Chapter 69 Consortium XIX
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"Miss Li, thanks to you this time, after returning to Hong Kong, I will hold a thank you banquet, please be sure to appreciate your face......
"Miss Li, I'll go to Shenzhen early tomorrow morningδΈ¨I'll visit ...... then."
At the entrance of the theater, after Li Kaiyuan shook hands with several Hong Kong businessmen and said goodbye, he said to a middle-aged man with glasses who followed behind: "Director Bi, I have to go to Shenzhen tomorrowδΈ¨ Now I will leave first, please tell Secretary Yang and thank you for the hospitality of the Guangzhou Municipal Party Committee." β
"Where, where is it, a patriotic businessman like Miss Li is our honored guest, before Secretary Yang went to Beijing for a meeting, he specially explained that he wanted me to entertain you well." The man smiled and said: "Guangzhou's current material conditions cannot be compared with Hong Kong, this Spring Festival party, the organization is not good enough, it is simple, please bear with Miss Li." β
"Director Bi is so polite, tonight was a great success, the food was delicious, and the singing and dancing program was also very exciting, which opened my eyes."
After Li Kaiyuan said a few more polite words, he shook hands with the man, said goodbye and left, Shen Chong opened the door of the Mercedes-Benz parked on the side of the road first, bowed, and invited her to get into the car.
"It's funny again" Li Kaiyuan knocked him with his handbag, bent down and sat in the car.
"Miss, is the matter done?"
"Uncle Hua, I've said it many times, just call me Yuan Yuan as before." Li Kaiyuan gave way to the right, let Shen Chong in, and said, "You watched me and Ah Chong grow up, Miss, you shouted awkwardly, I feel uncomfortable listening to it." β
"Hehe, you're different now." Uncle Hua touched his head honestly and said, "Your Aunt Zheng said that you give so much salary every month and help Xiaomei hire a doctor, I don't have any ability......"
"Aunt Zheng is really everyone's neighbor for more than ten years, I have made a fortune, of course I have to help if I have something." Li Kaiyuan cut off his words and said, "Uncle Hua, you have helped me so much, you should get your salary, don't mention this matter in the future." Let's drive to the Oriental Hotel. β
"That's it, Uncle Hua, you are famous for your loyalty and honesty, Yuan Yuan runs alone in the mainland, and her parents can rest assured with you." Shen Chong helped on the side and said: "
By the way, how is Xiaomei now? β
"It's good, it's good." Uncle Hua started the car and replied, "The doctor said that the operation was very successful, and he will not be sick again in the future." β
"That's good, when she is discharged from the hospital, I'll find her an easy job." Li Kaiyuan said: "Don't go to the electronics factory again, the environment there is not good, not suitable for Xiaomei." β
"Thank you, thank you, Miss."
Shen Chong laughed, he and Li Kaiyuan's family are small households, the number of people is thin, the place to start a business, lack of manpower, can only ask familiar neighbors to help, one person got the chicken dog ascended to heaven, the media reported that the building he lived in at the beginning of every household income in 1979 increased significantly, naturally it is not surprising.
This Uncle Hua is a neighbor who lives in the same building, smuggled to Hong Kong in the early seventies, and makes a living by helping people drive trucks.
Before Huo Yingdong's White Swan Hotel was completed and opened, the Oriental Hotel was the most high-end hotel in Guangzhou, located at No. 0 Liuhua Road, opened in 19ul, originally called Yangcheng Hotel, changed to the current name in 19uu, is the first state-owned five-star hotel in the mainland, the building is inverted "concave" shape, the building is 12 floors high, composed of three sections of north, south and middle, there are nearly 10,000 square meters of garden scenery between the east and west floors, and has received political and cultural celebrities including Zhou Enlai, Deng Xiaoping, Margaret Thatcher, Lee Kuan Yew, Liu Haisu, Guo Moruo and so on.
