Chapter 207: Knocking Out (Part II)

Giving up Zhou Yuna, this is not Wei Yun's idea for a while, this idea has appeared many times, but it is not as strong as it is now.

In this circle, he knows what it means to appear in this circle. That's because there are huge connections in it, what is the circle, in fact, it is not the network, and if he wants to succeed in the future, he can't do without the current connections, so he can't offend too many people.

Just like at the beginning, he had no way to offend Levi, and now he has no way to offend Wu Ling, because it can be seen that Wu Ling also has almost the same status as Levi, and he can never afford to offend such a person.

Because in the future, if you want to succeed, you have to know the information, and if you want to get this information, you have to rely on the people in this circle, especially those who are in high positions.

As he once knew, Hammer's father owned a pharmaceutical company, the United Chemical Pharmaceutical Company, but the company was heavily in debt, so Hammer relied on personal efforts and financial assistance from friends to complete his education, and eventually he received his MD degree.

Hammer didn't go straight to the pharmaceutical factory, he had no experience in running a business. He began to travel all over the world and did different businesses, such as selling medicine, wheat, jewelry, wine barrels, cattle, and oil...... Almost wherever you go, you can do it. What is amazing is that he will succeed in everything he does, like a divine help. To this, Hammer said: It is not God who helps him, but man.

Hammer has many friends who have different professions, different abilities, and even different races. They provided him with information from far and wide, so that he could always keep his finger on the pulse of wealth. Hammer gradually grasped a law of getting rich. That's listening to all directions.

Later, when Franklin? Roosevelt gradually approached the White House presidency. Hammer's eyes were fixed on selling his art, but his ears were listening in all directions. He received a lot of messages from his friends, and after analyzing and sorting them out in his brain, he found a clear signal that once the "New Deal" took hold, the Prohibition Act would be repealed, and the demand for beer and whiskey would swell dramatically across the country, and the demand for casks would also swell. At that time, there were no barrels on the market, because there was no need for barrels in a market under Prohibition.

Of course, many people also see an opportunity, because there is a lot of clamoring for wine barrels, and of course the most popular ones are barrels made of treated white oak. There aren't many people who can take advantage of the business opportunity, because it's not easy to find this kind of plank, but Hammer has the resources to do so. Hammer used to be in Russia. Having lived in the country for many years, he knew exactly what the Soviets had for export. Yes. That kind of wood is on the list of exports. Without hesitation, Hammer immediately ordered several boatloads of barrels. But there were some small things that went wrong at this stage. When the ship arrived, Hammer found that the contract had not been executed, and that they had not brought in the formed barrels. Rather, it's pieces of air-dried white oak. Hammer was in a hurry, but entanglement with the other party was not his strategy, he didn't have a factory. You have to find a place to process it right away. He immediately activated his network and set up a temporary barrel processing plant at the berth of the Soviet freighter dock in New York.

Hammer foresees a huge market for casks in the future. So they built a modern barrel factory in Millgo, New Jersey. When the casks roll out of the production line. Decrees to repeal the prohibition of alcohol are also coming. As a result, Hammer's casks were snapped up at premium prices by the largest whiskey and breweries.

Hammer became one of the most popular cask suppliers, enjoying the money pouring in while watching the winemakers compete to the death. Of course, he didn't intend to meddle, and from the information he had so far, he couldn't detect the depths of the between, however, good fortune was almost out of his hands.

When Hammer and his bride Angela prepare to leave for Mexico for their honeymoon, Fred, who acts as his bride-in-law? Kimber gave him a little inside on the stock market. World War II had broken out, food was scarce, and the government decreed that distilleries were not allowed to use grain to make wine, and whisky became a shortage for a while. Kimber encouraged Hammer: "Hurry up and buy some stock in American distilleries." I can guarantee that there is not the slightest risk in this transaction, and, besides, there is now a rule that whoever buys them a share of the shares is prepared to give a barrel of hard whiskey as a dividend. Hammer was almost a non-alcoholic and had never bought stocks, but he took Kimber's word and bought 5,500 shares for $90 a share.

Two months later, the American distillery company's stock had risen to $150 a share, and he didn't sell his 5,500 shares because he had heeded a friend's advice that he could make a profit from the whiskey deal. Hammer converted the 50-gallon cask into bottles and kept them all in the original factory. He then applied for a sake brewing license and opened an office on his own. For that alone, Hammer made a lot of money.

Good fortune always seems to be far from Hammer. Inadvertently, Hammer learned from a friend of chemical engineer that blending 80% cheap alcohol into pure whiskey can make whiskey 5 times its size. At that time, the vast majority of people who drank alcohol would regard whiskey adulterated with alcohol as a rare good.

However, it was not easy to obtain alcohol, and at that time the newly established wartime production bureau had quite strict regulations on the production of alcohol, and ordinary factories could not produce alcohol in large quantities. This was not a problem for Hamer, who soon found two senators by various means, and soon the two councilors arranged for Hammer to meet with the director of the wartime production bureau, who issued him a letter of approval.

And that's not all, when the stock market crashed in 1929, Hammer was one of the few wealthy Americans who was completely untouched because he had whiskey in his hands. In addition, Hammer has extraordinary diplomatic ability, and the world's major statesmen Lenin, Roosevelt, Deng. Small. Ping, Khrushchev, Kennedy, Nixon, Reagan and other leaders were his friends. They have all been helped by Hammer to a greater or lesser extent, and at the same time, they have also provided a lot of information for Hammer to get rich, consciously or unconsciously.

