"You have to admit that you are old, after all, this world belongs to you young people.

Even when you sing a song, you can sing with such passion that people can't help but empathize with you. If you don't know, you might think you have nothing and are heavily in debt."

When Wang Jianning put down the microphone and sat down, he couldn't help but sigh, and Li Zehua laughed.

"Don't dare to steal the limelight from Mr. Wang."

After the joke, they talked about the construction of Yida Plaza and Qingyun Headquarters in Shanghai.

Wang Jianning is very concerned about this. "There is a set of mature standards for commercial real estate construction. After Longfor's commercial apartments in the surrounding areas are added, there will be slight changes, but it is not a big problem.

However, your 88-story headquarters building will take a little extra time. For this purpose, I went to Europe specifically and invited the most famous local design team.

The preliminary preparations for the appearance fee alone cost 260 million euros, and the subsequent production drawings would cost tens of millions more euros. However, it was worth the money, as this design firm ranks high in the world.

For example, some of the landmark buildings in Pengcheng and Yanjing in China were built by them, and several iconic buildings during the Olympics were also built by them...

Why, you don’t think it’s too expensive, do you? "

"No, I've seen a few renderings, they're pretty good."

Li Zehua shook his head and said, "It will take a long time to build. We will not be able to officially move in until 15 or 16. There are too many employees in the group now, and the industrial park cannot accommodate them. The newly established subsidiary will have to rent additional space."

"Your group has diversified too much. It seems to be developing well and growing, but it will be difficult to tap into the existing market in the future."

Wu Guanjun looked at the bosses of the Tongda Group who were howling in agony. They were also business friends invited by Li Zehua. They actually got along well with Sun Hongbin, and the group of them gathered together, arm in arm.

She was quite bored, so she came over to chat, "The insurance business is very complicated, you have to be careful when you get involved, don't let others use you as a tool.

PICC, Ping'an, no one is easy to get along with."

“It’s hard to do any job.”

Li Zehua sighed, and seeing his two business seniors there, he said casually, "Let's take the newly opened supermarket under my name as an example."

"Wait a minute, Qingyun is opening a supermarket again?"

Wang Jianning was a little confused. "What on earth don't you do? It seems like there are 360 ​​trades. Do you intend to get involved in every trade?
Young man, the future of the world belongs to you, but you can’t take too much and take too much. You have to leave some room for those who come after you.”

He was really scared. This guy was involved in too many industries, and he became a leader in each of them. Now it seems that there is no problem because he grasped the timing of his involvement very well.

But what will happen when there are only two or three giants left in the industry in the future and they focus on targeted competition?
There is a team within Yida that specializes in studying Qingyun Group. There are about seven or eight people. They do nothing every day and specialize in studying the industrial ecosystem chain of the Qingyun Group.

To put it bluntly, Wang Jianning is also envious!
There was no one present who was not envious of him. He was able to build such a large industry and still maintain absolute competitive advantage. He was seen with smiles wherever he went and government offices in various places were rushing to give out all kinds of super discount gift packages.

Who wouldn’t be jealous if they just hope that Qingyun Group will invest in them?

"It's really not my fault."

Li Zehua spread his hands and said, "I have said everything that needs to be said before. This is a natural result based on the current development status of the group. The next stage of agricultural and sideline products and food processing is the construction of sales channels.

Qingyun Agriculture now has more than 60 subsidiaries, plus the farmers who cooperate with Pinxixi, the agricultural and sideline products worth hundreds of billions of yuan each year cannot be digested by cooperative sales channels..."

Facing his explanation, Wang Jianning shook his head firmly, "If the products cannot be sold, just reduce the scale appropriately. There is no need to shoulder all the responsibilities.

For business development, it is necessary to follow market trends. If you keep dragging the business forward like this, what if you make a wrong judgment and encounter decision-making risks?
It’s like you keep talking about the industrial ecological chain and forming an internal economic cycle. Now it seems to be somewhat like that, but on the other hand, if a certain link collapses, it will also drag down the entire group.”

Li Zehua now has some of the style of the counterfeit drug stopper of later generations. When meeting with colleagues in the business world, he is bound to mention the ecological chain.

