Fox in the Penalty Area

Two days after Leeds beat West Herts at home, Houlai took part in a video conference at his Leeds flat.

The purpose of this meeting is to inform Hu Lai of the latest developments in environmental protection endorsements.

At the moment when the Chinese team had just entered the World Cup, Song Jiajia and the others used Hu Lai's name to negotiate very smoothly.

Whether it is the local government or the relevant national departments, once they hear that Hu Lai is enthusiastic about public welfare and wants to contribute to China's desertification prevention and control work, of course there is no reason to refuse.

The places where China controls sand are mainly those places, mainly concentrated in the north and northwest.

It is easier to choose a place.

However, choosing a sponsor is relatively more complicated.

After all, they can't hold a "martial arts competition to recruit relatives" with great fanfare, advertise to the world, and then let many companies that are enthusiastic about public welfare undertakings come to bid.

That would scare the snake... No, it would scare the "wild animal rescue".

Hu Lai's career has just started, and the future can be expected to be very long.

They also don't plan to run this public welfare undertaking for a year or two just as a show, and leave it alone after the heat subsides.

Whether it is Song Jiajia or Hu Lai, they all hope that this event will last as long as possible, and it is best to be able to accompany Hu Lai's career until he retires. The event was not announced until he retired and no longer scored in official games. End.

Only in this way can it be commemorative.

Moreover, afforestation itself is a long-term work.

China's "Three-North Shelterbelt" project has a planned period of 73 years and is divided into eight phases. Even if Hu Lai spends his entire career on afforestation, it is still very small in the face of the huge national plan.

So one or two years of afforestation activities are meaningless except to create a positive personality for Hu Lai who is "enthusiastic about environmental protection and public welfare".

In this regard, the two high school classmates have a tacit understanding and consensus, that is, since they have decided to do it, they must do it to the end, which is meaningful, and they are determined not to show off.

Under this premise, it is very important to find sponsors.

There are many Chinese companies, and there are also many rich companies.

But how many companies can continue to spend money on this public welfare undertaking for a long time?

Even if some companies say it well, even if it is written into the contract, how can they guarantee that it can be implemented smoothly in the end without all kinds of moths?

Changes in corporate leadership personnel, changes in operating conditions, market fluctuations, policy influences... There are too many factors that can affect the future.

At the same time, the business side also has to worry about us spending money, who knows if it was squandered by you. Nowadays, there are so many organizations engaged in public welfare activities in the society, and so many donations are collected every year. In the end, only a handful of money is actually used for public welfare, but operating costs such as employee salaries account for the majority.

Enterprises are not like being taken advantage of by a fool with a lot of money.

Therefore, it would be too naive to simply find a company to invest in according to Hu Lai's initial thinking.

Of course, Hu Lai didn't understand these things either, so he just expressed his thoughts.

In the end, Song Jiajia's approach was to find a company and her own brokerage company to set up a fund together.

This fund can be a company, or it can be joined by multiple companies.

At the same time, the fund is supervised by relevant state departments.

Set up a special department to operate and maintain to ensure the normal operation of the fund.

At the same time, in order to avoid the abuse of funds, the use of funds is strictly regulated: it can only be used for "Hulai Forest" - this is Song Jiajia's name for this public welfare project, and a tablet will be erected outside the specially designated forest land at that time. Introducing the name and the origin of this forest clearly can be regarded as helping Hu Lai earn a reputation.

At the same time, because it only does one thing, the scale of the operation department of the entire fund is limited to a small size, and there will be no situation where a large amount of funds are used for maintenance and management.

After this team was formed, the speed of work progress was accelerated a lot.

Taking out this set of proposals is more convincing than directly saying "Our family Hu Lai plans to plant trees, boss, you can sponsor some money."

"... Now we have found the capital injection of the enterprise and the cooperation of the local government. We did not choose the Umaulu Desert at the beginning, because the governance of this place has been very successful, and our visit is just icing on the cake, nothing too big Significance. We intend to find a difficult place to start, but this idea is a bit wishful thinking, after all, we can't plant trees wherever we want..." Song Jiajia's company staff was responsible for Hu Lai at the meeting Introducing the specific situation, most of the time she is the one making the statement.

