Rebirth in 1985

Chapter 409: Ginger is still spicy with age

The matter has finally come to an end, and Lu Shaohua finally breathed a sigh of relief. However, this incident is not really over. Lu Shaohua knows very well that the aftermath is inevitable, and the impact on the group is inevitable, so this incident is not over yet. However, Lu Shaohua does not need to worry about it. Qin Sichen is here. With her reputation as a darling of heaven, there should be no problem in handling this matter. What's more, Lu Shaohua has already made arrangements, and Qin Sichen only needs to do what he is told.

What Lu Shaohua needs to consider now is not the mistakes made by the deputy general manager named Du, but the overall situation. If there is someone who is bold enough to take risks to gain benefits for himself, then among so many people in the entire Phoenix Group, would he be the only one who would do so?

Lu Shaohua didn't know. Before investigation, no one could guarantee that there was only one person. However, according to Lu Shaohua's estimation, there were probably quite a few people who did this. At least, some of the senior executives did this to a greater or lesser extent.

Someone dared to do this, so what was the problem? This made Lu Shaohua have to think about it. Judging from the rules and regulations of the Phoenix Group, it was undoubtedly very strict, but there was a risk against the wind. In the final analysis, it was all for the word "money". However, the salary and dividends of the Phoenix Group were among the best, but there were still people who did this. In the final analysis, it was just too greedy.

Phoenix Group was built by Lu Shaohua with untold hardships, and he would never let that group of greedy people destroy it. So what should be done to prevent this problem from happening? This is the problem that Lu Shaohua should be worried about.

Although Qin Sichen was asked to set up another department to supervise, Lu Shaohua always felt unsatisfied because the effect of this method was far from achieving a complete solution. Just like a government department, even if a petition department was set up, there would still be corrupt officials.

Lu Shaohua let out a long sigh, feeling quite helpless. He thought that high treatment and high dividends could prevent such incidents from happening. However, he was wrong. He was wrong because of the greedy nature of human beings.

"What should I do?" Lu Shaohua secretly asked himself in his heart, but he didn't get the answer he wanted for a long time. Finally, he could only give up helplessly. For the time being, he would deal with it with thundering means to shock the internal employees, and then come back to solve it when he thinks of a way.

"Let's go, let's go home first," Lu Shaohua said to Li Shangkui and the others.

There was no other way. Lu Shaohua felt that he could not think of any solution by staying in the office, so he simply gave up and went back to the villa.

Not long after returning to the villa, the phone, which had basically never rang, suddenly rang. Lu Shaohua also felt something was wrong. Logically, no one should know that he was back on the second day after he returned to Hong Kong, but now someone called him. Could it be that the other party was calling to try his luck?

Despite his thoughts, Lu Shaohua still picked up the phone. "Hello!"

"Haha! Can you tell who I am?" A hearty laugh came from the phone, followed by another question. "Haha! I knew you were back."

The voice was extremely familiar. Lu Shaohua had heard it more than a hundred times. Who else could it be but Huo Yingdong? He laughed and said, "Grandpa Huo, how did you know I was back?"

"The TV told me!" Ho Ying-Tong's answer was vague, a bit like guessing a riddle.

"TV?" Huo Yingdong's answer left Lu Shaohua speechless. After thinking about it, he understood and asked tentatively, "Is it the news about Phoenix Group?"

"Yes, I knew you were back as soon as I saw the news." After saying that, Huo Yingdong did not speak to Lu Shaohua and continued to ask, "Do you feel strange that I knew you were back as soon as I saw the news?"

It is undeniable that Lu Shaohua felt very strange that he could guess that he had returned to Hong Kong based on a piece of news. "Stop playing dumb, old man."

"Haha!" Huo Yingdong on the other end of the phone laughed again and said, "It's very simple. Qin Sichen, a woman, can't possibly make the internal scandal public. If she is asked to handle it, she will only handle it secretly. Another thing is to sincerely apologize to the car dealer and return the kickbacks. With Qin Sichen's courage, she will not do so and cannot do it. After all, this is just a personal behavior, and the car dealer is willing, so it has nothing to do with Phoenix Group. Also, this incident, which was originally a scandal, has now become positive news. Your Phoenix Group has transformed into an image of fairness and justice."

Huo Yingdong talked about his speculations non-stop for nearly a minute, but he was not finished yet. After a pause, he made a final summary. "All of the above finally led to one conclusion. You, Lu Shaohua, are back. Only you, Lu Shaohua, have the courage to expose the scandal and the ability to turn the scandal into positive news."

"Lu Shaohua was speechless for a while, not because he had nothing to say, but because he was convinced. A sentence popped up in his mind, 'Old ginger is still spicy'. It was not easy for Huo Yingdong to think so much from just one piece of news, and to understand Lu Shaohua's work style and Qin Sichen's personality so well.

