Becoming a Russian Oligarch After Rebirth
Chapter 877 - 839: Fake Foreign Investment_2

Chapter 877: Chapter 839: Fake Foreign Investment_2

Wang Yanhua felt dizzy, and didn’t even know how to navigate the path anymore.

Taking a step with her right leg, her right hand swung out, followed by her left leg, and left hand as she walked up to the podium in this odd, staggering manner.

But this time, no one was laughing. Everyone was eagerly watching Wang Yanhua’s back, as well as the huge stack of hundred yuan notes on the table!

The finance department had already swiftly counted out forty bundles from the pile of money, specially packaged in transparent plastic bags and sealed.

Wang Ye’s father reached out to lift the bag of notes, weighed it, and said with a smile, "My, that’s quite heavy!"

"Hold on tight to it!" he added as he stuffed the bag of notes into Wang Yanhua’s arms and said, "Don’t forget to give your family a big red envelope when you go home in a few days. You haven’t been home much this year, have you? Take advantage of the New Year to really honor your parents."

Clutching onto the big bag of money in a daze, Wang Yanhua didn’t even know what to say and just smiled stupidly, incessantly nodding.

After receiving the reward, she couldn’t leave yet, because there was a group photo session to follow.

As Wang Ye’s father called out names one by one, the various major awards were also collected by excited salespeople one after another.

In the end, these salespeople, cradling bundles of notes in their arms, took a group photo with Wang Ye’s father and the County Magistrate.

This group photo was destined for the news. It was quite the event for the county to have such a big enterprise, especially one that had given such generous bonuses to its employees.

Absolutely brilliant material indeed.

In this day and age the country is advocating for the Reform and Opening Up and shared prosperity, the Flour Improver Factory is definitely the best case study.

From an initially moribund factory, the introduction of foreign investment had immediately filled it with vitality.

Not only did it provide nearly a thousand jobs for the people in the county, but after making a profit, it also rewarded the hard-working factory employees with a substantial amount of cash.

The County Magistrate had already instructed the staff to take more photos and write a good article to be sent to the city newspaper offices!

Plus, there were people from the County Television Station recording, hoping it might make it to the city TV’s Evening News!

The award ceremony went quickly, and the process was even more straightforward.

But this scene had a huge impact on all the factory workers!

Normally, each person’s monthly salary was just a thousand or so yuan, and even though the Flour Improver Factory was profitable and the boss was generous, it was rare for anyone to earn more than two thousand yuan.

But this year-end bonus, the highest received was four hundred thousand!

That was equivalent to forty years of income for an ordinary worker...

So this is what they call "more pay for more work, let the capable get rich first"!

For those workers used to "Public Meal" and communal dining, the impact of this scene was tremendous.

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Wang Ye’s father was indeed quite generous.

The factory had indeed made money this year, with a sales revenue of eighty million yuan, and after all expenses, the net profit was nearly twenty million!

Of course, this was also because it was still within the tax exemption period, which meant one less major expense.

So he generously took out a large sum of money as a Year-end bonus for employees, allowing everyone to share in the benefits brought by the factory’s development.

In addition to the award-winning employees at today’s commendation ceremony, all factory workers were to receive a Year-end bonus.

Three months’ salary each!

This was for all factory workers, including the cleaners!

This expense alone was over four million yuan, more than the total of this year’s commendation bonuses...

However, the effect it brought was clear and apparent.

All the factory workers were overjoyed, and they were so excited that they didn’t even want to take the holiday for the New Year; they wished to continue working!

As the factory workers went back to their homes on holiday, the news spread.

The Flour Improver Factory instantly became the focus of the entire county.

Almost everyone in the county was discussing the Flour Improver Factory’s Year-end bonus, the high bonuses, and Wang Yanhua, who received four hundred thousand...

There were also many people pulling strings from every direction, trying to get a job at the Flour Improver Factory.

