1988: Back to the human world for a few years

Chapter 542 New Burden

April 4, Guyu.

At the end of the dark spring, I take off my boat again.

As one of the first people to voluntarily register under the name of a drilling company and who once declared that "Xi Xiangfeng Cannery will become the second Qingfeng Food", Li Jun actually once thought that his original ambition was a joke.

After all, with the gradual improvement of the 817 broiler industry chain and the successful nationwide investment promotion of the Momo Baizha project, in terms of asset scale and social influence alone, Qingfeng Food is already one of the most outstanding township enterprises in China. It is not easy to be on par with it.

Of course, this is not the point.

The key point is whether a certain big boss named Yang is willing to give himself a chance.

Li Jun was very sure that if Yang Mo was willing to promote him and give him some guidance and support, Xi Xiangfeng Cannery would definitely have a chance to surpass Qingfeng Food within three years and become one of the best in the food industry... After all, everyone knew the power of Yang Mo's golden finger, and canned products undoubtedly had a much wider audience at home and abroad than things like chicken chops.

It's just a pity that although Xi Xiangfeng has participated in Miss Mu's northern trade, Yang Mo's light and heavy industrial products exchange plan, and even invested in several substitution projects including purple candy over the past year, and has maximized both short-term returns and medium- and long-term expected benefits, he can be said to have made a lot of money, but Yang Mo has never treated him like he treated Liu Xianfu, giving him a few tips and then letting him be responsible for a package of projects independently.

And this is what Li Jun desires most.

Anyone with a little social experience knows that if you only have money, you are just a fat pig with no ability to resist in the circle. In the process of making money, the things accumulated behind the scenes are the most valuable.

It's just a pity that Yang Mo's game is too big, and there is no special person like Lu Yingying working in Xi Xiangfeng Cannery. Therefore, even though Xi Xiangfeng's production capacity has been expanded again and again over the past year, and its various business touchpoints have spread across nearly a hundred towns in Dezhou and Lanling, in the eyes of a certain young boss, it is just a subsidiary company whose name he can barely remember.

Therefore, when Li Jun received a call from Zhuo Junyue, the young secretary, telling him that Yang Mo asked him to go to the general manager's office of Dahua Company for a visit, one can imagine how excited he was.

You know, since Yang Mo became the general manager of Dahua Company, he has seldom intervened in specific work matters. Even if there are any instructions, they are conveyed through Zhang Wenshun or Zhuo Mali. Unless there is something that needs to be reported to him individually, it is harder to see him than winning the lottery.

Of course, Zhuo Junyue also said that he was not the only one invited here today, there were others as well.

But this is not important. The smaller the meeting, the more important it is.

Being called to participate in such a small-scale informal meeting proves at least one thing...

This time, I might get lucky!
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In the tightly closed office of the general manager of Dahua Company, Yang Mo sat at the main seat of the tea table, which was rare. He held a cigarette in his mouth while fiddling with the Guangbie Yao Tea in the jar that was specially collected by a friend of a certain Peach.

Seeing Yang Mo's casual and even nonchalant attitude, the other four people in the room couldn't help but smile.

As they already had some understanding of Yang Mo's character, they naturally knew that the fact that they could make this big guy appear so relaxed at least meant that their performance was enough to make Yang Mo treat them as "one of our own".

"Tsk~ Boss, your tea... the taste is a bit too strong!"

Song Wenxuan, who rushed back from Tokyo, had a sip of Guangbie Laozhai brewed by Yang Mo, and his facial features were a little distorted.

For him, who was used to drinking black tea and matcha from the island country, this Pu'er raw tea was bitter and astringent. But Yang Mo had a strong taste for tea, and the amount of tea added to the current cup of tea was increased, which he really couldn't handle.

Hearing this, Yang Mo rolled his eyes and said, "Old Song, you don't know what's good. This Guangbie Laozhai is also known as Guangbie Demon Tea. What you drink is the rich bitterness and the various wonderful things that transform into in your mouth... Besides, can it be called tea if it's not bitter and astringent? I think you've been in the UK for too long, and you've become a bit bent!"

Although Britain at that time was not as gay as it is in later generations, it was still quite famous. Yang Mo was mocking this guy for drinking too much black tea and being unable to drink bitter basic tea.

Amid Zhuo Mali's snickering, Song Wenxuan looked at this guy in silence. He had only said that the tea was a little too strong. Did you have to escalate it to the level of personal attack?
Yang Mo put down the fairness cup, filled a pot of water on the induction cooker, and then asked, "By the way, Lao Song, are you still pushing forward that hotel chain project?"

Song Wenxuan was a little surprised to hear Yang Mo ask about this. After thinking about it, he did not hide it: "It's still being pushed. Although I have been managing the affairs of the Japan-China Economic Promotion Council's island country office in Tokyo, the people below are still pushing forward the domestic hotel chain affairs. Occasionally, I will return to China to handle some docking matters that the people below cannot handle."

