Zhao Shucheng looked at the old Party Secretary and said, "Uncle, don't you have anything to say? You have the highest prestige in our village committee, and you get a lot of dividends every year. Are you willing to do such a thing just for these little things? What do you think I should do? If someone complains to me, should I intervene? If I don't care, will they report it to the county directly?"

The old Party Secretary sighed and said, "Dongbao, I have nothing to say. I did all these things. You can do whatever you want!"

"Uncle, you watched me grow up, and you let me figure it out on my own. What do you want me to do?"

The old branch secretary said tremblingly, "I, I beg you to worship me, can you just ignore it? I know you too well."

"You know you're still doing it knowingly. Is it worth it? There are so many enterprises in our village. The village committee will distribute dividends every year, and even the cadres will get more. Why do you do this?"

"Yeah, these are not much. I didn't expect someone would dare to check my accounts. Now the Xiaolei family is yours! Okay, I'm leaving!"

Zhao Shucheng frowned and looked at him, saying, "Uncle, what are you talking about? I have to know why, right? It's definitely not about money. After all, there is a lot of money in our village. If you really have any bad intentions, it won't be just this little thing."

"Children are the debt owed by their parents in their previous lives!"

Zhao Shucheng couldn't help but sigh and said, "Uncle, you are old. In fact, the township has wanted you to retire a long time ago. You can apply for retirement yourself. But I plan to conduct an internal audit of the accounts of our Xiao Lei family's company. It is not aimed at you or Wei Guo, but to prevent similar situations from happening again."

"Of course I will announce that as long as the money is paid, I will not pursue the matter before the audit. However, anyone who dares to do it again will be kicked out of the Lei family! As for your matter, I will let others record it on Lei Weiguo and will not pursue it. This is not to target you, but to prevent such a situation from happening in the future for the Lei family. We can't let the business we built be destroyed!"

The old branch secretary looked at Zhao Shucheng deeply and said, "Dongbao! You don't have to save face for me. This matter is wrong and it is wrong."

Zhao Shucheng asked curiously, "No, uncle, I don't quite understand. Do you have to do this to defend the country?"

"Alas, what can we do if it's not that serious? He can't lift it on his shoulders or carry it on his back..."

Zhao Shucheng frowned and said, "Uncle, after all, you are too doting on your child. You can't manage him, so let me manage him! Since he doesn't like any of the enterprises in the village, why not let him go to work in the most tiring and difficult pig farm. I will have someone keep an eye on him. If he doesn't work hard, his salary will be deducted. If the salary is not enough, the dividends will be deducted until all the money is deducted. I don't think his wife will bear to see the family have no expenses, and you are not allowed to subsidize them. Letting them suffer is better than being hated by everyone in the future, right?"

The old Party secretary could not help but sigh and said, "It's up to you. I am nothing now. You can do whatever you want."

Zhao Shucheng followed suit and sighed. The old branch secretary was such a man. Just because he had a son like this, his reputation for life was ruined and now he was tarnished with a stain.

When the old branch secretary walked out of the village committee, he happened to meet Lei Shigen who was bringing the heads of various enterprises to the village committee.

They looked at each other, and the old branch secretary left with his head down. The others looked at the old secretary's back, some were surprised, and some seemed to be thinking about something.

Zhao Shucheng originally wanted to handle it in a low-key manner, but he didn't expect that some people didn't understand and were even very resistant.

Zhao Shucheng naturally could not compromise, so he directly passed the audit at the meeting, asking those who had dirty hands to make up the money in the account in advance. If problems were found, there would be no reward or punishment this time, but if there was a next time, it would be handled impartially. In addition, Xiao Lei's family's accounts would be audited every year in the future, and an external accountant would be hired to audit. If problems were found, they would be directly publicized or even reported to the police.

This made some people feel uneasy and they felt that there was no need to make such a big fuss.

"It's true that the Lei family has gone from being poor to being a civilized and wealthy village in the city and even the province. We can't just sit back and enjoy the good things, but we should have a sense of crisis. You are all well-fed, but have you seen what the situation of other companies outside is like? If I didn't lead you in foreign trade business, and if you didn't have the foreign exchange earnings from the bamboo weaving factory, wool spinning factory, or even the canning factory, do you think you can compete with the companies outside?"

