Chapter 211 The Awakening of the Poor

Buying the car went smoothly.

Wang Guibing told Duan Yongping about Zhang Yunqi's request.

Duan Yongping always bought into Zhang Yunqi's ideas and agreed directly. The developed coastal areas have always been the first to set the trend, so buying an "imported" luxury car is a piece of cake for him.

Duan Yongping is now a completely different person than before. He is now the most famous entrepreneur in Xiangshan City. His Subor learning machines are popular all over China.

In early September of this year, he followed Zhang Yunqi's advice and hired Jackie Chan to shoot an advertisement for the launch of a new generation of learning machines. The advertising plan was written by Zhang Yunqi, and the main slogan was just one sentence, the classic slogan from his previous life: "All parents in the world want their children to become successful, Little Overlord!"

Just like the previous life, this slogan really touched the hearts of parents all over the world, and the star effect made Subor famous all over the world. Among the numerous game console manufacturers in the country at that time, Subor was the king, far ahead of the others. Before the end of 1993, it had already created a gross domestic product of 4 million yuan.

This is even more amazing than the development in the same period in the previous life.

When one prospers, all prosper. The strong momentum of Xiaobawang has also directly promoted Lianzhong Trading, as the general distributor, to gain absolute dominance in the field of learning machines in the entire Xiangdong region.

Then, Zhang Yunqi lay down and counted the money.

Duan Yongping does not live as carefree as he seems, nor is he as glamorous as he appears to be.

This young man in his early thirties could be considered the first generation of Chinese entrepreneurs. He had great ideals. However, as Subor grew at an extremely high speed, Yihua Group became more and more restrictive to him. The most obvious example was that Yihua Group would take away a large amount of Subor's profits every now and then and use them for other subsidiaries. This matter made him very upset, and he would call Zhang Yunqi every month to talk about it.

Zhang Yunqi had pointed out all the fatal problems of Xiaobawang. Duan Yongping was quite impressed. This young man had a keen eye and could often see the essence of things in complex things.

But this made him even more powerless.

Because Zhang Yunqi always told him: "There is no solution to this problem. The shareholding reform of Little Overlord that you have been dreaming of will not work. Don't submit it to your superiors. Find an opportunity to resign and get out of this."

In fact, Zhang Yunqi only said half of this sentence.

The remaining half is: "After you quit, let's do it together."

Of course, Zhang Yunqi knew very well that Duan Yongping would not resign now. He still couldn't let go of Little Overlord and was a little nostalgic. He had illusions about Yihua Group. No matter how many mistakes the boss of Yihua made, one thing was undeniable, that is, he was quite good to Duan Yongping and gave him generous benefits. The annual income of Duan Yongping and his four kings was a terrifying 20% ​​of Little Overlord's net profit.

For these reasons, Zhang Yunqi estimated that Duan Yongping would not listen to him unless he had to work hard for a few years. There was nothing he could do. People are like this. Understanding is one thing, but how to do it is another. It is not easy to give up until the last moment. After all, Little Overlord is all Duan Yongping's hard work.

Duan Yongping was very concerned about buying luxury cars. In less than two days, he arranged for someone to get an "imported" luxury car, Mercedes-Benz S320.

The car was priced at 115 million yuan, and he got it for 75 yuan, with all the necessary formalities completed. He didn't want the Guangdong license plate, but wanted the Jiangchuan license plate of Xiang 08.88888.

In 92, green-backed license plates no longer used ABCD to distinguish regions, but Arabic numerals. Jiangchuan happened to be "Xiang 08".

Wang Guibing asked Ma Shi to take two trusted brothers, grab machetes and iron rods, run to Xiangshan, and bring back the Hutou car without a license plate.

This time, I paid 2000 yuan in tolls on the road.

This was because Ma Shi and the two men he brought were not easy to mess with, and they were driving a luxury car, so the villagers who were blocking the road and robbing people on the national highway were not too presumptuous.

After Hu Tou ran to Jiangchuan, Wang Guibing jumped up and down excitedly and worshipped him like his own father. He was also busy decorating the store. In order to get the Xiang 08.88888 that his boss wanted, he spent yuan without blinking an eye.

The car has always been taken care of by Wang Guibing, and it was not until the weekend that Zhang Yunqi had time to take it out for a ride.

Joining him for the ride was his brother-in-law Niu Fen.

