When we arrived at the oval conference room on the top floor of the Hong Group headquarters, the board of directors was still meeting.
Hong Ziqi pushed open the door of the conference room with a bang, and everyone in the conference room turned to look at him.
"What's going on?!" Hong Ziqi came over in surprise, "Is it really Huining's problem?"
Mrs. Hong saw her beloved great-grandson coming in and waved to him, "Ziqi, come here."
Hong Ziqi hurriedly walked over, "Ancestor, I saw the news on the Internet... It seems that the matter is serious?"
"It doesn't seem like it, it's very serious." Mrs. Hong sighed, "Did you see Guo Huining when you came?"
Hong Ziqi was startled, "I saw it, but I didn't talk to her. I want to know what's going on from you first."
He turned to look at his mother, "Mom, do you know?"
Hong Ziqi's father did not come back from abroad. Hong Ziqi's mother looked unhappy and said: "The person who knows the most about this matter is Guo Huining. Do you think she can hide what she did?!"
"Buy someone else's patented battery, use it in your own electric vehicle, and sell it as a bargain at a low price. - She is so capable!"
"Treat us like monkeys!"
Hong Ziqi's mother was indignant.
Hong Ziqi himself has average talents, so he does not hold an important position in the Hong Group.
Mrs. Hong only lets him take care of the non-core business hotels in the Hong Group.
Car manufacturing is the core business of the Hong Group, and Hong Ziqi has never interfered.
Now it has started to build electric cars again. In just one year, the Hong Group has made a name for itself. Guo Huining's talents are obvious to all, so he was allocated a lot of original equity and was recognized by the Hong family. Almost everyone is talking about his and Guo Huining's wedding date. Already…
Seeing her son's expression, Hong Ziqi's mother felt very uncomfortable and said cruelly, "Ziqi, I know you and Guo Huining have been together for many years, and we didn't mean to embarrass her, but this matter is indeed her handiwork. It’s also our fault, old guys, who don’t understand electric cars and let her take advantage of it!”
Although Hong Ziqi was shocked, he could still speak a fair word.
He said uncomfortably: "Although Huining is at fault in this matter, the company cannot treat her like this. Isn't she doing this for the company?"
"When you heard that it could be listed overseas, didn't everyone agree?"
"If the overseas listing is successful, each of your family assets will increase ten times or even hundreds of times!"
Hong Ziqi told the truth, and everyone present felt a little embarrassed when they heard it.
Madam Hong said with a straight face, "Ziqi, are you blaming us?"
"I'm not blaming you." Hong Ziqi wiped his face and said with a wry smile: "I just hope everyone can talk nicely and don't kick Huining out all at once. - We also want to break off the engagement. You really have to do it at this juncture. Are you asking me to break off our engagement with Huining? What will others think of us?"
After so many years, he and Guo Huining still had feelings for each other, and they had already decided that Guo Huining was his wife. However, their ancestors did not agree, and the two could not get married.
If the overseas listing is successful this time, he and Guo Huining will get married.
Hong Ziqi is really good-natured, and because of this, Mrs. Hong loves him more than her other grandsons and great-grandsons.
But he has a good heart, but no talent, and he is also indecisive. Every bit of it cannot allow him to gain a foothold in the ever-changing, battlefield-like shopping mall.
Mrs. Hong waved the people in the conference room to leave, leaving only Hong Ziqi. She said to him earnestly: "Zi Qi, great-grandmother knows that you still can't let go of Guo Huining. But you think, if we don't do anything, our Hong family will The group is finished!"
"... But this can't be her fault alone!" Hong Ziqi raised his head and said dissatisfied, "I don't understand anything. Even if she did it and you didn't know about it, you still condoned it. she!"
"She is fully responsible. Do you think she will be happy if we are going to point our fingers?" Mrs. Hong sighed, "Yes, we were wrong. When we heard that we could be listed overseas, we were happy and let her do it. , without conducting necessary internal controls and verifications.”
