Chapter 174: Home Burglarized
The meeting did not stop due to the brief silence.
When Fan Ren turned his gaze to Ministry of Industry Li Jiandong, this chief of the Ministry of Industry, who now also showed signs of old age, could not help but twitch the corners of his eyes, which were dragging heavy bags.
The Ministry of Industry seems to have done very well already, right?
Li Jiandong could not help but ask himself silently in his heart.
“Chief Li, our development plan needs to be changed previously.”
After Fan Ren finished speaking, he turned his gaze to Ministry of Economy and Trade Zhang Jing. Before the other could show confusion, he smiled and said, “The Ministry of Economy and Trade may face pressure in the next 50 years.”
Zhang Jing is now 73 years old, the second oldest chief in the room. If not for the huge changes in Great Xia these years, where it was inadvisable to change people for the sake of stabilizing people’s hearts, he should have retired long ago.
At this moment, hearing Fan Ren’s words, he shook his head repeatedly.
“General Manager Fan, don’t torment this old man of mine.” As he spoke, he turned his gaze to Ye Rongshan.
Ye Rongshan is two years older than him, now 75 years old.
The moment he noticed Zhang Jing looking over, he understood what the other wanted.
Zhang Jing said, “I’m old, it’s really not this old man shirking at the critical moment, I really don’t have the energy.”
As he spoke, Zhang Jing’s pair of eyes turned to that side, to Jin Qiaoying, who had been quietly listening with her head down, never saying a word.
“General Manager Jin, how about changing positions to cooperate with General Manager Fan?”
As soon as his words fell, the entire meeting room instantly fell silent.
One by one, the old chiefs were stunned by the meaning expressed in his words, staring dumbfounded at Zhang Jing over there, who was smiling without speaking.
The explosive nature of this news, to them, was even no less than the news Fan Ren had thrown out earlier that the alien spaceship would arrive in the solar system in 49 years.
This is too shocking!
Fan Ren was also a bit dazed. He looked at Zhang Jing, whose eyes were full of encouragement.
Then he looked at Jin Qiaoying, her beautiful face with her small mouth wide open, her signature phoenix eyes wide round, and at this moment, she even seemed a bit cute.
Fan Ren rubbed his head and quickly turned his gaze to Ye Rongshan beside him.
This was normal at least, Ye Rongshan’s brows were furrowed, as if thinking about something.
But immediately after, Elder Ye spoke up.
“It’s actually a good choice. In ancient times, Gao Xianzhi was appointed as the Anxi Jiedushi and made major contributions to the situation in the western regions.
And now, we are in a modern era, there’s no reason we can’t match the magnanimity of the ancients.
I think Miss Jin is very good. You may not know, when she took office as the general manager of San Xin Great Xia Region back then, during one meeting with me, she tried all sorts of ways to ask me for Zheng Ce.
Moreover, after so many years of Xinghai development, I have some understanding. Our General Manager Fan is, to put it bluntly, a hands-off manager.
It was all thanks to Miss Jin alone maintaining the normal operation of Xinghai’s finances.
Old Zhang, your proposal is very good, I agree!”
After hearing these words, Fan Ren’s mind was filled with five words: Oh no! Base raided!
Sweeping his gaze over the crowd of chiefs, deep down he instinctively hoped that these heavyweight figures in Great Xia would raise objections at this moment.
Unfortunately, he was disappointed.
After a period of individual contemplation, these chiefs each showed an expression of ‘sudden realization’ as if carved out by a grinder.
“That’s right, anyway, now we have A’dai. With his ability, managing the finances and administrative affairs of a small Xinghai is not a difficult task.
General Manager Fan, Great Xia has always given you whatever you wanted, you can’t deny that, right?”
Li Jiandong narrowed his eyes looking at him, speaking words he could find no reason to refute.
“No, Chief Li, Elder Ye, Chief Zhang… this, this isn’t appropriate, is it?”
Fan Ren rubbed his buzz cut in distress. He hadn’t felt it before, but now suddenly realizing Xinghai would be without ‘mother’, he really was reluctant to let go.
Is A’dai capable enough?
Absolutely beyond doubt.
But suddenly poaching Xinghai’s big steward, even the general manager whose power is on par with Fan Ren, he really wasn’t prepared for it.
If he had known such a bizarre incident would happen, he would never have had the idea of letting Jin Qiaoying show her face and attend this meeting.
Actually, in Fan Ren’s heart, he had always been worried that Jin Qiaoying’s identity would be attacked by someone as Xinghai’s development scale grew larger.
But now it seems he was overthinking it.
Look at these shrewd old chiefs on the field, not one of them raised an objection at this moment.
Even higher than election vote rates, elections still have symbolic opposing votes.
“Miss Jin, what do you think? Rest assured, if anyone raises an objection, this old man will be the first to disagree.”
Ye Rongshan spoke with a smile, his tone carrying absolute certainty.
Jin Qiaoying was dumbfounded, she looked at Fan Ren, at a loss.
“That’s agreement then. Alright, Fan Ren, continue with what you didn’t finish saying.”
Is this matter settled just like that?
Fan Ren still felt it wasn’t quite real, but the people on site acted as if they had forgotten about it, turning their gazes back to him, waiting for his speech.
“Chief Zhang, I haven’t even made specific demands to you yet, and you hit me with a big one.”
Seeing this situation, he could only shake his head with a wry smile, but gradually accepted this fact.
He turned his head again to look at Jin Qiaoying, who was still in shock, and sighed inwardly.
Fan Ren reached out and gently patted the back of Jin Qiaoying’s overlapping hands resting on her lap, to comfort her.
Jin Qiaoying seemed startled, her panicked eyes looking toward Fan Ren, as if begging, hoping Fan Ren could reject this proposal for her.
But at this moment, Fan Ren was like a scumbag, shaking his head with a wry smile, indicating he was powerless.
“It’s like this, the Ministry of Industry needs to further utilize A’dai’s capabilities next, optimizing further in resources, manpower, construction, and other aspects.
The proposal I made earlier to move 95% of ground factories to space production in the next 20 years may need to be advanced.
At the previous conference, I proposed a 20+10+20 development plan, but things didn’t go as planned, now this plan must be accelerated.
I plan to advance on all fronts, while researching technology in Xinghai, the Ministry of Industry and Ministry of Economy and Trade cooperate well, and in the first 20 years, move 70% of our industrial production capacity to space, establishing a preliminary space-based production industrial system with a complete industrial chain.
At the same time, vigorously develop weapon science, this must be advanced, no delays.
In my plan, we need to spend 40 years researching a weapon system capable of damaging the Conqueror’s external armor, we must go all out, any project must give way to it.
At the same time, in the next 20 years, we need to vigorously build defense systems within the solar system, as well as expand our space force and space battleships.
We can go with a path of researching while designing and manufacturing, while assembling.
Although this may cause some resource waste.
But I discussed it with A’dai, now we have preliminarily possessed the capability to develop resources from planets, satellites, and asteroid belt in the solar system.
Actually, perhaps the current Great Xia does have the qualification and ability to ‘waste’ basic resources.
