It’s late Saturday night on the West Coast of the United States, and it’s already Sunday afternoon on the other side of the ocean in China.
Shanghai, No. 18, The Bund.
Chen Qing woke up from her nap at two o'clock in the afternoon.
Ten minutes later, from the bedroom on the sixth floor to an elegantly decorated home office on the third floor, Scobo's chairman Emmanuelle Brandt and Charlotte Brenita from Switzerland were gathered around. Something was being discussed at a small conference table by the window, and two assistants were busy working on laptops behind the long desk.
There is also Ran Yue, the person in charge of daily affairs in China.
Ran Yue was reading a magazine on the sofa in the lounge area. When she saw Chen Qing come in, she quickly got up.
"Sister Ran, you're welcome to sit down," Chen Qing stopped the other party with a smile. She first came to Lily Fawell at the desk and asked, "Has the information I asked for been sent to the institute?"
Lily Fawell nodded and handed a folder to Chen Qing.
Chen Qing took the folder and without greeting Emmanuel, she went directly to the single sofa next to Ran Yue and sat down. While opening the folder, she asked: "Sister Ran, what about tomorrow's launch ceremony?" Any new questions?"
Tomorrow is June 10, Monday, and China’s first large-scale Igret cloud computing data center in Shanghai is officially opened.
Simon just visited China with great fanfare just over a month ago. Such a large data center can show China's determination to develop the information industry. From all aspects, the authorities attach great importance to this matter, so they took the initiative to contact and prepare a grand center. During the launch ceremony, a number of large local enterprises will be announced again on site.
Coincidentally, in China, Chen Qing and Lin Su were also invited and will participate together tomorrow.
Ran Yue called at noon and said that she had something to discuss about the launching ceremony, so Chen Qing asked. At this time, she said: "It's like this, Xiao Qing, a leader from above will come over tomorrow. Let me know I would like to ask if you can arrange a connection so that Mr. Westeros can say a few words via video?"
Seeing that Ran Yue was speaking vaguely, Chen Qing shook her finger and made a few gestures. Seeing that Ran Yue was shaking her head slightly, she also shook her head and frowned slightly, saying: "Sister Ran, if that's not the case, I'd better not mention this matter again. .”
Ran Yue seemed to have expected it and was not disappointed. She turned to say: "In this case, Mr. Jeff Bezos, is it okay? Xiaoqing, listen to me and arrange this connection. There are definitely only benefits. I can't give details." Tell me more and you will know later.”
Chen Qing looked at Ran Yue and said seriously: "Sister Ran, you'd better tell me everything, otherwise it will be really difficult."
Seeing what Chen Qing said, Ran Yue hesitated for a moment, looked up at the other people in the office, took out a notepad from her bag, quickly wrote down a name, showed it to Chen Qing, and crossed it out.
In this position, Chen Qing was able to understand a lot more things than before. She only took a glance, thought about it for a while, and nodded: "I will contact the boss directly."
Chen Qing said this, and the matter was basically settled.
Ran Yue felt relaxed and excited at the same time. She had taken this job on her own initiative. If she did it well, it would be good for herself and her husband who was still in the system. If she messed up, she would definitely be penalized. She had some problems just now. I was worried that the girl in front of me couldn't see certain things clearly. Fortunately, I didn't look at the wrong person or follow the wrong person.
After talking about business, Ran Yue glanced at the document in Chen Qing's hand, but did not explore it, but asked: "Why don't you see Xiao Lin?"
"She returned to Hangzhou with her younger brother and sister-in-law."
"Lin Dong?"
Chen Qing curled her lips slightly: "Yes, I'm going to the United States soon. I want to take a last look at my fellow countrymen and the great country."
Ran Yue could feel the teasing in Chen Qing's tone, so she couldn't comment, so she just smiled.
The two chatted casually, and Chen Qing also paid more attention to the corporate research report from Cersei Capital China Economic Research Institute in her hand.
The content is about the operating conditions of Giant Group.
After reading the more than ten pages of the report, Chen Qing felt that a chaotic and disorderly building was about to collapse in front of her. The seriousness of the company's internal problems was far more than a large and inappropriate giant building project.
