Vladimir returned home on time by private plane to attend the first-quarter group board meeting.
On the night he arrived in Moscow, he did not go back to his manor, but stayed with his parents.
After dinner, as usual, Maxim communicated with him in the study room of the manor.
"Son, our family business finally turned around in the first quarter." Due to the injection of more than one billion US dollars, the group's capital shortage problem was solved at once, so the group suddenly stopped the downward trend of losses.
"Father, my adg group's profits are pretty good at the moment. Except for short videos, which are still losing money in various industries, aviation, diamonds, restaurants, and arms are all in a profitable state, and the funds are relatively abundant. You can always use it if needed.
Dominate.”
Maxim smiled and was very pleased: "Since we are independent, we can't have blood transfusions. We can borrow money when appropriate, but we also have to sign a priority repayment agreement. By the way, kid, how is the progress of the oil fields in the Middle East recently?
?Did Prince Hussein get a reply from you?"
Due to his outstanding performance at the Falcon Conference, Prince Hussein has been officially canonized as a prince by King Numan. If nothing else, he will be the future heir of the emirate.
"I have been waiting for news from them, but unfortunately there is not much news yet."
"Let's keep in touch with them appropriately. If it's too frequent, we feel like we're putting pressure on them, but if we don't contact them, we feel like we want to give up automatically."
"Father, don't worry, I will continue to follow up."
"This time the board of directors still has to be prepared to hand over the hot potato of the Middle East oil fields to you." Maxim suddenly said seriously: "The last crisis at the Imperial Hotel was solved well, but few people thought it was you.
They all thought it was a coincidence."
"It was a coincidence." Vladimir smiled, "I have been paying attention to the oil fields in the Middle East, but now that you have reminded me, I have to shift my attention to that area and try my best to make Prince Hussein
Intervene early.”
Currently, several oil fields are losing millions of dollars every day. Without these oil fields, the Ivan family's profit in the first quarter would definitely be positive.
"You young people still have to have some pressure. I see that the military order you issued last time has made you grow very quickly. The business in the Philippines has now been completely handed over to you. The feedback from all aspects is very good, so this time
It would be great if you could take the initiative to take over the military order of the oil field."
"Let them perform at the meeting for a while, and then I will take over." Vladimir said with a slight smile, "This will make me feel a sense of accomplishment."
Maxim was very pleased and said, "You have now learned to play hard to get."
Suddenly, Vladimir stopped laughing and his face became serious, "Father, to be honest, not only do I want to play hard to get with the oil field matter this time, but there is another thing that I also want to play hard to get with."
Maxim frowned and looked at his face. He knew that Vladimir must have encountered another problem.
"whats the matter?"
This time Vladimir said everything in detail.
After hearing this, Maxim was shocked and his face changed drastically. Such a thing actually happened.
…
The first quarter group board meeting was held as scheduled.
First of all, CFO reported the corporate profits in the first quarter. In sharp contrast to the huge losses in the fourth quarter of the previous year, the financial statements for the first quarter showed that the current losses were only tens of millions, and the situation was also improving.
According to the current situation, if nothing unexpected happens, there will be no problem with profit in the second quarter.
After the CFO report, Boris, the vice chairman of the group, clarified the goals for the second quarter, followed by the speeches of the senior executives.
As before, Yakov continued to play the role of cannon. He first criticized Volev, the head of the Middle East oil field, believing that Volev's role in this position was basically zero and he did not perform well.
Play the role of an executive.
Volev could only suffer the loss of being dumb and let it play out with a look of resentment on his face.
After Yakov bombarded Volev, he then targeted Ms. Zelsha, the person in charge of the real estate company. He believed that a real estate project in Siberia had an extremely slow return on payment, and he was in conflict with Zelsha and the local government.
The relationship between them does not get along well, which has a lot to do with it.
Like Volev, Zelsha could only let him fire...
With Yakov's continuous bombardment, the smell of gunpowder at the meeting gradually became stronger.
After Yaakov blasted several executives, he stopped speaking until his voice became hoarse.
Next is Yeager.
Yeager's speech was relatively mild. He believed that the successful handling of the Imperial Hotel incident was inseparable from Vladimir's efforts.
