Chapter 419: Pushing the Wall (Part I)
Everyone thought he was joking, but Li Mo came to Europe this time to push this wall. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
Li Mo went to the newly opened Yili outlet in Bern.
Tina said, "Boss, it's a bad situation. β
Yili's best time in Europe was at the end of the Seoul Olympics, especially the song composed by Li Mo, and the good relations between China and the West last year caused some small sensations in Europe. However, last year, Mattel had not even digested the funds raised by Li Mo, and all aspects could not keep up, especially the management talents, and could not take care of Europe.
Now Yili can expand on a large scale again, but the political environment is also very different.
Therefore, when Yili set up more than a dozen outlets in Europe, she carefully downplayed the relationship between Li Mo and Yili, including various clothing designs, only wrote the designer's name, and did not write Li Mo's name, and asked Mattel to come forward.
Mattel Demun Yile OEM, as well as John's adjustment of business policies, this year, Mattel's profits have rebounded sharply, and its revenue has also increased rapidly. But Yili has expanded even faster, and its market capitalization now far exceeds that of Mattel. 30% of Yili shares, if by next year, Li Mo's planned wave of expansion goes smoothly, its actual market value could reach more than a billion dollars. Of course, Mattel attaches great importance to Yili.
So he sent many high-level executives to Europe to cooperate with Yili in this wave of expansion.
But no matter how Yili "washes the floor", it still doesn't work.
Tina handed over a couple of tabloids.
One of the tabloids had a caricature of a vulgar cowboy forcibly wearing an ugly garment on a European gentleman.
I won't say who the shareholders behind your Yili are, but you Yili is an American company, a nouveau riche with no culture, no history and no education, and he actually wants to enter the fashion industry?
Li Mo smiled.
Even if the United States later dominated the world, many Europeans still looked down on the Americans, especially in history, culture, fashion, and etiquette, which is somewhat similar to a dark period of China's history, the Northern and Southern Dynasties. At that time, the Han people in the Central Plains were very miserable, especially the regime established by the Qian people, who abducted Han women to make military food, and slaughtered and cooked them for marching food at night and during the day, which once brought the northern Han people to the verge of almost extinction.
However, there are some heroes in the north, that is, the gate valve, with a large amount of land and Ding Zhuang and walled forts in their hands, even if the five chaotic China, and the later five regimes of the Northern Dynasties, they did not dare to act rashly, especially in the Northern Dynasties, because they yearn for the culture and etiquette of these gate valves, and respect them even more. But in fact, these gatekeepers can only barely protect themselves, let alone dare to act against these regimes, they can only look down on these Hu people on the one hand, and on the other hand, they have to rely on these Hu regimes to survive.
The two are similar......
Li Mo continued to flip through the pages again, and saw a cartoon with an evil Fu Manchu depicting an evil Fu Manchu standing in front of the Yili outlet store, bewitching a group of ignorant Europeans. But in addition to Li Mo's pointed chin, he doesn't have a mustache, let alone slender eyes, on the contrary, he has big eyes.
However, the more closely this cartoon looks, the less it looks like Fu Manchu, but like Li Mo.
"Boss, we've sent a lawyer's letter. β
"No, withdraw it, after a while, the old accounts and the new accounts will be counted together. Li Mo said.
In the eyes of many Europeans, the Chinese are very honest and capable, and of course, this kind of person is also the easiest to bully.
That's why Li Mo has been suing again and again, and other Chinese have nothing to do with me, but don't mess with me.
Put it in the back to settle the accounts...... Tina understands.
In fact, the main reason for these situations is that Europe is the so-called fashion base, Li Mo let Yili come to Europe to grab food, and various clothing companies were annoyed and angry, and the result of the agitation behind them.
But it's not Europe that is worse than the United States, it's really bad in recent years, but with the opening of the Chinese market, they all want to come to China to share a bite of food, and Europe is composed of many countries, even the European Union can't unite all countries. As a result, there is a situation in which the common people of many European countries are more anti-Chinese than the ordinary people of the United States, but many politicians at the top are not too bad for China, that is, don't look at this group of white people as hateful, in fact, the political environment is much better than that of the United States.
