Chapter 106

Li Ye strolled around the small street and bought quite a few good things, and his little follower Wang Jianqiang also received quite a few benefits.

When Li Ye put the headphones of a portable player on Wang Jianqiang's ears, the expression on this simple brother was nothing short of spectacular.

【So the outside world is so wonderful, and there are so many benefits to following Brother.】

Wang Jianqiang secretly rejoiced that Watching Watching Watching Jin Peng and the others had scattered to act from the beginning, giving him the opportunity to be Li Ye's follower. The benefits along the way were truly overflowing!

【Brother Xiao Ye is still the richest.】

After more than half an hour, Watching Watching Watching Jin Peng and the others walked back toward them.

Seeing the bulging large bag on Wang Jianqiang's back, they asked in surprise, "Xiao Ye, did you buy that many things?"

"Didn't buy much," Li Ye smiled at them and said, "What's wrong with you guys? Are you all being so frugal?"

Watching Watching Watching Jin Peng, Hao Jian, and their group basically hadn't bought too many things, as if they were all frugal men who managed their homes well.

Ma Qianshan, who had been excited just a moment ago, said, "Don't mention it. The people over there don't speak Mandarin, and the Cantonese is all gibberish. We couldn't make heads or tails of it..."

Li Ye sighed and said, "Then Watching Watching Watching Jin Peng and Hao Jian, you couldn't understand either?"

"Heh~~"

Watching Watching Watching Jin Peng awkwardly touched his scalp, responding to Li Ye with an awkward laugh.

He and Watching Watching Watching Jin Peng had been running between Yangcheng and Dongshan for the past six months, and they had only scratched the surface of Cantonese, which was as difficult as a foreign language level eight.

It was fine if people cooperated with them by guessing, but if they didn't cooperate, they could only stare blankly.

Li Ye glanced behind the crowd and asked again, "What about Sanshui? His Cantonese should be okay."

Mu Weimin and Ma Qianshan glanced at Watching Watching Watching Jin Peng, said nothing, and looked around at the scenery.

Hao Jian smiled and said, "We're used to it over in Guangzhou; many people can speak Mandarin. I really didn't expect it to be like this here. When Sanshui comes over later, let him lead the brothers to buy enough."

Watching Watching Watching Jin Peng also smiled and leaned over, saying, "Xiao Ye, when did you learn Cantonese? Help us translate. I see they have high heels for sale over there; I want to buy a few more pairs for my wife..."

"I don't speak Cantonese."

Li Ye smiled, reached out and took the backpack from Wang Jianqiang's back, and took out a simple calculator from inside.

"Here, everyone take one. Don't say anything after entering the shop; just point to what you want to buy first, and then press the numbers on the calculator.

Remember, your expression must be cool. We are here to spend money. If they don't give us face, we'd rather not buy."

"Sigh, this method works. Let's go try it."

Watching Watching Watching Jin Peng took a few calculators and went off with Ma Qianshan and the others.

Hao Jian saw Li Ye's look and stayed behind.

"Is Sanshui with Boss Zhang's group?"

"Should be. He told us just now that he wanted to survey the market here."

"He's grown some ability! Even surveying the market..."

Li Ye smiled and said, "We're holding a shareholders' meeting tonight. Some rules need to be straightened out."

Hao Jian nodded, "Okay, I'll tell Watching Watching Watching Jin Peng later."

Hao Jian was the second-largest shareholder after Li Ye, but when the Guangzhou trade route was first opened, Jin Peng brought his two little brothers, Sanshui and Ergou, and there was a faint momentum of suppressing Hao Jian in the startup team.

Li Ye was busy with the college entrance examination and writing, so he didn't have time to carefully sort out the problems. Plus, Watching Watching Watching Jin Peng was actually quite open-minded, and Hao Jian didn't feel there was anything he couldn't get past.

But this time Li Ye added three new people, and even brought Wang Jianqiang. Hao Jian understood in his heart that Li Ye, the helmsman behind the scenes, was clearly going to take action.