"Everyone, many of the inside stories were told to me by Andrei and Sergey. Vice Chairman Vladimir was restless during that period and often stared at the window in a daze. However, some people were making sarcastic remarks and thinking that he
Basically, it did not play any role in this incident. Everything is just a coincidence. I would like to ask, is there such a coincidence?"
Yeager praised him, which suddenly made Vladimir feel flattered.
He seems to be used to being criticized for such high-level meetings. After all, he used to be a complete playboy and his behavior was very domineering. Almost no one liked him.
At this time, Yeager stretched out five fingers and said excitedly: "Comrades, I think Yakov's criticism of everyone just now is right. If the Imperial Hotel hadn't earned 500 million, our financial statements would be
It will be even more ugly, so whether it is a real estate company, an oil field, or other company departments, you must take specific measures to turn losses into profits, otherwise, we will have to lay off people in the next step."
No one said a word.
Yeager continued: "There is also the matter of the zoo that I want to clarify. Many people think that Vice Chairman Vladimir spent a huge sum of money to buy it and use the group's money to satisfy his own selfish desires, but later I investigated
, found that this was not the case. This was a public welfare activity he did. Now the Moscow Zoo has become a public welfare zoo. The response from all walks of life has been very strong, which has also brought invisible benefits to our group.
Very good reputation…”
Yeager's constant examples and arguments made those who had previously criticized Vladimir blush with embarrassment.
Even when it was their turn to speak, they shook their heads and did not dare to speak in front of Vladimir for fear of offending the future chairman.
Boris was the third to last speaker. This time Boris first agreed with Yeager's statement, and then he took the initiative to propose that Vladimir be responsible for the oil fields in the Middle East. The reason is very simple, Boris is very optimistic about him.
His proposal was approved by many people in the group.
Vladimir looked at Boris with a slight smile.
Boris nodded slightly to him, and the two of them seemed to have a clear understanding.
"I agree with Vice Chairman Boris's proposal that I will be responsible for the oil field. But there is something I want to share with you today."
Maxim stared at his son closely, knowing that once he said this, the effect would be no less powerful than a nuclear bomb.
Vladimir did not share it orally, but asked his secretary Peter to play a video first.
The video began with an extremely bloody scene. There were a lot of corpses piled up on the ground, and many of the corpses were even shown in close-ups. Gersa and other female executives present almost vomited when watching the video.
After the scene of the dead body passed by, there was another scene of an armed conflict, and finally there was the scene of Ural's interrogation.
"Our people were attacked in the Philippines?" Yakov looked surprised.
Vladimir smiled slightly and said, "Mr. Yakov, to be precise, I was attacked."
As soon as this statement came out, everyone present was shocked. The young master was actually attacked in the Philippines?
Never heard of it, what's going on...
"Mr. Boris should be clear about this matter from beginning to end. Let him explain it to everyone." Vladimir looked at Boris with a smile on his face.
When the video was playing earlier, he looked at Boris with his peripheral vision, and saw Boris's fat face twitching slightly from time to time...
As expected, Boris looked surprised, "Vice Chairman Vladimir, what can I explain? I don't know anything."
Vladimir smiled slightly, "How could you not know about the conspiracy between you and Nikolai?"
The fat on Boris's face trembled, his head shook like a rattle, and he denied it, "I have no contact with Nikolai. I just accompanied the boss and met him a few times. This matter is about the boss
I also know."
Maxim remained motionless and silent, like a statue.
"Really? Mr. Boris, do you know that you have a Ukrainian mobile phone number that has been intercepted by us?"
"What number?" Boris looked "confused".
"The address is Ulank's mobile phone number. The number is..." Vladimir read out the number one by one.
"No, I don't have such a mobile phone number." Boris shook his head and tried his best to defend himself, "Ulanco is not on the same front as our country at all. How can I have Ulanco's phone number?"
"But you have relatives in Ukraine, right? Zakhanova is your wife's niece, right?"
"I..." Boris choked suddenly.
