There was already a small half of the thick Havana cigar left, and Tang Yikun still had no sleep.

The matter of Huajin Road still stabbed into the city. Zhou Hongyou has already called twice, plus the one just now, three times. Ask him to take care of that matter "properly". The investigation team suddenly sent down from above seemed to be aimed at Secretary Wang Yi. At this time, it is important to maintain a harmonious state and not to help.

Wang Yi may be promoted, he knows. The five years he was in charge of Hiraizumi were the five years of great development of Hiraizumi. In terms of GDP ranking, Hiraizumi is already the third in the province, and if the development speed of each other remains unchanged, it will be two or three years before they surpass Qingshan and sit in the second place in the province. In addition to the economic aggregate, Hiraizumi's achievements in urban and road construction, average social wages, and unemployment control are also obvious to all. The political achievements are real, and Wang Yi's promotion is not surprising at all. That's a practical official, he fully admits it.

In fact, his personal relationship with Wang Yi is definitely much deeper than Zhou Hongyou. When Zhou Hongyou was still the director of the Provincial Economic and Trade Commission, he established a friendship with Wang Yi, who was transferred from the Provincial Economic and Information Commission to Pingquan as mayor. It's just that they have been estranged from each other a lot in the past six months, and he understands Wang Yi's sensitivity to politics, which is normal and cannot indicate that their relationship has changed.

Wang Yi paid attention to the development of East Lake and once gave him a lot of good ideas. Because of the sensitivity and foresight of his advice, he admired Wang Yi very much. It is believed that Wang Yi is not only an official, but also a scholar. From the moment he stepped into the treacherous mall, he admired those who had real skills. It is the ability to do specific things well, but it is the real ability to see the direction of future development.

Wang Yi pointed out the hidden concerns about the development of East Lake early on, at least three years ago. Now it proves the sharpness of Wang Yi's eyes. Wang Yi needs East Lake, and East Lake also needs Wang Yi. Zhou Hongyou didn't want to think about it, how could he block Wang Yi?

But Wang Yi's promotion is not necessarily a good thing for East Lake. Even if Wang Yi came to the province and became the vice governor, his help to Donghu would definitely not be as good as it is now. Although Donghu is already the first private enterprise in the province and extends the industrial chain to other provinces, its core business is still in Pingquan. Now Wang Yi is the secretary of the municipal party committee and the boss of Pingquan, and if he leaves, although he has become a vice minister, his influence on Donghu will decline.

To his dismay, Wang Yi never revealed anything to him about the change in officialdom. It's a bit of an anomaly.

It's all Luo Shaoxing's trouble! For this Luo Shaoxing, Tang Yikun felt helpless and upset. Indeed, Luo Shaoxing is an old friend and classmate, and has made great contributions to the expansion history of East Lake Real Estate Company, but he can't keep up with the development of East Lake.

He once asked Qi Zhen to test Luo Shaoxing, but he didn't negotiate, but deepened their suspicions.

His attitude towards Luo Shaoxing is that he can give a large sum of money, or he can give him a generous "pension" every month, but never give him the shares he wants! But what Luo Shaoxing wants is precisely shares. It's impossible. Donghu Industry is privately owned by the Tang family, except for a few relatives such as Wei Fengru, Wei Shegang, Tang Yiwei, etc., no veteran has ever given a share reward, not even Qi Zhen, why are you Luo Shaoxing?

Putting aside Luo Shaoxing's question, Tang Yikun's thoughts turned back to East Lake Real Estate. He is not worried about the handling of the Huajin Road incident, and has accumulated a wealth of experience in this regard, including experience in dealing with the media, and will not drag Donghu Real Estate into the whirlpool of public opinion. He thinks he has no shortage of sympathy, but for those nail households, he has long lost the minimum of sympathy. It was not ten years ago, and he deeply felt that moral decay was developing in all directions. After the Huajin Road incident, he immediately learned about the incident, and behind the barbaric and inhumane behavior of Deng Guoming's Yinqiao Company, it was the irrational greed of the family surnamed Li. You said that you are just a set of 48 square meters of a total construction area built in the 80s of the last century, the area compensation of the East Lake Company has been conceded to 1:2, which is equivalent to a 100-square-meter building after the completion of the East Lake Hanlin, such a condition is not even agreed, and shamelessly proposed to compensate for three buildings, the damn old woman openly said that she would get a set for each of the three children. How can this be? Is East Lake a cash cow or a charity?

He understood Luo Shaoxing's attitude in this matter. In a sense, Luo Shaoxing is for the benefit of the company. The project is blocked there, and it also looks like the dry season is over, and the hidden project can't be dragged into the rainy season for construction, right? It is also a last resort to take some relatively extreme measures.

I once discussed with a close friend the question of who is more virtuous or poor. The answer is no answer. There is no consensus on each other's words. The discussion was held within the East Lake Reading Club, which was established at Qi Zhen's suggestion and has been in operation for more than ten years, with no more than a few dozen formal members, and no more than 20 people participating in the discussion at a time. At the beginning, Qi Zhen recommended him a book "Ten Heroes of Blue Blood" written by an American, and he really read that book seriously. Qi Zhen admired the lifestyle of the American industrial elite, and suggested setting up a small reading club to hold activities every six months, and the program was usually one person to introduce or lecture on a book, and then start a discussion about the book. Tang Yikun generally doesn't speak, he mostly listens. He admits that this salon has taste, and some people of equal status sit together, drink some coffee, sip cigars, and discuss literature and art, the direction of industrial development, or the international and domestic situation, which is much better than the usual gambling dinner.

