rebirth from small pockets

Chapter 588 August

Author: The sea under the clouds

Chen Li really doesn’t know what zodiac sign the tail of August is.

But at the end of August, the acquisition of an office building in Yanjing East Third Ring Road by Ideal Group finally came to an end.

Ideal Group wholly acquired this 12-story office building located on the East Third Ring Road for a price of more than nine figures.

The specific purchase price has not been announced to the public, but anyone with any brains probably knows that the purchase price this time will definitely not be low.

Therefore, the name Ideal Group is somewhat popular in Yanjing’s business circles.

After all, this was only the year 2000, and people who could spend more than nine figures to buy office buildings looked around the country~

Ahem, okay~ Looking across the country, there should be a lot of people like this.

But~ no matter who it is, after learning the age of Chen Li, the helmsman of the Ideal Group, almost everyone will have the same understanding.

Early twenties? Nonsense?

To be honest, this kind of thinking is somewhat narrow-minded. But when everyone thinks so, it is obvious that Chen Li is the one who is not normal.

In 2000, domestic Internet companies had not yet fully prospered, and in traditional industries, the difficulty for a young man in his early twenties with little background to get ahead was almost zero.

Therefore, there were various rumors in the circle. Although there was no evidence to prove it, many people still put various labels on Chen Li's head.

For example, the second generation official, the heir of the family, or even white gloves, etc.!

Of course, the people who spread these rumors are basically people who don’t know much about Chen Li, and many people have even never met Chen Li at all.

They just heard that the company boss who had just spent hundreds of millions of dollars to buy a house in the East Third Ring Road was a young man in his early twenties, and they subconsciously thought so.

But this is normal. After all, the reason why rumors are called rumors is because they have no truth.

But in the eyes of some insiders, they know some real information about Chen Li.

Chen Li, male, is only 21 years old this year. Although from the current perspective, Chen Li is in the catering industry, in fact, Chen Li actually made his fortune by relying on computers and the Internet.

Yes~ In the eyes of many insiders, Chen Li’s real fortune was not from ideal fried chicken, but from the predecessor of Red Pony Technology. Pony Technology!

That's right~ It's the same Pony Technology that sold the Y2K vulnerability patch to Microsoft for a high price of 80 million US dollars.

When Xiaoma Technology sold the Y2K vulnerability patch to Microsoft, it deliberately reserved the Chinese market.

So when Microsoft later sold Y2K vulnerability patches overseas, it didn't make a penny in the Chinese market.

Of course, in the eyes of Microsoft, the Chinese market at the moment is somewhat insignificant, but this trick of Xiaoma Technology has still saved many domestic computer users from the harm of the Y2K problem.

Especially these days, most domestic computer users are from government and public institutions, so Xiaoma Technology's original move caused quite a stir in the industry.

Because ~ the Y2K vulnerability patch that Xiaoma Technology sold in China was completely cheap compared to the price Microsoft sold it in overseas markets.

But even so, many people still remember Xiaoma Technology because of the US$80 million.

Although it was later said that Pony Technology donated more than 50 million US dollars, in the eyes of many people, Pony Technology still had more than 20 million US dollars left.

This seems nonsense, because the total amount that Chen Li received at the beginning was only more than 50 million US dollars. If he had not invested some money in the ideal fried chicken at that time, it is estimated that none of the proceeds from selling the patches would be left.

But in the eyes of outsiders, it doesn't matter how much Chen Li got, they will simply and directly remember the figure of 80 million US dollars.

As for taxes, the proportion of shares and so on are not important at all.

Then ~ Pony Technology became today's Red Pony Technology, and became a leading company in the security industry.

Even today's Red Pony has established a firm foothold in the office software industry, and its current market share is even close to that of the second-ranked Silver Mountain Software.

Therefore, even though Chen Li's Ideal Fried Chicken now has more than 350 branches, in the eyes of many people, Chen Li's base is not in the catering industry at all, but in the computer and Internet industry.

Many people feel that although Chen Li's Ideal Fried Chicken is good, the Ideal Fried Chicken is actually more due to the general manager Su Mei.

As for Chen Li, his roots still lie on the computer and Internet side.

