Chapter 537: "Business War" with Lin Lu
Treat him to a meal, behead him, and take him as a dog.
These are three cards.
Wang Xin listened to Bao Fan's words and didn't think there was anything wrong with what he said.
He has started so many businesses and led so many entrepreneurial teams, so his ability and experience in identifying and managing people are naturally outstanding.
He agreed with what Bao Fan said and felt that this line from "Let the Bullets Fly" made sense.
It doesn't sound very nice, but the essence of what happens in reality is not much different from it.
To be exact, didn’t Bao Fan just use the first of these three cards a few days ago?
He called Zhang Tao and Wang Xin together, treated them to a meal, and suggested a merger.
In fact, once this is accomplished, Wang Xin and Bao Fan will kick Zhang Tao out. After the company has been merged for a period of time, they will let Taozi take the money and leave. This is actually the second card - [beheading].
When companies of their level merge, they will initially use the [Co-CEO] model, which means that Zhang Tao will serve as co-CEO and the new company will have two CEOs.
But this mode generally does not run for too long. It is actually just a transition, or the final handover.
After doing this for a while, everything will be settled and you can say goodbye to Taozi.
But if the target becomes the young Cheng Zhu.
Considering Bao Fan's status and position, which can cause a great earthquake in the business world with just a stomp of his foot, is it necessary to go through so much trouble?
Wang Xin looked at Bao Fan, and like a scene from Let the Bullets Fly, he asked, "So which card are you going to use?"
Bao Fan smiled indifferently and said, "I think this young man is quite interesting."
"How about this, I'll treat you first!"
Wang Xin understood.
Bao Fan meant to treat the guests first.
Since there is a [before], there will be an [after].
In Hangzhou, Cheng Zhu drove the car into the parking lot of Xingguang City.
They will have dinner at Starlight City today, and after dinner, the four of them will go to the cinema to watch a movie together.
Just as Cheng Zhu and Lin Lu were about to get off the car, he received a call from Jiang Wanzhou.
"Hey, Cheng Zhu, there was a huge traffic jam on the way here. It might take another twenty minutes." Jiang Wanzhou said.
"Okay, we just arrived." Cheng Zhu said.
"Okay, I'll drive quickly."
"Why are you driving faster when there's a traffic jam? Are you going to fly over other people's heads?" Cheng Zhu sneered.
"Get lost, I'm dead!"
After the call ended, Lin Lu looked at her boyfriend and speculated, "I guess Ji Shiwen was too slow and came downstairs late."
"She has always been like this, right?" Cheng Zhu asked.
"Well, she's always slow in doing things. Her ex-boyfriend has complained several times because he's always waiting for her."
Cheng Zhu didn't care. There were too many girls like Ji Shiwen in the world who always asked boys to wait for her downstairs!
He just smiled and looked at Lin Lu, saying, "She is going to have dinner with a beautiful lady today, so she has to dress up. Otherwise, she will look like a little assistant beside a female star. I understand, I understand!"
"What the hell!" Lin Lu was already used to Cheng Zhu's expression.
But while she said this, her hand subconsciously opened the mirror on the car's sun visor, then she looked at her makeup for the day and really started to feel proud of herself.
"It looks pretty good today!" She looked to the left and then to the right, and was very satisfied.
Cheng Zhu found her like this funny.
He asked, "Should we stay in the car for a while or wait for them in the restaurant?"
"Sit a little longer and wait until they are almost there before going up. This way, we can all order together. There is no need to wait in line for a table in this restaurant anyway."
"Okay." Cheng Zhu nodded slightly.
He actually quite enjoyed spending time alone with Lin Lu.
The energetic girl is always full of energy, lively and cute, and the atmosphere is never dull. Even if there are only the two of them, it will be very lively.
Just now, Lin Lu, who was wearing shorts today, suddenly patted his round and tender thighs, causing his thighs to tremble slightly, and said:
"Cheng Zhu! I suddenly remembered a melon!"
She looked at Cheng Zhu with excitement.
"Speak!" Cheng Zhu unbuckled his seat belt, turned slightly, looked at his girlfriend, and listened attentively.
Lu Bao looked at him with a smile on his face. Two cute dimples appeared on his face. He stared at him for several seconds, then raised his palm and said, "50 yuan!"
