bookcurios Chapter 241 Making the best use of everyone's talents! My Zhao family father and son do not fol
Chapter 241 Making the best use of everyone's talents! My Zhao family father and son do not fol
"stop!"
Zhao Ruilong stood up and shouted, stopping Fu Wenbing who was turning to leave.
This sudden standing up made the situation even more awkward.
Qin Shuang was still kneeling in front of him when Zhao Ruilong, who stood up, almost bumped into her face.
Upon seeing this, Fu Wenbing naturally couldn't help but grin mischievously.
Zhao Ruilong looked away.
He looked down at Qin Shuang kneeling in front of him.
Moreover, Qin Shuang happened to be looking up at him.
The way the two of them were behaving at that moment was indeed too unrestrained.
Zhao Ruilong could only secretly rejoice that his pants zipper was zipped up.
Otherwise, even if he jumped into the Huangpu River, he wouldn't be able to clear his name.
"Get up quickly!"
Zhao Ruilong quickly stepped away and walked towards Fu Wenbing, who had a wicked smile.
"Stop looking so weird, okay? We really didn't do anything."
"Yes, I believe you didn't do anything. It's broad daylight, and the curtains aren't even drawn. No matter how unrestrained you are, you wouldn't be playing around like this."
At this point, Fu Wenbing suddenly changed the subject.
"But I don't know if they'll do anything else at other times."
"you……"
Zhao Ruilong hadn't had a chance to explain.
Fu Wenbing took two steps forward and shook hands with Qin Shuang.
Huilong Electronics and Tianhai Huahong Microelectronics have close ties in chip research and development and production.
Therefore, Fu Wenbing and Qin Shuang had been in frequent contact by phone, but this was the first time they had met each other in person.
"I have always held the belief that, apart from those who study broadcasting and hosting, everyone else's voice must reflect their personality!"
"The first time I spoke to Secretary Qin on the phone, her voice was delicate and pleasant, and I was certain that she must be a great beauty."
"Now that I see her in person, she's even more beautiful than I imagined. Brother Ruilong, you're very lucky!"
Good fortune?
Qin Shuang is just his secretary, not his lover or wife!
Where does this talk of good fortune come from?
Zhao Ruilong rolled his eyes at Fu Wenbing.
"Alright, alright, stop praising me. Sit down and order whatever you want. It's on me today."
Fu Wenbing sat down and picked up the menu.
"You should treat us! MP3 players have been in high demand since they were first released, and now they're even making a fortune selling in the US. If I don't treat you to a big meal, I can't suppress my envy and jealousy!"
Zhao Ruilong sneered, "Come on, I made money, and so did you. Did I buy too few chips?"
"We bought quite a lot of chips."
Fu Wenbing shifted his gaze from the menu to Zhao Ruilong's face.
"But Huahong Microelectronics is a state-owned enterprise. No matter how much we earn, it only gives me bonuses. Unlike you, who makes a fortune every day!"
After saying that, Fu Wenbing began to order the food.
Zhao Ruilong glanced at Qin Shuang.
The little incident just now made her extremely embarrassed, so much so that her cheeks were flushed.
She sat upright to the side, her neck and ears seemingly flushed with a blush.
"Could Old Wan be lost? Why don't you go out and meet him?"
"Oh, good, good."
Qin Shuang quickly got up and left.
The waiter left quickly after taking the order.
As soon as the door closed, Fu Wenbing turned around with a mischievous grin and asked:
What were you two doing just now?
"I really didn't do anything, bro!"
Zhao Ruilong gave a brief explanation with a helpless expression.
After hearing this, Fu Wenbing grinned from ear to ear and pointed at Zhao Ruilong.
"You're so mean!"
"Let's play hard to get for a while, and when the time is right, then we'll make big promises to her."
"This way you'll have her completely under your control, and she'll be absolutely obedient and compliant to you from now on."
Zhao Ruilong was sweating profusely.
"Old Fu, have you figured out the key points?"
"She's just a woman. No matter how beautiful she is, I wouldn't go to such lengths to toy with her, would I?"
"With our status, getting beautiful women is easy enough. Why would we need to play hard to get?"
Fu Wenbing took out a cigarette and offered one to Zhao Ruilong.
"Then why did you make it so complicated? Couldn't you have just taken her in earlier?"
"The secretary does the work when there's something to do, and does nothing when there's nothing to do..."
Zhao Ruilong was completely dumbfounded.
"What the hell?! How dare you say that?"
"Given your status, position, and rank, can you please refrain from making inappropriate remarks at the drop of a hat?"
Fu Wenbing leaned back in his chair, chuckling awkwardly as he asked:
"Huh? Driving? What do you mean?"
Simply put, it means making dirty jokes or telling bawdy stories.
After saying that, Zhao Ruilong lit a cigarette.
Upon closer inspection, Fu Wenbing had a cigarette dangling from his mouth, but it wasn't lit yet.
With a snap, he threw the lighter onto the table.
