Chapter 610: 594 The first batch of 1,000 Hope Primary Schools begin construction, rewards

"Donating money to build schools..."

Director Guan Zu thought for a moment and said to A-Xing: "Make a call and tell Dongzi to come over, I want to ask about the situation..."

It's 1993, the country is vigorously developing education. It's estimated that Guangdong and coastal provinces are fine, but in the inland, the situation will be much worse.

A-Xing made the call.

Half an hour later, Dongzi hurried back by bus. He had already started working in Yau Tsim Mong, but because of Director Guan Zu's call, he had to hurry back.

"Brother Zu, what's wrong?"

"Have you eaten breakfast?"

"I have."

"Let's go, go to the company, tell me about the schools in the country... I want to donate schools in the country, are there any suggestions?"

Upon hearing this, Dongzi was solemn: "Brother Zu wants to donate universities, middle schools, or primary schools?"

Director Guan Zu thought for a moment: "Universities might not lack money, I feel primary schools might need money more..."

Many wealthy merchants like to donate to universities because the reputation is big and there's output.

Donating to primary schools doesn't have as much of that.

And Director Guan Zu feels that children in impoverished areas need money more.

Director Guan Zu: "Tell me about the situation in your hometown..."

Dongzi began to speak: "The primary school I attended had very simple conditions, a few broken desks and chairs and a mottled blackboard, that was the entire inventory of the classroom. Because there was no glass in the windows, the cold winter wind kept blowing in, it was very cold..."

"My family was poor, I wore thin clothes in winter, my hands and feet were covered in frostbite, I went to school blowing in the cold wind, it was really miserable..."

Director Guan Zu listened and nodded.

Director Guan Zu looked at Dongzi: "If I want to donate to primary schools, how do you think I should donate?"

This is considered an assessment to see Dongzi's level.

Dongzi: "How much does Brother Zu want to donate?"

Director Guan Zu: "Donate nationwide, focusing on impoverished areas."

Dongzi paid solemn respect.

He considered it carefully: "To be nationwide, focusing on impoverished areas, then you don't need too many things, try to popularize the quantity, pay attention to quality..."

"Since it's impoverished, there definitely won't be many students. 6 grades in primary school, 6 classrooms are enough, then equip them with teacher dormitories, offices, storage rooms, and other basics... playgrounds and such aren't needed, just level the mud..."

"According to the level of my hometown now, for a steel-reinforced structure house, one square meter is about 300 RMB..."

Dongzi calculated in his head,

"About 70,000 for one primary school..."

"Impoverished areas are estimated to be 50,000..."

"However, I feel teachers are also very important, we need to provide subsidies for this part of the teachers..."

Director Guan Zu nodded: "Subsidies are indeed very important."

Why are there so few volunteer teachers in later generations?

It's because the money is too little and the work is too bitter.

You can't be a person who wants people to work hard to teach students while not giving them enough money, that's a bit hypocritical.

Dongzi: "If you want to subsidize volunteer teaching, I suggest giving it annually, then sending people to check every year, and providing a reporting hotline for teachers, students, and parents, so that we can prevent someone from embezzling..."

After hearing this, Director Guan Zu felt it was not bad.

He looked at Dongzi with satisfaction.

Sure enough, some people are born different.

"Alright, go back to work..."

Director Guan Zu returned to the company and made a long-distance call to the mainland. It took more than half an hour to get in touch with Jimmy.

Principal Gu... now you are going to become worthy of the name!

Xi'an, Shaanxi,

Beilin District, Youyi West Road.

Located here is a university that is considered relatively simple, surrounded by patches of farmland.

Local leaders and school leaders surrounded the God of Wealth, Jimmy, and walked out of the school.

"Mr. Li, thank you very much for the 200 million donation from the Five-Star Group..."

"Please convey our sincere gratitude to the Five-Star Group and Mr. Director Guan Zu on behalf of our government and school..."

Jimmy was humble repeatedly.

This is the last stop of his trip to the mainland for electronic industry investigation and cooperation.

After this, he reached a research cooperation in electronics with this university, as well as technical support and learning for talents going to Hong Kong.

After finishing, he was finally going to return to Hong Kong.

Just as Jimmy was preparing to get in the car and wave goodbye to the leaders...

Ring-ring-ring... his mobile phone (Big Brother) rang.

"Brother Jimmy... Brother Zu just called over, telling you not to go back yet..."

"There is another task..."

Jimmy: "???"

