Chapter 529: Layout of Overseas Markets
Standing in front of the floor-to-ceiling window, overlooking the colorful lights of the entire Bund, Shen Jinglan missed this feeling very much.
The last time she came, she thought this place would be reserved for Jiang Wen to live in, but it turned out that Luo Yang treated this place as a private base.
It is very likely that Jiang Wen doesn’t even know the existence of this property.
"Do you like the feeling of standing here?"
Luo Yang's voice came from behind: "Work hard, there will be plenty of opportunities in the future. Maybe when COFCO No. 1 next door is completed, you can buy one yourself."
In fact, Tangchen Yipin only has the first-mover advantage and is a little more famous, but in terms of quality, it is not as good as Poly and COFCO No. 1 which were built later.
"Hundreds of thousands per square meter, a house like this costs tens or even hundreds of millions. If you want to afford it, you either have to be reborn with good skills, or be a business genius like you, Mr. Luo, who can take advantage of the opportunities of the times to start from scratch and create a career."
Shen Jinglan said frankly: "I just cling to your thigh. I will be very lucky if I can get a job with a million-dollar annual salary in the future. To make further breakthroughs, I need the ability to keep up with your pace. On this point, I still know myself well."
This woman has a clear understanding of herself.
In terms of beauty, she is slightly inferior to Jiang Wen; in terms of ability, she is only average; in terms of closeness, she is not even in the top five in front of Luo Yang.
This was an opportunity she had worked so hard to get.
And from the few words Luo Yang had revealed before, it seemed that he was only training her to be a company manager.
The ceiling is there and can be seen at a glance.
“Everyone’s ambition is based on where they are at the moment and will be constantly adjusted as their identity changes.”
Luo Yang sat on a rattan chair, smoking a cigarette while looking at Shen Jinglan's back and said, "I'm not afraid of people around me having ambitions. As long as it's within the scope I allow, the bigger the better. As for ability, if I say you can do it, then you can do it. If I say you can't do it, then you can't do it either way!"
Shen Jinglan's body paused for a moment, then turned around suddenly, looking at Luo Yang with shining eyes.
"Mr. Luo."
She breathed heavily, her chest rose and fell, and she said excitedly, "Is there a place for me by your side?"
"In a megacity like the Magic City, there are at least 800 girls like you, if not a thousand. Why should I spend time and energy to train you?"
Luo Yang smiled faintly and said: "Don't give up the opportunity you fought for yourself."
With the wealth and ability he has shown now, he is qualified enough to use pressure to PUA Shen Jinglan.
Sure enough, after saying this, Shen Jinglan began to imagine it in her mind.
"Boss Luo, I am willing to devote everything I have under your wings. I just hope that I can have a place by your side."
After completing her imagination, Shen Jinglan immediately revealed a different kind of charm.
There was even a hint of piety in his expression.
"First, finish what I told you to do."
Luo Yang nodded to show his acceptance, and then said with a serious expression: "This club is very important to me. It is the first test for you."
Women who admire strong men fall for this.
Shen Jinglan knelt down in front of Luo Yang obediently and put her cheek against his palm: "I will definitely not let you down."
When she said this, she had already made up her mind that even if she had to spend her own money, she would visit more high-end restaurants, cigar bars, health spas and other places in the near future to broaden her horizons and do her best to complete the task assigned by Luo Yang.
If Luo Yang could see what Shen Jinglan was thinking now, he would definitely associate it with a noun.
The master's task.
After a warm night, Luo Yang came to the company early the next morning in high spirits.
From the moment I step into the office, the work pace immediately picks up.
In addition to the large pile of documents that Lin Yuxi brought in that needed to be signed and approved, there were also a lot of scheduled tasks.
"Boss, a board meeting will be held from 9:30 to 11:00 this morning to discuss the signing of the Lemon CC financing contract, the angel round of financing for shared bikes, Jiang Xiaobai's acquisition of the Huizhou Distillery, and the audit work of the group's subsidiaries in the first quarter."
Yu Haiping followed into the office and reported today's work arrangements to Luo Yang.
"In addition, from 11:30 to 12:00, you will also listen to the work report of Chu Jianming, the executive president of Kunpeng Technology."
When the board meeting is held, Chu Jianming will definitely go to the group company to attend. It is also reasonable for him to take this opportunity to report to Luo Yang on the recent work progress of Kunpeng Technology.
"So you don't have much time to handle company affairs this morning?"
After listening to the morning work schedule, Luo Yang simply put down the pen in his hand, lit a cigarette and smiled, "What about the afternoon? It won't be fully scheduled, right?"
"There's a lot to do this afternoon."
Yu Haiping nodded and said, "The promotion plan for shared bicycles has been prepared. General Manager Song Wan suggested that you take her along, because in the later promotion stage, you may not have much time to connect with the school. She wants to familiarize herself with the resources of the university in advance."
