Chapter 1394 Do you want to be on equal footing with me?
November 20th, Friday, October 26th of the lunar calendar,
Suitable for: accepting marriage proposals, getting married, offering sacrifices, seeking offspring, traveling, opening a business, signing contracts, hanging plaques, moving into a new house, migrating, installing doors, meeting relatives and friends, and laying the foundation. It is a good day for opening a business.
Li Ye arrived at the group headquarters building at 7:30, because a notice was issued yesterday that everyone had to arrive early today and be prepared to receive guests from all directions.
It was half past seven in the north in winter and the sky was just getting light, but Li Ye was surprised by the red that came into his sight from a distance.
Red flags, red lanterns, red ceremonial gates, red banners. If there were a red carpet, it would be comparable to the film festivals decades later.
Li Ye couldn't help but burst out laughing.
He remembered the last time he experienced such a scene, which seemed to be the first two years after he arrived at the Light Automobile Company. Even if the unit was financially tight, they would try their best to decorate the place when receiving visiting guests, no matter how tacky it was, as long as it made people feel extra grand.
It's just that in recent years, the economic benefits of young automobile companies have improved significantly thanks to Li Ye's sales network, but this superficial formalism has quietly weakened.
Even when the people above brought Shang Bin and others to visit a few days ago, the main factory was simply decorated to make people feel comfortable.
From Li Ye's perspective, the Light Automobile Company still has stubborn old habits, but due to the subtle influence of the First Branch Factory over the years, it has actually been infected with the spirit of "simplicity and pragmatism", which can be said to be the case.
However, when Li Ye went downstairs and saw the office director Jia Zhongyue, who was checking each detail one by one with Shang Bin and several senior executives, looking cautious as if facing a great enemy, he remembered what Lu Zhizhang had said.
"It's only because our branch has the right tools, otherwise the higher-ups would have already criticized us for being so unimportant."
Come to think of it, if you don’t have real ability, won’t you have to resort to formalism?
Just like what was shown in the movies decades later, tens of millions were spent on an annual meeting, the situation looked very good, and then 20% of the employees were laid off to reduce the workload and increase efficiency.
Save where you should and spend where you should. There is no conflict and no problem.
However, although the people from the Light Automobile Company had abandoned this mode of hospitality, they were still helping out on the scene. They were just divided into several small circles. The circle headed by Zhou Ziqing and Xiao Zhu was the smallest, consisting of only a dozen or so people from one branch factory.
When Li Ye arrived, Zhou Ziqing and Xiao Zhu were looking up at the building.
The upstairs is covered with various banners welcoming XX and congratulating the opening of the business. There are so many that it’s almost impossible to hang them all up.
Li Ye said with a smile: "What are you looking at so seriously? Do you think one of them is hung crookedly? If it is, don't say anything! Otherwise, I will let you two hang it yourselves. If you don't do anything yourself but just find fault with it, it will be annoying."
Xiao Zhu curled his lips and whispered to Li Ye, "No, Director, we were just watching them show off."
Li Ye was startled, then asked with a smile, "What are you showing off? Are you showing off how much red silk you have at home?"
Xiao Zhu shook his head and said, "It's to show off the number and power of their mother's family."
"Um?"
Li Ye then raised his head and looked carefully at the colorful banners and the units that signed them.
Well! Southwest Heavy Duty Truck has quite a lot of relatives, and each of them is a "very important" agency or unit. Compared with them, the Light Truck Company reminds Li Ye of a picture from several decades later.
A groom went to the bride's home to get married, but he saw banners hanging at the entrance of the village - the bride has twelve brothers, and if you cannot be happy after marriage, they will twist off your dog head even if they are thousands of miles away.
Well, if your married life is not going well, twist off your dog head.
Whose head does he want to screw?
Li Ye's?
Pfft
Try it!
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At 9:30 in the morning, the guests who came to watch the ceremony arrived one after another as if they had made an appointment, making the on-site reception staff almost overwhelmed.
As expected, most of these guests were familiar with Shang Bin. Although they also greeted Ma Zhaoxian politely, anyone with a discerning eye could see the difference.
At ten o'clock, when those heavyweight visiting leaders arrived, only Xue Bu and Ma Zhaoxian were relatively enthusiastic, while Shang Bin often received compliments such as "Xiao Shang is not bad", and the gap between the two sides in terms of personal connections and leadership appreciation became more obvious.
However, both Ma Zhaoxian and Li Ye remained calm and composed in the face of this situation.
Because they had long known that Southwest Heavy Duty Truck's mother-in-law was powerful, and Li Ye made Ma Zhaoxian understand Li Ye's attitude with the words "If we split up, the 28-story building will belong to me."
What does it matter if you have connections? At worst, we can just break up.
When a person has sufficient financial support and plans to disband at any time, what’s the use of having more people?
However, when most of the guests had arrived, the arrival of two people boosted the reputation of the Light Automobile Company.
The first to arrive was Pei Wencong.
Pei Wencong is now hailed by many mainlanders as the "No. 1 Hong Kong businessman", a name even more famous than that of Li Chaoren.
After all, he is not only rich, but also has many investments in the mainland. He has climbed to the highest viewing platform many times during National Day and has entered the Great Hall of the People many times. He has extremely close ties with the mainland.
In this era when everyone wants to earn foreign exchange, the status of this God of Wealth can be imagined.
Moreover, when Pei Wencong came today, he brought a big gift - three Mercedes-Benz cars, and they were not 500 V8 models, but 600 V12 models.
As soon as these three new cars, which had not yet been registered, arrived, they attracted everyone's attention.
After all, the Hutouben is the first Mercedes-Benz S-series sedan to enter China in large quantities in the true sense, and it is also the first D-class luxury sedan to enter China in large quantities in the true sense.
In this era when Bentley, Rolls-Royce and Hongqi are not popular, the Benz is the most luxurious car on Chinese roads.
Moreover, the Tiger-head Benz was just launched globally last year. It has the most fashionable appearance in the world. In the underdeveloped mainland, its eye-catching factor is extremely high.
"It's just a small token of my appreciation, not a sign of respect, hehe~"
Pei Wencong shook hands with Ma Zhaoxian first, and then with Shang Bin. "Today is the opening of Jingnan Group. I can't help much, so I'll just give you a small gift to show my appreciation."
"Wow~"
The people around couldn't help but gasp when they heard this. Three luxury cars were "small gifts," so were we here to eat for free? How inhumane!
But Pei Wencong's next words surprised everyone even more.
"One of these three cars is for Mr. Ma, one is for Mr. Shang, and the other is for my good friend Mr. Li."
Almost everyone looked at Li Ye.
Giving it to Ma Zhaoxian and Shang Bin would be fine, after all, they are the top two of Jingnan Automobile Group, but what does it mean to give it to Li Ye? Is he ranked third?
But Li Ye is only at the department level, and there is a "temporary" title before the deputy general manager. Logically, his rank should be lower than Cong Jinhong and Weng Keming. Is it appropriate for him to enjoy the same treatment as Ma Zhaoxian and Shang Bin?
There are all kinds of broken rules in the mainland's government agencies and enterprises, so if this matter is not handled properly, it may bring a lot of hatred to Li Ye. If he is sensible, he should hand over the car to the unit for unified arrangement.
But Li Ye moved his chin slightly and asked his personal driver to take the key of one of the Mercedes-Benz cars.
Shang Bin's eyes suddenly became sharp.
[MD, do you really want to be on equal footing with me? ]
(End of this chapter)
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