Break out of the courtyard

"There is strength in numbers, this is a good thing!" Zhang Heping climbed onto the shoulder of Deputy Director Qin, who was a head shorter than him, and said with a smile: "Let me see who is working overtime today, then you can go to Houhai with me and bring some gifts to make up for it."

"Director, you don't have to take it!" Deputy Director Qin looked at the two silver boxes and said embarrassedly: "I will evenly distribute the contents of the boxes and divide them into 38 portions."

"You are such a rough fellow, do you know what cosmetics are?" Zhang Heping patted Deputy Director Qin and said with a smile, "Have you heard of facial cleanser, skin cream, cleansing milk, moisturizing water, essence, and makeup remover? If you take one bottle home without one, do you think your wife will blame you?"

"Hehe, there are some single guys in the institute and they are not needed." Deputy Director Qin wanted to help Zhang Heping save some money so as not to cause him trouble.

"It's perfect for single guys!" Zhang Heping said with a smile as he opened the door of the institute. "Let me tell you, if a guy from Hong Kong gives a girl a set of Dior cosmetics, he can take that girl to register for marriage on the same day!"

There is some truth to what Zhang Heping said, because the joke about getting married on the same day by giving Dior cosmetics as a gift is a scene from a Dior cosmetics TV commercial.

"Dior cosmetics?" Deputy Director Qin was a little surprised.

"Why, have you heard of this brand too?" Zhang Heping walked to the glass partition wall of the office and looked into the laboratory. He saw only three people concentrating on doing experiments inside.

"I heard that the price of a set of Dior cosmetics can buy a courtyard house in the capital!" Deputy Director Qin said with some embarrassment: "Director, this gift is too expensive!"

"They are all produced in our own factory, how expensive can they be?" Zhang Heping did not recognize the three researchers wearing glasses and masks, so he used the office phone to call a taxi.

After Zhang Heping put down the phone, he asked Deputy Director Qin to go out and left the two suitcases with the guards at the gate.

"Before, I noticed that the cosmetics my wife and daughter were using were so bad, so I figured out a few formulas myself. Unexpectedly, the effects were quite good. Then I put them into production and sold them on the market." Zhang Heping explained casually to reassure the other party.

Although Deputy Director Qin was still a little confused, he couldn't refuse Director Zhang's face, so he had to smile and said, "When I give the cosmetics to those researchers later, I have to tell them clearly how expensive the cosmetics are, so that they don't mistake them for Pechoin."

"Lao Qin, if you really tell them that, do you believe they will treat that set of cosmetics as a family heirloom and won't even use it when it expires or goes bad?" Zhang Heping thought of the frugal nature of most Chinese people in this era and shook his head.

"What we sell to the public is the brand value and service, so the price is set so high; the cost of cosmetics is actually not high, you just pretend you don't know the price so that they won't be reluctant to use it."

The cost price of a set of Dior cosmetics is only about 50 yuan, but the unified retail price of Tingmei Trading to the outside world is 8000 magnesium yuan per set, which can be said to be a huge profit among huge profits.

If it weren't for such huge profits, those European Mei people would not have restricted the goods of Tingmei Trade and threatened Zhang Heping to hand over the source code of Security Guard.

Unfortunately, Zhang Heping is a donkey. The more the foreigners threaten him, the more stubborn he becomes. He has to teach the foreigners a lesson and force them to surrender first!

While waiting for a taxi at the entrance of Harmony Hospital, Zhang Heping asked Deputy Director Qin quietly, "How is the discussion between the hospital and the department going on about going to Hong Kong Island Hospital for exchange and study?"

When Deputy Director Qin heard this question, he frowned and replied in a low voice: "We haven't discussed it yet! The opposition is worried that doctors and nurses will go to Hong Kong Island and never come back. The directors of other hospitals don't want to take responsibility, so the matter has come to a deadlock."

"If it really doesn't work, I plan to build another cancer treatment institute in Shenzhen." Zhang Heping frowned and said, "When the time comes, let the people in the institute go to Hong Kong Island Hospital for exchanges with tourists, or let the doctors from Hong Kong Island go to Shenzhen Hospital for exchanges."