Cheng Zhu immediately shook his head violently: "Ah, then I won't listen!"
Xiaolu immediately reached out to pull his arm, pulling him while grinning and saying, "20 yuan, 20 yuan, 20 yuan!"
Her tone of voice rose slightly, and her two small hands tightly grasped Cheng Zhu's arm: "Just 20 yuan! 20 yuan and I'll tell you!"
"I don't want to listen, you bastard." Cheng Zhu pulled out his arm that was grabbed by the cold little hand, with a look of disdain: "You can talk or not~"
"Ang ang ang! Okay, okay! I'll tell you for free! Free, okay!" Lin Lu pouted, she couldn't suppress the desire to share in her heart.
As a result, the dog man turned his face away, looked out the window, and said, "You won't listen to that either."
Lin Lu: “?”
The energetic girl looked at her boyfriend who had been looking out the window. She was speechless for a while, and she started to pull the cuffs of his short-sleeved shirt on his arms, frowning and saying, "No, you have to listen! You have to listen! I can't hold it in anymore!"
Hearing this, Cheng Zhu slowly turned his head, a smile appeared on his face, and he grinned and said, "60 yuan, I listen."
The expression on the deer's face froze in an instant.
The pair of beautiful, dark and bright eyes seemed a little dull at this moment.
She was so angry that her breasts were about to develop a secondary growth spurt.
The energetic girl also tilted her face and looked out the window like Cheng Zhu, and said in a cold tone: "Humph! You can listen to it or not, it's all about your late good brother."
"Huh? Jiang Wanzhou?" Cheng Zhu raised his voice: "Fuck Jiang Wanzhou's melon?"
"Hmm." The deer responded indifferently and still looked out the window.
But Cheng Zhu saw through the reflection on the car window that the voice actress' mouth had begun to rise. She couldn't suppress it at all, but she still controlled her tone and said lightly:
"Want to listen? Then pay 80 bucks!"
Cheng Zhu raised his hands and began to scratch his head. He grabbed his hair twice and became entangled.
The leader of the post-95 generation of business people, the first entrepreneur of the younger generation in Hangzhou, picked up his phone and was blackmailed. He gritted his teeth and said, "80 is 80!"
His actions and the tone of voice that gnashed his teeth made Lin Lu feel so proud that he was instantly overjoyed. His heart was instantly filled with joy, and his emotional value was directly maxed out. He kept saying, "Hehehe! Hehehe!"
She was beaming with joy when she received the money. She kept shaking her head and poking the screen of her mobile phone with one finger.
The sense of accomplishment is overwhelming!
Cheng Zhu looked at her with a bit of doting, and he felt that when she was talking about this gossip, her big breasts became even more erect, and she was actually speaking with her head held high.
"Let me tell you, isn't Ji Shiwen's ex-boyfriend still unwilling to give up and still keeps pestering her?"
"Um."
"Then, one time he insisted on meeting her, but Ji Shiwen refused. Then, he actually ran to the downstairs of her house and refused to leave, blocking her there."
"You're quite brave, aren't you afraid of meeting her parents?"
"Her parents are abroad all year round, doing business there, and they can't come back for long in a year." Lin Lu explained.
"Then what? Why hasn't Jiang Wanzhou appeared yet?" Cheng Zhu began to urge her, disliking her slow pace.
"Hey, why are you in such a hurry?"
Lin Lu patted him gently.
"Then she told Jiang Wanzhou about this. I don't know how she explained it, but Jiang Wanzhou got very angry and drove directly here!" Lin Lu showed a little shock on her face as she spoke.
It can be imagined that the expression on her face must have been even more surprised when she heard this.
"Is Mr. Jiang so tough? He just came over to chase people away!"
She couldn't understand. Is this still the Jiang Wanzhou we know who would point at people with his index finger and roll his eyes at Cheng Zhu?
"Just kidding, he is just born a little gay, okay? I tell you, even if he is really gay, he is definitely a top, not a bottom!" Cheng Zhu said directly.
He must have some understanding of his childhood friend. Jiang Wanzhou actually has a very tough personality.
Including at work, he is actually quite domineering and his work style is vigorous and decisive.
