The William family is a medium-sized business family in London, mainly engaged in mechanical processing, while the Carr family is smaller than the William family and mainly engaged in the clothing trade.
When Lawrence was in power, because the Lawrence family almost controlled machining and other industries, the entire chamber of commerce dared not disobey him.
In comparison, the Slock family is a bit weak, but compared to the William and Karl families, they are a big crocodile!
William and Karl, who have already adapted to the struggle in "Crocodile Pond", are typical "chameleons" and "weeds." Since they are not capable enough and their family power is not strong enough, they can only reap the benefits by relying on strong people! In the past,
It was like this, and it is still like this, especially when the two of them saw that Slok was about to take over, of course they only tried their best to curry favor.
William and Karl's "submission" was seen by everyone else.
Everyone is not a fool. When they see this scene, they know that it is a fact that Slok has ascended to the throne. If they continue to make irresponsible remarks, they will suffer from them in the future!
Instead of offending Slok at this time, it is better to lose face and become the "Conglong Minister". Immediately, a member named "Dubin" stood up and said: "Since everyone thinks so, I think it is better to choose a day than to hit the sun. It is better for everyone to do it today."
Let’s start a show of hands to vote, ask Vice President Slok to sit upright, and elect him as the next president!”
"Okay! That's good! I'll first raise my hand in favor!"
Suddenly the whole conference room became lively.
"I agree too!"
"I have admired Vice President Slok for a long time, and I will choose him too!"
Everyone present voted with a show of hands.
Thirty-six members of the Chamber of Commerce control two-thirds of London's business power, including machining, steel smelting, clothing and textiles, automobile production, oil exploration, etc.
As long as half of the thirty-six members vote, Slok can successfully take over as the next president.
Soon, more than two dozen of the thirty-six members voted in favor by a show of hands.
Slok was secretly happy. According to this situation, he had definitely won.
There are still about ten people who have personal grudges with Slok. They will not just watch Slok rise to power, and of course they will not sit back and die.
But even so, under the general trend, the resistance of these people is in vain.
…
The voting will soon come to an end.
Sloka looked at everyone eagerly, and the chameleon William immediately stood up and announced: "The collective vote is now twenty-three to thirteen! In other words, more than half of the people have chosen Mr. Sloka to take over as president!"
Everyone in the audience started talking again.
Slok looked at these grinding guys and slammed the table. The people below immediately stopped talking and looked at Slok.
Slok had long dreamed of being as majestic as he is today. He immediately made a dominant posture, put his hands on the table, and asked with bright eyes: "Now that I am the president, who is in favor and who is against it?"
Not to mention, Slok has been following Lawrence for a long time, and has unconsciously learned some of the aura of a superior person. At this moment, he has a certain style, and he actually shocked everyone below.
Slok looked at the people in the conference room, his heart filled with the sense of vanity that power brought to him, and immediately sneered: "Since no one objects, I'm sorry, I will take over the position of president of the London Chamber of Commerce in the UK for the time being.
!”
Just then——
"I object!" said a loud voice.
This "objection" sounded extremely harsh in the silence.
Slok frowned and looked around.
Others also looked towards the door of the conference room.
With a creak, the conference room door was pushed open.
Andre walked in arrogantly, surrounded by Hejia Li, Yan Xiong, Ax Jun and others.
"God, why is Master Andre here?"
"What is he doing here?"
The originally quiet scene suddenly became commotion.
Andre walked to the conference table, smiled and stretched out his hand to say hello to Slok: "Hello, Uncle Slok!"
Slok's expression changed, and then he said with a smile: "Who did I think it was, but it turned out to be Andre! Andre, although I am your uncle, this is a chamber of commerce conference room, so everyone still remains silent
Keep a little distance and don’t address each other so enthusiastically.”
"Oh, really? Then what should I call you? Vice President Slok, is this right?" Andre said with a slight smile.
"It's good that you know! I am the vice-president here, and you are nothing, so I am curious, what are you doing here?" Slok said with a sarcastic look.
"Of course I am here to oppose your appointment as president!"