Yili is not to mention, it is indeed a standard American company, although Li Mo used offshore company shares to avoid taxes, but he still has to pay taxes, it can only be said that he pays less, in addition, there will be some employment to some extent, erasing the trade deficit, Yili makes money in the United States, there will be people who make a fuss, Yili comes to Europe to make money, and even on the contrary, there will be many politicians who spontaneously protect Yili.
Therefore, some European companies can only use some small means to discredit Yili, and dare not make a fuss in other aspects.
Li Mo thought for a while and said: "Tina, Yili's purpose in Europe is to use the next funds first, expand rapidly, and set up various direct sales stores, but don't be in a hurry to pursue profits, first make word of mouth and then talk about it." β
That is, after this round of expansion, it will be stable in the next few years, and it can no longer be in a hurry to continue to expand. But this is contrary to Yili's business policy, and its way is to put it bluntly, that is, to maximize the number of outlets.
There are three benefits, the first is that the more outlets, the higher the revenue.
Second, the appreciation of the house, for example, Yili buys a shop worth $4 million, pays a down payment of 1 million, and the rest is mortgaged by various banks, calculated for 20 years, you have to pay $20,000 a month, and there is also a damn house tax, a high region or country, you have to pay nearly $10,000 a month, and a low one has to pay nearly $2,000 in house tax. In fact, if you change to rent, the house tax is the same, but the monthly rent may be less than $15,000.
This is for now, but according to Li Mo, as housing prices rise and the economy further prospers, the rents of these top shops will become higher and higher, and after buying a house for three or four years at most, the rent will gradually become similar to the monthly payment, and after ten years, the rent may even rise by $30,000, and after 20 years, Yili will pay off the mortgage, and the rent may even rise to $67,000. If it is developed according to Li Mo's plan, not to mention the more than 2,000 shops in the world, as long as it can reach more than 1,000, the annual savings will be astronomical at that time.
The third is logistics, the more direct sales stores, the faster the logistics, and the lower the cost.
But forced by this situation, Li Mo had no choice but to make this choice.
"Boss, if you weren't Chinese. β
"Tina, it has nothing to do with Chinese or not Chinese, as long as I have this face, no matter which country I am from, I will be discriminated against. Li Mo said. On the contrary, as China's status increases, even the status of some banana people will also improve.
Li Mo instructed and went to the hotel. Liu Wanruo and Romei were in the UK and did not come. But there are also three girls in the hotel, Wei Suping, Daria and Romei.
"Wei Suping, not satisfied?" asked Li Mo as soon as they met.
The object of her crush was admitted to Jiaotong University, even if she has a household registration book, it is also amazing.
Before the start of school, Liu Wanruo called to complain about Li Mo, saying that Li Mo did not keep his promise. Li Mo was inexplicable at first, and after Liu Wanruo finished twittering, Li Mo knew that Wei Suyan often lost his mind after learning the news of the boy.
Li Mo asked Wei Suping to go back and meet that boy, in one place, if he doesn't get along, he will add it up, and if he gets along, he will continue to date. Maybe the boy will never reach Li Mo's height in terms of wealth, but that boy will give her an important thing, a name.
And Li Mo persuaded for a long time before Wei Suping returned to the magic capital.
The two families are not too far away, people rely on clothes and horses to rely on saddles, Wei Suping at this time is not Wei Suping at that time, and it immediately attracted the attention of the boy.
The two tried to date.
If that boy isn't in a hurry...... is already about to win Wei Suping's heart. It's just that the film is gone, but what's the matter, it's a big deal, spend money to repair a film to fool around, at least Wei Suping is very beautiful, and she will be famous and rich in the future.
School is coming, this boy is also loved by the Wei family, on this day, go to work, go to school, Wei Suping packed her clothes at home and prepared to go to Europe.