In fact, Luo Yang really wanted to find a professional manager to manage the shared bicycle project, but because this project was a college student entrepreneurship project, he was the entrepreneur who registered with the Shanghai Science and Technology Bureau and the university.
Moreover, when discussing financing with Sequoia Capital, what Shen Nanpeng valued was Luo Yang. It would be unreasonable to change another manager to take the helm.
Not to mention that at this stage, no one understands the concepts and details of shared bicycle operations better than him.
There really is a feeling that he is the only one who can do it.
"If she wants to go, let her go."
Luo Yang nodded after realizing this, and then asked, "What time do we leave in the afternoon?"
"You told me last week that you would discuss this with the school leaders from 2:00 to 3:30 ."
Yu Haiping glanced at the notebook in his hand and replied to Luo Yang.
"Um, any more?"
This was the time he had agreed on with the school leaders last week, and it definitely couldn't be postponed or delayed.
"Aren't you going to have sex with me tonight?"
Look at my memory. I was talking to Guo Yuancheng just fine last week. We were going to have a small gathering in the evening after reporting my work to the school leaders next week. But three or four days later, I almost forgot about it.
"Okay, I get it. I have plans for tonight."
Luo Yang nodded and said, "Please prepare a gift for me in the trunk of my car. Also, please make a reservation for dinner in Songjiang in advance. Maybe I won't need it. We'll talk about it later."
Although Guo Yuancheng said he would arrange it, Luo Yang couldn't take it seriously.
You still need to prepare.
After asking about today's schedule, Luo Yang gave up and tapped a pile of documents on the desk with his fingers, saying, "Lin Yuxi from the director's office will urge me again. It looks like I can forget about taking a lunch break."
Speaking of confidential secretary Lin Yuxi, Yu Haiping smiled naively.
"Boss, since you mentioned this, I'll just tell you about tomorrow morning's arrangements."
He took out a resume from the folder under his notebook and said, "You have been looking for a suitable director of the board office. There will be an interview tomorrow morning. This person was highly recommended by the recruitment company. Judging from his resume alone, he is quite outstanding."
From the perspective of the company's system, Yu Haiping cannot concurrently serve as the director of the board's office.
Because he is now a member of the board of directors, and also serves as the director of the board's secretariat committee. He is also Luo Yang's personal assistant. If he holds the board's office in his hands, his power and authority will be too great.
The reason why he is temporarily in charge of the Director's Office is that Luo Yang has no one under his command. Speaking of this, Yu Haiping still admires his boss.
Because in his opinion, the board of directors' office of a private enterprise like Lingshi Palace is equivalent to half of the boss's harem, so it is impossible to find someone to serve as the director of the board of directors' office.
Now there are three or four girls in the board office, including the confidential secretary Lin Yuxi and the personal secretary Chu Jing, who can all be considered beauties.
But the boss refused to touch any of them, leaving the board of directors leaderless.
"Oh, let me see it?"
Luo Yang didn't know what his assistant was thinking. He took the resume from Yu Haiping and looked at it carefully with some curiosity.
There was a color photo on the first page of the resume. Although it was an ID photo, one could still see the girl's outstanding appearance. If she was not distorted, her appearance would be better than An Ying, Jiang Wen, and Yu Fang. She could be said to be the most beautiful person Luo Yang had ever seen.
Her resume is also impressive. This girl named Wen Wan is from Zhijiang, Sichuan Province. She is 24 years old this year. She graduated from Capital Normal University with a master's degree in Chinese language. She also studied international economics and trade, which means she has a double undergraduate degree. It seems that her IQ is not low.
Before submitting this resume, I had just resigned from the company founded by my mentor and am currently in a career gap.
The job application intention did not specify that it must be the director of the board office, but the salary requirement was not low, with the expected value set at 25K~30K.
"Okay, let's arrange an interview time tomorrow morning."
Luo Yang just glanced at the following content regarding work history and achievements during school. There was nothing interesting about them.
"Boss, the morning meeting is almost over."
Before leaving, Yu Haiping reminded Luo Yang that it was already a little after nine twenty.
Although many things were discussed at this meeting, Luo Yang is the one who has the final say in the board of directors, and the few things that were discussed at the meeting were just reported. Even if there was discussion, it was centered around follow-up work and had nothing to do with opposition.
Before the end of the meeting, Luo Yang proposed the establishment of a project committee.
In his opinion, it is a waste of time and energy to hold board meetings at every turn. It would be better to set up a special agency under the board of directors to review projects with investments of no more than 5000 million yuan for the group and its subsidiaries.
According to the settings, this project committee can hold a meeting once a week. If the branches and subsidiaries have projects that need to be reviewed, they can report to the group headquarters one week in advance. This also speeds up the decision-making and implementation of the group and its branches and subsidiaries.
This proposal was immediately agreed by all board members.
