The betrothal gift is 100,000 yuan, what does it mean to give 200,000

Chapter 402: Killing Three Birds with One Stone, Chen Yuan Traps Two Sisters (Part )
Chen Yuan was so tired yesterday that he fell asleep as soon as he returned to bed. But he got up very early this morning, at around six o'clock, and went to the vegetable market not far downstairs to buy chopped vegetables and minced meat.

When he got home, he immediately went into the kitchen and started busying himself.

Logically speaking, he didn't have that much energy or was that hardworking, but when he thought of Jiang Ning getting up and seeing him in the kitchen, Chen Yuan was filled with endless motivation.

Chen Yuan felt that the rift caused by so many quarrels could perhaps be healed little by little through long-term interactions. He had no doubt about his sincerity and hoped that Jiang Ning could see his sincerity.

In the kitchen, he blew away the hot steam from the porridge, scooped out a small spoonful to taste it to see if it was soft enough, and when he felt it was about right, he added the lean meat and vegetables.

With a "ding" sound, the cell phone in Chen Yuan's pocket vibrated.

He took out his cell phone and saw the text message from Zhou Cha.

"In the early hours of last night, Qin Wanqing, the office secretary of Mei Ruxue's company, posted a video on various short video platforms, accusing her boss Jiang Ruxue of sexually bullying her for two years. She filed a lawsuit and the case has been filed..."

When Chen Yuan saw this text message, the expression on his face froze. He was stunned for a long while before he let out a sigh.

I didn't expect these people to act so quickly. In just one night, their attack on Jiang Ruxue was like a devastating blow.

Now, employees of Mingzhu City Meiruxue Company have gathered together to demand their wages. Many of them must have known the news, which is undoubtedly making the current situation worse.

The point is, the matter has become so serious that the two sisters can’t keep it secret.

"Click——"

The bedroom doorknob turned.

Jiang Ning wiped the water droplets from her face and walked out. After passing the corridor, she smelled the smell from the kitchen.

"Awake so early?"

"Yeah!" Chen Yuan quickly put the phone behind him, "I've had enough sleep, so I'm here to have breakfast with you."

"What have you done?"

"Green vegetable and lean meat porridge will be ready soon."

"Well," Jiang Ning glanced at Chen Yuan, "You don't have to be so attentive. Sometimes being too attentive can make both of you uncomfortable. I don't have to ask you to do anything."

"How is that possible? I would get up and make breakfast even when I was back home, not just for you."

"You'd better," Jiang Ning combed her hair, "serve the porridge first. I've read the list you gave me last night."

"How about it?"

"Personally, I feel there are many things wrong with this. We'll talk about it in detail later when we have dinner. I'm going to put on my makeup first."

"Okay, okay..." Chen Yuan forced a bright smile.

After Jiang Ning gave him a strange look and left, Chen Yuan took out the cell phone behind him.

He lowered his head and quickly edited a message in reply.

"I know. I will adapt to the situation and won't get distracted by my concern... Don't worry, Sister Chacha."

……

The two of them sat face to face at the dining table. Half an hour later, Jiang Ning had put on some light makeup and her long hair was curled into subtle little curls. Even without lipstick, her complexion was still very good, and she looked like a crabapple flower blooming in the morning.

Just looking at her face is refreshing.

Chen Yuan couldn't help but take a few more glances at her. Ningning was increasingly showing the unique charm of a mature woman.

"The job relationships in the northern region are not complicated. The old system of the past thirty years is still in use. Electricity, coal and coal chemical industry are on one level, finance, trade and logistics, and emerging industries are on another level, and environmental protection and supervision are separated and directly led by the discipline inspection team..."

Jiang Ning started the conversation while eating and patiently explained her thoughts to Chen Yuan.

"The Jiang headquarters has a total of 16 departments, three leadership offices, and a board of directors. There are 17 regional companies in the northern region, and each region is divided into six departments and one office. Each department has a minister and two deputy ministers, and the office has a disciplinary inspection director and deputy director. This is the entire ecosystem of the entire ladder, right?"

"Yes," Chen Yuan nodded and said, "I am the general director of the Northern Region and the chief director of the Northern Discipline Inspection Department."

"So in your department, you rejected more than 80% of the appointments, wanted to conduct in-depth reforms to the Discipline Inspection Department, personally sent people to supervise the situation in the region, and gave your own different opinions on the promotion and retirement of 16 deputy ministers... These opinions were very good, and you also conducted in-depth research on their personal backgrounds. The purpose was to destroy the situation in which the minister had absolute power in a small ladder system."