Firstly, publicly emphasizing the strong strength of the Qingyun Group will discourage potential competitors and make investors believe that Qingyun Group's ecosystem approach has great competitive advantages.

Prevent these people from investing in industries that conflict with Qingyun Group’s business and reduce competitors.

Secondly, this thing cannot be hidden. With so many companies under Qingyun having interrelated transactions, those who are interested have already figured it out thoroughly.

Government offices from all over the country come to visit every day, and all they talk about is attracting investment or attracting capital, which makes the public relations department very annoyed.

With this set of theoretical support, local governments can also figure out which industries the Qingyun Group will invest in and which ones it will not invest in recklessly. Next time, they can provide targeted industrial supporting support.

This will save the group a lot of manpower and material resources. Who knows its own advantages better than the local authorities?

Of course, there is some exaggeration and self-promotion, but it is better than Qingyun Group searching the world for suitable investments.

It turns out that this superficial boasting method is quite effective and has scared away many potential competitors who attempted to intervene in Qingyun’s core industries.

For example, Li Zehua publicly stated that the takeout food delivery business in the city is the foundation of the Qingyun Group, and any company attempting to intervene in these two industries will face endless competition.

Everyone thought, what's the point of investing? What's the point? Hummingbird, together with the Tongda Group, JD Logistics, and SF Express, have almost monopolized these two industries.

They are not just superficial, but have formed competitive advantages at the foundation of the industry. Platformization is not just talk.

From the perspective of a catering industry practitioner, Chichuime has established a standard assembly line service system to open restaurants, make money, and save time and effort.

No suitable location?

Qingyun Real Estate is here to help. As long as you reach a strategic cooperation with Chimei, you can choose any commercial property from the real estate company, with a unified decoration style, and they have ready-made solutions for all types of catering.

From the chef team, service staff, cashier and cashier system, food delivery platform, customer acquisition and raw material supply, everything is provided. Investors only need to pay money and wait for dividends.

Under this half-capital operation and half-physical business strategy, in just half a year, Chimei, together with Qingyun Real Estate, Qingyun Agriculture and Pinxixi, expanded nearly 6,000 restaurants in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen.

Including Shaxian snacks, Lanzhou ramen, Northeast dumplings, Jiangcheng hot dry noodles, Anhui flat noodles, Gan stir-fried dishes, Cantonese breakfast tea, Yuqing hot pot, Sichuan restaurant and many other chain brands.

It was registered by Qingyun Group in a special form (with the prefix Qingyun) and became the group's exclusive catering brand. The reason why it has not yet expanded nationwide on a large scale is because of the serious shortage of manpower.

In accordance with Qingyun Group's consistent style, while ensuring quality and quantity, it is necessary to establish a standardized operating model. The ability to perfectly replicate is the basis for truly long-term operation.

Thinking of this, he was about to speak when he heard Wang Jianning say, "You compress and integrate the industry chain channels and transfer the profits to the front end. This approach is certainly feasible, but it will offend too many middle-level people.

Although these people may not be noticeable individually, once they are connected by someone with ulterior motives, they can easily form a force that cannot be ignored.

A freight station in the transportation industry, an individual business owner engaged in the procurement, circulation and bulk cargo of agricultural products, and a merchant in the vegetable market will all be your enemies in the future.

Not to mention the various departments standing behind these people and waiting to collect money. I think this system will not last long and will easily attract continued suppression from the policy side in the future. "

Wu Guanjun also advised him, "You are now even getting involved in the insurance industry, and adding a supermarket chain."

As he was talking, he suddenly asked curiously, "How many employees does Qingyun Group have now?"

Li Zehua thought about it and said uncertainly: "Including part-time workers, there are about a million people, right?"

Even he could only make a rough estimate. After all, the report at the end of March showed that there were just over 35 full-time employees and about 50 part-time employees.

Fengniao Crowdsourcing is now openly recruiting part-time office workers from the society who need to provide their own transportation and have a smartphone to receive orders. They can receive orders after identity verification.

The usual working hours are 5-10 pm, and you can work all day on weekends. Except for the lack of basic salary and five insurances and one fund, the other differences between him and full-time employees are not that big. He can get a commission of about 80% of that of a full-time employee.

In April, all the companies in the group were recruiting people frantically, and it seems that the number of one million people is not far away.