After that, Song Wenxuan explained: "Boss, I am still the office director of Dahua Company after all. The company invested a lot of money and manpower in this hotel chain project. I can't let it fail halfway."

He was afraid that Yang Mo would misunderstand him as "not doing his job properly". After all, the package of things that the China-Japan Economic Promotion Association was doing, both in terms of importance and project scale, was far greater than the hotel chain project he was working on...and the China-Japan Economic Promotion Association had just been established not long ago, and it was a critical period for sorting out and coordinating various internal affairs. Any omission could bring a lot of trouble and chain reactions.

Yang Mo laughed and waved his hand gently: "Old Song, you got it wrong. That's not what I meant... I meant, what scale has your hotel chain project developed to now?"

Song Wenxuan was stunned, and then he reviewed the information in his mind: "Since my work focus shifted to the island country, the progress of the project has slowed down. So far, there are 11 ordinary hotels that have been upgraded from the original tertiary industry units, with a total of about 3300 guest rooms;"

"There are far fewer foreign affairs hotels that are qualified to receive foreign guests. So far, there are only seven. Three of them are reorganized from our own foreign affairs guesthouses in the oil system. The remaining four are located in Shantou, Shekou and Shanghai, with a total of about 7 guest rooms."

At this point, Song Wenxuan's face turned red, and he excused himself a little: "In fact, there are two more projects of Foreign Affairs Hotels that have been in contact and discussion. It's just that I have been in Tokyo during this period, so the progress is not ideal. When I finish the work of the China-Japan Economic Promotion Association, I will have time to work on it, and the results should be available soon... By then, it should not be difficult to expand the guest rooms of the Foreign Affairs Hotel to more than 2."

No wonder Song Wenxuan was so eager to make amends for himself.

According to industry practice, hotels with more than 2000 rooms are called super hotels; hotels with more than 1000 rooms are called large hotels; and hotels with 500-1000 rooms are called medium-to-large hotels.

Therefore, it is not difficult to see from this classification that Song Wenxuan’s hotel chain projects are currently basically all medium-sized hotels.

If ordinary hotels are all medium-sized hotels with 500 to 600 rooms, which is not considered bad nowadays, then it would be quite embarrassing if all foreign affairs hotels were of this size.

You have to know that China has always attached great importance to its image in front of foreigners. Even though it is only the 90s, publicity windows such as foreign-related hotels are still built and inspected according to star standards. The star rating is related to the number of guest rooms in addition to the environment and hardware configuration.

Therefore, Song Wenxuan had been tinkering with this for nearly a year, but in addition to the three foreign affairs guesthouses in the system, he could only tinker with four new two- and three-star foreign affairs hotels, which really made him feel a little embarrassed.

In fact, it is quite impressive that four medium-sized foreign affairs hotels were added in less than a year. After all, these hotels are all located in Shekou, Shantou and Shanghai, the most prosperous areas at the moment. Moreover, the hotel industry in China is not prosperous nowadays. In comparison, two or three stars are already very prestigious.

But the thing is, whether you are awesome or not depends on who you are in front of. If this transcript is thrown in front of other people, it will naturally win a lot of admiring glances; but if the person sitting in front of you is a big shot who can spend hundreds of millions of dollars at a time and can make a fortune with a flick of his hand, then your achievement is undoubtedly just a joke.

Yang Mo heard this, but there was no mockery on his face: "Well, 18 hotels of various types, with a total of 7500 rooms... It's a bit mediocre."

After a moment of hesitation, Yang Mo raised his head and said, "Old Song, at the end of next month, Shen Xing will come over to sign a strategic restructuring agreement with us for several units. One of the units is a company that specializes in hotel, catering, conference, and sightseeing businesses... The asset scale of this company is not small. It currently has 8 hotels and guesthouses in four provinces and seven cities. Although there is only one foreign-related hotel, its total number of guest rooms is close to 3000. Compared with your side, Old Song, it is actually not much different."

At this point, Yang Mo added: "Although the size of their guest rooms is also somewhat mediocre, that is because of budget constraints. If the budget is relatively sufficient, with their social resources, it would be easy to quickly expand the scale... It can be said that the potential is huge."

Yang Mo drank the tea in his cup in one gulp, smacked his lips, and then put down the cup with satisfaction: "Although this company has great potential, due to the particularity of Shen Xing's system, these hotels naturally have the attributes of supporting and benefiting the military, so many systems are quite different from ordinary hotels. Under various internal preferential subsidy policies, its financial management is very different from ordinary projects;"

"so……"

"My idea is, why not just separate this unit and reorganize and merge it with your project... After all, they are all projects in the hotel segment, so there is no need to go through more trouble at the company level. This will only cause trouble." Song Wenxuan looked at Yang Mo in disbelief: "Boss, what do you mean...?"

