Chapter 367: Stirring up the Teacher
In July, with a touch of sadness in Beijing's surging youth, tens of thousands of graduates left the university campus and went to their respective posts, embarking on another new journey in life.
A Boeing 747 passenger plane took off from the runway of the Capital International Airport and headed south! After the plane entered the stratosphere, a beautiful flight attendant came over to tell everyone that they could unbuckle their seat belts and move freely.
The crowd cheered as they left their seats and looked around at the cabin.
"If you have any needs, you can always ask me. We have prepared a variety of drinks and delicacies for everyone to enjoy during the trip!" the flight attendant smiled sweetly at the passengers.
"Is there red wine? we're going to drink red wine!" said a tall, thin boy with a few pimples on his face.
"Please wait!" the stewardess nodded.
"Gong Zhiqiang, are you going to borrow wine to drown your sorrows?" the other boy smiled and patted him on the shoulder, "Why is the eldest husband without a wife, isn't it just to break up!"
"Liu Chang, you are a bachelor who has not been nourished by love, naturally you can't appreciate the taste!" A girl next to Gong Zhiqiang hugged him unfairly.
"Han Ying, why don't you just make Zhiqiang a new girlfriend and comfort his fragile heart!" Liu Chang said with a smile.
"I'm fine, I'm afraid that Classmate Gong won't look down on me, but my previous girlfriend is a big beauty!"
This girl named Han Ying has a very pungent personality and is not afraid of Liu Chang's ridicule. As she spoke, she glanced at Gong Zhiqiang, causing everyone to laugh for a while. Gong Zhiqiang, who was the first to speak, was a little embarrassed and couldn't answer.
The passengers on the plane were the first graduates recruited by Dongfang Electronics from domestic universities. According to the previous agreement between Dongfang and the Ministry of Education, the recruitment plan in Beijing is 20 people. 10 each from Tsinghua University and Peking University.
Liu Chang and Liu Wei, who had previously participated in the "Dongfang Hong" China-Hong Kong University exchange program, were both selected by Dongfang Electronics. Liu Chang is the only one of the ten people recruited by Dongfang Electronics in Tsinghua University to enter the management position, and the remaining nine people from the same school will enter the technical position.
This is also due to the nature of their majors, as Tsinghua University in 1984 had just begun to resume science and liberal arts majors, and students in these majors had not yet had time to graduate on a large scale.
In the same way, since Peking University is now a liberal arts university. Therefore, the ten people recruited by Dongfang Electronics from Peking University are all entry management positions. In addition to Peking University and Tsinghua University, the Oriental Group also has Fudan University and Jiaotong University in Shanghai, respectively. and CUHK in Yuezhou, with 10 places each.
All of these 50 elite fresh graduates will be arranged by the Eastern Bloc to work in the Deep Sea Special Zone. But before that, they need to go to Hong Kong for half a month of induction training. And Li Xuan in order to show his importance to these mainland students who have newly joined the Oriental Bloc family. He was specially sent by private jet to pick him up.
"Sister Liu. Tell us about the plane! It's incredible, it's completely different from what I've done before!" another boy said.
Liu Li is the person in charge of the Oriental Group, who was sent to pick up and drop off this batch of graduates. She glanced at the boy who was speaking, and guessed in her heart that his background must be extraordinary, at least not from an ordinary family.
In China in 1984, it was not enough to get on a plane just by having money. When buying a plane ticket, you also need a unit certificate, and only cadres at or above the department level can order a plane ticket!
"Actually, it's the first time I've taken Li Sheng's 'Tangyuan' plane, and it's still stained with your light!" Liu Li said to everyone with a chuckle.
"Why is the plane called 'Tangyuan', is this name so strange?" Han Ying couldn't help but ask.
"Li Sheng's wife gave birth to a pair of dragon and phoenix twins last year. My brother's milk name is 'Tangyuan,' and my sister's milk name is 'Nuomi'! So Li Sheng simply named his private plane 'Tangyuan.' He also has one of the most luxurious private yachts in Hong Kong, named 'Nuo Mi'!" explains Liu Li.
"Sister Liu, the cost of this plane is said to cost 60 million US dollars?" Liu Chang asked again.
Liu Li nodded lightly: "Yes, every sofa made on your buttocks is made of leather, which is very soft and comfortable to sit on, but its price is also very expensive! There is also a carpet under everyone's feet, and the price is five hundred dollars per square meter!"
"It's too extravagant, I feel like I'm stepping on money! I knew I should have taken off my shoes and then come in!" everyone exclaimed, and many people couldn't help but raise their feet, for fear that the soles of their shoes would dirty the carpet.
