Rebirth of the courtyard, the start is 80s

Chapter 591 Making money is only an intermediate stage, not the ultimate goal

When Cao Zhiqiang proposed to join the equity structure of "Dongyang Company" in the name of Hongguang Machinery Factory, Chen Jiabang didn't say much, but Secretary Dong and Director Li clearly opposed it.

The reason for the opposition is very legitimate, that is, although Hongguang Machinery Factory has a big business, it also has a lot of burdens, and it is a state-owned company.

Therefore, if Hongguang Machinery Factory is involved in this Sino-Japanese joint venture tape factory in the name of its own factory, it will not benefit Hongguang Machinery Factory much, but it will do a lot of harm to the newly established joint venture company. The burden of Hongguang Machinery Factory was transferred to the new joint venture company.

The Japanese side is not a fool either. It is impossible for them to directly agree to the involvement of a heavily indebted state-owned enterprise without investigating at all. This is considered negative equity.

And as we all know, the Japanese side has always been more vigilant about domestic state-owned enterprises, so if Hongguang Machinery Factory insists on getting involved, it may mess up the joint venture tape factory project, and no one will get it in the end.

Of course, these are all obvious reasons.

The private reason is more realistic, that is, the Hongguang Machinery Factory is owned by the public. Once the public participates in the joint venture project of "Dongyang Company", the Hongguang Machinery Factory will become a favorite again. Let's not talk about whether we can continue to take advantage of it, just say that with this big fat, maybe some leaders above will be jealous, and then arrange their own people to pick peaches to replace Secretary Dong and Factory Manager Li.

That's all for Secretary Dong, but Director Li has been the director of Hongguang Machinery Factory for decades, why can he continue to be the director?

In addition to the fact that Director Li is really flexible, it is also mainly related to the fact that Hongguang Machinery Factory's profitability has not been very good.

Once the profitability of a factory is good, there will inevitably be more people wanting to pick peaches.

Director Li is only good at Hongguang Machinery Factory, but if someone from a higher level is sent down, he must obey orders.

After all, this is a state-owned enterprise subordinate to the Ministry, and the real boss is the leader at the ministerial level. If they want to arrange someone to come down, Factory Manager Li can't handle it at all, and even Secretary Dong can't handle it.

In the past, when the big leader was in power, that is, when Uncle Xu was still in power, it was okay to say.

But now that Uncle Xu has really retired, even if he still has some contacts, he can no longer have the right to make decisions when it comes to the leadership arrangement of the subordinate factories. At most, he has the right to make suggestions. Whether he listens or not depends on the new leader Meaning.

Therefore, in the eyes of Secretary Dong and Director Li, Hongguang Machinery Factory is now just continuing to maintain this kind of debt shell, and it is best to be half dead.

Anyway, whether Secretary Dong or Factory Manager Li is old, they are about to retire soon. It is better to stand on the last shift, take advantage of this reform, use their last power, and support the newcomers well. It is Cao Zhiqiang.

After all, Hongguang Machinery Factory is essentially a factory that focuses on machinery manufacturing. In such a factory, why did Director Li and Secretary Dong go all out to support a service industry that only engages in writing books and singing? What about Cao Zhiqiang, who basically has nothing to do with the main business of machinery manufacturing?

Isn't it just that these things Cao Zhiqiang did can actually bring more real money to their own family.

When people are young, of course they like progress and power.

But when a person is old and weak and is about to lose power, money is what he likes most.

Whether Cao Zhiqiang’s publishing house or department store, they can bring tangible benefits to Secretary Dong and Factory Manager Li himself. remaining questions.

In addition, behind Cao Zhiqiang, there is an old leader, Mr. Xu, as a backer, so Secretary Dong and Factory Director Li took advantage of the situation to give Cao Zhiqiang such great support.

If it weren't for the fact that they were bound by real interests, Secretary Dong and Factory Manager Li wouldn't be able to support Cao Zhiqiang with all their strength, just relying on Uncle Xu, a retired backer.