This is one of the reasons why it is difficult for the two of them to work together, because they are both too angular in their careers.
"Really?" Lin Lu was slightly stunned, and continued: "Anyway, he really started to chase people away. As a result, Ji Shiwen's ex-boyfriend was actually very tall, about the same height as you, and he was always working out and loved playing basketball. He was actually afraid of Jiang Wanzhou, so he was chased away directly."
Cheng Zhu listened to Lin Lu's words and only thought in his heart: It's great to be young.
When you're in a relationship at this age, there are sometimes some messy things.
Maybe many years later when I think back on it I'll find it so damn childish and funny.
But this kind of life experience is actually quite interesting.
Lin Lu looked at Cheng Zhu and continued excitedly: "Then, you know what happened to him and Ji Shiwen, they..."
When she got to this point, she suddenly got stuck and stopped.
"Go on." Cheng Zhu felt that the real point had come, which was the part in the middle of the melon.
The clever little deer smiled again at this moment, trying his best to suppress the corners of his mouth that wanted to rise, but his voice was a little excited and he couldn't suppress it, so he pretended to be calm and said:
"One hundred dollars!"
After talking about the 100 yuan, she couldn't hold back and started laughing in the car.
“Hahahahahaha!”
Cheng Zhu was also amused by her and started laughing too.
"Hahahahahaha! You're crazy! You really are crazy!"
The two of them fought in the car.
The man dotes on her, so she will definitely turn around.
What's more, he knew very well that he wouldn't lose much.
Because today's meal was treated by Jiang Wanzhou, after the meal, he would definitely treat us to movie tickets in return.
The rich girl extorted a full 180 yuan today. She was so happy that she took off like a rocket. Not to mention 4 movie tickets, she would happily buy 40!
"It's your turn, it's your turn!" Cheng Zhu's tone was full of impatience, and he kept cursing: "You are crazy!"
But the more he scolded, the happier the little energetic deer became, and he started to hum non-stop again.
It was really a thrilling business war.
As a result, after Lin Lu received the money, the big news she told was really explosive.
"Ji Shiwen said that she thought Jiang Wanzhou was quite handsome that day."
"There's no one at her house anyway, so the two of them went upstairs together."
"Then, that night, Jiang Wanzhou stayed over at her house!!!"
Lin Lu's tone at this moment is just like Guan Xiaotong's tone when she played herself in "Twenty Do Not Understand".
Hearing her tone, Cheng Zhu knew that even though she spoke in a rather subtle way, it certainly wouldn't be as simple as just hugging and sleeping.
All of a sudden, the dog man started to mutter: "Fuck! Fuck! Fuck!"
"You also think it's super exciting, right?!" Lin Lu held his hand, his tone excited.
Unexpectedly, the dog man said: "Damn it, I didn't expect that our progress was surpassed by them!"
When these words were spoken, Xiaolu was stunned for a moment, then she blushed slightly and her heartbeat began to accelerate.
"Go to hell!"
But a thought popped up in Lin Lu's heart: "Is this big pervert a little anxious?"
After eating the melon, the two got out of the car together and went to the fifth floor of the mall hand in hand.
While they were looking at the menu, Jiang Wanzhou and Ji Shiwen arrived late.
"We're late, so you have to treat me." Cheng Zhu looked at the menu and said directly without even looking up.
After a while, he raised his eyes to look at Jiang Wanzhou, then turned his head to look at Ji Shiwen.
"Okay, no problem." Mr. Jiang didn't say anything, just agreed with a smile.
Lin Lu was sitting aside. She wondered if Cheng Zhu was deliberately pointing at Ji Shiwen?
While eating, everyone talked about Jiang Wanzhou's overseas inspection trip.
Ji Shiwen originally wanted to go with them, treating it as a trip abroad together, but was rejected by Jiang Wanzhou.
He went out to do important business. He knew very well that with his girlfriend's personality, since she had already gone abroad, she would definitely want to go here and there, which would ultimately delay her important business.
At this moment, she also took the opportunity to complain to Cheng Zhu and Lin Lu: "He refused to take me with him on his business trip."
"Really?" Upon hearing this, Cheng Zhu immediately frowned and said to his childhood friend, "Then I'm going to criticize you!"
