Reborn in the red age

"Tell me, how did you recruit these people? They are all elites from large international companies. How could they follow you to this unknown small factory?"

At night, all the foreigners were arranged to stay at the Kunlun Hotel. Li Qingfeng excitedly pulled Zhang Yapeng aside and asked him about his secret of recruiting talents.

Facing the happy Li Qingfeng, Zhang Yapeng had an unnatural expression on his face, and said cautiously: "The main reason we were able to recruit them is that we were willing to pay."

"How much?"

"Salaries will be doubled, bonuses will be calculated separately, and if the company goes public, original shares will be given."

As Zhang Yapeng spoke, his voice became lower and lower, until it disappeared completely. He lowered his head and did not dare to look at Li Qingfeng.

"Well, is that all?"

"Before they returned to China, I gave them half a year's salary as resettlement allowance for working in China, totaling $92."

Li Qingfeng nodded. 92 US dollars was not an exaggeration at all. Salaries in developed countries were already high these days.

An ordinary auto worker in Detroit can earn more than two thousand dollars a month, not to mention the senior engineers who are poached.

"Is it gone?"

Zhang Yapeng didn't say anything, but nodded nervously, indicating that this was all he had promised.

After listening to all the conditions given by Zhang Yapeng, Li Qingfeng raised his hand high.

Zhang Yapeng knew that this overseas inspection trip would cost too much to recruit talent. Just to recruit these thirty or forty engineers, he spent over a million dollars.

Seeing Li Qingfeng raise his hand, Zhang Yapeng, who felt that he had spent too much, closed his eyes tightly, ready to take the slap.

It's no wonder Zhang Yapeng thinks this way. Talents in China are not valuable these days, but foreign exchange is valuable. Spending millions of dollars to recruit talents from abroad is something that people across the country don't even dare to think about, let alone do.

Wouldn't it be better to import some equipment with this money? What's the point of poaching dozens of people to do research and development? Wouldn't it be better to directly import other people's advanced finished products?
"Oh, Lao Zhang did a good job. That's how you spend money. No matter what industry you are in, technical talent is the most important."

The slap he expected didn't hit his face, but landed on his shoulder.

Zhang Yapeng opened his eyes, and what came into view was Li Qingfeng's smiling face.

After a moment's pause, Zhang Yapeng realized that Qingfeng Li was not angry, and asked anxiously, "Teacher Li, I spent nearly a million dollars to recruit thirty-eight people. Are you not angry at all?"

"Why should I be angry? The chip company trained more than 40 engineers overseas, which took nearly ten years and cost the company millions of dollars. How much money do you have? Moreover, the ones you recruited are senior engineers who can directly carry the banner. We made a lot of money, okay?" Li Qingfeng patted Zhang Yapeng on the shoulder and explained the reason with a smile.

"Hiss, it cost several million"

"Of course, yours is nothing. Double salary, resettlement allowance, and bonuses are all normal operations. Life abroad is good. If you want people to come here, who would come if you don't pay them high salaries?"

At this point, Qingfeng Li paused, frowned, and tapped the coffee table unconsciously with his fingers: "As for the original shares you promised them, there is no problem with that, but if they can show their true abilities and improve the engine, I am willing to give them the original shares."

"Okay, Mr. Li, don't worry. I have already communicated with them before I came. As long as the conditions agreed can be implemented, they are willing to show their unique skills and work sincerely for the Feichi Automobile Factory."

"That's fine. With these 38 engineers from a powerful car-making country, plus the guys from Moscow, we have built the technical framework for Mercedes-Benz cars. I look forward to you coming up with a product that satisfies me as soon as possible."

"Don't worry, I am confident that we can complete the transformation and upgrading of the existing engines within two years."

"It's good to have confidence. Keep going. I believe in you. If you have any difficulties, just ask. I will definitely support you."

"There is indeed one, and I need Teacher Li's help to solve it."

No, I was just being polite, why did you take it so seriously?

Li Qingfeng, who was about to go out and invite Hu Jiabao to go home together, was stunned when he heard this and had to sit back on the sofa.

"It's like this, it's still about front-line workers. These workers are hard to find. There are only a few automobile factories in the three northeastern provinces, and they all produce very well. I have nowhere to poach people from."

With Li Qingfeng's permission, Zhang Yapeng started talking about the same old things again, talking about the problems that had existed since the beginning of the factory.

If it were in the past, when faced with the issue of frontline workers, Li Qingfeng really wouldn't have had any good solution, but now, it's really not a difficult task.

