Chapter 854: Dinner in the Capital
Chapter 854 Dinner in the Capital
The dinner was held in a suburban manor under the Beijing branch of the energy group. This place was specially built by the group to entertain some valuable guests. Although it is said to be a suburb, the outer ring road is just outside the door, and the traffic is very convenient.
Invested tens of billions of RMB to build a luxurious hotel. It is estimated that such a thing can be done by the energy group. It is not open to the public. It doesn’t matter where you are. No, even if you are the president of a country or the richest man, you can only watch from the outside.
Moreover, there are very few times when the door is opened here. Basically, there is only one large-scale banquet every month. Once a year like Li Cong's visit is not bad.
The 4,000-acre manor is equipped with battery cars, swimming pools, private lakes, small yachts, golf courses, horse farms, movie screening rooms and other entertainment facilities. The most distinctive feature here is that the waiters here are all clean. The first-grade master's students are of course not Li Congxian showing off, but the guests here are generally people with a relatively high level of education. How can they be recruited from anywhere in the society?
Ordinary people can only look at this huge monster with walls as high as five meters from a distance. As for what is inside, they are basically unclear. They just know that there are only extended luxury cars in the parking lot in front of the door. Well, taxis have to turn around at a distance of 500 meters from here, and there are teams of patrols with wolf dogs. Everywhere shows that this place is completely different from other clubs in the suburbs of Beijing.
Today's reception is mainly for Li Cong to reward the officials of various ministries of the central government. It is essential, although these people don't say that in their mouths, they must know in their hearts that it is an honor to be included in Li Cong's invitation list.
Take the invitation card as an example. It is not a simple piece of paper. The people in the group's public relations department used 150 grams of yellow porcelain to make the invitation card. First go around and expand: sacs, roses, mulberries, razors, strings, emblems, wandering, barrenness, apologies, roses, exhaustion, neon, roasted scorpions, シ⒄ hook tip emblems, wandering tips, source reefs, and wanton playtime, abduction, slang, curtain coat Harsh about drought Najue hazel scorpion and pancreas cut blow mold shackles mellow rotten scorpion?
It was exactly four o'clock in the afternoon when Li Cong took Liu Yan to change clothes, and the guests would not arrive until six o'clock. As the host, Li Cong naturally wanted to see some preparations, but in fact, there was nothing for Li Cong to check. Well, it's just a courtesy for him to arrive early, and it can also let the guests see that he has prepared carefully.
"Why has the name been changed here?" Li Cong looked at the "Li Yuan" on the door and said, isn't this name only available to the Li family's house in Jinan?
"I made the change, I want to improve the specifications here,
But the equipment inside has basically reached its limit. We can only do research on this door. I know you have a lot of problems. Didn’t you see the word Beijing in front of Li Yuan? Everyone will distinguish it in the future. , I know that the Li Garden in our family is for rest, and the Li Garden in Beijing is for entertaining guests. " Liu Yan replied carefully, for fear that Li Cong would be dissatisfied because of this.
Li Cong smiled helplessly, his daughter-in-law would do this for him. When a beautiful woman explains to you crookedly, even if you have a big reason, you have to listen to her first, otherwise you will be too embarrassed. I don't understand the style.
"Okay, that's it, but you can't let go of your mistakes. After dinner, I will study how to punish you in the evening." Li Cong said in Liu Yan's ear, the big bad wolf It is estimated that it can scare away the real wolves and make Liu Yan blush.
The couple talked and laughed and walked towards the gate. In fact, Li Cong can drive the car in. Although the parking lot inside is not very big, he still has his own seat as the host. The parking lot is placed outside the garden to give reporters outside a chance. They can't take pictures of people, and it's okay to take pictures of cars from a long distance.
"Boss, ma'am." The butler who received Liu Yan's message stood on both sides of the door with a dozen waiters, the man on the right, the woman on the left, and the butler in the middle. Li Cong suddenly thought of the man on the left. The female right is in the middle, I don't know if this butler is that or not, seeing the butler in his fifties standing upright, he is also his employee anyway, Li Cong quickly threw his thoughts out of his mind .
"That's right, I don't know what the butler's name is?" Li Cong glanced at it, and there were busy workers everywhere, those who arranged the scene and delivered things, and it seemed that they were almost done.
"Boss, my humble Cui Shijing, you can just call me Xiao Cui." Steward Cui smiled.
"Little Cui? I think you are much older than me. I will call you Old Cui. How are the preparations at this house going? The guests will come in a while. If you do well, I will be rewarded, but if you don't Well, don’t blame me, the boss, for not giving you face.” For this kind of people, Li Cong still knows how to manage, that is, to give both kindness and power, and call Lao Cui to give you face, but if you can’t do your own things well, then Don't blame us.
