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Chapter 387 Money Can Make You a God [Request Full Order]
Chapter 387 Money Can Make You a God [Request Full Order]
Lu Yang’s sudden change.
Du Qinian’s mouth corners pursed up unconsciously.
Sure enough, what’s the use of being rich? It’s because he heard my identity and wanted to curry favor with me.
He has seen many businessmen like this who are good at scheming.
So, he inevitably showed a proud expression on his face and said, “Boss Lu, I wonder what you think of the Tianfu District under my jurisdiction?”
Lu Yang gave a thumbs up and said, “Great, the people are outstanding and the place is beautiful. It is indeed the best place in the provincial capital. Everything you see is prosperous.”
Anyway, nice words don’t cost money, and as long as the other party likes to hear them, he can say a lot of them.
The expression on Du Qinian’s face could no longer be suppressed. He was not yet 40 years old, and to be more precise, he was a young man in his prime. However, young people were inevitably not as cunning as those old foxes. His birth also destined him to have a smooth official career, and he had not encountered any setbacks since he entered the officialdom. At this moment, he was flattered by Lu Yang, the multi-millionaire, and he felt so happy that he almost flew away.
So he stopped pretending and directly stated his purpose: “As far as I know, Boss Lu, you have recently made a big move in Pengcheng City, Guangdong Province, and acquired hundreds of acres of land to build a new electronics factory. I wonder if Boss Lu has ever thought about the people in your hometown and made some contributions to the people of Hunan and Chu?”
The focus here is on the Hunan and Chu land, and the author is very particular about the words.
Lu Yang is not a fool, so he can naturally hear what the other party meant.
But damn, even beggars know to stretch out their bowls first. As a district chief, now that people are here, why can’t you just say whatever you want to say?
You have to quibble and beat around the bush. What about the land of Hunan and Chu? The land of Hunan and Chu is very big. I really want to invest somewhere else. Would you like that?
The other party’s intelligence work was obviously done very well, and they were able to find out about Lu Yang’s investment in Pengcheng in recent months.
There’s no reason not to know!
He had clearly invested in an identical electronics factory in his hometown, and the land he had enclosed was even larger than the one in Pengcheng, and he would surely recruit more workers in the future.
The reason is simple.
Although both employ people, the labor cost in Pengcheng is definitely higher than that in Baoqing City.
Of course, the quality is definitely a bit better.
But anyway, they are all ordinary workers who come to the workshop to screw screws. There is actually not much difference between educated and uneducated, high school students and junior high school students. As long as they are not illiterate who can’t even recognize a few big words, it’s fine.
The country has done a very good job in this regard. Now the basic education has basically been popularized in the East, and the general literacy rate is higher than the international average.
that’s enough.
Lu Yang pretended not to understand and said, “To contribute to the people of Hunan and Chu?
Yes, District Chief Du, you may not know that I have always loved my hometown the most. Long before I went to Pengcheng for inspection, I had already invested in an identical electronics factory in my hometown.
By the way, the construction of the first phase of the 500 million factory has been completed, and we will soon have products on the market. In order to meet the purchasing needs of consumers across the country and to roll out our products in major cities across the country, we have already invested another 2000 million yuan.”
Having said this, Lu Yang waved behind him:
“Secretary Xu, come here for a moment.
Please tell our District Chief Du, how many people have our group recruited, including workshop workers and sales staff in training, at the main factory of the Little Prodigy Electronics Branch in the Economic and Technological Development Zone of Baoqing City, your hometown?
How many employment problems have you solved for our hometown? “
Xu Siqi was dumbfounded.
She didn’t even have time to hide, fearing that she would be discovered by her parents and uncle, but this stinky guy called her out with malicious intent.
There was no other way. Seeing that she couldn’t hide anymore, she had to tiptoe and carefully stick her head out from behind Lu Yang. She pretended to have just seen who was coming and said, “Dad, Mom, little uncle, hehe, what a coincidence!”
Du Yuanyuan glared at her daughter and wanted to scold her.
But Xu Changping beside her had already pulled her back and asked her to pay attention to her brother’s expression.
So she turned her head and found that her brother’s eyes were bright and dazzling, staring at the young man opposite him as if they were glowing, “Boss Lu, are you sure you just said 2000 million, not 200 million?”
If it were thirty years later, with an investment of just 2000 million, not to mention the head of a district in a provincial capital, even the head of a district in an ordinary prefecture-level city, or even some county-level units, their senior leaders might not bother to take a second look at it.
But sorry, it’s 1991, and 1991 million in 2000…
Let me put it this way, the national GDP of Southeast Asia that year was only 3800 billion US dollars, and the per capita GDP was less than 333 US dollars, which is at a backward level in the world.
