Chapter 157: Vignette
Early the next morning, Scarface rented a car at a rental car near the hotel.
Originally, I wanted to drive it myself, Xiaocao said, there are many mountain roads in Guizhou, so even rent a car with a driver, so safe.
From Guiyang to Liupanshui, it took three hours to drive on the national highway. Passing by the Huangguoshu Waterfall and looking at the tide of tourists, Scarface wants to have time to take a look at it by the way.
But Xiaocao said that it was best to rush to the township today, or it would be delayed for one more day.
From Liupanshui to Weining City, it was basically a provincial road, and it took more than four hours.
It wasn't until about 7 o'clock in the evening that the car arrived in the town where the Xinhua Yi Township Government is located, and the rest of the road could only rely on its legs.
Fortunately, there are hotels in the town, and there are some self-driving people here in the past two years, which is much better than when Lu Xiaocao was in elementary school.
Early in the morning of October 2, Scarface and Lu Xiaocao, carrying a lot of luggage, were ready to walk home.
Seeing a few people traveling by car, Scarface went over to talk to people when they were inquiring about places with good scenery, and finally gave way to Xiaocao to introduce a few good places.
I also left phone calls with two of them, and by the way, I took someone's car and walked a few miles, and finally there was really no car to walk, so I got out of the car and completed the final journey with my legs.
When I returned to Lu Xiaocao's house, it was already more than four o'clock in the afternoon, and Scarface understood the true meaning of Guizhou's sunny days and roads.
But the mountainous scenery of Guizhou is really beautiful, and any place is no worse than Huangguoshu Waterfall. It's just that it's not developed, and now it's not in the mood to see the scenery.
The luggage of the two of them weighed more than fifty pounds together, and Scarface carried it alone at first. After walking a few kilometers, he had to accept Lu Xiaocao's opinion, and the two of them mentioned it separately.
Don't look at Lu Xiaocao's body is thin, but his strength is not much worse than Scarface, especially when walking on mountain roads.
The two ate some bread and ham on the way, and when they arrived at Lu Xiaocao's house, there was no place in Scarface's body that didn't hurt.
Lu Xiaocao's parents didn't know that their daughter would come back in the next few days, and they didn't expect to bring her boyfriend.
The traffic here is blocked, and the information is even more backward. A few kilometers away from the village, there was no mobile phone signal.
As soon as I entered the yard, I saw Lu Xiaocao talking to the two old men in a gurgling voice, and looking at Scarface from time to time.
Scarface couldn't understand a word, and he didn't know if they were speaking Buyi dialect or Guizhou dialect. Anyway, when people looked at him, he smiled and responded.
Lu Xiaocao's parents are actually in their early fifties, but they do look like they are in their sixties and seventies.
Her father, in particular, has a slightly hunched back, his teeth are already incomplete, and he smokes homemade tobacco all year round, and his teeth are yellow and black.
My mother also looks thin and small, but in addition to obvious wrinkles, her body is very healthy, and she can do things neatly.
In the past two years, Lu Xiaocao has always sent money to the family, making their family look much better than their neighbors. But compared to the house where Scarface lives in the countryside, it is still much worse.
Xiaocao's mother probably heard that the two of them hadn't eaten, so she hurriedly started killing chickens and burning fires, washing rice and cooking.
After Lu Xiaocao led Scarface into the house, he began to rummage through the cabinets to find new bedding and sheets.
In the evening, the fragrant rural chicken and rice made Scarface reluctant to put chopsticks, two bowls of rice filled with seas, plus a small pot of chicken, I felt that I hadn't eaten enough.
and the future old father-in-law, drank the home-brewed bud valley wine, although spicy, but full of Tai.
After eating, Lu Xiaocao sat in the yard with a scarface and told him about his childhood.
The two old men kept looking at them with a smile on their faces, going in and out of the ground doing other things.
It seems that they are quite satisfied with Scarface, and Scarface also feels warm in his heart. He decided that this would be his relatives in the future.
Although there is a language barrier, there is no barrier in my heart. There is Lu Xiaocao to translate, but I don't feel that there is any real obstacle.
