Chapter 46: Find a suitable opportunity to visit
"Chief, that's the way it is," in Lian Changheng's office, Director Lian cautiously asked Minister Huang for instructions: "Look, how should we deal with this matter?"
A week ago, Huaxia sent a delegation headed by Foreign Minister Huang to the United States to hold talks with the US Government on the establishment of diplomatic relations.
Since he has come to the United States, the Huaxia Liaison Office in the United States is naturally the place where the Chinese delegation stays, and Lian Changheng also took this opportunity to ask Minister Huang for instructions: Boss, what do you say about Chen Geng?
Minister Huang didn't pause immediately, but laughed: "It seems that our friend Chen Geng is really rich, an air container, from the United States, to RB transit, and then to our country, a voyage of tens of thousands of kilometers, just the freight cost is at least tens of thousands of dollars, right? Good guy, I have worked for decades without eating or drinking to earn this salary." ”
Lian Changheng and Ding Haijun laughed.
Of course, they knew that Minister Huang was not expressing his dissatisfaction in this way, but was just joking.
"Promise him," Minister Huang pondered for a moment, and quickly made a decision: "Before I came, the chief specially told me that we are here to make friends, and that we must treat our friends sincerely, and that it is right to help our friends, and promise him! When I go back, I will say hello to the comrades in China, and I will definitely send the things to Mr. Chen Geng's relatives in China, intact and in large quantities." ”
After a pause, Minister Huang said with a smile: "Speaking of which, we can still follow this Comrade Chen Geng to get some light, so I don't believe that the boss can fill all the air containers, so let's take a lot of advantage." ”
Such an excellent opportunity to sell well, without having to pay a penny from his own side, if Minister Huang still doesn't know what to do, then he needs to wonder how he got on this chair. Saying yes also proves that there is no one who can sit in this position.
With Minister Huang's words, Lian Changheng immediately breathed a sigh of relief.
It was Ding Haijun, whose face turned red and opened his mouth, as if he wanted to say something.
Ding Haijun's expression did not hide Minister Huang's eyes, he smiled and pointed at Ding Haijun: "Do you want to say what to do with the milk powder that Chen Geng gave you?" Well, and you, Xiao Lian, you just said that Chen Geng is going to send a box of middle-aged and elderly milk powder to your old man?"
Comrade Lao Ding and Lian Changheng nodded awkwardly together.
"I know about this," Minister Huang said, "no problem, you can take it." ”
Comrade Lao Ding and Lian Changheng widened their eyes together: Can we take it?!
According to the state's current regulations on foreign affairs, in order to facilitate the development of diplomatic work, diplomats can accept some small gifts of low value from foreign friends, but there are strict regulations on the value of the gifts; although we don't know how much the milk powder sent by Chen Geng will cost, it is certainly impossible for such a rich guy to send cheap milk powder, right?
"This Chen Geng's friend is in a special situation," Minister Huang did not say too clearly, but he clearly expressed his meaning: "In the interaction with Chen Geng, except for the fact that you must not accept money from the other party, you must keep in mind that you can moderately relax the scale." ”
"Yes. Lian Changheng and Deputy Director Ding responded in unison.
Even if the scale is released, no matter what Mr. Chen Geng sends, he must report to the organization, this point cannot be changed, this is an iron law, no need for Minister Huang to say, both of them understand it in their hearts.
Seeing that Minister Huang did not take the initiative to mention the issue he mentioned earlier, Lian Changheng hesitated, but still reminded: "Minister, there is also that Mr. Chen Geng and the United Community Bank ......."
Without waiting for Lian Changheng to finish speaking, Minister Huang raised his hand and signaled Lian Changheng not to say anything: he was actually thinking about this question just now.
Lian Changheng immediately shut up.
"How much do you know about the situation of this United Community Bank?" asked Minister Huang after a moment of silence.
Lian Changheng: "Time is relatively tight, and we have very limited information, but we only know that the total assets of this joint community bank are about 1.5 billion or 600 million US dollars, and it is a medium-sized small and medium-sized bank, ranking about 70 or 80 among all banks in the United States. ”
Minister Huang: "That's also very powerful. ”
"Yes. ”
Minister Huang said slowly: "In this round of negotiations, we have reached an agreement with the US side on several issues, including our official personnel can visit and visit some overseas Chinese, HSD is not far from Detroit, when the time is right, you can visit friends." ”
As soon as Minister Huang said this, Comrade Lao Ding and Lian Changheng immediately understood what he meant: Hearing is false, seeing is believing, what is the strength of this Chen Geng, is it really as powerful as he said, can you just see it with your own eyes?