If Lu Shaohua hadn't been holding the receiver with one hand, he would have wanted to clap his hands to show his praise for Huo Yingdong.

"Thank you for the compliment." Huo Yingdong did not show any modesty and accepted it directly, but he could not help laughing at the end. "Haha!"

"Haha!" Lu Shaohua also laughed in agreement. He did not get carried away just because Huo Yingdong was praising him. He changed the subject and asked, "Haha! You keep calling me not just for this matter, right?"

""There was a silence on the phone, telling Lu Shaohua that Huo Yingdong did not speak, but the silence did not last long. Huo Yingdong's voice sounded again soon after, and he seemed a little helpless. "Hey! I called you with good intentions to say hello, but you said it was for a purpose, really..."

"This time it was Lu Shaohua's turn to be speechless. He didn't know when Huo Yingdong had also learned this trick, and he rudely broke through this very fragile cover-up. "Don't laugh it off. I know you are busy. Tell me what's going on."

Lu Shaohua had known Ho Ying-tung for several years, so how could he not know Ho Ying-tung? If the news about Phoenix Group was just a simple scandal, Lu Shaohua might have thought that Ho Ying-tung was simply calling to ask questions, but the negative news had been hyped up by Lu Shaohua into positive news, so this possibility no longer existed.

"Haha!" Huo Yingdong smiled awkwardly, then straightened his voice and said seriously. "Okay, I won't say much. There is indeed something about Shenzhen Baoan. The project there has been basically completed, and my funds are in place. It will be put into production soon. I want to ask you, which project should I take on?"

"This matter?" Lu Shaohua understood what Huo Yingdong meant. It was nothing more than the four of them investing in a factory at the Baoan base. Now that the project was completed, they wanted to start operating as soon as possible, and asked what secondary industries the base had for them to do. But Huo Yingdong seemed to have asked the wrong person. Lu Shaohua himself basically didn't care about the base's affairs. He didn't know what projects were for them to do. After thinking for a moment, he said, "How about this, you send someone to contact the base, and I'll call to say hello. As for what projects can be done, let them decide."

Before he finished speaking, Lu Shaohua did not forget to ask one more question. "What do you think?"

"Okay." Huo Yingdong did not object, and then said, "To be honest, I know you don't care about Shenzhen. I called you today so that you can make a phone call to say hello. Without you, they may not give us any projects to do!"

What Huo Yingdong said was true. It was true that Chu Lei was the head of Phoenix Base, and it was also true that Huo Yingdong was a celebrity in Hong Kong's business community, but they were not from the same system after all. It was obviously impossible for Huo Yingdong to ask Chu Lei for projects, because such matters were not something Chu Lei could decide on. He had to get Lu Shaohua's consent before he dared to release the project.

Lu Shaohua obviously understood this and said, "Don't worry, I will say hello. Even if I don't call, I will go there in person in two days."

"Oh? Are you going back to Shenzhen?" asked Ho Ying-tung. His first feeling was that something happened to Lu Shaohua.

"Yes, I have to go there in the next two days." After a pause, Lu Shaohua continued. "I have gained a lot from this trip abroad. I have to go to Shenzhen to see it in person."

When Lu Shaohua was going to Africa, he did say hello to Ho Ying-tung. However, he did not tell Ho Ying-tung that he was going to Africa. He simply said that he was going abroad. As for where he was going and what he was going to do, he did not make it clear.

"Oh!" Huo Yingdong said 'oh'. He did not ask what he gained from going abroad, because Huo Yingdong knew that if there was something he could tell, Lu Shaohua would not hide it from him. Now Lu Shaohua was vague about it, obviously not wanting to tell him. He changed the subject and asked, "When are you going to Shenzhen?"

"Maybe in the next two days." Lu Shaohua himself did not have an exact time. It mainly depended on the development of the incident in Hong Kong. If everything went well, he could leave for Shenzhen tomorrow afternoon, but if something unexpected happened, he would have to deal with it before leaving.

"Is there an exact date?" Ho Ying-tung asked.

"" Lu Shaohua was silent for a while, and did not rush to answer. Instead, he thought about it carefully before saying, "The latest is the day after tomorrow morning. If it's fast, we may go there tomorrow afternoon."

Having obtained so much computer hardware technology from the Skeleton Mercenaries, and now having been locked up in Shenzhen for more than half a month, Lu Shaohua felt it necessary to go to Shenzhen to see how the progress was and whether it could make any important breakthroughs in computer development.

"Is that so?" Huo Yingdong was silent on the phone, as if he was thinking about something and did not speak for a long time.