Yang Mo nodded slightly, then laughed and scolded: "You, Old Song, are an office director after all, but you are so timid when doing things. Since you can borrow the resources from Minister Lin and the others, just borrow them directly. Is there any need to be suspicious? "

"Well, now that you can't bring yourself to ask for it, I'll just help you finalize the matter... Is that good enough?"

Song Wenxuan looked at Yang Mo with a strange expression, wanting to say something but stopping himself, and in the end he could only smile bitterly.

As we all know, among all kinds of military-industrial projects, the most famous and largest ones are construction units, followed by real estate and hotel projects. I guess everyone has heard of the names of later units such as Poly and Rongtong.

Therefore, with uncle Shen Xing around, the Lin family's resources and potential influence in the hotel industry are extremely abundant.

This was also one of the reasons why Song Wenxuan planned to use the hotel chain project to achieve success. It would be nonsense to say that he did not consider the Lin family at the time... In fact, two of the four new foreign affairs hotels expanded by Song Wenxuan were negotiated with the help of the Lin family.

In fact, if Song Wenxuan continues to choose this kind of strong alliance approach, even if his hotel chain project is far less eye-catching than Yang Mo's commercial demonstration area project, the results after a year are enough to impress everyone.

It's a pity that Yang Mo's series of cool moves during the Asian Games made Song Wenxuan change his mind, and he began to want to stand firmly on Yang Mo's boat... Since he wanted Yang Mo to respect him, he naturally couldn't continue to use this project promotion method that all second-generation people could learn without a teacher.

Therefore, in the subsequent advancement process, even though he encountered various setbacks, he still did not seek help from the Lin family;
Later, because Shen Xing never gave a relatively positive feedback on the light and heavy industrial products exchange plan, Yang Mo was quite dissatisfied with Lin Luosu's passive resistance and even began to gradually distance himself from him. As a result, Song Wenxuan was even less willing to ask the Lin family for help. There were even several times when Lin Luosu wanted to take the initiative to help him solve some problems in the project, but he politely refused. This made a certain Eggplant Girl sad for a long time.

But the result...

Now you tell me that you have reconciled with the Lin family, and you also want to reach a cooperation with Shen Xing, and it is a cooperation at the strategic restructuring level?
If I had known this would be the result, I would never have refused!

Anyway, I have fully proved my ability and value in the two things of Nanyang Overseas Chinese Cooperation and China-Japan Economic Promotion Association, and I have passed Yang Mo's test relatively perfectly. Now I can turn around and make more achievements in the hotel chain project. Isn't it great! ?
Thinking of the subtle changes in Lin Luosu's attitude towards him during this period, Song Wenxuan felt a headache, but he could only smile bitterly and nodded: "Thank you, boss. If both sides can reorganize smoothly, the hotel chain project should be able to hand in a satisfactory report card by the end of the year at the latest."

Although how to face Lin Luosu in the future is a very distressing matter, the benefits brought by this kind of reorganization with a high degree of business fit are visible to the naked eye. Therefore, Song Wenxuan's thanks can be regarded as sincere.

Ok……

There are hotel chain projects inside, and the package of projects being promoted by the China-Japan Economic Promotion Council outside. In between, there is also the investment docking with the Chen and Lin families in Nanyang. If these areas can produce good results, I believe that in four years, I can also hold the title of deputy director or even director-level cadre and take on the responsibility of a business in a legitimate and open manner, right?
Thinking of this, Song Wenxuan secretly glanced at a young and mature woman whose beauty was becoming more and more attractive, and the envy in his eyes was gone from what it was a few months ago.

Even though you are now the assistant general manager of Dezhou Urban Property Fund and are in the limelight;
But you were just lucky, and you were the first to get Yang Mo's recognition and appreciation;

Life is a long-distance race, and when it comes to mid-term efforts...

Sister Zhuo, I'm afraid that in a few years, I will surpass you!
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Yang Mo was in no mood to pay attention to the harmless little tricks of his subordinates. In fact, like all managers, he never opposed healthy competition among his subordinates as long as it did not violate principles and as long as they did not do anything extreme.

After talking about Song Wenxuan, Yang Mo picked up the teapot and brewed another cup of tea. While distributing the tea, he turned his gaze to Tan Xin, who had been doing his job properly. "Old Tan, Director Zhang has been heading to Kashgar to fight as a vanguard since the beginning of the spring. During this time, you and Old He have been managing Momo Baitou... How is it, are you still coping?"

Hearing this, Qin Xin sat up straight out of habit: "Thank you for your relationship, Mr. Yang. Don't worry, everything is going well at Momo Baitou, and nothing has happened so far."