"Let's take a look. We intercepted the call information between you and Nikolai. Nikolai used the information of an Asanguo employee in his company to apply for a mobile phone card." Vladimir said while motioning for Peter to continue playing the slideshow.
"This is not my mobile phone number." Boris shook his head and vehemently denied it again, "It is true that Zakhanova is my wife's niece, but we have no contact for a long time."
"If there is no contact, why do you keep running to Ukraine?" Vladimir suddenly raised his voice loudly and said, "You conspired with Nikolai to kill me in the Philippines, but in the end you failed.
Instead, I learned that there is a mole in our family group. Do you know about this mole, Mr. Boris? I spent a lot of effort to find you, Peter, continue playing..."
Peter nodded and continued to play the slides one by one.
In addition to the call records between Boris and Nikolai, the contents of the slide also include some important information, including Zakhanova's video. Much of the information is about the communication company that Chernov and the others invaded Yingguo.
The operator found it, and then followed the clues, eliminating one number after another, and finally found the mobile phone number whose owner's name was Zakhanova and whose location was Ulank.
Vladimir directly ordered people to fly directly to Ukraine to find Zakhanova.
When Zakhanova saw the fake police officer, she became a little nervous. When the "police" interrogated her, she admitted that her mobile phone number was indeed used by Uncle Boris.
After Boris saw it, his body trembled even more violently, "I, I..."
However, before he finished speaking, he fell to the ground.
"Take him out, call an ambulance." Vladimir said calmly.
His bodyguards carried Boris out of the meeting place. After the meeting place returned to calm, Maxim looked around the meeting place and then said loudly: "Boris is currently the second-in-command in the group after me. I didn't expect that he would actually be with me.
My ex-wife’s son Nikolai colluded with me. I will never tolerate insiders in the group. If any of you still have such contact with Boris, please stand up and resign obediently. I can forget the blame. If you still want to
Conceal it, and once I discover it, I will never take it lightly."
As soon as he finished speaking, Maxim's eyes scanned the venue again.
Everyone lowered their heads.
In fact, Maxim already knew from Vladimir's chat with him last night that there are currently no other insiders in the group. What he said now is just a wake-up call for these executives. If they dare to mess up, they will
It can definitely be found out.
"Okay, no one has come forward, which shows that our guys are still willing to stand with our Ivan family. I hope everyone can support the work of Vice Chairman Vladimir."
…
After the high-level meeting, Maxim just walked to the door of the office and suddenly fell down.
Thanks to Vladimir's quick eyesight and quick hands, he grabbed his father's arm and prevented him from falling heavily to the ground.
"Inform Alex to start the helicopter and take my father to the hospital." Vladimir said to Vasily behind him.
Vasily nodded, quickly took out his cell phone, and called Alex directly who was waiting on the top floor.
…
This time it was a great luck. Because he was sent to the hospital in time, Maxim saved his life. However, the doctor told Vladimir and Mrs. Sofia that with Maxim's current body, he could no longer withstand any pressure.
Otherwise, sudden death is very likely.
"Child, how should we deal with Nikolai's matter?" When Sofia asked Vladimir this question, her heart was full of contradictions. On the one hand, she was very angry at Nikolai's cruelty and wanted to kill Nikolai.
Get rid of him, but on the other hand, she was worried that if Nicholas died, Maxim would definitely feel uncomfortable, and his body would be damaged by then.
Vladimir smiled slightly, "Nicholas has gone crazy, mother."
"Going crazy?" Sofia was shocked, "What's going on?"
"Unfortunately, he was bewitched in the Philippines."
"This?" Sophia thought for a while, maybe it would be the best outcome for Nicholas to go crazy.
Vladimir was right. After being discharged from the hospital, Maxim went to London and met Nikolai in a mental hospital in London. Nikolai was in a trance, so much so that Maxim walked to him.
He didn't even recognize the person in front of him. He was lying on the hospital bed. When there was a slight movement outside, he was so frightened that he curled up into a ball and murmured: "Snake, what a big snake..."
According to the attending doctor, this is the first time they have encountered such a case, and the high probability is...
There is no cure.
After seeing Nikolai's miserable condition, Maxim sighed: "If possible, I hope Nikolai will maintain his last dignity."