Chapter 429: Reading is like climbing a mountain

Lu Shanmin had been missing for a week, and when Qin Feng came back and told everyone that Lu Shanmin had some personal matters and wanted to take a few days off, Ruan Yu, Tang Fei and the others didn't pay too much attention to it.

The previous plan has been set, and the preparatory stage of the companies on both sides will not encounter too big things, and Lu Shanmin does not need to take care of everything. With them, just follow the established plan step by step, and let Lu Shanmin take a vacation for a while.

The establishment of Yangcheng Entertainment Co., Ltd. is very smooth, there are nearly 20 bars placed there, the staffing is also complete, and there is no shortage of various procedures, plus because of the assistance to the police to arrest Chang Zan, a big drug dealer, Lu Shanmin's reputation in Parkway District has greatly increased, the establishment of the company has been smooth, and all relevant departments have not deliberately set up obstacles. The business license was quickly processed.

Changzan's property has finally begun to enter the judicial auction stage, and Yangcheng Entertainment has paid a deposit of two million. Everything seems to be going according to plan.

The first plan was to only photograph the Shengshi Bar and Phyllis KTV, the two most lucrative places on Zhigang Avenue. But then Lu Shanmin insisted on taking pictures of the two buildings in the casino in the old community, which made everyone very puzzled, and it caused Lu Shuang's strong opposition. However, Lu Shanmin's attitude at that time was very resolute. In the end, two buildings were included in the auction plan.

As soon as Yangcheng Entertainment Co., Ltd. was established, Lu Shuang couldn't wait to go to Jiang Yan with the business license and financial statements of various bars, hoping to bring more money from the bank.

However, what surprised and anxious Lu Shuang was that she went to Jiang Yan four times in a row, but she didn't see this President Jiang. Jiang Yan is either not at the bank or in a meeting. Once Lu Shuang blocked the door of the bank with the information, but she couldn't stop Jiang Yan.

Just when everyone was very puzzled and anxious, Zhou Tong's information department found out that there were three other people who paid the bidding deposit this time.

This makes everyone feel even more inexplicable. With Lu Shanmin's current reputation in Parkway District, and their power in Zhigang Avenue, there is no reason for anyone to rob Shengshi Bar and Phyllis KTV, not to mention that they are afraid of Lu Shanmin's retaliation, even if they successfully grab it, with Lu Shanmin's power in Zhigang Avenue, no one will be able to operate.

Knowing that it is a hot potato, and knowing that it is a loss-making business to grab it, were the heads of those few people participating in the auction kicked in the head by a donkey?

I thought it was in the bag, just find a few people to accompany the auction and go through the motions, no one would have thought that there would be a Chen bite gold halfway.

Ma Dong frowned, "The development of things has deviated from the original track, and I suggest that Brother Shanmin come back quickly."

Lu Shuang hurriedly said: "I seconded the proposal, now that President Jiang is avoiding, the funds over there in the building materials city can be temporarily moved, but next week Changzan's industrial auction will start, if there are no competitors, it is better to say, now that there are three bidding opponents, it is not clear how much money will be spent." If the money is spent just this auction, and the loan can't be loaned out in time, what will happen to the building materials city, how can Hu Weiyong explain there, and Brother Shanmin must come back immediately to preside over the work."

Tang Fei still had bandages on his hands, shook his head and said: "We all know the mountain people, he said that if there is an emergency, there must be an emergency, and such a trivial matter will trouble him, so what's the use of asking us people."

Lu Shuang snorted, "Is this still a trivial matter? Originally, it was estimated that the starting price could be won, but now that there are competitors, how much more will it cost, 10 million, 20 million, 30 million?

Tang Fei coughed lightly and said embarrassedly: "Don't worry, the matter has not reached the point where it cannot be solved."

Lu Shuang pursed her mouth: "Hmph, you are not in a hurry, you only know that your mouth is clicky, and you don't know the price of firewood and rice."

