Chapter 526: Annual Meeting (Middle)
(PS: The first draft, I haven't had time to fix the typo, you can wait for half an hour to read it later!)
The "IQ Cup" refers to the 3rd Oriental Group Bridge Competition, the "Dugu Defeat Cup" refers to the 2nd Oriental Group Game Challenge, and the "13th Cup" is the first Oriental Group Mahjong Competition. The finals of these three internal employee entertainment events were specially arranged to be held at the group's annual meeting at the end of the year!
"I don't know the other two names, but the name 'IQ Cup' was selected by our institute from 52 names that were openly solicited internally!
But from the second session, there were also a group of people who like to play bridge on the side of Dongyou Company, so the competition became a confrontation between the two companies! And from the third session of this year, the group headquarters decided to take over the organization and management of the competition, so it was suddenly upgraded to a large-scale event for the whole group!" Liu Wei explained the origin of the "IQ Cup" with a smile.
Compared with ordinary poker games, bridge is a game that tests intelligence, psychology, and cooperation, and has always been a favorite of technical nerds. Both the Oriental Research Institute and the Oriental Game Company have a large number of high-IQ people, so bridge is also very popular in these two companies.
"Although I can't play bridge, I can still play mahjong! It's a pity that our company joined the Oriental Group family too late, otherwise we would have to register for a name!" Zou Wenrong deliberately sighed and said with a smile.
"Do you know how many people have signed up for the mahjong competition?" asked Song Bailiang mysteriously.
"How many?"
"1,356 people! Everyone was so enthusiastic that the group's logistics department had to organize a special selection competition. First eliminate a group of applicants who are too low-level!But in the end, there are still 400 people who enter the main competition, and then after three rounds of fighting. In the end, 8 players will be decided to enter today's final finals!" Song Bailiang shook his head and said.
"This competition is really fierce enough! The final champion must have a lot of prize money!" Cai Tong couldn't help but smack his tongue. Although HSBC, where she works, has an annual meeting every year, it doesn't have so many tricks.
"Bridge is a team of four, and the winning team can share a prize of 500,000 Hong Kong dollars! In the individual mahjong competition, the champion can enjoy an exclusive prize of 200,000 Hong Kong dollars! If Miss Cai likes to play the game "Hong Kong Cubes", she can challenge the perverted speed of "Hong Kong Cubes" later!
Among all the participants in the challenge, the player with the highest score can get a prize of 100,000 Hong Kong dollars!" Song Bailiang said, pointing to a group of people not far away.
"Well, the block will fall faster and faster, and I held it up for 42 seconds. Most people can't last a minute!" Gao Qiqi saw Zou Wenrong's eagerness to try, and immediately spoke.
"Actually, it doesn't matter if you can get the bonus or not, we focus on participating!" Liu Chang saw Zou Wenrong's somewhat embarrassed expression, and immediately spoke out to relieve the siege.
"It's almost the first lottery on the hour, and I don't expect to win the grand prize, I just need to win a GB-2 game console (GameBoy-2)!" Liu Chang looked at his watch, and then reminded everyone.
"You really have no ambition, I'm here for Li Sheng's sports car!" Han Ying patted her boyfriend dissatisfiedly and said.
Seeing Zou Wenrong and Cai Tong next to him looking very confused, Gao Qiqi opened her mouth to explain to her colleagues: "From one o'clock. There will be a lottery every hour! I think you should have been notified when you just checked in!
And the biggest surprise of all the prizes is a yellow Chevrolet Camaro! Don't think that a civilian sports car like the Camaro is only sold for 100,000 Hong Kong dollars in Hong Kong. It's not as good as BMW, Mercedes-Benz luxury cars!
However, the Camaro used as a prize today has a very special significance, because it is the first car Li Sheng bought, and it is also the only sports car in his garage that has been driven by Li Sheng himself! It is said that Li Sheng drove this yellow Camaro in the first place. Go chase Miss Zhong to your hands!"
There are many luxury sports cars parked in Li Xuan's garage, but Li Xuan himself has driven only him before he became famous. The Chevrolet Camaro sports car that was purchased was the Bumblebee in the later "Transformers 1". Later, for security reasons. Li Xuan traveled in various luxury bulletproof cars.
