Chapter 135: Backroom Operation
Magic City.
In the Donghua Group headquarters building beside the Huangpu River.
Kong Zhaolin dealt with several parts suppliers with a tired look on his face before returning to his office. He rubbed his temples, picked up the cold coffee beside him and took a sip: "Huh..."
Without Wu Heguang in charge, Kong Zhaolin felt physically and mentally exhausted by the various factions within the Donghua Group.
"Mr. Kong."
"Come in."
Huang Kang, the vice president who was in charge of communicating with the acceptance company, walked in with a document and reported with a somewhat grim expression:
"Mr. Kong, Kaile Company requires the two acceptance companies to do the final acceptance. If they still cannot guarantee that the equipment meets the standards, Kaile Company will decide to sue our company in accordance with the contract."
"Why did they change their minds again?" Kong Zhaolin felt almost numb.
Huang Kang spread his hands helplessly: "Boss Kong, they are also anxious! But our equipment has not passed the acceptance inspection, and they are very skeptical about our technology."
"Damn it! What went wrong?" Kong Zhaolin grabbed his hair in pain.
The two talked for a while and felt that this was not a solution, but there was no solution. Now the initiative was in the hands of Kaile Company.
Looking at the setting sun outside the window, Kong Zhaolin felt a sense of helplessness and at the end of his rope.
"I'm tired. I'll call a meeting with the company executives at the headquarters tomorrow. Let's stop here today!"
Huang Kang consoled him, "Don't be discouraged, Mr. Kong. Maybe the equipment will be ready for acceptance in a few days. You should still take care of your health. The company depends on you now."
"Thank you Mr. Huang for your concern. See you tomorrow." Kong Zhaolin replied weakly.
After the two said goodbye.
Feeling upset, Kong Zhaolin drove his Tesla and prepared to go home to calm down.
After stopping at the traffic light for a while, he seemed to feel that the traffic light countdown was a little slow today, which made him feel annoyed.
There is relatively little pedestrian and vehicle traffic on this section of road, which is related to the remote location of Donghua Group's headquarters.
Finally, when the green light came on, he stepped on the accelerator and accelerated forward. However, the speed of other vehicles in his sight became a little slow.
Kong Zhaolin felt that his car was only going about 40 km/h, which made him subconsciously step on the accelerator.
The turning lane is not far away.
The car owners around saw the Tesla speeding past and immediately started cursing.
"Depend on!"
"Driving so fast, are you in a hurry to be reincarnated?"
"He's screwed. Most people can't negotiate this kind of curve at this speed."
"Another Tesla?"
"Damn it! Why aren't you slowing down?"
Kong Zhaolin's Tesla suddenly rushed onto the sidewalk, then crashed through the guardrail and plunged into the Huangpu River.
The surrounding car owners and pedestrians were stunned.
Huang Kang, who had not yet left the headquarters building, had just finished a phone call with Li Xinyi from the equipment manufacturer when he saw his secretary running in hurriedly.
The secretary said in a panic, "Boss Huang, Boss Kong's wife called just now and asked if Boss Kong had driven home?"
"Yeah? What's wrong?" Huang Kang replied in confusion.
Gulu! The secretary's face turned even paler: "Someone just called Mr. Kong's wife and said that Mr. Kong's car lost control and rushed into the Huangpu River."
"What? Are you kidding?" Huang Kang was shocked.
But the secretary shook his head desperately: "It's true."
Huang Kang sat there in a daze. He felt that Donghua Group had been unlucky upon unlucky recently - extremely unlucky.
The secretary looked at him at a loss, waiting for him, the company's highest-ranking vice president, to make a decision.
After being distracted for a while, Huang Kang made a few phone calls to confirm whether the matter was true or not. Before confirmation, he didn't dare to report to Wu Heguang and Wu Xinlan.
Finally, after more than two hours, the car was fished out.
