Volume 4: The World of Great Conflict Chapter 0454 Big Project on the Road
In a blink of an eye, it was Monday, the day when Nan Yi took up his post at Jardine Matheson Bank.
Nan Yi's position is the bank's deputy manager and head of the business development department. The deputy manager can be said to be an honorary title, and his powers are not clearly defined at all. It is more for him to enjoy the treatment of a deputy manager.
The place where he really needs to exert his efforts and give orders is the business development department, um, a bachelor department.
Apart from him, there is no one else.
When you go to work, you have to act like you're at work. Nan Yi is not suitable for going out with a motorcade or bodyguards leading the way. At most, he can fit two people in his car.
Early in the morning, Nan Yi fully armed himself. He wore a suit, trousers and a white shirt. However, in this simple outfit, he packed a lot of odds and ends, all of which were in compliance with the laws of the Eagle Country but could take lives.
At 8:20, Nan Yi was already waiting beside his car.
After waiting for less than five minutes, Wu Zaisheng's car came over. He didn't get out of the car, but just honked the horn and waved his hand, signaling Nan Yi to follow.
Nan Yi got into his car and asked the school beauty to follow.
Jardine Matheson Bank is not located in the City of London, the financial center of London , but like Boleyn Holdings, is located near Canary Wharf, which is still an unknown place now, but will soon be called the New City of London.
There is still a large abandoned dock area here. In the 1960s, due to the decline of the shipping industry, shipping companies looked for more suitable deep-water ports, and the original port terminals in London declined. Canary Wharf, which covers an area of 22 square kilometers, is one of them.
By the early 1980s, the pier had ceased operations and was completely abandoned.
The car approached the dock. Nan Yi looked at the vacant land and his mind raced. This was a golden piece of land. He should buy it. No, he should contract it out. The Downing Street Cabinet was not stupid either. They could see the value of this place and would definitely not give the land away easily. They could only contract it out for joint development.
Once it is developed, it will only be rented out and not sold, so as to avoid inviting business giants to move in with the gimmick of one year's rent, and then inviting 24-hour news media to move in. This place will soon become lively and turn into a treasure trove.
Thatcher had a hard time since the day she took office. The high unemployment rate in the United States made her extremely anxious. If it weren't for the great assist from Argentina two years ago, Thatcher would have stepped down in disgrace long ago.
"If you come up with a plan to increase employment, it will probably impress the Iron Lady. If you just want to develop this place, don't even think about it without more than 1 billion pounds. In the first phase, at least 100 million or 200 million pounds will be needed to start this project."
Nan Yi stroked his chin, picked up the phone and called Dunstone.
"Canary Wharf, do some research. I want to know the difficulties in taking over this place and the people who need to do public relations. Then make a rough plan for the development above ground and underground, and come up with a budget figure."
Nan Yi remembered that there was a huge underground world under the future Canary Wharf, but it was developed from top to bottom. After the land above ground was developed, the developers wanted more and then thought of developing the underground, which invisibly increased a lot of costs.
If underground development is planned well from the beginning, and reservations and geological surveys are done well, a lot of costs can be saved.
"Boss, the development of that dock requires a huge amount of funds," Dunstone reminded.
"I know that I can find a way to get the start-up capital, and you can consider taking out loans and financing from local banks in London for follow-up funds. When you make your plan, you have to take the subway line into consideration. There is no subway line in Canary Wharf right now, and I need a well-developed subway line underneath it."
"Boss, this should be difficult. Downing Street's finances are very tight."
"I know, so you want to make a fuss about the employment rate and the large amount of tax revenue that the area will generate in the future."
Dunstone was silent for a long time before he said, "I need some public relations fees."
"Sure. I'll have someone open a few Swiss bank accounts, and you can deposit as much as you need into them. I'll prepare 20 million pounds in cash for you, as well as forward interest commitments. You can decide for yourself. As long as the amount is not too high, I won't object."
For such a large project, Nan Yi would be worried if there were not a few people who would take full share.
When the amount of a project reaches a certain level, it is impossible to maintain a purely commercial behavior without mixing in political factors, and several politicians will be involved.
"Expedite it?"
"We need to be quick at first and then relax later. Once we get the land, we don't need to move too fast. We can just move at a normal speed. We also need time to raise funds."
“Should we recruit staff locally or transfer them from other areas?”
"Dunstone, you have to consider Bolin Investment Holdings as an independent company. Apart from the strategic support provided by the Intelligence and Strategy Committee, Bolin Investment Holdings is a completely independent entity."
"clear."
Dunstone hung up the phone and became very excited. If the Canary Wharf project can be launched after inspection, then Bolin Investment Holdings will become the "big interest" of the Nan family. In the future, there will definitely be some resources tilted, and both his personal interests and status will be greatly improved.
After Nan Yi hung up the phone, the school beauty had already driven her car and followed Wu Zaisheng's car into the parking lot.
Jardine Matheson Bank is located in an inconspicuous five-story building. It is the bank's own business, and even the parking lot where cars are parked now belongs to the bank.
