"Thirdly, there is the tasting room. The tasting room is the front of the way visitors come into contact with our winery. I've been to the tasting room, and I think our tasting room needs to be greatly improved, both in terms of hardware and software. ”

"First of all, in terms of hardware, now our public tasting room is on the second floor of the castle, and you need to climb the stone stairs from the side to get up. The biggest disadvantage is that there is no place to enjoy the scenery at all, which is inconvenient for tourists. Others' tasting rooms have a large terrace where you can enjoy the breeze, sunshine, vineyards, and a glass of wine. But what about ours? In a fully enclosed room, except for the walls are the walls. ”

"So, I'm going to build a visitor center on top of the hill behind us. It doesn't have to be too big, just a display of some of our souvenirs and a large terrace plus tasting room. ”

"Isn't it more troublesome for tourists to go up and down?"

"Yes, but the second point I'm about to say makes up for it."

"In addition to building stone ladders to climb the mountain, we also need to add an electric small train, and build a small track around the mountain, so that tourists can take the small train and enjoy the surrounding scenery to the tasting room."

"And the train can use electricity, and our solar power generation can't be used in these aspects. In addition, we can also make some beautiful scenery near the stone staircase, plus sculptures, flowers and plants, to attract some tourists to walk up the mountain. ”

"Of course, building such a visitor center is not something that can be built all at once. Now let's find someone to design a plan, and Vice President Brian is in charge of this. ”

"Also, our tasting room staff are too quiet, only helping visitors pour wine, and there is very little interaction with tourists. There are also people on the website who complain about this. Of course, this is not to say that this is bad, because some tourists just like to enjoy a quiet wine tasting. Therefore, after the establishment of the visitor center, we will divide two to three tasting rooms, and those who like to be quiet and those who like to interact with the tasters go to different tasting rooms, so that they do not disturb each other. ”

"Finally, there is the renovation of the Château."

"This castle is stony and has been built for more than a hundred years, and I intend to take advantage of this time to carry out a thorough repair. In the process of repair, it is necessary to pay attention to the point of earthquake resistance. I'm from China, and we all know that last year's earthquake caused us a lot of damage. California is also in the seismic zone, so it is important to pay attention to earthquake resistance for both newly designed buildings and buildings under repair. The castle is made of stone, and if it is affected by an earthquake, it is a big problem. ”

"Shaw, you are too careful, the California earthquake is a common thing, and the 1989 Los Angeles earthquake has no problems with our castle."

"That is, there were earthquakes at both ends in the past three days, most of them in the open sea, and the intensity was too small. No problem, take it easy, boss. ”

None of them had a big opinion on the other proposals, because many of the places that Bo had not been able to improve because he had not spent money on them, and when he took out a loan from Napa Bank to renovate and expand, he ended up selling them to Xiao Yifei. These measures are therefore acceptable. But this seismic renovation is unanimously opposed by everyone, and Xiao Yifei can only say that he is thinking about it.

It may be strange why Xiao Yifei spent money on a renovation to increase earthquake resistance, which made the winery's management object.

Because, in the United States, private individuals and enterprises are generally very clearly divided, the money of the winery is the winery's, and Xiao Yifei's personal money is personal. The renovation and expansion of the winery must be the money used by the winery, and the profits of the winery are consumed. And the profits of the wineries are closely related to the income of their executives.

In addition to the fixed annual salary, the share of the winery's profits is also a large part of their income.

According to the practice here in Napa, the winery, regardless of its size, divides a portion of its annual revenue, excluding various costs, to its executives and employees. The bulk of these pure profit distributions are the people here, such as the CEO of the winery, the marketing manager, the winery manager, the winery director, the vineyard director, etc., that is, the entire management team of the winery.

According to the convention, this dividend accounts for about 3% of the net profit, so the annual dividend of a winery like Monterena is 400,000 yuan, and in addition to the reward of outstanding employees, each management can get 2 to 40,000 yuan, which is a lot of money.

Xiao Yifei began to say that the winery's renovation and expansion projects can increase the winery's income, although it has an impact on their current dividends, but in the long run, they will receive more dividends in the future, so they have not been opposed. But the renovation of the winery's seismic resistance is purely an expense, and of course they will oppose it.

"Okay, I'll think about that again. Beau, there's nothing wrong with the formalities I just mentioned, right? ”

"No problem, when I first applied for the permit, the scope was very wide, but after the design drawings of the visitor center came out, it was enough to send it for backup."

"Alright, I'll ask you one last question."

"That's food. Although according to the regulations, our winery is not allowed to provide food to guests, but our winery has so many people to eat, and the kitchen has to be richer. ”

Hahaha, everyone laughed, and they all began to complain about the poor lunch at the winery. The cook is in charge of the winery and is a subordinate of the winery manager, Greig. Even he was too embarrassed to defend his men.

