SWNOVELXO Chapter 592: Remarkable Reputation
"An uncommitted base salary of 3800 for regular workers?"
"Nobody stop me, I'm heading to Su City right now."
"No one's stopping you, take me with you, let's go together."
"Wow, a monthly salary over ten thousand, if I weren't a 211 university graduate, I'd want to go too."
"I heard from someone working there, for those with a bachelor's degree or higher joining Tianxing, they can participate in the group's talent reserve program. After the internship, the base salary starts at least 4000, and with meal and housing subsidies plus full attendance bonuses, the monthly salary is at least 12k."
"Can someone ask Mr. Lu if the 211 philosophy department is needed, exploring the mysteries of life, like who am I, is also very important."
"Is everyone this vulgar? Don't you think Mr. Lu's words are pretty bold? The significance of industrial upgrading..."
"Haven't you noticed? Everyone's calling him Mr. Lu now, no one calls him Liangzi anymore."
"They can call him whatever, but Liangzi still feels more endearing."
A curious onlooker filmed a 32-second video,
once uploaded, it went viral online.
The uncommitted base salary, also known as guaranteed minimum, means even if you don't work a single day, as long as you're not fired, the monthly salary is at least 3800.
If it were other companies saying this, netizens would definitely not believe it, but Lu Liang's company has a solid reputation.
Although the internet has no memory, everything that happens leaves traces.
For example, two years ago, someone revealed that the lowest annual salary at Tianxing Investment was 250,000.
The annual party gifts included a new model Apple device for everyone.
However, online rumors said the investment company's lowest education level had only two tiers, one being a diploma, one being a second-tier university, the rest were all at least from 985 institutions.
It's easy to talk about 985 institutions online, but in reality, in a third or fourth-tier city, less than a handful of students might get into a 985 university a year.
The interview threshold for Tianxing Investment is extraordinarily high, even 985 graduates might be screened out.
In contrast, although Tianxing Automobile has education requirements for regular workers, the minimum threshold is just a vocational college or high school graduate.
With such a threshold, among the right-aged young men and women nationwide, even if there are not a billion, there are probably tens of millions.
Consequently, Tianxing Automobile's HR email inbox was flooded, taking Tianxing Investment's inbox with it.
Because most people wouldn't even consider the former, so they applied to the latter instead.
Among the country's 1.4 billion people, only 7.28 million have a monthly salary over ten thousand. Once they join Tianxing Automobile, they can surpass 99.48% of people.
Lu Liang once again became a positive example, in contrast to Cao Wang, whose hypocritical true colors were laid bare by netizens.
Over the years, he indeed donated over a billion intermittently, but an employee exposed that he worked at Yao Fu for eighteen years, developed lung cancer from long-term exposure to chemicals, and the factory gave him a few tens of thousands and dismissed him.
Another employee said that working at Yao Fu Glass, a salary of 5000 was already considered high; Yao Fu is notoriously a sweatshop in Fujian.
The boss does charity externally for a good reputation, but internally exploits relentlessly, akin to a modern-day Scrooge.
"When companies give raises, they have to consider if other companies can accept it, damn it."
"Mr. Lu said it well, before the industrial upgrade, the monthly salary was three thousand, and after the upgrade it's still three thousand, then what's the point of upgrading."
Public opinion escalated, spreading to Lu Liang's ears, leaving him dumbfounded.
He knew Yao Fu's specific revenue because he planned to bring Yao Fu on board last year.
He hadn't looked into Cao Wang too deeply, and didn't expect him to be such a person?
Only caring about himself and turning a blind eye to the livelihood of employees under the company.
Besides, the donation thing is full of tricks, but he's not familiar with the details, so he doesn't comment further.
"Mr. Lu, let's shake hands, still good friends, why make a fuss?"
Ningde Old Zeng acted as a peacemaker, smiling, "It's better to resolve enmity than to create it, just give me a little face, can you?"
Although he holds a higher societal status than Lu Liang, his personal wealth is slightly lacking, but faced with Lu Liang, he dares not be too forceful.
Thirty-three years old, very young, if his attitude was too strong, it might backfire.
Moreover, he's quite wary of Lu Liang.
Even though Ningde completed the ex-rights last month and issued a 10% target market shares, Lu Liang directly or indirectly owning 19.86% of Ningde Era's equity is an indisputable fact.
With his influence in the financial market, even holding 10% would be enough to make any company CEO cautious.
"Since Mr. Zeng has spoken, I'll certainly give face." Lu Liang laughed it off, having already achieved his purpose, so he was generous.
"Mr. Lu, pardon my bluntness." Cao Wang held back his anger, his face showing a smile more painful than crying.
Old Zeng had just analyzed the pros and cons for him, refusing to join the Industrial District was a terribly bad move.
If he offends Lu Liang for the sake of a grudge, while holding three hundred billion in regional office funds, he could completely rebuild Yao Fu.