Damn it!

I want to go back to Hong Kong!

After chatting for four or five minutes, he hung up the phone.

Jimmy closed his eyes in despair.

Even a workhorse shouldn't be grabbed and milked so hard!

I've been tricked!

I've been tricked!!

Brother Zu, I'm going to fight you to the death! (Gritting teeth!)

The school leader asked with concern: "What's wrong? Mr. Li? Did something happen?"

He thought Jimmy's relative had passed away, he was so sorrowful.

Jimmy adjusted his mood, looked at the many farewell teams, and restored his smile:

"Leaders... my company boss just gave me another task, I might not be able to return to Hong Kong for the time being, I'll have to disturb you leaders here."

Government leaders quickly said: "I don't know what Mr. Li's task is? We will definitely help if we can."

Jimmy: "Our leader asked me to investigate the rural areas here to see if there's a need to donate primary schools..."

What?

Donating schools?

The government leader's eyes were as bright as light bulbs.

"Hahaha~~~ Mr. Li!"

He hurried over and held Jimmy's hand tightly, wishing he could kiss Jimmy.

"That's really great, we are currently waiting for all industries to flourish, the entire Northwest is poor..."

In a flash, three days passed.

Jimmy stood in front of a mud-brick house, with vegetable fields on the left and right, and barren mountains behind.

3 classrooms, 1 teacher's office.

This is the 10th village he has been to, and also the village with the best primary school classroom conditions.

That's right, it's the best!

It can even be said to be superior!

The village leader stood to the side a bit cautiously, accompanying the town leader. The town leader accompanied the county leader cautiously, and the county leader accompanied the city leader and Jimmy.

Li Jiayuan said politely: "Village Chief, how many teachers does this school have? How many years have you been teaching here?"

Village leader: "2 teachers, been teaching for 3 years..."

Jimmy: "I want to ask, if I want to build a teaching building with 6 classrooms, plus teacher dormitories and offices, how much money will it take? It needs to be steel and cement."

Why steel and cement? Because mud-brick houses are easily damaged, it's better to get it done once and for all with steel and cement.

The village chief was excited: "20,000! 20,000 will get it done!"

Then he was kicked by the town leader.

Village chief: "............"

Everyone's expression was strange.

Jimmy pretended not to see it.

Soon Jimmy got into the car, left, and went to pick up the people sent from Hong Kong.

This time Director Guan Zu sent over 200 people to Shaanxi.

They were all grassroots elite personnel from Five-Star Property, who had been trained for one or two years and had strong capabilities.

Once the city leader and Jimmy's car left,

The town leader glared at the village leader speechlessly: "Are you a cannon? The entire county is so poor that they can't even open the pot, and finally a big boss came, 20,000 is enough for what?"

Village leader felt aggrieved: "The most expensive things are steel and bricks, everything else is worthless... I thought I'd make it cheaper so the big boss wouldn't be scared away."

The town leader was directly rendered speechless: "Are you stupid? That big boss has a lot of money, I heard he donated tens of millions to the university..."

Tens of millions?

Hiss~~~~

Everyone gasped...

Over the next half month,

Jimmy, with over 200 Five-Star Property employees, with the support of the province, quickly conducted investigations, filled out materials, and compiled statistics for the entire province...

Finally, they verified the first batch of the 3,000 poorest administrative villages to build 2,000 primary schools. Of course, if the villages were concentrated, there was no need to build one in every village; they would choose the most central village to build, and other villages would come over to attend school. For those too far and too remote, they would build one primary school per village. With few students, the school would be made smaller, flexible, and adaptable.

This is the first batch.

Then a long-distance call to report to Director Guan Zu.

Director Guan Zu was a bit surprised: "There are so many villages?"

Jimmy: "There are over 70,000 natural villages in the province, and several thousand administrative villages, so it's impossible to have a school in every village..."

"Because there are too many villages, I think we need to compress costs. The original plan was 50,000 per school, compressed to 20,000 per school... using 50 million in funds."

"As for the salary subsidies for volunteer teachers... we will verify them according to local wages..."

After Director Guan Zu finished listening to Jimmy's entire plan.

Winning by quantity, ensuring quality, no need for masterpieces.

For students and parents who are unimaginably poor, quantity is more suitable for them.

"Good, I agree, don't lower the quality of the houses..."

"Yes."

Thinking for a moment, Director Guan Zu reminded him: "Also, pay attention, try not to recruit female teachers."