"Of course, I'm not accusing you. After all, everyone has worked hard all morning, and they definitely want to eat something good at noon. In the past, it was said that there was not enough manpower, but now that we have an extra staff, Greg needs to take this to heart, and I will increase the budget in this area appropriately. ”

Finally, the morning meeting ended in a topic that everyone was happy about.

"Nala, you stay for a while, and we'll break up the meeting."

Xiao Yifei whispered to Nala, the publicity and public relations manager.

"Arrange a task for you, send someone to China to register the Chinese domain name of our winery, and the domain name of the end of .cn, and send someone to register all our well-known wines in Napa once with a vest, and see if there are any famous French wineries that have not been registered, and also robbed them." Remember, use a vest. ”

Nala nodded, and went out to get busy.

In the afternoon, with the low roar of heavy truck trucks, construction machinery came to the door of the winery. Jump a small beard from the car with the head.

He first shook hands with Beau:

"Hi, Beau, David, hello, this is the new owner of the winery, Shaw, right?"

David explains:

"Yes, this is our boss, Shaw. This is Bourne, a man who has renovated and cultivated vineyards in the neighborhood. ”

"Hello, Shaw."

"Hello, Byrne."

"Xiao, I know the place you want to reclaim, the soil quality is not very good, or I will introduce you to a few good places, the introduction fee is very favorable."

Khan, no matter how virtuous it is, I don't want to expand the scale of the manor for the time being.

"Okay, I'll definitely look for you when I have an idea in the future."

"Okay, that's the price I told Davy, how about it."

Just now David said the price, the entire 10 acres cost $30,000, and the average acre costs $3,000.

According to David, if the vineyard is ripe, it costs $700 an acre to level the land if it were to be demolished and replanted. But this price is for mature vineyards, which no longer have many large stones in them, and only need to be deeply cultivated once and the clods can be replanted once by raking.

Xiao Yifei This is newly cultivated, this land is not a vineyard, it is a brand new wasteland, it is not flat, and there are a large number of large stones, so those stones must be dealt with first, then leveled, and then deep ploughing, and one deep ploughing is not enough, there must be many deep ploughing, and finally rake the crushed clods.

Bo also nodded in approval of the $3,000 reclamation price, so Xiao Yifei agreed.

These small businesses did not use Xiao Yifei's personal lawyer, Ryan, who had just found a local lawyer in Napa to take charge of the winery's legal affairs, and he could handle it.

As soon as the contract was signed, the construction machinery drove off the car and drove into the winery's road with black smoke.

On the gentle slope, the construction machinery sprays more black smoke and simply levels the ground, and the machines stop from time to time to wait for the large stones to be removed by hand. Others began dismantling the solar panels and sending them to the bee mounds for storage.

Although there are many things in the winery now, they are all small renovations, and the big moves are still in the preparation period, or they have been postponed. The only big move that could be made was the repair of the castle.

Xiao Yifei found many pictures and information about the earthquake from the Internet, and he plans to try to convince them again tomorrow that if it doesn't work, then he will have to pay for the plan to forcibly move forward, he is really worried about the danger of the earthquake.

The next day, after Xiao Yifei showed many tragic scenes of the earthquake and promised a certain percentage of private investment in maintenance funds, everyone reluctantly agreed to his overhaul plan.

In addition, with everyone's initiative, the wine cellar was also included in the scope of overhaul and reinforcement. After all, the most valuable thing in a winery is the wine cellar. The cellar is full of barrels of wine, and if an earthquake collapses the cellar, or simply drops the oak barrel full of fine wine to the ground, the loss of the winery is very high. This is more costly than the collapse of the castle. However, in terms of the time of overhaul, it was also postponed to the winter when tourists are scarce.

The overhaul of the castle was entrusted to the winery manager Greg, and the cellar reinforcement was entrusted to the winemaker Cameron, but he offered to help him with the assistant winemaker Martin, which is probably also related to his taciturn and poor communication. Xiao Yifei didn't care, after all, this place was the area they were usually responsible for.

Now the person in charge of each aspect of the winery is in charge of his own business. Brian, Vice President and Marketing Manager, is responsible for the most important and largest visitor center. Greg, the manager of the winery, was responsible for the overhaul and interior renovation of the castle. Vineyard Manager Davy. Bella was in charge of reclamation and vineyard renovation. Winemaker Cameron. Parry, Assistant Winemaker Martin. Krafton was responsible for cellar fortification. Nora, the winery's PR manager, is in charge of the new website.

I believe everyone knows that this is the first task given by the new boss, and it must definitely be done well. Xiao Yifei's purpose is not only to inspect his ability, but also to select a person in charge of the winery in the future. He certainly can't be stuck in a wine project for a long time, there are other things waiting for him, so the winery or the wine group that expands in the future needs a person in charge, and this person must be born from them.