Chapter 231 Two big gold-absorbing companies that are beginning to show their scale (7K chapter, please subscribe~)

  Although the cooperation between Black and White Video and Golden Harvest was carried out quietly, but two days after they signed the contract, Shao Yifu of Shaw Brothers had already got the news.

   It can be seen that not only Golden Harvest has its own inside line in Shaw Brothers, but also in Golden Harvest Shaw Brothers.

  In the Qingshuiwan studio, in Shao Yifu's office, Shao Yifu sat there with a calm expression, as if he hadn't heard the news at all.

  Fang Yihua couldn't sit still anymore.

"Sixth brother, you have to make up your mind. Chu Huan obviously has the idea of ​​taking both sides. If Chu Huan continues to develop like this, it will take less than five years for black and white images to create their own black and white images. With the distribution network in other cities, and seeing Chu Huan's attention to black and white images, he will definitely build his own studio in the future, and by then, no one in Xiangjiang can stop Chu Huan!"

  Shao Yifu sat there, and said slowly: "Is there anything you can think of that Zou Wenhuai can't think of?"

  Fang Yihua said anxiously: "I don't care if Zou Wenhuai can think of it or not, but now I only know that Chu Huan's black and white images have threatened the status of our Shaw Brothers!"

   This is a very strange psychology. Before this, both Shao Yifu and Fang Yihua hoped that after uniting with Chu Huan, Jiahe would be brought down first.

  But when Chu Huan's black and white images were about to achieve this step, Fang Yihua found that she could no longer accept such a result.

   Maybe they didn't expect that Chu Huan's black and white image would be so smooth in the process of bringing down Jiahe!

  In their imagination, even if the black-and-white image overthrows Jiahe, it will be a self-destructive end, but now!

  The black-and-white image didn't suffer any loss during this process, and instead, it further expanded the scale of its company.

   This makes them a little difficult to accept.

"The current Chu Huan is no longer the former Chu Huan!" Shao Yifu said without beginning and end, then looked up at Fang Yihua, and asked: "Since you want to target Chu Huan, let me ask you, what do you want?" How to target Chu Huan?"

  Fang Yihua said directly: "It's simple, they stopped their lease contract for the Clear Water Bay studio, as well as the distribution of their company's films in other cities!"

Shao Yifu tapped the desktop, and said calmly: "Now the black and white image has signed a lease agreement with Golden Harvest Film Studio, if we stop the lease agreement of the black and white image, will it affect the black and white image? Or are you going to compensate the black and white image? Image loss?"

  Fang Yihua didn't know how to answer.

  Shao Yifu continued: "You also said that you are going to terminate the company's contract to distribute black and white video company films in other cities. Do you know how much money the company has made by distributing black and white video films this year?"

   "If it stops, who will bear the loss?"

  Fang Yihua's complexion became even more gloomy, and she had no answer to such a question.

  Now she is like a furious and incompetent person, full of 120% anger towards Chu Huan, but there is nothing she can do!

  In the end, he could only look at Shao Yifu helplessly, and asked, "Is there nothing we can do?"

  Shao Yifu chuckled, "Now the initiative is still in our hands. Should there be a solution? It's not impossible."

  Fang Yihua immediately asked excitedly: "What way?"

Shao Yifu's eyes were a little deep, like an abyss that could not see the bottom: "Black and white images can continue to use the Clear Water Bay studio according to the contract, but our Shaw Brothers films also need to use the Clear Water Bay studio. It's what we say!"

  Fang Yihua's eyes immediately glowed, and with a simple reminder from Yifu Shao, she had already thought of a way to deal with it.

   "I understand. We can put the black and white movie in first, and when they are halfway through the filming, we will suddenly tell them that our company also needs to use this venue, so the black and white movie will naturally be postponed."

   "In this case, their movie is already halfway through filming. If they switch to Golden Harvest's studio at this time, then the scene will not match."

Shao Yifu didn't comment on Fang Yihua's method, but continued to talk: "As for the issue of distribution outside the city, although the black and white video has its own staff responsible for statistics of box office overseas, it is only a rough calculation after all. The real box office revenue is still what we said. Calculated."

  Fang Yihua had to sigh. She really is a cunning and cunning man!

  How come I didn’t think of this way to make black and white images suffer?

   "Sixth brother, I understand!" Fang Yihua immediately said with a smile.

  Shao Yifu nodded slightly, and continued to remind: "At the beginning, don't go too far, at least don't make the black and white images too offensive."

   "Understood!" Fang Yihua was silent for a while, and asked tentatively: "Sixth brother, I actually have another way!"

  Shao Yifu looked at Fang Yihua, showed an interested expression, and asked, "What way?"

  Fang Yihua carefully said: "Zou Wenhuai must hate Chu Huan to death now. If we throw an olive branch to Jiahe to deal with black and white images at this time, I think Zou Wenhuai will be very willing!"

  Shao Yifu's complexion changed suddenly, and he said loudly: "I would rather let Chu Huan's black and white images replace Zou Wenhuai's Jiahe, and not cooperate with Jiahe!"

  Fang Yihua shrank her neck, and immediately dared not say anything else.

