Chapter 394: A Wonderful Chance Encounter in a Cafe
Underneath PayPal company building, all kinds of luxury cars are blinding, Rolls-Royce, Lamborghini, Ferrari, Maybach, Pagani and so on......
Two employees of a nearby department store looked at the sports cars and sighed.
"Since everyone knows that the CEO of PayPal is the sister of Chronosli, countless rich second generations have come to pursue it, and there are luxury cars everywhere here, and I thought to myself, if I open a flower shop here, I will definitely make money!"
"Oh, that's a great idea, Jack! I see these rich second generations giving roses every day, if we open a flower shop here, close to the water!"
"Yes!
“……”
PayPal CEO's Office.
Li Zetian, Yu Jingqiu, Dongfang Yuqin, and Zhou Qiqi sat together drinking tea and chatting.
Yu Jingqiu looked at Zhou Qiqi and asked with a smile: "Qiqi, do you like the work here?" If you don't like it, just say it, and I'll ask your brother to change your job." ”
PayPal's business is developing very fast, and Yu Jingqiu is worried that Zhou Qiqi will be under pressure as a CEO.
Zhou Qiqi smiled: "Thank you, sister-in-law, I like the work here very much!"
"That's good, but pay attention to the combination of work and rest, and don't be too tired yourself!" Yu Jingqiu said.
"Hmm~" Zhou Qiqi nodded obediently, not looking like a strong woman in front of outsiders at all.
Li Zetian took a sip of the big red robe and said slowly: "Now because the PayPal company has just been established, many things have not yet been on the right track, so it is relatively busy, and it will be very idle after a while! At that time, Qiqi will hand over the PayPal company to his subordinates and take over a more challenging company, ebay." ”
Zhou Qiqi was puzzled: "Brother, what kind of company is eBay?"
Li Zetian smiled and did not answer, but looked at Dongfang Yuqin. Dongfang Yuqin smiled and took out a document from her bag, then handed it to Zhou Qiqi, and said: "eBay is an e-commerce company, and the specific content is written in the information. ”
Zhou Qiqi took the document and immediately flipped through it.
Li Zetian smiled and drank tea, and looked at Zhou Qiqi again, intending to train her to be the "godmother of e-commerce" and "the queen of the online flea market", the most outstanding female CEO at the moment!
Although there is a suspicion of nepotism, but so hat, so what!!
If you don't need your own relatives, what else do you use?
After a while, Zhou Qiqi finished reading the information, her eyes were shining, she raised her head to look at Li Zetian, and said in surprise: "Brother, eBay is an online auction and shopping website that allows people around the world to buy and sell items online, a very alternative e-commerce website!!"
Li Zetian said with a faint smile: "The current e-commerce belongs to the monopoly of Amazon.com, and if other e-commerce companies want to break through, they will win by surprise." Therefore, ebay has a strange trick! ebay and Amazon to differentiate the market competition, which will not cause too much impact on Amazon, but at the same time can develop itself well!"
After a pause, Li Zetian smiled and said, "Kiki, eBay must be more challenging and interesting than PayPal, are you confident that you can do it well?"
"Have confidence!" Zhou Qiqi said with a firm gaze.
Li Zetian smiled and nodded, and then told Zhou Qiqi to understand the operation of eBay in detail, so that she could take over the company in the future. In 1 month, the eBay website will be officially launched!
After chatting for a long time, seeing that it was almost noon, Yu Jingqiu said: "It's almost noon, I'm hungry, let's go have lunch!"
"Good!"
Everyone got up and headed to the restaurant.
As soon as I walked downstairs, a large wave of rich second generations rushed over with fiery roses.
"Miss Zhou Qiqi, can we make a friend?"
"Miss Kiki, I fell in love with you at first sight, please accept my love!"
“……”
Zhou Qiqi's cheeks were crimson, and she immediately ordered the security guards to drive this group of people away, which was really annoying!
Zhou Qiqi's vision is very high, and she can't look down on these people at all.
She fantasizes that the other side of herself should be like her brother Zetian, a super genius and a hero of the world!!
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I haven't been to the Panda fast food restaurant for a long time, and at noon, Li Zetian and his party came to the panda fast food restaurant to eat.
Over the years, Panda Fast Food has been under the management of Yue Fei in Jingshan, and has developed impressively, with more than 4,000 chain stores, and has now become the world's largest Chinese fast food chain restaurant.
After lunch, everyone sat and rested for a while, and there was a discussion of several diners not far away.
"Chinese fast food is really good, but it's still not as good as KFC and McDonald's!"
"Well, in the newly released global fast food fast food rankings, Panda fast food can't squeeze into the top three! I say that Panda fast food is still the industry of Chronosli!"
"Hehe, do you think that any industry that belongs to Chronosli is the first in the industry? Fast food is different from others, and the things in it are profound!"