"Damn it, what qualifications do you have?" Slok said angrily.
Others also looked at Andre curiously, at this "prodigal son" who personally sent his father to prison!
"You ask me what qualifications I have? Well, this is my qualification!" Andre said, taking out a letter and showing it to everyone: "You should take a closer look. This is written by my father, President Lawrence. He
Let me tell you all clearly here that his position as president will be inherited by his biological son Andre, that is, me!"
"Hahaha! Ridiculous! Really ridiculous!" Slok said with disdain, "Everyone knows that you, a prodigal son, personally sent him to prison, and they don't know what means you used on him to get such a letter.
——Who are you trying to deceive? Only a fool would believe it!"
Indeed, Andre forced his father Lawrence to write this letter to him. For Lawrence, he was now behind bars. Rather than handing over the throne of president to an outsider, it would be better to let this rebellious son inherit it. At least he would be able to succeed.
During the New Year and holidays, the other party will come to visit me. They will also take care of the prison to make him live more comfortably there.
William, Karl, Du Bin and others were all chameleons and losers. Seeing that Slock had the upper hand, Master Andre didn't seem to have many secret weapons, so he immediately shouted: "Vice President Slock is right!
If you have objections to this letter, we won’t believe it!”
“We will not believe it unless President Lawrence comes here to testify in person!”
"I'm afraid he won't be able to invite his father!"
"Hahaha!"
There was a burst of ridicule at the scene.
Faced with these sneers, Andre was neither annoyed nor angry, but shrugged and said: "Sorry, I don't have the ability to bring my father here from prison. He did something wrong, and he is
Accept the punishment. As his son, I just want to tell everyone that you must never make a mistake. If you make one mistake, you will be in trouble!"
"Haha, are you threatening us? I remember correctly that you are still a student at Cambridge University and have not graduated yet."
"How dare you speak so brazenly here before you have graduated? We are all your seniors!"
Andre ignored these sarcastic remarks, turned to look at Hejia Li, and said in a respectful tone: "I'm going to trouble you now!"
Hercari stepped forward and said word for word: "As a team of Queen's Counsel of the British Empire, I would like to announce on behalf of Mr. Lawrence that what was stated in the letter just now are all facts. If there are any errors or omissions, our law firm and Lawrence himself are willing to bear legal responsibility!
"
The final word!
Everyone below looked at each other in shock. No one expected that Andre would invite the most powerful team of lawyers in the British Empire to testify. Now with the testimony of the Queen's Counsel, everything is true!
Slok did not expect that Andre would make such a move. He said anxiously for a moment: "So what if President Lawrence gives this order? How can you hold the position of president at such a young age?"
"Yes, even though your father is Lawrence, it doesn't prove that you are super capable?" "Chameleon" William immediately agreed.
"The position of president of the Chamber of Commerce has great responsibilities and is not a child's play!" Karl also said hurriedly.
Seeing the situation, others also spoke out, saying that Andre was too young, had not even graduated from college, and had no ability or qualifications to hold such an important position.
Faced with these objections, Andre smiled: "I respect everyone's opinions! How about this, we just follow the rules here and make a decision by raising our hands and voting?"
When Slok and others heard this, they couldn't help but feel happy. This was simply asking for death!
Just imagine that apart from being the son of President Lawrence, Andre has no advantage at all here! How to win?
"Of course that's good!" Slok laughed, "Democratic decision-making, free voting! No matter what the voting result is, we will all abide by the agreement! Don't you think so?"
"Yes!" William and others said in unison, "We all advocate democracy! Hahaha!"
As for those members who are at odds with Slok, they can't help but shake their heads and sigh when they look at Andre. How could they come up with such a stupid trick? Isn't this a clear death? Slok has a huge network of connections here, except for us
Among these few, no one is his opponent at all!
…
At this moment, the factions in the entire conference room have become obvious, and Slok's side has the upper hand due to its large number of people.
A small number of people have an inseparable interest relationship with the Lawrence family. Of course, they hope that Andre can inherit his father's business and become the president, so that he can protect them in business in the future.