Shen Chong and Li Kaiyuan lived here after coming to Guangzhou from Beijing.
"I always thought that I was a natural winner in life, and I was a big star wherever I went." After returning to the hotel, Shen Chong took off his coat and said with a lonely face: "I only found out tonight, it turns out that you are a big star, and I am just a vase." β
"How?" Li Kaiyuan took off the golden hairpin that fixed his hair, sprinkled a piece of hair, and said, "I'm jealous."
"It's not just jealous, I'm also jealous" Shen Chong patted the tunic on his hand and said: "What a good clothes, no one asked where they were made, and all revolved around you in one night." β
"Look at your virtue, I wish everyone in the world knew the origin of your clothes." Li Kaiyuan squinted at him and said: "I have been in Guangzhou much longer than you, I have only met the secretary of the provincial party committee once, you can see me almost every time you come, and you have not seen me jealous.
"It's really inferior to power, but when it comes to money, the secretary of the provincial party committee is much inferior." Shen Chong threw his clothes on the sofa and said, "I am a businessman and value money the most, but tonight everyone is scolding you, vying to toast you, and basically no one pays attention to me." β
"Who made you wear a piece of gauze?" Li Kaiyuan pursed his lips and smiled, and said, "Gauze, stupid, isn't it?" No matter how good the clothes are, wearing you will become a troubled boy, if it were me, I wouldn't care about you. β
"They probably thought I was your bodyguard or something." Shen Chong himself also felt funny, he touched the gauze and said: "I didn't expect that your title as the executive director of the Guangdong-Hong Kong Federation of Industry and Commerce is much easier to use than a member of the CPPCC." β
"Cantonese people want political achievements, Hong Kong people want to make money." Li Kaiyuan sat on the edge of the bed, took off his shoes, and said: "While I don't know how to do business, I don't know how to run relationships, I know people on both sides, communicate in the middle, everyone is mutually beneficial, and naturally popular." β
"That's true." Shen Chong picked up the hot water bottle, began to make tea, and said: "After all, you are a native of Hong Kong, those businessmen don't believe in the mainland government, but believe you, if you are a director for a few more years, maybe you will be more popular than the general manager of China Resources." β
"I'm not interested in socializing everywhere." Li Kaiyuan rubbed his toes and said, "This director, do you think I want to do it, what can I do about the hat that I am hard to give, I have to drive the ducks to the shelves." Hey, by the way, I see that you got together with Zhang Xiancheng again at the sorority, and they chatted very happily, his poker face that has not changed for 10,000 years actually smiled, what are you talking about? β
"Talk about the past." Shen Chong picked up a cup of tea, put it beside her, and said teasingly, "Do you know? Chiang Kai-shek likes to eat Yangcheng Lake hairy crabs very much, after going to Taiwan, has never forgotten, in the autumn of 1974, during his serious illness, Chiang Ching-kuo specially sent people to Hong Kong, to find China Resources to buy a batch of Yangcheng Lake hairy crabs, airlifted back to Taiwan by plane, but at the airport, but people stopped it, because Chiang Kai-shek once ordered that the mainland's fresh and live animals are strictly prohibited from entering Taiwan, even a mainland fly, must be shot to death before entering Taiwan. Chiang Ching-kuo had no choice but to have all the crabs cooked at the airport before giving them to Chiang Kai-shek to eat
"What a big deal" Li Kaiyuan rolled his eyes and said, "Who in Hong Kong doesn't know about this?" All the media reported on it back then, and I almost counted how many crab legs there were. You talked to Zhang Xiancheng about this all night? β
"Huh?" This has been widely reported? Shen Chong was shocked, and hurriedly lied, saying: "This matter is more interesting from China Resources's own people than what was said in the newspaper back then, and I found a business opportunity from it." β
"What business opportunity?"
