Chapter 48 6. After two people with equal strength join forces, who will listen to whom?

The weather is getting cooler, and the sales war of "Golden September and Silver October" in the real estate industry is staged as scheduled.Wisdom once again showed its true qualities as a "price killer", shocking the industry.The company's real estate in a city in central China sold 230 million yuan on the day it opened, setting a record for the city's real estate sales. The idea of ​​"negative news, positive operation" presented by Yuan Kai was also a great success.Consumers firmly believe that Weitong, which has been suspended from listing, is selling off its meat to survive.No one will let go of this kind of bottom-hunting opportunity.Sitting in the office, Du Linxiang watched the media reports about the tight capital chain of Wisdom, not only no longer angry, but felt that it was simply free advertising.

Putting down the newspaper, Du Linxiang asked his secretary to invite Zhuang Zhiqi: "Zhiqi, accompany me to Yunnan next week." "Yunnan?" Zhuang Zhiqi was a little confused, "The company is in Yunnan, and there is no real estate development yet." Du Linxiang said with a smile: "I didn't go to see the real estate, but went to Yunnan to buy tea. You are known as the essence of tea, so of course I have to invite you to give advice." "Mr. Du is too much." Zhuang Zhiqi said a few words politely, and then asked, "Next week will be the '11' Golden Week, and in the sales season of 'Golden September and Silver October', Golden Week is the most important thing, Mr. Du Are you not in command in Hezhou?"

Du Linxiang said in a relaxed tone: "The overall situation has been decided! Weitong has opened up multiple markets, special promotions, and the return of large sums of money is a sure thing. Hezhou has Mr. An in charge, and the media Yuan Kai will also be watching. What else do I have? Worried about it? It’s autumn tea-picking season, so don’t miss it.” "Mr. Du is so elegant, I take it as my companion." Zhuang Zhiqi said. "In addition to me, you, and Gao Mingyong, I called someone else." Du Linxiang said. Zhuang Zhiqi asked, "Who is it?" Du Linxiang said: "Chen Jin'er, he is also an expert in tea. If there is one more expert, we can feel more at ease when buying tea."

Zhuang Zhiqi shrugged and laughed awkwardly. A week later, the four flew to Xishuangbanna, Yunnan.After renting a Mitsubishi off-road locally, we headed towards Chashan.The road to Chashan is very bad, and the off-road vehicle is driving on the wavy mountain road at a speed of fifteen miles.Chen Jin'er is very interested in this kind of challenging road section. She is sitting in the driver's seat, and her right hand is constantly flicking back and forth between the first gear and the second gear. The mountain road is indeed bumpy, and the maximum drop between the two sides of the road is about 50 centimeters. When the car passes by, everyone is like sitting on a fully shaken pendulum. The metal sound of the car key hitting the car body never stops. Pass.Du Linxiang couldn't help cursing: "What the hell kind of road is this?"

"Yeah, even our hometown in the countryside doesn't have such a bad road now." Gao Mingyong also complained aside.Zhuang Zhiqi also suffered from the bumps, but his eyes saw the billboards on the side of the road - the billboards read "Over the mountains and over the mountains, over the water over the water", and there is also a large picture of a Hummer off-road vehicle.Zhuang Zhiqi thought, this might be the worst rural road in China, but it is also the most luxurious billboard along the road. After crossing this 32-kilometer mountain road, you arrive at Laobanzhang, perhaps the wealthiest village in China.The tea from this village is also named after Laobanzhang.It has been reported by the media that the Rural Credit Cooperative opened the first village-level bank in Laobanzhang.In just four months, the bank's deposits reached more than 40 million yuan.

When Du Linxiang first said that he would come to Yunnan to buy tea, Zhuang Zhiqi was still a little puzzled - as his boss, he had never been interested in tea ceremony.Later, when Zhuang Zhiqi heard that the destination of his trip was Laobanzhang in Xishuangbanna, he finally understood that Du Linxiang wanted to carefully prepare a gift.Isn't Xu Wanli, the current secretary of the municipal party committee, a loyal fan of Lao Banzhang? Du Linxiang really had the foresight to call Chen Jin'er.Chen Jin'er is not only a tea essence, but also an out-and-out tea merchant. She is also the only one among the four who has been to Laobanzhang before.Knowing that Chen Jin'er was bringing friends over, the local tea farmers enthusiastically prepared lunch.

