Do Not Speak Ill of My Mother!-Chapter 640 - 593: A New Sea Region?! (Part 2)
As the oldest employee, Old Zhang trembled all over, suddenly looked up, his lips quivered, and his eyes instantly reddened, "Rem... remember! President Yan, I remember! President Jiang... she was the only light in this ’Ghost City’ back then!"
Yan Yueqing’s voice was filled with a sense of reminiscence and respect for her mother, "Although due to some reasons, President Jiang didn’t have much time to manage Sea Star later on, it’s undeniable that her initial actions created opportunities for many present here, allowing you to guard your homeland."
Her words were like an invisible key, opening the floodgates of memory, also stirring up complex emotions buried in the hearts of many over the years.
The meeting room was filled with a heavy and awkward silence, more suffocating than the mere quietness earlier.
For these old employees, the name Jiang Yu President Jiang had long blurred into a distant and slightly guilty symbol, and sometimes, unconsciously, with a bit of resentment—resenting her departure back then, leaving Sea Star to drift in the storms.
However, President Yan’s decisive words at this moment were like a heavy hammer striking each old employee’s heart—
Indeed, it was President Jiang who gave them a refuge and a livelihood during the darkest "Ghost City" period, allowing them to guard this land and business without being uprooted like others.
Shame crept silently around their hearts like vines.
President Yan’s words carried no blame, but the subtext was sharply pointed—
They had been guarding the foundation left by President Jiang for fifteen years. But what was the result? Instead of preserving it, they guarded it to the brink of bankruptcy, with wages arrears, people in panic, and nearly disbanded!
What President Jiang gave back then was a "way to survive," and what about them? In these fifteen years, they nearly turned this "way to survive" into a dead end! 𝘧𝓇ℯℯ𝑤ℯ𝘣𝓃ℴ𝓋𝑒𝑙.𝑐𝘰𝑚
Old Zhang’s phrase "the only light" still echoed by their ears, highlighting the dullness and listlessness of these past fifteen years.
If President Jiang had run away right after founding the company, allowing it to swiftly decline, perhaps they could have used "the boss was irresponsible" as an excuse.
But in fact, there are plenty of examples where the boss left for years, yet the company thrived under the leadership of professional managers or an excellent team of employees.
Isn’t Old Zhang’s daughter working at SomeFun?
The boss fled abroad, but the company’s current cash flow and operations, powered solely by copyright fees, can continually pay employees’ wages.
And Sea Star... relying on that vast original capital left by President Jiang, relying on the many resources she bridged for them, which they never dared to dream of before...
Why hasn’t it developed?
President Jiang has only been out of touch for the past few years, and did the company decline so rapidly?
A thought exploded in everyone’s mind!
——If everything relies on the boss’s capital to maintain the company’s operations, it means everyone present is useless!
For fifteen years, they failed to make Sea Star grow strong, failed to make it self-reliant, instead, it withered with each passing day, even reaching the brink of bankruptcy and liquidation, eventually needing President Jiang’s daughter to come to the rescue.
This is not just an issue of poor management; it is a betrayal! Betraying President Jiang’s trust and the opportunities she left, betraying the land and sea that fed them, and betraying their fifteen years of time!
This delayed and heavy reflection, accompanied by a strong sense of shame, weighed so heavily that no one could lift their heads.
In the meeting room, there was only the sound of oppressive breathing and unplaceable silence.
The arrival of the new boss not only brought a way out but acted as a mirror exposing their long-standing incompetence.
Yan Yueqing surveyed the crowd and slowly said:
"In fact, President Jiang did not forget everyone. Not long ago, she formally entrusted Sea Star Company to me..."
"So, this isn’t about speculation, nor is it about acquisition! It’s about inheritance, it’s a grave responsibility!"
"I took over, not to await some policy windfall to reap huge profits! But to continue my mother’s faith, to make Sea Star truly live, and live well! The impact of the new energy pilot on our original site is a fact, but when I, Yan Yueqing, took up this burden, I was already prepared to face any storm! The East Creek Bay plan is my first step in facing the storm, not some people’s imagined, calculated manipulation!"
"What does this turmoil test?" Her voice was icy cold, every word hammered clearly on each person’s heart, "It’s the human heart! It’s the phrase ’united we stand’!"
