On the West Coast of the United States, it was late Saturday night, and it was already Sunday afternoon in China on the other side of the ocean.

Shanghai, 18 The Bund.

Chen Qing woke up from a nap at two o'clock in the afternoon.

Ten minutes later, from the bedroom on the sixth floor to the tastefully furnished home office on the third floor, Emmanuel Brandt, the chairman of Scober, and Charlotte Brenitta, from Switzerland, were discussing something around a small conference table by the window, behind which two assistants were busy with their laptops.

Then there's Ran Yue, the person in charge of day-to-day affairs on the Chinese side.

Ran Yue was flipping through a magazine on the sofa in the rest area, and when she saw Chen Qing coming in, she quickly got up.

"Sister Ran, you sit, you're welcome," Chen Qing stopped the other party with a smile, and first came to Lily Favir at the desk, and asked, "Did the research institute pass the information I wanted?"

Lily Favier nodded and handed a folder to Chen Qing.

Chen Qing took the folder, did not greet Emmanuel and the two, and went directly to the single sofa next to Ran Yue to sit down, and asked while opening the folder: "Sister Ran, is there any new problem with tomorrow's launching ceremony?"

Tomorrow is Monday, June 10th, and China's first Igrete large-scale cloud computing data center here in Shanghai will be officially opened.

Simon just visited China with great fanfare just a little more than a month ago, and such a large data center can show China's determination to develop the information industry, no matter from any aspect, the authorities attach great importance to this matter, so they took the initiative to prepare a grand opening ceremony of the center, and a number of large local enterprises will be announced again on the spot.

It happened that in China, Chen Qing and Lin Su were also invited to participate together tomorrow.

Ran Yue called at noon and said that there was something to talk about the launching ceremony, so Chen Qing asked, and said at this time: "That's the case, Xiaoqing, there will be a leader from above tomorrow, let me ask over there, can you arrange a connection, let Mr. Westeros say a few words through video?"

Chen Qing saw that Ran Yue was talking vaguely, shook her fingers and gestured a few times, and saw that Ran Yue shook her head slightly, and then shook her head, frowning slightly, and said, "Sister Ran, if it's not, don't mention this matter again." ”

Ran Yue seemed to have expected it, and she was not disappointed, and said: "In this case, Mr. Jeff Bezos, is it okay?" Xiaoqing, listen to me, arranging this connection is definitely only beneficial, I can't say more about the specifics, you will know later." ”

Chen Qing looked at Ran Yue and said seriously: "Sister Ran, you better give me a thorough understanding, otherwise it will be really difficult to do." ”

Seeing Chen Qing say this, Ran Yue hesitated for a moment, looked up at the other people in the office, took out a notepad from her shoulder bag, quickly wrote down a name, showed it to Chen Qing, and crossed it out again.

At this point, Chen Qing could understand a lot more things than before, just glanced at it, nodded after a little consideration, and said, "I will contact the boss directly." ”

Chen Qing said this, and the matter was basically finalized.

Ran Yue was both relaxed and excited in her heart, this errand was taken on her own initiative, and if it was done well, it would be good for herself and her husband who was still in the system, if she messed up, she would definitely be credited, she was a little worried just now that the girl in front of her couldn't see something clearly, but fortunately, she didn't see the wrong person, nor did she follow the wrong person.

After talking about business, Ran Yue glanced at the document in Chen Qing's hand, but instead of exploring, she asked, "Why didn't you see Xiaolin?"

She took her brother and sister back to Hangzhou. ”

"Lin Dong?"

Chen Qing pouted slightly: "Yes, I'm going to the United States soon, and I'll take a last look at the villagers, fathers and elders, and the great rivers and mountains." ”

Ran Yue could feel the little teasing in Chen Qing's tone, it was not good to comment, she just smiled.

The two chatted casually, and Chen Qing also paid more attention to the enterprise research report from the China Economic Research Institute of Cersei Capital in his hand.

The content is about the business status of the Giant Group.

After reading the report of more than ten pages, Chen Qing only felt that a chaotic and disorderly building would present a collapsed mess in front of him, and the seriousness of the company's internal problems was far more than a large and inappropriate Giant Building project.

