Reborn in the red age

All the big and small bosses in Harbin took turns complaining, and to sum it up in one sentence, Harbin is in too difficult a situation and needs huge investments.

Three hundred million or five hundred million is not too little, one billion or eight hundred million is not too much, and it would be even better if it could be US dollars.

Before they came, they heard that this Li Qingfeng was a real big boss, an internationally famous capitalist, with assets as high as tens of billions of US dollars. He was about to deposit one billion US dollars in a Hong Kong bank, specifically for investment in the mainland.

With such a huge sum of money, I don't know how many people are eyeing it. Why not take advantage of Li Qingfeng's presence in Harbin and find a way to get an investment? These are all political achievements!
A group of people were making so much noise that it gave Li Qingfeng a headache. What the hell, US dollars? You guys are so bold.

Neither the Magic City nor the Special Administrative Region is as bold as you are in asking for it.

At the dinner table, Li Qingfeng neither agreed nor refused, he just said that he needed to observe and if it was suitable, he could invest appropriately.

As soon as Li Qingfeng said this, all the leaders of Harbin, big and small, seemed to be afraid that Li Qingfeng would go back on his word, and immediately decided on the action for tomorrow's inspection.

Even the driver and the vehicle were sent out, for fear that Li Qingfeng would run away.

In desperation, Li Qingfeng told Sun Aidang and others to move freely early the next morning, while he got on the vehicle sent by Harbin and started the inspection according to the itinerary they had set.

Standing at the door of the first company he visited, Li Qingfeng looked at the sign of the sugar factory and didn't know what to say for a moment.

The person in charge of Li Qingfeng's inspection trip was Zhang Jianguo, director of the Foreign Economic and Technical Cooperation Committee.

The Foreign Economic and Technical Cooperation Committee is a department-level unit responsible for economic and technical cooperation and investment promotion.

Zhang Jianguo stood at the entrance of the sugar factory and proudly introduced it to Li Qingfeng: "Teacher Li, this is the largest sugar factory in the country and the pride of our city of Harbin."

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Looking at the proud Zhang Jianguo speechlessly, Li Qingfeng couldn't understand why they wanted to bring him here to attract investment. Didn't they know that he was in the high-tech industry?

No matter how much we diversify our business, we will never invest money in the sugar industry!

Noticing Li Qingfeng's expression, Zhang Jianguo asked, "Teacher Li, do you have any questions?"

"It's okay, it's okay, let's go in and take a look." Li Qingfeng shook his head and chose to follow the arrangements.

The Acheng Sugar Factory is indeed magnificent and full of exotic charm.

At the entrance there is a magnificent marble gate, which resembles an Arc de Triomphe. The buildings inside are of typical European classical architectural style, giving people a feeling of being in Europe.

There are many buildings of this kind in Harbin, and Li Qingfeng has gotten used to it in the past few days.

The director of the Acheng Sugar Factory welcomed Li Qingfeng's arrival and personally met him at the factory office building, taking Li Qingfeng on a tour around the factory.

After touring the sugar factory, Qingfeng Li secretly shook his head.

A series of problems found in state-owned enterprises, such as bloated organization, redundant staff, inefficiency, serious bureaucracy, etc., can be found in sugar factories.

There were less than four thousand workers, but the total number of cadres, clerks, and civil servants was nearly two thousand.

If we include the staff in the schools, hospitals, shops, and leisure and entertainment venues within the factory, there are at least more than 4,000 people.

There are less than 4,000 front-line workers and more than 4,000 non-workers receiving wages, and it is not a monopoly industry. This factory is considered useless.

If private enterprises had not risen, the sugar factory could continue to operate, but now that private enterprises have risen, the sugar factory will inevitably go bankrupt within the next few years, and even a god cannot save it.

The sugar factory director Yu Huaishui naturally had no idea what Li Qingfeng was thinking. After the banquet, everyone came to the conference room and began formal discussions on whether they could cooperate.

"Teacher Li, you have just visited our factory and have seen the strength of our factory. I wonder what you think of our factory?" After making tea, Yu Huaishui held the enamel pot and looked at Li Qingfeng with a smile.

"It is worthy of being a factory that has existed since the Qing Dynasty. It has the style of a large factory. It is indeed the largest sugar factory in the country. The sugar factory will become better and better under the leadership of Director Yu in the future."

Li Qingfeng is not a person with low emotional intelligence, so he naturally won't be stupid enough to tell the truth. He will just say whatever sounds good, because people like to hear that.