What made Tang Yikun ponder was that there was no disagreement about the existence of strata or classes, and regardless of the official explanation, strata did exist, and they were completely different from those they were thirty years ago. For example, the members of this reading club are all corporate executives, or senior managers of Donghu Industrial, or private business owners who have long-term business dealings with Donghu Industrial. They admit that they belong to the same class, which is characterized by the fact that the hot spots of everyone's attention are relatively consistent, the judgment of the trend of the stock market, the analysis of the development of the industry, and the discussion of the domestic and international political and economic situation...... Rarely talk about anything else. The people are concerned about the price of food, vegetables and housing prices, and they basically don't talk about it. This is the sign of class. For example, Mr. Cai of Jiaping Company believes that the standard of morality should not be different from class to class, on the contrary, the so-called high-income and high-status class should be more exemplary in abiding by social morality and setting an example for the society. He cited well-known foreign tycoons with a positive image, and believed that it was precisely because of the lack of entrepreneurs who had a strong sense of responsibility to the country and the nation that social morality had deteriorated. But more members believe that there is a difference in morality, that different classes have different moral values, and that as long as they are in accordance with the law, they should not be blamed. The rich should enjoy the glory and pleasure brought by wealth when they create wealth, and the enjoyment of life by the rich actually brings opportunities to more people.

Tang Yikun was the president of the East Lake Reading Club, and he did not express his views that time. When Cai Yuanhao asked him to express his opinion, he smiled and said that he had not yet reached a conclusion on the issue.

He did not agree with Cai Yuanhao's attitude of being close to a saint, he was not a saint. But he has long discovered that the so-called pursuit of enjoyment is actually a cocoon, and there is no real happiness. A long time ago, he discovered that there is a law in society, that is, there are gains and losses, and there are no exceptions. Go to the novel, you enjoy food all day long, and you have to take the risk of heart and brain diseases while feasting; If you engage in a woman, while enjoying the pleasure of hearing and seeing, you must bear the risk of family breakdown, children's rebellion or property loss; At most, you have the power to decide the fate of others, and you have to take responsibility for it. For example, those entrepreneurs in the reading club, they think about the development and profit and loss of the enterprise all day long, and the employees will have a headache if they don't have a job, and they will get angry if they can't pay their salaries, and it's even more troublesome if they can't collect the money.

Possession is giving, and happiness is always accompanied by troubles. Tang Yikun had already discovered that his happiness or satisfaction did not increase with the expansion of the company, or even decreased. His attitude to life in the past five years has been very different from that of five years ago, and people who do not understand the world do not hesitate to praise it, but in fact, he is just avoiding troubles.

But what made him feel confused was that there was no way back from some things. If you don't like something you buy it, you may be able to return it, but there is often only one way forward for a business. Donghu Industry has encountered problems in the direction of development, which can only be solved by continuing to expand, and must not consider dissolution. Qi Zhen judged that the real estate market would encounter a cold snap, so what? We can only continue to do it, and if there is no market, we will create a market. At least for now.

The urban planning of Pingquan City is not a secret to him, especially after Zhou Hongyou is in charge of this area, it is even more transparent. Urban planning or construction is always spiraling, and there is no end. When this round is over, the next round begins immediately. The "Twelfth Five-Year Plan" is just a five-year plan, and major adjustments have already been made once, and there are countless small adjustments. The 12th Five-Year Plan is only halfway through, and the 13th Five-Year Plan has already been launched. As long as the city is expanding, building and developing, Donghu Industry is full of opportunities. Therefore, Tang Yikun has a different interpretation of Qi Zhen's judgment, and I am afraid that in the future, I will not be able to engage in pure commercial development as in the past, the vacancy rate cannot be ignored, and the purchasing power of citizens is also a big problem. But the government will not run out of money, the government is always more ambitious, when the East Lake real estate officially boarded the government's urban construction ship, the East Lake voyage will not be blocked.

The opportunity is there, no need for Zhou Hongyou to hint, what is he Tang Yikun doing? Don't you see that the only direction of the development of the urban area of Pingquan City is westward? To the east is a series of hills, the north has been expanding for nearly a decade, and the south is blocked by the Yue River, and it is only reasonable to advance westward.

This has a relationship with the Red Star company. He was a son of the Red Star, and he was born in that land and lived there for nearly twenty years. It is an area of 5.7 million square meters, which is as much as 8,600 acres. How many business opportunities are there in the government's relocation of Red Star to build Pingquan New Town? As long as it takes the lead in the Pingquan New Town plan, it is enough to give Donghu real estate a new lease of life.

So he wanted to feast Tao Tang. The Huajin Road incident killed an in-service employee of Red Star, which is a reason, but a small reason that is not worth mentioning, his company has the basis for cooperation with Red Star, and his factory products that were judged by the expert group to be abandoned can cooperate with Red Star, which is a bigger reason. The bigger reason is that he must get ahead of the government, plan ahead, and pave the way for the development of Donghu Industrial in the next five years or beyond.

Tang Yikun remembered Song Yue. That is a strong and shrewd guy, with vision and ambition, but unfortunately he was planted and fell into the anti-corruption tide that has seen the clues. He felt sorry for it. If Song Yue is here, he believes that he will establish a good cooperative relationship with him. Now the head of Red Star has become Tao Tang, his former classmate, he hasn't seen him for more than 20 years, and he doesn't know what Tao Tang's personality is. But he knows the mode of operation of state-owned enterprises, and the decision-making of state-owned enterprises is actually more arbitrary than that of private enterprises.