Ruan Yu frowned and thought for a while, "I agree with Tang Fei's opinion, everyone here has shares of Yangcheng Entertainment, and after the loan is put into the building materials city, we will also cross-hold shares in the building materials company." The company is not Brother Shanmin's alone, we all have a share, with the continuous expansion of our industry, we will face more and more things, Brother Shanmin does not have three heads and six arms, we can't rely on him for everything."

Zhou Tong and Meng Ao glanced at each other, "There is still a week to go on for auctions, we still have time, and I also think that there is no need to rush to get Brother Shanmin back for the time being."

Tang Fei looked at the bobcat who bowed his head and was silent, "Bobcat, what do you think?"

Bobcat frowned slightly, "Director Lu, how difficult is it to find a loan from another bank."

Lu Shuang's face was full of sadness, "It's almost impossible, most of the bars we have already made mortgages." In the past, bars were all self-employed, and most of the funds were taken into private accounts in order to reasonably avoid taxes. Although the company has been set up in a package, the newly established company has almost no bank flow. If it weren't for the relationship between Brother Shanmin and President Jiang in the previous two loans, we wouldn't have been able to borrow so much at all, and if we found other banks, people wouldn't even let us in."

"Brother Zhou, can you find out the details of the other three bidders?"

Zhou Tong said lightly: "I have arranged for people to investigate, and there is no definite news yet."

The lynx was silent for a moment, "There must be a demon when things go wrong, everyone knows that Zhigang Avenue is our territory, even if the other party wins Shengshi Bar and Phyllis KTV, he doesn't want to stand on Zhigang Avenue." This situation doesn't seem familiar to everyone."

There was silence in the office for a while, Tang Fei took a cigarette and said: "This situation is like when we entered Zhigang Avenue, but now our identities have changed, we are standing in Changzan's position, and the other party is just like us at the beginning."

The lynx nodded and shook his head again, "But it's still different in nature, and the checks and balances that Chang praised at the beginning were not clean." We are different, we are not checked and balanced by anyone, and we do not have any leverage for others to grasp. In this case, no matter who wins Shengshi Bar and Phyllis KTV, with our power in Zhigang Avenue, he can easily lose no underwear."

Ruan Yu frowned, "You mean that the other party is not competing with us at all because they want to make money with Shengshi Bar and Phyllis KTV."

Bobcat thoughtfully, "Or they want us to pay more money, in short, the other party shouldn't be for money, if I guess it's right, it should be deliberately disgusting us."

Zhou Tong gasped, "The investment in Shengshi Bar and Phyllis KTV will not be less, knowing that it is impossible to make money, they still have to come to play, and they can get tens of millions of money to go out of the water, which is not the courage that ordinary rich people can have."

"Since you have money, you are not afraid of offending Brother Shanmin, that is to say, you should be a big man." Ruan Yu continued.

Lynx nodded, "This can explain why Jiang Yan hid from us, since he is a big man, most of them put pressure on President Jiang, otherwise President Jiang would not even see our face."

Ruan Yu's brows were furrowed, and her face was full of frost, "Who is going to deal with us?"

There was silence in the office.

"Could it be that the preparation of the building materials company triggered those building materials bosses in the Parkway District?" Tang Fei asked.

Bobcat thought for a moment, "There is this possibility, maybe the other party wants to use the bidding of Shengshi Bar and Phyllis KTV to spend most of our funds, so that the establishment of the building materials city cannot be carried out smoothly."

Lu Shuang shook his head, "From my point of view, it is unlikely, although those building materials bosses have the motivation to do this, but do they have the ability to influence the president of a bank in Parkway District, those bosses are not big bosses to put it bluntly, they are all people who have to beg the bank to do things, they don't have the courage or the ability to force President Jiang into such a situation."

Ruan Yu nodded slightly, "Lu Shuang, from your point of view, what is the most likely reason why Jiang Yan avoided it?"

