Some small workshops, doing piracy or even fakes, in fact, will not pry away much more benefits from their own group, but the biggest harm is that it will affect the reputation of their own brand, especially about eating and drinking these things that need to go into the stomach, once the pirated things eat problems or even human life, then the media will render it, it is very likely to destroy a brand, or at least affect the marketing for several years.

In today's large supermarkets, the turnover of many small commodities can not even be checked clearly, in order not to have problems, the best model is to crack down on the production end.

This kind of thing, in the mainland where the laws and regulations are not perfect, is very common, those who do fakes, but will not consider the "long-term" problem, making money is the most important thing for them, smash a brand, and then change it, not only foreign companies, but also many domestic enterprises, also suffer from it, in the long history, there are really some enterprises, because of such reasons and heavy losses or even bankruptcy.

If you just imitate some of your own technologies and ideas to make money, although it is also illegal, there are too many such things and the impact is not great, Chen Zhiwen may not care, but if you directly use your own brand to make profits, and even do things that hurt the reputation of the brand, it is absolutely zero tolerance.

As long as you give an order, then there will naturally be relevant people to carry out this matter in the future, and now, no matter which group it is, the interests of countless people are tied up, maybe many of them are selfish, but as long as they are in a boat, then they must serve this boat, and everyone is coerced to develop together.

In the last few days of Shanghai, Chen Zhiwen went to visit RT-Mart supermarket in Shanghai, with the advantage of early entry and a large amount of investment, RT-Mart has now become the largest supermarket chain in Shanghai, even in Yanjing, Suzhou, Jinling, Fuzhou and other cities, high-quality service quality, cheap goods, novel shopping mode, it can be said that the traditional department store business model is pressed on the ground. Today's RT-Mart has a turnover of more than 100 million yuan a year in a single store in Shanghai, which is even more than the Wal-Mart supermarket in the United States according to the official exchange rate, which is also because, although the average economic difference in China, there is no shortage of consumption in Shanghai, which has a large population and is the most economically developed city, and consumers have too few places to choose.

There are also ParknSHOP supermarkets that came to the mainland with RT-Mart, but to the surprise of the management in Hong Kong, Parknshop Supermarket, a medium-sized supermarket, is not operating very well in China, not that it is a loss, but that consumers obviously prefer RT-Mart. In fact, it can also be seen that the people in China prefer shopping rather than buying things quickly like Hong Kong.

However, no matter who is strong or weak, it is all their own, when the Western retail giants have not yet fancied the mainland market, RT-Mart has already gained a monopoly position in more than 20 cities, and with these advantages, it has begun to cultivate talents on a large scale, set up local procurement chains and transportation chains, as well as transportation teams and operation centers in half of the mainland, etc., even if the Western retail giants enter the market again in the future, the first thing they will face is RT-Mart, which has strong funds and has been operating for a long time, and it is almost impossible to catch up.

When they invest in the first line, RT-Mart will also begin to spread to the second and third lines, and eventually enter most cities in China, with the ultimate goal of becoming the Wal-Mart of China.

In the domestic layout, retail can be said to be the top priority, because any retail group that reaches the world's top scale will have its own basic plate, Wal-Mart has the United States, Auchan Carrefour has Europe, and Watsons's basic plate is naturally the mainland. Not only because you can earn enough funds in the basic market, but also because the scale of the basic market can ensure the procurement of the entire group, which has a great scale advantage.

Nowadays, with the increasing globalization and the popularity of telephone and fax in various places, many foreign retail giants have begun to try to master the most basic industrial chain by themselves, especially behind Galaxy Trading, there are two giants, Costco and Watsons, which can be said to be competitors.

Although judging from the data alone, the goods provided by Galaxy Trade to many retail giants are still showing an upward trend, but the proportion is decreasing, including Wal-Mart, which has begun to try to purchase people's livelihood light industrial products in the mainland or Asia.

This is actually normal, large companies are busy with expansion in the early stage, lack of energy and resources, they will contract out a lot of other businesses, but when their scale is large, the speed of market development slows down, then they will inevitably come back to their senses, to control everything, if Chen Zhiwen's company is facing this situation, he will not hesitate to take back the right to purchase.

