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Chapter 346 each with their own minds

Li Lei focused on two people, Zheng Zilong, the chief engineer of the coconut tree, and Ke Lanting, a painter who was in charge of designing the outer packaging. These two people and Wang Guangxing were called the troika of the coconut tree, and they played an important role in the growth of the coconut tree. After several months of hard work, Zheng Zilong led the team to solve the problem of oil-water separation in the coconut milk production process, and developed the world's first "three-free (sugar, preservatives, flavors)" coconut milk, ensuring the coconut tree brand Coconut juice has unique competitiveness; Ke Lanting helped Wang Guangxing design the outer packaging of Coconut Tree Brand Coconut Juice, which looks very spicy to the eyes, but is unforgettable after seeing it. Without these two people, Wang Guangxing's management ability and Communication skills can't make the coconut tree so big.

It is rumored that the Coconut Tree Group has three treasures: "Wang Guangxing's reform, Zheng Zilong's invention, and Ke Lanting's packaging". They have made outstanding contributions to the development of Coconut Tree and have also received due rewards. During the employee shareholding reform, they got the shares second only to Wang Guangxing. They have much more shares than ordinary workers, and they also have a lot of voice in the factory.

If these three people work together, I am afraid that Li Lei can only make a little money and then quit, but like many entrepreneurial teams, when the company is not yet developed, the founders can still coexist harmoniously, but the company Once it becomes bigger and stronger, with more interests involved, there will inevitably be rifts between the founders. Ke Lanting and Wang Guangxing will have a very unhappy fight in the future, and even see blood.

In 1999, Ke Lanting, who worked in the investment department of Coconut Tree Group, discovered that the company that undertakes hundreds of millions of sheets of coconut milk label paper each year for Coconut Tree Group was the "agent" of Guangdong Guoye Group Company, and then subcontracted to Shunde City, Guangdong Province for packaging, decoration and printing. In 1993, the price of each printing was 0.088 yuan, and in 1998 the price was reduced to 0.079 yuan; according to Ke Lanting's understanding, the quotations of several printing factories in Guangdong, Beihai, and Haikou were no more than 0.07 yuan per sheet. The quotation of the Co., Ltd. is 200 yuan per piece for 0.055 million pieces.

Ke Lanting himself calculated a huge economic account for the Coconut Tree Group: Due to the difference in prices, from 1994 to 1998, the Coconut Tree Group spent 7246.8 million yuan more on the cost investment of canned coconut juice posters; Ke Lanting also found that compared with the Shunde packaging and decoration printing factory in Hainan, Zhanjiang, and Foshan, the three modern equipment printing factories are better than the latter in terms of equipment, technical strength, printing quality, and service attitude. Ink and composite operations can be produced mainly by advanced equipment and technical management, without any high-tech or confidential materials. The raw materials of natural coconut juice posters are purchased by GD printing manufacturers in the province at basically the same price.

There was obviously a problem, so Ke Lanting reported that Wang Guangxing had entrusted printing to a company without printing qualifications for many years, and the price was higher than the market price, resulting in an extra cost of more than 7000 million yuan; The leader made the submission, but as soon as he arrived at the gate of the office building of the Coconut Tree Group, four gangsters with knives suddenly jumped out from behind Ke Lanting, slashed at him, and then quickly ran back to a taxi waiting for them and escaped.

Ke Lanting's blood vessels in his right hand were all cut off, and blood flowed all over the place. It looked terrible, but after entering the hospital, he found that the perpetrator had no intention of killing Ke Lanting, and all 12 knives were skillfully avoided. , which was obviously a warning to him.

This case has never been solved, and the conclusions given by the superiors about the loss of state-owned property reported by Ke Lanting are rather vague. After investigation, they believed that the price of Guoye Company was too high in terms of the price at that time. However, due to the lack of factual basis, it is difficult to determine whether 7000 million yuan has been lost.

Then the Coconut Tree Group increased Ke Lanting's hero's housing from 120 square meters to 150 square meters, made an exception and gave him more than 20 yuan in shares and a Mazda 29.6 car worth 626 yuan, and the matter was left alone; Ke Lanting swallowed Without hesitation, he took away the previous patent for outer packaging design. This patent is owned by him and Wang Guangxing. If he disagrees with the use of coconut trees, there is no way to use it. In the end, the coconut tree had no choice but to change the advertisement, and Ke Lanting couldn't get what he wanted after a lot of tossing.

