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Chapter 355 Regretful Jiang Defu
Guo Yaodong's accidental death made Suning depressed for a long time. After all, Guo Yaodong was his most capable subordinate. Now Su Lie's arrival has relieved Suning's pressure to a certain extent. Originally just a food production base, it suddenly changed its style and started to launch white appliance projects. The mainland began to take this Longya company seriously.

Now that Su Lie is in charge of the white goods project in Shenzhen with a large number of employees hired from Hong Kong, Suning feels completely relieved. However, when he sees the little girl Guo Keer in front of him, Suning immediately feels a headache again.

The major changes in the family made the little girl Guo K'er very averse to many things. Suning also contacted a psychologist for her and thoughtfully transferred her to a new school so that she could get rid of the distress of losing her parents as soon as possible.

"Uncle, I don't like the new school. Can I transfer back to my original school?"

"Haha, Ke'er, you finally talked to uncle." Su Ning looked at the little girl Guo Ke'er in surprise, "Uncle will meet your request, but you have to communicate with uncle like today, understand?"

"Yes, uncle, I understand!"

Seeing Guo Ke'er returning to normal, Suning rubbed Ke'er's little head in surprise and immediately helped her solve the school problem without feeling any trouble at all.

The Longya Company is now truly established, with employees from all departments recruited. After hearing about how the boss, Suning, takes care of the family of employee Guo Yaodong, many employees were moved, which invisibly made them work harder.

In Shenzhen, Suning came to inspect the installation work of the white goods production line. Seeing the employees wearing uniform work uniforms, who were obviously of military origin, Suning looked at Su Lie curiously.

"Mr. Su, are these workers newly transferred from the army?" At this time, Su Lie had been appointed by Suning as the vice president of Longya Company, and also the general manager of Longya Security Company.

“Well, yes!
The military has been slowly laying off staff for the past two years, so it's a good opportunity for us to hire them as a team, saving our Dragon Tooth Company a lot of work."

"Well, it's indeed very convenient. I hope they can adapt to their new identities quickly."

"Haha, I should!

After all, our production base adopts military management."

"Ok!"

"Suning, many of the workers here are retired or transferred soldiers from Shandong." Su Lie suddenly looked at his boss Suning, then explained with a smile.

"Oh?" Suning's heart moved at this moment.

How could Su Lie not understand Su Ning's thoughts? He immediately continued to explain, "Suning, many of them are veterans of the unit where your father Jiang Defu served."

"Boss Su said that my father is about to retire?"

"No! Your father has retired."

"Hey! Let's not talk about my father. They thought I was dead anyway." When mentioning his adopted father Jiang Defu, Su Ning shook his head with a wry smile. "It looks like we'll be able to produce all kinds of home appliances soon. We should be able to catch up with this year's Autumn Canton Fair."

"Ah? Suning, you want to participate in this year's Canton Fair?" Su Lie looked at Suning in surprise.

"Yes! These home appliances are quite advanced, and their target customer group is the developed Western market, so we must participate in this year's Canton Fair."

"Well, I'll take care of the Canton Fair quota. It's really easy for me."

"Haha, I have great confidence in you." Su Ning smiled with satisfaction at Su Lie's statement. "I will arrange for the employees hired from Hong Kong to be responsible for sales at this Canton Fair. After all, it is easy to find talents who know English among them."

"Well, just leave the production matters to me!" Su Lie nodded with a smile.

"Mr. Su, we are a private enterprise. Our reward and punishment system is very strict. We also implement a more-work-more-pay system, which is completely different from the communal system of state-owned enterprises. Our management is also based on the Western model. I hope you can help our employees accept it."

"Don't worry! The majority of our employees are veterans, and they are veterans in an organized group, so they have a strong sense of obedience."

"Well, that's true!"

On Green Island, Jiang Defu, dressed in casual clothes, sat on a lounge chair in the yard. He suddenly felt that he had aged a lot and no longer had the high spirits of an active-duty soldier.

"Old Jiang, what's the difference between you and those old men out there?" An Jie looked at the leisurely Jiang Defu with a resentful look on his face.

"Humph! I'm the same as them. What's so strange about this? Aren't you an old lady?"

"Yes! I'm an old lady, okay?"

"Old Jiang, have you heard?"

"what?"

"Many of the soldiers who retired from your army this time have been hired as a unit in private factories in Shenzhen." An Jie suddenly told Jiang Defu the news he had heard. "I heard that the wages there are high, the treatment is good, and the televisions they produce are all color, as well as refrigerators and washing machines, all of which are intended to be sold to foreigners."

