Chapter 1027 - Putting On An Act In Front Of Everyone (1/2)

Those who were willing to sign the letter of intent were friends, and friends were welcome to stay for dinner.

But it did not matter even if they were unwilling. The Northwest would not persecute anyone, but it would probably be impossible for those who did not sign the letter to continue to do business in the Northwest.

Wang Fugui's attitude was very clear. He was helping Ren Xiaosu resolve a pressing matter at hand, so only friends who helped the future commander could continue eating from the same plate in the future.

Wang Fugui was different from other businessmen. He placed more importance on Ren Xiaosu's future than his own path to fortune. Every decision he made was done with Ren Xiaosu in mind.

His boss, Ren Xiaosu, had said that Yunsu could not take advantage of this situation to gain control of the economic lifeline of the Northwest, nor would he allow any other lifelines to be taken advantage of.

Meanwhile, Wang Fugui planned to do one better. Not only would he not make any money from the development of the Prosperous Northwest, but he was even willing to pay money to support the cause.

In the future, the Northwest would belong to Ren Xiaosu, so how could the goals of the Northwest Chamber of Commerce compare? Wang Fugui knew clearly what was at stake here.

In this world, it was not only matters that revolved around money that could be considered a business!

In the past year, Wang Fugui had worked hard to make Yunsu stronger. He even became the president of the Northwest Chamber of Commerce so he could help Ren Xiaosu during moments like this.

As he had hoped, the members of the Northwest Chamber of Commerce were in a tight spot. No one dared to withdraw from this project by themselves.

One by one, the big bosses of the Northwest signed the letter of intent on the spot. Wang Fugui's assistant even prepared a red ink pad so everyone could leave their fingerprint on it.

One of the businessmen sighed and said, ”President Wang, the Northwest will surely prosper with your support of the future commander.”

Wang Fugui placed his hands inside his sleeves and said with a smile, ”CEO Li, you're too kind. With only me helping the future commander, the Northwest will not prosper. But with all of your support, things will be different.”

When everyone heard that, they had mixed feelings. They knew Wang Fugui was determined to tie everyone here to the future commander's plans.

After everyone signed the letter of intent, Wang Fugui called for the waiter in the restaurant to take away the appetizers scattered across the table and change them to the main dishes.

Wang Fugui got up and picked up a lamb chop for everyone with the shared chopsticks. ”Everyone, you won't be able to make much money from this project. I'll have a good engineering accountant set the construction costs for our future commander. After all, this is money that we'll be spending from Stronghold 144's budget, so we can't afford to make any miscalculations. Otherwise, it wouldn't be good if the public thinks that our future commander is abusing his position to profit off the project. Moreover, I believe that all of you are also honest people, so you will definitely not skimp on materials required for the engineering works.”

With that, everyone gave up on trying to find any loopholes to exploit.

But after Wang Fugui distributed the lamb chops to everyone's plates, he changed the subject and said, ”However, our Yunsu can give y'all what Stronghold 144's budget can't. From now on, the goods that our Yunsu import from the Qing Consortium will be sold to you at prices 10% lower than usual. You can consider this as my gratitude for your passionate support.”

When he said that, all the CEOs were overjoyed. Their businesses were spread across more than 20 strongholds in the Northwest, but Yunsu was the only company that had access to the Qing Consortium's goods.

With this promise from Wang Fugui, they would be assured of great profits. Based on this, if the irrigation project did not incur any losses, everyone would even end up making money.

Therefore, Yunsu was really trying to help the future commander by lowering its own margins!

A slightly younger businessman was grinning from ear to ear. ”President Wang, why didn't you say so earlier!”

Wang Fugui smiled but did not answer the question. Instead, he raised his glass and toasted, ”To Future Commander, and to the Northwest!”

Only the shrewd old foxes knew that Wang Fugui did not mention in advance he would reimburse them and forced them to accede to his requests was so that he could establish his authority first. He would only reward them after everyone had given in.

Wang Fugui wanted everyone in the Northwest Chamber of Commerce to understand that he could choose not to give them this perk, but since he did, everyone here would be expected to remember the future commander's benevolence.

For a moment, some people lamented that they had thought the matter of the Northwest's leadership might remain unchanged for many more decades to come since Commander Zhang was still in his prime. As such, the future commander might not necessarily become the commander in the future.

But from the look of things, the future commander had many talents by his side who were led by Wang Fugui, so it wasn't likely there would be any more variables regarding the question of succession.

On that night, the party ended and everyone left in satisfaction. There was no unhappiness among the businessmen, and it was as though being forced to sign the letter of intent had never happened at all.

The next day, all of the businessmen who attended the banquet reported to the administrative center to bid for the contracts.

Wang Yuexi was a little dumbfounded as he stood in the administrative office. ”I haven't even gotten the irrigation blueprints out yet, so what are you all doing here?”