Chapter 67: [The End of the First Day of the Lunar New Year]
What is the level of Zhou Yi's playing? Perhaps several judges could not give a correct evaluation, but they knew very well in their hearts that Zhou Yi would definitely be a master-level figure in the skill of playing the guzheng from now on. Therefore, Zhou Yi was obviously selected.
Zhou Yi, who got the news, didn't feel much, but Zhao Guangchun was different, he was so happy that he was jumping and jumping in his office like a child. It has been almost ten years since I came to Hongta Middle School to teach music, and I have never brought such a good student to play an instrument. It seems that there is hope for his title promotion, and he also hopes to be transferred to the county. Zhao Guangchun thought beautifully, he thought about what kind of benefits he would get if Zhou Yi won the award in Beijing.
Zhou Yi didn't know what kind of thoughts Zhao Guangchun had in his heart, he was still living his comfortable life. Every night after self-study, I accompanied the Zhao Haiting sisters back to their place of residence, chatted and farted with a few beauties around me during class during the day, and went to the county seat to stay with Lin Qianqian on the weekend, for such a day, Zhou Yi really didn't know what else he wanted.
At the end of March, Zhou Yi went to Jingzhou City to participate in the city's selection competition, and to Zhao Guangchun's excitement again, Zhou Yi was selected again. Originally, it was selected in the county, and the school didn't pay attention to anything, but when Zhou Yi was selected by the city and was about to participate in the provincial competition, the school finally began to pay attention. not only let Zhao Guangchun tutor Zhou Yi after school in the afternoon, but also exempted Zhou Yi from the tuition fee for the first semester.
After a month of getting along, Zhou Yi and Zhao Haiting gradually became familiar with each other, and the two have become good friends who talk about everything. Zhou Yi's deliberate approach made Zhao Haiting both apprehensive and surprised. What worries her is her unpredictable feeling for Zhou Yi, and what surprises her is how close Zhou Yi is to him. What pleases Zhao Haiting the most is that Zhou Yi can not only help her block Liu Gang's entanglement, but also help her solve various problems in learning.
As Zhou Yi gradually began to develop, not only did his height break through 160 centimeters, but his appearance began to gradually change to handsome, and the temperament of Xiao Li Tanhua gradually became stronger. This not only made Zhao Haiyun, who was at the same table as Zhou Yi, fall in her heart, but her sister Zhao Haiting also began to have a fantasy about Zhou Yi.
When he went to the provincial competition in early June, Zhou Yi was surprised to find that there was Lin Bingbing among the players. Zhou Yi originally thought that Lin Bingbing's skills were still not up to par, but what he didn't know was that his judging criteria were based on the performance level of the ancients, so Lin Bingbing's skills were of course not up to par for him, but in the eyes of those judges and teachers, it was also very good.
When the competition in the province ended, Zhou Yi was selected to represent Changhuai Province to participate in the competition again with excellent results, Hongta Middle School was as festive as the New Year. When Zhao Guangchun and Zhou Yi got out of the car and returned to the school gate, they saw rows of neatly dressed students standing outside the school to welcome them. Walking into the school, the noisy gongs and drums, and the deafening suona sound suddenly sounded. On the gate of the teaching area, a red banner kept shaking in the breeze, which read: Congratulations to Zhou Yi, a student in the first class of junior high school, for winning the qualification to participate in the National Youth Musical Instrument Competition in Beijing.
Zhao Guangchun's face was full of spring breeze, and Zhou Yi smiled. Walking into the gate of the teaching area, the principal, vice principal, director, deputy director and other leaders of Hongta Middle School came forward to shake hands with Zhou Yi and congratulate Zhou Yi on his good results. Zhou Yi was surprised why the school was so grand, but what he didn't know was that the name of Hongta Middle School was repeatedly mentioned in the county, city, and province, and it was of course a great honor to be the leader of Hongta Middle School or Hongta Middle School, and promotion and fortune were just around the corner, so they welcomed Zhou Yi so ceremoniously, because all this was brought by Zhou Yi.
After the end of the provincial competition, the first year of junior high school life has entered the countdown, and there is also a great joy for the Chinese, that is, the return of Hong Kong. Although there is also a very sad thing that happened to the Chinese people, that is, a great man died again.
When he went to the province to participate in the competition, Zhou Yi had already asked Liu Siyuan to prepare all the stock masters he had recruited. In my memory, it seems that there was a financial crisis shortly after Hong Kong's return to the motherland. For this thing, Zhou Yi almost belongs to the level of Xiaobai, so he can only let those people operate freely. But Zhou Yi also instructed that for the crisis that broke out in Southeast Asian countries, follow those predators, and make some money if you can. But for the crisis in Hong Kong, we must do our best to sustain it, not make money. In fact, Zhou Yi's purpose is to make a small contribution to the country, do a little bit, maintain short-term stability, and let the country free up its hands to solve this matter. Moreover, the group company to which Zhou Yi belongs now does not have the strength to participate in the international financial hegemony. Therefore, under the premise of the company's stable development, Zhou Yi has asked Liu Siyuan to prepare a certain amount of funds and wait for the outbreak of the crisis.
