After confirming the method of acting separately, Lai Xiaohu and Zhang Ying took a few people to Beijing and Shanghai respectively, and as for Ivanka, she had already returned to the United States. Although Ivanka doesn't need to be busy all day like an ordinary worker, she can't play outside for too long, and after spending enough time with Lai Xiaohu, Ivanka went back to the United States.

Going to Shanghai with Lai Xiaohu was a man under Song Yaqiao and Yang Fengze, named Lang Yi, a handsome young man as his name suggests. My colleague Lang Yi was also a college graduate last year, when Lai Xiaohu asked Yang Fengze to recruit a few subordinates by himself, and then Yang Fengze spent several days selecting a few men in the talent market to be his subordinates.

Yang Fengze is mainly responsible for the work of transportation, and the first condition for doing this is to be physically strong, and he must be able to bear hardships and stand hard work, otherwise he will get up before dawn all day long to transport goods, which is really not something that anyone can do. Lang Yi is a very handsome young man, but he is not a delicate son, otherwise he would not be Yang Fengze's subordinate. Lang Yi, who was born in the countryside, has also done a lot of hard work since he was a child, that is, he completely relaxed after he arrived in college, but his previous foundation is still there, and there is no problem at all to go to Yang Fengze as a pawn.

Although Lang Yi is not a student who graduated from Lai Xiaohu's alma mater, he also graduated from a good college in Jincheng, and it is nothing for a graduate like him to endure hardships, but he must be allowed to see the hope of the future, otherwise people will not work here for a long time.

Except for Yang Fengze, most of the people under him are actually those men who come out to sell coolies after graduating from junior high school or high school, these people are okay with hardships and hard work, but other than that, it is not okay to let them participate in management or other things. Therefore, Lai Xiaohu also maintained a certain degree of attention to the appearance of Lang Yi at the beginning, and at that time he decided to investigate Lang Yi first, and if he could, he could not be allowed to become Yang Fengze's deputy.

Since last year's internship, I have been in the transportation team of Lejia Supermarket. It's been almost a year now, and Lang Yi has changed from an employee who was simply in charge of transportation at the beginning to a manager second only to Yang Fengze in the transportation team. Yang Fengze is the boss of the transport team, relying on his veteran status, relying on the relationship with Lai Xiaohu, and Lang Yi gave full play to his flexible mind as a college student and learned some knowledge about logistics in school.

The reason why Lai Xiaohu brought Lang Yi to this time was not only to put Lang Yi by his side to personally inspect it, but also planned to send Lang Yi to Shanghai City to be responsible for the affairs here alone after a while.

Of course, Lang Yi may have been aware of Lai Xiaohu's intentions, so along the way, Lang Yi was full of energy, as if he wanted to fully show his talent in front of Lai Xiaohu.

This time I returned to Shanghai for business. also brought Lang Yi with an outsider, so Lai Xiaohu and the others did not go to Song Yaqiao's house to live, but found a high-end hotel in the city center.

On the first night, Lang Yi took some information about the prosperous area of Shanghai that he had prepared and some information about the consumption level to Lai Xiaohu, although Lai Xiaohu could ask Song Yaqiao about these things. But it's also good that Lang Yi can sort these things out before he tells them. Lang Yi is young and motivated to work. This made Lai Xiaohu very satisfied. As for Lang Yi's shortcomings, such as his impatience and ambition as a young man are also reflected in Lang Yi, but these Lai Xiaohu did not affect his evaluation of Lang Yi in his eyes.

"Lang Yi, well done." After taking a general look at the information, Lai Xiaohu patted Lang Yi on the shoulder and praised, "You will go outside tomorrow." If nothing else, the transport team here in Shanghai will be assembled by you, and the burden on your body is not light. ”

When preparing for the new store, it was up to Xiaohu and Song Yaqiao, but the two of them couldn't personally interfere in everything else, so Lang Yi had to be responsible for him. Otherwise, people will not experience the pleasure of not being valued, and various things such as the purchase of vehicles required by the component transportation team and the recruitment of transportation team members are basically responsible for Lang Yi.

