Chapter 362 Special Spring Festival in 1983
This year's festival is a bit different from the Spring Festival in previous years. The first Spring Festival Gala was broadcast live on CCTV. Lin Qiang-Cheng-Cheng and his family watched a live broadcast program together. The first time they were broadcast live in front of the national audience, there were constant jokes on the spot, and the host was surprised. The live broadcast brought a lot of joy to the audience in front of the TV.
It’s not like a few years ago. During the Spring Festival, the neighbors would gather in a small courtyard where the house would watch it in a cold weather. The house where the Lin family lived was divided by the Municipal Health Bureau. Xu Hongmei was already a serious deputy director. The unit assigned a 110-square-meter three-bedroom and one living room building.
Living in the building naturally isolated the disturbances of neighbors. Lin Xiangrong and Xu Hongmei were unwilling to let someone give gifts during the New Year and the holidays, and they told their subordinates not to give gifts in advance, and the couple was not the kind of person who would take the initiative to give gifts to their superiors. During the Spring Festival, the whole family celebrated it briefly. After the sumptuous New Year's Eve dinner, Xu Hongmei and Lin Xiangrong were making dumplings while watching the party. The dumplings were eaten at 12:00 in the middle of the night. Lin Johnson and Lin Xiang would wait for that meal when they were young, but they didn't wait when they were old, but the habit of making dumplings was still preserved.
There were very few actors at the party and they were dressed very frugally, but there was not much relaxed entertainment at all. The first time this was the deep impression that the party left on the public was left by the public until decades later.
Ma Ji and Jiangkun’s crosstalk are humorous and funny, and they and Liu Xiaoqing and Wang Jingyu’s hosts are also funny. CCTV has also launched a telephone on demand for the first time, and the audience asked Li Guyi to sing the show, and a love affair in the countryside is long-lasting.
"Xiang, it's too late to go to bed!" Xu Hongmei saw Lin Xiang's head lower and shook her hands and urged her to go to bed.
"Ah! Mom, I'll watch it again!" Lin Xiang opened her eyes wide and stared at the TV.
Xu Hongmei smiled and said, "Let's rest quickly. I want to see a replay tomorrow. There is one in your belly. Don't be tired and it's bad for your health. Be obedient!"
"I have to go to the countryside to greet my parents-in-law tomorrow morning!" Lin Xiang said. She pouted and stood up reluctantly. She was indeed angry and swayed around before she could get back home.
Originally, Lin Xiang was going back to Hongqi Township for the New Year, but Xu Hongmei considered that her daughter was pregnant and her parents-in-law had a very lively New Year's Day. He Zhenguo's father had been transferred from the director of the Revolutionary Committee to the township secretary and township chief. The gift-giving people at home during the New Year and the festival could not be driven away. The environment was not conducive to the health of Lin Xiang and the children in her belly, so Lin Xiang lived at home.
Lin Xiangrong cleaned up briefly, and after coming out of the kitchen, he brewed a cup of tea and asked Lin Johnson: "I have heard of it at Binqi. Your company has started to produce cars. What's going on?"
Lin Qiangsheng glanced at his father and asked, "Who asked you to help me ask? A car is just a commodity, it's just produced it if you want to, and it has attracted so many people to care!"
Lin Xiangrong glared at his son and said, "Returning a car is just a product that you want to produce. Is that what you can do when you want to do? Do you have a car production license? Do you have a domestic joint venture? How can you do it just by saying it? You don't take national regulations seriously, and doing this will make a mistake!"
Lin Qiangsheng chuckled and spread his hands and said, "The country has no regulations that the country is not allowed to produce cars at home! Just treat it as an export project, just finish it!"
"It's not that easy. Some people are very dissatisfied with this. Maybe these people will cause some confusion in our family! Your mother and I are both people within the system. Although we are not afraid of others making things difficult for work, we are not afraid of being slanted by the shadows, but if the people above cannot be prepared for a word, someone wants to show off!" Lin Xiangrong pointed at Lin Johnson and said.
"Who said what? If you want to show it, then he will try it!" Lin Qiang said ruthlessly. This is his father revealing the enemy situation to him. Is it from the central government or from the local government?
"Some people say that you are walking too far and you are walking too fast. You are not asking you to pass by when you feel the stones, but you will fall down if you don't obey the command!" Lin Xiangrong shook his head and said in a sigh.
"Well. Who said this?" Lin Qiangsheng's eyes narrowed. The person who spoke like this was clearly threatening himself. What is the so-called "stuttering"? Who can make him fall? Could it be that the person who said this still wants to trip? How high is this person's power?
"Oh, don't worry about who said it! This represents the thoughts of some people. They have a lot of opinions about you just starting the car project without saying hello!" Lin Xiangrong said helplessly.
Lin Johnson thought for a while and said, "Are they the people from Bincheng Automobile? These people are really hard now and want to take off!"
"I insist on the way I go. Let others say it! Cars are nothing more than a commodity, that is, they are larger and more industrial categories involved, and there are nothing else! After some years, when the country becomes more open, there may be private car companies. Who will still look at the face of these official stocks at that time?"
