bdsm-fiction Chapter 10: Everything is on track, talent is discovered.
Chapter 10: Everything is on track, talent is discovered.
Sunday afternoon, September 3.
Li Jiagang has just returned to the company.
"Chairman, Chairman Li came to see you this morning. He said you should come to the tenth floor to see him after you return."
"Oh well."
In the past few days, Li Jiagang has been running around the laboratory and the stock exchange, and occasionally he goes to the market to understand the situation of contract manufacturing. He rarely comes back to the company. Even when there is something to do, he tells Gao Fuhai to handle it by phone and occasionally asks about the company's situation.
With the blueprints and data provided by Li Jiagang, He Jianmin led the technical staff to achieve several technological breakthroughs in the "fully automatic washing machine" in the laboratory. The test was also successful, and the parts production workshop began to model the machine in preparation for mass production.
Meanwhile, on the stock market...
In the past few days, Wharf Holdings' prices have continued to rise. Although the increase is not very large, the trend is very stable, and the price is close to breaking the HK$20 mark.
Li Jiagang also successfully acquired 230 million shares of "Da Zhihui" Investment Company at a price of HK$19, with a transaction amount of HK$4370 million.
In the past few days, through market transactions and purchases from his acquaintances, Wang, the broker, has acquired over 192 million more Wharf Holdings shares for Li Jiagang at an average price of HK$19.50, spending nearly HK$3900 million.
To date, he holds 422 million shares of Wharf Holdings, representing over 5% of the company's equity.
Moreover, in order to avoid attracting attention, he deliberately suppressed Wang's trading speed. If Wang had been allowed to freely enter the market, his account would probably be almost empty by now.
Despite this, he has already spent more than HK$8200 million from his account, leaving him with less than HK$1700 million.
This amount of money can be fully invested in just a few days.
Li Jiagang was quite satisfied with successfully going all-in without triggering any market reaction.
After all, he was still very insignificant at this time, and the price had not yet reached his ideal level. Once he attracted attention from the outside world, whether it was Jardine Matheson or other people who came to him to transfer their shares, what would happen?
Lijiagang will then be in a very passive position.
If he doesn't do business with others, he'll be powerless and vulnerable to being deliberately targeted, which will cause him a lot of trouble. Especially when facing a behemoth like Jardine Matheson, he'll be crushed both commercially and politically.
He is someone you simply cannot afford to offend.
If you don't want to offend others, and you're making a deal with someone but the price isn't what you wanted, you're bound to be unhappy.
Now that Wharf Holdings' prices are less than HK$20, if Li Jiagang dares to ask for HK$50 to sell, people will definitely think he is greedy and he will offend others even more.
Therefore, the best outcome is that he quietly absorbed the product without causing any market fluctuations.
Soon Li Jiagang went up to his uncle's office.
"Knock knock knock!!!"
"Come in."
"Uncle, you were looking for me?"
"Oh, it's Hong Kong guy. Please have a seat."
"Um."
Li Yongsen put down his work and came out to sit on the sofa with Li Jiagang.
"Hong Kong boy, your secretary said you haven't been back to the company much these past few days. What have you been busy with lately?" Li Yongsen asked tentatively.
I'm afraid he'll revert to his old ways.
If he hadn't contacted Uncle Fu and learned that Li Jiagang had stayed home all night, Li Yongsen would probably have sent someone to find him and ask him what had happened.
"Uncle, I've been out researching the market these past few days. Once the washing machine is successfully developed, the factory's current scale will definitely not be able to produce all the parts and accessories itself; we'll need to cooperate with processing plants."
After receiving Li Jiagang's explanation, Li Yongsen breathed a long sigh of relief.
"It's good that I didn't end up with that group again," Li Yongsen thought to himself with relief.
His eyes also showed doting affection.
"Hong Kong boy, you've really grown up."
"Uncle, I'll consider the past as gone. I won't let you down again."
"Good, good, good, my good nephew." Li Yongsen was indeed very pleased at this moment.
"By the way, did you find a partner? Is there anything your uncle's factory can do to help you?"
"I'm just going to get a feel for the market and learn more about the industry, so we haven't officially started talking yet."
"That's right, haste makes waste."
"I'm even more relieved that you have this idea. Anyway, if there's anything you don't understand, just come and ask me. I'll help you contact a few partners."
