Chapter 351: The Intention to Acquire Yuanfang

Next, Li Dong chatted with several seniors, heard a few words of flattery, and also flattered others.

Under the introduction of a vice-principal, I got to know some representatives of other colleges.

Several bigwigs at the provincial party committee level were not here, and Li Dong was not afraid of others, and everyone had a good time chatting.

But until 9:40, Li Dong hadn't seen Chen Lang yet.

Huang Zhigao, who was finishing chatting with others, looked back, saw Li Dong staring at the entrance, thought for a while and walked over, and asked, "Waiting for someone?"

Li Dong smiled and shook his head, "No, I just didn't see Minister Zhang and Secretary Wu. Are they here this time?"

Huang Zhigao nodded and said: "It's already made an appointment, and I will come over during the celebration. But there are still 20 minutes left, and it's not normal to see anyone at this time."

These provincial party committee bosses will definitely not come in advance. It is normal to get stuck, and Li Dong is not too surprised.

Huang Zhigao continued, "Are you waiting for Chen Lang?"

Li Dong smiled and said, "How can you see that?"

Huang Zhigao also laughed, shook his head and said, "Still pretending to me, you business people just don't like it. Chen Lang said before that he wanted to meet you, but I don't believe you don't want to talk to him."

Li Dong was surprised when he heard the words: "The dean knows Mr. Chen?"

"Hey, what I said made me a little sad."

Huang Zhigao pretended to be disappointed and said: "It seems that I am incompetent as the dean, and you students don't know how to care about me."

Li Dong suddenly laughed, and Huang Zhigao returned to the topic after making a joke: "The graduates of the 1986 international trade major, besides Chen Lang, I am also one of them. At that time, there were only 14 boys in the international trade class, eight of them in a dormitory. Do you understand?"

Li Dong nodded quickly, but he was really surprised.

What Huang Zhigao meant obviously meant that he and Chen Lang were roommates in the same dormitory, and Li Dong didn't know anything about it before.

And when he checked the graduates of the class of 1986, he didn't notice Huang Zhigao. It seemed that he was still careless.

Knowing that Huang Zhigao and Chen Lang knew each other, Li Dong stopped being sloppy and asked, "Dean, is Mr. Chen coming today?"

Huang Zhigao smiled and said, "Come on,

This guy had something to do two days ago, so he drove here before six o'clock in the morning, and it was about time to arrive. "

Speaking of Chen Lang, Huang Zhigao said with emotion: "This kid is doing better than me now, and I haven't seen each other for several years. The last time I called was because of you, or else I haven't contacted him for more than half a year."

"I?"

"Yes, it's you!"

Huang Zhigao hesitated for a moment, but he still said: "I heard from Chen Lang that China Resources should be more optimistic about the Jiangbei market. You have seen their recent proposals, mainly annexation..."

Without Huang Zhigao finishing his sentence, Li Dong somewhat understood what he meant.

After all, Huang Zhigao is also the dean of the School of Economics and Management, so he is no stranger to economics.

Since he said that, it means that Chen Lang should have expressed this claim in a veiled way. Thinking of this, Li Dong was a little bit dumbfounded: "Dean, you mean that Mr. Chen wants to buy our Yuanfang?"

Huang Zhigao coughed lightly and said, "It probably means something like that. I don't know the specifics. Chen Lang should talk to you later. You are all elites in the retail industry. In fact, as Chen Lang's classmate and Your teacher, I hope that you will develop together and each create a career.

However, I don't know much about business affairs. In any case, the teacher still hopes that you can find a win-win path. "

Huang Zhigao actually understood that what he said was nonsense. If China Resources wanted to enter Jiangbei, conflicts with Yuanfang would be inevitable.

Similarly, if Yuanfang wants to go out of Jiangbei, it will have to face China Resources sooner or later. The two sides are destined to be competitors.

There cannot be two tigers in one mountain, and the market is that big.

If Yuanfang is just a small business, it's fine, or Li Dong has no ambitions, and China Resources can tolerate it if he drinks some soup.

But Li Dong is so young and Yuan Fang is developing so fast, if Li Dong has no ambitions, no fool would think so.

What China Resources is now advocating is the strategy of mergers and acquisitions, and the main leader is Chen Lang.

Now Chen Lang wants to talk to Li Dong, and the talk is naturally about mergers and acquisitions. Once Yuanfang can be won, China Resources' East China layout can almost come to an end.

As for Times, anyway, with Suguo, China Resources is not too enthusiastic about Times' mergers and acquisitions.

Otherwise, after the failure of Wumart, China Resources will not give up the idea of ​​​​the era of mergers and acquisitions.

Knowing what Chen Lang meant, not only was Li Dong not worried, but he was looking forward to meeting him even more.

While everyone was waiting, the time for the celebration was getting closer.