Seeing that his son didn't listen to him, Lin Xiangrong shook his head and said, "I'm worried that you will be too radical and will stimulate some of the people above you. You must be careful!"
"Then you forgot, I won't leave any handle for them! My car products are completely exported and the products are not sold in China. Who can do what I do? Doesn't the country need to export and earn foreign exchange? Don't companies like me need to add a lot of foreign exchange to them? What do they use to go abroad for inspection and buy TV production lines?" Lin Johnson asked with a smile.
Lin Xiangrong was stunned and was really caught off guard by his son. It’s okay to create a lot of foreign exchange for production cars!
"Can the cars produced in your factory really enter the international market? Some people are afraid that you will not be able to achieve the export goal in the end, and they will sell cars that cannot be exported in China, which will not only disrupt the automobile market, but also create chaos in the domestic automobile parts system! In that case, it would be better to find a state-owned company to jointly invest!" Lin Xiangrong hesitated for a moment and revealed the ideas of some people to Lin Johnson.
"It turned out that I was worried that I would steal their raw materials supply, so I was anxious!" Lin Johnson laughed and asked his father, "Is this what some people really think?"
Lin Xiangrong nodded and said, "Some people do see that you have acquired many raw material and spare parts supply companies, so they are anxious and afraid that you will be able to compete with them for materials and resources after producing large quantities of cars!"
Lin Qiangsheng patted his legs and said, "Well, father, please give those people a reassurance first. I will increase the investment of these companies. As long as the output of spare parts increases, everyone will eat enough without worrying!"
"Okay. I will reveal it to others, but don't force people too hard!" Lin Xiangrong shook his head, and then he said: "I heard from your grandfather Li Gang that a big leader said that as long as your automobile company can be joint ventures, you can choose any company in China, as long as it is necessary to have a state-owned shareholding!"
"I won't wait!" Lin Johnson was about to object, but then he quickly thought about it.
Lin Xiangrong looked at his son and saw him frowning, so he simply waited, and the father and son fell into silence for a moment.
Just when Lin Johnson was about to reject the proposal above, he suddenly had a flash of inspiration, but the idea had not yet caught him and he started to think about it.
After a while, Lin Johnson asked his father: "Father, if I cooperate with a domestic company to establish a new automobile company, can I retain all my shares in this factory in Bincheng?"
Lin Xiangrong asked: "What does it mean? Since the joint venture is a joint venture, of course you can't retain all your shares!"
Lin Johnson shook his head and said, "I mean to establish a new automobile joint-stock company elsewhere. This company can also be licensed by Lexus under my authorization. It can sell cars in China and export products entirely by the manager's means! However, the Lingzhi factory in Bincheng cannot participate in shares with others. This is a purely foreign-owned enterprise, owned by the parent company! I must own all the shares of this factory because I have given it great expectations that others cannot interfere with the operation of the factory. I can let go of establishing a new joint-venture company in other places in China, but this factory in Bincheng cannot do it, it must be sole proprietorship!"
Lin Johnson thought that since Motorola can produce pagers in China who are solely owned by Motorola, he will definitely be able to produce cars wholly owned by China. Why should he give domestic shares?
Lin Xiangrong thought for a while and said in surprise: "How is this possible? How can the automobile factory in Bincheng, which is already in the forum, allow this factory to be a wholly owned company? This cannot be done in China!"
Lin Qiang-chung spread his hands and said, "Then there is nothing I can do, I can only give in to this! You tell the old factory manager Li Gang that he is the one who manages the domestic automobile industry and asks him to communicate with the superiors to try it."
Lin Xiangrong saw that his son was unwilling to give in, so he stood up and shook his head and said, "It's so easy to get in the foreign automobile market? Don't transfer to domestic sales in the end!"
Lin Johnson watched his father return to the room and turned off the TV. After returning to his house, Lin Johnson lay on the bed and hugged his head and thought. Finally, he smiled and said, "I want to see me jokes. No way! Let you see what I can do without you guys!"
The next day, He Zhenguo drove over very early. The couple hurried back to the countryside to pay New Year's greetings. They didn't spend the Spring Festival at their husband's house, but they would definitely go on the first day of the New Year.
Lin Johnson arrived at the company, and workers had already started working on the first day of the Lunar New Year. In order to keep up with foreign order factories, the employees' holiday arrangements were not allowed to adjust.
However, Lin Xiangrong hesitated how to explain his son's ideas to his leader. According to his opinion, he would definitely not agree with Lin Johnson's request in China. His son actually wanted to retain the current situation of the Bincheng factory. How could this satisfy his superiors?
But unexpectedly, after he talked to Li Gang, the other party said that this matter could be discussed, but Lin Johnson cannot account for half of the shares issue. Moreover, Lin Johnson must authorize all four models and the luxury model that has been tested for two years to be produced in China!
Lin Xiangrong was shocked, but he didn't expect that the country had the idea.
I heard Li Gang say earnestly: "The opinion of the superior and our Automobile Corporation is to introduce a number of internationally renowned large automobile companies to exchange market for technology in the next few years. As long as Lin Johnson can bring technology to the country, everything is easy to discuss!" (To be continued...)
Chapter completed!