Since the bag business is inevitable, it is even more necessary to expand the scale of its own retail business. Of course, Galaxy Trade will inevitably decline in the near future, and it is actually enough to be able to maintain it for a period of time, and its mission is almost completed. Especially after the advent of the Internet, you must know that the essence of the Internet to improve efficiency is to increase the convenience of communication, and save a lot of business costs and so on.

However, if the Internet era comes, he Chen Zhiwen will not let it go, but history has changed too much, whether these people can still rise, and whether they will be similar to their previous lives after the rise, it is difficult to say, we can only wait a few more years to observe and observe.

In essence, Shanghai also needs a large amount of Hong Kong capital to develop Pudong, and Chen Zhiwen also needs a place that can consume a lot of money to convert his cash assets into physical assets that can appreciate.

In fact, in the short term, Hong Kong's real estate is obviously more cost-effective, because from 90 to 97, Hong Kong's real estate market has easily quadrupled, and this data is even stronger than that of Japan next door, just because the market size is too small, Hongkong Land and Hutchison have been large enough in Hong Kong to make large-scale investment.

After returning to Hong Kong, Chen Zhiwen lived a leisurely life with his family, although he was only in his thirties, but he only paid attention to various large investment projects, and other small things were delegated to professional managers, anyway, there is also a perfect regulatory system.

In the semi-retired state, some old friends naturally often come over to play, so Chen Zhiwen also specially invited Henry Morgan over.

"I still remember that back then, when we met, you were only 20 years old, and in a blink of an eye, you were already the father of three children." In a café in Hong Kong's Harbour City, Henry Morgan said as he sipped his coffee.

"It's been more than ten years, it's time too, I heard, you're also a grandfather?" Chen Zhiwen asked with a smile.

Although they are of the same generation, Henry Morgan is much older than him, and when they first met him in the early years, his son was already in elementary school in the United States, and now, he is also in his early 20s.

"Don't mention it, this kid accidentally killed someone by playing with a woman, you also know that the law in the United States does not allow abortion, and the other party is still a good college student, so I let them start a family." Henry Morgan laughed and said that it would be a good thing for him to become a grandfather as soon as possible.

"It's fate." Chen Zhiwen nodded and said.

"What a change in Hong Kong! So many buildings under construction over there, all yours? Henry Morgan asked, pointing to several buildings in Central, across Victoria Harbour.

"It's not that exaggerated, it's about half mine!" Chen Zhiwen said with a smile that although the scale of Hongkong Land is very large, it will not monopolize the Central Building, which is not something that can be done with money, and the Hong Kong government will not agree.

The prosperity of the real estate market is the result of a large amount of capital, everyone is optimistic about a place, in order to make the place a commercial center, even if the scale of the land can ignore everyone, but there is no need to do this, there is this effort, it is better to invest in other places in Hong Kong, the prosperity of other places is indeed not as good as Central, but the base is larger, and the growth rate is even above Central.

"It's only half a good one." Henry Morgan smiled and said: "Now the housing prices in Hong Kong are really high, you asked me to invest in Hong Kong, although I also invested some, but it is still not enough, and now this price, I don't dare to start." ”

"Compared to Japan in recent years, it's still a little worse." Chen Zhiwen smiled and said.

"My investment in Japan has been withdrawn, and after you withdraw, the Japanese government began to raise interest rates, and a lot of money began to retreat, and I also feel less secure." Henry said.

"I don't care about that." Chen Zhiwen said with a smile.

For Morgan or some people who follow his own investment direction to invest, Chen Zhiwen will not give any opinions, just follow if you want to, and forget if you don't want to follow. Although he is confident in his own investments, he will not take responsibility for others for no reason.

As for many things, other people know that it is really because of his own funds, too much capital flow, and he can't hide it, and again, many times, he also needs Morgan's people to help operate the funds.

"Then should I continue to invest in Hong Kong?" Henry paused and asked, "I know the rules, Eric, don't worry, even if I lose, I will bear it myself!" ”

"All I can say is that my funds will not be withdrawn from Hong Kong." Chen Zhiwen said with a light smile.

