"Also, I can't worry and scare my little girlfriend anymore. I can imagine her crying these days, not being able to sleep and study well, she's only seventeen... that's the worst thing for me .”
"Also, I really don't want to see my dad get angry. When he was a farmer, many people were afraid of this...but you don't know."
Xu Tingsheng sat opposite Ling Xiao, and finished the last two sentences of this passage.
Ling Xiao's cell phone rang.
She glanced at the message and said, "Sorry, I'm a little confused about where I should stand... It's just that many people seem to have underestimated your father's energy and determination."
Just this morning, COFCO, a wholly state-owned enterprise owned by the central government and 100% owned by the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council, announced that the first important agreement on the group's transformational investment was formally reached:
COFCO Group officially acquired 40% of the shares of Huangou supermarket chain under Libei Xu's... from all aspects of capital, products, and channels.
Xu's father, Xu Jianliang. Compared with his almost monstrous son, outside of Jian Nan, others know little about him. However, as Ling Xiao said: Almost everyone underestimated the energy and determination of this mud-legged tycoon.
More than two years ago, he pointed to the mountains lying outside the village and said to his son: "Your father is 45 years old this year, and there is still time... I will help you shovel the mountains and pave the road... and then I will leave it to you , you go to the outside world to fight back and forth. It’s done, Dad is proud of you. If it’s not, come back to Dad.”
In fact, he has been doing this.
Until the cooperation between Huangou and COFCO was officially reached and the news was announced, some people suddenly discovered that there was such a low-key behemoth in the domestic chain supermarket industry.
Xu's Huangou may be the supermarket chain with the widest coverage and the greatest influence in cities below the prefectural level in China. The Xu family, Xu Jianliang, has unknowingly completed a grand layout of encircling the city from the countryside in the shopping mall.
It is no wonder that COFCO, which is seeking transformation and breakthrough, will take the initiative to cast an olive branch.
What does it mean for Huanbu to join hands with COFCO
"Unexpectedly, the identity of your Xu family changed overnight," Ling Xiao said, "Imperial merchants, official merchants, in ancient times they were all called red-capped merchants, later they were red capitalists, and today..."
"Actually, it's not that complicated. For my dad, it just means... From then on, no one can arrest Xu Jianliang's son and lock him up for a few days." Xu Tingsheng said, "Unless the Xu family is completely defeated."
Ling Xiao was startled.
"No one knows how good my father is, how ruthless, and how protective he is." Xu Tingsheng smiled like a child and said, "He actually bullied his son..."
As if to confirm Xu Tingsheng's words, Ling Xiao soon got the second piece of news.
Xu Jianliang, chairman of Libei Huangou Group, has just... formally sued the Yanzhou Municipal People's Government because of the dispute over the Yanzhou Ningyuan land parcel held by his son Xu Tingsheng's Zhicheng Real Estate and the unfair treatment he received.
Ling Xiao absolutely rarely had such an expression, he was dazed.
It is true that the law allows people to sue officials, of course there are, and there are actually many, but... everyone knows that this is nothing more than to reflect the spirit of the rule of law and civil rights.
For example, the Shenghai Municipal Government is sued hundreds of times every year, and the loss rate so far is zero.
However, this time... is different. This time, no one dares to assert that the Yanzhou Municipal Government can sit firmly on the Diaoyutai.
"Is this what your father and COFCO agreed on? The two pieces of news came one after the other... This is, the private enterprise is dragging the central enterprise to fight against the local government?" Ling Xiao asked in a daze.
Xu Tingsheng lowered his head and took a puff of cigarette, smiled wryly and shook his head: "No, my dad did it on purpose. He... kidnapped COFCO. I told you, I really don't want to see my dad get angry. Comrade Xu is more angry than me. He is ruthless, protective, has a bad temper, and acts recklessly... "
Xu Tingsheng didn't mind telling Ling Xiao frankly, because the outcome of the matter would not change in any way because of this, even if COFCO was caught off guard, even if it was really unwilling... there was no way not to be taken advantage of.
COFCO, which has just announced the news, must take this fact into consideration, as well as its face and interests. Others must also worry about Huangou's identity change after joining forces with COFCO.
At this time, neither Xu Tingsheng nor Ling Xiao knew about another matter. The desperate Ye Qing threatened Yanzhou City with a strong posture that he might lose his inheritance rights completely. The government, as well as the eight officials at all levels who died with Tan Yao before.
The people are indeed dead... But Ye Qing thinks it's not enough, she can't watch Tan Yao die while being charged with crimes, and those people are buried in a dignified manner. She didn't want to let the instigator behind this incident rest in peace.
As she said later at Tan Yao's funeral, if Fang Cheng had dared to go one step further, to Tan Yao's grave... she would not have let her go.
In the eyes of others, the most shrewd, cold-blooded and unattainable woman in Yanzhou... has gone crazy. What she cared about the most in the past, she doesn't care about at all now.
She is also helping Xu Tingsheng, Tan Yao's best brother in this life.
For Yanzhou official circles, the pressure brought by the Ye family is actually greater than that of the Xu family. Everyone knows that the Ye family is the richest man in Yanzhou, but the truth is far more than that.
This is a family with a very deep heritage. As early as 1900, the ancestors of the Ye family purchased thousands of acres of fertile land in Yanzhou and established the first Western-style middle school in the area. The school hired an American principal and taught in English, and then donated it all to the government. It was restructured and became the first college in Yanzhou; during the Revolution of 1911, during the Anti-Japanese War, and during the War of Liberation, the ancestors of the Ye family gave great assistance and support as patriotic entrepreneurs; after the founding of the People’s Republic of China, a daughter of the Ye family married the founding general;…
Even though the current Ye family is no longer as prominent and beautiful as it was back then... But facing a family that has stood for over a hundred years, no one is so stupid as to dare to underestimate and shake it lightly.
In this country, people have always been indoctrinated with the notion that the struggle between businessmen and officials is tantamount to an egg hitting a stone. But this time, they may have to see two eggs that can break rocks.
When people in the Yanzhou City government knew they were involved, they slapped the table in the office and shouted "what the hell are they trying to do?"
Ling Xiao also asked Xu Tingsheng, "Your family, what do you and your father want to do?"
Xu Tingsheng looked up at her and said nothing.
"If it's just to get you out, it doesn't seem necessary to make it so public; if it's to calm down the matter of the Ding family in Yanzhou, the direction is not clear..." Ling Xiao said, "Actually... if the Ding family can solve it, you do have it now. There is a way to get out."
"Why?"
"Our Ling and Xiao families have built a net for more than 20 years. You used to be not enough to shake, but now you, I admit, can break through one or two points, punch a hole, and have enough room to escape. .”
"Why didn't I tear up the whole net?" Xu Tingsheng looked at Ling Xiao and said.
"Have you ever seen a net? Point it, it can't break the surface." Ling Xiao said meeting his eyes.
"I've seen it before. If you break enough points, you can break the surface. Your net is too dense. The advantage is that it is strong, but the disadvantage is that it is broken into pieces." Xu Tingsheng said.