Chapter 331 Golden Cicada
On Saturday, Zhang Yunqi went to Liansheng.

In the mid-to-late 90s, the country had begun to implement a two-day weekend system, but as a key high school, the No. Middle School in the city still had a heavy study burden. Senior students had classes on Saturday mornings, but Zhang Yunqi had never been there, and it was not easy for him to get to school on time.

When Zhang Yunqi arrived at Liansheng, he happened to meet Li Jilin at the entrance of Yanquan Building. Maybe it was because of the heavy snow, he was covered with snow. Zhang Yunqi threw a cigarette to him and said, "Look at you, you are covered in snow, didn't you drive?"

Li Jilin patted the snow off his body and said, "Yufei's mother drove the car to Lijin, and I came here by bicycle."

Zhang Yunqi smiled and said, "Let's buy a few bikes in the name of the company. If you, the general manager of Liansheng, ride a bike to work in the heavy snow, people will think I'm a wicked person."

Li Jilin smiled and said, "It's not that bad for me, but the roads at the base in Yunxi Village are already difficult to travel. The snow has been falling non-stop this year, and I'm afraid the roads will be closed and the canned goods won't be transported out. Besides, the employees are all from the city, and they have to come back every week for holidays. I'm worried that something might go wrong. The shipment situation is already tight, and the production line can't be stopped for a day. If it stops for a day, we'll suffer heavy losses. This winter won't be easy."

Li Jilin's words made Zhang Yunqi alert. Li Jilin was just worried, but Zhang Yunqi knew very well that there would be a big snowstorm in Jiangchuan this year! He had a deep impression of the cold end of the year in 1994 in his previous life. In the face of such a situation, if it was not handled properly, it would cause loss of life.

Zhang Yunqi said, "Well, you can arrange it. The production base in Yunxi Village will stop working before New Year's Day, and all employees will return to the city. As for canned food, while ensuring the safety of employees, the production line must work at full capacity during this period, and transportation should be strengthened. If possible, ship as much as possible."

Li Jilin did not expect Zhang Yunqi to react so strongly to this matter. He did not even discuss it with the company's senior executives and directly decided to suspend production and work.

You know, there is still more than a month from New Year's Day to the Spring Festival, which means that hundreds of employees will have to take more than a month off! Li Jilin wanted to talk to Zhang Yunqi about the huge losses that would be caused to Liansheng, but when he was about to speak, Zhang Yunqi waved his hand to interrupt him: "Do as I say, there are many things we can't predict, make the worst plan, and here in the city, first, let the Longjingyuan logistics department purchase more food, not peppers and soybeans, which are production materials, but pork, beef, cabbage and other ingredients. Anyway, the cold storage in the production workshop can also be stored, the more the better; second, the power distribution room needs to be equipped with a few more diesel generators; third, a batch of candles is in place for emergencies."

Li Jilin didn't know whether this was preparation for a rainy day or groundless worry, but Zhang Yunqi was a strong man. Although he did not interfere in most of the company's affairs and delegated all power to Li Jilin, once he made a decision, he was always firm and final. All Li Jilin, the second-in-command of Liansheng, could do was to execute.

Talking about this, Zhang Yunqi and Li Jilin went upstairs to Liansheng's office. Ma Shi had already arrived. When he saw the two company executives coming in, he immediately greeted them. Zhang Yunqi said, "Let's go to the office to talk."

We were talking about Red Star.

Currently, the Red Star incident is causing a stir in the city. Liu Dongsheng is determined to take matters into his own hands. With an attitude of being willing to sacrifice his life to bring down the emperor, he brought hundreds of people to block the Sennheiser Group's headquarters and the main road in front.

Yesterday evening, the situation was at a stalemate. Later, the Red Star employees parked all the people who died in the fire at the gate of Senhai and directly put them in the funeral hall. This was too ugly. If it spread out, it would cause a big mess! It forced all parties to be in a dilemma.

In order to appease the employees, the higher-ups removed Zhao Shiming from his post overnight. The city's big boss came forward personally and expressed his willingness to fully compensate the laid-off workers and give everyone a satisfactory explanation.

Others may not know, but Li Jilin knows that this series of actions by Liu Dongsheng were all driven by his boss Zhang Yunqi, who is sitting firmly on the throne.

The situation is chaotic right now. In fact, Li Jilin always feels that they are too deeply involved. The benefits have completely exceeded the risks they need to take to copy the Phoenix Group's old background and acquire Red Star. But no one can guess Zhang Yunqi's trump card and ultimate goal, and he is not sure what to say. However, he knows that Zhang Yunqi is not satisfied and wants to go a step further and force Zhao Shiming into a desperate situation!

Some time ago, Zhang Yunqi arranged for Ma Shi to investigate Zhao Shiming's background. Someone like Zhao Shiming, who could sell off a well-functioning state-owned enterprise with land worth thousands of dollars at a low price, must have something fishy to do with.

This is indeed the case. Ma Shi quickly found clues after a period of investigation. And today Zhang Yunqi came to the company for this rare occasion.

The three of them sat in the office, closed the door and smoked. The first thing Ma Shi said was, "Zhao Shiming has a mistress outside." Zhang Yunqi laughed. Having a mistress is something that you had better not do if you don't want others to know about it. As long as someone wanted to investigate you, it would be very easy to find out. But the value is also very great. After all, Chinese people have certain moral requirements for public figures and public officials.

