One sentence from Qin Siyang was like a clap of thunder that tore through the night sky.
"That makes sense!"
Someone muttered quietly, and then the silence around the round table froze for a moment.
Apart from causing trouble for everyone, Jiang Hao letting his son Jiang Changqing make such a fuss seemed to have no other use.
But thinking about it carefully, it really was possible that, just as Qin Siyang said, they were indirectly squeezing the supplier of Crimson Crystal materials and forcing him to withdraw from the crystal coin issuance plan.
After a brief silence, everyone's angry gazes fell in unison on Jiang Hao and his son.
Qin Siyang lowered his eyes and brows, looking at his own crossed hands. No one could tell what he was thinking right now.
But at this moment, no one was paying attention to what he was thinking.
Jiang Changqing was stunned at first, then his face went white with a "swish," as if ice water had been poured over his head. His lips trembled slightly.
"I—", His throat was somewhat dry, and he hurriedly waved his hands, "No, we didn't intend to stop the issuance of crystal coins…"
But before he could finish, on the other side of the conference table, Zhu Haifeng suddenly let out a cold laugh.
"I always thought the rule for today's meeting was that whoever sat at the table was the one who represented their side in speaking. But President Jiang hasn't said a word and is letting that undisciplined child behind him keep talking. What does that mean?"
The dissatisfaction everyone had originally felt toward Jiang Hao and his son was now ignited by Zhu Haifeng.
Chu Xiaoang followed up, "That kid surnamed Jiang, didn't you notice that when Little Qin answered, he always addressed him as 'President Jiang,' directly speaking to your father Jiang Hao, and completely ignored you? If you want to speak, then sit in Jiang Hao's seat and let Jiang Hao stand behind you! Otherwise, stop talking nonsense here!"
Wang Bozhong, president of the Earthly Research Institute, crossed his arms and spoke without the slightest courtesy, "Little Qin and the Zhao family are only willing to take five percent, which is already very fair. You should know that the material for crystal coins is Crimson Crystal. If your Jiang family thinks he is taking too much, why not take out the Crimson Crystal you have kept for yourself and issue crystal coins, then take three percent yourselves and set an example."
Seeing Jiang Hao order his own son to make things difficult for the material supplier, the others directly attacked together.
Blocking everyone from getting rich? Who the hell do you think you are.
Your name is Jiang Hao, and you really think you can reach the heavens?
And Qin Siyang, the one who had started all of this, now had his eyes and brows lowered, quietly looking at his own crossed hands. His expression did not change in the slightest, as if all of this had nothing to do with him.
Jiang Changqing tried to admit his mistake again, "Seniors, I…"
"Shut your mouth!", Armaments Minister Dmitry Ivanov pointed coldly at Jiang Changqing, "Someone who is standing has no right to speak."
Seeing that all the big shots were becoming angry, Jiang Changqing could only suppress the words in his heart and his anger toward Qin Siyang, clench his fists, and keep his mouth shut.
Then Dmitry pointed at Jiang Hao again, his tone serious and angry, "President Jiang, if my memory serves me right, you're not mute. If you have something to say, please say it directly."
Jiang Hao, who had not spoken for a long time, finally chose to speak, "Everyone, I have no intention of stopping the issuance of crystal coins."
["Truth."]
["Truth."]
["Truth."]
For a moment, many voices from the polygraphs rang out around the round table.
Only then did the anger in everyone's eyes slightly fade.
Qin Siyang, however, was startled inside.
He had not expected so many people to carry polygraphs with them, and to turn them on without making a sound.
It seemed that he would have to be more careful with every word he said from now on.
Gu Weiyang smiled, "All right, everyone, turn off the polygraphs. Since President Jiang is not trying to stop the issuance of crystal coins, there is no need to pursue why his son suddenly jumped out and said a bunch of incomprehensible things. Let's avoid damaging our harmony."
With a few sentences, Gu Weiyang brought the matter to its conclusion, the unpleasant conflict had been entirely caused by Jiang Changqing's nonsense.
Jiang Changqing finally understood the implied meaning behind Gu Weiyang's words this time. Ashamed and angry, he glared fiercely at Qin Siyang before lowering his head even further.
No one raised any further objections to the crystal coin quotas.
Next, the round table was rearranged and transformed into several smaller round tables, and the large round-table meeting was also divided into several small round-table meetings organized by faction, to discuss the specific crystal coin quotas belonging to each faction.
The process in which the big shots of the same faction defended their common interests had ended. Now the infighting would begin.
In front of interests, this group of people who had come through mountains of blades and seas of fire would not yield even a fraction.
But just as everyone was rubbing their fists and getting ready, the people from the Zhao Chamber of Commerce once again handed each person present a document.
[Specific Crystal Coin Quota Proposal — Gu Weiyang]
Everyone fell silent.
The United Government not only wanted to take charge of dividing the big cake, but also wanted to help them divide the small cakes?
Wasn't that a little too much interference?
But only half an hour had passed since Yu Bianwei had crashed and burned, and at this moment, no one dared to challenge Gu Weiyang's edge.
Everyone could only pinch their noses and look through the proposal Gu Weiyang had given them.
[The crystal coin quotas will be used for the development of the Safe Zone. For the sake of fairness, I suggest adopting a points system. Specifically, the sum of the God-Hunting Points and four times the Research Points of all personnel belonging to institutions, armies, chambers of commerce, and other organizations will be used as that organization's points for the crystal coin quota. Then, the crystal coin quota obtained will be calculated according to each organization's proportion of the total points within that group.]
[For example, the Qi Legion has a total of approximately 6 billion points, while the total points of all the legions are approximately 10 billion. This means that the Qi Legion can obtain sixty percent of the legion crystal coin quota. And so on.]
After reading Gu Weiyang's proposal, everyone was stunned.
Calculate the quota according to their faction's total points?
What kind of logic was this?
The small round-table meetings of the other factions had not even spoken yet, while the legion's small round-table meeting directly exploded.
Qin Yingguang spoke first, "Old Commander Qi, even if your Qi Legion has more people, I absolutely cannot accept cutting sixty percent of the quota!"
Chu Xiaoang was equally dissatisfied, "Old Commander Qi, we respect you, but this is going too far."
Apart from Yan Ran, whose voice carried little weight, Han Huizhi and Wei Rulai also stated that they absolutely would not accept it.
Qi Tian's eyes were half-open. He extended his withered finger and lightly swiped across the proposal, changing the Qi Legion's crystal coin quota ratio from [60%] to [40%].
"I'll give up twenty percent of the quota. But this twenty percent of the quota will follow Secretary-General Gu's proposal and be distributed among you in proportion to your total points, and this will be the final distribution method. If you agree, sign and seal it."
Wei Rulai, who ranked last in total legion points, had an ashen face, "Old Commander Qi, what if I don't agree?"
"Then I'll take sixty percent, and you'll divide the remaining forty percent. If you're dissatisfied, come with me to the combat arena, or directly announce that the military is going to war. I'll accept either."
After saying that, Qi Tian closed his eyes again and lay back in his chair to rest.