Not long ago, Li Xuan's eldest brother, Li Ke, bought a new Ferrari. However, the Li family's garage was already full, so he said hello to his younger brother and prepared to drive the old Camaro away and dispose of it.
After all, among the luxury sports cars around that cost millions of Hong Kong dollars, this old sports car, which was only priced at 45,000 Hong Kong dollars, is indeed out of place! But for Li Xuan, this Camaro represents a period of green years.
At that time, he was far less wealthy than he is now, but he was also more free and easy than he is now. Wealth can give people a lot of luxury that ordinary people can't imagine, but it can also make people lose a lot of freedom.
Now Li Xuan can no longer drive a sports car like he did at the beginning, driving his beloved girl around the street. He is always followed by a large number of bodyguards and assistants, and has to passively accept all kinds of intensive schedules!
Compared with most bosses in Hong Kong, Li Xuan's attitude towards business management and enjoying life is open enough. He has already left most of the affairs of the Eastern Group to the professional management team.
But Li Xuan can't really ignore it, because the current Eastern Bloc is no longer about his personal net worth and property, but also about the jobs of hundreds of thousands of people! Now that he has gone through the years when he could be unbridled and chic, let's find an owner for this Camaro who can make its engine roar again!
The main purpose of the Oriental Group, which invested heavily in such a huge annual meeting at the end of this year, was to unite people's minds and boost their morale! The stock market crash two months ago hit the money bags of Hong Kong stockholders, but as far as the Oriental Group was concerned. Even more agitated is the wave of immigration, which began to intensify in the second half of this year.
As early as the beginning of the Sino-British negotiations in '82, there was a wave of emigration from Hong Kong. And in the middle of this year. After the British side explicitly refused to give ordinary Hong Kong people the right to live in the UK, everyone's panic completely exploded. For the people at the bottom of Hong Kong. Even if you want to immigrate, you don't have the strength to do it.
So the real large-scale immigration overseas is the middle and upper elite, and the Eastern Bloc is one of the largest elite clusters in Hong Kong. You must know that in the Eastern Group, there are more than 100 multimillionaires born just because of the equity incentive plan, and there are as many as 1,000 millionaires!
And these people are the backbone of the development of the self-proclaimed Eastern Bloc, and if they lose confidence in staying in Hong Kong, it will be a big blow to the Eastern Bloc. Therefore, Li Xuan must use a high-profile move at this time to stimulate everyone's sense of belonging to Hong Kong and the Oriental Group!
And take the opportunity of the annual meeting to give away a sports car that he once drove. It is undoubtedly an excellent opportunity to get closer to the high-ranking boss of "God of Wealth Li" and the ordinary employees of the Oriental Group. In this respect, the Camaro is even more meaningful than those sports cars that can easily run into millions.
Because if you really give away a sports car worth millions of dollars, if you are drawn by an ordinary employee, he can't afford to maintain it, but loses the deep meaning of giving away a car! And a second-hand Camaro with an actual value of less than 100,000 Hong Kong dollars sends a positive message to everyone.
The world's richest man, "God of Wealth Li," also started his struggle as a worthless poor boy, and he did not have the money to buy luxury yachts and private jets worth hundreds of millions of yuan as soon as he came up! So when everyone knew that there was such a special sports car among the prizes of the lottery at today's annual meeting. Everyone is secretly gearing up!
"A-Ying, even if you win the sports car, it's not easy for you to drive back to the mainland, just the car import tax will make you vomit blood!" Fang Qianqian said with a smile.
"This car was smoked by Li Sheng himself before the dinner. You've reminded me now! When Li Sheng hands over the key to me later, you must reflect this problem and ask him to send the Buddha to the West!" Han Ying said without showing weakness.
"Look at what you're talking about, it's like you've really won a sports car. also sent the Buddha to the west, the skin is really getting thicker and thicker!" Fang Qianqian said and was about to pinch Han Ying's face. So the two girls immediately made a fuss.