In the next three days, Scarface and Lu Xiaocao went to several relatives' houses in addition to playing in the surrounding mountains. From the day he decided to come to Guizhou, Lu Xiaocao arranged his schedule and gifts for each family.
When they were ready to return, most of the original more than 50 catties of luggage were sent to their relatives in exchange for more local products. If they really can't mention it, it is estimated that they can bring them more than 500 catties of things.
The time of the return trip was about the same as when I came, but at the township government, Scarface and the people who were traveling by car called to contact them.
Just in time for someone to leave, I took someone's car to Liupanshui. Then take the train to Guiyang and take a plane from Guiyang back to Bincheng.
In a few days in Guizhou, Lu Xiaocao could also see that Scarface did not dislike her parents at all, this was not pretending, it was accepted from the heart.
This made her feel very relieved, and it can be regarded as Scarface passing the first test.
However, Scarface's further requests, especially to touch her shyness, are still resolute.
You can touch the peach through your clothes, but you can move it to other places, which is absolutely not allowed.
Scarface doesn't know how long it will take for Xiaocao to test him, but he respects Xiaocao's choice, and he also believes that this is the other half he is looking for.
Although his body is often restless and his big brother is angry, Scarface still persists, waiting for the end of the test period.
After the eleventh holiday, work and life are back on track, and Scarface took the judicial exam this year, and it feels okay, if nothing else, it is estimated that he will pass this time.
Starts every year in October,It's the time for new TV design drawings,But this year, no new products have come out。
Due to the level of domestic home appliance manufacturing, it has also achieved great development in recent years, and the impact on these multinational enterprises is also fatal. It seems that it is only a matter of time before Yamapu's TV is withdrawn from the market.
The subprime mortgage crisis, which began in August 2007, swept through the world's major financial markets such as the United States, the European Union, and Japan, and had a great impact on some large multinational enterprises.
Major companies have begun to shrink strategically, and the number of new products this year has been reduced by half compared to the original.
With the implementation of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act around the world, multinational companies have also strengthened their control over the cost of overseas bases in terms of financial control.
The original relatively loose budget of Shanpu Bincheng Company has also begun to tighten, and all work has begun to pay more attention to cost control.
This puts even more pressure on the company as a whole, and the procurement department in particular, which is the direct money payer.
However, the full implementation of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act is a very good thing for the unitary accounting firm, and the business volume has increased greatly.
In addition, major companies pay more attention to financial and legal compliance, and the business content has also increased, and the natural service fee has risen.
This year, through the clients of the firm, the business volume of several factories in which Scarface has a stake has grown steadily, and the profit margin has also increased, so Scarface's income has also increased a lot.
In 2007, Scarface calculated that he seemed to have entered the ranks of tens of millions of dollars in annual income.
In early December, Scarface received a notice that he had passed the bar exam and could officially become a lawyer.
But Scarface's purpose in taking this lawyer's license is not to be a lawyer. The first is that I don't want to waste time, and the second is to better attract stable customers for the firm.
He understands both law and finance, and he also knows a lot about the manufacturing industry. When he faces customers, he can always grasp the pain points of those customers. Of course, customers also want to have such people, or companies, to serve them.
Of course, he needs to be affiliated with a regular law firm for one year before he can qualify as a qualified lawyer.
As for which law firm to affiliate, Scarface doesn't have to worry about it, let Sun Jiuyue help solve this kind of thing.
Although every company in which he has a stake is developing well, he still doesn't want to give up his job in Shanpu, and the work here is quite interesting.
It's not very busy every day, I can meet a lot of different customers, I can learn a lot of useful things, and of course, the income is quite good.
He prefers to work with people than in an accounting firm, where he deals with numbers every day.
He feels that he can't calm down to do auditing and consulting work now, and his mental energy is too great and his work intensity is also high.
It's good now, leave those tedious things to others, and focus only on the key points yourself, so to speak, really belong to the kind of people who make a lot of money very leisurely.
In November, Shanpu Group's financial services company re-tendered, and Deloitte & Touche won the bid.
These are global tenders, so local companies like Scarface's Zero Zero are not eligible.
