Two days after Leeds beat West Herts at home, Hulay took part in a video conference from his flat in Leeds.
The purpose of this meeting is to inform Hu Lai of the latest progress in environmental advocacy.
At the moment when the Chinese team had just entered the World Cup, Song Jiajia and the others used Hu Lai's name to negotiate very smoothly.
Whether it is the local government or relevant national departments, once they heard that Hu Lai was enthusiastic about public welfare and took the initiative to contribute to China's desertification prevention and control work, there was no reason to refuse.
The places where desertification is controlled in China are mainly those places, mainly concentrated in the north and northwest.
It is relatively easy to choose a place.
However, choosing a sponsoring company is relatively complicated.
After all, they can’t hold a big fanfare-like “competition to recruit a bride” event, advertise it to the world, and then let many companies that are enthusiastic about public welfare come to bid for it.
That would be a warning to the snake... No, it would be a warning to "Wildlife Rescue".
Hu Lai's career is just at its beginning, and the future can be expected to be long.
They do not intend to carry out this public welfare undertaking for just one or two years as a show, and then leave it alone after the popularity subsides.
Both Song Jiajia and Hu Lai hope that this event will be as long as possible. It is best that it can accompany Hu Lai's career until he retires - when he retires and no longer scores goals in official games, the event will be announced.
Finish.
This way it is commemorative.
Besides, afforestation itself is a long-term task.
China’s “Three North Shelterbelt” project has a planning period of 73 years and is divided into eight phases. Even if Hu Lai spent his entire career planting trees, it would still be very small in the face of the huge national plan.
So the tree planting activities in one or two years are meaningless except to create a positive image of Hu Lai as "enthusiastic about environmental protection and public welfare".
The two high school classmates have a tacit understanding and consensus in this regard, that is, once they have decided to do something, they must do it to the end to make it meaningful and resolutely not show off.
Under this premise, it is very important to find sponsor companies.
There are many Chinese companies, and there are also many wealthy companies.
But how many companies can continue to invest money in this public welfare undertaking for a long time?
Even if some companies say good things, even if they are written into the contract, how can they ensure that they can be performed smoothly in the end without all kinds of troubles?
Changes in corporate leadership personnel, changes in operating conditions, market fluctuations, policy influences...there are too many factors that can affect the future.
At the same time, businesses also have to worry about the money we spend, who knows whether it will be squandered by you. There are so many organizations in society that engage in charity activities and receive so many donations every year. In the end, only a handful of money is actually used for charity.
It can be counted, but operating costs such as employee salaries account for the majority.
Companies are not like taking advantage of a stupid person with a lot of money.
So it would be too naive to just follow Hu Lai’s original idea and simply find a company to invest money.
Of course Hu Lai didn’t understand these things, he just expressed his thoughts.
In the end, Song Jiajia’s approach was to find companies and his own brokerage company to jointly set up a fund.
This fund can be one company, or multiple companies can join together.
At the same time, the fund is also supervised by relevant national departments.
Establish a dedicated department for operation and maintenance to ensure the normal operation of the fund.
At the same time, in order to avoid the misuse of funds, the use of funds is strictly stipulated: it can only be used for "Hu Lai Forest" - this is the name given by Song Jiajia to this public welfare project. When the time comes, a monument will be erected outside the specially designated forest land.
Explaining the name and the origin of this forest clearly can be regarded as helping Hu Lai earn a reputation.
At the same time, because it only does one thing, the scale of the entire fund's operating department is limited to a small size, and there will be no need to use a large amount of funds for maintenance and management.
After this team was established, the work progressed much faster.
This set of plans is more convincing than directly saying, "Our Hu Lai plans to plant trees, boss, please sponsor some money."
"... Now we have found corporate capital injections and local government cooperation. We did not choose the Umauru Desert from the beginning, because the governance of this place has been very successful. Our visit is just the icing on the cake, nothing big.
Meaning. We planned to find a difficult place to start, but this idea was a bit wishful thinking. After all, afforestation cannot be planted wherever we want..." An employee of Song Jiajia's company was responsible for helping Hu Lai at the meeting.