“Hiss~”×2.

With two clearly audible gasps, the two business leaders were stunned. "You, you have a million-person scale.

Even if we calculate it at 20 yuan per person per month, it is a fixed expense of nearly billion. It doesn't matter if the performance is good now and we can make money, but in the future, if there are problems in the overall economic environment.

For example, what happened in 00 and 08, how do you prevent it?"

Wang Jianning shook his head, feeling mixed emotions. How could this young man, who was younger than his son, accomplish such a big business in just over a year?
He was not quite sure, but the Five Military Governor's Office alone contributed more than 15 demobilized soldiers, and these people were now spread across various businesses under Qingyun Group.

Hard work and perseverance are their professional bywords, and with some retirement benefits in hand, they are the main force signing up to invest in supermarkets this time.

It was precisely because of this that Li Zehua had a headache. He couldn't help but tell the two about the supermarket incident. Finally, he said, "What if there are disputes in the future if there are internal investment indicators in the trading?"

The Human Resources Department, the Compliance and Supervision Department, and the Administration Department got together to discuss for an entire afternoon, but could not come up with a good solution.

A simple one-size-fits-all approach will definitely not work, and raising the investment threshold for outstanding employees and grassroots management and above will also not work.

As the group has expanded to this day, there are too many places to spend money, so the little money raised is no problem in maintaining the current scale of development.

Pinxixi, a local life service company, even had some spare money to invest in Qingyun Real Estate, with a total investment of US$3 million, but only agreed on a monthly rate of return and timely repayment after one year.

But this is far from enough. Not to mention the real estate company, Li Zehua has paid for the headquarters building alone out of his own pocket, and will invest more than one billion yuan this year.

This money was obtained by purchasing cotton and gold from abroad and then mortgaging it to the Bank of China in Hong Kong for foreign guarantees and domestic loans.

About 34 billion US dollars in cash, cotton and gold were mortgaged, totaling more than 260 billion yuan, which were invested in BOE's billion yuan private placement and used for the construction of BOE's production line in Pengcheng.

Several billion yuan has been transferred to the Western Region to build the Governor's Office, leveraging the planting and purchase of one or two million tons of cotton, and tens of billions more will be invested in the future.

There was not much money left, so he lent part of it to his subsidiaries after they received financing, and invested the rest in other companies in which he held 100% of the shares. For example, Shunfeng Chuxing Group cost more than billion just to purchase vehicles.

We are very short of money.

As for the US$15 billion raised from Lijiaopo, according to the prior agreement, JD.com took US$7.5 million (JD.com accounted for more than half), and the rest was centrally distributed by Qingyun Holdings.

The Hummingbird Group took $5 million right away to purchase vehicles, develop smart logistics networks, and upgrade the new technology system with QR code scanning as the front end and big data algorithms as the core.

Pinxixi E-Commerce plans to expand 5000 experience stores this year, and Qingyun Electronics plans to prepare a research institute for core technologies, materials, chips, displays, cameras and audio equipment for smartphones.

We also need to optimize and upgrade the software, improve user experience, build more image stores and invest in advertising.

By October and November, cotton profits will be credited, and long gold futures profits will also be realized gradually, but by then, the expenses will be even greater.

The mutual share swap plan between Tsing Yun Holdings and Temasek Holdings alone would require a conservative amount of US$80-90 billion, which would eat up most of the estimated gold earnings.

The rest also have places to go, one is the competition between WeChat and Tenda, one is the competition between Weipay and Alipay Insurance, and the other is the competition between Tenpay. Once the money-burning war starts, don't think about stopping.

Historically, Tenda and Ali burned through hundreds of millions of dollars a day at most. Now there are not enough smartphone users, but with Roewe Electronics' efforts in the second half of the year, smartphones priced below 1,000 yuan will enter the market.

By then, the number of new mobile Internet users will reach millions or even tens of millions every month. Who wouldn’t want to take a piece of this fat meat?

Between offline convenience stores, supermarkets, restaurants, various merchant payment codes, and various online consumption channels, no one is destined to back down.

There is no need to mention Tengda, as it has the entire Chaozhou Congee behind it. Behind Ahri is Softbank. In addition, Qingyun sent Liu Aiguo in to disrupt the Taishan faction's harvesting plan.

