The rivalry for company authority theoretically has nothing to do with Luohua, but Luo Dan’s influence is too significant.

A boss who can’t gain Luohua’s approval won’t stay steady in their position, and if the opponent pushes Luohua to intervene, it’s a disaster.

Unnoticed, Luohua has grown to such a stage. Of course, Luohua’s influence will only grow from now on, holding a market in a domain — who can resist it?

Luohua certainly would not bother to interfere with these matters, but it can’t stop others from making a fuss about it, right? Even those not taking Luohua’s route have to pay their respects, lest competitors use this as leverage.

Feng Jun heard the news and was somewhat at a loss whether to laugh or cry; Luohua has surprisingly become an external factor that can sway some situations?

However, this kind of thing doesn’t really alarm him; Liang Siyu has enough authority to handle it. Luohua adheres to a non-interference principle, akin to Huaxia’s attitude towards other countries.

She doesn’t even meet people, stating bluntly that they only focus on price, quality, and delivery speed. As for who runs your company, they don’t want to know nor have any interest in knowing.

Yet the change in this supply company has piqued the interest of another appliance company.

This latter company is an emerging force with considerable momentum, seeking a public listing in recent years. While their strength is enough, unforeseen issues constantly arise, although they always top IPO candidates, they repeatedly miss out.

Previously, they had considered pursuing Luo Dan but didn’t prioritize it — being popular already, they have no shortage of connections in various aspects. Securing Luo Dan would be excellent, but they have not resorted to desperate measures.

However, since the Gold standard began, the quantity of Luo Dan has increased dramatically, and now with the Bidirectional Gate open, Luo Dan’s amount is snowballing, they severely regret it.

But lacking no connections and knowing Luohua is difficult to provoke, no one dared to exert pressure on Luohua, repeatedly carrying out public relations, but Liang Siyu isn’t focused on that, too lazy to feign cooperation with them.

Her idea is straightforwardly to follow the old regulations; original ordering methods are maintained, anyone with favorable or unfavorable performance will have their procurement proportion increased or reduced, the system is set, there’s little to consider.

Yet anyone who dares to act chaotically should not blame her for being impolite.

This emerging appliance company didn’t act chaotically but could not miss daily greetings, primarily to familiarize themselves and expect to intervene timely should an opportunity arise.

Currently, they think the opportunity has come, suggesting to Liang Siyu that the former company is fiercely vying for power. If the old Sect Leader retires, the company would struggle to maintain its current competitiveness, leading to significant declines in quality and after-sales service.

They are willing to use a supply-first-payment-later method, offering five billion worth of goods, and promise unconditional returns within half a year in case of design or quality defects.

Liang Siyu isn’t very knowledgeable about commerce, but she finds the opponent’s argument reasonable — since the company leader has changed, it’s likely to affect product quality control.

Free offerings are very tempting to her — it’s in the nature of women — when there are free trials, why not give it a try?

But she understands she can decide on the ratio of goods supply — provided there are reasons. However, letting unreviewed products selected would bear significant responsibility.

Thus, she sought out someone to discuss, yet surprisingly, no one was interested.

Interestingly, in the current buyer-focused supply-demand structure, any group that involves procurement is a lucrative occupation, yet this is a bothersome matter at Luohua.

In essence, Huaxia currency can never match Spirit Stone; seeking mundane wealth forfeits cultivation qualification. Foolish, right?

Moreover, people at Luohua don’t lack money, not to mention, financial independence is achieved — like Gao Qiang’s comrade An Hejun, virtually has no side income, but in less than two years at Luohua, he earned around fifty thousand, and he has nowhere to spend money here.

Could he leave Luohua? Absolutely impossible, so this fifty thousand is solid income, worry-free about necessities plus, barring any accidents, Luohua wouldn’t possibly go bankrupt, almost achieving financial independence.

However, Liang Siyu, as the head of procurement, couldn’t find anyone to discuss, thus turned to her predecessor Li Shishi, asking how to manage this situation.

Li Shishi’s answer was: ignore what they say, continue executing established policies. If time shows genuine quality and supply issues, then replace the supplier, not too late.

The procurement process at Luohua is already quite mature; every product has at least two suppliers, if one encounters problems, let the other temporarily increase production.

While doing this, introduce a third supplier, leisurely completing the replacement.

Li Shishi isn’t really familiar with these processes, but she has experienced them; she steadied her chief manager role partly by following Gao Qiang’s various analyses and straightforwardly executing Luohua’s standards.

Liang Siyu adhered to her advice, but the company persistently stuck to her — they understand Luohua’s formidable nature, yet securing Luohua’s order increases listing certainty to a hundred percent.