Introducing specific situations, most of the time she is the one making the statements.
“…Finally we selected the desert at the junction of the Left Banner and the Right Banner of the Yala League in the west of Tong Banner…”
Speaking of this, she also showed Hu Lai the PPT she made, which contained a series of information such as satellite images and aerial photos of the final site.
However, Hu Lai felt that this was not important. Anyway, he believed in Song Jiajia and Uncle Yong. Since they both recognized it, he had no objection. So he waved his hand and did not let the other party continue the introduction: "No problem, no problem. I
I believe in you. In short, just let me know when the project can start, and there is no need to hold a special meeting. Whether you are Fatty or Uncle Yong, just let me know. There is no problem if you want me to cooperate with publicity or something. Next
I will leave all this matter to you, I will only be responsible for scoring goals."
The staff member glanced at Song Jiajia. Song Jiajia and Yong Jun looked at each other and nodded: "Okay, no problem, just score goals. This is what you are best at."
“In addition, I have an opinion: the number of trees planted must take into account all the goals I scored in my previous career, not just from now on.”
"It's reasonable, completely OK." After Song Jiajia finished speaking, she turned to ask her subordinates, "Go back and count how many goals Hu Lai has scored in his career, including all the goals in official games..."
The subordinate was immersed in recording the boss's question, and Yong Jun beside him blurted out the answer: "As of the last round of the league, Hu Lai has scored a total of 156 official game goals in his career."
Song Jiajia, who was sitting next to Yong Jun, turned to look at Yong Jun in surprise. Even Hu Lai, who was far away in Leeds, was shocked: "Wow, Uncle Yong, how did you calculate it?"
“It’s all about mental arithmetic.” Yong Jun said matter-of-factly.
“No, I mean how do you remember it so clearly...even I don’t know this.”
"I will add your number of goals after each season and write it down. Mr. Song asked just now, then you only need to add the number of goals you scored as of last season to the number of goals this season.
Is that all? Addition within three digits is still very simple."
After hearing what Yong Jun said, Hu Lai frowned again.
Seeing this, Yong Jun asked: "What's wrong?"
“It’s nothing, I just feel like I got less than I thought…”
Yong Jun and Song Jiajia looked at each other and laughed dumbly: "Master? Hu Lai, do you know what you are talking about? It has only been more than three years since you entered professional football in July 2022. In less than four years, you have
He just scored 156 goals, what else do you want? Many people may not be able to score so many goals in their entire career..."
Hu Lai curled his lips: "Uncle Yong, those people you are talking about are definitely not the forwards."
In order to maintain his image in front of other company staff, Yong Jun did not roll his eyes at Hu Lai: "Then let me find someone you know as an example. Sousa Espinola, I just met you in the World Cup qualifiers.
The top scorer in Paraguay's history. He played for the Munich Blue and White for five seasons and scored a total of 133 goals in all competitions. This was boasted by the German media and Paraguayan media, and was considered to be '
'Efficient killer'. Of course, Sosa is indeed very efficient, and his number of goals is indeed amazing in the Bundesliga. One hundred and thirty-three goals in five years is an 'efficient killer'. What about you, one hundred and five in less than four years?
Sixteen goals... Do you still want Sousa to live?"
Hu Lai scratched his head.
Yong Jun seemed to be going crazy and didn't want to let Hu Lai go. He shook someone out again:
"Park Soon-tae, a Korean football hero, is the second-leading scorer in the history of the Korean team in the World Cup. He has scored a total of 274 goals in his career so far. He started his career at the age of 18 and has only scored 12 goals now.
Less than three hundred goals. You have scored half of his goals in more than three years... What else do you want?"
Just as he was talking, Yong Jun noticed that Song Jiajia touched his arm: "What's the matter, Mr. Song?"
Song Jiajia pointed at Hu Lai on the screen and said to him: "Stop talking, Uncle Yong, look at Hu Lai's tail rising to the sky..."
