Chapter 41: One Land Takes the Lead
The tiger-skin banana on the glass windowsill of Lu Zheng's office are blooming, with tender green leaves and pink flowers, which are full of vitality in the autumn bleakness.
Chen Sanshui looked at Smith who was intimately chatting with Lu Zheng in a dizzy way. He could no longer describe the young director in words.
Mr. Smith is the chief executive officer of Oriental Financial Investment Company. It is said that although this investment company has just been established, its background is very unusual. Even Japanese financial giants like Mitsubishi Bank are eager to cooperate with it.
Mr. Smith said that Oriental Financial Investment Company's goal in the next few years is mainly to the Hong Kong market.
The application for investment promotion to Hong Kong has been approved by the Municipal Party Committee. Just so happens that this CEO, who is familiar with the situation in Hong Kong, can provide some valuable advice for this investment promotion.
But the question is, why should they help us?
It's fine for the German man Schroder. After all, he is investing in a factory in Wushan. In addition, Director Lu Zheng is the party secretary of the joint venture company. He has a lot of contact with Director Lu Zheng, and he can talk about it, which is a bit of affinity. So to help the staff, it's nothing.
But Mr. Smith, why?
Moreover, seeing Smith's attitude towards Director Lu Zheng is not as simple as an old friend. I always feel that there is a little compliment and obedience, just like the relationship between subordinates and superiors.
Although Chen Sanshui is a graduate of Peking University in the 1978th grade and an intellectual, he has been immersed in the officialdom for many years and can still feel some things that can only be understood.
In fact, Chen Sanshui's feelings are not wrong. Smith and Lu Zheng's relationship is not about superiors and subordinates, but a big boss and an employee.
Smith is actually the agent who manages Lu Zheng's investment in Hong Kong. Of course, Smith doesn't know that this is a bet, and he doesn't know the real relationship between Lu Zheng and these funds. He only knows that Lu Zheng is the boss behind him.
No matter how talented Smith is, he must always give his due respect to his big boss.
Chen Sanshui can capture this subtle expression of interpersonal relationships with keenness.
The phone ringing rang, and Lu Zheng answered the phone and made a gesture: "Sanshui, you, learn from Mr. Smith again, be sure to grasp the details of this investment promotion."
Chen Sanshui hurriedly agreed, so he intimately invited Smith to his office. Smith was a little familiar with Chinese, while Chen Sanshui understood English roughly. The two of them were playing tricks, but they could barely communicate.
"Hello, who can I ask?" Lu Zheng mechanically answered the phone and flipped through the materials on the table, including a list of Hong Kong business people.
With Wushan’s current investment promotion environment, we must have a clear position. In a short period of time, the wealthy people from Hong Kong’s large consortiums do not need to think about it. Moreover, even if they want to invest in Wushan, they will take the central high-level route and then they will deal with your local government.
On the list, there are some Hong Kong business figures who are interested in investing in and opening up markets in the mainland. Although they are not rich, they are not something that anyone can see when they want to. Lu Zheng hopes to meet with some of them in Hong Kong and convince them to come to Wushan to invest and develop.
This time, the focus of this investment in Hong Kong is on electronics companies and service industries. If some funds can be brought in for urban infrastructure construction, it would be great.
"Is it Lu Zheng?"
In the microphone, there was the man's low and majestic voice. When Lu Zheng heard this, he was slightly stunned and slowly put down the list in his hand, "Dad?"
"Yeah, it's me."
Lu Zheng felt nervous. His father had never called him from the company. It was the first time today. Could it be that something happened at home?
After all, the trajectory of this world is different from that of previous life. What has not happened in previous life does not mean that it cannot happen now.
It’s like a father. In the past two years, I have been angry with myself and persuaded me to re-enter the career. In this life, my father doesn’t have to worry too much about me. In this way, he will have different moods and different judgments on people and things. This will also change many things that happen to my father.
Therefore, the so-called foresight, at least for the fate of the family, has gradually become ineffective.
"Dad, my mom has nothing happened, right?" If someone in the family might have something wrong, the biggest possibility is my stubborn mother. Regarding the survival of some military scientific research projects and the reform direction of military enterprises, my mother has always sang against the current military tycoon.
Lu Tianhe smiled in the microphone and said, "No, your mother is very good. I heard that you have worked very hard recently. How about you? Do you want to go back to Beijing?"
Lu Zheng knew that his father always wanted to follow the steps he arranged, join ministries and commissions when he was young, contact more macro-related things, expand his connections, and then delegate them to local areas for development when he was young.
In particular, Jidong is not a region suitable for its own development. For a long time, important cadres of the mainland have never held important positions in Jidong.
