Chapter 197 The General Who Always Failed Always Takes Command

Class 156 had a lot of fun that day.

As soon as Zhang Yunqi entered the classroom early in the morning, Wang Xiaokai grabbed his shoulder and said, "Boss Zhang, when did you hook up with Li Yufei again?"

Zhang Yunqi subconsciously asked: "When?"

Wang Xiaokai felt that Zhang Yunqi was very disloyal, so he said, "Are you still pretending? The news has spread all over the class, you're secretly doing something behind the scenes, you're really impressive, but brother, don't you think you have too many rumored girlfriends? Let me count on my fingers, there are Chu Jian, Li Yufei, and Zhao Han from the first year of high school in our class alone, oh! Oh, and there's also Sister Hua, tsk tsk, if they add one more girl, they can form a women's basketball team. Boss Zhang, as your die-hard henchman, I don't mind buying some low-end stuff."

Listening to Wang Xiaokai's nonsense, Zhang Yunqi really wanted to slap this little fool and send him to Hulunbuir grassland to feed sheep. He had so much fucking bad taste. My friendship with Sister Hua and Yan Shi was purely that of classmates!

As for Li Yufei, Zhang Yunqi was a little puzzled, but he was too lazy to ask. Who likes who, who is chasing who, and other such stupid topics are always the hot topics that students enjoy discussing. No matter what era it is, it is always like this. A beauty, but she has fair skin, beautiful looks and long legs -!
Of course, for those young virgins in school, such things are still far away, at least it should be like this in that era. Metaphysical beauty dominates their thoughts, hazy, clear and clean. Maybe taking a walk in the campus, holding hands secretly, reading and listening to music in the classroom with headphones, and carrying the girl in the fluttering white skirt through the warm dusk and the streets full of fireworks after school. This seems to be the most unforgettable love swan song in the lives of most boys thereafter, with sweet fragrance in the greenness, always making people take it out and savor it alone in the late night when the lights are dim.

The same is true for Zhang Yunqi.

After staying in the classroom for a whole morning, he roughly knew what was going on. It was all thanks to Xiao Xuemei's big mouth. She said some nonsense, which caused some busybodies to dig up the old history of his secret love for Li Yufei and the rivalry between him and Gao Ming last semester.

This led to Zhang Yunqi spending the whole day in an unfriendly environment. The boys in the class felt that he was too eye-catching and popular recently, and they were not used to it. The girls were even more bored and kept making fun of him. Once, during a break, everyone was basking in the sun and chatting in the corridor. Li Yufei's best friend Chen Xiangping took advantage of her absence and said to Zhang Yunqi with a mischievous look on her face: "By the way, this weekend is our Yufei's birthday. What gift have you carefully prepared?"

Zhang Yunqi spread his hands: "Not prepared."

Chen Xiangping let out a long "Oh" and then deliberately said loudly and teasingly: "I'm afraid some people want to give Yufei a big surprise at that time, so they don't want to say it out loud."

The group of girls all laughed, quite happily, but the look they gave Zhang Yunqi was quite meaningful.

What else could Zhang Yunqi say? Shut up. Li Yufei seemed to know nothing. She was still the little princess with pride and self-restraint in her enthusiasm. She was still making noises and laughing with her good friends during class. There were also many boys from the next class who would suddenly blush when they hurried past her. Until the afternoon, she met Zhang Yunqi on the way to the toilet. The two walked side by side, smiling, and didn't say much, but this reminded Zhang Yunqi of the different Li Yufei he met at the Longjingyuan Canning Factory last night, the girl he imagined in his previous life.

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Things at the Longjingyuan Cannery soon made progress.

It wasn't that Zhang Yun was anxious, but Li Jilin couldn't stand it anymore. The situation of the cannery was getting worse and worse. Now there was a sudden turn of events. Li Jilin was naturally racing against time. After he left Wang Guibing's house last night, he was surrounded by dozens of factory workers at the door and asked about his salary. This situation had happened countless times, and the words of comfort had been repeated countless times. The workers had long been numb, and no matter how they talked, it didn't work. Finally, Li Jilin told the workers that the cannery would soon be taken over by a big sponsor and promised to settle everyone properly, and he got away.

After returning home, Li Jilin immediately called the mayor of Chengnan District, Huo Jianzhong.

Huo Jianzhong is from Lijin, the capital city of southern Hunan Province. He is short, dark-skinned and very courageous. He was transferred to the position of district chief of Chengnan District, Jiangchuan City not long ago and has always wanted to do something in the market economy. However, after several investigations, he found that the problems of Jiangchuan City's enterprises were too serious. In the words of Jiangchuan City Mayor Yang Lixing, it is "one more, two highs and three lows". "One more" is the large number of loss-making enterprises; "two highs" are high losses and high debt ratio; "three lows" are too low enterprise management level, too low economic benefits and too low employee income level. However, when it comes to market economy reform, Jiangchuan City has spared no effort. As a result, after many changes, it is still the same as before.

The enterprise is still a state-owned enterprise, and the government still has to take care of so many big and small matters. It is willing but unable to do so. Although the employees are nominally the owners of the enterprise, they actually have no connection with the property rights, and it is impossible to mobilize the enthusiasm of the employees. Thirdly, the city lacks real entrepreneurs. Some factory directors will move to another enterprise to continue to be the factory director after they ruin a factory. After they ruin several factories, they will go to the government to become the director or even the county magistrate. The people call them "the general who always takes charge of the defeat."

As for the Chengnan District under the administration of Huo Jianzhong, the situation is also dire. Of the 45 enterprises in total, 37 are in a loss-making state, accounting for 68.7% of the total. The loss amount has reached more than 90 million yuan, and the debt ratio is close to %. The vast majority of enterprises are in a state of suspension or semi-suspension, and employees have very low incomes and no guarantee of life. On the other hand, enterprises pay little tax, the fiscal revenue is insufficient to cover expenditure, and the salaries of cadres and teachers cannot be paid on time and in full. Faced with such a dilemma, not to mention that Huo Jianzhong was anxious and helpless, the mayor Yang Lixing was also somewhat helpless.

Therefore, when Li Jilin reported to him that the boss of the city's trading company Lianzhong wanted to contract and operate the Longjingyuan cannery, Huo Jianzhong immediately asked Li Jilin to ask Zhang Yunqi out for a talk. So at around five o'clock in the afternoon on Tuesday, Zhang Yunqi skipped the last self-study class and left. Wang Guibing, who was waiting at the door, took him to the agreed Minghua Hotel to meet Huo Jianzhong.

The meeting time is seven o'clock.

Zhang Yunqi arrived at the Minghua Hotel at 6:30, booked a private room, ordered dishes, and got two bottles of Wuliangye. He waited until 7 o'clock, when Huo Jianzhong, accompanied by Li Jilin, arrived at the private room on time.

Huo Jianzhong glanced around the box and naturally fell on Wang Guibing, who was a little older and wearing a suit. Li Jilin at the back was about to introduce him, but Huo Jianzhong, who was always quick to act and speak, had already extended his hand to Wang Guibing. He smiled and said, "Mr. Zhang, I've heard a lot about you. I didn't expect you to be so young. This is rare among entrepreneurs in Jiangchuan City."

(End of this chapter)