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Manchester United's stars basically did not choose to leave immediately after the week that Zeng Cheng, the owner, had entertained them for. In Qinglong Village, they feel that life is so wonderful, even the air they breathe, they feel that they can make people feel a hundred times more refreshed.

Although June is not the most beautiful time for the Qinglong Scenic Area, the lush Qinglong Scenic Area still makes everyone feel close to nature.

And as Ferdinand, Ronaldo and other social influencers uploaded some photos of the Qinglong Scenic Area on their respective Facebook and Twitter, it quickly attracted the attention of the Western world. After entering mid-June, the data from Qinglong Tourism Company showed that the number of tourists from abroad was increasing significantly.

In the past, although there were not no foreign tourists in Qinglong Scenic Area, there were not many after all. Nowadays, however, it is not uncommon to see foreign tourists speaking various languages. Of course, the main thing is mainly English. In addition, there are many tourists who speak Portuguese.

However, due to the short period of time, the absolute number of foreign tourists who come is not too large. It's just that as time passes, there will definitely be a significant increase at that time. After all, this is a lot of Manchester United stars advertising for the Qinglong Scenic Area. With the popularity of these stars today, the effect will definitely not be bad.

When Manchester United's stars were on vacation in Qinglong Scenic Area, although the transfer window had not yet opened, rumors about transfers in major media were one after another.

Manchester United, as the target of public criticism, is naturally the focus of everyone's attention, and at the same time, it is also the target of the major giants. Among them, even Ronaldo, Rooney and others, who have announced the renewal of their contracts with the club, have not been pulled down. For example, well-known newspapers including "The Sun" and "Marca" reported that Real Madrid bought Ronaldo for 80 million pounds, and Rooney was the object of Chelsea's love for the Premier League, and the "Sun" reported that Abu offered a sky-high price of 65 million pounds to buy Rooney.

Of course, this disturbing news and rumors are not untrue. For example, Real Madrid is rumored to have bought Anderson for £30 million. For example, Wes Brown, who rarely played at Manchester United in the last century, moved to Sunderland for £5 million. In addition, there are also a number of transfers of fringe players from some teams.

In terms of buying, Manchester United did not have much of a big deal, and the biggest deal was the purchase of Ecuadorian winger Valencia from Vigan for £17 million. In addition, the acquisition of Genoa hopefuls Andrea Ranocchia from Serie A and Juventus' Claudio Marchisio cost £5 million and £8 million respectively.

Surprisingly, after Tevez left Manchester United, United did not buy big-name strikers, but signed former rivals Liverpool star Michael Owen for free.

In addition, veterans such as Ryan Giggs, Paul Scholes and Gary Neville, who were expected to leave soon, stayed in the team one by one.

This seems to be a little inconsistent with what Zeng Cheng said at the beginning, that he would not lie on the credit book. Because Manchester United's lineup has really not changed much compared to the previous season.

However, all of this is not settled yet, because there are still a few days left before the summer transfer window opens, and there may be some unexpected changes when the transfer window opens.

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When the European football transfer market is turbulent, Chongqing is not calm. The first thing is that the anti-gang operation is still in full swing.

In this context, it is not so important for a small business team to visit Chongqing. After all, the former is something that the big leaders attach great importance to, and for the sake of their own jobs and black yarn hats, who dares to take it lightly?

However, as the leader in charge, Fan Yanhong still attaches great importance to it. No, at noon on June 26, Fan Yanhong and some leaders in the city entertained this group of guests at the hotel directly under the city government, Mr. Lawrence Wood, vice president of the Chicago Consortium from the United States, and his party.

The Chicago Consortium is one of the top 10 conglomerates in the United States and is a consortium in the Midwest region of the United States. In the early 20th century, it was formed by the wealthy local families of the McCormick family, the Wood family, and the emerging Crown family, and the Chicago area was named after the center of activity.

The Chicago area has a favorable climate, abundant rainfall, and fertile land, which is suitable for the development of agriculture and animal husbandry, and has long become an important food and livestock area in the United States. Agriculture and animal husbandry flourished, and the meat processing and agricultural machinery industries developed with it, soon making the Chicago area the center of industry and commerce and financial center second only to New York. These wealthy families combined to form a monopoly consortium. In 1935, it had assets of $4.3 billion, ranking fourth among the eight largest conglomerates in the United States at that time.