At 9:50, ten minutes before the end of the celebration, a middle-aged man hurried in from the door.

Many people's eyes lit up, and so did Huang Zhigao beside Li Dong. He first whispered to Li Dong, "Chen Lang is here!"

Then he greeted him with a smile on his face, and said loudly: "Boss Chen, you have arrived!"

Chen Lang also had a smile on his face, and he kept greeting everyone, and finally he spread his hands and hugged Huang Zhigao with a smile, "Old classmate, I'm sorry, there was some traffic jam on the road, but luckily I didn't miss the time."

"It's okay, the principal and the others are coming soon, let's go to meet them together."

"It should be, it should be."

Chen Lang laughed quickly. Naturally, it wasn't the principal who greeted him, but the two old seniors who were received by the principal.

No matter what time, class always exists.

These vice principals and deans are here to receive these department-level officials and various businessmen, and the principal and secretary will naturally go to greet the two provincial party committee members.

After all, Jiangbei University is in the territory of Jiangbei. Although it is not under the direct management of Jiangbei in name, Jiangbei allocates a lot of funds to Jiangbei University every year.

Jiang Daneng's dominance of Jiangbei's academic circles for many years is also related to the graduates on the stage. For more than 30 years, almost every standing committee member of the provincial party committee has students who graduated from Jiangbei University. The main reason is still far away from other schools.

Doing academics, doing scientific research, and doing experiments, none of these do not require financial support.

Without the continuous appropriation support from the Jiangbei government, relying on the little money from the Ministry of Education, Jiang University will just wait to drink the northwest wind.

Because the time was approaching, everyone didn't have time to greet each other. As soon as Director Huang said, the others also responded one after another, walking out in groups of two or three.

Although Li Dong saw Chen Lang, and Chen Lang also saw Li Dong, but there was no time to communicate at this time, the two nodded, and then walked out with a few seniors from the School of Economics and Management.

...

The scale of Jiang University's celebration this time is not small.

Originally, the leaders of Jiang University planned to hold it in the auditorium, but because there were too many people, the venue of the ceremony was changed to the playground.

There are more than 30,000 students in the fourth class of Jiang University, including faculty members and those with master's and doctoral degrees.

Naturally, it was impossible for all of these 30,000 people to attend the ceremony. In the end, there were more than 4,000 students, faculty and staff who were eligible to enter the playground to observe the ceremony.

Including those guests who came to watch the ceremony, the total number was more than 5,000.

When Li Dong and the others went to meet the leaders of the Provincial Party Committee, the students, faculty and staff in the audience also took their places.

There were a lot of people coming this time for the 2004 International Trade Major, about 20 people, led by Fang Qingfei, and they all sat in the front right of the playground.

When Li Dong and the others came out from the backstage to pick up people, many sharp-eyed students saw Li Dong in the crowd.

Seeing Li Dong walking with those successful seniors, his temperament and demeanor did not lose the slightest bit, everyone couldn't help but sigh with emotion.

Zhang Hao poked Meng Qiping, who was dozing off beside him, and asked in a low voice, "Fatty, is Brother Dong going to give a speech later?"

Meng Qiping was originally not qualified to come, but this guy went straight to Fang Qingfei, saying that Li Dong was his buddy, and he would make trouble if he didn't let him in. In the end, Fang Qingfei had no choice but to let him occupy a spot.

However, the students entered the arena early, and Meng Qiping had been waiting for almost half an hour. He didn't see anyone, so he dozed off while sitting.

Meng Qiping opened his eyes only after Zhang Hao stabbed him.

As soon as he heard Zhang Hao's question, Meng Qiping immediately said: "Of course! You don't even think about it, who is Dong Ge? The richest man in Jiangbei! It's just a school ceremony, and the school will make a lot of money by inviting Dong Ge to speak on stage. When this semester is over, our school will definitely usher in a peak period, how many top students in the college entrance examination have not sharpened their heads and ran to our school!"

Everyone admitted that Li Dong's achievements were not comparable to theirs, but what the fat man said still made many people frown.

No matter how good Li Dong is, what does it have to do with you, a fat man, why do you need to be here?

Li Tie had already given up his thoughts of competing with Li Dong, but he just couldn't understand the face of Meng Qiping, a young boy. When the fat man finished speaking, Li Tie said with a dark face: "Fatty, keep your voice down!"

Meng Qiping didn't take it seriously and said, "Am I loud? I'm used to it. Recently, when entertaining customers, my voice is so low that people can't hear it."

Li Tie knew that he was showing off, so he suppressed his anger and said, "This is the 80th anniversary celebration of the school. You were heard when you made a loud voice. It is our people who lost!"

Meng Qiping also couldn't understand Li Tie, so he groaned, "Who are you throwing away? What's the shame? Besides, Brother Dong is also up there, so I'll support him."

