Chapter 3 The Two Giants
Linzhi has been in the garment industry for more than ten years, and has established his own garment processing factory in Shenyong City, whose main business is to produce cheap cottage clothing supplies.
At that time, there were very few clothing brands in China, except for Li Ning, which was just starting, most of the products on the market were miscellaneous copycat products, and all kinds of inferior goods copied from foreign brands.
Inferior workmanship and cheap sales were the first choice for most people below the middle class back then.
Although these garments are cheaper, they are even cheaper. Merchants don't seem to have much profit to make, but when their sales pile up to a terrifying value, it can bring about unimaginable qualitative changes.
In essence, this is also one of the important reasons for China's economic take-off, a natural giant market with a population of more than one billion, and the dividends brought by the population are unimaginable.
With this demographic dividend advantage, Lin Zhi's worth in 1999 was close to Wang Jianlin's small goal.
Since the official launch of Taobao in May 2003, Lin Zhi missed the platform at the beginning, and her competitors have been on the fast track of online shopping early, surpassing her in a few years.
In addition, foreign brands have settled in Huaguo, from the sports brand Nike Adi, to Uniqlo in the island country, trendy brands in Europe and the United States, as well as domestic independent brands Vancl, etc., which further intensified the market competition in the Chinese clothing industry.
Since then, Gu Zhi's family's financial situation has deteriorated.
Fortunately, Gu Zhi was reborn.
Now for him, saving his mother Lin Zhi's company is just a piggybacking thing, as long as he gives a little direction of development, he can completely change the fate of the company.
For him, the most important thing is to get on the last train of Huaguo's Internet development!
Gu Zhi clearly remembers that in March 2017, Penguin's market value successfully surpassed Alibaba and became the most valuable company in Asia.
After another two months, Penguin continued its efforts, and its stock price soared all the way to a maximum of HK$247.8, and the total market capitalization exceeded US$300 billion for the first time.
A week later, Alibaba's stock price rose 2.69% to an all-time high, while its market capitalization also exceeded the $300 billion mark.
According to the exchange rate at that time, the market value of these two companies has approached 2 trillion yuan, not only the leader of Chinese enterprises, but also one of the world's giants.
Counting the other Du Niang, the three Internet giants in Huaguo are collectively known as BAT.
However, Du Niang has gradually declined in recent years, and the market value has been declining, and only a fraction of the two AT have been left far behind.
Moreover, many incidents of bad morals have made many Chinese people disgusting and shameless, which has led to everyone's disgust and boycott to a certain extent.
Strictly speaking, there are only two big Internet giants in China, Ali and Penguin.
In China, these two giants are behind all industries related to the Internet, without exception.
The dispute between Kuaidi and Didi, Meituan and Hungry, OFO and Mobike... These are the epitome of the competition between the two sides.
Like proxy wars between countries, China's Internet industry has become a gladiatorial arena for manipulation.
1999 was the beginning of the establishment of Alibaba, and it was also the starting point of the take-off of the Internet in China.
After being reborn, Gu Zhi is determined to become a participant from a bystander in his previous life, or even a manipulator behind the scenes!
Compared with this aspect, no matter how much Linzhi's company tosses, it is just a small wave.
Gu Zhi stood in front of the window, retracted the thoughts of remote thoughts, thought about the next wording for a little in his heart, and opened the door to the living room with his mind.
Today is Sunday, a day off that is not easy.
Usually, the family basically has no extra time to get together, and his mother Lin Zhi is busy with the company's business, and it is not easy for his father's advisor to teach at a deep university.
Shenzhen University was just founded in 1983, and at that time, the faculty was very scarce, and the consultants had to take both undergraduate and graduate students, which was a lot of work.
In the living room, Consultant Zhi and Lin Zhi were sitting on an old yellowed leather sofa, looking at the newly purchased 29-inch Panasonic color TV.
At that time, the TV brand of the island country topped the world, and the small color TV of the island country brand was one of the standard configurations of ordinary urban residents.
The TV industry in China has just started, and it is catching up step by step, until around 2013, it slowly defeated the island brand with high-quality and inexpensive products, and recaptured the Chinese market again.
On TV, the 98th version of "Water Margin" is being broadcast in the central golden theater, and the ratings of this drama have reached 78%, which is a well-deserved popular drama in the past two years.
The two of them had already watched it last year, and now although it is a replay, they still watch it with relish.
"Dad, Mom, I'll discuss something with you. โ
Gu Zhizhi walked to the side of the sofa and sat down.
Seeing their son's serious expression, the couple seemed to have changed as if they had changed their minds, and they couldn't help but feel nervous when they thought of Gu Persistent in the past three days.
The two looked at each other silently, and the consultant picked up the remote control and turned off the TV.
"Son, is there something wrong at school?"
Lin Zhi asked with concern.
Gu Zhi has just entered his second year of high school this year, and he has never worried his parents about his studies since he was a child. In the opinion of his mother Lin Zhi, the son is either in love and out of love, or he is fighting with his classmates.
How much more can a high school student do?
"Mom, Dad. I need financial support from my family. โ
"Is the funding going to be the school's going to buy the textbooks, or is it something you want to buy, and how much does it cost?"
The advisor felt that his son was a little strange, and he was relieved.
In terms of material, both the consultant and Lin Zhi thought that it was more than enough to meet their son's needs with their abilities.
"For now, I need 75 million. โ
Gu Zhi said lightly.
The living room fell silent.
Advisor Zhi and Lin Zhi were completely stunned, their mouths opened slightly, motionless, and looked at the calm Gu Zhi and stopped.
After a long time.
"Son, how much did you just say?"
Lin Zhi was afraid that he had heard it wrong, so he asked again.
"75 million, if you don't have that much at home, you can take out 65 million. โ
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Five hours later, Gu Zhi returned to his room.
It is very difficult to convince parents to come up with such a large fortune at once, especially without revealing that they are born again.
For a teenager, this goal is basically impossible to achieve.
Fortunately, Gu Zhi's body is young, but his soul is a real mature social person.
He only said one sentence, and he shocked Lin Zhi and the consultant.
"I know what will happen in the next 20 years, so I need this money to invest. โ
Isn't this tantamount to exposing the fact of his rebirth to his parents?!
Gu Zhi is really out of tricks, he estimates that even if he lives to be 100 years old and then reborn, he will not be able to solve this problem.
Tens of millions of huge sums of money, still in 99, without revealing some explosive facts, just want parents to take out the money, it is absolutely impossible, there is no such stupid person in the world.
And then the rest of the game fell into place.
From the domestic political and economic development, to the great changes in the global forces, from the successful bid for the Olympic Games in 01 to the grand opening in 08, from the dominating Nokia, to the booming Jobs, and then to the blowout of domestic smartphones, from the weak Chinese who have no chance to be discriminated against by all parties, to the domineering and rich "strong people" in the eyes of Hong Kong Island...
Finally, he focused on the development of Linzhi Company, pointing out the company's problems and hidden dangers, if it misses the opportunity for the development of the Internet, it will take a wrong step and make a mistake, until it finally falls apart.
Gu Zhi said a lot, but after all, he didn't say that he was reborn.
After this conversation, Lin Zhi and the consultant were silent for a long time.
They still couldn't believe what their son was saying, but reason told them that it was probably true.
Especially about this part of his company, Gu Zhi said it too truthfully, and it was almost exactly the same as Lin Zhi's original plan.
The final fate of the company analyzed by Gu Zhi also had to make her heart tremble.
"Son, how do you know this?"
"I don't know how I know, I woke up two days ago and had these memories in my head, maybe God told me. โ
Isn't it the arrangement of the thief to come back from rebirth?