Li Ye's idea worked quite well. Watching Watching Watching Jin Peng and the others bought things and came back before long, and they even found Sanshui and brought him back.

"Aiyo, I just went to the watch shop over there for a while, and you guys couldn't wait. We're out for the whole day! No rush, no rush..."

Sanshui saw Li Ye's half-smiling expression, felt a thud in his heart, and hurriedly laughed and tried to play it off.

"I'm certainly not in a rush," Li Ye smiled and said, "You take a few people, and I'll take a few people. Let's split up to buy things. We have to make sure the brothers are satisfied before we return."

"Okay, okay, I've already inquired clearly. The most popular things here are watches, accessories, and electronic products.

Also, silk stockings are the most sought-after, but that shop's business is too good, and the shop assistants are very difficult to deal with. I was planning to ask Boss Zhang to buy them..."

Li Ye didn't wait for Sanshui to finish and said, "Want to buy silk stockings? I can buy them. How many pairs do you want?"

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"Xiao Ye, help me buy ten or twenty pairs. I want to take them to my wife and sister-in-law."

"I want some too, five pairs..."

"Brother Xiao Ye, here's the money. Help me buy them!"

The crowd followed Li Ye to the Hong Kong shop selling silk stockings, and then watched as Li Ye flashed inside and started jabbering.

Watching Watching Watching Jin Peng frowned and said, "What Xiao Ye is speaking, it's not Cantonese, right?"

Hao Jian and the others were also confused, but they watched as the boss of the silk stocking shop directly abandoned other customers to handle Li Ye's business first.

When Li Ye returned with a large bag of good things, Watching Watching Watching Jin Peng voiced his question.

Li Ye said nonchalantly, "Oh, I was afraid of trouble, so I spoke English directly to them."

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The crowd immediately felt a sense of awe, looking at Li Ye's not-so-sturdy frame, which seemed to have grown a few inches taller.

Li Ye actually could speak a little Cantonese, but it was definitely very different from the locals.

Even many years later, if you couldn't speak Cantonese, dealing with some Hong Kong people was still a struggle.

So when Li Ye entered the shop on the Hong Kong side, he started directly with "How much" and "Out of stock."

He was someone who had been tortured by English for over a decade in his later life, so his short, powerful English phrases had a quite authentic accent.

Plus his cool "money is no object" expression, the other party basically served Li Ye quickly, and the transaction was pleasant.

But these words fell into the ears of Watching Watching Watching Jin Peng and the others, and they felt somewhat uncomfortable.

【Let someone who speaks English come and translate for us to buy things? What level of cadre are you?】

That night, Li Ye and the others couldn't return to Yangcheng in time, so they found an inn in Pengcheng to stay.

At this time, Pengcheng hadn't yet started the "Pengcheng Speed" that amazed the world. Everywhere were newly built foreign-related export enterprises and residential areas, quite like the urban villages of later generations.

After eating, Sanshui laughed and tried to build a relationship with everyone.

"I'll take you guys to watch dancing! I know there are many people dancing in the square over there every day. High heels, floral skirts—it's so beautiful."

Ma Qianshan and the others were restless. Watching Watching Watching Jin Peng gave a few instructions and let them go.

Hao Jian had already told him that they were going to hold a shareholders' meeting tonight, so it was good for Sanshui to go out.

Otherwise, even Wang Jianqiang would be qualified to participate, but Sanshui, who had "worked hard and made great contributions," wouldn't be, and there might be friction between the brothers.

After Sanshui and the others left, Li Ye first asked Hao Jian to borrow the inn's phone to call Ergou, who was left in Yangcheng, to confirm there were no urgent matters, and then he started the meeting.

He closed the door and asked Hao Jian and Watching Watching Watching Jin Peng, "You saw everything on Chung Ying Street today, right? Any thoughts?"

Hao Jian and Watching Watching Watching Jin Peng were a bit confused, not understanding what Li Ye meant.

Li Ye sighed, "I took you to Chung Ying Street not just to buy things. I wanted you to see the gap between our side and the Hong Kong side, and the gap between us and the world."

