You call this entrepreneurship?

Chapter 404

Liu Yuanyuan looked at the two bosses' fake smiles and felt very uneasy, so she remained silent.

"Yuanyuan, I've always been very kind to you." Yang Li's smile was a little stiff, but she still tried to maintain it and said gently, "Just think of it as helping me today. It's just a piece of cake for you."

"But Sister Yue doesn't let me tell anyone her phone number." Liu Yuanyuan looked embarrassed.

"We are not others." Yang Li continued with a smile, "I am her senior, and I was the one who recruited her into the company."

"You forced her away again." Liu Yuanyuan added.

"..." Yang Li looked embarrassed, "It was just a misunderstanding, and we resolved it later."

"Now that the misunderstanding has been resolved, why don't you contact her yourself?" Liu Yuanyuan asked pretending to be ignorant.

Yang Li was choked again. She also wanted to contact Mingyue, but her phone number was blocked by Mingyue. She tried several different numbers but couldn't get through. She also got no reply to her messages on QQ. Otherwise, she wouldn't have been so humble as to beg her own employee.

She was very angry seeing Liu Yuanyuan pretending to be stupid, but she couldn't show it.

Yang Li forced a smile, "Yuanyuan, after thinking it over, I think it would be more appropriate for you to contact them. After all, you are good friends, so it would be better for you to say it."

"Don't worry, I won't let you do this for nothing."

Liu Yuanyuan's eyes lit up, "Can you give me a raise?"

The smile on Yang Li's face disappeared, "Salary increase?"

"Yes, I see that the salaries of newly recruited employees are higher than those of our old employees. Can you give me a raise as well?" Liu Yuanyuan asked cautiously.

"Well..." Yang Li hesitated, "I'll go discuss it with Manager Huang."

Huang Zong's first reaction after hearing this condition was to refuse, "No! We can't make this offer. If we give her a raise, then what about other employees? If the salary increases, how much will our costs increase? Have you calculated it?"

"Well, you give her 500 yuan, and don't mention the salary increase."

Yang Li hesitated a little, "What if old employees ask for a salary increase in the future?"

"Then fire them." Huang Zong said without hesitation, "There are so many people in the company now, it doesn't matter if one or two people are missing. We can just recruit new ones."

"If you fire someone, you have to pay him one month's salary as compensation." Yang Li was a little reluctant.

"Why do you still care about such a small amount of money? I would rather pay them a month's salary than let them have any inappropriate thoughts." Huang Zong said coldly, "You need to have a broad vision and a big picture!"

"Okay." Yang Li nodded.

Then he took out a red envelope, stuffed five hundred yuan into it, turned around and found Liu Yuanyuan, handed the red envelope to her, and said, "Take this red envelope first."

"Ah?" Liu Yuanyuan hesitated, "Senior, what are you doing..."

"Manager Huang is not here, so we can talk about the salary increase later. Please help me find Mingyue first." Yang Li said with a smile, "Don't worry, I will talk to Manager Huang when he comes back."

Liu Yuanyuan nodded, "Then I'll send a text message to Sister Yue."

……

"I didn't plagiarize!" Mingyue said firmly, "This matter has nothing to do with me."

Yang Li quickly smiled and said, "I'm not doubting you, it's just that this matter is too strange. I just told you about it, don't you think the timing is too coincidental?"

"I thought you had already registered?" Mingyue retorted directly, "I haven't thought about copyright issues until now. I'm busy looking for a job."

Huang Zong quickly interrupted, "We really didn't doubt you. We asked you to come here today just to find out about this matter. After all, you are the original author. You should have evidence to prove that the Demon King Squirrel was created by you, right?"

"Yes." Mingyue put her laptop on the table and said as she turned it on, "I created it on this computer. There is the original file record from the end of last year."

Huang Zong was a little excited. "Yes, yes, that's what we need. This is very important evidence."

As Huang Zong was speaking, he tried to reach out to touch the laptop, but unexpectedly a hand reached out from the side and closed the laptop again.

Qin Shaoyan said with a fake smile: "You two can just take a look, why are you trying to grab it?"

"It's a misunderstanding." Huang Zong explained quickly, "I just want Mingyue to help us provide some evidence."

