rebirth from small pockets

Chapter 515 New tasks in 2000

Fifteen million US dollars, in the business world twenty years later, does not seem to be a big number.

But in 1999, it was ~15 million US dollars, which was still a bit of a concept.

If nothing else, even if some wealthy people want to exchange fifteen million US dollars, it will probably be a big problem.

Let's put it this way~ Last year, China's entire foreign exchange reserves were only US$150 billion.

Although the difference between $15 million and $150 billion is huge, it is a comparison between an individual and an entire country.

It can be seen that this fifteen million US dollars is already a very huge number.

Don't look at the fact that this amount of money converted into Chinese currency is just over 120 million, but if Chen Li is willing to deposit this US dollar in a bank, he can even easily loan 150 million or even 200 million Chinese currency from the bank.

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And what does one to two hundred million dollars mean?

Take the big hole left by Zhou Xiaoli's father, Zhou Bowen, for example. This fund is completely enough for him to fill that hole.

However, the problem of the Zhou family's real estate company is not limited to funds. Throwing this money in can only fill the hole, but it does not mean much to the real estate company itself.

Not to mention that Chen Li couldn't come up with so much money at that time, even if he could, he wouldn't be able to lend the money to Zhou Bowen.

You must know that this fifteen million US dollars is almost all the working capital of Chen Li's various industries in addition to sufficient funds.

For this reason, Chen Li even asked Ma Xiaoyun to advance the share that should have been paid next month.

Not only that, Chen Li even packaged many stores under the name of Ideal Fried Chicken, and as the largest shareholder of Ideal Fried Chicken, he borrowed a total of 20 million from the bank.

However, Chen Li's seemingly reckless move seems to be very reckless, but in fact he is also very measured.

Not to mention anything else, the money he spent on mortgages and loans was completely enough to repay with the profitability of Ideal Fried Chicken.

But in that case, the development of Ideal Fried Chicken will be greatly restricted.

For this reason, Chen Li even received numerous looks from Su Mei, the current general manager of Ideal Fried Chicken.

Fortunately, Comrade Su Mei finally agreed to Chen Li's seemingly inexplicable behavior, even though she didn't even know what Chen Li wanted to do with the money.

She simply trusts Chen Li as a business partner. To be honest, such trust may cause her to suffer big losses in the business world, but fortunately it won't happen this time.

In other words, Chen Li should not let his partners suffer.

But no matter what, Chen Li's behavior is somewhat irresponsible to shareholders.

In other words, Su Mei is just a professional manager who has become a monk on the way, and her trust in Chen Li far exceeds her awareness of risks.

As for another shareholder Zhou Xiaoli, this silly elder sister now believes everything Chen Li says. After all, Chen Li just did her a big favor.

You know, the money Chen Li borrowed from her after dividends was even used to buy out her shares, so Zhou Xiaoli had no possibility of doubting Chen Li at all.

In short, no matter whether he was selling the pot or trying to make do with things here and there, Chen Li finally raised a total of 15 million US dollars.

And this money was the basis for Chen Li’s first foray into the capital market, and also Chen Li’s first contact with the craziest industry in the world.

This trip to the capital market can be regarded as Chen Li's test of this extremely risky industry.

If this goes well, then Chen Li may become a big shot in the capital market in the future.

If this fails, then Chen Li thinks he might as well go back and raise chickens!

Anyway, Chen Li is well prepared for both endings. Everything depends on the next development.

At 8:50 in the morning, Chen Li arrived at hao123's office before officially going to work.

This is an office located in a building in Zhongguancun, with a total area of ​​less than 100 square meters.

There is no way~hao123’s characteristics are destined to not require too much~large office space.

Even this office location is actually used more often to receive customers.

Although it is a bit wasteful, hao123 is now on track, and its monthly revenue has already exceeded six figures.

Therefore, such an office space is still affordable for the company.

Today is the New Year's Day holiday~ Logically speaking, it should be a holiday, and Chen Li never puts too many demands on his employees during holidays.

But there are some exceptions today ~ because Chen Li has moved the annual meeting to today.

