Migrant workers toil for a year, only to end up with nothing, unable to afford even a ticket home for the New Year. This kind of thing happens often, it's not unusual.

Some factories also delay paying workers for months, exploiting their hard-earned money. Yi Anguo, before his rebirth, had seen and heard plenty, even experienced it himself.

After his rebirth, while developing his business and establishing his company, Yi Anguo resolved never to delay salary payments, ensuring they were disbursed on time every month.

But he never expected that the construction project of the film city he invested in in his hometown would have the contractor delay paying the workers' wages for a year. This made him extremely furious.

Although the contractor delaying workers' wages wasn't directly related to him, as long as his company paid the contractor on time, it was supposed to be fine.

Yet, Yi Anguo was still very angry and could not tolerate it, nor did he want to continue cooperating with such a company.

However, after an investigation, he discovered the truth was completely different from what he had imagined.

After receiving a phone inquiry from Anguo Investment, the Zhongjian Company felt wronged, as if they were Dou E.

It turned out that after Zhongjian Company won the bid and sent people to start construction, they continuously faced various issues. Firstly, there was interference from local forces, forcing them to cooperate. If not, local youths would come to the site to create trouble, hindering normal work.

With a mindset of making peace, collaborating with the locals wasn't unacceptable as long as the materials they supplied met standards. Even if the price was slightly higher, it was manageable.

But the problem was, the materials supplied by these local forces were completely substandard products.

The Zhongjian Company couldn't accept this. Once quality issues arose, these local suppliers would be unaffected, while the contractors would be held accountable.

If held accountable, the economic loss for the company would be secondary. However, their hard-earned reputation built over the years would be tarnished.

Moreover, if the issues were severe, resulting in major safety incidents, they would face criminal charges.

The Zhongjian Company reported the issue to the film city's construction office, but the manager, Fan Taiping, ignored them, bluntly saying if they didn't want to work, they could terminate the contract.

Eventually, the Zhongjian Company had no choice but to terminate the contract with the film city's construction office.

Then what's the deal with the current contractor?

Well, the current contractor is called Anguo Construction Company. People outside thought it was a subsidiary of the Anguo Group!

But in reality, this isn't entirely wrong. This construction company was established by the film city's office manager, Fan Taiping, under the company's name, or rather, it's a subsidiary of the film city's office.

Yi Anguo was even more infuriated upon discovering this. It turned out that Fan Taiping was personally appointed by him as the general manager of the film city's office.

The reason Yi Anguo appointed Fan Taiping as the general manager was that he had no choice; it was even out of good intentions.

Because Fan Taiping was his fourth uncle's eldest daughter's eldest son, essentially Yi Anguo's cousin.

The most important thing was that Fan Taiping was a university graduate from the early '90s, later assigned to work in Jiancheng City's mineral bureau, once a role model for the entire family.

Yi Anguo still remembers that when he was young, his parents often praised Fan Taiping as a college student with promising prospects, a good job, advising him to study hard to get into university, and get a good job, live on state-provided wages, marry a city woman, never worry in life.

Yi Anguo believed that Fan Taiping should have some abilities, capable of serving as the general manager of the film city's office.

Therefore, Yi Anguo gave him the opportunity. Mainly, his aunt from the neighboring hall also requested it.

In the past, his fourth uncle's wife had cared for and helped Yi Anguo's family a lot, so he had to give her face.

His fourth uncle's sons were all skilled masons; their masonry skills were learned from Yi Anguo's uncle.

The first phase of the film city project was almost complete, and Fan Taiping subcontracted some basic infrastructure projects to his four uncles. Each of the four uncles formed their own construction teams.

Based on the investigation, only the eldest cousin hadn't delayed any workers' wages, while the other three cousins owed workers' wages.

Yet, Fan Taiping hadn't dared delay the payments for the four uncles' projects. It's just that, except for his eldest uncle, the other three uncles also learned from their nephew's unscrupulous tricks, delaying workers' wages.

Some other construction teams' payments were directly withheld by Fan Taiping. But in reality, all the funds had already been disbursed to the office's finance account.

These funds had long been transferred out by Fan Taiping. With such a large sum in a bank account, even keeping it for one more day earns a significant amount of interest.

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