With the three million taels borrowed from Yan Laojiu, plus the six hundred and fifty thousand taels on his side, Xiao Zhenlei estimated that the money should be more than enough for the domestic rubber stock market temporarily, so he found Li Shulin, assistant general manager of the electric light company.

"Sir, are you looking for me?" After Li Shulin was notified, he came to Xiao Zhenlei's office in the electric light company.

Xiao Zhenlei nodded, threw over a cigarette, Li Shulin respectfully took it, but did not light it, Xiao Zhenlei took a puff of cigarette and asked, "Shulin, how many Chinese compradors are there in our company?" ”

Li Shulin didn't know what Xiao Zhenlei meant, but he still calculated and said, "There are twenty-three including me!" ”

Xiao Zhenlei exhaled a puff of smoke and said, "Okay, you notify them now, let them all come over at three o'clock this afternoon to my house on Huade Road for a meeting, which is Pingfu's house on Huade Road before, you know?" ”

"Yes, sir!"

Three p.m., Ward Road Villa.

Since this villa originally belonged to Pingfu was returned to Xiao Zhenlei, he has not been here a few times, Pingfu's widow moved away after getting the 13,000 oceans sent by Xiao Zhenlei, and several servants who worked in the villa were ready to leave when they saw that the house had changed owners, but Xiao Zhenlei kept them all and let them continue to work in this villa, there were five people, a gardener, a coachman, two British maids, and a British housekeeper.

Xiao Zhenlei was studying the stocks of the sixteen rubber companies in the study of this villa, and Li Shulin pushed the door in and said, "Sir, everyone is here!" ”

"Good!" Xiao Zhenlei said as he put down the information in his hand and got up and walked out, followed by Li Shulin.

When passing through the hall on the first floor, the two walked to the stairs, Opiyin followed, and happened to meet the British housekeeper Jude coming down from downstairs, Jude turned his body sideways and stepped aside, Xiao Zhenlei ordered: "Jude, I have a meeting with the staff, you inform the others that they are okay and don't disturb us."

Jude's old butler bowed, "Yes, sir! ”

The three of them went up to the second floor and came to the door of the room where the meeting was held, Xiao Zhenlei stopped and turned around and said, "Opiyin, you are guarding the door, no one is allowed to enter!" ”

"As you wish, sir!" Opiyin clenched his fists to show that he was strong and powerful.

Xiao Zhenlei smiled and turned around and entered the room, and Li Shulin then followed in and closed the door.

The Chinese compradors who were notified to come to the meeting were all a little uneasy, after all, although they knew that the new boss was also Chinese, they still did not know whether the new boss would get along well, and they did not know what the new boss had notified them to do, until they came here and found that the people who were notified were all Chinese compradors, they were all relieved.

"The owner is here, everyone be quiet!" Someone saw the door open, and immediately shouted after seeing Xiao Zhenlei and Li Shulin walking in.

These Chinese compradors hurriedly bowed one by one and shouted, "Boss! ”

"Hello host!"

"Good luck for the owner!"

Xiao Zhenlei nodded with a smile, waved his hand and said, "Okay, you guys are good, everyone is good!" ”

There were a lot of stools in the room, obviously prepared a long time ago, Xiao Zhenlei walked to the front and stretched out his hand to suppress it: "Everyone please sit, please sit, let me say a few words first!" ”

The Chinese compradors hesitated for a while and then sat down one after another, Xiao Zhenlei said: "Our company was originally a company opened by the British, so there are more foreigner employees, you people are all the Chinese employees in our company, since I joined the company, I found one thing, you people are still in awe of those foreigners, this is not good, the company was foreigners before, you are in awe of them is reasonable, but now it is different, now I am the boss, the boss is Chinese, you are Chinese." As my compatriot, why are I so afraid of the company's foreign employees? In the country of foreigners, although there are also nobles and commoners, but most of them are equal, those foreigners in our company are commoners, there are no nobles, you are equal to them in terms of identity, so you don't need to be afraid of them, and the more you are afraid of them, the more arrogant they are, you treat them as equals, maybe they will appreciate you more, so ah, I hope you can get along well with the foreigners and employees on an equal footing!

