After returning from Pengyue Hotel, Chen Huai read the book at his residence for a while, and then he heard the sound of a car engine going out outside the yard. He put down the book in his hand and listened to the movement outside. He didn't know who would come to the door late at night.

"Ba, bha, bha", listening to the knocking of the yard gate, Chen Huai walked out of the living room and asked outside the yard, "Who?"

"Hello, Secretary Chen, it's me, Zeng Zhirong. If you don't disturb Secretary Chen, you should rest after such a late night?" Zeng Zhirong's voice came from across the door.

He ran over even though he knew it was so late, so what could he say in the hotel? Chen Huai said in his heart. He walked over and opened the gate of the courtyard. He saw Zeng Zhirong, who had just left the hotel for less than half an hour, standing at the gate of the courtyard with a code box. He didn't know whom Zeng Zhirong borrowed the car, so he parked opposite the courtyard gate. There was no one else in the car. It was obvious that Zeng Zhirong was driving here alone, and it was really hard for him to get here.

"It's so late, Mr. Zeng still has a chat?" Chen Huai asked with a smile, and did not hurry to invite Zeng Zhirong in.

"Today I said it was a thank-you banquet at Pengyue, but Secretary Chen, you can't express our feelings no matter how grateful you are for Hengyang," Zeng Zhirong said. "Although I was helpless before, it did cause some interference to Xiapu County and Secretary Shen's work. I have to come over to express my gratitude and apologize..."

Chen Huai's eyes fell on the heavy code box in Zeng Zhirong's right hand, and said sincerely: "Mr. Zeng, you were in the hotel just now, and you have already prepared gifts for everyone, and we have received them all. If you come here with two bottles of wine, you can come in and we will continue to chat. However, no matter what your code box contains, I will let you in, so I can't explain it clearly. Is this good? Put the box back in the car first, and I will make tea and treat guests..."

"I really have no other meaning to Secretary Chen. We, Hengyang, have been back in the life and death threshold. If Secretary Chen, you have not helped each other with great support, Hengyang would not have been able to overcome this level; a small gift is really not respectful..." Zeng Zhirong said sincerely.

"The problem with Hengyang's affairs is that we have the obligation to correct the matter. Mr. Zeng doesn't mind this matter and is willing to make friends with us. I'm very happy. However, if Mr. Zeng really doesn't want to treat me as a friend, then I can only be sorry and forgive me for not being able to entertain guests." Chen Huai said.

Seeing that Chen Huai was blocking the gate of the courtyard and had an undeniable insistence on his face, Zeng Zhirong had no choice but to put the password box filled with brand new banknotes back into the car.

Chen Huai asked Zeng Zhirong to sit in the living room. Kou Xuan said that he was a nanny for him, but after playing with Xiao Li in Xucheng these days, he probably forgot about this matter. When a customer came, he could only go to the kitchen to boil water and make tea.

Zeng Zhirong looked at the layout in the living room, and the fragrance of books was elegant.

There was a dictionary and a foreign document on the coffee table. It was obvious that after Chen Huai came back, he read the foreign document in the dictionary.

A golden leaf given by Hengyang Ship as a gift at the thank-you banquet was used as a bookmark for Chen Huai and was sandwiched in the pages. Zeng Zhirong would not risk reading what book Chen Huai was reading, but he spread out the pages and left them blankly, and was filled with Chinese annotations.

Chen Huai made tea and brought it out.

Zeng Zhirong smiled and said, "Secretary Chen is back so late, and he still doesn't forget to study?"

Chen Huai and Zeng Zhirong had only had contacts two or three times. The main thing about Hengyang Ship was Zhao Tianming and Xu Jian who were responsible for the resolution of Hengyang Ship, so there was no chance to have an in-depth conversation.

He saw Zeng Zhirong looking at the foreign textbook on the coffee table and said with a smile: "This is a Japanese book on lean manufacturing management. Many domestic manufacturing companies are lacking in this regard. There is no translation in China yet. I try to translate it every day."

Chen Huai didn't mention the pure gold jewelry that he used as a bookmark.

This leaf-shaped pure gold jewelry is a gift prepared by Hengyang Ship for every person attending the banquet today. It looks like fifteen or sixteen grams, which was considered a relatively expensive gift in 1996, but it is not a question of being touched.

It can be seen that Zeng Zhirong is very knowledgeable about giving gifts and knows how to behave.

Chen Huai also knew that the water was clear and there was no fish. He would not disappoint everyone's surprise when he encountered such an occasion. He just took it as a small gift. Otherwise, he would go out to drink with Zhou Zhibai, Yang Haipeng, Song Hongjun and others, and opened a bottle of foreign wine that cost thousands or tens of thousands of dollars, but could he still make it with AA?

Zeng Zhirong was a technician at the Yangcheng State Shipyard for 80 years. Later, he resigned with three colleagues and went into business. He started working from a shipyard contracting and repairing. In more than ten years, he earned tens of millions of dollars. He is considered a person who knows management, technology and worldly affairs.

The two of them discussed the issue of giving gifts without mentioning it, and discussed the issue of lean manufacturing management.

