National Tide 1980.

The fact that the Longtan Lake Park Longgong Aquarium project successfully obtained approval and policy support from the district government is also of great significance to Ning Weimin.

You know, in the past, in the entire Pierre Caton company, the only people who could have equal dialogue with the district government leaders were Master Pierre Caton and Song Huagui.

But now, there is one more Ning Weimin.

To put it bluntly, the establishment of this project as a key project for the district's economic and cultural development means that Ning Weimin, as an independent business individual, has entered the district government's vision and has his own "status".

With this project, Ning Weimin is no longer a vassal of Pierre Caton in the eyes of the district government, but a private entrepreneur who is of great significance to the economic and cultural development of Chongwen District.

That's the benefit of investing.

In this era when governments at all levels prioritize investment promotion, even if Ning Weimin donated so many cultural relics to the Cultural Relics Bureau and so many vehicles to the public security system, it would not be easier to gain the district government's appreciation than to invest in a project.

Especially since Ning Weimin mobilized foreign currency for investment, this gave him an extra halo, completely different from ordinary private entrepreneurs, and won him recognition and preferential treatment from the district government.

To some extent, he is even more unpopular with the district government than real foreign companies and joint ventures.

Because he did not ask the government for tax incentives in the name of the joint venture.

Moreover, he made it clear that he did not do so not because he was stupid, but because he did not want to pay taxes to the Japanese government and wanted to create more tax revenue for his own government.

Think about it, with such awareness, what would the district government think of him?
Therefore, the follow-up impact of this incident is huge. The favors and goodwill that Ning Weimin gained by bringing honor to the district government will definitely not only affect this cultural and tourism project.

It can be said that from now on, as long as the construction of this aquarium proceeds smoothly as Ning Weimin promised, it means that this guy’s business operations and cultural activities in the entire Chongwen District will continue to receive support from the district government.

From now on, as long as Ning Weimin wants to do something, the various departments under the district government will not deliberately make things difficult for him or ask for bribes. Instead, they will do their best to cooperate within the policy scope.

This is equivalent to him having a special pass, which is enough to help him accelerate the development of his business layout within the Chongwen District.

It doesn't matter if he has conflicts of interest with other people or with certain state-owned units.

Because from the perspective of the district government, it must put the "overall situation first."

Even if Ning Weimin is not right, we have to be tolerant of him, let alone when he is right, we will undoubtedly be biased towards him to the end.

Therefore, this virtually gave Ning Weimin a full advantage in handling the handover of the assets of Tan Gong Restaurant.

However, Gong Mingcheng, who was still waiting for the handover with Ning Weimin, didn't know this.

In fact, this guy who only knows how to pick peaches is still waiting to get his share of the big meat and enjoy the fruits of his labor.

That’s right, in the six months since the three shareholders of Dangu Restaurant finally decided to go their separate ways, the new director’s main energy and time have been focused on how to accept the old director’s “legacy” and how to stabilize his own base.

In order to secure his position as the director and to prevent the adverse consequences from spreading further, Gong Mingcheng has only focused on three things over the past six months.

The first is to seize personnel and financial power.

He made many personnel adjustments to the leadership team of the Temple of Heaven, and quickly fostered a group of his own confidants by using the method of using one group to fight another.

He also changed the bonus system and firmly grasped the power of distribution in his own hands.

They also adopted the method of increasing wages and reducing bonuses, and eventually reached a pyramid distribution system.

The small group centered on him successfully swallowed up most of the interests of the grassroots employees and established authority over them.

Second, we formally finalized the terms of cooperation with Shangri-La of the Guo Group and made preparations for the handover between Pierre Cardin and Ning Weimin after their exit from Tan Palace Restaurant after the Spring Festival.

Even though Gong Mingcheng knew that he was being used as a pawn by the Guo Group, he suffered a loss in silence.

But he still believed in the ability of the Guo Group, and there was no better choice at this time. He could only let go of his resentment, put aside his past grudges, and cooperate with the other party in the catering business according to the original plan.

The third is that he began to take the initiative to find out the specific circumstances of several famous cultural activities in the Temple of Heaven Park that are now well-known in Beijing, and intervened in the organization of these activities. In his capacity as the park director, he contacted the main cooperative units one by one and stabilized these cooperative units.

If for no other reason, the activities planned by Ning Weimin brought a huge amount of visitors to the Temple of Heaven Park.

Today, the summer book fair, the autumn lantern festival, the winter art exhibition and the New Year's garden party have become a stable source of income for the Temple of Heaven Park. The ticket revenue alone throughout the year is an astonishing figure, not to mention the other consumption income generated by these tourists during their visit.

And it was impossible for Ning Weimin to take these activities away with him.

So even though the end of their cooperative relationship and Ning Weimin's departure from Tan Gong Restaurant has become a foregone conclusion, Gong Mingcheng still wants to continue to enjoy the shade under the money tree planted by Ning Weimin and fully enjoy the economic dividends of these cultural activities.

Naturally, we must do our best to maintain good relations with those cooperative units and continue to make money by leveraging the resource advantages of the Temple of Heaven Park itself.

Speaking of this matter, it can't be said that Gong Mingcheng is thinking too well.

After all, for those cooperating units, actual benefits are the most important.