This is a small assignment assigned by his boss earlier, and Chen Qing has been quietly following up on it.
It is now discovered that this company is almost a typical case of the sudden rise and sudden decline of many domestic private enterprises in recent years.
The kind that needs to be taken as a warning.
After thinking about making some comments at the end of the document, Chen Qing closed the document and looked up at Ran Yue again: "Sister Ran, Lin and I will return to North America after attending the launch ceremony tomorrow. You need to pay more attention to the matters over there."
This past Friday, the excellent computer that Chen Qing quietly prepared for half a year was officially launched, with the basic configuration priced at 4,999 yuan.
The machine code is Excellence B-10.
The B here is the initials of Barrel (barrel; wooden barrel), and the complete concept is the famous 'Barrel Theory'.
Because it uses AMD's processor chip, not to mention the price, the performance is always worse than Intel's top PC chip. Therefore, after receiving an accidental reminder from their boss, the team of Excellence Technology Company decided to use the barrel theory as the first PC. The focus of the product's promotion and marketing direction is that although the CPU is not the strongest, the Joyo B-10 is the most powerful 'bucket machine' in terms of comprehensive configuration at this stage. It has no shortcomings, and some manufacturers only highlight the CPU and use materials for other components. In the case of simple configuration.
The marketing continued for more than half a month in advance, and the results were good.
A total of 12 Joyo computer direct stores opened on the same day in South China received orders for 239 Joyo B-10 units on Friday, with a turnover of 1.2 million yuan.
A good start.
Moreover, the reason why it is an order is that only 120 units are in stock, and the remaining orders will be delivered within half a month.
This is also an operational focus of Joyo Computer.
Because the materials used are too abundant and the profits are too low, in order to avoid risks to the greatest extent, we only provide a small amount of ready stock on a regular basis, but we accept reservations at any time.
Frankly speaking, it’s hunger marketing.
The effect is equally good.
This is the psychology of consumers. The harder it is to get something, the more they want it. Even if they don’t buy it, they can’t help but look at it a few more times.
Therefore, whether it is the price-cutting behavior of the Zhuomo B-10 or the starvation marketing that led to a complete shortage of products on the day of sale, they have aroused widespread discussion in various media, and even some other computer manufacturers have begun to pay attention.
Except for the CPU, all other top-level configurations are only available in machines worth 10,000 yuan. Now they are directly priced at 4,999 yuan. If you follow up, there will be no way to survive. Fortunately, even if we are aware of the company's background, Excellence Technology is still a very small company after all, and its sales market is limited to a few provinces in southern China, so the threat does not seem to be great.
Because of the government's strong promotion of the information industry, China's PC market began to explode last year. In 1995, annual sales reached 3.2 million units, a surge of more than four times compared with 700,000 units in 1994. This year's growth rate is not as exaggerated as last year. Judging from the sales volume in the first five months, the full-year sales are expected to reach about 5 million units.
Joyo Computer sold 239 computers on the first day. Due to the pre-marketing component, even if it maintains this level in the next year, the shipment volume in the first year is expected to be only 87,000 units. Calculated based on this year's shipment volume of 5 million units, 1.6% market share.
Not worth mentioning.
This is also the goal that Excellence Technology hopes to achieve.
In fact, after the first day's sales more than doubled the expected 250 units, Joyo began to quietly expand the scale of its own assembly plant.
Chen Qing's cost control on Excellence is very harsh, including the obvious shortage of personnel. Therefore, she said that Excellence needs Ran Yue to worry about, which is not polite at all. This company is running because of the lack of manpower, including Ran Yue. The entire small team in the China Daily Affairs Office was assigned work by La Zhuangding.
"This is what I should do."
After all, Chen Qing did not treat them badly in terms of salary. Ran Yue agreed and stood up, knowing that it was time to say goodbye.
I actually wanted to spend more time in this luxurious building.
Just don’t lose here after all.
Although the girl in front of her usually calls her "Sister Ran" affectionately, she is definitely not that approachable in her heart. Ran Yue is not so naive that others call her "Sister Ran" a few times and treat her as an outsider.
After saying goodbye, before leaving, I couldn't help but forget to ask: "Xiaoqing, when will there be news over there?"
