Winner Takes It All, Resurrection 2009

"Boss, there's something I'm not sure if I should mention to you."

Early in the morning, Liu Xiaobo, former director of the Central China Region, came running over and happened to meet Li Zehua who was still having breakfast. After being invited to sit down, he seemed to want to say something but stopped himself.

Li Zehua found it strange. "Why, you don't have confidence in being transferred to run the promotion and operation department?"

Liu Xiaobo laughed, "How could that be possible? Even if others don't know, I know that Mr. Yang and Mr. Wang are both highly valued when they go abroad. The so-called curse of the promotion and operation department is just a lie.

Thank you for your appreciation and support. I will do my best in my new position and strive to create more value for you and the company."

Two consecutive presidents of the promotion and operation department were "exiled", and Wang Chenglin was even sent to serve as vice president of the overseas business group just after he took office. It is no wonder that some people inside and outside the company gossip about it.

However, Liu Xiaobo obviously didn't care about these, instead he said awkwardly: "Isn't this a review after leaving office? The Compliance Supervision Department and the Audit Department found three unplanned expenditures totaling 1700 million.

Let me first state that I had no knowledge of this matter, let alone any involvement in it. This was all caused by the real estate company.”

"Tell me what's going on."

Liu Xiaobo handed over the signed and approved documents with an angry look on his face, "Look, this is a project that the real estate company is bidding for in the Xingcheng County Industrial Park. There was a period of time when the expenditure details were not reported as required.

And here, you see, an additional expense of 1300 million suddenly appeared out of nowhere, and the reason for sending it for review is also very strange. When did the company have an expense item called insurance premium?

And this, it suddenly popped up when the region was submitting consolidated financial statements for review at the end of last year. It still went through the special application channel for subsidiaries, directly bypassing the region, and there is no my signature on it.

I sent someone to check, and found that Mr. Chen Weiqiang of the real estate company also signed the bill afterwards, but for some reason, these three expenditures were included in the regional accounts, and it was not until this time that they were investigated by colleagues from the Compliance and Audit Department that they were exposed. "

Li Zehua knocked on the table and said unhappily, "Speak to the point."

Liu Xiaobo didn't dare to hide it anymore and said honestly: "The largest amount of 1300 million was the illegal expenditure of the real estate company in the Xingcheng County Industrial Park project, and the target was a local construction company in Xingcheng.

The other two payments, one for 250 million and the other for 150 million, were reported by the real estate company as expenditures for the construction of Hengnan New Energy Industrial Park and special construction funds for the new district in Baoqing District.

They all went through a special application channel without going through the regional approval process. I wonder if there is some unknown secret here?"

"You wait a moment."

Li Zehua took out his cell phone and called, "Mr. Chen, I want to ask you, what happened to the three special funds of Xiangnan Real Estate last year?"

Chen Weiqiang on the other end of the phone seemed to have known about this for a long time and was not surprised at all, "Boss, please listen to my explanation..."

The matter is simple. No matter what project it is, there are always local tyrants who come to the door. In addition, there are some unclear connections with the local project headquarters, so even the project commander-in-chief has to come forward in person to help coordinate the relationship.

By the way, the other party's background is mentioned, as if they are all sharing the benefits and you help me and I help you. In addition, in the process of project advancement, it is inevitable to encounter some difficult problems and someone needs to step forward to solve the problems.

The real estate company undertakes many large group projects. In order not to delay the construction period and thus affect the overall planning of the group, after comprehensive calculation and evaluation of the pros and cons, it is more cost-effective to spend money to avoid disaster than to confront it head-on.

After explaining for a while, Chen Weiqiang said with a bitter face: "Behind the scenes, those who dare to step in and get involved are all well-connected. It's not easy to deal with them at all. They are all acquaintances who have made greetings in various places. It's not easy to deal with them if you offend anyone.

In addition, the group's authorized real estate company has a reserve fund that is specifically used to handle these shady businesses, in order not to cause trouble for you, the boss, and the investors and directors.

So I didn't mention this matter, but don't worry, boss. In the company's quarterly audit report submitted every quarter, I submit documents to the Strategic Planning Office of the Decision-making Committee with detailed explanations to ensure that every penny is spent wisely.

There will be absolutely no question of lining one’s own pockets.”

"Do you think I have too much free time and need to personally take care of everything?"

