Chapter 394

On August 1, 2013, Zhengtong Capital Management Co., Ltd. was officially established.

The company chairman is Fan Donglin, who personally holds 90%, while Baiyue Province SASAC holds 6%. After examination and approval by the provincial Party Committee, Mortal Group chairman Ye Jiaying holds 3% and Yu Youwei holds 1%.

Yu Youwei serves as the financial director of Zhengtong Capital.

Lin Dongfan intends to help her rise, planning to rehire a private financial management specialist to take over Yu Youwei's trading work.

Having Baiyue Province SASAC take a stake was the proposal of Provincial Party Committee Secretary Wang Daochen.

In Secretary Wang's words:

"You are originally a civil servant and cannot participate in market operation investments."

"The Provincial Party Committee has issued the 'Authorization for Conducting Business Under an Alias for Investigation' and the 'Approval Document of Baiyue Province SASAC Regarding Equity Participation in Special Task Enterprises'."

"In principle, we agree that you operate a company under the alias Fan Donglin to advance anti-corruption work."

"If Zhengtong Capital becomes purely private and escapes state-owned supervision, should any problem arise in the future, no one would be able to bear this responsibility."

"The SASAC will dispatch a supervisor to attend board meetings, but not interfere in operations."

"This way, it satisfies the government's supervision needs while ensuring your absolute control, facilitating your covert investigation in Haishan City—achieving two goals at once."

In view of the above, Lin Dongfan actually has no room for choice.

Letting Baiyue Province SASAC take a stake actually has clear benefits: with the 'state-owned background' label, one can preferentially obtain local government projects, implicitly enhancing market competitiveness.

Moreover, financing will become much easier.

With the leverage effect of a 'state-owned endorsement', when banks conduct credit assessments, enterprises with a state-owned background can obtain a credit limit increase of 15% to 30%, and financing costs are on average lower by one to two percentage points.

Take Zhengtong Capital as an example.

With an initial registered capital of 100 million yuan, after the state-owned assets contributed 6 million yuan, relying on the credit endorsement of the provincial SASAC, the company can obtain at least 150 million yuan of bank comprehensive credit line.

Put bluntly, Zhengtong Capital versus the local Haishan Long Association is an outright dimensionality reduction strike.

The project of transforming the fishing village into a fishing port new city.

The supervisory department is the Ocean and Fisheries Bureau, with cooperating units including the Development and Reform Commission, Urban Construction Bureau, Natural Resources Bureau, Ecological Environment Bureau, and Transportation and Water Resources Department, etc.

August 2.

Yu Youwei entered Zhengtong Capital's chairman's office.

She handed Lin Dongfan an authority investigation report, and with feeling reported to Lin Dongfan: "We previously thought the person holding the power of life and death over the entire project was the director of the Ocean and Fisheries Bureau, Han Zhang. Further investigation revealed that the person truly directing everything behind the scenes is the mayor of Haishan City, Guo Lichun."

Lin Dongfan took the report and gave it a quick glance.

He immediately instructed Yu Youwei: "Arrange a meeting with Mayor Guo, and say that our Zhengtong Capital is very interested in the fishing port new city project."

"Already arranged with him."

"Say the time and place."

"This mayor puts on big airs; they simply ignore us. Wanting to see him is harder than climbing to heaven. His secretary Zhang Nan came out and told us not to cause trouble in Haishan."

"So awesome?"

Lin Dongfan's face showed slight surprise.

Actually, there is something even more awesome, which Yu Youwei did not mention.

Although when we went to see Guo Lichun yesterday we were turned away at the door, upon leaving we saw Guo Lichun and the 'Dragon King' Zheng Canghai get into the same car, the two chatting and laughing.

At that moment, Zheng Canghai turned his head and gave her a cold smile.

Zheng Canghai's contemptuous smile, looking down on everything—where does his confidence come from? Obviously, it is bestowed by Guo Lichun.

Yu Youwei said: "Mayor Guo puts on airs and simply won't see us. In my view, it's still easier to find an entry point via the director of the Ocean and Fisheries Bureau, Han Zhang."

"After probing for so many days, how much do you now understand about Han Zhang?" Lin Dongfan asked.

Yu Youwei replied without hesitation: "Director Han is a smooth‑talking person; on the surface he greets with a smile, but actually he sizes people up. He agreed to see me mainly because he still does not understand our Zhengtong Capital's strength. During our first meeting yesterday, he kept beating around the bush, trying to sound me out. At a glance, you can tell he is a corrupt official."

"Since he's a corrupt official, it's easy to deal with—arrange a meeting and I'll go see him myself."

"Okay, I'll arrange it now."

Yu Youwei turned and had not taken two steps.

She suddenly turned back, smiling faintly: "Brother Fan, shouldn't you hire an administrative assistant? As a financial director, I'm doing all kinds of things all day."

"I don't trust anyone else, only you; the able take on more work." Lin Dongfan didn't even look at her, lowering his head to look at the authority investigation report in his hand.

But this bowl of bewildering soup he brewed himself is still quite effective.

Seeing this made Yu Youwei grin with delight.

"Alright, considering my 1% equity, I'll do a bit more."

The former drifter who slept under bridges, the country bumpkin in the eyes of his cousin Xu Yaqiu, saying he has undergone a complete transformation is no exaggeration.

Now Yu Youwei, inside and out, exudes a charming allure.

She now knows how to dress well.

A burgundy tight-fitting shirt paired with a black professional short skirt, plus black stockings and red high heels, her whole outfit is custom-made.

The red‑black combination is a typical workplace queen style.

It not only shows her capable side, but also fully expresses sexiness; wherever she goes she is a beautiful scenery.

Of course, she herself is fully aware:

Everything she possesses today is bestowed by Lin Dongfan.

Without Lin Dongfan's careful cultivation, she would still be struggling at society's lowest rung, perhaps never getting a chance to rise in life, perhaps forever unable to shake off the label of a country bumpkin.

While she says she is doing a bit more for the sake of her 1% equity, in fact she enjoys the happiness of being valued by Lin Dongfan and hopes he will glance at her more often.

But Lin Dongfan never lifted his head.

This again aroused a slight sense of loss in her, as she secretly wondered: 'Could it be that I'm not dressed beautifully enough today?'

She harbored a belly full of doubts.

She walked to the restroom mirror, turned left and right, and carefully examined her attire and bearing.

The more I look, the more depressed I feel.

She felt the problem lay with the black stockings; today this pair felt a bit thick, lacking a touch of that elusive, hazy beauty.

A female staff member suddenly came over to report: "General Manager Yu, a man named Xu Cong wants to see you; he says he's the heir of Zhongye Group, and he came specially from Jingcheng to find you, holding a bouquet of roses in his hands."

Hearing that, Yu Xiaowei couldn't help but feel a little surprised; how did that guy manage to come to Haishan?

Yu Xiaowei asked: "Where is he now?"

"In the reception room." The female staff member did not dare to be negligent.

Yu Xiaowei replied bluntly: "Please go tell him I have no interest in him at all; tell him not to come bother me."

"Okay."

The female staff member received the order and retreated.

Yu Xiaowei also returned to her office, quickly diving into work, picking up the phone to help Lin Dongfan arrange a meeting with the director of the Ocean and Fisheries Bureau—Han Zhang.