Chapter 75: Coming to the Throne Strongly
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Although Pingfu has died, but as Wallin's guarantor, he also had to bear the compensation for Xiao Zhenlei after Walling's escape, a total of 200,000 oceans, and the trial of the public party sent someone to check all the property left by Pingfu after his death, he has 2,000 pounds in the bank, has a villa house on Ward Road, and has 37% of the equity in the electric light company. With a total value of about 213,000 oceans, the trial court invited Xiao Zhenlei and Pingfu's widow to negotiate together, and finally decided to decide that Xiao Zhenlei owned the property rights of the Huade Road villa and 37% of the equity of the electric light company, but Xiao Zhenlei had to pay another 13,000 oceans to Pingfu's widow, who wanted to keep the villa to live in, but she had no extra money to repay the debt.
The Shanghai Electric Light Company was originally a British-funded company, although it is no longer purely British-owned, but most of the assets are still held by the British, but because of the Pingfu matter, his shares were taken over by Xiao Zhenlei, a Chinese, and this matter became a news in Shanghai, although the disturbance was not very big, but it also caused a lot of shock, among which the major shareholder and general manager of the electric light company knew the news earlier than anyone else.
The quills rustled across the paper, and after two lines of writing, the owner of the quills had to insert it into an inkwell and re-dip it in ink before writing, and for Billy, an old Englishman, although the tap fountain pen had been invented for many years, he was still accustomed to writing with this quill.
"Knock Knock"
"Please come in!" Billy shouted without raising his head, and the movement of his hand did not stop for a moment.
The office door was pushed open, and a young Chinese man with glasses and a suit walked in and stood at his desk and said, "Boss, Mr. Xiao asked me to inform you to go to the meeting!" ”
"Mr. Xiao? Which Mr. Shaw? What kind of meeting? Billy stopped, looked up and frowned, looking at Li Shulin, the Chinese comprador of his company, and asked.
Li Shulin said: "It is Mr. Xiao Zhenlei, the boss of Zhenhua Company and a shareholder of our company, who asked me to notify you to hold a shareholders' meeting."
Billy, the old man whose hair was almost gone, was a little annoyed when he heard this, glared at Li Shulin and said fiercely: "Li, you should understand that you are taking the salary I gave you, you are doing things for me, and you should also think more about it for me as an employer, do you understand?" Xiao is only the second largest shareholder, I am the first largest shareholder, he has no right to convene a general meeting of shareholders, and there is a fixed time for holding a general meeting of shareholders, not that he can open it if he wants to, you sue him, I am not free now, and some other shareholders are not in this city, and he is afraid that the matter of holding a general meeting of shareholders will be frustrated! ”
Li Shulin stood still and didn't leave, he sighed: "Mr. Billy, our company is a joint-stock company, and I take the salary paid by the company's finance, not the salary paid by your private pocket, and you probably can't go to this shareholders' meeting, because as far as I know, you are no longer the largest shareholder of the company!" ”
"What?" Billy's face changed and he couldn't help but stand up, but he quickly calmed down, took a deep breath and said: "Our company's articles of association have long stipulated that even if he becomes the largest shareholder, as a shareholder who does not have any position in the company, it is not the time for the shareholders' meeting to be held, and he has no right to hold the shareholders' meeting!" ”
Li Shulin said lightly: "The problem is that Mr. Xiao Zhenlei has already mastered 51% of the company's equity, according to the articles of association of our company, that is to say, he now has an absolute controlling stake in our company, and can hold a general meeting of shareholders and a board of directors at any time."
The electric light company was not listed to sell shares to raise funds, there were only seven shareholders before, but now there are only five, in fact, the shareholders' meeting is the board of directors, in the electric light company, there is no actual difference between the two.
Having an absolute controlling stake is completely different, Billy's face turned pale in an instant, and then he slumped into his chair with a decadent face.
When Billy hobbled to the boardroom, the rectangular table in the conference room was full of people, these were the middle and senior managers of the electric light company, and Xiao Zhenlei was sitting at the top, what was going on? Didn't you say that a general meeting of shareholders was held? Why are the middle and senior management of the company here?
"Mr. Billy, you're here, please find a seat down!" Xiao Zhenlei saw Billy walk in and spoke in English.
The middle and high-level personnel of the company all looked at Billy, which made Billy feel that he had lost face, the citizens of the British Empire were bullied like this by a Chinese with yellow monkeys, when did the citizens of the British Empire become so cowardly? Billy looked coldly at the middle and senior managers who were seated, and none of them stood up to greet him, which made his face even more ugly.
Xiao Zhenlei looked left and right, and saw that everyone was almost there, so he said loudly in English, after all, most of the middle and high-level staff here are foreigners, and there are only a few Chinese, and these Chinese also know English.
"Well, everything that should have come has come, and what shouldn't have come has not come! Now let's meet! ”
Xiao Zhenlei paused as he spoke, flipped over the text on the table in front of him, and then said: "Originally, it was only a general meeting of shareholders, but now the only shareholders that the company can convene are me and Mr. Billy, so it was temporarily decided to hold a shareholders' meeting and a meeting of the company's middle and senior management, and the two meetings were held together!" Now there are only five shareholders in the company, in addition to me and Mr. Billy, there are three other shareholders, but they will go back to the UK two years ago to retire, and they have not attended the shareholders' meeting for two consecutive years, so now the shareholders' meeting is only me and Mr. Billy, and I now have a 51% stake in our company, I think I have the right to readjust the company's existing personnel, this is my personal lawyer, Mr. Fei Xinton, It is now up to him to read the relevant legal texts to Mr. Billy and the middle and senior officers of the company."
Fei Xinton, a lawyer standing behind Xiao Zhenlei's right side, stood up and said: "In the case of the shareholders' meeting in which the other three shareholders have been absent for a long time, according to the relevant provisions of the Company Law formulated by the Public Concession and the articles of association of the Electric Light Company, Mr. Xiao Zhenlei, who has an absolute controlling stake, has the right to readjust the company's existing personnel positions. ”
Everyone looked at each other, and no one spoke, but the situation was very clear, although some of the middle and senior executives present were representatives of a certain shareholder, they had nothing to say at this time, after all, they followed the regular procedures, and it was reasonable and legal.
"Does no one have any other doubts?" Xiao Zhenlei asked, looked left and right, and saw that no one spoke, so he continued: "Okay, since no one has spoken, it means that you have no objections, then I have now decided to revoke the position of Mr. Billy's general manager and reappoint him as the director of the company's logistics department!" ”
Billy was already so angry that he slapped the table and fought after hearing this, but Fei Xindun said in a timely manner: "Mr. Billy, you can object, but your objection is invalid, because according to the articles of association of the company, in the case of the presence of only two shareholders at the general meeting of shareholders, the shareholder with the most shares has the right to decide, you can object to Mr. Xiao's decision, and your right is to request the company to acquire your equity at a reasonable price within two months from the date of Mr. Xiao's decision, if you and the company cannot reach an acquisition agreement, Then you can file a lawsuit with the Public Concession Tribunal within three months from the date of Mr. Xiao's resolution."
"You, you ......" Billy pointed at Xiao Zhenlei and scolded angrily, but his face instantly turned the color of pig liver, and his body shook twice and fell down.
The venue was in chaos, Xiao Zhenlei frowned and said loudly: "Call the hospital quickly and call an ambulance!" ”
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