When Cao Zhiqiang proposed to join the equity structure of "Dongyang Company" in the name of Hongguang Machinery Factory, Chen Jiabang said nothing, but Secretary Dong and Factory Director Li both clearly opposed it.
The reason for the objection is very legitimate, that is, although Hongguang Machinery Factory has a big business, it also has a big burden, and it is a state-owned company.
Therefore, if Hongguang Machinery Factory is involved in this Sino-Japanese joint venture tape factory in the name of its own factory, it will not bring much benefit to Hongguang Machinery Factory, but it will do a lot of harm to the newly established joint venture company. The burden of Hongguang Machinery Factory was transferred to the new joint venture.
Japan is not a fool. It is impossible for them to directly agree to the involvement of a heavily indebted state-owned enterprise without any investigation. This is a negative equity.
And as we all know, Japan has always been wary of domestic state-owned enterprises, so if Hongguang Machinery Factory insists on getting involved, it might mess up the joint venture tape factory project, and no one will get the benefit in the end.
Of course, these are all obvious reasons.
The private reason is more realistic, that is, Hongguang Machinery Factory is owned by the public. Once the public participates in the joint venture project of "Dongyang Company", Hongguang Machinery Factory will become a hot potato again. At that time, Director Li and Secretary Dong Let's not talk about whether we can continue to get benefits. Let's just say that with this big fat guy, some leaders above may be jealous, and then arrange for their own people to pick peaches and replace Secretary Dong and Factory Director Li.
Secretary Dong is fine, but Director Li has been the director of Hongguang Machinery Factory for decades. Why can he continue to be the director?
In addition to the fact that Director Li is really flexible, it is also mainly related to the fact that the efficiency of Hongguang Machinery Factory has not been very good.
Once a factory becomes more profitable, there will inevitably be more people wanting to pick peaches.
Director Li is just a good person in Hongguang Machinery Factory, but if someone of a higher level is sent down, he must obey the order.
After all, this is a state-owned enterprise affiliated to a ministry, and the real bosses are the leaders at the ministry level. If someone wants to arrange someone to come down, Director Li can't handle it, and even Secretary Dong can't handle it.
In the past, when the big leader was still in office, that is, when Uncle Xu was still in office, this was easy to say.
But now that Uncle Xu has truly retired, even if he still has some connections, when it comes to the leadership arrangements of subordinate factories, he can no longer have the right to make decisions. At most, he has the right to make suggestions. Whether he will listen or not depends on the new leader. That makes sense.
Therefore, in the eyes of Secretary Dong and Factory Director Li, Hongguang Machinery Factory is just a shell that continues to maintain this kind of debt, and it is best to live half-dead.
Anyway, both Secretary Dong and Factory Director Li are getting older and will be retiring soon. It is better to stand on the last post and take advantage of the reform and use their last power to support the newcomers. It’s Cao Zhiqiang.
After all, Hongguang Machinery Factory is essentially a factory that mainly manufactures machinery. For such a factory, why should Director Li and Secretary Dong go all out to support a service industry that only engages in writing books and singing? , what about Cao Zhiqiang, who basically has nothing to do with the main business of machinery manufacturing?
It's not just that these things Cao Zhiqiang created can actually bring more tangible money to their own homes.
When people are young, of course they like progress and power.
But when a person is old and weak and is about to lose power, his favorite thing is money.
Whether it is a publishing house or a department store run by Cao Zhiqiang, it can bring tangible benefits to Secretary Dong and Director Li himself. Of course, it can also solve the redundancy of personnel in the machinery factory to a certain extent. remaining questions.
In addition, Cao Zhiqiang had an old leader named Uncle Xu as his backer, so Secretary Dong and Factory Director Li took advantage of the situation to give Cao Zhiqiang such great support.
If it weren't for the real interests tied up and only relying on Uncle Xu as a retired backer, Secretary Dong and Factory Director Li wouldn't have gone all out to support Cao Zhiqiang.
What? Uncle Lin's side?
Uncle Lin's department was a secret department, and not many people knew Cao Zhiqiang's secret identity. Even if Uncle Xu knew it, it would be impossible to explain it to people like Secretary Dong and Factory Director Li.
