The growth system comes at the age of 30

Chapter 250 Year-End Bonuses and Exams (4.3K)

Chen Jingle set a standard for himself to go to Hongqi's place at least two or three times a month.

After all, you can't just take 200 million a year for nothing.

After the previous on-site investigation report in rural areas, the company had no objections to this newly appointed strategic development consultant. After all, he was a man of action, and the plans he put forward were indeed very effective.

Hongqi Company's year-end report for last year has been released, and Chen Jingle has just finished reading it.

The company's annual revenue was RMB 12.63 billion, an increase of 15.72% year-on-year; net profit was RMB 5052 million, an increase of 12.4% year-on-year; and net cash flow was RMB 2.32 million, an increase of 22.61% year-on-year.

Compared to the previous two years, the growth rate of net profit has actually slowed down, but compared with its peers, the overall development is still good.

Li Qiguang's office.

Chen Jingle was sitting across from Comrade Lao Li, drinking tea.

Li Qiguang suddenly asked, "Has Beixing met your parents?"

Chen Jingle paused for a moment and said, "I've only met my mother. My father works in another city and hasn't come back yet."

"Oh."

Li Qiguang stared at him: "So when do you plan to come to our house?"

Normally, the man and woman visit each other's homes one after the other, and after confirming that they want to be together, their parents will sit down together to finalize important matters such as the wedding date.

Now that their daughter has already visited the man's home and met his parents, it's naturally Chen Jingle's turn to come to his house next.

Chen Jingle smiled slightly upon hearing this: "I'm available anytime, it mainly depends on Beixing's wishes. She's rather shy, and it seems she hasn't revealed my existence to her aunt and uncle yet?"

Li Qiguang frowned: "Can't you just speak up?"

Chen Jingle shrugged: "I still prefer to respect Teacher Li's own ideas."

Li Qiguang was slightly dissatisfied, but he didn't say anything more, otherwise it would seem as if he was eagerly anticipating the other party becoming his son-in-law.

That is indeed the case.

After all, he only has one daughter. If the person his daughter chooses is suitable, then neither he nor his wife will object.

It's not that you have to marry into a big company or a big family; there's no such custom in Jiangbei.

We all come from humble beginnings, so what are you pretending for!

If you marry into a wealthy family with a large corporation, the family fortune will most likely end up in someone else's hands. But someone like Chen Jingle is different; he prefers to be a strategist.

Li Qiguang put down his teacup and stood up: "Let's go, let's start the meeting!"

Chen Jingle quickly followed.

……

Today is Hongqi's year-end summary meeting.

However, there were not many attendees; the majority of attendees were still middle and senior management personnel from the company.

Li Qiguang disliked showing off, so he didn't organize any annual party performances or give out million-dollar bonuses in public. All employees' year-end bonuses were deposited directly into their salary accounts, just like their regular salaries.

However, the necessary process still needs to be followed.

The meeting had three main agenda items: first, some outstanding employee representatives would speak on stage; second, heads of various departments would report on the production and operation situation in the first half of the year; and third, the boss, Li Qiguang, would give a concluding speech.

Chen Jingle was also asked to speak, as part of the second agenda item. However, his speech was very brief. He simply told the people below that the overall direction of the development plan would remain unchanged for the new year, with only minor adjustments to be made.

The general direction remains the same as the previously proposed goal of building a complete industrial chain.

From farm to table, it encompasses multiple links such as planting and procurement, trade and logistics, food processing, and food sales, forming a complete industrial chain system.

By implementing full-process quality control of products, achieving food safety traceability, and ensuring high standards of safety, peace of mind, and health, we will further develop the Hongqi Agriculture brand on the existing foundation.

The smaller-scale approach involves assessing the company's performance in the previous year, appropriately reducing unnecessary business operations, and increasing investment in profitable departments.

His speeches are always concise, efficient, and easy to understand, which aligns with the style of Hongqi Company.

There aren't many highly educated people in the company's senior management, especially those who worked with Li Qiguang in the early years. Although they have been learning, they are far behind those in truly high-tech companies.

Therefore, the simpler the better.

Comrade Li spoke succinctly, stating that 2025 would be a crucial year for Hongqi Company's resource restructuring and integration, as well as for the company's reform, innovation, standardized management, strengthened responsibility, and the establishment of rules and regulations. He emphasized that in the future, the company would further coordinate its resources, gradually expand production, and consolidate its rural base on the basis of transformation and upgrading, ensuring that all aspects of the company's work achieve new development.

Furthermore, the company made money again this year, so we're giving out year-end bonuses to everyone, from senior management to frontline employees. Everyone gets a share, so we can all have a great year!
Upon hearing this, everyone present smiled.

No one could dislike such a generous boss.

Chen Jingle never expected that he would receive a year-end bonus.

