Chapter 360 Take Care of Yourself

"Jin Sheng, your matter has become big."

In Ruigang City, Jinnan, Hua Yunsheng, director of the Municipal Development and Reform Commission, held a newspaper in his hand and said to Gao Jinsheng, who was sitting on the sofa in his office, with a melancholy look on his face.

Hua Yunsheng and Gao Jinsheng were middle school classmates, and later were admitted to university in the same year. After graduating from college, Gao Jinsheng returned home to inherit the family business, while Hua Yunsheng was assigned to the then Ruigang City Planning Commission and became an ordinary civil servant. After more than ten years of hard work, he was finally promoted to the position of director of the National Development and Reform Commission.

Hua Yunsheng is one of the few true friends of Gao Jinsheng. As for the other business owners who exchange glasses with Gao Jinsheng at the wine table every day, in Gao Jinsheng's words, they are just relationships of mutual use. It is said that these people are Friends simply insult the word "friends".

Over the years, Gao Jinsheng's business has grown bigger and bigger, and Hua Yunsheng's help is indispensable. The National Development and Reform Commission is a powerful unit and has close relationships with other government departments. When Gao Jinsheng encounters trouble in the business process, Hua Yunsheng can always find some solutions for him.

In addition to the substantial help in business, Hua Yunsheng also acts as a think tank for Gao Jinsheng. The National Development and Reform Commission can often obtain some internal information and have a more accurate grasp of national policy trends. Gao Jinsheng always comes to Hua Yunsheng's place to sit and sit when he has nothing to do. Even if he just chats, he can often get some inspiration.

Today, it was Hua Yunsheng who took the initiative to call and ask Gao Jinsheng to come over. As soon as Gao Jinsheng entered, Hua Yunsheng handed him a stack of newspapers and asked him to read them by himself. In those newspapers, there were contents circled by Hua Yunsheng in red pen, which were all about Xia Yi Machine Tool's price war.

Some articles are written in a rather vague way, saying that a certain large-scale machine tool company in Beidian Province disregarded market rules and blatantly carried out dumping and squeezed out its peers. Some articles were more straightforward. They borrowed the words of leaders of other machine tool companies, named Xia Yi Machine Tool, and did some research to name Jinsheng Group.

"Someone is messing with me." Gao Jinsheng glanced at the headlines in the newspapers, then threw the newspapers on the sofa and said nonchalantly: "Maybe it's the trick of Tang Zifeng I told you about. , he didn’t say anything to me in Xia Liang, so he wanted to use this method to scare me. This guy is not very young, and he just likes to show off his little cleverness. "

Hua Yunsheng said: "Jinsheng, don't take it lightly. Look at the contents of those reports. Some of them are very heartbreaking."

"What are you trying to kill?" Gao Jinsheng said disdainfully. He took another newspaper and read a few paragraphs casually, with a sarcastic look on his face: "The equipment manufacturing industry is an important weapon of the country and must obey the overall layout of the country. The concept of a national game of chess will never go out of style... What a joke. , people who can say such things are already outdated. The whole country is a game of chess, Yun Sheng, I remember this was something we learned in politics class when we were in middle school. It’s already 2003, and we still mention this cliché. slogan."

Hua Yunsheng looked stern and said: "Jinsheng, the saying that the whole country is a game of chess has always been said within the National Development and Reform Commission. It cannot be said to be outdated. Also, don't look at who said these words. The same A word from different people has different weights."

"Who said that?" Gao Jinsheng turned his attention back to the newspaper, looked for it, and said, "Is it this person? Wang Zijie, a professor at Renmin University. Isn't he just a professor? He probably received a favor from Tang Zifeng and came out to support him. Let's go. I'll ask someone to ask for the price later. I'll pay double the amount Tang Zifeng gives him. If I don't believe him, he won't change his mind and scold Tang Zifeng."

Hua Yunsheng shook his head and said: "Jinsheng, you are mistaken. This Wang Zijie is not the kind of useless professor you invited to the platform in the past. He is someone who can often talk to superiors. Domestic youth Among economists, his reputation ranks among the top three, are you sure you can get him to speak for you by just paying some money?"

"What's so difficult about this? He's famous, so the price is higher," Gao Jinsheng said.

Hua Yunsheng was silent for a moment and said in a deep voice: "Jin Sheng, we are old classmates. There is something I have always wanted to say to you, but I don't know if it is appropriate or not."

Gao Jinsheng was stunned and said, "Yunsheng, just say what you have to say. Do we still need to be polite between us?"

Hua Yunsheng said: "To tell you the truth, more than one person has said in front of me, Jinsheng, your business has been getting bigger and bigger recently, and you are a little too arrogant."