What?Where is Uncle Lin?
Uncle Lin belongs to the secret department, and there are not many people who know Cao Zhiqiang's secret identity. Even if Uncle Xu knew it, he would not be able to explain it to people like Secretary Dong and Factory Manager Li.

At least for now, neither Secretary Dong nor Factory Manager Li is clear about Cao Zhiqiang's identity as a secret agent. They only think that Cao Zhiqiang is very talented in writing books and songs, and he has a very hot mind and is good at gaining profits and making money. young people.

More importantly, to cooperate with Cao Zhiqiang, there is no need to take bribes or violate organizational discipline. You can use the current reform policy to make money reasonably and legally.

This is the fundamental reason why Secretary Dong and Director Li spared no effort to support Cao Zhiqiang.

Therefore, whether it is Secretary Dong or Director Li, they just want to use their last power to pave the way for Cao Zhiqiang as much as possible, so that after the two of them really retire, they can continue to enjoy dividends with Cao Zhiqiang.

As for the Hongguang Machinery Factory, Secretary Dong and Director Li were not responsible for making it into what it is now. They were really powerless, so they simply gave up.

Anyway, the worst result is that they are rectified and incorporated by other companies or government departments, and most of the old workers will not lose their jobs, they will just change careers.

As for those new young people, youth itself is capital, and the government will not really ignore them.

After all, now is not the time when the 90s was laid off, and they would just find their own way out at every turn.

The current transformation of factories is basically a big factory with good profit merges and acquires a small factory with poor profit. Then the old workers are either assigned to other jobs or handed over to the government directly to continue to shine in public institutions. Generally speaking, it is very humane of.

Therefore, from this perspective, it is most appropriate to use the name of Hongguang Publishing House, which is a personal contract, to join the share structure of the new joint venture company.

Because of this, Director Li can continue to contract part of the land and factory buildings of Hongguang Machinery Factory to Hongguang Publishing House in the form of contracting at a low cost, and then Hongguang Publishing House will use these contracted land and factory buildings as capital , to join the joint venture company, and the management right is still in the hands of Huaxia Audio Company, Cao Zhiqiang's private company.

According to this model, Cao Zhiqiang will definitely not treat Secretary Dong, Factory Manager Li, and Chen Jiabang, the three specific operators, and the public assets of Hongguang Machinery Factory can use this power transmission method of contracting and operation to use the power of Hongguang Machinery Factory. The Light Publishing House turned around once and transferred to the new "Dongyang Company", thus completing the transformation from public property to private property.

At that time, everyone will not lose money, only Hongguang Machinery Factory will lose money, but Hongguang Machinery Factory will be rectified and merged sooner or later, and it will be useless to keep those useless industrial land and factory buildings, so it is better to keep them for yourself.

As for the sale of assets at a low price, as long as the contract is well-written, well-founded, and after the new company makes money, it will not be a big problem to pay Hongguang Machinery Factory a site use fee or rent.

At the very least, in this way, it can be guaranteed that there will be no problems within five years.

As for five years later... these days, who knows what new policies will be in five years?

Anyway, by that time, Secretary Dong and Factory Manager Li have already retired, and the current domestic policy does not hold people accountable after retirement, so they can spend their retirement happily with the small money in their pockets. Life.

If it doesn't work, you can consider going abroad when you earn more money.

It’s too far away, but there is still hope to find a way to go to Hong Kong.

It has to be said that Secretary Dong and Factory Director Li are both discerning people who knew about going abroad to avoid danger so early on.

And from a selfish point of view, Cao Zhiqiang also believes that their ideas and actions are correct, and the risk is minimal.

Because compared to their operations, other people who openly embezzle state assets are truly insane.

Leaving aside, let’s just talk about the founder of a certain idea who started out as a computer and later actually engaged in finance. He is actually a typical example of private embezzlement of public property, and the methods in the early stage are more direct, let alone Face, but he later Is there something wrong?completely fine.

The reason is very simple, that is, these behaviors are all special circumstances under special historical conditions, and they are normal transactions under the special historical conditions and special policies at that time.

In short, all kinds of laws and regulations later can only target the behavior of enterprises and individuals after the promulgation of these laws and regulations, but cannot trace back some of your behaviors before the promulgation of the laws and regulations.