"...Finally, we selected the desert at the junction of Yalameng Left Banner and Right Banner in the west of Tong Banner..."

Speaking of this, she also showed Hu Lai the PPT she made, which contained a series of materials such as satellite images and aerial images of the final site selection.

But Hu Lai didn't think it was important. Anyway, he believed in Song Jiajia and Uncle Yong. Since both of them recognized it, he had no objection. So he waved his hand and didn't let the other party continue the introduction: "No problem, no problem. I trust you. In short, when the project can start, just let me know, and there is no need to hold a special meeting. Whether it is Fatty or Uncle Yong , You can just tell me. It’s okay to ask me to cooperate with the publicity or something. From now on, I will leave it to you to take care of it, and I will only be responsible for scoring goals.”

The staff took a look at Song Jiajia, and Song Jiajia and Yong Jun looked at each other, then nodded: "Okay, no problem, you can just score goals, this is what you are best at."

"In addition, I have an opinion: the number of tree plantings should take into account all the goals of my previous career, and it can't just be counted from now on."

"It's reasonable, it's completely OK." Song Jiajia turned to ask her subordinates after finishing speaking, "Go back and count how many goals Hu Lai has scored in his career now, and all the goals in official games..."

The subordinates were busy recording the boss's questions, and Yong Jun beside him blurted out the answer: "Up to the last round of the league, Hu Lai has scored a total of 156 goals in official matches in his career."

Song Jiajia, who was sitting next to Yong Jun, turned to look at Yong Jun in surprise, and even Hu Lai, who was far away in Leeds, was shocked: "Wow, Uncle Yong, how did you figure it out?"

"Mental arithmetic." Yong Jun took it for granted.

"No, I mean how do you remember it so clearly...I don't even know it myself."

"I will add your goals after each season, and I will write it down. Mr. Song asked just now, so you only need to add your goals as of last season to the number of goals this season. Is it over? Addition within three digits is still very simple."

After hearing Yong Jun's words, Hu Lai frowned again.

Seeing this, Yong Jun asked, "What's wrong?"

"It's nothing, I just feel that the entry is less than I thought..."

Yong Jun and Song Jiajia looked at each other and laughed dumbly: "Young? Hu Lai, do you know what you are talking about? It has only been more than three years since you entered professional football in July 2022. In less than four years you You scored one hundred and fifty-six goals, what else do you want? Many people may not be able to score so many goals in their entire career..."

Hu Lai pouted: "Uncle Yong, those people you mentioned are definitely not forwards."

In order to maintain his image in front of other company staff, Yong Jun didn't roll his eyes at Hu Lai: "Then let me find someone you know as an example. Sousa Espinola, I just met you in the World Cup qualifiers." The top scorer in the history of Paraguay. He played for the Blue and White Munich for five seasons and scored a total of 133 goals in all competitions. This has been blown up by the German media and the Paraguayan media, and is considered to be " Efficient killer'. Of course, Sousa is indeed very efficient, and his number of goals in the Bundesliga is indeed amazing. One hundred and thirty-three goals in five years is an 'efficient killer'. How about you, one hundred and fifty in less than four years Sixteen balls... Do you still want to live with Sosa?"

Holly scratched his head.

Yong Jun seemed to have gone crazy, he didn't want to just let Hu Lai go, so he shook someone out again:

"Park Chun-tae, a Korean football hero, is the No. 2 scorer in the history of the Korean team in the World Cup. He has scored 274 goals in his career so far. He started his career at the age of 18 and has only scored 12 years now. Less than three hundred goals. You have already scored half of his goals in more than three years... What else do you want?"

Just as he was talking, Yong Jun noticed that Song Jiajia touched his arm: "What's wrong, Mr. Song?"

Song Jiajia pointed to Hu Lai on the screen and said to him, "Shut up, Uncle Yong, you see that Hu Lai's tail is going up to the sky..."

