Chapter 1454

"President Wang, President Wei, how do the two of you feel about the construction of this headquarters?"

In the company cafeteria, Zhao Fu was eating with Wang Yan and his wife, asking for their impressions.

For the construction of the headquarters, Wang Yan determined the layout, zoning, and the like, while the specific implementation was handled by Zhao Fu alone, communicating and implementing things from top to bottom.

"It's quite good; it's not much different from the design. Thank you for your hard work, President Zhao."

"It's my duty, it's my duty; as long as you are satisfied." Zhao Fu laughed, then turned to ask, "However, if there are any problems, you must point them out immediately. It's easy to handle while construction is ongoing; it would be a hassle to rework things later."

"The two of us have looked over it carefully these past few days. If there were any problems, we would have already reported them." Wang Yan shook his head with a smile and said, "How are things on your end?"

"Everything is difficult at the start."

Although he said it was difficult, there wasn't the slightest sign of difficulty on Zhao Fu's face; it was all smiles. "Various tasks are still being pushed forward. The main thing is that too few of our people have moved in, and the cultural tourism sector isn't quite ready yet. Other than that, there are no problems.

After all, as early as last year, the staff had already been selected, and quite a few new hires were made this year, so work can still be carried out. I believe that as more employees and their families move in, all aspects will be able to get on the right track."

In fact, the problems currently faced were actually quite numerous. Of course, in the final analysis, it was because there were too few people, which led to the inability of the livelihood matters in this urban area to operate.

For example, various shops that had long been selected opened for business along with the arrival of the first batch of employees, yet only less than ten thousand people had come with their families.

Commerce was the first thing to be guaranteed; there were all kinds of shops, big hotels, small restaurants, and markets specifically set up for stalls. The service industry was seriously inverted. Even though Long Teng employees had money and plenty of time, they went out every day to stroll around, adapt to the environment, and consume along the way, but they still couldn't satisfy so many industries.

Correspondingly, other various public services that had already been configured, such as sanitation, municipal administration, police, fire protection, and public transport, were all operating and all losing money.

A large group of people had nothing to do. Sanitation workers lay on lounge chairs on the road playing with their phones, other public officials were idle and organized various activities to pass the time, bus drivers were bored and raced on the wide, empty roads, and the fire officers were actually quite good; they mainly guaranteed the construction safety of the construction site and had various training when they had nothing to do.

These personnel were all determined by the government beforehand and were configured according to the scale of a county town where hundreds of thousands of people lived. With Long Teng moving over, they all started working.

All of the above had to be supported by money; the government had to operate, and commerce had to be guaranteed.

Therefore, to deal with these problems, the relevant functional departments of the government were definitely continuing to organize various cultural and sports activities to pass the time, while for the various shops, water and electricity fees and shop rental fees were waived, directly reducing costs to the minimum.

They didn't stock up on much inventory either; generally speaking, it was a small loss, which was still acceptable.

This situation had already been thought of at the beginning of construction. Those who participated in Long Teng's investment promotion and dared to be the first to eat crab also knew about this situation long ago, so they weren't panicked and were waiting quite comfortably for the popularity here to grow; they were looking at the future.

Wang Yan nodded and smiled: "You have to work hard outside, and you can't relax inside either. In short, you are capable and should work more; please put in more effort."

"It's my duty." Zhao Fu also smiled. He was truly happy and in high spirits.

Urban construction is a long-term proposition. He was able to participate from nothing, and even make a considerable part of the decisions, up to today. Besides R&D, business, human resources, and finance, all aspects of Long Teng Group's life were handed over to him.

Compared to other county officials, what he lacked was the power to manage local enterprises, but what he had more of was a good situation where the central government had direct jurisdiction, finances were abundant, technology was developed, and everyone worked together.

His future was already bright. After this experience, in another three to five years, bringing Long Teng's headquarters onto the right track would be a great achievement. With this qualification here, plus the incense-burning relationship with this special company, it could be said that he had opened a path to heaven.

He didn't have the possibility of failure either, because Wang Yan's ability had been displayed vividly and thoroughly in the past period of time. He also couldn't figure out why Wang Yan hadn't shown it at all in the first twenty-eight years of his life.

