The dinner was held in a suburban manor affiliated to the Beijing branch of the Energy Group. This place was specially built by the group to entertain some valuable guests. Although it is a suburb, it is right on the Outer Ring Road, so the transportation is very convenient.
Having invested over 10 billion yuan to build a luxurious reception hall, it is estimated that only the Energy Group can afford such a thing. This place is not open to the public. No matter where you are a senior official or a rich man, this place only entertains guests of the Energy Group. If you
No, even if you are the president of a country or the richest man somewhere, you can only watch from the outside.
Moreover, the place is rarely open when it is open, and there is basically a large-scale banquet every month. It would be good to have Li Cong's visit once a year.
The manor, which covers an area of 4,000 acres, is equipped with battery-operated cars. It has swimming pools, private lakes, small yachts, golf courses, racecourses, movie screening rooms and a series of entertainment facilities. The most unique thing here is that the waiters here are all uniform.
Master's students, of course, are not Li Congxian, but the guests here are generally people with a relatively high cultural level. How can they be brought from anywhere in society?
Ordinary people can only look at this behemoth with a five-meter-high wall from a distance. As for what is inside, they basically have no idea. They only know that there are rows of stretched luxury cars in the parking lot in front of the door.
, taxis have to turn around five hundred meters from here, and there are patrols leading wolf dogs in groups, showing everywhere that this place is completely different from other clubs in the suburbs of Beijing.
Today's reception banquet is mainly for Li Cong to reward officials from various ministries of the central government. The highest is ministerial-level officials, and the lowest is department-level officials of the Beijing Municipal Government. Because of the Liu family, the senior officials of the Beijing Military Region are definitely also
It's essential. Although these people don't say so, they definitely know in their hearts that being on Li Cong's invitation list is an honor.
Take the invitation, for example. It is not just a piece of paper. The person from the group's public relations department used 150 grams of yellow to make this invitation. Although the model is a bit suspected of showing off her wealth, it looks better than
Puchunang is much better. In principle, an invitation can only be used by one person. Later, gradually 17 Gou Shao Hui Wei can bring two people. After all, these officials also have their own secretaries or family members.
Yes, you all want to come and see the world, right?
It was exactly four o'clock in the afternoon when Li Cong and Liu Yan had changed their clothes and arrived. The guests would not arrive until six o'clock. As the host, Li Cong naturally wanted to come and see some preparations. In fact, there was nothing that Li Cong needed to check.
, it was just a courtesy for him to arrive early, and it also allowed the guests to see that he had been carefully prepared.
"Why has the name changed here?" Li Cong looked at the "Li Garden" on the door and said, isn't this name the name that only the Li family's house in Jinan can be called?
"I was the one who made the main changes. I wanted to improve the specifications here, but the equipment inside has basically reached its limit. I can only do research on this door. I know you have many problems. Didn't you see Li Yuan?
Is there the word "Beijing" in front of it? Everyone will be able to distinguish it in the future. We know that our Li Garden is for resting, and Beijing's Li Garden is for entertaining guests." Liu Yan answered carefully, for fear of Li Cong
Because I am not satisfied with this.
Li Cong smiled helplessly, his daughter-in-law would do this to him. When a beautiful woman explains to you crookedly, even if you have a big reason, you have to listen to her first, otherwise you will be too disrespectful.
The mood is solved.
"Okay, let's leave it like that, but you can't let go of your mistakes. After dinner, I will study carefully how to punish you in the evening." Li Cong said something in Liu Yan's ear, looking like a big bad wolf.
It probably scared away the real wolves and made Liu Yan blush.
The couple chatted and laughed and walked towards the gate. In fact, Li Cong could have driven his car in. Although the parking lot inside was not very big, as the host, he still had his own seat.
The parking lot is placed outside the garden to give reporters outside a chance. They can't take pictures of people, but they can still take pictures of cars from a distance.
"Boss, madam." The butler who received the news from Liu Yan and a dozen waiters stood on both sides of the door. The men stood on the right and the women stood on the left. The butler stood in the middle. Li Cong suddenly remembered that the male left
The woman on the right is in the middle. I don’t know if this butler is that so-and-so. Looking at the fifty-year-old butler standing upright, he is also his employee after all. Li Cong quickly threw that thought out of his mind.
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"That's right, I wonder what the name of this housekeeper is?" Li Congda took a quick look. There were busy workers everywhere, setting up scenes and transporting things. It seemed that they were almost finished.
"Boss, I am Cui Shijing, you can just call me Xiao Cui." Butler Cui said with a smile on his face.
"Xiao Cui? I think you are much older than me, so I will call you Lao Cui. How are the preparations at home? The guests will be coming soon. I will reward you if you do well, but if you don't
Well, don't blame me as the boss for not giving you face." Li Cong still knows how to manage this kind of people, that is, to give you both kindness and power. Calling "Old Cui" is to give you face, but if you can't do your own thing well, then
Don't blame us.
