"It's terrible."

"Guys, do you understand?"

"What does this mean, CEO, and why didn't we be informed about the Ascension Protocol in advance?"

"This kind of thing should be discussed at a meeting of the Supreme Council, and the CEO is really not in line with the company's regulations to do so."

"But...... What if such a thing happened? The rules of the company are all set by the ......"

……

A group of senior executives of the company gathered in private, including the head of the business department, the head of the planning department, and the head of the labor department.

In an absolutely closed room without any electronic or communication equipment, they freely expressed their opinions and opinions, without restraint, let alone the fair and strict image that they used to show to the outside world.

Here, they don't have much of a secret from each other.

Things are gathered by like, and people are grouped.

As the company's rule on the planet became more stable, these high-level officials, like those officials of the old era, formed their own factions according to the division of interests.

When a faction of interests gradually forms itself, there will inevitably be a phenomenon of standing in line with the top leaders, and along with the top leaders standing in line with each other, the second and third factions will also be born with the birth of the first faction.

The company has only ruled the Elstar for more than a year, and the high-level leaders have divided into three different factions according to the departmental relationship.

Self-interested, public-interested, non-profited.

The main component of the self-interest faction is the interest group headed by the head of the management department and others, who pay more attention to the amount of benefits they obtain in the company.

The public interest faction is dedicated to the construction of many projects in the company's engineering department, they only care about the expansion of collective interests, in their eyes the collective interests above all else, as long as the collective interests continue to expand, their personal interests can be fully guaranteed.

The main group of the non-profit faction is the scientific researchers of the scientific research department, their minds are not in the interest disputes within the collective, but only obsessed with the development and application of various research and knowledge, in their opinion, this is the best way for them to realize their self-worth in the collective behind them.

Most of the non-profit faction believes that as long as they continue to realize their self-worth in the collective, their personal interests can be protected at any time, so they will devote all their thoughts to the scientific research that they are linked to the collective.

Among the three factions, the self-interest faction is the one with the most expansionist intentions, and it is also the faction that includes the most departments and attracts the most personnel.

It is normal for people to form factions, and the next stage after forming gangs is factional contention.

No one thinks their faction has more power in their hands, just as no one thinks they have more interests in their hands.

The struggle for power has also appeared from time to time within the company in the past year or so.

The members of the public interest faction and the non-profit faction are in their own business, do not interfere with each other, and only want to carry out their own work in peace, but the members of the private profit faction show that they are not satisfied with the status quo and want to strengthen their own interests within the collective.

As a political collective that unifies the entire planet, the Gray Gu Company has begun to show its internal complexities after experiencing various pressures in the early stages of its business.

This complexity will intensify over time.

What is being shown today is only a small prelude.

At present, the high-ranking members of the self-interest faction are gathered, not only to discuss how their faction should fight for power next, but also to feel a headache for the matter of the "Ascension Agreement".

No way, this matter came too suddenly, and it also brought enough security threats to make them a little restless.

"Even the CEO has to abide by the rules he has set, otherwise the existence of the company's rules is meaningless, and without those regulations, the company will not be able to protect anyone's interests and safety." The head of the business department expressed his opinion quite dissatisfied.

"That's right." The head of the planning department also said:

"According to the experience of history, if the existence of existing rules does not limit the power of the supreme power, then a new set of rules must be established in time, but ......"

The head of the planning department paused, and then said in an inexplicable tone:

"We don't have any force in our hands, so who can change the current company rules and limit the power of the CEO under these circumstances?"

As soon as these words came out, the high-level executives present looked at each other and shook their heads helplessly, they couldn't answer this question.

"There's a way...... Through the Parliament! ”

After a long silence, a high-ranking person suddenly suggested:

"Now we have the authority of the three departments of the company, although the engineering department and the scientific research department do not want to be with us very much, but only the power we have in our hands can already influence some of the company's major decisions."

"I think we can put in a decision-making bill through parliament and give us some other powers."

"Isn't the company the latest to create a Ministry of Energy? According to what I have learned, it is likely that the Department of Energy will exist as the main department of competence of the company for a long time to come, along with the Ministry of Engineering. ”

"If we can get the DOE in our hands through the corporate council, we're qualified to negotiate with that person...... As long as we have enough power in our hands, the more power we have, and it is possible for him to make some concessions. ”

Although this suggestion is not realistic, it is indeed a more feasible route, so it has received some appreciation.

