Shanghai, headquarters of Nexus Energy Group.

Most of the phone's microphones are placed on the table, so that the caller can only hear a busy signal. Employees are talking loudly to each other, and the company is full of people, not at all like a well-managed Fortune 5 company. It's ten o'clock in the morning, but at least half of the seats are still empty, and it would have been unthinkable that so many people would be late before, but now everyone is used to it. It's not that latecomers deliberately sleep in passivity, but that the entire Shanghai traffic has been paralyzed, more than 90% of the vehicles using the natural energy system are unable to get on the streets, and the public transportation system has long been unable to function normally. People with money and status have restarted classic cars that have been on hold for many years, and these gasoline drinking guys are still working normally. Ordinary people can't afford to use gasoline, which is more expensive than gold, so bicycles have become the best means of transportation. Roads all over the world are now bicycle lanes, and the spectacular torrent of bicycles is breathtaking during rush hour.

A high-pitched female voice came from the window of the spacious office: "The demonstrators are here again!" The employees of Xinshu Group, who had nothing to do, immediately rushed to the window. Looking down from the floor of more than 300 meters, the black pressure below weighs thousands of people, blocking the road tightly. The gate of the Xinshu building had long been closed, and the guards and security guards were concentrated behind the iron gate, vigilantly watching the crowd outside holding signs and shouting slogans. For two months, people gathered here almost every day to protest and demonstrate, and the security guards were used to it.

A few days ago, governments came forward to explain the reason why the natural energy system sold by Xinshu Group could not operate normally, but the reason was very vague, only saying that the earth's magnetic field had changed, causing natural energy disorder, which was a force majeure factor, not the responsibility of Xinshu Group. However, people do not think so, and the same scene is staged every day in front of the branches of the Xinshu Group around the world - demonstrations, and in some places there are even large-scale clashes.

"Food, clothing, housing and transportation are major events, and we have mastered the world's 'line', although this is an incomparably wonderful errand, but the responsibility that needs to be borne is undoubtedly corresponding!" In the general manager's office on the top floor of the 550-meter-high Xinshu Building, a man in his 30s stood next to a huge window, overlooking the crowd below.

Behind him, the beautiful female secretary stood straight, but her face was full of anxiety: "Mr. Zhang, what should we do now?" Judging from the survey results, 99% of the products have been unusable, and almost all users have asked for returns and compensation. Mr. Hou is not here now, and if this continues, the company may ......"

Zhang Xiangyun turned around and smiled indifferently: "Xiao Li, you don't have to worry too much, although the trouble this time is not small, it is still within the company's tolerance, and we will have a way soon." As long as Mr. Hou is there, nothing can't be solved, believe me, Mr. Hou will be back soon!......" His face sank, "I don't want Mr. Hou to come back and see the company as it is now!"

Xiao Li's heart jumped, although the young general manager is usually kind and pleasant, talking and laughing, but if he is serious, he is even more scary than Mr. Hou.

"You go and tell the finance department, settle the salaries of these people, and let them leave immediately. Zhang Xiangyun handed Xiao Li a piece of paper with dozens of names on it. Xiao Li's beautiful big eyes glanced at it and saw a few unexpected names, these people were the people who took the lead in making the most trouble in the past few days when Hou Yi left the company.

"Okay, I'll go right away. Xiao Li turned around and was about to leave.

"Also, have the managers of the departments come to my office. ”

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"That's all I have said, I hope you will restrain the people in your own department when you go back, you have lived too comfortably over the years, and you can't deal with it if you encounter a little trouble this time? If it's still like the other day, I don't mind firing some more people. Zhang Xiangyun looked around at the silent managers around him and said coldly. Over the years, the group has developed too smoothly, and these managers are already a little helpless in the face of the crisis.

"Also, the salaries of all employees will be increased by 20 percent, of course, I don't want anyone to be sorry for this salary!" This made the heads of various departments a little stunned, isn't the salary increase looking for death at this time? Even if it can stabilize people's hearts, but on the premise that there is no solution at all, this is tantamount to drinking water to quench their thirst.

"Presumably everyone knows the news of Shushan's cooperation with the government?" Zhang Xiangyun asked. But it was clear that he was asking a little redundant, and now there is hardly anyone in the world who does not know about it.

"Collaborative research will soon bear fruit, and Xinshu Group has the right to prioritize the development of these results. Zhang Xiangyun threw a bombshell, which immediately shocked everyone's thinking into a short circuit. Everyone knows the gold content of this right, which is simply giving money. Everyone believed a rumor at this time: the relationship between Chairman Hou and the old man in Beijing was extraordinary.

As soon as the meeting ended, Xiao Li knocked on the door and came in, followed by a balding foreign fat man. Zhang Xiangyun knew him, Thompson, the president of the largest oil company in the United States.

The rise of Xinshu Group has produced an energy revolution in the world, and the world's energy market in the civilian field has been controlled by Xinshu Group, which has caused many oil companies to go bankrupt. But with the exception of China, almost all countries' strategic energy reserves are still oil, for the simple reason that since the natural energy system was developed by China, who dares to guarantee that there will be no hands and feet in it, and no country dares to use such a system in the military with confidence. This leaves a way for some of the big oil companies, and in the United States, Thompson's is the largest of them. Zhang Xiangyun now knows very well in his heart that Thompson came to China quietly this time, not on behalf of his own company, but on behalf of the United States. Before Thompson came to Shanghai, the US president had already spoken on the phone with the old man in Beijing and reached some secret agreements.

"Mr. Thompson, welcome!" Zhang Xiangyun stood up and warmly stepped forward to shake Thompson's hand.

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A few hours later, the company held a press conference and issued a decision: the company will modify cars for all natural energy users free of charge, and provide users with gasoline in limited quantities at the price of the natural energy system within three months.

This news largely salvaged the rapidly declining reputation of the Xinshu Group. The government has long stated that the problem of the natural energy system is caused by force majeure factors, not the responsibility of the Xinshu group, as many of the demonstrators know. No one expected that Xinshu Group would take on this responsibility. You know, not to mention the low price of gasoline, just the free modification of hundreds of millions of cars is an astronomical expense. Xinshu Group has won praise all over the world.

All this is naturally the result of secret talks between China and the United States. The United States has long mastered the oil resources in the Middle East, and it is within the scope of providing them to China at low prices. The Chinese side has made a commitment to allow Jinao Island to cooperate with the United States in research. After all, it is now a black hole of global joint confrontation, and all countries in the world should support each other, as long as the people of Jinao Island are willing to go to Fanbang, the Chinese government is not reluctant. Of course, after Chengshu Hou Yi negotiated with Yunyin Mountain, Jinao Island agreed.