Chapter 797

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Protagonist:

Li Xiulan

Du Xiaojuan softened her heart in the end.

Although she had been admonishing herself in her heart all along that she should not soften her heart over this matter.

As long as she steeled her heart to deal with her parents and her younger brother, thoroughly subduing them once and for all, she could eliminate future troubles forever, and there would never be any more trouble afterwards.

But some things are easier said than done.

Especially when one's conscience has not yet been completely extinguished.

Turning against one's own family is easy to say, but when it comes time to actually act, every day the conscience suffers torment, constantly engaging in internal consumption and reflection, wondering if one has gone too far? Whether one should give them another chance?

Even thoughts of self-denial would arise: "They are at fault, but am I without fault?"

To the point where the knife was already drawn, yet she still could not cut through the knot with a swift stroke.

Du Jiabao going to prison was already a nailed-down certainty.

Then let this matter end here.

If the parents come to pester her again in the future, she would just give them some money to send them on their way.

There was no need to wipe them out completely.

Wang Dashan had no objection whatsoever to Du Xiaojuan's decision.

In fact, from the very beginning, he did not want Du Xiaojuan to fall out too badly with her family.

But since Du Xiaojuan wanted to do it this way, he would definitely support her unconditionally.

The matter of helping Du Jiabao appeal the second-instance trial, after throwing it to Zhang Shaoping this professional lawyer, Du Xiaojuan no longer paid it any mind; she shifted her work focus back to the company's operations.

Currently, Du Xiaojuan's position in Xiao Du Company is not very stable, even more precarious than before.

Because after Chen Qiang was squeezed out, the Zhonghai Faction's senior management could concentrate their efforts on dealing with Du Xiaojuan.

Zhonghai Group, this capital giant crocodile, its nature is the same as those famous barbarian capital giant crocodiles like the Qianhai Faction and Baoneng Faction; for the sake of profit, once they enter a company, they launch a fierce offensive against the company's founder, attempting to usurp the nest and drive away the founder who made the cake, then swallow the cake whole.

One can only say that capital is not only profit-seeking, but also insatiable.

When capital can profit 20%, it thinks of profiting 50%; when it can profit 50%, it thinks of profiting 100%; and when it can profit 100%, it begins thinking of monopolizing the market.

If capital is allowed to monopolize the market, it will begin to interfere with policy.

And if capital gains the ability to interfere with policy, it will then seek ways to enter the highest decision-making power, dip its fingers into authority, and even attempt to manipulate state power.

This is the barbaric nature of capital.

For five thousand years, Huaxia Civilization has always promoted the idea of "emphasizing agriculture and restraining commerce," precisely because those in power understand very clearly the enormous destructiveness of capital growing strong and large to the country and to people's livelihood.

But social and economic development cannot do without capital.

So how to check and balance capital's development has always been one of the most important propositions of governing the country.

Only when capital is large but not strong, large but not overstepping, can society develop at high speed while the people also grow wealthy and happy.

This Monday, Xiao Du Technology held its board meeting as usual.

A crowd of executives all attended.

This time, the Zhonghai Faction executives represented by Fang Dayong began to make things difficult for Du Xiaojuan.

"General Manager Du, currently Xiao Du Technology's market share growth is a bit slow, and the company's loss scale is expanding; without fresh capital injection, I'm afraid it will be difficult to sustain, so I suggest we can initiate Series B Financing, inject fresh capital into the company, rapidly expand and strengthen the market, and accelerate the pace toward listing."

Fang Dayong's words, on the surface, had no flaw.

The money raised from Zhonghai Group last time has already been burned through seven or eight parts out of ten; the company's marketing scale, after more than half a year of high-speed growth, has begun to gradually slow down, and at the same time, the losses brought by burning money are also expanding.

Capital operation is like this: once the first step is taken, there is no possibility of stopping; stop and you die; only by continuously burning money, continuously expanding the market — this is also why some companies keep expanding despite persistent losses.

To continue maintaining high-speed growth, one must continue burning money.

But with a little thought, one would know this is a new round of equity dilution for Du Xiaojuan; if Series B Financing is introduced, Du Xiaojuan's decision-making authority in the company will continue to decline.

Du Xiaojuan naturally understood this perfectly.

However, she did not rush to refute, but said:

"I agree with General Manager Fang's suggestion; the company has developed to this point and indeed should conduct Series B Financing; perhaps after Series B Financing, it will be able to list soon. However, I have one small request."

"What request? General Manager Du, feel free to raise it at the board meeting." Fang Dayong asked with a smile.

Du Xiaojuan said:

"I hope to be able to receive in advance the financing dividend that belongs to me; the Series A Financing dividend, I still haven't received it yet — one, out of consideration for the company's development; two, it was agreed to distribute dividends at year-end. Now Series B Financing is about to begin, the company's development has exceeded expectations, I hope to be able to receive the Series A Financing dividend in advance right now; additionally, after Series B Financing, I hope to be able to immediately receive the Series B dividend."

Fang Dayong smiled:

"That's completely no problem; this is originally the income that General Manager Du deserves; everyone shouldn't feel that General Manager Du's request has any problem, right?"

Fang Dayong felt that to make Du Xiaojuan compromise, he would definitely have to concede some benefits.

Du Xiaojuan's request, to him, was indeed not a big deal.

After all, it wasn't him paying Du Xiaojuan; the money paid all came from Xiao Du Technology itself.

Seeing Fang Dayong express agreement, the crowd of executives all agreed one after another.

Then everyone discussed together: since Du Xiaojuan takes dividends in advance, then all of them executives should also take dividends in advance.

Everyone had profit to gain, so the matter progressed very smoothly.

A few days later, after Finance verified the accounts, Du Xiaojuan's personal bank account received over fifteen million in personal dividends, and this was after tax.

After receiving this sum, Du Xiaojuan's first move was to go pay off the mortgage in full.

Because the mortgage contract stipulated that early repayment was only allowed two years after buying the house; the time was not yet up to two years, so Du Xiaojuan's early repayment incurred a not-insignificant penalty fee.

But Du Xiaojuan didn't care; she no longer wanted to be pressed down by the mortgage; she was born strong-willed, unaccustomed to a life where the mortgage pressed her until she could barely breathe.

The moment the mortgage was paid off, Du Xiaojuan breathed a huge sigh of relief in her heart, feeling the sky had become even bluer, the air even fresher, and her breathing even smoother.

Wang Dashan was also very happy about this.

He said to Du Xiaojuan:

"Never buying a house again from now on. I just checked, and of the mortgage we paid each month before, nearly eighty percent was actually interest, the principal barely decreased at all! This is simply too predatory!"

The Equal Principal and Interest Repayment mortgage model is indeed a bit predatory.

But that's still not the most predatory part. The most predatory part is, if the building project is abandoned, you still have to keep repaying the loan, while the bank bears zero responsibility, and the developer can just pat their buttocks and walk away, leaving only the ordinary people who bought the house to innocently endure all of this.

Du Xiaojuan merely laughed it off:

"Crows everywhere are equally black. In the eyes of those doing traditional brick-and-mortar stores, our e-commerce line of work isn't also seen as just as black and profiteering? In my opinion, if there's an opportunity later, we'll still buy a house, but either we pay in full, or we use other people's money to buy — we absolutely must not take out a loan ourselves to buy a house again."