The Lord of the World Begins from the Siheyuan

Without further discussing the matter of the French Republic, Li Ming brought the topic back on track, "Our business strategy is considered to be very conservative."

"The loan applied for in Magnesium Country can be covered by the company's profits. You don't have to worry too much."

Lou Xiao'e agreed: "Okay. I'll arrange the loan."

"Are the shares of the newly built automobile company distributed among Mars Foods, Pacific Watch's Magnesium branch, Hong Kong Star's headquarters, and Star's London branch?"

The automobile manufacturing technology from Britain was purchased in the name of the London branch.

Li Ming thought for a moment, "With Xingchen Xinjia Singapore Branch, Gangcheng will inject capital into Xinjia Singapore, and Gangcheng's direct shareholding will be as small as possible."

Lou Xiao'e quickly wrote it down in her work notebook, "That's it. We can just tell the public that we have increased our investment in salary increase."

"We received a message from the Xingjiapo branch saying that Xingjiapo was going to honor us in gratitude for our support of Xingjiapo students to study abroad."

"I asked the Singapore branch to reject it."

Li Ming nodded, "We don't have time for such red tape."

"If your father is free, you can let him participate in such events in the future. He should like these lively occasions."

Being able to think of her father often, Lou Xiao'e responded gently, "Yeah."

Li Ming asked about the focus of the past few days, "Is there anything wrong with the Global Health Forum?"

Lou Xiao'e attended some small exchange meetings, and her elder brother was responsible for delivering speeches at conferences and other events.

"It ended smoothly. The experts from Ou Mei flew home this afternoon to celebrate Christmas."

“But some medical experts in third world countries have made many requests.”

Li Ming was not surprised. "That's Ou Mei's business."

"He mentioned it to us, too."

"We have neither set up factories in their countries nor directly sell our products there. They can make their own suggestions and we can choose not to listen."

It seems that Li Ming donates money everywhere, but in fact, except for the mainland, all other donations are for a purpose or to establish connections.

As mentioned earlier, sponsoring students to study abroad in Singapore is for his future in the electronics industry.

Providing primary and secondary education in Hong Kong City is not only for the quality of future labor force but also for improving public security in Hong Kong City.

Lou Xiao'e knew his plan very well, but she had to tell him about it.

"Yes. The plan for the Hong Kong City Pharmaceutical Industrial Park has been finalized and will soon start bidding for construction companies."

"After this forum, I feel that Hong Kong has a shortcoming. There are no fun places. Otherwise, those experts could bring their families to Hong Kong for vacation together."

Nowadays, medical experts are mostly men. Li Ming said slowly, "How do you know there are no fun places? There are actually many fun places in Hong Kong."

Lou Xiao'e asked sarcastically, "You want to go play too, right?"

"It's smoky and smelly. I don't like that kind of place."

Li Ming then quickly changed the subject, "Have you reached an agreement on injecting capital into Youlian Bank?"

Lou Xiao'e knew what was going on and rolled her eyes at him. "It's settled. We will invest HK$6000 million, increasing our stake to 85%; the other three companies will each be reduced to 5%."

Li Ming is already very shameless. "Let's make the pie bigger. 5% will be much better than the previous 20%."

Xingchen Company is now the major shareholder of Union Bank with a 40% stake.

Instead of bullying others by taking advantage of their power, the bank with assets of 1000 million was valued at 2000 million and the capital increase and share expansion was carried out. It also produced a plan for expanding operations and negotiated with the other three shareholders.

Many small banks in Hong Kong envied the shareholders of Union Bank for keeping up with the rapid development of Xingchen Company.

Lou Xiao'e talked about her plan, "Youlian Bank is operating very soundly, and the Finance and Supervision Departments have not found any problems."

"After this capital increase and share expansion, I plan to continue to serve as chairman and send a full-time director, plus supervisor, and I plan to keep the other positions unchanged."

Li Ming is not short of money, and Xingchen Company is also being asked for loans by major banks.

He set up the bank in order to build financial talents and financial channels for Xingchen Company. "We want stability, so that's the arrangement."

Lou Xiao'e was fine with it, "That's it."

The end of the year has arrived, and there is constant good news both in Hong Kong and the mainland.

'Shougang continues to set new production records.'

'Bengang completed its annual production plan ahead of schedule.'

'Dalian Port completed its annual throughput task ahead of schedule.'

'Mongolia's coal production has increased by 20% compared to last year.'