This is a small assignment assigned by his boss earlier, and Chen Qing has been quietly following up.

Now it is found that this company is almost a typical case of the sudden rise and sudden decline of many domestic private enterprises in recent years.

The kind that needs to be taken as a warning.

Thinking about annotating at the end of the document, closing the document, Chen Qing looked up at Ran Yue again: "Sister Ran, Lin and I will go back to North America tomorrow after attending the launching ceremony, and you need to worry more about the things over there." ”

This past Friday, Chen Qing quietly prepared for the official launch of the excellent computer for half a year, with a basic configuration price of 4999 yuan.

The machine was designated Excellence B-10.

The B here is the initials of Barrel, and the full concept is the famous 'Barrel Theory'.

Because of the use of AMD's processor chips, not to mention the price, the performance is always worse than Intel's top PC chips, so, by their own boss by chance a point, the excellent technology company team decided to take the barrel theory as the focus of the first PC product publicity, the marketing direction is that although the CPU is not the strongest, but the excellent B-10 is the strongest comprehensive configuration at this stage 'bucket machine', there is no shortcoming, and there are no manufacturers only highlight the CPU and other parts of the material is simply matched.

The marketing that lasted for more than half a month in advance has worked well.

A total of 12 Excellence computer stores opened on the same day in South China, and received orders for 239 Excellence B-10s on Friday, with a turnover of 1.2 million yuan.

It's off to a good start.

Moreover, the reason why it is an order is because only 120 of them are in stock, and the rest of the orders will be delivered within half a month.

This is also an operational focus for Superior Computers.

Because the materials are too abundant and the profits are too low, in order to avoid risks to the greatest extent, only a small amount of stock is provided on a regular basis, but reservations are accepted at any time.

Frankly, it's hunger marketing.

The effect is also good.

The psychology of consumers is like this, the more difficult it is to get, the more you want to get it, even if you don't buy it, you can't help but look at it a few more times.

Therefore, whether it is the price butcher behavior of the excellent B-10 or the starvation marketing of the total shortage on the day of the sale, it has caused a wide range of media discussions, and even some other computer manufacturers have begun to pay attention.

In addition to CPU, the others are the top configurations that only have 10,000 yuan machines, and now they are directly dried to 4999 yuan, if you follow up, there is no way to live at all. Fortunately, even if the company's background is perceived, Excellence Technology is still a very small company after all, and the sales market is limited to a few provinces in southern China, so the threat does not seem to be great.

As a result of the government's strong push for the information industry, China's PC market began to explode last year, with annual sales reaching 3.2 million units in 1995, a fourfold increase from 700,000 units in 1994. This year's growth rate is not as exaggerated as last year's, and from the sales of the first five months, it is expected to reach about 5 million units for the whole year.

Excellence Computer sold 239 computers on the first day, because of the pre-marketing component, even if it maintains such a level in the next year, it is expected to ship 87,000 units in the first year, based on the 5 million units shipped this year, a market share of 1.6%.

Nothing.

This is also what Excellence Technology hopes to achieve.

In fact, on the first day, sales more than doubled from the expected 250 units, and Excellence began to quietly expand its assembly plant.

Chen Qing is harsh on the cost control of excellence, including personnel, and even obviously insufficient, so she said that excellent things need Ran Yue to bother, not polite at all, this company is running, because of the lack of manpower, the entire small team of China's daily affairs office, including Ran Yue, has been arranged to work.

"That's what I'm supposed to do. ”

After all, Chen Qing didn't treat them badly in the slightest, Ran Yue agreed, and also got up, knowing that it was time to leave.

In fact, I would love to spend more time in this luxurious building.

It's just that it doesn't lose here after all.

Although the girl in front of her is affectionate on weekdays, she is definitely not so approachable in her bones, and Ran Yue is not so naïve that others shout a few times Sister really treats herself as an outsider.

After saying goodbye, he couldn't help but ask when he left: "Xiaoqing, when will there be news over there?"

