The doorman's attitude is very awesome, don't look at the ordinary dress, but the score is bigger than the county magistrate.

Liang Yifei and Bahrain looked at each other.

There is no surprise about the attitude of the janitor, and it is a necessary skill for a qualified doorman, otherwise how to deal with cats and dogs from all walks of life, the reason why the king of Hades is easy to see, the premise must be that the little ghost is difficult.

But the problem is, this place is obviously Tianfu? On the big sign at the door, there are still a few big words written on it: 'Tianfu Beverage Co., Ltd.'.

"That's right, this is it. Balin took the letter of introduction and pointed to the sign at the door, "Isn't this Tianfu Cola?"

The old man squinted at him, ignored him, and continued to hold the tea jar, basking in the sun with Erlang's legs crossed.

Liang Yifei took out a pack of red pandas from his arms, knocked one out, handed it to the old man through the big iron door, and asked with a smile: "Uncle, smoke a cigarette." ”

The old man first swept his eyes at the cigarette with the 'side light', and then looked at Liang Yifei with his eyes and took the cigarette.

"Let me tell you, now Tianfu, foreigners say what they say, Pepsi and Cola, the Chinese factory director doesn't talk about anything, you have to look for it, go to Chaotianmen Chongqing Hotel, several foreign managers live there. ”

Bahrain blinked, and for a moment he didn't know what was going on, and he didn't know what to do next.

Liang Yifei squatted at the door and asked with a smile: "Uncle, we are from other places and want to do some business with the factory, and now the factory and Pepsi are not cooperating, why doesn't the Chinese manager's speech count?"

The old man at the doorman glanced at Liang Yifei again with a side light, and said, "Why are you asking so much, I told you to go to the foreigner, and you went to the foreigner." ”

"Learn more about the situation, and you won't suffer if you cooperate. Liang Yifei smiled, took out a hundred yuan, handed it over through the door, and said, "Uncle, you work hard, buy a bottle of wine to drink." ”

"What are you doing here?!" the old man said in a very stern tone, but his tone was very gentle, and a kind smile suddenly appeared on his face.

One hundred yuan, half a month's salary for him, if he could earn this money by setting up a dragon gate formation with people every day, he would have made a fortune a long time ago.

Without hesitation, he accepted the money, opened a corner door next to the big iron door, and said, "See that you are not bad people, and there is a letter of introduction, come in and sit, sit and talk." ”

The guard's room is quite large, but it is also very empty, a table, a few rattan chairs, and a set of small teapots on the table, and there is water sitting on the stove, which is just smoking and boiling when it comes in.

In 94, Pepsi came to talk about investment, and Tianfu Cola sold land, factories and personnel, including Tianfu Cola's secret recipe and more than 100 small bottling plants under it, with a discount of 300 million.

In addition, in the newly formed joint venture company, the Chinese side at the end of Tianfu has 40% of the equity, and Pepsi is 60%;

"You think, there are sixty percent of the shares, it must be what foreigners say. The old man pouted on the teapot.

"Uncle, forty percent of the shares are not much, but it is also a major shareholder, the major shareholder speaks, it still has weight, why don't you take care of it?" asked Bahrain puzzled.

"Let me tell you, you are young, and you don't know a lot of things! If you don't have enough to eat, you have the strength to fight, and when you are full, who will fight? These leaders in the factory, when their own people fought with their own people in the past, one was fiercer than the other, but now the foreigners are here, and Rinyimayo has become a coward!"

As he spoke, the old man became filled with righteous indignation, patted his thighs and spat and complained, saying: "They are all fed, they don't do anything, they lie at home and take money, how can they not be cowardly?

The old man's words may not be to the point, forty percent of the shares, under the premise of not fighting a lawsuit, many things are indeed difficult to fight, and they cannot be fought for, which does not mean that the Chinese leaders do not want to fight.

What's more, a world-class enterprise like PepsiCo has too many advantages over contemporary mainland entrepreneurs in terms of business experience, trap setting and avoidance of cooperation, and even the relationship with the local government. To put it mildly, if you really have to play tricks and engage in business fights, under the premise of complying with the rules, it is not much more difficult to play ordinary mainland entrepreneurs than to play monkeys.

In the past few decades of reform and opening up, foreigners have suffered losses from the mainland, and there are not a few people on the mainland side who have suffered losses from foreigners.

However, the old man's words do reflect the fact that in the new joint venture, the Chinese side has very little say.

"Old man, I heard that Tianfu Coke used to sell well in Shuzhong, but when I came this time, I didn't see much of it on the street, what's going on?" Liang Yifei asked again.

"If you don't produce it, of course you won't sell it!" The old man suddenly became angry inexplicably, and slapped the table: "This group of losers!"

"If you don't produce, if you don't produce, what does Tianfu Company sell?" Liang Yifei asked curiously.

