Chapter 14: The Wine Banquet
Mobei City is a leisurely city, in the evening streets, pedestrians on the road or cycling on the way home, or leisurely strolling on the street, the sky in July, the day is always the scorching sun, the sky is clear. Only in the evening does the occasional dry breeze blow with the swaying branches of the willows on the roadside.
Li Yifan and Chen Gang are on the way to Tianshu Hotel, tonight is the first plenary meeting of the marketing team, Li Yifan put the location of the meeting in Tianshu Hotel, they are young people of the same age, while eating and talking, by the way, under the lubrication of alcohol, it will be better and faster to integrate, and quickly form combat effectiveness.
Tianshu Hotel is a famous hotel in Mobei City, and the first chef is said to be the royal chef of the first governor of Beijiang Province, which opened in the early 80s. A dozen bungalows surround a compound, each of which is a separate private room. When ordering food in this restaurant, there is a special place, he does not have a menu, and the head chef will provide you with a menu according to the ordering standards, so that the customer can review and prepare the food after passing.
After Li Yifan and the head chef checked the menu, and after returning to the private room, Li Xiangdong came in with Sanfat, Ermao and Shishi. Li Yifan stood up and introduced them, "This is Chen Gang, my classmate and buddy, who lives downstairs from my house." Gangzi, this is my cousin Li Xiangdong, this is Ermao, Sanfat and Shi. How close you are to one another, you are all good brothers. β
Everyone sat down and greeted each other a few words. After waiting for a long time for the cold dishes to come up, Li Yifan poured everyone full of wine, stood up and said, "I greeted my brothers today, there are three main meanings, one is to thank Brother Dong, Ermao, Sanfat and Stone, the brothers worked hard in the previous stage." β
"Yifan, why don't you say it's hard, if it weren't for you and Xiangdong to greet our third brother, I would still be messing around on the street! Sanfat hurriedly said. Ermao and Shi also echoed on the side.
"Yifan, don't say anything, the words are in the wine, I'll do it first as a respect. The three fats spoke, and drank all the wine in the cup. Li Xiangdong, Ermao and Shi Shi also raised their glasses and toasted the wine.
Li Yifan smiled and raised his glass to dry the wine, picked up the wine bottle and filled everyone with wine, and then said, "The second meaning, Gangzi, the two of us wish ourselves a good result in the college entrance examination." After speaking, he and Chen Gang touched the glass and drank the wine in the cup together.
"The third meaning is that there is a small business and I want to invite everyone to join and make a fortune together. If the brothers are willing to join our team, we will have a drink. β
After hearing this, Ermao stood up, raised his glass and said, "Yifan, you have a good brain, you are righteous, and the brothers follow you comfortably and rest assured, you just don't let us join." β
Everyone present said that they were going to follow Li Yifan, and asked to join Li Yifan's team, and everyone stood up and toasted together.
Li Yifan drank three glasses in a row, and as soon as he sat down with three fat, they were about to pull him to toast, Li Yifan hurriedly said that he was not in a hurry, and invited everyone to come to this restaurant today, not only to discuss things, but also to let everyone taste the food here. As he spoke, the waiter brought the roast leg of lamb.
Roast leg of lamb is made by using the whole hind leg of the lamb, which is marinated and then baked with seasoning. According to legend, roast lamb shank was once a famous dish of Genghis Khan's favorite food. During Genghis Khan's expedition to the east and west, the officials in charge of food, in order to shorten Genghis Khan's meal time so that he could rest for a while, changed the roast whole sheep that Genghis Khan often ate to cut and barbecue without Genghis Khan's consent. At that time, Genghis Khan was busy with war and did not pay attention to these things. But the attendant brought him a plate of roast leg of lamb every day for him to eat. Because the roast leg of lamb is crispy, crispy, not greasy, he loves to eat it very much. In the future, he must eat every day, and he also praised the roast lamb leg when he met people. Since then, there has been an extra famous dish on the herdsmen's table. With the passage of time, the chefs living in the city absorb the essence of the folk roast lamb leg and implement scientific cooking, and it has gradually become a famous dish in today's hotels and restaurants.
Li Yifan stood up and used a Mongolian knife to divide the leg of mutton for everyone, and said, "Brother, try it, the roast leg of lamb in this restaurant is on the famous recipe of Northern Xinjiang Province." As he spoke, he divided the pieces of mutton into everyone's plates.
For a while, the house was staggered, arrogant, and lively. Chen Gang was also half drunk, raised his glass and asked Li Yifan, "Yifan, I think your enthusiasm for making money is too high, just a little money, and you don't have to spend so much! You see, we don't have to pay tuition fees when we go to college, and the house is divided into units, just like after we graduate from college, the state assigns jobs, enters the organs, and the wages we pay are enough to live." What's the point of us saying that we waste so much effort to make money?"
What Chen Gang said was also the actual situation of the society at that time, when the main economic system of the society was still a planned economy, most of the products were rationed, and there were not many types of goods that money could be used to buy in the lives of the people. The reform and opening up that began in '78 mainly affected the rural areas, where the system of household contract management was carried out, and citizens in the cities who had formal jobs only felt that there were more types and quantities of agricultural and sideline products in the market. There is not enough understanding of changing the living situation through money, and there is not much comparison between neighbors and colleagues, and the desire to make money is not strong.
Li Yifan lowered his head and thought for a while, knocked on the table and said to everyone, "Brothers, listen to me a few words." β
The room suddenly fell silent, everyone put down the chopsticks and wine glasses in their hands, and they all raised their heads to look at Li Yifan.
Li Yifan paused, his voice was not high, and he said slowly as he thought, "Chen just asked a question, what's the use of us trying so hard to make so much money? If we can't unify everyone's understanding, we won't be cohesive in the future, we won't have a common goal, and we won't go too far. So I'd like to share some ideas with my brothers. At present, our country is practicing a planned economy, but in 1978 it began to reform and open up, and the system of household contract management was tried out in the rural areas. So far, this system has been successful in the countryside, as can be seen in the goods we sell at the farmers' market. β
Li Yifan paused and smiled at Li Xiangdong, and then said, "Brother Dong, you should also feel it during this time. In terms of the city, Shenzhen, which was established in 1979, was established as a pilot project and was built in accordance with the principles of market economy. The term 'Shenzhen speed' is often used in newspapers, reflecting the success of this reform experiment. If it succeeds, it will be promoted, which means that the country's economic system may change in the future. On the 12th of last month, Deng Gong pointed out at a meeting with KoroΕ‘ets that "the practice of the past few years has proved that we are on the right path in carrying out reform and opening up." On the basis of summing up experience, we should speed up the pace of reform and opening up. Reform is a comprehensive reform, including economic reform, political system reform and corresponding reforms in various other fields. Openness is openness to all countries of the world, to all types of countries. It can be seen from this that the pace of reform and opening up will be further accelerated. So what changes will this change bring to our lives? There will be more and more places to simply use money, houses need to be bought with money, medical treatment also needs to be spent money, and so on. Future wealth is likely to be an important criterion for success. If we all recognize this now, we can go one step ahead of others. β
After listening to Li Yifan's words, everyone present fell into deep thought. But then they all got excited, they all knew the benefits of rushing, they drank a lot in one night, and they talked a lot, and finally Li Yifan explained to everyone what he was going to do in the near future. The last group of people swayed, and left the hotel full of ditches and moats, full of longing for a better life in the future.