Chapter 459: Bell Ringing and Tripod Eating

With the current situation of the Li family, countless people want to have a relationship with the Li family. Even if it's not Li Dongling, there are countless people who want to marry Li Dongshan to marry into a wealthy family in one fell swoop.

After all, looking at the situation in the country right now, basically anyone with a discerning eye can see that it is mainly about developing the economy. Whether it is from business or politics, you can't get around this point.

And if they can have the help of the Li family, the result will be twice the result with half the effort, which is visible to the naked eye. Yao Zhengru is the most direct example. Since Yao Zhengru took office, Pingyang's fiscal revenue has soared to the top 100 cities in the country, and its ranking has increased by several places almost every quarter.

With Pingyang's current performance, plus Yao Zhengru's age and his resume of serving in Pingyang, Yao Zhengru's official career in the future, even if it is just steady, will be a smooth ascent to the sky, which is something everyone can see.

With Yao Zhengru's precedent, who doesn't want to borrow a wave of east wind?

This is just in terms of official career. If it is a company cooperating with Dongling High-Tech, then various orders are almost received until the hands are soft. Which company doesn't want to cooperate with Dongling High-Tech.

If it weren't for Li Dongshan's unwillingness, even in the provincial capital of Hanxi, and other places, there are people willing to marry Li Dongshan.

This meal was quite good. The Li family's attitude toward Miao Jiahui, whether it was Li Zhenlin, Wang Xiulan, or Li Dongling and Li Dongyue, was treating her as one of their own, which made Miao Jiahui breathe a sigh of relief. After all, the Li family is different from the past, and Miao Jiahui was afraid that she wouldn't pass the Li family's test. Now, she doesn't need to worry about these anymore.

Especially Li Dongyue calling her "sister-in-law" one by one, which made Miao Jiahui, who had a traditional woman's personality, blush, but there was a lot of joy in her heart.

"Xiao Hui, I don't have anything prepared. Take this as a meeting gift from our old Li family!"

After eating, Miao Jiahui started helping Wang Xiulan clean up. After Wang Xiulan went to the kitchen, she took out a jade bracelet wrapped in red silk and wanted to give it to Miao Jiahui to wear.

"This, I can't accept it, it's too valuable!"

Miao Jiahui looked at the mutton-fat white jade bracelet and said hurriedly. Although she didn't know much about jade bracelets, relying on a woman's intuition, she could also know that this thing was probably not cheap.

Wang Xiulan showed a look of feigned anger. "This is something passed down by the old Li family. Are you unwilling to enter the door of the old Li family?"

What kind of thing passed down by the old Li family? Back then, with the Li family's situation, even silver dollars like Yuan Datou weren't passed down. If there had been anything passed down, it would have been pawned long ago. Where could there be any jade bracelet?

This jade bracelet was also bought by Li Dongling in response to Wang Xiulan, buying mutton-fat white jade, and then finding a craftsman to carve it. Wang Xiulan declared that in the future, every daughter-in-law who enters the Li family door will have one, and it must be passed down from generation to generation. But Li Dongling felt that in the small box under Wang Xiulan's bed, there were probably not ten, but eight jade bracelets...

Hearing Wang Xiulan's words, Miao Jiahui didn't push it away anymore. Seeing this, Wang Xiulan smiled and put the jade bracelet on Miao Jiahui's hand.

Miao Jiahui was helping Wang Xiulan clean up, Li Dongyue was preparing things to go to the Pingyang Animal Park, and Li Zhenlin continued to sip wine. The old Li head was quite satisfied with the current life. Seeing that Li Dongshan's marriage had a place to land, the last burden in his heart was also put down.

"That..."

After sipping a glass of wine, Li Zhenlin, who remembered the matter, was no longer in the mood to continue sipping wine. He called out to Li Dongling.

Li Dongling looked at Li Zhenlin's appearance. Knowing his temper, how could he not know that Li Zhenlin had encountered something embarrassing? He remembered that in his past life, when the Li family couldn't turn around, Li Zhenlin also had this expression when he went to borrow money from others.

"Dad, if you have anything, just say it directly!"

Li Dongling sat down, poured a glass for Li Zhenlin again, and then clinked glasses with him.

He knew Li Zhenlin's character deeply, like most fathers in the country, but as long as they can solve things themselves, they will never trouble the younger generation. This is the style of the older generation, or rather, they are unwilling to show weakness in front of the younger generation.

"It's about your cousin's family. You know that girl in their family. She graduated from junior college this year. Now the school doesn't arrange work. Your cousin wants us to help find a job for that girl..." Li Zhenlin didn't finish, and Li Dongling knew what he meant.

Since the Li family started, Li Zhenlin and Wang Xiulan hadn't responded to too many requests from the Li and Wang families, nor had they borrowed money to relatives on both sides every three days.

They also understood the truth of "helping in an emergency but not helping the lazy," and "a measure of rice breeds gratitude, a peck of rice breeds enmity." If they kept borrowing money, if they didn't borrow it one day, they might become enemies.

Those relatives who had almost no contact with the Li family before now came to climb the family tree. They also knew what that group of relatives wanted and didn't pay much attention to them.

However, some relatives were close friends with the Li family and had helped the Li family a lot before. Including in his past life, Li Zhenlin's two cousins and Li Dongling's two uncles had also helped the Li family a lot. They had even raised money for Li Dongling and Li Dongyue's tuition.

