I'm in the county town, and you say I'm a big shot?

Chapter 588 Can Ele.me be issued a payment license?
After hanging up the phone, Fang Qingye immediately called Fang Fei, the deputy manager of the nursery: "Fang Fei, quickly arrange for someone to clean up the nursery environment. A leader will be visiting the nursery in ten minutes."

"Uncle, I already arranged for people to clean the nursery. I know that some leaders will definitely be visiting in the next couple of days. We were supposed to fertilize the rose seedlings today, but I asked the workers to stop so that the air wouldn't smell bad when the leaders visit," Fang Fei said on the other end of the phone.

"Not bad, Fang Fei, you've done a very good job as deputy manager, I commend you!" Fang Qingye said as she put on her clothes.

"Verbal praise isn't enough, Uncle. You have to give me a raise, right? I invested 100,000 yuan in Hongling. I'll be heartbroken if I don't get it back."

ha?
Still worried about this?

But you brought this on yourself.

"How much is your salary now?" Fang Qingye asked.

"Not counting the bonus, it's 6215 yuan," Fang Fei said.

"Then let's raise it by 600 yuan starting next month!"

"Thank you, uncle!"

On the other end of the phone, Fang Fei looked delighted.

If you include bonuses, you can earn 8500 yuan a month!
This salary isn't low for Nanxin County.

More importantly, the work isn't tiring.

The seedling technology is handled by Deputy Manager Wang, who is in charge of technology. She only needs to manage finances and the daily operations of the nursery.

There are only 16 workers, including administrative and logistical staff, making them easy to manage.

The finance department mainly handles bookkeeping and collecting payments, including collecting rental fees for flowers and potted plants from various vendors every quarter.

This job is a bit tiring; there are hundreds of government agencies and companies, big and small.

However, the nursery now accepts online banking payments. Invoices are delivered by the finance staff, and the money can be transferred online.

With my uncle's reputation, I've never heard of any company owing money.

Thinking back, I used to want to be a teller at Jinghai Bank. How stupid of me! I wouldn't trade it even for the branch manager position. I heard they're incredibly busy every day.

Fang Fei answered Fang Qingye's call, with the office director Zhang Xiaorui standing next to her, looking on with envy.

She really is the boss's niece; she can raise wages just like that.

Fang Fei noticed her subordinate's expression and felt a little smug, but of course she couldn't show it on her face. Instead, she said, "Xiao Rui, you should work hard too! I'll ask my uncle to give you a raise later!"

"Thank you, Manager Fang!" Zhang Xiaorui was overjoyed upon hearing this.

"Come on, let's hurry out and check which places are unclean, so my uncle won't scold me." The two girls hurriedly left the office.

Fang Qingye quickly got dressed and washed up, not even bothering to eat. When she arrived at the office building, she noticed the environment was quite clean, so she asked Fang Fei to follow her to the entrance of the nursery to greet her.

Although Director Luo said on the phone that two leaders and he were coming, Fang Qingye knew that there were definitely more than just the three of them coming.

Sure enough, a few minutes later, several cars slowly drove up, with a police car at the front, flashing its lights but not its siren.

Following closely behind were several black luxury cars, which parked one after another on the road in front of the nursery. President Pan and Chairman Cao got out of the cars, along with Mayor Zhang from the city, Secretary Lu from the county, County Chief Wang, and some entourage.

"President Pan"

Chairman Cao

Mayor Zhang, Fang Qingye, shook hands with everyone and introduced Fang Fei before leading them into the nursery.

Actually, only a few leaders came in; the rest of the entourage stood outside the nursery very conscientiously.

The workers in the nursery were working when they saw several people who looked like leaders suddenly enter. However, they were used to it and knew that the strangers who came often were either leaders or bosses. They glanced at them and continued with their work.

"President Fang, your nursery is doing a great job! It's so colorful everywhere," President Pan exclaimed as they walked.

The nursery in June is indeed beautiful, with large swathes of hydrangeas in bloom, clusters of flowers, exquisite and delicate.

Fang Qingye was quite modest: "It's mainly my grandfather and my niece Fang Fei who run it. Actually, I'm just a hands-off manager."

"Hehe. I heard you run several companies, you must be very busy." President Pan chatted casually as they walked.

"My main focus right now is on Jinghai Bank and Ele.me," Fang Qingye said frankly.

“Hungry? I know, it’s a food delivery company, they’re doing a huge business. People my age, like Chairman Cao and Mayor Zhang, aren’t used to ordering takeout, but young people these days like it. My son doesn’t eat in the cafeteria at work, he doesn’t cook for himself, he orders takeout every day, saying it’s convenient.” President Pan shook his head as he spoke.

"Old Pan, it's really convenient. I even tried ordering from it once. I took out my phone, opened the Ele.me app, selected my food, and it was delivered in less than half an hour. As for the taste, it's almost the same as eating at a restaurant." The speaker was Chairman Cao.

"Haha, Lao Cao, you're pretty good, you can keep up with the times."

"And it's cheap too. They say it's a platform subsidy, so a plate of Yangzhou fried rice is only 8 yuan."

"Yes, the platform is currently offering subsidies, so it's basically operating at a loss," Fang Qingye frankly admitted.

"I heard it's competing with another food delivery company, Meituan?" Chairman Cao asked.

"Yes, besides Meituan, there are several other food delivery companies, such as Taodian and Baidu Waimai. The competition among them is fierce."

"Businesses lose money, but ordinary people benefit, haha."

The group strolled around the garden and even visited the orchid greenhouse for a while. Fang Qingye had already instructed Fang Fei to prepare the more valuable orchids, such as the Phalaenopsis series, Drunken Red Orchid, and Purple Moon Lotus, and entrusted them to Director Luo to be taken away by the leaders.

Finally, everyone chatted over tea in the conference room of the nursery's office building.

Although Fang Qingye came to the nursery mainly to relax and stroll around, she still mentioned work and reported to the leaders about the pilot work of internet finance carried out by the Jinghai branch.

This includes information on inclusive finance, online lending, the application of internet big data, and online bill financing that have already been implemented or are about to be implemented.

"Now, Jinghai Bank has signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Zhiyun Technology, with Zhiyun Technology providing technical support."

Fang Qingye concluded.

The digital finance pilot program has only been running for less than six months; such a short timeframe yields few results. Fang Qingye sensed from Governor Pan that the central bank headquarters would conduct another research visit to Jinghai Bank at the end of the year, focusing on the digital finance pilot program.

After chatting for a while, President Pan and his group were about to leave, saying they would be taking an afternoon flight back to Yanjing and would be going to the city later to have a discussion with Secretary Liu.

"President Fang, do you have any other problems or difficulties? Since Lao Cao and I are both here now, let's see if we can help you solve them?" President Pan said with a humorous tone.

what.

I've been waiting for you to say that.

Fang Qingye had originally planned to speak with Director Luo privately beforehand, but since that's the case, she won't stand on ceremony.

"President Pan, Chairman Cao, thank you for your concern. Actually, there are no problems or difficulties. I have a small request. Jinghai Bank is planning to cooperate deeply with Ele.me. Could you please issue Ele.me a payment license?"

(End of this chapter)