To be honest, this is a kind of occupying employees' personal time, but Chen Li can't help it. He will leave for Hong Kong Island in a few days, and he probably won't be able to make it back before the end of the year.

So he could only take advantage of these few days to quickly resolve some matters that needed his intervention.

As for the holidays, I’ll just have an extra day during the Spring Festival.

And employees these days have no objection to telling the truth at the annual meeting on New Year's Day.

Because too many companies do this these days. Anyway, put these things on holidays or weekends, so that employees will not be delayed from going to work!

Okay~ This is a typical capitalist concept, but Chen Li has a reason for this, and he also said in advance that he will have an extra day during the Spring Festival, which can be regarded as making up for the holiday.

There are actually only five people in hao123 at present, including the manager Song Xiaolan.

One is responsible for reception, one is responsible for maintenance, and Song Xiaolan is responsible for negotiating cooperation with customers. As for the remaining two, they are actually salesmen.

The purpose of Chen Li's visit this time is to give out year-end bonus~ Of course, this year, it should be called holiday bonus.

It's just that Chen Li probably won't return to Yanjing before the Spring Festival, so he simply took the New Year's year-end bonus and the New Year's Day holiday expenses and gave it away.

In fact, it’s really not that much money. The year-end bonus for ordinary employees is one month’s salary, and there is also a holiday allowance of 100 yuan for New Year’s Day and 200 yuan for Spring Festival.

Of course, the year-end bonus for management will be larger. For example, Song Xiaolan’s year-end bonus is ten months’ salary.

After all, with hao123’s current development, Song Xiaolan can be said to be the first contributor!

This girl, whose family couldn't even pay for school fees due to a car accident, is now considered a white-collar elite.

Of course, some people may think that manager Song Xiaolan only received a year-end bonus of ten months’ basic salary. Is Chen Li being a bit stingy?

One thing must be made clear here: this is the year 1999!

These days, to be honest, any company that can pay bonuses to employees at the end of the year is basically a conscientious company.

Not to mention ten months~ even half a year's basic salary would probably make Song Xiaolan smile.

In fact, this is indeed the case. When Song Xiaolan got the thick red envelope, the smile on her face could not be hidden at all.

After all, she is still a senior in college and is in the internship period.

That is to say, she met a boss like Chen Li before she could have the current income. Otherwise, with her qualifications, let alone managing the website hao123, it would be good to find a stable internship job.

“Thank you boss~ I wish you a big fortune in the coming year!”

Song Xiaolan looked at the two thick stacks of hundred-yuan bills in her hand and the three-hundred-yuan holiday expenses, and she began to make calculations in her heart.

With this money, the debt owed by the family. Hey, it seems that the family is no longer in debt.

Well~ some of the money Song Xiaolan borrowed to go to college and the money her mother borrowed from relatives when she had a car accident~ have long been repaid.

Now Song Xiaolan is the webmaster and administrator of hao123, with a monthly salary of up to 2,000 yuan.

And her mother, who currently manages the staff cafeteria of Ideal Fried Chicken, has more employees than Song Xiaolan even has.

Of course, the salary may be a little lower than Song Xiaolan's, but she still earns one thousand yuan a month.

The mother and daughter's monthly income reached 3,000, which was really high income in 1999.

"What are you going to do with this money? Should you treat me to a big dinner after you get the bonus?"

Chen Li and Song Xiaolan had long been familiar with each other, so they started to joke around.

"Hmm~ It's okay to treat you to a meal, boss. My mother has actually wanted to treat you to a meal for a long time."

"It's just a big dinner. Let's forget it!"

"With your consumption level, boss, I can't afford your feast."

Song Xiaolan stuck out her tongue. Wangnan wanted to acquire hao123 before. As the webmaster of hao123, Song Xiaolan accompanied Chen Li to a banquet.

We had a seafood dinner that day, and the meal and drinks cost more than 10,000 yuan.

In 1999, a meal costing over 10,000 yuan was already considered a sky-high price.

So in Song Xiaolan's eyes, she couldn't afford the "big dinner" that Chen Li called.

Of course, both Chen Li and Song Xiaolan knew very well that the feast Chen Li was talking about was definitely not a banquet meal.