"Gong Zhiqiang, you really know how to choose! The red wine prepared by Li Sheng on this plane is from the world's most famous winery, Romanée Conti! This time, everyone is blessed, such a glass of wine costs almost 3,000 Hong Kong dollars!" Liu Li saw that the two flight attendants had already stepped forward with the freshly poured wine, so she said a little excitedly.
Romanée Conti's dry red wines sell for around HK$15,000 per bottle in Hong Kong. According to the usual pouring etiquette, a glass of wine is about 150 ml, which means that a bottle of red wine can be poured about five glasses!
Everyone gasped, where is this drinking, it's just drinking liquid gold!
"Sister Liu, isn't it inappropriate for us to drink such an expensive wine as Mr. Li!" Gong Zhiqiang's tone of voice trembled a little.
In case you have to pay in the end, this account must be counted on Gong Zhiqiang, the first person to mention yì. He suddenly regretted why he was so cheap just now!
"Hehe, don't worry! It's Lisa who opens the wine and it's not you, even if Li Sheng wants to find someone to settle accounts, he won't find your head!" Liu Li pointed to the beautiful flight attendant named Lisa in English and said.
"You really have the heart of a villain, and you live the belly of a gentleman! Our boss is a big man who can earn tens of thousands of yuan every minute, how can he come to deal with you about a bottle of red wine! I'll grab a drink first!"
Just when the others were still hesitating, Liu Chang took the lead and brought himself a glass of red wine. That's when the others reacted. They all came forward to grab the wine.
"Don't worry, everyone, there is a box in the wine cabinet at the bar, enough for each of you to get a drink!
In fact, Liu Li also took this "Tangyuan" private jet for the first time. But when she was chatting with a few flight attendants, she learned that there was a box of Romanée Conti on the plane.
Liu Li herself was embarrassed to speak directly, so Gong Zhiqiang was shouting to drink red wine just now. She sent the flight attendant Lisa a you know how to look at it, and she also tasted the world's top wine!
Li Xuan definitely didn't care about these little things, in fact, he didn't like to drink. I can't taste the difference between good wine and ordinary wine. His favorite way to drink it is to add a little sprite to the wine, which can be said to be the ultimate dick!
These wines are stocked on board for the purpose of entertaining guests. And Li Xuan had specially instructed these graduates in the mainland before. Feel at home in the Eastern Bloc!
And Liu Li obviously completed the task very well. These graduates before boarding the plane and heading south. There will be a little apprehension in my heart. They were the first to dare to jump out of the system and eat crabs, but no one knows whether the outcome of this choice would be good or bad.
But now, a $500 square meter carpet and a glass of wine at 3,000 Hong Kong dollars make everyone believe that they have made the right choice!
Because those students who choose to go to government offices and state-owned enterprises may not have the opportunity to taste Romanée Conti wines in their lifetime. Those people will never know how wonderful the outside world is!
The "Tangyuan", which took off from Beijing, will stop in Shanghai. Then fly to Hong Kong. At the same time, a three-story yacht with a length of more than 70 meters slowly left the Shekou Pier in the Deep Sea Special Zone.
The ultra-luxury yacht named "Nuomi" also carried 10 fresh graduates from the mainland. All of them are from Zhongshan University in Guangdong City. If it weren't for the fact that the approval procedures for the "Nuomi" to dock in Guangdong City would be very troublesome, Li Xuan really didn't mind going directly to Guangdong to pick up these ten fresh graduates.
Curry is lying on a beach chair on the second deck, sipping a Singapore Sling in his hand with a glass of the Singapore Sling that the bartender has specially prepared for him. The person in charge of transporting the new mainland staff is leading everyone to visit the most luxurious superyacht in Hong Kong floor by floor.
The "RCA Plan" proposed by the Eastern Group to build a large-scale electronics industry base with an annual output of 10 million televisions in the deep-sea special zone has been approved by the central government. The State Council specially sent a deputy general manager to the Shenhai Special Zone to personally discuss with the Eastern Bloc.
In another time and space, Wang Yongqing, a Taiwan-Gulf businessman, secretly visited the mainland in 1990 and proposed a "plan to the sea" to the central government. He plans to invest $7 billion in Xiamen to build a large petrochemical base.
However, after two years of negotiations with China, Wang Yongqing finally abandoned the "Canghai Plan" because of the opposition of the Taiwan-Gulf authorities. Although the investment scale of the "RCA Plan" proposed by Li Xuan may not be as large as that of the "Canghai Plan", its impact on domestic related industries will not be worse than that of the "Canghai Plan".
