The Age of Rebirth

Chapter 387 Skyscrapers
"It should have been discovered last night by the newspaper delivery department. There was no answer when I knocked on the door in the morning. When I opened the door, I was lying on the bed, but it was cold!" Ding Yuan said, his tone was a little bit hesitant.

"The police and the doctor came just now, and the preliminary theory is that it was a heart attack!" Ding Yuan continued, who would have thought that he would see someone a few days ago, and if he said nothing, he would be gone!
"Go over and have a look, Mr. Wei doesn't have any relatives in Qizhou, let's see if there is anything that needs help!" Li Weidong wiped a few times indiscriminately, and then walked out.

Ding Yuan held the down jacket in the back and shouted, "Boss, change clothes, it's cold outside, don't catch cold!"

When the two reached the door of old man Wei's house, there were already many people surrounded outside, and the police cordoned off to prevent outsiders from entering or leaving, saying that they were waiting for the criminal police and the forensic doctor to come.

The police in this area are just the police from their police station. They have dealt with neighborhood disputes, fights and other public security issues. They can occasionally catch a thief, but they are not good at handling murder cases.

As for how the old man Wei died, whether it was a real heart attack, or something tricky, the final conclusion is still up to the criminal police and the forensic doctor, who are responsible for maintaining order.

Li Weidong didn't go in either. Although the film policeman was very familiar with Li Weidong and knew Li Weidong's energy, he was also very conflicted. If Li Weidong asked to go in, what should he do.

Being low-key is also relative. Police officers like them naturally know something about the appearance of such a powerful person in their jurisdiction, otherwise, what would they do as a police officer.

Since Li Weidong knew that he had to wait for the criminal police to come, he would not destroy the scene, so he stood at the door and talked to Mr. Yu and the others, which made the film police's favorability for Li Weidong soar.

Who said that rich people are not easy to communicate with, you see how kind they are, and they are not embarrassing at all.

"Mr. Li, why are you here?" Li Weidong had just finished greeting Mr. Yu when he heard a voice, and he recognized this person when he turned his head.

Fang Yuanming, an expert in construction machinery recommended by old man Wei to Li Weidong a few years ago, is now the deputy general manager and chief engineer of Handong Machinery Factory, a proper executive.

"Why can't I come? You came very early!" Fang Yuanming was recommended by Mr. Wei. He was naturally not surprised that he came to Li Weidong, but it was unexpected that he came so soon.

"I called him. Lao Wei usually doesn't have any relatives, but Xiao Fang comes here often. I bumped into him a few times, so I left the phone number. Hey, I didn't expect to use it today!"

Old Yu sighed next to him and said that although he and Old Wei didn't know each other before, they played chess together in the past few years, drank tea and chatted all the time, and honored their tempers, so they became familiar with each other.

It is rare to have a confidant in life, especially when you are old, it is not easy to have someone to talk to, but if you say no, it will be gone, it is not a small blow to the old man, he is two years older than Boss Wei.

"Mr. Li, in fact, Mr. Wei was my master at work. I followed him for several years, and now he has no relatives. I come here every week to see and chat!" Fang Yuanming explained.

"Old Wei really has no children, or is he still unmarried?" Li Weidong has always been curious about this matter, but he has never asked about it. Now that everyone is dead, there is no taboo.

"Hey, the master is naturally married, and he also has a son. His son is also from our research institute, and something happened later!" Fang Yuanming said with a sigh.

"In a few days, the master's son jumped directly from the fifth floor!"

"I was out of breath at that time, and my teacher's wife couldn't afford to get sick after knowing this, and died of illness within two years!"

"The master suffered from this blow, and his health was not very good. He often fell ill and worked intermittently. In the end, he simply applied to return to his hometown to retire early. In the end, the relationship was transferred to Handong Machinery Bureau, and he also came here to retire!"

After Li Weidong heard this, he sighed endlessly. After experiencing a white-haired man sending a black-haired man, plus the shock of his wife's death, it is not bad that he can live to be more than 70.

After a short meeting, the criminal police and the forensic doctor came, and concluded on the spot that he died of myocardial infarction, and issued a death certificate, so that the relatives can take care of the future generations.

Several people walked into the room and saw that the furnishings in the room were still neat and tidy. They couldn't tell that it was a room where an old man in his 70s lived alone. They all looked at the old man Wei lying on the bed. His expression was not painful, but quite peaceful.

Li Weidong also bowed to the old man to see him off like everyone else, and congratulated him on going to meet his family.

At this time, Fang Yuanming took out an envelope from behind the large frame, probably after wiping it frequently, there was hardly any dust.

"This is the will left by the master. It was left a few years ago, and Mr. Yu can also testify!" Seeing Mr. Yu nodded, Fang Yuanming carefully opened the envelope.

Fang Yuanming read the will in front of several old people and Li Weidong. Old Wei had no relatives, but he had three houses under his name and some cash, all of which were clearly stated.

