Zhou Qingfeng did not go to the company. He took Gong Wei to the construction site, which was in a wasteland on the outskirts of the city not far from the office. There were no roads in this place. The "three connections and one leveling" project was only started a year ago and has not been completed yet.
"The progress is too slow." Zhou Qingfeng was wearing a safety helmet, and the first and second leaders of the municipal construction unit followed him with the construction workers. In front of them were several bulldozers and excavators, and about 100 construction workers on the Bai Lai No. 1 were busy
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The construction worker unfolds the drawings in his hand and introduces the progress of the project.
But Zhou Qingfeng interrupted impatiently: "How can we speed up the progress? Can we add more money?"
Time, time, time, time is very important!
The leaders of the construction units are very embarrassed because there are many key projects in the city now. Some projects are gift projects, which must ensure quality and quantity, and the delivery date can only be brought forward but not delayed. Postponing it will cause trouble and implicate the official.
The top leader of the construction unit personally explained to Zhou Qingfeng that the equipment and manpower were limited, so this could not be done as quickly as one wanted. It had to be done according to a certain process.
"Can we borrow construction forces from other cities?" Zhou Qingfeng asked.
The construction unit is not happy about this - you, 'Shengguang Machinery', can force us to use your crappy mixer. Although it's a bit crappy, it's cheap and easy to repair. But if you want to interfere in our business, you can't. Yes.
How can it be tolerated?
"It's impossible for all the construction units in the city to be busy. There will always be someone who wants business." Zhou Qingfeng looked at Gong Wei. This kind of thing still requires an "old fritter" to contact. Count on the construction units in Tianyang City.
Unit, they can definitely drag it on.
When they saw that the business was going to be diverted, several leaders looked very ugly.
But Zhou Qingfeng has a trump card, the appearance of "traditional arts", and unfavorable foreign exchange settlement.
"You will speed up the process while maintaining quality and quantity. I am willing to reward you with HKD 50,000 for every week ahead of schedule. In addition, as long as you don't interfere and allow construction companies from other cities to help, all business will be settled in Hong Kong dollars."
One of Zhou Qingfeng's important reasons to seize time is that the domestic economy is currently in the early stages of violent development. If he cannot prepare immediately, when the demand arises, let alone meat, he will not even be able to drink soup. He will have to drink northwest wind.
For state-owned enterprises in Tianyang City and even the entire mainland, foreign exchange will be extremely hungry in the next ten years. Especially in the early 1990s, there was a huge and terrifying trouble - inflation.
This is the Sword of Damocles hanging on everyone's forehead.
Even a blind person can feel that prices are rising rapidly. Banks in Tianyang City can't wait to sell their non-performing assets to Zhou Qingfeng in exchange for foreign exchange, because the exchange rate of soft sister coins is plummeting.
In 1989, the value of RMB against the US dollar was still 3.7 to 1. By 1990, it immediately became 4.7 to 1. By 1991, it would continue to depreciate. By 1993, it jumped like a cliff to 8.6 to 1.
This is because the country has implemented strict controls on foreign exchange, otherwise soft currency will inevitably turn into waste paper uncontrollably. This is no joke. The Southeast Asian financial crisis in 1997 is proof that currency depreciation will trigger violent social unrest.
Banks are extremely sensitive to financial issues. If they can exchange non-performing assets into foreign exchange, they may be able to earn back in two years just by relying on exchange rate changes, and they can also make up for the losses caused by random lending over the years.
This is true for banks, as well as for enterprises and institutions. Reality is forcing them to protect themselves and find ways to obtain foreign exchange. After all, the disintegrating Soviet Union is an example. The 2,000% inflation has wiped out the life savings of countless people.
In 1991, one U.S. dollar was exchanged for 0.9 rubles. By the end of 1994, one U.S. dollar was exchanged for more than 3,200 rubles. The third brother took advantage of the plummeting ruble to use only 5 million U.S. dollars of the nearly 10 billion U.S. dollars of debt accumulated to the Soviet Union over the years.
It was paid off.
Of course, Mao Xiong showed no mercy when he pitted the third brother afterwards. Killing the third brother was easier than killing a fat sheep. The two families were competing to see who was more capable of cheating each other.
As a bystander, you can happily treat this shameful operation as a joke, mocking the Soviet Union and amusing the third brother. But if you face terrible inflation, it will be a disaster.
So you can imagine how tempting it is to settle in Hong Kong dollars. Just the value-preserving transaction is enough to impress people. At least you don't have to worry about being like the people in the Kuomintang-controlled areas before liberation, and the gold yuan coupons in your hands are too hard to wipe your butt.
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With abundant Hong Kong dollars and even US dollars and Japanese yen in hand, Zhou Qingfeng became like a god in Tianyang City. Several leaders of the construction unit met on site for a small meeting and agreed to his request.
It doesn't matter if he doesn't agree. The owner will turn around and go to the city, and he can get better conditions when he comes back.
Returning to the 'Chang'an Star' parked next to the construction site, Zhou Qingfeng told Gong Wei: "Your liaison sales department needs to add more people. But you can't recruit those people who are unruly, have bad conduct, and are cheating."
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The employees in the liaison sales department are similar to the business of a company. They run around here and there and are difficult to control. They have a lot of information and are quick-thinking. Once they use the information gap to make profits, the harm will be particularly great.
Gong Wei nodded, "Mr. Zhou, don't worry. The Liaison Department has been recruiting people recently. I run the department all year round and understand who can use it and who can't. But the Liaison Department is short of mobile phones. Can you give them to us specially?"
Five?"
"How can five be enough? I'll give you fifty." Zhou Qingfeng had some inventory in hand and decided to allocate it directly to Gong Wei. "You can't treat yourself like a gangster leader, you should have the bearing of a big company.
Look at the bag you're carrying. It's too tattered, like someone who collects electricity bills. Also, your clothes look too much like a country cadre. I'll provide the company's management with several sets of good clothes over time.
You should at least have a car and a secretary, and if you need to contact foreign countries, you should also have a translator. By the way, speaking of translators, find a few Russian translators. By the way, contact the government and banks to find a state-owned enterprise with foreign trade rights."
Gong Wei comes from a low background, and his temperament is indeed inferior to Professor Zheng and Lin Wan. He is short and thin, and is easily looked down upon. So he needs a whole set of foils. Clothes, cars, secretaries, and even hairstyle are all important.
The image problem made Gong Wei laugh and laugh at himself, but the translation and foreign trade rights surprised him, "President, we are going to do business directly with foreign countries? Russian? The Soviet Union is about to collapse, what kind of business can we do with them?"
"It's precisely because they are about to collapse that I'm anxious." Zhou Qingfeng looked worriedly at the construction site where the land was still being leveled. "I want to expand my business and benefit more people. But I can't even open my own office."
There are no buildings, so how can we do this?”
Things in the office building were not urgent, so Gong Wei could only visit a few more units and contact more people. Zhou Qingfeng originally asked him to run more errands, but considering that he was already too busy, he could only find someone else to do it.
Driving, Zhou Qingfeng rushed to the city's vegetable pier. This slippery place was still noisy and crowded with people. Since the urban and rural logistics system of waterways was opened up, this place has been crowded and more crowded than before.
Zhou Qingfeng parked the car outside the vegetable market and followed the flow of people to the pier. A beautiful woman in a floral shirt was haggling with several vegetable vendors in a familiar manner. She turned around and saw the man approaching. Her nose instantly felt sore and her eyes were moist.
red.
"You are a murderer with no conscience. I stay here every day, and you have only come now."