It can be said that Li Xuan's "RCA plan" will completely change the pattern of the domestic electronics industry, and it is not impossible for an electronic manufacturing base with an annual output of 10 million TVs and monitors to exceed 2 billion or even 3 billion US dollars in annual output value. And in Li Xuan's plan, all of this capacity is for export.
China will not only be able to create the country's largest emerging electronics industry base out of thin air, but will also be able to add a large amount of foreign exchange accumulation, which can be said to be a multiple-kill victory! Therefore, after confirming that Li Xuan was not joking, the central high-level level began to go all out to promote this matter.
At present, the "RCA program" is mainly limited to the production of televisions and computer monitors, but in the future it will definitely be gradually expanded to game consoles, personal computers, etc., and now it is inconvenient to transfer to the field of domestic production due to restrictions in Batumi. Li Xuan's ultimate plan is to build the Shenhai Special Zone into an important product manufacturing base for the Oriental Group.
Therefore, Li Xuan is also very concerned about the "RCA plan", and the two sides can be said to hit it off. The Oriental Group soon set up a special working group, headed by Han Peng, the president of the Oriental Group, and the two deputy team leaders, one was Mr. Charleson, the CEO of RCA, and the other was Li Xuan's former assistant Ke Lilun.
Although Han Peng is the leader of the project team, after Li Xuan gradually let go of the management of the daily affairs of the Oriental Group, the management burden of the entire company fell on his head. Although Han Peng served as the team leader, he would only be the nominal leader more often than not, and he had no energy to participate in specific work at all.
As for Charleson, the other deputy team leader, he is far away in New York, USA, and his main focus is now on restructuring RCA. After RCA was acquired by the Eastern Group, a new strategic adjustment is underway, and many non-core businesses will be sold off! Charleson is also very busy right now, and most of the time he can only use remote conference calls to understand the progress in Hong Kong.
Therefore, the actual person in charge of promoting the "RCA plan" is another deputy team leader, Ke Lilun. In fact, there is still a certain amount of controversy within the Eastern Bloc for Curiel to be the person in charge of such an important project. After all, he had been working as Li Xuan's administrative assistant before, and he had little management experience, so he might not be able to coordinate such a huge project.
In the entire "RCA plan", the only project invested by the Oriental Group itself is actually the third phase expansion of the RCA picture tube factory. A large number of peripheral supporting enterprises around the OEM system of the Oriental Group are the key to supporting the "RCA plan".
After the experience of the previous Phase I and Phase II projects, the original factory construction team was familiar with the third phase of the expansion project, and there was no need for Clillen to spend too much energy. His main work is to communicate and coordinate with peripheral enterprises within the Eastern system.
In the past, when Ke Lilun was Li Xuan's administrative assistant, because Li Xuan was lazy, he was unwilling to do many things himself, and often only asked to know the final result. Therefore, Coolant needs to be responsible for the communication link between the management of the various subsidiaries within the group.
So much so that Li Xuan sometimes laughed and said that Ke Lilun even knew all the things about the Eastern Bloc better than him. It is precisely because of his experience in acting as a communication coordinator between Li Xuan and the management of Oriental Group, as well as the following subsidiaries, that Li Xuan dared to boldly support him to be responsible for the implementation of the "RCA Plan".
The 10 graduating students from Nakayama University were allowed to move freely after visiting the yacht. Perhaps in the eyes of outsiders, Li Xuan sent his own private jet and luxury yacht to pick up people.
But as Li Xuan's most trusted assistant, Ke Lilun is aware of the importance his boss attaches to these 50 new blood. At present, even if the vast majority of Hong Kong enterprises set up factories in the mainland, the management will choose Hong Kong people to take up the positions.
The RCA CRT factory, which has been in operation for two years, is no exception, but in Li Xuan's view, this can only be a stopgap measure. In the end, the enterprises invested by the Oriental Group in the mainland will have to be taken over by managers from the domestic background.
This is because Hong Kong's managers will always think about problems with Hong Kong's thinking, not from the mainland. This difference in culture and way of thinking often leads to poor communication between management, grassroots employees, and local governments, and it is easy to cause problems of enterprises not adapting to the soil and water!
At present, there is a lack of management talents with modern business thinking in China, and when the RCA picture tube was first put into operation, China used to withdraw some cadres from state-owned factories to help the joint venture plant enrich management talents.
However, most of these cadres clinging to the idea of a big pot of rice in state-owned enterprises, which is incompatible with the management system of the new enterprises. So Li Xuan hoped to recruit a group of graduates from mainland universities to train them from scratch, so that they could eventually act as the backbone ......of the management of domestic factories!