Li Zehua glanced at Liu Xiaobo unhappily, and continued to talk to Chen Weiqiang on the phone: "If I hadn't passed by the project yesterday morning and saw a group of old men and women sitting at the door, how long would you have kept it a secret from me?"

Liu Xiaobo did not dare to respond, but Chen Weiqiang could not escape accountability. He had replaced Sun Hongbin as the head of Qingyun Real Estate for less than half a year and was promoted only after a conflict with a certain industry.

Now that I have not even sat down yet, I have to bear such a huge blame. I feel very aggrieved, but I dare not shirk the responsibility. I can only bite the bullet and report everything.

"…In fact, this is not only the case in Hunan Province, but is similar across the country. According to the latest data from the company's audit, in the first four months of 2012 alone, the cost of going through the special channel for approval was as high as 2.9 million yuan.

This does not include the direct expenses used for project reception. The special fund expenditure of 1300 million yuan in Hunan Province last year was because the single amount was too large to be publicly deducted from the real estate company's accounts.

I was thinking of applying for offset in the name of the region. Please rest assured, boss, I will take the initiative to clarify this matter with the Compliance and Supervision Department, and it will not delay Mr. Liu’s normal transfer..."

Li Zehua could understand Chen Weiqiang's helpless look, but there was a hint of anger burning in his heart, "I can understand that you have to spend money to solve the problem when you encounter difficulties in your work.

But tell me, the Xingcheng Wangcheng and Tianxin projects have run into this financial company causing trouble again?
I am very curious. What does it mean that this financial company does not do the loan lending and mortgage business but instead gets involved in a certain industry?
This is a project that has received much attention from the provincial and municipal governments. How could a group of ruffians come to our door to take advantage of it? This has happened again and again. What went wrong?!
Are these people so bold that they would have to pay a toll if they pass by his door no matter who they are?
If you are so capable, why don't you just ask the central bank for money? Wouldn't it be faster to make money by setting up your own banknote printing factory?"

Li Zehua's words were very serious. After all, no one wants to be the scapegoat all the time. Even if one respects the actual local situation, one cannot face an insatiable partner.

Maybe it can't even be considered cooperation. The other party is just a group of white gloves wandering on the fringe. Behind them may be some guy who is jealous of the big group making big money and wants to get a piece of the pie without following the rules.

Chen Weiqiang knew the inside story, but harmony is the most important thing in business, just like the other party's obvious card, which was to let a group of local uncles and aunts sit at the door.

It doesn't violate any rules on the surface, but it can effectively hinder the progress of the project and make you unable to speak out. By intervening at a public level, others are not afraid at all.

Because if they dare to take action, it means that the upper and lower levels have already communicated in advance. For example, Qingyun Real Estate has responded through public channels. After going around in circles, it will eventually return to the starting point, that is, the project command center is responsible for coordination.

But don’t you think about it? Since the command center didn’t deal with the problem immediately after it happened, can it be solved by going back to find them?

If it is true, then this question should not exist. The profound meaning contained in this is self-evident.

Without their approval, how could the project be hindered? In the end, money will still have to be spent to resolve the problem. In addition, there will always be some difficult problems in the process of project advancement.

For example, if a resident feels that the subsidy based on the unified standard is not as good as he expected and refuses to sign the agreement, the local government will need to step in to coordinate and organize a solution to the problem. Therefore, the group makes comprehensive considerations based on realistic factors.

They usually turn a blind eye and often solve the problem by paying money to settle the matter.

Unfortunately, everyone underestimated the greedy nature of human beings. Once there is a first move, there will be a second one. The local snake group got the first benefit and seemed to be stuck to Qingyun Group as long as a new project was started.

They immediately smelled the potential and came to us on their own initiative. For example, the Wangcheng and Tianxin new industrial park projects approved by the Hunan Provincial Government cover an area of ​​tens of thousands of acres and integrate new energy vehicle manufacturing, electric vehicle production, and battery research and development and design.

And electronic product OEM production business, and heavy machinery/agricultural mining machinery processing and manufacturing (mainly the cooperation projects between Sany Heavy Industry and Zoomlion Heavy Industry), as well as the crucial robot and UAV mid-to-high-end precision manufacturing R&D projects.

Coupled with the large investments in semiconductor display panels and the 12-inch wafer fab construction project as part of the dual-city strategy, it can be said to be a massive project that has attracted widespread attention.

The entire industrial park spans both sides of the Xiangjiang River and has received strong support from the scientific research teams of Central South University and Hunan University. It is expected that the direct investment in the construction of the first and second phases will exceed RMB 1500 billion.

