Chapter 351: Rural Absurd Past Events Chapter 351: Take One Step, Watch One Step

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Protagonist:

Li Xiulan

Whether she can lead Shanhai Real Estate out of its predicament remains unknown, but the most pressing matter right now is paying this month's salaries to the employees.

Shanhai Real Estate usually pays salaries on the 8th, much earlier than other companies, which typically pay around the 15th.

Previously, when the company was doing well, paying on the 8th was no problem at all.

Now that Xu Mingxin has fallen, it's tantamount to having the aorta severed; the company has no revenue for the time being, and there are no funds in the account, so paying salaries is the most important thing right now.

Most importantly, this month is special — the 9th is New Year's Eve, and the employees are certainly all hoping to get their salaries before the Spring Festival, so they definitely hope to receive their pay on the 8th as usual.

In other months, if they chose to delay salary payment, the employees certainly wouldn't have too many objections.

Only this month, February 2013, absolutely won't do.

Because everyone is waiting to take their salary home and happily celebrate the New Year!

If you stall at this time point and tell the employees salaries will be delayed, that will absolutely cause dissatisfaction among all employees.

But the company account really has no money, so what can be done?

"Brother, why don't we go ask Hao Ge to lend us a bit to tide us over."

Wang Erhai made the suggestion.

He felt that borrowing twenty or thirty thousand yuan from Zhang Zhihao, Zhang Zhihao would definitely agree readily.

After all, it's not that much money, and with Zhang Zhihao's character, Zhang Zhihao couldn't possibly be unwilling to lend.

Wang Dashan also felt that in the current situation, they could only ask Zhang Zhihao for emergency help.

So that day, the two brothers went together to Zhang Zhihao's computer store, explained the situation, and asked to borrow money.

"Hao Ge, recently Shanhai Real Estate has run into some operational problems, could you lend us thirty thousand yuan? After the New Year we'll definitely pay you back as soon as possible."

Wang Dashan humbly made the request to Zhang Zhihao.

Zhang Zhihao looked at Wang Dashan and Wang Erhai, his expression complex and meaningful.

He seemed to want to say something, but in the end said nothing at all.

"Give me your bank account, wait a moment, I'll transfer it to you right now."

Zhang Zhihao took out the U-Shield, performed a bank transfer on the computer, operated for a while, and the money was transferred over.

Wang Dashan received the bank text message confirming the money had arrived, and couldn't help but be stunned, overwhelmed with gratitude:

"Hao Ge, we only asked for thirty thousand, why did you transfer fifty thousand to me?"

Zhang Zhihao just said:

"I know you brothers are having a hard time now, and isn't the New Year coming up soon? You need to have at least some money to go home for the New Year."

"Hao Ge, thank you so much!" Wang Erhai hurriedly thanked him.

Zhang Zhihao just laughed it off:

"Don't stand on ceremony with me, I treat you as good brothers and close friends, that's why I'm doing this; if it were someone else I definitely wouldn't lend."

Then Zhang Zhihao looked at Wang Dashan:

"Dashan, don't blame me for talking too much, but I feel I still need to remind you of a couple things — doing business isn't something you can succeed at just by blindly persisting; you have to see the situation clearly, seek advantages and avoid harm, make rational choices; acting on impulse is a major taboo in business."

Wang Dashan nodded in response:

"Hao Ge, thanks for the reminder, I'll keep your words in mind."

Zhang Zhihao said further:

"Learn the lesson, a fall into a pit makes you wiser; don't make the same mistake again. I know you have deep feelings for Shanhai Real Estate, but if you encounter similar things in the future, you should discard it quickly when it's time to discard it; losing so much money for such a small company really isn't worth it."

"Mm-hmm, I know." Wang Dashan nodded in agreement.

But in his heart he actually didn't quite agree with Zhang Zhihao's words.

Although they all say a wise man submits to circumstances and you should cut losses when you should.

But isn't persistence one of the essential qualities for success?

If you don't even have the courage to grit your teeth, persist, and pull through difficulties, and think of giving up at the first sign of trouble, then how can you talk about success?

"Brother, Hao Ge is someone who's been through it all; in the future when we do things, we should listen more to his advice."

On the way back to the company, Wang Erhai said this to Wang Dashan.

This time it was because we didn't listen to Zhang Zhihao's advice and stubbornly insisted on saving the company that we ended up in this situation.

If we had just sold the company initially, although we couldn't have sold it for much — just ten thousand yuan — at least we wouldn't have had to pour in three hundred thousand later to plug the hole.

However, Wang Dashan didn't think so; he said:

"Hao Ge's advice is good, but if we listened to his advice, do you believe we'd never make it big, only ever operate on a small scale, just like his computer store — clearly there was an opportunity to grow stronger and bigger, yet he never expanded."

Hearing this, Wang Erhai's brows furrowed slightly.

His big brother's dismissive attitude left him momentarily not knowing what to say.

Wang Dashan then said:

"Second Brother, I have a strong premonition — as long as we get through this year, after the New Year when we come back, our Shanhai Real Estate will hit bottom and rebound, ushering in a strong period; by then the money we earn will absolutely be over a million, this year's losses won't count for anything!"

Wang Erhai gave a dry laugh:

"Big Brother, where does your confidence come from? Right now almost all our cooperation channels are cut off, almost no primary developments are willing to cooperate with us anymore, how can we hit bottom and rebound?"

But Wang Dashan said:

"I believe in my premonition, it absolutely won't be wrong; when the cart reaches the mountain, there will be a road!"

Wang Erhai's lips moved, wanting to say something, but in the end he didn't open his mouth.

He wanted to say, why not, once this month's salary is paid, lay off all employees and cancel the company registration.

This shell of Shanhai Real Estate doesn't have much value left; others won't even let you sell first-hand properties anymore, and relying solely on operating second-hand properties and rentals, you fundamentally can't make any splash.

Better to switch to a new place next year and start a new company, start from scratch again; that way there's more opportunity to achieve results.

But he knew, if he said this, Wang Dashan definitely wouldn't be willing.

After all, the current Shanhai Real Estate was protected by Wang Dashan spending three hundred thousand big money; Shanhai Real Estate's weight in Wang Dashan's heart is definitely even heavier than before.

To ask him to abandon it now, it's estimated to be even more difficult than asking him to abandon it before.

In the current situation, one can only take it one step at a time.

Can only pray in his heart that next year when spring arrives, things will truly take a turn for the better and welcome a turning point.

After returning to the company, Wang Dashan gathered all employees and immediately announced to the employees with a smile:

"This year we'll pay last month's salary early; previously it was always paid on the 8th, but this month the 9th is Spring Festival, so to let everyone have a good New Year, I've decided to pay salary on the 2nd this month!"

With Wang Dashan saying this, the employees immediately cheered and jumped for joy.

They had previously discussed in private no small amount, all worried the company wouldn't be able to pay salaries.

After all, the company's current situation, they all know root and bottom.

In a small company, many things can't be kept secret from employees.

Seeing everyone cheer, Wang Dashan struck while the iron was hot and told a lie to boost everyone's confidence:

"Tell everyone a piece of good news, our Shanhai Real Estate recently received a three million investment, preparing to do big things next year, everyone work hard, I announce here that starting next year, everyone's base salary will uniformly increase by two hundred yuan on the original basis, and the commission ratio for closed deals will increase by five per thousand! From the original one percent, raised to one point five percent!"

As soon as Wang Dashan's words came out, the employees below immediately burst into applause and cheers.