"Sure, that's no problem. I'll go to Shanghai during this time and try to get you a group of frontline workers."

"Really?" Zhang Yapeng said in surprise.

"Of course, Modou brand cars are about to stop production. Their Santana workshop has no shortage of workers. These workers are a burden to SAIC. I will go over and talk to them to see if they can get some of them over."

Zhang Yapeng, who had been abroad for the past two months, had not yet heard about the suspension of production of the Magic City car. After hearing the news from Li Qingfeng, he exclaimed, "The Magic City car is going to be discontinued? When will it happen?"

"Just last month, they said the last batch of cars rolled off the assembly line and production would be stopped forever."

After confirming that the Modu brand car was really going to be discontinued, Zhang Yapeng showed a lonely expression on his face. After a long while, he said with regret: "Alas, it's a pity. After the Modu brand car was discontinued, the only car left for us Chinese people is Xiali."

Li Qingfeng shrugged, with no regretful expression on his face.

The Shanghai brand has been producing a car for 33 years, which is no longer in line with the times. Sentiment? A car costs hundreds of thousands of yuan, and ordinary people will not pay for it for sentiment.

In an era when joint venture cars and imported cars are popular, it is an inevitable historical process that the Modou brand cars, which are expensive, low-equipped, fuel-consuming, and have no funds for technological upgrades, will disappear from the market.

After saying goodbye to Zhang Yapeng and his wife, on the way back, Hu Jiabao looked at the night view outside the car window and said sadly:

"I really envy Wenhui. She has a good man who thinks of his wife whenever he has good things. He also takes his wife with him when he goes abroad. I don't know when I will have the chance to go out and see the world. I heard that my family also has a chip company in America."

Squeak—the front of the car suddenly stopped, and Hu Jiabao, who was sitting in the passenger seat, was almost thrown into the front windshield by inertia.

Hu Jiabao, who was holding onto the passenger seat and climbing up from the carpet, suddenly turned his head and glared fiercely at Li Qingfeng who was sitting in the driver's seat.

If looks could kill, Qingfeng Li would have died several times by now.

"Are you trying to throw me out?"

Hearing the cold voice coming from the car, Li Qingfeng touched his nose awkwardly, stopped the car in the middle of the road, and hurried to check on Hu Jiabao: "Mistake, mistake, did you fall?"

"What do you think?" Hu Jiabao's face turned terribly dark, and he asked back with gritted teeth.

"Let me see, let me see, where are you hurt?" Fortunately, it was the beginning of winter and everyone was wearing thick down jackets, so Hu Jiabao didn't get hurt when he fell off the seat.

All along the way, Hu Jiabao turned his head away angrily and didn't even look at Li Qingfeng.

When the Passat had not yet stopped downstairs, Hu Jiabao picked up the bag, opened the car door and walked into the building angrily.

Upon seeing this, Li Qingfeng quickly opened the car door and shamelessly followed behind Hu Jiabao to show his courtesy.

She tried to coax him into bed for a long time at night but failed. In the end, she conquered Hu Jiabao with her own strength.

Holding a peony in his mouth, Li Qingfeng narrowed his eyes and tentatively asked about the chip company: "Jiabao, how did you know that our family has a chip company in America?"

"That's what Wenhui, who just returned to China, said. I have never been to America, and you didn't tell me about the situation there, so how would I know?" Hu Jiabao said lazily while lying on the bed.

"How did she know? We only have shares in the chip company. I didn't arrange anyone to receive them this time. They didn't go out in the name of Lemon Company. How could she know this?"

"It seems that the alumni who hosted them in America said so. After all, both of them went to college, so it's normal to have a few alumni abroad."

"Oh I got it"

Li Qingfeng nodded, stopped testing, and put his heart back in his stomach.

They thought Ma Wenhui had discovered something in America, but it turned out to be just a news told to them by alumni. Now they are completely relieved.

As for why Ma Wenhui's schoolmates knew about this, Li Qingfeng said it was not surprising.

As the most successful Chinese entrepreneur in the world who surpassed Wang An, Li Qingfeng is still very famous in the Chinese American community. Many overseas Chinese and Chinese Americans regard Li Qingfeng as an idol, and news about him is followed by many Chinese.

The most outrageous thing is that without Li Qingfeng’s knowledge, someone actually published a book for him.

