"What are you talking about? Come on, just talk to me, and forget about thanking me!"
Commissioner Gao on the side looked at the man and nodded slowly with a smile on his face.
Just like everyone else who came to the birthday party, the man was not ordinary, the kind that could overwhelm everyone if he moved out.
The man's name is Zuo Wenzon, the president of Taimei Group.
Furun once made a ranking list of the ten most valuable people in China, and Zuo Wenzong was one of them.
And he is the youngest one in that list.
Among the four major families, except for the Xia family in the military, the Gu family, Qin family, and Lu family in business all started from industry, and also control several core sectors of the domestic industry, such as energy, transportation, infrastructure, etc.
If you want to run an industrial business, you can't avoid these three families, and the emerging IT industry and technology industry now have little intersection with these three companies.
Zuo Wenzon's Taimei Group, as a newly emerging industry giant, maintains a good relationship with the Lu family, which is rare among founders of new industries.
The reason is that Zuo Wenzon's father was once a coal miner in Shanxi Province, and Old Master Lu had been in charge of the coal mines in Shanxi Province for many years.
In other words, Zuo Wenzong's father was an old subordinate of Old Master Lu.
Because of this relationship, and the fact that Old Master Lu had invested money in Taimei Group when it was first established, Zuo Wenzong and the Lu family have always maintained a good relationship.
In fact, due to the reform trend in the 1990s, Old Master Lu helped many of his old subordinates and gave out a lot of money, most of which had no follow-up.
The money given to Zuo Wenzong was just a habit of his. He was used to giving money to unemployed workers, even though this time it was a worker's son.
But that was after the millennium, when everything became standardized, and Zuo Wenzong handled the money in the form of angel investment.
Unexpectedly, after the collapse of Aihua's commercial building, this investment became the Lu family's lifeline. A casual move made many years ago became the key piece to maintain the dragon on the chessboard.
The reason why the Lu family can still maintain a certain standard of living is mostly due to the dividends from the Taimei Group. Without the dividends from Taimei, the Lu family's operations would be even more difficult than they are now.
After the greetings, Commissioner Gao's expression turned slightly more serious. He asked, "Did you see the strategic planning press conference held by Beichen yesterday?"
There was a smile on Zuo Wenzong's face, but after hearing these words, the smile slowly disappeared like the moisture on the window after the weather warmed up.
But he quickly replaced the numbness on his face with a slightly deliberate "indifferent" expression, and said in a casual tone:
"I've seen it, and the situation is more optimistic than I thought."
The grandmother glanced at Zuo Wenzong, then at Commissioner Gao, and said tactfully, "Old Gao, you two can chat first. When the meal starts, take Little Zuo over to sit next to me. I still have something to talk to him about."
Commissioner Gao nodded, then glanced at Zuo Wenzong, and seeing something in his eyes, he whispered, "Come with me."
The two walked along, passed by Chen Chi's dressing room, took a look inside, and turned into the small room next door.
"What's wrong? Is the situation bad?" Commissioner Gao said in a serious tone.
Zuo Wenzong put his hands in his pockets and shrugged: "No, no, don't worry too much."
"Beichen announced its full entry into the group buying market at yesterday's press conference. This is your territory, so how are you going to respond?"
"I've taken a look and found that their plans are misaligned with ours. In the short term, there will definitely be some impact on us in Thailand and the United States, but the overall impact will be small."
Commissioner Gao stared at him and felt that Zuo Wenzon's idea was too optimistic.
Basically, wherever Beichen Group enters a field, that field will be wiped out. This time it is in direct competition with Taimei Group. Even if it is a dislocation as Zuo Wenzong said, the impact will definitely not be as small as he said.
After staring at Zuo Wenzong for a while, Commissioner Gao relaxed a little and said:
"Of course, Xiao Zuo, we all trust you. We hope your judgment will not let us down."
"Uncle Gao, of course. What I, Zuo Wenzong, hate most in my life is to betray the trust of those close to me. This is more painful than my own business failure."
One old and one young, the relationship between them was like that of a teacher guiding a younger generation, and they addressed each other affectionately, and the temperature in the room rose for a while.
After Commissioner Gao finished speaking, his expression suddenly became serious again, and he said, "By the way, I heard a rumor recently."
"What rumor?" Zuo Wenzong looked embarrassed.
"Rumors about you. Bad rumors."
"Yeah?"
Zuo Wenzong put his hands in his trouser pockets, his fingers clenched.
Of course he knew what the rumor was, he knew it all. However, even if he knew, he could only pretend not to know.
When Commissioner Gao saw that he did not enter the port, he said, "I heard it from others, but I don't believe it. They said that you, Zuo Wenzong, collaborated with the enemy for personal gain?"
Zuo Wenzong forced a bleak smile, his eyes narrowed into slits, but through the slits, his dark eyes held no trace of a smile: "Collaborating with the enemy? Haha, in peacetime, what enemies are there?"
Commissioner Gao stared at him: "You didn't really do anything, did you?"
"Uncle Gao," Zuo Wenzong's expression suddenly grew serious. "You know me. I could almost say I grew up under the Lu family's watchful eyes. How could I possibly be collaborating with the enemy as they say? That's all nonsense from ignorant people."
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