Rebirth of the Burning Era

The uncle of the doorman has a very arrogant attitude. Even though he is dressed in ordinary clothes, he is bigger than the county magistrate.

Liang Yifei and Bahrain looked at each other.

The attitude of the janitor is not surprising. It is a must-have skill for a qualified doorman. Otherwise, how can you deal with cats and dogs from all walks of life? The reason why the King of Hell is good is that the premise is that the little devils are difficult to deal with.

But the question is, this place is obviously Tianfu? On the big sign at the door, there are also big characters "Tianfu Beverage Co., Ltd.".

"That's right, it's here." Balin took the letter of introduction and pointed to the sign at the door, "Isn't this Tianfu Coke?"

The old man squinted at him, ignored him, continued to hold the tea vat, and basked in the sun with Erlang's legs crossed.

Liang Yifei took out a pack of red pandas from his arms, knocked on one, handed it to the old man across the big iron gate, and asked with a smile, "Master, have a cigarette."

The old man first glanced at the cigarette with the 'sidelight', then looked at Liang Yifei with the right eye, and took the cigarette.

"Let me tell you, right now in Tianfu, the foreigners have the right to say. The Pepsi Cola group, the Chinese factory manager's speech is not a big deal. You want to find it. Go to the Chaotianmen Chongqing Hotel. Several foreign managers live there."

Bahrain blinked, but he didn't realize what was going on for a while, and he didn't know what to do next.

Liang Yifei squatted at the door and asked with a smile: "Master, we are from out of town and want to do some business with the factory. Now that the factory and Pepsi are not cooperating, why doesn't the Chinese manager's speech count?"

The old gatekeeper glanced at Liang Yifei again, and said, "Why are you asking so many questions, I told you to go to a foreigner, and you go to a foreigner."

"Learn more about the situation, and it won't hurt to cooperate." Liang Yifei smiled, took out a hundred yuan, handed it over through the door, and said, "Uncle, you are working hard, buy a bottle of wine to drink."

"What are you doing?!" The old man seemed to be stern, but his tone was very gentle, and a friendly smile appeared on his face.

One hundred yuan, which is half a month's salary for him. If he could make this money by setting up a dragon gate with others every day, he would have made a fortune long ago.

He accepted the money without hesitation at all, and opened a corner door beside the big iron gate, saying, "Look, you are not bad people, and you have a letter of introduction. Come in and sit and talk."

The guard room is quite large, but it is also very empty. There is a table, a few rattan chairs, and a set of small teapots that are not very well made. There is water sitting on the stove. He grabbed a handful of broken tea leaves from the tea can, brewed the tea, and opened the chat box.

In 1994, PepsiCo came to talk about investment. Tianfu Cola produced land, factories and personnel, including Tianfu Cola's secret recipe and more than 100 subordinate small bottling plants, at a discount of 300 million yuan.

This money was paid by Pepsi, which solved the financial difficulties in the city at that time. In addition, in the newly formed joint venture company, the Chinese side in Tianfu has 40% of the equity, and Pepsi has 60%;

"You think, there are 60% shares, it must be what the foreigner said." The old man sipped the teapot.

"Master, 40% of the shares are not many, but that is also a major shareholder. The major shareholder speaks, it still has weight, why is it not a big deal?" Balin asked inexplicably.

"Let me tell you, you are young, and you don't understand a lot of things! If you don't have enough to eat, you have the energy to fight. When you're full, who will fight? These leaders in the factory used to be one of them when they were competing with their own people. Compared to a fierce one, now foreigners are here, Nima Yo, they have all become cowards!"

As he spoke, the old man was filled with righteous indignation, slapped his thighs and spit and complained, saying: "Everyone is fed, and they don't do anything, just lie at home and take money, how can they not be cowardly? Who should fight? What? The foreigners are very united, and they come and go, so it’s not just the foreigners!”

The old man's words may not be on the point, 40% of the shares, on the premise of no lawsuits, many things are indeed difficult to fight, and they can't be fought. It doesn't mean that the Chinese leaders don't want to fight.

What's more, a world-scale enterprise like Pepsi has many advantages over contemporary mainland entrepreneurs in terms of experience in business operations, setting up and evading cooperation traps, and even in relations with local governments. To put it a bit nasty, it is really necessary to play tricks and engage in business battles. Under the premise of complying with the rules, it is not much harder to play ordinary mainland entrepreneurs than to play monkeys.

After decades of reform and opening up, foreigners have suffered from the mainland, and the mainland has suffered from foreigners.

But the old man's words do reflect a fact: in the new joint venture, the Chinese side has little right to speak.

"Old man, I heard that Tianfu Cola used to sell very well in the middle of Shu, but I didn't see many sold on the street this time. What's going on?" Liang Yifei asked again.

"Of course I won't sell it if I don't produce it!" The old man suddenly got angry and slapped the table: "These prodigals!"