Yong Jun looked over in bewilderment, and sure enough, he saw Hu Lai with his nostrils upturned, looking triumphant.

Hearing what Song Jiajia said, he restrained himself: "Tsk, who's got the tail up? I really have no idea about my grades!"

"Hu Lai, if you ask for praise, just say it directly, don't beat around the bush like this next time." Song Jiajia curled her lips, "In short, your statistics are very beautiful and truly amazing. The most important thing is that after you go to the Premier League, it has nothing to do with your performance in the Super League There are too many ups and downs, which means that you can also replicate your achievements in domestic football in Europe-do you sound dark when I say this?"

Hu Lai, who was grinning from the corners of his mouth to his ears, quickly straightened his face, and said solemnly: "No, no. I was the top scorer in the Chinese Super League and the Chinese Premier League, but I never won it in the Premier League. I will continue to work hard! I was a little bit slack before, and I was not demanding enough of myself... But now I have found the goal and motivation to continue to struggle! That is to improve the environment in the northwest of our country, and to increase the vegetation coverage of the earth’s home rate, I will work hard to score goals!"

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The video conference ended, the opposite screen went completely black, and Hu Lai was offline.

Song Jiajia and Yong Jun couldn't help but shake their heads when they talked about Hu Lai's "nonsense" at the end-this guy is good everywhere, it's just his mouth, he has no clue, and he has the same name as "China's number one star" Compared with the head, the contrast is a bit big...

"He's like this, I'm used to it..." Yong Jun sighed.

Song Jiajia laughed: "Indeed, he was like this when we were in school, and I have been tricked by him a lot!"

At this moment, a staff member next to him hesitated to speak, and finally summoned up the courage to say to Song Jiajia: "Mr. Song, actually... Actually, I think Brother Hu's last words are quite interesting. When we do marketing in the future, You can consider using it as a publicity point..."

Song Jiajia glanced at this employee who had just graduated from university and was recruited into the company a little unexpectedly. She specially made a PPT for this video conference, but it was basically useless because Hu Lai was too lazy to listen to her introduction. Then the video conference directly turned into an online chat between him, Yong Jun, and Hu Lai, and this employee was basically ignored...

"How to publicize?" He asked after a thought.

"It's just...'I want to keep scoring goals in order to change the environment of my homeland and save the earth'. I think it is very topical on the Internet. When you hear it suddenly, you will feel a little... um, pretending." This employee After careful consideration, she still used this word, so she hurriedly threw out a long paragraph, trying to make the leader not notice her word.

"But in fact, if you think about it carefully, Brother Hu's approach can indeed be regarded as such a statement. The more goals he scores, the more trees we plant. Of course, it will help the changes in the local environment. So These two things can be completely equated. It is obvious that what you are doing is very positive, but it is said in a way that looks like a "Wang Po selling melons" at first glance, hiding the heart of a child in a funny and dishonest way. Behind the scriptures... this kind of multi-layered deconstruction is actually in line with the audience psychology in the current Internet propaganda. In fact, I am talking about a very remarkable thing, but if I talk about it seriously, it will make people think that you are superior, and they I don’t want to accept it. If I change it in a way of joking, or even speaking in a self-deprecating, self-deprecating way, it will be easier to arouse heated discussions, and it will also make the audience generally more willing to accept it..."

After saying such a long paragraph, her mind seemed to finally wake up, and she looked at Song Jiajia with some embarrassment: "Uh... This is what I thought just now, Mr. Song. I'm not very mature yet, I just feel..."

Song Jiajia raised her eyebrows: "Your name is Diao Xiaoyun?"

Diao Xiaoyun was a little flattered that the boss could remember his name, and nodded repeatedly: "Yes, Mr. Song, my name is Diao Xiaoyun..."

"Okay, you will be responsible for the new media promotion of this project in the future." Song Jiajia nodded.

Diao Xiaoyun didn't expect that the plot that only happened in novels and idol dramas would appear in her body, she stood there blankly.

Yong Jun smiled at the little girl and nodded: "Come on, girl."