Chapter 16: On The Brink Of Bankruptcy
Zhou Family living room,
“Is your father okay! Before coming, I heard about his illness, all caused by those traitors!”
“Does he still have a chance to recover now?”
After the entire living room was left with only Zhou Wenhua and Commander Yang,
Commander Yang also asked about Zhou Wenhua’s father with concern.
“Thank you for Commander Yang’s concern!”
“My father will probably need a very long time to recuperate his health!”
“He is still lying in bed, needs someone to take care of him, unable to walk! Even if he wants to use a wheelchair now, he can’t get out of bed to sit!”
Zhou Wenhua shook his head, responding with a slightly heavy expression.
“Hmm! I’ll go take a look for you tomorrow to see if there are any good doctors, including Western medicine on the Foreign Concession side!”
“If there are, I’ll introduce them to you, hoping your father can recover soon!”
Commander Yang also fell silent for a moment, then continued in a gentle tone.
“Thank you! Commander Yang!”
Zhou Wenhua thanked again.
“You donated so much money to our Navy Headquarters to build warships, does your father know?”
“He won’t object, right!”
Commander Yang suddenly changed the topic.
“He doesn’t know! This is my personal decision, because now all the Zhou Family’s finance power is in my hands!”
“Moreover, I hope our nation can have a stronger naval fleet in the future to defend the country!”
“Strong Navy for a Strong Nation!”
“Now not only are the foreigners’ fleets stronger than ours, even the small Japanese People’s fleet surpasses our manufacturing level, and even in numbers they outnumber us!”
“But most importantly, these Japanese People have now occupied a large area of our land in Northern China!”
“So I believe that in the future these ambitious Japanese People will definitely launch an invasion war again!”
“So this is also the purpose of my donation to your Navy this time!”
“Of course, there is another purpose, that is, I have taken Director Ye Zaifu as my master in apprenticeship to learn warship manufacturing, because from childhood to now, I have always liked shipbuilding and airplane manufacturing, so I not only donated to your Navy, but also to the Air Force!”
“Because I also hope to learn the airplane maintenance technology and assembly technology I want at the aviation factory!”
“As for using my father’s money, I will find a way to earn it back in business!”
“So Commander Yang doesn’t need to worry about my father opposing!”
Zhou Wenhua responded in a respectful tone.
“On the journey here, I had someone investigate your Zhou Family’s current business!”
“Although it looks infinitely glamorous on the surface, as if making money hand over fist, but in the recent two years your father has lost a lot due to investing in too many projects!”
“Even because of certain projects, he had conflicts with the Japanese Army over interests, leading to this incident where he was sneak attacked and ambushed by traitors under the Japanese Army’s instruction!”
“In such a situation, you still took out so much money to donate to our Navy and Air Force, aren’t you worried that your family’s business might not have a backup capital chain to sustain operation?”
“Moreover, you are so young, are you so confident that you can continue to maintain the commercial empire your father built single-handedly, and the various loss-making operation situations he caused?”
“So my personal opinion is, if you want to regret the donated money now, I can represent the Navy Department and return it to you!”
“Additionally, you apprenticed to Director Ye to learn shipbuilding technology, I can also approve that, you can come anytime to follow him to learn knowledge and technology!”
Seeing Zhou Wenhua’s good attitude of respecting him,
Commander Yang smiled slightly and asked back in a gentle tone.
Hearing this, Zhou Wenhua also looked at the other party in surprise,
deeply feeling that the other party was not simple, having investigated most of his background so quickly.
As expected of the Naval Commander.
“Thank you for Commander Yang’s concern!”
“The money I donated will not be taken back!”
“As for the loss-making business projects my father created, I will cut them all off, and use the remaining profitable ones to properly learn operation!”
“Although I am not old, I have been following my father learning the way of business from childhood to now, so I still understand a bit of operation, otherwise my father would not hand over the entire family’s finance power to me!”
However, for Commander Yang’s sincere concern, Zhou Wenhua also responded gratefully.
“.”
Commander Yang.
He looked at Zhou Wenhua with bright eyes and firm will, and fell silent.
A moment later,
“Alright! If you encounter anything needing help in the future, come find me!”
“Whatever I can help with, I certainly will!”
“This time, on behalf of our Navy Department, I am very grateful for your donation!”
“I will also work hard to develop and grow our Navy Department!”
“I hope in the future our nation can also have a powerful fleet to guard our maritime borders, drive out all foreign enemies from our maritime borders! Defend the country!”
After thinking, Commander Yang also gave Zhou Wenhua a promise.
“Thank you! Commander Yang!”
Zhou Wenhua also responded gratefully.
Afterward, the two of them chatted briefly and then parted ways.
And after Zhou Wenhua personally saw off Commander Yang,
he also returned to his father Zhou Jiawei’s study, had the second butler open all the accounts summarized from the finance departments of the companies and factories for review.
Due to the large number of accounts,
when Zhou Wenhua finished reviewing, night had already fallen.
Shanghai side was still colorful with nightlife, bustling and lively, with heavy traffic and singing and dancing.
But standing at the floor-to-ceiling glass window of the study, looking at the brilliantly lit night view of the city center outside, and the occasional sound of ships’ horns,
Zhou Wenhua’s heart had no joy at all,
because after reviewing all the accounts of his current father Zhou Jiawei’s Zhou Family businesses,
he found that only a few shops and factories were profitable,
the rest were all loss-making, and some were severely loss-making with heavy debts, even if he wanted to cut off these severely loss-making companies and factories, it would require spending a lot of money to handle,
which means after he clears all the bad accounts,
his father’s accumulated tens of millions in net worth would rapidly shrink to the brink of bankruptcy.
At any time could change from rich second generation to negative second generation.
This was a problem that deeply troubled and gave Zhou Wenhua a headache.
So he had no joy at all to appreciate such a beautiful Shanghai night view.
