"Of course!"
"Then sir, please, please co in, hurry and co in." The old man was also very anxious about his master's future. As soon as he heard Ye Hao's confirmation, he imdiately couldn't help inviting Ye Hao into the noodle shop.
"Please!"
The old man walked briskly, leading Ye Hao into the noodle shop. At this mont, a middle-aged man was sitting inside, looking very dejected. The crisis and debts at ho had left him at his wits' end, and his daughter had been ntally out of it every day lately.
His wife had even been taken away by soone, he didn't know by whom. He'd tried to report it to the police, but was afraid they would tear up the ticket on his wife.
Faced with such an arrangent by fate, the middle-aged man sighed every day that heaven was unfair to him. Every day he tried to find a job that wouldn't waste his education, but his Qiu Family enemies seed afraid he might make a coback. As soon as he found a job, soone would imdiately go and threaten that company.
In the six months since his company had gone under, he'd found no fewer than twenty jobs, with salaries that were actually decent for his current situation.
But these jobs, right after they hired him, hadn't even let him start before urgently telling him not to co. As for all the travel expenses he'd spent for interviews, those companies treated him like they were shooing off a beggar, casually tossing the middle-aged man a few dozen yuan.
"Master, master, we've got an honored guest today, master…" The old lady rushed over to the middle-aged man, shouting excitedly.
The middle-aged man looked at the old man in confusion, and only after a long mont did he ask, "What honored guest?"
"Master, look who's here? He's the new owner who bought our Dragon and Phoenix Castle. If I rember right, his na should be Ye Hao, isn't that so, sir?" The old man turned his head to look at Ye Hao and asked.
"Yes, sir." Ye Hao nodded to the old man, then looked at the middle-aged man and greeted him, "Hello."
"Hello. You're the new owner of Dragon and Phoenix Castle, Mr. Ye?" The middle-aged man said, "My na is Zhang Peitang, currently unemployed and drifting."
"Nice to et you, Mr. Zhang. I heard you used to run a private company? I don't know which industry you were in?" Ye Hao didn't bother with fake lines like 'I've long heard of your na', and directly asked which industrial field Zhang Peitang used to be in.
"What 'industry' or 'position'? The company's gone, everything's gone, I'm up to my neck in debt…" Zhang Peitang shook his head and sighed.
"Oh? What made you end up with such huge debts, Mr. Zhang?"
"I got screwed over by a pack of treacherous bastards. I hate that I couldn't resist temptation! Otherwise why would I, Zhang Peitang, be sleeping on the streets every day, sotis full, sotis starving, with my wife and kid unable to live in peace?" Thinking of his past, Zhang Peitang spoke in a way that was hard to look back on.
"Oh? Which field were you a leading figure in, Mr. Zhang?"
"Heavy industry. Back then the company na was Zhang's Heavy Industry. But once my company collapsed, there was no Zhang's Heavy Industry in the Northeast anymore, only Tong's Heavy Industry left to dominate the field." Zhang Peitang recalled.
"Tong's Heavy Industry?" Ye Hao repeated in puzzlent. Why did this heavy industry company sound so familiar?
"Yeah, Tong's Heavy Industry in the Northeast. I hate them! Those treacherous bastards. But I hate myself even more for not being able to resist other people's temptation and believing what they said. All that money gave a false sense of superiority and numbed my vigilance." The more he thought about it, the angrier Zhang Peitang beca, his emotions extrely unstable.
"So it was that heavy industry." Once he heard the na, Ye Hao imdiately knew which family's Tong's Heavy Industry this was.
Wasn't this exactly the Tong Dawei family he'd had so skirmishes with? Later they'd even sent a killer after him, though in the end the hitman ran away. Otherwise, Ye Hao would already have a reason to make a move against Tong's Heavy Industry.
Although Tong's Heavy Industry was quite capable, no matter how capable they were, they couldn't match up to capital and raw power. Based on the current strength of the Dragon and Phoenix Castle conglorate, going head‑to‑head with Tong's Heavy Industry would be enough to make them cry out in pain for quite a while.
For example, whatever heavy industrial products they specialized in, the conglorate could completely copy them without limit, then flood the market in bulk, with prices even lower than Tong's Heavy Industry. When that ti ca, Tong's Heavy Industry would be like ants in a frying pan, only able to hop around.
It was just that there was still no hard evidence on Tong Dawei's cris yet, so Ye Hao could only set this aside for now. He also didn't have much energy to deal with it at the mont; after all, the trouble brewing over in Shanghai was too huge, and he had to focus on handling that properly.
"Mr. Ye, you've heard of this Tong's Heavy Industry? If you don't want to get involved with them, then please, go ahead and leave!" Thinking Ye Hao was afraid of Tong's Heavy Industry and feeling there was nothing they could talk about, Zhang Peitang gestured for Ye Hao to go.
"Afraid? Heh, I'm really not. I just have a bit of a grudge with one of that family's younger generation, that's all. It's no big deal." Ye Hao laughed.
"Then I wonder what Mr. Ye ca to talk to about?" Zhang Peitang asked.
"I'm just curious what kind of man you are—whether you're talent or dead weight. If you're talent, I can give you a platform and an opportunity to develop." Ye Hao smiled.
"Really?" Zhang Peitang's eyes lit up. Even though he'd lost his company and his subordinates, he still had his brain. He felt that if soone would just give him a platform, he was absolutely capable of making a coback.
"Heh, no rush. Let ask you first: if I put you in charge of a company that combines heavy and light industry, how long would you need to get familiar with its operations? And how long until you can start showing profits?" Ye Hao asked with a grin.
"Getting familiar won't take long. The key is what categories your heavy industry covers, and what your light industry covers."
"Shipbuilding, automobile manufacturing, precision machine tools, airplanes, construction, real estate—so long as you have a way to make money, I can give you a chance to develop it. But that depends on whether you've got the ability. I'll give you an address now. You can write up a detailed proposal, then go to the Dragon and Phoenix Castle conglorate headquarters in Datian District, Peng City, and look for a young man nad Qin Xiweng. Let him assess you. Rember, any heavy or light industry projects you can think of can be written in. If you pass his assessnt, then you'll have a chance to make your coback. If you fail, it proves your ideas aren't mature enough for the conglorate to even consider taking you in." Ye Hao smiled as he wrote down an address and Qin Xiweng's phone number on the counter, then handed it to Zhang Peitang.
With trembling hands, Zhang Peitang took the address and phone number from Ye Hao. In that instant, he almost felt like he was back more than twenty years ago, when he first entered the factory and fought his way up. How similar was that to now?
Only this ti, entering the factory wouldn't be as a worker, but as a senior manager—assuming he could pass the assessnt.
"Heh, here's a hundred thousand yuan, Mr. Zhang. Settle this old gentleman down, then hurry to Peng City!" Ye Hao said with a smile, handing over the hundred thousand to Zhang Peitang.
After doing this, Ye Hao left without staying long.
After all, all the won at ho were waiting for him. If he'd just gotten back and then stayed out too long again, he'd definitely get complained at by the ladies. (To be continued. If you like this work, you're welco to visit Qidian (qidian) to vote for recomndation tickets and monthly tickets. Your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users, please go to m.qidian to read.)
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