Chapter 36 It’s inevitable to win
Putting down the test paper, Xu Mingyuan rubbed his sore temples.

The high-intensity study life is really a tiring thing.

After nearly two months of hard work, Xu Mingyuan successfully brought his grades back from the bottom of the class to around 30th place. Although there is still a gap from his previous 20th place, it is enough to satisfy him, and he can also understand what the teacher is saying.

There are still more than twenty minutes before school is over, and some students are already getting restless.

Gao Dexiang, who was on duty, would cough when he heard the noise was a little louder, but he didn’t control it too strictly.

Xu Mingyuan’s main task at the moment is still studying. After the incident with Chen Junjian, it is a good opportunity to change his mind.

Tearing off a piece of blank paper, Xu Mingyuan began to consider.

In the entire Nanxi City, Xu Mingyuan has the most dirty information among all the people in the world. After all, he is the only one who knows what is about to happen or what has not happened yet.

Including Xu Mingyuan in the past, he himself had a dirty trick.

But this kind of thing is not easy to put on the table. Unless the competition is to the death, no company will do this.

It just so happened that Xu Mingyuan had participated in the division of the Xiangli Group. Afterwards, the participants told these things as jokes at tea parties and drinking parties, which allowed him to know a lot of inside information.

The core of Xiangli Group is not the helmsman Chen Xiangli, but his elder brother Chen Xiangshun, one of the powerful deputy mayors of Nanxi City.

Originally, Chen Xiangshun had reached the end of his career at this position, but he wanted to go further. Relying on his local resources and connections, he had a lot of unpleasantness with the municipal party committee who was parachuted into Nanxi, and created obstacles in the planning of Nanxi City.

Two years later, with the downfall of Chen Xiangshun, some dirty deeds behind the Xiangli Group surfaced. After being split up once, it continued to struggle for less than ten years before completely disappearing in Nanxi City.

In today’s rapidly developing world, countless companies that used various means to obtain state-owned assets when the country first opened up have gone bankrupt, and Xiangli Group is just one of them.

But now Xiangli Group is still a behemoth, and Xu Mingyuan alone will definitely not be able to swallow this piece of cake.

However, Xu Mingyuan knew very well who wanted Xiangli Group to collapse the most, or who wanted to bite off a piece of meat the most.

Just like the piranhas in a tank, they are usually friendly to each other, but once they see that a fish is injured and bleeding, they will swarm over and eat up everything.

Xu Mingyuan then picked up a pen and wrote the name on the paper.

In the center are the two brothers Zhang Chenghua and Zhang Chengjie. Their Huajie Group accounted for the largest share when Xiangli Group was first split, followed by Lu Zongxing’s Chuangwei Holdings.

The outer circle of people are the companies that participated in the first or second split, and the others are those who had ideas and motivations but did not have the chance to get a piece of the pie.

Xu Mingyuan searched his memory carefully, adding or crossing out a person’s name on the paper, trying his best to avoid omissions.

The reason for such careful consideration is not that he is worried about the collapse of Xiangli Group, but that he is worried that he will not get a share of the profits.

Now that the decision has been made, Xu Mingyuan will never do anything to help others.

There is no need to think about Xiangli Pharmaceutical and Xiangli Chemical. Even if Xu Mingyuan had every possible plan, he would not be able to take them over, let alone things that he could not even touch.

What he cares about is an electronics company under the Xiangli Group. This start-up company is very inconspicuous and is currently located in Jiangcheng.

Because of the connection with the World Trade Organization, foreign companies already accounted for the majority of the electronics industry in 03. American, Japanese and Korean companies entered the market in a crushing manner, killing domestic electronics companies and leaving them barely surviving. The electronics industry that had just emerged in the 90s went bankrupt in large numbers.

However, there are always some companies that will survive, either by doing OEM or by grabbing the market in places that foreign companies can’t see, and gradually grow into towering trees.

For example, the current Xiaolingtong and the short-lived Gionee Communications.