To put it bluntly~ given the current familiar relationship between the two, this is just a joke, and Song Xiaolan's answer is actually a joke.

Of course~ what she said about Aunt Song wanting to treat Chen Li to a meal is true.

In fact, Chen Li has eaten many meals cooked by Aunt Song, and every time he eats, Aunt Song will mention "thank you" or "gratitude", which makes Chen Li somewhat helpless.

But then I thought about it, in the summer of 1998, when my daughter had a car accident, the driver escaped, and the family didn’t even have money to pay her daughter’s tuition, etc., suddenly a young man like Chen Li expressed his displeasure to Aunt Song.

The two women extended a helping hand.

This kind of friendship may not seem like much to others, but for the person involved, it can no longer be described as just "gratitude."

To put it bluntly, Chen Li has a girlfriend~ and Chen Li and Song Xiaolan don't like each other, otherwise Aunt Song would even want Chen Li to be her son-in-law.

Of course, this is actually a joke, and the main meaning is to express her gratitude to the young man Chen Li.

"It's no problem to eat~ I haven't tasted Aunt Song's cooking for a while."

"The crispy fish that Aunt Song made last time~ I went back and tried to make it, but I couldn't get the same taste."

Song Xiaolan's mother has good cooking skills, which even Chen Li must admit.

Although Aunt Song is good at cooking home-cooked dishes from Guizhou Province, Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan are not separated from each other, so Chen Li is not used to Guizhou cuisine at all.

Of course, Chen Li still couldn't accept some of the few dishes that were too special.

For example, some bugs and fungi from Yunnan Province, and some special hot pots from Guizhou Province, etc.

Fortunately, Aunt Song has never cooked these special dishes for Chen Li, and I don’t know if Aunt Song can cook them.

"My mom is always free here~but boss, you are usually too busy."

"Anyway, since you are free that day, just call me half a day in advance so that I can ask my mother to buy groceries in advance."

"By the way~ Remember to call Qingqing too. I haven't seen her for a long time. Last time she said she wanted to go to our school canteen to make steamed rice noodles."

"Okay~ By the way, I'll leave it to you, the webmaster, to distribute the red envelopes to the employees below!"

Chen Li nodded, and then handed a stack of red envelopes prepared in advance to Song Xiaolan.

"Hehe~ That's great~ As soon as they said they were going to give out money today, these guys were much more active than usual at work."

"The most exaggerated one~even arrived at the company half an hour early."

Song Xiaolan took the red envelope, counted it carefully, and then nodded with a smile.

"By the way, we'll talk about giving out red envelopes later."

"I came here today to discuss with you the work for the coming year."

In the office at the moment, there were only Chen Li and Song Xiaolan. Zhang Ruolan and Mu Xiaoqing, who were originally with Chen Li, were sent away by Chen Li to buy drinks.

Of course~ Chen Li deliberately avoided it. Zhang Ruolan and Mu Xiaoqing also knew that their boss had serious business to discuss with Song Xiaolan, the young webmaster.

"Boss, tell me!"

As soon as she heard that there was something serious to talk about, Song Xiaolan immediately got into a working attitude, and she directly pulled out a notebook from the drawer of her desk.

These days, laptops are not as popular as they were later, so pens and diaries are considered standard equipment for professional elites.

"At present, hao123 is on track."

"But we know our own affairs, hao123 has an upper limit."

"Although hao123 is far from reaching its upper limit, we need to start preparing for a rainy day."

"Next year~ I plan to expand your studio, and I will give you a new task."

"What mission?"

Song Xiaolan was not surprised at all by what Chen Li said about hao123. After all, just like Chen Li said, her family members actually know the current situation of hao123 best.

So compared to the current situation of hao123, she is more concerned about the new tasks mentioned by Chen Li.

"A task you are familiar with."

"Although we, hao123, are engaged in website navigation, in fact, there are many websites of each type, so in fact, what we hao123 do is help users filter."

"We have selected better, more practical and more useful websites in advance to respond to user needs."

"And next year, I plan to make another website like this, but this time we are not targeting the website itself, but"

“Brick and mortar business!”

(End of chapter)