Cheng Herong previously received US$500 million plus a small amount of Uber shares when Ronghe Group was split and annexed by Jinggao. This money is suitable for investment in the two online and offline supermarkets currently being prepared.
These two supermarkets are called Yuanfang Supermarket and Ronghe Supermarket.
After all, Yuanfang Logistics, which holds the majority of Jing's shares, has no intention of controlling two supermarkets. Of course, he still needs to maintain his influence. This ratio is usually between 15% and 30%. It depends on the operation and industry.
On the morning of the last working day before the National Day holiday, Cheng Herong called his friend Xi Wenbin and his son Cheng Yanxi to the newly rented office for a small meeting.
Preparing for a supermarket does not take only one or two weeks to complete all the preparations. His work at Yuanfang Logistics is not very busy. During this time, he has been doing preparatory work in Beijing.
Xi Wenbin still looked the same, but his expression and complexion were obviously much better than before. He has received Jing Gao's words relayed by his daughter Xi Siyan:
In the domestic real estate industry, it is impossible for Xia Shang Real Estate to finish the whole business alone. What's more, I also intend to let Xia Shang Real Estate go abroad. Enter the global infrastructure market to compete. Infrastructure construction in Europe is actually very profitable. It’s just that the entry threshold is relatively high and various qualification certifications are required. In any case, the real estate industry will not disappear, it is just a matter of cyclical operation. Opportunities for Jincheng Real Estate will lie in mergers and acquisitions after the onset of the real estate winter.
This made him quite excited.
Cheng Herong smoked a cigarette and joked with the old man, "What, Lao Xi, have you acquired a house of beautiful concubines recently? You old face is almost smiling!"
"Get lost! In what age did you still have a beautiful concubine? You old antique!" Xi Wenbin laughed and scolded unceremoniously.
Several of their old friends are all extremely wealthy and considered to be well-off people in society. They are both in their fifties now, and each of them knows something about women. At their age, they have just come from the turbulent years of reform.
At that time, it was not uncommon for big bosses in the business world to bring their mistresses to parties. Nowadays, the trend has been somewhat restrained. After all, it is developed, but private gatherings of friends are actually informal.
Cheng Yanxi pretended not to hear. He is now thirty-three years old. If he hears about his father's romantic affairs, he can only pretend that he has not heard about it. Otherwise, why not tell his mother? What he is thinking now is: the upper beam is not straight and the lower beam is crooked.
Perhaps because Mr. Jing's lecherous style suits the tastes of his father and Uncle Xi, the two groups of talents get along well with each other!
Xi Wenbin will not talk to Lao Cheng about things that have not yet happened. The cold winter of real estate will still be at least more than a year away. Now he only sees the wind. He coughed and said: "I visited Mr. Ren in the hospital. Mr. Ren My health is very poor and I can basically only rest in bed. He agreed to let us build this online supermarket and gave Ren Lie a hand."
Cheng Herong sat comfortably on the sofa in the office and asked doubtfully: "You didn't point out Mr. Jing's role in it?"
Xi Wenbin took a puff of cigarette and said: "Of course I pointed it out. Mr. Ren is not a fool, how could he not guess such a big thing? Mr. Ren said that Mr. Jing always likes to use these little tricks to divide his eldest son and his father. Second son, now that the Ren family has reached this point, so be it! His son is his son after all!"
Cheng Herong couldn't help but sigh, "Oh, Mr. Ren still has the same temperament that refuses to admit defeat. I hope Ren Lie won't be stupid in the future!"
Well, this is exactly what success depends on character, and failure depends on character! There was no such stubbornness back then, and there was no birth of the giant Galaxy Group. Without this stubbornness in the past two years, it would not have been possible to offend Mr. Jing, who was rising rapidly, so that the Galaxy Group had no choice but to fall away! "
Cheng Yanxi seemed to be a little resentful towards Mr. Ren when he heard what his father said.
Xi Wenbin smiled silently and lit the cigarette ashes, "Let's talk about the supermarket."