"It's midnight in North America now," Chen Qing sent Ran Yue out, thought for a moment and said, "There will definitely be a reply before 12 o'clock in the evening. The time is different over there. As long as you agree, there will be no delay in connecting tomorrow."
After seeing Ran Yue off, Chen Qing came to sit down next to Emmanuel and asked: "What are you talking about?"
"Business," said Emmanuel, who came to attend a VCD industry gathering this time. When Chen Qing sat down, he explained: "The Shanghai data center will be opened tomorrow. Inspired by this incident, Xia Li felt that the network technology tutorial category The book should be a hot seller, and there happen to be many similar publications in North America. Maybe we can translate it and sell it in China."
Chen Qing took a cup from the table tray, poured herself a cup of coffee, and said, "This is publishing. Don't you know how strict China's control over the publishing industry is?"
Emmanuel said: "Chen, don't think that we don't know anything. This is a tutorial book and it does not involve politics."
"But this is also the business of the publishing house, it is not something we can do. Moreover, you have ignored the problem of piracy. In short, don't think about it. There is no future." Chen Qing took a sip of coffee and said so, suddenly an idea flashed: " By the way, you can provide training courses. This is big business. After all, just like North America, many people will flock to the Internet industry to seek gold, and the demand for professional training will definitely be huge."
The two girls did not expect that Chen Qing suddenly became excited. Charlotte Brenita said: "The training class should be more difficult to do, just like the international school project we are preparing, which requires a very professional team."
"It's different. This is vocational training. Just pass it. You don't know how cheating those vocational training schools are now... to make money. And we have ready-made advantages. We can get an Igret qualification certification and find a university to affiliate with it as a teacher. There are so many talents poached from universities who want to go overseas, and occasionally we invite some technicians or venture capital executives from Silicon Valley to give lectures, and our reputation will be established immediately.”
“…”
Both women were a little speechless.
Sisters, do you think we didn't hear the finishing touch of the word 'lie' just now
Even though they had experienced this when they were discussing the establishment of an international school, Emmanuel and Charlotte, who had very upright views in some respects, still found it difficult to accept Chen Qing's concept of treating education completely as a business.
Chen Qing became more and more interested. She took a pen and paper and started brainstorming a business plan on the conference table, and even took the two women who had recovered to discuss it together.
After all, judging from recent information on the status of various domestic vocational training industries, it is really profitable.
While they were chatting, Chen Qing's cell phone rang and the call came. It was Lin Su calling.
Chen Qing kept writing on her hands and put her cell phone under her ear: "Huh?"
“…”
"There's no point in looking for you. The auspicious thing is a decision made by the boss himself. We all know the reasons for it... We can't help contact other investments. Whether it is directly or indirectly, it will always be involved in us, and we will be consumed. Resources... Why are you so stupid? Where is your brain... Okay, okay, didn't the boss already say it? I remember you were there at the time? You directly told Li to wait another four or five years for China to join the WTO. If that happens, then We still have the heart, we have a chance to cooperate, but we definitely can’t do it now.”
Same time.
Thousands of kilometers away in Ukraine it was past nine in the morning.
In the north of Rivni, on the side of a street in a residential area, Eve Besonoskova, who received a temporary phone call, hurried over and took another female guard with her. She had just gotten out of the car when another black car happened to arrive. Stopping on the side of the road, two tall and sturdy young men came down.
Seeing Eve, the two of them came over very respectfully: "Miss Besonoskova?"
"Thank you for coming, I don't know what happened yet."
Eve said, looking around to confirm the address, and walked quickly to a courtyard not far ahead. Several other people followed. As they approached, they soon heard the cry of a woman. Eve quickly quickened her pace and followed the sound directly. Breaking into a yard.
Seeing Eve and others appear, the man who was obviously drunk in the yard used the thorn in his hand to slap the three women huddled together in front of him a few times, and then looked at the emerging Yi with a fierce expression. Fu and others: "Who are you?"
Eve said at the same time: "Stop."
As he spoke, he stepped forward and was about to stop the other party from continuing to attack. The two young men who followed him had already snatched the wattle stick from the middle-aged man's hand. They easily pressed the equally tall middle-aged man to the ground and twisted their arms to look at him. Eve, wait for her to fall.