In the glass industry, anyone daring to challenge Yao Fu's position, the money could be easily allocated, with Lu Liang's character, he could totally do it.
"Mr. Cao, you're too kind, these are just words, I sometimes speak without thinking too." Lu Liang said with a smile.
Ningde Old Zeng laughed heartily, changing the subject, "Mr. Lu, I think this exhibition can be held regularly in the future."
"It's not been long, and we've already signed deals with Li Xiang and NIO to customize lithium batteries for their new fall models."
"Mainly because the first-generation Qilin is significantly more efficient and energy-saving than the second; the blade battery falls short."
Li Xiang smiled in agreement, though the reality is that BYD's blade battery is slightly better than Ningde's second-generation Qilin.
But since BYD not only makes batteries but also manufactures complete vehicles, and all very successfully, they stand out clearly.
They've just launched the Denza X luxury fashion SUV, and it might not be long before they're competing with Li Xiang.
So cooperating with BYD would be akin to helping the competition.
In contrast, Ningde Era focuses solely on making power batteries and is just a supplier, with no competition with them.
Li Bing agreed, "But Mr. Zeng, can the battery price come down a bit? We can deepen our collaboration on the battery swap project."
Old Zeng smiled wryly, "Guys, we also don't want to raise prices because it's easy to lose competitiveness, but international raw materials have been rising; we have no choice."
"Affected by trade frictions too?" Lu Liang inquired.
Old Zeng nodded, sighing, "Since March, the price of imported raw materials like cobalt and lithium has risen by at least 15%-25% per ton."
He suddenly asked, "Mr. Lu, will the situation get better or worse in the future?"
Hearing this topic, even Cao Wang, who was always annoyed with Lu Liang, perked up his ears to eavesdrop.
The essence of finance is information asymmetry; in this field, every successful person has a keen market sense.
Lu Liang might not be involved in trading precious metals like cobalt and lithium, but trade frictions affect not just these, but all industries.
Cao Wang might look down on Lu Liang as an upstart, but he wouldn't doubt Lu Liang's financial intuition.
In just over three years, he rose from having nothing to becoming a billionaire, all through compounding gains in the financial market.
If he dared to question Lu Liang's financial prowess, even the street dogs would bark a few times at him.
Lu Liang pondered for a moment and sighed, "Prepare for a long-term battle; we can't rely too much on imports."
As his words fell, several CEOs around glanced at each other, each heaving a deep sigh.
They could see the current situation clearly but still harbored hopes in their hearts, hoping for authoritative confirmation.
The turbulent international situation is unfriendly to businessmen, especially in their passive country.
What was said unintentionally was received thoughtfully, as Old Cao's beady eyes darted around, recalling Old Te's invitation.
Perhaps it's worth increasing investments in the U.S.
But remembering that Lu Liang also had factories in Detroit, which drew special attention from Old Te and the local government.
His expression soured, like he'd swallowed a fly; wherever he went, there was this Lu Liang.
"Mr. Cao, any questions?" Lu Liang wondered.
"No."
As noon approached, the heads of various companies left one after another. Going their separate ways, they came to show their faces to express importance and couldn't stay for three days straight here.
"Director Xu, it's all yours now."
Lu Liang exchanged greetings with Xu Daolai, sharing some good news: by morning, the supplier convention had reached a transaction volume of 13.9 billion.
The three days would easily reach 25 billion.
After all, it was the CEOs negotiating personally in the morning; the scale of cooperation was larger, and it was normal for transactions to shrink later when only representatives were involved.
Regardless of whether it's Lou Shui Industrial District or Tianxing District, a round of expansion is expected, and he asked to inform the relevant department leaders.
Whether the first new energy car show is successful is uncertain, but the first supplier conference is certainly a success.
"All right, all right, Mr. Lu, take care."
Xu Daolai grinned widely, his face breaking into a smile. As long as one of the two projects succeeds, it counts as a success.
Leaving the convention, on the way to the district.
Lu Liang received a call from Hu Weiwei: "Mr. Lu, the locked order quantity is already 82,500, and it's still growing rapidly. Today we might break the 100,000 mark."
"How did it grow so fast?" Lu Liang was stunned; Hu Weiwei wondered, "Didn't you and Mr. Cao hype up the buzz again? Also, there's that young girl with the surname Li."
Lu Liang opened Weibo's trending searches; at least seven of the top ten entries were related to him.
One is about the car show, another about the car, four about him confronting Cao Wang, and one about rekindling an old flame with Li Manli.
Lu Liang felt numb and suddenly asked, "Have you prepared how to apologize?"
"Apologize for what?" Hu Weiwei was puzzled.
Lu Liang smiled wryly, "When June sales come out, we'll decide whether to increase production. Now with 100,000 locked orders, how long till fulfillment?"
Hu Weiwei was stunned, racking her brain, thinking for a long time: "Should we have Xiao Chen charm someone for help?"
"If anyone's charming, it's you," Lu Liang replied displeased.
"Well, let me think of another way then."