At the dining table, Chen Jin'er introduced: "The price of tea in Laobanzhang has soared all the way in recent years. There are more than 100 households in the village, almost all of whom are millionaires. Once I came to Laobanzhang to buy tea and stayed in the county at night. Residents in the county town complained a lot about Lao Banzhang, saying that it was this small village that raised prices in the county town. Villagers went to the county town to buy electrical appliances and furniture, just like they went to the vegetable market to buy cabbage.” Zhuang Zhiqi took up the conversation: "In 2000, Laobanzhang was not yet popular, and a kilogram of tea was sold for only a few dozen yuan. Unexpectedly, after only a few years, the price of tea has doubled hundreds of times."

The villagers said at this time: "Thanks to the cheap tea price back then, otherwise we would not have such a good day today." Du Linxiang put down his chopsticks and asked, "How do you say that?" The villagers replied with a smile: "In 2000, in order to increase the production of tea, the county government issued an administrative order to order tea farmers to carry out low-level transformation of tea trees. That is to cut down the big tea trees and let them re-grow branches to germinate, so that the production of tea There will be a lot more. In order to stimulate the enthusiasm of tea farmers, the people from the county tea office also promised that as long as they participate in the low reform, each family can get a bag of chemical fertilizer. The tea office hired more than ten motorcycles to deliver the fertilizer to the old Banzhang. But none of the villagers here was willing to participate in the low-level reform. At that time, everyone felt that tea was worthless anyway, and it was not worth the effort. The tea business was so popular that they didn’t even need chemical fertilizers, so they turned around and went down the mountain.”

The villager went on to say: "Who knows, it didn't take long for ancient tree tea to become popular in the market. The older the tea tree, the more precious it is. There are several villages in the county, where the tea trees used to be older than the old Banzhang. Fortunately, it's a pity that the low-level modification has been carried out, so it can no longer be regarded as an ancient tree, and the price is quite a bit lower than ours." After hearing this story, everyone at the dinner table was deeply moved.Gao Mingyong even sighed: "If a person wants to get rich, he really has to look at the horoscope. Just like others, being lazy has become a way to get rich."

After eating, Chen Jin'er asked the villagers: "Is the tea I told you about last time ready?" The villagers nodded again and again: "Ready." Chen Jin'er said, "Is it the real thing? Don't fool me." The villagers said: "Absolutely authentic single-plant ancient tree tea. Besides, you have seen the world and traveled to so many tea mountains across the country. Who would dare to fool you?" The villagers brought up the tea: "Whether it's real or not, you can see for yourself." Chen Jin'er looked at it carefully for a while, then took a sniff, and then she said to Zhuang Zhiqi, "Look again."

