Zhang Yunqing forced himself to suppress his anger and asked in as calm a tone as possible: "Have you carefully studied the payment terms of your contract with our company?"
The questioner replied: "Of course I have researched it."
Zhang Yunqing replied: "Can you tell me and let everyone listen?"
The questioner replied: "Yes, in order to collect the project payment, I have already memorized this clause.
The payment terms agreed in the contract are:
There is no advance payment in this contract. Payment is based on progress. The monthly progress payment is 75% of the rent corresponding to the total number of confirmed shifts last month. After the acceptance and settlement is completed, it will be paid to 85% of the settlement amount approved by Party A; 3 months after the settlement approval is completed.
95% of the approved settlement amount shall be paid within 24 days, and the remaining balance shall be the final payment. When 24 months have passed after settlement, Party A will pay the remaining balance to Party B without interest based on whether Party B has made any deductions.”
Zhang Yunqing gave the other party a thumbs up and praised: "You are amazing. You can memorize such a long paragraph very well.
It’s word for word, it’s awesome.”
"I am not good at anything else, except my memory."
“It’s true that my memory is better.
Have you noticed that the contract says on what day your progress payment must be paid?”
“I didn’t find that the contract stipulates the date on which progress payment must be made.”
"So, if we take the literal meaning of this contract and pay your machinery rent for last month within the current month, does it mean that we, Western Construction Co., Ltd., have violated the contract?"
"Yes."
"It's still early for the end of this month? The end of this month won't be until after the Lunar New Year, right?"
"right."
"So, I understand that you are asking me to pay within two days and three days. These requirements are inconsistent with the contract.
Naturally, as one of the many management levels, I definitely have no right to modify the terms of this contract without authorization.
However, we took into account the special factor of celebrating the Lunar New Year and agreed to handle payment before the Lunar New Year.
According to the terms of the contract, we can defer payment until after the year.
Therefore, I think understanding is the mutual understanding between Party A and Party B.
I understand you and support you, and you must also understand and support me.
Otherwise, if you only follow the way that is most beneficial to you and put forward some impossible conditions, you will not only embarrass others, but also add obstacles to yourself.
What do you think?"
The questioner replied with a red face: "Mr. Zhang, you are right.
Do as you say.
We will issue an invoice and wait for payment."
Zhou Wencheng saw Hu Yaomei, the foreman of the self-owned greening workers, raising her hand and asked her to ask questions.
Hu Yaomei, the foreman of the greening workers, asked: "Mr. Zhang, everyone is issuing invoices, but our workers' wages have never been invoiced.
What about ours?”
Zhang Yunqing replied: "Your workers' wages will still be settled according to the original wage scale, and we at Western Construction Co., Ltd. will pay you to each worker's wage card.
There is no need to issue invoices for your workers’ wages.”
Zhou Wencheng saw that his hands were no longer raised and said: "Since everyone has no questions, please welcome Mr. Zhao with warm applause to give us a speech.
Without Mr. Zhao's support, there would certainly not have been the friendly meeting resolution announced by Mr. Zhang Yunqing today.
Let’s all applaud together.”
This time, under the unified leadership of Zhou Wencheng, the conference room burst into neat and warm applause.
This time, Zhao Manfu enjoyed the applause contentedly.
It wasn't until everyone could no longer clap, and was about to become sparse, that he stretched out his hands and pressed down, indicating that everyone could stop clapping.
After the applause completely disappeared, the conference room seemed particularly quiet.
Everyone was quietly waiting for Zhao Manfu's speech.
Zhao Manfu sat up straight, twisted his fat waist, and adjusted his sitting position on the boss's chair to a more comfortable and normal position.
Then he spoke: "First of all, I would like to wish all the big bosses, small bosses and colleagues a happy birthday.
I wish you all good health, abundant financial resources, and all your dreams come true in the new year!"
Another burst of warm applause spontaneously broke out.
"After this meeting, please follow Mr. Zhang Yunqing's request and go to the commercial manager Yu Danzhen to get the invoicing amount notified by the project department.
We will do our best to ensure that everyone receives their progress payment as soon as possible."