It was the same year.
What about the GDP of Xingcheng, the capital of Hunan Province?
According to statistics, it is less than 117 billion, and the unit used for statistics here is RMB, which is only equivalent to the annual GDP output value level of some poor counties in the west in later generations.
After such a comparison, I believe everyone will have a clear understanding in their minds.
Yes, 2000 million is awesome, but how awesome is it?
Try adding a few zeros after it, and then substitute it into your city in the future. If someone were to invest 200 billion in your city, what would be the attitude of the local government leaders?
Lu Yang just smiled and said nothing.
Xu Siqi hid behind Lu Yang in fear again, because her uncle’s eyes were a little too scary at this moment.
Xu Changping looked at the young man opposite him with complicated eyes.
Thinking that the other party was someone he had promoted, it was because of his keen eye that he gave the other party a stage to perform at the Canton Fair. In return, the other party also gradually expanded its investment footprint from the small hometown of Zhao County to the larger urban area of Baoqing as promised, benefiting more people in his hometown.
Unfortunately, he was transferred away early before he could enjoy any of the benefits.
So at this moment, there was some relief, some regret, and at the same time a hint of mixed feelings in his eyes.
“What’s the matter with you young man?”
“My brother asked you a question?”
“And you, Xu Siqi, you damn girl, why are you hiding?”
Du Yuanyuan was not sensitive to money, and she didn’t care about these things. At this moment, in her eyes, she only saw her own brother being disrespected, and her own daughter dared to hide from her and say hello. Did she want to run away again? In an instant, the atmosphere at the scene suddenly became quiet.
Du Qinian turned around and said rudely: “Sister, can you please stop talking first?”
Du Yuanyuan was speechless for a moment at her brother’s serious expression.
Is it wrong for me to care about you?
She felt very aggrieved for a moment, but when she thought about it, this was her own brother whom she had helped for decades, and she had come through all these years, so what if he didn’t understand her a little?
If it was the man next to her, she would have started to scold him a long time ago.
Forget it, my third brother is still too young, I won’t bother with him.
Du Yuanyuan turned her face away in grievance, not wanting her brother to see the lost expression on her face.
Otherwise, if his own brother realizes that he, his sister, has been wronged and comes to apologize to him, wouldn’t that damage his official authority in front of outsiders?
She didn’t want to do that and would rather suffer a little injustice.
Du Qinian didn’t care about her. After scolding his sister, he turned around and said, “Boss Lu, I’m sorry for offending you just now. Now call your secretary out. Let’s listen together. How loud will the 20 million be when it is spent? How much value can it create for the local area and how much impact it will have on the workers’ employment. To be honest with you, Boss Lu, I am really…”
He wanted to say he was envious, but he couldn’t say it.
Seeing that the time had almost come, Lu Yang knew that he couldn’t continue playing around, so he glared at the female secretary who had dodged his gaze several times and said, “Why, do you want me to treat you again?”
Xu Siqi stuck out her tongue, and finally mustered up the courage to stick her head out from behind him, pouting and saying, “Uncle, I have the information you want, but we’ve made a promise that you can’t help my mom. I’m not going back to work at the TV station, and I’m not going back for a blind date.”
The provincial TV station is too complicated. She almost got herself involved in it while just on a business trip. Now she regrets why she chose journalism as her major. If she had studied finance, would she be more suitable for her current job?
She doesn’t care anyway. Being a secretary for someone is much more comfortable than working at the provincial TV station or under her mother’s supervision.
As for the blind date?
She wouldn’t go. Those young masters from wealthy families didn’t have any other abilities except relying on their fathers. They were far inferior to the guy next to her. They were just some ugly guys. If she really agreed, she would be a dog.
Du Qinian narrowed his eyes and looked carefully at his niece in front of him, as if he was evaluating whether it would be profitable for him if he agreed.
Xu Siqi looked at him nervously.
She was not worried about her father. Although her father was the mayor, he was not employed in the provincial capital and had no one under him. Besides, her father loved her the most and she was his precious daughter. Unless she was willing, could her father sell his daughter in exchange for his own future?
But her mother is different.
Since she was a child, Xu Siqi knew that her mother was a strong woman who devoted herself to her work. From kindergarten, elementary school, junior high school, to high school, she had always lived in the city where her father worked and followed her father to various schools. Her mother would only come to see her and her father during holidays.
So, in fact, the relationship between mother and daughter has always been very confusing.
When Xu Siqi was a child, she admired her mother very much and thought her mother was very capable. She was also willing to listen to her mother and follow her mother’s instructions to apply for the major her mother required. She only hoped that after graduation she could go to work in the city where her mother worked to make up for the time that the mother and daughter had missed together over the years.
