Chapter 247: Being a roadblock

Tao Xingjian was very clear about the possible consequences of delivering materials to the province without special channels. This material could not be sent. Even if he was lucky, the leader who still had to read had a clear understanding of the joint venture. Even if the leader in charge agreed with Tao Xingjian's point of view, how could he not consider Huishan City's attitude?

The Xiangxuehai joint venture case is just a blind praise of foreign capital and lack of a clear understanding. Perhaps it is because it is unwilling to worry about the deep-seated reasons behind it, but everything is going to the last step under legal procedures. We can only rely on the province to reject this plan, but we must follow the normal procedures and don’t expect anyone in the province to stand up for this matter.

Tao Xingjian not only prepared a piece of materials, Zhang Ke asked him for a piece of materials and called Xu Xueping. Now only Xu Xueping has the ability to reject this matter at this time.

Of course, even if Xu Xueping agrees with Tao Xingjian's point of view, it is impossible to simply deny some efforts made by the Huishan Municipal Government.

It was not convenient for Zhang Ke to go to the provincial government to find Xu Xueping. Xu Xueping received a call from Zhang Ke. He heard Zhang Ke say that there was a report on something important, so he asked Zhang Ke to go to Xinmeiyuan for lunch together.

Zhitong and Wanqing live in Haizhou, and Zhou Shuhui finds a place to make use of her remaining energy. Zhang Ke rushed to Xinmeiyuan. She had just received a call from Xu Xueping and rushed back to prepare lunch with the nanny. She watched Zhang Ke come out of the car and blamed him with a smile: "I think we old man and old lady are nagging. When we come to the provincial capital and stay in a hotel. If there is something wrong, wouldn't we say hello to us?"

Xu Xueping and his secretary Li Yijiang also quickly rushed back from the provincial government by car. In Xu Xueping's study, Zhang Ke handed him the materials and told him the whole story in a concise way.

The Xiangxuehai joint venture case is not simply a corporate problem. The Xiangxuehai joint venture case reflects the local government's blind pursuit of foreign capital and the lack of due vigilance against foreign capital (official statement). Not only does many national brands use legal means to kill foreign capital, but it also makes the Donghai home appliance industry cluster become a processing workshop for foreign home appliance giants.

In the early 1990s, three large appliance industry clusters were formed in Shunde, Guangdong, Qingdao, Shandong, and eastern Donghai Province. The cluster size in the eastern Donghai Province was the largest, but with the blind pursuit of foreign capital, it was legal and step-by-step, and evolved into their processing workshops.

Xu Xueping heard Zhang Ke say it, and quickly passed the materials. He quickly grasped the key points. His finger habitually tapped the table and said, "I can't produce refrigerators of my own brand for three years, and all the technicians are moved into the joint venture. Is the original Xiangxuehai refrigerator factory still necessary? This condition is too harsh. It is better to put the entire Xiangxuehai refrigerator factory into a joint venture, and it is better to let Samsung build a factory wholly owned by Huishan..."

Zhang Ke shook his head and said, "Samsung and Xiangxuehai's joint venture mainly focus on the technical accumulation of Xiangxuehai's factory construction in the past 30 years. In addition, they want to use Samsung's refrigerators to enter the domestic market on a large scale with the help of Xiangxuehai's channel resources. They proposed the condition that Xiangxuehai's films will be banned for three years. One is that they do not want the joint venture to spread their energy beyond Samsung refrigerators, and the other is to take advantage of the joint venture to eliminate their largest competitive brand in the domestic refrigerator market... At this time, they completely bought Xiangxuehai refrigerators. Although the price was higher, Samsung may not be unwilling to pay more, and can make it work once and for all. If they build a factory with a sole proprietorship, how could Samsung be willing to do it? The joint venture is in line with Samsung's biggest interest demands. It can not only reduce the cost of entry, but also achieve their initial conspiracy."

Xu Xueping leaned against his back and closed his eyes and thought that the joint venture plan was obviously not good for Chinese companies. Huishan Municipal Government still supported the joint venture plan, which saw that the success of the joint venture would bring hundreds of millions of foreign investment. In addition to rapidly increasing the local GDP, introducing the Fortune 500 companies can also increase the local government's achievements with a strong political performance. However, ordinary skilled workers in Xiangxuehai would probably yearn for the slightly more favorable salary of the joint venture company to support the joint venture plan, but the opposition that could weigh the pros and cons was much smaller.

Zhang Ke first wanted to confirm Xu Xueping's attitude towards this matter. It was expected that he would hesitate. Without normal procedures, directly interfering in the affairs of the subordinate departments would create resistance within the entire bureaucratic system. After all, the top leader in the East China Sea is Secretary Tao Jin, not Xu Xueping.

Zhang Ke asked softly: "Can you find someone who is irrelevant to break this matter..."

"Is there a suitable person?" Xu Xueping asked.

