Chapter 398: Contenders
It can be said that the future Lai Xiaohu's additional investment is certain, if the future Lejia supermarket continues to expand, then the entire vegetable planting base is bound to need to expand, there are a series of other investments that need to be followed, these project departments additional investment is impossible to complete.
After explaining his investment project to Liu Wei in detail, Lai Xiaohu waited for the other party's reply. And Liu Wei lowered his head and drank a cup of tea, thinking carefully in his heart.
In the end, Liu Wei said directly to Lai Xiaohu: "Okay, I have decided that you will strongly support this project." After listening to Lai Xiaohu's words, Liu Wei thought about it carefully, and after not finding any flaws, he decided to vigorously support the project. This is not only because of the good project, but also because of the relationship between Lai Xiaohu and Liu Yafei. Even because of this relationship, Liu Wei is more interested in Lai Xiaohu's investment project.
And hearing Liu Wei's direct and clear support, Lai Xiaohu was relieved. With Liu Wei's support and guarantee, this project will definitely be smooth in the future within the scope of Xinshi.
After talking to Lai Xiaohu again, Liu Wei looked at the time and saw that it was almost noon, so he said to Lai Xiaohu: "How about it, do you have time at noon, let me invite you to dinner?" ”
"If you want to ask, you should also ask me." Lai Xiaohu said directly when he heard this.
"It's okay, aren't you and I the same?" Liu Wei laughed, and then called his secretary over. Liu Wei's secretary is a very young man, who looks like he has just graduated from college for a year or two.
"Mayor, you call me?" After coming in, Liu Wei's secretary stood respectfully in front of Liu Wei and asked.
"Xiaofang, you take Xiaohu to wait in my car below, and I'll invite him to dinner later." Standing up, Liu Wei cleaned up the things on the table, and said to the secretary Xiao Fang.
"Okay. Mayor. Xiao Fang responded respectfully, and then took Lai Xiaohu out. However, in his heart, he was already curious about Lai Xiaohu's identity. He had seen Lai Xiaohu, and when Zhao Liang, Wu Ou and Lai Xiaohu came to look for Liu Wei this morning, they were still informed by Xiaofang. Lai Xiaohu and Xiao Fang had already met this morning, and the two said hello at that time.
However, it was this that made Xiao Fang even more curious about Lai Xiaohu's identity, in his mind, Lai Xiaohu should have met Liu Wei for the first time this morning, and if the two of them knew each other before, there was no need to let him know. However, if the two of them really met for the first time, it would not be a morning's work for Liu Wei to take the initiative to invite Lai Xiaohu to dinner. If it was Lai Xiaohu who invited Liu Wei to dinner, Xiao Fang would not be surprised, as Liu Wei's secretary, he had seen too many businessmen who wanted to invite Liu Wei to dinner. But I have been following Liu Wei for so long. This was the first time he had seen Liu Wei take the initiative to invite him to dinner, and he spoke so enthusiastically, just like he said to his relatives.
"Mr. Lai, what is your relationship with Mayor Liu?" After waiting for Lai Xiaohu to walk to the parking lot, the secretary Xiaofang finally couldn't hold back his curiosity about Lai Xiaohu. So I asked him.
"Oh, that's what you ask." Lai Xiaohu thought for a while and said, "It's a friendship." Lai Xiaohu thought that he and Concubine Liu Yafei were friends. That and Liu Yafei's brother Liu Wei can barely be regarded as friends.
It's just that the secretary Xiaofang let out an "oh" after hearing it, and he didn't know if he believed it. After he got into the car, he chatted with Lai Xiaohu about other things.
Not long after, Liu Wei, who had changed his clothes, also walked out of the office building and came to the door of the parking lot, and the driver quickly drove the car out. Wait for Liu Wei to get in the car. Following his instructions, the driver drove towards the place he remembered.