As for the other part, they are outright centrists who are neither optimistic about Slok nor optimistic about Andre. They are typically watching the fire from the other side and watching the tiger fight from the mountain!
"Now, since everyone is so enthusiastically in favor of this method, then Lawyer Hercari, I hope you can be more patient and serve as a witness for this election!" Andre turned back to Hercari with confidence.
Hercari nodded in approval.
In fact, He Jiali was not willing to come here to do this kind of thing, but her law firm had just been established, and the money for the establishment of the law firm was provided by Shi Zhijian. Shi Zhijian was her partner and boss, so she asked her to
Whatever she does, she has to do it even if she doesn't want to.
And the first task Shi Zhijian gave her after the establishment of her law firm was to help Andre get the job! And Shi Zhijian told He Jiali that Master Andre was so generous and ruthless, and she would receive a reward when the matter was accomplished.
Big legal fees!
Whether it was for money or to increase the reputation of the law firm, Hejia Li had no choice but to come over and help Master Andre in his verbal battle with the heroes!
Slok felt that Andre was doing this unnecessary, thinking that Andre would lose and he had nothing to fear!
Everyone else also unanimously looked down on Andre and believed that he would definitely lose. Just when everyone was about to show their hands to vote, Yan Xiong, who had been silent next to Andre, suddenly said: "Sorry to bother you.
!Before everyone raises their hands to vote, I would like to send some information as your reference!"
"Uh, what do you mean?"
Before anyone could understand, Yan Xiong clapped his hands, and soon someone brought over a stack of documents. Yan Xiong asked those people to distribute the information according to the names of the people.
Everyone took the information with doubts on their faces, opened the briefcase, and then looked through it——
Suddenly, a look of astonishment appeared on his puzzled face!
Slok also took over a packet of information. He despised the other party's pretentiousness in his heart. Seeing everyone's weird expressions after opening it, he couldn't help but open his own, and then -
He was stunned!
I saw that the information was full of pictures and texts, and it turned out to be all the dirty information he had accumulated over the years!
These include information and pictures of him secretly bribing government officials in order to bid for a processing plant in the western suburbs of London. There is evidence that he killed a civilian while driving drunk and then asked someone to cover his pocket. There was even evidence that his son was arrested for participating in underground gambling outside.
The police captured the information and then used money to buy connections.
Seeing this, Slok suddenly started sweating profusely.
Over there, "Chameleon" William also opened his briefcase and saw his own information. The most conspicuous thing about that information was a picture. In the picture, he was dressed like a gorgeous Brazilian girl, hugging him from left to right.
Two muscular men... William closed his eyes immediately. He knew that if these information were released, his reputation would be ruined!
The situation of "Fool" Karl was not much better at the moment. He was looking at the information at hand in a daze. He couldn't figure out how his affair with the wife of a high-ranking government official was exposed?! If this was spread, wouldn't he die immediately?
Warped?
Except for people like Slok, everyone else basically has a copy of the information.
Those materials are almost all filled with black material about them. Some of the black material has even been forgotten by themselves, but now it is clearly in front of them!
Silence!
The entire conference room was filled with the sound of undulating breathing.
Andre looked at these people and said with a smile: "Then let's start the voting. Those who agree with me as the president, please raise your hands!"
The words fell to the ground!
Everyone looked at each other in shock!
Then "Chameleon" William was the first to raise his hand and said: "I agree!"
"I agree too!" Karl, the "weed", continued.
"Agree!" Dupin said.
Others raised their hands when they saw this, fearing to fall behind——
"Agree!"
"Agree!"
Approval echoed one after another, resounding throughout the conference room!
Soon, among the thirty or so people in the large conference room, only Slok was left without raising his hand.
Andre smiled, looked at Slok and said: "Vice President, what about you? Do you agree or disagree?"
Slok had mixed feelings in his heart. He looked at the black information in his hand and then at the people who all raised their hands to vote in favor. He sighed: "I agree!" After saying that, he raised his hands!
