industrial overlord

Chapter 255
At the beginning of August, Xunyang City was once again jubilant.Since Hanhua Industrial settled in Xunyang, the people of Xunyang have experienced such a jubilant scene more than once.

At the intersection of the highway leading to the direction of Nandu, there are crowds of people, gongs and drums are loud, and the large-character banner hanging above the highway reads: "Warmly welcome the return of the Hanhua Heavy Industry Cycling Team!"

Xunyang Mayor Hong Yu'an and the leaders of Xunyang City and Hanhua Heavy Industry stood on the temporary podium beside the highway, waiting for the return of the Hanhua motorcade.

The Hanhua Heavy Industry Cycling Team with Lang Dong as the captain successfully completed the entire schedule of the Tour de France.It is said that this is the first time in the history of the Tour de France that an amateur team has followed a professional rider through all stages.In order to commend the achievements of this non-staffed team, the competition organizer added a special item in the awards ceremony, which is to present a special honor award to the Hanhua team.As a result, the name of Hanhua Racing Team became even more widely known.

Today is the day when the Hanhua team returned to Xunyang. Lin Zhenhua went to the city government to report the matter to Hong Yuan. Hong Yuan immediately made a decision that the city government should come forward to arrange a grand welcome ceremony, because the Hanhua team was famous in the Tour de France. The arena, by the way, also brought the fame of Xunyang City out.There are several foreign newspapers on Hong Yu'an's desk. When they introduced the Hanhua Cycling Team, they called it: a cycling team from Xunyang City, China.How many prefecture-level cities in China can have the opportunity to make headlines in foreign media?
Lang Dong and his party first returned to Beijing by plane, and then returned to Nandu by train from Beijing.Hanhua Heavy Industry sent three large trucks to Nandu to pick them up. Lin Zhenhua made a special statement that the Hanhua team would get off the truck at a distance of 1 kilometer from Xunyang and ride them to participate in the Tour de France. The bicycle enters the city and is inspected.

"I'm coming!"

The workers standing on the high place and responsible for watching shouted loudly, and for a while, firecrackers crackled, and all the people turned around, staring at the direction where the convoy was about to appear.

"We're back!"

Lang Dong was riding on the leading bicycle, waving a flag with one hand, and shouted loudly to the welcoming crowd.He was not in good health and was not able to participate in the Tour de France, but he was still able to ride down the 1-kilometer road.

Behind him, there are more than a dozen Hanhua employees who have participated in the entire Tour de France. Their skin is tanned and their faces have lost a lot of weight, but everyone's face is filled with excited smiles.

Hong Yu'an stepped off the rostrum and quickly walked towards the motorcade.Lang Dong got out of the car far away, pushed the car over, and shook hands with Hong Yu'an warmly: "Mayor Hong, you came in person!"

Hong Yu'an shook hands with Lang Dong, and greeted him: "Lao Lang, you've worked hard! How was the harvest of this trip?"

"Fortunately, the mission was fulfilled!" Lang Dong said proudly. He took off a medal tied with a ribbon from his neck, handed it to Hong Yu'an, and said, "Mayor Hong, look, this is the Tour de France." A special medal awarded to us by the organizing committee!"

"Okay! This is our Xunyang City's zero breakthrough in the international competition." Hong Yu'an took the medal and looked at it fondly, even though he couldn't understand any of the French words on it.

"This medal will be presented to the municipal government." Lin Zhenhua said from the side, "Without the support of the municipal government, our Hanhua team would not have achieved what it is today."

Hong Yu'an was overjoyed and said: "Great, I want to hang this medal in the meeting room of the municipal government. This is the honor of your Hanhua Heavy Industry, and also the honor of our entire Xunyang City."

A group of gorgeous primary school students rushed forward, stuffing bouquets of flowers into the hands of those triumphant uncles and aunts, and symbolically tied a red scarf around their necks.It's not the first time these kids have done this kind of thing, and they don't feel stage fright at all.

Hanhua drivers are already familiar with such scenes. When they were in France, the audience in France was much more enthusiastic and unrestrained than those in Xunyang.They took out a lot of chocolates from their pockets and gave them back to the children.When the children who didn't have the task of presenting flowers saw it, they also rushed forward, shouting:

"Uncle, give me one!"

"Auntie, give me one!"

Schumann also rode a car and followed behind. Seeing this scene, he cheerfully brought a box of chocolates, stood by the road and began to distribute them.Chu Hongyang hurried over to help, and looked coldly, as if the couple were having another wedding.

Lin Zhenhua walked over and said to Schumann with a smile: "Schumann, that's good, you actually bought chocolates, why, do you know that someone will welcome you?"

Schumann smiled and said, "Zhenhua, I'm also offering flowers to the Buddha. These chocolates were all sent by the French along the way, and I didn't spend any money. Not only these, but there are also two boxes full of them on the truck."

"So, we made money this time." Lin Zhenhua teased.

