Protect Our Chief

Chapter 989 - 52: Wang Shouzhe! I Will Never Coexist With You_3

The Yian Family invited her again, but Gongsun Hui insisted on handling everything strictly according to official procedure, so in the end the Yian Family could only let her have her way.Very soon, the finance department headed by Gongsun Hui moved into the Yian Family main residence and began auditing a series of assets that were to be included in the capital injection and restructuring plan.

At first, the Yian Family thought Gongsun Hui was just going through the motions; they had never even heard many of those financial terms she used. However, they quickly came to appreciate how terrifying Gongsun Hui really was.

The team she brought were the elite financial backbone she had spent several decades slowly cultivating, all experts in asset audit and project audit.

"Chief Accountant Yian," Gongsun Hui said to an elder, "the accounts for your Salt Marsh Ranch are short by twenty thousand head of Salt Marsh Sheep. Please explain this."

"Chief Accountant Yian, in your ceramics industry there is an obviously large number of people eating empty salaries, and productivity is extremely low. First, in the asset restructuring, all of these personnel must be completely removed. Second, I will lower the valuation of your ceramics industry’s output; it’s not worth our Shouda Trading Company putting in that much capital."

"Chief Accountant Yian, as far as I know, your No. 5 Cinnabar Ore deposit, No. 16 Aluminum Ore deposit, and No. 29 Spirit Stone Deposits have all long since been exhausted. Why are they still appearing on the asset list?"

Item by item, she refused to let a single suspicious point slip by.

This was far from her first time carrying out a merger or asset restructuring; she understood all too well the twists and turns in a Noble Family’s industries. In a millennium Noble Family like this, there were bound to be plenty of internal parasites; if one wasn’t careful, one would be completely fooled, and the water in the accounts was especially deep.

Cooperation was cooperation, support was support, but Shouda Trading Company was investing, not doing charity, and would not indulge certain people’s rotten habits inside the Yian Family.

When Shouda Trading Company did things, the accounts were always clear and transparent.

Afterwards, those parasites in the Yian Family who ate empty salaries, those who embezzled, those who took bribes, were all dug out by Gongsun Hui’s team in an extremely short period of time.

These people were practically everywhere; none of the industries under the Yian Family’s name were spared.

The Yian Family’s accounting team was about to go crazy; Patriarch Feihong was so angry he nearly jumped to his feet, and even Yu Fei Ancestor was somewhat stunned.

He had never imagined that with the Yian Family already in such a state, there could still be so many countless parasites underneath. They really wouldn’t stop until they hollowed the Yian Family out~~!

"Investigate! No matter who it is, investigate them thoroughly to the end!" Yu Fei Ancestor roared in fury. "Whoever dares secretly resist or tries to obstruct things, I, Yian Yufei, will personally carry out clan law."

Yu Fei Ancestor attached extreme importance to the cooperation with the Wang Family and was convinced that this was the hope for the Yian Family’s resurgence. Now that the Yian Family’s internal rot and decay had been completely exposed before Wang Shouzhe’s birth mother, it made him lose all face.

This also made him resolve to properly clean up the Yian Family’s internal affairs.

Just as the Longzuo Yan Family was in chaos inside, yet from the deep-seated maladies and messy situation a new vitality was gradually bursting forth, and the Wang Family was also beginning to step-by-step dominate Longzhou, stirring up the winds and clouds of the world—

It was almost in the same time period.

Outer Domain Battlefield.

Unlike the water-rich grasslands and the prosperous, bountiful lands within the Daqian Kingdom, the skies above the Outer Domain Battlefield were shrouded year-round in war fog formed from Evil Qi, bleak and filled with killing intent.

The Demonic Qi diffusing out from the Outer Domain also tainted this land, and almost no grass grew upon the ground. Even if some tenacious plants occasionally managed to survive here, under the erosion of Demonic Qi they would mutate, becoming twisted and dangerous.

This place was desolate and perilous, simply not suited for human habitation.

Yet this was the very front line where humanity resisted the invasion of Outer Domain Demons. It was precisely because the Outer Domain Battlefield existed, and because countless people charged forth one after another to fight bravely, that the Demons could not invade this world, and human beings could prosper and develop in their respective domains, living and working in peace.

Within the Evil Qi war fog, many military camps were scattered about.

In these camps were stationed armies from different kingdoms and different powers; among them were even some experts who had come to fight in their personal capacity, nominally attached under various powers and accumulating Military Merit by killing enemies.

Above one of the larger camps flew the Azure Dragon Banner that represented Daqian.

This camp was Daqian’s main base on the Outer Domain Battlefield. Aside from this camp, Daqian also had multiple strongpoints on the Outer Domain Battlefield, so that once war broke out, they could provide support from all directions.

Inside the camp.

On the square near the camp gate stood a huge Bronze pillar, and on that Bronze pillar a gigantic Demon corpse was nailed in place with a bloodstained long spear.

It was a High-level Demon whose whole body had been encased in an exoskeleton.

It had long been dead; the huge dorsal spikes on its back had already lost their luster, and the exoskeleton covering the surface of its body, which had once gleamed with a metallic sheen, was now battered and broken. Even its thick tail was only half remaining. Yet even so, its corpse still exuded a cold and majestic aura; even though it had long been dead, its ferocity still surged to the heavens, making people tremble in fear.

High-level Demons were extremely powerful; when cultivated to the extreme, their strength was equivalent to that of a human Divine Power Realm expert, and they were extremely difficult to deal with.

The Demon on the Bronze pillar was the Daqian Army’s trophy, a Military Merit badge; nailed upon that Bronze pillar, it not only served to boost morale, but was also a kind of deterrent against the Outer Domain Demons.

From the arrow towers on the four sides, faint yellow halos spread out, dispersing the Evil Qi fog within the camp and illuminating the surroundings.