"Alas, Chinese food culture has a long history, China's eight major cuisines, Shandong cuisine, Sichuan cuisine, Cantonese cuisine, Su cuisine, Fujian cuisine, Zhejiang cuisine, Hunan cuisine, Hui cuisine, which one is not better than European and American cuisine?
"This is also true, although there are many dishes in Panda Fast Food, it is also limited, if it can be a little richer, maybe Panda Fast Food can surpass KFC and McDonald's!"
“……”
The voices of these people attracted Yu Jingqiu's attention.
She frowned, and after a while, she suddenly thought of something, and said to Li Zetian: "Honey, do you remember that you once said that you wanted to run a food documentary program?"
Li Zetian was slightly stunned, nodded thoughtfully, and said, "Oh, remember, "A Bite of China". Jingqiu, do you want to ......"
"Well, yes, I want to shoot it!" Yu Jingqiu looked excited and said unconvinced, "Didn't I just hear a few diners over there say that Panda Fast Food is not as good as KFC and McDonald's." In my opinion, one is that the dishes of Panda Fast Food are not rich enough, and some of them are not suitable for the taste of Europeans and Americans, and secondly, because Europeans and Americans do not understand Chinese food culture. I want to first shoot "A Bite of China" to promote Chinese food culture, so that these foreigners are interested in Chinese food, and then come to our Panda fast food restaurant to eat, and Panda fast food can be exclusively named on this documentary. In addition, the Panda fast food restaurant can also bring these Chinese specialties to the table of the panda fast food restaurant during the filming of "A Bite of China"!"
The more Yu Jingqiu spoke, the more excited she became, the panda fast food was created by her and her father in the end, and it was very emotional. In recent years, because she has been busy with the charity of the L.Y Foundation, she has neglected the development of Panda Fast Food Restaurant, and she has some self-blame in her heart, so she really wants to develop Panda Fast Food and surpass KFC and McDonald's to become the world's largest chain restaurant!
Li Zetian held Yu Jingqiu's little hand and nodded gently: "Okay, I support you, I will let people go to China to shoot "A Bite of China", and arrange for people from Panda Fast Food Restaurant to go together." ”
Yu Jingqiu said: "I also want to go, it just so happens that the L.Y Foundation has charity activities in China, and I can also participate in one or two episodes of filming!"
Li Zetian thought about it, it was no problem to participate in one or two sessions, and the right thing was to travel to the local area and taste the food.
So Li Zetian expressed his support.
In the afternoon, Li Zetian called the Chinese Film and Television Company, told them about the documentary "A Bite of China", and ordered them to immediately form a crew, and use the most advanced high-definition cameras, and even how to shoot, Li Zetian explained in detail, for fear that they would not be able to shoot the effect of this documentary in their previous life.
Three days later, Li Zetian went to the airport to take Yu Jingqiu and some employees of the Panda fast food restaurant on the plane.
"Stay safe!" Li Zetian said while hugging Yu Jingqiu.
"Hmm!"
Not long after, the plane took off.
Li Zetian looked at the sky and muttered: "As soon as "A Bite of China" came out, it helped a lot to spread Chinese food culture!
Li Zetian wiped his mouth and turned his head and walked outside the airport.
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The weather in London in May is exceptional!
Li Zetian came to negotiate a business to acquire Standard Chartered Bank.
Standard Chartered Bank is a British bank founded in 1853 and headquartered in London, but it has very few customers in the UK, and its business is mainly concentrated in emerging markets such as Asia, the subcontinent, Africa, the Middle East and Latin America, and most importantly, it is one of the three note-issuing banks in Hong Kong, which plays a pivotal role in Hong Kong!
The year 1997 is also approaching, and Li Zetian has to make some preparations in advance; he owns a large number of industries in Hong Kong, and he does not want Hong Kong to be greatly impacted by the Southeast Asian financial crisis! If he has mastered Standard Chartered Bank, he will have more confidence and calmness.
In addition, the acquisition of Standard Chartered Bank is also a very good investment.
Li Zetian spent more than a decade in London and held four rounds of negotiations, and the board of directors of Standard Chartered Bank finally agreed to sell 60% of the shares for $10 billion.
Li Zetian successfully joined Standard Chartered Bank and served as the chairman of the bank!
After this was done, Li Zetian was relaxed and traveled around the UK for a few days.
Edinburgh is a famous cultural city in the United Kingdom and the capital of Scotland, and some of the coffee shops here are very atmospheric and characterful. Li Zetian likes to wear sunglasses, sit in the coffee shop by the window and drink coffee, the wind is mild, the sun is like bathing, letting go of his mind, and the whole person becomes relaxed.
In the afternoon of this day, Li Zetian came to a coffee shop again, and while drinking coffee, he looked around, and suddenly found a blonde beauty sitting at his back table writing something. Li Zetian couldn't help but take a look, he had a good eyesight, and found names such as "Harry Potter" and "Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry".
