As the only three five-star hotels in Penang, Sheraton is the one Zhang Chen is most familiar with. Every time his company produced a bid for a large project, it would be closed here for more than a week to prevent the disclosure of secrets.

Different from the fierce competition in the hotel industry more than ten years later, the life of high-end hotels is now very comfortable. Even a waiter in a high-end hotel is an enviable job in society.

Brightly dressed, exposed to the upper echelons of the rich or powerful, much higher average wages and good benefits than most enterprises and institutions, also means that the quality demand is far higher than that of other industries.

Both externally and internally.

Lu Xinyi is an undergraduate student who just graduated from Bincheng Business School last year, and was assigned to a government agency after graduation, and after working for less than two months, the salary in the unit could not be paid. The central government ordered all organs and units to reduce staff and increase efficiency, and Lu Xinyi, as a newcomer who had just arrived, was not hard in the background, so she was naturally reduced.

Fortunately, Lu Xinyi is young and beautiful, and she has just graduated from school and can speak relatively fluent English not long after. I saw that Sheraton was recruiting people in the newspaper, submitted my resume, and after rounds of interviews, I was really picked up by Sheraton, who had just settled in Bincheng.

With her excellent own conditions, Lu Xinyi was assigned to the executive lounge, where most of the guests received were foreigners or executives of foreign companies in China. As for the high-ranking officials in China, they prefer to stay in the State Guest House, a five-star hotel run by the government.

In the whole lounge, there is only a group of sofas by the window where a guest sits a guest, a Chinese teenager in a slim suit, Lu Xinyi served a cup of black tea according to the teenager's request, and observed the teenager's every move boredly.

Through a pair of sharp eyes trained in a five-star hotel, Lu Xinyi keenly found that the clothes and belts and other accessories on this young man's body were not bargains. Although I didn't see what brand it was, the quality was absolutely excellent. As for the Rolex Greenwich on the boy's wrist, it has long been the standard for a group of people who got rich first in China, but it didn't attract too much attention from Lu Xinyi.

Not long after, the glass door of the executive lounge was pushed open, and a brown-skinned teenager came in, Lu Xinyi had seen this teenager in the hotel, and he also lived on the executive floor.

The young man smiled at Lu Xinyi, walked over to the young man who had just put on a suit and sat down, it seemed that the two were very familiar with each other.

Not long after, the door was pushed open again, this time with three guests, two men and one woman, led by a foreigner in his early forties, thin and tall. Chong Lu Xinyi nodded, and before Lu Xinyi could ask if there was anything she needed help with, she saw the foreigner waving at the two teenagers and striding in front of the two, "Boss, I'm sorry, we just moved in." ”

Lu Xinyi covered her mouth in surprise.

Zhang Chen and Shanatanu are already familiar with William Johnson, after all, the three of them have talked in the United States. But they didn't know the two employees Johnson had recruited.

Zhang Chen smiled and shook hands politely with everyone, "Boss, these two are my old subordinates from GE, Jeffrey and Joanna. Jeffrey is Chinese and has a lot of experience in managing supply lines, Joanna is the best HR I've ever met, and I took them to meet Miss Soup last week. Johnson enthusiastically and shortly gave Zhang Chen a brief introduction.

After a few people sat down, Zhang Chen asked Johnson, "Have you read the information I sent you before?"

Johnson nodded, "I've seen it, it's a genius plan." But boss, I have a question. According to our understanding of Huaxia, our competitor, the Glory Group, should have a strong background, and if the government insists on letting Glory take over the second chemical plant, I am afraid that even if we use the shell of Koloto Industry to make false noises, it may not make the relevant officials change their minds. ”

Zhang Chen nodded, "It's possible, but you don't have to worry about it, if this situation really happens, I will solve it." ”

Johnson was determined, and he had already guessed Zhang Chen's background. He has been in China for almost ten years, and he will not believe that Zhang Chen started from scratch without any background.

Therefore, he had just spoken out to test Zhang Chen, and Zhang Chen's reaction was also expected by him.

When William Johnson was at GE, he didn't look down on the so-called Coloto Industries, a miscellaneous leather bag company. Although he failed in the infighting, according to his own ideas, he must at least go to Saint-Gobain and DuPont to be a middle-level Fortune 500 company.

What really moved him was Belfinger, who told Johnson that he was introduced to Zhang Chen by Barbara Boxer and Condoleezza Rice.

A teenager with enough background in China to win the support of both Democratic and Republican bigwigs shocked Johnson.

Johnson inquired about the composition of the shareholders of the Coloto industry and found that the other shareholder was actually the son of Shantanu, a wealthy Indian tycoon.

In addition, Zhang Chen was very generous in his salary, and directly offered Johnson an annual salary of 250,000 US dollars. You know, Johnson himself is just an American DS, and the salary and allowance he was sent to China when he was at GE was only $100,000. After all, GE and his middle-level managers are more than wool, not to mention more than wool.

He likes Huaxia and the feeling of being a superior person in Huaxia, and he liked it when he first came to Huaxia more than ten years ago. Although he looked down on the country's poverty, backwardness, unsanitation, and lack of culture, he could feel everything he could not feel in the United States — fawning and awe, flattering and stammering. This gave him great satisfaction in his self-esteem and vanity.

And now, although this Coloto industry has just been established, it can only be regarded as a leather bag company. But Johnson is still confident that with the name of a foreign-funded company and his status as a foreigner, even if he doesn't spend a penny, he will have the opportunity to eat this No. 2 chemical plant into his stomach.

But let him put aside Zhang Chen and go it alone, he really didn't have the courage, he knew that he had provoked the fate of some people in China.

Therefore, Johnson took the initiative to say: "Boss, I understand, tomorrow Bincheng China Merchants Bureau will hold a banquet, will you participate?"

Zhang Chen shook his head, "I won't attend this kind of occasion, Shanatanu will attend the banquet as the executive director of Kloto Industries." At the meeting, you can exaggerate our investment and promise $100 million in three years. You can grasp the specific scale yourself. ”

"In addition, you have to do a good job of connecting with the companies that Sanatanu and I have visited and getting the authorization as soon as possible, which will be very useful for our future plans. I have also sent the information of several companies with cooperation intentions to your mailbox, so you can check it. Make a whole plan in case you need it. ”

"In short, we only have one month, and during this time, if there are joints that need to be opened, you have to open them one by one, and don't be afraid to spend money. By the way, what type of room did you order?"

Johnson was stunned, "Ordinary business room." ”

Zhang Chen shook his head, "No, from tomorrow, you have to change to an executive suite." In the future, too, if you go to any city in China for business, you must stay in an executive suite or above in the best local hotel. Doing business in Huaxia, this is a must. ”