After New York, Xu Zhi went to Philadelphia, Detroit and Chicago.

When I returned to Los Angeles, it was May 25th, and the first batch of arcade machines sent from Xiangjiang had arrived at the shipping port a few days ago, although Xu Zhi, the big boss, was not there, but several employees of Midea's American branch were methodically processing the documents for customs clearance, and when Xu Zhi returned, 20 containers had been shipped from customs to a large warehouse in the south of Los Angeles.

At the end of the 70s, because of the oil crisis that broke out a few years ago, the global economy was seriously inflationary, and the American industry began to move to Asia and South America on a large scale due to high costs and multiple strikes by trade unions, and a large number of storage warehouses were ruthlessly abandoned, Xu Zhi bought a large warehouse of more than 8,000 square meters at a price of only 10,000 US dollars.

Why is it so cheap? This is actually the same as the bankruptcy of Detroit at the end of 09 and the price of housing fell to a dollar, but Lao Mei's house has to pay taxes: national tax, land tax, real estate tax, etc., such a large warehouse, you can't rent it, and the tax you have to pay every year is a lot of money, and you can transfer it out at a low price, or even for free, which is much better than constantly paying taxes in your hands.

But it's really just a warehouse, there is nothing in it, and Midea bought it and spent tens of thousands of dollars to repair the entire warehouse and make some basic investments.

All the arcade machines are surrounded by wooden crates with impact-resistant foam, which will be shipped to their bases in accordance with Xu Zhi's agreements with several major dealers.

Looking at the wooden boxes set up in front of him, Robson was very excited as if he saw a piece of jewelry, but when he thought that he only had a small part of it, he couldn't help but feel distressed: "Eric, I think you should mass-produce arcade machines, the 120 units you gave me were ordered out half a month ago, I dare to guarantee that the hot sales of this Xiangjiang cube will not be lower than that of the space invaders!"

"The company in Xiangjiang is already in full production, but because we are a new company, the reserve of skilled workers is not enough, and we still need to hone for a while. Xu Zhi replied.

Robson said: "Then have you considered coming to the United States to build a factory, although the labor here is more expensive than Xiangjiang, but as soon as it is produced, it can be sold immediately, which is more cost-effective than the time cost wasted at sea." ”

Xu Zhi refused: "The cost of time is indeed cost-effective, but what I am worried about is not the labor in the United States, but the labor union!"

In fact, whether it is the current 70s or the 21st century, the biggest problem that plagues American business owners has never been labor costs, but the huge union system in the United States.

American manufacturing is not dying of costs, it is from unions!

Except for the labor-intensive industries in the textile and garment industry or the electronics industry, other industries don't really care too much about the high wages in the United States, because the taxes, utilities and energy bills here are very cheap, and the United States is the largest market in the world.

But the union is indeed an eternal headache, the three most powerful car companies in the United States in the future, played a pivotal role in the American economic system, at its peak, a General Motors consumed 10% of the steel of the entire American market, but the enemy was stronger, the union defeated the company in strike after strike, and finally several major companies survived to 09 years, three fell two!

And the reason why the trade unions are strong is because they have a large number of people, and the entire United States from the top down, from the president of the United States to the local councilors, needs the votes of millions of trade unions, not because the trade unions are strong, but because the American voting system has led to any group with a large number of people, there is a strong political force.

Robson naturally knew the situation of the union, and said helplessly: "Yes, but it's not good if the production capacity is insufficient, I know a few companies that specialize in electrical assembly, if Midea's production capacity is insufficient, you can hand over the order to them, so you don't need to worry about the production thing." ”

Xu Zhi promised: "Okay, I'll think about it." ”

It's just that I agreed first, and whether it succeeds depends on the price negotiation in the future, after all, Robson has helped a lot in his recent activities in the United States during this time, and this bit of face still has to be given.

In the distance, the sound of cars came slowly, from near to far.

A total of 3 luxury cars came, the front and rear were Cadillacs, and the middle one was a Rolls-Royce.

Seeing this luxury car, Xu Zhi couldn't help but be a little puzzled, just the day before, Xu Zhi received a call from Tom in the hotel, saying that there was an important matter to discuss, and he also specially instructed to bring an important guest over.

Xu Zhi couldn't figure out what this guy meant, so he made an appointment to meet at the warehouse at noon today, and now Rolls-Royce has come, and it seems that it is the so-called guest.

The Rolls-Royce door opened, and Tom walked out of it, followed by a middle-aged man in a suit, half-blond and half-white hair, who behaved elegantly, and smiled when he saw Xu Zhi and the others.

Tom and the middle-aged man walked up to Xu Zhi and the others, and Tom introduced, "Eric, this is Mr. Reading Rockefeller. ”

"Mitch Rockefeller, this is what I call Eric Xu. ”

"Rockefeller?" Xu Zhi involuntarily asked, in the entire United States and even the world, this name is a symbol of wealth, and now a super tyrant sitting in a Rolls-Royce suddenly appeared in front of Xu Zhi, and his surname was Rockefeller, and he had to associate a possibility.

Tom said, "Yes, it's Rockefeller!"

"I didn't expect to be able to meet the people of the Rockefeller family, it's really a blessing!" Xu Zhi shook hands and smiled.

Although I don't know the purpose of the other party's coming, the four words of Rockefeller are synonymous with countless people in the eyes of everyone in the world: power, money, monopoly, energy and so on.

The first generation of John Rockefeller is known as a symbol of greed to many extents, his monopoly controls almost 90% of the oil in the United States, 80% of the oil refining industry, 90% of the oil pipeline transportation, and his sales account for 85% of the American oil industry.

But if they thought that their family had fallen from now on, it would be too ignorant, and the antitrust law could only dismantle his company, and his shares would still exist. Standard Oil was dismantled into 37 giant oil companies, in which the Rockefeller family still owns large shares, and these fortunes will definitely not diminish.

From the beginning of the 20th century to the 21st century, the families that once dominated the world seem to have almost disappeared, but in fact, they have long been hidden, secretly controlling all walks of life around the world.

Of course, one day in the future, the Gates family will also become one of such old families!

Reading looked quite polite and smiled at everyone: "Although my surname is Rockefeller, don't mind, I just want to talk about a business today." ”