After liberation, the country took advantage of 30 to 40 years to mainly state-owned enterprises and initially formed a relatively complete industrial system. After the reform and opening up, the private manufacturing industry had room for germination and growth. However, in 1996, both state-owned, collective and private manufacturing industries in China still had various defects in production management, which seemed extensive.

Since Meigang, Chen Huai mainly focused on the issue of fine and lean production, and even implemented this spirit into the construction of the factory, making the construction cycle of Meigang No. 2 and per capita steel production after production are much higher than the Birmingham Steel Plant under the control of Siyumins Industrial Group.

The reasons for the gap are that domestic workers have a strong concept of collectivism that obeys discipline, and the factors that British workers have strong freedom and individualism also reflect that Meigang's management level is not inferior to international first-class steel companies.

Without this core factor, Siyumins Industrial Group and Feiqi Industrial would not be able to cooperate with Meigang to have such great cooperation.

Zeng Zhirong also had a deep research and feeling about production management. He rushed over late at night and planned to leave the code box, but he didn't expect to make the issue of lean production. He had not stopped talking about the dawn.

The entourage Zeng Zhirong stayed in the hotel thought he had something wrong with him outside, so he called him to inquire.

The sky was covered with white fish belly, and Chen Huai had a meeting in the morning and needed a while to sleep. Zeng Zhirong then got up and said goodbye, and drove back to Pengyue International Hotel with the undelivered code box.

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When I returned to Pengyue International Hotel, it was only half past five o'clock, and the sky was blue and white. It was the coolest time of the day in the hot summer. Zeng Zhirong was not sleepy. He opened the window, poured pure water in his arms, stood outside the window, and looked at the scenery outside.

Pengyue International Hotel arranged Hengyang ships and his group in the top-floor guest room on the west side of Meixi River. The luxurious suite where Zeng Zhirong lives can see the magnificent view of Meixi River entering Zhujiang River from the window. Among the large mesosone forests, reeds are lush and the rivers are hanging clouds. From a distance, you can see the vague coastline pier of Pingjiang City on the other side of Zhujiang River.

Shortly after Zeng Zhirong returned to the room, Wei Changlin knocked in and saw the code box placed on the coffee table. He lifted it, heavy, obviously the things inside were not delivered, and asked, "Is it a pity that I have not delivered for so long? "

Zeng Zhirong has been founded by Hengyang Shipbuilding for twelve years. Wei Changlin is his most important partner, three years older than him. He is just over fifty this year and is also the second largest shareholder of Hengyang Shipbuilding. Naturally, he knows that it contains two million cash.

Due to physical reasons, Wei Changlin has not participated in daily management in recent years and is hidden behind the scenes. However, the dispute with Xiapu County Shipping Company involves the survival of Hengyang Shipping.

Hengyang Ship has developed in twelve years and has accumulated hundreds of millions of assets. However, the debts of two 5,000-ton coal ships and Xiapu Shipping Company involved more than 30 million yuan. In addition, another 10,000-ton container freighter under construction almost broke Hengyang's capital chain.

In less than two months, more than 30 million ship payments were returned to Hengyang's account in time, which made Hengyang recover.

Although the matter was successfully resolved, Hengyang Ship also successfully survived the biggest crisis since its establishment. This time, taking the opportunity to deliver the ship, Wei Changlin also came with Zeng Zhirong to meet people from the Meigang Group.

Of course, the matter has been resolved, and there was no promise before. Hengyang Ship did not need to prepare such a heavy gift. However, on the one hand, considering that Shen Huai did help solve Hengyang's survival crisis this time, and on the other hand, it was also considering that the upcoming Xinpu Ship Group would be a potential major customer of Hengyang Ship. Zeng Zhirong and Wei Changlin discussed that it was necessary to give Shen Huai a generous gift.

The 30 million shipment payment was successfully returned to the account and the two million were given back, which was not small. However, after so many years of business, we have never seen more greedy officials. Wei Changlin saw Zeng Zhirong returning with his box intact, and thought that Shen Huai was reluctant to accept it because he thought it was too small.

"There is no chance to send it out at all," said Zeng Zhirong. "It's just a discussion of management issues. Before I knew it, it was dawn..."

Wei Changlin and Zeng Zhirong started with the Yangcheng State shipyard and have been working together for twenty years. Naturally, they knew what Zeng Zhirong said. It was not because Shen Huai was concerned about something, because they did not trust each other enough and were not at ease enough, so they did not accept this gift, but because Zeng Zhirong had no chance to give this gift at all.

Wei Changlin was not particularly surprised. In the past few years of business, the shipping companies they contacted were mainly state-owned and collective, so they naturally had to contact a large number of local or state-owned enterprises officials.

Among these officials, some are insatiable and some are more restrained in their careers. However, it was quite surprising that Zeng Zhirong stayed with Shen Huai for four or five hours and was actually talking about management.

Hengyang Shipbuilding Heavy Industry had four partners before and after, and it was finally formed with Zeng Zhirong as the core, responsible for the management of the group and becoming the largest shareholder. It was not without reason.

Of course, Zeng Zhirong had to have four or five hours with other officials, but in the early morning when it was obviously not the time to talk and seemed a bit rude, four or five hours could only show that the topic and depth of the conversation were attractive enough to Zeng Zhirong.
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