Chapter 57 (1/2)

Back to Sao Paulo, Huang Xuan just rested for one day. He rented a helicopter and flew to the office of Shengfeng Company.

Shengfeng Company mainly dealt in farm products that were sold in the home market and was headquartered in Sao Paulo.

Direta Street was one of the main business centers in Brazil. The headquarters of Shengfeng Company was on the 21st floor of Bento Building, where there was a staff of one hundred people, the middle management of which were basically all Brazilians.

Just like most of the buildings in Sao Paulo, there were four helicopter parking lots on the roof of Bento Building, one of which was public. Huang Xuan didn't call Huang Youwei until he had got off the plane.

”I have arrived at the office.”

He Ceng was already waiting at the elevator with several high executives. He greeted Huang Xuan first, walked close to Huang Xuan and said in Chinese, ”The general manager has just gone out, so he asked me to receive you.”

Huang Xuan nodded slightly at the other people and walked into the gate with Chinese and Portuguese characters on.

Most of Shengfeng staff were stationed on the farms surrounded by a 120,000 hectares savannah, i.e. 1,200 square kilometers, covering seven states in the midwest, where the staff of Shengfeng Company was distributed. Sao Paulo was the most concentrated, where functional departments like human resource, finance, and import and export trade were established.

The staff all stood up and clapped their hands. Huang Xuan who hadn't seen such a scene was caught on the hop and clapped his hands too, saying in Portuguese with a slight bow, ”How warm you are! Thank you very much!”

His Portuguese was already excellent. Actually, the Portuguese spoken by the Spanish and that by the Portuguese were greatly different. But since Huang Xuan was just a teenager who was new in Brazil, he still had amazed the people present. Seeing Huang Xuan walking toward a room with a sign saying ”General Manager” on, He Ceng's face became tense. Before he could stop, Huang Xuan had already pushed in.

Huang Youwei was savoring tea, lying on the back of the chair.

”Manager Huang, you are back,” Huang Xuan said.

”What?” Huang Youwei sat up quickly in surprise and almost b.u.mped into the table in front. Seeing that He Ceng who was behind Huang Xuan kept blinking at him, he said, ”Yes.”

The words on the door were Portuguese. The two hadn't expected that Huang Xuan had learned Portuguese within days.

”Good.”

Huang Xuan sat on Huang Youwei's chair and said to the crowd at the door, ”Let's have a meeting. The ones who are managers, all come in.”

More than twenty people walked in noisily, including three general managers, several department managers and financial managers, among whom were only eight Chinese. Huang Xuan continued in Portuguese, ”Have a seat, please. I am your boss. You have known it, right?”

The company had made an announcement a month ago, so the crowd nodded.

”Then do you know that I have taken over the managerial authority of the company?”

A clamor rose from the crowd. Huang Youwei was angry. He hadn't expected that Huang Xuan would be so anxious to take his place. On the other hand, he sneered at Huang Xuan's being so young and naive.

”We didn't know about this!” a man shouted. ”Certainly, the managerial authority should be given to someone experienced.”

Everybody heard him clearly. The room was suddenly quiet.

Huang Xuan glanced at the man. It was Li Minpu, the manager of the declaration department, who was in his early thirties, with a conceited look and tall eyebrows, just like a rooster ready to fight.

Huang Youwei had been working in Shengfeng for four years, during which the high executives had all ganged up solidly. Even Zhang Xinyi wouldn't be able to do anything about them in a short time. To restructure this company would even be harder than to rebuild it.

Huang Xuan tapped on the table and said, ”Anyway, you know about it now. Do you have any problems with it?”

The crowd responded faintly, but Huang Xuan wasn't offended. He turned his head and said to Huang Youwei, ”There isn't much time left today. I want to have a look at the accounts to gain a general understanding of the situation.”

A secretary came and handed Huang Xuan the accounts immediately, but Huang Xuan said, ”I mean the original ones.”

Huang Youwei almost burst into laughter. ”The original accounts. Kid, can you understand them? The doc.u.mentary that has filled a dozen cupboards can blind you.”