43 Confrontation (1/2)

Inside the conference room...

At this moment, Cao Feifei was just about to wrap up the meeting, but she inadvertently looked at the door and her face couldn't help but change as she shouted her most hated name: ”Zhang Xiaohua!”

Zhang Xiaohua directly ignored the father and daughter duo and entered the conference room.

As he stood before the conference table, Zhang Xiaohua first glanced at the audience and found that except for Cao Dequan and Cao Feifei, he did not have any impression of the rest of them.

It seemed that those former veterans had already been purged by the father and daughter pair.

Once upon a time, this company had been like another branch of his family. But now it just felt strange and foreign to be here...

Shaking his head, Zhang Xiaohua locked his eyes on Xu Fengnian's now empty seat, and that made him feel much happier.

Originally, Zhang Xiaohua wouldn't have a place to sit for himself. This Cao father and daughter certainly did not prepare a seat for him.

Of course, let alone sitting in Xu Fengnian's former seat, as one of the shareholders of this company, Zhang Xiaohua had every right to be in such meetings. Even Cao Dequan could not say anything about this.

Seeing Zhang Xiaohua's arrogance, Cao Feifei got up from her seat while barking at him, her tone full of anger:

”Zhang Xiaohua, who let you in? Don't you see that we are in a meeting? Hurry up and leave before I call security to throw you out.”

In the face of Cao Feifei's stern warning, Zhang Xiaohua was unfased, he took out his mobile phone and hushed his head while playing a casual game. He replied to her in a mild tone:

”No one's gonna call security. Unless you wanna see your father in prison, because in that case, I'll be more than happy to oblige and I'll see you guys in court. There we can figure out how many years the judge feels like giving to a chairman of a listed company, who embezzled company dividends from the private shareholders.”

This immediately caused an uproar among the shareholders at the scene, they all jumped from their seats and glared at the Cao Dequan. Finally, Zhang Xiaohua turned his attention to Cao Dequan's body.

Cao Feifei's face became pale as paper, but her eyes were still filled with resentment, she stared at Zhang Xiaohua and snorted: ”What do you mean, Zhang Xiaohua? How much are your dividends? How much money can you even get? It's not even worth our time! Why would we bother swallowing it?”

”It's worth it, I think it can be seen from the fact that you came to my house and threatened me and my mother into selling these shares to you...? So much for sworn brothers, haha. In fact, why not just ask the other shareholders if it's worth it.”

Finis.h.i.+ng his words, Zhang Xiaohua turned away from her and fixed his eyes on Cao Dequan's body, as if he could see through his heart. He clearly understood that his every move was causing Cao Dequan to break out into a cold sweat. His panic was obvious to anyone and his guilt was written across his face.

Cao Dequan really couldn't understand, where had this kid gathered so much courage from?

He watched this kid as he was growing up, and according to his understanding of him, even when his father was here to back him up, he wasn't so haughty.

But now, when he no longer had any backing, he actually dared to come to the company to find trouble. With this kind of courage, he really was worthy of being called a second-generation wastrel.

However, no matter what, this was a company and he was the chairman of its board. If he allowed this kid to be so abusive again and again, then he would truly lose all of his face.

Thinking of this, Cao Dequan reluctantly looked up and showed a false smile to Zhang Xiaohua. He pretended to be kind and said: ”Oh, Xiaohua, you must have misunderstood Uncle. I have watched you grow up. How could I be scheming against you? You are practically my family and as for last time, I do apologise, but I think we can both agree that we took things too far and said things that we didn't mean.”

”I'm not here for your two-faced act, so let's just cut straight to the chase.” Zhang Xiaohua was not embarra.s.sed and cut him off saying: ”Give me all the dividends that I deserve from last month, and not a penny less. Or we can sort this out in court. But before I go to court, I think it might be necessary to host a press conference and talk to our friends in the media about the methods you use to handle business.”

Upon hearing this, Cao Dequan suddenly felt anxious.

With Zhang Xiaohua's current popularity, once he opened a press conference and discredited Cao Dequan in front of the media, both Cao Dequan and New Century would have their reputation tainted. Some of the shareholders would love nothing more than to use this as an excuse to remove him from the chairman position. Especially after hearing about his attempt to buy the remaining shares and become the majority shareholder. While they didn't mind him running the day to day aspect of the business, if he tried to gain full control over it, they would definitely work together with this Zhang Xiaohua to suppress him, then all of his hard work would be wasted.

As for Zhang Xiaohua's threats of getting him sent to jail, he knew he was bluffing, if this was taken to court, at most, he would receive a fine and some bad comments on press media, but with his connections and power he could easily minimise the effects.