Chapter 308 The secret that cannot be told
Zhang Yunqi has always had a strange attitude towards Gao Shan, the richest man in Jiangchuan City. He has a good impression of him, but he is also very cautious about him.

This man is decisive and magnanimous.

When Gao Ming got into trouble, Zhang Yunqi thought that with Gao Shan's power in Jiangchuan, the situation would develop in an unpredictable direction. However, due to Lin Shiyu's intervention, the matter became quite complicated, and at least ended up in a situation where both sides would perish.

However, what was unexpected was that Gao Shan not only visited him in person to express his apologies, but also sent his own son Gao Ming to a juvenile detention center without hesitation, directly putting out a fire that was about to burn the entire upper reaches of Jiangchuan. After the situation calmed down, whether openly or secretly, Gao Ming went abroad and nothing happened.

It is impossible not to admire such skills and the ability to understand the current situation.

After more than a year, they met again and Zhang Yunqi had a deeper understanding of the mountains.

To some extent, Gao Shan was right. He and the cannery workers were not the same kind of people. It was he and him who were.

Sometimes, Zhang Yunqi would think, if he were an ordinary person, who came out of the mountains and went through untold hardships to get to this point, opened several companies, and made some money, he would never come up with these seemingly reasonable but actually useless ideas. What he should think about every day should be how to make more money.

Unfortunately, he is not. He can see clearly every step of the key nodes in the future. He knows what kind of wealth can be made and what kind of fire pit cannot be jumped into. This can enable him to keep a clear head in the process of capital accumulation and avoid falling into a passive position for the sake of immediate petty profits. Even if it is just to selfishly protect his own feathers, he cannot do so. Therefore, although the proposal to cooperate with Gao Shan in commercial real estate was very tempting, he did not hesitate to refuse it.

Gao Shan was a little surprised that Zhang Yunqi rejected his proposal, but he didn't say anything more. It was obviously not his style to force others, so he invited Zhang Yunqi to have lunch together.

Zhang Yunqi gladly accepted the invitation.

The next day, Zhang Yunqi found Wang Guibing and asked him to check the commercial real estate project that the Phoenix Group was developing. This was not a trade secret and was not difficult at all.

Wang Guibing brought him another piece of news. He talked to all the workers in the factory one by one. This method was stupid, but it did not affect the investigation, because there were hundreds of people in the factory, and it was impossible for them to be united. The workers who caused trouble last time were only a part of them.

After the discussion, Wang Guibing found out that the guys from the Security Department were the ones who started the trouble.

Zhang Yunqi was not clear about the situation of the workers below, but he immediately thought that the Security Manager Wu Zhi was the son of Wu Xinghua, a senior executive of Liansheng's Raw Materials Supply Chain Division. It seemed that this Wu Xinghua had a pretty big problem.

It was still because of the distribution of interests. Wu Xinghua was in charge of transaction procurement and was mainly responsible for maintaining Longjingyuan's previous suppliers, but Zhang Yunqi had terminated the procurement contracts of all suppliers. Starting next year, all raw materials of Longjingyuan will be supplied by Yunxi Village Cooperative. The issuance of this policy will definitely hit the interests of quite a few people.

Wang Guibing lit up a Furong Wang and said, "Boss, do you want to suspend the security department first and investigate the situation one by one?"

Zhang Yunqi waved his hand and directly rejected his meaningless proposal. There were many reasons, the most important one being that the workers in the 90s were not the leeks of later generations. Whether they were going on strike or petitioning on the streets, within their cognition, these were all reasonable expressions of the reasonable demands of the broad working class. If they took the leaders as an example and killed the chicken to scare the monkeys, the nature of the matter would change.

Of course, even if this was done, the workers might not be able to do anything, but it would definitely have a huge negative impact on the reputation of Zhang Yunqi and the cannery. He would become an evil capitalist, and those who caused trouble and were rumored would most likely become heroes in the hearts of the workers.