Sure enough, on July 2, the financial crisis began in Thailand, Southeast Asia, and then quickly swept through Malaysia, Singapore, and Taiwan. Under Zhou Yi's instructions, the traders began to follow behind the various financial predators covertly, and went in bit by bit. However, in October, when these financial predators set their sights on Hong Kong, the financial center of Asia, these traders gradually invested in the Hong Kong stock market with the $300 million they had prepared in advance and the $1 billion they had earned in the past few months. Whenever the Hong Kong stock market started to fall, people on Monday began to buy it gradually, raising the stock market a little bit to prevent the stock market from crashing. It was only after the Hong Kong SAR government issued a stabilization policy that the Hong Kong stock market began to stabilize slightly. So, after that, Zhou Yi's people once again followed the financial predators to shift their targets, targeting South Korea, the Philippines, Indonesia and other countries. By July '98, when the stock markets of the United States and Japan were in turmoil, financiers from all over the world once again set their sights on Hong Kong. Zhou Yi's people have doubled their earnings in Southeast Asian countries, and their funds have been able to increase to more than $2 billion. However, there is no need for Zhou Yi to make a move this time, because judging from the news from there, the country has already begun to act. By the time the financial crisis gradually disappeared in '99, Zhou Yi's people had already made a lot of money in the crisis, and Southeast Asian countries, as well as the United States and Japan, had made nearly $6 billion. Zhou Yi was not stingy, and directly gave high monetary rewards to each trader, and the rewards directly sent out amounted to two or three billion US dollars. Although Zhou Yi did something practical silently during this crisis, the most important thing was to make a lot of money. Ninety percent of the money went to Zhou Yi's personal wealth, and only the remaining part was taken out as a compensation for the company's preliminary preparations. Of course, these are things that happened slowly later.
With the advancement of time, the domestic environment has become more and more excellent, the people's living standards have gradually improved, and the consumption capacity has been enhanced, so that the business of Xinhua Group Company, to which Zhou Yi belongs, has been greatly expanded. In terms of retail, the monthly turnover continues to break new highs, and almost all provinces in the central and eastern provinces have Xinhua supermarket franchisees. Not counting the turnover of the company's wholly-owned supermarkets, the franchisees across the country pay nearly one billion yuan in franchise fees every year. The number of supermarket franchisees officially exceeded the 1,000 mark in July 97, with the number of 1,000 and 3, and 70 wholly-owned supermarkets. In terms of hotels, the number of guests received and the amount of profits made have more than doubled compared with '96; the automobile business has been a little sluggish because of competition from the same companies from all over the country, but it is still one of the largest taxi and transportation companies in China; the development of construction companies has been a little stagnant since the beginning of the stride, because the competitors they are facing are almost all large state-owned construction companies, and there is a certain gap between Zhou Yi's company and them in terms of winning projects and the level of construction。 In this regard, Zhou Yizhi does not have too many requirements, although large-scale projects cannot be obtained, let's focus on small projects, and more ants can bite the elephant. In terms of entertainment companies, due to the small number of stars, the company has been unable to produce high-grade movies and television on its own, so it can only make small fuss. Fortunately, now people's understanding of entertainment venues is gradually liberalized, and the business of KTV, bars and dance halls is getting better and better, and the number has increased to 123 at the same time, and the profit is also growing rapidly, so it has temporarily offset the company's losses in film and television. The business of the hot pot restaurant was originally optimistic about Liu Siyuan, but the operation of the three chain stores opened in the first step of Donglu City made Liu Siyuan see the prospect and began a more crazy hot pot chain and franchise, and when the summer vacation came on Monday, almost all cities in the province had Xinhua hot pot chain stores.
In Liu Siyuan's report to Zhou Yi in early July, Zhou Yi's Xinhua Group Company has been involved in five businesses, including retail, construction, transportation, catering and hotel, and entertainment, and even the smallest subsidiary, Xinhua Catering, has a scale of around 300 million. Finally, Liu Siyuan summarized to Zhou Yi that most of the industries of the group company belong to industry, and the value of all is about 20 billion. Among them, the retail industry accounted for the largest proportion, followed by the catering and hotel industry, the transportation industry, the entertainment industry, and the construction industry. In addition to all the fixed assets belonging to the company, Zhou Yi's personal income has approached 10 billion. If we add in the more than 5 billion US dollars that Zhou Yi earned in the financial crisis in '99, Zhou Yi's personal assets are close to the terrifying 70 billion yuan. And Liu Siyuan also got a net worth of hundreds of millions from it. Whether it is the scale of Zhou Yi's Xinhua company or Zhou Yi's personal income, it can already rank among the top three in the country. This is what Zhou Yi thinks, he thinks
The company's expansion is so rapid, but it didn't take any effort from Zhou Yi, and on Zhou Yi in July 97, he was still making final preparations for the musical instrument competition and final exams.
