Chapter 28 5. If Mr. He does not charge money, it means that he will not try his best to help us

Zhang Qingbo arranged a car to pick him up at the Capital Airport.After the three got into the car, they went straight to the Beijing Hotel where Zhang Qingbo was staying.The relationship between Du Linxiang and Zhang Qingbo is unusual. When he walked into the room, Du Linxiang asked directly: "Old Zhang, this happened at a critical moment. Is there someone behind the scenes?" Zhang Qingbo shook his head: "This is a routine audit, and it doesn't look like someone deliberately made a bad move. Originally, the loan to Weitong was indeed out of order in some places." Du Linxiang asked with concern: "Is there any conclusion from the head office?"

Zhang Qingbo lit a cigarette: "That's why I was in a hurry to call you to Beijing. The head office only said that they found a problem, but they haven't made a final conclusion. I also took advantage of the opportunity to come to Beijing for a meeting, so I found out about it from my friends. News. You also know that China’s affairs are always big or small. It doesn’t matter if you find a problem, the key is how to deal with it in the end, writing a review, self-examination and self-correction is handling, and loan recovery within a time limit is also handling.” A smile finally appeared on Du Linxiang's face: "Fortunately, Zhang, you are well informed. Whatever you need me these days, just ask."

"What else can I do?" Zhang Qingbo stubbed out his half-smoked cigarette, "Of course I'm relying on connections and going through the back door. We must find a few people who can speak up. If the big man speaks, many problems will be solved." "Who speaks?" Du Linxiang asked. Zhang Qingbo said: "President Liu of the head office is the vice president in charge of this business, and he is also in charge of this audit. If he wants to say something, the matter will be settled naturally." Du Linxiang seemed to see the dawn: "Are you familiar with President Liu?"

Zhang Qingbo sighed: "President Liu is an airborne cadre, and I have no friendship with him. After thinking about it, I have to trouble President Yang to come forward." "President Yang?" Du Linxiang rubbed his forehead with his hands, "Is that the classmate of Mayor Lu, who used to be the president of the Guangdong branch?" Zhang Qingbo nodded and said: "Yes. President Yang spent a lot of time on the skyscraper last time. He has a deep friendship with Mayor Lu and has an impression of you. President Yang and President Liu are both vice presidents now, and they can talk to each other. Let’s talk. More importantly, their wives are still college classmates, so they have an unusual relationship.”

Du Linxiang seemed to be grabbing a life-saving straw: "Lao Zhang, can I trouble you to contact President Yang?" Zhang Qingbo lit another cigarette: "President Yang and I have made an appointment, and we will have dinner at the Chang'an Club opposite tomorrow night. I also told him that President Du from Hezhou will be there at that time. He didn't refuse, which is a good thing." It's a sign. But Lao Du, you have to prepare for it. These days, friendship alone may not work." Du Linxiang immediately said: "Don't worry about this, I'm not someone who doesn't understand the rules."

Early the next morning, Du Linxiang arranged for Zhu Tianrui to prepare one hundred thousand dollars, and put them neatly into a small black leather bag.Afterwards, the group nestled in the hotel, waiting anxiously for their meeting at night. Tian'anmen Square is 500 meters east along Chang'an Avenue. A modern building with a blue glass curtain wall is just across the street from the Beijing Hotel's ancient archway. Five gold-plated characters of "Chang'an Club" hang high on the top.Here is the Chang'an Club, which is known as the head of the four major clubs in the capital.Although this place is located in the most prosperous Wangfujing business district in Beijing, and there are many people coming and going, few ordinary people can freely enter and leave this club.Before entering the door, the staff will politely ask to show the membership card. If you can't show it, you will be embarrassed and will refuse to enter.

Neither Zhang Qingbo nor Du Linxiang were members of the Chang'an Club. Fortunately, President Yang called them in advance before the staff allowed their cars to drive into the underground parking garage.Zhang Qingbo had been to Chang'an Club once before, and he also introduced to everyone: "Don't look at the "Chang'an Club" on the top of the building covering the entire building, but in fact, only five floors of this entire building are used by Chang'an Club. , and the others are office buildings that are rented out.” When you come to the hall, the first thing you see is the "screen throne", which is full of gold foil, which is very eye-catching.It is said that it was produced by the China Red Sandalwood Museum, and it was made according to the proportion of the dragon chair in the Qianqing Palace of the Forbidden City.The "Red Sandalwood Ruyi" on the side echoes it.Go through the wooden arched door on the left, take the elevator up to the eighth floor, and you will find the most exquisite and stylish Chinese restaurant "Qing Zong Hong Candle" in Beijing.The restaurant can be called a palace of art collections, not only has the huge painting "The Drunken Concubine", but also a variety of classical furniture and lighting.Dozens of VIP private rooms matching it are also quite elegantly arranged, and the names of the private rooms are very particular, namely Yipin, Double Happiness, Sanyuan... all the way to Jiuru and Shiquan.

