My Lord, you need to stand up!

Chapter 444 Sweet Treats and Slaps Coexist

Of course, this vice president doesn't need to buy a car.

The leaders, busy with numerous tasks, resolved the issues and announced new personnel appointments and shareholder identities for the joint venture factory. They earnestly instructed the factory leaders to assist Comrade Weidong in his work.

They all withdrew.

Although there are many mothers in charge, the actual work is done by a very high-ranking person!

The general manager was an American, and the other vice president was the factory director of the Pingjing Automobile Manufacturing Plant.

As a joint venture plant that spun off more than half of the region from Pingqi, Pingqi is a super-large plant with 1.2 employees.

It's said that just arguing about who should be in charge has taken a long time.

Let Wei Dong come and be on equal footing from the start.

So when the appointment of this 21-year-old was announced, not only did the foreign executives almost slam their fists on the table, but the expressions on their faces were also not very pleasant.

This also prevents Wei Dong from showcasing his communication skills in front of his superiors.

After seeing everyone off with a smile, I first held a meeting with the Chinese senior leadership.

I was assigned an office and a dark blue Cherokee with heavy signs of wear.

They might even be trying to sow discord between him and others.

Who knew this guy would think, "Hehehe, getting a car for free is enough."

Originally, they were going to assign him a driver, but Wei Dong said he could fill up the gas tank himself and drive himself, which would also be a test of the car. He would return the car after leaving Beijing, and since he usually lived next door at the sanitary napkin factory, they didn't need to go through all that trouble.

The vice president's main job is to start building the building.

A 24-story mixed-use building with two floors of commercial storefronts is about to be approved and construction will begin.

At the same time, construction also began on an eight-story apartment building with an elevator, and six stacked villas with twelve units in a row.

Even in Beijing, the procedures for building houses for this state-owned factory were as easy as playing around. The construction department would start the approval process, but the construction would be led by the commanders and soldiers of the construction engineering regiment under the Second Ministry of Machine Building.

Anyway, Lao Geng and the others who were summoned by telegram were both confused and delighted.

Indeed, only Lao Geng and a few others knew that they might be there to survey the TV production building; everyone else thought they were visiting Beijing to fulfill their dreams.

Now they're actually going to build a building in Pyeongjing, and it's the kind of twin-tower building they're so familiar with, with commercial floors and an underground parking garage.

The blueprints are all ready-made!
Originally, we were going to give it to that TV building, but let's focus on this one first.

The factory was also stunned. Just as they were about to say something, the vice president said that after the project was completed, the two elevator apartments and one duplex would be given to the factory leaders as welfare housing!

The goal was to avoid losing face in front of the foreign leaders.

Just like the allocation of official vehicles, this level of welfare housing does not include any property rights. It is a residence allocated by the joint venture factory to the vice president and two Chinese senior executives during their tenure, depending on their position. They would move when their positions or personnel changed.

The fiercest conflict before was over why American elements should spend over ten thousand dollars a month to stay in luxury hotels.

Now they've been instantly brought to the same treatment.

Wei Dong even drew this kind of stacked villa in a crooked way. The lower unit has a garage and garden, and the upper unit has a terrace and attic. It is a compromise garden villa, which sounds very comfortable.

We also want to dig a pond next to it, for lakeside living...

Wu Xi, listening from the side, felt like a lucky cat, thinking, "You're really good at making empty promises!"

There is no such high-end and comfortable residential area in the entire Pyongyang area, and you actually built it under the pretense of providing it for foreign experts.

What should have been a highly contentious and contentious situation has been quietly avoided because the houses were built inside the car factory premises. Have they simply adopted the lawless practices of a third-tier factory?
But Wei Dong didn't leave himself an inch of room.

He's a day student, or rather, he moves between classes; he doesn't live here.

The main selling point is that it's a non-stick pan, so it's impeccable.

Moreover, those 32 low-rise apartments, each with 120 square meters of four bedrooms, are definitely considered large single-level apartments for this era.

Those two units that weren't allocated can be bought by the person who meets the required level. The price of apartments in Beijing hasn't been calculated yet, but it's estimated to be between 500 and 700. Do you want one?
Moreover, only half of the funds were allocated to the Chinese side, while the rest were given to luxury apartments for foreign experts.

There are over 400 units in the high-rise building, with two types of apartments, 40 square meters and 80 square meters, built through a collective fundraising effort. Should you buy one?

If Wei Dong had been a traitor during the puppet army era, he would have been an excellent collaborator.

In recent years, Pingqi has become known for its "seven or eight struggles as the main theme," and its momentum of fighting against the United States with a common hatred has been completely dismantled by him.

It's because of Wei Dong's fame that, although he doesn't appear in public or in film, television, newspapers, or other media, everyone knows him.

"I developed the X camera, which has sold over two million units to date. As for the Flying Swallow sanitary napkins, that goes without saying. Pingqi was our first customer in Beijing. And the Hilal casual wear and jeans ads currently airing on TV are also ours. Let me introduce Ms. Qin Yuye, a Hong Kong businesswoman..." The reason Wei Dong had to hold a meeting with the Chinese side first was precisely to wait for the only Hong Kong girl who understood English to come over.

Now, Qin Yuye, dressed in a dress, carrying a small crossbody bag, and with her long, wavy hair styled up, stood up and nodded with an elegant Hong Kong style.

The car manufacturers immediately got angry and said, "Look at the people you've partnered with, and what kind of people we've partnered with."

No wonder they had to fight!
Faced with such a beauty, one would probably lose half the will to fight.

Furthermore, given that he was a well-known young reformer and also a member of their own family, the confrontation was much less intense. They simply expressed their gratitude for his participation in assisting with the improvement of the joint venture.