These cultural activities have now become very famous, and the economic benefits they bring cannot be underestimated.

If they don't participate, it will be a loss for them, which is equivalent to pushing money out. Although they have a good relationship with Ning Weimin, they also understand that Ning Weimin's current career focus has actually shifted to overseas, and he has been away from the country for a long time.

Moreover, the county magistrate is not as good as the current manager. In the small and small area of ​​the Temple of Heaven, Gong Mingcheng is now the one who has the final say.

Therefore, for these cooperative units, they would naturally not refuse the olive branch extended by Gong Mingcheng, and they are even willing to show goodwill to him in order to continue to maintain their cooperative relationship with the Temple of Heaven Park.

Even if they had some opinions about Gong Mingcheng squeezing Ning Weimin out, they certainly wouldn't express them.

To put it bluntly, who has a grudge against money?
In short, for these cooperative units, it is a rational choice to maintain friendly contact with both Pierre Catton and the Temple of Heaven and not make unilateral choices.

So, apart from a few old masters in the arts and crafts industry and several graduates from art academies who won awards in sculpture art exhibitions, who, out of gratitude for Ning Weimin's support and favor, firmly chose not to bow to the temptation of money and to draw a clear line between themselves and the Temple of Heaven Park, no one else stood on Ning Weimin's side.

As a result, the sculpture art exhibition held at the Temple of Heaven on New Year's Day 1989 was held as usual.

Although there was a rift between the Temple of Heaven Park and Pierre Catton, the venue for this year's event was not arranged to be held in the Zhai Palace as in the past, but was moved to the Hundred Flowers Garden and the Shuanghuan Wanshou Pavilion according to Gong Mingcheng's instructions.

However, since the Temple of Heaven Park offered real money as prize money, art schools across the country still participated enthusiastically, and the works they submitted maintained the expected level in both quantity and quality.

This made this sculpture art exhibition, like those held in previous years, well received by the audience.

The Spring Festival Garden Party was held again according to the previous pattern.

Despite the lack of proper supervision and increasing management problems, the foreign temple fair model designed by Ning Weimin for the Temple of Heaven Park has been optimized based on the advantages of the Temple of Heaven Park and is a fairly mature model.

As long as Gong Mingcheng follows the rules and doesn't make any major mistakes, he will be able to get a standing ovation.

He can still rely on copying others' ideas to continue to dominate the temple fair in the capital and make a fortune.

In fact, even the Tangong Restaurant, which is still under Ning Weimin's control for the time being, and the Menimus Restaurant of Pierre Cardin did not refuse to cooperate with the Temple of Heaven and provided Chinese and Western food services for the temple fair.

It can be said that the operation of the Temple of Heaven Park is generally no different from the past.

The only cultural activity that was cancelled was the exchange meeting of outstanding works in the arts and crafts industry that was originally scheduled to be held in Beishenchu.

This is easy to understand. First, the well-known old craftsmen in these industries value feelings and always remember their roots.

Psychologically, they identify with Ning Weimin and feel repelled by others.

These people actually don’t care much about the position of their own unit, and are more willing to stand on Ning Weimin’s side.

Secondly, the arts and crafts industry is not valued by society in this era. Only Ning Weimin understands the value of these things, and only he is willing to spend huge amounts of money to acquire them.

Gong Mingcheng was reluctant to use the Temple of Heaven's funds to buy these things that cost tens of thousands of yuan, which meant that no one except Ning Weimin could organize such an event.

Third, Ning Weimin and Jiang Nianyun had already gone through a round of shopping last year, and the things that should have been sold to him had already been in his hands, which essentially made this year's exchange activity meaningless.

It can be said that even after the last exhibition, there was nothing good to exhibit.

In this case, no matter from which angle or for which reason, this activity seems unnecessary this year and has to be suspended for one year.

In short, the Temple of Heaven Park has completely completed a smooth transition and truly entered a new era under the leadership of Gong Mingcheng.

Especially on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the 1989 Spring Festival Garden Party at the Temple of Heaven Park came to a successful conclusion.

Moreover, because this is the only park in Beijing that has ice lanterns to view and is open at night, not only did the number of visitors set a new record, but it also welcomed reporters from various media outlets to interview and film.

This made Gong Mingcheng, who was surrounded by the media for the first time, stand out during the interview and was quite benefited.

He was even happier when he heard that he would be on the Beijing Evening News and Beijing TV's news program tomorrow.

For this reason, not only was a celebration banquet arranged at the Tan Palace Restaurant the next day, but he also felt quite proud when he rode a Crown car to the Tourism Bureau for a meeting that morning.

He never thought that he could not show off his work achievements just because he had worked hard at it. The peaches he picked with his own ability were his.

Therefore, based on the operating income and number of visitors of the Temple of Heaven Park Spring Festival Garden Party, he still expects to be commended by his superiors and take the lead among his peers in the city.

Of course, the actual situation was just as he expected, and he was indeed the person who was singled out for commendation at this regular meeting.

What he never expected was that at this meeting he heard for the first time some news about the aquarium project that Longtan Lake Park was preparing.

As a result, after comparing the two, he immediately felt that even the praise from his leader was not good enough.

I have to say, that's how people are.

Hearing that others have achieved greater good things is more sad than having bad luck yourself. (End of this chapter)