There was a burst of spontaneous, extremely warm and lasting applause in the conference room, and some people were crying softly, lamenting that happiness came too suddenly.
“If you have any major difficulties in collecting payments in the next few days, you are welcome to come to my office to see me.
I'm always here.
The meeting is dismissed."
After Zhao Manfu finished speaking, the meeting adjourned, and warm applause spontaneously erupted in the conference room.
Everyone in the conference room dispersed one after another. The labor team, material suppliers, and machinery bosses all came to the office of the Ministry of Commerce in accordance with the spirit of the meeting just now.
Yu Danzhen copied the amount that each unit in the capital plan planned to pay this time on a sticky note, read the name of the unit, and picked it up one by one. She also emphasized that the amount of invoices should be based on the cumulative payment amount being less than or equal to the cumulative invoices.
The amount shall prevail. Each company shall check by itself how much invoice is required.
Almost an hour later, each unit received the amount of progress payment they planned to pay this time.
Some units are not satisfied with the amount paid this time, saying it is the Chinese New Year and require more payment.
Yu Danzhen patiently explained that the payment amount this time is calculated according to the payment ratio stipulated in the contract. If you calculate more, if you take it back to the company, it will not be recognized. Secondly, it will bring inconvenience to the project department managers.
Necessary trouble.
Units that were dissatisfied with the payment amount just let it go and gave up their fearless struggle.
It is worth mentioning that the seedling supplier Cao Shenggen, after receiving the payment for the seedlings from the Nanshan project, came to the procurement office and found the seedling purchaser Yu Shengjie.
Asked: "Mr. Yu, I was asked to issue the invoice for this Nanshan project.
The first phase of the Bowen Landscape Improvement Project also has a payment amount of more than 3 million, but there has been no notification yet for invoicing.
Please give me a clever idea."
Yu Shengjie, the sapling purchaser, smiled and said: "What a clever trick can you think of.
Since the Nanshan project has already done this, the first phase of the Bowan landscape improvement project will only be announced sooner or later.
If you are really anxious, didn't Mr. Zhao say when the meeting ended just now that you can come to him if you have any big difficulties?
Do you think your difficulty is serious?"
"It must be a big difficulty."
Seedling purchaser Yu Shengjie said with a smile: "Let's go then, Boss Cao, I will go with you to report to Mr. Zhao.
Let’s see if it can be solved by referring to the handling standards of the Nanshan project.”
Seedling supplier Cao Shenggen agreed: "Okay, Mr. Yu, you can lead the way.
I will go with you."
Seedling purchaser Yu Shengjie replied: "It's not like we can't find the way. Between you and me, which one goes in front and which one goes in the back? Is there any difference?
never mind."
Yu Shengjie hummed a ditty: "Come with me, let's set off now!"
Seedling supplier Cao Shenggen hummed: “Let’s go!
Maybe through another troublesome exchange, we can arrive later."
Yu Shengjie turned to look at Cao Shenggen and said: "Awesome, it's true, after three days apart, you should look at each other with admiration.
ah?"
Cao Shenggen, a seedling supplier, replied: "You are an illiterate person who can complete two sentences, but you don't allow me to grow a little bit?"
Yu Shengjie cursed: "Damn it, if I am illiterate, aren't you?"
Cao Shenggen, a seedling supplier, replied: "I study every day and have become literate. Others say I am a seedling expert.
What is the possibility that I will still be illiterate?
dont you agree?"
Yu Shengjie, a nursery stock purchaser, replied: "With your little knowledge of three-legged cats' seedling purchase, do you dare to call yourself an expert?
Oh, right, bricks?
Right?
If you were thrown out as a bricklayer, you would definitely kill a big bull.
Hahahaha, right?"
Seedling supplier Cao Shenggen said unconvinced: "Why am I not an expert anymore?
You look down on people too much.
Didn't you see that the two kinds of sweet-scented osmanthus I bought this time produced huge economic benefits?"
Seedling purchaser Yu Shengjie struck back: "You still have the nerve to say that my friend didn't call me to see that nursery, and then you followed him to see it?