"Eve!"
One of the three women on the ground suddenly shouted, got up and rushed over crying.
Eve hugged the girl who was obviously still shaking, patted her back and comforted her: "It's okay, Galina, it's okay."
The girl sobbed and recounted what happened: "Dad went out to drink last night and beat us when he came back in the morning. I could only call you. I... He just snatched my phone away from me."
After hearing the girl's words, a young man holding down the middle-aged man fumbled in the other's pocket, took out a small Nokia mobile phone, and gently threw it over. Eve reached out to catch it and signaled to another female guard. Check out the other two women who are still hugging each other.
The man who was pinned to the ground reacted at this time, but he was still full of momentum. He cocked his neck and looked at Eve and said: "I know who you are. You are subordinates of Simon Westeros. Let me tell you, I am Guy." Linna’s father, let me go, otherwise you won’t be able to take Galina away today, I am her father and I have custody.”
The man's shouting had no effect.
Eve paid no attention to the other party's intentions, comforted the girl in her arms, and then walked over to check on the other two girls who were pulled up by the female guard. The older one was obviously Galina's mother, and the younger one should be the girl's sister.
This is the Banshikov family.
When Galina Banshikova heard her father's cry, she immediately ran over and hugged Eve, crying and begging: "Eve, please take your mother and sister and leave together. We don't want to stay here anymore."
"Xiao Bichi, don't even think about it. I am the head of the family, and you all have to listen to me." Hearing this, the man immediately shouted again, but quickly changed his tone: "But you can take him away, too. At least give me a factory. I have inquired about it. Those girls, their families have received a lot of compensation. Simon Westeros has a trillion dollars. I want at least a factory worth a million dollars. Hey, last time Andre only sent me $1,000. I have to report it to you. He must have swallowed the money that was supposed to be given to me. He should also be put in jail. $1 million, I want $1 million, cash That’s okay. I want to immigrate to the UK. I don’t want to stay in this bad place anymore. Yes, if I immigrate to the UK, there should be another villa prepared for me there, in London.”
Eve was originally a very soft-hearted person, but when she saw the cracks on the back of Galina's dress, which was opened by thorns, and the purple-red skin underneath, who came back to visit her mother and sister yesterday, she immediately pursed her lips and raised her hand. He hugged the girl and motioned to the female guard beside him to take the other two and walk out in silence.
"Hey, don't leave!"
Seeing this, the man shouted again, and Eve felt Galina stop subconsciously. The other two women guarded by the female guard beside her were like mice being held down by a cat. They became even angrier for no reason, and turned around with a cold face to fight back. The two young men holding the middle-aged man said: "I don't know what's going on. You can contact whoever you want and figure it out."
After saying this, I suddenly felt that my tone of voice sounded a bit like a certain man.
There was a slight flash of guilt, but he still took Galina and the others and left the small courtyard. He thought that he must inform the other side of the matter. Moreover, he also decided in his heart that it would be best not to let the girls from the hot spring manor during this period. Let's go home casually.
Switzerland.
It’s still Sunday morning in Geneva.
In a villa on the shores of Lake Geneva, Celia Miller is meeting with an assistant to French President Chirac.
The two of them sat opposite each other on the sofa in the living room, and the atmosphere was obviously tense.
"Things are already very clear. General April Raviye has been doing some things he shouldn't do on public and private property in the past few years. The reason is just that the nephew of one of his good friends was captured on the Rwandan battlefield. Of course, we also investigated To get to some deeper level of identity of that young man who went to Rwanda to gild, we have no interest in that as long as Raviye steps down.”
The person who came to meet Celia was a tall, bald, middle-aged man. Hearing this, he said: "This is impossible. We will not punish a general who has contributed to the country for outsiders."
"Mr. Plec, I'm not bargaining with you, I'm just conveying the boss's request."
The middle-aged man narrowed his eyes and stared at Celia: "Ms. Miller, don't you think it's unwise for a rich man to fight against a country?"
"Mr. Plec, would you personally provoke a country?"
The middle-aged man subconsciously said: "Of course not."
