Chapter 532

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Protagonist:

Li Xiulan

Time passed, and two more days went by in the blink of an eye.

Today was October 7th.

According to the betting agreement, five o'clock this afternoon was the deadline for the bet.

Xiao Wu saw that Wang Erhai had made no moves on either side and was still letting the other salespeople on his team poach orders from Liu Mei Qi's team, only then did he realize that Wang Erhai claiming he would handle this matter was false.

However, he dared not say anything about it, after all, she was the general manager of this company, and he was just an employee; could he really go around saying whatever he wanted?

At five o'clock this afternoon, the result of the bet came out.

Wang Erhai's team's total sales volume was twelve orders higher than Liu Mei Qi's team!

"Miss Liu, the result of our bet is obvious; you have lost."

Wang Erhai held the sales volume statistics table and found Liu Mei Qi.

Liu Mei Qi was neither disappointed nor angry about this result; instead, she gave a meaningful cold laugh.

"Wang Erhai, on the surface it looks like you won this betting agreement, but in reality you have lost completely."

Wang Erhai said coldly:

"Winning is winning, losing is losing; no matter what you say, it's useless."

Liu Mei Qi smiled:

"Fine, I didn't expect you to be this kind of person; your company doesn't have much investment value now. Even if you actively ask me to buy shares, I won't invest."

Facing Liu Mei Qi's sarcasm, Wang Erhai remained expressionless and noncommittal.

Liu Mei Qi then said:

"Originally I could have fought more; I actually already have evidence of your team poaching orders, but there's no need anymore. Remember this: I lost, not to your so-called sincere management, but to your methods that are more despicable than my marketing tricks. By winning with such methods, doesn't that mean you've negated your own business philosophy? Doesn't that mean you've broken your own backbone? I want to see how your company will move forward from here!"

After saying this, Liu Mei Qi waved her hand and left.

But Wang Erhai called out to her:

"Wait!"

Liu Mei Qi turned back:

"What else?"

Wang Erhai said expressionlessly:

"Our betting agreement seemingly didn't stipulate that I must engage in sincere management, right? Besides, your team is also internal to my company; internal order circulation within the company doesn't violate industry rules, does it? Poaching orders is one company poaching another company's orders; how can order volume within our own company count as poaching?"

Liu Mei Qi was stunned, her face full of surprise, and for a moment she was speechless.

This also amounted to Wang Erhai admitting the fact of his behind-the-scenes manipulation.

Liu Mei Qi was stunned for a good while before helplessly laughing:

"Fine, fine, fine, I admit I lost, and I lost completely, lost wholeheartedly! I actually naively thought that sincere management was truly Shanhai Real Estate's business philosophy; now I understand that it was just a means you used to drive me away."

Wang Erhai was noncommittal.

Actually, he really had wanted to engage in sincere management at first.

But as the situation changed, his principles changed along with it.

He still remembered that back then he accidentally entered a pyramid scheme den and suffered a lot because he didn't know how to be flexible.

He also remembered that Shanhai Real Estate fell into crisis initially because his elder brother Wang Dashan was stubborn and didn't know how to be flexible.

Actually, before Shanhai Real Estate was blocked by the industry's new-home channels, Wang Erhai had been urging Wang Dashan to sell the company and just register a new one.

If he could go back to that time now, he would still choose to urge his elder brother to sell Shanhai Real Estate, take the money and start a new company; that would definitely be much easier than sticking with Shanhai Real Estate and being forced into doing second-hand house business out of desperation.

As for the so-called philosophy of sincere management, it was actually just a customer-acquisition system established out of necessity when they were at their wit's end.

In this world, you can be sincere, but blindly insisting on sincerity is obviously not feasible.

Liu Mei Qi now saw Wang Erhai's true face; she was surprised and shocked, but not angry.

On the contrary, she even admired him and looked at him with new eyes.

Because in her view, beneath Wang Erhai's plain appearance, he actually possessed the qualities needed to become a successful person.

The qualities a successful person needs are not what books say—requiring conscience, integrity, responsibility, and other good virtues.

How many people without conscience have become multimillionaires?

How many people without integrity are thriving in the business world!

How many irresponsible people keep mistresses, fourth mistresses, even fifth mistresses, yet thrive in business?

Success in the worldly sense is nothing more than making money.

What making money needs is methods, not virtue.

On the contrary, virtue can become a constraint.

Take Wang Dashan, for example; he insisted too much on principles, which caused him to take many detours and miss many opportunities before.

However, Liu Mei Qi clearly could no longer stay at Shanhai Real Estate after losing this betting agreement, and Wang Erhai probably wouldn't tolerate her presence either.

So she tactfully offered to resign:

"Since you won, I don't need to stay here anymore. I'll submit a resignation letter to you later. I hope that when we meet again in the future, we can be friends rather than rivals."

However, the answer Wang Erhai gave was beyond her expectations:

"You can continue to stay, and Shanhai Real Estate needs you very much now."

Liu Mei Qi was stunned.

Wang Erhai actually took the initiative to keep her — it was truly the sun rising from the west.

Wang Erhai then said:

"And if you want to take shareholding, I agree too. My only condition is that the company's decision-making power must remain in my hands, so if you take shareholding, we must learn from Alibaba's AB Share Structure and redesign the company's equity structure. Also, your shareholding only involves this Branch Company, not the Headquarters in Guangzhou."

Liu Mei Qi showed a hint of inconceivability on her face.

Unexpectedly, Wang Erhai had already arranged everything.

Actually, the reason she wanted to take shareholding in Shanhai Real Estate was a decision made by General Manager Zhang of Rangsheng behind the scenes.

Wang Erhai's proposal not only solved the problem of decision-making authority in the company, but also allowed Liu Mei Qi to give General Manager Zhang an explanation when she returned.

It could be called a perfect solution.

Most importantly, through this struggle, Liu Mei Qi discovered that their values were actually quite compatible.

"General Manager Wang, it seems you've arranged everything, so I'll follow your arrangements."

Liu Mei Qi laughed out loud.

This struggle could be counted as having drawn its curtain.

Liu Mei Qi and Wang Erhai parted on good terms.

But the employees under them were not so lucky.

A few days later, after the betting result was completely board nailed down, Wang Erhai issued an announcement, severely punishing those employees who privately diverted orders, on the grounds that they violated the company's values of sincere management and damaged the company's benefits.

This was cruel, but it was reality.

The result of high-level struggles in companies is often like this — it's always the people below who take the blame.

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