Light him a fire?
Is that necessary?
Once outside, in the eyes of others, Fu Wenbing was a young official from a prominent family with a promising future.
But with Zhao Ruilong, the two are brothers, so there's no need for him to fawn over or flatter them.
Fu Wenbing, of course, didn't pay attention to these small details.
After picking up a lighter, lighting a cigarette, and smoking it, he laughed and said:
"I was just joking, but to be honest, Qin Shuang is exceptionally talented and beautiful, and incredibly intelligent. She is truly a rare find."
"It would be a real waste to treat her as just a pretty face or a plaything. The best way to make the most of her is to cultivate her and make her your capable assistant."
Zhao Ruilong gave a soft "hmm".
"Actually, I mentored her because I wanted to have a reliable person within the company."
“Women like her, who come from ordinary backgrounds and yearn for money, are actually relatively easy to control. If I let her earn money and live a good life, she can maintain a high level of loyalty.”
"Even if someone offers her a large sum of money, she'll have to think twice before betraying me. If she and her family anger me, can they afford the consequences of betraying me?"
“But Du Bozhong is different. He’s from Hong Kong and has quite a background there. He’s too shrewd and opportunistic. Maybe one day I’ll have to part ways with him. Shouldn’t I prepare for this?”
Fu Wenbing nodded slightly.
"Since Du Bozhong is unreliable and Huilong Group has a promising future, we really need to make preparations as soon as possible."
"You have ideas and abilities. When recruiting people, ability is secondary. The most important thing is loyalty."
"What our Dragon Kingdom has in abundance is people. Only by discovering and cultivating more of our own people can we go further and more steadily!"
Zhao Ruilong turned slightly to the side.
"Looking at the long term, Huahong Microelectronics has not only turned a profit, but the development of chips with higher process precision is also going smoothly. Once the chip research and development base in Jingzhou is put into use, I am sure that 45-nanometer chips will be developed in no time."
"And what about you? You're not planning to stay at Tianhai forever, are you? Even if you don't want to change careers easily, I think you have a better future at Loongson Group than at Huahong Microelectronics. It would be so easy for you to be promoted from deputy director to director."
Fu Wenbing frowned, took a deep drag of his cigarette, and slowly said:
"To be honest, I've had enough of doing technical work and managing state-owned enterprises over the years."
"Although progress is relatively faster after achieving results, if we really want to think about the long term, we still need to gain experience in local areas."
"Otherwise, even if I become the chairman and secretary of the Dragon Kingdom Electronics Technology Group someday, what good will it do? Won't that be the top I've reached?"
"In comparison, your father's path has more room for progress, and I heard from my father that many retired comrades value the development of Handong."
"We have been opening up to the outside world for more than 20 years, but our extensive development has caused a lot of problems. How we go in the future depends on whether Handong can find a new path!"
Zhao Ruilong gave a cold laugh.
He turned to the side, raised his hand, and pointed out the window.
The Bund, a bustling metropolis, was filled with towering buildings, extravagant luxury, and a dreamlike prosperity.
"I think this is the path many people want to take!"
Following Zhao Ruilong's directions, Fu Wenbing looked out the window.
"What do you mean?"
Zhao Ruilong chuckled and said, "Selling land and playing the financial game is a debt-driven development model that mortgages the future of most people and lets a few get rich first!"
Fu Wenbing laughed awkwardly, "To improve urban development and ensure people's livelihood, the approach of supporting industrial development and then collecting taxes is just too slow."
"In comparison, selling land and playing the financial game is faster, and as an economic and trade center, there is plenty of foreign population to support the prosperity and development of the real estate industry."
Zhao Ruilong chuckled softly.
"Yes! Judging solely from housing prices, even the best residential properties in Tianhai are still under 10,000 yuan per square meter."
"The real estate industry still has great growth potential. In the future, the price per square meter may rise to 20,000 to 30,000 yuan, or even 200,000 to 300,000 yuan."
"But Tianhai has unique advantages. It can develop real estate as a pillar industry without any problem. But can other provinces and cities in China do the same?"
"Even if urban construction is improved in the short term through rampant borrowing and land sales, without enough good industries to absorb employment and without migrants buying homes, housing prices will eventually stop rising, right?"
"Once housing prices stop rising or even start to fall, fixed assets, mainly real estate, will inevitably shrink in value, and the debt pressure on local governments and residents will increase. What will happen then?"
Fu Wenbing took a puff of his cigarette and said with a wry smile:
"So the authorities can only try to stabilize housing prices and lower mortgage rates to reduce the repayment pressure on residents and avoid large-scale mortgage defaults, while also using methods such as issuing special bonds to help local governments reduce debt!"
"Of course, if all else fails, we can lower interest rates, print money, and flood the market with liquidity! As long as inflation is kept within a certain range, the debt ratio will gradually decrease, like boiling a frog in warm water. It's just that the price..."
Fu Wenbing dared not say anything more.
He certainly knew that the cost would be currency devaluation and rising prices.