"Teacher Li, you are too kind. I am just a public servant serving the workers. The reason why the sugar factory has been able to grow and develop is mainly because we have been guided on the right track by the higher-ups." Yu Huaishui waved his hands. He spoke modestly but had a proud expression on his face.

Seeing the other party's hypocritical look, Qingfeng Li smiled and did not continue the conversation.

Well, with such a factory director, it goes without saying that a large amount of property in the factory must be missing.

The louder the slogans shouted, the more likely they are to deceive their superiors and subordinates and put money into their own pockets.

"Teacher Li, our factory now produces 3,000 tons of sugar per day. We plan to recruit another 1,000 workers next year to increase the output to more than 4,000 tons. The output is absolutely guaranteed. Foreigners like to eat sweets, right? Your company is strong abroad. Can you cooperate with us to export large quantities of our sugar to Europe and the United States?"

After some pleasantries, Yu Huaishui looked at Li Qingfeng with a smile and told him the main purpose of using his connections to get Li Qingfeng to come to the factory.

Now the domestic market is getting closer and closer to saturation. Sugarcane companies in the south have begun to seize the market. The production cost of beet sugar is too high and it can no longer compete with the cheap sugarcane in the south.

With the development of sugarcane enterprises in the south, sooner or later, the higher-priced vegetable sugar will be replaced by relatively lower-priced sugarcane.

Seeing this, Yu Huaishui was unable to save the sugar factory. He wanted to muddle through and make a fortune before the factory went bankrupt. At worst, he could move to another place and continue to be a leader after the factory went bankrupt.

However, after learning about Li Qingfeng's situation last night, he had an idea in mind. He wanted to cooperate with Li Qingfeng to find a way out, which led to today's inspection trip.

After looking at Zhang Jianguo, Li Qingfeng said tactfully: "Director Yu may have misunderstood. Our company's main business is a computer software service provider. We sell software. In the field of agricultural and sideline products, we don't have any channels."

"Oh, that's wrong." Yu Huaishui waved his hand and said with an expression that said, "You can't hide it from me."
"I've been overseas to investigate. There are supermarkets in America that sell everything. Isn't your company's software also sold in supermarkets?"

"Since your software can be put on the shelves of supermarkets, you must have a good relationship with the buyers. Please help contact them and ask them to put our sugar on their shelves. That would be easy."

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Li Qingfeng was dumbfounded. This guy was not just a fool who could only shout slogans. He really had something in his head. Seeing that Li Qingfeng was silent, Yu Huaishui played the emotional card: "Teacher Li, please help me. I won't hide it from you. The sugarcane market has a great impact on our factory. Although the factory is doing a booming business now, it has no profit. It is all supported by the supply and marketing cooperative."

"As early as the year after next, our factory may suffer irreparable losses. There are 8,000 to 9,000 people in the sugar factory who rely on their wages to support their families. That means 8,000 to 9,000 families. If the factory continues to lose money and closes down, it will be an unimaginable disaster for the sugar factory workers who rely on their wages to support their families."

Listening to Yu Huaishui's words, Li Qingfeng fell silent. Thinking of the miserable plight of the laid-off workers in Northeast China during the wave of layoffs in later generations, Li Qingfeng's heart was beating slightly with compassion.

After a long while, Li Qingfeng nodded and said that he would give it a try if the sugar factory could obtain export qualifications and the price was competitive.

I will contact America and try my best to help export sugar to America.

"Oh, thank you so much, Teacher Li. Don't leave this afternoon. I'll treat you tonight. We must have a good drink." When Yu Huaishui saw Li Qingfeng's reply that he would do his best to help, he was immediately overjoyed and held Li Qingfeng to prevent him from leaving.

Li Qingfeng had no interest in drinking and chatting with such a typical politician. He declined Yu Huaishui's invitation on the grounds that the inspection trip had not yet ended.

In this regard, Yu Huaishui did not force it. He patted his chest and expressed that he acknowledged Li Qingfeng as his friend. If he had any problems in Harbin in the future, he could go directly to him. He, Yu, still had some strength in Harbin.

After leaving the sugar factory, Li Qingfeng refused to participate in the subsequent inspection and asked Zhang Jianguo to take him back to the hotel.

Li Qingfeng showed his soft-heartedness at the sugar factory. He looked at the inspection list and found that they were all medium-sized and large state-owned enterprises with poor management.

If nothing unexpected happens, all the factories and enterprises that follow will resort to playing the victim to deal with themselves.

Those state-owned enterprises are like bottomless pits, they are rotten to the core and cannot be saved at all.

I might as well just pretend that out of sight, out of mind. I can't hear or see anything, so I can just pretend I didn't see anything and I won't have any burden in my heart.