"Hello Zheng Gong, I heard our technicians from Huinong Beverage Factory talk about your technology, but I admire you very much. If you have the opportunity in the future, welcome to Huinong to give lectures and exchange ideas; Mr. Ke's name is me I have heard about it a long time ago, I wonder if I have the honor to visit your studio? If there are suitable works, I would also like to collect a few of them!" Li Lei shook hands with them one by one and said hello.

"I have also studied the technology of Panpan almond dew. Although the technical route is different from our coconut tree, it can be seen that the level is really high!" Zheng Zilong's impression is similar to those engineers who only focus on technology in film and television works. He is not good at talking, and only speaks a few words when talking about technology.

Ke Lanting is different. In addition to being the designer of the coconut tree, he is also a well-known local painter in Hainan. He is mainly engaged in oil painting creation, and occasionally he also paints some traditional Chinese paintings. The theme is mainly based on the local customs and customs of Hainan. Participating in art exhibitions, I also often deal with bosses who like painting and calligraphy, so I am much more tactful than Zheng Zilong in speaking and doing things. Hearing what Li Lei said, he immediately took out the specially brought paintings, "Haha, I was a little embarrassed just now. I didn't expect Li Lei to Dong has also heard about my name, and I can finally give away my painting "Girl of the Li Nationality", and I invite Dong Li to appreciate the elegance! Please give me more opinions! As for the studio, as long as Dong Li has time, he is welcome at any time!"

Ke Lanting hadn't thought at this time that he would turn against Wang Guangxing. He only regarded this meeting as a good opportunity to increase his reputation. Before that, he was only a little famous in Hainan, and he was not at the same level as Chen Danqing, a popular painter. Famous paintings naturally cannot be sold at a good price, but if you can give your own paintings to the richest man in the country, and then go back to brag about them, the influence in the circle may not be easy to say, but you will definitely be able to fool a group of local bosses, so you don’t have to worry about your paintings Can't sell it?So as soon as he heard that he was having dinner with Li Lei, he quickly took out his favorite painting, gave it to Li Lei and looked at him eagerly. It would be even better if he could get a few compliments.

Li Lei did not live up to his expectations, and took the painting and put it on the table to appreciate, "I am a student of agriculture, and I don't know much about art, but my wife has always liked these, so I have learned a little bit by ear; in my opinion Come on, oil painting is an art form that originated from the West after all, and it is still different from our traditional Chinese painting art. If we only learn Western painting skills, no matter how hard we try, we can’t surpass the West. Therefore, Mr. Xu Beihong began to combine oil painting with traditional Chinese painting. Combining the art of painting, I feel that Mr. Ke's work is a continuation of Mr. Xu Beihong; at the same time, it shows the daily life of Li girls in the theme, and reminds me of Mr. Chen Danqing's "Tubo Group Paintings". It shows the unique beauty of Hainan style! My wife will definitely like this painting, and I haven’t bought a gift for her yet, Teacher Ke has helped me a lot!”

As soon as the voice fell, there was a round of applause at the scene. Although most of them didn't understand what Li Lei said, since it was said by the richest man in the country, it must be given face, "Li Dong is not only proficient in business, but also understands art. It's much better than us big bosses!"

There are also some clever ones, who feel that it is not good to praise Li Lei positively to impress him, so they start to detour from the side and start to praise Yu Jingshu's works, "Li Dong's lover is the famous writer Mr. Yu, and Mr. Yu's works I have also read it, and it is indeed an outstanding representative of current authors."

Ke Lanting was even more happy from ear to ear. At most, he only dared to expect a few words of praise from Li Lei, but he didn't expect Li Lei to compare Xu Beihong and Chen Danqing, and the more he thought about it, the more he felt that Li Lei said It makes sense, yes, my paintings do incorporate some ideas and techniques of traditional Chinese paintings. It is not a problem to say that I am the continuation of Xu Beihong. As for Chen Danqing, he painted the daily life of Tibetans, and I painted girls of the Li nationality. Everyday, is this the same?If this word gets out, people in the circle will definitely not take it seriously, but it is enough to fool those local bosses!He has even started to wonder if it is time to increase the price of his paintings.