"There are some things that you may be doing for the first time, if you don't understand the situation, you can call and ask Brother Yang, he has been in this line of work for a long time and knows everything." Before Lang Yi left, Lai Xiaohu said to him.

The next day, the three separated again, Lang Yi was very excited and called Lai Xiaohu early to inquire about the news, while Lai Xiaohu and Song Yaqiao went together to prepare for the final site selection.

Last night, combined with the information that Song Xin gave him before and the information sent by Lang Yi, Lai Xiaohu and Song Yaqiao had roughly finalized more than a dozen locations as alternatives for the new store, and the main reason for going out today was to check the situation in detail.

Hucheng is really big, and it is difficult to see more than a dozen places in one day, and it took more than two days for Song Yaqiao and Lai Xiaohu to observe these dozen alternative lots.

This time, there are only five new stores in Shanghai, and most of the dozen or so alternative addresses have been crossed out by Lai Xiaohu, many of which are in very prosperous areas. Although Lai Xiaohu will not doubt the prosperity of those areas, it is precisely because it is so prosperous that there are almost no nearby residential areas, which makes Lai Xiaohu directly exclude them.

The locations of the five branches were determined, and the next step was to look for stores that could be bought in five places, and this time Lai Xiaohu had to hemorrhage. In a city like Shanghai, where every inch of land is valuable, the housing prices in residential areas are ridiculously high, not to mention the prices of commercial stores in some areas with better locations, which are even more expensive.

Specifically, it is Song Yaqiao who talks about this business, she is a local and is familiar with the situation here, as for Lai Xiaohu, a foreigner, as soon as he speaks, he lets people know that this is not a local, and there are many places to talk about outsiders in recent years.

And Lai Xiaohu is not idle, if he wants to open a supermarket in Shanghai, he has to open a branch here to manage a few supermarkets, so the government department will inevitably have to make a few more trips.

In order not to make it difficult for him to apply for a permit, Lai Xiaohu also made a special phone call to Li Gan before he went. And when he learned that Lai Xiaohu was really going to come here to open a company, Li Qian was very excited.

Although Lai Xiaohu invests a lot, even if he invests, he invests a lot. It can't be compared with those large groups that invest tens of billions of yuan at every turn, but Li Qian still attaches great importance to Lai Xiaohu, because the relationship is there.

The two sides made an appointment to meet at noon, and Lai Xiaohu could be said to have come through the back door this time, and it was not good to go directly to Li Gan's office openly, so the two sides made an appointment to find a restaurant outside at noon.

Lai Xiaohu arrived outside the city government office at about eleven o'clock, and after making a phone call, Li Gan's secretary ran out in a hurry.

In the past, Li Gan also had a secretary when he was in Jincheng, but after Li Gan was transferred from Jincheng to Hucheng, he arranged for his secretary to serve below. It is unlikely that Li Gan's former secretary would follow him to Hucheng to take up his post. Therefore, it is a wise choice to hurry down to find a suitable position while Li Gan has not left. Of course, Li Gan will not let his secretary lose, after all, the secretary is the leader's intimate little padded jacket, and he has to arrange it before leaving.

After arriving in Shanghai, Li Qian found a new secretary. Liu Yunfeng, in his thirties. Native. It played a great role in helping Li Qian get acquainted with the local situation as soon as possible after he came to Shanghai. Of course, what is more important is that this secretary was a depressed figure before, and he had no relationship with other city leaders, and he had no responsible background behind him, so he could guarantee his loyalty to Li Gan.

To be honest, hearing the leader's order to let him go outside to pick up someone, Liu Yunfeng felt very strange in his heart, Li Gan's general situation, as a secretary, he also knew, and he didn't hear that Li Gan had any very close relatives and friends in Shanghai. And it is definitely not the leader of the superiors, otherwise Li Gan himself would have gone to greet him personally.