The boy asked for leave, the two sat and talked at first, and then the boy moved his hands and feet, Wei Suping disagreed, the boy was in a hurry, ready to be strong, and Wei Suping broke free. It's nothing, one wants it, the other doesn't give it, it's normal when they're in a relationship, and they haven't officially established a relationship yet. Who knew that this boy was self-righteous, his confidence was inflated, and he also said something that was not light or serious.
In short, in 89 years of China, there is still a more derogatory view of models.
Wei Suping's heart froze on the spot.
also took a fancy to her body, Li Mo gave a lot of understanding, and also gave a lot of help, and would not force her to do anything, but what about this boy, it is really great to be admitted to Jiaotong University, but there is also Li Mo amazing?
She immediately blasted the boy away and returned to Europe.
Wei Suping shook her head.
Daria said unceremoniously: "Li Mo, with your agreement, who dares to open their hearts and fall in love?"
"Daria, it's as if the pact wasn't fair to you. But have you ever wondered if I didn't associate with the five of you, but only with one person, would you complain about me? If I had only one person and complained, I would have said goodbye to her as soon as possible. Or rather, I'm pretty good to you. β
Li Mo not only took out a long-term investment for them, each of them bought an old house in the magic capital, as well as jewelry, and also gave a lot of help in their careers, but the problem is that they can't mess around like this for a lifetime. Li Mo said again: "From another point of view, I have done this, and you are still a little dissatisfied. But in your case, you continue to associate with me and other boys at the same time. Even if you don't think about my feelings, you have to consider other people's feelings. Actually, it's me, and I'm going to be unhappy, I can't give you an explanation, so I've given you a second option, but it doesn't mean that I like a woman who steps on two boats. β
In fact, in Li Mo's thoughts, among these five girls, there will be two people who will not "run".
One is Liu Wanruo, don't look at her, she will also encounter some complaints, but this girl is an easily contented person, or she is a little unmotivated, although she will definitely not give her an explanation in name, but she is also satisfied.
There is also Milena, Liu Wanruo once asked, among the five girls, which one do you like the most, Li Mo did not answer, it was actually Milena, because among the five girls, she was the most well-behaved and obedient, and there was also a place that Li Mo liked, in bed, Milena played crazy in order to make herself happy.
But the easiest to "run" is Daria, although she knew her first, because Dalia was relatively independent, and she was influenced by European and American culture, Li Ming thought that at most three or four years, as she became more and more popular, she would not be willing to live like this.
There is also Wei Suping, although her family background is not good, she is a bit similar to Xie Yuhe, her heart is very high, and her heart is high, and she will run away sooner or later.
When it came to Romei, Li Mo was still a little unable to see through.
Li Default thinks it doesn't matter, there is wine today and drunk today, everyone is just a bed partner, not a couple, it is inevitable. He thought so, but he still betrayed his heart, and Li Mo fooled around with the three girls for three more days.
Although it seems that Li Mo is unintentional, in fact, he has the most relationship with Milena.
On the third day, after a long fight with Milena, Li Mo got up and put on his clothes and said, "I'm leaving." β
Milena tied his tie for him and said, "Li Mo, I don't want to be a model anymore, I just want to stay with you." β
"That's not good, you are walking the catwalk now, or occasionally going to make guest appearances in movies, these incomes are yours, the various languages and some knowledge you are learning now are also your wealth, what I give you will always be given by me, there is a big difference between this. β
But Dalina was the oldest and probably knew a little more, and asked, "Li Mo, why did you bring so many security guards here this time?"
"I've got to go to Eastern European countries, you know, it's a bit messy on one side, bring a little more security, you can be safe. β
"Which country in Eastern Europe?"
"GDR. β
"Which side is okay. In her mind, East Germany is still a relatively developed country, at least better than Ukraine.
"I don't know," Li Mo didn't explain, and was about to get up, Wei Suping stood behind him and asked in a low voice, "Li Mo, are you angry?"
"No, you don't have to think about it, there is no grass at the end of the world, there are many good boys, but they don't know how good you are, and they will know in a few years. Besides, you're still young. β
After Li Mo finished speaking, he caressed Milena's smooth blonde hair again, kissed her on the lips, and then went to Yugoslavia.
