Friday, August 22, 2:00 PM. The Marketing Department's Third Quarter Key Project Progress Report and Resource Coordination Meeting.
(Today's Salary +4, [Imperial Treasury] Balance: 1247+4=1251 taels. [Imperial Majesty] 147 points, [Prestige] 330 points. Experience: 250/450. Item: [Crisis Response Brocade Pouch] x1.)
In the conference room, all team leaders of the Marketing Department were present. Director Zhao Dezhu sat in the center, his expression calm and unreadable. Li Banjia sat in the front row with Lin Wei and Zhou Min; though he appeared composed, he had already mentally rehearsed the impending "battle of wits" several times.
He knew this meeting, ostensibly for "resource coordination," was actually a "Hongmen Banquet" meticulously staged by Liu Ming. For the past few days, the alarms from the [Ministry of Foreign Affairs / Court of State Ceremonial] had been incessant. Liu Ming had been busy lobbying, not only aligning himself with "disgruntled" managers like Zhang Tao and Chen Fang but also submitting a proposal to Director Zhao titled "Several Suggestions Regarding Resource Allocation and Risk Control for Departmental Innovation Projects."
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