I'm back in 1990

Chapter 1149: Humanity Cannot Withstand the Test

After the National Day holiday, Ma Yifeng and Jiao Zhiyong came to see Huang Xiaochuan with serious expressions.

"What's going on between you two?" Huang Xiaochuan teased the two of them while making them tea, still unaware of the reason.

"Xiao Chuan, An Cheng is hollowing out the company." Jiao Zhiyong's words immediately made Huang Xiao Chuan stop in his tracks.

But he still poured tea into the teacups in front of the two of them before asking, "Old Jiao, tell me the details."

Jiao Zhiyong's mouth moved, and he looked up at Ma Yifeng with a hesitant expression.

Huang Xiaochuan noticed his hesitation and urged, "Just say what you have to say, don't hold back."

Jiao Zhiyong mustered his courage: "I recently checked the company's accounts and found a big problem."

These words immediately created a tense atmosphere in the office. This was no small matter; it involved suspected criminal activity.

Moreover, An Cheng had known the other three for nearly twenty years and they had a deep friendship, so Huang Xiaochuan was quite shocked.

However, Huang Xiaochuan remained calm and showed no emotion. Instead, he calmly poured himself a cup of tea.

Then he asked casually, "Old Jiao, what did you find out?"

Jiao Zhiyong knew that to reason with this person, he needed solid evidence, so he handed him a document he had prepared beforehand: "Take a look at this."

Huang Xiaochuan took the document and flipped through it page by page. The document recorded the flow of the company's large sums of money over the past year, as well as the shareholder list of several related companies.

The materials show that since last year, Ancheng has arranged for its company to conduct multiple related-party transactions with these companies, involving a huge amount that has accumulated to more than 210 million yuan.

Moreover, according to Jiao Zhiyong's understanding, the shareholders and legal representatives of these related companies are all close relatives of the company's CFO, Feng Zhiyi.

This shows that An Cheng colluded with Feng Zhiyi to siphon off the company's assets.

Huang Xiaochuan has never paid much attention to this company that mainly deals in online games. Firstly, he has many businesses and can't take care of them all. Secondly, he founded the company because of some special circumstances at the time, purely to find a way for Ma Yifeng, Jiao Zhiyong, and An Cheng to get rich.

Therefore, based on the above two points, Huang Xiaochuan was only responsible for providing funding and some directional guidance for this company that started as a computer training class; he never interfered with the specific business and operations.

When he heard that An Cheng was having an extramarital affair a while ago, he didn't take it seriously, thinking it was An Cheng's private matter. Besides, he didn't value the company enough.

Unexpectedly, An Cheng harbored such intentions and was already working to hollow out the company, which made Huang Xiaochuan feel as if he had entrusted the wrong person and had been betrayed.

Two hundred and ten million.

This number made Huang Xiaochuan's face turn cold.

It's not that he's never seen money before; any one of the industries he controls is worth dozens or even hundreds of times more than that amount, so he really doesn't care about this little bit of money.

But this figure is different in nature. This is not normal business operation. It is money being taken out of the company they co-founded, and in an illegal and criminal way.

Huang Xiaochuan finished reading the document with a heavy heart, then asked Ma Yifeng and Jiao Zhiyong, "Is there anything else?"

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Jiao Zhiyong glanced at Ma Yifeng, who nodded slightly. Then, Jiao Zhiyong took out another document: "This is An Cheng's annual budget submitted at the end of last year. I didn't pay much attention to it at the time, but later, after discovering that he was embezzling company funds, Lao Ma and I had someone carefully check it and found many problems. He made this year's game development budget extremely high and subcontracted these game development projects to the affiliated companies mentioned in the document."

If his annual budget plan is implemented as is, the amount he would lose through related-party transactions this year could exceed 600 million.

Upon hearing this number, Huang Xiaochuan shook his head helplessly and gave a cold laugh.

That's quite an appetite.

Ma Yifeng and Jiao Zhiyong had known Huang Xiaochuan for many years and knew that the guy was really angry.

Seeing Huang Xiaochuan's reaction, Jiao Zhiyong felt uneasy, but he still said, "Xiaochuan, Lao Ma and I came to the same conclusion before we came: Lao An is trying to bankrupt the company!"

After listening, Huang Xiaochuan remained silent for a while.

When he met An Cheng, Ma Yifeng, and Jiao Zhiyong, it was the year he had just stayed on to teach at the university. The four of them lived in the same dormitory building, all teaching at the university and earning a few hundred yuan a month.

Back then, An Cheng was dirt poor. He came from the countryside and couldn't even support himself on his salary in Shanghai, let alone find a girlfriend, get married, and start a family.

I remember once An Cheng's mother was sick and urgently needed 5,000 yuan, but he couldn't even scrape together 100 yuan. He still gave her 10,000 yuan himself to help her solve her immediate problem.

It was because of this that Huang Xiaochuan gave the three of them an idea and provided start-up capital to establish a computer training institution.

Later, the training institution grew bigger and bigger, and eventually transformed into China's largest online game company with the development of the times. An Cheng also went from being a penniless university teacher to the boss of a listed company with a market value of several billion.

An Cheng, whose career was just starting to take off, met his current wife, Shi Li, through an introduction. They later married and had children, and their relationship has always been very good. They have been married for more than ten years and are a harmonious couple.

But I never expected it would come to the point of divorce. It's all because of money!

Some people can share hardship but not happiness, and An Cheng is one of those people.

After thinking it through, Huang Xiaochuan asked Jiao Zhiyong, "Old Jiao, have you discussed this matter directly with An Cheng?"

"No, I'm afraid of alerting them. Besides, Lao Ma said he needs to consult with you first to see what your opinion is. After all, you're a major shareholder, so your words carry more weight than ours."

Huang Xiaochuan nodded: "I understand. Leave the materials with me and let me think about what to do. You and Lao Ma should keep things as they are and do what you need to do, but don't let him find out."

The two responded, and then Ma Yifeng said, "Xiao Chuan, why has An Cheng changed so much?"

Huang Xiaochuan was silent for a moment, then said, "Human nature is the most vulnerable thing to being tested."

When Huang Xiaochuan got home that evening, he didn't eat dinner. He stayed in his study alone, sitting there in a daze for a long time.

He thought of the past, of An Cheng complaining to him that he couldn't even afford to get married, and of An Cheng's ecstatic joy when he received his first dividend.

The person is still the same person, but also not the same person anymore.