After listening to Tian Maochun's words, Li Yadong knew that the scale of this so-called dinner should not be small.

When I came to the place, sure enough, it was not the imaginary box at all, but a banquet hall, which was filled with a full eight tables, and there were basically no absences.

"Yo everyone, we have another heavyweight guest, everyone applauds and welcomes, Mr. Li Yadong, chairman of Dongfanghong Group. ”

After seeing the visitor, the city leaders immediately greeted them, and at the same time, the scene also broke out into warm applause.

Li Yadong is low-key and low-key, but because he has an automobile manufacturing base in Jiangcheng, people in Jiangcheng's upper social circle have heard of him to some extent.

Even if you don't know him well, you know that he is one of the top entrepreneurs in China, but many people still don't know whether he is a mainlander or a Hong Kong person.

At the warm invitation of a group of municipal officials, Li Yadong naturally sat on the chairman, but no one felt inappropriate, and it was Mu Qizhong who sat next to him.

Unlike the bosses on Jiangcheng's side, Mu Qizhong's eyes looking at Li Yadong were obviously a little different, and there seemed to be stars shining in his eyes.

This made Li Yadong feel a little surprised, he dared to vouch for his head, this was the first time the two had met, and they had no friendship, and Comrade Lao Mu was far away, so it should be unlikely that he would know too much about him.

What's that expression?

"Boss Li, in Xia Mu Qizhong......"

Comrade Lao Mou's posture was very low, which was completely inconsistent with some rumors that Li Yadong had heard.

In his impression, Comrade Lao Mu should be an arrogant and boundless talent.

Think about it, how arrogant it must be for a person who can propose to blow up a 50-kilometer-wide hole in the Himalayas, divert the warm and humid air currents of the Indian Ocean to the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, and turn the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau into a land of fish and rice?

"Oh, hello, I'm Li Yadong. ”

Li Yadong smiled and shook his hand.

"Boss Li, I spent a while in Russia last year, and you ...... over there"

Comrade Lao Mu told some things with a smile, which made Li Yadong suddenly realize.

Let's just say why he knows himself very well, if he has been in Russia, it is not difficult to understand.

Don't brag about it, Dongfanghong Group's current influence in Russia is far more than that of China by a hundred times!

There is no Russian who doesn't know the Dongfanghong Group, and more than seven adults probably know him Li Yadong, but in China, it is good to have one out of ten people who have heard of the Dongfanghong Group, as for him Li Yadong, he is completely a passerby walking on the street.

"Everyone is here, let's have a banquet, let's talk while eating, and I hope that the two big entrepreneurs, Mr. Li and Mr. Mou, can give advice to the heads of various enterprises in our Jiangcheng City!"

With the mayor's words, the banquet officially began.

Li Yadong poured a few taels at noon, and he really didn't want to drink more at night, so he didn't care who toasted him, it was all a sip.

Those who have an in-depth understanding of him, such as municipal officials and Comrade Lao Mou, will naturally not have any opinions, while those local entrepreneurs will inevitably feel that this person is too arrogant.

Therefore, after the three rounds of drinking, when everyone was talking and laughing, there were obviously more people who raised their glasses to Comrade Lao Mu and asked for advice than Li Yadong.

Of course, there is another reason.

Because in their opinion, Li Yadong is just rich, engaged in high-tech industries, and has no competitors, so he can be rich and expensive, that's all.

If they compare their skills, they are more inclined to Comrade Lao Mou.

Do you Li Yadong have the ability to exchange canned food for four large passenger planes from abroad?

And what about Li Yadong, will he explain anything?

Naturally not.

He wished that everyone would stop him and let him eat some food with peace of mind, I have to say that the dishes in this new restaurant are really good, and there are even wild saury, if you don't eat two bites of this thing now, you won't be able to eat it in the future.

"Mr. Mu, I am in the department store business, but the customer flow in the mall has been tepid, may I ask you, how can I make the business prosperous?"