'Yumen crude oil production plan is exceeded every month.'

'Nanjing Cotton and Wool Textile Factory has exceeded its historical production level.'

The screen is full of good news, but in fact, the production recovery in the second half of the year can only be considered acceptable.

Because the decline in the first half of the year was too great, although last year's 67 was already a low base for an overall decline.

This year's total annual production volume has not increased across the board, and some items are still declining.

For example, steel production was only 908 million tons, down 67% from 12.15; electricity generation was down 7.49%; and freight volume was down 6.85%.
With a lower base, when the results were reported at the end of 69 years, the percentage figures were very impressive, with a large number of projects growing by or percent.

People who didn't analyze it carefully thought it was a huge improvement, but in fact it just returned to the level of 66.

September 12th arrived in a blink of an eye.

It’s time to get off work, Security Department Office.

'On December 12, our country successfully conducted a new hydrogen bomb test over the western region!'

Li Ming is reading the newly released happy news. "We are about to say goodbye to the 68th year and usher in the 69th year. This is such exciting and great news. Let's prepare for celebration."

When the team leader Fan Jiawen delivered the good news, he had already inquired about the factory's movements in advance, "Section Chief, we don't have to do it."

"Director Nie has already instructed the factory office to immediately organize personnel to go to the square to announce the good news, and to organize a publicity team to go to the staff building and dormitory building to spread the news."

Li Ming smiled and said, "Since some people in the factory are working overtime, our security department should do a good job of security."

Although it was snowing, other units would definitely send a team to announce the good news, and the steel mill had to follow suit.

Upon hearing that Director Nie had made arrangements, Section Chief Li was too lazy to join in the fun.

“Some players might want to join in the celebration,” Fan warned.

It is understandable that Li Ming was overjoyed to hear such good news, and he agreed: "Encourage them to stick to their posts and allow them to rotate shifts."

"I know what to do." This is not the first time that Fan Jiawen has assigned such a task.

As expected, cheers, singing, gongs and drums, and firecrackers filled the night sky of the capital, and the whole city was in jubilation.

It was not until the middle of the night that Li Ming sneaked into Zhou Xiaobai's boudoir.

The little girl hasn't rested yet and is reciting English words in a low voice.

"You'll ruin your eyes if you read so late."

Zhou Xiaobai whispered, "I can't even understand the manual of the computer you found, let alone use it." "I need to learn these English words as soon as possible."

Li Ming put his arm around her shoulders and walked in. "It will be fine as long as the researchers at the cable plant know how to operate it."

Zhou Xiaobai explained: "I understand the principles of computers, so I can know how computers display images."

"Besides, the people at the cable plant don't know how to use that computer."

This was something Li Ming had not thought of before. "It's just the beginning. People from the Computer Institute will come to support us in the next few days."

Because we were afraid of damaging it, the people at the cable factory spent several days helping me assemble one. Now I can only turn it on and off by referring to the instruction manual.

The other one was given to the Computer Institute, which has been transferred to the 10th Research Institute of the National Defense Science and Technology Commission.

He had to send it. Even if his superiors had not ordered it to be transferred to the Computer Institute, Zhou Xiaobai's father would have asked him to send it to the Computer Institute if he knew about it.

So Li Ming bought two at the beginning, keeping one for himself and giving the other away.

If other units want it, Hairong Labor Service Company in Gangcheng will deliver the goods to Tianjin again. Of course, there will be a charge for this.

As for the two units now, the kind-hearted people in Hong Kong who donated the cotton-padded clothes have already paid for them.

Zhou Xiaobai suggested: "Should we add two more guards to the research institute in the west of the city? If the computer is damaged, no one may be able to repair it."

Li Ming also thought about this question, "We should add more people, but there is no rush."

"The renovation of the research institute will have to wait until the temperature rises in the spring of next year. It's fine to put the computers in the building of the ham sausage factory for the time being."

Computers these days are more sophisticated, with higher requirements for dust and static protection.

The main hall of the Institute of Innovation and Technology does not meet the standards and needs to be upgraded.

Around 2000, students were required to wear shoe covers in the school's computer room, not for dust or static electricity protection.

The computer cases and motherboards of personal computers have been optimized to prevent dust and static electricity, purely because they are too expensive and people are afraid that middle school students will damage the school computers.

In many schools, even the payment of teachers’ salaries is a problem. If a computer breaks down, there is naturally no money to repair it. In fact, saving one more small thing is to save one big thing.

