rebirth from small pockets

If he were an executive running the Ideal Fried Chicken chain, Ren Xiaobo would have no interest.

Even though Ideal Fried Chicken is doing extremely well nowadays, no matter how good it is, it is still just a fried chicken store.

But why did Ren Xiaobo finally change his mind and become Chen Li's assistant?

The reason is very simple~ Although he is currently holding the title of assistant to the general manager of Ideal Food, in fact.

He is Chen Li's assistant!

The assistant to the general manager of Ideal Food and Chen Li's assistant are two different things.

Because this general aid only refers to the ideal food.

As for Chen Li's assistant, it's not just limited to Ideal Food.

From the beginning, Chen Li gave Ren Xiaobo the impression that he was a very smart young man with a certain business acumen.

Although it is not an exaggeration to praise a young and promising person~ To be honest, if Chen Li had not had a girlfriend, Ren Xiaobo would have even thought that Chen Li was the future son-in-law chosen by his boss!

It's not that Ren Xiaobo looks down on young and promising young people, but as a professional who has worked hard in society for many years, Ren Xiaobo knows very well that there is no comparison between young and promising young people and his boss's future son-in-law.

Who is Zhou Bowen? He is a person who can be called a rich man even in the country.

Therefore, when Ren Xiaobo faced Chen Li’s solicitation before, he was completely indifferent!

Because he knows very well that no matter how awesome Chen Li is, it will be difficult to surpass his boss.

Especially Chen Li is a fried chicken seller. It is ridiculous to compare a fried chicken seller with a real estate agent!

However, not long ago, by chance, Ren Xiaobo learned about Chen Li's other identity.

Major shareholder of Red Pony Technology Co., Ltd.!

Not only that, but Ren Xiaobo also learned that Chen Li and others had previously solved the Y2K problem.

This is different!

The reason is very simple ~ because the Y2K patch was reportedly sold for a huge sum of money.

It's not that Ren Xiaobo is snobbish, nor is it that he is greedy for the money that Chen Li might get.

But because Chen Li has all this money, his own strength is different.

Compared with the fried chicken restaurant owner that Ren Xiaobo knew before, Chen Li, who is now the major shareholder of a technology company, is actually a different concept.

The biggest difference between the two for Ren Xiaobo is that Ren Xiaobo is unwilling to work for a fried chicken restaurant owner.

But ~ he is willing to work as an assistant to a major shareholder of a technology company and owner of a chain of fried chicken restaurants.

There is an old saying that tells people to go to higher places and water will flow to lower places.

The reason why Ren Xiaobo was unwilling to work for Chen Li, who was just the owner of a fried chicken restaurant, was because he could see the future of chain fried chicken restaurants.

Even if Chen Li makes a fancy fried chicken chain, the upper limit is still there.

And compared with the real estate industry, it is much more difficult to achieve a certain level in the fried chicken chain industry.

But when Chen Li became the major shareholder of a technology company, it became a different concept.

Although it may seem like it just has an additional identity, the computer Internet is a high-tech industry.

These days, the computer Internet is a hot industry alongside real estate!

If Chen Li had used this identity to poach Ren Xiaobo from the beginning, he might have succeeded long ago.

Ren Xiaobo is not stupid either. Although he can be regarded as a direct descendant and confidant of Zhou Bowen.

However, Zhou Bowen has been working hard in the shopping mall for many years, and he is not the only one who has direct close relatives around him, including Ren Xiaobo.

If we really wanted to rank him, Ren Xiaobo's importance to Zhou Bowen wouldn't even be in the top five.

Otherwise, he wouldn't have had to be pulled out to top the tank before.

It's just that the previous Chen Li was not qualified enough to let Ren Xiaobo join him.

Ren Xiaobo will naturally choose to stick to it until there is no better choice. At least Zhou Bowen is still committed to him.

But it is definitely impossible to say that Ren Xiaobo really has no grudges at all.

Anyone who is pulled out to top the tank will feel a little uncomfortable.

But in the face of enough benefits, this discomfort is within the tolerable range!

This is also the reason why Chen Li couldn't poach Ren Xiaobo before, because the benefits offered by Chen Li were far less great in Ren Xiaobo's opinion than the benefits he would get from waiting to return to the real estate company!

It wasn't until some time ago that he learned Chen Li's true identity by chance.

It's a coincidence~ That day was the opening day of the fried chicken restaurant Shuangxin. On such occasions, Chen Li would usually come over and show up whenever he had time.

But that day, Chen Li didn't go to the new store because he had something to do, but Zhou Bowen happened to come over directly.

