Chapter 135: Return to Singapore

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Along the wide, tree-lined Avenue of the Kings, the car slowly stopped in front of a yellow palace on the left side of the presidential palace. The King's Road is the heart of Delhi, which is connected to the India Gate on one end and the Presidential Palace on the hillside, dividing the whole of Delhi into north and south. New Delhi is just what foreigners call it, and in India, no one calls their capital like that, here is just Delhi.

Due to the strict hierarchy, Indians are never secretive about their enjoyment, and it is only natural that the superior should enjoy the beautiful surroundings and luxurious palaces, and the inferior people should live in shacks.

The power center of the entire Indian state occupies the very center of Delhi, with the Yamuna River to the east, Pursat Hill to the west, the secluded foreign embassies and consulates to the south, and the most prosperous commercial center of India to the north, from which the poor have been expelled from the land.

This Mughal-style palace is India's Ministry of Finance, and travels here to visit Singh, who is known as the father of India's economic reforms.

At this time, Singh was India's finance minister, and he had been in this position for fourteen years. Before Singh took office as finance minister in '91, India's economy was in shambles and on the verge of collapse. After taking office, Singh vigorously advocated economic liberalization and reform, breaking the shackles that had constrained India's economic growth for many years, paving the way for India's economic development, and enabling India's economy to enter the track of high-speed development.

As a result, he was also the most respected politician in India, so much so that a few months later, after the Congress Party won the election, Mrs. Gandhi refused to be prime minister and nominated Singh, a Sikh, as prime minister, without much opposition.

The Sikhs in India are only a minority with a population of no more than 2 percent, and Gandhi, the founding father of India, was assassinated by the Sikhs, so the Sikhs have always been a beaten people in India.

Singh's ability to break through this prejudice and gain the support of the majority of Indians shows his charisma.

However, when Zhou You saw him, he didn't find that he had too much personal color, on the contrary, he always seemed very humble and low-key. Zhou You knew that he had been a university professor in the past, but he didn't expect that more than ten years later, he still behaved like a professor instead of a minister.

When it comes to India's economy, Traveler doesn't know much. Singh began by praising Zhouyou's rapid development over the past few years, praising his flawless execution of the Colombian project and congratulating him on his achievements as an Asian in the white world.

Subsequently, Singh introduced the current development of India's technology industry to Zhou You, and made detailed inquiries about several investments in Zhou You's technology industry.

Zhou Yu talked about the role of search engines from the development of the Internet, explained his investment philosophy in Baidu and Google. Regarding the development of Tencent, this does not need to be explained in detail, because although online games are a big project, they play a more negative role in the economic development of a large country.

India, like the mainland, is a big country, and like that cosmic power, it is only because they are too small that the role of this industry is effective.

Regarding the virtual community, Singh asked very carefully. The development of a virtual online community through instant messaging to shorten the distance between people will help alleviate the real contradictions in India, a country with relatively large internal contradictions.

Zhou You made a detailed description within the scope of his inquiry, but did not mention the concepts of big data, cloud services, and the Internet of Things. India's software industry is very developed, and Zhou You doesn't want to make a wedding dress for Indians because he leaked his heavenly secrets.

The last topic focused on the business scope of Tmall, there are more poor people in India, and Tmall can greatly reduce the price of various consumer goods by reducing distribution channels, which is also very worth learning for India.

But this matter cannot be guided by the government, because it will touch the real interests of a large part of the population. However, it is almost impossible to develop an online shopping mall through individuals, because it requires individuals to have sufficient financial strength, including strong execution ability.

Zhou You quickly understood what he meant, and he also directly introduced the difficulties of developing an online business in India as a foreigner. Anyway, it's a meaning, it's okay to let him participate, but if you let him take the lead, he can't do it.

Just kidding, let him take the lead in doing it, don't say that investing tens of billions of difficulties will not be effective, the most afraid is to fall into this quagmire, and you can't get out if you want to.

Because very simply, the local power in India is very large, and many places are even controlled by vassal kings. He started an online business, but he touched on local interests, and only benefited a small number of enterprises and ordinary people, this contradiction could not be solved, and he could not invest in online business in India at all.

Because your warehouse could be set on fire, your transport fleet could be looted, and your delivery people could be beaten. These things can make a company fall into complicated disputes outside of business, and finally drag down the company's development.