In the final analysis, it is because they all want to be listed overseas and are fascinated by the beautiful money scene.
Hong Ziqi himself used to be a person who longed for overseas listing, but he was still relatively young, and he was still a little uncomfortable with this kind of naked survival with a broken arm.
"...I don't have an opinion on the company's affairs, but I have the final say on my engagement with her." Hong Ziqi gritted his teeth and said forcefully, "Even if I want to break off the engagement, I can't break it off now. I can't let others say that I am A scumbag who selfishly takes advantage of Huining!"
The words spoken online were so unpleasant that Hong Ziqi's face turned pale just thinking about it.
Mrs. Hong patted his hand distressedly and said, "Ziqi, those people are just talking, don't take it to heart. The Huining incident is too big now, and the other car company has filed a lawsuit with the court and requested an investigation. And you are still engaged to her to claim compensation, do you have to jointly bear civil liability?"
Hong Ziqi flinched for a moment, but finally said: "She and I are just an unmarried couple and do not have to bear civil liability together."
Only husband and wife may jointly bear civil liability.
Mrs. Hong looked at him and smiled, "Zi Qi also understands the law. It seems that spending so many years with Guo Huining is not in vain."
Hong Ziqi smiled bitterly, "Then I'll go back and tell Huining that we are still an unmarried couple. What our ancestors said was just out of anger. It will be fine in a few days."
Mrs. Hong thought to herself that this was not bad, at least it could stabilize Guo Huining temporarily.
A company as big as theirs has many other industries besides electric vehicles. If Guo Huining is forced to talk nonsense about things in their company, it will be troublesome.
So I shook Hong Ziqi's hand and said kindly, "Okay, since you begged her like this, then I'll pretend I don't know and wait until this matter is over before we talk about your engagement."
"Thank you, ancestor!" Hong Ziqi felt a little better, "Let me help you out!"
After he helped Mrs. Hong out of the conference room, he started calling Guo Huining.
But Guo Huining's phone has been busy.
At this time, Guo Huining was on the phone with Dou Aiyan.
"Dou Aiyan, how did this matter come to be known? You couldn't have deliberately tricked me, right?!"
Guo Huining became angry and cursed fiercely.
Dou Aiyan was also confused.
How did someone know about such a hidden thing? !
"Huining, don't be angry, we are having a meeting here..." Dou Aiyan stood in the corridor holding her cell phone. In fact, as an intern, she was not qualified to participate in such a high-level meeting of an investment bank.
"What's the use of having a meeting now!" Guo Huining was sitting in his car and was so angry that he wanted to kick someone. "There must be no problem on my side! The battery was purchased from a third party! This third party was provided by you!"
It is impossible for the Hong Group to directly purchase high-efficiency batteries for electric motors from the manufacturers that supply batteries to the "raft".
It's too conspicuous, and it's too easy for people to spot and get their necks stuck.
Therefore, they purchased it from a third party. This third party was a short-selling company that Dou Aiyan proposed to take the lead in setting up.
In fact, it is the address of a receiving station.
Dou Aiyan hurriedly said: "Our third party is absolutely safe, and this third party does not order directly from the battery manufacturer. We always find those owners who have purchased the 'raft' electric vehicles, let them buy batteries, and then we buy them of new and used batteries.”
As a consumer of electric vehicles, it is common to replace batteries. However, Hong's Group's electric vehicles have just started, and the number is not large compared with "raft", but the growth rate is very high.
Therefore, the manufacturer of "raft" did not find anything fishy at all.
As long as Hong's Group is listed overseas, Guo Huining can negotiate for better patents, so that there will be less resistance to raising prices.
Unfortunately, their plan suddenly collapsed just before their successful listing.
"...How did you find out?!" Guo Huining flipped through his phone and looked at the whole story summarized by those on the Internet. His eyes fell on the first open letter to the electric vehicle manufacturer "Raft".
This open letter directly targets the battery problems of Hong Group’s electric vehicles.
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