Chapter 362 What Is the Attitude of the City?

There is a joke in later generations that 6 classmates in a university dormitory can form 8 WeChat groups. The same is true in Ruigang in reality. Hundreds of thousands of private enterprises have established hundreds of various associations and similar groups using various combination methods. Among them, the Ruigang Private Entrepreneurs Association is undoubtedly the largest and most authoritative one.

The "I Help the Country's Development" phone signature campaign, jointly launched by 49 member companies of the Private Entrepreneurs Association, has received support from most private companies in the city. In just a few days, more than 50,000 signatures have been collected. The 20 emergency hotlines for signatures added by the association office were almost non-stop, and calls continued to come in even at one or two in the morning.

Regarding the matter of signing over the phone, many small and medium-sized enterprise owners in Ruigang were inexplicably confused at first. Interested people have noticed that the association has a total of 50 governing companies, all of which are the largest private companies in Ruigang. However, there were only 49 companies that signed the petition, and the only one left out was Jinsheng Group, which also had the worst reputation among the famous private companies in Ruigang.

"Did something happen to Jinsheng Group?"

This is everyone's question.

People who can run a business are not too stupid. If something goes wrong, it will turn out to be a monster. This is a truth that everyone understands. The association suddenly launched a city-wide signature campaign, and one company was missing from the initiating units. This does not mean that there is something wrong with this company, and other companies want to cut off from it for the purpose of self-protection. ?

Some business owners usually like to read newspapers. Thinking of the news reported by several major domestic media in the past few days, the outline of the matter naturally emerged. Some business owners don't care much about current affairs, but there are also some well-informed colleagues. After a little inquiry, they found out that it was the Jinsheng Group that once caused trouble in Ruigang, unwilling to be left alone, and went to the national level to make trouble again. went. Now the leaders at the top are unhappy and the matter is serious.

Jinsheng Group is one of the governing units of the Private Entrepreneurs Association, so Gao Jinsheng was the first to know about this signature event. After receiving the letter from the association office, Gao Jinsheng's first reaction was anger, his second reaction was disdain, and his third reaction was to think about what action he should take to reason with his fellow villagers who were following the trend. .

Of course, this method of reasoning will be relatively crude, and the companies that stir up trouble will have to pay a heavy price.

The only thing Gao Jinsheng did not consider was the impact this signature event would have on him. In his opinion, the association is nothing more than a grassroots team where everyone gets together to drink, chat, and exchange some information and relationships. Jinsheng Group pays a sponsorship fee of 100,000 yuan to the association every year and is considered the association's sponsor. If the association dares to do something unfavorable to Jinsheng Group, Gao Jinsheng will ask the finance department to cancel this year's sponsorship and let the idle guys in the association know who the real father is.

"Mr. Gao, something happened."

Secretary Tan Maojie hurried into Gao Jinsheng's office and reported to him.

"What happened?"

"The Hongdun project called and said that ICBC had frozen the project funds."

"The funds were frozen. Why?" Gao Jinsheng asked with a frown.

The Hongdun project is a large-scale real estate project developed by Jinsheng Group in Ruigang. It is also the largest project invested by the group in the past two years. According to pre-calculations, the Hongdun project can bring a profit of no less than 1.5 billion yuan to the group. This is one of the reasons why Gao Jinsheng dared to spend tens of millions to support Xia Yi's machine tool price war.

Real estate projects require a lot of initial investment, more than half of which comes from bank loans. Jinsheng Group has strong strength and good credit. All banks in Ruigang are willing to grant loans to Jinsheng Group. Sometimes they can even be said to be begging Jinsheng Group for loans. Gao Jinsheng has never worried about the shortage of funds, and has never worried about the shortage of funds. I have never encountered any bank freezing of funds.

"The reason..., the project department didn't say anything."

Tan Maojie's words came to his lips and he swallowed them back. He thought on his heels and could guess the reason. Only Gao Jinsheng, who thought he was the best in the world, would ask such idiotic questions.

But when facing an idiot boss, the best way is to pretend to be more idiot than him. This is the safest way.

Gao Jinsheng thought for a while, picked up his mobile phone, and dialed Kang Dong, the president of the Municipal Industrial and Commercial Bank of China:

"Hey, Lao Kang, I'm Gao Jinsheng!"

"Oh, it's Mr. Gao!"

There was an enthusiastic voice on the other end of the phone. Gao Jinsheng didn't recognize it. There was a bit of panic in the voice.

"Lao Kang, I want to ask, the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China has frozen the funds for the Hongdun project. Do you know about this?"

Gao Jinsheng asked directly without beating around the bush. A few years ago, Gao Jinsheng went to the Industrial and Commercial Bank to get a loan. His attitude was very humble. He called everyone by their official title. Even those who didn't have official titles had to be respectful and said "teacher."