"Boss, look, it's basically finished. The dining room has been decorated. The situation here can be completed within ten minutes. Everything is in accordance with the madam's requirements. The carpets and tableware need to be replaced, so
We have been delayed a little, but we will definitely not delay your banquet, boss." Butler Cui replied respectfully. It can be seen that the boss is a good talker, but he can't go too far. The most important thing as a butler is to find himself.
You are in a position, and you cannot really regard yourself as the master just because the host says a few nice words.
Take the things in the house as an example. If you just take any of them, you can last a lifetime, but can you take them? Not to mention the many eyes watching, and the cameras that are everywhere in the house.
As long as he dares to reach out and wait for himself, a fool can probably imagine that his boss is not a good man or woman.
Li Cong heard what he said and stepped hard on the carpet. This square meter of Egyptian carpet worth hundreds of dollars was different from the domestic imitations. After entering the hall, the dragon totems all over the wall really made Li Cong feel that this was the arrival.
Like the Dragon Palace, the totem in the middle of the roof is the same as the totem of the Li family in Jinan. It is a five-clawed golden dragon made of two tons of gold. Li Cong doesn’t know why. Every time he sees this legendary king of dragons, he always
It will be so comfortable.
In fact, Li Cong had been studying this thing for a while when he was working on it. The Chinese emperor called himself the "True Dragon Emperor" and was the incarnation of the "True Dragon" in heaven. It was stipulated that only the emperor's personal belongings and clothes could be painted with the "Five-clawed Golden Dragon"
" image, other places that need to use the dragon shape are distinguished by "four-clawed dragon" (i.e. "python"). Its implicit meaning is "only the emperor is the real dragon", while other "four-clawed dragons"
"It's "python" not "dragon".
I don’t know if I am the emperor or not, but now there are not as many rules as there were in the Qing Dynasty. It looks good to me if I make this, and no one will say anything. Although there are so many dragons in this room, they are still on the right track.
The one in the middle is a five-clawed golden dragon, and the others are ordinary four-clawed dragons.
Under the golden dragon is the largest table in the entire banquet hall. It can seat forty people, followed by tables for thirty people, tables for twenty people, and tables for twelve people at the edge. The entire hall can accommodate hundreds of people at the same time.
Dining at the same time, but since Beijing Liyuan started to use it, the place has not been full until now. Today may be the first time.
"How are the chefs here? These officials are the most knowledgeable about food. Don't embarrass me tonight." Li Cong said while looking at the menu.
"Boss, don't worry about this. Our four Chinese chefs were from the older generation who cooked for the emperor. The worst ones came from the Prime Minister's Palace. The Western pastry chefs are all from Europe.
I am a master chef who has not been working for many years. It was only someone from our public relations department who had the means to come here. All the ingredients for today arrived yesterday. The chefs are very satisfied. They all say that they have been cooking all their lives and they have never cooked it here.
It's so comfortable." Lao Cui said with a smile, but he didn't lie, these masters really said that.
"That's good, go tell them, don't talk about the past. What I want is in the future. Go tell the people below to pay attention to me tonight. As long as nothing goes wrong today, everyone will get a big red envelope tomorrow."
, get out of here if something goes wrong." If anyone knew who those people in Li Cong's kitchen were, they would definitely blame Li Cong for not cherishing talents, but Li Cong just said that, and they didn't dare to do anything else.
idea.
Grand Hyatt Hotel is now the largest hotel chain in the world, controlling more than 30% of the world's high-end hotels, and the number is still increasing. The hotel industry is a very closely related thing. If you offend
If you become the owner of the Grand Hyatt Hotel, no one will welcome you when you go to any hotel. These chefs may dare to show off their own airs and personality to others, but in the end they still need to eat and get paid.
If they offended Li Cong, no hotel in the world would dare to hire them. How could they rely on their own skills to set up a roadside stall?
When Li Cong wanted to teach this guy a few words, the first guest had already arrived. The identity of this first guest was also very eye-catching. He was Qiang Min, the director of the National Development and Reform Commission. Li Cong quickly left behind some trivial matters in the kitchen.
He took Liu Yan to the door and waited for Qiang Min's arrival.
When I reported to Li Cong, the car had already turned in. It would take about five minutes to reach the entrance of the garden. Li Cong adjusted his appearance while walking. These Beijingers should pay attention to this and not do anything inappropriate.
The National Development and Reform Commission generally does not exist in other countries, but in China this unit is not an ordinary department. I believe any Chinese will know the extent of its power. Even Li Cong's energy group needs to deal with it.
He paid attention to three points.
Normally, the director of the National Development and Reform Commission should be at the ministerial level, but a few years ago, in order to strengthen the role of the National Development and Reform Commission, the government raised the director of the National Development and Reform Commission to the deputy state level. The director and the deputy prime minister enjoy the same treatment, and the deputy director enjoys the same treatment.
Ministerial-level treatment is almost the same as that of the Organization Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China.
Qiang Min is a sixty-year-old skinny old man. If it weren't for his entourage and the convoy, he would be no different from an ordinary old man. But Li Cong knew that it was this old man who forced many central enterprises across the country not to cooperate with him.
