Ye Fei had resigned, and although Lin Qingwan wanted him to continue to live in her villa, he was embarra.s.sed, so he quietly moved out to temporarily live in a small hotel nearby.

The property manager of the small hotel was a woman over 60 years old. When she saw four men trying to go into Ye Fei's room, she immediately became dissatisfied and stopped them in the doorway.

"Auntie, we're going to talk business," Zhao Hongshuo said helplessly, trying to be affable.

"If you want to talk business, you can go out. You can't talk business here!"

The woman looked Zhao Hongshuo up and down suspiciously, thinking he was talking about illegal business.

There was no way they could convince this woman otherwise, so Ye Fei could only move their discussion to a small park nearby.

There were not many people at the park that morning. Ye Fei and the others sat under a pavilion. Zhao Hongshuo and Tang Ye had especially dressed in black suits.

The sight of these men in suits sitting under a pavilion in daylight was so bizarre that no one dared to walk near them.

Ye Fei said with a wry smile, "Unexpectedly, my first meeting is being held in a park. If I succeed someday, and someone asks me to write a memoir, I must write this scene in."

Hearing Ye Fei's joke, Zhao Hongshuo grinned, but other three people were a little uncomfortable.

They were now regretting coming to do business with Ye Fei. They thought Ye Fei was unprofessional, because he even could not find a place to hold their meeting. As for their salary advance, they a.s.sumed he'd been joking.

Even Zhao Hongshuo was a little nervous.

With a smile, Ye Fei brought out four black plastic bags and handed them out, saying, "Yesterday, I went to get some money for you. Have a look."

They all looked inside the bags they'd been handed and saw stacks of money.

"Manager Ye, what are you doing?"

Zhao Hongshuo was startled and the others looked at each other in surprise. Ye Fei hadn't simply been boasting yesterday!

"This is the salary I promised you for the first three months. Although the company is still in the preparation stage, I will not hold back your salaries," Ye Fei said with a smile.

"You are very kind, Manager Ye. But if the company has difficulties, we can't accept this money,” one of the men said as all of their faces turned red.

At this point, their concerns were completely dispelled, and they were sincerely willing to help Ye Fei set up the company.

"There's nothing wrong. But because the company is just starting, you will be busy. I'll be a.s.signing tasks shortly,” Ye Fei said seriously.

He'd learned one thing from Lin Qingwan. In business, you should be strong, not democratic. If you were democratic, people would look down on you. They were the same rules as on the battlefield. Leaders had to make sure soldiers only obeyed orders rather than asking questions.

"Yes, sir!"

Ye Fei's tone made these four people remember their time in the army, so they stood up together and saluted.

"You may as well call me Manager Ye."

Then Ye Fei looked at Xu Sande and said, "Xu Sande, you worked with vehicles in the military, so you know vehicles very well. I command you to find a way to buy an armored truck and come back. The quality must be excellent. As for the price, about 500,000 yuan."

"Yes, Manager Ye."

Xu Sande immediately stood upright and saluted.

He didn't know exactly how much one of these trucks should cost, but he knew he could follow this command.

"Mao, you know a lot about electronics, so you should know about cameras as well, right?" Ye Fei asked.

Without saying a word, Chen Mao nodded softly.

"Well, go help me contact a good camera manufacturer. We want to cooperate with them for a long time," Ye Fei ordered.

"Yes, Manager Ye," Chen Mao said gently and nodded. He was also satisfied with the job he'd been a.s.signed.

"Tang Ye, help me find a storefront nearby. The area does not need to be too large, but it should be conveniently located,” continued Ye Fei.

"No problem," Tang Ye said.

"As for Brother Zhao, you'll stay with me. Now, this meeting is over. In the evening, everyone come report to me on the progress of today's work," Ye Fei said in a commanding tone.

After the three men left, Ye Fei smiled and said, "These men are really nice!"

"Of course!" Zhao Hongshuo also smiled, then asked Ye Fei, "What are we going to do?"

"We need to go to the public police bureau in Shanghai to open a certificate," he said as he moved to stop a taxi by the side of the road.

"The police bureau?" Zhao Hongshuo asked. "I see. It makes sense that the security company would be tied to the police bureau and that you must open a certificate. However, I have heard that this certificate is extremely difficult to open."

"That's true," Ye Fei said.

"Well... Let's build up some relations.h.i.+ps first?"

Zhao Hongshuo didn't know about Ye Fei's relations.h.i.+p with Qin Xiaogang.

"No need, we'll just go through the normal process."

Soon, their taxi stopped in front of the police bureau and Ye Fei headed toward the door.

Watching Ye Fei walk toward the door as though he was heading home, Zhao Hongshuo was stunned, then he looked at Ye Fei and said, "You just go straight in?”