In the end he could only let out a long sigh:

"Alright then. I'll issue your resignation certificates right away. We're a small company; no need for much process. Work one last day today, hand over your tasks to Erhai, and you don't need to come tomorrow."

"Okay, General Manager Wang!" Xie Xuewen secretly breathed a sigh of relief. He thought Wang Dashan wouldn't approve his resignation; he didn't expect Wang Dashan to agree so easily. He asked weakly:

"Then the salary matter..."

Wang Dashan said:

"Whatever salary is owed will be paid in full. Not a single cent less."

Xie Xuewen hurriedly thanked him: "Thank you, General Manager Wang. You're one of the best bosses I've ever met!"

Facing Xie Xuewen's flattery, Wang Dashan chuckled:

"If I really were one of the best bosses you've ever met, you wouldn't be resigning."

Hearing this, Xie Xuewen could only stare blankly for a moment, laughing embarrassedly, unable to speak.

Wang Dashan added:

"Alright, let's not say those fake pleasantries. Go hand over your work to Erhai. Once the handover's done, you can leave."

Xie Xuewen and He Jiayi politely bid farewell to Wang Dashan, then turned and left.

In the office, only Wang Dashan remained.

He leaned back in his office chair, head tilted up, staring at the ceiling, his gaze somewhat lost.

How to get through the coming days, how to keep the company running — he actually had no confidence in his heart.

He could only take it one step at a time.

When the cart reaches the mountain, there will be a road; when the boat reaches the bridge, it will naturally go straight.

He firmly believed the ancestors' words made sense.

The matter of Xie Xuewen and He Jiayi's resignation quickly spread throughout the company.

This caused quite a stir among the company employees.

Some employees who didn't know the truth were very puzzled: why would the two of them, working perfectly fine, suddenly quit?

While some sharp-scented employees sniffed out a clue from it.

Before, Shanhai Real Estate had been investigated by the Tax Bureau, then visited by people from Anjia Real Estate, and then there was this employee Xu Mingmei who hadn't come to work for a long time — heard she'd already been arrested.

Stringing these pieces of information together, anyone with even a little thinking ability could definitely see that Shanhai Real Estate now appeared calm on the surface, but in reality was already in a precarious state.

The matter of Xie Xuewen and He Jiayi's resignation quickly reached Wang Erhai and Zhang Xiaoyun's ears.

Zhang Xiaoyun had strong objections to Wang Dashan approving their resignations so easily.

To be precise, ever since Wang Dashan insisted on protecting Shanhai Real Estate, resulting in heavy losses, Zhang Xiaoyun had been quite critical of all of Wang Dashan's decisions.

"How could your big brother approve Xie Xuewen and He Jiayi's resignation applications so easily without even discussing it with you? Didn't he consider what impact this would bring? Our Shanhai Real Estate is already small in scale; some things spread very easily among employees internally, and the impact would be very bad!"

Zhang Xiaoyun complained to Wang Erhai in private.

Regarding the company's financial situation, apart from the two Wang brothers, Zhang Xiaoyun knew it most clearly.

Wang Erhai also felt that Wang Dashan approving Xie Xuewen and He Jiayi's resignations all at once was rather inappropriate; right now was precisely the time when they most needed to stabilize the situation, and their resignations would instead make the situation unstable and shake the employees' confidence.

However, Wang Dashan was Wang Erhai's elder brother, so Wang Erhai still spoke up for Wang Dashan:

"Big Brother doing this might have other considerations; Xie Xuewen and He Jiayi resigning is also good — now the company accounts have no money, their leaving can instead save a sum of expenses."

Wang Erhai's words also had a certain logic, but Zhang Xiaoyun still had very strong objections:

"The problem is he didn't even come discuss it with you before making the decision himself; then what do you count as in the company?"

Wang Erhai's heart trembled.

This matter could be big or small; his big brother not coming to discuss it with him was indeed somewhat lacking in consideration.

He said with a bitter smile:

"Now the company's directors and legal representative have all been transferred to Big Brother; strictly speaking, this is a company belonging to him alone. Besides, I've been running around outside on business these past few days, busy to the point of exhaustion; this small matter Big Brother deciding himself is fine."

Zhang Xiaoyun complained instead:

"You, you — you don't fight for anything, letting your big brother act recklessly, how can that work? For example, initially, if you had insisted on your stance and sold the company, would you two brothers have ended up in this predicament now?"

Wang Erhai fell silent, with no words to reply.

Because he knew, what Zhang Xiaoyun said was right.

This even made him generate suspicion: when facing his big brother, was he too weak, too obedient?

Turning back and thinking carefully, the many decisions his big brother made along the way couldn't be said to be all wrong, but most were like a lump of shit...

Shanhai Real Estate ending up in such a situation, his big brother at least had to bear ninety percent or more of the responsibility.