Chapter 378: Reversing the Heavens and Earth

Listening to He Heng's words, which carried a hint of meaning, Li Li Dongling and the others couldn't help but cast their gazes toward Gu Gu Xiguang.

"It's still too early to say!" Gu Gu Xiguang shook his head, seemingly unwilling to mention it more.

Everyone was hungry, so they couldn't care about politeness and all took it upon themselves to fill their stomachs.

After the meal, the group dispersed. The rest of the people from Yanjing were arranged to rest, while Gu Gu Xiguang, He Heng, Li Li Weimin, Li Li Dongling, Yao Yao Zhengru, Wu Wu Yaoguo, and others went to a place to talk.

And it was only then that Li Li Dongling, Yao Yao Zhengru, and the others learned from the few words why He Heng had said that just now.

Rumors were circulating among the various departments in Yanjing that a new round of adjustments was coming, and the Economic and Trade Commission might become the biggest winner in this round, and Gu Gu Xiguang's power would increase by a large margin!

More than ten departments related to the economic field, such as the Ministry of Coal, the Ministry of Machinery, the Ministry of Metallurgy, the Ministry of Domestic Trade, the Light Industry Association, the Chemical Industry, and the Textile Association, would be merged into the Economic and Trade Commission. Thus, the Economic and Trade Commission would leap to become the most influential department in the domestic economic field!

Not only these departments, but a large number of companies would also become companies under the Economic and Trade Commission, including the Three Barrels of Oil, China State Construction, China Communications Construction, China Railway Construction, Southern Power Grid, Development Bank, Metallurgical Group, China Commercial Company, etc., all becoming companies under the Economic and Trade Commission.

This was only a part. The companies directly managed by the Economic and Trade Commission, and the companies not directly managed by it in various provinces and cities in the country, were an even larger area, including the Xingfa Group, which invested in Yinghaiwei at a critical moment in the past life, making Yinghaiwei soar into the sky and become the most eye-catching existence in the Internet industry, which was also affiliated under the Economic and Trade Commission.

And the Xingfa Group, which does chemicals and electricity, suddenly crossed industries to invest in Yinghaiwei. If there was no meaning from the Economic and Trade Commission, that was absolutely impossible.

Hearing the changes that the Economic and Trade Commission was about to face, the gazes cast by Yao Yao Zhengru, Li Li Weimin, Wu Wu Yaoguo, and others toward Gu Gu Xiguang couldn't help but change.

If this news was true, then once the adjustment was completed, Gu Gu Xiguang's power would be almost incomparable to what it was now.

Seeing the gazes cast by everyone, Gu Gu Xiguang shook his head and said, "The news circulating now is just catching shadows and cannot be taken as true!

Even if it is true, this matter will take at least two or three years to complete the adjustment. By then, it is really hard to predict who is right and who is wrong. The most important thing right now is to do the current things well!"

"There is no smoke without fire. Now in Yanjing, quite a few people have begun to operate, wanting to be transferred to the Economic and Trade Commission. By then, it is said that I will still have to rely on you, Director Gu, to take care of me!"

He Heng said to Gu Gu Xiguang with a bit of envy. Try asking among the various departments in Yanjing now, who doesn't envy the Economic and Trade Commission? As long as the gilding in the Economic and Trade Commission is completed, transferring out is basically a promotion.

Li Li Dongling also looked at this senior brother from Hanxi Hanxi Jiaoda. With Gu Gu Xiguang there, in the next few years, Li Dongling Gao Ke's days in the country wouldn't need to worry about any monsters or ghosts running out to add trouble. It was also the best development opportunity for Li Dongling Gao Ke!

The Yinghaiwei that shouted slogans in the past life could get the support of the Xingfa Group under the Economic and Trade Commission relying on the resources leaked from the fingers of the Economic and Trade Commission, and it was glorious for a while.

Is it possible that with the current cooperation between Li Dongling Gao Ke and the Economic and Trade Commission, it can't compare to Yinghaiwei?

"Old He, you are in the Foreign Exchange Department, who can move you? Maybe in the future, I will have to beg you, beg you to pull me!"

Gu Gu Xiguang sighed and said. The Economic and Trade Commission has performed quite brilliantly in these few years, taking over so many departments and companies. The power is of course greater, but at the same time, the burden is also heavier.

The companies taken over by the Economic and Trade Commission definitely need to be supported and need a lot of funds, or even foreign exchange to purchase equipment. In the future, Gu Gu Xiguang might really have to beg He Heng.

"The Economic and Trade Commission will definitely fully support the Torch Group. However, the Torch Group also needs to produce enough results for the Economic and Trade Commission to explain to all parties."

Gu Gu Xiguang finally said to Li Li Dongling, Zhang Zhang Xiaocheng, Wu Wu Yaoguo, and others.

The Economic and Trade Commission pulling enough support for the Torch Group is all based on the premise that the Torch Group's performance is outstanding enough and the results meet expectations. If the performance is lagging, then it will not be so easy for the Economic and Trade Commission to invest more resources in the Torch Group in the future. Sometimes, if virtue does not match the position, it is easier to attract right and wrong.

"With this sentence from Junior Brother Li, I am relieved!"

Li Li Dongling said. Once the Torch Group gains a foothold in the lighter industry and has its own basic market, it can enter other industries. The most critical one is the electronic cigarette industry.

This is an industry with a much larger market scale than lighters. With this market, in the next twenty or thirty years, the Torch Group does not need to worry about survival. The Torch Industrial Park might also become one of the most profitable and foreign exchange-earning industrial parks in the country!

"With this sentence from Junior Brother Li, I am relieved!"

