Chapter 234: Meeting Prader
Prade's office is located on the southeast side of the church, where there are several low-rise office buildings, and the sun is shining in the midday sun, and the rusted buildings have been exposed by the erosion of time.
"It's been a long time since it's been renovated, and it's in a dilapidated state everywhere."
Chen Bo looked up, in addition to being neat and clean, Milan was far from the international city in his impression.
Well, in fact, neat and clean is also the appearance, due to limited funds, the main road is spotless, but you can turn the vision to the alley between the alleys, and immediately reveal the original shape.
This is a whitewashed city, no wonder people are so keen to parade the streets, Chen Bo understands.
"Always be vigilant when walking down the street, and if someone's eyes stay on us for more than three seconds, remember to pick up the pace and run." Wang Xu kindly reminded.
"Three seconds?"
Chen Bo pretended to be relaxed and whistled, and there were many idle pedestrians on the roadside, most of them well-dressed, but there seemed to be some kind of potential risk hidden in his godless eyes.
The security in Europe has always been not very good, the honest Chen Bo went to Paris on a few business trips, and the thief was called a bold and rampant, and he didn't even let go of the hair salon membership card, which was probably used as a credit card.
"There were three or four people coming towards us, two on the left and one on the right." Wang Xu stared at the strangeness around him with his spare eyes.
"What are you doing in a daze, don't look at it, run!"
Wang Xu dragged Chen Bo, who had not yet reacted, along the road with one hand, and several spiritual guys followed, but finally failed to cross the zebra crossing before the traffic light changed color.
"I should have driven, thinking that it was not a few hundred meters, I made a mistake."
"Is it that serious?" Chen Bo put his hands on his knees, panting.
Wang Xu said eloquently: "They will turn you to the mouth of the alley without surveillance, and then rob us of all the money." ”
"Oh, I almost forgot, the monitoring here has long been broken, and if something happens, I can only consider myself unlucky."
"It's a robbery."
Chen Bo only knew that the free United States could not wander around the streets after nine o'clock in the evening, but he did not expect the enthusiastic Italian to open for business in the morning.
"Only the security of the rich area can barely be seen, and this area is not safe." Wang Xu led Chen Bo into the office building, and was stopped by two stout swarthy security guards at the door.
"Sir, please show your ID."
The other party's spoken language is not very good, like a beginner who has just started.
Wang Xu spread his hands and replied in English: "If you come from abroad, I'll look for Mr. Prader, and I have an appointment." ”
"What?" The two of them looked confused.
"Prader's buddy." Wang Xu used simple words as much as possible to avoid the other party not being understood.
"Prad's buddy!" After the other party was indifferent, Chen Bo repeated it loudly again.
"Oh, please." The security guard suddenly opened his mouth and put away his posture to let him go.
"It's scary." Wang Xu didn't take the elevator, and stepped on the stairs to climb the stairs.
"The elevator is on the first floor, why not take the elevator?" Chen Bo was puzzled.
Wang Xu shrugged his shoulders, "If you don't want to delay things, I advise you to climb the stairs, you never know how long this elevator has not been maintained, the last time I was trapped in London for half a day, I still remember it vividly." ”
The office building is not high, and it is not difficult to climb up, but when you reach the top floor, through the half-open glass window, the church not far away is pressed at a low angle, as if God is hanging overhead.
"Do people who engage in art also believe in God?" Chen Bo muttered in his heart.
Wang Xu found Prader's office according to the pre-agreed time, the whole process was not smooth, there were many uncleaned water stains in the corridor, which seeped down from the cracks in the ceiling, Chen Bo did not know the above situation, so he was afraid to avoid it.
Wang Xu finished his shirt, smoothed the folds of his trouser legs, first buttoned the door, and then said, "Mr. Prader, are you in there?" ”
"Please come in."
Chen Bo walked in the middle of the night, the big guy's dress was impeccable, the waves-like hot curls, the messy and charming beard, the charming and cool white vest with the spacious beach pants....
A pair of bohemian flip-flops are on the table, toes still writhing in interest, and the hair on the legs is like the rainforest of the Amazon.
Wang Xu didn't even sit down, and said straight to the point: "The matter I mentioned in the mailbox, you must already know." ”
"I know everything, you want to cooperate with me to develop the Chinese market, this idea is good, although the entry point is a bit unexpected."
Chen Bo has lived abroad for a long time, and he has no hearing impairment for the foreign language conversation between the two, and his position is slightly awkward, and the fast pace of conversation does not even leave the opportunity to introduce his identity.
"Should I take the initiative to pour a cup of coffee?" Chen Bo noticed a simple pour-over coffee machine on the table.
"I really didn't expect you to be able to convince Claire, a madman, to tell me how you did it?"
Prad's focus is clearly more on the business than on the business, and Claire is notoriously unsensible, and if he can be a little more philistine and add bricks to the company's financial results, he won't worry about KPIs every quarter.
"Geniuses always like to challenge the impossible." Wang Xu was concise and to the point, and the process of convincing Claire was so bland that he didn't bother to think about it carefully.
"That's a good point, and it's because of this that Claire and I can go hand in hand."
Prader's tone was nonchalant, as if he was reminiscing about the past, and there was no seriousness in talking about business at all.
This is also the characteristic of a businessman, Prad himself is a high-level player in Vanity Fair, find out the other party's offer, everything will fall into place, presumably Wang Xu has already offered a price that is difficult for the other party to refuse when making an appointment.
"Mr. Prader's luxury empire is dwindling."
Here Wang Xu uses the Holy Roman Empire as an analogy, intending to show off his vocabulary.
It's just a matter of negotiating business or not blowing each other, and ridiculing other people's family business, Chen Bo suddenly felt that Wang Xu's words were inappropriate.
Prad bowed slightly, and said frankly: "Many economists say that today's luxury market is a stock market, you sell a little more, the other party will sell a little less, one eliminates the other, rather than painstakingly and ingeniously, it is better to spread marketing and publicity, I have always had a lot of complaints about this practice." ”
"It's a pity, what people say is right, the total market has not increased for several years, and the gross profit margin has been declining year by year, but I can't pull down my body to make money from poor ghosts."
Prade's products were aimed at the ruined aristocracy and the nouveau riche, and for him, it was a mental humiliation to sell things to the poor.
Of course, the vast majority of poor ghosts can't afford to enjoy Prader's products, and occasionally meet a few poor and pretending people, but whenever they are bumped into by Prader, it will definitely cause an uproar on the media platform, and there are countless negative reports about it.
Maintaining the nobility and purity of the product is the only way to make customers enjoy the ultimate sense of prestige, although this is of no use other than to make them pay more.