The Pentium Era - South to North

Zhang Xiangbei and others stayed in Yunlin for one night. Zhang Yongcheng, director-general of the Taiwan Provincial Farmers Association, and Zhang Lishan, a legislator of the Kuomintang, and his wife accompanied them to inspect the homes of farmers and pig farmers.

They found that Taiwan's agriculture is characterized by family-based units, relatively small scale, and relatively primitive farming methods and technologies. Like the mainland, the working population engaged in agriculture has a serious aging tendency, and young people are moving to metropolitan areas for development and are unwilling to do so. Stay in the countryside.

In rural areas, farmers' associations play a very important role. They organize farmers one by one and provide guidance to them in planting and marketing.

Compared with mainland China, the biggest hidden concern of Taiwan's agriculture is that its ability to resist risks is relatively weak. Taiwan's agriculture is relatively an industry with relatively conservative external relations. Their fruits are highly dependent on the mainland market, but they import agricultural products from the mainland. A strict prohibition policy was adopted, that is, he could export but not import.

Because the island of Taiwan itself is narrow, it is affected by typhoons and other natural disasters every year, which causes its supply to be unstable. When a major disaster occurs, it will immediately lead to a tight supply of fruits and vegetables across the island and soaring prices. During the good season, there will be oversupply and prices will plummet.

Unlike the mainland, there are very few natural disasters that can affect several major vegetable supply bases at the same time. There is a complementary and regulating effect between the major vegetable supply bases.

The land of Taiwanese farmers is completely privately owned, and each household does not own much land. Relatively speaking, they have more freedom in terms of voice and disposal rights, which is another favorable condition.

It provides the possibility to establish a professional company based on farmers, and its stability is much greater. There will be no conflicts caused by relatively complex interpersonal relationships and organizational structures like the Yubei Company. All in all, here, as long as you can win over the person, everything will be settled, and everything can be determined through the economic system and company system, which is much simpler.

On the way back to Taipei, Xiaohu led them to Miaoli County, which is another agricultural county. Lin Yaochang, the Kuomintang county magistrate, received them.

After returning to Taipei, Zhang Xiangbei and Wu Huan stayed in Taipei for another three nights. Mang Chao accompanied them around Taipei, New Taipei and Keelung.

Taipei City has a population of only 2.75 million. In terms of population size, it is only about half of cities such as Shaoxing, Jinhua, and Wuxi. The coverage area is definitely too small. New Taipei City around Taipei City was originally Taipei County, and later The name was changed to New Taipei City, both in terms of geographical location and people's psychology, there is a concept of Greater Taipei, and they feel that Taichung and New Taipei are one.

The 12 districts of Taipei City, the 29 districts of New Taipei City, and the 7 districts of Keelung City. These three geographically connected cities together form a Taipei Metropolitan Area, also called Greater Taipei, with a total population of 700 Ninety thousand.

According to the latest comprehensive ranking of international metropolitan areas released by GaWc (Globalization and World Cities Research Network, GaWC for short), the Taipei Metropolitan Area ranks second behind Tokyo, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore, Beijing, Sydney and other Alpha+ international second-tier cities in the world city rankings. The metropolitan area is an Alpha international third-level metropolis along with Milan, Toronto, and Seoul.

Zhang Xiangbei and others determined that not Taipei, but the entire Taipei metropolitan area, would be included in the scope of their "Home Delivery" Taipei branch.

Taiwan's review of mainland companies entering Taiwan is very strict. This trend has worsened since the Democratic Progressive Party came to power. Zhang Xiangbei and his company in Taiwan cannot directly register as a branch of the mainland's "Zhaixianshu". It is necessary to register an independent "Taipei Zhaixian Delivery Co., Ltd." in Taipei. The company has two shareholders, one is Fubon Financial Holdings, and the other -

They cannot let Zhai Xiansu from the mainland become a shareholder of Zhai Xiansu in Taipei. Instead, they use their parent company in the Virgin Islands as a shareholder. In this way, it looks like it is a company in the Virgin Islands. On both sides of the Taiwan Strait, we have invested in two "fresh home delivery" companies. In mainland China, we are 100% wholly-owned, and in Taiwan, we hold 49% of the shares.

In this way, Taipei's "Zhai Xian Delivery" is still a subsidiary of Fubon Financial Holdings and has nothing to do with Mainland China's "Zhai Xian Delivery".

Zhang Xiangbei and the others traveled from district to district in Taipei, New Taipei and Keelung. The biggest headache for them was that the urban construction in the Taipei metropolitan area was relatively old. Not only did there not be residential communities like those in mainland cities, but the proportion of new buildings was far behind. Lower than even a third-tier city on the mainland, the city has mostly low-rise private residences and mostly old buildings.

Most of the land and houses in Taipei are privately owned. Whether it is Taipei, New Taipei or Keelung, urban renewal plans are the most difficult task for the mayor of every city to advance. There are few large-scale projects. Large tracts of land can be used to develop tracts of real estate.

There is no unit like the Land Acquisition and Storage Center, which directly buys and sells land use rights.

Ren'ai Dibao, where Xiaohu lives, can have six buildings forming a complex, which is already considered a large residential project in Taipei. It's no wonder that houses like this can be sold for sky-high prices.

Such a large environment brings difficulties to the placement of their fresh-keeping cabinets and the entire distribution work. In mainland China, a community contains thousands of households. They put dozens of fresh-keeping cabinets into one community, covering thousands of households. Each household in Taipei has thousands of households, almost covering a street.

It is impossible for them to put the fresh-keeping cabinet from the street to the end of the street. Even if they want to put it, there is no place to put it. The land is private. Private land, how many people are willing to use it to provide services to others?

