Chapter 171: Disaster

Zhou Shuhui stayed with Xirong and Xiyu and his sisters lived in a villa by Xiaojinhu at night. Liu Wenbing sent Tang Xueqian and his family back to the Normal School. Fu Jun took Zhang Zhixing and his lover Li Mingyu back to the municipal government compound first. Zhang Ke arrived at the place and asked his parents to get off the car first.

Zhang Zhixing asked: "Why haven't you been sleeping at home today?"

"I originally planned to send Zhitong back to the provincial capital the day after tomorrow, but I happened to have something to do in the provincial capital. I'm going to get early tomorrow, so I'll take the information first..."

Liang Gezhen looked up at the luminous watch and it was midnight: "Can't you get it tomorrow?"

"I'm anxious tomorrow, maybe something will fall behind." Zhang Ke thought of something and asked, "Is there any result in the agricultural machinery factory's bid for the factory manager?"

"We have already had preliminary results here. The four competitors selected from the employees are all in it. The current list is waiting for confirmation by the Agricultural Machinery Bureau to be officially announced."

Fearing that his father was too careful, Zhang Ke did not ask Shi Weizhong if he was on the list of correct selections. Shi Weizhong was the workshop director of the agricultural machinery factory, and he could only compete for the position of deputy factory director. Zhou Jian and the other three deputy factory directors filed a case for investigation by the Municipal Procuratorate for suspected dereliction of duty and crossed out of the list of competitors, Haizhou Holdings relaxed the restrictions on the bidding of factory directors, and Shi Weizhong changed to the bidding of the agricultural machinery factory. Listening to Xu Si's remarks on the competition for the director of the agricultural machinery factory, Shi Weizhong's prestige among ordinary employees of the agricultural machinery factory was already very high. Zhou Jian threw the matter of Shugang River at his birthday party, which made his popularity reach the peak of the agricultural machinery factory. Judging from the employee selection situation, Shi Weizhong's prospects are optimistic, but Haizhou Holdings will have more comprehensive considerations for the final candidate for the factory director.

The fact that Zhou Jian and the other three deputy factory managers suffered heavy losses caused by the agricultural machinery factory were confirmed. Zhang Ke thought that the Agricultural Machinery Bureau would not jump out to block the management list determined by Haizhou Holdings. This matter has almost been decided, so let Shi Weizhong and others finally officially announce the list.

The Municipal Procuratorate has not yet taken measures against Zhou Jian and the other three deputy factory directors. The Agricultural Machinery Bureau has announced that they will be removed from public office and will wait for further disposal by the Municipal Procuratorate.

Shao Zhigang specially invited Zhang Ke to have a meal to express his gratitude, and said resentfully: "I will leave the future to me."

Although Zhou Jian and the three deputy directors of the Agricultural Machinery Factory were not as simple as dereliction of duty, Jin Guohai was just working in Haizhou and did not have the ability to continue to investigate the case in depth. Even if the crime of dereliction of duty, it would be dealt with lighterly. The Party Group of the Agricultural Machinery Bureau did not even expel these three people from the party, so the next thing would naturally be dealt with by Shao Zhigang.

Shao Zhigang later took the initiative to mention his contact with Wan Yong. Zhang Ke realized that Wan Yong had the intention to please Jinhu, and thought to himself: If Zhou Fuming knew, how would he think about Wan Yong's mentality? Will he be worried that Wan Yong would win over Tang Xueqian? Will he be worried that all his plans might be in vain?

As long as there is a chance that Zhou Fuming and Wan Yong can create a gap, Zhang Ke will naturally not miss it. Especially Shao Zhigang's determination to enter commercial real estate is very firm. Zhang Ke has absolutely no reason not to use it. He said to Shao Zhigang: "At the beginning of the preparation of Jinhu, Jinhu made promises with Governor Xu, Mayor Tang and others that they will not easily involve sensitive areas and easily cause negative discussions. If you want to do commercial real estate, although Jinhu does not participate and will not have financial transactions, they will also provide as much help as possible..."

Shao Zhigang did not consider the complex situation in the city. Although it was a pity that he could not join forces with Kumho to squeeze into the Shatin old city renovation project, Zhang Ke's statement was much better than his previous firm rejection.

Zhang Ke said to him again: "Kunho wants to increase capital and change it to a joint-stock company, and the investors need to increase to more than five. Are you interested in coming in..." Shao Zhigang was about to start commercial real estate, and the money he could withdraw was very limited. Even if he had given him some shares in Kunho, there would not be much. Just to raise enough places for five people. The key is to leave a deep mark on him. The closer he and Wan Yong were to become Wan Yong, the more likely it would arouse Zhou Fuming's suspicion.

How could Shao Zhigang refuse Zhang Ke’s proposal? Together with Xie Wanqing, he became a co-investor of Jinhu and became a director of Jinhu after he was changed to a joint-stock company, which Shao Zhigang dared not think about before.

