The shareholder representatives headed by Steve carefully observed Nie Qingru's reaction, while Lei Kai and others looked at the senior representatives who took the lead in calling people with a half-smile in their eyes.
Only Nie Qingru raised his eyelids as if it was nothing special and agreed: "Yes. I was stuck in traffic and was a little late. You can start the meeting now."
Others called her the Queen, but she did not deny it. Instead, she admitted that she was still the Queen of the hidden family!
The shareholders led by Steve were stunned by her action.
Steve instinctively glanced in the direction of Lei Kai.
Lei Kai raised the corner of his mouth, said nothing, leaned forward slightly and placed his hands on the round conference table, as if he didn't want to pay attention to Nie Qingru's self-entertainment.
Steve got the message from his body language, sat down calmly, and gave his people a "calm down" look.
The meeting proceeded in an orderly manner.
This Smith Bank shareholders meeting was a reform meeting proposed by shareholder representatives, and they had already revealed their intention to replace people in advance.
Nie Qingru naturally knew this.
So when the meeting started, the confrontation between the two sides was very fierce.
On one hand, shareholder representatives led by Steve have repeatedly criticized Nie Qingru for his recent wrong decisions, which have dragged the bank into a financial crisis.
On one side, senior executives, mainly those trained by Nie Qingru, distributed documents to everyone, using data from the past ten years to prove that the bank's momentum had risen under Nie Qingru's leadership.
"Previous successes cannot erase the fact that these decisions were major mistakes!"
"Director Hans, can you guarantee that you will never make a mistake in your life and that you can make the right decision every time?"
The top management responded forcefully, "I don't think that a few mistakes in decision-making can erase the success of Mr. Nie's outstanding leadership of Smith Bank over the past decade. At least the data in the documents I handed to you can explain everything! These data can't be false!"
The conference room fell into a brief silence.
Both sides argued until their faces turned red and they were breathing heavily, neither of them willing to give in.
But Nie Qingru produced written "evidence", which was more convincing than the shareholders' meeting which just talked nonsense.
The scales seemed to be tilting towards Nie Qingru.
Steve said slowly, "We also have a document to show you."
He snapped his fingers: "Come in."
The assistant outside pushed the door open and distributed the documents that had been prepared long ago to everyone, making sure that everyone had a copy, including Nie Qingru himself.
Nie Qingru looked at the paper in front of her, narrowed her eyes, and did not flip through it immediately. Instead, she pursed her lips and glanced at it with a sharp look.
She first glanced at Steve to make sure he was a conservative. Then she picked up the document on the table and roughly flipped through it, glancing at it.
The more Nie Qingru looked, the lower the pressure on her body became.
Steve threw out the trump card he had prepared long ago: "Everyone can take a look at the data I provided. From it, you can see the number of times the Nie family has asked for benefits from the bank in the name of President Nie, as well as the cooperation projects between the Nie family and the bank in the past ten years, as well as the profits."
"From the documents I gave you, you can clearly see that among the thirty projects we cooperated with the Nie family, only two of them were profitable, while 28 projects were loss-making, and each one caused a significant loss to the bank!"
"According to the rules, after a partner bank like the Nie family suffers a loss for the first time, they will no longer cooperate with the other party."
(End of this chapter)