Zhuang Zhiqi closed his eyes and placed the tea leaves on the tip of his nose.After more than ten seconds, he opened his eyes and said, "It should be fine." "It's good if it's the real thing." Du Linxiang clapped his hands and said, "My fellow, you said that a single plant of ancient tree tea is 60,000 yuan per kilogram, and I'll take four kilograms today." The villager shook his head: "Boss, I really don't have four kilograms of single ancient tree tea. Only two kilograms at most." Du Linxiang said: "Can't you think of a way?" The villagers said: "There is no way. The annual output of a single ancient tree tea is so small, and all of them are bought by regular customers. To be honest, if the boss Chen Jin'er hadn't called in advance to make a reservation, there would not even be two kilograms. Who would want to make money? Do? But I can’t fool you with fake products, and finally smashed my own signboard.” "Two kilograms is two kilograms." Du Linxiang said, "You divide the tea into four parts and wrap them up for me. Mingyong, go to the car to get the money." Gao Mingyong turned around and took a black leather bag from the off-road vehicle, which contained cash.For many years, the villagers in Laobanzhang have only used cash for transactions, and they are reluctant to try credit cards and the like.There was once a tea merchant in Guangdong who brought 20 million yuan in cash and several snakeskin bags when he went up the mountain. Two kilograms of a single plant of ancient tree tea cost a total of 120,000 yuan, paid by one hand and delivered by one hand.After the transaction was completed, Du Linxiang specially invited the tea farmers to take him around under the tea trees, and finally invited the tea farmers to take a group photo.Gao Mingyong kept pressing the camera shutter from the beginning to the end. Zhuang Zhiqi guessed that Du Linxiang must use some suitable method to let Xu Wanli see these photos.Sending goose feathers from thousands of miles away is light in gift and affectionate!Besides, the tea leaves of this old banzhang are not goose feathers! After wrapping the tea leaves and putting them in the car, Du Linxiang and his party set foot on the return journey.Although the mountain road was bumpy, Gao Mingyong’s question still lingered in his mind, and he finally couldn’t help asking: “I also know that Laobanzhang is the best Pu’er, and it’s usually only a few thousand yuan per kilogram on the market. Today’s Tea, why does it cost 60,000 per kilogram?" Chen Jin'er turned the steering wheel with her left hand, and shifted the gears with her right hand. Even when she was busy, she did not forget to reply: "What we are taking today is not an ordinary old banh, but a single plant of ancient tea. If the old banh It is the best in Pu'er, so the single ancient tree tea is the best in Laobanzhang." "What is a single ancient tree tea?" Gao Mingyong asked. Seeing that Chen Jiner was too busy driving the car, Zhuang Zhiqi replied instead of her: "In recent years, the tea market has been full of mud and sand. Tea tree reorganization and quality blending are prevalent. The original flavor of many teas is constantly being lost. Drinking a cup of original tea soup has even become a luxury. Therefore, many tea enthusiasts or tea merchants like to go to the tea garden to find some tea greens from the oldest tea tree, and make tea separately, which is called single ancient tree tea." Zhuang Zhiqi went on to say: "A single plant of ancient tree tea is definitely the tip of the pyramid among all the teas. Generally, they don't end up in the market, but are given to each other and tasted by some tea friends." Du Linxiang said: "I asked Jin'er before, and she said that if you want to buy real single-plant ancient tree tea, you must come to the tea garden in person, and you can't buy it in the market." Chen Jiner said: "We were very lucky this time, and we bought two kilograms at once. At first I thought that it would be good to buy one kilogram." Listening to everyone's high-spirited talk, Gao Mingyong was so greedy that he salivated.He really wanted to taste the difference in the taste of this single ancient tree tea.It's just a pity that drinking tea is also a status symbol. When Du Linxiang bought tea, he didn't intend to keep a copy for Gao Mingyong. Chen Jin'er will go to another tea mountain in Yunnan to buy tea, and will not follow Du Linxiang back to Hezhou.When they broke up, Du Linxiang handed over a piece of tea to Chen Jiner and asked Chen Jiner to pass it on to Xu Haocheng.On the plane back to Hezhou, Du Linxiang gave Zhuang Zhiqi another copy.Zhuang Zhiqi refused again and again, but Du Linxiang said: "You have worked hard all these years! Besides, the sword is given to the heroes. It would be a pity that such high-quality tea should not be handed over to a tea essence like Zhiqi." After accepting the tea leaves, Zhuang Zhiqi said, "Thank you very much, Mr. Du. At that time, I was still wondering why you asked them to divide the tea leaves into four parts? I dare say you have already divided the things." Du Linxiang nodded: "Yes. One for you, one for Mr. Xu, and two left." Zhuang Zhiqi smiled and said, "There is one copy for Secretary Xu, Mr. Du keeps one for himself, no more, no less just right!" But Du Linxiang shook his head: "Secretary Xu's share is naturally indispensable. But I'm a rough old man. If I