"According to Zhang Xiancheng, China Resources has been doing business with Taiwan for decades, but it is mainly selling, and the commodities are mainly Chinese medicinal materials, and the scale of trade is not large." Shen Chong said slowly: "On New Year's Day last year, the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress issued an announcement saying that the mainland and Taiwan should exchange information about what they have, develop trade, and carry out economic exchanges. After the announcement, China Resources began to purchase Taiwanese goods in bulk, and then zero in Hong Kong
"So what?" Li Kaiyuan was puzzled and said: "There are not 10,000 stores selling Taiwanese goods in Hong Kong, but there are 8,000, and there is no shortage of China Resources. β
"You're really long in hair and short in knowledge." Shen Chong despised it and said: "China Resources is not a store, it is a government agency, it is the second Ministry of Foreign Trade, and their purchase of Taiwanese goods is a political signal, indicating that the mainland market is open to Taiwan, and Chiang Kai-shek's eating of crabs shows that Taiwan has always had a demand for mainland goods." You see, Taiwan has daily industrial products that are urgently needed in the mainland, and the mainland has agricultural products and native products that Taiwan desires, but the two places cannot come and go on the bright side, and this kind of inconvenient exchange is a business opportunity; Taiwan's unsalable television sets are sought-after goods when they are sent to the mainland, and hairy crabs that cost a few cents from the mainland are rare items of several hundred yuan when they are sent to Taiwan
"You mean, you're going to start a trading agency?"
"How could I do this, I was persuading Zhang Xiancheng to do it, and I also said that it moved him, so you saw him smile."
"Huh?" This time it was Li Kaiyuan's turn to exclaim, she said: "This is such a big business, why did you give it to him to do." β
"You must know that the antagonism between Taiwan and the mainland is still very serious, and it will not be changed immediately because of an announcement by the National People's Congress." Shen Chong picked up the teacup, blew it, and said: "With my current capital and influence, it's okay to make a small fuss, but it's not okay to play on a large scale, and I never do a small business, China Resources has no shortage of capital and influence, and it is a professional trade agent, they can do it quickly, so I tricked Zhang Xiancheng to do it." β
Li Kaiyuan looked at him and waited for the explanation.
"Zhang Xiancheng is a soldier who has been transferred to a new career, and after entering China Resources, he has not been able to get his performance, Zhang Guangdou is pressed above, and the people below are not convinced by him, and the position is very embarrassing." Shen Chong took a sip of tea before continuing: "He has an extraordinary background and has a lot to do with Ning Ning's grandfather, if he can do this well, not to mention the economic interests, the political interests alone can make him go one step further and become the CEO of China Resources, and he will be the boss of China Resources, which is good for you and me." β
"He's sixty years old, isn't he?" Li Kaiyuan retorted: "He is about the same age as Zhang Guangdou, the current general manager of China Resources, even if he can go up, he won't be able to do it for a few years." β
"Even if you can be a general manager for a year, it's good." Shen Chong said inscrutablely: "In China Resources Sanzhang, Zhang Guangdou is known for his stability, but he is too steady, not only wasted opportunities for himself, but also let others waste opportunities, business opportunities are fleeting, and a person with an adventurous spirit is needed to be the leader in order to succeed." β
Li Kaiyuan didn't know what to do, thinking that Shen Chong was talking about doing business with Taiwan, she frowned slightly, and said: "I have a very happy cooperation with Zhang Guangdou, how can you guarantee that after Zhang Xiancheng becomes the general manager, it will be more beneficial to us?" Ning Ning's grandfather is not familiar with us, is it just your unreliable suggestion? β
"In business, human favor is important, but more important is profit." Shen Chong smiled like a fox and said: "In this business, the key is not in the mainland, but in Taiwan, the mainland has opened its market to Taiwan, but Taiwan has never said that it will open its market to the mainland, and Chiang Kai-shek's ban on fresh and fresh goods not entering Taiwan has not been lifted." As long as Zhang Xiancheng gives me benefits, I can go to Taiwan and help him lift the ban, and this alone is a lot of political capital. β