The Chicago consortium has relatively strong financial strength, with five major banks: Continental Illinois Company, First Chicago Company, Harris Bank Company, Northern Trust Company, and Bank of America Company. In addition, there are two insurance companies: the Sina (CNA) financial company and the state insurance companies.

In recent years, the Chicago consortium has been squeezed out by the big Wall Street conglomerates, and its financial strength is far less than before. The Illinois Corporation on the mainland was infiltrated by the Morgan consortium and became a company jointly controlled by the two consortiums, while the First Chicago Company was controlled by the Rockefeller consortium, to which the Chicago consortium was in fact subordinate to the two large consortiums.

The industrial sectors controlled by the Chicago consortium consisted mainly of the agro-processing industry and the traditional agricultural machinery manufacturing industry, as well as commerce targeting agricultural areas. In the agro-processing industry, it controls 12 meat processing companies, the larger of which are Esmacker and United Foods. In agricultural machinery, it owns the International Harvester Company, the Tracked Tractor Company (jointly controlled by two consortiums with the Rockefeller consortium), and Deere & Company. The tractors produced by these three agricultural machinery companies account for 60% of the national tractor sales market. After World War II, the Chicago consortium began to expand into the oil industry, with significant investments in Indiana Standard Oil and Texaco, which were part of the Rockefeller consortium, and significant personnel combinations.

The Chicago consortium has a significant presence in business. It owns huge commercial retail companies such as Sears-Loubuck & Co., Union Department Store, Jewelry Store and Marshall Field & Company.

Founded in 1866, Sears-Loubuck & Co. grew dramatically in the early 20th century as a mail-order business, with retail stores and supply points throughout the United States. In Sears' more than 100-year history, it has been the number one retailer in the United States since the early 20th century. In recent years, the market has changed dramatically, with new formats such as supermarkets, warehouse stores, and convenience stores developing rapidly, and department stores gradually declining. It wasn't until the early 90s of the 20th century that Wal-Mart, which started as a discount store, surpassed Sears.

Among the Fortune 500 companies announced by Fortune magazine in 2002, Sears ranked 83rd with sales of $41.1 billion. In 2003, it ranked 81st with sales of 41.4 billion US dollars, behind Wal-Mart, Carrefour, Metro and other companies.

Lawrence Wood is the direct heir to the Wood family, and his grandfather was Robert E. Wood, a key figure in the rise of Hills Department Store.

Robert E. Wood was a unique entrepreneur. After he retired from the army, he used his military ideas to run the American Sears Company, and achieved fruitful results. The reason why Sears Company has been able to grow into the ace company of American department stores is inseparable from the efforts of Wood, an entrepreneur who has gone from a general to the "king of department stores".

In his early years, General Wood attended the most prestigious military academy in the United States, West Point, where he specialized in the engineering section of the Army Noncommissioned Officer School. After graduating, he was assigned to the Philippines with the rank of lieutenant. Later, he was sent to Panama, where he spent 10 years, in charge of canals, railways, engineering construction, transportation and supplies, and achieved brilliant political achievements. Then he was honorably discharged and went to work in the local area.

At the outbreak of World War I, Wood was re-drafted and promoted to general. He was mainly in charge of the supply, procurement, and transportation of military supplies, and he also did an excellent job, and was awarded the Medal of Honor by the federal government.

After the war, Wood left the army and was hired by Sears as vice chairman and later as chairman.

Sears' business was originally very prosperous, but due to the crisis in the American economy caused by the First World War, the company's turnover fell to $160 million.

The situation General Wood faced when he entered the company was dire. Before General Wood changed his business strategy, Sears' business was characterized by a mail-order business, and it can be said that it has reached its peak when it can reach such a high turnover.

After 1920, the population of the United States was gradually concentrated in the cities, and the economic crisis hit the scars, Sears could no longer maintain the status quo, and had to take advantage of this opportunity to make a strategic shift, that is, from mail-order sales to the opening of retail stores in the metropolis. That's exactly what Wood did when he entered Sears.

Between 1925 and 1929, Sears opened 325 retail outlets, and by 1931 it had increased to 378, and soon the turnover caught up with and surpassed the peak of the mail-order period, and it took only six years for General Wood to keep Sears up to the results of the last 50 years and develop into a huge chain of department stores.