Chapter 323 Home
After the winter solstice, the Gregorian calendar year 1994 has come to an end.

The sky over Jiangchuan was filled with a shroud of silence all day long. The earth and the city were covered with thick snow. The bustling and trivial life of ordinary people in the streets and alleys could no longer be seen. Every household had its doors closed, and only heavy and dull smoke rose from the chimneys on the roofs.

Yang Jin spent the winter solstice at Liansheng headquarters.

In the afternoon, she received her salary for 9 days of work, 133.6 yuan. This was her first salary in her life. After get off work, she bought a bucket of cooking oil and 18 cuttlefish rice dumplings on the street, took bus No. 9 to go home, and walked through the snow-white street. Her face was cold and clear in winter, and she also had hope for the future.

She is already Zhang Yunqi's secretary.

This matter was arranged by Wang Guibing.

Yang Jin hasn't received her diploma yet and has no work experience, so she's only doing an internship. As a girl who has just entered society, she's still a little shy. Fortunately, the work isn't complicated. It mainly involves collecting and collating performance tracking sheets, weekly and monthly reports from each business unit, receiving leaders and major customers, and handling tasks assigned by Zhang Yunqi. After all this, she's able to get started.

During the days she worked at Liansheng, Yang Jin could always feel her colleagues looking at her with strange eyes. She could guess the reasons. Liansheng headquarters had 76 employees, mainly sales and marketing personnel. In Jiangchuan, it was already a large private enterprise. In such a situation, the young boss Zhang Yunqi was particularly dazzling.

In fact, before going to Liansheng for the interview, Yang Jin always thought that this boy, who was about the same age as her brother Yang Wei, was from a wealthy family. She didn't expect that he would have built such a big business. That day, after President Wang Guibing told her that Zhang Yunqi was the big boss of Liansheng, she was stunned all the way home from Liansheng.

When she got home, Yang Jin immediately asked her brother Yang Wei about her boss. Yang Wei told her a lot, from how Zhang Yunqi was admitted to the No. 1 Middle School in the city as the top scorer in the middle school entrance examination, to how he made his first fortune by selling handheld computers, and now he is the boss of several companies.

During their interactions, Yang Jin did not feel the youthful vigor that most young people have after achieving success in her boss. He was very experienced, understood people's hearts, and was gentle and calm.

Once, Zhang Yunqi asked her if she would work part-time as a night snack vendor. She hesitated for a moment, thinking about the current situation of her family and the debts she owed, and nodded in agreement, but promised that it would not affect her normal work.

She explained: "Actually, it was my mom who used to set up a night snack stall outside. Hongxing has stopped production, stopped working, and stopped paying wages for a long time. Many workers at Hongxing are looking for work outside, and my mom is the same. Although she is the workshop director of the factory, she has been supporting my and my brother to go to school all these years, and the family has basically no savings. But later, my mom got that disease, and the family had no money, so they borrowed a lot of money... I had no choice, so my brother and I decided to go out and set up a stall together. Now because I have to go to work, he prepares the ingredients and skewers..."

Zhang Yunqi just smiled. He listened to Yang Jin quietly before asking, "How's business?"

Yang Jin nodded: "Very good."

Next, Zhang Yunqi talked to her enthusiastically about making barbecue supper. He seemed very professional and experienced in making food. He told her how to attract customers, how to reduce costs, which supper Jiangchuan people like to eat, and told her that she could try to make a special supper of spicy crayfish. He even told her the specific method and where to buy it. Yang Jin was stunned at the time, but she remembered it in her heart.

One day, Zhang Yunqi was rushing to finish his math homework in the office when Yang Jin rushed in and said, "Mr. Zhang, my mother left the hospital without permission. I want to take a leave and go over there."

Zhang Yunqi was stunned: "Discharged from the hospital?"

Yang Jin was silent for a moment, then said, "Today, the demolition teams from Phoenix Group and Deep Sea brought hundreds of workers and staff to carry out a surprise demolition of the production area of ​​the Red Star Electronics Factory. My mother must have heard the news and rushed over."

Zhang Yunqi understood and nodded in agreement.

After Yang Jin left, Zhang Yunqi sat in the office and thought about it. He was naturally interested in Red Star Electronics, but the situation was not very clear at the moment and he did not want to get involved too early. However, it was still necessary to go over and take a look.

Zhang Yunqi stood up, called Li Jilin, and asked Ma Shi to drive him to Red Star.

On the way, the two chatted about Hongxing's current situation.

The reorganization of Red Star seems to be a contradiction in dealing with redundant staff, but the underlying reasons are very complicated and the depth of the problem is beyond imagination. Of course, all this is thanks to Gao Shan's Phoenix Group. Gao Shan has been eyeing this piece of fat meat for a long time. He set up a trap and pressed forward step by step, putting Red Star Electronics in a desperate situation.

The cause of the incident was that the Red Star Electronics Factory had been in poor operating conditions for some time and had problems with its capital chain. In order to raise funds, the factory director Liu Dongsheng had planned to sell more than 60 acres of land in the Red Star factory area. At that time, the prices offered by various buyers were all above 25 yuan per acre. At this time, the Phoenix City Group heard about it and came to negotiate the purchase of land through the introduction of Liao Yong, the president of the Jiangchuan Branch of the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, claiming that the bid was not lower than that of other competitors, hoping to obtain exclusive development rights. Jiangchuan ICBC is the largest lender of Red Star Electronics and owes a lot of debts to them. Now that the president has come forward, Liu Dongsheng agreed to cooperate exclusively with the Phoenix City Group. However, what Liu Dongsheng never expected was that the Phoenix City Group actually took the opportunity to offer an ultra-low price of 10 yuan per acre, and the acquisition target included all 133 acres of land in the Red Star Electronics Factory!
Liu Dongsheng could not accept this, nor did he dare to accept it. If the staff congress and the workers knew about it, his spine would be broken, and the situation came to a standstill.