There is no way, some of the policies and measures announced by the company have made the members of the self-interest faction feel depressed.

Although those policies and measures have indeed brought tangible basic benefits to all employees of the company, including them, no amount of basic benefits is only low-level interests in the eyes of the executives.

Those basic interests, for the high-level people, are at most nothing more than some shallow material life improvements, which are originally dispensable things for them.

They want more pragmatic benefits, such as the expansion of power in their hands.

However, the company's policies greatly limited their desire in this area, which made them feel depressed and made their minds more and more detached from the track of the collective train.

Therefore, now they have to find ways to remove the layer of restriction on their bodies.

This is where the conflict between the superior and the lower powers arises.

And while the top leaders of the self-interest faction are still debating how to fight for power and profit, and clear the way for their faction to hold power within the company's collective......

Inside the CEO's office.

In front of Lu Yuan stood Victor, who had been completely transformed into a mechanical life, as well as Professor Eureka, and a young man with a resolute and wooden face—Chen Wei, the director of the energy think tank in charge of the Ministry of Energy.

"Victor, I didn't expect you to come this far after all, do you feel ...... now What do you think? ”

Professor Eureka looked at Victor's current appearance and couldn't help but sigh with emotion.

He and Victor have a very good relationship, the two have had a deep discussion in academics and ideological concepts, plus they have worked together for a long time, they can be regarded as close friends who have forgotten their years.

Professor Eureka is also aware of some of Victor's past assumptions and ideas, and he knows about the other party's fascination with machines in the past, as well as the existence and implementation of the "Synthetic Age Project".

But seeing Victor's best friend transform into another mechanical life that was different from what had existed in the past, Professor Eureka still had mixed feelings in his eyes.

At the same time, he is also very curious, according to the content of the "Synthesis Age Project", Victor, who finally became a mechanical life, has completed the transmission of consciousness, but will the other party still be the Victor he knew before?

Victor's mechanical eyes flickered with a cold light, and he looked at Professor Eureka's aged body and replied in a familiar voice:

"I feel great, Professor, I've never felt better, I've completed my self-evolution."

"Yes, that's good, I'm honored for your success......" Professor Eureka said with a smile on his lips as he heard this.

However, although his facial camouflage is very delicate, those subtle traces of convergence are still captured by Victor, and in his holographic dynamic perspective, all the subtle changes in Professor Eureka's body cannot escape his observation.

And those subtle changes, after the core calculation of Victor's emotional system, made him seem to see a trace of loneliness flashing in Professor Eureka at this time.

After analysis, that kind of loneliness is the negative emotion caused by a familiar best friend who is passing away in front of him, but there is no way to keep it......

After reading this hint of negativity from Professor Eureka, Victor fell silent.

The two tacitly no longer communicate with each other.

They all looked at Lu Yuan.

Lu Yuan initially looked at the three Victors in front of him with a flat gaze, and then paid attention to a surveillance video, which showed the content of the meeting being held by the high-level of the self-interest faction.

Now the disadvantages of the company's rapid development have been revealed.

The rapid development led to the rapid differentiation of the power class within the company, the formation of factions, and the beginning of the struggle for power, and the formation of a trend to gradually point the spearhead of the struggle for power at him, the supreme power.

However, he did not want to prevent this phenomenon from happening, and has only been concerned with the formulation, announcement and implementation of various development plans, and completely laissez-faire about the division between the following departments.

As long as their struggle for power and profit does not hinder the company's various development plans, he will completely sit idly by and ignore the small conflicts and contradictions caused by those high-level officials against other departments.

He didn't want to get involved in this kind of, and he didn't want to suppress any faction.

That will only consume his little energy and time for no reason, and it will also make the company suffer some unnecessary internal friction in a short period of time.

For more than a year, Lu Yuan watched the self-interest faction grow rapidly under his nose and become a small group that could threaten him, the company's CEO, but he was still indifferent and did not have the slightest intention of stopping the self-interest faction.

Because he also wants these factions to continue to stumble and grow savagely for a while.

Leeks, you have to grow taller and then cut them.

(End of chapter)