After the Li family made a fortune, they naturally helped these relatives. Like the girl from the uncle's family in Li Zhenlin's mouth, her tuition was covered by the Li family, and several families' medical expenses were also covered by them.

In addition, most of these relatives didn't have high academic qualifications. Some were arranged to companies cooperating with Dongling High-Tech, or some units, and were arranged into idle positions like logistics, security, and warehouse management, but they weren't allowed to enter Dongling High-Tech directly to serve as management.

"No problem," Li Dongling laughed. "It's Hongwei, right? That girl has already graduated from university!

In this way, you tell cousin's side, see if Hongwei wants to work in Hanxi, or wants to go to other provinces to break through. If she enters Dongling High-Tech, I'm afraid Hongwei needs to start from the bottom. If she goes to other companies or places, I can entrust someone to help!"

Li Dongling didn't oppose putting relatives into Dongling High-Tech. "Employing the virtuous without avoiding relatives." If there were truly talents in the two families, Li Dongling couldn't push them away.

Even sometimes, the company's board of directors still needs some executives with the founder's surname to sit in, so that they can help the founder's next generation sit firmly in their position. Just like a certain beverage brand, even the executives who are family members of the company founder don't support the founder's next generation to take over, so how can the founder's next generation helmsman sit firmly?

In fact, sometimes, a company's board of directors still needs some founders' high-level executives to hold the fort in order to help the founder's next generation secure their position. Just like a certain beverage brand, if even the high-level executives who are members of the founder's family do not support the founder's next generation in taking over, then how can the founder's next-generation leader sit firmly in their position?

Hearing Li Dongling's words, Li Zhenlin breathed a sigh of relief. As a traditional man, the generation of Li Zhenlin carried the whole family on their shoulders. Their whole life was to block the wind and rain for their children. Even when they were old, they were thinking about taking care of themselves.

But as long as there was any way, they were easily unwilling to ask the younger generation for things. If they were rejected, it would make them even more embarrassed.

Li Zhenlin knew that Li Dongling didn't stuff many relatives into Dongling High-Tech, but he also knew that those two cousins of the Li family had helped the Li family, and he couldn't be indifferent. This was why he opened his mouth to Li Dongling.

Li Dongling does not really stuff relatives into Dongling Gao Ke, and Li Zhenlin also knows this, but those two cousins of the Li family have helped the Li family, so he could not remain indifferent. Only then did he speak to Li Dongling, and Li Dongling agreed directly, which also allowed Li Zhenlin to put down a stone in his heart, and he sipped his wine with relish while eating peanuts.

Li Dongling turned the wine glass in his hand, thought for a moment, and said, "Dad, I plan to start next year by including important members of the Li family and my uncle's family under the Zhixing Foundation."

"Every month, we will distribute basic living expenses to the members of both families in the Zhixing Foundation, and also purchase medical insurance in Hong Kong. Future expenses for schooling and studying abroad will also be covered by the Zhixing Foundation!"

This is equivalent to giving the members of the Li family and the Wang family a guarantee of living. Every month, they can receive enough money to live on, and they have medical insurance, so they won't be impoverished by illness, and their schooling expenses will also be covered by the Zhixing Foundation.

To put it more plainly, it means that after the members of the two families rely on the living expenses distributed by the Zhixing Foundation, they will definitely not starve to death, and they don't have to worry about having no money to treat illnesses or having no money for school.

However, it only guarantees that they won't starve to death. If they want to live a better life, travel in luxury cars, live in villas, and eat fine food and wear fine clothes, they still have to rely on themselves. The Zhixing Foundation cannot provide them with that level of living conditions.

Otherwise, if the welfare is too high, it is very likely to evolve into raising a group of vampires who try every means to hollow out the Zhixing Foundation. You must know that the vast Ming Empire was eaten up by hundreds of thousands of imperial clansmen.

The Great Qing, which is deeply missed by Westerners, also raised hundreds of thousands of Eight Banners children. These Eight Banners children were theoretically the pillars of the Great Qing, but in reality, they engaged in visiting brothels, smoking opium, walking birds, and fighting crickets. They were extremely extravagant and decadent. In the end, when the Great Qing was finished, these people ran faster than anyone else.

No matter how powerful the Zhixing Foundation is, can it be more powerful than these two great empires? Can we expect the Zhixing Foundation to solve the human nature problems that they couldn't solve?

Anyway, Li Dongling promoted the Zhixing Foundation to give the Li family and the Wang family some basic living guarantees. After all, there is a blood relationship. If he ignores them at all, it is inevitable that he will bear the reputation of being cold-hearted.

If the Zhixing Foundation can allow the Li family or the Wang family to cultivate more talents, and let some people who can help Dongling Gao Ke help Dongling Gao Ke in the future, that would be even better. Sometimes it might have a miraculous effect.

But the Zhixing Foundation certainly cannot provide extravagant lives to all Li-surnamed or Wang-surnamed members related to Li Dongling.

"As for which people from the Li family and the Wang family will enter the Zhixing Foundation, you and Mom should decide!"

Li Dongling said to Li Zhenlin. Li Zhenlin and his wife know best which relatives on both sides are close to their family, what their personalities are, which people can be close to, and which are greedy gluttons. Li Dongling doesn't want to raise a group of enemies.