Xiangli Group survived for another ten years thanks to the financial support from this startup company which had not yet been taken seriously.

Although this company will not be able to survive in ten years when the intelligent era arrives, it will definitely be very profitable in the next few years.

Junxing Technology Co., Ltd.

Xu Mingyuan wrote down the name and then crossed it out.

Xu Mingyuan is determined to acquire this company!

Tao Shuxin noticed Xu Mingyuan scratching the paper hard, frowned slightly and looked to the side.

In most cases, the two of them would not interact with each other during class. Even if they did talk, it was about what was discussed in class. They were model deskmates in the eyes of the teacher.

But now it was almost time to go home from school, and Tao Shuxin was a little distracted.

“Wow, you can also write cursive script? What beautiful words.” Tao Shuxin was surprised when he saw the brush moving on the paper.

In order to prepare for the college entrance examination, teachers required students to write in regular script. Although she could also write in cursive script and her writing was not bad, she was still a few points behind Xu Mingyuan.

Tao Shuxin looked carefully and found that the handwriting was not worse than the teacher’s.

“It’s just so-so.”

Xu Mingyuan brags a lot about his shortcomings, but is very humble about his strengths.

As long as he could remember, his grandfather had forced him to practice calligraphy. Most of the intellectuals of the older generation liked calligraphy, and although Xu Mingyuan’s calligraphy was not good, his hard-tipped calligraphy was pretty good. He had even seen his father Xu Jun’s calligraphy, which was also quite good.

“Tsk, it’s just so-so indeed.”

Tao Shuxin felt very upset when she saw his arrogant look, so she had to retort with something that was not in her mind.

However, seeing the beautiful strokes of the font, Tao Shuxin couldn’t help but pick up a pen and copy it.

But their handwritings are not in the same style. Xu Mingyuan’s handwriting appears more majestic, while hers is more delicate. After copying a few strokes, she gave up.

“Hey? Why are you writing so many names?”

Tao Shuxin noticed the names on the paper. She had some impression of some of the names, but she couldn’t remember where she had heard them.

Moreover, some people’s names are connected by lines, or there are horizontal lines under the names. Looking at it as a whole, it looks like a network of relationships.

“Here, I’m writing for fun.”

Xu Mingyuan stretched out his hand and hooked it. It would be strange if this little girl could understand it, except for those who are in the game.

“Who are these? How come one of them has the same name as my dad’s?”

“Which one?”

Xu Mingyuan was slightly surprised to see Tao Shuxin pointing at a name at the bottom, Tao Changming.

“This is it.”

“Your father is the vice president of Wanteng Group?”

“How did you know?”

Tao Shuxin widened her eyes and looked at him in disbelief.

“Oh, your father is quite capable. How about I become your father’s son-in-law? The doctor said that I have a bad stomach and can only live off his wife.” Xu Mingyuan teased.

I remember that Wanteng Group also wanted to acquire Xiangli Pharmaceutical, but failed due to interference, and the person in charge was Tao Changming.

Tao Changming’s name is written down only because Wanteng is a state-owned enterprise, and perhaps it will be easier in some aspects, but the probability is not high, so it is placed on the periphery.

Later, part of Wanteng Group was split to form an investment company, with Tao Changming as the general manager.

This makes sense. When Tao Shuxin graduated from university, he went to work in finance and later returned to Nanxi.

Xu Mingyuan had never heard Tao Shuxin mention her father many times. Perhaps because her parents’ relationship broke down, she only talked about her mother often.

However, Tao Shuxin is indeed not suitable for the financial industry, as there are a lot of troubles there.

“Whoever wants you to be a live-in son-in-law, my dad will kick you to death.”

Tao Shuxin blushed, glared at him fiercely, and packed up her books helplessly.

Xu Mingyuan took the paper on her desk, folded it and put it in his pocket.

Seeing her little appearance changeable, she glanced at him and then pretended to look away casually, and he was suddenly startled.

Well, it seems I can’t tease her anymore in the short term.

(End of this chapter)