Because there was no contact in advance, Zhou Bowen, who came with a flower basket to congratulate the opening of the new store, ended up only seeing his own daughter.

After learning that Chen Li would not come that day, Zhou Bowen could only make a phone call to Chen Li.

The phone call was to ask Chen Li to have dinner with him, but a big businessman like Zhou Bowen would usually not call Chen Li if nothing happened.

Chen Li was busy preparing for the Ji Province branch next door. It was the busiest time, so he asked Zhou Bowen to speak directly.

It was under such circumstances that Ren Xiaobo overheard something that made him feel very ridiculous.

Zhou Bowen actually wanted to borrow money from Chen Li!

As one of the current executives of Ideal Fried Chicken, even if it is only temporary, Ren Xiaobo still knows the operating conditions of Ideal Fried Chicken very well.

Although the ideal fried chicken here is very profitable, it should be said that it is quite profitable.

With dozens of branches added together, the daily turnover of Ideal Fried Chicken easily exceeds six figures.

To use a popular saying nowadays, this ideal fried chicken can be regarded as a cash cow.

But even so, Ren Xiaobo still didn't understand why Zhou Bowen asked Chen Li to borrow money.

Even though the turnover of Ideal Fried Chicken is very high, and even the net profit is not expected to be too low, the corporate account of Ideal Fried Chicken chain has no money at all.

Because all the money was used to open branches!

In fact, with the current speed of Ideal Fried Chicken opening branches, there should still be a certain amount of surplus on the books.

But although Chen Li is a young man with great business talent, he is not without some shortcomings that young people should have.

For example, there are some impulsive things!

God knows how surprised Ren Xiaobo was when he learned that all employees of Ideal Fried Chicken would pay social insurance!

Even in real estate companies, only a small number of managers can enjoy this benefit.

Social insurance ~ these days is even an important criterion for distinguishing private enterprises from state-owned enterprises.

But Chen Li actually paid social insurance for all employees, including five social insurances and one fund!

To put it bluntly, Ren Xiaobo currently only enjoys three insurances and one housing fund.

Of course, Ren Xiaobo’s salary is higher than that of Ideal Fried Chicken employees, but it’s not that outrageous.

Nowadays, if the store manager and chef of an ideal fried chicken store can bring in three to five apprentices, his monthly salary can easily exceed 1,000 yuan, or even reach 2,000 yuan in good times.

This was in 1999, an era when the monthly income of ordinary people was still stuck in three digits, and even the wages of many white-collar workers were not as high as those of store managers.

Logically speaking, such a generous boss like Chen Li should be well-received by his employees.

In fact, this is indeed the case~ Chen Li has a very good reputation among ordinary employees, but in the eyes of managers like Ren Xiaobo, he is really a bit nonsense.

When other people make fast food, they want to suck the blood of customers and their own employees, but Chen Li is just trying to make a profit.

In Ren Xiaobo's view, Chen Li only needs to pay relatively good wages to his employees. As for social insurance, he can completely cut it off.

As long as you can cut off this part, you can save a lot of money every month.

Even the money saved is enough to open several more branches.

It seems that a boss like Chen Li is very conscientious, but in the opinion of Ren Xiaobo, who has enough experience, Chen Li is just messing around.

Today, Ideal Fried Chicken has less than a hundred branches and only a few hundred employees.

But as Ideal Fried Chicken develops faster and faster, with more and more branches and more employees, the social insurance that Ideal Fried Chicken will pay its employees will be astronomical in the future.

By that time, if Chen Li felt distressed, it would already be too late.

Therefore, in Ren Xiaobo's eyes, Chen Li, a businessman, is actually unqualified because he is not "black-hearted" enough!

Ren Xiaobo felt that Chen Li could be nice to his employees, but he couldn't be too nice.

There is only so much water in a pool. The more you give to employees, the less you give to shareholders.

It doesn't matter if the pool is small ~ after all, no one will care too much if there is too little water.

But when the pool gets bigger and there is more water in it, it's another story.

After all, Ideal Fried Chicken does not belong to Chen Li alone, and with the current development model of Ideal Fried Chicken, future financing is also a big problem.

Without financing, the possibility of Ideal Fried Chicken reaching the top of the industry is very small.

So~Ren Xiaobo’s calculations are actually better than anyone else’s!

He knows that with the development model of Ideal Fried Chicken, the upper limit is actually not high ~ Under this premise, he would choose Ideal Fried Chicken only if he is stupid!

But under such circumstances, Ren Xiaobo unexpectedly discovered that his boss Zhou Bowen, Mr. Zhou, was asking Chen Li to borrow money.

This is simply ridiculous!

Because Ren Xiaobo knew very well what Zhou Bowen borrowed the money for.