At least so far, neither Secretary Dong nor Factory Director Li knows the identity of Cao Zhiqiang’s secret broker. They only think that Cao Zhiqiang is very talented in writing books and songs, and has a very hot brain, and is good at running businesses and making money. young people.
More importantly, when cooperating with Cao Zhiqiang, there is no need to accept bribes or violate organizational disciplines. You can use the current reform policy to make money reasonably and legally.
This is the fundamental reason why Secretary Dong and Director Li spare no effort to support Cao Zhiqiang.
Therefore, whether Secretary Dong or Factory Director Li, they just want to use their last power to pave the way for Cao Zhiqiang as much as possible, so that they can continue to enjoy dividends with Cao Zhiqiang after they truly retire.
As for the Hongguang Machinery Factory, it was not the fault of Secretary Dong and Director Li that it was in its current state. They were really helpless, so they simply gave up.
Anyway, the worst result is that they will be reorganized and incorporated by other companies or government departments. Most of the old workers will not lose their jobs, they will just change careers.
As for the new young people, youth itself is capital, and the government will not really ignore them.
After all, now is not the time when there was a wave of layoffs in the 1990s, when workers were forced to find their own way out at every turn.
The current transformation of factories is basically the merger of large factories with good profits and small factories with poor profits. Then the old workers are either given other jobs or handed over directly to the government to continue to shine in public institutions. Generally speaking, it is very humane. ized.
Therefore, from this perspective, it is most appropriate to use the name of Hongguang Publishing House, which is a personal contract, to join the share structure of the new joint venture.
Because of this, Director Li can continue to contract part of the land and factories of Hongguang Machinery Factory to Hongguang Publishing House at a low price, and then Hongguang Publishing House will use these contracted land and factories as capital. , joined the joint venture, and the management rights are still in the hands of Huaxia Audio Company, Cao Zhiqiang’s private company.
According to this model, Cao Zhiqiang will definitely not mistreat Secretary Dong, Director Li, and Chen Jiabang, the three specific operators. And the public assets of Hongguang Machinery Factory can be used by Hongguang Machinery Factory through this power transmission method of contract management. In one turn, Guang Publishing House was transferred to the new "Dongyang Company", thus completing the transformation from public property to private property.
By then, no one will lose, only Hongguang Machinery Factory will lose. However, Hongguang Machinery Factory will be rectified and merged sooner or later. It is useless to keep those useless industrial land and factories, so it is better to keep them for ourselves.
As for the issue of selling assets at a low price, as long as the contract is well written and well-founded, and the new company makes money afterwards, and then pays Hongguang Machinery Factory a site usage fee or rent, it won't be a big problem.
At the very least, this way, it can be guaranteed that there will be no problems within five years.
As for five years from now... These days, who knows what the new policies will be in five years?
Anyway, by that time, Secretary Dong and Factory Director Li have already retired, and the current domestic policy does not require accountability after retirement, so they can happily take the small amount of money they have pocketed and live out their retirement happily. Life.
If that doesn't work, you can consider going abroad when you make more money.
It's not far away, but there is still hope to find a way to go to Hong Kong.
It has to be said that Secretary Dong and Factory Director Li are relatively far-sighted people, and they knew about going abroad for safety so early.
And from a selfish point of view, Cao Zhiqiang also believes that their ideas and methods are correct and have minimal risks.
Because compared to what they did, other people who openly embezzled state-owned assets are truly crazy.
Let’s not talk about it far, let’s talk about the founder of XX who started out as a computer maker and later actually engaged in finance. He is actually a typical example of embezzlement of public property, and his early methods were more direct, not to mention Face, but he later Is something wrong? completely fine.
The reason is very simple, that is, these behaviors are special situations under special historical conditions, and they are normal transactions conducted under the conditions allowed by the special historical conditions and special policies at that time.
In short, all subsequent laws and regulations can only target the behavior of enterprises and individuals after the promulgation of these laws and regulations, but they cannot trace back some of your behaviors before the promulgation of these laws and regulations.