Let's talk about another thing, I will notify you to come over today, mainly to let you do one thing, this thing may last for more than a year, and you can't go back to the company, you can't go home, food and accommodation are here, there is something for you to do, you can go out, you must come back immediately after you are done, during this time, your salary will be tripled. For example, now your monthly salary is ten oceans, then your monthly salary will be thirty oceans, if we do things very smoothly for more than a year, and make money, I will give you a big red envelope at the end, this red envelope may not be earned back in a few years, provided that you must obey the arrangement, can not go on any business trips, of course, this matter is not for you to kill people and set fires or to break the law, if you are not willing, please raise your hand! ”

Although Xiao Zhenlei gave the condition that the salary was twice as high as in the past, and there were red envelopes to take after the matter was over, after all, he couldn't go home for more than a year, and he lost his freedom relatively, so he should ask, after all, compared to losing his freedom, a little more money is really nothing, but he underestimated the charm of triple salary, in his opinion, freedom is more valuable than money, and in the eyes of these Chinese compradors, as long as they can get three times the salary, even if they don't go out for a year, what is it?

No one raised their hands to indicate that they wanted to quit, Xiao Zhenlei waited for a while and saw that no one raised their hands, and said: "Okay, no one raised their hands, it means that all of you are not quitting, I want to thank you for your trust in me, please ask Assistant Li Shulin to tell you about the specific situation below!" Everyone is welcome".

After a round of applause, Li Shulin stood in front of everyone, although he has been an assistant to the general manager for a while, but he still has a little stage fright in front of so many people, but Xiao Zhenlei's encouraging gaze inspired him, he took a deep breath and said loudly: "Why are we Chinese compradors who are here today?" Not a single foreigner employee? Did you know? ”

Everyone looked at each other, no one knew what the reason was, only one person wanted to raise his hand but didn't dare to raise it, Li Shulin saw it and asked, "Do you know?" ”

The man hesitated, "Yes, is it because we are all from the Qing Dynasty?" ”

"Yes!" Li Shulin immediately affirmed loudly, "You are right, the reason why the boss gave us such an important thing to do is because we are all Chinese, and the boss only believes in us Chinese compradors, not those foreign employees!" The boss trusts us so much, and gives us such a high salary, which is higher than the salary of those foreigners, should we go to the soup and give up? ”

“…….”

Li Shulin and the others hesitated, didn't know how to answer, and immediately asked again: "Is it?" ”

"Yes!"

"Should!"

One voice after another, but it was not neat, Li Shulin shouted again: "I didn't hear your voice, the boss trusts us so much, and gives us a higher salary than foreigners, except for the boss, who still treats us as people?" Will foreigners do? Will other rich people treat us as human beings? The boss believes in us so much, even if we are brothers, should we go to the trouble for the boss and never give up? ”

These words finally had a great effect, and under the stimulation of these words, the twenty-two Chinese compradors on the opposite side collectively said in unison: "Yes!" ”

"Hehe, rest assured, the boss doesn't want us to really go to the soup, just want us to do our best, worthy of this salary, since ancient times there is a saying, called 'take people's money, and people to eliminate disasters', since we have taken such a high salary, we must do a good job of the boss to explain, for the next thing to be done to be tight-lipped as a bottle, do not take what you shouldn't take, if you let me know who he is eating inside and out, hum, I don't need the boss to speak, I Li Shulin will first get him into the river to feed Wang Ba! Do you understand? ”

Everyone was shocked, but they still collectively replied loudly: "Understood!" ”

Next, Li Shulin asked the people whose families were out of town to stay, and those whose homes were in Shanghai could go back to reunite with their families one afternoon and one evening, and they must rush back here before seven o'clock tomorrow morning, and they could not leak even a word to their families.

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