"It's the middle of the night in North America now," Chen Qing sent Ran Yue out, thought for a while and said: "There will definitely be a reply before 12 o'clock in the evening, the time over there is different, as long as you agree, the connection will not be delayed tomorrow." ”

Seeing Ran Yue away, Chen Qing came to Emmanuel and sat down beside them: "What are you talking about?"

"Business," said Emmanuel, who came to attend a VCD industry gathering this time, and when Chen Qing sat down, he explained: "Inspired by the opening of the Shanghai data center tomorrow, Xia Li thinks that the network technology tutorial books should be very popular, and it just so happens that there are many similar publications in North America, maybe we can translate them and sell them in China." ”

Chen Qing took a cup from the table tray, poured herself a cup of coffee, and said, "This is publishing, don't you know how strict China's control over the publishing industry is?"

Emmanuel said: "Chen, don't think we don't know anything, this is a tutorial book, and it doesn't involve politics. ”

"But this is also the business of the publishing house, not what we can do, and you also ignore the problem of piracy, in short, don't think about it, there is no future," Chen Qing took a sip of coffee, and said so, and suddenly had a flash of inspiration: "By the way, you can do training classes, this is big business, after all, just like North America, many people will flock to the Internet industry to pan for gold, and the demand for professional training must be great." ”

The two girls didn't expect Chen Qing to suddenly become excited, and Charlotte Brenita said: "The training course should be more difficult to do, just like the international school project we are preparing, which requires a very professional team." ”

"It's different, this is vocational training, just get by, you don't know how deceitful those vocational training schools are now...... Make hay. And we have a ready-made advantage, we can get an Igret qualification certification, and then find a university to be affiliated with, teachers from the university, and now there are many talents who want to go to the sea, and occasionally invite some technicians or venture capital executives from Silicon Valley to give lectures, and the reputation is immediately out. ”

“......”

Both women were a little speechless.

Sisters, didn't you hear the finishing touch of the word 'deception' just now?

Even though they had been taught when they were discussing the preparation of an international school, Emmanuel and Charlotte, who had a very positive outlook in some respects, still did not easily accept Chen Qing's concept that education was a business.

Chen Qing became more and more interested, took the pen and paper and began to brainstorm the business plan at the conference table, and pulled the two girls who came back to their senses to discuss together.

After all, judging from the recent understanding of the situation of various domestic vocational training industries, it is really profitable.

While chatting, Chen Qing's mobile phone rang, connected, and it was Lin Su calling.

Chen Qing kept writing in her hand and clipped her phone under her ear: "Huh?"

“......”

"It's useless to find you, auspicious things, the boss made the decision himself, and we all know the reasons very well...... It's not okay to help connect with other investments, whether it's direct or indirect, it will always be on us, and what will be consumed is our resources...... Why are you so stupid, brain...... Okay, okay, didn't the boss say it all, I remember you were there at the time? You directly told Li that if we wait another four or five years for China to join the WTO, if there is still a heart on the other side, we will have a chance to cooperate, but now we will definitely not be able to. ”

Same time.

Thousands of kilometers away in Ukraine it is more than nine o'clock in the morning.

North of Rivni, next to the street of a residential area, Eve Bessonoskova, who received a temporary phone call, hurried to get out of the car with another female guard, and it happened that another black car was also parked on the side of the road, and two young men with tall horses and strong temperaments got down.

Seeing Eve, the two respectfully walked over from the initiative: "Miss Bessonoskova?"

"Thank you for coming, I don't know what's going on yet. ”

Eve said, looked left and right to determine the address, walked quickly to a courtyard not far in front, several other people followed, and soon heard the woman's cry after approaching, Eve quickly quickened her pace, and followed the sound directly into a courtyard.

Seeing Eve and the others appear, the man in the courtyard who was obviously drunk took advantage of the situation and used the wattle in his hand to smack the three women who were hugging in front of him a few times, and then looked at Eve and the others who appeared with a fierce face: "Who are you?"

Eve spoke at the same time: "You stop. ”

As he spoke, he stepped forward to stop the other party from continuing to commit murder, but the two young men who came over had already snatched the thorn strip from the middle-aged man's hand, and by the way, he easily pressed the equally tall middle-aged man to the ground, twisted his arms to look at Eve, and waited for her to fall.