"Okay." Henry nodded, at least, Chen Zhiwen is still optimistic about Hong Kong, but there may not be huge profits, because Chen Zhiwen is a Hong Kong native, and as long as Hong Kong assets will not suffer huge losses, they will generally not be withdrawn.

"Henry, there's one thing I still need to entrust to you." Chen Zhiwen said suddenly.

"What's the matter?" Henry asked.

"I need to call in some money to go long oil futures." Chen Zhiwen said.

The third oil crisis is about to break out, and it is unlikely that such a major event will be affected by Chen Zhiwen's butterfly effect. It's worth Chen Zhiwen to gamble.

In the previous two oil crises in 73 and 78, because there was no direct oil futures, Chen Zhiwen could only participate indirectly, such as locking a large number of oil derivatives orders, such an operation, the rate of return is actually good, but there are too many restrictions, how can futures be so refreshing.

Now that there are futures, of course Chen Zhiwen wants to use them directly.

"Oil futures? Do you think the price of oil will rise? Henry asked.

"Yes." Chen Zhiwen nodded and said.

"That's no problem, our group has a business of operating oil futures, and I can arrange it for you." Henry asked again: "You have personally asked me to come, this investment should be a lot, right?" ”

"Of course." Chen Zhiwen said with a light smile.

In fact, just like the original gold investment, Chen Zhiwen will not only speculate on futures at Morgan Stanley, but will only be one of them.

"Okay, I'll arrange this." Henry said.

"Okay, later, I will give you the relevant information." Chen Zhiwen also said.

Now that there are oil futures, there are countless people speculating every day, some people are long and some are short, so if you are long, you will not attract much attention.

However, the news still has to be suppressed, otherwise the scale is too large, and it will cause unnecessary trouble.

……

Fast forward to August, and once again a major event has taken place in global history.

Because Iraq was too heavily indebted and Kuwait, a major oil-producing country next to it, refused to cooperate with it on the issue of reducing production, it brazenly invaded Kuwait with heavy troops.

Although Kuwait is a large oil-producing country, its area and population are very small, and there is no resistance in the face of the invasion, so it was quickly captured, and Iraq then unilaterally declared Kuwait to become one of its provinces, so that it not only obtained more than a trillion dollars of oil fields, but also saved tens of billions of dollars owed to Kuwait before.

But this kind of thing is a serious slap in the face of the NATO alliance led by the United States, you know, nowadays, oil is the blood of industry, without oil any economy is difficult to move an inch, and the Middle East, this place, has 40% of the world's oil production capacity, it can be said that the global oil looks at the Middle East.

NATO, especially the United States, in order to control oil, can be said to have gone to great lengths, on the one hand, to build good relations with the countries of the Middle East, and on the other hand, to sow discord to ensure that the countries of the Middle East will no longer unite with the outside world, so as to ensure the huge profits of the petrodollar.

Even unity is not allowed, let alone such annexation, and if we really turn a blind eye, then won't the other major powers follow suit? In the end, the reunification of the Middle East is still a yarn? Besides, Iraq has often failed to give face to the United States, and now it finally has a reason to take action.

The current US empire is not a twilight lion who was beaten by the slipper army 30 years later, and the entire NATO immediately gathered a large number of navies to go to the Middle East.

According to normal logic, Iraq's army is among the top ten in the world, and NATO wants to fight down, even if it can win, it will definitely take a long time, and a new crisis with the previous first and second oil crises will inevitably reappear.

The feedback from the market is often much faster than the speed of aircraft carriers, and oil prices have quickly risen from more than a dozen dollars to more than 30 dollars, more than tripled.

"Close the position quickly and release it as quickly as possible." After Chen Zhiwen saw the news from all sides, he immediately issued his own order.

"Chen Sheng, so fast?" A professional trade manager asked.

"Yes, don't think about making the last penny, you can more than double it, and with our leverage, this income is already very good." Chen Zhiwen said decisively.

He is the only one in the world who knows that the world's first high-tech war is about to break out, and this war will give the whole world a big shock. (End of chapter)