Hao Jian said uncomprehendingly, "We know this gap. Western things are indeed good, but we individual business owners can't play with import and export."

Li Ye said patiently, "Times are changing. The connection between Pengcheng and Hong Kong will become closer and closer in the future. We must seize the opportunity."

Watching Watching Watching Jin Peng asked in surprise, "How to seize the opportunity? Xiao Ye, didn't you say... not to touch the smuggling business?"

Li Ye felt that Watching Watching Watching Jin Peng and the others couldn't keep up with his train of thought and said directly, "Aren't you afraid that having too much money will burn your hands? After going back tomorrow, discuss with Guo Donglun and ask him to find a way to solve the qualification of an affiliated unit for us.

Then invest the surplus funds from the clothing business into Pengcheng, find ways to buy land, build factories, train workers, cultivate management, and accumulate talent reserves. Only when the trend arrives will we have the qualifications to ride the car."

Watching Watching Watching Jin Peng and Hao Jian looked at each other, both feeling that Li Ye's steps were too big.

Their small group now had a scale of only a dozen people, and they were all "crooked melons and cracked dates" from Qingshui County.

This sudden direct factory building, worker training... and even management talent reserve...

Xiao Ye, you might as well pull your grandfather over to be the factory director; he is indeed a talent.

Your father is barely enough, okay?

Li Ye saw their hesitation and insisted, "While we still have time, it's nothing to suffer a little loss and pay some tuition. If you don't know, you can learn! If you stumble, just get back up!"

"If we wait until the policy is relaxed and private enterprises are allowed, and we still have the level of Sanshui and Ergou under our hands, are you waiting to be squeezed out of business?"

Li Ye was also very helpless.

It's 1982 now. When the country opens up the policy in 1984 and allows private enterprises to be listed, giants like Vanke, Lenovo, and Jianlibao will start their journeys.

But they didn't "start from scratch." They already had a whole set of enterprise reserves; they just changed their nature.

There are so many business talents in Shenzhou; people like Chen Jianghe are everywhere.

Compared to them, Li Ye's current startup team is nothing; they wouldn't even last one round on the ring before being KO'd.

So exploring in advance, screening in advance, preparing in advance, and poaching talent—if he can pull together a team in two years that can barely grasp the advanced opportunities Li Ye provides, Li Ye would be overjoyed.

Any enterprise with combat effectiveness needs a perfect and united management structure like a pyramid, from top to bottom.

Don't think that a transmigrator is all-powerful. Even if you are given a "Transmigration Dictionary," without experienced executors, all dreams are castles in the air.

A transmigrator, beating people like Ma Ali and Wang Wanda with bare hands?

Brother, don't take the college entrance exam; go cultivate immortality directly!

A shout of "Sword, come!" and gods and ghosts will retreat. You have the final say in this world.

Everyone will kowtow to you.

In his previous life, Li Ye had seen several wealthy second-generation returnees.

Their management theories were one after another. After returning, they wanted to rectify the workplace, talking about Haier's iron-blooded spirit, closing the loop on Ali's processes.

And the result! The hearts of the people were in panic and a mess, and in the end, the old man still had to come out to turn the tide.

Why?

You have a small or medium-sized enterprise with only a hundred people; why are you learning Haier and Ali?

Do you have that talent reserve?

Do you have that promotion platform?

Do you expect a bunch of slackers with a monthly salary of three or five thousand to work hard and explode with the power of a small universe for you?

Why don't you just spend a monthly salary of ten thousand to hire Cai Chongxin to work for you?

"Brother Xiao Ye, you say how to do it, I, Hao Jian, have no second words. But if we ask Guo Donglun to get some qualification, what if he swallows us up in one bite?"

Hao Jian put forward his own opinion, and Watching Watching Watching Jin Peng also nodded, expressing his worries.

"Not to mention whether he is that kind of person, even if he is, what can he swallow? Money? Land? Factory?"

Li Ye smiled and said, "We only need experienced people, an experienced team."