On July 12th, the final exams began. After participating in the competition on Monday, he will rush directly to Beijing. Because the time of the competition is actually July 16th, they will report to the organizing committee of the competition on July 14th. Therefore, Zhou Yi estimated that he would not be able to get the report card during the official holiday on July 15. Zhou Yi already knew that Lin Bingbing had also been selected, but it was a little cruel that he had to compete with Zhou Yi on the same stage. But Lin Bingbing's idea is very simple, if you go to the competition, you can be with Zhou Yi, and it seems that it no longer matters what ranking you get.
On the afternoon of July 13, Zhou Yi hurried home after the exam, brought a few changes of clothes, and then sat with Zhao Guangchun in the bus of his parents waiting on the side of the road.
Zhou Yi's parents were very happy that Zhou Yi was able to go to Beijing to participate in the competition, and kept telling Zhou Yi what to do when he went to Beijing in the car. The conversation between Zhou Yi and his parents also attracted the attention of everyone in the car, and as soon as they heard that Zhou Yi was going to Beijing to participate in the competition, they praised Zhou Yi for his cleverness. Seeing that everyone had ideas for Zhou Yi to go to Beijing, Zhou Xiaohua and Zhou Ziyan smiled happily. This may be the purpose of their questioning, to attract the attention of others, and let others see how capable and powerful their son is. And they were happy to forget when their own son had learned what instrument, but that was not what they were thinking about now, and their hearts were already full of joy.
rushed to the county seat, and Zhou Yi's car had not yet rushed back. Originally, Zhou Yi Sanye should have rested in Donglu now, waiting for tomorrow's class. I heard that Zhou Yi was in a hurry to go to the provincial capital today, so Zhou Yi's third master was emptying the car and rushing to Sizhen County.
At eight o'clock in the evening, Zhou Sanye's car had arrived. Under Lin Qianqian's send-off, Zhou Yi and Zhao Guangchun got into his third master's car and rushed to the provincial capital. At about twelve o'clock in the evening, Zhou Yi and his third master arrived in the capital. Zhou Yi didn't want to disturb the third master to leave in the morning, so he went to Xu Li's house overnight, and Zhao Guangchun could only reluctantly stay in a hotel.
At eight o'clock the next morning, Zhou Yi and Lin Bingbing, together with their instructors, boarded the plane to Beijing. At about half past ten in the morning, the plane stopped at Beijing Capital Airport. As soon as Zhou Yi and Lin Bingbing walked out of the airport hand in hand, a luxurious black red flag car stopped beside them. A tall and mighty man got out of the car coolly, opened the door for Zhou Yi and Lin Bingbing, stretched out his hand and said, "Miss Bingbing, Young Master Xiao'an, please get in the car." ”
Zhou Yi was still surprised, but Lin Bingbing pulled Zhou Yi into the car with a smile on his face. Although this car is not an elongated luxury Lincoln or any other brand-name luxury car, as soon as I sat in it on Monday, I felt that this car was very unusual, and I was comfortable to sit in. Zhou Yi and the two teachers behind them were picked up by another car. Zhou Yi later learned that they were brought directly to the TV station and stayed there.
"This is my grandfather's car, how is it?, is it comfortable?" Lin Bingbing said with a smile.
"yes, it's so comfortable to sit in. Zhou Yi responded with a smile.
"It looks like I'm going to see my grandfather first, and I'll report in the afternoon!"
"Well, just report before they get off work. ”
The car drove smoothly on Beijing's roads, and the road from the airport to the city was not realized on Monday how prosperous Beijing was. But when the car was lost, Zhou Yi realized that Beijing was really not ordinary. The streets are wide and clean, with high-rise buildings and glass reflecting the sun's rays, giving this ancient and bustling city a brilliant color. On both sides of the road, the trees are tall and verdant, the shops are next to each other, the pedestrians are in groups, and the cars are one after another. Sure enough, it is not the capital, and it is so prosperous that Donglu City, the most prosperous provincial capital in Changhuai Province, is ashamed.
The car drove through the city and headed for Xishan Villa in Beijing. After driving to the gate and undergoing a routine inspection, we drove into the courtyard of the West Hill Villa. Zhou Yi knew that what he would see immediately would be an old revolutionary who had been dominant, and he couldn't help but feel a little apprehensive in his heart.