"Tsk! What's so strange about that?" Jiang Defu said nonchalantly upon hearing his wife Anjie's surprise. "The private factory you're talking about is called Longya Company. It was established by Changsha Institute of Technology, Jiang Changyi's alma mater. Of course, they give priority to hiring veterans."

"Ah? So that's it!"

"Oh! Jiang Changyi? How great it would be if he were not dead now!" Thinking of his eldest son Jiang Changyi, Jiang Defu suddenly became sad again, and murmured in a low voice.

Seeing Jiang Defu's sadness at this time, An Jie was also very helpless, but the thing that the couple regretted most was that they did not ask about Jiang Changyi's affairs, which caused Jiang Changyi to remain in their regretful memory.

Among the five children of the Jiang family, Jiang Yaning and Jiang Changyi get along the best, and Jiang Changyi's "disappearance" hit her the hardest. Now she rarely returns to the Jiang family. After she understood the ins and outs of the matter, she attributed all the faults to Jiang Defu and An Jie, believing that they were too partial, which led to Jiang Changyi's depression.

Jiang Yafei and Hou Chengnan were also unable to understand the situation. They had the same idea as Jiang Yaning, believing that their parents played an ignominious role in the matter and gradually became alienated from them.

Of course, they would never have imagined that the person they thought about day and night was now living a carefree life in Hong Kong, and had broken free from the constraints of their Jiang family, and no longer had to worry about the so-called kindness and morality of the Jiang family.

"Old Jiang, I heard that Jiang Changyi has a younger brother in his hometown in the countryside?" An Jie suddenly looked at Jiang Defu in confusion.

"Yes! Now Changyi's younger brother is married to Second Aunt's daughter Yanfeng."

"What? Yan Feng?" An Jie's eyes widened in surprise. "This is truly a marriage between relatives!"

"Hmph! What kind of relative is this? Changyi, this half-brother, has nothing to do with our Jiang family." Jiang Defu didn't like what An Jie said. He didn't think that the Jiang family had any relationship with Jiang Changyi, this half-brother.

"Huh? Old Jiang, how do you know so much?" An Jie looked at Jiang Defu in surprise.

"Last time, I asked the three Weiguo brothers to return to their hometown together to deliver the pension issued by the army to Jiang Changyi's mother. I did this because Weiguo and his brothers came back and told me about it."

"Hmph! These kids won't tell me anything anymore." An Jie felt a bit offended. Time quickly turned to the autumn of 1982. The Canton Fair was held in Guangzhou as scheduled. This time, there was a slightly different change in the home appliance section of the Canton Fair. A home appliance called Dragon Tooth made a strong appearance.

Looking at the various high-tech Longya brand home appliances, especially the LCD TV in the center, many foreigners were shocked, and many domestic state-owned home appliance manufacturers who came to participate in the conference were also full of envy, realizing that they were in danger at this Canton Fair.

"Director Chen, where did this Longya company come from?" Looking at the Longya employees in tight-fitting professional attire chatting with the foreign visitors, the director of a domestic electrical appliance factory showed a puzzled expression.

"Ah? Director Wang, you don't even know this?" Old Chen, the director of another home appliance company, looked at the puzzled Old Wang in surprise. "Longya Company is a high-tech company led by Changsha Institute of Technology. It's registered just across the street in Hong Kong. Their production lines and technology are world-leading."

"Ah? So how much of the Dragon Tooth Company's shares does Changsha Institute of Technology hold?"

"Huh? I don't think there are any shares!"

"What? What does Changsha Institute of Technology want?"

"Haha, you don't understand the technology used by Changsha Institute of Technology!"

"Tsk! I just don't believe that Dragon Tooth Company would make its technology public."

"That..." Factory Director Chen was unable to answer Lao Wang's question for a moment. "However, I heard that after the Canton Fair, the boss of Longya Company invited the leaders of our companies to sit down and hold a symposium."

"A symposium? What does this capitalist want to do?"

"Haha, you'll know everything when you attend the symposium.

Director Wang, are you still afraid of them?"

"Humph! That's true!"

Longya Company's LCD TV was immediately applied for an international patent by Longya's legal department, becoming Longya Company's concept product. In fact, Longya Company can start mass production at any time. Suning just wants to whet the appetite of foreigners, which can be regarded as a wave of hunger marketing.