After saying that, he felt a little regretful. Celia didn't give him a chance to go back on his words: "That's the problem. No one will take the initiative to provoke a country, but if a country keeps harassing you because of some disputes and creates all kinds of troubles for you, , then, will you resist?"
"Looks like we need to talk about the original cause."
“The cause of the French massacre in Rwanda?”
"Please be careful with your words," the middle-aged man interrupted alertly: "Ms. Miller, France has not participated in anything related to the Rwanda Genocide."
"So why is a French general in charge of military affairs in Africa so obsessed with this matter that he keeps harassing my boss, the young man who prevented a huge humanitarian tragedy?"
The middle-aged man did not continue. He was silent for a moment and said, "I will convey the request to the president."
Celia did not give up there, and continued: "One more thing, Simon asked me to tell Mr. Chirac that we do not want any further unpleasantness between the Westeros system and France. This is not a compromise, it is just pure. As a reminder, we found that the French release review of "The Mummy" and "Mission: Impossible 2" have recently been delayed. This method seems very unscrupulous. Simon also said that if France suppresses the business of the Westeros system in its own country, maintaining the The Stroll system will crush French business around the world."
The Earth is constantly spinning.
Time keeps flowing.
The sunlight follows the rotation of the planet and runs across the Atlantic Ocean, across the American continent, and reaches the west coast of the United States.
It’s finally Sunday morning in Los Angeles.
I rested very late last night and still woke up on time at six o'clock in the morning. I got rid of the entanglement of the two English roses around me, dressed and washed, and did my daily exercise.
It's seven o'clock in the morning.
The cliff mansion in Beverly Canyon welcomed two pairs of guests, Leslie Wexner and his wife, and Wexner's personal investment adviser Jeffrey Epstein and his girlfriend, who made an appointment to go together. Meal. They were all in pairs, and Simon also called an early morning vase over to keep him company.
Leslie Wexner and his party have been in San Francisco a few days ago, mainly to inspect investments in the Internet industry.
Simon quietly took away control of Victoria's Secret, LTD's most valuable brand. Leslie Wexner is now only responsible for the Express fast fashion brand, which is also owned by Victoria's Secret parent company LTD Group. In recent years It was good, but in the end we lost some interest and were gradually devolving power to professional managers.
This is what Simon is happy to see.
Leslie Wexner is only 59 years old this year. Ordinary people are close to retirement at this age. For billionaires, 59 years old is still considered to be in the prime of life.
Anyway, Leslie Wexner was going to start something new.
Although they have basically lost control of the LTD Group they founded, with Simon's help, the Wexner family's wealth has been growing very rapidly in recent years. With a large amount of money in their hands, they have to do something.
I made an appointment for this breakfast because I wanted to hear Simon’s opinion.
After everyone exchanged greetings, they sat down at the outdoor dining table next to the cliff of the mansion. The morning air was cool and pleasant, and next to them you could overlook the City of Angels under the golden morning sun.
Although, Leslie Wexner always felt a little complicated when facing the young man in front of him.
In recent years, the assets have increased a lot, but the influence has declined even more. Without the potential power that money confers, the attractiveness of money is greatly reduced.
Just like Simon Westeros just introduced the girl named Melania next to him, and she didn't even recognize him. If he was still the controller of Victoria's Secret, this kind of thing would never happen.
On the other side, Jeffrey Epstein and his girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell have a very positive attitude.
The two of them were foils who came over shamelessly.
Anyway, as long as I can sit here and have breakfast with Simon Westeros, it is a kind of success and a kind of qualification. In the future, when discussing business and friendship, occasionally mentioning that you had dinner with Westeros will probably get twice the result with half the effort.
Therefore, compared to Wexner's complicated mood, Epstein was a little calmer when he looked at the beautiful Wei family maid who served everyone breakfast, or the beautiful girls around Westeros.
Epstein, who was born in a low-income family and climbed up to his current position step by step, knew one thing very well: a poor boy with no money who tried every possible means to pursue a girl who might not even be able to hold hands with him for months might be killed by a rich and powerful man in a minute. The man hooked his hand, and then in the most humble manner overnight, he offered up all the parts of his body that could please the man and tried his best to flatter him.
this is the truth.
That’s why you have to climb up at all costs, or accept your fate.