After going out, Liu Yunfeng took out his mobile phone and dialed the phone number that Li Gan had memorized just now, which was a foreign number. The place where the number belongs is Jincheng, Liu Yunfeng knows that Li Gan has served in Jincheng for a long time before, could it be that some relatives and friends over there are here? Liu Yunfeng thought in his heart.

Hearing that the phone on his body rang, Lai Xiaohu hurriedly took out his mobile phone, and after connecting it, he looked outside, and at this time he happened to see a young man about thirty years old coming out of the door, and the other party was also talking with a mobile phone.

Subconsciously, Lai Xiaohu opened the car door and waved his hand at the man, and after seeing Lai Xiaohu, the man asked, "Is it Mr. Lai?" ”

"Yes, it's me." After receiving Lai Xiaohu's affirmative reply, the man turned off his mobile phone, and then trotted to Lai Xiaohu's reluctance.

"Hello, Mr. Lai, I am Mayor Li's secretary, and my surname is Liu." Walking up to Lai Xiaohu, Liu Yunfeng greeted Lai Xiaohu very formally.

"Hello, Secretary Liu, just call me Xiaohu." Liu Yunfeng's speech had a slight local flavor of Shanghai, but Lai Xiaohu could hear it clearly when he arrived.

A burst of greeting colleagues, both sides are looking at each other, Liu Yunfeng is very delicate, with the unique characteristics of Jiangnan people, as for Liu Yunfeng's personality, Lai Xiaohu believes in Li Gan's vision.

And Lai Xiaohu looked at Liu Yunfeng's colleagues, he was also looking at Lai Xiaohu, to be honest, he was even more surprised to see Lai Xiaohu Liu Yunfeng, because Lai Xiaohu is too young, and today he not only drove a luxury car, but also dressed up young and golden. In his opinion, Lai Xiaohu is at most the age when he has just graduated from college, and he may not have graduated yet. Moreover, Lai Xiaohu's surname is Lai, which is different from Li Gan's surname, and he has never heard of Li Gan's relatives surnamed Lai, could it be the son-in-law of other families, Liu Yunfeng thought in his heart.

"I don't know what the relationship between Mr. Lai and Mayor Li is?" After the two exchanged pleasantries for a while, Liu Yunfeng asked subconsciously.

"Oh, this," said what the relationship between himself and Li Gan was, Lai Xiaohu felt that the two of them were really like friends like elders and juniors, of course, he didn't dare to say that he and Li Gan were friends, "Mayor Li is my elder." ”

After the two talked outside, Li Gan also walked out of it with a document bag, and when he saw Lai Xiaohu, Li Gan, who was far away, greeted him with a smile, "Xiaohu, you finally remembered to come and see me." ”

"Uncle Li, it's been a long time." Seeing Li Gan, Lai Xiaohu also hurried up, and now Li Gan can be said to be even more proud, one step saves several years of hard work and directly sits on the mayoral throne of Shanghai, the Oriental Pearl City, to say that it is impossible to say that there is no spring breeze to be proud.

In the six months of last year, Li Gan did not make any major moves after coming to Shanghai. It is mainly used to inspect all parts of Shanghai, and then take the opportunity to familiarize yourself with the situation here, and face any mistakes in the face of unfamiliar situations or be pitted in the back. At the point where Li Gan has arrived, although the political struggle is no longer overt, it is not necessarily gone, but because the level is higher, the struggle between different forces has become more concealed and more strategic.

However, last year he had a thorough understanding of the situation, and after the New Year this year, Li Gan began to plan a big job, and now he can be said to be full of energy.

Lai Xiaohu drove Li Qian and Liu Yunfeng to a slightly more upscale restaurant not far away. How to say it, it is also a banquet for Li Gan, you can't go to a place that is too bad, and Li Gan's identity is sensitive, and you can't go to a place that is too luxurious, this kind of slightly high-end restaurant is just right.