In the most difficult period of the USSR. Hammer was the first to lend a helping hand, and he proposed to Lenin: a million dollars in funding. Wheat was urgently purchased in the United States, shipped to Petrograd, unloaded grain, and shipped back to the United States with $1 million worth of furs and other goods. In order to give the young Soviets a recuperation, Lenin attached great importance to Hamer's proposal. Since then, they have formed a sincere and deep friendship. Lenin encouraged Hammer to invest in a factory and allowed him to mine asbestos in Siberia, thus making him the first foreigner in the Soviet Union to obtain mining rights. This was the beginning of the barter trade between the United States and the Soviet Union. When Hammer met with the chief designer for the first time, the chief designer interrupted the introduction of the staff and said, "In China." There is no one who does not know the Americans who helped Lenin. "Hamer's charm is evident from this.

Many times, people always blame fate, blame themselves for not being born in a rich family, blame themselves for not receiving a good education, and worry that they do not have superb skills, but these people ignore a tool that is fair to everyone, that is, connections and information. Hamer's success is not only the success of grasping information, but also the success of networking.

Do business. We may not have the capital, we don't have the technology, but we live in a social crowd surrounded by a lot of human resources. Human resources can bring all kinds of information to get rich. It's like a free orchard, ready to be picked. The key is whether you can see it, whether you can take the initiative to walk into this orchard.

The economic era has provided a free space for development for all. Tangible and intangible opportunities are open to you, me and him equally. Whether you are noble or poor, whether you are beautiful or ugly. Opportunity will neither be extraordinarily generous to you, nor will it be extraordinarily stingy with you. It always walks according to its own logic. At the same time, it is also hinting to the world according to the usual line of thought. Therefore, being able to see the six ways and listen to the eight directions naturally becomes the need for success, and the extensive construction of contacts can achieve the six ways of seeing the six ways and listening to the eight directions. Every undertaking requires a group of people to work together, so human resources are extremely important among the three elements of productivity: assets, technology and human resources.

The famous American industrialist Henry? Ford said, "Getting together is the beginning; Unity is progress; Cooperation, is success. "Career is a kind of joint success, this is no longer the era of single-handedly creating heroes, everyone needs a circle, everyone needs the help of others, the more precise the division of labor in the industry, the more need to cooperate with others.

The famous department store in the United States, San Mano? Saint-Mano, the founder of Pierre's company, embraced only two words for business success: cooperation.

When Mano decided to start his own business, he felt that his strength alone was too thin and he might not be able to think through many aspects, so he decided to find a partner. He first prepared a business plan, and then began to run around and negotiate with people. But the beginning was not ideal, and people did not understand his business plan, until he met Pierre. In fact, Pierre and Saint-Manaux had the same goal, and the two hit it off at first sight and embraced each other passionately across the table. In this way, the world's largest corporation "San Mano? The Pierre Company was born.

The collaboration was very successful, "San Mano? Pierre's company "has a lot of money, and its popularity is also higher day by day." By the second year of the partnership, the company's turnover had grown even faster, but there was also a drawback, that is, both Saint-Mano and Pierre had become overwhelmed, and Saint-Mano's decision was to follow his old line of thinking and find someone who could help them run their business. At this time, Pierre made the same suggestion to him, and the two hit it off and immediately began to search for someone.

Once, Saint-Mano and Pierre saw a crowded cloth shop on the street, and their curiosity drove them to squeeze in to see what was going on, and they found a large piece of paper taped to the door of the cloth shop, which read: The clothes are sold out, and new goods will come in tomorrow. The crowds are here to order tomorrow's new goods.

The guy explained that there were not many raw materials for this French clothing, so it caused the fabric to be in short supply. St. Mano looked closely, and he knew that this kind of cloth was indeed not imported much, but not because of the lack of raw materials, but because the market was not good, and he could not continue to import it. However, the owner of the cloth shop took advantage of the shortage to whet the appetite of fashionable women, so that the unsalable fabric turned into a best-seller, which was very clever, and could not help but make Saint-Mano and Pierre respect. Almost immediately, they decided to hire the cloth shop owner as manager. The cloth shop owner is called Davis, when he learns that Saint-Mano and Pierre are going to ask him to do "Saint-Mano?" Pierre's manager of the company immediately agreed to the request, because just as Saint-Marnot and Pierre admired him, he admired the owners of the company for their success.

With Davis on board, San Mano? Pierre's reputation has grown by more than 600 times in 10 years, and it has grown to 300,000 employees and annual sales of nearly $7 billion.

After all, a person's energy is limited, "a drop of water does not become a sea, a single tree is difficult to become a forest", only by relying on cooperation, can we create miracles, in order to promote the magnificent situation of "everyone planting trees into a forest, everyone planting flowers and flowers in the garden".

The whole world is like a big chemical laboratory, where different substances meet in different environments and then generate new ones. We need to know the nature of our own substance, know what kind of new substance we need to become, know what kind of substance we need to chemically react with, know what kind of environment we need for this chemical reaction, and finally have one or two catalysts.

For anyone to make a career or even just want to succeed in their career, they need to start with a wide network. If you don't have connections in your career, it's equivalent to "a good woman is a cook without rice".

Throughout the ages, all those who have achieved great things have been followed by a group of people and the great help of their colleagues. The ancient emperor is the best example, some people support, no name can also be "yellow robe", political career is smooth, sit on the dragon chair, sit back and relax; Those who have no supporters, even if they were once the Son of Heaven and the supreme world, once they are pulled off the horse, the down-and-out phoenix is not as good as a chicken.

These are all things that Wei Yun's father once taught him, although in the past, he didn't care about these things, but he also remembered these words in his heart, and he has been implementing them. So now that he knows Wu Ling's unknown identity, he will naturally choose to give up. (To be continued......)