"I'll go, this woman can't be JK Rowling, the author of the Harry Potter series?!Well, it should be her!"
Li Zetian was very surprised, but when he thought about it, he was really right.
At this time, Rowling was divorced and had permanent custody of her daughter. As a single mother, Rowling's mother and daughter had an extremely difficult life, and it was at this time that Rowling began writing Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, the first book in the Harry Potter series of fairy tales. Because her house was small and cold, Rowling often went to a café near her home to write Harry Potter's stories on small pieces of paper.
"Hi, hello, are you writing?" Li Zetian took the initiative to ask?
"Oh, sir, hello! Yes, I'm writing!" Rowling replied, looking up at Li Zetian. She looked Li Zetian up and down, but because Li Zetian was wearing a pair of big sunglasses, she didn't recognize Li Zetian as chronosli for a while. However, Li Zetian is dressed decently and has a noble temperament, and he is obviously a big man. Rowling was a little surprised.
"Is it finished?" asked Li Zetian, who also wondered if Rowling had finished writing the first Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.
"Not yet, but I've already written more than half of it!" Rowling replied.
"Can you show me? I think your writing is quite interesting, magic school, well, a very novel subject!" Li Zetian smiled.
"The manuscripts are all at home, sir, if you are free now, I can go back and get them!" Rowling said excitedly, thinking that the other party did not seem simple, and if he liked my work, maybe he could help me contact the publishing house.
"Sir, my house is near the café, it's there in three minutes!" Rowling thought for a moment and quickly added, for fear that the other party wouldn't be able to wait.
Li Zetian smiled slightly, "Go get it, I'll wait for you here." ”
"Yes, sir!"
After Rowling finished speaking, she immediately got up and rushed home.
It wasn't long before she was back at the café with a stack of manuscripts in hand.
"Sir, this is Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, please take a look!" Rowling handed the manuscript to Li Zetian, and then sat in front of him, his face full of anticrisy and nervousness.
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone?
Well, maybe it was originally called that, and then it was changed to Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.
Li Zetian took the manuscript and opened it to read it. He looked very closely, but he also saw it quickly.
The sun shone through the glass window on his handsome and handsome face, and Rowling suddenly seemed to discover Li Zetian's identity, and covered her mouth in surprise!
"He's chronosli!! oh God, he's got to be chronosli!!"
Rowling felt like she had discovered a remarkable secret that she had never been so excited about in her life.
"Oh my gosh, I can't believe he's reading what I wrote right now!!"
Rowling suddenly felt very proud, but at the same time extremely nervous.
She was afraid that Li Zetian would degrade her worthless.
After a long time, the hot coffee became warmer.
The unfinished "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", Li Zetian has already finished reading it.
He raised his head and looked at Rowling, he was slightly stunned, Rowling seemed to have become a little fan girl, fidgeting, not daring to look at him directly, but secretly looking at him.
Li Zetian didn't know that J.K. Rowling had recognized his identity, but thought that she cared a lot about a stranger's appreciation of her work.
"Very well written!" Li Zetian smiled as he handed the manuscript back to Rowling.
"Really, is it really well written?"
"Of course it is!" Li Zetian nodded and said with great certainty. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone was an instant success, winning the Children's Award and the Smart Gold Medal for Books at the National Book Awards. Later, because the book was so popular, it was made into a movie.
"But some publishers think I don't write well~" Rowling said unconfidently.
"You are writing a fairy tale, you have to have a childlike heart to understand you! If you want me to say, you don't need to pay attention to those people, what do they know, they have long been corrupted by the fame and fortune of this world!" Li Zetian said disdainfully.
Hearing this, Rowling was very happy, secretly glanced at Li Zetian, and secretly said, chronosli also has a childlike heart!
At this time, Li Zetian took out a business card and handed it to Rowling, "This is my business card, when you finish writing, you can call me, I can help you!"
Rowling excitedly took the business card and said, "Okay, sir, thank you very much!"
The material of the business card seems to be some kind of expensive black metal, which is very comfortable to touch, and there is no text introduction on it, only a line of silver numbers, which should be a phone number.
Li Zetian looked at the sky and said, "I'm going back, goodbye, future great writer!"
Being praised by Li Zetian so much, Rowling's face was slightly red, watching Li Zetian drift away, Rowling felt an inexplicable emotion in her heart, and she didn't know when she would see her again.
"Chronosli is so high, and I ......" Rowling shook her head, low self-esteem and melancholy suddenly written on her face. She stared at the business card for a long time, thinking, "I will never make this call to bother him in the future unless I have to." Maybe others just got in on the mood and didn't really like themselves. What's more, he must be very busy, doing big things, how can he care about himself? Forget it, it's all a dream......"
Rowling's face was gloomy, she drank the cold coffee in her cup, picked up the manuscript, and went home.