Xu Xueping will fly back to the provincial capital tomorrow and will rush to pick up his plane. He will get up early from Haizhou tomorrow. He cannot throw Fu Jun's lover away from home alone, so he will go to the factory in Yilong Town together.

The explosion of the DVD player market has begun to show signs. Wan Yan is trapped in the shortage of its own production funds and the market supply is insufficient. Compared with last year, it has shrunk. South Korea's Samsung company launched a DVD player at the beginning of the year, with sales volume exceeding 100,000 units in half a year. In the first half of 1995, the market price of DVD player remained above 4,000 yuan. Compared with the manufacturing cost, each one has an interest rate spread of 2,000 yuan, which is not too high. As a result, by late June, more than a dozen DVD player manufacturers suddenly emerged in Shenzhen and Guangzhou. The fastest of them even took only two months to launch their own products.

There are even manufacturers in Huadu, Guangdong that specialize in producing circuit boards for DVD players.

Taking Ye Jianbin’s understanding of the DVD player market during this period, he also knows the huge gap between the first-generation decoding chip and the second-generation decoding chip.

Not only Wan Yan, but Samsung's products, and several DVD players that have been launched, are assembled based on the first-generation decoding chip. Wan Yan has developed system control software and complete assembly technology based on the first-generation decoding chip in 1993. This is also the reason why South Korea's Samsung and manufacturers with manufacturers that do not even have technical strength can quickly (even not even take two months) to launch products.

Aida Electronics has invested so much in technology in the early stage. After six or seven months of preparation, it was just ready for trial production because it directly adopted the second-generation decoding chip as the core component. It took a lot of manpower and financial resources to develop system control software alone.

Zhang Ke's move is to distance himself from other DVD player manufacturers in the early stages of the explosion of the DVD player market.

Ye Jianbin realized this, but Zhang Ke has been reluctant to discuss in-depth discussions about the cooperation between Aida Electronics and Sheng Xin, and his heart is in full swing. At present, the market has launched seven or eight disc machines, and many manufacturers have come to him to hope that Sheng Xin will become their agent. Ye Jianbin is still unmoved and waits for Zhang Ke to answer him.

The conditions for trial production are already met, and the first batch of products will be available as soon as next month. It is time for market operation.

Zhang Ke rushed to Aida Electronics in the west end of Yilong Town, and entered the factory gate before calling Su Jindong: "Do you sleep? I have already entered the factory... I want you to sleep for a while before entering the factory gate to call you. I will go to the provincial capital tomorrow in advance to get the information."

When he entered the office, Ding Huai was cleaning the floor. Zhang Ke smiled and said, "Just put it there, you have to continue sleeping if I leave..." Su Jindong took the information from the filing cabinet and turned around and asked Zhang Ke: "I want to go to the provincial capital in advance, too?"

"No need, I'm a private matter tomorrow. I may meet Ye Jianbin of Sheng Xin in advance..."

Zhang Ke did not delay much, and then returned to the city after taking the information.

It was said that Fu Jun had not been around Zhang Ke for a long time. Li Mingyu's understanding of Zhang Ke was limited to a few limited contacts. She also thought that Aida Electronics' factory was a factory under Jinhu, surrounded by small spotlights outside the factory wall, which stripped the entire factory out of the night. It looked very small, which was incomparable to the fact that she had seen the Xinguang Paper Factory after passing through Chengnan.

Sitting in the car and looking back at the horizon, there was a hook of the lower trunk moon like a sickle hanging in the sky to the west. The early summer morning star with only one shadow appeared faintly. Zhang Ke was worried that there would be another rain tomorrow morning.

It was already one o'clock in the morning when he returned to Fuguiyuan Community. Zhang Ke asked Fu Jun to go back and rest. At 6:30 in the morning, Fu Jun brought his lover to pick up Zhang Ke. If the road from the city to the expressway later would be very congested. After joining Xie Wanqing and Zhou Shuhui, the two cars got on the expressway at 7 o'clock and arrived at the international airport in the eastern suburbs of the provincial capital before 11 o'clock.

Not only Zhang Ke and his group were picked up by Xu Xueping at the airport, but also the provincial government also had cars waiting for the airport early. Lu Wenfu, deputy secretary-general of the provincial government, was waiting for the plane Xu Xueping to arrive in the car, but Zhou Shuhui recognized the provincial government's car and ran over to say hello to him.

The plane landed on time at half past eleven. Xu Xueping walked over to Zhang Ke and the others in three steps, holding Zhitong in his arms.

It has been less than two months since Xu Xueping served as governor. Zhang Ke has been to the provincial capital three times during this period, but he has not met him. When he was the secretary of the Political and Legal Affairs Committee, he often feels serious and cold. At this time, Xu Xueping looked gentler and full of energy, and could not see any signs of aging.
Chapter completed!