The book praises Li Qingfeng to the skies, saying that his character is comparable to that of Yu Qian, the Shaobao of the Ming Dynasty, and his status is comparable to that of Yoshiaki Tsutsumi, the world's richest man at that time (a Japanese entrepreneur who had assets of up to 1990 billion US dollars in 1650, making him the well-deserved richest man in the world).

He wrote himself so gloriously that Qingfeng Li felt embarrassed to sue him.

That is to say, the Lemon Company was not listed, and Li Qingfeng did not want to be so high-profile, so he sponsored a large sum of money to Forbes magazine, so that Li Qingfeng's name was not written in the magazine.

After making sure that his great and glorious image had not been exposed, Li Qingfeng took the initiative to bring up the words Hu Jiabao had said to him in the car: "You said in the car that you envied Ma Wenhui, do you also want to go abroad to see it?"

"Of course. That means going abroad. Who doesn't want to go out and see the world? I haven't been abroad yet." When this was mentioned, Hu Jiabao immediately became excited. He sat up from the bed without caring about exposing himself and looked at Li Qingfeng expectantly.

From the 1980s, 1990s, and even into the 21st century, traveling abroad to see the colorful world has always been the dream of the vast majority of Chinese people.

As a senior intellectual of this era, Hu Jiabao and men like Li Qingfeng have more contact with foreign things and are naturally curious about the foreign capitalist world.

Not to mention that Hu Jiabao once wanted to study abroad.

It wasn't a big deal before, as I always had little time. But during the winter vacation, I had to go to my parents' house and then go back to my in-laws' house, so I was so busy that I forgot about it.

However, Ma Wenhui had just returned from abroad, and her best friend had been there before, which naturally aroused Hu Jiabao's idea of ​​going abroad to see the world.

"Why haven't you been abroad? Isn't it Hong Kong? I've been there several times."

“Is Hong Kong a foreign country?”

Li Qingfeng was stunned and slapped his mouth lightly: "It was a slip of the tongue, a slip of the tongue. Hong Kong has been our territory since ancient times. I said the wrong thing."

"Hmph, it means to set things right. If it were in the past, I would have dragged you onto the stage just for what you said." Hu Jiabao rolled his eyes at him and teased him proudly.

"Hey, so you've never been abroad."

"Yeah, what? Are you going to take me abroad?"

Qingfeng Li nodded and waved his hand with great ambition: "It's not easy to go abroad. Go and apply for a passport tomorrow. When the school is on winter vacation and you don't have to go to the hospital, we will set off. At that time, you can take a world map, draw a circle, and go wherever you want."

"Really? You're not lying to me?" Hu Jiabao threw himself on Qingfeng Li and looked at him with shining eyes.

"Look at what you said, how have I ever lied to you?"

"Thanks husband"

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"Hiss~ How can you thank someone so much? Come down quickly, come down quickly, I am not a young man in my twenties anymore."

Early the next morning, after rubbing his waist which Hu Jiabao had thanked him for all night and eating the breakfast that Xiao Cai had specially prepared for him, he picked up the car keys and left the empty room.

In the Computer Research Institute, Ding Guangqing poured tea while saying to Li Qingfeng who was delivering materials, "Teacher Li, regarding the visa application for Teacher Hu, you can just give her a call and let her know. I'll have Yu Zheng and the others pick it up. Why do you have to come here in person?"

"I just came here by chance. We are all in school, so it's a piece of cake." Li Qingfeng picked up the hot tea to warm his stomach, and asked casually, "How is the latest project in the institute? Have you encountered any difficulties?"

"No, we have discovered a lot of good young men in Peking University and Wudaokou University over the years, and found many technical geniuses. Each of them is capable of standing on their own, which has greatly enriched our company's talent pool."

"That's fine. I'll leave now. You can keep Ms. Hu's information. Go through the company's channels in the next two days to get her visa."

It was so cold today, and Li Qingfeng didn't want to queue up outside the embassy and blow in the cold wind, so he decided to leave it to the company and use corporate channels, which was convenient and quick.

"Don't worry, I'll have someone do it this afternoon." At this point, Ding Guangqing glanced at Li Qingfeng and suggested with a smile, "Teacher Li, I think you should find a secretary. If there is anything, just let the secretary do it. You don't have to run around in person."

Li Qingfeng thought about it and felt that what Ding Guangqing said made sense. As a boss like him, he couldn't do everything himself, right?

"That makes sense. Please help me pick one."

"Okay, I'll call the headquarters later and ask them to send a female secretary over."

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"Forget it, let's choose in the mainland. After all, I'm not the kind of person who has nothing to do as a secretary." (End of this chapter)