With a sharp ‘click’, Zheng Yanshu closed the laptop.

“Jian Hang, what on earth do you want to do!” He called her by her name, his jaw clenched.

No one else in the meeting room dared to breathe. The scene of Zheng Yanshu and Zhou Yi arguing and smashing laptops in the meeting was still vivid in their minds.

That quarrel had also alarmed Qin Moling.

Jian Hang said calmly, “Why, you still didn’t hear it clearly after I already said it twice?”

Zheng Yanshu looked at her without saying a word. These more than 400 dealers represented the entire product distribution line of Lemeng and were the most powerful dealers. She wanted to close them all down. Did she know what she was doing?

“Ms. Jian, if you’re dissatisfied with me, just go and deal with me personally. I’ll take it all. Please don’t joke about the company’s market!”

He calmed himself down again and again, his heart finally stopping itself from exploding. “If you don’t understand fast-moving consumer goods, could you please learn from Ms. Zhong from the Second Division? Look at how she secures resources and opportunities for her division. How about you?”

He said in a deep voice, “What else can you do besides destroying the established market of your own Division?”

Jian Hang didn’t lose her temper and remained calm from beginning to end. “The Second Division is the Second Division. The Fourth Division is the Fourth Division. She is her, and I am me.

“No matter how strong these 400-plus distributors are, they have nothing to do with the Fourth Division. If they can’t complete the Fourth Division’s quotas, I have no reason to keep them.” Jian Hang continued, “Aren’t they distributors of all Lemeng products? They can continue to be high-quality distributors for Divisions 1, 2, and 3, but forget about Division 4.”

Zheng Yanshu took off his gold-rimmed glasses and pressed his forehead hard, his head throbbing with anger.

He suddenly laughed at himself. Why did I say so much to her just now? It was like playing the lute to a cow!

“Ms. Jian,” Zheng Yanshu said, not wanting to lose his temper with a woman, even if she was his superior, “You plan to terminate the contracts with over 400 dealers at the same time. Do you know the consequences?”

Jian Hang looked at him, “I also know that if we continue with the current pattern, Lemeng will completely abandon the Fourth Division in less than two years. I will bear all the consequences.”

Zheng Yanshu stared at her for a few seconds. Her gaze were firm, and he had no place to vent the anger in his heart.

They will terminate the contracts of more than 400 dealers and close their accounts with Lemeng. If the regional directors knew about this, they would be furious.

‘Close it down’—she said it so lightly.

She wanted to do everything according to her own imagination and thought that developing dealers was just as simple as talking.

Over 400 powerful dealers had failed to develop the market, and she thought that changing dealers would be enough.

Qin Moling must have given up on the Fourth Division, otherwise he would not have allowed Jian Hang to harm the Fourth Division this way.

The Sales Department originally had nothing to do with the Marketing Department, but Zhou Yi started to have heart attacks of his own when he saw Jian Hang, an outsider, messing around. If she continued like this, the Fourth Division would destroy itself in less than two years.

Zheng Yanshu threw the mouse in his hand, and it hit the laptop with a ‘clang’.

This was the only noise in the conference room.

“Ms. Jian, you’re furious because Ms. Zhong unlinked their products from the Fourth Division, and you’re planning to shut down all the dealers that overlap with the Second Division. This doesn’t vent your anger, but instead makes you appear narrow-minded and extremely naive. I advise you to reconsider.”

“Even if Ms. Zhong didn’t take the initiative to unbind our products, the first thing I would have done when I took office was to unbind or products from the that of the Second Division. If Fourth Division wants to survive, it can’t rely on others.”

It was said so grandly that Zheng Yanshu didn’t even have the desire to refute it.

He stood up, picked up his laptop and left.

Jian Hang didn’t stop him at all.

She had anticipated this scenario before proposing this plan.

The dilemma she would face next would be even more difficult than this. Right now, it was just a disagreement within the Fourth Division. Later, she would have to fight the company leaders themselves, and the person she would have to face then would be Qin Moling.

Zheng Yan walked straight out of the meeting room and smoked two cigarettes outside.

The meeting continued, and Jian Hang was not affected at all. Jian Hang projected her own laptop on the screen.