The two glanced at each other, and they both felt that this was a good way, even if there was no way to know too much about it, but they could know a little bit about it, and it could also provide some reference for judging his overall strength.
It's better than sitting in the liaison office and pondering, as for the excuse to visit? That's not too much, just grab a handful, for example, Master Wang knows that you love dumplings, this time I specially wrapped some for you and sent it over, and the hot pot base boiled by Master Wang is a must, do you want to try it?
Lian Changheng immediately nodded: "Yes, minister, we know." ”
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Chen didn't know that he had been remembered, and when he returned to Detroit, he immediately began to think about what to buy for his father and mother and "himself":
Panasonic's 18-inch color TV? Buy! Is there a bigger size? And a 21-inch one? That's a 21-inch one;
This 21-speed shifter mountain bike is good, front and rear shock absorbers with disc brakes, not bad, bought;
What? It's only 97 liters? What can you do with such a big refrigerator? Find me one that's at least 150 liters or more, no? If not, I'll find a way to find it, and if I can't find it, I don't want everything I bought before;
Microwave oven for one;
For this Nestle milk powder, bring me two boxes for middle-aged and elderly people, and two boxes for teenagers who are developing in adolescence...... What? There are only six boxes in one box, and one box is 800g? So bring me four boxes of each of these two......
It's hard to come here, do you want to give some benefits to employees?
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Looking at Chen Geng, who had entered the shopping spree mode, Statham, who was following behind Chen Geng, was a little worried, so many things, can an air container fit?
However, thinking that the boss is so rich, a small air container can't be loaded, and a big deal is to load a larger one, so I suddenly put my mind at ease.
The faces of the supermarket salesmen who followed Chen Geng were about to laugh, although this gentleman was not a big customer, but all of them added up, and he had bought thousands of dollars of things, so he had to be served.
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While Chen Geng entered the shopping spree mode, the atmosphere was extremely solemn in the conference room on the fourth floor of the Detroit branch of the United Community Bank.
If you are familiar with the management of the United Community Bank, you will find that among the participants are not only the deputy general manager of the United Community Bank, Rosemary, but also the president of the United Community Bank Michigan, and the vice president of the United Community Bank Michigan......
The manager of White's business hall only managed to get a corner position, the kind that sneaked out and might not be discovered, and it was surprising that compared to the other people in this room, White, who was not much bigger than a small shrimp with a part-time job, actually got a position.
Rosemary, known as the "Iron Lady" within the United Community Bank, was shining brightly at the moment, and the executives of the United Community Bank in Michigan were trembling at Rosemary's gaze, and their legs were almost bursting with eggs......
It's no wonder that the executives of United Community Bank Michigan are scared to death, but the Iron Lady's majesty is unstoppable, and she is going crazy: "$7.6 million! $7.6 million! In the first quarter just now, the entire state of Michigan contributed only $960,000 in net profit to the bank! What are you eating?!"
It's no wonder that Rosemary is so angry, the United Community Bank is not a large bank with business outlets covering the whole United States, they only have operations in 6 states, and Michigan is the state with the largest business volume of the United Community Bank, which can basically contribute 30% of the profits to the United Community Bank, but in the first quarter just past, the situation in Michigan made the entire United Community Bank executives extremely dissatisfied: they only had a net profit of 7.6 million US dollars, which was not as good as 80% of the same year last year, which made the "Iron Lady." "How not to be angry?
"If it weren't for the Detroit branch contributing more than $2 million, your Michigan face would be even more ugly!" Rosemary continued, her eyes falling on Laurald, "Mr. Laurd, what do you have to say?"
"I ...... I ...... "Lauald stood up sweating profusely, for a professional manager, the failure to do a good job and not let the shareholders make more money is the original sin, what can he say?" But at this time, he still has to bite the bullet and try to justify: "This year's competition is too fierce, and many banks have begun to do whatever it takes to compete for business......
"Wasn't there a lot of competition last year?" Rosemary interrupted Lauald without giving him face.
"I ......," Lauud was speechless.
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PS: Sorry brothers, it's late for the update, please forgive me.
You may not believe the reason, I had a little insomnia last night, I got up late today, I woke up at 12 o'clock, I woke up after eating, and I revised the draft...... That's it, I'm guilty!