Chapter 141: Clothes Make the Man, Saddle Makes the Horse

After finishing the phone call, Li Dongling continued to go back to turn the soil for the small flower garden plot for Wang Xiulan.

If a third-party agency were to do an evaluation, Dongling Gao Ke's valuation would be expected to be one of the top three tech companies in the country, and Li Dongling's net worth would even be one of the highest in the domestic tech industry at this moment. But for the flower garden plot that needed to be turned for Wang Xiulan, it still had to be turned.

Just like those "big" bosses with high net worth, although they complain, they still drive their cars, use Mercedes and BMW trunks to load cardboard boxes for their parents who like to pick up cardboard, and when returning to the village, use Lincolns, Maybachs, Rolls-Royces, and Land Rovers to pull corn cobs and Chinese cabbage. They might even be lectured, saying it doesn't pull as much as the three-wheeled motorcycle next door. But no matter how they are lectured, they still have to pull it. Who let the person who said this be their real father...

For Li Dongling, it is the same. Although Wang Xiulan said that Li Dongling should go to be busy with Dongling Gao Ke's affairs, facing the scene of Li Dongling turning the soil, Li Dongshan carrying water, and Li Dongyue helping to plant flower seedlings, the smile on her face never stopped.

Women like flowers, regardless of age and size. Although the varieties and types they like are different, they all like them without exception. Wang Xiulan also likes flowers, but she didn't have time before, and there was no place to plant flowers.

In his past life, Li Dongling saw that Wang Xiulan later raised a few small pots of flowers. Although the flower pots were very small and they were not precious flower species, Wang Xiulan took good care of them.

Now that they have arrived at the new residence of the Li family, Li Dongling specially asked the designer who designed the new house for the Li family to leave a flower garden plot in the front yard for Wang Xiulan to use.

After being busy for an afternoon, looking at the various flowers planted in the flower garden, such as chrysanthemums, jasmine, orchids, and clivia, Wang Xiulan's face was full of smiles.

"You guys take a break, I'll go cook!"

After saying this to the three of them, Li Dongling, Wang Xiulan said to Li Zhenlin, who was sitting in the courtyard smoking a pipe, "Old man, go and start the fire. Can't you see they've been busy for an afternoon!"

Li Zhenlin puffed on his pipe, looked at the aggressive Wang Xiulan, and then looked at the three of them, Li Dongling. He suddenly felt something was wrong. How could a family with the same surname not be able to beat one with a different surname? But after hearing Wang Xiulan urge him again, he still got up and followed Wang Xiulan to the kitchen.

"I'm exhausted, my waist is about to break!"

Li Dongyue, who was helping Wang Xiulan select flower seedlings, sat on the ground without any image, "Planting these flowers, I feel it's harder than doing a physics test paper!"

"The ground is cold," Li Dongshan smiled and pulled Li Dongyue up, handing a stool to Li Dongyue, "What is this? In the past, when the harvest was busy, our parents did much more work than this!"

In the past, in the Li family, Li Dongshan did the most farm work with Li Zhenlin and Wang Xiulan. Before he became a temporary worker in the steel plant, he was basically tinkering with those lands, which was the only place the Li family could scrape food from.

Li Dongling did less. Li Zhenlin and Li Dongshan didn't want Li Dongling to be distracted. They just wanted the Li family to have a college student. This, perhaps, was also one of the reasons why Li Zhenlin's obsession with whether Li Dongling could go to the provincial capital was so deep.

As for when it was this girl Li Dongyue's turn, whether it was in her past life or this life, she basically never did any heavy farm work.

Listening to Li Dongshan's words, Li Dongyue stuck out her tongue playfully. However, when she thought of the days of the Li family in the past, when the farm work was busy, Li Zhenlin and Wang Xiulan went out early in the morning and didn't return home until the night light. It was Li Dongshan who took care of her and Li Dongling, and the scene of Li Dongshan carrying her to school on rainy and snowy days made Li Dongyue's eyes turn red.

Seeing Li Dongyue's expression, Li Dongling reached out and rubbed her hair, "It's all in the past!"

When Li Dongling was busy with Wang Xiulan's flower garden, the news of Wanjia Appliance City's acquisition of Brandt Appliances had already been reported by the Hong Kong media, and then the news quickly spread to the mainland.

For appliance retail giants in Europe and overseas, Wanjia Appliance City was too weak. Even in France, it only ranked third, and it didn't treat Wanjia Appliance City as a threat at all.

But for appliance brands in Hong Kong, Southeast Asia, and the country, the appearance of Wanjia Appliance City was almost the arrival of a new era for Asian appliance brands, meaning that Asian brand appliances also had the opportunity to enter the European market?!

Whether it was Hong Kong or the country, the media were reporting it overwhelmingly. Ning Wenke, a name that had only appeared in some domestic media reports a few times before, instantly became a deafening big figure in the domestic appliance industry.

Under the praise of Hong Kong media and domestic media, Wanjia Appliance City was already like one of the overseas retail giants, which could be mentioned in the same breath as Metro, Walmart, Carrefour, and Best Buy. Anyway, people like to watch media praise these things, and newspaper and magazine sales are high. As for whether it is true or not, most people can't fly to Europe to check...