Soon,

Jimmy signed an agreement with the government to donate primary schools.

If the first batch of primary schools satisfies the Five-Star Group, there will be a second and third batch of schools.

Of course, the Five-Star Group will leave personnel to supervise, changing a batch every month.

With the funds arriving, provincial TV stations and newspapers began to report on a large scale, and then one village after another, one "Five-Star Hope Primary School" after another began to break ground.

Hot and prosperous.

Hong Kong. May 15th, Tuesday.

Suitable for: marriage, opening a business, moving, traveling, building a stove, encoffining

Avoid: setting up a bed, burial, litigation, consecration

Today,

The Five-Star Group ushered in a major event—moving the company!

After 3 months of renovation and airing out, Central Plaza officially ushered in a large number of companies moving in.

And the Five-Star Group headquarters building is scheduled to move to the 69th-78th floors of Central Plaza on this day.

Top floor,

Director Guan Zu's office.

"Come, hang this 'Virtue' here..."

"Hang this 'Law-abiding, integrity in people' over here..."

Wu Lianqian, while helplessly complaining, directed her subordinates to hang the paintings.

It's unbearable to look at!

At this time,

Director Guan Zu was teasing the fish in a huge aquarium in his office...

Finally achieved aquarium freedom.

The only problem is that this aquarium can't be used for fishing, and the maintenance cost is a bit high.

Forget it.

This counts as a little willfulness from financial power!

Hehehe~~~

After teasing the fish, Director Guan Zu walked to the floor-to-ceiling window.

"Ah~~~~"

Director Guan Zu sighed, this time, my office is finally the highest in Hong Kong!

Looking down, you can see the Exhibition Center, Victoria Harbour, and the Star Ferry Pier, Harbour City, Tsim Sha Tsui opposite... and Lion Rock behind Wong Tai Sin Temple in the distance...

Looking out, the view is open, and it makes one feel happy!

Hehehe~~~

Wu Lianqian listened to the strange hehehe laughter that her boss, Brother Zu, made from time to time, and was speechless for a while.

Boss, pay attention to your image!

When he's serious, he's dignified, domineering, and approachable.

When he's not serious, he's very... ahem... don't talk about the boss!

"Ding..."

At this time, Director Guan Zu's system sent a prompt.

"You have built 1,000 Five-Star Hope Primary Schools at once."

"You have received the following rewards:"

"Reward 1: 'Five-Star Primary School Aura' In Five-Star primary schools, students' chances of success increase by 20%, and teaching quality increases by 20%..."

"Reward 3: 'Talent Card' *2, 'Learning Card' *3..."

"Reward 3: 'Talent Card' *2, 'Learning Card' *3..."

"Reward 4: You have received: Luck +1 — Turn bad luck into good!"

Director Guan Zu's spirit was lifted.

Luck +1?

Not Fortune +1?

He had been waiting for this. Last time he split his luck value into various amulets, his luck value was cleared to zero, leaving only one Li Jiacheng luck, but that luck was only a small luck.

Completely different from the "Luck +1" in front of him.

"Hahahaha~~~~"

Wu Lianqian: "............"

An employee asked Wu Lianqian curiously: "Manager Wu, what is the boss laughing at?"

Wu Lianqian said with a serious face: "He must be happy because of the group's happy event!"

Employee: "............"

In the evening,

ATV evening news appeared in front of thousands of households in Hong Kong at 19:00 sharp.

"Today, Central Plaza officially opened for business, indicating that all Hong Kong citizens can finally officially start being landlords!"

"Central Plaza is currently the tallest building in Asia and has landmark significance. This unique architectural status has attracted many well-known companies to move in..."

"Currently, the average rent level of Central Plaza is 95-100 HKD/square foot/month... which means that the monthly rent of Central Plaza will reach 90 million HKD, plus 15% property management fees, bringing 1.3 billion in rental income to Central Plaza in a year."

"In addition, the Five-Star Group officially moved to the 69th-78th floors of Central Plaza. Influenced by this positive news, Five-Star Bank's stock price rose again..."

At this time,

Whoosh-boom~~~~

A plane came from the UK, rolling with the wind, facing the sun, and landed at Kai Tak Airport.

The cabin door opened, and David Anthony stepped out.

He was nearly fifty, his silver hair combed meticulously, wearing a dark gray three-piece suit custom-made on Savile Row, his polished Oxford shoes stepping on the gangway, making a dull sound.