"Thank you, Uncle."
"By the way, Uncle, is there something you need?"
"Yes, today is Jia Hua's birthday. Come over to our house for dinner tonight. And when you have time, you should come visit your uncle's house often, okay?" Li Yongsen said to Li Jiagang in a commanding tone.
Such words were a treatment that Li Jiagang had never received before. Before he took over this body, the original owner was absolutely hated by everyone, let alone Li Yongsen would invite him to his house for meals and visits.
"Oh, it's Brother Hua's birthday."
"Okay, I'll definitely be there tonight."
"Okay, just remember to come tonight. Your company was just re-established, so you must be very busy. You should go back and take care of things first."
"Okay, Uncle, goodbye."
Watching Li Jiagang's departing figure, Li Yongsen felt truly gratified.
"Eternal, did you and your husband see this?"
"Jiagang has grown up and is capable now. If you and your wife know this in the afterlife, you can rest in peace. Please bless him so that everything goes smoothly for him."
Now there are no adults left in Li Jiagang's family, and as his uncle, he is essentially his only relative. Seeing how much he has changed, he is genuinely happy.
After Li Jiagang returned to his office...
He immediately wrote down the market information he had gathered over the past few days in his notebook.
He could have easily sent someone to do these things, but he had never done business in his previous life and didn't know anything about the market, so he planned to find out for himself and learn from the experience.
Otherwise, if the company grows bigger in the future and he has no experience, even if he has the memory of the general direction of development in the future, he will not be able to maintain the foundation if he does not understand management.
As the ancients often said, conquering a country is easy, but being able to hold onto it is a true skill.
He didn't want to ruin the foundation he had built, even with God's favor.
Isn't this an insult to the reputation of time travelers?
He not only wants to learn more about business, but he also wants to go back to school to make up for the studies the original owner did not complete and to obtain more academic certificates.
He certainly didn't want some media outlet to report on this matter when he achieved success in the future.
In the past few days, he went out and learned a lot about the electrical appliance business, which was a field he had never been exposed to before. He also gained some understanding of how to negotiate cooperation and how to sell products.
I was busy until after 3 p.m.
"Knock knock knock!!"
There was a knock on the door of Li Jiagang's office.
"Come in."
The visitor was Li Haiming, the administrative manager.
"Chairman, this is a list of the people who have been recruited or successfully interviewed in the recently added departments. Please review and sign it, as I need to register it with the Human Resources Department."
"Okay, I'll approve it later."
"Please have a seat. I have some questions to ask you."
"Yes, Chairman."
"Among this group of people, are there any whom you think are good in terms of education, character, and experience?"
Li Jiagang had spoken with Li Haiming, and although they hadn't met many times, he could tell that the administrative manager was a capable and experienced person.
Such people are usually very accurate in judging others.
Most importantly, she has worked at this company for ten years, her character is impeccable, and she is decisive and efficient in her work, never procrastinating. This is the point that Li Jiagang values most about her.
Lijiagang currently needs talented individuals who are both capable and of good character.
Compared to Gao Fuhai, the current deputy general manager of the company, Li Jiagang believes that Li Haiming is more capable, more likely to reach a consensus with him, and better able to work together.
So he was keen to promote her.
The reason he asked her if there were any good talents among the newcomers was that if there were, he would first look into it, and if they were truly capable, he would have Li Haiming train someone to succeed her and promote her.
Li Jiagang also knows more or less about the other employees in the administration department.
None of them were people he thought were suitable to take over Li Haiming's position as administrative manager.
"Chairman, you know what, there is one person I think is quite good. He is from Hong Kong, first graduated from Hong Kong University, then studied at St. John's University in the United States, and just returned to Hong Kong."
This person was recommended by an overseas talent agency, and I've had an interview with him. He's well-educated and has good business acumen, but he lacks experience. However, he's a recent graduate, so that can be developed. The only issue is that he hasn't confirmed whether he'll start working.
"Oh, he has other plans?"
"I'm not sure, since this is our first conversation."
"Do you have his information? Let me see it."
"some."
Li Haiming opened the personnel list she had just handed to Li Jiagang and quickly found the information of the person she had just mentioned.
Li Jiagang took it and looked at the name: "Holy crap, it's him! Oh my god..."
He jumped up with a start.