Chapter 294 Difficulties
Ten minutes later, Song Yuanchao and Li Daqi finished their meal and sat on the sofa in the office. On Song Yuanchao's left hand was the cup of tea that had just been brewed for him.
"Have you finished your work this morning?" Li Daqi asked with a smile, handing Song Yuanchao a cigarette.
"It's almost done. We still have to go and see the house in person and wait for Professor Pan's notification. He has to contact the Housing Authority to get the old drawings first."
At this point, Song Yuanchao paused, looked at Li Daqi and asked, "By the way, Daqi, why haven't you bought your own house? Why are you still living in the same place?"
Song Yuanchao learned about this when he came back. Li Daqi's family still lives in the shantytown, the same place that Song Yuanchao had visited before.
This time when Song Yuanchao bought the old villa, he thought Li Daqi would buy one for him as well. In fact, Song Yuanchao had already mentioned this when he called him to ask him to do this. But he didn't expect Li Daqi to not buy the house, which surprised Song Yuanchao.
"Well..." Li Daqi looked a little unnatural, smiled bitterly and shook his head: "I still want to wait a little longer..."
"Brother, don't wait any longer. Take action when you get the chance. Besides, you're not short of money now." Song Yuanchao patted his shoulder.
Who would have thought that this sentence would make Li Daqi look even more unnatural. He shook his head and said, "It's not that easy..."
"What's wrong?" Looking at Li Daqi's appearance, Song Yuanchao was a little confused.
"There are some things you don't understand." Li Daqi sighed, lit a cigarette and said, "Do you still remember my original house?"
"Of course I remember!" Song Yuanchao nodded. How could he not remember Li Daqi's original house? When he was a child, he often went there to play. Sometimes he was tired at night and slept at Li Daqi's house for several nights. It was so familiar that it was no different from his own home.
Li Daqi's grandfather was the old secretary of the electronics factory and a high-ranking military-turned-official. Although the house the Li family lived in was not as good as the one Song Yuanchao had just bought, it was still a good house in Shanghai.
"My dad is now trying to find a way to get the old house back," said Li Daqi.
"Is there a chance?" Song Yuanchao asked.
Li Daqi shook his head slightly: "It's only possible, but we have to try anyway. This house is a knot in my father's heart, and I personally want to take it back."
Song Yuanchao nodded silently. Although the house was allocated to Li Daqi's grandfather, it actually belonged to the Li family. This was a default fact. But in fact, the people living in it only had the right to use it but not the property rights. This was also true. After all, the trading of commercial housing would not be open until a few years later. Nowadays, most houses were for the right to use, except for the courtyard house that Song Yuanchao bought and the old houses with complete land deeds and house deeds.
The house of the Li family is not only a knot in the heart of Uncle Li, but also a knot in the heart of Li Daqi and his sister. This house represents the memories of their childhood and youth. After decades, it has long been inseparable from their family.
If it were Song Yuanchao, he would have the same idea, so getting the house back is of great significance to the Li family.
But now that the tenant has changed, the chances of getting the house back are slim. Li Daqi understands this, and Uncle Li actually understands this too.
"Take your time with this matter, don't be in a hurry. Maybe everything will fall into place when the opportunity comes." Song Yuanchao comforted Li Daqi. He had no better way to deal with this matter, so this was the only way.
But Li Daqi and his family can't continue to live in the shantytown, right? The houses in the shantytown are low and narrow, and it is really inconvenient for a family of four to live in, so Song Yuanchao still persuaded Li Daqi to deal with the old house, but at the same time, he had to improve his current residence first, at least buy a decent house first, even if it was a house similar to Song Yuanchao's Shikumen house.
"I do want to, but there are too many eyes staring at me now, and some things are really hard to deal with." After hearing what Song Yuanchao said, Li Daqi still smiled bitterly and shook his head.
Hearing what he said, Song Yuanchao was stunned for a moment, and immediately thought of the few words that Li Daqi had mentioned to him on the phone before, and immediately asked what was going on.
"Remember the export business at the factory last year?"
"Of course I remember. Are you talking about someone being jealous?" Song Yuanchao asked.
"Yes!" Li Daqi nodded and said, "Last year, we received an order from Xiangjiang. Didn't someone come to our factory under the pretext of an inspection? He was planning to give the order to his relatives at that time. Later, Zhengguo intervened and suppressed the matter. He also dismissed the leader who came at that time."
Speaking of this, Li Daqi smoked a cigarette and said depressedly: "After this incident, it seemed to be over on the surface, but in fact it was not over at all. Later I found out that the leader at the time was just an errand boy, and there was someone else who was really eyeing our factory."
"Because Zhengguo is in Hong Kong, the other party dare not touch the export order. After all, this is related to the overall situation of export and foreign exchange earnings. If it gets out of hand, no one can bear the responsibility."
"This year, Tengfei Factory has developed very quickly. In addition to domestic business, the export business has been booming. Now the amount of export orders alone exceeds 500,000 US dollars per month. According to the feedback from Zhengguo, by the end of the year, it may even double."