The list of winners at one o'clock was quickly announced, and a total of ten lucky winners won the prize. Four of them received a GB-2 handheld game console. The other four received an FC-2 video game console, and the other two received a large 40-inch color TV made by RCA.
All the prizes given out at the annual meeting were products produced by the Oriental Group itself! It's just that Gao Qiqi and the others obviously had very average luck and failed to win anything in the first round of the lottery!
The final finals of the "IQ Cup" bridge match and the "Thirteen Cups" mahjong match in the main banquet hall began at the same time.
Each table was surrounded by a crowd of spectators, and Zou Wenrong and Cai Tong watched a few games behind Liu Wei, then said hello to a few other people and left. After all, the entire bridge final lasts for two hours, and the two of them who can't understand the rules naturally can't spend all their time here, so there will be a wonderful art show in another banquet hall later.
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"Okay, my singing tasks for today's two songs have been completed!" Zhang Guorong did not leave the stage after singing the two songs "The Wind Continues to Blow" and "The Love of the Year" in a row, "But in addition to being a singer, I also have a role as a live host today!
There is a very powerful singer who will bring you a love song! If you can guess who this singer is in advance now, then I will send you a dozen handsome private photos of 'Little Brother'! There are only three chances!"
The typhoon presided over by Zhang Guorong was very casual, and he threw a wicked smile at Zhou Yanfa not far from the stage. The atmosphere at the scene suddenly became extremely enthusiastic under his encouragement. You must know that Zhou Yan's private handsome photos are not common, and the opportunity is rare!
The performance was held in a large ballroom in the hotel. At the front of the banquet hall was a one-meter-high performance stage, and nearly 500 seats were neatly arranged under the stage. At this moment, all the chairs were already full, and even the aisles were crowded with many people.
In order to avoid overcrowding in the ballroom, the entrance has begun to restrict the flow of people. Those who can't make it inside will have to watch live TV in other places in the hotel where there are TVs!
And Zou Wenrong and Cai Tong rushed to the performance site to grab seats half an hour before the start of the performance, but even so, they only found two vacant seats in the corner of the back row.
"Who do you say this mysterious singer is? Could it be Xu Guanjie?" Cai Tong asked Zou Wenrong next to him very curiously, their seats were too far away from the stage in front of them, and this kind of opportunity to interact on and off the stage naturally could not be their turn in the corner.
"It's definitely not Xu Guanjie, he is the pillar of Golden Harvest! Although Asian Entertainment and Golden Harvest can't be regarded as enemies, there is no reason for our Oriental Group's annual meeting to give such a big face to support people from other companies!" Zou Wenrong shook his head and said.
At this time, an audience member who was selected by Zhang Guorong also guessed Xu Guanjie's name like Cai Tong, after all, he can be said to be one of the most popular entertainment kings in Hong Kong in the entire 80s. If he can overpower Zhang Guorong, Tan Yonglin and Mei Yanfang who appear in the song list as a special guest, Xu Guanjie has this status. After all, when people were popular all over Asia, these three were just starting out!
"Then who are you?" Cai Tong asked curiously.
"This is our Oriental Group's art show, in order to show the demeanor of the employees of various companies in the group, but no one can come if they want to! Didn't you listen to Zhang Guorong before?
As the company with the most literary and artistic cells in the group, Asia Entertainment has only been allocated five program places. This time, they all sent elite soldiers to show the demeanor of the Asian entertainment company! And if you want to add a show temporarily, how much face do you have to have!
You must know that there are all the management of the group sitting in the audience, as well as VIPs such as the Governor of Hong Kong and Sir Pu! If you want me to say, only Li Sheng has such a face!" Zou Wenrongs analyzed slowly.
"Hehe, you can really guess!" Cai Tong smiled.
"What if I guess it?Send me a fragrant kiss?" Although Zou Wenrong did just say it casually, he couldn't help but be a little unconvinced when he saw that his female companion didn't care!
"Then you guessed wrong?" Cai Tong also said without showing weakness.
But just as the two were still arguing, there was a sudden round of applause, and it turned out that a beam of light hit the center of the stage, illuminating the singer who was about to sing! )