Riding the wind of rebirth

The Corporate Banking Department is specifically responsible for dealing with corporate clients and government agencies. Simply put, most of the money the bank lends out comes from deposits brought back by this department. Therefore, the Corporate Banking Department is a very important department in the provincial branch, second only to the Finance Department in terms of its importance and power.

Clover Group is now a very important client of the provincial branch. Most importantly, Clover Group's business in Chengdu is mainly software products, which is a high value-added industry and a key industry supported by the province. Its cash flow is excessively abundant, and it also has a large amount of overseas business, which is a major source of foreign exchange earnings.

Moreover, by cultivating a good relationship with the Four-Leaf Clover, they also managed to improve their relationships with Sichuan University, several electronics companies in Shanghai, and many military enterprises and research institutes within the province.

In addition, Zhouzhi has relatives whose businesses are also very large, including Jinan Group and Zhou Liuniang Food Group, both of which are important enterprises in Sichuan.

So when Zhou Zhi congratulated her, Liu Yushu said that Zhou Zhi was making fun of her: "I'm just a worker, so don't make fun of me as a shareholder. This must be Xiao Miao, right? What a good girl."

"Xiao Miao, this is Sister Liu. When I first came to Chengdu, Sister Liu and Brother Fei took good care of me."

Hello, Sister Liu.

"Hello Xiao Miao, but don't listen to Zhouzi's nonsense. We didn't take care of him much; on the contrary, he's been taking care of us."

"Let's all take a seat." Zhou Zhi took out a large jar of wine from a bag next to the coffee table: "When I went to Huili this time, I met the descendants of the Lan family. Oh, that is, the descendants of the third branch of the founder of Rongleyuan. I didn't expect that their ancestral skills had not been lost. This pomegranate wine is very authentic."

"I haven't thanked you for the pomegranates yet!" Fei Guan said with a smile. "You gave everyone pomegranates, and those pomegranates were the ones you got in Liangshan Prefecture, weren't they?"

"The kind we're growing is the Moroccan pomegranate, which has a high yield, large fruit, beautiful appearance, and good taste. It tastes even better when it comes to Liangshan Prefecture." Zhou Zhi invited everyone to sit down, and then took a breath before saying, "However, that fruit can't be sold yet because there are only about a thousand seedlings so far. So this time, we're bringing you a specialty from Huili County in Liangshan Prefecture, the soft-seeded pomegranate. It looks a bit rough, but it actually tastes quite good."

"Yes, it tastes really good." Tian Rui nodded in agreement: "Speaking of which, we haven't thanked the pork knuckle yet."

"No need to thank me. My cousin Anxin is very wealthy, so I took her to an orchard. She bought all the fruit, a whole truckload of it, and I just took some for myself."

The dishes were served quickly, starting with six cold dishes: Yizhou pickled eggs, ginger-flavored cowpeas, cold-served rabbit, pot-boiled chicken, and shredded beef.

The cold-served rabbit and the pot-boiled chicken are served in small portions, skewered with special bamboo sticks, which is a departure from the typical Sichuan cuisine that emphasizes quantity over presentation. Paired with plum-green tableware, they look especially appealing.

"It's been a long time since I've seen everyone, and I've missed you all. Since Brother Cheng suggested it today, let's all get together casually. We're all acquaintances, so don't be shy."

"This wine is quite good, with a strong pomegranate flavor, and it goes especially well with meals." Liu Yushu has now become quite discerning after eating a lot of good things: "Zhouzi is known for his ability to find good stuff."

"This was obtained in exchange for a plaque, just like the signboard we prepared for Sister Rui. We'll have to trouble Brother Fei and Brother Cheng for that as well." Zhou Zhi smiled and raised his glass. "Actually, we have another purpose today, which is to formally introduce Xiaomiao to everyone. Xiaomiao, let's toast our older brothers and sisters together."

"Brothers and sisters, let me toast you with a toast." "Alright!" Everyone drank together, and the banquet officially began.

"How did you two meet?" Liu Yushu was particularly interested in how the two met. Many people present had met Jiang Shuyi before. Although Zhou Zhi had never explicitly stated in front of everyone that Jiang Shuyi was his girlfriend, everyone could tell.

Later, everyone learned that the girl was Jiang Wu's sister from Jinli Group. Zhouzi and Jiang Wu's wife, Tang Qi, had run a taxi business together. It seems that Jinli Group's transformation and development also started with Zhouzi connecting with the Li family to start a supermarket business.

But for some reason, the girl later went abroad.

However, Zhouzi and Jiang Wu's friendship had not yet faded. The rent from so many veteran supermarkets still went into Zhouzi's account, and the number of stores continued to increase. Liu Yushu knew all this very well.

The construction of Yulin Community is another major project won by Jinli Group, and Zhouzi is once again a big spender in terms of demolition compensation. It's safe to say that this kid's luck with money is unstoppable.

Zhou Zhi didn't hide anything and openly told how he met Mai Xiaomiao. He said that Mai Xiaomiao was helping the forum find system vulnerabilities but was mistaken for a hacker. They became acquainted after their initial conflict.

It turns out that Mai Xiaomiao is the granddaughter of Director Mai of the Computer Science Department at Sichuan University. Director Mai himself is a shareholder of the Clover Group, so the two are not outsiders.

Xiao Miao's return to China this time is to put her neural network-like computing power model into practice. In this information technology world dominated by the von Neumann architecture, the neural network-like computing power system is an outlier, and it requires huge investment in the early stages.

None of the Western IT companies that had been deeply involved in the von Neumann system for many years were willing to participate, so Mai Xiaomiao came to China to see what opportunities were available.

Of course, her main purpose was to relax. She didn't believe that China, which was still a desert of information technology with only supercomputing as its sole strength, would have such an opportunity.

The results were quite different. China's information technology is indeed not very developed, but the advantage of being underdeveloped is that it is "small and easy to turn around". Moreover, Mai Xiaomiao was pleasantly surprised to find that the COS system and graph database developed by the Clover Group in the early stage could be matched with neural network-like systems to realize discrete distributed supercomputing and super storage.

Just as Mai Xiaomiao was about to have a detailed talk with Zhou Zhi, Zhou Zhi returned to Chengdu after staying for two days because of the Liangshan project. Mai Xiaomiao was so anxious that she chased after him, and things proceeded normally after that.

There were many ambushes set up here. For example, Mai Xiaomiao really became a hacker, and her skills were so good that even the top tech experts at Clover Group couldn't catch her. However, Zhou Zhi used his liberal arts student's reasoning to find her through underhanded tactics, which scared her so much that she jumped out of the window to escape, but ended up jumping on Zhou Zhi and falling face-first into the mud.

As Elbow once said, when lying, it's best not to lie completely; seven parts truth and three parts falsehood is the most effective. Sure enough, this story was so well-crafted that there wasn't a single flaw to be found, and it even managed to cover up all his embarrassing moments.

Seeing Mai Xiaomiao's blushing yet happy face, Tian Rui assumed she was lost in sweet memories and suggested, "This isn't just a matter of fate bringing us together from a thousand miles away, it's a matter of fate bringing us together from ten thousand miles away! Zhouzi and Xiaomiao, you two should have a drink!"

"That makes sense, just like this wine, sweet and joyful!" Liu Yushu nodded in agreement. (End of Chapter)