industrial overlord

Chapter 626 New Year's Eve
The Spring Festival of 2002 has arrived.

The family area of ​​the Hanhua Group is very lively, with the crackling sound of firecrackers everywhere, and people who come and go will smile at each other when they see each other, saying "Gong Xi Fa Cai" and other New Year's greetings.Young people ride motorcycles and go out to play with friends.Those wealthy families drive their own cars, carrying large and small packages of gifts, to visit their elders, leaders or relatives and friends respectively.

Back then, when the Hanhua Group was just a small Hanhua Machinery Factory, during the Chinese New Year, the factory leaders would collectively go to pay New Year greetings to the workers, and every worker's family living in the family area had to go to.Today, Hanhua has developed into a large group with more than 20 employees. The headquarters in Xunyang alone has more than 5 people. It is obviously unrealistic to expect the group leaders to go door by door to greet the New Year.

However, the current technical means are also advanced. The factory has installed closed-circuit television, and the signal is directly connected to the wired wires of each household.On the morning of the first day of the new year, Lin Zhenhua and Xiang Zhe came to the office building of the headquarters and delivered a New Year's greeting through closed-circuit television. They expressed their gratitude to all the employees of the factory for their work in the past year in this modern way, and they also talked freely about the future of the year. Development Plan.

The employees still attach great importance to the speeches of the chairman and general manager, because the business conditions in the coming year involved will directly affect everyone's income.There are also welfare plans such as how many new dormitories for employees to build, how many college admissions quotas for the children of employees to arrange, etc., which are closely related to each family.

After paying New Year's greetings to all the employees in the factory, Lin Zhenhua and Xiang Zhe called Xie Chunyan, Chen Weiguo, Zhu Tiejun, Lang Dong and other senior leaders to pay New Year's greetings.After these old leaders retired, they all moved to the suburban villas specially built by the company for them. There are beautiful mountains and rivers, and the air is pleasant, which is suitable for the elderly to spend their old age.

The old leaders are very satisfied with Lin Zhenhua and Xiang Zhe, the two successors. They spoke highly of their work over the years on the phone, and then put forward some suggestions for future work from their respective perspectives.The two claimed to be the only ones on the phone, but naturally they could only choose the good ones to follow these suggestions, and ignore the bad ones.

After greeting the old leaders in my company, the next step is to pay New Year's greetings to the relationships outside the company. These relationships include the leaders of various relevant departments in the central and provincial governments, the leaders of Xunyang City, important partners, and so on.Bi Min, the director of the office, had sorted out the list of people who needed to be greeted a week in advance. Lin Zhenhua and Xiang Zhe took the list and dialed the phone one by one, and then said all kinds of polite words. They all laughed stiffly.

"Almost?" Lin Zhenhua asked Xiang Zhe while rubbing his face.

"I think it's almost there." Xiang Zhe said exhaustedly, whoever said it was easy to talk, let him go and give hundreds of people a New Year's greeting to try.

"Hey, we still need to develop SMS New Year's greetings, just send a group message, it's OK." Lin Zhenhua thought.

Xiang Zhe shook his head: "How can this be done? It would be too impolite to just send a text message for such a big event as New Year's greetings."

"Just wait and see, within three years, everyone will definitely get used to SMS New Year greetings." Lin Zhenhua said affirmatively.

In fact, this kind of phone call is just a formality. For a person like Lin Zhenhua with extensive business relationships, there are hundreds of people who need to pay New Year's greetings on the day of the Spring Festival. They call one by one, and they can't say a few words at all.Instead, why not change to a simpler method?
Those who were the first to use text messages instead of phone calls for New Year greetings were probably criticized as being impolite or not grand enough.But when everyone feels the benefits of this method, they will no longer care about anything.It's not that modern people are more indifferent than people in the past, it's that the living circle of modern people is several times larger than that of people in the past, and it's impossible to cope without changing the way of communication.

"Maybe." Xiang Zhe shrugged. He really didn't have the energy to analyze whether Lin Zhenhua's prediction was reasonable. Based on his experience, even if Lin Zhenhua's prediction was unreasonable, most of it would be effective.

"Zhenhua, let's stop here. It's time to wait for other people's New Year's greetings in the afternoon. I'll go first and go back to my parents' house for dinner." Xiang Zhe said.

Lin Zhenhua also said: "I also went to my father-in-law's house for dinner, and Yang Xin has already sent several text messages urging me."

