It's hard to say whether the second deal with Corning is a profit or a loss.

In terms of Corning's current scale and potential, Zhou Fangyuan has earned, but how to transform potential into strength is a problem that all mankind is thinking about.

In terms of the mobile phone screen alone, Zhou Fangyuan seems to have lost money, the original exclusive business, but now he has to share a lot with Corning, but now he is the largest individual shareholder of Corning, and Corning also has his share in making money, so it is really difficult to say whether he lost or earned this step.

After the danger of SARS was lifted, the whole society began to recover rapidly.

Previously, because of the ravages of SARS, people did not dare to go out easily, so that all walks of life - except for e-commerce and the Internet - have encountered a great impact. Now that it has been lifted, the most obvious change is that the sales of Far Away Food Company have begun to increase rapidly. The production capacity that had to be reduced some time ago due to SARS has also increased rapidly, but speaking of which, food companies and agricultural companies have actually suffered certain losses. Food companies, in particular, suffered more losses.

Or because of the epidemic, the people are afraid to go to densely populated and poorly ventilated places, and the result is that the business of major supermarkets is very difficult. Zhou Fangyuan didn't know about other places, but he still knew about the situation in Beitong, the largest supermarket in Beitong, Wanjia Supermarket, sales are said to have fallen by more than forty percent year-on-year, and the supermarket had to lay off employees to reduce expenses, but even so, a large number of goods were piled up in the warehouse and could not be sold, so they could only rely on price reductions to increase sales as much as possible, but it was useless, no one went over at all, and there were things that could not be sold.

The distribution channels of various semi-finished products produced by Yuanfang Food Company are basically concentrated in various supermarkets, and the sales of this batch of goods have plummeted due to SARS.

There are not too many preservatives added, more or vacuum packaging and processing methods to preserve these semi-finished products, in fact, the storage time is not long, the most is only a month of shelf life, the shortest may only be about a week, as a result of this batch of goods are seriously damaged, a large number of goods deteriorated and destroyed, the next few batches of goods, distant food had to reduce production capacity, in order to stop loss.

But once the production capacity of distant food is reduced, the production capacity of the agricultural company will be oversold all of a sudden. Machines can think that they can control, but they can't control the growth of plants and animals, and they should eat, drink, and grow, and as a result, many vegetables and meats have passed the best picking and slaughtering periods, and the best sales period has been missed. However, although sales in supermarkets have plummeted, sales of these agricultural and sideline products have gradually increased in the streets and alleys. It's just that the added value has become less, so the two companies have been damaged to varying degrees, but everything is still within the acceptable range, after all, the population of Beitong City is not small, and people eat horses and chew, and they need countless vegetables and meat grains at the end of the day. Ordinary people can not go to the supermarket to shop, but the people want to eat, so the total amount of normal demand has not decreased, but it has just changed in a different form.

So in the early stage of the lifting of SARS, Zhou's father and Zhou's mother suddenly took action, not only limited to Beitong City, they set their sights on the heyday, and selected some large-scale supermarkets with seriously affected operations for acquisition. The Zhou family is rich now, and Zhou's father and mother go out to travel when they have time, and they haven't taken care of the company's affairs for a long time. They don't ask what they want to do, as long as it's not "too much". So Zhou Fangyuan also knew about the acquisition of the supermarket this time, but he didn't ask at all.

The earning power of supermarkets naturally cannot be compared with the Internet, and it is far less than that of smart phones, but this kind of industry is better than the long stream, and the business form of supermarkets is also the rigid needs of the people. After all, the existence of supermarkets can provide people with a more convenient and cheap way to shop, as a retail terminal, even in the future of the vigorous development of the Internet e-commerce industry, it is still difficult to be eliminated.

Now Yuanfang Group has subordinate Yuanfang Real Estate and Yuanfang Property, and has joined hands to build the largest chain shopping mall in the country.