"Boss, look, it's basically finished. The restaurant is all set up, and the situation here can be completed within ten minutes. Everything is according to Madam's request. The carpet and tableware have to be replaced. So We have delayed for a little time, but we will definitely not delay your banquet, Boss." Cui Butler replied respectfully, it can be seen that the boss is a good talker, but he can't go too far, as a housekeeper, the most important thing is to find yourself You can't really regard yourself as the master just because the master said a few good words.
Just take those things in the house as an example. If you take any of them, it is enough for you to live your whole life, but can you take it by yourself? Not to mention so many eyes watching, that is, the ubiquitous cameras all over the room, as long as I dare to reach out, I guess a fool can imagine what I am waiting for, my boss is not a good man or a believer.
Li Cong stomped on the carpet hard when he heard him say that the Egyptian carpet costing more than a hundred dollars per square meter is different from those domestic imitations. After entering the hall, the dragon totems all over the wall really made Li Cong feel that this is the arrival. The same as the Dragon Palace, the roof in the middle is the same as the totem of the Li family in Jinan. It is a five-clawed golden dragon made of two tons of gold. Li Cong doesn't know why. Every time he sees this legendary king of dragons, he always It will be so comfortable.
In fact, when Li Cong was working on this thing, he still studied it for a while. The Chinese emperor called himself the "True Dragon Emperor", the incarnation of the "True Dragon" in heaven. It is stipulated that only the emperor's belongings and clothes can be painted with the image of the "five-clawed golden dragon", and other places that need to use the dragon shape are distinguished by the "four-clawed dragon" (that is, "python"). Its implicit meaning is "only the emperor is a real dragon", while other "four-clawed dragons" are "python" instead of "dragon".
I don’t know if I am the emperor, but now there are not as many rules as in the Qing Dynasty. I made this one myself and it looks good. I guess no one said anything. Although there are so many dragons in this room, their fingers are right. The one in the middle belongs to a five-clawed golden dragon, and the others are ordinary four-clawed dragons.
Under the Golden Dragon is the largest table in the entire banquet hall, which can seat forty people, followed by a table for thirty people, a table for twenty people, and a table for twelve people at the outer edge. The entire hall can accommodate hundreds of people at the same time Dining at the same time, but since Beijing Liyuan began to use it, it has not been fully seated, and today should be the first time.
"How is the cooking skill here? These officials are the ones who have studied food the most. Don't embarrass me at night." Li Cong said, looking at the menu.
"Boss, don't worry about this. Our four Chinese chefs were from the older generation who cooked for the emperor, and the worst ones came from the prime minister's mansion. The western pastry chefs are all from Europe. The old masters who don’t leave the mountain in the new year are the ones from our public relations department who have a way. All the materials for today arrived yesterday. The masters are very satisfied. They all say that they have cooked their dishes for a lifetime, so they don’t cook here. It’s so comfortable.” Old Cui said with a smile, but he was not lying, these masters really said so.
"That's good, go and tell them, don't talk about the past, what I want is the future, go and tell the people below to be more careful tonight, as long as there is no mistake today, each person will get a big red envelope tomorrow If you make a mistake, get out." If anyone knew who those people in Li Cong's kitchen were, they would definitely blame Li Cong for not cherishing talents, but Li Cong just said that, and they dared not say anything else. idea.
The Grand Hyatt Hotel is now the largest hotel chain in the world, controlling more than 30% of the high-end hotels in the world, and this number is still increasing. The hotel industry is a very closely related thing. If you offend If you are the owner of the Grand Hyatt Hotel, then no one will welcome you when you go to any restaurant. These chefs may dare to put on airs with others and use their own personality, but in the end they still need to eat and get paid , if offended Li Cong, it is estimated that no hotel in the world would dare to invite them. Could it be that they rely on their own craftsmanship to set up roadside stalls?
When Li Cong wanted to teach this guy a few words, the first guest had already arrived, and the identity of the first guest was also very eye-catching. He was the director of the National Development and Reform Commission, Qiangmin. Li Cong hurriedly left some trivial matters in the kitchen Take Liu Yan to the door and wait for Qiangmin's arrival.
When reporting to Li Cong, the car had already turned in, and it would take about five minutes to reach the gate of the garden. Li Cong checked his appearance as he walked. These Beijingers pay attention to these things, and they can't be nondescript.
The National Development and Reform Commission is generally not available in other countries, but in China this unit is not an ordinary department. I believe any Chinese will know how powerful its power is. Even Li Cong's energy group needs to control He focused on three points.
Ordinarily, the director of the Development and Reform Commission should be at the ministerial level, but a few years ago, in order to strengthen the role of the Development and Reform Commission, the government abruptly promoted the director of the Development and Reform Commission to the deputy state level. The director and the deputy prime minister enjoy the same treatment, and the deputy director Enjoy the ministerial-level treatment, which is almost the same as the Central Organization Department.