Lucas complained, "Lee, the time you gave was too short. β
But in fact, the courage of these yamen still surprised Li Mo.
In order to obtain these technologies, Limer purchased a large number of goods from China, including freight and customs duties, and shipped them to East Germany, which alone were worth nearly $600 million. However, only in this way can the upper and lower levels work together to copy all the technical data, as well as the equipment and instruments, and quickly send them to Yugoslavia, or get on the ship or plane, with the cooperation of these offices.
This, of course, illustrates the chaos in East Germany now.
Moreover, the entire Eastern European countries are seriously short of light industrial products, so Li Mo has this initiative.
But if there are not measures, you can get a lot of technical funds and equipment, and it depends on how much energy and boldness these yamen have.
In addition to these materials, Li Mo also took out nearly 20 million US dollars or related materials to open up joints in Yugoslavia, which is not much compared to the cost this time. There was also an even bigger expense, and the number of passbooks that Li Mo showed these yamen was $1.5 billion.
If these officials can take out the technical information that Li Mo wants, Li Mo will give them a return of 1 billion US dollars, if all the technical information is also authorized by the legal representative of the relevant enterprise, plus 500 million US dollars, but the latter is an impossible task.
From the beginning to today, in this almost less than two months, these Yanai got most of the technical information, and really let the legal representatives of several enterprises sign the authorization certificate, and also got a lot of instruments and equipment, production lines, and even some very important technical information that Liu Xiangzhong did not investigate, according to Li Mo's agreement, these Yanai took a total of 900 million US dollars from Li Mo. It's not $900 million, it's a mountain of materials, books, data records......
Even after the fall of the Berlin Wall, these officials took more than 300 million US dollars in compensation from Li Mo one after another, so you can imagine how crazy they are.
But that's not where Li Mo spends the most money.
With so much technical information, it is impossible for Li Mo to digest it.
Many materials, including shipbuilding materials, some smelting materials, and some chemical materials, Li Mo asked people to copy a number of documents together and send them to various domestic enterprises, including several large factories in Modu, including the Modu shipyard.
However, some important information was "selfishly" retained by Li Mo.
At the same time, until the end of the year, Li Mo took out a total of 1.5 billion US dollars to fund 32 top universities in Modu, Suzhou Province, Zhe Province, Late Province, Guangdong Province, and Ming Province, and established a total of 84 large-scale laboratories, and made a total of four supercomputers modeled on Yinhao No. 1, which were successively placed in Kyoto, Stone Town, Magic City and Suicheng.
This does not mean that there will be no money in the future, as long as these laboratories are built, a large amount of money will be burned in them every year in the future, plus the investment in the year after tomorrow, if Li Mo has no other sources of money, at most he will burn until the year after tomorrow, and there will be no activity funds in his hands. In fact, if all the enterprises that get these technical data are willing to burn money on research and development, it can be said that in three or four years, China's industrial system can not be quickly upgraded to version 2.0, at least China's industrial system can enter version 1.3, 1.4, but this is impossible. However, some companies began to pay attention to it, for example, after the Modu Shipyard got these materials, they immediately brought them to Jiaotong University, and did further research and development with Jiaotong University, integrating their own technology with the shipbuilding technology of East Germany, removing their own shortcomings and learning from others' strengths, so as to make a small leap in their shipbuilding technology. Not only the Modu Shipyard, but also the leaders of a very small number of enterprises have the foresight and have allocated some funds to research and develop these technologies. It can be said that with these materials, coupled with Li Mo's crazy investment in research and development, three years later, China's industrial system, on the basis of the original progress, can make a small leap, at least to enter version 1.2.
In particular, some materials science materials make Li Mo pay special attention.
In fact, this is because Li Mo has used some critical eyes, and his funds are limited, otherwise even if the general technology of East Germany is introduced to China, it will help China's industrial system. The top 10 industrial countries are not just for fun.
Although it is inferior to West Germany in many cutting-edge fields, it is still better than China now.
Li Mo said: "Lucas, your actions have been known to many people in your country, and even caused rejection and opposition from some people. β
"Li, didn't you force it? If you don't rush it, why should we raise teachers and move the people, if we don't raise teachers and move people, how can ordinary people know?"