Lu Shuang thought for a while, "There are two possibilities, one is that a large group company has come forward to use strong financial incentives, and the other is that President Jiang has the handle to be coerced in the hands of others, after all, our previous two loans are not fully in line with the bank's lending standards, but no matter which one, it should not be within the reach of those building materials bosses."

Tang Fei scratched his head, "Let me see, no matter who is behind the trouble, the most important thing now is to find out that person, Lu Shuang continued to look for Jiang Yan, and must ask who was coercing and seducing her." Zhou Tong continued to send people to investigate the three people who participated in the auction, and dug him out by digging three feet into the ground. As long as we find him, see that I don't pick his skin, he wants to play with us, we will play with him."

The lynx moved his lips, "Brother Fei, Brother Shanmin said that we are legitimate businessmen and we must be civilized."

Tang Fei cut off, "Civilized fart, others are talking about civilization when they are behind their backs, and it is uncivilized for me to beat that bastard openly, how can there be such a reason in the world."

According to the previous discussion with Lu Shanmin, the site of the building materials city was selected in the area not far from the original building materials market on Ning'an Road.

During this time, Hu Weiyong was so busy that his feet did not touch the ground, while arranging site selection, negotiating with suppliers, and at the same time winning over some store owners in the original building materials market. After all, the establishment of a building materials city also needs the support of some original building materials suppliers.

Differentiation and disintegration, co-optation and suppression, there are only eight words to say, and it is more difficult to do than to ascend to the sky. Hu Weiyong deeply felt the sentence that he opened his mouth above and broke his leg below.

According to the original plan, the building materials company is still mainly engaged in steel, cement, wood, these major items, other such as cables, pipes, tiles and other small items still need some building materials merchants to settle in the building materials city to support the façade.

Hu Weiyong took Hu Ming and seven or eight shrewd and capable security guards from his original team and Lu Shanmin, and broke his leg during this time.

But the effect is not ideal, those original building materials market building materials dealers, except for a very small number of timid and afraid of things, afraid of Lu Shanmin's prestige and promised to be willing to move to the building materials city, most of them are talking about him, actually saying something that is not painful. He knew that these people had no intention of cooperating at all, and on the surface, they were hypocritical and wronged, but in fact, they had already been punctured and broken in the back as soon as they went out. The entire building materials market was scolded, saying that he Hu Weiyong was a traitor and an old dog of Lu Shanmin. was so angry that Hu Weiyong jumped to his feet.

There are also some building materials manufacturers who are even more blatant boycotts, scolding Hu Weiyong in front of him, and even finding someone to splash paint on their doors in the middle of the night.

Hu Ming was so angry that he rolled up his sleeves and prepared to let Chen Wanlin and Ma Sen lead a group of bastards to smash their stores, if Hu Weiyong hadn't tried his best to stop them, those stores would have been smashed to pieces.

The two fathers and sons dragged their tired bodies home, staring at each other with big eyes and sulking.

"Dad, it's not a way to go on like this, those people are cheap bones, and they don't know the pain if they don't clean up."

"You shut up for me", Hu Weiyong scolded.

"You kid is still very tender, you think you dare to jump just by a few of them, do you know who is behind it? It's easy to smash a few shops and beat a few people, but being fanned by others will cause public indignation, can you all beat them all down? They are now eager to make a big deal and are waiting for you to come and smash other people's shops. Doing business is not a street fight, you have to use your brains, otherwise you will be led by the nose, and you won't know how to die."

Hu Ming slapped his thigh angrily, "Then what should I do, the three floors of Ning'an Road have been negotiated, and we can move in after signing the contract and paying the rent next week, and then we will have two or three of our own steel and cement and timber stores, so that others can see the jokes?"

Hu Weiyong frowned, "It's a trivial matter to look at jokes, if you don't win over some alliances, once a price war starts, it will not be enough to lose our little asset."

The two were at a loss, and Hu Weiyong's mobile phone rang.

Hu Weiyong took out his mobile phone and saw that it was Guan Candong, the manager of his steel store, who called, and quickly answered the phone.