Liu Wei took Lai Xiaohu to a restaurant in an alley, where the driver and the secretary were waiting outside, and Liu Wei allowed the two to move freely. Just rush back when you leave.
"It's an old restaurant, and it tastes good." After entering, Liu Wei said to Lai Xiaohu. Lai Xiaohu nodded and did not speak. He'd heard of the restaurant before, but it was his first time.
After the dishes were served, Liu Wei asked Lai Xiaohu while eating, "By the way, how did you and my sister meet?" ”
"That time, she should have taken Bao'er to Jincheng for a trip, and then something happened when she came back, and I happened to be at the scene, so I helped." Immediately afterwards, Lai Xiaohu told the scene of the first time he saw Concubine Liu Ya, "She and I should know each other like this." ”
"Of course, the two of us didn't talk much at the time, and it was what happened after we each came back that really familiarized us. At that time, I happened to be doing something in the commercial city, and then when I was eating, I happened to be recognized by Bao'er. At that time, Boa seemed to be happy to see me, and kept pestering me. Your sister was also there at the time, and when she saw Bao'er running over and hugging me, she followed me too. She recognized me after that, and that's when we left each other's contact information. Since then, we've gotten to know each other. ”
Liu Wei asked about the matter between Lai Xiaohu and Concubine Liu Ya, in fact, he also wanted to know how much his sister had a good impression of this Lai Xiaohu. First of all, Liu Wei can be sure that his sister likes Lai Xiaohu a lot. Although Concubine Liu Yafei never said this, if Liu Wei couldn't see it, he could only say that he was too stupid.
In the past, he always felt that his sister was quite temperamental, but since he met Lai Xiaohu, he seemed to have put down his identity all of a sudden. It was the first time he saw his sister running to Lai Xiaohu at every turn, and even asked him to send someone to keep an eye on the situation at Lai Xiaohu's house. All this clearly indicates Liu Yafei's feelings for Lai Xiaohu.
As for his sister's liking for Lai Xiaohu, Liu Wei did not approve of it at first, because Liu Wei at that time thought that Lai Xiaohu was not worthy of his sister. Of course, Liu Wei at that time inevitably had the right idea. He thinks that his family background is so good, and Lai Xiaohu is a boy from a peasant family, he didn't know anything about Lai Xiaohu except that he knew that Lai Xiaohu was studying very well, and naturally he didn't think that a child from a poor family could be worthy of his noble sister.
Liu Wei wanted to make Concubine Liu give up at that time, but when he thought of Concubine Liu's situation at that time and what happened to her before, he finally couldn't bear to say it directly. At that time, Concubine Liu had just divorced, and her sister experienced such a big setback. Of course, Liu Wei would not add fuel to the fire anymore, so although he looked down on Lai Xiaohu in his heart, he did not say it.
And later, as he learned more and more about Lai Xiaohu, Liu Wei slowly also knew that Lai Xiaohu had opened a company in Jincheng quite successfully, and he was worth a lot of money. After seeing Lai Xiaohu's success, Liu Wei recognized Lai Xiaohu and thought that Lai Xiaohu was qualified to fall in love with his sister.
Of course, in terms of family background, there was still a huge difference between Lai Xiaohu and Liu Yafei in their family background. However, Liu Wei considered that his sister was divorced and had a child. And Lai Xiaohu, although his family background is not as good as his own family, but after all, he has never been married. The two complement each other. In Liu Wei's eyes, the two of them are equal once.
At that time, Liu Wei thought that if his sister really got along with Lai Xiaohu, then he would recognize Lai Xiaohu as his brother-in-law. And this is also the reason why he will promise Concubine Liu Yafei to help keep an eye on the situation at Lai Xiaohu's house.
Liu Yafei's first marriage was unfortunate, not only did it end in divorce, but that marriage was forced from the beginning. Concubine Liu Yafei's marriage was a marriage between families at that time. In Liu Wei's view, Liu Yafei's marriage sacrifice is quite big. So after seeing Lai Xiaohu's status improved. Liu Wei will no longer stop the matter between Concubine Liu Yafei and Lai Xiaohu. Even he hoped that his sister could fall in love freely for a while.
