"Promised?"

"Yes. This little face will still be given. ”

"You seem to value this person very much?"

"I can't get around it. And, we are classmates. ...... year Prepare carefully, tentatively on Saturday night. ”

"Can you determine the number of guests?"

"The banquet is set here, but the entertainment facilities have to be prepared, and I don't know what he likes...... The number of people, there will not be more than five, they are all classmates, regardless of identity. ”

"Understood. What else does Mr. Tang command? ”

"No...... I'm going back, and it's time for you to get off work. ”

Tang Yikun, chairman of the board of directors of East Lake Industrial Group, watched Qi Ping, the manager of the East Lake Club, exit his private room. He saw her loss, but he was unmoved. He now believes that the decision that has been made is the right one. He once wanted to develop this beautiful and capable female manager of the Tang Club to bed, but after two months of trial, her ability and performance made him dispel his thoughts. He likes beautiful and coquettish women, but he set an iron rule for himself many years ago that he will never develop mistresses among female subordinates.

The clubhouse has been in operation for more than four years. Since she took office, the management of the club has improved significantly, and the profit has increased by two percent year-on-year, further consolidating the leading position of the East Lake Club in the Pingquan catering and entertainment industry, which is Qi Ping's merit, which he fully admits.

Once moved by its mature charm, the other party also unintentionally revealed some meaning, and he could feel it completely. Compared with those young beauties, he appreciates the charm of maturity more. It's like ordering food in a restaurant, where different people's tastes are always different. In recent years, with the successful listing of East Lake Real Estate, he has changed his old style, and his pursuit of women has become picky and cautious. He does not believe in the so-called love, which may exist, but it is never present in him and his women, including his wife.

He and them are all authentic interests. Including Qi Ping, who just left.

Tang Yikun pressed the electric bell under his desk, and his driver and bodyguard Ma Lin came in silently. Tang Yikun got up and walked outside, handing the handbag to Ma Lin. The latter turned off the lights and locked the heavy oak door of the private room. Then he took a few steps and got ahead of his boss. When Tang Yikun walked out of the door of the club, Ma Lin had already parked the black Mu Shang at the foot of the steps, and when he saw the boss coming out, Ma Lin ran quickly, opened the back seat door, and "protected" the boss into the extremely spacious and luxurious car.

"Go home, ......" Tang Yikun spit out two words vaguely.

Marin understands the precise meaning of the word "homecoming." In fact, in Pingquan City, Tang Yikun has three fixed homes, in addition to the Jinxiuyuan community where his wife lives, there are two residences where Boss Tang's woman lives, one of whom also gave birth to a son, who is already three years old. But when I go home, I only refer to the villa in Fairview Garden, which is already old, and it will not be anywhere else.

The Bentley Mulsanne, with its GD88888 license plates, is like a huge warship, cleaving the waves in the sparse traffic of the night. Tang Yikun looked at the bustling street scene with empty eyes, his face expressionless. It's eleven o'clock now, and Zhenwu Road, which has been noisy for a day, has become spacious and silent, and the newly replaced street lamps and huge neon signs on both sides of the road still illuminate the street as bright as day, and the glass windows of the shops still reflect the chaotic figures. The city is still dormant, and in Tang Yikun's view, Pingquan City is getting more and more beautiful.

A group of young men and women who came out of the McDonald's flagship store at Renmin Road crossed the road with a grin, let Marin take a brake, and then pressed down the window to send a few vicious curses. As if hearing Marin's curse, the young men who looked like students pointed at the departing Muchan and shouted something.

"Slow down......" he muttered.

"Yes, boss." Marlin slowed down.

Ma Lin, who was born as a veteran, has been Tang Yikun's full-time driver and bodyguard for almost three years. He knew that the boss had been a little annoyed for the past two days.

Luo Shaoxing is a bastard! I don't know what Boss Tang likes about him, just with his little ability, why does he sit on the throne of the Minister of Real Estate Security of East Lake, with an annual salary of up to 800,000 yuan? Something that is not enough to achieve and more to lose. No, it's blocking the boss again, right? After the transformation of the shantytown on Huajin Road, a modern community will be built, and the name has been prepared, or the title of Vice Mayor Zhou, Donghu Hanlin, has many poetic names. The demolition work has been handed over to Deng Bald's demolition company, what are you Luo Shaoxing involved in? Okay, right? There was a lot of trouble, and even Secretary Wang of the Municipal Party Committee was alarmed, how much money did it cost to completely blame Deng Bald on the matter? It used to be easy to do, but the current situation is not the same as in the past. If you don't do it, you'll pull Boss Tang in!

