Bright Star Road [Entertainment]

Although there is a unified central kitchen in the Emerald Palace where Li Wei and Zhou Xiao live, Li Wei and Zhou Xiao seldom eat there.After all, the suite they live in has a private kitchen, and Zhou Xiao has become a famous chef after years of training, and Li Wei is also a person who can cook a few home-cooked dishes, so they both choose to start the fire in their private kitchen.Today Li Wei suddenly proposed to eat local dishes, but this local dishes are not good at Li Wei, so they can only be handed over to Zhou Xiao to handle.Fortunately, the first culinary master that Zhou Xiao worshiped back then was the master of local cuisine, so Zhou Xiao's local cuisine is also somewhat famous in China.

Seeing Li Wei pretending to be pitiful as a milk dog, Zhou Xiao had no choice but to call the butler and ask for ingredients.When Emerald Island was developed, there were various ingredients prepared to welcome diners from all over the world, so the ingredients that Zhou Xiao needed were delivered in a short time.Zhou Xiao made fried river prawns in oil. This dish was particular about the separation of the shell and meat without leaving any soup on the plate. Then he made a soft, tender and fragrant lotus chicken slice and three shredded marinated fresh meat.The four dishes are placed on the wooden dining table, against the background of the snow-white porcelain plate, it is very attractive.

"I heard that you are being scolded in the newspaper again?" Zhou Xiao suddenly asked during the meal. "Business is all about harmony and wealth. I think you're fighting against people every time. Last time you managed to suppress the matter of genetic research, but this time you provoked the group of retailers. Yours Isn’t online shopping an irrelevant business with them? Why do you insist on getting involved in their offline retail? The conflict between you was already acute enough, but this time it’s completely digging someone’s grave.”

"Aren't I worried about them? I have been in the retail industry for more than a hundred years, and I still stick to the old rules." Li Wei felt ridiculous that this group of retailers united to put pressure on him in the media. I can't do business by myself, so I just unite and cry together, as if crying can cry myself to death. "If it is not to supplement the shortcomings of my online retail industry, do you think I would like to get involved in the offline retail industry? After all, I still hope to satisfy my consumers as much as possible. Technological progress is immutable. If you do not adapt If there is a trend, there is only a dead end. Just as the birth of trains and automobiles finally drove horse-drawn carriages into the garbage dump of history, so should their traditional offline retail industry.”

Seeing Li Wei's look of "I'm doing my best for you", Zhou Xiao also laughed.If the business reaches the level of Li Wei and Zhou Xiao, if it continues to develop, it will inevitably devour other people's territory, otherwise it will end up being swallowed by others.Although Zhou Xiao said "harmony makes money", his hands are not so compassionate.In order to promote domestic silk to enter the luxury market and fashion industry, the National Silk Import and Export Federation established by Zhou Xiao is a capital monster.In just three months, about 50% of the silk industry was firmly controlled by Zhou Xiao.In order to improve the quality of silk and maintain a low shipment volume, Zhou Xiao bankrupted more than a hundred small silk companies overnight.

Although Zhou Xiao's methods were cruel, the effect was very obvious. After three months, the international price of silk more than doubled.All large silk enterprises or new silk enterprises that have experienced the baptism of the capital storm have obtained a good development period, and silk fabrics are no longer cheap materials, but have begun to become the darlings of major fashion designers.After initially rectifying the silk industry, Zhou Xiao's next goal is the porcelain industry.Although Huaxia is the country that invented and produced porcelain, Huaxia porcelain is a disadvantaged group in the international porcelain market.

The current trend in the international porcelain market is that the high-end porcelain industry is controlled by Miqi and Gaul, while the low-end and daily-use porcelain industry is controlled by Dongying.There are only some antique porcelain left in Huaxia that still have appeal in the international market, but even the antique porcelain market is in a very embarrassing situation, that is, the Western world does not eat the spectrum of Chinese antique porcelain at all, and in the end it is actually Huaxia People themselves paid a high price to buy back the antique porcelain that originally belonged to them from Western countries and Dongying countries.

"Actually, my situation is not as embarrassing as it was reported. Do you think those retail giants are vegetarians? They actually saw the disadvantages of traditional retail industry earlier than me, but their big ship can't turn around. Now I will tell them When it comes to life and death, they will naturally choose strong men to cut off their wrists. Moreover, during the period of industry turmoil, there are no more than two types of companies that can survive, either with sufficient capital to survive, or to keep up with the trend. I think Wal-Mart and Carrefour not only want to Get over it, and want to rush over." Li Wei said to Zhou Xiao lightly, "I have the technology, but I don't have enough professionals and properties. And these are owned by Carrefour and Wal-Mart, so they will definitely come to the door Negotiate with me."