I don’t know since when, the relationship between him and the staff of the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China has been reversed. The other party is polite to him, but he can be arrogant, even to Kang Dong, who is more than ten years older than him. He can also call him "Lao Kang" directly without worrying about the other party being displeased.

"Hongdun project? Let me think about it..." Kang Dong pretended to be silent for a few seconds, and then said: "Hmm, it seems that there is such a thing..."

Gao Jinsheng wouldn't believe Kang Dong's pretentiousness. The Hongdun project had such a huge fund, and behind it was a behemoth like the Jinsheng Group. If the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China wanted to freeze the project funds, how could it not be reconsidered again and again. Kang Dong pretended that he couldn't remember it for a moment, but it was clear that something was wrong in his mind.

"Old Kang, what's going on?" Gao Jinsheng asked bluntly.

"Mr. Gao, don't worry. This matter...is actually not decided by our Industrial and Commercial Bank of China. It was given by the superior leaders, saying that the Hongdun project may involve some problems, and the funds must be temporarily controlled. You also know Yes, we are such a small bank and we can’t make the decision on everything..." Kangdong explained slowly.

Gao Jinsheng said coldly: "Old Kang, do you think I am a three-year-old child? If you make up such a reason, will I believe it? Let me ask you, did anyone say hello to you and want to get rid of me? What are the benefits here? Tell him his name and I will figure out what to do."

"No, no, absolutely not!" Kang Dong swore, and then changed to a more sincere tone and said: "Mr. Gao, have you been out of town these days? You don't know anything about what's going on here in Ruigang. ?"

"What's going on? Are you talking about the signature?" Gao Jinsheng asked. Of course, he is not so dull that he does not suspect that the current matter is related to the signature matter, but he does not understand why ICBC would get involved in this matter.

Kang Dong said: "That's it. Mr. Gao, this matter is a bit big. I heard that leaders in the province have also spoken. Our provincial branch called us specifically to ask us what's going on. Regarding the temporary freeze on Hongdun The arrangement of project funds is..."

At this point, he stopped. There were some things that he couldn't tell Gao Jinsheng directly. If he could hint at them with a long tail, it was already a violation of the rules.

"That's nonsense!" Gao Jinsheng cursed angrily and hung up the phone without saying another word to Kang Dong.

On the other end of the phone, Kang Dong listened to the blind tone coming from the receiver, with a look of disgust on his face:

Damn it, you're going to die, and you're just putting on a show for me!

Gao Jinsheng naturally didn't think about Kang Dong's opinion of him. He thought for a few seconds, picked up the phone again, and called Hua Yunsheng.

"Yunsheng, was that big signature signed by the Entrepreneurs Association arranged by the city?" Gao Jinsheng asked.

Hua Yunsheng's voice was a bit tired as he said: "This matter was not arranged by the city. It was initiated by some governing units of the Entrepreneurs Association themselves. However, before they started to formally sign, they asked the city A report was made."

"What's the city's attitude?"

"Mayor Mo said that this is the company's own business and the city has no objection."

The mayor Hua Yunsheng was talking about was the deputy mayor in charge of economics in Ruigang, named Mo Shouqin. Gao Jinsheng and Mo Shouqin often interacted with each other, and there was no good personal relationship between them. They were just familiar with each other. Gao Jinsheng knew that Mo Shouqin disapproved of many of the things he did in Ruigang, but due to Jinsheng Group's position in the local economy, it was inconvenient to attack him, so he could only keep a respectful distance in order to live in peace. .

This time, the Entrepreneurs Association launched a large-scale signature campaign. Others didn’t know what was going on. How could Mo Shouqin not know? Knowing that an activity was aimed at Jinsheng Group, Mo Shouqin said he did not object, which was actually secretly supporting it. Gao Jinsheng knew this.

"Yunsheng, what do you mean by the city? Are you really going to have trouble with me because of those articles in the newspaper?" Gao Jinsheng asked.

Hua Yunsheng said: "Jinsheng, as I told you, this is definitely not a matter of a few articles, but a matter of national will behind it. In the past few days, newspapers have been discussing the pros and cons of developing the private economy. There are also cultural scholars who are analyzing Jinnan’s business culture, saying that our place has always had a tendency to be at odds with the country, and even cited examples from the Ming and Qing dynasties. Think about it, what does this mean?"

"Isn't this far-fetched!" Gao Jinsheng was anxious. What kind of thing is this? How could things from the Ming and Qing Dynasties be brought up now? How serious a crime it is to be estranged from the country. In the Ming and Qing Dynasties, it would have been enough for the Jin Yiwei and the Blood Drops to come and kill everyone.

Hua Yunsheng said: "Is this far-fetched? What you say doesn't count, and what I say doesn't count. Think about it, with such rumors, what will the provincial leaders think? The provincial leaders have ideas. , what will the city leaders do?”