"As expected of Ningning," Chen Yuan's eyes were full of admiration. "That's what I think. If you know a little bit, you will find that in our system, the head of a company has almost absolute power, and there is almost no force that can effectively supervise it. Leaders at all levels in the northern region are trying to make these departments their own backyards. In this way, the system and concepts can be effectively implemented, but once the leaders have other ideas, they can easily break away from the leadership of the headquarters and deceive the supervision of the Commission for Discipline Inspection."

“Have you ever thought about what the philosophy of management is?”

"Management philosophy?" Chen Yuan was a little confused by Jiang Ning's question.

"Management is not about doing everything yourself, nor is it about tying everyone's hands and feet and turning them into robots. You don't have that much ability, and no one in the world has that ability. Do you want to supervise these 17 regional companies and hundreds of departments one by one?"

"Do you mean the workload is too heavy? Or do you mean I am overambitious and under-skilled..." Chen Yuan hesitated for a moment and asked in a muffled voice.

"Neither. Let me give you an example. This structure is a different kind of honeycomb. It looks complicated, but it is actually orderly in chaos. The most important concept of management is checks and balances. Let a department check and balance each other, let the 17 regional companies check and balance each other, let the entire ladder system check and balance each other, this way you can save countless efforts."

"Checks and balances?" After hearing Jiang Ning's words, Chen Yuan suddenly felt that he had touched a whole new level.

He had never thought about this before.

He believes that supervision is to prevent everyone from having evil intentions, to ensure that a department maintains a high degree of consistency from top to bottom without just relying on the personal ideas of the top leader, and to ensure that the phenomenon of corruption is restrained under supervision.

What are checks and balances?
"In other words, isn't your existence also a check and balance on the leaders at all levels in the north? Although you have been appointed to the highest position, you are still in a semi-empty state. Anyone who wants to do anything has to go through your eyes. Either others will knock you down, or assimilate you..." Jiang Ning took a deep breath, put down the spoon in his hand and said, "Your father arranged you like this, maybe it's his way of checks and balances, then why can't you follow this concept and implement this set of checks and balances in the 17 regional companies? Let the contradictions between supervision and being supervised disperse piece by piece, let them confront each other, instead of you being the biggest target. Let your incarnation toss hard down there, and fight wits and courage with those people, instead of relying solely on you to fight wits and courage."

"I think I understand!" Chen Yuan thought for a moment and was suddenly amazed. "Damn, Ningning, you are really a genius."

"Don't be so quick to praise me," Jiang Ning waved her hand. "I'm your secretary, and it's my duty to provide you with feasible solutions. Now let's talk about the appointment list. The list you showed me should be rejected and revised from scratch. We rely on the concept of checks and balances... Whether it's your father or the board of directors, if this is a test paper issued by them, then the list is the answer sheet you submitted."

"Whether it's right or wrong depends on whether they are willing to follow the list I submit. If the answer is wrong, the list will be rejected?"

"Smart, that's the truth."

"That's amazing. How could I not have thought of this level?" Chen Yuan exclaimed in amazement. "Why didn't I realize that Ningning knows so much before? It's really the right decision to let you be my secretary."

Chen Yuan was extremely happy. He was still in a daze some time ago.

Now, Jiang Ning's words made him understand his position, why he would take over as the general director, and what the appointment list meant to him.

To put it bluntly, there are some things that, whether it is the headquarters or Jiang Zhengfeng's personal opinion, we hope someone will do it.

But the whole internal structure is so complicated that no one has a truly clean identity. Only his appearance provides new changes.

Reform in the northern region is imminent, but for so many years, it has never been effectively implemented because there has never been a person of his status.

In the past, the people sent by the headquarters could not achieve the effect of checks and balances. Those regional leaders with rich experience were too powerful, and even Jiang Zhengfeng had to be polite to them. Naturally, they were defeated or assimilated in no time.

The North District has a four-year job change. At this critical juncture, Chen Yuan appeared and was promoted like a rocket, as if he was specially selected to take over before the list was made public.

Looking back, is this inextricably linked to the internal struggles within the Jiang family?
"What is a good wife? This is it!" Chen Yuan was happier to see Jiang Ning's abilities than his own growth. He seemed to be eager to tell Jiang Zhengfeng what a good girlfriend he had found. How many people in the world could compare to her?

