Zeng Zijian's intuition was very accurate, he did fall into the pit dug by Lao Zhong and Lao Niu.

Weihua lost a few bids in the competition with Y company, and every time the last round of quotations of Y company was no more or less, just enough to win Weihua in the rating of the quotation. The management of the regional department decided that it was not a coincidence, but that there was an insider who leaked his hole cards, and they slowly locked the object of suspicion on Zengzi Fitness.

Lao Zhong's call to Lao Niu was exactly what they carefully designed, first to try Zeng Zijian, and then if Zeng Zijian was really an internal ghost, then he would plan it, let him report a false news to Company Y, and take Company Y to the pit.

But they don't have any evidence to confirm everything. Zeng Zijian is cautious, never leaves emails, text messages and other text records that should not be left, and every time he makes a transaction, he asks Zhang Wang to meet, or uses the most concise phone call to notify. Lao Niu applied for the company's information security office to quietly audit Zeng Zijian's office computer through the Internet, but found that his computer was unusually clean, and he never even sent a personal email.

When the news of Weihua's exclusive bid for ST Telecom officially reached Cairo, he was excited, cheering, sincere and not overly hot, making Lao Niu almost think that everything was really just a coincidence.

Lao Niu asked Zeng Zijian to go to the Hong Kong-style restaurant in the "Four Seasons Hotel" alone for afternoon tea.

The two chatted, and Zeng Zijian took the initiative to mention the project of ST Telecom: "Mr. Niu, ST Telecom has won the exclusive bid, and we have laid a pattern in Sudan!" I'm also worried that Company Y will have another diving price. ”

Lao Niu stared at him: "We decided to lower the offer twice on the last day, one is to win this project, and the other is to be afraid of ghosts!" ”

Zeng Zijian added tea to Lao Niu's cup and praised: "The leader is wise." ”

Lao Niu asked, "When is your wife's due date?" ”

"March 20th."

"It's been a few months! Will it be a problem not to go back and take a plane later? In this way, I will arrange for you to return to China on a business trip, and send your wife back by the way. ”

"Thank you, Mr. Niu, however, we don't plan to go back, just give birth in Cairo."

"Born in Cairo? Is it a mess? ”

"No problem, we've got a good obstetrician. Her parents plan to come over for the Spring Festival and then stay here for a while to take care of her. ”

"You're always unexpected!" Lao Niu sighed with emotion and asked, "Zijian, what year did you come to the Middle East and North Africa?" ”

Zeng Zijian replied: "At the beginning of 2003, it was almost four years. ”

Lao Niu actually knew the answer in his heart, he said: "You can almost be regarded as our first pioneer who came to the Middle East and North Africa to work hard, and it is not easy to make great achievements." There's a position in the agency, I think the opportunity is good, why don't I transfer you back! ”

Zeng Zijian didn't ask what position it was, he picked up a shrimp dumpling, took a bite, seemed to hesitate, but said firmly: "Thank you, leader." I've been thinking about it for a long time and decided to leave early next year, and I originally planned to report back to you in two days. ”

The old cow was unexpected again. On the one hand, the leaders almost determined that Zeng Zijian had a problem, but on the other hand, they could not find a flaw in him, and originally planned to transfer him back to Shenzhen first, on the one hand, to keep him away from the competitive environment in the Middle East and North Africa, and on the other hand, to find a way to continue the investigation in the domestic environment. Unexpectedly, he took the initiative to resign.

Lao Niu's brain turned quickly, and he thought to himself: "If he really resigns, it will sweep away the hidden dangers, but if he is really an internal ghost, just let him run away?" ”

He pretended to regret: "Resigning? What did you do when you left your job? ”

Zeng Zijian smiled meaningfully and said: "Leader, I have been thinking about it for a long time, after all, Weihua is a screw, do we have our own unique value?" It seems that there is, when you break through a customer and put down a project, you feel that you are important, but it seems that you don't, which of us is indispensable? Many people feel good about themselves, thinking that their success in the company is all about their personal ability, ignoring the ability of Weihua's big platform. When one day we are old and can't move anymore, and this big platform does not hesitate to abandon us, you will find that you are nothing, and the company has a lot of screaming young people who can replace you. I want to go out and do something of my own while I'm young, and be an indispensable part of myself. ”

Lao Niu asked, "What are you going to go out for?" ”

Zeng Zijian did not answer this question, and after deciding that he had fallen into a trap, he decided to flee quickly. Although he is confident that there is no evidence to prove that he is an inner ghost, but there are many dreams at night, what if he miscalculates which one? Even, what evidence did you not expect from being left behind, and one day you were returned to China by the company and directly detained by the police?

He said: "Mr. Niu, my labor contract expires at the end of March next year, and I will not renew it when the contract expires at the latest." I don't feel at ease about my wife's current situation and leaving, can I complete the resignation procedures in Egypt? How does the process go? I want to rest for a while and accompany my wife to give birth in Cairo. ”

Lao Niu sighed: "If you work hard in Weihua wholeheartedly, your future and money will not be bad, why destroy your future?" ”

Zeng Zijian said calmly: "Leaders, everyone has their own ambitions, and they have their own destiny. ”

The story behind the ST telecom project was hidden in the range of a few people, and it did not spread to the streets and alleys, and Qian Dan did not know about Zeng Zijian. After hearing the news that Weihua had won the bid exclusively, he excitedly called Chen Yongsheng and Cao Song to congratulate him. When he turned around after making the call, he was shocked to find a local employee, Baha, standing behind him.