"Gone with the wind?" Gao Jinsheng sneered, "I've never been in the air. It's because they saw that I made some money and felt unbalanced. So if I say anything casually, they think I'm in the air."

"When you talk to people now, you always say 'just', and many people can't stand it."

"Really? In fact, I said this on purpose. Don't they look down on me? I have to tell them that what they say and do is just the word 'just' to me."

"Do you really think that if you have money, you can do whatever you want? Including you saying that if you spend more money, you can let Wang Zijie speak for you, are you serious?"

"I do think so. I don't know how great this Wang Zijie you are talking about is. However, no matter how great he is, he is just a university professor...that's all. If you give him 100,000 yuan, can he take it?"

"Jinsheng, if you can say such a thing, you are just crazy." Hua Yunsheng sighed, "As far as I know, this Wang Zijie is very popular now. Governments everywhere want to invite him to give lectures. His appearance fee is 50,000 to 60,000 yuan. Think about it, will he be short of your 100,000 yuan?"

"So awesome?" Gao Jinsheng said in surprise, "To spend fifty or sixty thousand yuan just to invite someone to come and give a lecture, does your government have too much money?"

"Lectures are different from giving lectures." Hua Yunsheng explained patiently, "I told you, this Wang Zijie is someone who can often talk to superiors.

"Those of us who work in the government follow policies closely in everything. If we follow the wrong policies, no matter what mistakes we make, we will just miss development opportunities and the losses will be calculated in hundreds of millions. You see, spending five or six Isn’t it expensive to pay 10,000 yuan to pay him to give a lecture to everyone?”

Gao Jinsheng finally got a taste of it and asked: "You mean, this article in the newspaper used Wang Zijie's words."

Hua Yunsheng said: "This is hard to say, but since it was Wang Zijie who spoke, we'd better be cautious. Who knows if he is shouting to you from a distance?"

Gao Jinsheng said, "I haven't broken any laws. The price reduction of machine tools is just an ordinary business behavior. In the past few years, the TV industry was also engaged in price wars, and no one seemed to say anything, right?"

Hua Yunsheng said: "The situation in the television industry is different from that in the machine tool industry. These articles make it very clear that machine tools belong to the national equipment industry and involve national technical security. The state's control in this area is relatively strict. .

"I work at the National Development and Reform Commission and have been exposed to many things in this area. For example, a few years ago, the Americans wanted to curb China's military development and produced the Cox Report, which proposed some high-end measures against China. Export restrictions on machine tools. At that time, several leaders said that things like machine tools must be in their own hands to be practical, and the machine tool industry must not collapse. Think about it, this is the same as televisions. What's going on?"

Gao Jinsheng thought for a while and asked, "So, Yunsheng, what do you mean?"

"Stop that price war of yours and stop it when you're done." Hua Yunsheng said.

"This is impossible." Gao Jinsheng refused without even thinking.

"Why?" Hua Yunsheng was surprised. He had been talking to Gao Jinsheng for so long. Even if Gao Jinsheng didn't understand it, he shouldn't have refused so simply. Could it be that the words he just said were regarded as nothing by Gao Jinsheng?

Gao Jinsheng said: "I asked Xia Yi Machine Tool to cut prices several times in a row, which has already made them breathless. Next month I plan to reduce the price by another 5%. It is estimated that several machine tool factories will close down. They are now They came up with this trick just to scare me with newspapers and make me let them go.

"Even if what you say makes sense, the machine tool industry is very important and is not suitable for price wars. They must at least find someone to talk to me, right? If they just publish a few articles in the newspaper, I will shrink back. I won't do it again in the future." Are you looked down upon by them?"

Hua Yunsheng said: "Didn't you tell me last time that Chairman Zhou of the Machine 20 Joint Meeting and Tang Zifeng of Linji Group all went to Xia Liang to meet you?"

"That doesn't count." Gao Jinsheng said, "They went to demonstrate against me, not to negotiate with me. Both of them were putting on official airs, thinking that they represented the country, and I was just a small private boss. They didn't take me seriously. If they come to talk to me like this, I will definitely not betray them."

"What do you want? Let the director of the Machinery Department come to beg you?" Hua Yunsheng was a little anxious.

"It's not that bad. Besides, hasn't the Machinery Department been cancelled?" Gao Jinsheng said, "I just hope they can be sincere. It's not impossible for me to stop, but they have to give some conditions, right? I'm In 2016, I invested more than 100 million in Xia Yiji, and the purpose was not to become a small machine tool factory. If I give up halfway now, won’t the money I spent earlier be in vain? "

Hua Yunsheng looked at Gao Jinsheng for a while and then asked: "Jinsheng, are you serious about what you just said?"

"Of course I'm serious," Gao Jinsheng said.

Hua Yunsheng nodded and said, "In that case, I won't say anything. Jinsheng, just take care of yourself."