If Li Yadong was asked to answer this question, he would suggest that the boss start from three aspects.

The first is to control the purchase channels and improve product quality, the second is to improve the service attitude and awareness of the staff, and the third is to carry out targeted marketing, such as holding some promotional activities on holidays.

But Comrade Lao Mou's reply was like this......

"How many malls do you have?"

"Two. ”

Jiangcheng is a big city, the area is equivalent to four Tokyo, eight Hong Kong, and 12 Singapore. If you want to develop a department store business in this area, what good can you do with just two shopping malls?

"If you want to make your business bigger and stronger, you must form a scale, so that when people talk about buying things, the first thing they think of is your shopping mall. In my opinion, if you are optimistic about this industry, don't talk about anything else, at least take down the three districts in the center of Jiangcheng City, and build two or three shopping malls in each district, so that the stall is bigger, many problems will be solved, your purchase price will be lower, the popularity will be wider, etc., it will have an effect, and it will be easier to make money. ”

Everyone at the scene nodded frequently, but the boss who asked the question was in trouble and said, "Can it ...... Mr. Mu, it takes a lot of money to do this, I ...... There is not so much money. ”

"Don't you have any money?" Comrade Lao Mu asked rhetorically: "I feel that you are very rich, good boy, what about the two department stores, your starting point is much higher than that of ordinary people." Isn't it a good thing for you to mortgage two malls and lend out two more? And when you own four department stores, believe me, the bank will be willing to lend you two more. ”

"Yes!" the boss suddenly lit up in his eyes, and his mouth almost didn't smile.

Consciously after such a little bit of Mr. Mou, he has found a broad road with empty gloves and white wolves, which can almost develop indefinitely.

In the whole scene, only Li Yadong shook his head without leaving a trace in the gap between eating.

Speaking from facts, Comrade Lao Mou's proposal has a certain degree of feasibility and can be done, and it should also be possible in the general environment of the government's encouragement of entrepreneurship.

But the key, if the quality and service of a department store can't improve, can it win with popularity and scale alone?

If you can't, you're defeated, and the more malls you have, the faster you'll lose.

In his case, he will first do a good job of the two shopping malls at hand, and then seek development after finding a fixed model that can effectively attract customers and continue to make profits.

Sometimes having a big heart is both a good thing and a bad thing.

Just like Lao Mou's ups and downs in his life.

In Li Yadong's opinion, his heart is too big.

The first half of his life was considered brilliant, and as he is now, he was admired by the Chinese people, but later, when he proposed plans such as "launching satellites", "blowing up a hole in the Himalayas", and "buying aircraft carriers for the Chinese Navy" were all unrealized, he became a liar.

Is he a liar?

Not necessarily.

It comes down to having too big a heart.

His business is very big, he wants to do big things, and he doesn't care about small fights at all, but how can it be so easy to do big things, such as "blowing a hole in the Himalayas", how much wealth and connections do you have to use?

What if you don't have enough resources at hand?

In order to achieve the goal, it is necessary to use abnormal means.

So...... He went to prison.

As far as Li Yadong is concerned, there has always been a motto in his business experience, which is called "a high-rise building begins with a cornerstone".

"Boss Li, Boss Li ......"

Comrade Lao Mou's few soft calls pulled Li Yadong back to reality from his thoughts.

"Oh, I'm sorry, I was thinking about something just now, and I was distracted. ”

"I toast you. ”

"No, I respect you. ”

Li Yadong drank all the wine in the cup.

This glass of wine is not only for the old Mou, but also for all the Chinese entrepreneurs who grew up savagely in this reckless era.

There may be some tragedy among them.

But their various pursuits and fantasies, even impetuousness and naivety, when Chinese history forced into modern commercial civilization, are actually ...... All deserve to be respected.

It's very simple, because they are pioneers, and what they leave to future generations, whether they succeed or fail, is experience......