It was also because of this, as far as he knew, that resources had once again been invested in researching some mysterious things, extraterrestrial life, and the like...

After eating lunch like this, Wang Yan and his wife strolled around the completed first-phase area.

They had moved in for a period of time, and the various equipment needed had been debugged. Currently, the headquarters had already started normal work and normal life.

Generally speaking, except for the fact that everything was brand new, the space was much larger, and it was more comfortable to live in, it wasn't much different from Lin'an, and it was even more inconvenient.

After all, things had just started here, and there weren't that many entertainment projects yet.

However, there was one good point: Long Teng employees had plenty of time, and they had previously helped them make collective purchases of cars, so their range of activity was quite large, and they strolled everywhere. Evaluating the shops that had already opened, or driving to play in the surrounding areas—many people hadn't been here before, so they still had a strong desire to tour.

So on the streets now, one could occasionally see employees strolling around, as well as the family members they had brought over. It just didn't have that urban feeling where there were people everywhere at any time. Here, one could often encounter scenes where there wasn't a single person.

"It's still desolate." Wei Lan sighed. "When do you think it will be like a big city, with that feeling of bustling traffic?"

"Don't be anxious; our development speed is still very fast." Wang Yan said with a laugh, "Next year, except for some business departments, other employees and laboratories will all be able to move over. By then, counting the family members, there will be at least one hundred thousand people.

Plus, by then, tourism services will be opened. On ordinary days, there will be several thousand more people, and on holidays, there will be tens of thousands more; that will be a different kind of liveliness."

"Now that you mention it, that's true. These past few years have passed by so quickly; in the blink of an eye, they're gone. I feel like my mentality has aged a bit."

Wang Yan shook his head with amusement: "Managing such a big company with so many things every day, how could you not age?"

"I don't see you having changed much?"

"Is it possible that I was already old to begin with?"

Wei Lan thought for a moment, then laughed: "Back then by the West Lake, when I saw your back, I felt it was quite vicissitudinous. You weren't very old, and I don't know what you were being so sentimental about."

"I was seeing heaven and earth and realizing nature." Wang Yan bluffed, then turned to ask, "I remember I asked you to ask Sun Yi before; did you ask?"

"She isn't coming. She said that the clothing industry over there is relatively easier to do, the labor is mature, the team has been brought up, the equipment in the factory has been replaced with new ones, and the conditions in all aspects are quite good. There's no need to go to the trouble of running over here and spending more money. She even said that instead of tossing around a clothing factory, it's better to donate more to impoverished areas."

"She has awareness; that's very good."

"What about the factory for the Strength-Enhancing Pills? What are your plans?"

Wang Yan said, "It's our biggest source of wealth, so it must be kept under our own noses. However, this time we've set up a new production line, and there's other debugging work to do; it will take another two months."

"Are those employees willing to come?"

"After living two years of good life, what choice do they have?"

Wei Lan hummed: "That's true. They won't be able to find a factory with such good treatment and such easy work if they go out. They are all dragging their families along, so we must take good care of them."

"It's already been arranged. Jobs for the whole family have been arranged. As long as they work hard, it will never be bad."

Although the factory for the Strength-Enhancing Pills had basically achieved full automation, it still couldn't do without manual labor. With the increase in production lines, the number of personnel had also increased accordingly. Now there were over a thousand people.

Despite this, compared to the terrifying figure of over a trillion in sales, this number of people was simply too small. If one calculated the entire industrial chain, from the initial planting of medicinal herbs to the final terminal transport, the manpower used was only about five hundred thousand, and the per capita output was equally terrifying.

The two of them put aside some work and drove around for a period of time, checking on things. After more than ten days, they finally stopped their activities and started working, which finally made Zhao Fu breathe a sigh of relief.

Currently, the group's profit channels had become rich, and many departments were able to be self-sufficient while bearing a portion of the R&D expenses involved in their own business.

For example, the earliest AI-related businesses, Zhi Xiang and Zhi Jia, had now become leaders in smart homes, with rich products that took into account high, medium, and low-end prices.

In terms of absolute high-end products, there were no rivals in the country, and it was the same abroad. Rich people didn't care about the price; they only cared about the comfortable experience.