If we use current laws and regulations to trace past business practices, it will be like Asan's Indian country. If we don't use Face at all, it will only cause confusion. In short, it will do more harm than good.
To put it simply, the kind of operations Secretary Dong and Factory Director Li mentioned are reasonable, compliant and legal under the current circumstances, and do not amount to embezzlement of state-owned assets.
If Cao Zhiqiang didn't have other plans, he might have agreed.
But the problem is that Cao Zhiqiang is at a different level now. He is no longer satisfied with simply making a small amount of money.
Just make some money and live a good and comfortable life, he has done it now.
As far as his current level of food and clothing is concerned, it's hard to say in the whole world, at least in the entire land of inland China, there are really not many people who are better than him.
Even the country's senior leaders, at least in terms of food and clothing, are probably not as good as him.
At least some of the luxuries that Cao Zhiqiang can enjoy are not available to those senior leaders.
For example, some senior leaders cannot drink Oiran coffee at this time.
There is also the real Wuyi Mountain mother tree Dahongpao. How many people can really drink it as food and tea all day long?
As for living, how many people can live in the executive suite of Jianguo Hotel all day like him?
Not to mention money, Cao Zhiqiang's personal assets at this time, calculated purely in RMB, have already exceeded 5 million, and this does not include the 500 million secret funds given by the state.
In this era when households worth 10,000 yuan are very scarce, he personally has assets of more than 5 million RMB, which makes him a proper big capitalist.
With such a net worth, in a country where prices are generally low, he can't buy anything that money can buy.
Therefore, simply talking about making money has no interest in Cao Zhiqiang at the moment.
In other words, in the current view of Cao Zhiqiang, making money is only his intermediate node, not his ultimate goal.
His real purpose is to allow the country to benefit from it while he continues to maintain a good life.
This is what the saying goes: Cultivate oneself, harmonize one's family, govern the country and bring peace to the world!
Cao Zhiqiang has now passed the stage of cultivating himself and managing his family, so he is thinking about the next stage of governing the country.
It would be fine if there is no system, but with the system, Cao Zhiqiang can try to use another method to secretly push the country.
To promote the entire industry chain, he is definitely not that ambitious or capable.
But based on the technology and equipment of the system check-in, he can still promote the leapfrog progress of certain industries in the country.
As for asking the country for money and national debt, etc.
Cao Zhiqiang believes that this is not about money, nor is it entirely for his own safety, but more for the good of the country.
Because he doesn't want the money, he will have to give it out sooner or later, and there is a high probability that he will be cheated for a while.
Just kidding, after China reformed, because it didn’t understand finance very well, it was actually a lot of people who were cheated out of small sums of money by Western countries in the early stage. Later, they were cheated a lot, and that’s when they gained experience.
Although Cao Zhiqiang doesn't know all the pitfalls, he at least knows some of them from hearsay.
Therefore, Cao Zhiqiang uses real high-end technology to exchange for some of the country's scarce foreign exchange and national debt, which can control the country's export of these things to other countries in disguise, which is equivalent to a disguised form of making the country less likely to be cheated in the early stages.
A lot of experience is not learned only if you have been tricked personally.
As long as the reform continues and the country is no longer closed to the outside world, over time, we will naturally know more and more about cases similar to those in other countries that have been deceived, and the more we know, our financial knowledge and common sense will also be enriched.
When one's financial knowledge increases, there are more reliable experts in related fields, and opinions are taken seriously, especially if experts like Lin Zhengyi who truly serve the country and the people are not buried, then some pitfalls can actually be avoided.
Another point is that when a large amount of the country's funds come into its own hands, it can use the name of foreign capital to flow back into the country, and then focus on investing in some industries that countries look down on now, but will actually be very important in the future.
For example, the semiconductor industry, the field of lithography machines, and even large aircraft projects such as the Yun-10 can all use this money to continue to develop.
What many people don’t know is that in the early 1980s, at least in 1983, my country was not much worse than foreign countries in the semiconductor industry, lithography machine field and large aircraft field, at least there were many relevant experts and scholars.
my country's semiconductor industry is currently mainly in the upstream industry, that is, it is a little weaker in the research and development of semiconductor components and programming, but it is not too weak to catch up.
