In the end, a small four-story Western-style building was chosen.
Tongdao Xu thought more long-term. He thought that in the future, when his younger brother and younger sister would get married and have their own children, when the family would get together during the holidays, the three-story western-style house might not be enough room for them.
Moreover, in addition to his own family, Xu is usually accompanied by drivers and bodyguards when he travels. If his wife and children are with him, the female bodyguards who protect his wife and children will also accompany him.
Therefore, he decided to build a four-story foreign-style building.
On the fourth floor, if climbing the stairs is too tiring, you can install an elevator.
After the design plan is selected, someone will naturally be responsible for it.
Comrade Xu handed over the construction of the new house to Jin Yunfei of Sanyuan Real Estate and asked Jin Yunfei to send someone to Shazhou to contact the appropriate construction company and send someone to supervise the quality of the project throughout the process.
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Throughout 2007, Xu Tongdao made no big moves in business.
This year, he seeks stability.
Since his rebirth, he has made big moves in business every year. While he is working steadily, he has always made great strides.
Almost every year, his business reaches a new level.
But this year, he felt it was time to settle down.
No one can keep running forward.
This is true for running, and he feels the same is true for doing business.
In fact, a very important reason is that this year he plans to donate and build 20 Hope Primary Schools in Wenzhou. This project alone will occupy more than 100 million of his funds.
All the funds available to him were put into this project, and he really had no funds to support him in other projects.
Therefore, he simply sought stability this year.
Let’s stabilize for a year first, sort out the whole Ximen Group, and spend this year safely. When we have sufficient funds next year, we will see if there are any suitable investment opportunities.
He made such a plan at the beginning of the year and has been implementing it ever since.
During this period, at the beginning of April, the end of June, the beginning of September, the beginning of November, and the beginning of January, he took time to personally go to Wensu to inspect the Hope Primary School donated and built there.
The project here has been progressing as planned, and he has always had a third-party quality monitoring agency to help him keep an eye on the construction quality here.
If we say that these Hope Primary Schools should be built with top-level earthquake resistance, we cannot discount them.
Otherwise, the significance of his donation to build these hope primary schools would be gone.
In his heart, these Hope Primary Schools are actually not only schools, but also refuges of life.
He hopes to do his part to save more children in the coming earthquake.
In a blink of an eye, time comes to 2008.
The Lunar New Year has not arrived yet, but the Gregorian calendar has already entered 2008.
At the beginning of January, Comrade Xu came to inspect the donated schools in Wenzhou for the last time this year. This time he spent seven days inspecting the 20 schools donated and built in the plan.
In one year, more than RMB 100 million was invested, and all 20 schools planned have been completed.
Accompanied by a group of people, he carefully inspected all the donated schools, and then spent two days visiting other nearby schools.
In the last two days, what he saw was no longer the school he donated and built.
It is the original old school nearby.
They are also elementary schools.
In two days, he visited 7 primary schools like a quick tour.
After reading it, he felt very heavy in his heart.
Because the buildings of the old primary schools he visited were quite old, and just by looking at their appearance, he knew that the earthquake resistance of those school buildings was not good.
After all, these old primary schools, which were built a decade or two ago, had limited financial and material resources at that time. When they were built, they could not consider the earthquake resistance effect at all.
So, after returning this time, he made another decision.
——He will continue to donate money to build a new Hope Primary School there, and strive to build as many more schools as possible before the earthquake hits.
As for funding?
In the past 2007, he had not invested in any major projects. After a year of stability, he had almost 100 million more funds at his disposal.
Therefore, during the Spring Festival, he cruelly did not give any holidays to the employees of Ximen Real Estate in Wensu, but only gave them triple salary incentives.
Let them continue construction during the Chinese New Year.
The reason he gave was that during the New Year period, students happened to be on vacation, and construction during this period would not delay students' studies.
The incentive effect of three times the salary is good. During the New Year period, the construction progress there continued to advance steadily.
Although a few workers were unmoved by triple wages and insisted on taking leave to go home for the New Year, the impact was not significant.
The biggest influence was on Comrade Xu himself.
At the Ximen Group's year-end meeting, many people questioned his continued investment of large sums of money in charity and the construction of Hope Primary School in Wensu over the past year.
Either directly or tactfully suggest to him that the company's development is the most important thing. You can do charity, but you can't focus on charity and delay the company's development.
Among them, the leader is his cousin Tan Shi.
Tan Shi started, and almost everyone in the meeting agreed.
Comrade Xu watched in silence, listening to everyone's speeches, and he could actually understand their doubts.
After all, he has invested more than 100 million there in the past year, and he is continuing to invest large amounts of funds there.
but……
He understood, but he did not waver.
No need to waver.
After all, the Ximen Group is his property. If he insists on having his own way, no one can stop him.
What's more, he knows the meaning of what he is doing. As long as he knows that what he is doing is the right thing, then why should he care about the temporary incomprehension of those below?
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At the year-end meeting, Tan Shi and others failed to make Comrade Xu change his mind. After the meeting, Tan Shi still did not give up.
That night, Tongdao Xu returned home. As soon as he entered the house, he heard the voice of his cousin Tan Shi talking.
She was chatting with her mother, Ge Xiaozhu, in the living room.
When Tongdao Xu saw her at his home tonight, he frowned and had a bad feeling in his heart.
really.
That night, Tan Shi had dinner at their home. Soon after she said goodbye, her mother and Wei Chunlan asked the nanny, female bodyguard and others to take away the two children.
The two of them were left to face Comrade Xu.
Ge Xiaozhu signaled Wei Chunlan with his eyes. Wei Chunlan hesitated for a few seconds and then asked: "Husband, today we heard from my cousin that you spent more than 100 million to donate and build Hope Primary School this year? Is this true?"
The power within the company couldn't stop me, so they encouraged my mother and my wife to persuade me?
Tongdao Xu felt helpless, but he did not deny it. He nodded and admitted that this was the case.
Mother Ge Xiaozhu frowned, "Xiaodao, Mom knows that you are doing a good deed by donating to Hope Primary School, but, I heard Xiaoshi say... you donated too much this year, and it has affected the development of your company, right?
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Comrade Xu spent a long time before he managed to cope with it.