This is an era where the Asian region generally lacks self-confidence. Whether it is the country or Hong Kong, or even regions like Japan, Korea, and Singapore, being able to sell things to Europe and America and open stores in Europe and America is something that will be blown to the sky, and it is worshipped by countless Asian companies and people.

Otherwise, why did Japan shout to buy America after it had money, instead of other places? Even if it suffered a crushing defeat in America and was cut like leeks, it also made Japan appear as a tycoon name in the entire Asian region and even the global scope.

Japan was considered a representative of success in Asia, which also attracted countless countries, regions, and companies in Asia to learn from it, including many domestic companies, which were extremely praising Japan at this time.

It even appeared in the rumored four saints of Japanese management: Konosuke Matsushita of Matsushita Company, Soichiro Honda of Honda, Akio Morita of Sony, and Kazuo Inamori of Kyocera. They were also blown to the sky. Their memoirs and life philosophies sold like crazy, and many companies ran to Japan to learn.

This kind of influence lasted for decades, even after the Japanese bubble burst for decades, there were still people praising it.

Decades later, there were still companies in the country that let employees learn Kazuo Inamori's autobiography. Every day before work, they let employees gather together, and the supervisor read a passage of Kazuo Inamori's autobiography, listening to Kazuo Inamori's teachings together, letting employees learn Japan's "bowing craftsman" spirit together...

So there is no absolute thing in this world. Although Japanese companies were cut like leeks in America, in other aspects, Japan used this to spread Japan's influence. Long-distance animal husbandry was also established, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' funds were distributed like crazy.

Now Wanjia Appliance City is also in this kind of praise. No matter what its real strength is in Europe, whether it counts as second-rate or even third-rate appliance chain mall, anyway, under the praise of Asian media, Wanjia Appliance City is already enough to be mentioned in the same breath as Metro, Carrefour, and Walmart.

Under this kind of praise, I don't know how many appliance brands are rushing to contact Wanjia Appliance City, wanting to sell appliances to Europe through Wanjia Appliance City to earn foreign exchange.

This scene made Ning Wenke laugh and cry, but it also had advantages and disadvantages. With this praise, Wanjia Appliance City's entry into the country, Hong Kong, or Singapore, Siam, and other places was much smoother.

When acting as a giant company, they were introduced by these municipal departments to improve the city's popularity and influence. Local low-price transfer of land to Wanjia Appliance City to build malls, banks were willing to provide loans at low prices, and professional managers and talents were also willing to join the "international" giant company Wanjia Appliance City, and various tax and policy preferences, etc., could all be obtained by Wanjia Appliance City!

This is also the reason why so many companies want to increase their popularity, because it is really profitable. As long as the name is big enough, many treatments that small companies dare not think about can be easily obtained by large companies.

Regardless of whether the media is blowing true or false, anyway, Ning Wenke, who returned to Hong Kong, immediately announced the establishment of the first batch of five large Wanjia Appliance Cities in Hong Kong, Singapore, the capital of Siam, and Jiaozhi!

And in the country, Dongling Gao Ke was not idle either. Ren Yuefeng announced the establishment of the Wanjia Mainland Headquarters in Shanghai, and also announced the news of establishing Wanjia Appliance Cities in Yangcheng, Pengcheng, Yanjing, Shanghai, Hangzhou, and other places. For a time, Wanjia Appliance City showed a trend of raging fire in Asia.

A host of domestic appliance brands, Changhong, Gree, Haier, Hisense, TCL, Konka, Chunlan, Little Swan, Xinfei, Rongsheng, Lenovo, etc., were desperately looking for Ning Wenke, flying to Hong Kong one after another.

These appliance brands didn't find Li Dongling, which allowed Li Dongling to prepare to spend the 1994 New Year with peace of mind. But people like Boss Ni of Changhong didn't know who the major shareholder of Wanjia Appliance City was, but there were others who knew.

Dongling Gao Ke was preparing for the upcoming fierce battle with Siemens in America, while planning to distribute dividends, year-end bonuses, benefits, prizes, etc., to Dongling Gao Ke staff.

"So, are we really going to distribute a quarter's salary to production line staff as a bonus and year-end bonus?!"

In the Dongling Gao Ke headquarters conference room, Hu Zi confirmed to Li Dongling again. Dongling Gao Ke now has two industrial parks, which count as front-line production staff, including production line staff, technical personnel, warehouse, transportation, etc., which have long exceeded ten thousand staff.

According to the monthly salary currently provided by Dongling Gao Ke to these production line staff, which is currently around 650 yuan, just distributing the bonuses for these staff would cost nearly 20 million yuan. In the country, it definitely counts as a shocking big news.

Many factories are now in arrears with wages, and year-end bonuses are even rarer. Dongling Gao Ke dares to distribute them to front-line production personnel. I don't know how much of a stir it will cause.

"If we don't distribute bonuses to them, how can we distribute them to management?!" Li Dongling looked at Hu Zi and Ren Yuefeng, Zhang Ao, and others sitting in the conference room.

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