Chapter 772: Chapter 620: Don’t Want to Raise Pigs Anymore
"No way." Shi Wangyue faced so many financiers without a blink, "Eating too much leek has side effects."
"What?" The elderly investor with graying temples was confused, "How can eating too much leek be poisonous? It’s supposed to be a great tonic. I’ve been eating it for most of my life, always been fine, never felt there was a problem."
Shi Wangyue looked at him with deep eyes and said slowly, "Leeks are among the five pungent spices, cooked they can cause lust, raw they can make one irritable. All Heavenly Immortals would dislike their odor and stay away, while hungry ghosts would lick their lips. Being too often with ghosts can negate one’s blessings and virtues, unfavorable for old age and progeny, thus they should be appropriately restricted."
The spacious and luxurious hotel conference room instantly fell silent.
Soon, those investors looked at each other, speechless, only showing complex emotions on their faces, alternating between red and white.
After a moment of silence, seeing that high-pressure tactics couldn’t persuade Shi Wangyue, they switched to a cohort of gentler, emotionally intelligent people, trying to appeal to his feelings and reason, changing tactics to pull him back from the obvious dark road ahead.
"Shi, have you received some insider information from overseas financial institutions?"
"No."
"If not, you can’t just say you won’t raise pigs anymore without giving us a justified explanation, can you?"
"Exactly, you need to explain clearly why you’ve been acting unusually in your operations lately. We need to report back with a reasonable explanation, otherwise, we won’t know what to say on your behalf."
"Exactly, if you have more valuable overseas information than we do, changing our investment plans isn’t impossible."
"No news, just planning to change the company’s future investment sectors."
They found out that no matter how they pleaded, Shi Wangyue remained unmoved, steadfast, and the previous bad-tempered group couldn’t help but want to clash with him again—
"We were all set to go full steam ahead with our plans, and now you, barely started, want to destroy your own skills —what a waste, tragic! Regrettable!"
"How can an investment company significantly reduce investments with high returns and reallocate funds to less profitable areas? What’s the reason behind this?"
"Massive stock sales not only shrink our personal wealth, but yours and President Yun’s personal wealth shrinks too. You’re really not afraid to mess things up!"
Today, the investors summoned by Ze Wu to the hotel for the meeting were all experts at pig farming, with complex intermingled interests.
Each was cunning and difficult to deal with.
Shi Wangyue and Yun Ze Wu once found commonality with them, frankly, had many similar traits too.
Both were experts among pig farmers.
But now Shi Wangyue had changed his mind.
He planned to change the company’s future investment structure, altering part of the investment and management strategies, he didn’t just want to raise pigs anymore.
He even wanted to prematurely drive out some pigs that pig farming experts thought were good, which he once found good but now regarded as unsuitable, slaughter, sell the meat, and use the money to raise children.
Raising a few standout children to act as benchmarks and role models in certain industries.
Ze Wu sat beside Shi Wangyue, quiet today like a wallflower, even though the partners almost pounded the table in front of him, he remained quietly watching.
Anyone who approached him received a faint smile.
As the meeting reached this point, he knew today’s dramatic event was nearing its conclusion.
He sighed inwardly, thinking, "It’s tough for these old folks to slam the table and point fingers to accuse him like this. His turnaround this time wasn’t ordinary at all."
These old folks, weathered through storms as pig farming buddies, were not ordinary people; they gathered their money around him and Shi Wangyue due to their unparalleled pig farming techniques, hoping to raise many pigs and earn more money through them.
But Shi Wangyue had agreed with them on pig farming earlier, now he’s telling them about child-rearing.
Who wouldn’t be angry?
Everyone knows raising children is different from raising pigs.
Raising pigs is about continually feeding them till they’re fat enough for slaughter.
This kind of investment is easy, the recovery quick, everyone enjoys the greasy returns.
Raising children is different; it requires careful nurturing, not only giving money and resources but unimaginable effort, and whether it’ll bring returns is uncertain.
What pig farming expert would switch to nurturing perceived money-draining children?
"The mass stock sales and reduction of personal wealth should be taken seriously, but compared to that, I believe whether the company can continue a sustainable, healthy path is more important."
On hearing Shi Wangyue’s statement, the investors’ expressions changed again.
This time, instead of anger, they regarded Shi Wangyue like he was mad, a fool.
"The house is this impoverished, you still aren’t thinking about fattening pigs and quickly selling them for cash, instead you’re thinking of raising kids?" Finding Shi Wangyue unyielding, they all beat the table and shouted at him and Ze Wu—
"Hurry up and sell the meat, we’re not doing well either."
"Let’s sign the contract, sign the contract."
"Do what has to be done."
"..."
Beside them, Ze Wu was very perceptive, seeing Shi Wangyue’s talks with the investors had reached this stage.
He knew it was his time to step in, "Fine then, let’s sign the contract."
With a slight lift of his hand, his assistant laid the prepared contracts one by one before the investors.
The investors saw the fool now had another one joining him.
But Ze Wu, with so much money, was willing to toss it into the sea alongside Shi Wangyue, did he care what they thought of him?
Of course not.
Thus, the investors reluctantly took the pen from the assistant and signed their names on the contract.
Once Ze Wu finished signing contracts with them all.
Everyone angrily threw their sleeves as they left the meeting room, grumbling—
"Young people, they change fast, today one idea, tomorrow another."
"Alas... Should’ve known we shouldn’t have given him money to mess around."
"Alright, just consider it a lesson, next time find a steady personality for investments."
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