Chapter 576: Crisis of Confidence
Base camp, canteen.
At dinner time, more than 100 people packed this not too small canteen, which can be said to be unattended.
While enjoying the food, everyone was blowing nonsense in the sea, and it was very lively.
In fact, there were not so many people living in the base camp, for example, a group of Soviet employees who worked in the bank, they had no room here, and they had to go home and sleep at night, and then come back to work the next morning.
The main gang of thieves comes early every morning and returns late at night, and three meals a day are solved in the cafeteria.
Two reasons. One is that you don't need money to eat and drink in the cafeteria, and the other is that the things here are delicious!
Not only is it delicious, but the dishes are many times richer than at home.
Usually, the family can only enjoy a vegetable feast once in a while during the festival, and every meal is here, and the amount is full.
Who wants to miss out on this kind of treatment?
And Li Yadong, as the boss, is not a person who picks the door, with tens of millions of dollars a day, does he still care about the cost of a few meals, and is reluctant to let the employees eat and drink well?
That can't be!
If it is known in the future, you must not poke him in the back?
Anyway, if you eat, you can eat a few dollars, and if you have the ability, you can build hard, and if you can eat him, you are amazing.
Li Yadong's dinner is a bowl of beef noodles, and Lao Zhaotou specially opened a small stove for him, and it is estimated that others are not uncommon, because now the canteen has two tables for each meal, with Chinese food on one side and Russian food on the other, meat, vegetables, including fruits, everything. But Li Yadong really loves Lao Zhaotou's bowl of beef noodles, except in Lan Zhou, he has never eaten such authentic beef noodles.
Only authentic Lanzhou people, or people who have been to Lanzhou, know that the so-called Lanzhou ramen, which is full of pepper flavor and sliced meat thinner than a fly's wings, is simply selling dog meat with a sheep's head.
The real Lan Chau ramen is a technical task, and the soup base is not made with pepper and other condiments, but is made with tubular bones and local chicken. The noodles are more exquisite, divided into a nest of silk, capillary, two pillars, large width, leek leaves, buckwheat ridges, etc., not the master can not master all the pull. The same goes for beef, stewed in a secret method, the meat is fragrant, the entrance is crispy, it is definitely not boiled beef in white water, and then cut it for later use, throw it into the noodle bowl when you want to eat it, and then pour hot soup to soak it so hastily.
Compared with the monotony of Li Yadong's bowl of noodles, the food in the arms of the fighting girl next to him can be called greedy.
Two plates of dark dishes that Li Yadong can't name at all, plus a Chinese platter mixed with various vegetables, plus two lean sausages, two corn sausages, two Cantonese sausages, and a small half plate of fried rice with pork and pea grains.
And that's not all, the farthest point from her mouth is a plate of fruit, presumably intended for dessert after dinner.
Just such a bunch, Li Yadong can eat for a day.
"Aren't you afraid of gaining weight?" Li Yadong asked in amazement, knowing the flat abdomen of the battle girl, and thought: How can that little capacity hold so many things?
"Don't be afraid, you don't want me anyway. ”
“……”
Yes, Li Yadong smiled bitterly, my fault.
"Brother Dong, something happened!" At this time, Brother Shengli hurriedly ran in from the door of the cafeteria, this guy is now mixed with five people and six, and he always has no shortage of nightlife, and he rarely eats in the cafeteria at night.
It is said that I am going to have dinner with a group of cadres of the procuratorate today, but somehow this point came back.
"It's not falling yet, take a breath. "Li Yadong didn't have a good airway.
"......" Brother Shengli felt a little speechless, this is the legendary "The emperor is not in a hurry, the eunuch is in a hurry", panting and said: "Forget it, you watch TV by yourself." ”
As he spoke, he ran to a corner of the cafeteria and turned on an 18-inch color TV fixed to the wall with an iron shelf.
After Brother Shengli adjusted the channel, he shouted, "Quiet!"