It was said that after Wang Yanhua, who received the four hundred thousand, went home for the New Year, the threshold of his family’s home was almost trampled down by matchmakers, all trying to introduce him to potential partners!

Earning four hundred thousand a year, what a concept...

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Everything had been going smoothly, the factory business thrived, and after the New Year, investments were even made to build new plants and purchase new production lines in preparation for further expansion.

However, Wang Ye’s father’s mood soured after he received a certain piece of news.

The news was passed along by a friend of his in the city, and its content was simple.

It meant that the Flour Improver Factory’s distribution of millions in bonuses over the New Year had spread all over the city, attracting the attention of the City Grain Bureau.

During a Grain Bureau’s team meeting after the New Year, someone brought up this issue.

That is, the Flour Improver Factory was originally an asset of the County Grain Bureau, so why was it sold without the city’s approval?

Was there some underhanded deal, was there a loss of state-owned assets, or was someone colluding internally and externally to embezzle state-owned assets?

Otherwise, why would such a profitable factory be sold without any fanfare?

The friend who shared this information worked at the City Grain Bureau but wasn’t qualified to participate in the team meetings. After finding out about this, he hastily informed Wang Ye’s father.

In the end, he added with deep significance,

"Yuanwen (Wang Ye’s father’s name), everyone has seen your capabilities.

In theory, with your abilities, you should have been promoted long ago. Why haven’t you been? It’s because you don’t work on your relationships and have offended many!

Now you are in business, making so much money, but you don’t even bribe people above and below.

I understand that you grew this ’cake,’ but don’t forget, you made this ’cake’ on someone else’s turf.

Without sharing a slice with everyone, do you think they will let you off?

If you were wise, you wouldn’t take out so much money for some recognition ceremony.

Giving an ordinary employee a bonus of four hundred thousand, have you lost your mind?

I heard your factory issued seven or eight million in bonuses over the New Year. With that much money, if you had shared some with the county and the city,

would anyone still trouble you?

Just joking, but if you really shared that seven or eight million with the county and city, you could strut around the whole city, and wander in and out of the City government office at will!"

After listening to his old friend’s earnest advice, Wang Yuanwen fell silent.

It wasn’t that he didn’t understand these matters, but rather that he was unwilling to do them!

Call him stubbornly principled or rigid in thought, he simply refused to act in such a manner.

Because of this, he had paid a price. Graduating in the seventies, he was certainly a highly educated and qualified talent at that time!

Eventually, he spent half his lifetime and only attained a Deputy section level, while some of his peers had made it to the provincial and ministerial level.

This evidently fell short of his aspirations.

Now, he was basking in his son’s success, finding what one might call a "second spring" in life.

Although he had received the news, Wang Yuanwen still did not take any action, much less heed his friend’s advice to grease some palms.

He always believed that all one needed to do was honestly conduct oneself properly without resorting to crooked paths.

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Wang Yuanwen’s old friend did not mislead him, as it wasn’t long before an investigation team from the city descended upon the county.

They began to investigate the sale of the Flour Improver Factory.

Wang Yuanwen was also called in by the investigation team for questioning, to determine whether the so-called Foreign Investment was real or fake.

The city indeed suspected an issue with this so-called Foreign Investment, because it seemed improbable that genuine foreign investment would overlook coastal cities or capital metropolises like Shanghai, to instead invest in a Flour Improver Factory in a small inland county town.

The most crucial point was, despite claims of foreign investment, there wasn’t a single foreigner present within the Flour Improver Factory!

All management and finance were handled solely by Wang Yuanwen!

Anyone with a bit of sense could see something was amiss...

Confronted with this situation, Wang Yuanwen indeed could not provide any reasonable explanation, as he felt somewhat uneasy.

Because at the time, Wang Ye had only told him about a Russian company conducting a nominal acquisition, but the actual funding was still provided by Wang Ye.

Thus, in Wang Yuanwen’s heart, this so-called Foreign Investment indeed had some "issues"...