After that, Qin Xin added a little: "Currently, Momo Baitou is mainly managed by Section Chief He. Section Chief He used to be a financial section chief and has managed Momo Baitou for a period of time. He is very proficient in all the business of the department. With him in charge, the projects in the department are in good order... I just help run errands, mainly helping to deal with the coordination and docking work with the project parties, so I don't have to spend much time on it."

As the former manager of Xintai Company, an unlucky guy who had been blamed for countless years, even though he got lucky the year before last and met Yang Mo, and was promoted to a deputy section-level cadre with real power, Qin Xin still maintained a cautious attitude as before.

Therefore, even though he, the deputy section chief in charge of the coordination and execution of Mo Mo Bai Tou, has become an indispensable and important figure in the department, and the department has been able to run at such a fast pace without any major problems, he can be said to have made great contributions; but in front of Yang Mo, he still pushed all the credit to He Yongyi, as if he was just an insignificant assistant.

Yang Mo looked at him with a bit of a smile: "Old Tan, you are not the manager of Xintai Company who takes the blame all the time, and I am not the kind of person like Vice President Tang who likes to pass the buck all the time. Do you have to hide behind a turtle shell in front of me all day long?"

As he spoke, he took out a cigarette and handed it to him: "Others may not know how much contribution you, the deputy section chief of Momo Baitou, have made, but how could I not know? Ever since Section Chief Mu stepped down, Director Zhang was transferred to Xijiang for a mission. All the pressure is on you and Lao He. It's like two people doing the work of three people."

"It's not like I don't know Lao He. You can ask him to do assessments, risk control, and research the things behind those numbers, but when it comes to management and appeasing employees, communicating and convincing project parties, or even the two parties working together to come up with ideas and solve the problems faced in the project one by one... Without you, Momobaitou would have been in big trouble a long time ago!"

Qin Xin almost cried when he heard this.

The reason why he was blamed for so many years was, on the one hand, that he, as the former manager of Xintai Company, had no background to speak of; on the other hand, it was because none of the previous leaders of the drilling company understood the operation of tertiary industry projects, and they could not appreciate the good intentions of his previous suggestions;
Even after being transferred to a strong department like Momobaitou, outsiders were still paying attention to when and how much money was invested in which project, and how much initial return each project generated a few months later, as if as long as one has a sharp eye, the investment will give an immediate return... As for the various corrections, persuasion, joint efforts, and coordination of resources after the investment, they seemed not to be important at all.

The terrible thing is that this concept not only exists in the eyes of outsiders, but also exists in the investment and financing departments of Mo Mo Bai Tou.
You know, the investment and financing department of Momobaitou is a core department, which has always been directly managed by the section chief. After Director Zhang went on a business trip, He Yongyi took over the management. Therefore, even if he felt that there was such prejudice within his own department, which was unfair to him and the executive department under his direct jurisdiction, Qin Xin, who thought that he was far inferior to others in qualifications and background, could only hold his nose and accept it silently.

But now, after hearing Yang Mo, the true section chief of Momo Baitou affirm his contribution in person and give an objective and fair evaluation, how could he not be moved to tears?

You know, today's Yang Mo is no longer a simple department-level cadre, and in many cases, it is not easy to get fair and objective affirmation for your work.

Seeing the middle-aged man who had been bullied for nearly ten years, and was about to cry, Yang Mo smiled slightly, but turned his head to look at Li Jun, who also behaved like a model student throughout the whole process: "Old Li, just like Old Tan, I have been silently paying attention to your performance over the past year... I have to say that your Xi Xiang Feng Canning Factory has done very well in many aspects."

"Without your continuous innovation and research into so many new canned foods, without your perseverance in opening up various sales channels and coming up with various promotional and sales methods, even if we set up more business cooperation points in various towns and villages, they would just be a bunch of superficial projects."

Li Jun was overjoyed when he heard this, but his face was full of humility and shyness: "Boss Yang, you are too kind. I just did what I should do... We at Xi Xiang Feng Cannery don't have any great abilities, so we can only work together and think more about some minor details."

Yang Mo smiled and said, "Everyone should know my personality. As long as your attitude is fine and you have enough ability, I will not tolerate such a good person being thrown into the garbage dump to rot."

"In fact, I don't care what others think, but in my opinion, whether it is Lao Tan or Lao Li, they are both pearls buried in the sand. As long as the sand covering them is wiped off, they are polished and placed in the right place, they will surely shine brightly."

"so……"

Yang Mo paused for a moment, and scanned Qin Xin and Li Jun. Seeing that they both showed nervous and expectant expressions, he said word by word, "So, Lao Qin and Lao Li, do you two want to form a partnership and shoulder the burden together? After the strategic restructuring agreement is signed next month, you can go to Mexico with the new team and open up a new world like Director Zhang?"

!!!!!!!!! ???

Mexico!?

Qin Xin and Li Jun were stunned.

This is……

what's the situation! ?

(End of this chapter)