Reaching for the stars with one hand

Chapter 84 Huo Zhichao 5
"Sorry, Carl. I may need to explain some things to my colleagues in Chinese. But rest assured, everything we say is good for the outcome. You and John can ask Horton to provide translation if needed."

Horton was stunned for a moment, thinking that some things might not be easy to translate.

"Your guess is right. I think we should get rid of these doubts first and concentrate on doing things. Otherwise, thinking too much will affect our efficiency and mood of doing things. This Mr. Li is Horton. Some illegal means, signed a legal consulting contract with SKydon. His purpose is very pure, just to earn his own consulting fees, am I right?" He turned to Horton.

Holden smiled and nodded, "Yes, I deserve it."

"Horton has no ability to fulfill his promises. I guess those promises are not in the contract, so he doesn't need to fulfill them. He doesn't want to cooperate with Skydon for a long time, so he doesn't care about the follow-up. But his promises were rejected by Karl. Over-interpreted and reported to the president, so the whole company moved, including our bosses Paul and John. So what Horton can't do has become our responsibility, and we must take this matter Do a good job, but all the credit should still be attributed to Horton and Carl."

"That's the reality of what we're dealing with, but we don't have a choice. Don't try to explain Holden's problem, except for probably Steve, everyone understands now, but no one wants to do it. We are acting now. A modern version of "The Emperor's New Clothes", in any case, can only finish the parade first."

"I just want to explain everything clearly to everyone, and don't be suspicious while doing things. But the whole thing can only continue on this basis and try our best to do our best."

Facing Zhang Yong's words, Horton only translated one sentence for Karl and John, "He is advising everyone how to do the best." The two foreigners looked at each other suspiciously.

Feng Yun looked at Zhang Yong, "I thought you would call us to fight."

Zhang Yong smiled, "We are just a group of migrant workers with limited choices. Not everything can be fought. Maybe in the future I will choose to tell the truth, not everyone, but myself. But now, we can only do these things well. Make Steve happy, make everyone happy. That's what we say. And Paul has a point. We can try to turn something bad into something good. We can take advantage of the president's visit and do something of our own. article."

Feng Yun nodded, "Understood. I don't want you to say anything in the future, we are just a group of Chinese employees, and we don't have much right to speak, and you don't need to pay too much, just to say Some truths that are no longer important. Personally, I will do my best to complete this mission."

Others also agreed, "Okay, it's better to do things plainly than to scold the street when doing things. Let's help Mr. Yang take the blame. I can persuade myself that we are doing a very helpful thing."

Carl felt everyone's emotions with some doubts. He didn't understand what Zhang Yong said, and he didn't quite trust Horton's translation, but he could feel that everyone lost their previous depression and was full of vitality again.

John and Karl felt the same way, but for a moment, he was in a trance.Zhang Yong was the one who insisted on staying, but Zhang Yong had been a transparent person for too long. John had never seen him express such a long opinion to everyone. He really wanted to know what Zhang Yong said, but he didn't want to find out. Feng Yun and the others understood.He decided to learn as much Chinese as possible in the future.

After everything was explained clearly, everyone's ideas came immediately.

Li Kefei was the first to stand up, "Carl, it's the tour season for agents. Why don't we change the venue of their tour, and move all the meetings to Shanghai in the name of Skydon President and expert group. Combining Shanghai Our newly visited industry user group organized a large-scale SKydon forum, divided into more than a dozen sub-forums by industry and application, and SKydon experts participated in the corresponding forums according to their own business divisions."

Immediately someone supported, "Great idea. In this way, it will not only be us, but let all agents participate, and our problem of manpower shortage will be solved."

"During Steve's meeting, an agency meeting can be arranged. We will also bring our partners from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan to let Steve inspect our agency team."

"A meeting with Steve can be arranged for large users, such as Northern Company, such as the Engineering Center."

"Let the agents gather the users of universities and research institutes in their hands, bring together scholars, and hold a high-end academic forum."

Zhang Yong also joined in, "After the release of the SAR CORS network, my working time has been occupied, and everything has been stagnant. This time I can set up a reference station online forum to gather relevant users from all over the country."

Carl's interest was also aroused, he participated in the discussion with great interest, and did not forget to say to John: "Congratulations, you have a very strong team."

There was a wry smile in John's heart, yes, if they are not strong, how can they take the blame for you.

A series of action plans were quickly drawn up. The relevant regional managers contacted the agents at the meeting. Upon hearing the news that the president of SKydon came, Li Wenyu, Mr. Zhao and all the agents immediately expressed their full cooperation. And will go to Shanghai in advance, waiting to meet with Steve.

A nearly perfect plan was drawn up, but at the last moment, Karl frowned again.