Looking through the rearview mirror, I saw that Boss Tang was closing his eyes and pretending to sleep.

Tang Yikun was indeed a little upset, but it was not for the Huajin Road demolition incident. He officially "went to the sea" to start a business at the age of eighteen, and spent 25 years to create a conglomerate that is enough to stand out from the crowd. It is not the shadow of his father's generation, but his superhuman sense of smell and superb wrists. His favorite book to read is the set of "The Red-Top Merchant" published in Taiwan about the late Qing Dynasty giant businessman Hu Xueyan, and his idol is Hu Xueyan, who won the second grade. If private enterprises want to survive and grow, they must be close to the big tree of the government.

Few people know that Donghu Industrial Group has many hidden worries under its brilliant and domineering appearance. Aside from the internal disputes brought about by the listing of East Lake Real Estate, the key is that the development of the group has encountered a bottleneck, although East Lake is named as an industrial group, but there are only two pillars to support this diversified group, one is the mining company that has laid the foundation of East Lake Industrial, and the second is the East Lake Real Estate Company that has replaced the mining industry and become the cash cow of the group. There are no less than 30 kinds of other industrial products, which were diagnosed by the enterprise management experts invited by Tang Yikun as having no development prospects and should be withdrawn.

These industries include clothing, pharmaceuticals, printing, mechanical processing and chemical industries, covering 11 cities in four provinces, with a total of more than 100 enterprises. Now it has been integrated into Donghu Machinery Company and handed over to his brother Tang Yiwei to take care of.

The product industries integrated into East Lake Machinery are impregnated with Tang Yikun's hard work and ambition, and he is annoyed that the so-called enterprise development strategy consulting experts have been evaluated as a garbage industry. He acknowledged, however, that there was a rational element to the panel's assessment, as those industries and products were largely losing money. The reason why it is still maintained, and even the scenery is infinite, is because it has been transfused into it. With constant cash flow, the business can run normally.

Why are those industries and products that were profitable at the beginning, but now they are all turning into losses? Tang Yikun has made a serious analysis, and his personal conclusions are basically consistent with the diagnostic report of the expert group, the main reason is that the management cost has increased exponentially, and other factors such as product upgrading is not timely, and the technical content is too low. Why are administrative costs increasing so rapidly? It's because East Lake is becoming more and more formal. The signs of formality are the growing size of the management organization, the rapid increase in the number of management and auxiliary personnel, the improvement of social security and medical insurance, the emergence of a large number of non-profit organizations, and the large donations spent in order to win fame. East Lake Industrial paid a heavy price while gaining the fame he wanted.

Tang Yikun found that the East Lake Industry he had worked so hard to build was becoming more and more like a state-owned enterprise. His instructions, the decisions of the board of directors, reach more and more levels at the grassroots level, and the speed is getting slower and slower. The departments set up in order to improve the management level and the large number of so-called professionals hired have turned the speedboat that once cleaved the waves and moved fast into a bloated giant ship.

He could not emotionally accept the suggestion of the expert group to drastically reduce the non-main industry, but intellectually admitted that the experts had a point. It is not a simple matter to cut the non-main business, they are not simple commodities can be put on the street corner stall and sold at a discounted price, it is a collection of countless plants, equipment and personnel, and the closure of the business can only make him suffer more losses. Moreover, the expert group could not understand the plight of private enterprises, and if the outside world found that Donghu had closed down enterprises significantly, there would be at least three direct consequences, the first being government interference, both GDP factors and concerns about rising unemployment. Since the development of East Lake, an untold secret is that it is close to the big tree of the government, and it is unimaginable to lose the support of the government.

The second is the rumor that East Lake is in trouble. Companies, like the stock market, are in a sense supported by confidence. What is theoretically true is often untenable in reality, and the success of a business is often measured by its size. This is true for banks, it is true for governments, and it is true for corporations. If Donghu closes down its enterprises significantly, the consequences are likely to be the same: before it has experienced the dividends brought by industrial adjustment, it has been crushed by various rumors, runs and pressure from the government.