"Then do you have someone to choose?" Zhou Xiao was a little curious about Li Wei's choice, "In fact, these two giants also represent two different supermarket management styles. Wal-Mart has always believed in centralized procurement, using its huge purchase volume to Lower the purchase price; while Carrefour uses the so-called "entrance price" to reduce the burden on its own profits in a disguised form. But from the premise of good order management, I appreciate Wal-Mart a little more. At least its oppression is the bright side pressure on the market, and this pressure is also a catalyst for suppliers to optimize their own operations and strengthen their own cost control."

"Since you are so optimistic about Wal-Mart, I also think I can talk to people from Wal-Mart first." Li Wei replied with a smile.

After eating with Zhou Xiao, the two took Laifu and Wangcai for a walk on the grass in the backyard for more than half an hour.After coming back to take a shower, Zhou Xiao and Li Wei went back to their respective offices to deal with their affairs.After Li Wei returned to the office, he told his chief secretary: "As soon as possible, arrange for me to meet with the person in charge of Wal-Mart. If they are willing to come to Emerald Island, I welcome it; if they think it is not suitable to make a big fuss, I can also accept it." Their video conference invitation. By the way, on the one hand, let the public relations department release the news that we are about to meet with Carrefour and Metro through some channels, and on the other hand, invite people from Carrefour and Metro to meet or call me at a convenient time." After giving the order, Li Wei let her leave.

Li Wei has many assistants, but there are still two secretaries, the chief secretary and the second secretary.It's just that Amanda, the original chief secretary, is now the executive director of the group, and Alexandra, the original secretary of Cixi, is already the vice president of a certain sub-group.After these two gave up Li Wei's secretary position, countless people were attracted to apply for it.In the end, Li Wei chose Caroline, who graduated from Eton Business School, as his chief secretary, and Li Wei's second secretary was Eriko Osawa.Although the two are still newcomers, they quickly adapted to their positions.In fact, Li Wei's secretary is very good, and does not require much professional knowledge. After all, Li Wei's assistant team is not just for nothing; basically, it is enough to have enough courage and a tight mouth.In particular, Li Wei's sexual orientation is well known, so Li Wei's secretary doesn't have to worry about any scandals with her boss.Besides, the example of Amanda and Alexandra is in the front, and the newcomers also know how to do it.

When Wal-Mart received Li Wei’s invitation, it also heard the news that Carrefour, Metro and other retail giants approached Li Wei, but the chairman of Wal-Mart chuckled and said: “This Mr. Li is getting impatient. Well, I'm losing my temper."

"Then, Father, should we wait and see?" The president of Wal-Mart looked at his old father and asked respectfully.

"Don't be stupid, we are begging him now, not him begging us." The chairman waved his hand and said, "Although it is fake that Carrefour and others contacted him now, after a few hours, it will be real. Do you know ?They are telling us that we are only a few hours ahead of the others. Well, hurry up and get ready to negotiate with him. It doesn’t matter if we lose a little bit in terms of shares, but tell that kid that if you want to take the lead, That can’t take all the advantages, and he should spit out something. We can also assure him that since we have taken his things, we will definitely find a way to solve things for him. We are much more reliable than politicians. "

Speaking of this, the chairman suddenly remembered the disturbance that Li Wei caused in California.Not only did the Republican Party not take advantage of anything, even the Democratic Party, which had a good hand, lost everything. The only one who took advantage was Dorothy, who stood by Li Wei's side and never betrayed.Now Dorothy is the most popular political star in California, and now there are two promotion channels in front of her, the mayor of Los Angeles or the California State Representative.Considering the age and background of this Miss Dorothy, it can be said that she is on the rise!And Li Wei behind the scenes has also become the object of fear of the major capital giants. In a short period of time, he has turned upside down in Citigroup. This dragon crossing the river is not much weaker than the local snakes like himself.

After Li Wei invested in Citigroup, the first thing he did was to buy the Iridium system that was on the verge of bankruptcy. Although the Iridium system lost to Maritime Satellite Phone for various reasons, Li Wei still thought The Iridium system has its merits.Li Wei's Iridium system is currently mainly used for business communication and mobile Internet access. Li Wei inherited the idea of ​​Google, which is to achieve Internet access anywhere in the world at any time.The Iridium system can just meet this demand, and the only thing that needs to be done is to upgrade the entire Iridium system.Although the upgrade fee is quite expensive, it is still much cheaper than starting from scratch.Moreover, the global business telephone service company created by Li Wei's acquisition of the Iridium system is also very popular, even in his own and Zhou Xiao's companies, there are many purchases.Because this system allows users to connect to reliable encrypted channels at any time, it is really convenient for business users.And Li Wei also uses this service system to communicate with customers, including this time with Wal-Mart.

After Wal-Mart technicians set up the interface between the video conferencing system and the Iridium system with the help of global commercial telephone system technicians, Wal-Mart people began to establish contact with Li Wei.Since Li Wei rented a channel directly, the connection speed between the two parties is very fast.Soon, everyone saw the young giant in the capital world on the screen.When Li Wei saw them, he smiled and said, "Hello! My Wal-Mart friends, I hope our negotiations in the next few hours can lay a solid foundation for our bright and smooth future."