Chapter 479: A mere four million

That the Vice President has no big shots behind him is within reason and within expectations.

In fact, many companies have no big shots supporting them, yet they are able to obtain some political assistance; this is mainly due to the Federation having a complete "power-rent-seeking industrial chain."

When a politician reaches the upper echelons of federal politics, they can grasp enormous power in their hands.

They have power, and some people need power; thus, the demand side and the supply side appear.

We all know that as long as there are people supplying goods and people demanding goods, then spontaneously formed markets and trades will immediately follow.

But the sale of this commodity called "power" is not that simple. Many people who will never touch power in their entire lives are staring at the power in these people's hands because they always believe this power comes from them! This is actually quite ridiculous, but politicians explain it this way, and they say it this way, so the people really believe it.

The people of the Federation believe that the power of federal politicians comes from the people and is bestowed by the people, yet they never stop to think why the power they bestowed would slap them in the face.

As he spoke, his gaze shifted from Lanse's face to the Vice President's. "When we work together in the future, I will need you to cooperate a lot, won't I?"

Lanse took out a pack of cigarettes, gave one to the other party, and lit one for himself. "Besides Boman, some other people have proposed a new plan."

If the Bailide Group begins to intervene, then as one of the executioners who once dismembered the Liji Group, have the people behind it also joined in? Although they dismembered the Liji Group, leaving it severely wounded, it is still the strongest in the industry! This is the situation those executioners like the least. They used the "Anti-Monopoly Law" with the goal of maximizing profits, but now the biggest profits have not fallen into their hands.

After about two minutes, Lanse snuffed out his cigarette butt in the ashtray. When he picked up his coffee and took a sip, a layer of sweat had already covered the Vice President's forehead.

The Vice President was slightly embarrassed. "It is an honor to see you again before the new year, Mr. Boman."

"The difference now is whether you are going to be dismembered and crushed into dust, or if you get on the car before it knocks you down."

It was just a simple description, yet it gave the Vice President a feeling of being immersed in the scene.

No one could have imagined that a gang in Jincheng could pry open a listed enterprise; perhaps he is just a knife in the hands of those behind-the-scenes characters standing in the shadows.

The Liji Group's annual public relations expenses of tens of millions are all used in this area. At the same time, they actually have several senators supporting them behind the scenes; otherwise, given how they look after being dismembered by the "Anti-Monopoly Law," how could they continue to lead the entire industry? However, these have nothing to do with the Vice President. He doesn't know any big shots, nor does he have any direct relationship with these brokers. He is just a higher-level wage earner, and that is all.

Then, the way they want to obtain freedom is to give up shares, give up dividend rights, and not let shares flow out to be obtained by enemies.

"I need detailed information on these people who did the wrong thing to facilitate our solving this case as soon as possible."

"This matter is like... a truck full of cargo is crashing toward you. You cannot dodge, because you cannot dodge it."

But they have a different attitude when dealing with those farmers and underclass merchants who do not have the ability to arm-wrestle with them.

"You can become the company's executive president and can own more of the company's stock, but you must cooperate with us to snipe the company's stock and then help us obtain a portion of the stock."

Lanse did not urge him, just quietly smoked, waiting for him to make the final choice.

"They are very interested in suppressing the Liji Group's stock price, and at the same time, they hope to obtain a portion of the company's stock and gain more benefits from it!"

On the surface, power is pure and simple, but beneath the surface, power, brokers, capital, and every link of interest transmission make turning power into wealth, or wealth into power, a very simple matter.

Scenarios like "being kicked out of the company because a hostile company acquired a large amount of stock" have been played out countless times. Capitalists have also been studying how not to let shares flow out, and repurchase clauses are the simplest and most effective means.

Contracts are torn up when they say so, and debts are defaulted on when they say so; they don't care about their demands at all.

But if someone in the family wants to break away from these rules, they are unwilling to marry within the family or have their own lover.

An inconspicuous little pebble on the ground will not only make them trip, but it will also make them trip and break their heads, or even trip and never get up again! "Yes, we have a repurchase clause. Starting these clauses requires some harsh conditions."

Unless they are absolute idiots, nobles cannot lose such a competition, and the Liji Group thinks so too.

"I don't know... are you sure you didn't say it wrong?"

"For example?", Lanse signaled for him to say it.

A mere four million! The more it is this kind of time, the more he feels it is ridiculous and laughable. Perhaps those who made the decision, of course including himself, had never thought about it.

"I am not doubting whether you and your friends can do this, but this is Jinzhou, Mr. Lanse."

"I still plan to spend the New Year in Jingang."

"I didn't know your friend had such a big shot." The Vice President's expression became much more solemn. Now that it involves the Bailide Group, it means this matter might not be that simple and pure.