"Sell Pepsi. The old man pointed to a large row of buildings behind him through the window, and said, "See, they are all the old filling lines, but now they are not in production, and half of them are empty." ”

Bahrain didn't understand too much, and said in a mixed bag: "Why sell Pepsi Cola? Tianfu Cola, why sell Pepsi Cola? If you sell Pepsi Cola, why do Pepsi Cola invest in Tianfu, can't they sell it themselves?"

"You're young, and you don't know a lot of things. The old man said again, "Why do you sell it yourself?" You can sell it if you say it? Now this is the case, Tianfu Cola is basically not produced very much, and more than half of the more than 100 bottling plants in the factory and below are out of production, and the remaining half are all filling Pepsi Cola. You know what the puree is, right? Foreigners are shrewd and ruthless, do you think that the joint venture is a friend? No! People guard against you, the formula is kept secret, the puree is regularly transported from abroad, diluted and filled with the assembly line of the factory, and it comes out with Pepsi Cola!"

Bahrain still doesn't understand, this can't be said?

Pepsi spent money to invest in Tianfu, but the result was still the production of Pepsi, so why not invest in building a factory and filling it yourself? It doesn't cost so much money at all, and if a company as big as Pepsi wants to invest in the mainland, any city welcomes it, and it will give good policies.

Buy Tianfu, of course, because it has a good brand and a good reputation, but now it only produces Pepsi, not Tianfu, and spends all this money, isn't most of it wasted?

So many subordinate bottling plants in Tianfu are idle, and there are so many people who have to be raised and maintained, isn't this also money?

Foreigners have money, and they are not so blindly tossed.

The old man at the doorman complained on the side again, and he didn't talk in any order, just a few words over and over again, Liang Yifei probably understood, he was too lazy to listen to him complain, and asked with a smile: "Uncle, can you take me to the factory for a walk?"

"What a line is this!" The old man hurriedly waved his hand.

"Uncle, don't you think I'm like a thief? Besides, if you follow along, you're afraid that the two of us will do bad things. I just want to know more, understand clearly, and then go to foreigners, so that I won't be bullied by them. ”

Liang Yifei smiled, and took out another two hundred yuan and stuffed it into the old man's pocket.

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Like the foreign guest hotel in Binhai City, Chongqing Hotel is also the first foreign-related hotel in Chongqing, which began in the Sichuan Salt Bank during the Anti-Japanese War, and became the first foreign-related star hotel in Shuzhong in 87 years with a joint venture with Hong Kong Fahua Company, and also the first high-end hotel in Shuzhong that lays carpets, has dial-up telephones, and supplies steaks and cola.

Of course, at that time, all this was only open to foreigners, and I don't know how many times, after the naughty child who secretly ran in to play was caught by the security guards, like a righteous martyr, he would rather be locked up in a small black room than say his parents' work unit, for fear that his parents would be implicated.

Today, when Chongqing already has a four-star hotel, Chongqing Hotel is still the first choice for foreigners who come to Shuzhong for work and tourism.

Thomas is such a foreigner, he has a quarter of Chinese ancestry, his grandfather, a retired aviation mechanic, during the Anti-Japanese War, followed Chennault to China, to provide mechanic support for the Flying Tigers, working at Jianqiao Airport in Hangzhou, on a business trip to Chongqing, met his grandmother, an English female teacher who fled to Shu after the fall of Shanghai, and the two quickly fell in love.

At the end of 1948, Thomas's grandfather left China with his father, and in 1966, his grandmother died in Chongqing.

For China, for the city of Chongqing, Thomas has a completely different feeling from those American colleagues, that is, he feels cordial and yearning, but also faintly gives birth to resistance and hatred, every time he steps on the streets of the city, sees those Chinese walking on the street, he can't help but think of the legendary years that he has never experienced, and at the same time, he is deeply burdened with inexplicable guilt for his grandfather's departure.

Therefore, even if the foreign investor representing the new Tianfu, the person in charge of foreign capital in Tianfu, obviously has an arranged villa area for foreign experts to live in, he is still more accustomed to living in the Chongqing Hotel, from the setting that has been renovated here I don't know how many times, feeling the charm of the remnants of history from decades ago, standing on the high terrace, keeping a certain distance, to look down at the Chinese downstairs who he feels friendly but cannot fully understand.

When Liang Yifei came to Thomas's room, Thomas's first subconscious action was to look back to see if the carpet at the door had been trampled on.

He frowned, the carpet was clean, free of mud and stains, but it was still trampled on the footprints.

"Hello, Mr. Thomas, this is my business card. Liang Yifei handed over a business card with both hands.

Thomas hesitated slightly, but still stretched out his hands to take the business card, and after seeing that there was only a pure Chinese introduction on it, he casually put it on the table and said: "Mr. Liang, I have limited time, please explain your intention directly." ”