Volume 2: Feng Xi Arrives Chapter 36: A Bet

  The autumn is high and refreshing. In the blink of an eye, it's already October. After National Day, Lu Zhong began to put his plan to attract investment in Hong Kong on his work schedule.

  He is now discussing with Chen San Shui, head of the Investment Promotion Department, the details of holding an investment promotion conference in Hong Kong.

  After all, Hong Kong is still under British rule now. Going to Hong Kong is equivalent to going abroad. Attracting foreign investment is something that only Shenzhen has done among Chinese cities, and even then, it was through the China Office in Hong Kong, not making a big fuss like Wushan.

  Chen San Shui was thrilled, a leader like Lu Zhong who had such great ideas and charisma was hard to come by. He was now completely won over by Lu's style. If anyone dared to say that Lu Zhong was an uncouth rustic in front of Chen San Shui, he would definitely use the most biting language to refute them. Was there really such a rough diamond? In terms of knowledge and insight, Chen San Shui had never seen anyone who could surpass Director Lu. These days following Lu Zhong, Chen San Shui felt that his horizons had broadened greatly.

  Moreover, the most amazing thing about Director Lu is that he actually managed to invite Mr. Schroeder, the CEO of Changming Company and a German business elite, as a temporary consultant to provide strategic advice for this Ushan investment promotion trip to Hong Kong.

  Colleagues from the Investment Promotion Agency, whether it's foreign policy or business thinking, didn't quite grasp it. Mr. Schroeder filled in the gaps and provided many valuable opinions, which made Chen San Shui feel greatly benefited.

  At this moment, Mr. Schroeder was sitting on the long sofa in his office, savoring Chinese scented tea and flipping through a German book.

  Changming Electronics' first-phase project is expected to be completed by the end of next year, introducing German technology for the "Changming" Chinese-language computer typewriter, which is expected to achieve mass production. In fact, this will naturally lay the foundation for personal PC business. After all, electronic products involve many aspects and also require domestic electronics manufacturers to keep up with its pace. At the same time, in the domestic market, there is still much room for development in the typewriter market.

  Chen San was puzzled as to why Mr. Schroeder, a West German businessman, could become friends with Lu Zhong, the director of the company's party organization, who was both red and expert. Shouldn't these foreigners be very disgusted with the company's party organization and its leaders?

  Especially, Director Lu also has a background of transferred military officers.

  Every time Chen San Shui met Mr. Schroeder, he couldn't help but think about this question.

  However, Chen Sanwu admired Schr?der very much. This is a kind of longing complex for foreign high-level intellectuals among intellectuals. Now, the craze for studying abroad has sprouted and swept across the country. In the eyes of the intellectual class and even ordinary people in countries like the United States and other Western nations, it has gradually evolved from the past evil imperialism to another extreme - that is, paradise.

  "I'm going to America!" will become a goal that university students and elite groups will strive for tirelessly in the next few years.

  Before Chen San Shui left after finishing his work, he greeted Schneider as usual in German and smiled: "Auf Wiedersehen." This is one of the few German words that Chen San Shui has been learning recently.

  Schneider smiled and nodded at him, and Chen San Shui left with a smile.

  Lu Zheng opened the locked drawer, took out an envelope, walked over and handed it to Schneider, who smiled and carefully put it into his breast pocket.

  This is a letter written by Lu Zheng to Bai Shaobao, also in code, which would be sent back to Germany via telegram or telephone by Schneider.

  Lu Zhong and Bai Sha Bao have exchanged dozens of letters, and the frequency is getting more and more frequent. Recently, there has been almost one letter every day.

  Lu Zhong could imagine that in this era, Schneider sending telegrams abroad, and the contents of the telegram were all Arabic numerals, would inevitably attract the attention of national security departments, and they would probably try to decipher these telegrams by any means.

  So Lu Zhong and Bai Sha Bao, almost every letter would change to a new password book, the password books were all set by Lu Zhong, in this letter, it was decided what book to use for the next password book, and it would definitely indicate which year it was published and which edition.

  Lu Zhong set the password book because Lu Zhong could see that the books wrapped in white silk were easier to find, and besides, there would always be a way to get them.

  There is currently no decryption tool with supercomputing speed that can store a large amount of information for retrieval. In addition, the relevant departments are inevitably unclear about the true identities of the sender and receiver of these encrypted messages, nor do they know the living conditions and habits of both parties to the encrypted message. Therefore, it is also impossible to select the decryption book from the vast number of published books, let alone that encrypted messages usually have a specific decryption book and would not think of using existing books to decode them.

