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Chapter 150: Chapter 136 Annual Meeting Presents ’Martial Arts’_1
The company’s year-end summary meeting naturally couldn’t be finished with just Tang Qing speaking. His previous speech was just serving up a ’pie’ full of enticing fillings to motivate everyone’s working passion for the coming year and to find a place to spend his money.
Following Tang Qing, starting with the general manager Yang Kai, everyone slowly summarized their work for the past year and clarified their future work. Every now and then, Tang Qing would ask questions. Although all these matters were detailed in their weekly and monthly reports, many came with lengthy explanations and elaborate statistical charts that appeared very ’scientific’ and ’rigorous’. But Tang Qing needed to know whether these people truly understood what they wrote, and not just their dry texts.
Therefore, the year-end summary session lasted for more than two hours. Due to Tang Qing’s change in investment scale, everyone made minor modifications and discussions on some plans. Major changes were not made because there would only be thirty million funds after Chinese New Year, just as originally planned.
At noon, Tang Qing left early due to other lunch arrangements.
However, once Tang Qing left, the spirited news he had tossed out earlier spread throughout the whole company, causing a huge sensation. Everyone’s passion for work surged unprecedentedly, as if they wished to work overtime and all through the Chinese New Year.
Heh, of course, that last part was just Tang Qing’s fanciful thinking. Who the hell would want to work overtime during Chinese New Year, unless they had a screw loose or were a boss?
Evening arrived.
Aside from the summary meeting, Sheng Tang had another important event today — the annual company banquet.
At Tang Qing’s instruction, a venue had been booked half a month in advance at Sheng Tang. It was a gigantic banquet hall originally used for luxury wedding banquets. Therefore, it was incredibly expansive, and could easily accommodate the three hundred employees of the company. Of course, the cost was also hefty.
Zhengyuan Grand Hotel is a three-star hotel in Qingyan City, with fifteen floors. It definitely couldn’t compete with Liu Qian’s hotel, but its wedding banquet hall was absolutely the largest in Qingyan city — there was simply no competition, except for open-air ones.
As the boss, Tang Qing was not required to arrive so early, but since he had nothing else to do, he might as well join in the chatter.
At six in the evening,
Tang Qing and Sun Chao arrived at Zhengyuan Grand Hotel.
"Hello, Boss Tang!"
"Hello, Boss Tang!"
"Um, hello everyone!"
"..."
In the company, who didn’t know Tang Qing by now? Everyone greeted him upon seeing him, and Tang Qing greeted back one by one. Tang Qing felt helpless. He truly wished his employees would ignore him. It was not arrogance. According to his personality, if you respected me, I would respect you back. He had to smile back one by one, which made him weary. Since he alighted his car outside the hotel, he had continuously encountered clusters of employees. Everyone greeted him, even intentionally slowing down to let Tang Qing walk first. However, Tang Qing’s vanity wasn’t satisfied at all. He felt more and more distanced from the ’masses’.
After Tang Qing’s departure,
"Boss Tang is so young!"
"Yeah, young and rich. Wonder which lucky girl will grab him! If I were ten years younger that’d be great."
"Cut it out, you just revealed your age! You’re dreaming of robbing the cradle!"
"You cheeky girl, I’ll smack you!"
"Come at me..."
...
At this point, all the members of the company’s management were seated at the table closest to the stage. Other employees were also gradually arriving.
Tang Qing went straight to the table where Yang Kai and others were seated. The table was huge, it could easily seat twenty people. However, only Yang Kai, Qi Yan and another deputy general manager were present. None of the other managers or deputy managers had arrived yet. It was unknown whether they were occupied or something else. From a distance, Tang Qing had seen them discussing something.
Tang Qing directly sat next to Qi Yan. Sun Chao went to sit at the table designated for the security department. Tang Qing didn’t stop him. If Sun Chao had stayed here, he would likely feel nervous, with no one to talk to him.
Seeing Tang Qing arrive, the three of them halted their discussion.
"Boss Tang."
"Boss Tang."
"Little Brother Tang, you finally decided to show up. You have no idea how long I’ve waited for you."
Naturally, the last sentence was spoken by Qi Yan. She even used her exotic eyes, accentuated by blue-black eyeshadow, to gaze ’resentfully’ at him. Seeing Qi Yan trying to bewitch him again, Tang Qing flipped his eyes at her and ignored her.
Seeing Tang Qing sit down, the deputy general manager hurriedly got up to pour tea for Tang Qing.
That couldn’t be helped. His rank was the lowest here. Yang Kai was the general manager, and Qi Yan, although also a deputy general manager, was a company shareholder. It wouldn’t be wrong to say she was on par with Yang Kai. Although she was responsible only for the Design Department, nobody dared to belittle this beautiful woman. Not mentioning her ability and shareholder status, Qi Yan and he were interviewed by Yang Kai back when they applied for jobs. No one would dare to say she was lower-ranked than Yang Kai.
Seeing Tang Qing ignoring her, Qi Yan wasn’t angry. Instead, she propped up her chin with interest, thinking to herself, ’our little brother is so handsome, even when he rolls his eyes.’
"Boss Tang, have some tea."
"Thanks. So, what were you discussing, Yang?" Tang Qing asked while taking a sip of tea.
"It’s like this. We were discussing whether to immediately enter the Shoes and Bags Business next year." said Yang Kai.
Hearing this, Tang Qing asked with surprise: "Oh? Shoes and Bags? Do we have talents reserved for this area?"
He knew that this business was included in the company’s medium- to long-term plans. But it wasn’t something that could be established overnight. Up until now, Sheng Tang only dealt with clothing. It seemed that Yang Kai and others were inspired to expand their ambitions after seeing Tang Qing’s increase in investment scale. That was also good, because an ambitious team was just what he needed.