At about half past seven, President Yang walked into the private room with his secretary.After Zhang Qingbo's introduction, President Yang shook hands with Du Linxiang and said, "I've heard of Mr. Du's name for a long time." Du Linxiang half-bent, with a respectful look: "At the beginning of the skyscraper project, I was taken care of by President Yang." President Yang laughed: "Small things are not worth mentioning. Besides, it was your mayor Lu who gave me the death order. My old classmate is unreasonable. He told me that if you don't support the project in Hezhou support."

Du Linxiang came to President Yang's seat to pour wine, and said, "Mayor Lu specially asked me to convey my greetings to you." Back at his seat, Du Linxiang took out his mobile phone and dialed Lu Youshun's number: "Mayor Lu, I and President Zhang is in Beijing, reporting to your old classmate. Do you want to talk to him?" President Yang took the phone and joked with Lu Youshun on the phone.At the dinner that followed, Du Linxiang reported the operation of the skyscraper to President Yang. Everyone also chatted about the customs of Hezhou, and the atmosphere was very harmonious.After several rounds of drinking, Zhuang Zhiqi looked at his watch, it was past eight o'clock.He blinked at Zhu Tianrui, and Zhu Tianrui handed the prepared leather bag to Du Linxiang.Zhuang Zhiqi and Zhu Tianrui got up at the same time, made excuses and left the private room.

When they got down to the garage, Zhuang Zhiqi took out a cigarette, and Zhu Tianrui quickly lit it for him, and at the same time asked nervously, "Will Boss Du succeed this time?" Zhuang Zhiqi shook his head: "I don't know either. But for this kind of thing, the fewer people the better, so we have to come out first. Didn't you see that Zhang Qingbo also dismissed President Yang's secretary just now?" Zhu Tianrui sighed: "It's not easy to do something now! What kind of friendship and relationship have to be settled with money in the end." Zhuang Zhiqi took a deep breath: "It is not a matter of a day or two to change the social atmosphere. You see, what do Westerners go to church for? Prayer, confession, that is to communicate with the gods. What do Chinese people do in temples? Xiang, to put it bluntly, isn’t that making deals with gods and Buddhas, or even bribing gods and Buddhas? I’ll give you some money, and you’ll do something for me.” After speaking, Zhuang Zhiqi sighed heavily again. Take a breath.

