Li Cheng believes that a city must have its own unique charm to attract people to stay and live there. This is just like a person: without the slightest charm, it will not attract others' attention.
Ever since the barbecue city opened, Li Cheng often thought about that place, and the pitch-black scene there in the dead of night.
But at present, Li Cheng does not have the strength to turn it into the most prosperous place in the city. Li Cheng has thought countless times that it should be a place for shopping, dining, entertainment, business, and even a gathering place for internet celebrities.
It is a must-visit place for people in this city and for tourists visiting this city. To be more precise, it should be the heart of this city.
Every time he thought of this, Li Chengdu felt a little excited and felt that there were many things he could do.
At this time, the layout of the city was slowly changing. The gradually widening streets, more and more high-rise buildings, and more and more people made Li Cheng feel that his plan to build the city's heart could be planned in advance.
However, before building this heart, Li Cheng had to solve one thing first, which was the matter of the tape recorder factory.
As mentioned earlier, Li Cheng had made a rather shameless move regarding the tape recorder factory, which directly led to the branch's decision not to write off the tape recorder factory's loan but to instead revitalize it.
During this period, the municipal branch and the sub-branch jointly held several discussions with relevant municipal departments. Ultimately, the plan proposed by the sub-branch was adopted by the city, which was to transfer the land and equipment of the tape recorder factory at a discount, and the transfer fee would be paid to the city.
In addition, the original loan of the tape recorder factory was not written off, and the debt still existed. In other words, the tape recorder factory did not go bankrupt, but was simply transferred by the city.
This plan seems much simpler and easier to implement than the plan to dispose of the old printing and dyeing factory. However, careful people have discovered that although this plan seems simple and easy to implement, it actually has major problems and is even more difficult to handle than disposing of the old printing and dyeing factory.
Why is it so difficult? Because it involves people. This time, the city didn't provide land to relocate the workers from the tape recorder factory. In other words, whoever took over the tape recorder factory would have to take these workers along.
The tape recorder factory has over 700 workers, and it's said they haven't received any wages in over two years. Whoever takes over the factory now will have to feed these 700 hungry mouths.
This was quite frightening. The first to be scared away was the department store that had originally intended to take over the place and turn it into a supermarket.
The department store was also a client of the branch where Li Cheng worked. Unlike other corporate clients, the department store was a profitable entity, and the monthly loan interest was paid to the branch on time.
Li Cheng also discovered a phenomenon, that is, among the branch's customers, commercial units are obviously better than industrial units.
Under the impact of the commodity boom, commercial enterprises have become significantly more profitable than industrial enterprises, especially light industrial enterprises. The shift from a planned economy to a commodity economy, and then from a commodity economy to a market economy, is, in a sense, another form of natural selection, the survival of the fittest.
Oh, I've taken a detour. Now let's get back to the story of the tape recorder factory. When Li Cheng learned that the department store had been scared away, he was immediately overjoyed.
His biggest fear had been that a department store would interfere. Now, no one in the city was interested in the tape recorder factory.
Li Cheng was extremely happy here, but both the city government and the branch president Hou were in trouble.
If no one is willing to take over the tape recorder factory, the plan to transfer the tape recorder factory will fall through, and the city will have to discuss a new plan with the branch, or introduce some more preferential conditions.
For example, lower the transfer fee, or exempt taxes for a few years, or whether the branch can partially write off the loan, etc.
But among all the preferential terms, there's no mention of how to place the workers. The city is in a difficult position, too. More and more businesses are on the verge of bankruptcy and unable to pay salaries, and no one wants to add another 700 or so mouths to feed.
Previously, a city official had proposed dispersing these 700-plus workers and assigning them to more than a dozen local businesses. But before the plan could be announced, the 700-plus workers from the tape recorder factory blocked the city's main gate.
When people asked them why they didn't want to be relocated, most of them said that if they went elsewhere, they would be raised by a stepmother. Besides, are those work units any good? Aren't they just waiting to go bankrupt?
Some people tearfully said that they had been working at the tape recorder factory since they started working there and had developed feelings for the place. They didn't want to go anywhere else and just wanted to wait for death here...
Those words were unpleasant to anyone who heard them. So the city came up with the transfer plan, but it only scared away department stores that were interested in taking over the business.
After the department store was scared away, the city and the branch continued to negotiate, and finally, after several rounds of talks, they came up with some preferential terms.
To demonstrate its sincerity, the city offered to exempt any company that took over the tape recorder factory from paying taxes for three years. Seeing the city's generosity, the branch also offered to waive the interest on the 9 million yuan loan to any company or individual that took over the factory.
After Li Cheng learned about these two preferential conditions, he thought that the city and the branch were one evil pair!
The city's three-year tax exemption was just empty talk. If the tape recorder factory were to be converted into a warehouse-style supermarket, it wouldn't be open for more than two years. Therefore, a three-year tax exemption was effectively no exemption at all.
The branch's offer to waive the interest on the tape recorder factory's previous 9 million yuan loan was merely a lip service. The principal was already gone, so what was the point of even talking about bicycles now?
Both sides were cunning, and Li Cheng didn't get any of the benefits he wanted. But Li Cheng was determined to do this matter, whether it would benefit him or not.
Therefore, after the preferential conditions were announced, Li Cheng submitted a report in his personal name, saying that he wanted to take over the tape recorder factory.
This move was no less than an earthquake, immediately attracting the attention of the city's bigwigs. Then, Li Cheng's background was quickly dug out.
It was then that people realized that Li Cheng was not only the largest shareholder of Dapeng Computer Company, but also an independent director of the New Printing and Dyeing Factory. Of course, people also knew that he was the legal representative of 88A BBQ City.
It was not until the end that people realized that this man was just an ordinary employee of the bank.
This was in 1999, when all organizations encouraged people to start businesses and set up companies, and many organizations also developed the tertiary industry.
But Li Cheng worked at a bank, which had its own peculiarities, so the higher-level branch sent someone to investigate.
It turned out that Li Cheng only worked in the office. His current job did not involve handling money or accounts. Most importantly, he had left the security department a long time ago and no longer used guns.
Since Li Cheng did not have the conditions and convenience to endanger bank funds, the matter was left unresolved.
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