Chapter 94 - 85: Undercurrents Surging
Chapter 94: Chapter 85: Undercurrents Surging
Hearing their boss call them by name, the men felt pleasantly surprised, realizing they weren’t just nobodies to him.
One of them, a tall man over 1.8 meters tall, was Zheng Siwen. He smiled and said, "Boss, the car and hotel are arranged. What are our next steps?"
Jiang Miao felt the scorching Qiongzhou heat. Seeing it was almost noon, he ordered, "Let’s head to the hotel first."
"Okay," Zheng Siwen nodded.
One of the three, Ah Ming, had already purchased a car. However, knowing one vehicle wouldn’t be enough for everyone, they had rented a Ford Raptor pickup truck to bring along.
They left the airport and entered the Yuecheng City District.
「Half an hour later.」
After the group checked into the hotel, Jiang Miao invited them to a nearby restaurant for a meal, ostensibly to build camaraderie.
At the same time, he was secretly sizing up the three of them. After all, with salespeople stationed long-term in the field, their true loyalty was always an unknown quantity.
Over the course of the meal, Jiang Miao maintained an approachable facade, but he secretly used his Appraisal Panel to get a read on the three men. He saw that Ah Ming was full of selfish schemes, while Zheng Siwen and Ah Yi were acceptable; they were comparatively more honest.
Since they had just arrived, he didn’t jump straight into work. Instead, he spent the afternoon with Li Zixuan and Ke Yong, taking a relaxing tour around Yuecheng.
「That evening.」
Inside his hotel room.
By the large glass window overlooking the sea, Jiang Miao’s fingers tapped lightly on his laptop keyboard as various pages flashed rapidly across the screen.
Using his Appraisal Panel, he once again leveraged various software backdoors to hack into the three men’s QQ accounts, WeChat accounts, phones, and email inboxes at a speed incomprehensible to the average person.
’For Jiang Miao, navigating the public internet was easier than walking into his own home.’
In just over half an hour, he had skimmed through the various traces the three had left across the internet.
Just as he’d suspected, he found some deleted content within Ah Ming’s WeChat and QQ historical data. It revealed that Ah Ming had been engaged in some under-the-table dealings: he had colluded with a local fish farmer to falsely report five major losses of eel fry, pocketing eighty thousand yuan in the process.
He casually copied the information.
Following this lead, he decided to dig a little deeper, quickly checking on Zheng Siwen and Ah Yi. He found that neither of them had participated in the scheme.
In Zheng Siwen’s WeChat chat history with his parents, he’d even mentioned gathering evidence to secretly report Ah Ming to the company. Apparently, he already knew what Ah Ming was doing.
As for Ah Yi, his attitude was more lackadaisical. Although he knew Ah Ming might be up to something, he didn’t plan to look into it—a typical employee who just wanted to get by.
After organizing the relevant files, Jiang Miao picked up his phone and made a call.
BEEP... BEEP...
"Good evening, Boss."
"Haibo, I’m about to send you a file. Handle it according to my instructions."
"No problem."
A few minutes later, Jiang Miao finished editing the file and sent it to Jiang Haibo via WeChat.
Jiang Haibo, who was holding down the fort at headquarters, wasn’t resting tonight. He was still working overtime to handle some affairs.
He had gotten Jiang Miao’s heads-up, so he was keeping an eye on his WeChat. A few minutes later, as soon as the notification sounded, he opened the app and saw the file that had just been transferred.
Jiang Haibo opened the file and quickly skimmed it. Though his face remained impassive, he was inwardly astonished. He was amazed at Jiang Miao’s incredible resourcefulness; the man had been in Qiongzhou for less than a day and had already used a supposed "hacker friend" to uncover the salesman’s secret transactions.
This deepened Jiang Haibo’s awe of Jiang Miao. He understood perfectly well that if his boss had such a resourceful hacker friend, then secret investigations into suspicious employees were inevitable.
He quickly put the question of how his boss had obtained the evidence out of his mind and began to arrange the next steps.
First, they couldn’t just recall the salesman immediately. They would have to wait a while, then transfer him out of Qiongzhou under the pretext of company training to avoid disrupting sales in the Qiongzhou area.
At the same time, they would need to dispatch two new salespeople to take over Ah Ming’s and Zheng Siwen’s duties, while Ah Yi would temporarily remain in Qiongzhou to train the newcomers.
Then, using Zheng Siwen’s supposed whistleblowing as a pretext, the company would sue Ah Ming for embezzlement. The final outcome would depend on whether he was willing to cough up the money and compensate the company for its losses.
After all, if they didn’t make an example out of someone, other salespeople stationed in the field would sooner or later find ways to line their own pockets.
As for arranging for Zheng Siwen to be the informant, Jiang Miao planned to find some time in the next few days to have a private chat with him.
After all, as the boss, it wasn’t appropriate for him to be the one to directly expose an employee’s wrongdoing.
By making Zheng Siwen the informant and then promoting him, he would also sow paranoia within the sales department.
If there was one Zheng Siwen, there could be a second. Once an internal chain of suspicion was formed, they would have to worry whether their own team members might secretly report them.
Jiang Miao’s plan to promote Zheng Siwen wasn’t just talk. He truly intended to promote him and put him in charge of some of the company’s business in Qiongzhou. This incident was to be a test.
’In Jiang Miao’s eyes, an employee’s individual skill isn’t the most important thing. Loyalty is everything.’
Especially for a high-tech enterprise like Hailufeng Company, a mediocre employee wouldn’t have a major impact. At worst, they would just be a bit inflexible in their work.
But a disloyal employee, no matter how brilliant, was someone Jiang Miao would never use—and would never dare to use.
’After all, you never know when someone like that might suddenly backstab or secretly sell out the company.’
Since he still had some time that night, Jiang Miao pulled up the list of all the sales department’s field agents, along with their personnel files.
Using their phone numbers and social media accounts, he continued to investigate each of them.
He ended up finding three more problematic employees.
He compiled the relevant evidence for each, then bundled it all and sent it directly to Jiang Haibo, instructing him to get rid of these black sheep at the opportune moment.
By the time he had done all this, the night was deep and still. Jiang Miao drank a glass of fresh milk, then brushed his teeth, washed his face, and went to sleep.