Her calm and cool eyes made the other people in the meeting room straighten their backs.

Xiao Fan’s heart was in turmoil and she felt very anxious.

Jian Hang nodded her chin slightly at the big screen and gestured for them to ‘take a look at our products.’

All the products of the Fourth Division were displayed on the big screen, including product series and individual ones.

After Jian Hang finished showing all the product pictures, she asked, “Don’t you think the beverage bottles are tacky?”

Everyone: “…”

No one spoke.

What could they say?

These were decisions made by the top management of the company.

Jian Hang said, “In the next two days, each of you will write a review of the bottles of all Fourth Division products. Leave it on my desk before I come to work next Monday. You can write anonymously, just give me a printed version. There’s no word limit. I only have one request: write whatever comes to your mind.”

She closed the page and said, “Meeting adjourned.”

“Director Zhou, come and have lunch with me. Please ask Director Zheng to come with you.” After saying that, regardless of Zhou Yi’s reaction, Jian Hang walked out of the meeting room while flipping through the documents in her hand.

… …

Xiao Fan followed closely, feeling uneasy.

She couldn’t help at all and could only sigh inwardly. Zheng Yanshu’s words today were sharp and sarcastic, especially the comparison between Jian Hang and Zhong Yanyue.

People in Lemeng have been discussing privately these days, saying that in Qin Moling’s eyes, his wife was not as good as his friend.

There had been an internal competition for the position of General Manager of the Fourth Division before, and Zhong Yanyue had also participated in it. As a result, Qin Moling gave her the position of General Manager of the Second Division, but gave the Fourth Division to Jian Hang.

If it were any other boss, he would definitely have given the Second Division to his wife and leave the mess to someone else.

… … translated by Maela @ whitemoonlighttranslations.com

Back in the office, Jian Hang asked Xiao Fan to print out the information of the more than 400 dealers in the blacklist.

“Okay.” Xiao Fan agreed, but didn’t leave immediately. She hesitated for a moment, “Ms. Jian, that…”

Jian Hang looked up. “What’s the matter?”

“Ms. Jian, don’t take Director Zheng’s words to heart. He was probably just angry and said something without thinking.” Xiao Fan was not trying to excuse Zheng Yanshu, she wanted to comfort Jian Hang.

She didn’t know if Jian Hang could understand what she meant.

But Jian Hang has never been ill at ease about work. No one could make her worry about them. Jian Hang smiled and said, “I’m fine, don’t worry, you go and get busy.”

Before going out, Xiao Fan poured Jian Hang a glass of water.

… …

For lunch, they still went to the first cafeteria.

Zheng Yanshu didn’t want to go, but he needed to discuss some things with Jian Hang in person. Zhou Yi was also unsure of Jian Hang’s intentions regarding the project plan.

There was a dining table for four, and Jian Hang sat down on one side.

Zhou Yi didn’t want to see her and sat down next to her.

Zheng Yanshu sat in front of him as he would rather face Zhou Yi than see Jian Hang as soon as he looked up.

Jian Hang drank some warm water before eating. “I’ll give you six months to close down these dealers, until the end of the year. Of course, if they’re willing to do it according to our terms, it’s not impossible to reconsider.”

Hearing that there was an angle for reconsideration, Zheng Yanshu turned to look at her.

Jian Hang continued, “Transfer the payment for the first half of their next year’s quota in advance. Anyone who writes a bad check will be rejected.”

Zheng Yanshu sneered. She said to transfer the payment for the first half of the year into the account in advance. How whimsical could her world be?

Jian Hang made it clear, “I’ll only give you six months. If you find it difficult, I’ll find someone else to do it.”

“Threatening me?”

“It’s a reminder. I don’t want anyone to affect my market next year.”

“Then I’ll also remind Ms. Jian,” Zheng Yanshu put down his chopsticks and calmed himself down. “The Second Division is about to expand. If you do this, the Fourth Division will be in such a mess that everyone will flock to the Second Division.”

Jian Hang remained calm, “People tend to move up, that’s normal. If you two also want to go to the Second Division, I’ll let you go anytime.”

Zheng Yanshu: “…”

Marriage First, Love Later translated by Maela @ whitemoonlighttranslations.com

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