This is a typical British gentleman's attire.

When his eagle-like gaze swept over the HSBC executives lined up on the tarmac to welcome him, everyone lowered their heads one after another.

"Mr. Anthony!" *N

He is the new Chief Executive of HSBC.

He was urgently sent here to take over the mess of HSBC (Hong Kong).

He took his secretarial team to stay at the Shangri-La Hotel and got over the jet lag.

The next day, after 9:00,

He took his team and entered the HSBC Building with great momentum.

A large number of HSBC executives and employees lined up in two rows, bowing in unison.

Shouting: "Warmly welcome the Chief Executive!"

Anthony looked dignified, ignored these people, and went directly into the elevator under the leadership of the executives, straight to the top floor.

"Call Chief Ainuoer over..."

Chief Executive's office,

10 minutes later, Chief Ainuoer arrived.

"Chief Ainuoer..."

Anthony looked down at Chief Ainuoer.

Although Chief Ainuoer still had a straight back, his shirt had more wrinkles, his tie was crooked, and his expression was haggard, a completely different person from the high-spirited HSBC Chief Executive of the past.

"Tell me about the situation in Hong Kong..."

Chief Ainuoer looked at Anthony: "You don't need to take this arrogant attitude; my status is equal to yours."

Anthony: "Don't you understand your current situation?"

"From now on, I am the HSBC Chief Executive!"

At this time, he is just a proud 'gentleman'.

Chief Ainuoer sneered: "Heh... you are the HSBC Chief Executive? You know nothing about your predicament! With Five-Star Bank around, you won't be Chief Executive for long."

Anthony was surprised: "I have already read the Five-Star Group's materials in Hong Kong. I have to say it is indeed very strong, but it doesn't have the strength to force HSBC into this situation."

Chief Ainuoer sneered: "Anthony, you are as stupid as those guys at headquarters... you have no idea how powerful the Five-Star Group and that Director Guan Zu are. And the materials you saw are already from two months ago... The Five-Star Group has become even more powerful."

"If you don't take it seriously, you will definitely suffer a big loss."

Seeing Chief Ainuoer say this, Anthony also began to look serious: "Did I underestimate it? Good... then tell me everything about Five-Star and this matter, one by one."

Chief Ainuoer: "First, the biggest problem we at HSBC face is the mole... The Five-Star Group offered a bounty of 100 million to let HSBC internal employees sell out HSBC's criminal intelligence... This is why the police mastered so much data this time; it was all taken out by HSBC moles."

Anthony's brows tightened immediately: "Have you found out who the moles are?"

Chief Ainuoer shook his head: "We found a few and have already prosecuted them, but it's useless. Too many people have sold out HSBC; even our executives and shareholder representatives could be moles..."

Anthony: "???"

He didn't understand, didn't get it...

Don't employees have loyalty? Aren't they afraid the Five-Star Group will break its promise?

Also, shareholder representatives and executives can become moles?

Such a niche word.

Anthony: "What else?"

Chief Ainuoer explained the other situations one by one.

The Five-Star Group's reputation, power, the attitude of the Governor's Office and the Chief Secretary, the attitude of the police force...

The more he said,

The more shocked Anthony became.

It's over, it seems I stepped into a fire pit!

If I go back now, is it too late?

I'm not afraid of the Five-Star Group; I just feel that the cold climate of the UK is more comfortable.

"Continue... I want to know everything, everything~~~"

At this time, Anthony didn't dare to be negligent anymore.

Chief Ainuoer was about to continue introducing...

"Knock, knock, knock~~~~"

The office door was knocked, and then pushed open.

"Mr. Chief Ainuoer..."

"I'm back!"

Huang Li Wenbin!

Chief Ainuoer's expression changed immediately.

Huang Li Wenbin walked in with two subordinates, smiling.

"This must be Mr. Anthony... nice to meet you..."

Then he took out an arrest warrant.

He placed it in front of Chief Ainuoer,

"Mr. Chief Ainuoer, please come with us..."

"And Mr. Anthony, sorry to disturb your meeting..."

Anthony: "............"

And the same scene appeared in various offices of the HSBC Building... as well as some villas and residential areas in Hong Kong...

One by one, shareholder representatives and executives were taken away by the police.

Although some people hid, they couldn't escape the Five-Star Group's intelligence network at all, catching them one by one.

After investigating for nearly 20 days, the police finally closed the net.

... ===== CHAPTER 611 =====