Bahá is an Egyptian who joined Weihua with Amar in 2005, and is in his twenties. Qian Dan was a little strange: "What's wrong with you?" Why didn't you go to the project site of ES Telecom today? ”

Baha said, "N, can we find a quiet place to talk?" ”

Qian Dan stood up and followed him to the conference room in the corner.

There was no one in the conference room, so Qian Dan found a chair to sit down, and Baha carefully closed the door and sat opposite Qian Dan.

Qian Dan looked at him curiously: "So? ”

"Well, I'm sorry that my family is going to migrate to Australia and I have to leave my job and go with them," Baha said. ”

Qian Dan felt very sudden, in his heart Bahabi was much inferior to Amar, but Lao Mo was counting the number of Weihua at the project site every day, and he asked: "When do you plan to go to Australia?" ”

"Next month, so I'll apply for resignation right away."

"So fast? I've never heard you mention leaving before? ”

"It was my parents' decision, I didn't want to go before, but I finally compromised with them", Baha wrote sincerity on his face: "N, I like Weihua very much, I want to find Weihua representative office in Australia after I go to Australia, so, can you write a letter of recommendation for me?" ”

Qian Dan admitted the truth, and at night in the dormitory while watching the Victoria's Secret model on the "fashiontv" channel, he couldn't help but think about how to write a good recommendation letter for Baja?

A few days later, Lin Han and Wang Haitao returned to the office from ES Telecom at night, and as soon as they saw Qian Dan, they shouted: "Boss, do you know where Baja went?" He didn't want to immigrate to Australia at all, he was poached by Lao Mo to go to ES Telecom as Party A. ”

Qian Dan felt incredible: "Really? ”

Lin Han said conclusively: "Really, I saw a seat in the client's office area today with Baja's name posted on it, and I know his cup and put it on the table. Then I asked him what was going on? He said he still loves Egypt and doesn't go to Australia anymore. ”

Wang Haitao said: "Ghost Australia, there must be no such thing at all. No wonder Lao Mo sneaked around chatting with local employees some time ago, and I finally knew what he was doing, prying into our corners! ”

It's not uncommon for this industry to jump ship, and it's just two boats, but Baha made up such a vivid story, and this story is bound to be debunked too quickly, is he just to be tactful when he leaves? Is this Egyptian subtlety?

Qian Dan, who was fooled, was angry and funny, he said stupidly: "I'm seriously thinking about how to help him write a letter of recommendation, but fortunately, I have been busy these days, and I haven't had time to write it, and I was seriously teased by him!" Lao Mo is really a wild man, I have never heard of Party A digging Party B during the project to put people in the project, what a fool! ”

Lin Han said: "They just came to Egypt and are in a hurry to recruit troops, isn't the billing system connected to us Ericsson?" I talked to Ericsson's project manager today, and he dug Baja from us, and he also hired an engineer from Ericsson to do billing, and he used local materials to solve his own team problem. Ericsson's people also annoyed him. ”

"We're going to keep an eye on the others! Especially Hassan, now he is the local familiar hand in the project, don't be poached by Lao Mo again. ”

"Probably not, right? If he continues to do this, we will strike! ”

"Strike? Do you dare? I don't dare, fire prevention, anti-theft, anti-theft, let's take care of our own people! ”

Indeed, the first core value of Weihua is "customer-centric", although the connotation of "customer-centric" is not superficial, but Weihua's culture has no genes to turn the face of customers.

Ericsson, who was also poached by Lao Mo's line of fire, quickly poached Hassan with a high salary. ES Telecom's new license project in Egypt has sparked an arms race among telecom operators in the region and stirred up the telecom talent market. Weihua is not on the strong side in the competition for talent here.

Fortunately, after two years of careful construction, Weihua's overseas service resources have become flexible. Qian Dan hurriedly called for artillery fire at the Shenzhen headquarters, a new Chinese engineer will arrive in Egypt before the Spring Festival, and he urgently deployed a local employee from Libya, Tunisia, and Saudi Arabia, and is expected to travel to Egypt after New Year's Day to support the project.

On January 1, 2007, Qian Dan's 32nd birthday, he went to Lao Mo's office.

Lao Mo was stretching out in his large class chair, and when he saw Qian Dan, he made a preemptive move: "You guys don't have enough manpower, only four people are in the computer room today." ”

Qian Dan said lightly: "The project is progressing normally, and four people are enough." ”

Lao Mo slapped his two hands on the table and sat up straight: "The progress of the project can be considered as a green light for the time being, but the body of your employees is on a red light, everyone works overtime every day, Wang Haitao is tired and sick, and you don't respect human rights." ”

On the first day, Wang Haitao was indeed helped out of the computer room because he was unwell, but isn't this exactly what Lao Mo did? After Weihua lost two skilled hands, he squatted in the computer room every day to supervise the work, and even everyone had to talk about going out for lunch at noon. Now this account has been put on Weihua's head, and even the banner of "human rights" has been moved.