"Thank you for your input. These are all very good. It's just about Steve. His meeting content is relatively full, but it seems that the weight is not enough. I still need one or two heavyweights to come and talk to Steve. Meet Tiff. What do you guys think?"

Zhang Yong turned his head, "Horton, your high-level relationship can be used."

Holden didn't change his face, "Karl is asking what you think, I will communicate with Karl later. But my relationship is difficult to show in public. Especially the foreign part, it will be very sensitive. You should go first Find a way."

Zhang Yong said another sentence in Chinese to Horton, "You wait for me." Horton was shocked for no reason, and then comforted him, I don't need to be afraid of him, he can't do anything.

"My reference station network forum will invite Academician Zhu to give a keynote report. You can take the opportunity to arrange a meeting with Steve, but it is not Academician Zhu who will come to see Steve, but Steve's team will send a letter of greeting. Apply to meet Academician Zhu..."

"In addition, I can also look at the leaders of the engineering center. Mihe can arrange for the leaders of the northern company, but the senior leaders should not come to participate in the technical forum. They are just some technical leaders. I don't know if it is suitable, but it is already what I can do. Arrived all."

Carl nodded, took notes one by one, and asked another question, "Is there any important person in Shanghai that Steve can visit?"

Zhang Yong shook his head, "I don't, look at other people, or communicate with the agent." It's not all there, but Zhang Yong doesn't want to do his best. Other things are at least for business promotion, and are specially arranged for the boss. Yes, besides pleasing the boss, what else is there to do.

Carl can only accept that he has gained enough today, at least, it should be enough to satisfy him with a perfect career.

"Okay, that's all for the meeting. Thank you very much. I will have dinner with John tonight. Do you want to join us? You are welcome to join us."

Zhang Yong shook his head, and waved his hand to stop his colleagues, "Thank you for the invitation, we will not be participating. Horton and I have some matters to continue communicating tonight."

Carl looked at Holden suspiciously, who was as suspicious as he was.

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Horton, who returned to the room, was a little restless, always worried that something bad would happen.Today he saw another side of Zhang Yong, and vaguely felt that this seemingly honest guy might play an unexpected card.

Sure enough, during dinner, Horton received a call from Zhang Yong, asking him to go to the gym and saying that he had a surprise for him.

Holden was inexplicably a little nervous, and then he laughed at himself. He even played tricks on these American industry giants, so why should he care about a Chinese employee.

Horton changed his clothes and went out. When he turned into the corridor leading to the gym, he saw Zhang Yong standing in the middle of the corridor with an indescribable smile on his face.

"Why are you asking me out? What's in the gym?"

"We don't go to the gym, it's monitored."

"Surveillance? Do you still dare to do illegal things." Holden said with a smile, then he looked around, the smile gradually condensed on his face, and he found something.

"Did you find out, this section is probably the only section in the entire hotel that is not covered by surveillance."

"What do you want to do?" Holden sneered, "There is no monitoring, and this is also in a hotel, I am not afraid of what you do. I am also sure, you may not be easy to mess with, but you are definitely a law-abiding citizen, you dare not How about me? But I don't have time to mess around with you, excuse me."

He turned to leave, but found that the escape route was blocked by several people. They were the employees of Skydon's Beijing representative office, and Li Kefei, who had a big waist, was the first to bear the brunt and stood at the front.

"Horton, you can't go. It's no use calling someone, everyone knows we are together, I would say we were just joking. It's even no use calling the police, we haven't done anything now."

Holden turned around, blushing a little, "Since you don't do anything, let me go. Warning, Watch yourself."

Don't get excited, "I'm here to discuss a business with you."

"Why isn't it a suitable place to talk about business?"

"I think this place is very suitable. I want to ask, how much is your final payment for consulting fees?"

Holden smiled, with a look of disdain on his face, "Oh, I want to make an idea of ​​my consulting fee. Zhang Yong, the police may not care about the previous matter. If it involves blackmail, I'm afraid you won't be able to get away with the crime."

"How can you think like this? You just said that I am a legal resident. Well, don't waste time. Since you don't disclose how much the final payment is, I won't ask. Just tell you..."

"Because of you, I didn't sleep well for almost three days. And my colleagues, also because of you, dropped everything to come here and put extra energy on tasks that should not belong to them. No reward, not even credit .Everything we do is because of you, but we haven't even heard you say thank you...."

"Today, we did bear everything, and we will not complain to the boss, but do you think that we can really balance our mentality completely? We are really being teased by you like this, and we have to work for you, and take credit for it. Is it all yours? I can't do it, what about you?"

He turned his head and asked the people behind Holden, "Of course it can't be done." Someone replied.

Li Kefei said domineeringly: "We take SKydon's salary, and the boss can only do what he says. But we have never been paid by Holden Company. Since we are unhappy and can't settle accounts with the boss, we can only vent our anger on him . We beat him up first, and then we worked for him, which is more reasonable than a deal."