After entering the restaurant, Lai Xiaohu and Li Qian each ordered three ordinary dishes that they liked to eat. Although he came to ask Li Qian for an errand, the two were not an ordinary relationship after all. If you get a table of delicacies like an outsider, it will seem to be related. Sometimes the more ordinary the side dishes, the more they can reflect the intimacy of the relationship between the two, and it has reached the point where it does not need to be deliberately cultivated.

Secretary Liu is basically an invisible person on the side, except for helping Li Gan to take the bag, serving tea and pouring water, he does not say a word, which is a good interpretation of the basic skills of being a qualified secretary.

During the meal, Lai Xiaohu told Li Gan about his plan to expand Lejia Supermarket to Shanghai, and of course he vaguely expressed his purpose for coming to Li Gan.

"How about Xiaohu. Are you planning to do a big job in Shanghai this time? Knowing Lai Xiaohu's plan, Li Gan said with a smile, "To be honest, I have seen so many businessmen in my life, and you are the most optimistic." Although you are not very different in terms of ability, but your luck is really admirable. ”

To be honest, for Lai Xiaohu's Lejia supermarket, Li Gan also knew a rough idea after conscious investigation, although he didn't know what Lai Xiaohu had obtained that could make those vegetables so good, but no matter how good Lai Xiaohu's luck was, it was as if he was valued by God.

It can be said that Li Gan has evaluated Lai Xiaohu, as long as Lai Xiaohu does not bring about his own destruction, then relying on what he has mastered, his future achievements are absolutely unimaginable.

What kind of industry is the most profitable, some people say it is the Internet industry, some people say it is finance, and some people say it is arms, but if Li Qian is asked to say, it is the food industry, especially vegetables and grains that are closely related to the people.

If Lai Xiaohu can make his vegetable business bigger and stronger, he will almost master the problem of eating countless people in the future, and the money he can earn is absolutely unimaginable.

"I can't say a big job, after all, I just open more supermarkets in Shanghai than those big groups billions of billions of investment, and I initially plan to open five branches in Shanghai, if the future is good, continue to expand, Shanghai has nine central urban areas, seven suburbs, and a suburban county. According to the degree of economic development of Shanghai, even the suburban counties below are much more developed than some large cities in the interior. According to the best-case scenario, it is not impossible to open almost twenty supermarkets here in the future. ”

"That's not a big deal." Hearing Lai Xiaohu say that there might be about twenty stores in the future, Li Qian calculated a little in his heart, and he was a little surprised by the results. Li Qian, who knows the profitability of Lai Xiaohu's supermarkets, knows that the turnover of a supermarket is almost more than 500,000 or 600,000 yuan a day, and it is not for nothing that there are more than 7,800,000 yuan. And this calculation is that the annual turnover of a supermarket is almost more than 200 million, which is still calculated according to the consumption level of Jincheng. If it is Hucheng, Li Qian believes that it will definitely be higher than this, and it will not be too low. Although Jincheng is also a megacity and one of the four municipalities directly under the central government, it is unceremonious to say that Jincheng is really much worse than Shanghai in terms of economy. The prosperity of Shanghai can definitely improve the business of Lai Xiaohu's store a lot.

And a store is at least 200 million a year, 20 stores are 400 million a year, and he knows Lai Xiaohu better, and he knows how high Lai Xiaohu's profits are. You can imagine how much money Lai Xiaohu has to transfer in a year.

Earn billions a year, what about ten years, twenty years? Even for a longer time, the capitalists were really hateful and jealous, and in the end, Li Gan had to come up with such thoughts about Lai Xiaohu.

A simple light meal for three people was very happy, and Lai Xiaohu asked Li Gan to ask Li Gan to give instructions to Secretary Liu, and then Lai Xiaohu directly asked Secretary Liu to come forward to do it, and the rest of the time was between Lai Xiaohu and Li Gan. (To be continued......)