Since Lanse could bring the Vice President over, it shows that the Vice President will also be deeply involved. After the three sat down, they began to talk about subsequent operations, listening to Mr. Boman speak of one plan after another that made the Vice President's heart jump with fear, in a tone that didn't care.

He kept shaking his head, appearing not very supportive of Lanse's proposal. "This plan will put us all in a passive position, and please forgive me for speaking directly: if the company suffers a heavy blow, I will also be implicated."

They will also change from members of a big family to ordinary people, relatively speaking.

"When the bullet is already in the chamber and only needs the trigger to be pulled to fire, the best thing to do is not to use a flesh-and-blood body to block the muzzle."

Lanse pondered for a while and then said, "I have some friends in Jinzhou..." The Vice President nodded; for a person to have friends in Jinzhou is too normal!

It took several minutes before he began to accept this fact, and a very strange emotion grew in his heart again!

Lanse's case is like this; regardless of whether this is contract fraud, at least for now, they should fulfill the contract, including the previous time, but they refused, so they caused trouble.

Lanse smiled and pointed at him. "Smart!"

It is that kind of attitude of "you know I look down on you, but I will still maintain respect for you"—the eyes, the disdain, those things.

Even some capital families do this; every member has family shares and the right to dividends, but they can only marry within the family—

But this time, the status of both sides was swapped.

"I thought we would meet at the assembly after the start of spring!", Mr. Boman laughed and reached out his hand, walking toward the Vice President.

As long as you have money or power, and have a need, there will be brokers to help you solve your problems.

"Collect some information on the President and the Chairman of the Board, as well as their die-hard followers."

"For example, if a shareholder suddenly loses the capacity for civil conduct due to some accident, and according to federal law, the heirs of these shares are unwilling to inherit, or are minors, or similarly lack the capacity for civil conduct."

But this knife is very sharp, and for the Liji Group, it is also very fatal! This is like how commoners wanted to challenge nobles in the past: first, they had to defeat the guardian knights beside the nobles, and only then would they be qualified to fight the nobles holding sharp swords with their bare hands.

"Then this is my advice to you, the future Chairman of the Board: you must see the general trend clearly!"

"If I refuse, this matter will not change at all, right?"

It is the same for shareholders of large companies. If the shares of large companies can be bought and sold freely, then capitalists cannot protect their companies from being taken away.

Every year, the Vice President attends with the President, but now it seems that tomorrow they will change people.

"You can struggle, you can do any action you want to save it, but you don't have a chance at all."

"I told my friend about the problem between us and mentioned our possible solutions, but my friend gave me a new plan."

"The Liji Group should have a mandatory share repurchase agreement, right?"

Because if he had chosen wrong just now, then soon he might also have an accident.

Even when facing Lanse, that humble attitude came from his bones, not faked.

The Vice President already had a decision in his heart. "What should we do?" He used the word "we," which shows that his stance had already shifted.

They never confront those capital forces that have the ability to arm-wrestle with them; they have always been carefully guarding against them.

And this is also one of the reasons why the Liji Group was dismembered. Some people took a fancy to the huge profits of the channels and wanted to get a share of it.

He also has many friends in Jinzhou and knows people in Jingang, so he didn't pay much attention to the context and meaning of this sentence, just treating it as an ordinary sentence.

But it was the Board of Directors that was unwilling to pay the four million in liquidated damages and tried to use other methods to solve this problem, letting the situation spiral out of control!

The Vice President's expression changed slightly. To Lanse, Boman might just represent a name, but to him, the name Boman represents not just a name, but also some capitalists behind him.

Boman is an agent pushed to the front. Those capitalists all like to do this, so that if one day someone has bad luck because of their business, then the one having bad luck will definitely not be themselves.

He knows what Lanse means. The "big killer" Lanse holds in his hands now is the issue of liquidated damages.

They don't consider these because they live in an illusion under the multi-party maintenance of the power market.

If the Liji Group can be dismembered once, it can be dismembered a second time, a third time, until the day they lie on the corpse of the Liji Group, fill their stomachs, and burp, unable to hold any more, only then will they stop.

Rather than sinking with the company, it is better to find a way to lead the company to glory again!

"This is not a small place like Jingang. Sometimes, when we do anything, we cannot just consider what we are doing or are about to do; we must also consider many other things."

In the past, when he saw Mr. Boman at those formal social occasions, he always carried a kind of arrogant humility. This is hard to describe, but one can find this feeling.

However, he had also thought it through quite clearly.

This time, will they also participate? If these people also participate, then this "battle" will not be easy to fight.

Used to discuss the direction of agricultural development for the new year, coordinate resources, etc., it is very important.