Why does it count as a reflection of your ability as a seedling expert?
If you want to be called a seedling expert.
Do you have to work for at least two or thirty years like me? What kind of seedlings have what characteristics, what kind of environment they like to grow in, what kind of soil environment they cannot be transplanted into, etc.
right?"
"It seems to make some sense.
So if you say that I am not an expert, what does it mean that I am making money?"
Yu Shengjie, the sapling purchaser, pretended to be serious and replied: "If my judgment is accurate, you can at best be regarded as the essence of a profiteer, buying low and selling high."
Then he added a strange sentence: "If you buy something that is not cheap, sell something that is not expensive, I must give you a definition for this behavior.
There is another word that is more appropriate."
Cao Shenggen, a seedling supplier, was out of curiosity. Although he knew it would not be a good word, he still had the courage to ask: "Which word?"
"Scam."
"Scam?"
"Yes, cheating. Isn't this word more appropriate?"
Cao Shenggen, a seedling supplier, replied: "You were the one who took the lead last time. If it was a scam, you were the one responsible for it. How could you involve me?"
Seedling purchaser Yu Shengjie smiled and said: "I just had an idea.
Then you just go and do it.
If I have to make such a clear distinction, at most it means that I have a deceptive idea.
You actually committed an act of cheating."
The two of them walked to the door of Zhao Manfu's office in a flash while talking nonsense.
Seedling purchaser Yu Shengjie called out to seedling supplier Cao Shenggen: "Knock on the door, you're a scammer."
Cao Shenggen, the seedling supplier, stopped talking nonsense and knocked on the door honestly.
"Please come in." Zhao Manfu shouted from inside the office.
The two of them pushed open the office door and walked in.
Zhao Manfu had just finished the phone call and put his phone on the table of his desk.
He looked up at the two people who came in and said, "Lao Yu and Boss Cao are here? Please sit down."
Zhao Manfu pointed to the two chairs in front of his desk, and then asked, "Boss Cao, why did you call Shengjie together to come to me?"
Seedling supplier Cao Shenggen replied: "Thank you, Mr. Zhao, for agreeing today that we can issue invoices for the progress payment of the Nanshan project."
"You are welcome."
"Mr. Zhao, I also provided millions of seedlings for the first phase of the Bowan landscape improvement project. According to the amount in this funding plan, I can be paid 2.65 million yuan.
It is also similar to the Nanshan project here. Because the company did not approve the funding plan, Jin Haoran, the business person on the project, never dared to notify us to issue invoices.
Mr. Zhao, look at it, the conditions of the projects on both sides are not much different.
Can the Bowan Phase I landscape improvement project also refer to the standards of the Nanshan project and issue invoices directly? You can complete the payment slip and send it to the company.
The company can pay on whatever day it wants to pay.
You are aware of my special situation. Although I have to come to you to collect the project payment, I will not push you too hard or embarrass you.
When I should ask my buddy Bai Jianwen for help, I will ask him again.
As long as the project department agrees to my invoicing and helps me go through the payment application process, I will never embarrass the project department."
Zhao Manfu has also been a veteran for many years. He heard the cliche in the nursery stock supplier Cao Shenggen's words, which was a combination of soft and hard words, so he found a ladder for Cao Shenggen to climb for a while.
Zhao Manfu pretended to be deep in thought and said carefully to Cao Shenggen: "I can't make the decision on this matter alone, so Boss Cao, please find the project manager Song Xiaoshan, and then ask the area business manager Zhang Yunqing.
Convince them both, and then come to me again.
Of course, even if you don't convince them both, you can still come to me.
But in this case, you need to tell me why I didn’t convince them.”
Seedling supplier Cao Shenggen replied: "Okay, Mr. Zhao, then I will call them now."
Cao Shenggen, a seedling supplier, took out his mobile phone, looked up the phone number of Song Xiaoshan, the project manager of the Bowan Phase I landscape improvement project, in his phone address book, and dialed it. After the call was connected, he said: "Mr. Song, what are you busy with?"
Woolen cloth?"