Huang Kang and Kong Zhaolin's wife rushed to the scene, and the moment they saw the license plate, Kong Zhaolin's wife's eyes went dark.
Huang Kang slowly pulled open the white cloth with trembling hands, and when he saw the pale and familiar face underneath the cloth, he quickly covered it back.
Then he nodded to the police officer beside him: "He is Kong Zhaolin."
"Then please cooperate with our investigation, Mr. Huang. We would like to know the recent situation of the deceased."
Huang Kang nodded: "No problem."
After taking the statement for more than an hour, Huang Kang came out and saw Kong Zhaolin's family members crying bitterly. He had no choice but to comfort them despite his fatigue.
He had just walked out the door and was about to drive home, but suddenly he stopped, took out his cell phone and called a designated driver.
Apparently Huang Kang was too frightened to drive while tired.
After returning home, he immediately called Wu Xinlan.
Upon hearing the news, Wu Xinlan was extremely shocked and said that she would return to Shanghai as soon as possible to take charge of the company's work.
But at noon the next day, Kong Zhaolin's father called Wu Heguang and Wu Heguang learned the news. Wu Heguang could not bear the shock and suffered another cerebral hemorrhage and was admitted to the intensive care unit.
But in fact, Wu Heguang did know that Kong Zhaolin was dead, but he was still alive and well. After all, the biochip could forcibly control his body, making it difficult for him to have a cerebral hemorrhage.
That afternoon, it was declared that Wu Heguang's life was in vain and his body was kept in the morgue of Ipoh Hospital.
Wu Heguang looked at "his own" corpse with a very ugly expression, but he was extremely desperate, because at this time he had been transformed into a lonely old man who cleaned the Ipoh Hospital. He could only watch but not interfere with everything in the real world.
During these few days, he suffered unprecedented despair. His life was controlled like a puppet, and he thought about suicide all the time.
It’s a pity that the biological chip in his brain monitors his every move at all times and even actively controls his body to do things.
Just after Wu Heguang passed away, Yang Tiancheng, on behalf of the Yang family, and Du Shuping and others, personally went to Ipoh Hospital to take a look at Wu Heguang's body, and then went back to report truthfully.
Wu Xinlan decided to cremate the body on the spot in Hong Kong, claiming that it would be very troublesome to send the body back to the mainland.
The Donghua Group, which was already in chaos at this time, and some of the Wu family members who had their eyes on Wu Heguang's inheritance did not object to this matter.
Of course, these Wu family members are not interested in the shares of Donghua Group, mainly because Donghua Group is now facing a bankruptcy crisis.
In this weird atmosphere.
A few days later, Wu Xinlan and Gao Ming returned and managed to stabilize the internal situation of the Donghua Group.
At the same time, Wu Xinlan started a stock repurchase. Soon she bought back the stocks held by the company's executives and some shareholders. Together with some of the stocks she held herself, she accounted for 11.3% of Donghua Group's shares and became the second largest shareholder in the eyes of the public.
Since Wu Heguang is already "dead" in the legal sense, Wu Xinlan has now become the actual chairman of Donghua Group.
This series of changes did not revive the stock price of Donghua Group.
After all, it was already May 26th, and there were only 16 days left until the final deadline of Kaile's contract.
No one believes that Donghua Group can complete the contract within the deadline. Everyone is waiting for Donghua Group to fall. They are like vultures hovering in the air, ready to divide up the corpse of Donghua Group.
However, in the stock market, the share price of Donghua Group fell below 1 yuan, and there was still a certain trading volume at this time, mainly selling.
The Financial Office of the Home Affairs Department received a large number of shares for only tens of millions of Hong Kong dollars, increasing its shareholding to 53.2%.
After deducting the 34% frozen in Wu Heguang's name and the 11.3% in Wu Xinlan's hands, there are actually only 1.5% of the shares left in circulation on the market.
If Li Qingye announced his shareholding at this time, Donghua Group would instantly trigger the forced delisting clause.
