According to the data from finance, for the first week of June:
Same-store, year-over-year: Sales up 35%
Month-over-month: 60% increase
These numbers were outrageous. Whether year-over-year or month-over-month, they were number one in all of Futong Commerce, and by a wide margin.
This was also why Li Yang had a love-hate relationship with him now. He hated Yang Hui for being a thorn in his side, for being disrespectful, and for even going after a woman he himself had his eye on. He hated him to the bone.
But the kid really knew how to make him money. Li Yang would rather make things difficult for himself than for his wallet, so he endured it!
Keeping Yang Hui from interacting with Serene was, just as Dan Biao had guessed, because he’d discovered Yang Hui was a real piece of work. He made a move on any pretty woman. According to Cai Miao, not only was he always seen with Shen Meng as a couple, but he also occasionally took out Zhu Jing from his own department. It was unclear what they were doing, but their relationship didn’t seem ordinary either.
The kid was just like him: he had a taste for beautiful women.
AHEM~
Yang Hui cleared his throat. Although the numbers were impressive, there was still a weakness: the current performance was being propped up by support from the Xinyue Group, which pulled up the overall average.
But this was only because the performance of Xinyue Group’s 21 stores had improved. Business at Yida Department Store was still as bad as ever. Yang Hui had done what he did for the High-tech Zone Yida Department Store previously—finding the general managers of partner stores to ask for more subsidy coupons for Airex.
But some individual stores had so little foot traffic that they couldn’t even use up all the coupons they were given. This resulted in the Yida Department Store locations doing better month-over-month and being okay year-over-year, but their growth rate was still far below that of the Xinyue Square stores.
There was nothing to be done about it. Department stores were on the decline, and Xinyue Group was, after all, the top commercial real estate management company in the country.
He still had an ace up his sleeve for this. Based on the group-buying deals currently being negotiated for Yida Department Store, there should be a total of about 1.5 million by the end of the month. Once that was distributed among the stores, the progress targets would be met perfectly.
He didn’t bring it up now because he didn’t want the stores to develop a dependency. Group buys, extra resources from the mall—these were all external forces. To neglect one’s own efforts and rely entirely on outside help was to chase the trivial and neglect the essential. The day those external forces disappeared, their true, unimpressive forms would be exposed.
"Zhu Jing, has that 8,000 yuan discrepancy at the High-tech Zone Yida Department Store been reconciled yet?"
An email was sent last week requiring the "Erke" team to reconcile it by the 6th. Today was already the 8th.
"Not yet. The supervisor from Erke said their leadership needs to handle the reconciliation. Apparently, there was a promotional fee negotiated by Zhang Li that they don’t have the details for."
’Hmm? Does Zhang Li not take company directives seriously at all? Or does he think that because he’s Li Yang’s nephew, no one will bother to call him out?’
’Too bad for him, he’s mistaken. I’m not "no one." Even if he hadn’t pissed me off before, I’d still be looking to stir up some trouble for him. Who can I blame but myself for wanting to challenge anyone who steps out of line?’
He opened his laptop and found the last email from HR, the one demanding the Erke team clear up the accounts by the 6th.
He replied directly to it and once again CC’d the entire company.
[Regarding the 8,000 yuan accounts receivable discrepancy at the High-tech Zone Yida Department Store, when will the Erke team be able to confirm this with the mall? Today is already the 8th. If the reconciliation cannot be completed before the 10th, the Airex team will cease tracking this payment. The Erke team is advised to follow up on their own.]
Except for Yang Hui, no one else had brought a laptop, so they had no idea that all hell was breaking loose back at the company.
Zhang Li’s first reaction upon seeing the email was: "Yang Hui, you motherfucker! Are you insane? You CC the whole company over such a trivial matter."
His second reaction was: "This is fucking hilarious. Do you think you can just decide not to chase a payment? What right do you have to give up? Just wait for the boss to deal with you."
Of course, he knew a disciplinary warning was unavoidable, and he’d probably get an earful from Li Yang on top of that.
RING RING RING~
The internal line rang. He had a bad feeling as he picked it up. "Hello?"
"Manager Zhang, the boss wants to see you."
It was Cai Miao. She was clearly more polite to the boss’s nephew than to others; the two of them even formed an occasional strategic alliance at the company.
He knocked on the door, a specific pattern of three short raps and one long one. Standing at the entrance, he could hear Li Yang inside, cursing someone out. The voice was like a clap of thunder, and his legs couldn’t help but feel a little weak.
"Come in!"
The moment the explosive sound rang out, he pushed the door open. A thick stench of tobacco and the bitter, burnt smell of coffee clashed in the doorway.
Standing across from Li Yang was Wang Xiao from HR. Seeing Zhang Li enter, Li Yang roared, "What the hell is going on with the Yida Department Store reconciliation?! I said the 6th! What’s the date today?! What the fuck have you been doing? Are you waiting for me to go negotiate it for you?"
Then he turned and roared at Wang Xiao, "We agreed it would be done by the 6th! Since he didn’t do it, why hasn’t he been penalized? Go issue him a penalty notice right now!"
Wang Xiao was an innocent victim in all this. The 6th had been a Saturday, a day the company was closed. She had been planning to issue the penalty notice today anyway, but who could have known Yang Hui would beat her to the punch.
’Sigh, this Manager Yang is really something else,’ she thought. ’Don’t be fooled by how fiercely the boss is yelling at Zhang Li. His anger was all sparked by Yang Hui. What the boss really hates is that Yang Hui sent that email and made him lose face.’
After Wang Xiao left, Li Yang, still fuming, glared at Zhang Li. "Can’t you use your brain when you do things? That was a company email, a directive I approved. And you dared to just ignore it."
"I’ll go negotiate it today."
"Go on, then. Your pay is suspended for now. If you can’t resolve this, the money will be deducted from your salary. That’ll teach you a lesson."
Deduct from his salary? Zhang Li’s expression instantly soured. He didn’t care about getting yelled at, but he couldn’t stand losing money.
He didn’t dare talk back to Li Yang. At the same time, the person he hated most in this whole affair was Yang Hui. None of this would have happened if he hadn’t sent that email.
Thinking of Yang Hui’s email, Zhang Li secretly glanced at Li Yang’s expression and said in a low voice, "That Yang Hui said in his email that he’s not following up on the payment anymore. That’s a task the company gave him. What right does he have to just drop it whenever he wants? That kind of behavior should be severely punished too."
He shouldn’t have said anything. The comment just stoked Li Yang’s anger. Li Yang shot to his feet and slammed his hands on the desk several times, making it feel like the roof was about to collapse. "Mind your own business and stop worrying about the company’s! Whether he’s right or wrong is for me to decide, not you! Understand?"
His anger had been directed at that line in Yang Hui’s email from the very beginning. Yelling at Wang Xiao and Zhang Li was just a way to vent that frustration. If it weren’t for them, why would Yang Hui have even sent that email? He couldn’t deal with Yang Hui, so he could only deal with them.
But poor, foolish Zhang Li just couldn’t GET his uncle’s point.
"What are you looking at? Get the fuck out! Fuck your mother!"
Zhang Li didn’t dare make a peep and scurried out. Inwardly, he cursed back, ’Fuck *my* mother? Isn’t my mom your sister?’
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