Qiangmin is a sixty-year-old thin old man. If it weren't for his entourage and the team, throwing him on everyone would be no different from an ordinary old man, but Li Cong knew that this old man was forcing many central enterprises across the country not to cooperate with him. The people are fighting for profit and want to raise prices on a large scale? There are no doors, and you want to make money from the common people by relying on policies? Take a break, since Qiangmin became the owner of the NDRC, one of the incomes of the NDRC has risen in a straight line, that is, fines, and the fines are all large companies with monopoly positions.
"Director Qiang is really giving me face. You came here just after I arrived. I really thank you, the leader, for taking time out of your busy schedule to visit me. Please come in." Although Li Cong only met Qiangmin once, then The first time was when the National People's Congress was held. The two met on the road and were introduced. It's just that Qiangmin was the deputy director of the National Development and Reform Commission at that time.
"Hehe, everyone in the capital has to give Mr. Li face. My side is closer to here, so I'll come here first." Qiang Min's attitude can be said to be lukewarm. From the bottom of his heart, he is an old man. He didn't want to contact these big capitalists at all, and even kept in his head how could he cooperate with the bourgeoisie? Are we not a socialist country? But with the development of the world, he has also learned to be flexible, that is, to strictly watch those big companies, especially private monopoly companies and foreign companies. In recent years, central enterprises have also become the objects of his observation.
Li Cong really didn't have a lot to say to this old guy. After a while, he would nod his head. It was nothing more than to prevent himself from tax evasion or something. We pay more than 200 billion yuan in taxes to the country a year. The top five of the top 500 companies in China are the same as us. Are we the ones who evade taxes? If I was not happy today, I would have to talk to this old man.
Liu Yan saw early on that Li Cong was not suitable for reception work, and let Li Cong go to rest after receiving the next visitor. What attitude should he have towards officials, or what attitude should he have towards Chinese officials? , Li Cong probably forgot everything, in his impression, whether it is the President of the United States or the President of Russia, they are all his guests. You have to do whatever you want him to do.
It's a pity that this is China, not the United States and Russia, and not the southern part of Africa controlled by Li Cong. This is a republic, and it has its own set of rules. If there is only one or two of them, Li Cong can choose Offending them, but if they offend them batch by batch, it is obviously not a wise thing to do. Liu Yan understands this better than Li Cong. This may also have something to do with her being from a family of officials. If there is trouble, it is better to take over the job yourself.
It would be better if someone came to help him. Originally, Li Cong was planning to stand at the door for a while, but Liu Yan said that standing there was like an uncle, so it would be better not to be there.
Made a face at the slick daughter-in-law, Li Cong got on a battery car casually, and went to the back to hit two shots. Although our skills are not very good, our enthusiasm is very high.
When Li Cong arrived at the golf course, there was no one there. Although the entertainment facilities here are complete, the guests who come here are all people with status, and they are not here to play. Their main goal is Li Cong. Get something from this person, not from Lee.
Seeing Li Cong disappearing from her sight in a battery car, Liu Yan shook her head helplessly. Her husband was not very enthusiastic about Beijing circles before. I quickly integrated into it, and now it's good, I just bypass these ministers and directors, and go directly to the Zhongnanhai State Council to handle affairs, and I look down on these people even more. I don't know that there is an old saying in China that it is better for the king of hell than for a little ghost. Tangled.
By six o'clock, the parking lot in front of Li Garden in Beijing was no longer enough, and the super-large parking lot that can accommodate 400 cars was no longer enough. Liu Yan shook her head helplessly, and there were only Less than 150 invitations have been sent out, and nearly 500 people have come. Although there is still a screening inside, I didn't expect that these people would come in their own cars.
This dinner is divided into two parts, one part is in the hall where Li Conggang stayed, and only the person who sent the invitation will be entertained there, and everyone else will stay in the front yard for dinner. If all five hundred people went in, it would be very lively, and the Li family's banquet would be too cheap.
"You kid has a way. Such good things are really hard to come by, and you can get them." Bai Chen tasted the Lafite from the last century in his hand, while closing his eyes and feeling slowly.
Seeing him like that, Li Cong wanted to go over and give him a kick. Is this red wine so delicious? Why are we drinking hundreds of thousands of bottles of stuff that are no different from those worth tens of dollars? Aren't we nobles? This guy is it?
"Look at you, you are just like the young master of a big family in the old society. You don't look like a public servant of the people. Fortunately, you are still leading the largest political group. I think we can go directly to the Kuomintang. I think It’s still a bit reliable, look at the Kuomintang leaders in Taiwan, how many drink this?” Li Cong joked.
"Fart, they are just what they look like on the surface. They are more extravagant than me in secret." Bai Chen said dissatisfied, but what he said was also the truth. Which of those politicians is not the same on the surface, but secretly.