Isn't Tianyan Weidong's core fighting force? "The reason why cars are selling well right now is not because the cars are good, nor because you are doing so well. It's because the market is good. As far as I know, there are definitely other imported car joint ventures that will gradually increase their production scale. When the real market competition begins, all the problems will start to surface. Maybe you won't even be able to afford to pay your salaries."

If suggesting building a house earlier was like eating a sweet treat, now it's definitely like being slapped in the face.

Wu Xi stood on the sidelines with her arms crossed, watching with great interest, and even took out a camera to take pictures!
The factory staff initially wanted to reprimand him for taking pictures, but seeing his lazy demeanor, they knew he was a genuine local and didn't dare to say a word.

They joined the uproar, questioning, "Xiao Rang, is there any need to be so alarmist?"

"We were the ones who charged to the front lines of the battle; we could never have ended up like this!"

Let Wei Dong slowly introduce Lao Geng: "The Second Ministry of Machine Building spent eighteen years building in the deep mountains of the Third Front. His entire career was devoted to that project, and it was gone just like that."

Old Geng said expressionlessly, “In 81, we were notified that we would be adjusted and reformed. We were an infrastructure construction team. In the deep mountains and forests where there was no town, we had no use for anything except building chicken coops. By 83, we had completely lost our official status and all of us had to be demobilized and find our own way. Every day I was worried about the livelihoods of the three thousand infrastructure construction officers and soldiers and the more than two thousand family members.”

Let Wei Dong introduce Lao Cheng again: "The Third Line Optical Surveying Instrument Factory of the Fifth Ministry of Machinery Industry was lucky enough to switch to camera production, but it almost ran out of supplies completely."

Old Cheng was even more eloquent: "We are seven supporting factories. Xiangshan Factory switched to producing SLR cameras and won a national gold medal. But what's the use of winning an award? To truly gain consumer recognition, in the days when there were no competing products, Xiangshan Factory relied on the gold medal and excellent product quality to achieve annual sales of several million. After about two years of good times, our other factories also had to find a way. When we and Weidong jointly developed the People's Camera and took the path of low profit and high volume, Xiangshan Factory's sales completely collapsed. Because those with money would rather buy imported cameras, and those without money would of course buy our 29-yuan products. Now Xiangshan Factory has been merged with us."

Let Wei Dong add insult to injury: "The automotive industry is definitely more complex than optical surveying instruments. The government will definitely bail out Beijing's urban area no matter what, unlike in the remote mountains and forests... We also have a titanium alloy factory under the Seventh Ministry of Machinery Industry that once had to raise chickens to survive. Oh, there are too many such cases. Research institutes sell popsicles, radar factories go bankrupt from making TVs. So what I want to say is that my strongest point is sales. Now I don't participate in sales and production. I only focus on assisting joint ventures in housing reform, calming the mindset of foreign investors, and promoting localization. When sales collapse, come to me for a solution."

The men of Beijing have seen awesome people, but they've never seen anyone this awesome.

Do whatever you want...

We'll only lend a hand when we see you suffer, get beaten down by the market, and realize how tough things are!

There's already a shortage of supply, so what's the point of saying anything?

Old Geng was left behind to begin formally reviewing the entire factory site with the infrastructure department and selecting construction work areas.

Wei Dong has already taken the Hong Kong businessmen to find the foreign company executives.

Wu Xi followed up with a cheerful smile, like a patriarch holding a camera and broadcasting live: "Not bad, you're in better control of the situation than you were in Shangzhou last year, right, Miss Qin?"

The translation is elegant and graceful: "Successful people always shine through trials and tribulations, and Adong is working very hard to hone himself."

Unexpectedly, Wu Xi said, "So, you should thank your opponents for all this and that? In peacetime, do you know how frustrated those guys who want to become generals are?"

Wei Dong laughed heartily: "You're not talking about yourself, are you?"

Wu Xi gave a forced smile: "So everyone has their own destiny, you can put away those little emotions of yours."

Wei Dong hummed as he walked into the foreign company's general manager's office. Outside, several secretaries, assistants, and translators were busy in the general manager's office.

Upon seeing the new vice president arrive, he quickly reported it.

Wei Dong gestured to the translator, "We could learn from the office model over there and set up a large general manager's office to support our various corporate projects."

Qin Yuye nodded seriously: "I will pass it on to Susan, she would be happy to lead such a team."

Susan is the English name that Shen Laosan just chose. She thinks it's the alias of Yu Tangchun, the character Su San was sent to prison, and that it's quite nice.

At that moment, the general manager, with a gloomy expression, appeared at the door and forced a smile to welcome his deputy into the office.

The room is quite tidy and simple, with white walls and wooden floors in a Chinese style, and calligraphy and paintings hanging on it. However, the Suzhou-style desk is placed in the center by the window in an American style.

The general manager, sitting by the window, appeared even more gloomy due to the backlighting.

Wei Dong, however, was full of sunshine: "Hello, I have already notified them that a letter of credit of two million US dollars has been transferred to the port, and we can ship the spare parts over to solve our urgent problem."

The other party's brow unfurrowed slightly: "And then next time? We need a payment quota of twenty million US dollars every year!"

In fact, they had money in their accounts; the cars were sold and they received a lot of RMB, but the US side couldn't exchange it for USD to take back.

Of course I'm annoyed.

Instead of resorting to a gentle, stern approach, Wei Dong directly pressed him: "That's a problem you need to think about. I'm just here as a consultant who helped Apple achieve sales of 800,000 computers and $2 billion this year to remind you that you're having a tough time in Beijing. I understand and am very willing to help you solve the problem, but don't bring your emotions into our conversations. You're just a professional manager, so just talk to me professionally!"

The way he spoke made it sound like he was the general manager.

(End of this chapter)