"Eve!"

One of the three girls on the ground suddenly shouted at this time, got up and cried and pounced.

Eve hugged the girl, who was obviously still trembling, patted her on the back and soothed, "It's okay, Galena, it's okay." ”

The girl sobbed and told what happened: "Dad ran to drink last night, and when he came back in the morning, he beat us, I can only call you, I ...... He snatched the phone just now. ”

Hearing the girl's words, a middle-aged young man groped in the other party's pocket a few times, took out a small Nokia mobile phone, and gently threw it over, Eve reached out to catch it, and motioned to another female guard to check the other two women who were still hugging each other.

The man who was pressed to the ground reacted at this time, but he was still full of momentum, and looked at Eve with his neck crooked: "I know who you are, you are Simon Westeros's subordinates, tell you, I am Galena's father, let me go, otherwise you don't want to take Galena away today, I am her father, and I have custody." ”

The man's clamor had no effect.

Eve didn't pay any attention to the other party's meaning, comforted the girl in her arms, and walked over to check on the other two girls who were pulled up by the female guard, the older one was obviously Galena's mother, and the younger one should be the girl's sister.

This is the Banshikovs.

When Galena Banshikova heard her father's cries, she immediately ran over and hugged Eve and cried: "Eve, it's okay to leave with your mother and sister, we don't want to stay here anymore." ”

"Xiao Bichi, don't even think about it, I'm the head of the family, you all have to listen to me," the man heard this, and immediately shouted loudly again, but quickly changed his tone: "But it's okay to take it away, at least give me a factory, I've inquired, those girls, their families have received a lot of compensation, Simon Westeros has a trillion dollars, I want at least a factory worth $1 million." Hey, the last time Andrei sent me for only $1,000, I have to report it to you, he must have swallowed the money he was supposed to give me, and he should be put in jail as well. $1 million, I want $1 million, cash is fine, I have to immigrate to England, I don't want to stay in this place anymore, yes, immigrate to the UK, there should also be another villa for me, London. ”

Eve was originally a very soft-hearted person, but looking at the crack on the back of the dress on the back of the dress that was pulled open by the thorns, and the purple skin inside, who came back to visit her mother and sister yesterday, she suddenly pursed her mouth, put one hand around the girl, and motioned to the female guard next to her to take the other two, and walked out silently.

"Hey, don't go!"

Seeing this, the man shouted again, Eve felt that Galena subconsciously stopped, and the other two women escorted by the female guard were also like mice held down by a cat, and they were inexplicably more angry, and turned their heads with a cold face and said to the two young men who were still pressing the middle-aged man: "I don't know what's going on, you can contact whoever you want, let's see what happens." ”

After saying this, I suddenly felt that I was speaking in a tone that was a bit like that of a certain man.

There was a little bit of caution, but he still left the small courtyard with Galena and the others, thinking that the matter must be notified to the other side, and he also decided in his heart that it was best not to let the girls from the hot spring manor go home casually during this time.

Switzerland.

In Geneva, it's still Sunday morning.

In a villa on the shores of Lake Geneva, Celia Miller is meeting with an aide to French President Jacques Chirac.

The two sat opposite each other on the sofa in the reception room, and the atmosphere was obviously tense.

"It's already clear that General Aprile Lavier has been doing things that shouldn't be done in public and private for the past few years, just because the nephew of one of his good friends was captured in Rwanda, and of course, we've found out some of the deeper identities of the young man who went to Rwanda to gild, and we have no interest in that, as long as Lavier steps down. ”

The person who came to meet Celia was a tall middle-aged man who was a little bald, and when he heard this, he said, "This is impossible, we will not punish a general who has contributed to the country for the sake of outsiders." ”

"Mr. Plake, I'm not bargaining with you, I'm just conveying the boss's request. ”

The middle-aged man narrowed his eyes and stared at Celia: "Ms. Miller, don't you think it's unwise for a rich man to fight against a country?"

"Mr. Preck, would you take the initiative to provoke a country in your personal name?"