After returning to the hotel and taking a breath, Li Qingfeng received a call from Li Changzhi, the secretary of Secretary Qian from the investigation team. Secretary Qian asked to meet with Li Qingfeng and the car to pick him up had already left, so Li Qingfeng was asked to get ready.

Li Qingfeng couldn't refuse the invitation from his big boss, so he washed his face and hurried back to the guesthouse.

Still in the same conference room, Captain Wu was giving his work report again.

After Captain Wu finished speaking, Secretary Qian found an excuse to chase Captain Wu away and looked at Li Qingfeng with a smile:
"Teacher Li, you just heard that things are going very smoothly in Harbin. The top organizer of the evil forces in Harbin and the Northeast has been arrested."

"All of his gang members have been arrested or escaped, and even the protectors hidden in the team have not escaped. They will all be severely punished by the law."

Li Qingfeng understood what the other party meant. Secretary Qian was urging him to fulfill his promise quickly. The work had already been done, and the promised money should be deposited quickly.

Looking at the pile of paper materials and the photos of the bosses in Harbin being arrested, Li Qingfeng's mouth twitched.

Wow, they acted really fast. In less than a week, Mr. Qiao and his gang were completely captured.

To be honest, Mr. Qiao Si was so wronged. He did nothing wrong to anyone, but was inexplicably listed as a key target for attack, and it was the damn army that personally arrested him.

In response to this, Li Qingfeng said that in order to highlight his own pseudo-righteousness and not to make people feel that he was simply retaliating, he could only make you suffer.

No matter a few years earlier or later, you will have to go in and eat peanuts.

Strictly speaking, this is also a good thing. After all, the sooner you die, the sooner you will be reborn.

Li Qingfeng was not a man who would procrastinate. After praising Secretary Qian for a few words, he hinted that Lemon Company would soon open a company account in the Hong Kong branch and deposit the agreed funds into it.

Secretary Qian smiled when he thought about the upcoming 10 billion US dollars in foreign exchange. Although it can only be used for two years and must be repaid with interest upon maturity, this foreign exchange can alleviate the current difficult economic situation in the country.

Secretary Qian looked at Li Qingfeng with even greater satisfaction, nodded secretly, and gave Li Qingfeng an evaluation of a good comrade in his heart.

Secretary Qian invited Li Qingfeng to have dinner at the guesthouse that night. At the dinner table, Secretary Qian asked casually, "Teacher Li, I heard that you bought a piece of land in Sijiu City and wanted to build a semiconductor factory. Did you encounter any difficulties?"

"We are still in the construction stage of the factory, and there are no difficulties for the time being." Li Qingfeng didn't understand whether the other party really wanted to help or not, and he didn't dare to make any requests. He planned to observe and deal with it.

"Well, that's it. If there are problems that cannot be solved, we must tell them. The country attaches great importance to high-tech companies. Now the country is poor and can't provide much help in terms of funds, but in other matters, we will spare no effort to support them."

Carefully observing Secretary Qian's expression, it didn't look like he was joking.

Li Qingfeng's heart moved, and he asked tentatively: "Speaking of which, there is indeed a problem that needs help from above to coordinate. How about I tell you about it?"

"To be frank, I still say that I can't help you with the funding, but in other aspects, in principle, I will definitely support you strongly."

Li Qingfeng curled his lips secretly. The biggest difficulty that a high-tech research and development company can encounter is not having enough money. But you are just saying that big things cannot be done, but small things can be handled depending on the situation.

Fortunately, the thing my buddy has the most is money.

After organizing his words, Qingfeng Li planned to make a big move.

"It's like this. My semiconductor factory is not short of money, but it is extremely short of high-tech R&D personnel, front-line technicians and a large number of skilled workers. I wonder if the higher-ups can help coordinate relevant professionals to work in my factory?"

"It's just coordinating some talents. No problem. It's a small matter. Do you have a candidate in mind? I'll find one for you when I get back." Hearing that it was just about people, which was the most abundant thing in the country, Secretary Qian waved his hand and agreed to take the responsibility immediately.

"There are too many people. How about I mention a few schools or research institutes and see if you can coordinate them?"

Secretary Qian waved his hand nonchalantly: "Too much? How much can it be? Just tell me, feel free to speak up."

"Outstanding graduates and some professors of semiconductor majors from Wudaokou, Fudan, USTC, Zhejiang University, and Xi'an Jiaotong University in recent years"

"Of course, it would be even better if we could take away their school's semiconductor research institute."

Secretary Qian: "." (End of this chapter)