"Take brick and tile factories and prefabricated board factories for example. Can you face the challenges from outside equally? Can you find your own sources of goods and even build your own sales channels?"

Zhao Shucheng looked at the people from the bamboo weaving factory and the wool spinning factory and said, "Don't be happy. If you don't have the customers I contacted, what new customers have you developed? If these customers don't cooperate, can you sell your products? Do you know the prices of these things in the province? Do you think you can still live such a leisurely life?"

"Canning factory, if it weren't for the Lei family leading the whole county and even the whole city to plant fruit trees, do you think you could get the goods if you purchased the raw materials yourself? Now that you are so happy, do you want me to let you venture out on your own and see how to sell the goods?"

Now everyone became obedient and kept silent, because they all knew very well that without Zhao Shucheng out there managing sales, they could at best earn some hard-earned money, and would have no way of making the company bigger and stronger.

"No one is capable of doing this. From now on, except for the cannery that I am in charge of, all the businesses of the Lei family will be responsible for their own profits and losses, and they will even have to go out and find sales channels themselves. Whether it is a loss or a profit, you will have to figure it out by yourselves. If you are scolded by the villagers later, you will have to bear the consequences!"

After hearing what Zhao Shucheng said, they all became anxious. In fact, most of their company orders were negotiated by Zhao Shucheng, and even the customers were in Zhao Shucheng's hands. They had no way to contact outside customers, and they didn't even know how to negotiate business with people.

However, Zhao Shucheng decided to let them handle it on their own. No matter what they said, he would not care about these things. He also wanted to see if they could still run the business or even continue to operate after he was gone.

The news of Xiao Lei's family's audit caused a sensation and even spread throughout the province and the city, with all kinds of speculations.

In fact, there have been various speculations in Xiaoleijia Village. Some said that Zhao Shucheng was trying to seize power, some said that the old branch secretary himself had problems, and some even wondered whether Xiaolei's family's business was going to fail and whether they would have to go back to their previous days of farming.

Unfortunately, Zhao Shucheng and his colleagues never announced it to the public, and even allowed these rumors to appear while they were busy checking the accounts in the village committee.

Lei Weiguo knew that his father was dismissed, so he came to the village committee to make trouble. Unfortunately, he misjudged the situation. You know, because he implicated the old secretary, Zhao Shucheng began to rectify the Lei family's business, which made the responsible persons and accountants suffer.

When facing Zhao Shucheng, they dared not offend him, and even felt that they would have to rely on Zhao Shucheng to get through the difficulties in the future. When they saw Lei Weiguo, they suddenly felt that there was a reason for all the injustices, and they stared at him fiercely, as if they would start fighting if they disagreed. Lei Weiguo was somewhat unable to see the situation clearly, and thought that his father was the village party secretary. He was not in a good mood with these people, shouting that his father was the village party secretary, and these people in the village were promoted by the old party secretary. If they checked the accounts or even dismissed the old party secretary, they would be ungrateful, and even said that these people had dirty hands.

This caused public outrage, and they all rushed to Lei Weidong, asking him why he said that and whether he had any evidence.

Lei Weidong naturally couldn't produce any evidence, so he said, "Do you need evidence? Anyone with a little power is innocent."

Lei Shigen saw that the situation was not good and said, "Shut up and get out quickly. This is the village committee, not a place for you to cause trouble."

"I know, you started it all. You just want my father to give up his position to Lei Dongbao, so that you can be the village chief. Why, you dare to do it but not to say it?"

Lei Shigen was now a little angry. He had been trying to keep it a secret for the sake of the old branch secretary's face, but now he was in a difficult situation.

Now that Lei Shigen was no longer there to stop them, the others became less polite and they surrounded Lei Weiguo and started pushing him.

When Zhao Shucheng heard the news and rushed over, he saw that Lei Weiguo had been pushed to the ground, curled up, and didn't even dare to look up.

Zhao Shucheng looked at the people pretending to be indifferent and the villagers who were watching the fight outside, and couldn't help shouting, "What are you looking at? Don't you have to work? Disperse quickly, disperse! Why don't you step forward to stop them and just watch the villagers fighting among themselves?"