Wang Guibing couldn't figure this out. He knew that his acquisition of Longjing Garden was radical in itself, which could easily give people a chance to criticize him. The property rights reform of Longjing Garden was a typical example of large-scale publicity and promotion in the city. No matter from which angle, he had to cooperate with Yang Jiarong. Although it was not a step-by-step approach, he was also cautious. He had to consider the overall situation, unity and stability in everything. Therefore, if this matter was purely caused by a few young people who were dissatisfied with Liansheng's policies, there was no need to deal with it in a big way. If they were used as a gun to oppose Liansheng, then the problem was very serious. He planned to talk to Li Jilin before making a decision.

At the same time, the agreement of Liansheng to accept the reemployment of laid-off workers from the city's state-owned enterprises was also being implemented at an accelerated pace. According to Li Jilin, it would be best if these laid-off workers were selected privately directly from the city and district canneries. The reason was simple: the businesses were relevant and there wouldn't be so many complications. However, Zhao Jianqiang, director of the Municipal Development and Reform Commission who was in charge of this matter, rejected this proposal. He believed that Liansheng was about to take over the full contract to operate the city's canneries and then select workers from these canneries. In that case, the reemployment agreement reached between Liansheng and the city for laid-off workers would be a piece of waste paper and would not help the city solve the problem of redundant staff at all.

What Zhao Jianqiang said makes sense, and he has the righteous ground, but some of his actions have made things quite complicated. Due to various shady reasons, there are numerous state-owned enterprises in the city that want to go bankrupt, but most of them are troubled by the problem of redundant staff placement, and dare not go bankrupt at all. Instead, they have dragged down the city's finances!

Now, the city has connected with Liansheng to receive hundreds of laid-off workers. Zhao Jianqiang is also thinking about selecting two from the city's small and medium-sized state-owned enterprises that are really unable to operate. When they are received on site, they will also be promoted as typical stories of re-employment of laid-off workers. But the problem is, won't the heads of those state-owned enterprises have to fight for these places?

Zhang Yunqi had noticed this a long time ago. He was not sure what purpose Zhao Jianqiang had in mind, but one thing was very clear: the threshold of Zhao Jianqiang's house had been trampled down these days.

Originally a good thing, now it has a taste of deterioration. Of course, for Liansheng, as long as the laid-off workers meet the requirements, some things can be ignored.

Life in school is comfortable.

It's winter.

All things wither and the grass turns yellow.

As the second semester of senior year was coming to an end, class 156 was planning to hold a New Year's Eve party. Li Yufei was the arts committee member and was very interested in the event. She was looking for people to perform all over the world, and Zhang Yunqi signed up for a singer. He didn't have any ideas. He was always as active as possible in class affairs.

At the end of the year, Wang Xiaokai finally got what he wanted and got together with Yu Qingqing. It was not a flash romance, but it surprised many people. In the 90s, high school students openly dating was not a big news, but it was relatively rare. The reason was that reform and opening up had changed people's lives, but it had not yet entered the cultural deep waters. The old ideas were deeply rooted. It was rare for students to dare to take girls to bed. Many students were still good at daydreaming, but Wang Xiaokai, the little fool, had already put it into practice. And they seemed to be a couple who had known each other for more than ten years. As long as there was no teacher, they would eat together and go out together. The sour smell of adultery and passionate love was so choking that even a dog could die ten miles away.

Having wives and forgetting about their brothers, Yang Wei and Tian Zhuangzhuang seem to be lonely. Yang Wei, with acne all over his face, looks at Wang Xiaokai, who is in high spirits, with resentment in his eyes.

The weather has been getting colder recently, and our teacher Wang Mingzhen has been coughing really badly. Sometimes during class, he would suddenly start coughing in the middle of a speech. His cough was so heart-wrenching that he couldn't straighten his back for a long time, and the sound was very much like the sound of a bellows.