"Then let's go quickly." Xiang Zhe walked out while talking.

Lin Zhenhua seemed to have remembered something, and said, "Old Xiang, I suddenly remembered that there is one person I haven't given New Year's greetings to."

"Forget it, let's talk in the afternoon. It's not too late to call when you go home." Xiang Zhe said.

Lin Zhenhua smiled and said, "That's not necessary, this person is you. Lao Xiang, happy new year, Gong Xi Fa Cai."

"Me?" Xiang Zhe was taken aback. He and Lin Zhenhua have been partners for so many years, and the relationship has reached the level of intimacy.Hearing Lin Zhenhua's greeting, he suddenly felt a little emotional, stretched out his hand to hold Lin Zhenhua's hand, and said, "Zhenhua, I really forgot if you didn't tell me, Happy New Year... Alas, let's pay New Year's greetings to each other, It seems that I am really not used to it."

"Yeah, we're really too familiar with each other. By the way, we've been working together for... sixteen or seventeen years?" Lin Zhenhua asked.

"17 years." Xiang Zhe said affirmatively, "That was 1985, the second year after I came back from the United States, Hanhua was recruiting subcontractors across the country. After I saw the news, I came here."

"Haha, I remember that when you came here, you said that you were applying for the position of general manager." Lin Zhenhua recalled the past more than ten years ago, and his mood was hard to calm down.At that time, Xiang Zhe was still young. He returned to China with a Wharton MBA diploma, but was not reused. In a fit of anger, he came to Hanhua and threatened that he would apply for the general manager.

"No one is young and frivolous." Xiang Zhe said with some embarrassment, although he has really become the general manager of Hanhua now, and Hanhua has expanded a hundred times compared to the past, but he still stands for himself Meng Lang felt ashamed back then, and at the same time, he was deeply grateful to Lin Zhenhua for giving him the opportunity.

"Old Xiang, don't talk about being young and frivolous, we are not old now, are we?" Lin Zhenhua said, "After the new year is over, let's find a time to sit down and have a few drinks alone, and talk about what happened back then, what do you think?"

Xiang Zhe said with a smile: "Haha, Zhenhua, haven't you heard people say that the sign of old people is to like nostalgia. Now you want to talk about the things of the past. How dare you say that you are not old?"

"Uh... that's not nostalgia, it's called summing up past experience and lessons for better future development." Lin Zhenhua argued with a smile.

Saying goodbye to Xiang Zhe, Lin Zhenhua rode on his bicycle and headed straight from the headquarters office building to the home of his father-in-law Yang Chunshan.It's not that he doesn't have his own car, but he doesn't think it's necessary to take a car inside the company. Cycling can be regarded as exercise.

"Dad, I'm just waiting for you alone!" At Yang Chunshan's house, Lin Fei, a 13-year-old daughter, protested, pouted, "You promised to come back at 11:12, and now it's [-]:[-]. I'm still the chairman , have no sense of time."

"Oh, I can't help it. I'm too busy with work. You'll know when you become the chairman." Lin Zhenhua patted his daughter's head and said with a smile.

"Why, it's been so long just to pay New Year's greetings?" Yang Xin asked with concern while fetching bowls and chopsticks for Lin Zhenhua.

Lin Zhenhua said: "As the company grows, more and more people need New Year's greetings. The rules of the Chinese are also cumbersome. Some people obviously have already called them and talked to them, and they have to come back when they turn around. After making a phone call, I still have to say those words again. This delay will not be delayed until now. "

Yang Xin pursed her lips and said with a smile: "This is a courtesy. If people don't call back, wouldn't they look too arrogant, just wait for you to give them New Year's greetings, and they have to give you New Year's greetings, right? Don't mention you, either. I also made a morning phone call at home this morning."

"Well, there are quite a few units in your chemical equipment alliance. Since you are the secretary-general, you have to wish everyone a new year." Lin Zhenhua said.

The chemical equipment alliance was established more than ten years ago when various domestic chemical equipment companies were fighting for Jiangbei Petrochemical's 45-ton ethylene project. Unanimously elected Secretary-General.