Although it's not much compared to his monthly salary, the question is, how long has he been with Hongqi?

Comrade Lao Li truly has a broad vision.

If those young, working-class people who are being exploited to the point of numbness and collapse by all sorts of bizarre companies in big cities were to see this, they would probably burst into tears on the spot.

Family members, does anyone know anything about this? We've finally found a legitimate company!

……

In Chen Jingle and Li Qiguang's eyes, the most important part of the new full-industry chain plan is the seedling research and development center.

Unlike ordinary processing plants or production bases, the seedling research and development center prioritizes scientific research capabilities.

For example, the construction of core areas such as laboratories, germplasm resource banks, and experimental fields needs to take into account various factors, including biosafety, environmental control, scientific research equipment, talent teams, and subsequent technology transfer.

This is a project that requires long-term, sustained investment to see results, and it demands a great deal of courage and determination.

For example, the seedling research and development center designed by Hongqi is expected to require an initial investment of over ten million yuan, with additional investment required every year thereafter.

Of course, this ten million includes the cost of infrastructure and equipment, not just research expenses.

It is necessary to build a molecular biology research laboratory, a crop cell breeding laboratory, a vegetable plant protection laboratory, and a cell engineering culture and domestication laboratory, as well as auxiliary facilities such as a specimen room and a cold storage room.

Then there are various advanced instruments, from small ones like optical microscopes, PCR machines, electrophoresis apparatus, and gene sequencers, to large ones like ventilation systems, water and electricity systems, and irrigation systems.

For Hongqi, this is a considerable investment.

Take the industry giant Ludong Shouguang Vegetable Seed Industry Group as an example. Their vegetable research and development center's tomato seed development process usually has a pass rate of less than 2%.

Doing scientific research is a tedious and patience-testing activity. Often, a batch of seeds is planted, only to find that the final product is a failure, and you have to start all over again.

And so on and on.

It took the research team a full five years to develop our own tomato seeds, despite the blockade imposed by Europe and the United States.

For common vegetables, five years is considered efficient, while some fruits and melons even take 10 years.

It takes a lot of hybridization experiments and multiple trials at different locations and in different seasons to finally develop a new batch of effective and high-quality seedlings.

How could a small company afford to spend so much money?
Whether the company will still exist in five years is a question.

However, seedling research and development is like this; it requires a real investment of money and manpower to see results.

You might not even see any results!

Fortunately, Comrade Li is willing to spend money, so there's no need to worry about the venue or the talent.

We have already contacted the South Asia Institute through official channels in Jiangbei. A preliminary agreement has been reached that the R&D team can begin work at any time, provided funding is secured.

Once the R&D center is officially completed, the annual research and development expenses will be much less of a burden.

By then, a dual-engine model of "scientific research + industry" will be formed, and the entire industrial chain "from farm to table" will be further improved, enabling Hongqi to usher in a new round of rapid progress. While we don't need to go global, we can at least expand beyond Southeast Asia and occupy a certain position in the national fruit and vegetable industry!
After discussing with Li Qiguang, Chen Jingle selected the most popular Chinese cabbage in the Lingnan region as the first crop for the research and development center.

The reason for choosing this is because of the high sales volume of Chinese cabbage in the Lingnan region. It can be said that almost half of the Chinese cabbage in the country is consumed by people in Lingnan. The dining table of people in Lingnan cannot be without Chinese cabbage, just as the West cannot be without Jerusalem.

However, the taste of local Chinese cabbage is currently far inferior to that of the cabbage from the Jiangnan region north of the Great Wall. The breeding goal is to improve disease resistance, taste, and yield, hoping that local Chinese cabbage can eventually capture a certain market share from the Northwest Chinese cabbage.

Besides bok choy, there are also water spinach and sweet potato leaves.

These two are also frequent guests at the dinner tables of people from Lingnan.

As long as these products can gain a certain market share in the Lingnan region, business will be pretty good.

We should do business with vegetables transported from the north, and we should also do business with local vegetables. It's always a good thing to have multiple avenues to operate!
……

Chen Jingle went to see the factory site.

He brought along Huang Hao and Zhang Zhiyong to help him run errands.

Upon hearing that Chen Jingle had summoned them, the two brothers immediately followed him eagerly.

Ever since I tasted the benefits of going to the countryside with Chen Jingle last time, I've been hoping for another good thing like that every day, so naturally I won't resist it.

These agricultural primary processing factories are positioned to support agriculture and aim to help solve the employment problem of the rural population, so they are all located in the countryside.

Fortunately, it's not far from rural or provincial roads, so transportation is quite convenient.

Although Jiangbei is a poor and remote area compared to Shenzhen, the provincial capital, it has done a good job in paving roads with cement. Most of the larger administrative villages have cement roads, which facilitates transportation.

