novelraw Chapter 878 Undeterred?
Chapter 878 Undeterred?
Chapter 878 Undeterred?
When Luo Ziwen arrived, he was on tenterhooks; when he left, he was finally half relieved.
So he was still in a good mood.
Along the way, he also talked to Lu Qiaoge about his idea of investing here, and then asked, "Section Chief Lu, I'm planning to invest in electronic products, can you give me some advice?"
Lu Qiaoge wasn't surprised, after all, Luo Ziwen was an electronics professional.
She said, "The investment prospects for electronic products are very broad, but this involves the issue of research and development. After all, electronic products cannot remain unchanged; they are always being updated and replaced. As long as it is an investment, no matter which city it is in, we need to sit down and have a proper discussion."
Luo Ziwen understood what Lu Qiaoge meant, of course.
He has a research and development team in the port city and has always been committed to technological innovation. However, he cannot currently share his technology, as his company also receives investment from other investors.
To be honest, before he arrived, the shareholders had already spoken with him and made it clear that they wanted to be more conservative in terms of technology.
This so-called conservatism is actually just keeping things secret.
Lu Qiaoge said, "If I were in charge of this project, I wouldn't be doing contract manufacturing for you if you were to invest."
Often, foreign capital is only interested in the cheap labor here. They don't give you any technology, they just let you process a certain part and then sell it.
This might solve the employment problem, but the employment problem shouldn't be solved this way.
However, if someone else were to take over the project, then Lu Qiaoge would keep quiet.
Such a large country cannot be controlled by the ideas of just one person.
There will always be someone to do the work. As long as we do our best to prevent familiar people from taking the wrong path, that's good enough.
Luo Ziwen understood: if he wanted to use this place as a processing plant, Lu Qiaoge would definitely disagree, and it would probably be difficult to make it happen in Jiangcheng and Beidu.
However, since we're going to invest, let's be generous and do it well.
Luo Ziwen said, "I am interested in this. There is still a lot of demand in the mainland market. If I were to invest, I would like to build a tape recorder factory."
He would definitely try to please them, since no matter what he does, as a Hong Kong businessman investing, he must first obtain approval from the foreign trade department.
Even if it's not in those two cities, the approval still has to go through the State Administration of Foreign Trade.
Lu Qiaoge began to ponder.
Nowadays, tape recorders are absolute luxury items and in high demand, especially cassette tapes. There is huge market demand, but domestic production capacity is severely insufficient, and much of it has to be imported.
As long as they can be manufactured, there's basically no worry about selling them, and the profit margin is huge.
It would be even better if it could be exported.
So Lu Qiaoge said, "Chairman Luo, if you are interested, then we can sit down and talk."
Luo Ziwen sensed that Lu Qiaoge was somewhat relenting, and he breathed a sigh of relief as well.
Today is a wonderful day. I not only saw Su-lan, but also my son, a handsome and tall boy. A sense of pride welled up within me.
Of course, I also felt guilty.
After all, this child has suffered so much, while his nephews and nieces in the port city live a life of luxury.
When his son was not getting enough to eat, his nephews and nieces were tired of eating all sorts of delicacies.
While his son was still unable to attend school, his nephews and nieces had already been sent to prestigious schools abroad.
His son lived in a dilapidated, small house and had to take care of his mentally ill mother, while his nephews and nieces lived in large villas with nannies, maids, and bodyguards, truly living a life of ease where everything was done for them. Every time he thought about it, his heart ached.
Then, remembering what his father had said to him before he left, he calmed down.
Now that the son has been recognized, he belongs to his own son, and no one can interfere.
And then there's my own marriage; this time I can completely make my own decisions.
The father even said that he had previously announced that he wanted Luo Zifeng's son, Danny, to be his son, because: the Luo family is large and wealthy, but his branch only has one son, and Luo Aijun is also an only child. In the future, they will inevitably have to rely on their cousins to help them, so it wouldn't matter if they adopted two.
He firmly refused at the time.
They should have given up on that idea by now.
Luo Ziwen was too self-righteous in this regard.
How could Old Luo possibly give up on that idea?
In his view, what difference was there between his brother's children and his own son?
This story goes back to when Luo Ziwen was a child.
Back then, the family was not well-off. When the second son's fourth child was born, for various reasons, the second son's wife had no one to take care of her during her postpartum period, so it was Mrs. Luo who took care of her.
At that time, they weren't in the same village yet, and Mrs. Luo would go there early in the morning and return late at night every day.
They certainly can't take care of their families, but Old Luo doesn't care either.
He only had one son, but he didn't care about him and left the child at the neighbor's house, which was Chu Sulan's house.
For more than a month, Xiao Luo Ziwen ate at Chu Sulan's house.
Because of this experience, Chu Sulan and Luo Ziwen have had a good relationship since childhood.
While Lu Qiaoge and Luo Ziwen were heading to the hotel, Old Luo and his wife were talking to Luo Zifeng at the old house.
Looking at his nephew, whose eyes were red, Old Luo said with great guilt, "Zifeng, don't worry about it. I'll talk to Ziwen when he gets back. I treat you like my own son, and your son is like my grandson."
With such a large family business as the Luo family, how could Luo Aijun, a child who grew up in a poor village and never saw the world, possibly manage it all?
In the end, I'll still have to rely on these brothers for help; I understand that.
Mrs. Luo's expression turned somewhat unpleasant upon hearing this.
In the past, under the old man's pressure, she might have eventually agreed to adopt one of them, since Danny had always been very filial and respectful to her. Danny's parents also treated her with enough respect, which greatly satisfied her vanity.
But now she has her own grandson.
What good is a large family and a big business?
Does having a large family business mean you have to give it all away?
Look at those heirs to wealthy families, none of them have said they would give all their inheritance to their siblings, have they?
But she always listened to Old Luo, and when faced with this situation, although she was dissatisfied, she didn't dare to say anything for the time being.
However, Luo Zifeng noticed her expression and understood that if he didn't add fuel to the fire, he might not get much of the Luo family's assets.
I used to think they were all sons, but that's not necessarily true anymore.
So he sat down next to Old Luo and said in a low voice, "Uncle, I've always felt that you're like my own father. Besides, the brothers and sisters in our Luo family have a good relationship, just like one big family. What's the difference between cousins and biological brothers and sisters? If you ask me, Ziwen is just overthinking it."
Old Luo nodded in agreement: "That's right, if this were ancient times, we would be a truly great family."
(End of this chapter)