"After the New Year, you can discuss whether anyone is willing to go to the research institute in Shenzhen. It's a special economic zone, and its development speed is faster than that of the capital and Shanghai. The salary is also more than ten times that of here."

"More than ten times?" Deputy Director Qin was a little surprised. "Aren't the wages uniform? How could the wages there be so high?"

"I was too general!" Zhang Heping explained with a smile: "The salary is still the same, but if you include various bonuses, the annual income will be more than ten times."

"Take the Tingmei Health Care Factory, which produces Dior cosmetics, for example. The average wage for workers there is around 300 yuan, and the highest can get more than 600 yuan. If you include the year-end cosmetics, it's hard to calculate the exact amount."

"But you are different. You are technicians. You are more educated and creative than those workers." Zhang Heping tempted with a smile: "So, when you go there, your salary will definitely be higher than those workers."

300 yuan!

600 yuan!

When Deputy Director Qin heard about the workers' wages over there, he compared it with his own monthly salary of more than 70 yuan. This was his benefit after the salary increase in recent years. He suddenly felt a psychological imbalance.

Zhang Heping seemed to see the inner struggle of Deputy Director Qin. He patted him on the shoulder and said with a smile: "People go to high places, and water flows to low places!"

"What's more, when I build a cancer treatment research institute in Shenzhen, the hospital there will still be the main body. I will only point out a direction for the institute, which is similar to the research institute here."

"It's just that in Shenzhen, if I give bonuses to the people in the institute, the locals won't say anything. But here in the capital, if I give you something, I'm afraid it will attract criticism."

It would have been better if Zhang Heping didn't say anything, but after he said it, he became a pessimist.

Just now, Deputy Director Qin went to Zhang's house in Houhai and returned to the Cancer Treatment Institute dragging a Dior bulletproof suitcase. He found that Dean Lu and others were accompanying a few people, looking through the contents of the two suitcases outside the institute.

...

Zhang Heping didn't know that the Cancer Treatment Institute's level had been raised to confidential, and that items entering and leaving the institute were strictly guarded, and that the daily interpersonal relationships of the institute's personnel were also under close scrutiny.

He dragged the last Dior bulletproof suitcase used for gifts, and after sending Deputy Director Qin to the taxi, he took the taxi to the family area of ​​Xuanwu Hospital to wish Director Zhao a happy new year.

After so many years, Lao Zhao is still the director of neurosurgery.

If it weren't for Old Zhao's help in arranging Zhang Bing into the special care ward where Grandpa Liu was, many things would not have gone so smoothly afterwards.

"Heping, how is the construction of your Hong Kong Island Hospital going?" Director Zhao didn't care about the silver suitcase that Zhang Heping sent him. He was obviously more concerned about Zhang Heping's development in the medical industry.

"The hospital area and the family building will not be completed until July, and then we have to wait for decoration and so on." Zhang Heping followed the direction of Director Zhao's finger, sat on a wooden bench nearby, and introduced with a smile: "In addition, the equipment and medical devices in the hospital are all produced by domestic factories."

"The hardware is easy to deal with, but it's hard to recruit doctors and researchers. There are quite a lot of people applying for nurses and care workers there."

"Without good doctors, we can't keep the hospital going!" Director Zhao frowned and glanced at the closed door. He suddenly leaned over, propped his hand on the desk, and said in a low voice: "The department has held many meetings to discuss sending people to Hong Kong Island Hospital for exchanges, but they were all rejected by a few people transferred from the southwest!"

"I was wondering, what else can't be resolved by you and Dean Lu? It turns out that those bosses in the southwest are holding you back." Zhang Heping shook his head helplessly, thought for a moment, and then told him what he had just said to Deputy Director Qin.

"It's okay if we don't go to Hong Kong Island!" Zhang Heping said with a smile, "I plan to build another cancer treatment institute or neurosurgery institute in Shenzhen, just like the one at Harmony Hospital, and register it under the name of a hospital in Shenzhen. You can send people to support the Shenzhen Hospital headquarters!"