After everyone had left, Zhao Shucheng couldn't help but sigh, and came to Lei Shigen and said, "Shigen, why didn't you stop him?"

"Why didn't I stop him? But what he said was so infuriating. What did he mean by unclean? What did he mean by wanting to be promoted? I..."

Zhao Shucheng said helplessly: "Okay, don't feel wronged, Lei Weiguo, go back by yourself. If you feel unwell, I will have someone take you to the county hospital."

"Just go if you want to. You guys are bullying my dad because he's old, but you're so ungrateful!"

Zhao Shucheng frowned and said, "Shut your stinky mouth, what are you talking about? Don't you think your father is embarrassing enough? Who is the reason for his behavior? Don't you know the answer? If it weren't for you, the old branch secretary could have stayed in this position for life. Now, you are the one who is making trouble for him. Your family's dividends will also be reduced. Are you satisfied? If you had fought for it, you could have worked in any of the many enterprises in the village and earned money yourself. You wouldn't have let the old branch secretary give you a backdoor. Is it necessary to be like this now? Get out of here!"

Although Lei Weiguo was driven away by Zhao Shucheng, the news that the old branch secretary had used backdoors for him spread quickly throughout the village after he made such a fuss. The villagers started talking about it and discussing it everywhere.

Originally, Zhao Shucheng thought that the village committee would check the accounts themselves and let others pay back the money, but now that everyone knows about it, there is no way to stop it. Otherwise, the villagers will think that the village committee is collectively corrupt, and it will be even more difficult to deal with it if the matter becomes serious.

Zhao Shucheng had no choice but to ask Lei Shigen and others to conduct a public audit and then announce the results of the investigation directly to the public in order to dispel the villagers' suspicion.

After the old Party secretary learned that his son had gone to the village committee and made a scene, he sighed at home. He had been covering up for his son because he was not doing well, but now everyone in the village knew about it.

Although his wife blamed her son for causing such a scene and that he would never be able to hold his head up in the village, the old secretary knew that this matter could not be concealed or avoided.

However, Zhao Shucheng felt that this might not be a bad thing. Xiao Lei's family had been developing for such a long time, and the villagers had worked with him to get to this point. Everyone had suffered a lot, and it was time to give the villagers a clear explanation and let everyone know that no one should think of taking a penny more from the village, and no one should think of taking the lead in corruption or using backdoors.

In the evening, Zhao Shucheng went directly to the old branch secretary's house, looked at the old branch secretary who was sighing, and said:

"Uncle, why are you like this? It's not a big deal."

"Dong Bao, my reputation in this life has been ruined in an instant because of that unfilial son!"

Zhao Shucheng said, "Not really. Besides, who hasn't made mistakes? This isn't a big deal. We just need to correct our mistakes. But this incident also reminds me that as our Lei family develops better and better, there will be more and more temptations outside. We must stop this. Uncle, as an elder in our village, I'm sorry for you. You can only be the one to scare the others."

The old Party secretary couldn't help but sigh and said, "What a shame!"

"Uncle, you can't think like that. You didn't want to do this, it was all for Weiguo. But we should correct our mistakes, you can't let it go. Weiguo is like this, someone has to watch over him in the future, otherwise who knows what will happen in the future."

"Oh, I know, I know!"

Zhao Shucheng said, "Uncle, it's settled that Weiguo will go to work at the pig farm. He will be rewarded for his merits and punished for his faults. You and the elders in the village can't sit idle. From now on, you will be the supervisors of the village. If something like this happens again, we should know about it as soon as possible to avoid losses in the village."

"Dongbao, do you still believe in me?"

"Why not believe it? You have done so much for our village in your life. We can't deny your other contributions just because of this one time. I just feel a little sorry. If it weren't for Weiguo, you wouldn't be like this. Otherwise, you can continue to be the village party secretary, and I can rest assured to pave the way for the village. Now that you are gone, Shigen and Hongwei are still young. I don't know if they can withstand such a great temptation. Alas, I have to worry about the family's affairs when I am away. It's hard!"

The old branch secretary couldn't help blushing after hearing this. He knew that his contribution to the village was not as great as Zhao Shucheng's. Now Zhao Shucheng was in a dilemma. He was speechless for a moment. (End of this chapter)

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