Suddenly, there was a sound of needles falling in the cafeteria, and everyone was startled, and they turned their heads to poke their heads out for unknown reasons.
In this base camp, except for Li Yadong, Brother Shengli is a proper second-in-command, and no one dares not to take him seriously.
"Translation. Li Yadong noticed the picture on the TV, and his eyes narrowed slightly.
"Oh. The battle girl quickly swallowed a mouthful of grass and began to translate the TV broadcast.
It was a press conference, and Li Yadong knew all the people sitting on the press table.
It was Old Man Louis and the private bankers.
A reporter asked, "May I ask Mr. Louis, what is the purpose of your 14 private banks suddenly announcing the establishment of 'Syrah UnionPay'?"
Louis replied, "The purpose is, of course, to better serve the broad masses of the Soviet people, after the establishment of Sila UnionPay, our fourteen banks will be able to achieve mutual accounting, which means that if there is a customer who deposits money in my William Bank, when he wants to withdraw it in the future, he will no longer have to go to the branches of our banks as before, and in the outlets of the other thirteen banks, it is also possible to withdraw money easily." Think about it, wouldn't it be much more convenient if you didn't have William Bank near your house, but there was a Viking Bank?"
Question: "It's a lot more convenient, thank you, Mr. Louis, it's a great initiative that has helped us in the Soviet Union to quickly build an open and inclusive financial market environment." ”
"No thanks, that's what we should do. ”
Another reporter asked, "Mr. Louis, I suddenly discovered a question: Is there one less member in your Syrah UnionPay? That is the Dongfanghong Commercial Bank, which has been in the limelight recently. ”
Louis replied, "No, not really. Our 14 banks are all from the most developed countries in Europe and the United States, and have rich experience in capital market management. I believe you are also aware that any industry has its own circle, in short, we are all people in this circle, experienced bankers, and the Soviet people can be completely assured that they will store their money in our banks. Well...... As for the bank you just mentioned, to be honest, we're not familiar with it. ”
Reporter: "Oh? Can I understand that Dongfanghong Commercial Bank is not a mature and reliable bank?"
Louis smiled and said, "That's your own understanding, I didn't say that, as a successful businessman and a brilliant banker, I don't bother to denigrate any of my peers." In view of your question, I will only state some facts from an objective point of view, and this is the first time that the bank you have just mentioned, as far as I understand it, has never been involved in banking operations before. The banking industry is not a simple industry, and in my years of experience, it is difficult for companies to manage risks for the first time in this industry, and most of them will pay some tuition fees first. Of course, then again, it's the same with everything, and it definitely takes a process to perfect it. ”
The reporter said in a surprised tone, "Then you mean that this Dongfanghong Commercial Bank is likely to lose money? If it loses money, will it pay high interest rates to depositors in accordance with the deposit agreement?"
Luis: "What should be paid will definitely be paid, and the government is strictly regulated about this, which cannot be denied. However, in view of your question, and with a responsible attitude towards the vital interests of the Soviet people, I can reveal one more thing: the parent company of the bank you just mentioned is actually not as powerful as the newspapers advertised, with assets of more than $10 billion or something, but in fact its scale is very ordinary, just constituting the level of a multinational company, about $2 billion. If you are blinded by high interest rates and deposit your money in a bank, there will inevitably be a risk, and if the bank becomes insolvent and files for bankruptcy, not only will you not get a high return, but you may also lose all your money. ”
Ask the reporter: "What?!"
Not only him, but there was an uproar in the press gallery.
"Isn't it a clear deception for a company with assets of $2 billion to falsely claim that it has assets of more than $10 billion, which is exaggerated by five times?"
"yes! Even if you have to cheat on such a thing, how can you put your money in their bank and trust that they will cash in high interest?"
"I've heard that this bank has a special rule for fixed deposits: early withdrawals are refused for any reason. Could there be something wrong with this?"
"It seems that this bank is really not trustworthy!" 8)