Wu Zaisheng stretched out his hand from the car window and pointed to a parking space.
Nan Yi looked around and saw that there were still several empty parking spaces, but Wu Zaisheng had specified one. He guessed that the parking spaces here were allocated, and who would park their car in which spot was already determined in advance.
Fixed parking space, this made Nan Yi frown.
The school beauty turned to Nan Yi and said, "Nan Sheng, from now on you will get off outside. I will park the car in and have a car ready outside to pick you up at any time."
"Well, get an identical car and a duplicate license plate."
"clear."
Nan Yi got out of the car and walked towards Wu Zaisheng, and Wu Zaisheng also walked towards him.
"This parking space is allocated to you by the bank. If one is not enough, you can apply for another one. There are enough parking spaces here."
"No, I'm new here, so I won't ask for any special treatment."
"Then let's go in. My second uncle is here today to welcome you to join Jardine Matheson Bank. I guess there will be a welcome ceremony."
"Welcome ceremony?" Nan Yi said with a smile, "Are you sure you haven't prepared a Hongmen Banquet?"
"It's not a Hongmen Banquet, but there should be some soft nails. My second uncle is a very easy-going person and he is not likely to embarrass others."
"Why do I feel weird hearing you say this?"
"Haha, you'll know after you've been in contact with him for a long time." Wu Zaisheng laughed heartily.
The two chatted and laughed as they walked towards the main entrance of the bank.
"The first and second floors here are the business halls. The first floor mainly handles private business. When Jardine Matheson was still a money house, it mainly operated foreign exchange business and handled remittances for Chinese people. After being reorganized into a bank, it mainly handles deposits and withdrawals, and also acts as an agent for the collection of water and electricity bills.
The second floor is for corporate business, and the clients are mainly enterprises. The loan department is also located on the second floor, and your business development department's office area is also located on the second floor, but your office is on the fifth floor.
The fifth floor is the high-level office. The general manager's office, deputy general manager's office, secretary's office and my office are all on the fifth floor.
The third and fourth floors are the information room and archives room. The bank's non-important archived documents are all on the third and fourth floors. At present, apart from the staff on these two floors, only my second uncle can enter and exit freely.
There are two basements underground, one is an underground vault and the other is a storage room for important documents.
You have permission to enter the underground vault, but you can’t enter the file storage vault.” Wu Zaisheng was afraid that Nan Yi would misunderstand him, so he added, “Actually, I don’t have permission to enter either. Currently, only my grandfather can enter and exit at any time.”
Nan Yi understood as soon as he heard it. This document storage room probably did not store just important bank documents, but important documents of the Wu family, such as real estate deeds, and some other things that were very important to the Wu family.
Set up a few bunker-buster bombs and blow them up, then throw a petrol bomb in and burn it down. I guess the Wu family will be almost finished.
Well, then Nan Yi’s hard work during this period has been in vain.
"Haha, you don't need to tell me about the safe. I don't need to touch the cash directly. The first person I should contact today should be the human resources director . Banks have human resources departments, right?"
"Of course there are, but not much. The staff of a bank is relatively fixed. Apart from the salespersons in the lobby, there is not much turnover. The human resources department does not play a big role in Jardine Matheson Bank."
After hearing what Wu Zaisheng said, Nan Yi realized that although Jardine Matheson Bank was a bank, it still retained the style of a money house.
When an enterprise reaches a certain size, the human resources department will be in a vital position, playing an important functional role in recruitment, dismissal, employee maintenance, etc. Wu Zaisheng said that the human resources department does not play a big role, which directly reflects two problems.
First, most of the bank employees have nepotism; second, bank employees are difficult to deal with, and it will be very difficult to carry out work and cooperate with other departments in the future.
Ha, Nan Yi's days in Jardine Matheson Bank should be very exciting. He is targeted by his superiors and uncooperative by his subordinates. Not to mention carrying out his work, he has to put a lot of energy into engaging in workplace struggles.
Interestingly, before even going upstairs, Nan Yi was already looking forward to his future days at Jardine Matheson Bank.
Wu Zaisheng took Nan Yi to the back of the building, took the elevator directly to the fifth floor, and introduced to Nan Yi along the way who owns what office, and then they arrived at the door of the general manager's office.
At the door of the general manager's office, there was a woman who looked very strong. Her appearance... Let's put it this way, not commenting on her appearance is the greatest respect for her.
"Secretary Zhang, this is Nan Yi, the new deputy manager." Wu Zaisheng introduced the woman when he saw her.
"Hello, Deputy Manager Nan, I'm Zhang Fuxin, General Manager Wu's secretary."
Nan Yi shook hands with Zhang Fuxin and formed a preliminary judgment of her. "She didn't even omit the word 'deputy' in the title of deputy manager. She is meticulous in her work and even gave him a warning. She is definitely Wu Fuye's die-hard lackey."
"Hello, Secretary Zhang, I'm Nan Yi." Nan Yi said with a smile.