Recently, the real estate company took on a new project, but because the bank loan was stuck, it encountered some difficulties in funding.

Chen Li is indeed a rich man, but compared with the funds needed by the real estate company, the difference between his kind of wealth is simply the difference between a small witch and a big witch.

Sure enough~ Zhou Bowen was rejected by Chen Li. Chen Li bluntly told Zhou Bowen that he had no money!

Ren Xiaobo didn't think much about it at the time, because he actually understood the current situation of Ideal Fried Chicken~ He even roughly knew the numbers on Ideal Fried Chicken's corporate account.

So when Chen Li said he had no money, he really had no money.

If it's hundreds of thousands, Chen Li will definitely be able to come up with it easily, but the funds that the real estate company needs are in the tens of millions.

Therefore, Chen Li's rejection was completely within Ren Xiaobo's expectation.

Then, perhaps because of the rejection, Zhou Bowen felt a little embarrassed and complained to his daughter.

Ren Xiaobo still remembers what Zhou Bowen said at that time

"This Chen Li is so stingy!"

"He made tens of millions of dollars by selling software. I asked him to borrow 10 million dollars, but he didn't even lend me a penny."

"Do I need this little money? I am supporting him!"

"I thought about bringing him into the industry~ but he actually complained to me about poverty?"

"This guy is so hypocritical!"

"It's a shame that I used to think that if you have a son-in-law like him, you should remember that when you look for a boyfriend in the future, don't look for someone like Chen Li."

As a well-experienced real estate company CEO, Zhou Bowen would not behave like this normally.

Most of the time, Zhou Bowen looks like a humble gentleman, and he is even called a "Confucian businessman" in the industry!

However, when facing his cronies and daughter, Zhou Bowen obviously gave up pretending and poured out his bitterness directly to his daughter.

It’s no wonder that Zhou Bowen was depressed~ because he had good intentions, but was rejected, which made him very depressed.

The real estate industry in 1999 was indeed very popular, but compared with the real estate industry later, it was still far behind.

The real estate tycoons these days may sound pretty cool, but in reality they don’t have much money in their pockets.

Real estate projects these days are basically a set of procedures.

Get the land~loan~renovate the house~pre-sale~get the land~loan~repair the house~pre-sale, and so on!

After such a series of tricks, the funds invested by the real estate company itself are very limited.

There are even a lot of exaggerated claims in this industry that are empty-handed.

But there is a disadvantage in doing this, that is, no problems can occur.

Sometimes there is often a problem in one link, which may lead to a series of problems.

Just like this time, there was something wrong with the loan from the real estate company and it was stuck, which directly caused the real estate company to be short of funds for a project under construction ~ a project that had not yet been launched was put on hold!

Although Zhou Bowen has indeed made a lot of money over the years, a truly smart businessman will not use his own money to fill holes.

At this time, the best way is to find someone to share the risk.

Therefore, Zhou Bowen's initial suggestion to Chen Li was to let Chen Li contribute part of the funds and then give Chen Li a certain amount of profit as a reward.

To be honest, this is actually Zhou Bowen's support to Chen Li.

Because Zhou Bowen knows very well that with the current real estate boom, as long as the project is built, there is no need to worry about not being able to sell it.

It can be said that as long as Chen Li can make up for this shortfall of funds, once the project starts, Chen Li will only need to wait and count the money.

This is because Zhou Bowen wants to support Chen Li because Chen Li helps him make money with his daughter.

You know, there are a lot of people these days who want to get into the real estate industry to make money.

As long as Zhou Bowen is willing, he really doesn't lack the funds. As long as he leaks the news to the outside world, or finds a few friends to open his mouth, all these problems can be solved easily.

He was kind-hearted and asked Chen Li to join the industry, but was rejected by Chen Li, which made Zhou Bowen very puzzled.

Not to mention Zhou Bowen didn't understand it~ Even Ren Xiaobo didn't understand it either.

What he doesn't understand lies in two points.

The first point is why Chen Li didn't take this opportunity to enter the real estate industry.

The second point is what Zhou Bowen said. Chen Li made tens of millions by selling software. It was still US dollars.

To be honest, Ren Xiaobo almost thought he heard it wrong.

But later, when he heard Zhou Xiaoli's words, Ren Xiaobo realized that his understanding of this young man Chen Li was too shallow.

When faced with her father's complaints, Zhou Xiaoli put on a serious and admiring expression and replied:

"Dad~ Chen Li really has no money!"

"Because he donated almost all the money from selling the software to Project Hope!"

"More than 50 million US dollars ~ all donated!"

"So~Chen Li really doesn't have any money!"