But now, Liu Wei is not confident in his sister again. At first, he thought that Lai Xiaohu was tens of millions of assets, although it was not much, but Lai Xiaohu was able to work hard from scratch at such a young age to make tens of millions of assets, which at least showed that Lai Xiaohu's ability was very strong. But now, all of a sudden, he realized that Lai Xiaohu's worth was at least billions of dollars.
At this time, Lai Xiaohu's worth alone may have exceeded the total assets of their Liu family. The Liu family also started out in business. And it has achieved a lot of success in the commercial sea. It's just that later, with the outstanding appearance of the younger generation of the Liu family in officialdom, especially the outstanding performance of Liu Wei, the leader, the Liu family saw the hope of making a difference in the political circles. So later, the Liu family slowly shifted the focus of their careers to supporting the children of the family in politics.
However, although the Liu family has stopped doing business in recent years, the foundation left in the past is still there. The Liu family still has a little property. However, if this kind of asset is compared in front of Lai Xiaohu's billions of worth, there is no comparison.
Of course, what shocked Liu Wei the most was Lai Xiaohu's ability. Billions are worth nothing, there are many people in this world who may be worth more than this, and there may be some people who are worth billions when they are younger than Lai Xiaohu. But those people are either those who have been working hard for many years, or they are various second generations who have inherited the family assets early.
It is definitely the first person like Lai Xiaohu who is self-made and worth billions of dollars at this age. Therefore, in Liu Wei's view, Lai Xiaohu's most valuable thing may not be the billions of assets, but his ability.
What Lai Xiaohu's future achievements will be, Liu Wei really can't imagine. With such a strong ability and the development foundation that is already in place at this time, Lai Xiaohu in the future will definitely be even more powerful than now.
In this case, Liu Wei suddenly felt that his sister seemed to be a little unworthy of Lai Xiaohu. At least the current Lai Xiaohu can be on an equal footing with their Liu family, and may even surpass the Liu family in the future. If it was Concubine Liu Yafei a few years ago, he really wasn't worried. But now Concubine Liu Yafei has been married once, and she still has a treasure by her side, realistically speaking, Concubine Liu Yafei is not worthy of Lai Xiaohu.
However, in the end, it is his own sister, so Liu Wei still has to think about it for her. To understand the process of interaction between Lai Xiaohu and Liu Yafei, Liu Wei wants to see how deeply his sister is obsessed with this Lai Xiaohu and whether she can give up this relationship.
Since he is not optimistic about the two of them, Liu Wei does not plan to let his sister experience another failure.
Of course, Liu Wei has a lot of ideas, and his ideas are always changing with the change of the situation, so I don't know what he will think in the future.
After a meal, under Liu Wei's questioning, Lai Xiaohu almost told the whole process of the interaction between himself and Concubine Liu Ya. If it weren't for the fact that Liu Wei was Liu Yafei's brother, Lai Xiaohu would never have bothered to say these things.
And Liu Wei didn't say anything directly after listening, but he had a lot of plans in his heart.
After eating. Lai Xiaohu and Liu Wei separated. Liu Wei will continue to work in the afternoon, and Lai Xiaohu also has his own affairs. After the two separated, Liu Wei also specially asked his driver to drive Lai Xiaohu back.
When he arrived at home, Lai Xiaohu hurriedly called Wu Ou. Originally, the two of them begged together in the morning and should have come back together, but later Liu Wei called Lai Xiaohu over, so the two of them couldn't go together.
After Wu Ou went out, he had been waiting for Lai Xiaohu at Zhao Liang's place, but later Liu Wei said that he wanted to invite him to dinner, so Lai Xiaohu called and said that he had something to do and asked Wu Ou to leave first.
