novelsite Chapter 79: The Tumu Revolution
Chapter 79: The Tumu Revolution
"Welcome to our company, esteemed CEOs."
"President Zhou, it is our honor that you have gathered us together."
"No, no."
"Mr. Zhou, we really need to get closer and cooperate more in industry matters in the future."
"Okay, no problem. Let's keep in touch and communicate more in the future."
"President Zhou..."
"..."
Inside the company's conference room, Zhou Luming exchanged pleasantries with the heads of medium-sized and larger private civil engineering companies from all over the country. The atmosphere was harmonious and friendly, a scene of industry networking.
However, after a few simple pleasantries, Zhou Luming's expression turned serious, and he got straight to the point: "Everyone, enough with the formalities, let's get down to business."
At this point, Zhou Luming first projected data on the densely packed unfinished building projects across the country, including their geographical distribution and project scale, onto the large screen. He then continued, "The screen displays a register of all the unfinished buildings currently in existence nationwide. Each of you can identify the corresponding rectification share based on your company's location, construction scale, and other factors. By the middle of next year, you must complete, finish, and hand over your assigned share."
"..."
The moment Zhou Luming finished speaking, the huge conference room fell into a deathly silence, and the previously harmonious atmosphere instantly froze.
The civil engineering executives all wore frosty expressions, their eyes filled with astonishment and coldness, secretly cursing in their hearts.
Leaving aside the fact that rectifying unfinished projects requires everyone to contribute money and effort, and that these unfinished projects are all bound to lose money, not to mention that the entire civil engineering industry is currently in a deep winter, with each company struggling to survive.
Just one question: Who does Zhou Luming think he is?
Cleaning up unfinished projects should be a public welfare rectification task that requires overall coordination and policy support. Even the authorities should negotiate with them in a friendly manner.
And Zhou Luming actually ordered them to carry it out in a top-down, authoritative tone!?
Do you really think that these civil engineering bosses, who have been deeply involved in the industry for decades and have offices all over the country, are pushovers who can be easily manipulated?
Also, the reason they came here is to divide up the engineering mechs, not to carry out some unfinished project rectification project!
Before the civil engineering executives could finish expressing their emotions, Zhou Luming continued calmly, "To be honest, according to normal rules, this kind of major industry rectification is not my responsibility to take the lead, much less to force everyone to make arrangements."
but!
It has been decided that all future private infrastructure projects, ground renovations, site construction, and other related projects will be managed and allocated by our company.
This is true both inside and outside the Earth.
Meanwhile, since you did not pay much attention to engineering mechs and did not upgrade the construction system in time, it has been decided that, effective immediately, the mech management organization will be transferred to our company and become a separate subsidiary.
This means that, starting today, all civilian engineering mechs on the market—Giant Construction, Forest Patrol, Rock Piercer, and special engineering mechs—including Azure Dragon, White Tiger, Black Tortoise, Vermilion Bird, and Qilin, as well as all their subsequent iterations, will be uniformly allocated, leased, and purchased by our company within a limited quota.
For this reason, the higher authorities specifically authorized our company to handle the resource integration and standardized management of the domestic private civil engineering industry.
Upon hearing this, the civil engineering executives in the conference room immediately had their pupils shrink, their heads buzzing and they were stunned, with only one thought remaining: the higher-ups had found an opportunity to drastically rectify their industry!
They know how much bad money drives out good in their industry, and how many shady dealings there are; not only do they know, but those above them do too.
Therefore, the higher-ups have always been very dissatisfied with them. However, for various reasons, they can only carry out a gradual, slow-burning rectification of them, rather than taking drastic measures to address the root causes of their problems.
After all, compared to maintaining social order and stability, cracking down on them is a minor matter.
More importantly, because of the lockdown, not only did their industry enter a period of hardship, but other industries did as well.
In this way, the higher-ups can't afford to go too far with them.
However, now that the economy is recovering overall, and there is a new market in the universe that is full of gold, coupled with the current labor shortage, all the negative impacts of cracking down on them have disappeared, so the higher-ups will naturally not miss it.
Unfortunately, they reacted too slowly, or perhaps they were still clinging to a sliver of hope and failed to escape earlier, which led to their capture.
Therefore, they only have two options: either cooperate with the higher-ups, pay out of their own pockets to clear up all the unfinished projects across the country, wipe out all the debts owed to the industry, and then obtain new development rights; or wait for a thorough investigation!
Switching careers with existing capital?
If possible, the higher-ups wouldn't have allowed Zhou Luming, an unrelated person, to talk to them about these things.
Because Zhou Luming is clearly just a mouthpiece and a puppet in front of the scenes, he has no right to modify the established content on behalf of those above. Therefore, discussing and negotiating with Zhou Luming is of no use.
But if the higher-ups won't pay attention to them, they should at least pay attention to Zhou Luming, right?
If that's the case, why don't they ask Zhou Luming to put in a good word for them and ask the higher-ups to relax the conditions a bit and reduce the intensity of the crackdown?
After all, time is too tight, costs are too high, and there seem to be two paths but in reality only one. In addition, they are now the bosses of a large industry, so there should be some room for discussion, right?
So, a civil engineering executive wiped the sweat from his brow and cautiously approached Zhou Luming, saying, "Mr. Zhou, you know what kind of life we're living right now. Could you put in a good word for us...?"
"Oh, I forgot to mention."
Before the boss could finish speaking, Zhou Luming pretended to suddenly realize something and said leisurely, "When a certain leader was talking to me, he specifically gave me a few instructions, saying that there are many, many private civil engineering companies, but their levels vary greatly and their standards are inconsistent, so it's a bit of a mess. Therefore, he asked me to take some extra care and sort them out properly."
However, my other work is more important than this, so if I put too much effort into it or become too busy, then so be it. Anyway, whether now or in the future, we will only lack labor, not bosses.
"Oh, that boss is such a nice person. He understands how hard my job is and tries not to give me too much extra work."
After speaking, Zhou Luming looked at the CEO with feigned innocence and asked, "Please continue, I've finished."
"..."
Since Zhou Luming has said that, what can the civil engineering boss say?
If we keep talking, he'll become a labor force!
Therefore, the boss chuckled awkwardly and said, "I will fully cooperate with your work, Mr. Zhou, and will absolutely not cause you any trouble!"