The stars who have become obscure because of this in those years have fully proved this point. They did not break the law, but they were drowned in the people's vast ocean of saliva, because the Chinese people believe in Luo Xiang’s famous saying that the law is only the lowest moral requirement for people. If a person claims to be law-abiding, this person may very well be a scum.

Ma Shi put out his cigarette and said to the two CEOs: "This matter is actually no secret in Senhai. Many people know about it. I sent someone to follow Zhao Shiming for a few days and found out his mistress. Her name is Li Cuiyun, she is in her early thirties and used to be an employee of Senhai. She resigned two years ago. I didn't touch this woman for fear of alerting the enemy. However, after she resigned from Senhai, she opened a shell company outside. I arranged for someone to contact the employees of this company under the pretext of negotiating business. The other party clearly stated that they could operate Senhai Group's projects. This means that the way this company makes money is to use Zhao Shiming's relationship to sell Senhai Group's large-scale power projects at low prices, and then collect sky-high tolls!"

Li Jilin laughed: "No wonder Senhai almost went bankrupt. This is the true meaning of selling the father's land without any regret, after all, it enriches his own pockets. Thinking about it this way, it is logical for Zhao Shiming to sell Red Star to Phoenix City at a low price."

Zhang Yunqi knocked on the table. "The core of the problem is that Senhai Group's asset-liability ratio is almost 100%, but despite this situation, it not only did not go bankrupt, but acquired Red Star. This is too outrageous. You should know that before Red Star's bankruptcy and reorganization, all bank loans were less than 800 million yuan, and the asset-liability ratio was less than 60%. It did not meet the bankruptcy conditions at all. How can a bankrupt factory merge with a normal enterprise? There are too many tricks here. Zhao Shiming used a trick to escape. He took advantage of the opportunity of the city's electromechanical industry reorganization to save Senhai! Otherwise, Zhao Shiming would have died long ago."

Zhang Yunqi lit a cigarette and continued, "This method is quite clever. He managed to bring the dead back to life in a very short time. However, such an operation must have strong support. It is absolutely impossible for Zhao Shiming to do it by operating in accordance with the law. So his ass must be covered with shit! Think about it, why did the Times Commercial Lane project, a key municipal project, settle in Senhai Group? Why did the city's electromechanical industry reorganize and several state-owned enterprises operate well, but the city chose Senhai, which was about to go bankrupt, as the main body? And force Red Star to go bankrupt? This is not logical at all. Be bold. If it weren't for this incident, I even suspect that Zhao Shiming would privatize Senhai in its entirety next!"

When Zhang Yunqi said this, Ma Shi glanced at the tightly closed door and continued, "I have also found some clues in this regard. Brother Guibing and I have obtained the information of Li Cuiyun's shell company through the relationship with the Industrial and Commercial Bureau. We found that the share structure of this shell company involves the family members of several leaders of the Mechanical and Electrical Bureau. At least one thing is certain, they can get money from it every year. We may need to investigate deeper."

At this point, the entire interest chain has actually surfaced, although who is at the top of the chain is still unclear.

Zhang Yunqi thought for a moment and said, "Well, Lao Li, you and Ma Shi will have to work together tonight to prepare a batch of ingredients. I will need them tomorrow."

Ma Shi next to him said, "Boss, these are isolated evidences. Give me some time, and I can find a way to bribe their financial staff. After all, only the secret account book of the money transferred to the people above can be convincing."

Zhang Yunqi waved his hand: "No, we are not the police, there is no need to cross the line to investigate, and many things are actually on the table, such as Zhao Shiming's mistress, opening a shell company outside, and selling Senhai Group's power projects cheaply. These are existing facts. Through Yang Jiarong, the police can find out everything clearly with a casual investigation. Based on these facts, Zhao Shiming can be convicted of more crimes. He will not be released for ten or eight years. In this way, even if there are no secret account books, those who are involved with Zhao Shiming will be restless and unable to sleep at night, worried that Zhao Shiming will jump out and bite them!"

Having said that, Zhang Yunqi picked up the phone in front of Li Jilin and Ma Shi and called Zhao Jianqiang, the director of the Municipal Development and Reform Commission and the current chairman of Jiangchuan State-owned Assets Investment Holding Co., Ltd.

The two were already very familiar with each other, and in the matter of the bankruptcy and reorganization of the Red Star Factory, they were already in a certain sense an offensive and defensive alliance. Because Zhang Yunqi was the designer of the idea of ​​establishing a municipal state-owned platform company to operate the city's state-owned enterprises, and Zhao Jianqiang was the implementer.

After the call was connected, Zhang Yunqi got straight to the point: "Director Zhao, I'm Zhang Yunqi. When are you free to meet?"

"It's Mr. Zhang. You are busy with all kinds of things every day, so how come you have time to think of me now?" Zhao Jianqiang knew that Zhang Yunqi was busy with the affairs of the Red Star Factory. In fact, he was also overwhelmed.

Zhang Yunqi was in a good mood: "I have a big gift for you, are you interested in seeing it?"

Zhao Jianqiang said with a smile: "Tomorrow at noon, let's have a small gathering at the Fish Forking Pavilion in Beihu Park?"

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(End of this chapter)