Rebirth: My 80s

Chapter 651 An encounter at the fish market

Reorganizing and managing a "Big Mac" is indeed not an easy task. At this time, the benefits of Li Jiankun's joining Bao, Li, and Dong became apparent.

Each of the three companies sent their own teams to the venue, and also mobilized a wave of experienced management talents from within their respective groups to station at Huaqiang Swire.

Otherwise, just with Li Jiankun, a guy who can almost be described as a polished commander, and China Merchants Group, an organization that can be compared to "a cat stalls with a hundred catties of big fish", who knows if it will take over in the Year of the Monkey, chaos will inevitably occur during this period. .

Even if they gather the strength of their five "families", it is still not a matter of time.

It is not good for Li Jiankun, the largest shareholder, to just abandon his stall. I am afraid he will have to stay in the port city for a while. He estimates that after "inspecting" the stall of the former Taikoo & Co., Ltd., the Huadian IC Design Center will have a Hanxian BB machine. It’s time for the project to be implemented...

At noon this day, inside Kai Tak Airport.

Cathay Pacific Airways Branch.

This company, which controls 80% of Hong Kong's aviation market, is headquartered in the former Swire Building in Central, which has now been renamed "Huaqiang Swire Building"——

After the Second World War, the Schweizer family took Swire Bank as its foundation and has continued to develop to this day. It is accustomed to using the bank, which is only seven floors high, as its headquarters. In fact, this building is the most magnificent property under the former Swire & Co. Ltd.

It is worth mentioning that this building also houses the most expensive tree in the world.

An old banyan tree. It can be described as a living witness to the vicissitudes of the port city over the past century.

There is a story in it. When the Swire family fell in love with this land, they wanted to buy it and build a building. They wanted to cut down or remove the old banyan tree. As a result, they encountered collective opposition from Hong Kong residents. With no choice, the Swire family could only keep it. It cost more than 20 million Hong Kong dollars to put down the old banyan tree. Before building the building, a "big flowerpot" with a diameter of 18 meters and a depth of 10 meters was built for the old banyan tree to fix it.

After the building is completed, people can take the rolling escalator to the top of the Pacific Building to admire this old banyan tree with a crown diameter of more than 20 meters. Of course, you have to buy a ticket. Therefore, the Shihuai Ya family still made back the money they spent, even made a lot of money, and made a steady stream of money.

The Schweizer family built the top floor of the building into a small park with an old banyan tree as the center. People in Hong Kong call it the "Rong Garden". I don’t know if it is because “there are tourists running overhead every day”, which to a certain extent also caused the Swire family to regard the former Swire Bank as their home base.

But Li Jiankun fell in love with him the first time he went there.

Today, the headquarters of "Huaqiang Swire" has been moved to this building, and he also has a luxurious office below the "Rongpu".

"To be honest, the thing that the Schweizer family has that I covet the most is Cathay Pacific."

As a group of people walked along the inner passage of the airport, Dong Haoyun said without hesitation.

Li Jiankun grinned and said to himself, people like you often travel far away. Having a private jet is not a big deal among the top wealthy people. Having your own airline is really cool.

Unfortunately, Cathay Pacific currently does not have the shipping rights to mainland China. So if he returns to the mainland, he still won't be able to sit on his own plane.

Li Jiankun figured that he would have to talk to Mr. Yuan about this matter...

"I can't hold it in. What happened when I went to the bathroom?"

"Sorry, this is a VIP rest area. You are not a VIP customer of our company, so you do not enjoy this right."

"What about him? Why don't you ask him if he is?"

There were sounds of arguing in front of them. Li Jiankun and Dong Haoyun were not in a hurry. They hunched over and followed the several airline executives who were accompanying them. Their expressions changed greatly.

damn it!

I've already informed you that the new boss is coming for an inspection today, but how dare you do anything wrong!

"Wait a minute." Li Jiankun called out to several managers who were about to rush over, and motioned to the people behind him not to follow. He and Dong Haoyun came to the front, separated by a half-person-high solid wood partition wall with flowers on it, and greeted the VIP guests. Looking around in the rest room.