"Then why should my girlfriend provide you with evidence?" Qin Shaoyan asked back, "I have never heard of such a weird thing in the world."

"My girlfriend's work was registered by someone else, and the company that fired her wants her to provide evidence and get the registered work back to you."

"I just want to ask why? Aren't you bullying an honest person?"

"Uh, sir, you can't say that." Yang Li quickly tried to smooth things over. "We won't ask Mingyue for help in vain. If we can get the copyright back, we will pay a certain fee."

"How much?" Qin Shaoyan asked directly.

Yang Li hesitantly extended a finger, glanced at Huang Zong, and then extended five fingers, "Fifty thousand yuan."

"Haha." Qin Shaoyan sneered twice, picked up his laptop and stood up to leave.

"One hundred thousand yuan!" Huang Zong shouted quickly, "We can discuss it if you have anything to say."

"Five hundred thousand." Qin Shaoyan said expressionlessly.

"No way, the copyright is not worth the price." Huang Zong refused. "We would rather give up this cartoon character and develop another one."

"Hurry up and give us a price." Qin Shaoyan said with a sneer, "We can't get this thing back anyway, so it won't be a big loss for us if we give it up."

"Two hundred thousand." Huang Zong held up two fingers. "This is the reserve price."

"Two hundred thousand is fine." Qin Shaoyan thought for a moment, "But we also need the right to sign our name."

"Deal." Huang Zong nodded in agreement.

The two parties quickly drafted an agreement, which stated that Mingyue would testify in court at an appropriate time. If the copyright could be regained, Suoyin Company would guarantee Mingyue's right to be named and pay 200,000 yuan.

Qin Shaoyan watched them sign and suddenly laughed, "Actually, there is not much point in you filing this lawsuit. The other party is obviously setting a trap for you."

Huang Zong was startled, looked at Qin Shaoyan, and asked hesitantly: "What do you mean?"

"You just received a big order, and someone registered the copyright before you even started production." Qin Shaoyan said with a smile, "Someone came to negotiate terms right after you started production. It's not just a coincidence that so many things happened at the same time."

"Of course we know this." Huang Zong frowned, "We suspect there is a traitor in the company, but we can't find out anything."

"Of course you can't find anything by investigating your own company." Qin Shaoyan said calmly, "Have you never suspected Party A's company?"

"Party A's company?!" Huang Zong was stunned.

"It's obvious. How can your company be sure that Party A will choose the cartoon image of the Demon King Squirrel? What if they choose something else?" Qin Shaoyan said earnestly, "They must have known Party A's intentions in advance before taking action."

"Then the person who clearly knows Party A's movements must be someone within Party A's team."

Huang Zong was suddenly enlightened at this moment and understood everything in an instant.

Yes, I thought about it for a long time but couldn't figure it out. I didn't expect the problem was with Party A. "Actually, this is a very common thing." Qin Shaoyan said with a smile, "It's actually a disguised way of soliciting bribes, the purpose is to circumvent the internal supervision of large companies."

"Demanding bribes?" Huang Zong suddenly realized.

He had never thought about it this way before. After all, Party A was a big company. He had never thought that such a thing would happen in such a foreign-funded private company.

"They are taking advantage of this. They usually set up or invest in a company, and then hand over the company's projects to companies with vested interests." Qin Shaoyan explained to Huang Zong, Yang Li and others, "In this way, the company's money flows into their personal pockets."

"The decision-making power for your project may not be in their hands, so this is the only way to blackmail them."

"Ah, listening to your words is worth ten years of reading! If it weren't for Mr. Qin's explanation, I would still be in the dark." Huang Zong said admiringly, "Where is Mr. Qin employed?"

"Sure, sure." Qin Shaoyan said with a smile, "I work at the Olympic Games Public Welfare Promotion Network."

"Ah?!" Huang Zong was stunned. Why had he never heard of this website? He immediately put on a smiling face, said a few compliments to Qin Shaoyan, and then left.

Mingyue was trying hard to hold back her laughter, and only laughed out loud after Huang Zong and Yang Li walked away.

"You are such a bad person. I would have believed your lies if I didn't know what was going on when I saw your serious explanation just now." Mingyue was overjoyed. "Look how you fooled them."