Income growth is not keeping pace with inflation, and it's clear that money is becoming less and less valuable.
Moreover, more and more people will feel that they can't afford a house even if they work themselves to death, and they can't even afford a down payment even if they empty their savings.
While infrastructure has improved and cities seem more prosperous, and people have enjoyed certain conveniences, the pressure to survive will inevitably be immense.
Buying a house has already emptied my savings and mortgaged my future. If medical care and education will cost a lot more, where will I have money to spend and enjoy life?
However, selling land and playing the financial game, even with a large number of local government financing vehicle (LGFV) bonds that couldn't afford the interest payments and were repeatedly defaulted on, did not affect the fact that the powerful and wealthy made a fortune.
Anyway, those who were supposed to go in have gone in, and those who were supposed to go out have gone out, leaving behind a mess and suffering people. What does that have to do with those who are rolling in money?
Fu Wenbing took a deep drag of his cigarette and looked out the window at Zhao Ruilong, whose expression was deep and thoughtful.
"Don't worry, Ruilong!"
"Even I, a low-ranking official with a science and engineering background and a technical background, know that we cannot follow the old path of the West."
"Finance and real estate must be strictly controlled; they cannot be allowed to run rampant, and they must not be allowed to combine with each other."
"Once real estate is financialized, the bubble-like prosperity may look good in the short term, with GDP soaring, but sooner or later there will be a price to pay!"
"The top leadership naturally has a superior perspective and a far-sighted vision. Their top-level design must fully take into account the national conditions and draw lessons from both ancient and modern times, both at home and abroad."
"The development plans and routes they formulated were generally correct, but the specific implementation was complicated by the complexities of human nature, but that's not important."
"The most important thing now is that the higher authorities recognize and support you and your son, and are happy to let you in Handong Province bravely try and boldly explore a high-quality development path for the whole country."
"If successful, it will not only benefit the country and its people, Ruilong, but also you and your father. Your dad will be able to take at least one or two more steps forward, and who knows, there's even a possibility of that!"
At this point, Fu Wenbing winked and grinned mischievously.
Zhao Ruilong turned around.
"The food hasn't even been served yet, and you're already trying to force-feed me chicken soup, huh?"
"Handong is developing quite well right now, but it hasn't achieved enough outstanding results yet, so what's the rush?"
"Moreover, even if we achieve results, it's not 100% guaranteed. What if someone interferes and tries to steal the credit?"
These words left Fu Wenbing speechless.
The struggle for power can be incredibly dark and terrifying.
Even though he hasn't experienced it firsthand yet, he has heard about it and seen a lot.
Just like Zhao Ruilong's father, Zhao Lichun.
Mingming worked diligently in Handong for many years and was very good at managing the economy.
After Zhong Zhengguo's term expires and he is transferred, making him the leader of Handong is the most suitable and most beneficial thing for Handong's economic development.
But the result?
Even though Zhao Lichun, with the support of Zhao Ruilong, came up with a high-quality economic development plan, Zhong Zhengguo and the people behind him still wanted to support Liang Qunfeng to take over.
Even after Zhao Lichun took over, he was still not satisfied and wanted to cause trouble for Zhao Ruilong and his sister. He targeted Huilong Chain Internet Cafe and the international financing obtained by the group.
Even though they failed to seize power, they did not give up.
With a clear and well-defined development plan in place, and Zhao Ruilong's relentless investment in promoting it, the development situation is excellent, and it's only a matter of time before results are achieved.
And so, Luo Shanhe was parachuted into Handong.
He is about to take office as the fourth-in-command of the Han Dong Discipline Inspection Commission, a position with considerable power and importance.
If they're not here to cause trouble, then they're here to pave the way for future gains.
At the very least, they intend to get a share of the pie.
and so……
Zhao Lichun put in so much thought and effort.
Zhao Ruilong spent over 200 billion US dollars.
Does achieving results guarantee continued progress?
Really not necessarily!
Fu Wen stubbed out his cigarette and picked up his teacup.
"You and your son, one wielding great power and the other possessing wealth and influence, appear to be living a life of glory and honor, but in reality, you are walking on thin ice!"
"But don't worry, my dad said that whether it's for the future of the Fu family or for the better development of our Dragon Kingdom, we will do our best to support you!"
After saying that, Fu Wenbing and Zhao Ruilong lightly clinked their teacups together, one for tea and the other for wine.
Zhao Ruilong took a sip of tea.
"Handong's current high-quality development is, to put it bluntly, a crazy amount of money spent on high technology."
“My Huilong Group has already spent enough. If we keep spending, even the richest family will run out of resources.”
"Since you've made up your mind to support me, then introduce me to some powerful investors. I want to play a big game with them!"
Fu Wenbing was taken aback.
"What kind of game do you want to play with them?"
Zhao Ruilong glanced coldly out the window at the Bund, where towering buildings and an air of opulence stretched out before him.
"Of course, it's their favorite capital game!"