"Hasn't Ji Shiwen always said that she wanted to lose weight? Your business trip schedule is so full this time, she must be exhausted. You didn't even take her with you on such a good opportunity to lose weight. Don't you want your girlfriend to lose weight?" Cheng Zhu said in a stern tone, talking nonsense.
Lin Lu listened at the side and pouted, feeling helpless.
But she didn't speak up for her friend. Instead, she said, "It's okay. We'll have plenty of opportunities to hang out together in the future."
The energetic girl always thinks that traveling is traveling and work is work.
It is best not to confuse the two.
Don’t let yourself not have fun and add to your boyfriend’s work pressure.
Jiang Wanzhou patted Ji Shiwen's thigh gently under the table and stopped talking about this topic. Instead, he talked about what he saw and heard during his business trip.
"The overseas trendy toy market is really hot."
"Countries like the United States and the island countries are developing very well."
He began to talk.
Cheng Zhu sat opposite and listened, occasionally nodding slightly and occasionally expressing his own opinions.
Blind boxes like Pop Mart are mainly figures.
It’s just that you’re not sure which one is inside before you open the box.
What is the mentality of drawing a blind box?
In fact, it is similar to the lottery in the game.
It’s like when you’re playing a game and drawing skins, sometimes you’ll often get [Already Owned], but you still can’t help but keep drawing.
The only difference is that one is an offline store and the other is online.
When talking about design, Cheng Zhu emphasized one point.
"Independent design is definitely important, but you shouldn't underestimate the IP aspect. If you really want to do it, buy more while IP is cheap now," he said.
"Hoarding IP?" Jiang Wanzhou was slightly stunned.
"Yeah, that's right." Cheng Zhu nodded seriously.
In his previous life, he was engaged in e-commerce in Wucheng, a world-renowned small commodity city, and he had come into contact with too many businessmen.
Bosses who make plush toys, accessories, etc. have all suffered from the price of IP.
Take plush toys as an example. Many well-known IPs like Doraemon have annual copyright fees of up to one million. You will also have to pay a share of the subsequent sales, and the copyright fees will also give you sales targets, and this is not an exclusive license.
It is now 2015 and the costs of various types of IPs are not high.
And if it wants to follow the route of Pop Mart, there will be many IPs to cooperate with.
Stockpiling IPs can not only save costs in the future, but also weaken future competitors.
It’s just like when Cheng Zhu was making Youcha, he signed exclusive milk tea collaboration contracts with those classic old dramas early on.
"In that case, my investment in this business will have to be raised a lot," Jiang Wanzhou said.
"Money is a small matter, it's easy to solve." Cheng Zhu, who is a well-mannered man, said this now, but no one would think that this college student is so arrogant.
"Your family should be supportive, right? If you don't have enough money, come and ask your sister Xiaolu for it. Your sister Xiaolu has plenty of money and will be generous enough to invest in you." Cheng Zhu said with a grin.
"What?" Lin Lu heard him talking nonsense again and couldn't help but gently nudged him with his shoulder.
Indeed, after Cheng Zhu mentioned it earlier, she was a little tempted and wanted to invest in the blind box store.
But at first she thought that it was just like the original pomelo tea, starting from a small shop.
Then, she could just invest the two hundred thousand dollars in her own piggy bank.
But now it seems to have changed all of a sudden.
If she really wants to do it, she must go home and discuss it with her parents and ask for money from her family.
Therefore, she did not express her opinion at the dinner table.
After everyone had eaten, Jiang Wanzhou went to pay the bill and Ji Shiwen went to the bathroom.
Lin Lu then whispered to Cheng Zhu, "Don't brag for me outside. My little treasury can't handle it! I just heard you two talking there, it's completely beyond my personal ability."
"It doesn't matter. I can lend it to you, but you have to write an IOU! Dear boyfriend and girlfriend, we should be clear about the accounts!" Cheng Zhu started talking nonsense again.
"I don't want it! What if I can't pay it back when the time comes?" Lin Lu rejected it immediately.
"It doesn't matter." Cheng Zhu tilted his head and stared into her eyes, smiling and saying, "Life is so long, I will allow you to pay it back slowly, slowly."
(ps: asking for monthly ticket~)
(End of this chapter)
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