"What nonsense..." Jiang Ning's cheeks blushed slightly, "I told you my duty."

"I have to think carefully about the list. If I submit a perfect answer, it will surely impress my father and the senior members of the board of directors."

"Then let's do a new investigation. It's a big project anyway."

The two chatted for a while and finished the meal.

Before she knew it, Jiang Ning had drunk two small bowls of porridge and felt her stomach was bloated.

This is definitely not because the porridge made by Chen Yuan is quite delicious...

However, just as she was about to stand up, put on her clothes and lipstick to go out.

"Ding--"

A sudden text message flashed on her phone screen.

Jiang Ning had only glanced at it, but she froze in her tracks. She picked up her phone and looked at it carefully, her face becoming confused. Opposite her, Chen Yuan suddenly had a bad feeling.

"What's wrong?" he asked cautiously.

"The bank just sent me a message saying that the bank card my mother gave me before... was frozen?"

……

Jiang Ruxue had given Jiang Ning many cards before, including company-related accounts for her to keep in her name, and some simply for living expenses. When she went abroad to study, Jiang Ruxue applied for an account specifically for her to exchange foreign currency for daily use.

If it's just one that's frozen, it doesn't matter.

But now, news of frozen bank accounts came one after another. After Jiang Ning was stunned for a moment, she felt that something had happened in Mingzhu City.

After hearing what she said, Chen Yuan's heart sank.

Even without him pointing it out, the truth was revealed.

"What's going on?" After realizing what was going on, Chen Yuan pretended to be stupid and asked.

"I don't know... let me make a phone call and ask now."

"Well."

Jiang Ning lowered her head and began to dial the number. Her long hair on both sides of her forehead hung down, covering half of her face.

Even without looking, Chen Yuan knew that her expression was very solemn at this moment.

He tidied up the things on the table and walked into the kitchen, still listening to the noises in the living room with his ears perked up. His movements were very gentle, for fear of disturbing Jiang Ning.

The first call didn’t go through.

Jiang Ning felt it was incredible... In the past, she would only call Jiang Ruxue on this private phone when she had something to do. The cold shutdown tone from the customer service was something that had never happened before.

Afterwards, Jiang Ning made the second call to Aunt Wang, who was also the nanny who took care of all aspects of the household.

"Hello, Aunt Wang, I want to ask if you have seen my mom. Is she home? Why can't I get through to her phone? Is her phone turned off? What... has she not been home for three days? You're asking me if I know... only my uncle has been home, right?"

How could Jiang Ruxue possibly go back... She was now trapped in the office, and it must be difficult for her to even leave the company. Those employees would never let her go.

Chen Yuan thought.

The third call was made by Jiang Ning to her uncle.

This call lasted a bit longer, a full ten minutes. The more Chen Yuan listened, the more distressed he felt, because the other party had probably told Jiang Ning everything, which could be judged from her reaction.

After hanging up the phone, Jiang Ning looked pale.

When Chen Yuan came out, he saw her sitting on the sofa in a daze, and he couldn't help feeling heartbroken.

"What happened?"

"I……"

"You say it."

"I may need to take a few days off and go back to Mingzhu City. Something happened to my mother," Jiang Ning said in a rare panic. "The dispute in the company is quite serious."

Sure enough, when it comes to the people closest to them, everyone often chooses not to tell the truth so as not to worry them.

Chen Yuan walked over and quickly held Jiang Ning's hand, looking at her sincerely.

"It's okay. Tell me what happened. I can't help with other things, but I might be able to help with the company's affairs. Ningning, can you be more specific?"

"There's a problem with the product. The employer filed a lawsuit, saying that the quarterly bills and financial statements were falsified, and demanded compensation for breach of contract... Moreover, the entire company is in chaos now. The employees surrounded the office and wouldn't let my mom leave..."

"So serious?" Chen Yuan pretended to be shocked.

"No, I have to go back quickly," Jiang Ning clenched Chen Yuan's hand and frowned, "My uncle can't help her, it's good enough that he can take care of himself."

"Then I'll go with you!"

If Chen Yuan didn't show it at this time, he would be a complete fool, so he solemnly took Jiang Ning's hand.

"If the critical moment really comes when I am needed, with my status, at least I will not let you get implicated."

"Okay," Jiang Ning was not thinking so calmly at this time. After a little consideration, he agreed and stood up quickly. "Let's go now."

(End of this chapter)