Chapter 61 Consortium Eleven
On the second day of the Lunar New Year, Guangzhou, Baiyun Airport.
At this time, Baiyun Airport was still an old airport that was renovated based on a military airport in 2019. It is located in the west of Baiyun Mountain, Baiyun District, Guangzhou. In Shen Chong's memory of his previous life, it was transformed into Baiyun New City after relocating in 2004.
"Brother Chong, here and here."
Chen Chong put down his luggage, hugged a young man enthusiastically, and said, "Aming, it's really thanks to you this time, otherwise I'll go to squeeze in the train again."
This young man, named Wu Ziming, is one of the second generation who came to Hong Kong from Beijing to Hong Kong to inspect the world a few years ago. Chen Chong had never heard of him in his previous life, but his elders and relatives were all well-known figures.
"You are polite to brother. If you ask me to buy a plane ticket, that's to give me face." Wu Ziming has a wide personality and is harmonious. He is not a good person. He is vaguely the core of the second-generation inspection team. He is a typical high-emotional business talent. He said with a smile: "You just made two helicopters in Hong Kong to make movies. If you want to fly in China, isn't it just a matter of just saying?"
"Different, different. As long as Hong Kong has money, you can get everything." Chen Chong said politely: "In China, it doesn't matter. Money is waste paper. If you buy eight air tickets at a time, you really can't do it. Come on, let me introduce it. This is my uncle Zhao Anping, this is my aunt Jian, this is my cousin Lily, and the American beauty tour guide you mentioned last time."
"Hello, my grandfather, you have such a big hand strength. You can see that you are practicing your family and your body is really strong."
"Hello, auntie...you can speak Chinese. Oh, it's amazing, you're even more standard than me."
Wu Ziming enthusiastically shook hands and greeted each other with the unique flavor of Beijingers. When introducing Lily, his eyes lit up and praised: "Miss Lily, you are more beautiful than on TV. You are simply beautiful. This time you go to Beijing, the old and young men in the city are going to feast your eyes."
"Thank you." Lily grew up in the United States after all, and she would not be shy about praise. She said without any scheming: "Alan said you are a local snake in Beijing. Can you find me a tour guide? I want to have a good tour of Beijing."
"No problem, no problem." Wu Ziming ignored her words and said with a smile: "When I arrived at the place, I personally served as a tour guide for Miss Lily. I don't have any other skills, but when it comes to eating, drinking and having fun, I am the number one in Beijing."
Chen Chong was on the side, secretly alert, you should be careful when you go to Beijing this time, and don’t lose your youthful and beautiful cousin...
"Hello, sister-in-law, you are in Hong Kong. You are welcome to visit Beijing this time. Don't be polite. If you have any questions, please be sure to greet me."
Li Kaiyuan probably couldn't adapt to the enthusiasm of northerners. She smiled and said ok, but she didn't say anything.
Chen Chong stood at the end with an understatement, carrying three people carrying large and small bags: "The three editors of my magazine, Qiu Liben, Lin Niantong and Luo Fu, went to Beijing for interviews, and Editor-in-Chief Lin was going to Shanghai, so I took them together."
In 19RU, the main civil aviation aircraft between Guangzhou, Shanghai and Beijing was a British-made Trident P medium- and short-range jet civil aviation passenger aircraft. There was only one flight from Guangzhou to Beijing every week. The sinking time was not the case, so I had to transfer from Shanghai.
Wu Ziming is quite powerful, and he has all first-class air tickets. Each ticket is RMB 30 more expensive than economy class. The conditions are not much better. He just changed the six-link seat to four-link seat. The space is a little larger, and he has twice the supply of tea and food. That's all, in terms of riding comfort and service quality, it is almost the same as economy class.
"It's better to have a foreign plane." After sitting down, Wu Ziming said with emotion: "Last time I went to Japan, there was a restaurant and a bar in the Boeing 74 first-class cabin. That was the enjoyment. The trident was small and broken. It was so uncomfortable to sit. Such a nice name was wasted."
"The 747 is a large wide-body passenger aircraft, and the Trident is a medium-sized aircraft, not a type of aircraft." Chen Chong helped Li Kaiyuan tie the seat belt and then said: "In a few years, the mainland will also introduce the 747."
"It's hard," Wu Ziming looked at Lily sitting at the window and said, "Civil aviation is managed by the Air Force. Although Deng's relationship has improved a lot after visiting the United States last year, he has been shouting the slogan of overthrowing the US imperialists for so many years. Although he knows that the Americans' things are good, the army will not be able to buy them for a while. If he wants to buy them, he will buy fighter jets first. Do you think so? Besides, a ragged goods like Trident costs hundreds of yuan at a time, and a salary of a country's Ministry has been paid for several months. If you buy Boeing, the ticket price will at least double. Who can afford it?"
"Since civil aviation is called civil aviation, it will sooner or later be out of military control." Chen Chong said casually: "Maybe when I fly back to Hong Kong, civil aviation will be really civil aviation."
Wu Ziming was stunned when he heard this, looked at him with a surprised look, gave a thumbs up, and said, "Brother Chong, you can do it. No wonder my old man said that you are very good at your hands and eyes, and you are not a simple person."
Chen Chong asked inexplicably, "What's wrong with me?"