Shanpu Group has been cooperating with PricewaterhouseCoopers in the past, and just changed the financial services company, Deloitte sent a very capable project team to collect information in the early stage.
The project manager is Scarface's former colleague Wang Ping, who saw Scarface on the first day.
When she was in Nomura, Wang Ping was just a recent accountant, and after several years of experience, she is now a project manager.
Scarface knows that these high-IQ people are not good at some intrigues, it can be said that their emotional intelligence is average, and their personalities are mostly straightforward.
So the first time I saw her, I told her not to tell others about some of her original things, but in the end there was a little episode.
The main reason is that Scarface is still very famous in this industry, especially in the original Nomura, because of Zhai Ting's affairs, He Lai was beaten, and then resigned and left in a very chic manner.
He set up an accounting firm, and in less than three years, it has developed into a large firm with a certain influence in the local industry.
He and Sun Jiuyue have always been idols of some young people in the industry, especially Wang Ping or someone with less qualifications than Wang Ping.
Chatting with Wang Ping in private, Scarface heard for the first time that his own zero-zero accounting firm was called "Nine-Tailed Fox" by these young people in the industry.
"Nine" is because of Sun Jiuyue, one of the founders, and "Tail" and "Fox" are among the partners they recruited later, one is called Wei Shihua and the other is Hu Suhua.
These two people are responsible for the bidding of some large projects, mainly to provide guidance to companies that are about to go public, and the winning rate is very high, and they have robbed several businesses that belong to the world's top five.
What's more, everyone thinks that the two founders of the company, Lu Jiazheng and Sun Jiuyue, are elusive, and they suddenly made the company so large-scale quietly, just like two old foxes.
Therefore, the name of "Nine-Tailed Fox" has spread in this industry, including Deloitte, PricewaterhouseCoopers, KPMG, and Ernst & Young, there are people who have been colleagues with Scarface, and word of mouth has spread the name of Nine-Tailed Fox more and more loudly.
Nomura Financial Management Co., Ltd., since the year Scarface and Sun Jiuyue left, has been going downhill.
There were more than 200 people, but now there are less than 40 people, and there is not a single veteran employee who has worked for more than three years.
The audit department was left with a contraction in business content, and all other departments were abolished.
The customers served are mainly which customer in Japan the Japanese parent company serves, and if that customer has established a branch in and around Ben Thanh, they will continue to serve this company.
Services such as finance, taxation, and legal services, as well as management, strategy, and marketing consulting, are all very profitable businesses because they need to be combined with local realities.
The local branch of Bincheng for those large customers has a certain choice when choosing a service company, and the Nomura Bincheng branch will not be competitive.
The leader of a business, who looks very relaxed when he has nothing to do, is in fact a great responsibility, and he can directly influence the development of the enterprise for decades to come.
If Nomura had been able to clear out He Lai in time, at least it would not have caused such a big change in Bincheng.
At that time, including Scarface, Sun Jiuyue, and Zhai Ting, the grassroots backbones walked more than 30 times within half a year.
There are also people who have worked for a year or two and have just become skilled hands, and there are also 180 people like Wang Ping.
The normal flow of personnel will not affect the development of the enterprise, and may also promote the continuous and healthy development of the enterprise. However, the concentrated resignation of the backbone force is a fatal blow to any enterprise.
If more than 200 people gradually resign in three years and keep replenishing, it will definitely not have an impact, after all, the earth will turn the same way if everyone leaves.
But the mistake is that the Nomura headquarters in Japan did not deal with Helai's small problems as a matter, that is, they did not consider the feelings of the low-level employees.
In the end, they were sunk in Bincheng, from the original boss of the accounting industry in Bincheng, to the current instream.
This is not affected by Scarface alone, it is mainly the long-term accumulation of dissatisfaction, which erupts in a concentrated manner. Scarface congratulated him, but it was just the match that was struck in the gunpowder warehouse.
For Scarface, Nomura Bincheng Branch was blown up by such a small match as him, but this match is famous in the industry.
People in the industry, especially those in their thirties, mention this person who took action and beat up hooligan leaders for female colleagues, and they all pick a thumbs up. It's a cow man, that's what everyone says about Scarface.