Wang Guangxing didn't think much about it. He just felt that Li Lei's communication skills were very strong, and a few simple words made people feel good. He was still very happy to see that Li Lei was recognized by the backbone of the coconut tree, because it was easier To let everyone accept Huinong's shareholding, he had no idea that Li Lei had other ideas.

At the dinner table, everyone didn’t talk about coconut trees, but talked about local customs and customs in Hainan. Several relevant leaders also expressed their support for Huinong Breeding Base, and would give certain convenience in terms of policies and other aspects. Li Lei also talked about it The gossip about big foreign companies and the PepsiCo incident in the Philippines aroused everyone's amazement. They didn't expect such a big company to make such a low-level mistake.

In short, everyone enjoyed this meal very much. After eating, Li Lei stayed in a hotel in the urban area. When he went downstairs to have breakfast the next day, Wang Guangxing was already waiting here, and he was not alone. When I came here, a few cars were parked at the entrance of the hotel, and the cars were loaded with special products such as Dongshan goat, Wenchang chicken, Jiaji duck, Hele crab, and of course the coconut juice from the coconut tree. I didn’t bring anything, I got some local products today, let’s treat those breeding experts as something new!”

This made Li Lei completely unable to refuse. If it was for himself, he would of course not want it, but it was for the breeding team, and Li Lei could only accept it, and then returned to the breeding base with Wang Guangxing to divide these things into several pieces. Half of it was reserved for Huinong's team, and the other half was sent to the breeding team of Professor Gai, Yuan Lao, Wu Mingzhu and others. They are all in Hainan this season.

Wang Guangxing will not talk about the coconut tree today. He has already said what he should say yesterday. Now he just wants to enhance his relationship. He followed Li Lei to visit the base, which was also an eye-opener. It seems that our coconut palms should also set up a special research institution to study the breeding, planting, and prevention of diseases and insect pests of coconut palms. Although the current coconut palms are enough, the production scale will definitely be expanded in the future. It’s not okay to depend on the sky for food like now.”

The management of the coconut forest in Hainan is still relatively extensive. They just send people to watch over it to prevent others from picking coconuts on a large scale and destroying the coconut forest. There are no issues related to breeding and maintenance.

"This is true. Foreign companies have put a lot of effort into fruit tree breeding and maintenance, and we have to keep up!" Li Lei agrees with this very much. In addition, the most famous foreign fruit company is probably the United Fruit Company. They even dared to start wars for their own interests. They once controlled more than a dozen countries in South America. Later, they simply changed their names because of their bad reputation. However, they are really powerful in the field of banana and pineapple breeding.

Before leaving, Wang Guangxing sent an invitation, "Visiting Huinong's breeding farm today is an eye-opener. Huinong is far ahead of us. If it's convenient for Mr. Li, come to Coconut Tree tomorrow. By the way Give us your opinion!"

"I don't dare to give opinions, but I'm really curious about what the coconut tree workshop is like!" Li Lei readily agreed, and the two sides made an appointment for a visit.

Waiting until tomorrow, Wang Guangxing came to the breeding center to pick up Li Lei early in the morning. Among other things, his attitude in doing things alone has to be admired. Yes, the kung fu is all in the play.

When he arrived at Coconut Tree, Li Lei found that the mental outlook of the workers here was quite different from that of other state-owned enterprises. Although Wang Guangxing introduced employee stock ownership to turn public affairs into private interests, it did bring practical benefits to these employees. Reminds Li Lei of the time when the public-private partnership, when the shop assistants were full of enthusiasm after getting the shares, the state slowly turned the private enterprise into a state-owned company by giving the employees shares, and now Lu Guanqiu, Wang Guangxing and others use the same means Turning state-owned enterprises and collective enterprises into private enterprises may also be a cycle.

After the visit, Wang Guangxing, Zheng Zilong, and Ke Lanting accompanied Li Lei to sit in the coconut grove by the sea, chatting with the sea breeze and drinking coconut juice, feeling relaxed and comfortable.

Wang Guangxing could see that when Li Lei visited the coconut tree workshop today, he was quite satisfied with the company, but as long as Li Lei didn't let go, he wouldn't relax his vigilance, so he secretly gave Ke Lanting a wink, Ke Lanting immediately understood, "Dong Li, didn't you say you wanted to visit my studio when we had dinner last time? I really mean it, and I'm ready."

"Okay, let's go and appreciate Teacher Ke's masterpiece!" Li Lei also wanted to get in touch with him more.

(End of this chapter)