"Okay, I'll find Guo Donglun after I go back. We might not have much surplus cash this year, but there will definitely be a lot next year."

Watching Watching Watching Jin Peng and Hao Jian still didn't quite understand, but they both agreed.

Li Ye said, "Of course, if Guo Donglun is unwilling to cooperate, we will find others."

After Wen Qingsheng returned to the capital, he held a real position in the COFCO enterprise and definitely had import and export branches in Pengcheng. If it really didn't work, Li Ye planned to use his connections.

"Let's settle the next development issue like this for now. Next, I'll talk about discipline."

Li Ye became serious and looked directly at Watching Watching Watching Jin Peng, saying, "I've been in Yangcheng for more than ten days, and I've basically figured out our current business. I won't talk much about many details, but I must give you a reminder."

"Any business that does not conform to the interests of the country must absolutely not be done."

Li Ye directly pulled out a piece of paper and drew on it for Watching Watching Watching Jin Peng and Hao Jian.

"The clothing we mainly operate now is produced by factories. In the production process, it created employment for the country and paid taxes. Then this is beneficial to the country."

"But the smuggling business—did it create employment for the country? Did it pay taxes to the country?"

"If all the profits belong to individuals, do you think the country is a fool and will let you continue to do it safely?"

Li Ye threw the pen and said unquestioningly, "In the future, if you have things you don't understand, draw them yourself and analyze them. Is it fattening individuals and harming the country? Don't seek your own death and drag your brothers down."

"If the business we do benefits the country, then drinking some soup is naturally nothing, but if you want to eat alone, just wait to be cleaned up until you sell your pants!"

Watching Watching Watching Jin Peng's sweat was flowing down.

He hadn't listened to less of Sanshui's chatter these days. That smuggling business made money really fast, much more refreshing than the painstaking effort of smuggling clothing, where you only earned a few cents per piece.

But now that he thought about it, he was truly muddled.

A police station could play him to death, and he still wanted to dig the country's wall?

"Little Ye, Sanshui is too young. I'll clean him up tomorrow. We're all brothers; don't take it too seriously."

Li Ye waved his hand and said, "Whether you clean him up or not is your business. I just want the result. Also, let Ma Qianshan and the others get familiar with the Yangcheng business as soon as possible."

"After a period of time, rotate everyone. Sanshui cannot stay in Yangcheng anymore."

"Okay, Xiao Ye, you know more. If he should be hit, hit him; if he should be killed, kill him. I have no second words."

Watching Watching Watching Jin Peng hurriedly made a guarantee to Li Ye. He was actually very smart and had noticed Sanshui's wrongness, and he knew even better that this junior brother of his would turn into a ruthless person in the blink of an eye.

Not to mention that behind Li Ye, there was an old guy like Li Zhongfa who had experienced wind and rain!

Li Ye had actually already saved his face!

A few people talked about some details and discussed the few "disciplines" Li Ye wrote down, and then they heard the inn staff outside calling them to answer the phone.

Hao Jian went to answer it first, then immediately came back to call Li Ye, saying it was Old Master Li calling directly from Qingshui County.

Li Ye didn't know what happened and hurriedly went to answer.

"What's wrong, Grandfather?"

"What's wrong? If you don't come back, the house will be turned upside down!"

"How could that be! With your Five Finger Mountain pressing down, no one can turn the house upside down."

Li Ye didn't believe Li Zhongfa's words at all!

He had received several calls from Li Zhongfa these days, and every time it was urging him to go back.

Report meetings, reporter interviews... it sounded like a headache.

Anyway, he, Li Ye, is a positive example now, so let old oilers like Principal Chang and Grandfather go and take the blame!

Li Zhongfa was furious, but he still suppressed his anger and said, "This time the provincial newspaper reporter said that they must interview you."

"Counting the days, the admission letter should be arriving soon. You must come out and show your face."

Li Ye still wanted to smile and prevaricate with Li Zhongfa, but the other side said the most important sentence.

"The capital sent you a telegram and a letter. Are you coming back to take a look?"

"Okay, Grandfather, I'll go back as soon as possible."

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