Half an hour later, Du Linxiang and Zhang Qingbo also came to the garage.Looking at the faces of the two, there was no trace of joy.After getting in the car, Du Linxiang threw out the leather bag: "I tried everything, but President Yang just refused to take it." Zhuang Zhiqi and Zhu Tianrui saw that the matter failed, so they sat in the car and sat silently. Back at the hotel, all four of them walked into Zhang Qingbo's room.Zhang Qingbo sat on the sofa and crossed his legs: "I can't say that I didn't gain anything today, after all, President Yang showed us the way." Du Linxiang asked: "Who is the Mr. He that President Yang mentioned?" Zhang Qingbo said: "It's President Liu's father-in-law. Don't look at this old man who has only been a department-level cadre all his life. He was a famous figure in the financial system back then. President Liu's success today is all due to his father-in-law's promotion." Zhang Qingbo went on to say: "President Yang's concerns are not unreasonable. He and President Liu are both vice presidents, and they each take care of it. Some things are difficult to talk about. If Mr. He can say something to his son-in-law, President Liu should listen." Du Linxiang looked restless: "The key point is that we can't talk to Mr. He!" Zhang Qingbo said: "Don't worry. Didn't President Yang say to help us thread the needle? He said that we will reply before noon tomorrow. President Yang is a man of promise, and what he promised will not be left alone." After a difficult night, Zhang Qingbo called Du Linxiang at ten o'clock the next morning, saying that President Yang had already contacted Mr. He.The old man is at home these few days, and he can go anytime. Du Linxiang made another careful preparation.In addition to one hundred thousand dollars this time, he also asked Zhu Tianrui to purchase two high-end cigarettes.President Yang said that Mr. He was a well-known smoker in the Ministry back then, but now he is over eighty, and he still smokes a pack of cigarettes a day. In the evening of that day, Zhang Qingbo drove the car himself, and took Du Linxiang and his party to visit Mr. He.Mr. He's home is in the former State Planning Commission compound near the Sanli River. It takes more than ten minutes to drive there from the Beijing Hotel. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the central government built offices for major ministries and commissions centered on Sanlihe, and then the family compounds of various agencies were also built one after another.It has also become one of the places where high-ranking cadres and high-level intellectuals in the capital are concentrated, and the compound culture formed therefrom has a unique charm.Among the compound of various agencies, the compound of the former State Planning Commission is very representative.Someone calculated that 21 vice-premiers and state councilors and more than 200 ministers and vice-ministers came out of the original Planning Commission compound.In the past, the Hongta Auditorium of the Planning Commission ranked first among the four major auditoriums in Beijing (the other three were geological, material, and CPPCC auditoriums). In 1978, Stern, the first visiting western violin master after the founding of New China, chose to hold his solo concert in the Hongta Auditorium. Today, the former State Planning Commission compound is somewhat lonely. Against the gray sky and withered branches, the old Soviet-style building looks more and more dilapidated. Many windows have no glass and are barely blocked with plastic woven bags.The house where He Lao lived was allocated in the 1970s.In fact, his daughter and son-in-law bought him a spacious new house in the suburbs of Beijing, but he always felt that his life was not as convenient as the old house he had lived in for decades.Especially a group of old people in the compound, when they get together to chat, they will sigh: "There is everything in the compound, just like a small city, canteens, grain stores, department stores, public bathhouses, post offices, guest houses... just a short crematorium. It's complete." Du Linxiang once accompanied Lu Youshun to the compound once to visit an old leader who had been kind to Lu Youshun.Many of Zhang Qingbo's colleagues were also children of the big courtyard back then. While driving, he sighed to Du Linxiang: "Don't look at the dilapidated house, the children who came out of here are really different from those of us who crawled up from the bottom." Same." "What's the difference?" Du Linxiang asked. Zhang Qingbo said: "Before I came to Hongxi, I was the president of a branch in another province. The vice president under me was a boy from the courtyard. His father was a cadre of the planning committee. He always showed off to me that now a certain The son of a big leader, when he was in elementary school, he borrowed the money to buy popsicles from him. He also said that another big leader was also an enthusiastic person back then. The coal stove in their house was broken, and he brought tools with him. The old man repaired until midnight." "I understand." Du Linxiang nodded, "None of us has a father with a prominent official position. When we were young, we could only stand on tiptoe to look up at these big men. It is impossible to treat them as neighbors like them." After the car was parked, Zhang Qingbo and Du Linxiang went upstairs one after the other.Du Linxiang held a cigarette in his left hand, and a leather bag containing one hundred thousand dollars in his right hand.Zhuang Zhiqi and Zhu Tianrui were still waiting downstairs. Zhang Qingbo specifically told them in the car just now: "There can't be too many people doing this kind of thing." About an hour later, Zhang Qingbo and Du Linxiang came downstairs.Behind them, followed an old man with gray hair and a slightly hunched back.The old man kept sending the two to the car. Zhang Qingbo pointed to Zhuang Zhiqi and Zhu Tianrui beside the car and introduced, "These two are colleagues of Mr. Du." Then