However, after coming back, Lai Xiaohu had to quickly discuss the investment project with Wu Ou. Wu Ou, who received his call, had been waiting for Lai Xiaohu in the office, and after Lai Xiaohu came, he made two cups of tea. Then the two of them sat down and talked about official business.
"By the way, what about Heli?" Before starting, Lai Xiaohu asked Wu Ou first. When he called Heli before, the other party said that he had been staying with the people from the town government.
"I just went down, didn't I have to go to the jurisdiction to familiarize myself with the situation in the past two days, so except for the noon and evening returns, the rest of the time they are in the countryside below." Wu Ou took a sip of tea and said.
Although Lai Xiaohu had also taken He Li to run below before. However, Xin Zhen is so big that it is impossible to run over in one day. That time, Lai Xiaohu mainly wanted to take He Li around Xinzhen roughly and let her know more about Xinzhen. lest you be deceived by others because you don't know the situation.
After talking about Heli. Lai Xiaohu turned to the investment project, "Didn't Mayor Liu let me stay in the morning, and then I personally told him about our project." After listening to this, he thought about it for a while, and then said on the spot that he would support us to build this vegetable planting center. ”
"Really?" Hearing this, Wu Ou was overjoyed, "That's great." I heard Mayor Zhao say that Mayor Liu wants to talk about the same thing, since he directly said in front of you that he wants to support us in this project. Then there must be no problem. ”
Both of them were confident that the project would be approved by the city, and then they talked about signing the contract. The two agreed to draw up the contract as soon as possible in the next few days, and sign the contract after the city passed the approval.
However, the two of them were happy for one day, and the next day they received bad news. This news was notified to Wu Ou by Zhao Liang. Then, after Wu Ou got the news, he didn't dare to slack off, and immediately called Lai Xiaohu over.
"What's going on so urgently?" After coming. Lai Xiaohu hurriedly asked.
"It's hard to say whether it's good or bad, but this incident may have a little impact on our project." Wu Ou sighed and said.
"Tell me what's going on?" Lai Xiaohu continued to ask.
"Mayor Zhao just called me and told me that another township in the city came to apply for the project today, and their project is exactly the same as ours."
It turned out that Zhao Liang met the person in charge of a township below when he was working in the city this morning, and then after asking, he learned that the other party was here to apply for the project. And coincidentally, the project that the other party applied for turned out to be very similar to Lai Xiaohu's, which is also a vegetable planting base project.
Although the other party's project is not as big as Lai Xiaohu's, the land area that needs to be used has reached 30,000 acres. The rest of the rent and compensation are similar.
Although the other party is not from Xinzhen, everyone is from Xinshi after all, and this time the city saw two investment projects that were almost identical, and it would not be so easy to approve them. At the very least, there should be more comparisons and discussions with each other, and if you can't figure out the relationship between the two projects, you have to fight each other.
Although Zhao Liang also learned yesterday that Lai Xiaohu's project had received direct support from Liu Wei, in addition to this accident, Zhao Liang was also not at ease about this matter. After learning about this incident in the morning, Zhao Liang immediately informed Wu Ou, and then told Wu Ou to prepare for emergencies.
"Suddenly." Wu Ou muttered: "Actually, we also know the general situation of their project, and I feel that we still have a lot of advantages over them in the project." At the very least, our project is bigger and involves more money. But sometimes these factors are not decisive, and the real decisive role is the relationship. If they can bring in characters who are tough enough, we are likely to be PK by them. ”
"Won't it?" Lai Xiaohu asked.
"How could it not," Wu Ou said categorically: "There will never be two of them in such a large project city at the same time, and one will definitely have to be sacrificed at that time, and then choose to let the other one be launched." Of course, it is possible that we will start the two projects together, but in my opinion this possibility is only a theoretical possibility. ”
In this regard, Lai Xiaohu also felt speechless. How could such a big accident suddenly happen when something is to be determined? It's really troublesome to come out with a spoiler at this time. (To be continued......)