If the current laws and regulations are used to trace past business practices, it will be the same as Ah San’s Indian country. Face is completely banned, and it will only cause confusion. In general, the harm outweighs the benefits.

To put it simply, the operation that Secretary Dong told Factory Manager Li is reasonable and legal under the current circumstances, and it does not mean embezzlement of state-owned assets.

If Cao Zhiqiang hadn't planned otherwise, he might have agreed.

But the problem is that Cao Zhiqiang is standing at a different height now, and he is no longer satisfied with simply making small money.

Just make some money and live a good life, which he has done now.

As far as his current food and clothing costs are concerned, it is difficult to say in the whole world, at least in the entire inland China, there are really not many people who can be better than him.

Even the senior leaders of the country, at least in terms of food and clothing, are probably not as good as him.

At least some of the luxuries that Cao Zhiqiang can enjoy are not available to those senior leaders.

For example, oiran coffee, some senior leaders can't drink it at this time.

There is also the real Dahongpao, the mother tree of Wuyi Mountain. Now how many people can really drink tea as rations all day long?
As for accommodation, how many people can live in the executive suite of Jianguo Hotel all day like him?

Not to mention money, Cao Zhiqiang's personal assets at this time, calculated in RMB alone, have already exceeded 500 million, and this is not counting the [-] million secret funds given by the state.

In this era when ten thousand yuan households are very scarce, he personally has assets of more than 500 million RMB, which is already a proper big capitalist.

With this kind of wealth, in China where prices are generally not high, he can't buy anything that can be bought with money.

Therefore, simply talking about making money does not arouse Cao Zhiqiang's interest at present.

In other words, in the current view of Cao Zhiqiang, making money is only his intermediate node, not his ultimate goal.

His real purpose is to benefit the country as long as he continues to maintain a good life.

This is what the saying goes, self-cultivation, family governance, country and world peace!
Cao Zhiqiang has already passed the stage of self-cultivation and family harmony, so what he thinks about is the next stage of governing the country.

It would be fine if there is no system, but with a system, Cao Zhiqiang can try to use another method to covertly push the country.

To promote the whole industry chain, he is definitely not that ambitious or capable.

However, according to the technology and equipment signed in by the system, he can actually promote the leapfrog progress of certain industries in the country.

As for asking the country for money and national debt.

Cao Zhiqiang believes that this is not because he is talking about money, nor is it entirely for his own safety, but more for the good of the country.

Because he doesn't want the money, he will give it out sooner or later, and there is a high probability that he will be cheated for a while.

Just kidding, after the opening of China, because I don’t know much about finance, in fact, I was cheated for a small amount of money by Western countries in the early stage. Later, I was cheated a lot, so I gained experience.

Although Cao Zhiqiang didn't know all the pitfalls, he at least knew some of the pitfalls that were heard.

Therefore, Cao Zhiqiang can control the country's export of these things to other countries in a disguised form by exchanging some scarce domestic foreign exchange and national debt with real high-tech technology, which is tantamount to making the country less cheated in the initial stage.

A lot of experience, not only if you are cheated in person, you will learn a lesson.

As long as the reform continues and the country is no longer closed to the outside world, then over time, more and more cases like other countries being cheated will naturally be known, and the more you know, your own financial knowledge and common sense will also be enriched.

When my financial knowledge increases, there are more reliable experts in related fields, and opinions are valued, especially if Lin Zhengyi's experts who really serve the country and the people are not buried, some pitfalls can actually be avoided.

Another point is that a large amount of funds from the country have come into their own hands, and they can use the name of foreign capital to re-flow into the country, and then focus on investing in some countries that do not look down on them now, but in fact will be very important in the future.

For example, the semiconductor industry, the field of lithography machines, and even large aircraft projects such as Yun 10 can use the money to continue to develop.

What many people don’t know is that in the early 80s, at least in 1983, my country’s semiconductor industry, lithography machine field and large aircraft field were not much worse than foreign countries, at least there were many relevant experts and scholars.

my country's semiconductor industry is currently mainly in the upstream industry, that is, the research and development of semiconductor components, programming, etc. is weaker, but it is not weak enough to catch up to that level.

