What's wrong with this lawyer?!

He paused before adding, "It was President Zhao who personally called..."

President Zhao is the general manager of Wufeng Technology's Hanxi branch.

Upon hearing this, Xia Deming quickly grabbed the phone and stood up unconsciously, a smile flashing across his face: "Hello, President Zhao, yes, this is Xia Deming."

From the phone came a roar: "Xia Deming, what's going on? The company received arbitration materials today, claiming that a delivery rider is seeking to establish a labor dispatch relationship with the company."

"Moreover, according to the principles of cross-region dispatching, our side must bear the rider's social insurance. What exactly is happening?"

Startled, Xia Deming wondered what this was all about and how it ended up involving a platform company.

Wait, he suddenly thought of Tang Fangjing and that smile of his from before—could that man have pulled some new stunt?

"President Zhao, I'm not quite familiar with the situation right now. Could you give me some time to investigate and get back to you with a response?" Xia Deming hastily said.

Over the phone, President Zhao's voice boomed again: "You're not quite familiar? You're telling me you're unaware of how many lawsuits they've filed against your company? You don't know about Tang Fangjing? Or Li Fugui, huh!"

"They're using evidence provided by your own company; you're saying you're unaware of it?"

"Tell me, what's the deal with Fengyu Company? How did such a trivial matter not get settled and has now come to this?"

Xia Deming's heart sank—news had reached the platform company.

But all he could do was say, "I had already told them to resolve the issue, but... but Tang Fangjing just wouldn't agree. In fact, we had the court come out for mediation not so long ago."

"However, we couldn't reach an agreement..."

"Now the station manager of Fengyu Company has been detained for making false accusations, and the company's boss—who happens to be the station manager's brother-in-law—has... well, everyone is unreachable, so no resolution is possible."

This time, President Zhao was confused. What on earth was going on?

Yet he immediately said, "Alright, Xia Deming, I am telling you to resolve this issue before the arbitration hearing. Otherwise, we'll have to terminate our contract."

"You're well aware of the contract's content; I don't need to say more. That's all."

After President Zhao hung up, Xia Deming put down the phone, looking dejected, and felt an odd sense of déjà vu...

Wasn't that the same thing he said to Zheng Xingfa not so long ago? Now he was on the receiving end—truly, what goes around comes around.

But how to solve it now? The key issue was why the platform company suddenly exploded.

"You go check if the company received any summons from the arbitration tribunal today," Xia Deming ordered grimly.

The secretary went out to inquire. As a matter of fact, as a labor outsourcing company, San He received numerous arbitration applications; this time, they had been sent over in bulk by the arbitration commission.

Therefore, the staff downstairs didn't pay much attention, never expecting to find such a "bomb" among them.

Soon, Old Tang's application booklet and related materials were laid out in front of him. The company's legal affairs officer looked at the application in front of him with a very grim expression.

"President Xia, this Tang Fangjing is really... He really knows how to..." The legal affairs officer was at a loss for words.

Once the battle lines were drawn, San He would not necessarily lose, but the other side was playing dirty, directly dragging the platform company into it.

This was problematic. Initially, the odds were even, with Old Tang having a forty percent chance. For San He, this was an acceptable risk.

But now, with the platform company dragged into this, it was different. Jiang Wei was still hunkered down in Jiange, and now the home base had been sneak-attacked...

They had hit a soft spot!

For the platform company, it was an unwarranted disaster. Don't talk to me about risks; for a company, the goal is to have no risks.

If Tang Fangjing won, he would insist on publishing it online according to his rules. What would the company do then? Even if the whole world cursed at the company for being inhumane, the company still needed to save face publicly, not to mention that it's not in a monopoly position and competitors are watching.

Take the incident where a rider suddenly died, for example. The company initially just offered a humanitarian compensation of a few thousand yuan. Once the public backlash began, they had to hurriedly change their statement.

Especially now, the platform company's legal team, after performing a search, had figured out all of Tang Fangjing's maneuvers.

Such a complicated and bothersome process of rights defense, combined with the name Tang Fangjing and the delivery riders being wrongfully deducted pay, once published online, would surely become a trending topic.

Xia Deming was left speechless, looking to the heavens and wondering whom he had provoked. The problem was, now he couldn't even give Fengyu Company a piece of his mind.

In such an atmosphere, Old Tang relaxed a little. He was in his hotel room preparing a PowerPoint presentation to be used for a lecture to students at Politics and Law University.

Having promised to make it a teaching case, it had to have educational impact.

He'd also make a video, but compared to the PowerPoint, it wouldn't be as professional—it's used for teaching, while the other is for entertaining the masses online. Discover exclusive tales on empire

He wasn't taking anyone's calls today. Once the application was submitted, people from San He would surely be frantically looking for him, so he would wait them out.

Mediation wasn't out of the question; if it came to a court decision, he certainly wouldn't get the six hundred thousand—a court would decide with discretion.

"Discretion" implies different meanings; there's even a joke that when a judge doesn't know which law to apply, they just rely on "discretion." Don't ask how it's applied.