Several airline executives watched helplessly from the aisle behind, sweating profusely.

At the entrance of the VIP lounge, a young couple dressed fashionably were stopped by a young female employee on duty who was wearing a dark red professional skirt and had a good figure and face.

A white man carrying a travel bag just walked past the three of them.

The girl in the young couple was very upset. She pointed at the white man’s back and said in Cantonese: “You didn’t even check his VIP card!”

The female staff member said calmly: "No need to check, he is our regular customer."

"Really? Today I want to see if I have a good memory or if your company discriminates against Chinese people!" After the girl in the couple said this, she switched to English and called out to the white man who walked past.

Seeing the situation here, it was clear what was going on, and Li Jiankun raised his eyebrows slightly. The white man was not even dressed as well as the young couple, and he was carrying a washed-out yellow canvas bag. In their native country, they would be no better than homeless people.

"It's hard to change bad habits that have been around for many years." Dong Haoyun said sadly.

"I don't believe it. In my company, discriminating against Chinese people is equivalent to disrespecting me."

Li Jiankun's words fell on the ears of several airline executives behind him, and they made their calves tremble with fear - all the British executives of the company were dismissed, and they took this opportunity to rise to the top and get the promising achievements in the past. And out of reach positions and high salaries.

The more a person cares about something, the more afraid he is of losing something.

Li Jiankun also did not expect that because he had known about Cathay Pacific's shortcomings for a long time and he took the British executives to task, such a bad thing would happen again.

What does this mean?

Either there is a problem with the management's ability; or even if they do some superficial work, they still don't realize that this is a problem.

Not easy to change?

Then let him change it.

Cathay Pacific has no competitors and has plenty of time to make internal adjustments.

"Cao Shenghua."

"exist……"

"You're fired."

Cao Shenghua: "!!!"

The other airline executives next to them were silent. Mr. Cao was the newly appointed general manager, just for this trivial matter?

"Does anyone think this is a trivial matter? Am I making a fuss out of a molehill?" Li Jiankun turned around and asked.

Executives have their heads crossed. Cao Shenghua was left stunned on the spot. After a while, he stepped forward with a fierce air, looked into the VIP lounge and roared: "Who is on duty, you idiot!"

He didn't even know the name of the female staff member on duty.

The identity and position are too different. The female staff member on duty turned around in shock and found the general manager's red eyes staring at her like a ferocious beast. She was so frightened that her feet went weak and she almost sat down on the gray-white carpet.

Li Jiankun turned around, faced several airline executives, and said with a serious expression: "You have to understand one thing. The reason why the Hong Kong City's status has become so special is because it is backed by the vast and abundant mainland. In the final analysis," Cathay Pacific enjoys the dividends granted by the mainland and eats food from the Chinese. What reason do we have to discriminate against the poor and poor?"

Executives are as busy as chickens pecking at rice.

Cao Shenghua nodded and leaned forward, with a pleading look on his face, wanting to save a chance.

However, how could Li Jiankun take back what he said? Not to mention other things, the higher the status, the weight of words is not the same. Even if Cao Shenghua promises that such things will never happen again, it will affect his prestige.

Just this, Cao Shenghua is lost if he loses it.

After teaching the executives of Cathay Pacific a lesson and holding a meeting, in the middle of the afternoon, the champagne-colored Silver Spur and a black Bentley S3 drove away through the airport's internal passage and went back to their homes.

On the way back to Taiping Mountain, Zhang Fu reminded: "Miss Huang's birthday is today."

Li Jiankun told him to remind him before going out in the morning, fearing that he would forget when he was busy. Bandit Huang came back in the evening and saw that he was empty-handed, so he dared to press him on the sofa and beat him.

Li Jiankun nodded, indicating that he heard it, and asked: "What do you think she will like?"

Zhang Gui chuckled, "As long as you buy it, she should like it."

Well, it would be better to ask the driver Lao Liu than to ask them.

Old Liu thought for a while and then replied: "Ms. Huang is not short of valuables either. I think the main thing is her heart."

After a pause, Lao Liu looked at BOSS through the rearview mirror, and his voice became more and more novel: "She has always been obsessed with the last barbecue."

