Xu Hao said in a cold voice, "In your eyes, are these people nothing but ants? Aren't they, just like you, humans as well?"

"Are you really naive or just pretending to be?"

Zhang Tian sneered, "To people like us, aren't they just ants? They are nothing but a bunch of pitiable parasites clinging on to us, the powerful forces. To put it nicely, they are like leeks, ready to be harvested by us whenever they mature. To put it harshly, they are nothing but corporate slaves!

Just look, despite their fierce resistance now, if I were to announce a ten percent increase in wages for all positions in the Zhang family from now on, what do you think they would do? Would they still support you as steadfastly? It's possible that the number of people supporting you would not even be one-tenth of what it is now!"

For a moment, Xu Hao fell into silence.

What Zhang Tian said was very true; the people of Huaya have always been the most honest and simple, but also the easiest to deceive.

As long as you throw them some minor benefits, satisfying their most basic needs for food and clothing, most will not make trouble and will obediently fall in line.

This can be described as being content with one's lot, but it is also a sadness.

However, Xu Hao lifted his head, saying with a determined tone, "That's because they're too kind-hearted, and it's even more so because you have oppressed them too harshly! They just want to have a house to live in, food to eat, clothes to wear, and many of them don't even dare to dream about buying a car. Yet, these four basic necessities of life—food, clothing, shelter, and transportation—are not fulfilled for them! What is the root cause of all this? It's all because of you!"

"Nonsense! Isn't it just because they're lazy?"

Zhang Tian huffed coldly, "If they worked hard, would they still not be able to afford a house? Food? Clothes? A vehicle for transportation?"

"Bullshit! I work hard every day, and I'm not talking about a car here, I'm almost forty now, and I still haven't paid off my mortgage!" A middle-aged man burst out in rage instantly.

His words immediately resonated with many people: "Damn it, my salary hasn't even increased half as much as the price of housing; ten years ago, I could go out and have skewers every night, but now I have to pinch pennies just to buy a pack of tissues!"

Hearing the angry words of the crowd, Xu Hao said coldly, "Do you hear that? Isn't the reason for all this the constant exploitation of workers' labor value by you business owners? I've heard that if an economist tells big business owners that reducing workers' wages by another ten percent, workers would go hungry. However, the first reaction of these business owners is definitely: What? Wages can still be cut?"

"Hahaha!"

Upon hearing Xu Hao's words, everyone laughed, but as they laughed, many began to shed tears of sorrow.

What Xu Hao said was just too real; isn't this exactly what those big business owners think?

To extract every last bit of the workers' surplus labor value, they only care about how much money they make, never bothering about the life and death of their workers.

Seeing the increasingly ugly expressions on the faces of Zhang Tian and the other Zhang family members, Xu Hao snorted coldly, "But I'm different. I do my best to increase the salary and benefits for my employees, and those who know about Xu Liu Group are well aware, the wages of employees at Xu Liu Group are at least thirty percent higher than those in the same position at other companies! And that's not even including year-end bonuses. If you count the bonuses, it's at least thirty-five percent higher!" This is a sample- f+ro&m- My V#i!rtu!al* L#ibr-a+ry^ E+m@p$ire!.. Re+a^d the r#est on *-.

People nodded their heads; many had heard of this and that was why many of them switched to working at the Xu Liu Group.

However, as the Huadu Headquarters of Xu Liu Group were not yet completed, they had to work at the Jing'an Branch Company. Given the long distance between the two places, many had not made the move. However, they all knew, once the Huadu Headquarters of Xu Liu Group officially opened, a massive number of people would flood into the recruitment department in search of suitable positions.

Hearing Xu Hao's words, Zhang Tian's face turned extremely ugly instantly.

Employees, are the most important part of an enterprise.

Without employees, an enterprise would be like a skilled cook without rice, simply unable to operate.

What Xu Hao had done was no different from pulling the rug out from under them!

Yet, the Zhang Family Old Master disdainfully said, "It is well known that the one thing Huaya has in abundance is labor. No matter how strong or big your Xu Liu Group is, how many job positions can it provide? A few thousand? Ten thousand? At most, twenty thousand! But with millions of people in Huadu and at least two to three million workers, including a large number of migrant workers, can your mere group resolve their employment issues?"

His words could not have been more cutting.

He had directly hit a sore spot in what Xu Hao had said—an enterprise at most can bring thousands of job opportunities to a city, but for a city with millions of people, it's like a drop in the bucket!

After all, the power of one person or one enterprise is too small.

What Huaya does not lack is cheap labor.

This is the most pitiful and the most tragic reality…