237 The Power of Capital
“I don’t think a second-year high school student can have much power. I can guarantee that if she leaves Jingyuan High School, the other schools will not want her.” Director Huang said with confidence.
He seemed to be certain that Chu Ning could not leave Jingyuan High.
Finally, Lin Hao couldn’t stand it anymore. Although he was just a form teacher, Chu Ning was his student. If Chu Ning was suppressed in school, his future would be bleak.
“This director, I feel that your words are a little inappropriate. Chu Ning is also a student of our Jingyuan High School. According to our school’s rules, she should be given a sufficient reward for winning an award of this level. You’re saying that our school is going to break its promise and go back on its word?” Lin Hao said loudly with a red face.
“Where are you from? Do you have the right to speak here? You’re the vice-principal?” Director Huang gave Lin Hao a disdainful glance. In his eyes, Lin Hao’s status was just a joke.
If it wasn’t for Chu Ning, he wouldn’t have the right to sit here with them.
Lin Hao’s face turned dark, but he couldn’t say anything to refute, because what Director Huang had said was the truth. He was indeed not qualified and had no status.
He was only complaining about the unfairness on Chu Ning’s behalf, but it was useless.
“I don’t think there’s a need to reward them too much. If that’s the case, if every student wins an award, and we all fork out a huge sum of money as a reward, then would the school still be able to make money and profit?” One of the shareholders said indifferently.
He seemed to be protecting the school’s interests, but in fact, he was still speaking up for Director Huang.
Everyone present knew very well that Chu Ning’s one and only national award couldn’t be replicated! In M City’s education history, no student had ever received such a glorious award!
Because of Chu Ning’s appearance, some of the top high schools in the country even paid more attention to M City!
“Then what do we do now? I think 100,000 should be enough. How about 200,000?” One of the shareholders who had spoken up for Director Huang also smiled and suggested.
The principal looked at the other shareholders and they were all silent. He knew that today’s matter would be difficult to handle.
Lin Hao had told principal Cao Bo that Chu Ning wanted a cash reward of 10 million yuan and the right to contract all the ingredients in the canteen of Jingyuan High School. However, judging from the shareholders’ opinions, they could only give Chu Ning a few hundred thousand yuan at most.
Giving Chu Ning a few hundred thousand was as good as not giving her anything.
Compared to the reward that Jingyuan High School had given to Chu Ning previously, giving out these hundreds of thousands of yuan seemed to be very stingy. It was as though they were humiliating Chu Ning.
The shareholders who were silent did not express any objection or agreement.
Their stance was already very clear. They were standing on the same side as these four shareholders because they shared common interests.
Not expressing their attitude clearly was already showing the principal a lot of respect.
Ye Ting’s father, Ye Zhen, was among the silent shareholders.
After hesitating for a while, Ye Zhen decided not to say anything for the time being. After all, Chu Ning was no longer his daughter.
Seeing that the meeting room had fallen silent again, the principal had no choice but to say, “Since we haven’t come to a consensus yet, let’s wait and see. Let’s not talk about Chu Ning’s award for now. As for the other student’s Excellence Award, I feel…”
Before the principal could finish his sentence, he was interrupted by a shareholder.
“I think the student who have won the Excellence Award should be rewarded. This is good. The Excellence Award is not bad. I remember that the student was called Yan Shen, right? Director Song, I think Yan Shen is your distant nephew? This young man is not bad. I suggest we give him a reward of 5 million.” One of the shareholders said as he looked at the other.
It was obvious that these two were Yan Shen’s supporters in school.
“I agree.”
“I agree as well.”
“I don’t have any objections.”
…
The group of shareholders nodded in agreement.
However, when the school leaders saw this scene, the expressions on their faces were not too pleased.
At the end of the day, although they seemed to have a lot of power, they were only managing the school on behalf of the shareholders. The core essence was still a group of senior workers.
An Excellence Award was not even a third-place Bronze Award. Although it was rare, compared to the Gold Award, it was like the difference between the stars and the sun!
But now, the Excellence Award was worth 5 million yuan, and the Gold Award was only a few hundred thousand yuan…