Gu Gu Xiguang said with a smile. Regarding Li Li Dongling's ability to control the market, he had already seen it. As long as the Torch Group is still controlled by Li Li Dongling, Gu Gu Xiguang doesn't need to worry about anything, and the Torch Industrial Park can bring a steady stream of revenue to him, the Economic and Trade Commission, and countless people.

Gu Gu Xiguang and He Heng were already middle-aged, and after rushing all day today, they were exhausted. After talking, the group dispersed one after another.

Li Li Dongling returned to his residence at the Torch Group. After washing up, Li Li Dongling took out an order for the Torch Group and flipped through it.

The order sales volume of the Torch Group is currently in an explosion period. Basically, the one or two million lighters produced every day are immediately snatched up by tobacco, alcohol, health supplement companies, and retail merchants such as supply and marketing cooperatives, restaurants, supermarkets, and hotels in major cities.

Looking at this information, Li Li Dongling's thoughts spread. Investing in the Torch Group, for Li Dongling Gao Ke, in fact, how much profit it makes is actually not that important.

The employment positions, tax revenue, and the connections and resources pulled in provided by the Torch Group are actually more important for Li Dongling Gao Ke.

Li Dongling Gao Ke and its subsidiaries Feiyan, Dongxin Semiconductor, Dongfang Optoelectronics, and Shenzhou Storage, plus the current Torch Group, and the invested BOE, BYD, Hanxi New Materials, and other companies are forming a new interest community around Li Dongling Gao Ke.

A good man also needs three helpers. All under heaven are driven by profit, and all under heaven are driven by profit. With the support of companies like the Torch Group, BYD, and BOE, as well as the connections, resources, and supporters gathered, Li Dongling Gao Ke can go further.

In the future, the more supporters Li Dongling Gao Ke has, and the more people who rely on Li Dongling Gao Ke to eat, the fewer people will dare to play dirty tricks on Li Dongling Gao Ke.

In addition, in the future, when Li Dongling Gao Ke fights with opponents in America and old Europe overseas, it can have a few more chances of winning!

The next day, the media that rushed over from Yanjing began to conduct comprehensive filming and interviews of the Torch Group and the Torch Industrial Park.

And seeing the media lineup that came this time, the Torch Group also had a premonition in their hearts that the platform for this filming and reporting would probably not be that simple. The Torch Group, the Pingyang Municipal Government, and the Hanxi Provincial Government all ran over to cooperate.

And on the other side, the Torch Group's lighters were still opening up territory. Every day, the road to the Torch Industrial Park was full of trucks waiting to haul goods.

Under the office building of the Torch Group, a group of companies waiting to pick up goods and place advertisements gathered, especially companies in the three major industries of tobacco, alcohol, and health supplements, almost fighting red-eyed, constantly raising prices against each other, just to get the goods and let their companies carry out the activity of buying products and giving lighters.

"Pingyang Daily claims that the Torch Group has set a record for the fastest shipment volume in history, exceeding 20 million lighters!"

"The Torch Group has cumulatively received orders for over 45 million lighters from Hongtashan, Yuzhang, Xiangnan Tobacco, and many alcohol, health supplement, and other companies!"

"Because the demand of advertising investors exceeds expectations, the advertising price of a single lighter under the Torch Group exceeds 0.41 yuan, and the advertising revenue has exceeded 10 million. The advertising business is becoming a new revenue business for the Torch Group!"

In this atmosphere, the sales volume of the Torch Group constantly set new historical highs, and the entire domestic lighter industry also watched as the Torch Group set new records one after another like chopping melons and vegetables.

Seeing the scene of the Torch Group attacking cities and land in the domestic lighter industry, a group of domestic lighter manufacturers couldn't help but feel heart-pounding.

Although domestic lighter manufacturers currently have their main market overseas, it doesn't mean they don't care about the domestic market. And now, the Torch Group's unreasonable style of play, the one-yuan pricing, made this group of lighter manufacturers begin to worry, vaguely feeling that the Torch Group is preparing to completely cut off their retreat.

For a time, various voices arose. The voice that the Torch Group was maliciously competing and disturbing the lighter market suddenly began to rise, and it was even rumored that some lighter manufacturers were preparing to unite to boycott the Torch Group from entering the local market.

"Big Brother!"

Inside the Huang Xinhai Lighter Company, marketing manager Huang Huang Guangze ran into factory director Huang Huang Xinhai's office in a hurry.

Huang Xinhai Company was the first to contact the Torch Group and announced that it would use the lighter parts industrial chain of the Torch Industrial Park.

Now Huang Xinhai Company has not completely moved to the Torch Industrial Park, but it already has offices and production workshops in the Torch Industrial Park, and production lines are also being debugged. It is preparing to start trial production in the near future. According to Huang Xinhai Company's calculation, using the industrial chain of the Torch Industrial Park, the cost of Huang Xinhai lighters will drop significantly.

Huang Huang Xinhai, who was fiddling with a metal lighter newly developed by Huang Xinhai Company in the office, saw Huang Huang Guangze running in and frowned, saying, "What's wrong again?"

"Big Brother, I heard news that many lighter companies are preparing to unite to boycott the Torch Group, believing that the Torch Group is interfering with the domestic lighter market!"

Hearing this, Huang Huang Xinhai's first reaction was somewhat unable to hold back, almost laughing out loud, "Boycott the Torch Group?"

One must know that the lighters produced in the country were boycotted by overseas lighter manufacturers in the overseas market. Now, domestic lighter manufacturers are actually uniting to boycott a domestic lighter manufacturer, which gave Huang Huang Xinhai a feeling of reversing the heavens and earth.

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