Ever since Zhang Yunqi decided to acquire the Longjingyuan Canning Factory, Niu Fen would go to his mother's house whenever he had time, and he didn't do anything but always chat with Zhang Yunqi. Zhang Yunqi knew what he was up to, but he didn't point it out.

The weather was nice today. The Benz was driving on the main road on the outskirts of the city. The winter sun was bright and the endless fields were covered with bright yellow and red cauliflower. The wind was strong and the sky was cloudless, a pure blue. Zhang Yunqi increased the speed of the car to 130 mph and was in a good mood. The life he dreamed of in his previous life seemed to be getting closer and closer. However, the only flaw was that the luxury car was paired with a shaggy man.

The big man was very unconscious, sitting in the passenger seat, rubbing left and right, and said with a silly smile: "This car is luxurious, the push back feeling is very strong, all leather, and has air conditioning, it is worthy of being a million-level luxury car! Brother, you see, I have nothing to do now, it would be great if I could be your driver."

Zhang Yunqi said, "What kind of a driver is that? That doesn't exist. If someone from my Zhang family wants to be a boss, they want to be a big boss."

Niu Fen got excited: "Brother, are you serious? You are not making fun of me, are you?"

Zhang Yunqi stepped on the accelerator and said, "I don't have this habit. Brother-in-law, let me ask you a question."

"It doesn't matter what you ask, Mr. Zhang, just give your instructions." Niu Fen got into the role very quickly.

Zhang Yunqi asked, "Do you have the final say at home, or does my sister have the final say?"

Niu Fen squinted at Zhang Yunqi and said, "What are you talking about? Of course it's me!"

Zhang Yunqi was a little skeptical: "Is it true?"

Niu Fen felt that his dignity had been greatly insulted: "If you don't believe me, call your sister and let's have a good talk!"

Zhang Yunqi smiled and nodded: "Okay, take out 15 yuan. I'll give you a stake in the Longjingyuan Canning Factory."

Niu Fen's mouth was crooked: "It costs 15 to be the boss?"

Zhang Yunqi laughed again: "We are discussing a large project worth tens of millions or even hundreds of millions. Investing 15 is nothing! And what's going on, brother-in-law? Didn't you just say that you have the final say at home? My sister gets hundreds of thousands of dividends from Lianzhong every quarter. She has so much money in her passbook, and you can't even take out ?"

Niu Fen looked a little embarrassed.

After a long while, he said, "Don't belittle your brother-in-law now that you have become capable. You should never forget your roots. I was so good to you in the past. I still remember that time when you wrote a love letter to Ji Ling, and I ran to the No. 1 Middle School in the city to deliver it for you. It was raining heavily that day, and I went out in the wind and rain. I, a grown man, was so embarrassed to deliver a love letter to a little girl in front of so many students. It was not easy for me."

"When did I write a love letter to Ji Ling?"

"Look, you're so capable now. You don't want to admit it anymore. Remember that postcard? I gave it to Ji Lingshao. What was written on it? I thought about it and got it! Something about you being the stars and the moon, lighting up my cold heart in the dark night. It's so sexy."

Zhang Yunqi said with a sour look on his face: "Please, those are the lyrics, I didn't write them, they were printed on the postcard by the merchant!"

Niu Fen chuckled: "No need to explain, your brother-in-law was young once too. I understand!" Zhang Yunqi: "..."

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When Niu Fen got home in the evening, Zhang Qiulan had not returned yet.

Niu Ma has already cooked a table full of delicious dishes, and the nanny hired by Zhang Qiulan is feeding milk to her one-and-a-half-year-old son every day. This little brat's living standard is much higher than that of his biological father. He has been spoiled to the extreme and has never eaten rice since he was a child.

Niu Fen ate his meal hastily, took a shower and went back to his room.

He was lying on the bed smoking a Furong King cigarette. His face, which didn't look like that of a cultured man, had a gloomy look to it. His mind was full of what his younger brother Zhang Yunqi had said this afternoon.

Although he was laughing and joking with Yunqi, he was actually very concerned about the investment in the canning factory. My younger brother from my mother's family was indeed a capable and understanding person. He could see through many things, understood his thoughts, and knew that he was not having a good time now.

There is nothing to do in the cannery. Apart from running errands for his eldest brother Zhang Yunfeng from his mother's side to purchase ingredients, he has nothing to do all day. Or he just takes care of the children at home and takes care of some trivial matters, just like those lazy and tired young men in his mother's cannery. How can he enjoy his life?
But he married a good wife, a strong woman who is busy with big business outside and earns a lot of money. She has brought all kinds of big things to the house and is going to buy a new house and a car next year. The family's living standard has also jumped directly from a poor and lower-middle peasant family to a big landlord family with the best food and clothing.