  Of course, as a friendly investor in West Germany, Schneider introduced high-tech technology to China. No matter how the background was investigated, Mr. Schneider did not have any espionage suspicion. Most likely these encrypted messages would be judged as business secrets. Therefore, even if the national security department is interested in Schneider's encrypted messages, they will not really treat Schneider like a spy, such as following and monitoring him, otherwise it would become an international scandal.

  Recently, Lu Zhong and Bai Shaobao have been communicating frequently because after receiving Bai Shaobao's first letter, Lu Zhong replied with his views on some financial issues. Immediately afterwards, Bai Shaobao's returned letter said that the part of the funds belonging to Lu Zhong could be managed by Lu Zhong himself, and whatever he wanted to do, he would send a telegram or make a phone call to tell her, and she would take care of it.

  Bai Sha said that she wants to compare with Lu Zhong, and see who benefits more in the end. Moreover, for fairness, she can lend some money to Lu Zhong first. In short, both of them will have an equal amount of investment overseas. One year later, they will see who wins or loses, and the losing side will have to acknowledge the other as their teacher.

  Lu Zhong looked at Bai Sha Bao's suggestion and couldn't help but laugh, this kid, after recovering from his brain tumor, seemed to be regaining that unyielding arrogance.

  It turns out that Baishanbao is similar to her own views on money, especially Baishanbao. Perhaps in her opinion, this is more like a numerical game. And games necessarily have strong opponents to be fun, otherwise, it's unknown how much money she has sent as chips.

  Lu Zhong wasn't very interested in this game, he himself was a reborn person and had been a successful player in the business world for twenty or thirty years. He knew all about the current industry trends and financial history like the back of his hand. No matter how talented Bai Si was at business, it would still be a losing situation for him.

  Even if I win against her, it's not a glorious victory; but if I lose, it would be a complete failure.

  Who knew that after wrapping up in white gauze, the telegram came, and ridiculed Lu Zhong as a coward, asking Lu Zhong to quickly go to Potsdam to worship her as a teacher.

  Lu Zhong knew that this was Bai Sha Bao's provocative tactic, but he fell for it anyway. Perhaps Bai Sha Bao had anticipated this as well?

  He readily agreed to it, and it's good that he has something to do in his free time, managing the overseas investment accounts, revisiting his old profession from past life, and finding some fun in the dull bureaucratic work.

  Recently, the letters written to Bai Shaobai were all about how to manage that part of the funds for "oneself".

  The letter wrapped in white gauze often contained her views on the market, usually accompanied by many faxes of economic reports. It was obviously very open and honest, or it could be said that she was proud, unwilling to win with unequal information, not only sending relevant materials to Lu Zhong, but also providing some of her insights free of charge for Lu Zhong's reference.

  Lu Zhong has had quite a lot of fun during this period.

  Schneider took the letter and smiled goodbye, Lu Zhong sent two steps, the office phone rang, it was Deputy Director Yang Wenxue calling, asking Lu Zhong to go to his office.

  "I'm busy and have to go check on the construction site." Lu Zhong replied indifferently over the phone, referring to the Changming Company's construction site.

  Lu Zhong had already found out that the one who stabbed himself in front of Ma Hua's deputy secretary was Yang Wenxue.

  That night, after hearing Wang Xiangdong mention that the idea of giving himself money was Vice Director Ma's idea from their office, Lu Zhong entrusted Wang Shangfei to investigate this matter for him.

  Wang Shangfei did not disappoint, and soon somehow became acquainted with Deputy Director Ma, even becoming drinking buddies. After getting Deputy Director Ma drunk one time, he extracted from him that the idea of taking bribes was actually suggested by his old classmate, Secretary Gao of the Planning Commission, who had brought up the topic in a conversation and given Deputy Director Ma the inspiration.

  Who is Secretary Gao? It was Gao Yijing, the secretary of the Planning and Economic Commission's office. In fact, Gao Yijing had always served Yang Shangkun, and was no different from Yang Shangkun's personal secretary.

  In official circles, what is emphasized is keeping a low profile and hiding one's capabilities.

  Lu Zhong was particularly pleased with Yang Wenxue's emotional expression, and for more than half a month, he had been reporting directly to Vice Secretary Ma Hua, not even bothering to acknowledge Yang Wenxue.

  The effect is still pretty good, at least for this period of time, Yang Wenxue has calmed down and hasn't come up with any more tricks. It seems that from Lu Zhen's performance, he may have caught wind of some clues about the person who was plotting against him behind his back.