"I'm not fooling them." Qin Shaoyan said seriously, "I'm telling the truth."

"Which sentence?" Mingyue asked curiously.

"Every word is true." Qin Shaoyan replied.

"Tsk." Mingyue rolled her eyes. "You just said you were from the Olympic Public Welfare Promotion Network."

"I'm not lying. I'm indeed from the Olympic Public Welfare Promotion Network." Qin Shaoyan explained, "This is the first website I founded. The campus network started with this website."

"Ah?" Mingyue was a little stunned.

……

Conference room of Soyin Company.

Xia Lian looked at the evidence presented by the other party with a disdainful expression and pushed it away casually, "These evidences are useless."

"What do you mean it's useless!" Huang Zong said angrily, "This demon squirrel on the surface is ours."

"But the copyright is with us." Xia Lian said slowly.

Huang Zong was immediately deflated, but he still said stubbornly: "We have evidence, we can sue and get it back."

"You have no chance of winning." Xia Lian's expression remained calm. "Besides, what would happen if you won? You can't afford to delay."

Huang Zong was furious. “We can give up this cartoon character and develop something else. You won’t get a penny.”

"How about that?" Xia Lian asked, "We won't lose anything anyway."

"We are just gambling. We are gambling that you have no way out."

"..." Huang Zong's head felt like it was hit by a hammer, and he was completely stunned.

The other party was right, he really had no way out.

Huang Zong growled, "What do you want?"

Xia Lian smiled slightly and said softly, "Shares."

“Shares?!”

"Yes, shares of Suoyin Company." Xia Lian gave an affirmative answer.

Huang Zong suddenly calmed down at this moment. The other party was coming for his company's shares, which meant that the man surnamed Qin was right.

The other party must be closely related to Party A. This is blatant solicitation of bribes!
Huang Zong said angrily: "Don't think I don't know what you want to do. I know your details. You are blackmailing and asking for bribes!"

"No." Xia Lian corrected, "Our boss said this is called win-win cooperation."

Huang Zong laughed in anger, "I don't see where the win-win situation is?"

"After we become a shareholder, Suoyin Company will no longer have to worry about not being able to find buyers for its works." Xia Lian said with a smile.

Huang Zong was stunned for a moment, then realized what the other party meant.

This means that as long as you give the other party shares, YouTube contracts will continue to come in in the future.

That's not impossible.

At this point, the only disagreement between the two parties is how many shares to give, not whether to give them.

"How much do you want?" Huang Zong asked hesitantly.

"51%," Xia Lian replied.

"No, absolutely not. I would rather quit than hand over the company to you." Huang Zong stood up and refused.

"We can discuss it." Xia Lian laughed.

The two sides were engaged in a fierce tug-of-war, and finally Xia Lian got 33.33% of the shares.

Huang Zong's face was gloomy and he slumped in his chair and sighed. He was devastated by the loss of one-third of his shares.

Xia Lian took out the share transfer agreement and pushed it in front of the other party. "Boss Huang, think about it. Although you have transferred the shares, you will earn more in the future. You must understand the principle of long-term success when doing business."

Huang Zong signed the agreement weakly. He understood the logic, but when the time came, he still couldn't bear to do it.

The other party quickly left with the agreement, but Xia Lian did not write a blank check.

Huang Zong immediately realized what it meant that Suoyin Company no longer had to worry about contracts because Edward came to him again soon.

"Huang, the company has decided to develop another 2D animation film."

"Ah?!" Huang Zong was stunned. "2D cartoon?"

"Yes, the company's appetite is huge, bigger than you can imagine." Edward said with a smile, "We not only need 3D animation, but also 2D."

"But..." Huang Zong wanted to cry, but he couldn't. "We have only made 3D animations."

"It's okay, you can just hire new employees." Edward said nonchalantly, "If it doesn't work, you can outsource it."

"The company needs 5 minutes of 10D animation, with a duration of to minutes. You can be free to express yourself."

“But the quality must be high!”

Huang Zong had no choice but to agree. He no longer considered whether the company could complete the task.
At worst, we can outsource it. Just sign the contract first!
(End of this chapter)