The people are striving for profit and you want to raise prices on a large scale? There is no way out, so you want to make money from the people through policies? Give it a rest. Since Qiang Min became the master of the National Development and Reform Commission, one of the incomes of the National Development and Reform Commission has been rising in a straight line, and that is fines, and
Those punished are all large companies with monopoly status.
"Director Qiang, you are so generous. I have just arrived. I really want to thank you, a great leader, for taking time out of your busy schedule to come to my place. Please come in." Although Li Cong had only met Qiang Min once, then
The two people were introduced to each other while walking on the street when the National People's Congress was held. However, Qiang Min was still the deputy director of the National Development and Reform Commission at that time. Unexpectedly, they would be corrected in less than two years.
"Haha, Mr. Li's face must be given to everyone in the capital. Since my place is closer to here, I came here first." Qiang Min's attitude can be said to be lukewarm. From the bottom of his heart, he is an old man.
He doesn’t want to contact these big capitalists at all, and even has in his mind how to cooperate with the bourgeoisie? Isn’t this a socialist country? But with the development of the world, he has learned to be flexible, that is, strictly follow the
Regarding large enterprises, especially private monopolies and foreign enterprises, central enterprises have also become the object of his observation in recent years.
Li Cong really didn't have much to say to this old guy, and he nodded loudly after a while. It was just to prevent himself from evading taxes. We pay more than 200 billion yuan in taxes to the country a year.
The top five of the top 500 companies in China combined are the same as us. Are we the ones who evade taxes? If I were not happy today, I would have to tell this old man.
Liu Yan saw early on that Li Cong was not suitable for reception work, so after receiving the next visitor, she asked Li Cong to go and have a rest. What attitude should one have towards officials, or what attitude should one have towards Chinese officials?
, Li Cong probably has forgotten nothing. In his impression, whether it is the President of the United States or the President of Russia, they are all his guests. To put it nicely, one person said this, but if it is not to say it, he is our dog. We
You have to do whatever you tell him.
It's a pity that this is China, not the United States and Russia, let alone the southern African region under Li Cong's control. This is a republic, and it has its own set of rules of conduct. If there are only one or two of them, Li Cong can choose
Offending them, but if they offend them one after another, it is obviously not a wise thing to do. Liu Yan understands this better than Li Cong. This may also be related to the fact that she was born in a family of officials. Unlike Li Cong,
If you cause trouble, it's better to take over the job yourself.
It would be better if someone came to help him. Originally, Li Cong was planning to stand at the door for a while, but unexpectedly Liu Yan said that he was standing there like an uncle, and it was better not to be there.
Making a face at the charming daughter-in-law, Li Cong casually got on a battery car and went to the back to play two strokes. Although our skills were not very good, our enthusiasm was very high.
When Li Cong arrived at the golf course, there was no one there. Although the entertainment facilities here were complete, the guests who came were all well-known people who were not here to play. Their main goal was Li Cong.
From this person, not from this thing.
Watching Li Cong disappear from her sight while driving a battery car, Liu Yan shook her head helplessly. Her husband was not very enthusiastic about Beijing's circles before, but now people are trying to fawn over him. As long as he can lower his stature, I'm afraid it will be fine.
I quickly integrated in, and now it's good. I just bypass the ministers and directors and go directly to the State Council in Zhongnanhai. I look down on these people even more. Who knows that in China, there is an old saying that it is better to be the king of hell than to be a devil.
Tangled.
By six o'clock, the parking lot in front of Liyuan Park in Beijing was no longer enough. The super-large parking lot that could hold 400 cars was no longer enough. Liu Yan shook her head helplessly.
Less than 150 invitations went out, and nearly 500 people came. Although there was still a screening group inside, I didn't expect that these people all came in their own cars.
This dinner was divided into two parts. One part was in the hall where Li Conggang was staying. Only the person who sent the invitation was entertained there, and everyone else had to stay in the front yard to dine. To put it bluntly, the hierarchy must be clear, otherwise
It would be really lively if all five hundred people came in, and the Li family's banquet would be too worthless.
"You just have a way, good things like this are really hard to come by, you can get them." Bai Chen closed his eyes and slowly felt the taste while tasting the Lafite from the last century in his hand.
Li Cong looked at him like that and wanted to go over and give him a kick. This red wine tastes so good? Why are we drinking this stuff that costs hundreds of thousands of dollars? It’s no different from those that cost tens of dollars. Are we not nobles? This
Is that the guy?
"Look at you, you look just like a young master from a big family in the old society. You don't look like a public servant at all. You still lead the largest political group. I think we can just go to the Communist Party."
I think it's a bit reliable. How many of Taiwan's Communist Party leaders drink this?" Li Cong joked.
"Shit, they are just like that on the surface, secretly they are much more luxurious than me." Bai Chen said unconvinced, but he was telling the truth. None of those politicians do one thing on the surface but another secretly.