Li Weidong didn't expect that the will would fall on him in the end. Although these things were not for him, they were donated to the charitable foundation under his name.

With a will, funeral affairs are easy, and there are not many friends. As for the unit, although it belongs to the Machinery Bureau, it has not had much interaction with the people in the Machinery Bureau. It would be nice to send a wreath there.

Death is like a lamp going out, and it is pitch black.

It's not too late, and the car from the funeral parlor arrives. Although it's winter, there won't be any big problems, but it can't be left at home all the time, and the neighbors on the left and right won't like it, it's so creepy.

"Old Fang, you have done a good job in the machinery factory in the past few years. The development of construction machinery is very fast. I heard from Uncle Liu that the output value will exceed 20 billion this year?"

Old man Wei saw him off, Li Weidong chatted with Fang Yuanming, and naturally talked about the Handong Machinery Factory, Fang Yuanming also wanted to seize this opportunity to report to the big boss.

"Well, this year's financial report has been released and handed over to the headquarters. Although it hasn't been audited, it should be pretty good. Our products are novel, multi-functional, and highly competitive!"

"Moreover, we have cooperated with the Machinery Research Institute to develop many new products. Many products have already started trial production. Several series will be launched this year. Our market share will be even higher!"

When it comes to his professional affairs, Fang Yuanming's lost expression due to the death of Mr. Wei also recovered, and he talked eloquently, with the professionalism of an engineer.

"It's good to cooperate with these research institutes, but you have to have your own R&D team, otherwise you will be controlled by others sooner or later. You must continue to innovate. If you don't have what you have, you can go far if you have what you have!"

"The chairman said that under the leadership of Mr. Liu, our R&D team has continued to grow in recent years, from a dozen people at the beginning to nearly a hundred people now, and this year we plan to dig some research and development teams from scientific research institutes. Talent come here!"

"Yes, we have to continue. China's future infrastructure growth will be very large, and the scale of construction machinery will continue to increase. In the future, the output value of 20 billion will be small factories!"

Fang Yuanming heard what Li Weidong said, although he didn't quite agree with it, but he didn't dare to refute it. Their current output value of 20 billion is estimated to exceed the sum of Lingong and Xugong, and they can be counted in the whole country. How can they become a small factory? .

"Yes, we must continue to work hard!" Fang Yuanming could only answer with this absolutely correct sentence.

Li Weidong also heard the perfunctory and helplessness of his words, patted on the shoulder, and said no more.

On the way home, Li Weidong kept wondering if he was like old man Wei in his previous life. If he didn't wake up, he would never see the sun again the next day.

Anyway, he didn't feel any pain, and it was a good way to die, and he didn't know if old man Wei could also become the butterfly in Zhuang Zhou's dream.

When he got home, Li Weidong was still a little depressed.

When Liu Jinhui went to work, the two children had a great time playing at home. Seeing Li Weidong's expression turned bad, the two turned off the computer, and Li Rui poured Li Weidong a cup of tea.

"Go and play, don't look at the computer all the time, it's not good for your eyes!" Li Weidong looked at the two children and knew that his expression scared them, so he said softly.

Li Weidong sat at the coffee table in the living room drinking tea, picked up a newspaper and read it, but he was a little absent-minded. Although he read all the words, he didn't understand anything.

"Boss, Director Zhang is here!" Ding Yuan knocked on the door, opened the door and said.

Li Weidong nodded and did not speak. Ding Yuan's words were not asking Li Weidong if he would let him come, but just saying that the boss must know in advance if someone is coming.

Of course, it would be hard to tell if it was someone else. Director Zhang was Zhang Dongshuo. He was promoted to office director two years ago, but he still worked as a secretary. Li Weidong had no plans to find a new secretary, so Zhang Dongshuo had to continue working.

There are not many people in the whole company who can freely enter and leave Li Weidong's house, but Zhang Dongshuo must be the first one. The secretary is naturally close and can be seen at any time.

After a short meeting, there was another knock on the door. The door was transparent. Li Weidong looked up at Zhang Dongshuo and nodded.

"Chairman!" Zhang Dongshuo greeted Li Weidong first after he came in. Although he became more and more familiar with Li Weidong and had a higher position, he became more and more frustrated with Li Weidong.

He has analyzed it himself. It is because he is afraid of losing. He has survived for seven years to reach his current position. If one is not good and he is kicked out, he will lose too much.

"Sit down and make tea yourself!" Li Weidong pointed to the seat next to him, and said softly. He didn't intend to put pressure on the secretary, and he didn't even bother to put on airs, it was so boring.

"Chairman, there are a few things that I need to report to you!" Zhang Dongshuo sat down carefully, first refilled Li Weidong's tea, and then poured himself a cup before speaking.

It's not easy to drink Li Weidong's tea. It's good to meet him two or three times out of ten times, and Li Weidong's tea is all good tea, which you can't come across easily.

