My Daily Basic Stipend Is 10 Million

Chapter 201: Chapter 169: A Beautiful Future

In Liu Haoran’s office, Xu Jia sat across from him.

As the key to his relationship with President Chen and President Zhao, Liu Haoran naturally placed great importance on Xu Jia.

Zhao Hui’s departure had sent him into a panic, making him fear that his connection to President Chen would grow distant. After all, without that connection, the CEO’s attitude toward him would be completely different.

Fortunately, though Zhao Hui was gone, Xu Jia was still here. He already knew she was President Zhao’s best friend, someone closer to her than a biological sister!

"Xu Jia, I’m afraid you’re going to have to take on more responsibility!"

Liu Haoran said with a smile, but Xu Jia felt a little embarrassed. ’What responsibilities did she even have? On paper, she was managing the two high-end brands, Sa Mo and Yino.’

’But neither of those brands had opened a single store yet, and she was so idle every day it was driving her crazy!’

’The merchandise department was naturally responsible for the pre-opening inventory. The supervisors below were handling recruitment perfectly well, and President Liu had even requested that they select top talent from the other stores. She didn’t have to worry about a thing.’

’As for training, that was the training department’s job, of course. She was just a hands-off manager!’

Before she could respond, Liu Haoran continued, "But don’t you worry. With great ability comes great responsibility, and with great responsibility comes a higher salary, right?"

’Alright, sounds like he’s about to give me a raise!’

"I’ve already submitted an application to corporate to raise your salary by one grade, to a base of 25,000 yuan. However, because you haven’t been with the company long, we can’t raise your official rank just yet. I’m sorry to have to ask you to bear with that for now!"

’Slighted? I’m not slighted at all. As long as the pay is right, I’m happy!’

’Besides, I haven’t even done anything, and he just found a bunch of excuses to give me a 10,000 yuan raise. If I complained about that, I’m afraid Xiangjun would strangle me!’

"Thank you for your support and trust, President Liu!"

Xu Jia smiled, her eyes curving like crescent moons.

Liu Haoran continued, "We’ll likely be taking over the agency for the ’Ledi’ brand soon as well. And it’ll be a complete takeover of all of Four Seasons Clothing’s current stores and inventory!"

"You’re hearing this first. We’re still waiting for the brand’s headquarters to coordinate the details."

Ledi was definitely going to lose its spot in Ganglong International. The parent company’s CEO felt that the agent, Four Seasons Clothing, was playing them for fools.

Even if, as Xia Bin claimed, they only grabbed Ledi’s spot after Yino snatched the Sa Mo agency, that only served to highlight Four Seasons Clothing’s incompetence and the power of the Yinuo Jiangzhou Branch!

If anything, this was all the more reason to choose the Yinuo Jiangzhou Branch. Consequently, the Ledi group was now aggressively pushing to terminate its partnership with Four Seasons Clothing.

Of course, Xia Bin tried to fight it, but the Ledi group issued an ultimatum.

If they surrendered and ensured a smooth handover of all current stores, the group would buy back all of Four Seasons Clothing’s inventory at the original purchase price.

If they refused to cooperate, then the contract would simply not be renewed when it expired in two months. At that point, Four Seasons Clothing would be forbidden from selling any apparel bearing the Ledi logo or using any decorations or signage with the Ledi brand name.

Furthermore, any merchandise Four Seasons Clothing had already ordered would be non-refundable. If that happened, Xia Bin would lose his shirt.

Despite doing over a billion in business annually, his net profit was only in the high tens of millions. The Sa Mo debacle had already cost him nearly ten million.

Now, Junxiao Square was about to shut down five of his profitable, large-format stores.

If Ledi dealt him another blow, not only would the entire year have been for nothing, but the loss of these two core brands would also trigger a chain reaction of problems.

Xia Bin was now calling in every favor he could, hoping to arrange a face-to-face meeting with Ledi’s CEO. But what was his status? He was just a regional distributor.

Why would Ledi’s CEO ever agree to meet him? His tragic fate was sealed.

And Liu Haoran’s happiness was built upon Xia Bin’s suffering.

Previously, he’d had no chance of getting a foothold in Ganglong International. Now, not only had he secured spots for Yi Rui and Sa Mo, but if the Ledi agency was given to the Yinuo Jiangzhou Branch, President Chen had said he would personally call Huang Guangyuan and make him give up Erte’s location for Ledi.

Liu Haoran could just imagine Xia Bin’s utter despair, and he could also picture how livid the Erte brand was about to become!

But then, who was to blame but Erte for being so out of touch with reality? Not only had they mercilessly rejected his own proposal to negotiate a regional agency, but they had also mocked him, scoffing at the idea that he could ever successfully manage a high-end brand.

He’d heard that even when their own CEO, Zhang Shijie, had called Erte headquarters, they had snubbed him as well.

Liu Haoran had learned through the grapevine that the CEO of Erte and Xia Bin’s family were old family friends. No wonder they were so protective of him.

’Fine. The friend of my enemy is my enemy. Since you’re so clueless, I’ll just take you both down at the same time!’

Erte’s market share in the Han River region was already lower than Sa Mo’s and Ledi’s, and its brand influence was the weakest of the three.

Whether he secured their agency or not wouldn’t make a big difference.

Xu Jia was stunned for a moment. Of course, she knew why Xia Bin had been having such a miserable time lately, but she hadn’t expected Chen Xiao to have this much influence.

In the blink of an eye, he had dismantled Four Seasons Clothing’s core business. The company, once an illustrious name in the Han River retail circle, had been thrown into a state of utter disarray.

In fact, the story of them being kicked out of Ganglong International and Junxiao Square had become a running joke in the industry.

’Taking on Ledi wouldn’t be much more pressure for her. In fact, it would be beneficial for her career development—not to mention it came with a raise!’

She thanked President Liu again for his trust, but in her heart, she knew who was really playing the crucial role.

As the two of them were talking, Fang Qiang walked in from outside, a grim look on his face.

Ever since returning from Junxiao Square that day, he had spent the last two days butting heads with Sun Wei.

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