But after spending more time with her, she slowly discovered that her mother might not be as good as she imagined. Compared with her father’s relaxed education, her mother was at least a hundred times stricter than her father, and she controlled almost everything, and she had to listen to her in everything, from what to eat and drink, what time to go to bed, study, work, friends to make, and even who to marry in the future. She arranged everything for her, but this kind of care was almost suffocating.
Her mother did this for her own good, but she couldn’t afford such goodness.
So she chose to escape.
Even if the incident in Rongcheng had not happened, she had asked herself: if time went on and her mother continued to control her as much as before, she would still choose to escape from Xingcheng.
So she has no regrets at all.
And at this moment, she was not very worried about her mother, because she knew her mother very well. She was an extremely confident woman who would only use her extreme self-confidence and her status as a mother to forcibly restrain her daughter.
But she is no longer the Xu Siqi of the past. Her mother wants to use her status as a mother to make her obedient, but this is simply impossible. She will not listen to her.
But my uncle is different. He has always been a smiling tiger, saying one thing in front of you and another behind your back.
It wasn’t her who said this, it was my aunt who said this.
Given my uncle’s identity and the government workers he brought with him, if he gives orders, these workers will definitely listen to him. Will this bastard order his bodyguards to stand up for him and fight against these government workers brought by my uncle just because he is an outsider?
This obviously wouldn’t happen, so she was being extra careful at the moment, not wanting to anger her uncle, lest he behave himself and she would be the one to suffer in the end.
at last.
“Okay, as long as the data you say is true and valid, I can promise you, uncle.”
Xu Siqi just breathed a sigh of relief.
Du Qinian, who had just agreed to her proposal, immediately said, “Don’t be too happy yet. I am a pragmatic person. Although I can help persuade your mother, she is too stubborn. I want to persuade her to leave, but I don’t have to pay anything. How about this? You finish speaking first, and then I will listen to Boss Lu’s sincerity. Then I will give you a satisfactory answer. How about that?”
He discovered something interesting. It might not be a bad thing that his niece ran away from home. At least she knew how to hook up with a multimillionaire, and she was still so young. If everything was real, like the 2500 million just now, there was no water in it, and not a trace of adulteration.
It is obvious that this is not just a simple multi-millionaire. One may have to add another zero behind his assets. Even if it is not enough, it is probably not much different.
Then this is not just an ordinary small boss of a private enterprise.
Instead, entrepreneurs and big capitalists, like those foreign capital tycoons, as long as they are willing to invest in China, no matter which city they go to, they will be treated as guests of honor and will be personally received and talked with by leaders at the provincial and municipal levels.
Given his current status, it would be great if he could appear on such an occasion and offer a drink.
Ultimately, it’s all about money.
Xu Siqi pouted unhappily and said, “Of course the information is true. Look here, here, here, here. Since we started investing in the factory, we have been recruiting a large number of people at the end of every month. Currently, the number of workers in the front-line workshops has exceeded 2000, and is still gradually increasing. With the new workshops going into production, as long as the products sell well in the future, the number of workers will definitely increase exponentially. As for the sales staff of the products, we are also training them recently. The current plan is to train at least 500 qualified sales staff, disperse them to county-level cities across the country, and build a qualified sales platform. This road is difficult to take, but we are confident that we can make it work.”
Lu Yang told her some information about products that were already in the laboratory.
Including the two learning machine brand names, Little Genius and Little Prodigy, Lu Yang assigned her, the secretary, to register and apply for them personally.
So it’s not just Lu Yang who has confidence in the future development of the company. She, as a secretary, is also full of confidence, otherwise she wouldn’t be bragging here.
The news just now is partly true and partly false. Apart from the fact that 500 sales personnel will be trained to pave the way for sinking markets across the country, factories are indeed being built every day. But if you look closer, you can see that most of them are empty factories.
These are all Lu Yang’s preparations for expanding production in the future.
As for the workshop workers, apart from some technical backbones, there are probably only about one in a hundred ordinary workers in the factory.
It’s not that we can’t afford to support them, but that there is no need to, because the product has not been finalized yet. Only when the product is finalized and there are things that need to be produced, will it be necessary to expand the scale. After all, they are ordinary workers, just screwing screws. As long as they are not illiterate, they can start working immediately after a little training. It’s not necessary to spend money to support them in advance, right?
“Uncle, you’ve asked, and I’ve given you all the information, but your additional request is too embarrassing. Our boss has already invested in two electronics factories in Baoqing City and Pengcheng, so how can he afford to invest in a new factory in your Tianfu District? How about you be more flexible?”
(End of this chapter)