After completion, 5-6 large-scale high-tech industrial clusters with an annual output value of over 40 billion yuan will be formed in Xingcheng, creating more than 350 jobs and annual profits and taxes of more than billion yuan.

However, such a super large project that was directly approved by the institute, included in the key industrial clusters of the new five-year plan, and on which the province and city placed all their hopes, has still been targeted by those with ulterior motives.

Just as the provincial and municipal governments had just finished inspecting the project with Li Zehua and made a lot of promises, his heart was chilled before the tea at the reception had even cooled down.

That was not all. Before Liu Xiaobo finished his handover report before leaving office, he received another report from the scene, "Boss Liu, those uncles and aunts are here again. Now all the construction vehicles entering and leaving are blocked. Even the side door has people squatting. The transportation of construction equipment and various materials is blocked. The other party is asking for 25 million. What do you think?"

Liu Xiaobo was so scared that cold sweat broke out. He looked at his boss and had no idea how to deal with the situation.

If you give him more money, the boss will eat him up.

But if he doesn't give it, and keeps delaying like this, it will delay the progress of the project and the various branches will also cause trouble for him. Don't think that you can avoid being responsible for previous work decisions just because you have been promoted.

Chen Weiqiang certainly cannot escape accountability, he can't hide away either!
Li Zehua took his phone with an expressionless face, "Hello, this is Li Zehua, who are you, can you control the situation at the scene?!"

The project manager who reported the case did not react at first. After realizing that this was the big boss, he was so scared that he could not speak clearly, and the scene was in chaos.

Li Zehua didn't have the patience to listen to his intermittent report, so he stood up and said, "Boss Liu and I will come over now, you call the project command center and ask them to send someone to solve the problem.

By the way, don’t mention that I’m in Star City. I want to see which bastard dares to be so arrogant. "

As soon as he went out, he met Fu Yujie, who had just recovered and was strolling around the branch. After hearing the general idea, the latter also wanted to go to the scene. Li Zehua didn't care and asked Zhang Tao to call enough people.

Drive all the way to the project.

The Xingcheng Wangcheng (Yuelu) project covers a very large area, and almost all the residents of several street offices northwest of the West Bus Station have been relocated.

Further south, next to the former Qingyun Central China New Energy Research Institute, tens of thousands of acres of land have been designated for planning a new robot and drone production and research and development base.

Around the former Tianxin South Bus Station, several street offices were also moved away, and a piece of land of tens of thousands of acres was leveled out to serve as the future new energy production and construction base.

Qingyun is determined to build it into the world's largest production base for drones, robots and the largest electronic OEM business in central China. For this purpose, it even went to Yenching Education Department to coordinate the opening of robotics engineering at Central South University and Hunan University.

And drone research and development control, and a new software discipline that integrates the two major industrial chains. The same layout is being carried out simultaneously in Jiangcheng, Hubei Province, Rongcheng, Sichuan Province, and Qin Gaoguan'an.

Because the fields of drones and robots are also divided into different development areas. For example, Sichuan Province and Qin Province are pursuing large-scale, high-altitude, high-speed, non-civilian gadgets with stealth capabilities.

The supporting industrial chain and university disciplines are the research and development preparation work of special materials and special batteries, and even nuclear power and graphene batteries.

As a whole, Xingcheng Jiangcheng actually focuses on the research and development of agricultural, personal and commercial drones, as well as mechanical processing robots that rely on 4G (future 5G) communication signals.

And the production and research and development of automatic intelligent production and processing equipment.

The focus is different. Chengdu Chang'an represents a more advanced project. In the future, it will mainly cooperate with the Five Military Governor's Office on drone and robot projects, which have a higher level of security and confidentiality.

In Shenzhen, Hong Kong, Nanjing, and Suzhou, more advanced unmanned aerial vehicles (similar to helicopter projects) and intelligent unmanned land aircraft (unmanned flying cars, unmanned cars) are being developed.

As well as commercial same-city delivery, cross-regional long-distance load-bearing delivery logistics drones, and robot research and development and production, the focus and investment amount of each region vary.

It is conceivable that once the entire upstream and downstream of the industrial chain are connected, it will provide tremendous support for future development.

But now, the first step of the preparatory work has encountered setbacks, and some inexplicable people in the local area have stepped forward to deliberately obstruct it. How can Li Zehua not be angry?