"Yeah!" Zhang Ke thought to himself that even if Zhu Xiaojun was not enlightened, it would not be difficult to find such a person.

Zhu Xiaojun did not have a cell phone. After he worked, he bought a pager. Zhang Ke did not deliberately remember Zhu Xiaojun's contact information, and called Xu Wei's dormitory and asked Xiaoyan to contact Zhu Xiaojun.

Zhang Ke had lunch in Xinmeiyuan. He took a taxi back to the hotel and met with Zhou You. Tao Xingjian and asked Fu Jun to go to the Provincial Economic and Trade Commission to pick up Zhu Xiaojun.

Of course, Zhang Ke would not let them know that Governor Xu Xueping would directly interfere in this matter. This matter should at least look like the brave man below who broke through the window paper and happened to let Xu Xueping know.

Zhang Ke would rather jump out and be a villain by himself than let Xu Xueping be unnecessarily questioned. If he limits the struggle to a certain extent, Xu Xueping can completely stand up for this sky. This is the most favorable situation, just like a home game.

Zhang Ke reminded Zhu Xiaojun several times and was careful. After returning last night, he carefully read the materials that Tao Xingjian stuffed over. His parents were both small bureaucrats in provincial government agencies, and they were influenced by them. Compared with newly graduated college students, they were more worldly and more likely to succumb to reality. But after all, they were young people who had just entered society, and they were still a little passionate in their bones.

Tao Xingjian reacted the problem clearly in the materials, and the joint venture will cause great damage to Xiangxuehai Refrigerator Factory.

After all, Zhu Xiaojun has not been in society for a long time. He asked strangely: "Since the joint venture is so unfavorable to Xiang Xuehai, but after talking for so long, why no one else raised these questions? As far as I know, the Huishan Municipal Government supports the joint venture very much."

Zhang Ke hugged his chest and said without saying anything. Zhou You smiled slightly and said, "This is a matter of planting grass and planting trees. Is it better to plant grass or planting trees in urban greening?"

"Of course it's good to plant trees." Zhu Xiaojun said.

"But why do many cities like to plant grass when doing greening? A hundred years of growing people, ten years of planting trees, planting grass, it will be very beautiful in one or two months..." Zhou You said with a smile, "There are big differences in the positions of enterprises and governments. A successful business manager usually only looks at things but not people. To be a successful official, he usually only looks at people but not things..."

Zhou You said this a bit too pessimistic. After all, there are still people in China who can stick to principles.

Let Zhu Xiaojun be the brave and expose the matter, but it is not a matter of just a few preachings that can make him excited. Zhang Ke even admitted to him that there was a conflict of interest in Aida Company in this matter.

At present, Zhu Xiaojun knows that Ida Company is Zhang Ke’s family company. He doesn’t know the specific matters of the Zhang family, but the Governor Xu Xueping is standing behind the Zhang family. Zhu Xiaojun is afraid that he will not be able to further get closer to Zhang Ke. He also knows that the current provincial economic and trade commission system is very troublesome about this joint venture case, and he wants to turn a blind eye and let the matter go like this. If he is exposed, it is equivalent to stabbing a big hornet in the provincial economic and trade commission system. But then again, this hornet nest was led by Governor Xu Xueping’s Aida Company, which instructed him to stab him. Do he still need to hesitate?

Zhu Xiaojun does not have much courage in doing things and always looks forward to the front and back, but it is always no problem to ensure his career is smooth. Even if he can't make it through the economic and trade commission system after this matter, it will not be a problem to transfer him to other systems or places. The agency clerk who just graduated from college and enjoys deputy section-level treatment will not care wherever he throws it.

After the matter was negotiated, Zhang Ke thought that he had become a conspirator again, and this time it was likely that Zhou Jinyu would be directly implicated. Who knows whether Zhengtai Group and Samsung have other related agreements?

If Ida doesn't stand up, it's better not to stand up. Zhang Ke asked Zhu Xiaojun to keep his mouth shut to everyone. Zhang Ke prefers to hide behind the scenes, rather than jumping out and beating others. It's fine if it's just Zhengtai Group. Things in business and officialdom are complicated. Who knows that this side is fighting happily, and will another enemy jump out there?

Tao Xingjian didn't expect that Zhang Kezhen would help him stop this matter. Although he was not sure that Zhang Ke had invited Governor Xu Xueping, the sudden rise of Ida Company was full of mystery. Since he was willing to help him, he would of course have some special abilities. No matter what Ida was thinking, he must first prevent this joint venture plan from being approved in the province.

On November 5, Zhang Ke, Zhou You, Fu Jun, Li Yueru, Jiang Daier and his daughter rushed to Beijing by train. On the train, Zhang Ke asked Zhou You: "If we have the opportunity to acquire Xiangxuehai, how sure is we will continue to carry forward this brand?"
Chapter completed!