Schuman curled his lips: "How much is this worth? By the way, Zhenhua, Hongyang has good news for you."

"Really, Hongyang, tell me." Lin Zhenhua said.

Chu Hongyang pulled Lin Zhenhua aside, and said to him happily: "Xiaohua, we have made a lot of money this time, and we have earned back all the money we spent on this trip."

"Tell me about it." Lin Zhenhua said.The means of communication were not so developed that year, and Lin Zhenhua got more information about the experience of the Hanhua team in France from foreign newspapers.Lang Dong and Schumann would occasionally send back a simple telegram to the company, which was just a few words, saying that they were safe, and could not tell the details.

Chu Hongyang said: "Xiaohua, did you know that in the Tour de France this time, our Hanhua team is the most popular, even bigger than those professional players."

Lin Zhenhua nodded and said, "I saw a few newspapers, and it seems to have something of that meaning."

"Have you seen the newspaper? Did you see the photo of Shinauer holding our bicycle?" Chu Hongyang asked.

Lin Zhenhua said: "I saw it, and I was just about to ask you, what's going on. Could it be that Schumann went to engage in public relations and got an image representative?"

Chu Hongyang smiled and said: "We can't invite Xinauer. This is really good luck that fell from the sky. Xinauer is the champion of the Tour de France four times, and this time he won the championship again, which is the fifth time. He Said that he has always been very interested in China. This time he saw that we sent a team, so he came to communicate with us and tried to ride our bike. The photo you see is after he finished riding the bike. Tell everyone: Chinese cars are great.”

"Hey, the effect of this advertisement is amazing! We don't need to make any announcements, Hanhua Bicycles will be famous all over the world." Lin Zhenhua thought of this at once.

Chu Hongyang said: "Isn't it! Just because of Xinauer's words, a sports equipment seller contacted us the next day. Good guy, in the next ten days or so, I will ride a bike during the day to participate in the competition, and at night Dealing with those vendors exhausted me."

"Schumann didn't help you?" Lin Zhenhua asked.

"Help, the two of us received those sellers together." Chu Hongyang said, "Xiaohua, do you know how many sales intentions I have talked about these days?"

"How much?" Lin Zhenhua asked.

"Nearly 5!" Chu Hongyang said braggingly, "5, 800 dollars each, a total of 4000 million."

"I'm dizzy. Before I set off, didn't I set the reserve price for you at 500 US dollars? How did you increase it to 800 US dollars?" Lin Zhenhua said. When he said this, he didn't mean to blame at all. $500 on a $800 car is definitely something to reward.

Chu Hongyang said: "Because our bikes are so hot. Do you know that the minimum price of sports bikes similar to ours in foreign markets is 1000 US dollars, and the quality is not as good as ours. The slightly better ones are running for 2000 US dollars. I went. As soon as I said the price of 800 US dollars, the seller didn’t even bother to bargain, and immediately signed a letter of intent with me.”

Lin Zhenhua clapped his hands and said: "Great! This is just the beginning. Our cars are of high quality and cheap. Now it is the time when sports and fitness are popular in foreign countries. Our market is definitely not limited to 5 cars. If we are done, 50 cars will be sold." There are plays."

"No problem at all!" Chu Hongyang said, "I know how rich those foreigners are. Eight hundred dollars is nothing in their eyes."

The two were chatting freely about their dreams of getting rich, and Hong Yuan had already stepped onto the rostrum and started to give a welcome speech.He spoke highly of the Hanhua Cycling Team's achievements in winning glory for the country, and finally announced: After the municipal government's research and decision, the Yunmeng Lake International Cycling Race will be held next year, making it a city card of Xunyang.

The onlookers applauded wildly, what a big thing this is an international cycling race.Everyone doesn't care if the international big names come to participate, because even if they are big names, few people know them.Everyone only knows that from now on, you don’t need to go to Shanghai to see foreigners. We also have foreigners on the streets of Xunyang!
The idea of ​​cycling around the lake was naturally suggested by Lin Zhenhua to Hong Yuan. The idea of ​​a city name card full of post-modern colors can only come from Lin Zhenhua's mouth.Concepts such as corporate image promotion and city marketing were completely new in China at the time, but they have long been common sense around the world.

Hong Yu'an is a leader of the young and strong group, the type that is often said in the media to dare to pioneer. Many of Lin Zhenhua's ideas make him feel sympathetic.In his mind, he already regarded Lin Zhenhua as his important think tank.

The Hanhua bicycle team returned to Hanhua Heavy Industry in the midst of the welcome of the people in Xunyang. Naturally, the company had another welcome ceremony and a welcome banquet, so it goes without saying.

As for the old worker Peng Gang who came to Lin Zhenhua with a sad face the next day, saying that his son was going to bring back a foreign wife for him, and asking Lin Zhenhua how to deal with it, that's another story.This cross-border marriage has always been an interesting story in Xunyang for the next few decades.

(End of this chapter)