In the newly established Yuanfang Supermarket based on the warehousing and transportation system of Yuanfang Logistics, Phoenix Fund's shareholding ratio dropped to 42%, while Fangyuan Group's shareholding ratio increased from 5% to 6%. After Chen Ziyuan received financial support from Jing Gao, the company has been doing well recently, and he still has the energy to acquire more shares in the supermarket.
Cheng Herong's Rongxi Company holds 50%, and management and employees are expected to hold 2%. In order to hold an additional 15% of the shares, Cheng Herong will spend US$300 million in cash to start the Yuanfang Supermarket.
Ronghe Supermarket, which focuses on the Internet, is dominated by Yuanfang Supermarket, which holds 60% of the shares. Xi Wenbin and Weng Yancai each privately invested US$30 million, each holding 10% of the shares. Ren Lie's Xiquan Investment invested US$60 million, accounting for 20% of the shares.
This US$120 million in funds will be used to launch Ronghe Supermarket, including recruitment, building the program structure of the online supermarket, and leasing the computing power of cloud services to support the supermarket's distribution system. and upfront publicity and distribution costs.
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In the private courtyard of Liulichang, a world-famous gathering place for antiques, I sat in the middle of the well, listening to four "scribes" from the literary and art circle that Chu Maotong had found to appreciate (explain) calligraphy and paintings: a pair of calligraphy by Wen Zhengming, A picture of Tang Bohu's lady.
One is a teacher from the Ming and Qing Research Institute of the Academy of Social Sciences (Ji Shiyuan), one is a craftsman (Cui Haocheng) who specializes in the antique repair business, one is a shopkeeper (Wu Qiuhua) who has a family background and is engaged in the antique business, and the other is A well-known collector and calligraphy enthusiast (Yu Jiamo).
With Jing Gao's current status and level, even though he is a newcomer in the antique industry, it is impossible for Chu Maotong to lead all cats and dogs to him. For example, Wu Qiuhua also has the title of an expert in the Forbidden City.
Wu Qiuhua pointed to the calligraphy copybook on the desk and introduced to Jing Gao: "Wen Zhengming's calligraphy achievements were almost unparalleled in his era. There is circumstantial evidence for this.
In poetry, Wen Zhengming, together with Zhu Yunming, Tang Yin, and Xu Zhenqing, are known as the Four Wuzhong Masters, which is what they like to call the Four Great Talents of Jiangnan in movies and TV dramas. In terms of painting, together with Shen Zhou, Tang Yin and Qiu Ying, they are collectively known as the Four Wu Clan Schools.
But there is no collective title in calligraphy. He is especially good at regular script. There is a saying that "small regular script is famous all over the world". This piece of "Come Back and Come Back" is 13.7cm long and 16.1cm wide. The signature is: Written in Hengtang Zhou on September 11th, 1911. Zheng Ming. He was eighty and two years old.
Xinhai is the 30th year of Jiajing in the Ming Dynasty, 1551 AD.
This is a facsimile. The original work is collected in the Palace Museum. The characters in the whole text are only slightly larger than millet, they stretch freely, and have the tendency of being sparse and able to move around, but not airtight. The brushwork is perfect, strong and elegant, showing superb calligraphy skills. "
Jing Gao stood beside the case and admired it, "It's indeed pleasing to the eye! How much does Mr. Wu value this copy?"
Wu Qiuhua is an old man in his fifties. He has a long beard and is wearing a commoner. He twisted his beard and said with a smile: "Originally, it is naturally very valuable for collection. When it comes to copying, it mainly depends on the age and writing skills. I don't think so. I’m good at it. I estimate it’s around half a million!”
"Senior Wu, you are being humble." The other three joked.
Jing Gao finally paid hundreds of thousands to buy these two calligraphy and paintings, and asked Chu Maotong to send them to his home. He took Chen Yujie to a private restaurant at the foot of a mountain in the western suburbs for dinner. Deng Ran and Ye Jing have already arrived.
"Jing Gao, aren't you worried that these people are trying to deceive you? No matter how you look at it, it feels a bit like fraud." On the way there, Chen Yujie asked curiously.