This will force the Fuxing Group to re-enter the real estate industry. As the feud grows, the Minsheng Group, which is controlled by the Taishan Faction, will certainly seize the opportunity and continue to provide capital transfusions to Fuzhibao.

While helping Ahri fight Qingyun, he took the opportunity to complete the investment.

Just as they have done in the past, they will use payment insurance to achieve their ultimate goal and gain control of the Internet financial market.

Fortunately, the effort was stopped at the last minute, thus avoiding the worst possible outcome.

Everyone has seen the final outcome of the matter. With the failure of Payment Insurance's attempt to go public, many of the once-famous capital tycoons in the Taishan faction have all collapsed.

For example, Lu Zhiqiang, Guo Guangchang, Shi Tiezhu, Wei Wei, and Jack Ma, all sold off their businesses in an attempt to survive.

For both public and private reasons, Li Zehua would not sit idly by and watch the other party succeed. The competition between Alipay and Micropay will directly determine the rise and fall of the two business empires...

While he was thinking, Wang Jianning and Wu Guanjun exchanged their opinions with each other, and then Wang Jianning said:

“This matter is simple and complicated at the same time. It all depends on how you think about it.

If it is simply for making money, then this is a good thing. The indicator that employees are selling off their supermarket investments proves that the outside world is optimistic about the future of Qingyun entering the supermarket market.

You can completely turn a blind eye and pretend you are unaware of it, then modify the contract and no longer make the minimum guarantee promise.

Just agree on a fixed rebate in the first year, and then distribute dividends based on performance. After two years, arrange to raise the supply price of the internal industrial chain to cause the supermarket to actually suffer losses.

In this kind of matter, the initiative is completely in your hands. Trying to make your employees make money is a thankless task.

But if we want to collect some money from them and use it to support the development of the group's business, isn't that easy? "

Lao Wang is analyzing purely from a businessman’s perspective. If you can make money, who cares about the means?
He even wondered whether he should learn it himself, but then he changed his mind and realized that this would cause endless troubles, so he should use it with caution.

"Changing a contract is a small matter, but business reputation is a big matter."

Li Zehua was somewhat speechless and sighed, "According to this method, there won't be many people willing to invest. We won't be able to collect enough funds and won't be able to support the development of Qingyun Retail."

The minimum guarantee agreement is the real essence, otherwise why would those employees be so crazy about investing money?
Even employees who cannot afford to take money out of their own pockets have to borrow money from everywhere to invest. Only those who have no other choice, or those who do not know how to do the math and have no intention of living off the guaranteed salary, will sell their indicators.

The large base number makes this matter seem serious.

Wu Guanjun laughed and said, "Boss Wang, you guessed wrong this time."

Wang Jianning still smiled and said, "It's better to be wrong."

This is a double entendre. At least it proves that the allies he chose have bottom lines in their conduct, which makes things easier. He is also worried that the Qingyun Group will challenge Yida in the future with its more powerful strength.

Wu Guanjun was also very satisfied. "Mr. Li, why don't you consider introducing restrictive policies to fundamentally restrict the transfer of indicators, such as adding employee supplementary clauses when signing contracts.

The bank account for transferring dividends to those who hold supermarket shares is fixed as an account registered with the company's human resources department. Even if it is held on behalf of others, disputes are inevitable when more dividends are distributed in the future.

Qingyun Group can then use the registered contracts as an excuse, and the investors behind the proxy contracts will inevitably encounter the risks involved.”

"Won't it involve illegal financing?"

Li Zehua was a little worried. This plan had been mentioned at an internal meeting, but due to his sensitivity to the policy, he did not agree to it at the moment.

After all, it involves internal financing of thousands or even tens of thousands of people. What if it gets blown out of proportion?
"You can use financial and legal means to avoid it in advance, and even let your Qingyun Real Estate Company come forward at the critical moment. It has many fixed assets that can provide guarantees.

Qingyun Retail has established several subsidiaries and used their shares to issue financing, and employees can just subscribe to them.”

"Is this okay?"

"No problem. The real estate company does this every time they develop a project, and there has never been a problem."

After all, everyone has their own expertise, Wang Jianning assured him. (End of this chapter)