My grandfather was born in the Northeast Bureau, and almost all the senior cadres united around me had the experience of serving in the three northeastern provinces. Before the reform and opening up, as a heavy industrial base, the three northeastern provinces had an extremely important position in the political territory of the Republic. My grandfather, who was in charge of the Northeast, was a true king of Northeastern. At the beginning of the founding of the country with many powerful generals and counselors, he was a hero in the country.
Looking back at that time, Grandpa, a great prince, was summoned to Beijing to serve, and the world was immediately shocked. It was called "Five Tigers Entering Beijing, and one of the mainland was the first!"
Thinking of this, Lu Zheng couldn't help but feel excited. When will he reach the level of his grandfather? This life will be worth the journey!
My father also has a Northeast complex. I hope that even if I go to the place, I can go to the Northeast, right?
In Hebei, there are some things that may not be taken care of at home.
It’s just that I am too extreme, and I have been living in Wushan when I was young, so I decided to come to Wushan by retiring from the army and resigning, so my parents didn’t want to force me.
Over the past year, my father may have felt that his relationship with him has improved a lot, so he brought up the old things again, hoping that he could still train and make progress step by step according to his arrangements.
Lu Zheng pondered for a while and said slowly, "Dad, just let me play freely." In the Wushan officialdom, it seems that my career is not going well, but in fact, I have my own considerations. Many things are not about temporary honors and disgraces. For example, my thoughts on the restructuring of state-owned enterprises have truly affected the world. Not long ago, Wushan Steel Group was ready to implement the general manager responsibility system. Similarly, it will set up a supervision committee to supervise and regulate the operation of the group, limiting the power of the top leaders of state-owned enterprises to a certain extent.
These changes are inherited from the idea of contracting and restructuring of state-owned enterprises in Guangning.
Now Lu Zheng can confirm that the father of Jiang Haiyan, secretary of Guangning County Party Committee, is the director of the Provincial Advisory Committee and the second secretary of the Provincial Party Committee. It is precisely because of Director Jiang's influence in Hebei for many years that Jiang Haiyan can successfully promote the reform of state-owned enterprises in Guangning, and even begin to affect Wushan.
In fact, many of the state-owned enterprise reforms promoted by Jiang Haiyan are following their own path, and what she is doing is what she wants to do.
But now I am a little bit less and my influence in Jidong is far less than Jiang Haiyan. These things really come to my hands. For example, I have been leading these things in Guangning. In just over a year, I will definitely not be as good as Jiang Haiyan.
To a certain extent, I can also use Jiang Haiyan's hands to realize my ambitions. It is a kind of leverage to force. However, in this world, only I understand what I am doing.
Naturally, my father would not know his true thoughts and was afraid he was not optimistic about his prospects in Wushan. Then he brought up the old story again, hoping that he would leave Wushan and Jidong.
It seemed as if Lu Zheng had expected that he would refuse. When he heard Lu Zheng want to "play freely", Lu Tianhe smiled on the phone and said, "It's okay, let's do it. But I heard that you took the lead in a campaign to recruit in Hong Kong? It's best to let it go."
Lu Zheng was stunned for a moment and asked, "Have there any changes in the policies above?"
"It's not the reason. Anyway, you should think carefully. During this period, you have to make sure you have a stable demand." There was a voice from the microphone, and Lu Tianhe said, "I have something to do. If you have time, go home and take a look." Then, he hung up the phone.
Lu Zheng slowly put down the microphone, lit a cigarette, and thought about his father's words.
The upper class is that it is to reach the position of father, and it is sometimes difficult to explain clearly, especially when it comes to routes and ideological disputes. Before the dust falls, it is difficult to predict what the result will be after the compromise between power games at the highest level.
Nowadays, Wushan, a special economic zone adjacent to the capital, has gradually entered the vision of the central tycoons.
My father's words imply that there may be some changes in Wushan in the near future, but what are the consequences of this change? My father is just a prediction, so that in addition to reminding himself, it is difficult to tell him the whole story.
The Wushan officialdom has not been very stable in the past two years, because the special economic zones are often the battlefield for high-level ideological games. Now, it seems that an unprecedented storm is approaching. This contest is probably more cruel than ever before, otherwise, my father would not call himself to warn him by abnormal behavior.
Where is the eye of this storm?
Hong Kong, are you really not going to go?
The fire in the city gate affected the pond fish. Now I am just a small fish and shrimp in the boundless officialdom. In the whirlpool of power struggle, if you are not careful, you will be beaten by the wind and rain. Think about what you can do.
Lu Zheng shook his head and slowly cut off the cigarette butt in his hand.
At this time, the office door was knocked on, and a capable female cadre wearing a beige lady's suit and trousers came in. It was Zhang Qingtian's lover He Hongmei.
Chapter completed!