He didn't know if his parents wanted to buy the supermarket because they thought of this, but since they had made a decision, Zhou Fangyuan naturally supported it unconditionally. At that time, the supermarket industry was strongly impacted, and there were several supermarkets in Beitong City that were in difficulty, and Zhou Fangyuan's parents suddenly arrived with banknotes, and the owners of these supermarkets were naturally overjoyed. However, some of them are reluctant to sell the supermarket altogether, and they want to sell only a part of the shares. If this is the kind of idea, Zhou's father and Zhou's mother will not continue to talk, they only buy, not share.

In the end, three supermarkets in Beitong City changed their names, and there were also sporadic supermarkets in the surrounding cities that were acquired by the Zhou family. Looking at the whole province, the Zhou family has acquired less than 20 supermarkets, some large and some small, the largest covers an area of tens of thousands of square meters, the smallest is only a few thousand square meters, the money actually did not spend much, that is, from the original supermarket owner took over a lot of procedures, and at the same time accepted the rent and debts.

All of these acquired supermarkets were renamed Yuanfang Supermarket to form a new company, but this new company was not directly integrated into the group.

Later, when Zhou Fangyuan asked his parents, he learned that they had a whim, and suddenly felt that Zhou Fangyuan was in charge of today's life in the family, so they wanted to see how capable they were, so they came up with such a supermarket chain, and told Zhou Fangyuan that he was not allowed to interfere in the operation of the supermarket, and Zhou's father and Zhou's mother wanted to completely manage the supermarket.

Zhou Fangyuan couldn't cry or laugh after hearing this, he still thought that his parents made a decision after careful consideration, who would have thought that the fundamental reason was actually this? Of course, it was no problem if he didn't interfere, but did his parents really think that this was a self-test? If it wasn't for the fact that the family already had a certain foundation, could they afford to buy so many supermarkets? If there were not so many supermarket chains, they could pick up goods from suppliers at the lowest price or even on credit? It's like a rich second-generation entrepreneur, with good family conditions, start-up funds directly from home, and network support, as long as it's not too bad, you can basically look a little bit. A truly self-made person has to spend a lot of effort to earn the initial capital alone, and then he has to make up his mind to start a company, manage it with care little by little, and expand his network...... The effort put into this is far from being comparable to the former, so life is not equal, Zhou's father and Zhou's mother are almost like this now.

When people reach middle age and suddenly start a business, everything will naturally go smoothly, after all, the foundation is there.

But whatever, the parents have something to do, and Zhou Fangyuan is also happy.

After all, since the reversal of the living conditions in the family, the life of the parents has become idle, they no longer have to worry about their livelihood, and the industry in the family has always been dotted by Zhou Fangyuan, so it is not so much that they are idle, it is better to say that they are idle and can't stand it. I traveled outside last year, but I didn't dare to go out this year because of SARS, and even if I went out, it was still a tour, and there were really no more options. They don't want to be idlers who only know how to play mahjong and drink all day long, and want to find something to do, of course Zhou Fangyuan raised his hands in favor, why do they make money by themselves, isn't it just for their parents to live a good life and be able to do some things as they want?

What's more, as mentioned above, a chain retail terminal is also a great complement to the Yuanfang Group, and if it is done well, it is no less than the chain shopping mall he made, so he not only supports, but also strongly supports, and secretly prepares a lot of back-ups, ready to help when his parents need it.

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Although Yuanfang Agriculture suffered some losses last year and this year, the plan that was set before still needs to be implemented.

Farms have been established in important provinces and cities across the country, and diversification has been carried out because of the different planting directions.

To put it simply, it is not only limited to vegetables and meat, grains and oils, red wine, spices, special crops and special breeding. Constantly enrich its product library, so that Yuanfang Agriculture has become the largest and most comprehensive private agricultural company in China.

Of course, distant agriculture must not be compared with COFCO, it is a national enterprise, it is an enterprise supported and protected by the state, and distant agriculture cannot catch up with each other in this life. However, the domestic market is so large, and it is not something that can be eaten by a COFCO, and Zhou Fangyuan's distant agriculture is still promising. And not only at home, but also abroad, distant agriculture is also trying to find opportunities, in some vast and sparsely populated countries, to establish large farms, one of which is very important, is the Maozi country in the north.