"If you don't produce, what will Tianfu Company sell?" Liang Yifei asked curiously.

"Selling Pepsi." The old man pointed through the window, pointed to a large row of buildings behind, and said, "See, it's all the previous bottling lines, which are no longer in production, and half of them are vacant."

Bahrain didn't quite understand it yet, so he said in a mixed manner, "Selling Pepsi? Tianfu Cola, why sell Pepsi? If you sell Pepsi, why do Pepsi invest in Tianfu? Can't they just sell it themselves?"

"You are young, and you don't understand a lot of things." The old man said that again, and said, "How do you sell yourself? You sell it when you say it is sold? It is like this now, Tianfu Cola is basically not produced much, and there are hundreds of people in the factory and below. Of the many bottling plants, most of them have stopped production, and the remaining half are bottling Pepsi Cola. Do you know what puree is? Foreigners are shrewd and ruthless, do you think joint ventures are friends? No! People are guarding you. , the formula is kept secret, and the puree is regularly shipped in from abroad, diluted and filled with the factory's assembly line, and it comes out as Pepsi!"

Bahrain still doesn't understand a bit, is this unreasonable?

Pepsi spent money to invest in Tianfu, but it still produces Pepsi, so why not invest in building a factory to fill it? You can’t spend that much money at all. With a company as big as PepsiCo, if you want to invest in the mainland, any city is welcome and will give you good policies.

Buying Tianfu, of course, is because of its good brand and reputation. Now only Pepsi is produced, and Tianfu is no longer produced. Isn’t most of the money spent on it wasted?

So many of Tianfu's subordinate bottling plants are idle, and there are still so many people who have to be raised and maintained. Isn't this also money?

Foreigners are rich, and they are not so foolish.

The old janitor complained again, and his speech was not coherent. It was just a few words over and over again. Liang Yifei probably understood it, and he was too lazy to listen to him again. Wanna go for a walk?"

"What's wrong with this!" The old man waved his hand quickly.

"Master, don't you think I look like a thief? Besides, if you follow one, you're afraid that I will do bad things. I just want to know more, understand clearly, and then go to foreigners, so I won't be bullied by them."

Liang Yifei laughed and took out another two hundred yuan and stuffed it into the old man's pocket.

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Like the foreign guest hotel in Binhai City, Chongqing Hotel is also the first foreign-related hotel in Chongqing. It started from the Sichuan Salt Bank during the Anti-Japanese War. In 1987, it entered into a joint venture with the Hong Kong-based French-Chinese Company and became the first foreign-related star-rated hotel in the entire Shuzhong. The first high-end hotel in Shu with carpeted floors, dial-up telephones, steak and coke.

Of course, at that time, all this was only open to foreigners. I don't know how many times, after a child who sneaked in and played naughty was caught by the security guard, like a martyr who died, he would rather be locked in a small dark room without telling his parents. Work unit, for fear of parents being implicated.

Today, when Chongqing already has a four-star hotel, Chongqing Hotel is still the first choice for foreigners who come to work and travel in Shuzhong to live and party.

Thomas is such a foreigner. He has a quarter of Chinese blood. His grandfather, a retired aviation mechanic, came to China with Chennault during the Anti-Japanese War. He provided mechanic support for the Flying Tigers and worked in During a business trip to Chongqing, Hangzhou Jianqiao Airport, met his grandmother, an English female teacher who fled to Shu after the fall of the Shanghai stock market. The two quickly fell in love.

At the end of 1948, Thomas' grandfather left China with his father, and in 1966, his grandmother died in Chongqing.

For China and the city of Chongqing, Thomas has a completely different feeling from those of his American colleagues, that is, he feels kind and yearning, but also has a faint resistance and hatred~www.wuxiaspot.com~ Every time he sets foot in this city, On the street, when he saw those Chinese people walking on the street, he couldn't help but think of the legendary years he had never experienced before.

Therefore, even if the foreign party representing Xintianfu, the person in charge of foreign investment in Tianfu, has arranged a villa area for foreign experts to live in, but he is still more accustomed to living in a Chongqing hotel, and he has renovated it many times. In the setting, feel the lingering charm of that period of history from decades ago, stand on the high terrace, keep a certain distance, and look down at the Chinese people downstairs who he feels kind but cannot fully understand.

When Liang Yifei came to Thomas's room, Thomas's first subconscious action was to look back to see if the carpet entering the door was dirty.

He frowned. The carpet was clean, free of mud and stains, but it was still trampled.

"Hello, Mr. Thomas, this is my business card." Liang Yifei handed a business card with both hands.

Thomas hesitated for a while, but still stretched out his hands and took the business card. After seeing the introduction in Chinese only, he casually placed it on the table and said, "Mr. Liang, I have limited time, please explain your intention directly. ."