In the evening, Lanse took the Vice President to meet Mr. Boman. The Vice President and Mr. Boman were "old acquaintances." Both sides had competed in this field for many years. On the whole, Bailide had always been at a disadvantage.

Lanse's words left him unable to respond in any other way except silence.

At this moment, he was also increasingly convinced that his choice was correct!

Lanse said a name: "Boman, do you know him?"

Basically, all large capital groups have similar repurchase clauses. Capitalists have fought each other for hundreds of years; they know best how to defeat their own kind!

His meaning is very clear: he doesn't want to be implicated in this kind of thing; he wants to obtain more power and benefits, not a big trouble.

The Vice President nodded in shock. He wanted to hide the disbelief in his eyes, but this news was too shocking; he couldn't hide it at all! He suddenly realized that he might have been involved in an even bigger matter, and the cause of all this still made him want to—

Some stipulate that they can only marry within certain families to avoid the trouble caused by inbreeding, but on the whole, federal people actually don't care much about inbreeding.

"Definitely, definitely..."

The Vice President fell into thought. He thought of many things, thought of the first time he was dismembered, harvested, and this time.

If they had paid the liquidated damages before this, although they would have suffered some losses, it would definitely have been within an acceptable range.

The Vice President took out a handkerchief and sighed. "I will investigate it clearly in the next two days."

"If you can do these things, you will be one of the most powerful people in the Liji Group!"

The Vice President picked up his coffee and took a big sip. He realized that the real goods had arrived. "Yes?"

The three discussed for more than an hour and finally made a rough decision. The Vice President also vaguely realized that there was support from multiple congressmen behind the scenes, and he became increasingly humble.

"This is actually not such a complicated multiple-choice question, right?"

After the Vice President said these things, he actually already knew what Lanse and the others planned to do. At this moment, his palms were full of sweat.

Lanse nodded. "How should I explain it?"

"This is my advice to you, Vice President... no, perhaps in the future you will also become the Chairman of the Board."

Yes, even if the company suffers a major disaster and falls from the altar, they are at least still one of the three giants of agricultural channels!

He couldn't quite understand Lanse. Although the development of Jingang was very rapid, he didn't understand how this twenty-one-year-old young man managed to connect with Congress.

Lanse looked at him. "You can tell your President or Chairman of the Board about this, but no one can stop it from happening, from changing anything."

So the repurchase clause must exist.

He actually stood on Lanse's side, feeling that he had done a good job, while at the same time hating the President, hating the Chairman of the Board, and other directors who firmly disagreed with paying the liquidated damages and disagreed with fulfilling the signed contract.

They are all descendants of inbreeding.

They only accept marriages within the family, such as uncles marrying nieces, cousins marrying aunts, etc., which often happens. This is also why there are always a few fools and mentally disabled people in big families.

This is also a very interesting, or rather, a means for the top federal gatekeeper forces to constantly consolidate their rule.

It's just that they didn't expect they would make a mistake.

Commercial means plus some use of power, this time the Liji Group will definitely stumble again, and the reason is just that they are unwilling to pay that ridiculous four million in liquidated damages! Thinking of this, the Vice President suddenly couldn't help laughing, laughing uncontrollably! In these years, they had actually been very careful.

For the two million in profits they hadn't even gotten their hands on, they not only had to throw in four million, but also lose their lives! "I know what to do, Mr. Lanse. If a person does something wrong, they have to pay for their mistakes. This is what they deserve!"

The Vice President's eyes gradually widened, just like those hyperthyroid patients; his eyeballs were almost popping out!

The assembly he spoke of is a large-scale conference held by the Federal Agricultural Committee before spring sowing regarding the overall agricultural industry. At that time, representatives of the famous large farms, deep and shallow processing of agricultural products, transportation, and channel-related links on the federal list will all attend this conference.

"Then the Board of Directors has the right to internally repurchase these shares at market price after a resolution."

However, most of the time, these characters can live well, as long as the capital forces behind them don't have problems.

Because they know they are not suitable for arm-wrestling with those of the same level.

Boman looked at Lanse and patted the Vice President's hand. "He is a very capable person; I have always appreciated him!"

After the Baihui Bank got Lanse's debt rights, they just sent a letter, and the Liji Group transferred the money over.

It's fucking amazing! In the next two days, the Vice President indicated in the Board of Directors that he had cleared the Supreme Court through some connections, and the Supreme Court was willing to hear this case.

People in the company had no suspicion of the Vice President; after all, he was considered to be under a few people and above ten thousand in the company. Who would suspect he would stab himself a few times?

The legal department quickly began to contact the Court of Appeals to transfer the case to the Federal Supreme Court. Originally, they intended to do it quietly.

But I don't know who leaked the news, and the media suddenly began to pay attention to this case... ===== CHAPTER 480 =====