Li Jiankun slapped his thigh, "Okay, it's best to be a cook again - he actually didn't want to give Miss Huang anything. If he gave her something "accidentally" and let the girl have her wildest dreams again, that would be the end of the world.

Silver Spur took the road to Wan Chai Pier, the nearest source of raw materials.

There was a medium-sized seafood market near the pier. Old Liu was waiting outside with the car in hand. Li Jiankun took the Fugui brothers to the market shed. The air was filled with a strong stench, and the ground was dirty and slippery. A girl wanted to avoid him. ——It's a pity that he and the girl were still eight feet away, so he couldn't put his foot firmly on the ground and fell down.

The bag of prawns I just bought was splashed everywhere, jumping around in the dirty, smelly water.

Li Jiankun looked sideways and saw that the girl was impeccably dressed and had tears in her eyes...it was very embarrassing.

He asked Zhang Gui to help him up and stuffed him with another two hundred yuan.

It's really a disaster.

A small incident did not affect Li Jiankun's mood when visiting the vegetable market. He grew up by the sea and was not afraid of fishy smells. He quite liked this kind of place with the smell of fireworks. Unfortunately, he rarely had the opportunity to visit the Hong Kong City and it was not his turn. visit.

While looking left and right, Li Jiankun suddenly spotted a familiar figure. After looking at it carefully to confirm that he had seen it right, his eyes became quite strange.

Outside a fish stall, I saw a slightly lame white young man wearing a black leather apron and rubber shoes of the same color. He was receiving a customer with a stern face. He reached out and grabbed a three or four fish from the glass fish tank without skill. A pound of grouper is presented to the customer for inspection.

Not to mention Li Jiankun, even the wealthy brothers looked weird.

Li Jiankun walked over calmly and saw an old white man with gray hair and severely sagging skin in the fish stall. The young white man had not noticed them because his back was turned to him, so the old man noticed.

Bang!

A purple clay teapot that the old white man was holding with his right hand fell to the dark concrete floor and shattered into pieces.

Pfft!

Then I saw him kneeling down and banging his forehead: "Please, please, please let us go."

He was so frightened that Li Jiankun came to trouble him.

The white young man turned around in surprise. When he saw the three people behind him, his light blue pupils shrank violently. He was also frightened and staggered. If he hadn't been held up by the fish tank, he would have fallen over.

"Hello? Are you still selling this fish?"

"No...I'm sorry, I won't sell it anymore."

The customer was speechless. After taking a careful look at Li Jiankun and the others, he quietly retreated.

The Shihuai Ya family had sold off their business and evacuated the port city. Unexpectedly, the father and son were still here. But after thinking about it, Li Jiankun suddenly realized that they were still alive because some people were worried about blood ties. There is a high probability that he will be ordered not to return to the Eagle Country's nest, which is similar to "stay in the port city to rot."

After losing the big tree of the Schweizer family, if they still lack capital, they are actually no different from ordinary people.

Charlie lowered his head, not daring to look at Li Jiankun, and kept muttering: "I'm sorry, sorry, sorry..."

His whole body was dejected, even showing a sense of death.

The father and son knew very well that if the other party wanted to kill them now, it would be easier than trampling two ants to death, and even the soles of his shoes would not be contaminated with dirt.

"How to sell these shrimps?"

Charlie: "???"

Li Jiankun didn't seem to know them at all, choosing seafood by himself. Seeing this, the father and son hurriedly came over to serve them.

"How much is the total?"

"You can appreciate those worthless things because you think highly of us. If you want to eat them in the future, we will send them to you without you having to come in person." Hebrew, whose forehead was dirty and red, said with the most sincere smile and tone in his life.

Li Jiankun took out a few banknotes, found a clean countertop and put them down, then turned around and left with his wealthy brothers with their hands full.

The wealthy brothers looked at each other, unable to understand the confusing operation of their boss.

The Hebrew father and son also didn't understand, but they were breathing heavily, as if they had just climbed out of the abyss of hell, looking at the back with complicated expressions...

(End of this chapter)