Niu Fen was not resentful. He knew very well that if his younger brother from his mother's side had not taken Qiulan to sell handheld game consoles, the whole family would have been unable to survive with the salary he earned from the cannery, because that salary had not been paid for seven months.

With her younger brother from her mother's side taking care of her and her wife also caring about her, she went door to door delivering goods, carrying a snakeskin bag even before the child was weaned, and she would get home in the dark every day.

He also knew that when his wife first became the vice president of Lianzhong, many people gossiped behind her back that she relied on connections to get to the top, and there were all kinds of harsh and unpleasant things said about her. In order to avoid being laughed at and to save face, this rural woman who graduated from elementary school would work until two or three in the morning, no matter how late she worked, even when she came back from a business trip to Lianzhong's offices in various cities and counties in the middle of the night, she would take those boring and difficult economic and management books bought by her younger brother.

Under such circumstances, this "useless" husband has nothing to complain about except keeping "gratitude" in his heart. It's just this "uselessness" that always makes him feel that life has lost its meaning.

Yes.

Life has lost its meaning.

As an ordinary worker, he would never have such feelings before. In his poor life, there would never be such metaphysical and lofty words as "meaning". He only knew that he had to work hard to earn money so that his family could have enough food to eat.

But now, thanks to his wife's ability, he can live a life without worries even if he just sits and waits for death. However, for a young man like him who is used to working hard to support his family, just sitting and waiting for death is a useless and empty thing!

He doesn't want this.

He wanted to do something.

He wanted to bring meaning back to his useless life.

As he was thinking, he fell asleep...

Niu Fen didn't know how much time had passed, but he heard the sound of Zhang Qiulan taking off her clothes and getting into bed in a daze. He rubbed his eyes, looked at his wife, whose figure was becoming slimmer and more and more charming under the dim light, and quickly lifted the quilt.

"Awake?" Zhang Qiulan crawled into the quilt.

"Yeah." Niu Fen responded. It was very cold at night, and the couple chatted for a while in bed. When they warmed up, Zhang Qiulan reached out and patted Niu Fen.

Niu Fen was worried and in a bad mood, but since his wife needed him, he still climbed up knowingly.

Three minutes later.

He panted and said, "Wife, I want to discuss something with you."

"What's the matter?" Zhang Qiulan had her eyes closed.

"I want one hundred and fifty thousand dollars."

"Why do you need so much money?"

"Business."

"just you?"

"What's wrong with me! Is there something wrong with me?" Niu Fen, who had a lot to say, suddenly became like a rooster with its feathers blown off.

Zhang Qiulan opened her eyes, tilted her head back, and looked at Niu Fen from head to toe: "It's really not that good."

Niu Fen was almost fainted from anger: "I can't do it, but my brother from my mother's side can! You are now the CEO of Lianzhong, and it's because he brought you up! You look down on me now, but wait and see. If I, Niu Fen, don't make something of myself, I will change the word 'Fen' in my name!"

Zhang Qiulan automatically filtered out Niu Fen's series of boasting. She knew her husband very well: "My brother is looking for you?"

Niu Fen said "hmm".

"What are you looking for?"

"He said that as long as I paid 150,000, I would be considered as a shareholder of the Longjingyuan Canning Factory."

Zhang Qiulan was interested in this matter: "Yunqi plans to run the canning factory with you?"

Niu Fen raised his nose to the sky: "Yes, he talked to me for a long time today, and said that I am familiar with the canning factory, and he will hand over the canning factory to me to take full charge. You also know that although our younger brother is very capable, he will take the college entrance examination in more than a year. He has to focus on studying, and he will definitely not be able to take care of it by then. Therefore, such a large factory must have a trusted relative to take charge of the overall situation. Our younger brother thinks that I am the most suitable."

"That's fine. I'll talk to Yunqi about this tomorrow. If he wants to recruit you, investing 150,000 yuan is nothing. Even 1.5 million yuan is not a big deal." Zhang Qiulan patted Niu Fen and said, "Let's get down to business first."

Niu Fen accelerated again.

Neutral...

Fourth gear...

Fifth gear...

Sixth gear...

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(End of this chapter)