On June 10th, no one could have imagined that such a relatively ordinary business behavior could attract the attention of many parties, attract many eyeballs, and even become a topic of conversation for the citizens of the city.

Seeing this situation, the Bank of China, as the owner, and the "Jardine Matheson Surveyor", as the "referee", are also very good at doing things, and they decided to open the whole process of opening the bid to the outside world, and make a statement to the outside world through the media: the general public and the media are welcome to supervise.

After hearing the news, Li Huayong couldn't cry or laugh, and said in his heart that the work designed by Mr. I.M. Pei really has never lacked topics, and after this show, the Xiangjiang Bank of China Building will definitely not be able to run away from the title of "the king of topics in the architectural industry" in the future.

At about 10 o'clock in the morning, the Lu brothers came to the place where Old Man Cai and others stayed:

"Mr. Cai, it's almost time, let's go over now, right?"

Old man Cai, Lei Jianjun and others were full of smiles: "Let's go together." ”

Old man Cai, Lei Jianjun, Li Erzi and the two Lu brothers wore uniform clothes and walked towards the door. This was also inspired by Li Huayong the day before yesterday and Lu Yuquan found someone to customize it overnight. The clothing is in the style of work clothes, a bit like the summer uniform of the police uniform in later generations, not to mention, because Old Man Cai and Lei Jianjun are both from the army, after everyone wears this kind of clothing, they walk together with a bit of majestic spirit.

"Huh, where is Xiao Li, where is Xiao Li?"

When he was about to walk to the door, Old Man Cai remembered that there was still one Li Huayong missing, and Lao Lu, who was half a position behind him, stopped him with a smile: "Xiao Li is not from your company, don't worry, Xiao Li will come over later." ”

"Okay, that's good, let's go first. ”

After all, today is a big day, and most of Old Man Cai's thoughts are still on the opening of the bid itself, so they hurried to the scene.

At about 10:30 a.m., also in Central, an office building belonging to Standard Chartered Bank, which is the office location of "Jardine Matheson Surveyors", is also the site of the bid opening. In order to prepare for the bid opening, Standard Chartered Bank rearranged the entire hall on the second floor to meet the needs of the bid opening. When Old Man Cai and the others arrived, the place was already crowded with people and lively.

At 11 o'clock in the morning, Lin Wei drove over to find Li Huayong. Flash Dance.

"Yong, let's go. ”

"What's the hurry, since they are putting on a show like this, it will take a long time just to "check the error", and if it is calculated in this way, this standard will not be opened at all until the evening, what are we going to do in such an early stage. ”

Li Huayong was talking to Lin Wei, but his attention was basically on a young man sitting in the passenger cab.

Li Huayong was observing this young man, and the young man was also observing Li Huayong, and seeing Li Huayong's gaze, the young man took the initiative to extend his hand to Li Huayong and said in a very broken Chinese:

"Hello Brother Li, I have heard of the name for a long time, my name is Lin Kai, please take care of me in the future. ”

"How can this thing talk like a Japanese" Just when Li Huayong muttered in his heart, Lin Wei explained with a smile: "This is my brother, the son of my third uncle, the most unsuccessful guy in the family"

Before Lin Wei finished speaking, the young man named Lin Kai shouted loudly, of course, this time the loud shouting was in Cantonese, so the words were very slippery:

"Sister, don't talk nonsense, why can't I be a weapon. ”

"Do you dare to say that you are a successful instrument? I can't even apply to a university, so I don't want you to study abroad."

"Brother-in-law, didn't he go to college either. ”

Sister, brother-in-law!?

While choking Lin Wei, a sentence instantly made her face flush. At this time, Li Huayong, who was standing outside the car, had to pretend that he didn't understand anything.

"Ah Yong hurry up and leave, anyway, where are you waiting, there is still a group of friends over there, and there are more people. ”

"Okay, wait a minute, I'll go back and get something. ”

When Li Huayong disappeared from Lin Wei's sight, Lin Wei pounced and beat Lin Kai:

"I call you nonsense, I call you nonsense. ”

"Sister spares her life, Sister spares her life. Lin Kai first pretended to beg for mercy, and then pretended to sigh:

"Well, it's worth the trip. Flash."

"What do you mean?"

"The legendary character, the cowman whose ears have been cocooned lately, yes, the image is exactly what I expected, and I decided to mess with him in the future. ”

Otherwise, Li Huayong would always feel that Lin Wei was simple, let alone not Li Huayong's opponent, I am afraid that even if she meets her younger brother Lin Kai, she will still be deflated.

"Hmm, Akai, what do you think of him?"

Just took a look, where could Lin Kai say anything one, two, three, four. At this time, I saw Lin Kai's eyes rolling, and he in turn forgave Lin Wei and said:

"Hey, hey, hey, I said, Sister, is your dress today premeditated?

"What is it?"

"What is the standard couple's outfit, can Sister ask you a question first, have you and him already had an adulterous relationship?"

Naturally, Lin Kai's words once again attracted Lin Wei to beat him violently.

