Chapter 42: I met the old fox
After Xiao Xu left, I stood in the room for a while, walked to the window and looked at the scenery outside, at this time, I didn't choose to smoke, just stood calmly. I found that since I was separated from Han Yue that night, I often stayed quietly by myself, sometimes I was wandering, sometimes I was thinking about things, and since then I have another habit in my life.
After standing for a while, I called the hotel staff to bring a working meal, and then while eating, I looked at the materials to be used in the afternoon, and did my homework to talk about cooperation with Mr. Zhao named "Zhao Fangzhou".
Looking at the information that Qi Min had collected for me before, the more I looked at it, the more surprised I became, because I only had a general look before, and I didn't look closely to understand it - in the document, I found that Zhao Fangzhou was not a "good stubble", and he was a "lipstick brother" in Fujian , almost monopolized the lipstick business market over there, on the other hand, if you can monopolize the market of an industry, behind the success is definitely a success, he did a good job in business, but outsiders have a bad evaluation of him, and he is an out-and-out profiteer.
The time for serious work always passes quickly, I didn't rest at noon, I took care of reading the documents, and in a blink of an eye it was 3:15 in the afternoon, and then I felt sleepy like an overwhelming sweep, so I went to the bathroom to wash my face and refresh myself, packed up the papers, and smoked a cigarette, the time was just right.
Xiao Xu came to the hotel downstairs to pick me up on time, about ten minutes by car, we arrived at the destination, on the eighth floor of a high-end office building, as soon as I came up, I saw a few eye-catching big words: Xiamen Noah Biotechnology Co., Ltd. Interestingly, his own name is "The Ark", and the name of the company is "Noah", which is to regard his ideals as the savior of "Noah's Ark"?
I stood there and took a brief look, and found that a whole floor was their territory, at a glance, it was estimated that there were five or six hundred square meters here, and there were warehouses in this kind of industry, obviously its warehouses were not here, so it was obvious how strong the strength was.
Under the leadership of Xiao Xu, I came to Zhao Fangzhou's conference room, Xiao Xu knocked on the door, saying that he brought me over, and Zhao Fangzhou directly opened the door for us, and said enthusiastically: "Mr. Cheng, you can be regarded as waiting for you, come on, please sit!" He walked in front and made a "please" gesture to me, Xiao Xu also closed the door with great interest and left Zhao Fangzhou's office.
"Mr. Zhao, please!"
Zhao Fangzhou poured me a cup of tea and said casually: "I take the liberty of asking: I don't know how many years Cheng Zong Geng is?"
I looked at the man in his fifties in front of me and replied indifferently: "24 years old, why did Mr. Zhao suddenly ask that?"
"Yes, it's really terrifying!" he moved the teacup in front of me, "Times are different, when I was your age, I was still doing hard work on the construction site!"
I don't know when this kind word became an indispensable part of business talks, and we chatted for a while and began to get into the topic. Zhao Fangzhou called his female secretary, who stood aside with a folder, and began to introduce me to the details of the project.
"We Noah recently released a new lipstick, called 'Nolan', this time the new product production is about 100,000, although we already have a lot of sales channels, but this time we plan to take the live route. The female secretary paused, glanced at Zhao Fangzhou, and then said: "Our plan is that if the two sides can reach a cooperation, then we will set a quantity of 20,000 yuan in the early stage and hand it over to you to do, and give you three points." If the effect is not bad, then there is a second round of cooperation, and the rebate of the second round of cooperation will be slightly higher, but the specific number will be estimated when the time comes, Mr. Cheng, I don't know what you think?"
I looked at Zhao Fangzhou, who was slowly brewing tea, with an indifferent look, I couldn't help but feel the pressure in my heart, 3 points This has already pressed our bottom line, and giving such a low price as soon as it comes up is obviously tricking us.
Seeing that I didn't speak, Zhao Fangzhou's eyes were raised, and a confident smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, "Mr. Cheng, why don't you speak?" Do you think this price is not appropriate?"
I chuckled and said, "Mr. Zhao, 3 points is too low, right?"
He looked embarrassed, "Ouch, Xiao Cheng, you also know that although our company seems to be very large, it is the first time to take the route of live broadcasting, and there must be risks, so you have to be cautious, but don't worry, if the previous cooperation is still satisfied, then I must add money to you later, what do you think?"
The old fox is the old fox, this wishful thinking is really good, and he still said to me what "the first time to do a live broadcast to bring goods, you need to be cautious", I bah! I have already scolded him 800 times in my heart, the industry has done so big, and as a result, he took out such a small amount to test the waters, and gave us such a low profit, obviously trying to pit us!