The export value of 500,000 US dollars is not worth mentioning 20 years later. In the 21st century, the export value of a container is about this amount. Some large companies export thousands or tens of thousands of containers each year, and the export value is tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of US dollars.
But this era is far from reaching this volume, and coupled with the difference in product cost and purchasing power, the amount of US$500,000 exported in a month is not small. According to this amount, it is US$6 million a year.
The country's foreign exchange reserves have always been small. Before the reform and opening up, the national foreign exchange reserves averaged less than US$100 million. In 1973, the foreign exchange reserves were even negative US$81 million.
After the reform and opening up, foreign exchange reserves grew rapidly from US$167 million in 1978 to US$840 million in 1979. However, in 1980, because the country purchased a large amount of advanced equipment and materials from abroad to meet domestic demand, the foreign exchange reserves showed a huge negative number, even larger than the negative US$81 million in 1973, reaching a huge negative US$1.296 billion.
The change in this figure shows the shortage of the country's foreign exchange reserves. Therefore, in the face of this problem, the country now puts export and foreign exchange earnings at the top of the economic construction. A factory like Tengfei Factory, which has an export and foreign exchange earnings of 6 million US dollars a year, is naturally a favorite.
But then again, success and failure are both due to Xiao He. The growing export business of Tengfei Factory is obviously beneficial to the factory itself and the country's overall export and foreign exchange earnings, but now, because of the popularity of Tengfei Factory, it has also attracted many troubles.
The predecessor of Tengfei Factory was the No. 2 Middle School's school-run factory, which was a semi-state-owned and semi-collective enterprise. Later, when Tengfei Factory was established at the suggestion of Song Yuanchao, it was separated from the No. 2 Middle School's school-run factory and changed from a school-run factory to an independently operated collective enterprise. However, even so, judging from the structure of the enterprise, Tengfei Factory and the No. 2 Middle School's school-run factory still have a close relationship.
This kind of corporate nature gives some people an opportunity to take advantage of it. You should know that private enterprises have not yet emerged in the country. The only private businesses are individual businesses, and even joint ventures have just appeared.
The joint venture in the south is in Pengcheng Special Economic Zone, which is the result of the country's policy of opening up Pengcheng. As for Yanjing, it is Yanjing Aviation Catering Company, which was established in April last year and is the first joint venture in the country. In Shanghai, the first joint venture was Xunda Elevator Co., Ltd., which was established in July last year.
As a collective enterprise, Tengfei Factory is different from other state-owned enterprises, but in concept the collective is also part of the state. In addition, the person in charge of a collective enterprise is different from the person in charge of a state-owned enterprise. The latter has an administrative level system, which gives people the possibility to make trouble.
Unable to touch the export earnings of Tengfei Factory, some people with ulterior motives directly set their sights on the Tengfei Factory itself, intending to take over the Tengfei Factory directly for themselves, thereby directly transforming the Tengfei Factory from a collective enterprise into an enterprise directly led or managed by trustworthy comrades.
Such signs appeared as early as April and May this year. Li Daqi, who received the news, was unable to explain many details to Song Yuanchao over the phone. In addition, Song Yuanchao could not come back for a while, so Li Daqi could only try his best to deal with leaders at all levels in a perfunctory manner, trying to prevent relevant departments from interfering.
However, this approach cannot completely solve the problem. Due to the nature of the company, Li Daqi does not have a better way to solve it, and long-term delays have made the effect weaker and weaker.
In addition, Li Daqi, as the legal representative and factory director of Tengfei Factory, has been targeted by someone. In this case, if Li Daqi suddenly spends a large sum of money to buy a house, it will be used to make a fuss.
In this regard, how could Li Daqi dare to buy an old house like Song Yuanchao to improve his living conditions? Moreover, on the surface, Li Daqi only received salary and bonuses. Although his salary and bonuses were not small compared to ordinary people, they were only a few thousand yuan a year. Once he did this, where did the money for buying a house come from? This alone would be impossible to explain, and he might be directly accused of embezzling public funds and arrested.
Is Li Daqi rich? Of course he is.
Song Yuanchao had initially considered this issue and made arrangements in advance. Li Daqi did not make much money at Tengfei Factory, but in fact he had a lot of money. Don't forget that Li Daqi was the actual shareholder of Xiangjiang Shenghua and owned a lot of Shenghua shares.
When Tengfei Factory was first established, Song Yuanchao used the channels in Yangcheng and Hong Kong to intercept a large part of the profits in advance and directly left the money in the account of Xiangjiang Shenghua. Then, he opened an account in Hong Kong according to the dividend ratio of Xiangjiang Shenghua shareholders and remitted the money into it.
From this point of view, Li Daqi is not only rich but also very rich. If the amount of his account deposits in Hong Kong were made public, it would probably scare a lot of people. However, Li Daqi cannot use this money casually in Shanghai and the mainland, especially now that he is being targeted. Once he spends this money lavishly, he will be in big trouble.