As for low and mid-end products, they could be considered to have occupied half of the country. Because Long Teng didn't produce low and mid-end products itself, it just provided standards and integrated resources, extracting a certain fee from it.

In terms of imaging, there were high-end lenses facing consumers. After launching prime lenses before, the recent zoom lenses were also going to be mass-produced. Although the sales volume was destined not to be high, it was still in the hundreds of millions.

At the same time, they contacted some film and television production projects, letting them use Long Teng's lenses for filming, which could be considered opening up the high-end market.

On the other hand, there was the lens module business for mobile phones. This was the big part, and some contracts had already been signed, which would be applied to some mobile phones launched next year.

Furthermore, there was Long Jing, a product that both earned merit and made a lot of money. The number of people who paid and booked surgery was enough for hospitals with surgical qualifications that had signed contracts with Long Teng to work for a year; the volume of business was quite large.

If nothing else, it truly drove many hospitals' ophthalmology departments to get rich. Although they weren't bad to begin with, no one refused to earn more.

Besides these, there was Long Teng's Chinese herbal medicine business. In addition to expanding the supply of relevant medicinal herbs needed for the Strength-Enhancing Pills, other medicinal herbs naturally had to be available; this was to guarantee the production of some Chinese patent medicines.

Wang Yan kept throwing money to expand the control of herb farmers, herb fields, and types of medicinal herbs, and continued to invest resources to research medicinal herbs with higher efficacy and higher yields.

It was also with the help of medicinal herbs that he gathered a large group of TCM practitioners. Wang Yan let them research, and finally, he took out some prescriptions himself and made a bunch of products like health tea and medicinal diet packs, which could be considered to have a certain sales volume, and the benefits were quite good.

At the same time, Wang Yan was also using his influence to try to integrate and standardize the Chinese herbal medicine market, at least to ensure that the medicinal herbs were genuine. However, this was not something that could be achieved overnight; it needed time to be solved slowly...

Wang Yan was still working from home and looking after the children, rather than completely handing the children over to a nanny. For him, this was real rest. Returning after decades, the children in the real world were still that big, which felt quite good.

This afternoon, there was a clanging sound at the door, and the dog, Gou, ran in with its tongue lolling out, looking all silly.

If one had to say who was happiest about moving, it was really Gou.

After all, the house had a courtyard, and the space was much larger, so it could run around freely. At the same time, Wang Yan didn't restrict it; the gate was left open, and it ran out every day to play on its own, only coming back when it was hungry.

Relatively speaking, the cat, Mao, was much worse. It was a homebody who didn't dare to go out to explore the strange world, at most lying in the courtyard sunning itself. When it got energetic, it would climb up and down everywhere...

The children, who were crawling all over the floor in the living room, saw Gou run back and immediately started babbling, wanting to crawl over and get close to Gou.

Seeing the little ancestors who were going to be the death of him coming over, Gou barked and ran around to hide. Seeing that they couldn't catch Gou, the two children were actually so anxious that they stood up one after another, walking stumbling.

Wang Yan watched this scene with a smile, then fiddled with his computer, found the surveillance footage from just now, and sent it to the family group of both sides—including him and Wei Lan, as well as the parents on both sides—letting them have a good laugh.

Sure enough, not long after his message was sent, the group started chatting, asking Wang Yan to hurry up and take more photos to send over for them to see.

Wang Yan's biological mother even scolded him, telling him to keep the dog away, saying that the dog had played a round outside and she didn't know how dirty it was.

Wang Yan smiled and dealt with it. He knew very well that inheriting his excellent qualities, these two children weren't that fragile. If nothing else, over these many years, he hadn't had a single child die in infancy; they had basically all grown up healthy and strong.

In the relatively more hygienic modern era, there was naturally no problem; these were all benefits given by the "living father"...

Happily chatting with his family and video calling, getting the children to babble and call people, everyone was very happy.

Just like this, his life returned to stability. Running every morning, looking after the children and handling work during the day, cooking dinner himself at night, and also making baby food for the two children, he spent every day in comfort.

In the blink of an eye, another month passed, and the "living father's" message arrived on time.

"《Blood-Colored Romance》 Li Kuyong: Happiness!"

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