Siheyuan: Rebirth of a comfortable life starts with Shazhu

"Mr. He, although we have never met, I have long admired you."

Mr. He's guidance to Chairman Lou on several business operations, the scale of the planning and the length of the covert operations, amazed this old man.

"I never imagined that the mainland would have such business acumen..." The gaunt Mr. Huo, speaking in somewhat broken Mandarin, shook hands with He Yuzhu and exchanged pleasantries.

His praise for He Yuzhu was mostly genuine.

In Hong Kong Island, if you bet right once, there are countless people who can become quite wealthy.

Many who bet correctly several times in a row have joined the ranks of the wealthy.

But for Lou Xiao'e, a woman, to have reached this point is not simply a matter of winning a few bets.

Of course, only He Yuzhu could say something like giving Lou Xiao'e business advice.

After all, Lou Xiao'e had just personally acknowledged that he was her elder.

None of the other businessmen present, regardless of their size or how close or distant they were to Lou Xiao'e, were qualified to act arrogantly in front of her.

He Yuzhu naturally added a few more modest words.

In terms of social interaction, over 90% of it is just empty talk.

It's just to make the scene less dull.

There's even more of this kind of nonsense at the dinner table.

Lou Xiao'e's portrayal of the virtuous wife today was quite successful.

After the introductions were finished, everyone took their seats, and the waiters served the dishes.

Lou Xiao'e really acted like a doting wife, busy serving He Yuzhu food, removing bones and thorns, her beautiful eyes fixed on He Yuzhu's face.

No one was talking about serious matters; instead, they were all discussing history and current events while enjoying the delicious food on the table.

Let's discuss the differences in cooking methods between the North and South.

This is He Yuzhu's old profession.

Therefore, any comment he makes occasionally is quite artistic.

After the meal, He Yuzhu invited Mr. Hu and Mr. He upstairs for tea, and that's when the real business of the day began.

Just like the reassurance Lou Xiao'e gave He Yuzhu at the beginning, both bigwigs were quite generous about the future cooperation.

This indicates that the school represented by He Yuzhu can be given a 5% share of the technology.

Of course, for them, this was just to give face to Lou Xiao'e, or rather, to give face to the He family, rather than because they believed that the BK-1 that He Yuzhu used as an investment was really worth that much money.

He Yuzhu shook his head and said thoughtfully, "Thank you both for giving me face, but let's be business. I still want to say what sincerity we can offer."

Both of these senior figures are business experts who have navigated the business world for many years.

It is obvious that the BK-1 we can produce is just foreign technology from ten years ago.

It's not worth that much money.

But we can't judge a book by its cover; we must also look at its true value and underlying principles…

The two old men became interested.

In business, they often give up profits or shares to others out of consideration for their reputation.

Even if their two families have a lot of influence in Hong Kong and Macau.

Businesses that monopolize the benefits are never sustainable.

"We'd like to hear the details!" The two old men exchanged glances, and it was Mr. HUO who spoke first, making a perfunctory invitation to He Yuzhu.

"The foundation, since we're talking about business, you two should understand that if you have a foundation, you can move forward or backward without worry, and you have room to maneuver."

Regardless of your patriotism, from a purely business perspective, you have chosen to take advantage of the upcoming reform and opening up to set up factories in the mainland.

That means they are optimistic about the mainland market.

I can proudly say that the future of the mainland market is limitless.

Made in China.
In the coming day, it will surely solve most of the world's commodity manufacturing problems.

Over the past thirty years, the greatest achievement of the older generation was ensuring the safety of the country's borders and popularizing basic industries.

This gave us a large pool of skilled and inexpensive manufacturing workers.

This is something that no place abroad can compare to.

He Yuzhu felt a pang of sadness as he spoke. After all, while he was talking about achievements, those skilled manufacturing workers would soon have a new label: "laborers."

A migrant worker with no job security whatsoever.

This growing pain is something that must be experienced during economic transformation.

He Yuzhu also came from a working-class background, so he could feel that kind of pain firsthand.

The two bigwigs were not too surprised by what He Yuzhu said.

In fact, this was their inspection.

These things were also included in their investigation project.

Even in later generations, businessmen rarely build large factories in Africa.

Isn't it because they don't even have the concept of industrial workers there?

The abundance of resources left the indigenous people with nothing to do but sit under the trees, wait for the fruit to ripen, and wait for rabbits to run into the tree stumps.

Those people lived by relying on God's will and reaping without sowing for thousands of years.

If anyone tries to change them, expecting those people to accept the rules and obediently go to work in the factory, that's unacceptable.

That's pure fantasy.

Where industrial workers have matured, there must be attributes of agrarian civilization.

We believe that we need to work to earn money to support our families; that's ingrained in our very being.

"Economic liberalization is an inevitable trend that no one can stop."

But as a whole...

No matter which country you do business in, it is impossible to allow one company to dominate a particular industry.

Just like the development of Americar, those giants in the resource industry were later broken up one by one.

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So after the reform and opening up, those who came to build factories in our country were not only our fellow businessmen, but also businessmen, peers and competitors from other countries.

They may bring new high-tech products.

As long as there's a profit, there's nothing those people wouldn't dare to sell.

So if you two are thinking of treating this business as a business, I personally think that five percent of the shares are quite worthwhile.

Leaving aside subsequent research and development.

The group that owns these shares is a collective interest group comprised of several renowned universities and dozens of research institutions.

The scope of our coverage is quite extensive.

Social etiquette,

For the two of you to collaborate with the mainland is simply to gain access to the mainland market.

But if we want to do business well and avoid being crushed by other competitors using high technology, we need to buy ourselves time to develop.

"Then, we are the best partners." He Yuzhu finished speaking his thoughts in one breath, thoughts that made him feel ashamed.

After all, it seemed like he had betrayed something.

What he just said wasn't anything else.
With them around, this joint venture factory can decide whose business it wants to do in the future.

They can help with interpersonal relationships and social niceties.

After all, these days, highly qualified people are a tiny minority.

They can basically speak to everyone in the upstream and downstream of this industry.

But what He Yuzhu said is also true.

Once those small-scale machine tools and Korean machine tools come in, even if they are above, the bias should not be too obvious.

Therefore, the importance of these schools will become apparent at that time.

They can also act as referrers!

This is where the value of He Yuzhu and his colleagues lies.

At least it helped the joint venture factory; the technology will remain in mainland China in the future.

But if you help someone else, the outcome is uncertain. (End of Chapter)