Over the years, the alliance has been re-elected several times, but Yang Xin, the secretary-general, has never been elected.This is partly because Hanhua is still the leader in the domestic chemical industry. Everyone holding Yang Xin is actually giving Lin Zhenhua face.On the other hand, there are also Yang Xin's own reasons. She is rigorous in her work and very friendly to others. She has won the favor of various companies. Everyone thinks that it is really not easy to find another secretary-general who is as friendly as Yang Xin.

The couple are the result of the leadership, that is, the two of them are busy all day long, and they get together less and leave more.Daughter Lin Fei has always been left with Yang Chunshan and Wei Suping, making her relationship with her grandparents closer than her parents.

"I said Xiaohua, Xiaoxin, can't you two have some free time?" The whole family sat down and started eating. Yang Chunshan asked Lin Zhenhua and Yang Xin while drinking a small wine.

"Dad, I also want to relax." Lin Zhenhua replied with a smile, and at the same time raised his glass to touch his old father-in-law.

Yang Chunshan drank the wine in the small cup with a snort, smacked his lips contentedly, and said, "Since you want to be free, so be free. You are now the chairman of 20 people, how can you do everything by yourself?" Go run? You have to mess with that...what's it called, Feifei?"

The old man couldn't think of any new words, so he could only look at Lin Fei for help.Lin Fei knew his grandfather's thoughts well, and said for him: "It's called the art of leadership."

"Yes, it's called the art of leadership." Yang Chunshan said.

Lin Zhenhua looked at his daughter and suddenly felt a little guilty. Her daughter could already say the word "leadership art", but he didn't teach this word.It is said that parents are the best teachers for children. As parents, Yang Xin and I really spend too little time at home with our daughter.

"Dad, don't blame Xiaohua. The company's development is also a critical period now, and Xiaohua doesn't dare to slack off. You don't know, the set of gas turbines our company sold to Africa was still at sea on the first day of the new year. What about transportation. The other side requested that it must be transported to the site on March 3 to participate in the groundbreaking ceremony, do you think Xiaohua can not worry about it?" Yang Xin excused Lin Zhenhua.

Yang Chunshan nodded, his sons and daughters were busy with big business, he was quite relieved as an elder, he didn't mean to criticize Lin Zhenhua and Yang Xin just now.

Lin Zhenhua said: "Dad, I really can't help it. Maybe this is the fate of our generation? We are now catching up to the world's first-class level. It is really like sailing against the current. If we do not advance, we will retreat. When we catch up, we will not be able to catch up." I'm so tired, I believe that Feifei and his generation will live a very leisurely life."

"Actually..." Wei Suping interjected, "Your father and I don't mean to ask you to help with something at home. Both of us are in good health. Let Feifei leave it to us. You can also rest assured. What we mean is that we hope that you can have another one when you are free..."

"Mom!" Yang Xin interrupted her mother angrily and amusedly, "How old am I, am I still alive?"

"You're only in your 30s, and you're still young." Lin Zhenhua smiled, "Unlike me, I'm already in my 40s."

"You are 41, I am 39, we are only two years apart, okay?" Yang Xin smiled and patted Lin Zhenhua.

Yang Chunshan said seriously: "At your age, it's perfectly fine to have another boy. I always think that you should have another boy..."

"Dad, don't you say that in front of Feifei?" Lin Zhenhua quickly stopped Yang Chunshan from talking.

In fact, Yang Chunshan had revealed this meaning as early as when Lin Fei was born.There are two aspects to his thinking. One is that Lin Zhenhua is an only son and needs to have a boy to continue the legacy of the old Lin family; the other is that Lin Zhenhua is now the big boss and needs a son to inherit the family business.However, it is inappropriate to say such things in front of Lin Fei. Will she have psychological shadows?
Wei Suping said: "It's okay, we made an agreement with Feifei, and she also said that she wants a younger brother. You don't care if you have such a big family property, and Feifei has no objection."

"I agree!" Lin Fei raised her hand and said, "Many students in our class have younger siblings, especially those whose parents are the chairman of the board."

"This matter... Let's discuss it in the long run." Lin Zhenhua filled his father-in-law's glass with wine, and then raised his glass to toast him.Yang Chunshan had no choice but to retract the long-winded speech he planned to lay out in resentment, and went to drink.

After lunch, Lin Fei ran out to play with her classmates. Lin Zhenhua and Yang Xin bid farewell to Yang Chunshan and his wife, and returned to their home to wait for the subordinates and partners who were looking for Chairman Lin to pay New Year's greetings.

(End of this chapter)