"Boss, our company's order volume is rising sharply. The orders for televisions have reached 300,000 units, washing machines 500,000 units, and refrigerators 200,000 units." The person in charge of this Canton Fair is the director of Longya Company's home appliance department, Ayako Kawana, an executive who was poached by Suning from Sony's sales department in Japan at a high salary.

"Well, you guys have worked hard!"

"Boss, we're not tired!" Kawana Ayako bowed and asked her question, "Boss, does our Dragon Tooth Company need to add more production lines to increase production?"

"Well, you don't need to worry about these things. You just need to be responsible for the sales of Longya Electric Appliances."

"Hey! Ayako understands."

Suning was really satisfied with Kawana Ayako's sales ability, and the Canton Fair did not disappoint Suning. Kawana Ayako's sales team gave Suning a satisfactory answer.

However, if Kawana Ayako wants to interfere in specific business and management matters, Suning will not allow it for the time being, because Su Lie and others are responsible for these technical and management aspects, and only in this way can Suning feel at ease.

After the Canton Fair ended, Suning's Longya Company became the biggest winner, directly contributing most of the orders to the country's export foreign exchange, making many domestic home appliance companies mournful and envious at the same time.

At the Longya Symposium after the Canton Fair, almost all domestic home appliance companies that came to participate in the Canton Fair came, and the venue was completely packed.

"Everyone, please allow me to introduce myself first." Suning looked at the state-owned enterprise bosses in the audience, then introduced himself with a smile, "My name is Suning, and I am the owner of Longya Company."

"Boss Su, just get straight to the point!

Tell me why you called us here?"

"Haha, since everyone is so anxious, I'll just say it directly." Regarding the anxious state-owned enterprise bosses in the audience, Su Ning smiled and said, "I believe everyone has seen the success of our Longya Company and must be very eager to obtain our advanced technology and production lines."

"Boss Su, aren't you talking nonsense?

Would you be willing to disclose some new advanced technology?"

"Yes! We at Longya are willing to share our advanced technology with domestic companies and provide equally advanced production lines."

"What?" The state-owned enterprise bosses in the audience were shocked, and then they all became ecstatic.

"Haha, not only that, our Dragon Tooth Company will also provide interest-free loans to help domestic companies transform."

"Great! Boss Su is truly our living Bodhisattva!"

"Haha, I wouldn't dare to be called a living Buddha!" Su Ning shook his head disapprovingly, then continued to explain with a smile, "Our Dragon Tooth Company also has its own requirements. You must accept our technology investment, holding 20% of the shares of each company. Dragon Tooth Company will get first dibs on profits from this and future production orders from the Canton Fair."

"Ah? What? How is this possible!" The bigwigs of state-owned enterprises in the audience almost bit their tongues. Only then did they realize that there are not so many "good things" in the world.

"Haha, I know everyone must be in a difficult situation, but this is our Dragon Tooth Company's bottom line, and we only need six partner companies."

"What? Only six?"

The LCD TV launched by Suning has attracted everyone's attention. It is ready to be launched into the market in 2013. However, the most important LCD screen is not produced by Suning itself.

Because Suning knows that it is very dangerous to eat alone. Only by giving profits to some large domestic enterprises can Longya Company grow bigger and stronger as quickly as possible, and can Chinese manufacturing go global ahead of time.

Longya Company only needs to hold 20% of the shares of each company, and it does not need too much profit itself. It will definitely cause a major reshuffle of domestic home appliance companies.

Almost everyone can see that this is a mutually beneficial thing, but the newly opened policy does not allow Longya Company to accept cooperation immediately.

The last Longya symposium of the Canton Fair ended, and all the problems were left to the bosses of these state-owned enterprises, especially those who were most excited. They began to compete for the six places and then applied to their superiors to make their respective state-owned enterprises into pilot units.

In order to better promote the achievement of cooperation, Suning invited domestic parties to visit the home appliance production base in Shenzhen and showed them Longya Company's advanced management and technology without reservation. Anyway, important technologies have been applied for international patents, so there is no need to worry about some companies imitating them. As long as they want to export, they cannot get past Longya Company.

People from all walks of life visited Longya Company's advanced production line and realized that the technological gap between the two sides was too huge. Even if they were asked to imitate, they would not be able to reach the level of Longya Company.

After tedious and complicated discussions, six cooperative enterprises finally emerged. Then, after signing contracts with each enterprise, Longya Company immediately fulfilled its original promise and provided financial and technical support. A large number of advanced production lines appeared in front of each enterprise.

(End of this chapter)