he said, "This is Mr. He. The leading figures in the world, and many influential figures nowadays, are all disciples of Mr. He." Zhuang Zhiqi and Zhu Tianrui hurried forward to shake hands with Mr. He, but Mr. He was quite polite and said with a smile: "Xiao Zhang flattered me, don't listen to his nonsense." Zhu Tianrui glanced at Du Linxiang who was standing beside him, and saw that his smile was very stiff, especially the black leather bag, which was still tucked under his armpit.After the car drove away from the compound, Du Linxiang couldn't help sighing: "He always accepts the cigarettes, but he doesn't want the money." Zhuang Zhiqi asked: "President Liu, does Mr. He agree to say hello?" Du Linxiang said: "Mr. He said he could talk about it, but he is not sure whether it will be successful." Zhang Qingbo held the steering wheel and shook his head: "How much are two cigarettes worth? Mr. He doesn't charge money, which means he won't do his best to help us." Hearing what Zhang Qingbo said, everyone in the car fell silent. Early the next morning, Du Linxiang and his party flew back to Hezhou.Three days later, Zhang Qingbo returned to Hezhou after a meeting in Beijing.After getting off the plane, Zhang Qingbo went straight to Du Linxiang's office before he could go back to the bank. Zhuang Zhiqi and other executives are having a meeting in Du Linxiang's office.Seeing Zhang Qingbo coming, Du Linxiang asked nervously: "Yesterday you said that the head office's handling opinion came out, what do you say?" Zhang Qingbo is a frequent visitor to Du Linxiang's place, and he is not restrained, sitting on the sofa: "I just ran a few thousand miles, let me take a breath before talking." Du Linxiang quickly ordered the secretary to make tea for Zhang Qingbo, and then signaled others to leave the office.That day, the two talked for more than four hours, and they didn't even come out for dinner, but asked the secretary to deliver two work meals to the office. In the early morning of the next day, Du Linxiang held the president's office meeting, and several persons in charge of the strategic development department who specifically dealt with the buy-out and listing matters also attended the meeting. Du Linxiang's face was haggard, with bags under his eyes and bloodshot eyes. He was the first to speak: "President Zhang has found a lot of connections in Beijing for our business. Although it has not been completely settled, it has finally been resolved. Most of the loans have not been settled. The problem is that 40 million of them need to be returned within a week." An Youqi said: "Since the skyscraper was built, the company's capital chain has been very tight. Not long ago, I bought Hu Weidong's tourism project and spent another 8 million. Where can I get 40 million in a week?" Du Linxiang rubbed his temples with his fingers: "I thought about it last night. Didn't the Hezhou City Commercial Bank have a loan of 30 million yuan to arrive in the account two days later? I will use this money for emergency. In addition to the company's existing liquidity , should be about the same.” Zhuang Zhiqi said: "At the beginning, the Hezhou City Commercial Bank gave us a loan, but it was agreed to be used to buy public shares, and we embezzled it without permission. Isn't it good?" Du Linxiang said: "Let's not talk about it, how did he know that I embezzled it? Now he is in a hurry to spend money, tearing down the east wall to make up for the west wall, as long as no wall falls down, it will be a skill." Zhuang Zhiqi took out a cigarette and said thoughtfully: "Hezhou Commercial Bank should be able to fool it. It can't be done, after all, it is a Hezhou enterprise, so we can accommodate it. But what about Gu Weimin? Let's take it The money is withheld, how can I pay him?" Du Linxiang also lit a cigarette: "Can't you let him be accommodating? I have dealt with Zhang Qingbo's affairs and will transfer the money to him immediately." "It's difficult." Zhuang Zhiqi shook his head, "We all know who Gu Weimin is. He doesn't have friendship or trust in his eyes, only money." Du Linxiang took a deep breath and said: "Whether you can go public through a backdoor is just a question of whether to develop faster or slower. Zhang Qingbo's side is a matter of life and death for Weitong. The two evils are the lesser, and the current plan can only be this way." Now, let’s take one step at a time.” Zhu Tianrui asked, "According to the contract, we will make a second payment to Gu Weimin next week. When Gu Weimin comes to ask, how should we answer?" Du Linxiang said impatiently: "You find your own way. In short, Zhang Qingbo and Gu Weimin, both sides have to be stable for me." According to Du Linxiang's instructions, the funds originally used to acquire Volkswagen shares were repaid to the bank.Zhang Qingbo's side was indeed stable, but Gu Weimin's side couldn't be stable no matter what. After the agreed payment period, Gu Weimin called several times a day to remind him.Seeing that the telephone communication was ineffective, Gu Weimin simply came to Hezhou in person with a lawyer's letter.In Du Linxiang's office, Gu Weimin made a serious statement: "In view of Weitong's unilateral tearing up of the contract, I will also consider terminating the performance of the contract. I will not sell the shares of Volkswagen, and I will not return the 20 million yuan, and I will ask you to compensate for the breach of contract." Gold." Zhuang Zhiqi put on a smiley face, and finally persuaded Gu Weimin to go back to the hotel, and asked him to give him a few more days. There is no impenetrable wall in the world.The local bank in Hezhou soon knew about the problem of Wisdom's capital chain.In particular, President Huang of the Hezhou City Commercial Bank was furious when he heard that Weitong had embezzled the loan without authorization, and called the mayor Lu Youshun to complain.The presidents of several other banks also came to ask for an explanation, which made Du Linxiang exhausted.