In particular, the special funds for all projects throughout the year of 6 were called out. You would be shocked if you didn't look at it, to see that there were a full million yuan in extra expenses.

Only four months have passed since 2.9, and there is an additional expenditure of million yuan. Whoever can tolerate this is a fool!
So, Li Zehua went to the scene in person to see who was behind the trouble. He swore that no matter who was involved, this matter would not end well.

At worst, I can poke the sky with a hammer, but I have to bring out a few monkeys to establish my authority and scare off those little chicks who are ready to make some moves.

You are right, it is like killing the monkey to worship the chicken, because as Qingyun goes deeper and deeper into the sinking market, its business tentacles have inevitably developed towards the third-, fourth- and fifth-tier cities.

Compared with the activeness and large base of first- and second-tier cities, the impact is not so obvious when distributed to each individual. However, the situation in third-, fourth- and fifth-tier cities, especially those that were formerly extremely poor, is not so easy to deal with.

If they come across the big fool Qingyun Group that comes to their doorstep on its own initiative, without strong restraint, they will rush over and divide and eat them in an instant, just like seeing Tang Monk's flesh.

At that time, this company asked for a sponsorship of 2 million. I thought it was to establish a good relationship and to keep the business in the local area for a long time, so I gritted my teeth and gave it to them.

Looking back at the neighbors next door, I said, "No, that won't work. You're already giving two hundred, so three hundred isn't too much for us, right?"
As time went by, thousands of counties and hundreds of thousands of departments across the country reached out to help. Qingyun didn't have to do anything else. He could just open a printing factory in each place and start printing directly.

Unfortunately, Qingyun does not have a money-printing machine, so it cannot satisfy everyone's needs. It also does not want to become a target for anyone to take advantage of it. It will definitely severely punish anyone who crosses the line in order to maintain harmony.

The other party broke the rules of the game first, and Qingyun took the opportunity to fight back, and no one could blame them.

"It's ridiculous. In fact, if we arrest these people according to the rules and interrogate them one by one, we can find out the mastermind behind it in less than two hours.

Then we can destroy the entire group behind the scenes. However, everyone can see the problem clearly, but everyone is pretending to be confused. They all believe that harmony brings wealth and are afraid of offending people. They all turn a blind eye, so that the good environment has been messed up. "

When he arrived at the scene, Li Zehua understood everything at a glance. He really didn't have any good solution. After all, as far as the eye could see, there was a huge crowd of old men and women who were all over 60 years old.

This group of people cannot be touched. If they do something slightly out of line, they will probably be scolded.

"Boss, look at the cars parked over there. They are the people sent by the mastermind to monitor the negotiations."

The project manager finally got away and reported in a cold sweat and trembling with fear.

"Lao Liu, go up and stabilize them first and test the waters."

Li Zehua was too lazy to talk nonsense and called Zhang Tao over again, "Go and check who is behind this."

Zhang Tao has been busy since he received the news. His men have already investigated everything thoroughly. Don't underestimate Qingyun's current network of contacts. He can find out the whole story with a little inquiry.

Now they have handed in the collected information, with every detail clearly recorded, even how old the executor was when he was a child.

Li Zehua found a breakthrough after just one glance. He reached out and clicked on someone in the information. Zhang Tao understood and called him immediately.

The other party was still confused when he heard Li Zehua say: "Principal Zhang, you borrowed 2.6 million yuan and paid back more than million yuan, but you still haven't settled the account. I guess you are also deeply hurt and want to get out of the predicament.

Come over to the Wangcheng Qingyun Project now. It's not far away. I'll wait for you here for ten minutes. Remember, only ten minutes. You won't be allowed to wait after that."

Principal Zhang on the other end of the phone didn't react at first, but then he figured it out, Qingyun? !

Then I didn't even bother to put on my shoes, I ran out of the door, stepped on the accelerator and headed straight for the project~
On the other side, the people sent by the other side seemed to be sure that Qingyun would not dare to refuse, and shouted: "You are valuable porcelain, very valuable, and we are just a piece of rotten stone on the roadside.

It's not worth confronting us head-on. You might as well spend a little money to get out of trouble. 2500 million is nothing to Qingyun. He can settle the account with just a little effort. Why bother?

To tell you the truth, Qingyun has to pay for this money, whether he wants to or not. Don’t make everyone unhappy, or you may not be able to continue working here.”

"I want to see what you can do to Qingyun without paying this money." (End of this chapter)