Zhou Xiaobai said with emotion: "I hope everything goes smoothly."

"Today I met an uncle in the compound who said he had a severe headache."

"If we can take an image of his head, we might be able to figure out where his disease is."

The bedroom has heating. Li Ming took off his thick coat and said, "It will definitely go smoothly."

"Look, our high-temperature ceramic panels have been fired successfully, haven't they?"

Zhou Xiaobai chuckled and said, "Master Zeng and Master Sun are really amazing. They succeeded in firing it in one try."

"Others also deserve credit for recording the experimental data in detail every time, so we don't have to rely on memory to recall and try again."

Li Ming was initially aiming for microcrystalline panels and ceramics for watches. Now, the first thing fired is a high-temperature ceramic panel. This is how research is done, and you never know what you will come up with.

Zhou Xiaobai had the same thought as most people at this time, "Well, the credit belongs to everyone."

"It's a pity that we don't have a small electric fan to dissipate heat, otherwise we could produce the induction cooker you envisioned."

Our country's industrial products are acceptable in terms of ordinary size, but are relatively backward in terms of giant and miniature sizes.

Li Ming said unconcernedly, "The mini fans sent by Gangcheng are well matched. We can export the panels to them, and they can make induction cookers and sell them to the world."

"As you said, if it can be made directly into an induction cooker, it can provide jobs for more people."

Zhou Xiaobai remembered what Li Ming once said, that the induction cooker industry could employ at least 10,000 to 20,000 people.

"Every profession has its own expertise. We have already sent the small fan to the electric fan factory. Now that there is a demand, they will definitely be able to copy it as soon as possible."

"Well, I hope they can do it as soon as possible. Many of my classmates have signed up to go to the countryside."

"Don't be sad, I will always be with you."

"We will be together forever."

"Let's talk about this later. I want to attack you first now (*^▽^*)."

The good warmth and affection are always ruined by this stinky man, and Zhou Xiaobai is always helpless with him.

Li Ming did it on purpose. Talking about sad topics late at night was really a downer.

the next morning.

In the west of the city, at the doorstep of Zheng Tong’s home.

"Zheng Tong! Zheng Tong, it's time for work."

As soon as Zheng Tong opened the door, he saw Yuan Jun with a bruised face and nose.

"Fuck, you fell several times on the road?"

Yuan Jun said depressedly: "My dad beat me!"

Zheng Tong asked curiously: "Your father just came out yesterday, why did he hit you?"

Yuan Jun said incoherently: "My dad saw that the house was emptied as if robbed, so he ran to question Fatty Wang."

"Fatty Wang said they didn't touch anything in my house and suspected I was the one who did it."

"Who knew my dad would believe Fatty Wang instead of me, and wouldn't listen to my explanation at all, and that's how I ended up."

Although they were old colleagues for many years, Director Yuan was harassed by Fatty Wang because of their different positions.

But the other party did take care of his son, and Director Yuan knew what kind of person the other party was.

In comparison, the son is even less reliable. No one knows his son better than his father. The son must have sold the valuable property in the family without any regret. The two beatings that Yuan Jun received were considered the lightest punishment.

Zheng Tong laughed and said, "You deserve it. You should have thought about this day when you took things from home to sell."

Yuan Jun bared his teeth and said, "You also have a share when the things are taken."

Not only did they take the money together, they also spent it together. Zheng Tong quickly changed the subject, "Now that your dad has been released, will you continue to stay at the institute?"

Yuan Jun wondered, "Go on, why don't you continue?"

"Among so many things, my dad only praised me for this one thing."

Zheng Tong pushed his bicycle and said, "I thought you would change your mind and join the army."

"If you change your mind, I'll be alone there without a companion."

Yuan Jun also walked out with the bicycle. "My father could read the newspaper inside and knew that officials were being called upon to take the lead in sending their children to work in the countryside."

"I already have a good place to go, so my dad won't try to snatch someone else's spot."

Zheng Tong, who was wearing glasses, had never thought about joining the army from the beginning. "You don't want to go, but Yuemin wants to go but can't."

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I guess I'm going to lose my reputation soon. Updates will be unstable.

本书自从发布以来，唯有今年1月16日断更过，差了0秒，更新在了1月17日0点00分00秒。

I regretted it at the time. If I had published it at 4000 words, it would have been perfect! (End of this chapter)