Horton looked at Li Kefei's body, took a breath, "Think about it clearly, although beating someone is not comparable to extortion, it is still illegal. If you dare to touch me, I will put you in trouble."

Zhang Yong smiled, "Let me use your method to calculate. If we hit you, you call the police and we enter the game. What will Carl do? He will find a way to keep us out, because we need to work , he will do his best to cover it up from Steve, or he will ask about the reason for our conflict, which will end up in your business consulting. If he can't cover it up, then the trouble may be bigger , I can assure you that under the fury of the boss, everyone will be held accountable, and you will definitely not be able to get the final payment...”

"And we don't care. I will take all the responsibilities and find a job again. In fact, you haven't lost anything. You have already made preparations for not paying the final payment, so your loss is minimal, just a little flesh and blood."

Li Kefei interjected: "I assure you, I can make you hurt, but I will never hurt you. We are law-abiding citizens, and we can be forgiven for occasionally fighting each other because of verbal conflicts."

Feng Yun said: "Stop talking nonsense, let's do it."

Several people rushed forward and surrounded Horton.

Holden's face immediately changed color. Yes, his loss may not be too big, but he didn't want to be beaten.

He is well-dressed and dressed in famous brands, and he always appears in front of everyone with a superior image. He is sure that even a big company like SKydon can't do anything to him, so he is not afraid of anything.He has already left the realm of fighting with others. He has calculated thousands of times. He never thought that Zhang Yong would use the lowest level of force to solve the problem. But he has nothing to do with this low level method, and he is about to be fisted. add body.

"Wait a minute," Horton called out, and his mind cleared up, "You just talked about a deal, what kind of deal? How?"

"Guys, don't rush to act. This Mr. Horton Lee still wants to talk to us." Zhang Yong stopped everyone.

Li Kefei said: "As I said just now, asking him for the final payment is blackmail. We don't do illegal things. Let's beat him up. I haven't worked out today, and my hands are itchy."

"Brother Li, give me a minute, so you don't delay your shot. Holden, do you want to talk? Listen to my suggestion?"

"Okay, tell me." Horton made up his mind, no matter what Zhang Yong said, he would agree to him, and let him get away first.In a society ruled by law, he can't let these brats plot against him.

"I like this attitude very much, so let's do it. The seafood buffet on the top floor is 598 per person. It has done so many things for you. It is very reasonable to treat us to a meal. Counting ten people in total, the cost should be less than A fraction of your consulting fee."

Holden looked ignorant, and gradually turned from puzzlement to anger, "That's it? You arranged such a big battle just for a meal? Are you called Hanako? You haven't eaten. As for this appearance? Scared me to death gone."

Zhang Yong and his group smirked, "We are law-abiding citizens, what can we do to liars like you? Today I want to eat you up and scare you. Holden, I like to see you panicked .”

"Zhang Yong, I know you now. Okay, wait until I get back to my room to get my credit card."

"No, Master Huo," Li Kefei came up and hugged Holden's shoulders. Holden felt uncomfortable. He hadn't had such intimate contact with anyone for a long time.

"You may not have your credit card with you when you go out, but you definitely will not without your room card. You can keep the room bill in the hotel. Your mortgage at the front desk must be a credit card. Let's go upstairs to have a good meal and open a bottle for us Good wine. You caused trouble, we helped you carry it, maybe Steve can renew you a contract next time, you will take advantage of this."

Feng Yun said aside: "Li Kefei, you are going too far. You can eat as soon as you eat, why do you need to add a bottle of good wine? This won't work."

"Oh, what about you?"

"Ten people, at least three bottles are enough."

Holden knew that today's punishment would not be escaped. To him, this punishment was actually a small price, but it meant repaying someone in the same way as someone else.He was slaughtered by Zhang Yong and his group, but the other party would not have any consequences, just a meal.

But he also thought of another situation. Although the meal was nothing to him, he would not have agreed without Zhang Yong's half-truth and half-fake coercion.

He was a little frustrated. As a civilized person, he didn't lose in the intellectual duel, but he didn't expect that Skydon's Chinese employees were actually a group of ruthless barbarians.

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Carl and John enjoyed a quiet dinner with only two white people, visited the night view of Shanghai, and returned to the hotel contentedly.

When they got back to the hotel floor, another elevator opened at the same time.They saw an unbelievable scene, Zhang Yong and his colleagues from the representative office came out happily together with Holden. They were reeking of alcohol, obviously drinking a lot.Li Kefei and Holden hooked up shoulder to shoulder and walked among the crowd very intimately.

Looking at the backs of a group of people, the two looked at each other in blank dismay, "When did their relationship become so harmonious?"

"The Chinese are really a mysterious and peculiar nation."

(End of this chapter)