Although in general, my country's semiconductor industry is much worse than the United States, Japan and Europe, it is not too far behind.

Not to mention lithography machines. In the early 80s, the field of lithography machines in my country was not much different from Europe in technology, and even surpassed Europe, America and Japan in some fields.

For example, Tsinghua University, which was later rumored, now holds the world's leading "distributed projection lithography machine" technology with completely independent intellectual property rights. Because of this technology, Tsinghua University has become the only one in my country that can independently develop and A unit that produces high-end lithography machines.

And the later lithography machine giant ASML company, there is no shadow at this time.

Not to mention the Yun 10 project. This large aircraft is a truly large aircraft with independent property rights. So far, the technology has been relatively mature, and prototypes have already appeared. At least it is far behind the related Airbus projects of the same period. not big.

If we can continue to invest in research and development funds, continue to conduct various tests, do not interrupt this project in advance, and do not disband related industry groups and related personnel, then maybe as early as the 80s, we can have our own large civilian aircraft without continuing to continue all day Bought a foreign airliner.

All these projects were discontinued in the 80s, and the reason was because of lack of money.

The discontinuation of a project not only means the interruption of research and development, but also the disconnection of relevant personnel.

Because it is difficult to gather people together, and it is easy to disband.

And once it is disbanded, it will be even more difficult to recruit again. It is tantamount to reorganizing the project team and everything has to start from scratch.

A typical example is the Saturn V rocket engine in the United States.

In fact, in terms of technical level, the Saturn V rocket engine is not the most advanced, but after the 21st century, the United States will not be able to manufacture it.

It's not that the technology is gone, but that the relevant scientific researchers and technicians are gone.

If the relevant skilled workers are gone, it will naturally not be possible to manufacture, even if there is technology and blueprints, it will be useless.

Another example is the decline of Japanese LNG ships.

In the early 80s, LNG carrier technology was basically monopolized by European and American countries, such as Norway, Italy, and France.

Japan began to enter the LNG ship project, which actually started in the late 70s, and Japan's first LNG ship was built in 1981.

Since then, Japan's LNG carrier technology has advanced by leaps and bounds, gradually encroaching on the European and American markets, and in the early 90s, it gradually became the overlord of this industry.

However, with the bursting of the economic bubble, Japan's manufacturing industry was also hit hard, and many skilled welders on LNG ships had to switch careers, which led to Japan's decline in this industry, but instead allowed South Korea to take advantage of the situation to rise.

That's right, what many people don't know is that the rise of South Korea's LNG ships is inseparably related to the employment of a large number of skilled Japanese welders in the early stage.

It is those skilled welders from Japan who have taught a large number of Korean skilled workers, and these skilled welders are the root of the Korean LNG ship project.

As for the technology, the relevant technology in South Korea is a hehe.

Not to mention anything else, let’s talk about the invar steel technology of LNG ships. Even if South Korea has not mastered it by 2023, it still uses French technology. It is equivalent to building a ship and paying an expensive sum to the relevant French companies. Royalties.

On the contrary, China, which came from behind, was completely restricted in technology from the beginning, and could not successfully obtain relevant patented technologies from companies such as France. The initial quantity is not as good as South Korea, but the profit is much higher.

In short, in the early 80s, China was not much worse than the West in some high-tech fields and heavy industries, the difference was only in money.

After all, China was too poor at this time, and we had to solve the problem of food and clothing first, and then we could talk about high-tech issues.

Cao Zhiqiang can't control the problem of food and clothing, that is managed by the state.

But he can rely on his own power to support these industries in several fields he is relatively familiar with, at least to keep the relevant R&D teams from disbanding. Those who really develop missiles are not as good as those who sell tea eggs.

To put it bluntly, Cao Zhiqiang cannot solve all the problems, but he is still capable of solving very few problems.

In fact, he doesn't know if he can do it, but he has to try.

If he could really do it, he wouldn't be in vain.

(End of this chapter)