Of course, there is another reason for this. Although the scale of Ideal Fried Chicken is not small now, anyone with a little knowledge knows that although the profits of the catering industry are not low, compared with the computer and the Internet, the two are not the same at all.

Track stuff.

Especially some people in the industry know that although Ideal Fried Chicken is doing well now, many people actually don't think the future of Ideal Fried Chicken is that bright.

The reason is very simple~ Today's ideal fried chicken is actually more like a product of capital power. Although it is developing very fast, its foundation is actually not stable.

In particular, Ideal Fried Chicken still follows an asset-heavy model. More than one-third of its branches are purchased instead of rented. This makes Ideal Fried Chicken, which was supposed to make a lot of money, not reflected in the profit data.

Not very good.

In addition, I don’t know if it’s because Chen Li and Su Mei are too young and somewhat idealistic in their thinking. Anyway, Ideal Fried Chicken is just messing around with employee treatment!

Yes~ In the eyes of many people, Chen Li and Su Mei give the employees of Ideal Fried Chicken high wages, good benefits, and even five insurances and one housing fund. It’s not that they have much conscience, but that they are too stupid.

Go crazy.

It’s okay to treat employees better. It doesn’t even matter if the salary is higher, but the five insurances and one housing fund are just nonsense.

God knows how many employees of state-owned enterprises are still working hard to protect their three insurances these days, but the waiters at Ideal Fried Chicken are all covered by five insurances and one housing fund.

If you do this, you will be scorned by your peers, or even isolated.

In other words, Ideal Fried Chicken has its own independent supply channel. Otherwise, something would have happened to Ideal Fried Chicken long ago.

This sounds a bit ridiculous. As a boss, Chen Li pays more money and provides more benefits to his employees. How can there be a problem?

The problem is of course not with Chen Li, but with other people ~ and even the entire industry!

As we all know, the catering industry is actually a huge profit industry, but this huge profit does not simply refer to the profits generated by the catering itself.

Because among this so-called huge profits, some of the benefits are actually squeezed out from artificial sources.

After all, the catering industry is not like many technical industries, which requires a lot of professional knowledge and cultural reserves to work.

In fact, many positions such as waiters, dishwashers and even kitchens have little to do with the level of knowledge and culture.

Whether you are a high-achieving college graduate or an illiterate person who has never studied, you can find a job that you can operate in the catering industry.

Of course, college students these days will basically not choose the catering industry, because although this industry does not have much demand for cultural background, it is definitely not an easy job.

Therefore, this has also caused a phenomenon, that is, the cultural level of most people working in the catering industry is not high.

Unfortunately, in 2000, this group of migrant workers accounted for the vast majority of workers in the country, so this also led to a huge difference in the supply relationship between the two parties.

On one side are large groups of migrant workers looking for jobs, and on the other side is the catering industry that requires a large amount of cheap labor. Therefore, the labor force in the catering industry has been labeled "cheap" for a long time.

Of course, skilled chefs are not included! This is considered a skilled job after all, and it is completely different from ordinary employees.

That is to say, under this premise, Chen Li's Ideal Fried Chicken~ is definitely an alternative among its peers.

How different is it?

So alternative that Ideal Fried Chicken’s competitors were immediately dumbfounded when they wanted to poach Ideal Fried Chicken’s employees.

Because they suddenly discovered that the salary of a store manager at Ideal Fried Chicken was even higher than the salary of their company's management.

The salary income of ordinary employees of Ideal Fried Chicken even exceeds that of their store manager.

Under such circumstances, let alone poaching people. Some staff members of these competitors even want to switch jobs to work at Ideal Fried Chicken.

In fact, there are some people who can't find new jobs without poaching people. After all, for workers, putting money in their own pockets is the most practical thing.

As for the profit issue that other colleagues in the industry worried about for Chen Li, to be honest, this is indeed a problem.

It has been nearly two years since Ideal Fried Chicken was founded. To say that Ideal Fried Chicken has not made any money is absolutely nonsense.

After all, the fried chicken industry can be considered a huge profit in the catering industry. Even if the cost of ideal fried chicken is too huge, the money that should be earned is still earned.

