Chapter 729 Cousin
"Xiao Liu, I can lend you this money, but you have to tell me clearly why you need so much money."
Qin Zhengguo thought for a while and asked. His brother lowered his head even more and opened his mouth as if he wanted to say something.
"Come, sit here for a while." Qin Zhengguo pulled his brother aside. They were on a bridge not far from the hotel.
Sitting down on the bulge of the bridge pier, Qin Zhengguo put his arm around his brother's shoulders and said earnestly, "I am your brother and I have money. Don't mention these. I have more. But you have to know that this amount of money is not a small amount for ordinary people. You are my brother, and I should care about you, so I must ask you clearly why you want to borrow this money?"
"Xiao Liu, I'm asking this because I'm worried about you. I'm worried that you've been cheated. This world isn't that simple. You're still young and don't understand some things. Tell me, why do you want to borrow money?"
"Brother... I..." The younger brother looked up at Qin Zhengguo, his face full of confusion. After hesitating for a long time, he said, "I didn't ask to borrow this money. It was your sister-in-law who asked me to beg you for it."
"She? She begged you? Why? Something happened to your father-in-law? She needs money urgently?"
"No, no, no, my father-in-law's family is fine." The younger brother shook his head repeatedly and then explained. After listening to his younger brother's explanation, Qin Zhengguo finally understood the whole story.
It turned out that his sister-in-law did want to borrow the money, but the person who actually borrowed the money was not his sister-in-law, but her cousin.
His sister-in-law's cousin used to be the leader of a small agricultural machinery factory. Last year, the factory went out of business, so the system was re-planned and the factory was merged into a larger one.
There have been many such cases in recent years, just like the case with Sun Sixi's factory. Due to the deepening of reform and opening up and the impact of the market economy, the factory that was originally doing well has collapsed little by little and lost its original competitiveness.
Some large factories are fine, after all, they have mothers-in-law from higher-level departments behind them, but some small factories, such as the agricultural machinery factory owned by my sister-in-law's cousin, can't survive.
Although the superiors made enterprise adjustments and merged the factory into a machinery factory, the efficiency of the machinery factory was not very good. After the merger of the two factories, not only did the original agricultural machinery factory get out of the predicament, but it also shouldered a heavy burden.
My sister-in-law's cousin used to be in charge of production. Although he was not the factory director, he was also a middle-level cadre in the factory. Now the factory has been merged with the machinery factory, and his original position is gone. Not to mention him, it is unknown how other workers will be arranged. The new leader talked to him and gave him two options.
One way is to go directly to the workshop and be a front-line worker. In this way, his previous level will be completely lost. Moreover, he is not young. A man in his forties going to be a front-line worker, not to mention the face issue, just talk about the actual position. The work in the foundry workshop is heavy and arduous. How can he cope with it?
As for the second option, it is to keep his rank temporarily and let him go through the procedures of unpaid leave and figure out a way by himself. If he can find an employer to take him over, that would be the best. If not, it would be better for him to start a small business or something like that instead of staying in the factory.
The leader promised that as long as the factory can get through this difficult period, when the situation improves in the future, it will be absolutely fine for him to come back. Taking unpaid leave does not mean leaving, and this level will be retained for him. There is nothing that can be done given the current situation of the factory.
My brother-in-law's cousin is a graduate of an old technical secondary school. He is considered an educated person and has worked very diligently in the company for many years. Suddenly, all his previous efforts were wasted overnight, and he felt very sad.
Moreover, he was a man who cared about his reputation, so when his leader talked to him and gave him two options, he decided without much consideration to apply for unpaid leave and leave the factory to find his own way out.
It sounds simple, but it is not that easy to find a way out on your own.
Being an ordinary self-employed person, getting some small sundries from other places to do retail business is certainly possible, but this can only support the family. He is a man with high aspirations and ideas, and he looked down on these things. He thought about it at home for more than a month, and traveled to many places around, and decided to start his own business some time ago.
To do business you need capital. It's not that his family is short of money. He scraped together money from here and there and borrowed from relatives and friends and came up with more than 9,000 yuan. This amount of money is not small for ordinary people, but it is far from enough for his plan. So he had no choice but to think of the time when his cousin got married.
Qin Zhengguo came back to attend Xiao Liuzi's wedding and helped with the grand celebration.
Although they were only acquaintances, the introduction of Qin Zhengguo as a big boss in Hong Kong was remembered in his mind. He originally didn't want to ask for help, but the problem was that the money he borrowed was not enough. He had no choice but to find his cousin, with whom he had a good relationship, to discuss whether he could get in touch with Qin Zhengguo through his cousin's channels and borrow some start-up capital from him.
"So, you are borrowing money for your cousin?" After listening to his brother's story, Qin Zhengguo asked for confirmation.