"Well, I'll give you another three or four months, but remember that you can't let any ordinary person know that we're trading. β
"That's pretty much it. Lucas said with satisfaction, mainly because they saw that Li Mo still had hundreds of millions of dollars in his passbook, and he didn't take it out, so how uncomfortable it was.
Limer offered to go to East Germany.
Liu Xiangzhong immediately objected, you dig like this, the real East German Stacy doesn't know? This is not going to East Germany, but to send him to death.
Lucas has two dozen Yanai...... It has increased again, it will not work if it does not increase, there are fewer people, there is really not enough strength to do this for Li Mo, they all patted their chests and said that they would ensure Li Mo's safety.
"Liu, you don't know the current situation in our country, Stasi, hehe, who else can they take care of?" said a Yanei on the side.
The background of East Germany is that Hungary was the first to open the Iron Curtain, and although East Germany has the highest per capita GDP in Eastern Europe, it is still much behind West Germany, so many people fled from Hungary to West Germany.
In addition, due to the rapid corruption at the top, coupled with the connivance of some high-level leaders who yearn for people's cooking or deepening reforms, strikes broke out in many cities in East Germany, and in order to appease the people's grievances, the East German government and the Soviet Union removed Onek from his position as leader next year, that is, on November 7, and the day after tomorrow, Onek officially addressed the people and announced his resignation from all positions in D.
During this period of time, the GDR was in chaos, the dragons were leaderless, and Stasi did not dare to act at will, of course, this was also the happiest time for this group of officials, no one cared, they could send all the technical information to Yugoslavia with impunity, in exchange for the dollars they desired.
The reason why they want Li Mo to go to East Germany is that they also want to treat Liu Xiangzhong like that, so that Li Mo can eat, drink, and play well...... There are many, many more technologies in East Germany, and there are countless more equipment and production lines in East Germany, not only the $1.5 billion in Li Mo's account, they don't know that East Germany will disappear soon, and they still think about good things, counting on more money from Li Mo's hands.
Li Mo called Liu Xiangzhong aside and whispered, "Uncle Liu, remember what I said, there will be a good opportunity for a cave soon." β
He wants to push the wall, but he can't say whether he lives or dies.
He commanded a few more words.
Liu Xiangzhong was inexplicable, and Li Mo said: "Believe in my wisdom." β
Li Mo even spoke out his wisdom, and Liu Xiangzhong couldn't stop it, so he had to let Li Mo go to East Germany with these yamen.
When he came to Berlin, Li Mo first took a look at the wall...... He came to the GDR for the only real purpose.
There are several misconceptions about the Berlin Wall.
First of all, the Berlin Wall is not a wall, it is two parallel walls, separated by about 150 meters, and the area in between is the so-called "death zone", with police dogs, watchtowers, floodlights, barbed wire, roadblocks against vehicles and armed guards. The 96-mile (1 mile or 1.6 km) border encircled West Berlin, which was a popular and capitalist system, and cut it off from East Berlin, which was a GCIST system, and the surrounding East German countryside. Another barrier was built along the 850-mile-long East and West German demarcation line, with more than 1 million mines planted along the route. All this was done to prevent the East Germans from fleeing, not to prevent others from breaking in.
More than 5,000 people managed to escape: hiding in secret compartments in cars driven by West Germans, flying over the Berlin Wall in hot air balloons, passing through tunnels dug by West Berliners under the Berlin Wall, swimming across Berlin's canals or rivers, or simply crossing the border, but with good luck. Hundreds, if not thousands, were killed while trying to escape;
The construction of the Berlin Wall was not ordered by the Soviet Union, and in 1952 the Soviets closed the border between East and West Germany, but the Soviets spared Berlin because the whole of Berlin was still under the control of the four major powers (the United States, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and France). Later, West Berlin became a safe haven for disgruntled East Germans, and East German leader Walter Ulbricht wanted to close the border between East and West Berlin. The Soviets believed that closing the inner borders of Berlin would make them look brutal and technically impossible.