However, based on the development strategy of Ideal Fried Chicken, the company invested almost all the profits it earned into the development of the company.

Okay~ It’s actually Ideal Fried Chicken. Except for a bonus last year due to an accident at Zhou Xiaoli’s family, Ideal Fried Chicken has never received a bonus so far.

It makes sense~ It is normal not to pay dividends for a year. After all, if a company wants to grow and develop, continuous investment of funds is definitely a necessary condition.

However, there will be no dividends for two years, and even in the following one or two years, Ideal Fried Chicken may not pay dividends. This is actually not normal.

Moreover, compared with competitors in the same industry, Ideal Fried Chicken's profit margin is indeed somewhat low, which is why many peers have criticized Ideal Fried Chicken's operating model for problems.

To be honest~ Fortunately, Ideal Fried Chicken has a fixed supply channel of Shennong Foods, otherwise Ideal Fried Chicken’s wealth report would be even more ugly.

Therefore, in the eyes of outsiders, even though Ideal Fried Chicken is developing relatively fast now, it is difficult to achieve final victory with such an unhealthy development model.

There are even many people who have been waiting to see Chen Li's jokes. After all, in the eyes of a large number of people, Chen Li, a young man with a smooth mouth, is still too young.

It is also for this reason that even though Ideal Fried Chicken has developed to a certain scale, many people still prefer to classify Chen Li into the computer and Internet industry.

And once Chen Li is classified among the upstarts of the computer and Internet, his age in his early twenties does not seem to be so dazzling.

After all, the computer Internet is the hottest industry at the moment, and it is not unusual for one or two young leaders to emerge.

In fact, many young rich people have appeared in the domestic computer and Internet industry in the past two years, but compared to them, Chen Li's age in his early twenties is still somewhat conspicuous.

Hmm~ It's just like that. Anyway, no matter whether everyone can accept it or not, Chen Li is standing there.

Anyway, Chen Li is reborn and has double system BUFFs in hand. He has enough strength and qualifications to deal with everything that may happen in the future.

At the end of August, the freshman reporting process at Yenching International Studies University has begun.

Unlike other students who have to come to the University of Foreign Studies to report, Chen Xue lives right next to the family courtyard of the University of Foreign Studies.

The reason why Chen Li bought this house was because it was very close to the University of Foreign Studies.

Recently, because Chen Li, his elder brother, often took him to the University of Foreign Languages ​​for training, Chen Xue had already gotten to know all his teachers even if there were no reports.

The advantage of this is that when other freshmen come to report, Chen Xue has already been arrested as a freshman.

Yes~ Chen Xue has been called by her instructor to help.

Also helping Chen Xue were the sophomores and juniors in the student union.

Perhaps because it was the first time she had done this kind of thing, Chen Xue worked very hard, whether it was moving tables and passing benches, serving tea and water, helping to carry luggage, etc. Even though this girl was sweating profusely from work, she was still

Never get tired of it.

This state lasted the whole morning, and when lunch was approaching, I could finally relax a bit.

"Chen Xue~ Let's go and eat."

"By the way~ You are still a freshman, so I will treat you to this meal today!"

"You are from Sichuan Province, right? I will take you to the Second Canteen. The food there is very suitable for the taste of you Sichuan Province people."

Today's Chen Xue is no longer the greedy little chubby girl in Chen Li's memory. Today's Chen Xue can definitely be regarded as a goddess-level figure even in a school like the University of Foreign Studies where there are more girls than boys.

Especially her height of 1.72 meters, exquisite facial features and fashionable outfits are really too eye-catching on the university campus.

Many of the senior brothers who were responsible for the orientation work together with Chen Xue had already been quietly sizing up Chen Xue.

The person who is now calling Chen Xue to eat is a student union cadre of the English School who is responsible for the orientation work this time.

This guy has a short haircut, and the hair on his head is sprayed with a lot of gel water, so he looks a bit like a character from the Arcade King of Fighters.

"No need, senior brother~ My home is nearby, I'll go home and eat."

Chen Xue smiled and declined the senior brother's invitation. Then, Chen Xue saw a figure not far away, a happy smile appeared on his face and he waved to that side.

"Brother~ this way!"