Chapter 35: Everything Renewed

Now Dongling High-Tech pays huge R&D expenses every month for the mouse and digital cordless phone projects, and just the technical staff's salary alone has to be over 100,000 per month.

The only income Dongling High-Tech can get is the dividend from the satellite dish project, but given the current situation, the satellite dish project won't last for a few more months.

But no matter how anxious he is, Li Dongling can only take it one step at a time. A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step; there is no reason to become a fat man in one breath.

This year is the first year of Dongling High-Tech's establishment. It is necessary to hold a year-end meeting, but Li Dongling is not prepared to do those fancy things, such as forcing employees to perform on stage, letting staff spend energy preparing programs, etc.

Just invite the more than 100 employees of Dongling High-Tech and their families to have a meal together, and then distribute some prizes, bonuses, etc., to tell them that Dongling High-Tech is still alive and the future might be better. This is very important. People need to live on hope. For the staff of a company, it is also the same.

As for letting staff treat the company as their home and work overtime desperately to contribute, that's nonsense. Unless the company can manage the birth, aging, illness, and death of the staff, and even manage the marriage of the staff's children, otherwise, if you only pay that little money a month and it's difficult to eat, and you still want people to treat the company as their home, isn't it purely playing the hooligan? If you don't give the cow grass and still want the cow to squeeze milk, Zhou Pipi wouldn't be so cruel!

The venue for Dongling High-Tech's year-end meeting was chosen to be a restaurant. Gao Peng also moved a set of audio equipment over. As for singers, Dongling High-Tech hadn't reached the point where it could invite singers to help out at the year-end meeting.

Chen Tao's wife, Huang Xiaopei, wearing a brand-new set of clothes and holding her child, came to the restaurant. These clothes were originally meant to be worn during the New Year, but now they were worn out in advance.

Before coming to Pingyang, Huang Xiaopei was still a bit uneasy, but now, she had no doubts. Chen Tao's 7,000 yuan salary was enough for a family of three to live very decently in Pingyang. Compared with the strained days in the provincial capital, it was much stronger.

Now if Chen Tao said he wouldn't work anymore and wanted to leave Dongling High-Tech, the first one to be anxious would probably be Huang Xiaopei. Chen Tao might be willing to leave, but she wouldn't!

Not only Huang Xiaopei, but the families of a group of Dongling High-Tech staff who arrived today were actually about the same. Now Dongling High-Tech has nearly 150 employees, of which more than 100 are technical personnel. Like those senior technical personnel who came from the provincial capital with Chen Tao, the salary is over 3,000, and the salary of other technical personnel who can independently operate experiments is also over 1,500 yuan.

And newcomers who enter the technical department and are still learning also have a salary of over 600 yuan. Such a salary level, not to mention in Pingyang, even in the provincial capital, is quite rare.

As Dongling High-Tech staff entered with their families or boyfriends and girlfriends, the atmosphere became lively.

Gao Peng, who was acting as the host of today's year-end meeting, coughed and raised the microphone. "Let us welcome the founder of Dongling High-Tech!"

"I am very happy that everyone can come today. I hope to see everyone again next year, and it will be the same every year in the future!"

Li Dongling spoke very briefly on stage. After all, the people who came today were mainly here to eat, not to listen to anyone's nagging.

"Next year, Dongling High-Tech's main task is to launch new products and achieve profitability. This is the most important thing for Dongling High-Tech next year!

I hope that in the future, everyone will not regret entering Dongling High-Tech, and Dongling High-Tech will not let everyone down. Dongling High-Tech will build staff commodity housing, let all staff have new houses to live in, provide medical insurance for staff's parents and children, and provide scholarships for staff's children to go to university..."

After drawing a big cake, Li Dongling walked down, but a large burst of applause sounded at the scene. Regardless of whether it could be done, this big cake looked tempting.

Dishes were served one after another, mainly chicken, duck, fish, meat, as well as pork knuckles, sauce beef, and other hard dishes. In this day and age, there was no such thing as health preservation. Whether a meal was good or not depended on how many hard dishes there were!

"Cough, I'll show my ugliness. A song 'Love Bird' for everyone!"

With Gao Peng here, there was no need to worry about the year-end meeting of Dongling High-Tech having a cold scene. For a person with Gao Peng's personality, in today's occasion, he could not drink, but he absolutely could not have no activity.

This guy really showed his ugliness. It couldn't be said that he was tone-deaf, but it definitely wasn't good to hear. He sang quite devotedly, which could be called a true expression of feelings. He turned a deaf ear to the laughter and scolding below.

However, after Gao Peng's song, the atmosphere of the year-end meeting did become lively. Several people who were itchy to sing went on stage to sing one after another. There were quite a few people who liked to sing in this day and age, but there were not many places to sing. These people had different levels, but as long as they went on stage, Li Dongling gave them red envelopes.

"Chairman Li, sing one!"

I don't know who shouted, and suddenly a sound appeared at the year-end meeting scene. Li Dongling, who had just talked to Hu Zixian on the side, heard this, looked at the group of people who were making trouble, and laughed. He walked toward the stage.