"The first thing is that the National People's Congress sent a notice, asking if you have any proposals that need to be brought up at the March meeting. Let's discuss it first!"

As Zhang Dongshuo said, he handed over a piece of paper to Li Weidong. Li Weidong was lucky enough to be elected as a member of the National People's Congress. Naturally, he was going to the meeting. If he was absent for no reason, it meant something happened.

It is normal to ventilate in advance, and everyone must be under control. This is the basis for the stability of the meeting. We must not suddenly bring up an anti-human topic, that is an accident.

"Same as the previous two years, reduce agricultural taxes, gradually cancel agricultural taxes, update the data, and use it directly!" Li Weidong said without thinking.

Zhang Dongshuo immediately felt a headache when he heard it. He didn't know what was going on in Li Weidong's mind. Except for a proposal about private enterprises in the first year, he started to fight with the agricultural taxation in the next two years.

You said that you were elected as a representative and did not speak from your own standpoint. How did you get involved with this? Isn’t this a betrayal of your class?

Zhang Dongshuo naturally didn't dare to say this, and he didn't know what Li Weidong was thinking. Li Weidong came from the countryside, and he knew very clearly what the lives of ordinary people were like.

Li Weidong's original idea was not only to be exempt from taxes, but also to provide pensions to the farmer's uncle. Listen to this name, farmer's uncle, why are workers in the city called worker's uncles.

This is called seniority order, but the final result is that the uncle is not as good as the uncle.

Of course, Li Weidong also knows that even if he doesn't mention it, the agricultural tax will be abolished in a few years, but a year earlier is better than a year later, and he will naturally mention it when he has the opportunity.

"Okay, I'll check the data and I'll give it to you when the time comes. There is one more thing. The bidding results of the design units that built the headquarters building have come out. Here is the list and their performance!"

Li Weidong looked at the list and sighed in his heart, but he could only feel helpless. Half of the bid evaluation committees invited for the bidding were Chinese, but the domestic design units were all at the bottom of the list.

Although China's development speed has been very fast, the gap in this area is still not small. There are only a few well-known domestic companies that come to bid. These design units do not have confidence in themselves. What can he do?

The current headquarters of Xinsheng Holdings is still the three-story office building, but it is seriously inconsistent with its scale. It is crowded with people, parking spaces are gone, it is full every day, and even some departments no longer work here.

A three-story office building is extremely inappropriate for such a large company, so the construction of a headquarters building is imminent, at least it must be more spacious than the headquarters on Hong Kong Island.

Since it was going to be built, it was natural to have the guts to do it. It must be a high-rise building. Although it can't be the first in the world or the first in China, it must be almost the same!

Li Weidong remembers that in his previous life, Handong's No. [-] was a rather strange shape, and he didn't know what designer's plan was proposed. There is no shadow yet. This No. [-] must be taken by Li Weidong, but the shape must not be so weird.

Big projects are naturally slow, so it has been several months from planning to bidding for the design unit. As for when it will be built, no one knows, and it will definitely be nothing in three to five years.

"The design unit is just this SOM. The Jinmao Tower is also designed by them. Now it is completed. It should be no problem. Let them quickly produce the general design drawing, and the construction unit and supervision unit should also call for bids. When will this progress be completed in a year! "

"Okay, I'll notify them to come up with a preliminary design drawing as soon as possible." Zhang Dongshuo let out a sigh of relief, and the design firm in the United States was heavily circled.

Then he continued, "We have also found a temporary office space. The province is very supportive of our project. They also sent people to listen in on the bidding, and even offered to provide us with an office building as our project." The temporary office is next to the provincial capital, that small red building, the original guest house, is no longer in use!"

A ninety-story building with a total height of more than 400 meters, with an estimated investment of [-] million U.S. dollars, is an absolutely large project, and the province must support it. How much GDP will be generated, and such a landmark building naturally requires great efforts support.

What's more, for such a large company, the province has always been strictly guarded against it, lest Xinsheng Holdings move to other places, all kinds of support will follow up at any time, and supporting a four or five-story office building is no small matter.

"Yes, the distance is closer, but the rent that should be paid cannot be less!" Li Weidong thought for a while, and knew which building Zhang Dongshuo was talking about.

"Okay, I'll consult with Anjuke in a while, and I will definitely rent it at a reasonable market price!" Zhang Dongshuo lowered his head and recorded it in his notebook.

"Chairman, the financial statements of each company have been handed over. Although they have not been audited, according to past experience, the discrepancy should not be large. I made a summary table, please read it!" Zhang Dongshuo tremblingly handed over a document in his hand To Li Weidong.

No more than ten people knew about this document, and he was one of them. These papers were too heavy. Although they belonged to the company, they were actually Li Weidong's personal financial statements.

The number unit inside is very large, even so, there is still a long series of numbers in the column of owner's equity, and the speed of asset appreciation is amazing.

(End of this chapter)