Wealth can drive people insane, and getting a local company listed is quite the political achievement. Under such temptations, finally, someone stepped up to support it.

Even though this company is a newcomer, the backing behind it is not insignificant. They found some influential figures to exert pressure—Luohua’s large-scale procurement needs to consider emerging enterprises.

These people even approached Liang Siyu’s alma mater, asking her mentors to intercede—since they let you try it out, is it really that hard to give them a chance?

Liang Siyu was quite vexed. Whenever possible, she was willing to show her "sense of loyalty and righteousness."

But when she went to discuss it with Li Shishi, Li Shishi had already left for the Crimson Pheonix Sect to attend the Nascent Soul celebration. As for discussing with Gao Qiang, she didn’t have the qualification, so she mentioned it to Yin Mingyue.

Yin Mingyue is actually one of the most peripheral second-generation disciples of Luohua. It was due to Lin Heihu’s appreciation that she entered the Luohua system, and currently she’s just an assistant in the Blessing (Anti-trafficking) courtyard.

However, her family background is quite good, and she’s doing quite well in Jin Province, with a certain amount of influence. Her vision is not inferior to Gao Qiang’s, so she suggested, you have to talk to the boss about this—others can only give advice, the boss is the one who makes decisions.

There might be some money involved in this, but is the boss short of money, or is Luohua short of money?

However, Liang Siyu did not dare to approach Feng Jun directly and finally found Zhang Caixin instead.

As soon as the Bidirectional Gate was opened, Zhang Caixin roamed around Kunhao wildly. She could now run wherever she wanted in this domain without restriction. After all, she was already in the Out of Dust stage, and with the background of White Pebble Beach—few in Kunhao dared to provoke her.

Of course, those who kill and rob, seeking wealth through murder, never lacked. There were also quite a number of those who dared to attack the disciples of the Four Sects and Wutai, but the key issue was... Xiao Caixin had numerous cards up her sleeve.

Not to mention anything else, just the Essence Blood Protective Talisman from Feng Jun—at the Golden Core Level, could those petty thieves break through it?

In the end, the cards up Zhang Caixin’s sleeve were much stronger than those of the Out of Dust disciples of the Four Sects and Wutai. Even the disciples of the Ten Directions, known for their wealth, couldn’t compare to her in terms of resources.

Feng Jun once marveled at the extravagance of the Ten Directions disciples in battle, but now the cultivators emerging from Luohua are only more luxurious than the disciples of the Ten Directions. Of course, that’s because Luohua has fewer people, but as a caretaker, he could still proudly say: I did it.

Regardless, with Zhang Caixin running freely in Kunhao, Feng Jun wasn’t too worried—being her master or companion, he already considered everything. If she still encountered an issue, he could only say it was meant to be.

Thus, after Liang Siyu spent a long time looking for Zhang Caixin, she finally got in touch with her. She asked one question, and Zhang Caixin irresponsibly replied, just talk to the boss, he’s currently preparing to advance and shouldn’t be too far from you.

So she braced herself and went to Feng Jun to recount the entire situation.

Feng Jun rarely bothered with such trivial matters anymore. A few billion worth of orders... you need to consult me for this?

Do you know how much Gold I donate each year?

But as always, even small issues shouldn’t be tolerated.

He no longer cared about the Huaxia currency, but ignoring the tricks in Huaxia currency today could lead to similar issues with Spirit Stones tomorrow—even if it wouldn’t get that severe, if outsiders knew, it would be laughable, wouldn’t it?

He pondered for a moment before saying, "According to the rules, the other party hasn’t explicitly breached the contract, only showing potential defaults, so our approach should be... to watch the situation unfold, right?"

Regarding this, Luohua has always been somewhat unorthodox in business affairs. When selling goods, they always demand full payment, and when buying, they’re straightforward. If their credit is enough, prepayment is possible.

In short, it’s an attitude of "we’re not short of money, so don’t mess around poorly," and they have absolutely no reputation issues; otherwise, the proprietary term "Luodan" wouldn’t exist.

However, such operations have drawbacks, overly relying on the influence of their payment capacity. If suppliers encounter issues, they hope other competitors will flock in.

Under normal circumstances, such high-quality customers will inevitably attract others when a supply-demand gap appears, but in the business world... reason doesn’t always play a role.

Perhaps the moment you run into a shortfall is also the opportunity for others to take a hard bite out of you.

Initially, Feng Jun’s thought was that if one company fails, we’ll switch to another; we’re not short of money either.

Liang Siyu agreed with this strategy—Luohua indeed wasn’t short of money. Anyway, it’s a buyer’s market.

But now, she had to remind, "This company controls upstream control chip resources, and if they’re not allowed in, our demand may not be guaranteed."