The younger brother nodded and said, "My wife's cousin is a very nice person. When my wife was a child, they lived very close to each other. He has always taken care of her and they have a very good relationship. Also, this money was lent to him for business, not for any messy thing. I can guarantee this!"
"You promise?" Qin Zhengguo was angry and amused. His brother was really naive. There was nothing absolute in this world!
Qin Zhengguo has been in the business circle for many years. What has he not seen? What has he not heard?
When it comes to business, anything can happen. As a businessman, you must consider issues from a business perspective and not act on impulse.
My brother has such thoughts. Fortunately, he is not in the business world, otherwise he would not know what happened if he was cheated.
Especially when it comes to making promises or providing guarantees for others, any businessman with a bit of common sense would never do that, as the risk is simply too great.
On the other hand, how can you make a profit without losing money in business? You made a promise today, but what if the other party loses everything? Are you really going to help them pay back the money? You won’t even be able to cry when the time comes!
Shaking his head secretly, Qin Zhengguo was a little speechless, but he also heard that his brother's wife had a good relationship with this cousin. If he didn't help with this matter, it would definitely affect the relationship between his brother and his wife. He didn't want his brother to blame him in the future because of just a few tens of thousands of yuan.
But even so, Qin Zhengguo didn't want to see his younger brother being caught in the middle. Even if he really lent the money, he had to get his younger brother out first.
After thinking about it, Qin Zhengguo said, "How about this, you go back and tell your wife that it's my idea. It's okay to borrow the money, but her cousin has to come in person to borrow the money. It doesn't matter if there's a hand in between, right?"
"You agree ?"
"You kid, you didn't listen to the other things, but you listened carefully to this? People say that a married woman is like water spilled, but you are so concerned about your wife's family. What can I say about you?"
"Hehe... Second brother, I knew you would agree." The younger brother scratched his head and smiled embarrassedly: "You can't say that. My wife's cousin is really a good person, otherwise my wife wouldn't have asked me this, and I wouldn't have said these words to you. This matter has embarrassed you. I know in my heart that if it were someone else, I would definitely not do it, but my cousin is an exception..."
"Oh, there is such a saying? Fine, I am busy these two days. I have something to do tomorrow. The day after tomorrow, Maru's factory will hold a ceremony and I have to go there. So... the day after tomorrow night, you can ask him to come to the hotel to find me directly, and then I will meet him and have a chat."
"Okay, I'll tell my wife when I get back." The younger brother agreed immediately, his face full of joy. When he was about to leave, he suddenly turned around and asked Qin Zhengguo: "Brother! You are not fooling me, are you?"
"Go to hell! You don't believe your brother, I'll beat you to death!" Qin Zhengguo raised his eyebrows and kicked towards his younger brother. He didn't expect that his skills were not as good as before after getting fat. His younger brother dodged nimbly and ran away laughing, but Qin Zhengguo almost twisted his waist. He didn't know whether to laugh or cry when he saw his younger brother running towards home.
On the third day, Qin Zhengguo was picked up by Sun Sixi early in the morning and went to their factory to attend the ceremony.
When Qin Zhengguo arrived, he was shocked to see that one of the banners hanging at the factory gate had his name on it. Was this a big deal? He was not a big leader, just an invited guest. Why did he need to be so grand?
After asking Sun Sixi, I found out that this was their factory... No, from today on, he should be called the general manager. It was the decision of their general manager.
Originally, they only planned to have Qin Zhengguo attend the ceremony and express their gratitude in person. But when they were in Fengtian, Qin Zhengguo woke up Sun Sixi. After Sun Sixi came back, he immediately found the leaders and told them what Qin Zhengguo had said. After listening to Sun Sixi's retelling, the leaders were enlightened and immediately realized that these problems were indeed something they had not thought of before.
That afternoon, the leader convened a meeting for internal discussion, and the discussion lasted for two days before a preliminary plan was produced.
Although this plan is not very mature and a lot of its content is derived from Sun Sixi's retelling, compared with the original plan, this plan is much stronger in terms of feasibility and execution.
From this point of view, Qin Zhengguo helped them a lot. In order to express their gratitude, they specially hung an extra banner to express their gratitude in this way.
The ceremony was just like that, with flags waving and drums beating, and speeches from system and local leaders, as well as cheers from the factory (company) leaders and warm applause from everyone, and it was successfully completed.
After the ceremony, Qin Zhengguo followed his leader to visit and watched the first refrigerator in their factory roll off the assembly line.
When the first refrigerator rolled off the production line and appeared in front of everyone, there was another round of warm applause. The general manager tied a red silk ribbon on the refrigerator on behalf of all the employees of the factory, and personally sent it out of the workshop with everyone, so that the comrades outside could have a look at this refrigerator. This is the pride of the factory, and it also represents that the factory has been reborn from that day on.