The middle-aged man subconsciously said, "Of course not." ”

After saying that, he regretted a little, Celia didn't give him a chance to regret it: "The problem is here, no one will take the initiative to provoke a country, but if a country keeps harassing you because of some entanglements and creating all kinds of trouble for you, then, will you resist?"

"It seems that we need to talk about the original causes. ”

"The cause of the French massacre in Rwanda?"

"Watch your words," the middle-aged man interrupted alarmingly, "Ms. Miller, France has not been involved in anything related to the genocide in Rwanda. ”

"Why, then, did a French general in charge of military affairs in Africa hold on to this and keep harassing my boss, the young man who prevented a great humanitarian tragedy?"

The middle-aged man did not answer again, was silent for a moment, and said, "I will convey the president's request here." ”

Celia didn't stop there, and continued: "One more point, Simon asked me to tell Mr. Chirac again, we don't want any more unpleasantness between the Westeros system and France, this is not a compromise, just a pure reminder, we have found that the recent review of the French release of "The Mummy" and "Mission Impossible 2" has been delayed, and this method seems very unpopular. Simon also said that if France cracks down on the business of the Westeros system in its own country, the Westeros system will suppress French business on a global scale. ”

The Earth rotates endlessly.

Time doesn't stop flowing.

The sun followed the planet's rotation and ran across the Atlantic, across the American continent, to the west coast of the United States.

It's finally a Sunday morning in Los Angeles.

I rested late last night, and I still woke up on time at six o'clock in the morning, got rid of the entanglement of the two English roses around me, dressed and washed, and exercised daily.

Seven o'clock in the morning.

The cliff mansion in Beverly Canyon welcomed two guests, Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Wexnay, and Jeffrey Epstein, Wexnay's private investment advisor, and his girlfriend, who had made an appointment to dine together. They all came in pairs, and Simon also called a vase from the morning to accompany him.

Leslie Wexner and his entourage were in San Francisco the other day, mainly to inspect investments in the Internet industry.

Simon quietly took away control of Victoria's Secret, LTD's most valuable brand, Leslie Wexnay is now only responsible for the Express fast fashion brand under the same Victoria's Secret parent company LTD Group, and has done a good job in recent years, but after all, there is less interest, and is gradually delegating power to professional managers.

That's what Simon would love to see.

Leslie Wexney is only 59 years old this year, and the average person is close to retirement at this age, and for billionaires, 59 years old is still considered a prime of life.

In short, Leslie Wexney intends to open up some new ventures.

Although they have basically lost control of the LTD group they founded, with Simon's help, the Wexner family's wealth has grown very rapidly in recent years, and with a lot of money in their hands, they have to do something.

I also wanted to hear Simon's opinion on this breakfast.

After a pleasant exchange, everyone sat down at the open-air table next to the cliff of the mansion, the morning air was cool and pleasant, and the city of angels could be overlooked in the golden morning sun.

Although, in the face of the young man in front of him, Leslie Wexney always had a mixed mood.

In recent years, the assets have increased a lot, but the influence has decreased even more. Without the potential power conferred by money, the attractiveness of money is greatly diminished.

Just like Simon Westeros just introduced the girl named Melania next to him, and he didn't even recognize him, if he was still in control of Victoria's Secret, this kind of thing would never happen.

On the other side, Jeffrey Epstein and his girlfriend Gyslyn Maxwell put their attitudes right.

The two belong to the foils who came over with a cheeky face.

Anyway, just being able to sit here and have breakfast with Simon Westeros is a success, a qualification. In the future, when talking about business and friendship, I occasionally mention that I have eaten with Westeros, which is likely to get twice the result with half the effort.

Therefore, compared to Wexnay's complicated feelings, looking at the beautiful waitress of the Wei family who brought breakfast to everyone, or the glamorous girl next to Westeros, Epstein was a little calm.

Epstein, who was born at the bottom and climbed step by step to his current position, knows a truth very well: a penniless poor boy who does everything possible to pursue a girl who may not even be able to hold his hand for several months may be hooked by a rich and powerful man within a minute, and then sacrifice all the parts of his body that can please a man in the most humble posture overnight to try his best to flatter and please.

That's the reality.

That's why you have to climb up at all costs, or, resign yourself to your fate.