"Shenzhen and Hong Kong are connected by the Internet. Doctors in the two places can communicate with each other via computers or by phone. Or doctors and researchers from Hong Kong can go to Shenzhen for face-to-face communication."

"This method is feasible!" Director Zhao nodded and said, "Whether we go to Shenzhen or Hong Kong Island, as long as it can promote the development of domestic medical care, it will be fine."

Finally, Director Zhao smiled and said, "You just said that you want to build a neurosurgery institute in Shenzhen. I will communicate with students after the new year to ask who is willing to go there, and then wait for your news."

"Tsk!" Zhang Heping responded in the tone of some old people in the capital, and said with a smile: "Laboratories, apartment buildings, and related equipment, I will communicate with Shenzhen when I get back, you wait for my call when you are old!"

"Besides, the salary in Shenzhen is about the same as in the capital. However, they won't object to me giving bonuses to the people in the institute."

"So, the treatment here must be ten times better than in the capital!"

"You stinky boy!" Director Zhao scolded with a smile, "You've been a capitalist for a few days, and you want to use sugar-coated bullets to corrupt our good comrades. I'm a little regretful now."

"No!" Zhang Heping saw that Director Zhao was joking, so he smiled and said, "Otherwise, I will only give bonuses to technicians from other research institutes, and not to the good comrades in the Neurosurgery Institute."

Director Zhao pointed at Zhang Heping and said in a blaming manner, "Are you still going to tell them that the reason they didn't give them the bonus was because of what I said, so that they can come and argue with me?"

Zhang Heping laughed and said, "I am planning to shirk responsibility, hehe!"

The two chatted for a while, and when they saw that the Zhao family had started to prepare lunch, Zhang Heping said goodbye and went back.

As soon as Zhang Heping left, the men, women, young and old of the Zhao family surrounded the silver suitcase.

Director Zhao's youngest granddaughter was urged by her older brothers and sisters to go over and ask, "Grandpa, can we open the box and take a look?"

Director Zhao didn't take it seriously and satisfied the curiosity of his children and grandchildren.

Then, he was a little confused.

"Wow! This is a game console! I've seen it in the mall, and it costs more than 500 yuan!"

"This is... a CD player? It has Zheng Lijun's songs!"

"Huh? These are digital watches, so many?"

"Dad, these can't be smuggled goods! That guy just now..."

"Third brother, here is the tax receipt from the airport. These things should not be smuggled goods!"

"Second sister, look, this looks like Dior cosmetics!"

"It can't be fake! I heard that a set of Dior cosmetics costs 8000 US dollars!"

"Dad, what did that guy do just now? What's his relationship with our family? He was so generous!"

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Zhang Heping learned his lesson this time. When he went to Director Zhao's house, he gave the taxi driver some extra money and asked him to wait outside.

By the time Director Zhao and his family caught up with them, Zhang Heping had already gotten into the car and was urging the driver to get away quickly.

When they returned to the north bank of Houhai Lake, the eldest nephew Zhang Yi came to tell Zhang Heping that Grandpa Zhao from Xuanwu Hospital called him and asked him to call back.

As soon as Zhang Heping got through on the phone, Director Zhao sternly asked him to take the things back immediately.

"Uncle Zhao, listen to me. Those things are not valuable. I bought them at cost. For example, I bought the game console for only 35 yuan, but it's sold for more than 500 yuan outside. The same goes for the CD player. I bought it for only 56 yuan, but people dare to sell it for more than 800 yuan outside."

"Oh my! Uncle Zhao, do you still not believe what I, Zhang Heping, say?"

"That set of cosmetics was produced by my factory. How high do you think the cost could be?"

"Next time, you and your students go to Shenzhen, and I'll take you to that factory. I give benefits to the workers there, and they are all Dior cosmetics like this."

"It's really not expensive! I set the price so high just to make money from foreigners. Otherwise, how can I afford to go back to China to do research? Don't you think so?"

