Chapter 541: Les Miserables

On the plane, Link and Song Xianhe talked about the countermeasures for the operation of the noodle shop along the way. Until the plane was about to land, Link intended to end the topic.

He said: "Do you think it would be feasible to include Chinese fast food in the business scope of noodle restaurants?"

"I'm afraid they won't be able to handle it. However, we may be able to create a new brand. ”

The plane has already begun to taxi.

Link groaned for a moment and said, "What if we added Chinese snacks to the noodle shop sales list? I've eaten those things in China, they use a lot of spices, and they taste very good. ”

Song Xianhe thought for a moment and said, "Maybe we can consider selling it with pasta." However, it is a bit troublesome to process those snacks, it takes too long, and the taste may change when it is cooked and delivered. ”

Long-distance delivery, of course, needs to be packaged, and the packaging cannot be accompanied by soup.

Link also knew that there was a lot that needed to be done to develop a new product. However, he feels that if he wants to make a breakthrough in the noodle shop, he can only continue to innovate in products.

However, Song Xianhe said that Chinese fast food needs a new brand, and he also agrees. Noodle shops that deal in both pasta and fast food may not be able to cope with it. Because the capacity of a store is free. And if you do it professionally, it will feel better to customers.

When the plane stops taxiing. He stood up and said, "We might consider promoting Chinese fast food." "His animal processing plant will have a lot of leftovers that Americans don't know how to make and don't like to eat. Those leftovers will be very popular and delicious in China.

For example, he has eaten beef tendon and brisket, beef offal, beef bone marrow, and pork offal soup in China. But it is difficult for those things to be exported to China. If you can find some sales in the United States, of course, it will be the best.

Song Xianhe also stood up and said, "I'll plan first." "If you want to promote things that Americans don't eat in the first place, you have to find out too many things. Because there have been people who have done those things before, but they have failed without exception.

And the most important question for promoting those things is how to get white people to break through those psychological barriers.

Some people say that Chinese eat everything, but if you look at Africans? you will know that it is called eating everything, and they will not eat.

After they stepped off the plane, Snapton sent someone to bring them a car. Before Link's car started, he saw an acquaintance and couldn't help but look twice.

He saw a car stop next to a business fly that was very close. Hull Donald got out of the car with a sad look on his face that he couldn't hide.

Song Xianhe found that he was looking out of the car window and also took a look. Song Xianhe also knew Hull Donald and said, "I actually ran into him?"

Link smiled and said, "Even though New York is big, it's actually small. He didn't know what bothered Hull Donald, but if he did, he might be happier.

He smiled and said to Tiger who was driving, "Tiger, what did you say Mr. Donald?"

"Maybe a family member is sick. Tiger didn't look back, and replied earnestly. "Hopefully it's not a big deal. ”

Hul Donald and Luke Truss, together with Claude Ross, set up a situation for him, Douglas investigated very clearly.

Although Link not only did not lose but also made a lot of profits in this game, he could not forget this hatred.

Hull Donald was indeed worried. In the morning, Luke Truss called him and said that there was a problem with Truss grapes.

It's not the grapes that the farm is growing that has a problem. Instead, there was a problem with the seedlings that had been sold. Of course, it is not that the seedlings that were sold were planted that went wrong.

Rather, it was a winery in southern California that made wine made from Truss grapes, and when it was checked for fermentation, it was found that the wine suddenly turned into grape vinegar.

If it's just grape vinegar, you can still spend a little money to launch a new fruit vinegar. But the problem is that the acetic acid is astringent and has a rancid taste.

That's just terrible, isn't it?

Strictly speaking, it doesn't really have much to do with Hull Donald. Because the winery's seedlings were sold by Luke Truss before he worked with him, even if there is a problem, it is Luke Truss's problem.

But what if that winery didn't make any mistakes when making the wine?

Luke Truss is now worried that the same problem will arise with wines made from other Truss grapes. If that's really the case, then it's too much of his business.

Buying the Ekobe farm, renovating the grape planting and seedling cultivation, building a winery; and because he wanted to get a fortune from the Chinese, he invested in Bell Farm's winemaking this year, taking a part of it.

That cost him more than $200 million.

If all goes well, there will be a very good outcome. He kept an eye on Link and could probably guess the sales of Blue Lagoon wines. The sales of Blue Lagoon wines are at least half a billion dollars.