Although I was very dissatisfied, I didn't show it on my face at all, and after a while, I said: "Mr. Zhao, what you said is indeed reasonable, after all, it is the first time to take a new route, or a new product release, then it is appropriate to be cautious, I have an idea here, I wonder if Mr. Zhao is willing to listen to it?"
He frowned and waved his hand, saying, "Hey, Xiao Cheng is polite to say that! ”
I nodded and said my thoughts: "You just said that the brand 'Nolan' is a new product of Noah, so since it is a new product, it must be necessary to do a new product launch conference to warm up, coincidentally, our Utopia just has this piece of service, my idea is, it is better for us to do a wave of warm-up for 'Nolan' first, and then come to the live broadcast to bring goods, in this way, the sales will definitely be a lot better, Mr. Zhao, what do you think?" I looked at him with a smile to see if I could get him to react with my return pistol.
Sure enough, Zhao Fangzhou didn't expect me to ask such a question, and even the female secretary standing next to him was stunned for a while, and the female secretary looked at Zhao Fangzhou, waiting for his answer.
Zhao Fangzhou was silent for a while, and suddenly laughed heartily, "You can grasp the key point in such a short time, Xiao Cheng, you are really a rare negotiator!" he shrank his eyes and stretched out two fingers to point at me.
I still smiled and didn't speak, Zhao Fangzhou put his hands on his knees, and thought for a while, "Cheng, then let's do it, business can't be honest all at once, I think it's dinner time, why don't we have a meal together in the evening, and we'll talk about the specific results tomorrow, how about it?"
"I have no problem, listen to your arrangement, Mr. Zhao. ”
"Okay, Xiao Liu, you arrange a dinner party immediately, about 1 hour, let's see you at the hotel!"
After Zhao Fangzhou finished speaking, the female secretary named "Xiao Liu" nodded respectfully, and then walked out of his office, I said goodbye to Zhao Fangzhou, and then left here.
Walking out of the main road outside, I exhaled heavily, and if it weren't for the air conditioner inside that was cool enough, I guess I would have been sweating. There was still an hour before dinner, so I went back to the hotel where I was staying, then washed my face vigorously, lit a cigarette, and called Qi Min.
"Hey, how about talking, I've been waiting for your call all day!" Qi Min quickly picked up the phone and asked urgently.
"Alas, the situation is not optimistic, I met a real old fox, this guy, as soon as he came up, he said that he would give us 20,000 goods, and the price was only TM three points, which is not clear about us!"
"Zhao Fangzhou's reputation in the industry is not so good, but it's true that the industry is big, so how did you reply to him?"
"That's how I replied to him, didn't he say that 'Nolan' is a new product? According to normal speaking, all new products have a new product launch conference, so I opened the topic and said that we can also do the business of new product launch conferences, so as to increase a little income and negotiation chips. ”
"Gao! This trick is really good, hey, Cheng Ting, just go to negotiate in the future, I can guard the company, I think you are the real 'old fox'!"
"Don't talk about it, I'll take a shower and go out, Zhao Fangzhou invites me to dinner in the evening, what do you think of it, just send me confidence, think about it seriously!"
After hanging up the phone, I took a shower and then hitchhiked to the past according to the predetermined location. Came to the hotel, Zhao Fangzhou was not stingy in receiving customers, first arranged a driver for me, and then the hotel for dinner at night was also very good.
Soon I arrived at the hotel, but there were only me and Zhao Fangzhou in the huge room, which was not an ordinary luxury. When I observed the environment, I couldn't help but raise my vigilance, because in my opinion, this was a "Hongmen Banquet", probably trying to use this dinner to trick me!
"Come, Xiao Cheng, come and sit down here!" Zhao Fangzhou said politely.
I smiled and pulled out a chair and sat down, "Mr. Zhao, you are so polite, the two of us can't finish eating so many dishes, right?" I looked at the ten dishes on the table, and couldn't help but sigh in my heart: This is really a waste!
"Hey, Xiao Cheng, whether you can finish eating or not, but you still have to have the façade that you should have, and I, Zhao Fangzhou, am absolutely unambiguous in treating people!" As he spoke, his expression was full of pride.
During the meal, the atmosphere of chatting at the dinner table was not as tense as in the company, and Zhao Fangzhou began to chat with me about some digressions.
He picked up the cup and took a sip of tea, suddenly looked at me and asked, "Xiao Cheng, I want to take the liberty of asking, do you have a girlfriend?"
I smiled indifferently, looked at him and asked, "Mr. Zhao, are you very interested in my private affairs?"
"That, I'm sorry, I'm just asking casually, after all, an excellent person like Xiao Cheng should be a 'hot item' in the eyes of many women, right?"
I was just about to speak, when Zhao Fangzhou and I were both unaware of it, the door of the private room was suddenly opened, and the two of us turned our heads to look over......