Song Wan will temporarily serve as the director of the project committee, which will have five members. Whether the specific personnel will be transferred from the group or recruited separately depends on the results of the communication between Song Wan and Luo Yang.
After the meeting, in addition to Chu Jianming, Song Wan also followed him into Luo Yang's office.
"It would be a waste of resources to recruit project committee members separately. From the perspective of increasing revenue and reducing costs, it is best to recruit them from within the company."
Song Wan started talking to Luo Yang about this matter the moment she walked out of the conference room: "For example, in terms of finance, the group's financial director can just do it part-time. As for the feasibility of project investment, we also have professional talents in our investment department. In terms of finance, there are many people who meet the requirements in Gray Rhino Capital, even your assistant Chu Jing can do it."
"Please write a report."
While Luo Yang asked Chu Jianming to sit down, he said to Song Wan, "You are also an HR professional. We can't just decide on such a formal matter in a few words, right?"
"Yes, I have to work part-time in addition to my main job, which involves salary adjustments."
Song Wan nodded and said, "Besides, if you have the approval authority, your power will also increase accordingly. This is related to the distribution of many interests, so you have to choose carefully."
"Well, you should prepare a preliminary draft first."
After Luo Yang sat down, he said, "Let's find some time this weekend to meet again and finalize the matter."
Just at this time Chu Jing had made tea and handed it to Chu Jianming, and was seen by Song Wan.
"Xiao Chu, are you interested in joining the project committee?"
Before turning around and leaving, she patted Chu Jing on the shoulder and said, "Do your boss's job and ask him to give you a chance to take on more responsibilities. This is a mid-level position at the P6 level, and the salary is at least twice your current salary."
Wow, this sentence stunned Chu Jing.
After reacting, he looked at Luo Yang several times.
"Old Chu, how are you doing lately?"
Luo Yang was also a little amused and helpless, because Chu Jianming was in the office. He could only ignore Chu Jing's eyes and talk about work.
"The Kunpeng 2 multi-rotor drone is only one step away from finalization."
Chu Jianming reported excitedly: "Chairman, by the end of April at the latest, the new model can be finalized, and then we can start preparing for mass production."
"What's the development progress of the derivative models?"
The last time Luo Yang visited the Science and Technology Park, he convened a meeting of Kunpeng Technology's top executives. At the meeting, he put forward a requirement to develop a new generation of products with multiple uses and models based on the Kunpeng 2 flight control software platform.
“It is also being advanced simultaneously.”
Chu Jianming explained everything: "The flight control software for multi-rotor drones has matured. It is not difficult to derive other models based on such a platform. It is nothing more than changes in appearance layout, functional differences, modularization, etc."
"At the Berlin Air Show in September, Kunpeng Technology will make a name for itself."
Luo Yang thought for a moment and said, “I believe DJI will also participate in this air show and bring out a new generation of multi-rotor drone products. So in addition to launching equally groundbreaking products, we must also bring out more models to attract many foreign drone enthusiasts.”
When he said this, he suddenly paused.
"By the way, didn't Ding Hongyi go to the United States? How is the progress now?"
"Are you asking about the establishment of the Drone Enthusiasts Association?"
Facing the content of the previous sentence, Chu Jianming immediately understood what Luo Yang wanted to ask: "Director Ding's main task in this trip to the United States, in addition to developing dealers, is to set up an association to deal with the development progress of our multi-rotor drones. He plans to hold an event in July."
"Is he planning to sell the Kunpeng 2 multi-rotor drone in the United States in advance?"
Luo Yang thought for a moment and nodded, "Yes, at this stage, the market in Europe and the United States is much larger than that in China. There is no doubt that production capacity should be tilted towards overseas markets. I believe that DJI also has this marketing strategy."
"So I came here to report my work to you and also to apply for more funds."
Chu Jianming took advantage of the opportunity that Luo Yang also attached importance to overseas markets and proposed to increase funds for overseas market expansion.
"Make a report about how much you need. Ding Hongyi is in the first-tier market, so ask him to estimate a number first. Once you have reviewed it and have no objection, give it to me."
Luo Yang did not hesitate: "This matter must be implemented as soon as possible, and we should try to complete it this week, leaving time for me to raise funds."
The cost of aggressively expanding overseas markets will not be small.
Kunpeng Technology's current revenue cannot support such a large expense. If it is unwilling to raise funds, it can only consider taking out a loan.
Thinking of this, he picked up the phone on the table and called Dong Xuan directly.
"Do you have time to have a quick lunch together at noon?"
Luo Yang got straight to the point: "I want to borrow money, and you are not in the credit department anymore. Can you introduce me to other bank leaders?"
In the past, due to the small scale of the enterprise and the fact that Dong Xuan was directly the director of the credit department, loan business had to depend on her for some extent.
Now that the company is growing, the amount of loans will surely increase in the future. It is not a good thing to only rely on Ningbo Bank for business.
It's time to explore new banking relationships.
(End of this chapter)