really want me to taste tea, it's a waste of money. So, I won't keep it." Zhuang Zhiqi asked, "Who is Mr. Du planning to give this last share to?" Du Linxiang said: "Lai Jingdong is also an elegant scholar who likes tea ceremony, so I will give it to him." "Lai Jingdong?" Zhuang Zhiqi was a little surprised.Since the suspension of listing, Du Linxiang and Lai Jingdong have long been in the same situation. Du Linxiang smiled: "After the '11' Golden Week, I plan to visit this old friend in Beijing. The best single-plant ancient tree tea is just a gift for the meeting. Of course, in addition to tea, I also prepared another one for him. gift." "What gift?" Zhuang Zhiqi asked. "Invite him to continue to cooperate with us." Du Linxiang said, "Received the investment of 500 million yuan from Xu Haocheng, and this special promotion has brought back a large amount of money. The most difficult period for Wiston is over. Next, we will restart It’s listed. I promised Lai Jingdong that the money owed to him will be returned in full after listing. But now I have changed my mind and want to continue to cooperate with him. If Lai Jingdong agrees to convert the debt into an investment in Weitong, he will become a shareholder of the listed company , then his benefits will be even greater.” Du Linxiang tapped the armrest on the plane happily: "Do you think Lai Jingdong will accept this gift?" Zhuang Zhiqi said: "Although Lai Jingdong has a lot of dissatisfaction with Mr. Du, he will still accept the gift. Because he was originally a shrewd businessman. When he invested in Wisdom, what Lai Jingdong wanted was that after the stock was listed, his investment ability It was a huge return. It was just that the two parties got into a stalemate and agreed to repay the money after listing. Even if we return the money to him in the future, he will not lose money, but if he becomes a shareholder again, the profit will be Much more." Du Linxiang nodded: "I think so too." Zhuang Zhiqi asked: "The most difficult days of Weitong have passed, why did Mr. Du send Lai Jingdong such a big gift?" Du Linxiang said: "The original decision to suspend the listing was not only because the issue price was too low, but because I was worried that Lai Jingdong held too many shares. Even if I temporarily retained my position as the largest shareholder, with Lai Jingdong's strength, it would be difficult for me to do so in the future. It's hard to fight. Now that Lai Jingdong has been driven away, Xu Haocheng is ushered in, but is Xu Haocheng really worthy of our trust?" "So President Du wants to invite Lai Jingdong back. At that time, Xu will control Lai, and Lai will control Xu!" Zhuang Zhiqi said. "That's exactly what I think." Du Linxiang said, "In terms of the strength of the business world, these two people are above me. It's really powerless to deal with them. Simply let the wolves fight at the front door and the tiger at the back door, and let them fight each other. I'm relieved." Zhuang Zhiqi pondered for a while and said: "It is a good thing to check and balance each other. But what I am afraid of is whether they will join hands? Whether it is for Lai Jingdong before or for Xu Haocheng now, Mr. Du is the largest shareholder and holds the controlling stake. Right. But after the two came in at the same time, the combined shares in their hands already surpassed yours. Back then, Lai Jingdong could collude with Song Jinchi, so wouldn't he collude with Xu Haocheng?" "There is no need to worry about this!" Du Linxiang laughed. "There is a problem that has plagued the Chinese for thousands of years, and it has not been solved until now. That is, after two people with equal strength join forces, who will listen to whom? Song Jinchi is weak, so Song Tinglai was the one who colluded. But between Lai Jingdong and Xu Haocheng, no one is willing to be under the command of the other, so they are destined not to join forces." "Boss Du is brilliant!" Zhuang Zhiqi said, "The two are evenly matched, but you can sit firmly on the Diaoyutai." Du Linxiang said: "I will fly to Beijing to look for Lai Jingdong every few days. The matter of restarting the listing must be paid close attention. Everything is ready and the east wind has arrived. This time there must be no mistakes." Zhuang Zhiqi nodded heavily.He knew that Du Linxiang had waited too long for this belated coronation ceremony, and after experiencing twists and turns, it was time for Weitong to reach the top! The plane landed at Hezhou Airport.Du Linxiang and Zhuang Zhiqi walked out of the cabin, although they were talking and laughing, there was a sense of tension and solemnity in their hearts-the time to restart the listing is ripe, and the real decisive battle is coming! Although it is already October, the weather in Hezhou seems to be stuck in summer.When the plane landed, the sky was overcast and cloudy through the window.When the pick-up car drove out of the airport, it was already thundering and stormy outside. Even sitting in the car, I could feel the momentum of the earth shaking.The big trees on the side of the road were blown to this side by the strong wind, and the deafening thunder sounded in my ears.The lightning became brighter and brighter, the thunder became louder and louder, raindrops as big as copper coins fell on the ground with a crackling sound, and the whole world was shrouded in heavy rain...