For the next eight years, East German leaders persuaded Kremlin leader Nikita Khrushchev to talk about it, and when they felt that Khrushchev might acquiesce, East Germany began to secretly prepare. They stockpiled barbed wire and concrete sentry posts and formed a top-secret task force to develop plans for the closure of roads, railways and subways. By the summer of 1961, with more than 1,000 East Germans leaving through West Berlin every day, Khrushchev agreed to let Ulbricht seal the border. Ulbrich, who was well prepared, quickly went into action, which surprised Khrushchev.
Many Americans believe that Ronald Reagan's June 1987 speech in Berlin β "Mr. Gorbachev, Tear Down the Wall!" β led to the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. But the reforms that Gorbachev pursued within the Soviet bloc and the actions of the East Germans themselves were far more important than Reagan's speech.
When the Berlin Wall began to fall on November 9, it was initially a mistake. In the face of popular demonstrations against the East German regime in 1989 and the thousands of East Germans seeking refuge in West German embassies in Eastern European countries, the East German leaders abandoned the original visa requirements. According to the original rules, East German citizens had to have a compelling reason to travel abroad, such as attending a family member's funeral or wedding. After the waiver of this rule, East Germans still need to apply for a visa to leave the country, but the visa is issued more quickly and without strings attached.
However, GΓΌnther Shabowski, the East German Communist Party official tasked with announcing the changes, was absent from most of the key meetings on the changes to travel procedures, and he was ill-prepared when he attended a press conference on November 9. When asked by reporters when the new law would take effect, he replied: "Immediately." He said this to give the mistaken impression that people could immediately cross the border. What he really meant, though, is that people can apply for visas immediately and in the proper way.
Over the next few hours, thousands of East Berliners gathered at the gates of various checkpoints along the Berlin Wall. Since the East German leadership was not ready to completely open the borders, the head of the checkpoint did not receive new instructions. Harald Jaeger, the duty officer at the Bornholmer Street checkpoint, kept calling his superiors to ask what to do about the angry East Berliners who were gathering at the gate and wanted to cross the border. At about 11:30 p.m., Jaeger finally gave up and allowed the people to cross the border in full. Guards at other checkpoints soon followed suit. The East German regime never fully regained control.
The Berlin Wall was also not torn down on November 9, and that night and in the weeks that followed, the East German authorities demolished parts of the Wall to allow for more crossings between East and West Germany, and countless "wall chiselers" knocked parts of the wall home with hammers and chisels as memorials. However, the vast majority of the Berlin Wall still stands.
The official dismantling of the Berlin Wall began in the summer of 1990. It took nearly two years to completely dismantle the border fortifications around Berlin, and four years to dismantle the fortifications on the former border between East and West Germany. Even today, hundreds of mines remain near the original borders, undetected or dismantled. In Berlin, a little more than a mile of the Berlin Wall was kept, and these walls were scattered in several locations. Today, there are more walls of the Berlin Wall on public display in the United States than in Berlin.
Compared to the peoples of other countries, the attitude of the Germans towards the Berlin Wall was far more ambivalent. After all, in order to prevent people from leaving the GDR, the Germans shot at their compatriots. Moreover, for many Germans, especially East Germans, reunification proved to be more challenging than they expected, and unemployment remained high throughout the 90s of the 20th century and beyond, and with it resentment. Another factor that complicates the celebration of the fall of the Berlin Wall is that November 9 means something else in German history: on November 9, 1938, the Nazis attacked Jewish shops, churches and homes, and that night became known as Kristallnacht. The shadow of Nazi history has made many Germans reluctant to celebrate or express pride in any aspect of German history.
To put it simply, the fall of the Berlin Wall had inevitable and accidental factors, not because the common people were angry together, but because they pushed it out, and because of the connivance and acquiescence of many high-level leaders in East Germany, otherwise it would not have succeeded.
Or to put it more simply, if you don't know this period of history and boldly mobilize the masses to push the wall, even if it is two days in advance, or even a few hours in advance, Li Mo will not be able to be killed on the spot!