Zhuang Shengkai indeed wanted to win over Jiang Yan; to be precise, he wanted Jiang Yan to stay in the electronics factory and squeeze Jing Junyang out.
"Since you've figured it out, I won't beat around the bush. Here's the deal: you stay with our electronics factory as He Gong's assistant, make it clear to Jing Junyang that you're severing ties with him, and I'll give you 500,000 a year. How about that?"
He Gong was the head of engineering and R&D in the electronics factory; becoming his assistant was like becoming the second-in-command of the entire engineering department.
500,000 a year, Zhuang Shengkai was really generous with him, since, as far as Jiang Yan knew, He Gong's monthly salary was only 12,000, and including the annual bonus at the end of the year, it wasn't even 200,000 total.
If He Gong found out that Zhuang Shengkai was offering him 500,000 just to win him over, who knows what he would think.