The last one is opposition from the family. Thinking of family members, especially those who occupy an absolute advantage on the board of directors, Tang Yikun deeply hated but was helpless. At the beginning of its founding, East Lake, like the vast majority of private enterprises, was developed by the concerted efforts of family members. At that time, he did not trust outsiders, nor could he afford to hire outsiders, so he had to rely on him and his wife's people. But now he admits that, with the exception of a very small number of relatives, the vast majority of them have fallen behind, unable to keep up with the development of East Lake, and most of them have become stupid and lazy, and have become a bunch of stupid pigs who are greedy for pleasure, vying for power and profit, and vigorously opposing his introduction of external talents. They still respect him and obey him on the surface, but secretly they do not hesitate to dig into the corners of Donghu Industry for their own interests. After the expert group's opinion on cutting branches and leaves to strengthen the main trunk came out, except for Wei Shegang, the brother-in-law who served as the president of the East Lake Mining Company, there was almost a lot of opposition.

It was knocking them out, he understood, but he hated what they did.

The expert group believes that Donghu Industrial should concentrate its business in the two fields of mining and real estate, which are the traditional areas of strength of Donghu and the source of profits of Donghu Industrial.

In fact, in 2012, the total marketing scale of Donghu Industrial reached 28 billion, accounting for about one-twentieth of the total GDP of Pingquan City. However, the two major sectors of mining and real estate are as high as 21 billion. The remaining 20 companies have a total of only 7 billion yuan, and their total marketing volume accounts for only a quarter of the group, but their total number of employees is as high as 65%. This is one of the reasons why the Group of Experts recommended a waiver.

In terms of mining and real estate analysis, the East Lake Mining Company, which had laid the foundation for the rise of the East Lake Industry, has given up the position of the group boss, and its scale is shrinking, and the profitability is even worse, in 2012, the profits of the mining company showed a collapse situation, and the annual loss was as high as 60 million. If it were not for the successful listing of East Lake Real Estate Company, the capital chain of East Lake Industrial would have been broken.

Since 2011, the province has been criticized by the State Administration of Work Safety and even the State Council, and has had to make great efforts to rectify coal mines, shut down and transfer a large number of small coal kilns with low output, inadequate safety facilities and chaotic management. Donghu Mining is not subject to restrictions, but after the rectification report of the Provincial Safety Supervision Bureau was issued, the safety investment of mining companies had to be greatly increased, which directly affected the profits of mining companies.

In fact, the rectification of small coal mines in the province is a good opportunity for Donghu Mining to expand, and the mining company has also successively submitted to the board of directors a plan to merge and acquire the small coal mines included in the list, but Tang Yikun has basically vetoed it. Tang Yikun clearly realized that this round of price diving of coal and its derivative products is by no means temporary, and I am afraid that it is a trend. With the increasing focus on environmental issues at the national level, the large-scale use of natural gas will completely depress the coal industry, and the acquisition of small, dilapidated coal mines at this time will only increase the burden and not benefit the group.

The information provided by the East Lake Economic Research Institute confirms the correctness of the board's decision. In 2012, the sales figure of traditional coal-fired boilers in the province plunged by 12%, but natural gas boilers showed a blowout growth.

However, the board's decision was strongly opposed by the mining faction represented by Wei Shegang. Wei Shegang also had a big quarrel with his brother-in-law Tang Yikun in private.

The situation for mining companies is worrying, and the outlook for real estate companies is uncertain.

Qi Zhen, vice president of East Lake Industrial Group and president of East Lake Real Estate Company, was the first veteran to follow Tang Yikun to start a business, and he was also the essence left by the big waves. Competence and loyalty are not in question. Qi Zhen had reported a secret report to Tang Yikun a month ago, and Qi Zhen's handwritten letter on the cover "There is no copy, only the chairman can read it personally".

The report, which made Tang Yikun's heart tremble, listed data collected from various sources, and the report admitted that the real estate market in Pingquan and even in the province was about to encounter a harsh winter, and it was necessary to plan early. Qi Zhen, as always, opened up a plan, either greatly narrowing the front, or greatly opening up a new battlefield.

He admitted that Qi Zhen's judgment was right. Since the end of 2012, Hiraizumi's house has not been able to sell. It has been two months since the opening of the Jade Garden, which everyone was extremely optimistic about, and its sales confirmed Qi Zhen's judgment. It is the most luxurious real estate in Pingquan City, and the design and construction quality are the best in Pingquan, which has been touted by the industry. Although Qi Zhen successfully created the illusion that sales were hot and supply outstripped, Tang Yikun knew that the actual situation was very bad, worse than the worst he expected.

East Lake Real Estate has been listed, and the data cannot be concealed for a long time, if the super cash cow of East Lake Real Estate is sick, the consequences will make Tang Yikun shudder.

Thinking about East Lake's high debt ratio, Tang Yikun knew that big measures must be taken.