"How"?

"Mr. Hu, our original steel supplier refused to supply us."

Hu Weiyong turned off the phone and slapped the table angrily, "It's too much."

"What's the matter, Dad?" Hu Ming hurriedly asked.

"The two steel mills that originally supplied us refused to supply us."

Hu Ming was shocked, "Why? Didn't those two steel factories supply goods to our previous stores for more than ten years?"

Hu Weiyong lit a cigarette and frowned, "We all think too simply, it seems that the group of dealers who usually intrigue in the building materials market have formed a group and collectively put pressure on suppliers."

Hu Ming gritted his teeth in anger, "Those bastards"!

"Dad, should we tell Brother Shanmin"?

Hu Weiyong shook his head, "I called Tang Fei yesterday, Lu Shanmin doesn't know where to go recently, and no one can be contacted."

"Dad, so what do we do now"?

Hu Weiyong thought for a moment, "I don't know the urine of the bosses of the building materials market, in order to grab customers and business, many people have contradictions with each other, this time they can unite so quickly, there must be someone behind the scenes."

Hu Ming thought for a while, "I'll call Brother Zhou for a while, and ask him to send a few people from the Information Department to come over and cooperate with our investigation, and we must find out the leader."

Hu Weiyong's tired face showed a smile of relief, "That's right, first clear your mind, peel it in layer by layer like peeling an onion, don't fight and kill at every turn, we have to look at our own goals."

In the past week, there has been a strange person in the library of the High School of Finance, this person is unkempt, bearded, eating, drinking, and living, all in the library. When you are thirsty, you will hold a large bucket of mineral water and drink two sips, when you are hungry, you will nibble on two steamed buns, and when you are sleepy, you will sleep directly on the ground. If this person hadn't always kept reading with an embarrassed gaze, he would probably be regarded as a mentally deranged tramp.

Early in the morning, there was no one in the library, Lu Shanmin took a Tai Chi tour in it, practiced the boxing method taught by Scar, and was full of energy.

The old man handed over two steamed buns and a box of pickles, and during this time, he, the librarian, also worked part-time to cook in the canteen for Lu Shanmin.

In a week's time, Lu Shanmin also learned that the old man's surname was Li, and he had been an administrator here since the opening of this library for more than 50 years. I should have retired ten years ago, and I couldn't stay at home and volunteered to stay in the library.

Lu Shanmin nibbled on steamed buns and asked, "Elder Li, do you know where every book in the library is?"

"Of course, I don't just know where they are, but I also know what they're talking about."

Lu Shanmin sighed, "You are really amazing."

"Hehe, if you stay here for fifty-two years, you can do it."

Lu Shanmin smiled awkwardly, "I don't have the patience to stay for so long."

"Hehe, that's not necessarily, haven't you been here for six days!"

"That's different, I'm here with a purpose, and I'll go out when I find the answer."

"What if we can't find the answer?" the old man asked with a smile.

"I'm almost there."

"Hehe, then you are lucky, I have been here all my life and have not found the answer."

Lu Shanmin was stunned for a moment and asked, "Old Li, what answer are you looking for?"

The old man's eyes were a little obscure, and he was silent for a long time, then smiled, "It's all old things, don't mention it."

Lu Shanmin smiled and didn't ask, everyone's life is a book, and presumably the old man also wrote stories in this book that he didn't want to mention.

"Old Li, I have a question for you"?

The old man smiled kindly, "What's the problem?"

"What does it seem to you to be a reader"?

"Hehe, what do you think"?

"I used to think that people who went to college were called scholars."

"And now"?

Lu Shanmin frowned, "Now, I don't know."

The old man smiled, "It's right if you don't know, it means that you have now stepped into the ranks of scholars."

"Huh"?

"Reading is like climbing a mountain, there are three stages, seeing the mountain is the mountain, seeing the mountain is not the mountain, and looking at the mountain is still the mountain. You're now in the second phase."

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