When he was at Hanxi Jiaotong University, Li Dongling had also formed a rock band. Although it didn't make any waves, he had also sung in front of hundreds of people. How could he be timid in this kind of occasion.

Letting Gao Peng take a guitar, Li Dongling tuned the guitar and began to sing "Boundless Oceans, Vast Skies" sung by the Beyond band this year and released by Rock Records.

No matter what, he had played in a band, so not to mention the level of singing, at least he wouldn't run out of tune. Of course, the identity was different, and the songs sung were also different.

Like those bosses Zhang of Sohu, Ma of Alibaba, Wang of Wanda, and Lei of Xiaomi, when they sang, they always gave people a feeling of being rich, never making people doubt that they were out of tune, but feeling that maybe the original singer didn't sing it right.

If these people were put on the talent show scene, they would always give people a feeling of shouting a sentence to the mentor at the scene after singing a song: "Please tell me your dream, I will help you realize it!"

Li Dongling certainly hadn't reached that level yet, but one day, perhaps Li Dongling's singing would have such an effect. If he really sang out of tune, it would also make people feel like they had run into a gold mine.

After Li Dongling, after drinking a few glasses of wine, Yao Luoying, whose face was flushed, also ran to the stage and sang two songs, one of which was an English song. Yao Luoying sang quite well, and a burst of applause sounded at the scene.

"Chairman Li, those two new products must be developed after the New Year, and then start selling. The R&D expenses are really too huge!

Now there are more than 50 satellite dish brands on the market, and satellite dish brands have also begun to appear in the southern market. The sales volume of Guanying satellite dishes might be very unsatisfactory in the future, and the dividends it can bring to Dongling High-Tech will also be less and less!"

Hu Zixian, who was in charge of Dongling High-Tech's finance, reminded Li Dongling. He was the most experienced in Dongling High-Tech, and he was in charge of finance, so he could feel any slight disturbance.

"I know!"

Li Dongling took a sip of wine. "After the New Year, no matter what, we will launch the first mouse product and start promotion, publicity, and production!"

The developed products also need to find manufacturers to produce on behalf of others. Now Dongling High-Tech doesn't have its own production company and can only let other companies process and produce components, and then assemble them. It also needs to register patents, promote, publicize, etc. These all need money. It's impossible to smash all the money into R&D. Once the funds are exhausted, the entire Dongling High-Tech will fall into trouble.

Seeing Yao Luoying come down, Hu Zixian was not convenient to say more. After Li Dongling let people distribute some bonuses, the atmosphere at the year-end meeting scene had become lively.

Feeling a bit stuffy, Li Dongling came outside. The cold wind blew, making Li Dongling's dizzy brain become clear.

Taking out a cigarette, Li Dongling used a lighter to strike it several times, but it was blown out by the wind. When it was struck again, a figure appeared before his eyes. Looking up, he saw Yao Luoying opening her windbreaker, blocking the wind for Li Dongling.

Looking at Yao Luoying, who was wearing light makeup, with a flushed face and a smile in her eyes, Li Dongling, who had lit the cigarette, looked at the cigarette in his hand, then looked at Yao Luoying, who was sitting beside him, and finally extinguished the cigarette.

Seeing Li Dongling's action, Yao Luoying looked up at the night sky and suddenly asked Li Dongling, "What is your New Year's wish?!"

"Mine?!"

Li Dongling thought for a while without opening his mouth. Yao Luoying saw this and knew that Li Dongling didn't believe this set, but still said, "Believe me, it's very accurate. From childhood to adulthood, my New Year's wishes have all come true!"

Looking at Yao Luoying's bright eyes, Li Dongling thought for a while and closed his eyes. After opening his eyes, he saw Yao Luoying leaning in front of him, looking at him with full expectation, obviously wanting to know what New Year's wish he made.

"You will know later!"

Hearing this, Yao Luoying pouted in dissatisfaction and turned her head to one side.

"Bang."

A firework rose into the sky. This Dongling High-Tech year-end meeting also prepared quite a few fireworks. At this time, Gao Peng was leading people to set them off, and the people inside the year-end meeting also ran out to watch the fun.

When the fireworks lit up, Li Dongling and Yao Luoying both raised their faces and looked at the fireworks in the night sky. Yao Luoying turned to Li Dongling and said, "Happy New Year!"

The New Year at this time was the liveliest time for the people on this land, and the New Year flavor was also the strongest. Adults could get rest and organize the harvest of the year, children could have delicious snacks and new clothes, and of course, they would look forward to growing up.

Li Dongling spent this New Year, New Year's Eve, and the first few days of the New Year with his family in the Li family. After the New Year, this old house of the Li family would also be demolished to start building a new house.

After the New Year, when Chen Tao and those technical personnel returned to the laboratory, Li Dongling came to the laboratory and started to supervise the battle, which also made Chen Tao and a group of technical personnel of the mouse project usher in the destruction of the tyrant again, modifying parameters, redesigning, and redoing products again and again.

"Just use this version of the mouse to launch the first generation of products!"

Just when Chen Tao and the technical personnel of the mouse project team were modifying the product again and again, and were in pain, they suddenly heard Li Dongling's words, which made Chen Tao doubt whether he had heard it wrong. ===== CHAPTER 36 =====