"You're uncomfortable if you don't talk about a slut, aren't you?"

"Yes yes yes oh no no"

Of course, the fight between the siblings did not last long, because Li Huayong came back soon.

"Brother Li, come and sit here. Lin Kai very affectionately let out the passenger cab and asked Li Huayong to sit on it, and asked familiarly: "What did Brother Li go back to get it?"

"Nothing, just a calculator. ”

"Tsk, the learned ones are different from people like me, you have to bring this kind of thing everywhere, it's like us, I have a headache when I hear mathematics. ”

Li Huayong smiled, indifferent to this superficial sycophancy. Li Huayong brought the calculator because he was familiar with the process of opening bids, and he knew that it usually took a while from the announcement of each company's quotation to the announcement by those actuaries who had won the bid. Anyway, I am already familiar with the rules of this game, and instead of sitting there and waiting silly at that time, it is better to calculate it yourself, which is why Li Huayong brought a calculator.

"The role of the calculator is only to calculate, it has nothing to do with mathematics, learning mathematics can be a headache, but not calculating is not good. ”

"Tsk, Brother Li's words are so profound, why don't I understand it. ”

"It's very simple, if you can calculate, at least you won't be treated as a Kaizi, don't you say?"

Thinking that there was a word "Kai" in his name, Lin Kai was choked and speechless. Lin Wei snickered secretly beside him:

"Okay, don't be poor, let's go. ”

After the three arrived at the bid opening site, they found that although the bid evaluation work had begun, it was still too far from announcing who would win the bid, and it was still only in the "error check" stage.

"Error checking" is a unique term in engineering bidding. Because the bidding for engineering projects is still a bit different from many other types of bidding. For example, in an auction, you only need to quote a total price, but the bid price of the project bidding cannot be like this, in addition to quoting a "total price", you also have to quote the quotation of each item.

To put it figuratively: the quotation of construction projects needs to be quoted with a very long calculation formula plus a total amount. How long will this "very long" be? It is not impossible for a project like the Bank of China Tower, hundreds of casual, thousands of projects, and if it is a project like the Three Gorges Dam, tens of thousands of children have not appeared.

The so-called "error checking" means that the actuaries of "Jardine Matheson Surveyors" first need to re-check the 7 calculation formulas reported by 7 companies to see if there are any errors in these calculation formulas.

Although this is a very simple accumulation problem, the knowledge of arithmetic in elementary school, seems to be completely insignificant, but this work is essential. Because the purpose of this step is to prevent the unit price and the total price from not matching.

It is important to know that when a company is announced to have won the bid, then the company's offer is likely to become the "contract price" for future construction contracts. What happens if there is a discrepancy between the unit price and the total price in the construction contract?

Not to mention that it is very serious, at least it will be more troublesome, and when executing the contract, will it be based on the unit price or the total price? How can such a skin be pulled? And the "error checking" at this time is to prevent the occurrence of problems in this regard.

When Li Huayong and the others arrived at the venue, they had only just begun the work of checking the error, so except for those actuaries who were busy there, everyone else in the venue had nothing to do.

Li Huayong paid attention to the layout of the entire venue, which was mainly arranged into two parts, one called the "work area" and the other called the "observation area". The meaning of "work area" is easy to understand, that is, the place where the actuary is currently staying, there are not many people in that place, and there is no sound. Of course, it is not only actuaries who are waiting in the "work area", in addition to Li Huayong, he saw two staff members with the nameplate of "Bank of China", and the nameplates of several other people attracted Li Huayong's attention even more.

Because the nameplate is: Xiangjiang Independent Commission Against Corruption.

The "Jardine Matheson Surveyor's Firm" is already the referee of this project, but what about the Independent Commission Against Corruption? Of course, it is the referee's referee.

Compared with the silence of the "work area", the "observation area" is much more lively and crowded. In addition to the representatives of the seven bidders, Li Huayong also saw many reporters and many local colleagues in Xiangjiang.

Slightly closer to the work area, some fixed seats were arranged, Li Huayong knew that it was reserved for 7 bidding units, but it was still early, and no one was sitting there now, and they were all standing on the periphery and chatting with people.

"Uncle Quan, they're there, let's go over. ”

"Hmm. ”

It's been a while since I came to Xiangjiang this time, but except for Lao Lu's younger brother and the old man of CEFC Group, Li Huayong didn't know a few people. So at this time, there's really nowhere else to go but to go there.

Lu Yuquan is now with Lao Chang, and next to Lao Chang, there is another young man wearing a pair of glasses. Li Huayong clearly knew that he didn't know this person, but he always felt that this person seemed to be a little kind, as if he had seen it somewhere.

This is Lao Lu also saw Li Huayong, Lin Wei and others, he smiled and beckoned to this side, and the young man also looked over here.

At this time, Lin Kai beside him suddenly whispered: "Hey, why did this person appear, I haven't seen anyone for many years, have you come back from reading?"

"Who is this?"

"Li Superman's eldest son. ”