Lin'an Jianqiao Airport.
At this time, Jianqiao Airport is not much different from a larger bus station. There are no T1, T2, or T3 waiting halls, and no domestic or international departures.
Photos of great men are hung in the airport's only waiting hall. This kind of Soviet-style architecture was the mainstream of that era.
Chen Xia and Chen Chun were waiting outside the airport at this time. They were there to pick up their aunt.
Chen Shuqin's two companies in Hong Kong are already prepared, including the venue and recruitment of personnel. She has two things to do when she comes to the mainland this time.
One is that the relevant documents need to be signed by Chen Xia. After all, he is the owner of the two companies. This must be made clear in law. In a capitalist country, business is business and friendship is friendship.
Secondly, she also wanted to see how much of Chen Xia's so-called "jade inventory" there was. Although she felt that she was not wrong in judging people and that this nephew was a man of great vision, after talking with Zhou Yutong, she was somewhat worried.
After all, Yuezhou does not produce jade. How much jade can be transported from Nanyun Province, which is thousands of kilometers away?
This time she came with a lawyer and her apprentice Lin Hui.
It took two full days to cross the border from Shenzhen, take a train to Yangcheng, and then fly directly from Yangcheng to Lin'an, which was very inconvenient.
The weather was already chilly at the end of October. When Chen Shuqin, wearing sunglasses and a windbreaker, appeared at the exit, Chen Xia and Chen Chun hurried to greet her.
"Aunt, welcome back to my hometown. Let me introduce you, this is my elder sister Chen Chun. She didn't make it to Hong Kong last time."
"Haha, hello, Xiaochun."
Chen Shuqin took off her glasses and held Chen Chun's hand. "You're really good-looking. Your great-grandfather and great-aunt will definitely be very happy to see you. I heard you're a doctor?"
Chen Chun blushed a little and replied with a smile: "Aunt, I just graduated this year and am now an internist."
"Look, after Xiao Xia passed away, your great-grandfather kept praising you, saying how great your father was for training two doctors. He always said I had no future in business, and in his eyes, being a teacher or a doctor was the right career."
Everyone laughed easily.
"Let me introduce you. This is Lawyer Li Chaodong, and this is my assistant. You can call her Sister Lin Hui. Lawyer Li, Lin Hui, these two are my nephews and nieces in mainland China."
The two sides shook hands.
At this time, the guests from Hong Kong dress much more fashionably than people in China, as if they are from a different world.
Even those who could enter the airport were already well-known figures in China, but they were completely incomparable in terms of dress and temperament, so everyone slowly stopped and started to watch.
Chen Xia immediately suggested, "Aunt, Lawyer Li, Sister Lin Hui, let's go to the hotel and rest for a while. You've all worked hard along the way."
At that time, domestic flights were basically dominated by Soviet-style propeller aircraft, which were noisy and slow, and were not much better than taking a long-distance bus.
Chen Xia drove his beloved jeep and asked everyone to get in.
Chen Shuqin was very surprised to see the car with a slight leak. "Xiao Xia, how can you drive such a broken car without even a seat belt?"
Chen Xia smiled bitterly. A broken car? Even a broken car like this, not just anyone can drive it.
In the early 1980s, the spring breeze of reform and opening up had not yet fully reached the land of Zhijiang, so there were few cars on the road at that time.
The cars usually are the Polish "Polonaise" and the former Soviet Union's "Volga". Of course, the most common one is the 212 jeep driven by Chen Xia, which is only driven by the main leaders of the unit.
It will take another two or three years before a large number of smuggled cars come in, such as Toyota's Crown, "Duke", Italy's "Fiat", etc., and they will gradually increase.
The famous car "Santana" was not produced until 1983, and it was basically assembled in China, and then people boasted that it was domestically produced.
At that time, a Santana cost 230,000 yuan. It was impossible to buy one because you needed a letter of introduction and had to wait in line. The price and quality were comparable to buying a private jet in later generations.
In fact, Chen Xia had already made a plan. It was just a foreign car. At worst, he could go to Hong Kong to buy one. If he wanted it cheaper, he could go to Dongguang Province or the South China Sea Island to get a smuggled car. Anyway, he could solve the transportation problem perfectly.
If it weren't for the purpose of staying on topic, Chen Xia could have gone abroad alone and smuggled hundreds of cars into the country for sale.
But this is illegal, Chen Xia will not do it, otherwise he will be targeted by the God of Harmony.
But he is allowed to buy a car privately, right?
Let’s get back to the jeep.
Chen Xia smiled bitterly and explained to the three Hong Kong guests:
"Aunt, don't look at this car's shabby appearance. In fact, only officials of a certain rank can own a car like this. Private individuals in mainland China can't buy cars these days. All the cars you see on the road are state-owned."
This was completely incomprehensible to Chen Shuqin and Lawyer Li. Why couldn't individuals buy cars? Why were all cars owned by the state?
Chen Xia asked, "Who's going?" The debate over whether China should be capitalist or socialist was raging, and a certain old man was still trying to turn the tide for the country.
"Xiao Xia, are you also an official now? Not a doctor?"
Chen Shuqin still couldn't understand why there was any inevitable connection between doctors and officials?
"No, I'm a doctor, but I'm a doctor with a certain rank. I'm currently a regular section chief, which is a lowly official in China."
Anyway, the Hong Kong guest asked a lot of questions and got a lot of answers that were very disappointing. The more he asked, the more confused he became.
Chen Xia booked two rooms at the Xizi Hotel by the West Lake. It was a foreign-related hotel, and one night cost Chen Xia 100 yuan in foreign exchange coupons. It was really painful, as a month's salary was not enough for one night's stay.
But the conditions are indeed very good, with a color TV, hot water, and the West Lake is right outside the door. It is definitely a first-line lake view room.
Chen Xia first let the three of them rest for a while, and then took his aunt and others to Lin'an Hotel to have a meal of authentic Zhejiang cuisine. This treatment was definitely at the level of a state guest.
After returning to the hotel, Lawyer Li Chaodong took out a pile of documents and asked Chen Xia to sign them one by one.
According to Chen Xia's suggestion, an offshore company was first registered in the Cayman Islands. The company was named "Four Seasons Company". The name came from the names of the four siblings of the Chen family, spring, summer, autumn and winter, which happened to be the four seasons.
The Cayman Islands, like Hong Kong, were both British overseas colonies at that time, so it was very convenient to register a company.
The key is that the Cayman Islands is a world-famous tax haven and it strictly keeps the identities of company owners confidential. After all, Chen Xia's identity does not allow him to be too high-profile and cannot be easily discovered by people in the country, otherwise there will be endless troubles.
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