Zhang Heping mentioned the cost price of game consoles and CD players, but did not mention the cost of Dior cosmetics. In fact, he was worried that if it was leaked, it would damage Dior's brand image.

Today, Dior cosmetics is completely tied to the Zhang family, the richest family in Hong Kong Island, and they enhance each other's status.

The product story is that the richest man in Hong Kong specially developed it for his wife and daughter, pure natural herbal essence...

Therefore, any rich lady in Hong Kong who has not used Dior cosmetics would be embarrassed to call herself a member of the upper class.

Thanks to the support of these wealthy ladies, Tingmei Trading Company's profits in recent months have been maintained at more than 1 million magnesium yuan, thus avoiding the factory from shutting down.

"Second sister, have you made up your mind?" Zhang Heping hung up the phone and said to his second sister Zhang Pandi who was cleaning fish scales outside the kitchen: "Just now at Grandma Yang's place, Zhuang Lin also said that you can bring some New Year's goods to pay New Year's greetings to the department leaders."

"But..." Zhang Pandi stopped what she was doing, turned her head sideways, and looked at Zhang Heping in embarrassment, "It's not appropriate to give her cosmetics as a gift!"

"You're such a stubborn fool!" Zhang Heping walked over, took the spoon from his second sister Zhang Pandi, and quickly cleaned the fish scales. "Do you know what pillow talk is?"

"Give each leader of your department a set of Dior cosmetics. There are several hidden meanings in this."

"First, show them that you have the ability to get Dior cosmetics, and then they will know that I have your back."

"Second, show them that you, as a subordinate, respect them."

"Third, use cosmetics to please their spouses. Give them a few more times, and get to know their spouses well. Then ask them to influence you, or introduce you to other wives of officials."

"However, you have to know the limit of gift giving. Giving gifts during festivals can help build relationships, but it can't be bribery! So, during non-festivals, you can help them buy things at low prices."

"If you want Xiaoyi and Xiaoting to stop trying to please others like this in the future, you have to work hard to climb up. Otherwise, let them follow me to do business."

"But the problem is, how can you do business now without dealing with officials? Merchants without backers still have to curry favor with officials. Think about it, isn't this reasonable?"

The eldest nephew Zhang Yi asked in a naive manner: "Uncle, you are so rich, do you still have to please others?"

Zhang Heping paused as he scraped the fish scales with his right hand. He pondered for a few seconds before turning his head to his eldest nephew Zhang Yi and saying seriously, "Uncle doesn't like to please others, so I've suffered a big loss recently. Foreigners don't allow me to do business in their country anymore."

Zhang Yi scratched his scalp under his hat, not quite understanding.

Zhang Pandi understood what he said, and asked with some concern: "Brother, can't you do export trade?"

"Omei can't do it for the time being." Zhang Heping explained half a sentence and continued to scrape the fish scales.

Zhang Pandi hesitated for a moment, then washed her hands decisively and went back to the house to pack up New Year's goods and tickets.

Since you have decided to give a gift, you can't just give a set of cosmetics. You have to pair it with some other appropriate New Year's goods.

Zhang Heping's half-hearted explanation made Zhang Pandyi realize that her third brother was not having a smooth life in Hong Kong Island.

In addition, she had stayed in Hong Kong Island for more than 20 days last time, and had seen Tang Xin, Chen Shuting, Zhang Bei and others must bring bodyguards with them when they traveled, as well as those bodyguards' cautious protection. This also made Zhang Pandyi realize that her third brother's family felt very insecure in Hong Kong Island, unlike how they could be free in the capital.

Besides, considering what Zhang Heping had just analyzed for her and what he had considered for her children, it would be too selfish for her as an elder sister to still care about that insignificant bit of face.

The key point is that she was too embarrassed to give gifts to her superiors at the train station, and it took her 10 years to get promoted to deputy section chief of the personnel department, after which there was no sign of promotion at all.

However, before Zhang Pandi could decide who to send, Zhang Heping was called to the Harmonious Hospital...