The approval of the factory's land use, business license application, and fire safety permit approval have already been taken care of.

The factory layout is also fine.

Although the factory is small, it has to be well-organized with functional zones for raw materials, processing, packaging, finished products, and a canteen.

Another requirement is to construct high-standard sewage treatment ponds.

In order to cut costs, many township enterprises do a shoddy job of sewage treatment, taking advantage of the fact that the authorities are far away and they do all sorts of shady things.

There's nothing they can't do if you can imagine it.

After all, small places can't be as well-regulated as big cities, and Jiangbei is a really weird place.

Chen Jingle can't control others, but he can control what's within his own capabilities. He just needs to do what he should do and avoid being criticized behind his back.

He's like a quality inspector, helping to find and fix any shortcomings.

He has been cramming on a lot of knowledge lately, so there aren't many people he can fool.

Upon arriving at the factory construction site, everyone was greeted with a smile, regardless of who they were. Furongwang (a brand of cigarettes) paved the way, and after finding out where the other person's hometown was, he immediately switched to the local dialect, and the two sides chatted happily for a while.

Before long, I got the information I wanted.

This model can be said to be invincible.

He was naturally gifted with languages, and with the help of the system, he mastered several local dialects of Jiangbei and spoke them fluently, leaving his two errand runners, Huang Hao and Zhang Zhiyong, looking at each other in astonishment.

After visiting three construction sites, Chen Jingle had gained a relatively concrete understanding of the factory project's progress.

The information was compiled into a written document and handed over to Li Qiguang.

The report points out some problems, acknowledges some successes, and offers both praise and criticism.

The same applies to projects and people.

At the same time, we will help finalize the relevant rules and regulations, requiring the factory to adhere to standardized processes in production!

This is conducive to achieving scientific management, improving management efficiency, enhancing product quality, and ensuring production safety.

You have to understand that many regulations are tested with human lives, and he doesn't want to see any family ruined by his hand.

"As long as we can break even and avoid losses, it's okay to earn a little less," Li Qiguang said.

However, Chen Jingle believes: "As long as it gets running, making money will not be a problem."

For companies like Hongqi, which have raw material production bases, transportation channels, and stable sales partners, even without deliberately compressing production costs, they can still keep costs below those of ordinary individual growers.

This is the most basic benefit of intensive and large-scale production.

At most, it involves a large upfront investment, and it takes time to recoup the cost.

……

After finishing with Hongqi, Chen Jingle stayed home for the weekend, keeping Chen Qiyun company as she did her final review.

Li Beixing was also busy.

As the semester draws to a close, there are all sorts of meetings, big and small, at the school, which is incredibly annoying.

I'm really looking forward to the holidays so I can spend every day with my boyfriend!

This is how most couples in love are, especially since Teacher Li is so love-struck.

Secondary school students take exams for three consecutive days.

After the exams were finished on the first morning, Chen Jingle didn't ask Chen Qiyun how she did, so as not to affect her mindset. She would know when the results came out.

However, judging from her expression and the review process in the past few days, she has mastered all the knowledge that needs to be mastered. As long as there are no unexpected events, she should be fine.

In previous monthly exams, she had already consistently ranked among the top three in her class and the top five in her grade.

This result is already very good; there's no need to insist on getting first place.

The key is not to fall out of the top tier.

Because there will always be someone in this world who is more capable and stronger than you.

Unless you are Gauss.

"Come quickly and help me correct my exam paper!"

In the studio, Teacher Li said to Chen Jingle in a coquettish tone.

"Please beg me!"

Chen Jingle, who had just put down his paintbrush, had a slight smile on his lips.

This wasn't the first time Mr. Li had helped me grade exam papers. It wasn't particularly troublesome; it was just Mr. Li's quirky sense of humor. He said that this was the price of dating a teacher.

Upon hearing this, Li Beixing immediately put her hands on her hips, pouted, and looked somewhat resentful.

Oh~
Teacher Li's expressions are changing more and more these days; she's quite the little drama queen.

Chen Jingle ultimately chose to give in, because he was a soft-hearted person.

Anyone would agree to Teacher Li's pitiful plea, "Please, brother."

However, after making the changes, I realized that Chen Qiyun's score wasn't affected; it should have been changed for Li Beixing. Looking at it, sure enough, her Chinese score was quite good, second in the class, only one point behind the first place.

Okay.

The other subjects shouldn't be too bad either.

However, Chen Jingle did not intend to reveal this news until Chen Qiyun had finished her exams.

Three days flew by.

The moment Chen Qiyun walked out of the examination hall and returned home, she breathed a long sigh of relief, feeling completely liberated.

Next, we just wait for the results to be released.

She felt it shouldn't be too bad, even though she hadn't compared answers with other classmates.

It all depends on her final ranking; that's what Chen Jingle will give her as a reward!
(End of this chapter)