Li Tie said angrily: "Are you supporting Li Dong? Can you show some face? Is it interesting to be so flattering all day long? One will be the richest man in Jiangbei, and the other will be honored by the school. Without Li Dong, our Jiang University will not be able to go on." ?”

Meng Qiping felt a little humiliated by what he said, and refuted with a blushing face: "What am I fawning on? What does my good relationship with Brother Dong have to do with you?"

"Still flattered? Is Li Dong the richest man in Jiangbei? You won't be afraid to laugh your ass off if you say this!"

"You've got jealousy! Is it important to be the richest man in Jiangbei? Brother Dong is worth billions, and he made another billion a few days ago. You can't earn the money you earn in a day. Is it useful to be jealous? Even Brother Dong If you're not the richest man in Jiangbei, that's better than you!"

"Fatty..."

"enough!"

Fang Qingfei, who just patrolled over from the front, let out a soft drink, and frowned and glanced at the two of them.

Then he looked at Li Tie and said, "Li Tie! Li Dong is the honor of our class and our school, so don't say anything!"

After talking about Li Tie, Fang Qingfei looked at Meng Qiping again, and said angrily: "Meng Qiping, please calm down! A provincial leader came over today, if you make a fuss again, believe it or not, I will let Li Dong deal with you later!"

Meng Qiping grunted and said awkwardly, "I didn't say anything."

"Shut up!"

"Shut up and shut up, I'm too lazy to say it."

...

Li Dong, who was fighting for the front in the audience, didn't see or hear him.

Accompanying everyone received the principal and his party, and everyone returned to the podium one after another.

Li Dong walked at the end, touched Huang Zhigao lightly, and said in a low voice: "Dean, I'm not on the rostrum anymore. I'm a student representative, so let's sit down in our class."

Hearing this, Huang Zhigao hurriedly said: "Don't, I have already arranged a seat for you. The nameplate is also written. If you leave now, there will be an empty seat, and it will not look good later."

Li Dong thought for a while, nodded and said nothing.

Now that everything has been arranged, there is no need to be hypocritical at this time.

Besides, Li Dong actually didn't want to go down. If he sat down and watched these people talking, Li Dong would feel a bit inferior.

He is not an unknown person now. Apart from those in the officialdom, among the guests present today, there are not many others with higher status than him. Even Chen Lang dare not say that he is superior to Li Dong.

No matter how powerful he is, no matter how capable he is, to put it bluntly, he is still just a wage earner.

Li Dong is different, he is the boss from far away.

Moreover, based in Jiangbei from afar, Li Dong is the leading tycoon in Jiangbei, and he has a natural local advantage here. It is right that Chen Lang is not as good as him.

After a while, everyone stepped onto the podium one after another.

Li Dong scanned the seating arrangement on the rostrum. The rostrum was not big, so it was impossible for everyone to sit there.

So this time, a total of twenty seats were arranged, except for some leaders of Jiang University, there were seventeen or eight seats left.

The two from the Provincial Party Committee and some other bureau-level officials took up seven or eight seats, and some more important guests were also among them. In the end, there were only five or six vacancies left.

Li Dong saw his own name, and also saw Chen Lang's name.

Li Dong was not very familiar with the other people, but Chen Jianhao, the director of industry and commerce bureau, was not here, and even Huang Zhigao, the dean, was not there.

This time Li Dong felt a little bit like sitting on pins and needles. He was a young man, even if he was rich, but if he sat on it, wouldn't he appear a little arrogant.

Before he was polite and didn't refuse, it was because he thought that most people could sit on it, and he wouldn't be conspicuous if he sat on it.

But the situation is different now, people like Huang Zhigao and Chen Jianhao are not there, and even Chen Lang's seat is a little bit behind him, so it's not suitable for him to sit on it.

Li Dong didn't take his seat for a long time, and said to a vice principal next to him, "Principal Liu, I'd better go down, it's a bit inappropriate."

Principal Liu hurriedly tried to persuade him, but Li Dong insisted.

At this moment, Minister Zhang, who had been chatting with Secretary Wu, suddenly said: "Student Li Dong, please sit down. Today, there is no distinction between high and low status. It is the same on and off the stage. But you will be on stage later to speak on behalf of the current students." , it’s more convenient on stage.”

Hearing what Minister Zhang said, the Secretary Wu next to him also smiled lightly: "Li Xuedi, since the arrangements are made, don't be too polite. The celebration is about to start, and everyone is still waiting."

Both of them spoke, so the others would naturally have no objections.

Li Dong didn't expect these two people to talk to him, and even called him junior, he was a little flattered and said: "Then I won't be polite, thank you two seniors for helping me out."

Everyone chuckled, and the time pointed to ten o'clock.

As soon as ten o'clock struck, the melody of the national anthem resounded throughout the campus. (To be continued.)