However, the two sides did not think that they could negotiate at one time, and this was only a preliminary intention to contact. If both sides have this idea, the two sides will also consult on specific issues in the coming days.

Overall, Zhou's meeting with Singh was constructive, not substantive, groundbreaking.

After meeting with Singh, Zhou You had preliminary contact with officials from the Ministry of Commerce and the Ministry of Science and Technology, and the two sides had some discussions on projects that could be cooperated, and finally signed a memorandum of cooperation.

This memorandum of understanding does not have any legal effect, but only determines the basis for cooperation between the two sides, and in the future, no matter which side deems that the conditions are ripe, it can initiate another in-depth negotiation on the basis of this discussion.

Naya has been very unaccustomed to these days, he has always thought that he is just an insignificant little person, but now he has stepped into the sky, not only following the world's super-rich people, but also following him into various countries.

A few days ago, he was a young man with no plans for the future, just wanting to go to Hong Kong to see the bustling world outside, but now he is standing in the clouds all of a sudden, which makes him very unaccustomed.

He didn't know why Zhou You loved him so much, but he was willing to follow Zhou You, because this position allowed him to see more of the wonderful world.

Now he is thinking about how to use his abilities, hoping to help travel around and stabilize his position.

After returning to Singapore from India, Zhou You specially called Naya to his office. His new office is located on the south side of the 10th floor of the City Garden building, with a view of his entire base from the office window, opposite the beautiful island of Sentosa.

This office is very large, with an entire area of more than 3,000 square meters, not only several living rooms of different sizes, but also a practice room, a bedroom with a cloakroom, and a practice room.

Next to his office is the Secretariat, which can accommodate 300 people, and there are already more than 200 secretaries dedicated to him. These secretaries are in charge of an investment project in a team of three, and every day they have to collect the big and small affairs of the investment projects in each place, and then submit them to the middle management team for review.

This middle management team, headed by Rodriguez, will start rating the information according to its importance, and only the important ones will be handed over to the advisory panel and Sanchez, who will make an assessment before handing it over to Zhou You.

Then, there are more than 60 people in the information gathering team, and their daily work is very easy, which is to collect the news that happens in this world every day, and then collect some news related to the company, one for the advisory group, and one for the tour.

At present, the team is not enough manpower, because of the limitation of manpower, they are only collecting some popular news now, and when they are more fully staffed in the future, there will be special people responsible for collecting new technologies of various professional journals, collecting patent summaries from all over the world, and so on.

This headquarters is a brain, and these clerks are nerve endings, bringing together all the information, but they are not involved in any specific investment affairs.

Naya had never imagined that he would be able to work in such a beautiful office, and he knew that he was so out of place that he didn't even know where he could help around.

Seeing Naya sitting a little stiffly across from him, Zhou You also felt that he was a little uprooted, but he wouldn't change his mind. After dialing the internal line, Zhou You called the head of the headquarters of the human resources department and the finance department, who are the middle managers of the department, and are only responsible for the positions and salaries of the personnel here in the headquarters.

"This is Naya, and he will be my bodyguard in the future, and his file will be filed according to Batistuta's rank, and his salary will be the same as Batistuta's."

Huang Wenjing, one of the first employees in the finance department to join the company, asked a little puzzled: "Batistuta has just learned to fly an airplane in the United States, so his salary has been transferred to the highest level of personal bodyguard, and his fixed salary alone exceeds 200,000 US dollars a year...... Okay, I get it, I'll do it right away. ”

Zhou You nodded, turned back to Naya and said: "You go and go through the entry procedures with them, and then concentrate on staying at the base, in the future, your main task is to be responsible for the security of my office, when I am not in Singapore, no one else can enter my office except for the person I allow, can you do it?" ”

"Yes, sir."

"It's good to call me boss, you first work in Singapore for two years, and usually read more company information. When I help you get your long-term residence permit, you can follow me and learn more. …… Let's go and go through the onboarding procedures with them first. ”

Naya must reciprocate, even if he can't bear it now, Zhou You will let him get used to it, and as for any grievances among other employees, Zhou You will not care. He's all about making Naya the most special one in the company, and if others isolate him, it's going to be a test for him.