In order to promote the acquisition, Gao Shan came up with many clever ideas. He and Liao Yong specially hosted a banquet for the leaders of the superior department of Red Star Electronics Factory. At the dinner table, Liao Yong further lowered the acquisition price of Huangcheng Group to 8 yuan per mu, and promised that ICBC would formulate a debt restructuring plan with interest-free repayment, loan with property, and bad debt write-off to help Red Star reform.

But the talks ended unpleasantly because the price was too low.

Gao Shan's acquisition plan was once again deadlocked, but the experienced Gao Shan was not a pushover. Liu Dongsheng was unmoved and he could not make a breakthrough from the front, so he pulled in another important piece at this time - Sennheiser Electric.

Of course, Zhang Yunqi feels that Sennheiser Electric’s involvement in the case also has its own special circumstances, because another “land operation” related to it is also underway.

Sennheiser Electric was formerly Jiangchuan Sennheiser Motor Co., Ltd., a municipal state-owned enterprise also located at No. 53 Feihe Road in a prosperous commercial district, covering an area of ​​nearly 88 acres. The city decided to build a municipal key project "New Era Commercial City" at the Sennheiser Motor factory site, requiring it to relocate as a whole and carry out a comprehensive restructuring of the electrical industry in Jiangchuan City.

The restructuring plan approved by the city is what Liu Dongsheng mentioned before. With Sennheiser as the leader, funds are obtained by selling the land at No. 53 Feihe Road, and bankruptcy acquisitions are carried out on Jiangchuan Hongxing, Jiangchuan Electric Factory, and Jiangchuan Rectifier Factory. At the same time, investment is made to control Jiangchuan Micromotor Factory, and Jiangchuan Sennheiser Electric Group is established.

Gao Shan and his Huangcheng Group, who once coveted the land of the Red Star Electronics Factory but were unable to obtain it, took advantage of this excellent opportunity of the reorganization to make a comeback.

Of course, the difference is that Gao Shan’s negotiation partner is no longer the Red Star Electronics Factory, which was “forced” to undergo bankruptcy reorganization without his knowledge, but Senhai Electric. In March this year, Gao Shan’s Huangcheng Group signed an agreement with Senhai, the protagonist of the reorganization case. Huangcheng paid Senhai 3 million yuan at a price of 11 yuan per mu as “employee resettlement fee” for Red Star. Senhai was responsible for completing the land transfer procedures at No. 1463 Xiangshan Road, and then changed the 24 mu of Red Star’s land from industrial land to commercial residential land, and then transferred it to the name of Huangcheng Group. The land acquisition and transfer costs and related expenses were all borne by Senhai.

The whole plan was perfect, but trouble followed.

Under the background of the city's leading asset restructuring and reorganization of the electronic and electrical industry and the merger of backward production capacity, the restructuring of the Red Star Electronics Factory is an inevitable trend and cannot be stopped. The workers are not unreasonable. What they don't understand is that one acre of Red Star's land can be sold for more than 25 yuan, but now Gao Shan has performed a magic trick and sold it for 11 yuan. Apart from anything else, a large part of their laid-off resettlement fee has been taken out of thin air. How can they agree to it? How can they not make a fuss?

The problem is, even if there is a bankruptcy, they have to go through bankruptcy reorganization!
To this end, the competent department personally supervised and presided over the convening of the Red Star Electronics Factory staff representative conference, which was held three times in a row. It told the factory director Liu Dongsheng and the secretary general of the staff representative conference Li Yuehua: "This is the last coordination and handling. If you don't change your mind, you will be replaced!"

What followed was that, at the instruction of Phoenix City Group and related units, Senhai took over Red Star forcefully, directly replaced the financial director, took over important positions such as the gate, garage, warehouse, and distribution room, cut off water and electricity, suspended production, and stopped paying wages, resulting in constant disputes between the two sides.

As of today, Red Star has fallen into a desperate situation.

When Zhang Yunqi and Li Jilin arrived at "No. 24 Xiangshan Road" in Jiangchuan City, this "feng shui treasure land" was playing out a very common and very tragic scene in the grand process of China's reform and opening up over the past years.

He didn't get out of the car and asked Ma Shi to stop on the side of the road.

The situation was already quite bad by then.

It was almost dusk and the temperature was extremely cold.

The north wind is as sharp as a knife and the snow is blowing wildly.

Although people with diabetes can maintain basic life with hemodialysis, their kidneys cannot bear it and food is difficult to digest. Li Yuehua looked very thin and haggard in the wind and snow. Her sallow cheeks were sunken, her eyeballs were bulging, and her white hair was flying in the wind. At this moment, she was holding a loudspeaker in her hand, shouting something at the workers.

The scene was so chaotic that Zhang Yunqi could only vaguely hear a few simple words. However, from the stone-like eyes of this short and thin middle-aged woman, he seemed to see a fearless attitude towards death.

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