The friendship and contradictions between Mao Ziguo and Huaxia can be regarded as a long history, and when it comes to friendship, the two sides naturally exist. Before the founding of the People's Republic of China and in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, the predecessor of Mao Ziguo, that huge alliance, had given our party and our country tremendous help. However, the demolition of Taiwan has not been done less, how did those three difficult times come about? Wasn't it to repay Maozi's debts, the people of the whole country tightened their belts, and every grain of grain was saved to repay the money? And the country that is now sandwiched between Huaxia and Maozi was not also a part of Huaxia before? Wasn't it also because of Maozi's agitation and became independent, and from now on it will no longer belong to Huaxia?

In short, there is hatred and friendship between the two countries, and it cannot be said that they simply hate or simply like this country.

However, depending on the current international situation and the positions of all parties, in fact, Huaxia and Maozi are standing together, and they are both being fought against by Midi and the Western world. At least the two sides must maintain a certain degree of common advance and retreat, and cannot be broken by each of the Mi Emperors.

Maozi is an absolutely vast and sparsely populated country, spanning the Eurasian continent, and is the largest country in the world in terms of land area, almost equivalent to the area of two Chinas. However, the population is only less than one-tenth of that of China, and because of environmental, climate, historical and other problems, this is less than one-tenth of China's population, and a large number of people are concentrated in the west and a few large cities.

Don't think that Maozi is very strong, yes, Maozi's military strength is indeed good, but with the disintegration of that huge alliance, some of the important heavy industry bases have become the assets of a group of small countries after the disintegration, and Maozi himself does not have much. And the military strength is strong, but it is just eating the old book of the alliance period, and even until more than ten years later, Mao Zi is still eating the old book, in terms of military affairs, in fact, it has lagged behind the Mi Di, if the Mi Di is full of firepower, the aircraft carrier is pushed into the water like a dumpling, Mao Zi will not be able to catch up no matter what.

Not only is the military strength not good, but the economic strength is almost finished, look at the reports of later generations, this was once one of the two poles, when the world is vigorously developing the economy, but the poor can only rely on oil and timber for money, the domestic light industry and heavy industry and so on are not worth mentioning at all, not that there is no, not that it really can't be done, but compared with the United States, China and other countries of the same magnitude, it is not enough to see at all. It is embarrassing that such a large country has been mixed into the same situation as those small countries in the Middle East.

However, Maozi is not without good things, first of all, oil and timber are indeed very good resources, and when domestic imports of related resources, they are not bought from Maozi.

Secondly, it is the beauty of Maozi, it is true, needless to say, the real sense of the ocean, the woman of Midi and the woman of Maozi compared, and directly let the comparison disappear.

Then, it is Maozi's wine, and because of the climate, the temperature in Maozi is very low, and the living environment is very bad, so a lot of alcohol is needed to ensure the activity and heat of the body. But of course, it is precisely for this reason that Maozi's domestic alcoholics have always been high, and Maozi has almost become synonymous with alcoholics.

But do you say that this country is really poor because it has no money? No, it's just that all the ways to make money and valuable resources are completely monopolized by a very small number of people. Although this is an inevitable phenomenon of human development and social development, the degree of concentration is like that of Maozi, and to be honest, there are not many. Zhou Fangyuan read a blog post, the blogger said what he saw and did in Maozi country, and there was a paragraph in which he said that an old woman in Maozi had no money to buy food, and finally begged the blogger, hoping that he could buy her a big lieba. To be honest, this situation is not absent in Huaxia, but it is too few, and compared with the number of people, Maozi plays such a huge resource, but only less than one-tenth of the population of Huaxia, and there is really nothing to say about making the economy like this.

In short, whether it is economic or military in Maozi country, whether they are strong or weak, to be honest, they have nothing to do with Zhou Fangyuan. He just saw the other party's vast undeveloped land, and wanted to expand the land management there.

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