Chapter 303
After spending two days in Pingdong City, Ji Wanmei helped Lei Tingjun register the company.
If the West District development project succeeds this time, Lei Tingjun's career will soar to new heights.
They all realized that this was a crucial opportunity.
If Lei Tingjun succeeds this time, Ji Wanmei believes that her father will look at Lei Tingjun with new respect.
When that time comes, she can confess to Ji Xingguo that she is with Lei Tingjun. In that case, Ji Xingguo will no longer be able to bring up Lei Tingjun's wealth and job.
Therefore, they all took it very seriously.
Even the deepest and most intense feelings can only be temporarily suppressed and restrained during this period.
Cherish every moment you spend together, and when you part, strive to reach out to each other.
However, given the scale of the development project and the fact that Pingdong is a superior city of Pingquan, it's impossible that no word of it reached Pingquan County at all.
Moreover, there's Zhou Peng, who resigned from Dongfang Factory to work for Lei Tingjun. He's doing quite well in Lei Tingjun's company and is highly valued by Lei Tingjun.
Zhou Peng stayed at the factory a year longer than Lei Tingjun, and he made many good friends there, with whom he still keeps in touch from time to time.
Although Lei Tingjun warned him not to reveal his relationship with Ji Wanmei to people in Pingquan County.
But Lei Tingjun didn't say anything; he couldn't talk about his engineering projects either.
Zhou Peng's former colleagues and close friends from the factory would occasionally write or call to ask him how he was doing with Lei Tingjun.
Many people are eager to join the Thunder Army.
Although Zhou Peng didn't boast directly, his words were filled with undisguised smugness.
Now, he's a department head at Lei Tingjun's company, mainly responsible for business reception.
Lei Tingjun knew that Zhou Peng was better at dealing with people and handling affairs than A Qiang, and that he knew how to speak tactfully. So when he was negotiating business with manufacturers, he would bring Zhou Peng along and have him help with the reception.
Those who have access to partner manufacturers are naturally members of the core team.
Moreover, Lei Tingjun was generous, offering his men high-ranking positions, especially to the twenty or so brothers who had been with him in the transport team for a long time.
Now, they have all been assigned positions of varying sizes by Lei Tingjun.
Zhou Peng's current salary is at least three times what he earned at the Dongfang Factory.
With higher income, one naturally speaks with more confidence.
When Sun Xiaojun called Zhou Peng to ask about it, he heard Zhou Peng talking non-stop on the other end, saying how big Lei's business was now, with more than two hundred people under him, projects worth millions, and that no one in the city government or factory leaders dared to disrespect him.
He also said that people line up to invite them to dinner every day, and he's been going to so many banquets these days that he's about to throw up from all the delicacies and fine wines.
There was nothing they could do; they were just begging for cooperation and for being treated to meals.
He even generously said that next time he returned to Pingquan, he would treat him to dinner at the most expensive state-run restaurant in the county.
Sun Xiaojun felt both envious and annoyed upon hearing this.
Of the four of them, Boss Lei was the first to leave because of Sun Xiaojun's matter.
Then Zhou Peng, being a clever fellow, found out that Lei Tingjun was doing well, and without saying a word, he quit his job and shamelessly followed Lei Tingjun.
Old Xiao left shortly after. He was alright, though, because he had studied hard for two or three years and got into university before leaving.
But what makes Zhou Peng so special?
Sun Xiaojun was most dissatisfied with Zhou Peng.
He only went there after the Lunar New Year, and in just half a year, he rose to the position of supervisor in a construction company with more than 200 employees, earning two or three times the salary he used to. He also followed Boss Lei and enjoyed the good life with those big leaders.
Looking at himself, Sun Xiaojun looked around with great displeasure.
He was still holed up in this stinky four-person dormitory in the factory, working day and night on the production line, earning a meager wage of about a hundred yuan, barely enough to make ends meet.
In just six months, he was still a factory worker at the same level as Zhou Peng.
Six months later, he followed Boss Lei and transformed into 'Manager Zhou'.
Then think back to Ah Qiang, who used to collect scrap in the county. He also followed Lei Tingjun and is now known as "Brother Qiang".
Pingquan County is directly under the jurisdiction of Pingdong City, so news of any major developments in the city will quickly reach the county.
Moreover, Sun Xiaojun had been inquiring about Zhou Peng ever since he left.
Now we've heard that Boss Lei has become 'General Manager Lei,' undertaking massive projects worth millions, managing over two hundred people, and building houses on development land contracted from the municipal government.
Once the house is repaired and sold, Lei Tingjun will become a big boss.
If another year or two passes, even those like Zhou Peng who followed later will rise to prominence along with them.
What was agonizing for Sun Xiaojun was that he could no longer stay in this factory!
Of course, he also wanted to join Lei Tingjun.
Not to mention him, even many of his former group members, upon learning that Lei Tingjun is now running a big business, want to follow him.
Lei Tingjun has over two hundred men under his command, so these few won't make a difference.
But Sun Xiaojun remembered that Lei Tingjun was fired by Ji Xingguo for helping him hold onto his job, and he couldn't bring himself to bring it up.
After thinking it over, he had no choice but to sound out Zhou Peng and ask him if Lei Tingjun's company was still hiring.
Zhou Peng could easily tell what Sun Xiaojun was thinking.
He's just jealous. He saw how much he benefited after coming to Pingdong, and he wants to come too.
"Zhou Peng, for the sake of our past brotherhood, could you ask Brother Lei for me?"
Zhou Peng thought about it and didn't refuse. He simply said on the phone, "Okay, I'll ask the boss what he thinks for you."
The company is certainly short of people, especially those who are capable and educated.
After Lei Tingjun and Ji Wanmei returned from registering the company, Ji Wanmei helped Lei Tingjun list the requirements for recruiting talent.
In fact, Zhou Peng had seen the job requirements.
They hired highly professional personnel, such as accountants, cashiers, coordinators, logistics managers, data clerks, engineers, and so on.
Sun Xiaojun did not meet any of these requirements and conditions.
What can he do if he comes?
It's not that Zhou Peng is bragging, but he managed to get a business reception position by working alongside Lei Tingjun thanks to his smooth tongue and ability to read people's expressions.
If it weren't for his previous relationship with Lei Tingjun, according to the recruitment requirements listed by Ji Wanmei, he could at most apply for a freight driver job at a construction site.
Ji Wanmei truly managed their Oriental Construction Company as a company.
Moreover, in these matters, Thunder Military always sought her advice.
So, in other words, if Sun Xiaojun wants to get a position in the company through connections, it won't be as easy as it was when Zhou Peng came.
He needs to get the approval of 'Boss Lady' Ji Wanmei first.
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