Zhang Yunqi knew that his teacher had been a smoker for many years. He had no choice but to suffer from seasonal pharyngitis. It was not pleasant. He would cough from morning to night in winter. The phlegm in his throat was like feces when he was constipated. He could never spit it out or swallow it. It was stuck there and made him feel uncomfortable. Later, he found an old Chinese doctor who prescribed a folk remedy, which actually worked.

Zhang Yunqi pondered for a long time before he remembered the folk remedy. He wrote it down on a piece of paper. It happened that he had not handed in his Chinese homework yet. During the break, he went to Wang Mingzhen's office. Unexpectedly, Li Yufei was there too. She was reporting on the cultural evening.

Zhang Yunqi originally wanted to leave, but Wang Mingzhen stopped him and asked what was the matter.

"I forgot to hand in my homework." Zhang Yunqi walked into the office and put the homework book on Wang Mingzhen's desk. On the homework book was the Chinese medicine prescription. He said that this thing is good for cough and you can try it.

Wang Mingzhen stared at the prescription for a long while, and finally looked at Zhang Yunqi and asked: "What... do you mean?"

Zhang Yunqi scratched his head and said, "You keep coughing during class, which affects my study."

Li Yufei next to her couldn't help laughing.

The most pleasant time in school is probably when we are basking in the sun in the corridor. It is winter, but the sky is still blue, the clouds are white like cotton candy, and the sunlight is soft and gentle. Zhang Yunqi and Li Yufei leave the old class office together. The girl next to him is wearing a sky blue dress with a snow-white wool coat. Halfway through, she tilted her head and said, "You are very thoughtful."

Zhang Yunqi smiled and shook his head: "It was just a side thing, and it was a bit embarrassing, but the teacher worked really hard and was so kind to us."

Li Yufei nodded: "Yes, you know, Li Songlin in our class will not study after this semester. The teacher was very angry about this and went to Li Songlin's house twice. I heard that he even had a quarrel with Li Songlin's father."

Zhang Yunqi was stunned: "Why?"

Li Yufei said: "His father thought that Li Songlin had poor grades and would definitely not be able to get into university, so there was no need for him to continue studying, so he asked him to do business. Because business can make money now."

Zhang Yunqi couldn't understand this weird idea: "There's only one semester left before graduation. Even if I can't get into college, I have to get my high school diploma."

Li Yufei tilted her head and glanced at Zhang Yunqi: "But there are actually many such cases. Many students stopped reading halfway through, for example, Yan Shi..."

Zhang Yunqi suddenly didn't know what to say.

Li Yufei shook her head: "Let's not talk about this. By the way, how are you preparing for the New Year's Day program?"

Zhang Yunqi had a lot of things to do and really didn't want to spend energy on this thing. He smiled and said, "There are a lot of things to do. I'm not prepared, but don't worry, it shouldn't be a big problem."

Li Yufei smiled sweetly: "Then I'm looking forward to it."

"Yo yo yo! What are you looking forward to?" At this time, Xiao Xuemei and Yu Qingqing suddenly rushed out from behind. They had just returned to the classroom after using the toilet and met Li Yufei and Zhang Yunqi, both of them were smiling. Xiao Xuemei took Li Yufei's hand and said loudly with a mischievous look on her face: "Yufei, tell us about it, so that we can look forward to it too."

Yu Qingqing winked and said, "Don't dream. This is a secret between two people. Let's go to the bathroom."

Then the two girls ran away smiling like the wind, leaving only Li Yufei and Zhang Yunqi. Li Yufei lowered her head and gently touched a piece of peeling wall paint on the ground with her toes. The winter sun fell scattered on her back, and the wind became lighter.

Zhang Yunqi said: "Yu Qing is so young, but I didn't expect that he would urinate frequently."

Li Yufei laughed with a chuckle, her pretty face blushing: "How can you say that about a girl?" After a pause, she said softly: "By the way, Yunqi...my dad wants you to have dinner at his house tomorrow night, did you know that?"

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(End of this chapter)