Qian Dan cross-examined: "We originally had more manpower, but now one person has become your engineer and one person has become Ericsson's engineer, can you help me stabilize the team?" ”

Lao Mo said slowly: "It is your own problem to solve when employees leave Weihua, your salary is low, you are tired of work, you should strive for a better salary for them, and you should also hurry up to ask for help, how many people have left to supplement how many people have come over." ”

He went on to talk about his real concerns, of course, not "human rights": "You guys are working hard, Wang Haitao is very good, but what should I do if I get tired and tired like this?" So isn't there no one to work on next? My project will turn red. You have to prepare another group of people, and two groups of people take turns to do it, 24 hours a day. ”

Old Mo said something so arrogant that Qian Dan was powerless to refute, and he took his leave with depression and politeness.

The biggest surprise that winter was that Qian Dan's leader, Lao Han, suddenly "quit class".

In the past, Weihua was only a simple equipment supplier, only responsible for the installation and maintenance of telecommunication equipment, and since 2006, overseas "turnkey" projects such as the ES project in Egypt have been one after another. Such projects are often after the telecom operator obtains a new operating license from the government and starts to build a new wireless communication network, and the equipment manufacturer is not only responsible for providing the equipment, but also responsible for the construction of related infrastructure including civil engineering, iron towers, optical cables, etc. The "turnkey" project has brought hundreds of millions of dollars in contract orders to Weihua, which has a far-reaching impact on the market structure, but the unprecedented complexity of delivery has brought great pressure to the company, and the Middle East and North Africa is the main battlefield of the "turnkey" project, and the pressure on the entire technical service team is huge. In Egypt, although the project progress of Qian Dan's software product is greenlight, the ES project is full of difficulties in general, especially the construction progress of the wireless communication base station.

The owner of Weihua flies around the world all year round, and this winter he visited the customer's senior management at the ES Telecom Group headquarters in the United Arab Emirates, and the customer's boss complained a lot about the delivery of the ES project in Egypt. After meeting with the customer, the boss returned to the hotel and immediately called a meeting of the regional president and vice president.

In the middle of the meeting, everyone was listening to the boss's lecture, and the vice president in charge of sales saw that there was no water in the temporarily arranged conference room, so he poked Lao Han, who was closer to the door: "You go and pour a glass of water for the boss." ”

Seeing that the old man had been talking excitedly for more than half an hour, his throat was a little hoarse, so he got up and went out to find water. Unexpectedly, as soon as he went out, the boss began to reprimand the problem of project delivery, and slapped the table: "Which of you is responsible for project delivery?" Who is the Head of Technical Services? ”

The vice president of sales cautiously said, "He went out to get water." ”

It took Lao Han some time to find a water dispenser and a cup outside the door, poured two glasses of water, and walked in cautiously with them, gently placing them on the boss's table.

The boss was furious: "You can't do a good job, don't you honestly discuss business here, and only know how to serve tea and water and pat on the back?" I want you to put your face to the customer and your ass to the leader, why don't you listen? ”

The next morning, Lao Han met the boss in the hotel cafeteria, he squeezed a smile on his face and walked over to ask for morning, and the boss was angry again: "I just scolded you yesterday, how can you still be hippie and smile?" You don't have any pressure at all! ”

He turned to the regional president next to him and asked, "Where is the toughest representative office in the Middle East and North Africa?" ”

The President of the Regional Department replied: "It is the hardest time in Mali right now. ”

The boss pointed at Lao Han: "You immediately transfer him to Mali to be permanent!" Go to the forefront to experience what it means to put your face to the customer and your ass to the leader! ”

Lao Han was not exiled to Mali, he was quickly demoted to Iraq and replaced Lao Zhang as the technical service director of the representative office.

Qian Dan sighed after hearing the "bloody case caused by a glass of water".

As a subordinate, he has no comment on Lao Han's successes and failures, but he thinks that Lao Han's personality and work style are not problematic at all. Lao Han is full of enthusiasm for his work, and his head is always thinking about how to achieve business goals, how to find the direction of continuous business improvement, and how to effectively implement business plans. He has a pungent style and pays attention to details, not only the top, but also fully authorizes the subordinates, giving Qian Dan the maximum space for them to play freely. Although he said that "people are floating in the rivers and lakes, how can they not be stabbed", Qian Dan still secretly complained about Lao Han being "punished".

Qian Dan rubbed shoulders with Lao Han's secretary Matiha in the office, and Matiha stopped Qian Dan: "Qian, what's wrong with you?" What's wrong? ”

He absentmindedly replied: "Everything is fine, why do you ask that?" ”

"Because in the past you always had a smile on your face, lately, your smile is gone."

Qian Dan was stunned, neither did he expect that his label was a smile in the eyes of his Egyptian colleagues, nor did he expect that he was worried this winter, and even Matiha could see it.