Yong Jun looked over in confusion, and sure enough he saw Hu Lai's nostrils pointing upward, looking triumphant.
Hearing Song Jiajia say this, he restrained his expression: "Tsk, who's tail is flying up to the sky? I really have no idea about my results!"
"Hu Lai, just say it directly when you ask for praise. Don't be so roundabout next time." Song Jiajia curled her lips, "Anyway, your statistics are very beautiful and really amazing. The most important thing is that after you went to the Premier League, your performance in the Chinese Super League was nothing.
There are too many ups and downs, which shows that you can also replicate your results in domestic football in Europe - do you sound secretly happy when I say this?"
Hu Lai, who was grinning from the corner of his mouth to his ears, quickly straightened his face and said righteously: "No, no. I have won the top scorer in both the Chinese Super League and the Chinese Premier League, but I have never won it in the Premier League.
I will continue to work hard! I was a little lax before and didn't have high requirements for myself... But now I have found the goal and motivation to continue fighting! That is to improve the environment in the northwest of our country and to increase the vegetation coverage of our earth's homeland.
I will work hard to score goals!"
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The video conference ended, the screen on the other side went completely black, and Hu Lai was offline.
Song Jiajia and Yong Jun couldn't help but shake their heads when they talked about Hu Lai's "nonsense" at the end - this guy is good at everything, but he has such a mouth.
Compared with the head, the contrast is a bit big...
"I'm used to him being like this..." Yong Jun sighed.
Song Jiajia laughed: "Indeed, he was like this when we were in school. I have been tricked by him many times!"
At this moment, a staff member next to him hesitated to speak, and finally plucked up the courage to say to Song Jiajia: "Mr. Song, actually... I think Brother Hu's last words are quite interesting. When we do marketing in the future,
You can consider using it as a publicity point..."
Song Jiajia glanced at this employee who was recruited into the company just after graduating from university with a little surprise. She carefully made a PPT for this video conference, but it was basically of no use because Hu Lai was too lazy to listen to her introduction. Continue
After the video conference came down, it turned into an online chat between him, Yong Jun and Hu Lai. This employee was basically ignored...
“How to publicize it?” he asked with a sudden thought.
"It's just...'In order to change the environment of my home and to save the earth, I will keep scoring goals.' I think it is very topical on the Internet. If you listen to it fiercely, it will feel a bit...well, pretentious." This employee
After careful consideration, she decided to use this word, so she quickly said a long paragraph in an attempt to make the leader not notice her word.
"But actually if you think about it carefully, Hu Ge's approach can indeed be regarded as such. The more goals he scores, the more trees we plant, which will certainly help change the local environment. So.
These two things can be completely equated. Obviously what you are doing is very positive, but you talk about it in a way that looks like a 'grandma selling melons', hiding your innocent heart in funny and unfair things.
Behind the sutra... This kind of multi-layered deconstruction is actually very consistent with the audience psychology in current online propaganda. In fact, I am talking about a very great thing, but if I talk about it seriously, it will make people think that you are superior, and they
I don’t want to accept it. If you use a different way, using a joke, or even a self-deprecating, self-defeating and self-defeating way, it will be more likely to arouse heated discussions, and at the same time, the audience will generally be more willing to accept it..."
After speaking for such a long time, her mind seemed to finally wake up, and she looked at Song Jiajia with some embarrassment: "Uh... This is what I just thought of temporarily, Mr. Song. I'm not very mature yet, but I just feel..."
Song Jiajia raised her eyebrows: "Your name is Diao Xiaoyun?"
Diao Xiaoyun was a little flattered that his boss could remember his name. He nodded repeatedly: "Yes, Mr. Song, my name is Diao Xiaoyun..."
“Okay, you will be responsible for the new media promotion of this project from now on.” Song Jiajia nodded.
Diao Xiaoyun did not expect that the plot that only happened in novels and idol dramas would actually happen to her. She stood there blankly.
Yong Jun smiled and nodded at the little girl: "Come on, girl."