N-M Chapter 367: It seems to be fate
Chapter 367: It seems to be fate
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The Spring Festival is like a dazzling firework, fleeting in the blink of an eye. After the seventh day of the Lunar New Year, everyone gradually returned to their respective jobs. In the alleyways, there are still children who haven't started school yet, setting off sporadic firecrackers to remind everyone that it is still the first month of the lunar calendar.
The once bustling old house has returned to its usual quiet. My uncle and aunt took my grandmother and the others back to Suzhou to visit relatives and friends for a while. The two little ones also returned to their own home with their parents. Now, only Huang Xiaochuan and Yu Xiang are left in the huge old house.
On the eighth day of the Lunar New Year, Huang Xiaochuan went to his office in Xujiahui. As the boss, he was going to distribute red envelopes to his employees to mark the start of the work year. Whether they were auspicious or not was another matter; the main thing was to make everyone happy.
Huang Xiaochuan remembered that in his previous life, someone who looked like an alien once said that there were two reasons why employees were unhappy: one was that they were paid too little, and the other was that they were wronged.
Although Huang Xiaochuan had a bad impression of this person and his actions, he had to admit that what he said made sense.
Under Mai Guangde's leadership, the employees in the headquarters office, regardless of their rank, along with the head chefs in the kitchen and the cleaning and security guards, formed two lines to receive red envelopes from Huang Xiaochuan.
Those who received the red envelopes expressed their gratitude to Huang Xiaochuan and wished him a Happy New Year.
As he was sending messages, Huang Xiaochuan suddenly saw a familiar face smiling at him and bowing to him in a New Year's greeting.
"Happy New Year, boss!"
"Sister Sui?" Huang Xiaochuan turned to look at Mai Guangde.
Mai Guangde quickly explained, "This has nothing to do with me. Dr. Zhang submitted her resume to the Hong Kong company, and then General Manager Cao arranged for her to work here as the group's financial investment specialist. I only met her today."
After quickly distributing red envelopes to everyone, Huang Xiaochuan took Mai Guangde and Zhang Sui back to his office. He wanted to get to the bottom of this matter.
The matter was not complicated, and Huang Xiaochuan learned the whole story in just a few minutes.
Back then, Mak Kwong-tak left his business card at Boston Hospital so that the hospital could contact him if needed. It contained detailed contact information and company names, including Hong Kong Boulevard Company.
After recovering from her injuries, Zhang Sui received this business card from the doctor and learned that this company had donated money to save her life. She asked around and then had an idea.
After obtaining her doctorate, she immediately submitted her resume to Hong Kong Dadao Company. As a finance PhD graduate from a prestigious American university, she was proficient in corporate finance, investment, risk management and other fields. Her salary requirements were not too high, so it was no surprise that she was hired. Moreover, since Dadao Group's main business was now in Shanghai, she was naturally assigned to the headquarters of Dadao Group, where Huang Xiaochuan worked, in this old villa in Xujiahui.
After learning the reason, Huang Xiaochuan asked, "How much annual salary does the HR department pay you?"
"A three-year contract with an annual salary of HK$100,000, increasing by HK$12% each year, plus a signing bonus of HK$50,000."
"Has the company arranged accommodation?" This question was asked of Mai Guangde.
"Since Commissioner Zhang has just started working, she is temporarily staying at a nearby hotel, and the human resources department is already helping her find an apartment."
"Tell HR to rent an apartment near the company that is intended for foreign buyers."
"OK."
After Zhang Sui left Huang Xiaochuan's office, Huang Xiaochuan had the human resources department bring Zhang Sui's resume to his office.
Zhang Sui, female, 30 years old this year, graduated from Fudan University with a bachelor's degree. Later, through her own efforts, she was admitted to the IT graduate program and won a full scholarship to study in the United States and obtained a doctoral degree in finance. During this period, she interned on Wall Street for a period of time and received praise from her superiors and colleagues. Before graduating, she received a $120,000 offer from a Wall Street investment bank.
Undoubtedly, she is an outstanding talent, but for Huang Xiaochuan, it remains to be seen whether she is truly capable or not. He needs to quickly come up with a suitable project for Zhang Sui to try out.
After the Lantern Festival, Huang Xiaochuan received a call from Ge Changli.
In Ge Changli's newly rented office, Huang Xiaochuan looked around and saw the business license hanging on the wall. Huang Xiaochuan discovered that it was a trading company that Ge Changli himself had registered and was the legal representative of.
"Old Ge, so you're really in charge now, huh?"
Ge Changli was all smiles as he busied himself making tea for Huang Xiaochuan, carrying a thermos.
"The company is newly established and a bit rudimentary, so please bear with us."
Huang Xiaochuan took the teacup Ge Changli handed him and said, "You didn't even tell me you were opening! How about this? I'll give you a complete set of mahogany office furniture! People say clothes make the man, and gold makes the Buddha. If customers come and see your shabby office, they'll definitely run away!"
Ge Changli laughed and said, "Then I won't stand on ceremony with you!"
Ge Changli took a leave of absence before the Lunar New Year to start his own business. Today, he hosted a banquet for a group of friends, firstly to celebrate the opening of his company, and secondly in the hope that they would help him introduce more business in the future.
During their casual conversation, Huang Xiaochuan asked him, "You're not trading stocks anymore?"
Ge Changli waved his hand like an electric fan: "Don't even mention it. Luckily, I cut my losses and ran fast. Look at how badly the stock market has fallen now! We're back to square one overnight. It's my fault for not listening to you. If I had listened to you and sold it earlier, I wouldn't have lost so much."
Huang Xiaochuan didn't ask Ge Changli how much he lost. It was a painful memory for him, and there was no need to delve into it further.
"I've experienced it firsthand. Speculating on stamps and stocks is not as reliable as doing what I used to do. Finance is not a business that we can easily understand!" Ge Changli reflected to himself.
"Old Ge, you could also consider developing your career in manufacturing."
Ge Changli immediately became interested: "What do you mean by that? Tell me!"
"You've always been involved in foreign trade, so you must know that our country's exports are growing significantly every year, and there's an increasing amount of processing trade. Last May, the country established the Singapore Industrial Park in Suzhou, aiming to leverage the advantage of domestic labor costs to develop processing trade for precision equipment."
You can do this too! For example, precision mold making, molding processing—the market for this is huge in the future. You could make things like pager casings, mobile phone casings, and so on. You travel abroad frequently for foreign trade, right? Take this opportunity to investigate the market and equipment. You've been in foreign trade for so many years; you must know these things, right?
"But they want wholly foreign-owned or joint-venture companies."
"Do I have to teach you this? Just register a company in Singapore, and then use that company to form a joint venture with the company you registered in mainland China." In the blink of an eye, Huang Xiaochuan solved the problem for Ge Changli.
"Is this allowed? Isn't this exploiting a loophole in the government's policies?" Ge Changli was referring to the tax reduction and exemption policies that the government provides to joint ventures or foreign-invested enterprises.
"I'm truly impressed by you. This is all done within the rules, nothing illegal or against regulations. We're taking advantage of this opportunity to rapidly expand the company. This is a once-in-a-lifetime chance, so think it over carefully!"
Huang Xiaochuan's words moved Ge Changli.
At the banquet, Huang Xiaochuan met someone he would never forget for two lifetimes—that bastard who had ruined him financially. "Heaven has a path, but you choose the wrong one; hell has no gate, but you insist on coming here." Since they had met, it must have been fate.