Song Xiaoshan, the project manager of the Bowen Phase I landscape improvement project, replied on the phone: "Haha, I'm waiting for your call."
"Haha, Mr. Song is so generous."
"That's why I have to give Boss Cao face."
"Mr. Song, I have encountered a problem now.
The Chinese New Year is only about ten days away, and your Bowan Phase I landscape improvement project is still short of my progress payment of 2.65 million yuan.
But I was never notified of the invoice.
If there is no invoice, there is no way to pay me.
As you know, when the project asked me to advance money to buy those millions of seedlings, I didn’t have that much cash in hand.
I also borrowed a lot of loan sharks, and the interest rates of those loan sharks were calculated on a daily basis, and the interest rates compounded, which was terrifyingly high.
The further my payment is delayed, the less money I will make. If it is delayed for a long time, I will even lose money.
See if you can think of a way to pay me my progress payment of 2.65 million yuan as soon as possible?"
Song Xiaoshan, the project manager of the first phase of the landscape improvement project in Bowen, replied on the phone: "What I'm saying now is that the fund plan has not been approved, so I don't dare to let you issue invoices?
What can I do?
I can't help you."
Seedling supplier Cao Shenggen agreed: "Why can't I help?
The project manager of your Nanshan project is called Zhou Wencheng, do you know him?"
Song Xiaoshan, project manager of the Bowen Phase I landscape improvement project, replied: "We know each other. What's wrong?"
Seedling supplier Cao Shenggen replied: "We just held an afternoon meeting in the conference room of the Nanshan Project Department here to meet with all unpaid suppliers to discuss how to deal with payment issues before the Lunar New Year."
Song Xiaoshan, project manager of the Bowen Phase I landscape improvement project, asked: “Oh, is there such a thing?
Is the final meeting over yet?
Do you have any opinions on the outcome?”
Seedling supplier Cao Shenggen agreed: "I just finished the meeting.
The result was announced by President Zhang Yunqing."
Song Xiaoshan, the project manager of the first phase of the Bowen Landscape Improvement Project, replied: "Then please tell me first what the opinions he announced are?"
Seedling supplier Cao Shenggen replied: "The general meaning is: after the meeting, each unit directly goes to their commercial director Yu Danzhen to go to the Nanshan Project Department to finally report the payment amount in the company's capital plan, as a supplier
The amount of the payment invoice issued to your company, Western Construction Co., Ltd."
Song Xiaoshan, project manager of the first phase of the landscape improvement project in Bowen, happily asked: "Can it still be done like this?"
Seedling supplier Cao Shenggen felt that it was more interesting, so he further said: "This is what I told you, maybe you don't think it is true.
You can also call Mr. Zhou and Mr. Zhang to communicate.
If it is true, I would like to ask if the payment problem of your Bowan Phase I landscape improvement project can also be implemented by referring to the solution of the Nanshan Project Department?"
Song Xiaoshan, project manager of the first phase of the landscape improvement project in Bowen, replied: "Boss Cao, don't be anxious.
You wait for me to call you first, and after confirmation, I will call you back."
Seedling supplier Cao Shenggen replied: "Okay, Mr. Song, I'm waiting for your good news.
Bye-Bye."
"Bye-Bye."
After Song Xiaoshan, the project manager of the Bowan Phase I landscape improvement project, ended the phone call with Cao Shenggen, the seedling supplier, he found the phone number of Zhou Wencheng, the project manager of the Nanshan project in the phone address book, and dialed it. After the call was connected, he said:
"Hello, Mr. Zhou!
congratulations."
The Nanshan project manager asked in confusion: "Mr. Song, where did you hear this gossip?
Where does joy come from?
Why don’t I know it myself?”
Song Xiaoshan, the project manager of the first phase of Bowen Landscape Improvement Project, replied: “Stop pretending.
I heard that your Nanshan project department has completely resolved the payment conflict issue this afternoon.
Isn't such a big happy event considered a happy event?
Hey, Mr. Zhou, you are a little too calm.
Mr. Zhou, shouldn’t you treat yourself to a nice dinner and let everyone help you celebrate together?”