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"Damn! This isn't poaching or recruiting, this is straight up giving raises!"

Someone finally caught on.

"But wait, he owns the company now, why would he still need to pull this kind of stunt?" someone wondered aloud.

Clearly, Netzay Music was no longer viable, a takeover by Music Forest was inevitable, so why would Zhang Menglong bother with hosting a recruitment event here?

Just like with Tengxun Music, they simply transferred the entire company structure over, keeping the complete organization, wouldn't that save a significant amount of time and manpower costs?

"I get it now!" someone suddenly realized, "He's trying to drive Mr. Ding to his death!"

"Brother, what do you mean?"

"Think about it, if he takes over the entirety of Netzay Music, doesn't that mean our company becomes part of Music Forest too?"

"Yes!" echoed the crowd, "What's wrong with that?"

"It's hugely problematic!" the person analyzed, "Consider, if the takeover is in the company's name, wouldn't Mr. Ding and his crew also hold a significant share in Music Forest? Our Mr. Ding clearly has a grudge against Mr. Zhang. Would he really watch idly as Mr.

Ding makes money off him?"

"So what you're saying is?"

"He's poaching all our people. Once he has everyone, he doesn't really need the company's structure—just maybe an office building at most. Yet, this would completely separate him from Netzay Music. Once all of us are gone, it's just a shell company."

"What good does that do him?" someone puzzled, "You just heard, Mr. Zhang spent a billion US dollars for a 57% stake. What's the point in buying a shell company for so much money?"

"Do you think Mr. Zhang is short of a billion US dollars?"

"You... you seem to have hit the nail on the head."

"A billion US dollars to him might as well be ten bucks."

With that thought, everyone suddenly understood.

"When it's just a shell company, what use are the shares Mr. Ding is holding? With no people, what business can there be?"

"Absolutely ruthless! This move is brilliant!"

"Damn, stop your yapping, the resignation letters are already written up! If he recruits enough, are we supposed to go whistle in the wind?"

"Right, right! Where's the pen? Who took my damn pen?"

"Why do you need a pen, just agree and be done with it!" someone said, holding a resignation letter emblazoned with emoticons, heading toward Ding Yuxi's office.

On the emoticon packet, in bold letters, it read, "With the peanuts you pay me, how can I do my job well?"

"Not bad at all, everyone's catching on fast, each one a real talent!" Seeing the chaos in the Netzay Music building, Zhang Menglong immediately showed a pleased expression.

...

"Knock, knock, knock!"

"Come in!" Ding Yuxi said listlessly from his office.

These past few days, he had been under tremendous pressure. All the family shareholders, his aunts, and uncles, were demanding to know why such a situation had arisen, wondering if he and his son had offended Zhang Menglong.

Ding Yuxi hadn't had a proper night's sleep in a week.

To salvage their business, they had tried hard to win back some of the signed artists, but they flatly received the answer "Not Selling."

Zhang Menglong's royalty fee was several times higher than theirs, and on top of that, he made sure song profits mostly went to the artists, with a smaller cut for distributors, without taking any share himself.

By contrast, Netzay Music not only exploited them, but also skimmed off the top of the reward revenue. How could that compare?

Even Ding Sanshi's intervention had no effect whatsoever.

"Mr. Ding, it's me." A employee who had worked for five years walked into the office.

"Oh, Manager Li, it's you. You've been working hard lately, just wait until the company gets through this..."

"You know I've worked hard, and you won't even get me a cup of tea quickly?"

"What did you say?" Ding Yuxi was suddenly taken aback.

Manager Li was one of the company's most outstanding business managers and also one of the most exploited individuals; however, the boss's favorite type was exactly people like him. Usually, just a couple of compliments would keep them happy and extremely humble in attitude.

This was the first time Ding Yuxi had heard Manager Li speaking to him in this manner.

"Manager Li, are you too tired?" Ding Yuxi almost thought he was hearing things. Was this the same diligent and compliant Manager Li?

"All day it's 'you've worked hard, you've worked hard.' How much business have I expanded for the company? My salary hasn't increased in two years, and you brush me off with just one sentence?" Manager Li seemed to vent all his accumulated resentment from the past few years.

"Li Qing, have you gone mad? How dare you speak to me this way?"

"Why the hell shouldn't I speak to you? Do I owe you something?"

"Have you taken the wrong medicine?" Ding Yuxi slammed the table, "You don't need to come in tomorrow!"

"You're asking me to leave, and I don't even give a damn!" Manager Li slapped his resignation letter on the desk, "Goodbye to you!"
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"Awesome!" Manager Li shouted skywards and swaggered out of Ding Yuxi's office.

"The bastard, has he gone mad today?" Confusion was written all over Ding Yuxi's face.

"Whoosh!" A paper airplane suddenly flew into Ding Yuxi's office, poking him right in the eye.

"Who! Is this the place to do such things?" Ding Yuxi picked up the paper airplane, "Another resignation letter?"

"What on earth is going on?" Ding Yuxi suddenly felt something was not quite right.

Wangyi Music could still be considered a big company, and although the workload was high, the compensation was good, and staff turnover wasn't significant. Why on earth was everyone suddenly resigning today?

Just as he was perplexed, a few leaders of the company also walked into the office and handed him their resignation letters.

"What on earth is happening?" Ding Yuxi couldn't hold back anymore.

"Mr. Ding, it's not that we don't want to work anymore, but the company really can't survive now. Mr. Zhang Menglong is now recruiting in our company; anyone who goes there gets a 20% pay raise. It's just too attractive."

"Mr. Ding, over 90% of our staff have already submitted their resignation requests; Mr. Zhang has already started processing the joining formalities below. As long as we resign on the spot, we can join his company immediately."

"What? He's coming to poach my employees right here?" Ding Yuxi said, "I need to see just how he's digging here!"

Ding Yuxi stormed down to the reception area on the ground floor.

Indeed, just like the employees had said, Zhang Menglong was really processing onboarding formalities there, and his previous employees had even lined up long queues.

"Where's security! Security! Get him out of here, call the police if he won't leave!" Ding Yuxi yelled.

"What are you yelling for? No shouting allowed inside the company, don't you know the rules!" Zhang Menglong said while sipping his bubble tea at the side.

"This is my company, please leave, or I will have to call the police!"

"Sorry, but this company is mine now!" Zhang Menglong pulled out a stack of shareholder agreements, "All your aunts and uncles have already sold their shares to me at a low price. Now, I am the chairman of Wangyi Music."

"You..." Ding Yuxi had no doubt about the authenticity of the shareholder agreements, his relatives had already mentioned this over the phone, but he didn't expect them to actually sell everything! And at a discount! And to Zhang Menglong!

"Zhang Menglong, what on earth do you want?"

"Nothing much, just thinking of changing the company's business," Zhang Menglong responded, "By the way, you still have a small stake in this company. According to the shareholder agreement, two-thirds of the shareholders' presence is enough to hold a shareholders' meeting. So, let's have an emergency one right now.

Those in favor of turning Wangyi Music into a music-themed foot massage parlor, please raise your hands!"