"Civil aviation is leaving the army." Wu Ziming lowered his voice and said, "When I went to get the air ticket yesterday, Uncle Meng...is Meng Li, director of the Guangzhou Administration of Civil Aviation. He told me that Civil Aviation will break away from the air force system next month and become a direct unit of the State Council. Brother Chong, you are amazing. In Hong Kong, the news is faster than what I, a Beijinger, knows."
I know a fur...
Chen Chong was amused and laughed. He just thought that things changed quickly at the beginning of the reform and opening up. He said casually, but he could not have been misunderstood. However, this guy was quite cunning. He knew that civil aviation was about to be independent, but he was just talking about the military face.
"Listen to your tone." Chen Chong shook his body, adjusted his sitting posture, and asked, "The Director of the Guangzhou Administration of Civil Aviation is very familiar with you?"
"I used to work with my old man." Wu Ziming didn't like showing off like other second generations. He said in an unknown way: "He grew up watching me grow up, and he is considered an uncle."
Chen Chong said oh, stopped talking, and waited for the plane to take off, and then said, "Aming, what are you going to do in the future?"
"I don't know either." Wu Ziming said with his face up to the sky: "The old man asked me to go to work below, but I don't want to go. Being an official has a stern face every day, and there is no fun. I like to eat, drink, play, walk birds, read idle books, eat delicious food, and sleep with beautiful women. Life is enough."
"We are like the same people, we have the same smell." Chen Chong said with a smile: "The same is true for my life ideal."
"Brother, you are so angry." Wu Ziming also laughed. He looked at Lily again, and then whispered: "I am a playboy, you are a great man, how can you compare? If I have one-tenth of your ability, the old man at home will laugh, so how could he shout and kill every day? Look at me, I hide in Guangzhou during the Spring Festival and dare not go home."
"I'm purely a great fortune." Chen Chong said politely, "You just haven't encountered great luck yet. There is a fortune telling verdict, called Jinlin, which is not something in the pond. Once you encounter wind and clouds, you will sooner or later soar into a dragon. With your family background and ability, you will sooner or later soar to the sky."
"Thank you for your good words." Wu Ziming bowed and said with a smile: "I don't expect Jackie Chan. As long as you can make a fortune in this colorful world, like Brother Chong, you want money and beauties, and whatever you want, and you live a free and casual life, you will be satisfied."
Chen Chong waved his hand with a smile and said, "A man, either wants power or has money, otherwise it is boring to live. Ah Ming, you and I hit it off at first sight, I don't know anything else, I still have some experience in making money. If you want to do business, I can help."
"Brother Chong, you still understand me." Wu Ziming said with a look of meeting a confidant, "I have wanted to do business for a long time, but the old man kept suppressing me, saying that I had no capital and no ability, and I would only talk about the mountains and lose whatever I do. If Brother Chong, a business genius like you, was willing to give me some advice and help me do something or two, let him have a long face and know my ability, and he should not care about me again in the future."
In the RU era, the second generation must collude with each other. Chen Chong pondered for a moment and asked, "What are you going to do if you do business?"
"I don't know either." Wu Ziming touched the mustache on his mouth and said, "I was going to open a hotel or something. You know, now there are more and more foreigners coming to China, and there are people sleeping in the corridors of hotels in Beijing. They are all big companies coming to discuss business. Their money is easy to make. They give all US dollars. If you exchange it for black market, you will have several times the profit. But after going to Hong Kong to see Brother Chong do the work, I feel that the plans I had in the past were all pediatrics. Brother Chong, why don't you come up with an idea for me?"
"Your idea is right. After reform and opening up, there will be more and more foreigners, and you will make a profit when cooking restaurants." Chen Chong heard this and immediately bewitched: "But if you want to do it, just make it bigger. When I lived in Beijing, I felt that there were too few high-end hotels and they did not meet the capital's identity. We should build a world-class five-star hotel, just like the peninsula, providing the country with a window and platform for international exchanges."
"Building a big hotel requires a lot of capital." Wu Ziming frowned and shook his head, and said in embarrassment: "Although my family has some spare money, it's okay to build a small restaurant. Building a world-class big hotel is a dream."
"Money is not a problem, I can invest." Chen Chong said bluntly: "We brothers cooperate, you can approve the documents, I raise money, and after the completion, everyone will earn points."
Wu Ziming's eyes flashed, thinking.
In the 1980s, the mainland economy was very chaotic, with endless business opportunities, but business opportunities were also crises. If you accidentally hit a landmine, you will have to peel off your skin even if you don’t die in the future. Therefore, Shen Chong did not intend to enter the mainland for large-scale investment. Anyway, the total domestic economic output in the RU era was still low, which was far less than that of Europe and the United States.
What Chen Chong wants to run in the mainland is influence - if he can build an elite youth club based on memory, more than ten years later, after these people become famous and become senior officials, the potential energy will be very amazing.
Although Wu Ziming has no power and is not famous, his background is deep enough, he is smooth and cautious. His plan to set up a hotel just satisfies his psychology of building a small circle exchange base in Beijing, so he spares no effort to seduce and support it.
Note: The second generation is a hurdle that cannot be avoided, but it is not the focus of this book, so it is made up without exploring it or explaining it.
Chapter completed!