Although in general, my country's semiconductor industry is far behind the United States, Japan and Europe, the difference is actually not too far behind.
Not to mention lithography machines. In the field of lithography machines in my country in the early 1980s, there was not much difference in technology compared with Europe. In some fields, it even surpassed Europe, the United States and Japan.
For example, Tsinghua University, which was later rumored, now masters the world's leading "distributed projection lithography machine" technology with completely independent intellectual property rights. Because of this technology, Tsinghua University has become the only university in my country that can independently develop and develop A unit that produces high-end photolithography machines.
ASML, the later lithography machine giant, has no shadow at this time.
Not to mention the Y-10 project. This large aircraft is truly a large aircraft with independent property rights. So far, the technology is relatively mature, and prototypes have already appeared. At least it is far behind the related projects of Airbus at the same time. Not big.
If we can continue to invest in research and development funds, continue to conduct various tests, do not interrupt this project in advance, and do not disband related industry groups and related personnel, then maybe we can have our own large civilian aircraft as early as the 1980s, without having to continue I have been buying foreign passenger planes all day long.
All these projects were discontinued in the 1980s, all because of lack of money.
The cancellation of a project not only means the interruption of research and development, but also the disconnection of relevant personnel.
Because it is difficult to gather people together and easy to disband.
And once it is disbanded, it will be even more difficult to recruit again. It is equivalent to reorganizing the project team and starting everything from scratch.
A typical example is the American Saturn V rocket engine.
In fact, in terms of technical level, the Saturn V rocket engine is not the most advanced, but after the 21st century, the United States will be unable to manufacture it.
It’s not that the technology is gone, but that the relevant scientific researchers and technicians are gone.
If the relevant skilled workers are gone, it will naturally be impossible to build it. Even if you have the technology and drawings, it will be useless.
Another example is the decline of Japanese LNG ships.
In the early 1980s, LNG ship technology was basically monopolized by European and American countries, such as Norway, Italy, and France.
Japan actually started to enter the LNG ship project in the late 1970s, and only built Japan's first LNG ship in 1981.
Since then, Japanese LNG ship technology has advanced by leaps and bounds, gradually encroaching on the European and American markets, and by the early 1990s, it gradually became the dominant player in this industry.
However, as the economic bubble burst, Japan's manufacturing industry also suffered a heavy blow, and many skilled welders on LNG ships had to change careers. This led to Japan's decline in this industry, which in turn allowed South Korea to take advantage of the situation and rise.
Yes, what many people don’t know is that the rise of South Korean LNG ships is inseparable from the early hiring of skilled Japanese welders in large numbers.
It is those skilled welders from Japan who have taught a large number of Korean skilled workers, and these skilled welders are the foundation of the Korean LNG ship project.
As for technology, South Korea’s related technology is just like that.
Not to mention anything else, let’s talk about the Invar steel technology of LNG ships. Even if South Korea has not mastered it by 2023, it is still using French technology. This means that to build a ship, it has to pay an expensive fee to related French companies. Royalties.
On the contrary, China, which came from behind, was completely restricted in terms of technology from the beginning and was unable to successfully obtain relevant patented technologies from French and other companies. It had to develop its own technology, and eventually developed its own Invar steel and other technologies. As a result, although Chinese-made LNG ships were The initial quantity is not as good as South Korea, but the profit is much higher.
In short, in the early 1980s, China was not much worse than the West in some high-tech fields and heavy industries. The only difference was money.
After all, China was too poor at this time. We had to solve the problem of food and clothing first, and then we could talk about sophisticated technical issues.
Cao Zhiqiang cannot take care of food and clothing issues, that is for the state to take care of.
But he can rely on his own efforts to support the continuation of these industries in several areas that he is relatively familiar with, and at least prevent the relevant R&D teams from disbanding. Those who develop missiles are not as good as those who sell tea eggs.
To put it bluntly, Cao Zhiqiang cannot solve all problems, but he still has certain abilities to solve very few problems.
In fact, he didn't know if he could do it, but he had to try.
If he could really do it, he wouldn't be wasting his time traveling.
(End of chapter)