According to Zhang Xiangbei's experience in mainland China, as long as the fresh-keeping cabinet is not on the path that customers must pass every day, such as the underground parking lot or the lobby on the first floor, they will find it very inconvenient. Many people can't even walk from the building where they live to the next door. The building felt like a long way to go, let alone walking from the street to the end of the street.

As long as customers' convenience is discounted, the popularity of "Home Delivery" will double.

At the same time, compared with the first-tier cities in mainland China, the Taipei metropolitan area is a very life-oriented city. The number of vegetable markets, vegetable shops and supermarkets in the city is much more than that in mainland cities. If the "fresh food delivery" cannot be used Customers find it very convenient, so they are willing to turn around the corner and go to a vegetable store or market to buy food.

Finally, another negative factor is that in Taipei, electronic payment and e-commerce are not as convenient as in mainland China. This is still a society accustomed to using cash. This has increased the promotion and popularization of their "fresh home delivery" Difficulty.

The good thing is that people in Taipei spend more on living expenses every month than people in first-tier cities in mainland China, which is beneficial to them for "delivery at home".

What Zhang Xiangbei and the others need to solve most now is the problem of the fresh-keeping cabinet.

Wu Huan, Zhang Xiangbei, Xiaohu, and Mang Chao held an online meeting in the conference room of Xiaohu and Fubon Financial Holdings, and called all the general managers of their branches online. Zhang Xiangbei told everyone about the problems they encountered in Taipei and asked everyone to help them come up with ideas.

Everyone was talking about it online, but their ideas sounded a bit far-fetched to Zhang Xiangbei and Xiaohu. They were rejected one by one without even considering them, and the meeting reached a deadlock.

"Beibei, have you forgotten?" said Xiao Wenwen from Beijing.

"What did I forget?" Zhang Xiangbei asked.

"If everything is uncertain, ask dad. Why don't you ask Mr. Zhang?" Xiao Wenwen said.

Zhang Xiangbei couldn't laugh or cry. He said, "We are discussing the fresh-keeping cabinet. What is the use of it?"

"Wenwen is right. Brother Zhang Chen has many ideas. Ask him, he might have some ideas." Xiao Wu said.

Xiaohu also said from the side: "Mr. Zhang has been to Taipei. He is very familiar with the situation here. You can ask him if he has any good ideas."

"I called him and asked him to come into the conference room." Xiao Wu said.

After a while, Zhang Chen entered the conference room. Xiaohu waved and greeted him and said, "Hello, Uncle Zhang!"

Zhang Chen also waved to Xiaohu and said hello to him!

"What problems did you encounter?" Zhang Chen asked.

Xiaohu carefully explained the problems they encountered in Taipei to Zhang Chen. Zhang Chen was in his office in the "Half Acre Field" building. He listened carefully to Xiaohu talking on the computer and took the table. With the pen and paper on the table, he continued to draw aimlessly on the paper as he was used to.

After Xiaohu finished speaking, Zhang Chen continued to draw without saying a word. Everyone in the conference room knew that this was when he was thinking, and everyone was silent and looked at him silently.

Zhang Chen continued painting aimlessly for more than ten minutes, and then he suddenly stopped. Everyone thought it was a network problem and was stuck. Xiaohu was about to ask "Uncle Zhang, are you still there" when he saw Zhang Chen Chen's mouth twitched and he laughed. He pushed the paper aside, took another one, and started drawing.

Then, he took another piece of paper and drew on it. Everyone looked at him and couldn't see clearly what he was drawing, but it could be seen from his posture that he must have an idea and was drawing. It must be related to this.

Everyone suddenly felt nervous, wondering what Zhang Chen would bring out soon.

After Zhang Chen finished drawing, he put down his pen, rubbed his hands together, and then raised his head as if waking up from a dream, looked at the computer and asked:

"Xiaohu, have you finished speaking?"

Xiaohu smiled and said, "Uncle Zhang, I have finished speaking."

"Did you just talk about the problem with the fresh-keeping cabinet?" Zhang Chen asked.

Xiaohu said yes.

"There are two ways to solve this." Zhang Chen said, "One is to break it into parts."

"What do you mean by breaking it into parts?" Xiaohu asked.

"I don't know if you have milk crates in Taiwan, but everyone in the mainland knows about it." Zhang Chen said, "For those individual houses, the fresh-keeping cabinets are broken into parts, which are now grids. Make it an independent cabinet, like this—"

Zhang Chen raised the paper in his hand as he spoke. Everyone saw that what was drawn on the paper was a door. On the wall next to the door, there was an independent fresh-keeping cabinet hanging like a milk crate. In this way, living in People inside the door only need to open the door and get their own food, just like taking milk from the milk box at the door.

Everyone in the conference room's eyes lit up, and Zhang Xiangbei couldn't bear it anymore and shouted: "Great!"

Zhang Chen smiled and then raised the second piece of paper. Everyone saw that the paper was a glass house the size of a newsstand. Inside the house was a row of fresh-keeping cabinets. Zhang Chen said:

"This is a post station. It is located under those old houses or on the side of the road. When the person picking up the food enters the password, the door will open and he can get his own food. Such a post station does not take up any space. , as long as it is set up in an open space on the roadside, Xiaohu, you should be able to get the city governments of Taipei and Keelung, New Taipei, as long as they agree, and it will not involve private land."

In the conference room, everyone laughed, some even clapped, and Xiao Wenwen shouted:

"Did you see that what I said was right? Did the veteran come out to defeat both of them?"

"It knocked us all off." Wu Huan said with a smile.

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