He felt that with a $100 million investment of 10 percent of the shares, even if the price of Bell Farms' wine was lower than that of Blue Lagoon, and Chinese businessmen only bought the lowest billion dollars in the order, how could they make a profit and recoup the cost. And the grapes produced by Bell Farms this year could make at least $2 billion worth of wine. That is, he will most likely make a hundred million dollars.

But now everything has become a bubble under the dreamy sun.

The most terrifying situation is, of course, that after he and Luke Truss bought the Ekobe farm, they made tens of millions of dollars from the sale of grape seedlings. What used to be a very pleasant experience when collecting money was suddenly a time bomb hanging overhead.

If Truss grapes do go wrong, he could become a beggar at any time.

He couldn't wait to call as soon as he got on the plane and asked Luke Truss how he was doing.

Luke Truss had flown to Bell Farms to see if there was something wrong with the wine.

He said perfunctorily to Hull Donald on the phone: "I don't know yet, I'm going to hang up, I'm already at the cellar at Bell Farm." ”

Several cellars were also built at Bell Farms. And the security is tight.

That's what he proposed.

He hinted to John Malone, who he thought was unnecessary, that he was worried that Link would be secretly playing tricks: "Mr. Malone, you know that Link Hans will certainly not want to see us make good enough wine, and he has many men. ”

Hearing what he said, John Malone also thought of Link's secret power, and finally agreed to strengthen the security of the cellar.

The combination lock in the cellar was known only to John Malone, him, and Paul Hobbes.

After Paul Hobbes sent the wine to the cellar, he usually came once every ten days. And he can come as he pleases.

When the security guard saw him, he didn't ask, and let him open the door and enter the cellar.

The smell in the cellar keeps this hope alive in Luke Truss's heart. The aroma of wine in the cellar was still intoxicating, but the apprehension in his heart had also become stronger. Because in the cellar of Ekobe, before he opened the barrel, it tasted like this. That's better than calling the winery where the wine went bad. As soon as they enter the cellar, they can ask about the rancid taste.

He begged God that the wine here had not gone bad.

He stood in front of a horizontal barrel, his hand pressed to the stopper, but he did not dare to pull it out, fearing that it would overflow with the same flavor as those of the wines of the Ekobe farm.

The grapes ripened at Ekobe Farm this year are not very large, and as long as the wine here is not spoiled, the loss there is nothing and it gives him hope.

John Malone spent at least $400 million to grow grapes, make wine, and build a wine cellar. That kind of loss even John Malone couldn't afford.

For contracts with the Chinese, they received a huge deposit, but as a result, if they could not provide wine, they would have to pay a billion dollars in liquidated damages.

When signing the contract, he also proposed that it should not only be signed in the name of both companies, but also that the owner of the enterprise should join the contract in his own name. Because he was worried that the Chinese was found by Link. If that China Sheng directly gave up the trading company and breached the contract, he could also directly pursue the China Sheng for compensation.

If it was just a contract between Ekobe Farms and Bell Farms, he would have just given up Ekobe Farms, and even the combined value of Ekobe Farms and Bell Farms would not exceed $200 million.

But in the current contract, if the other party makes a claim, they will have to pay a billion dollars even if the two farms declare bankruptcy. Without the successful Truss grapes, he would not be able to afford to lose money in ten lifetimes.

If the wine here is also spoiled. He won't just lose money.

Once John Malone found out, unless he could run for his life, he might become a dried corpse somewhere in the desert of New Mexico, which would not be found until decades or even centuries later.

He took a deep breath and unscrewed the keg stopper, but immediately plugged it back on, and his whole body became dejected.

He suddenly felt that his experience in the past few years was simply the biggest joke in the world.

He coaxed Link out of $100,000 with some rotten vines, and Link got the perfect Blue Lagoon grapes. Instead, he spent 50 million dollars to get the grapes. At that time, he thought that it didn't matter, as long as he got the Truss grapes, he could earn back a hundredfold.

He used a non-existent gold mine to trick Link into $1.25 billion. It turns out that Link did find gold there, and the value may be even higher than he boasted. Even then, he was still thinking: it doesn't matter, it's just Link's luck that Hans has at least Truss grapes.

And he used the money he got to invest in winemaking, but it turned out to be a tragedy!

He suddenly felt that the world was so unkind to him, that it was as if all the good things had been given to Link Hans, and all the bad things had been concentrated on him.

That's not fair!