  On the cooperation between black and white video and Golden Harvest, only Shaw Brothers and people in the film industry paid attention to it. For ordinary Xiangjiang citizens, they didn't care about it.

  Two months have passed. Although the stock market crash is still going on, ordinary Xiangjiang citizens have begun to accept all this in their hearts.

  Since he didn't jump off the building, he must continue to live after all.

  But some changes still exist. At this time, in the vegetable market, the maids who buy vegetables are no longer so extravagant. They start to haggle over every detail with the vendors, and they have to count for a long time even a ten or two cents.

  Ordinary migrant workers have become more diligent than before. The employment environment in Hong Kong is very bad now. If you don’t work hard, you may lose your job, and the whole family will have no food to eat.

  In the past, everyone would immediately check what is going on with Xiangjiang’s stock market today, but not anymore. They just occasionally read news about the stock market in the newspaper, and then sighed and continued with their work.

   It was under such circumstances that the citizens of Xiangjiang suddenly discovered that there seemed to be some subtle changes in their lives.

  In the place where they lived and worked, suddenly there was a convenience store decorated with clouds.

  Unkai Convenience Store!

  In fact, in the past, Yunhai Convenience Store had already gained some fame in Xiangjiang, but at that time it was more concentrated among white-collar workers and some young people in Central.

  In fact, convenience stores are small supermarkets, and the supermarket industry, even in Xiangjiang, only had the first self-selected supermarket in Xiangjiang in the 1970s—Wellcome Supermarket!

   Wellcome Supermarket was originally a subsidiary of Milk Company, but with Hongkong Land’s successful acquisition of Milk Company, Wellcome Supermarket now naturally belongs to Jardine!

  By the early 1990s, the Wellcome supermarket chain had 167 stores in Xiangjiang.

   In addition, Baijia Supermarket, another supermarket chain in Xiangjiang, was established this year, and the company behind them is Baijia, a subsidiary of Watsons under Hutchison!

   Also in the 1990s, the ParknShop supermarket chain already had 155 stores in Xiangjiang, which is close to Wellcome!

  But the current Yunhai Convenience Store is fundamentally different from these two large supermarkets. Their space is much smaller. Each Yunhai Convenience Store is only about 700 square feet, and the goods are naturally not as large as the large supermarkets.

  So, Yunhai Convenience Store’s competitors are not large supermarkets like Wellcome and ParknShop, but the traditional Shiduo stores in Xiangjiang.

  In comparison with Shiduo Store, Yunhai Convenience Store is much taller, and at this time Yunhai Chain also put forward its own business slogan: convenient, fast and clean!

   For the messy stores, Yunhai Convenience Store is very clean and hygienic, and the goods are placed very neatly. Customers can clearly know where the products they need are without having to search for them.

   Such a model is highly respected by young people and white-collar workers.

   Not only that, Yunhai Convenience Store also has advantages that Shiduodian does not have.

  Most of the taxi shops in Xiangjiang are open until 90 o'clock in the evening, and then they will close for a rest.

   But Xiangjiang is a city that never sleeps. Even in the middle of the night, there will be people living their own lives. Another advantage of Yunhai Convenience Store is that it is a 24-hour convenience store. People rest, the store does not rest!

  At the same time, the convenience store also has a variety of convenience foods for customers to choose from, such as quick-frozen steamed dumplings, steamed buns, siu mai, soup dumplings; pastries, bread, biscuits and other instant foods; milk, coffee, juice and other beverages.

  There is a microwave oven in the store for customers to warm up and eat.

   Such thoughtful service is very useful to those night shift drivers and white-collar workers in Central.

  In addition to these fixed groups, there are other groups.

  For example, people like Xiao Yun just finished work this evening, and when they got home, they immediately turned on the TV to watch Miss Xiangjiang's beauty pageant on TVB.

   His favorite is Deborah in it, and every time he sees Deborah through the TV screen, he will feel impulsive.

  After he watched Miss Xiangjiang's show, the little flame in his heart couldn't be restrained, and he immediately called his girlfriend.

  Invite the other person to your home, watch his cat do backflips, and do regular exercise along the way!

  The girlfriend also kindly agreed to the other party's request, and soon a man and a woman were going to start playing poker.

   "Bitch, bastard!"

   "It's been used up long ago, let's be infantry today!" Xiao Yun said impatiently.

  Girlfriend quit, and made it clear that there is no way to do without a twat. After all, I am going to get married after a while, so I don’t want to get caught off guard at this time!

  Xiao Yun said helplessly: "It's about time, where do you want me to buy T-shirts? All stores are closed."

  Girlfriend said: "When I just came here, I saw that the Yunhai Convenience Store downstairs was still open. There are some things to buy there. Go there!"

  Xiao Yun showed a suspicious expression, but in the end he had no choice but to go downstairs to the Yunhai Convenience Store to try it out.

  He remembered that some time ago, there was no Yunhai convenience store near his home, why is there now?

   When he found the signboard of Yunhai Convenience Store, he remembered that he saw it being renovated some time ago.

   Before he had time to think about it, Xiao Yun immediately rushed into the Yunhai Convenience Store, and was attracted by the clean environment here, but Xiao Yun didn't think about it too much, the best way is to finish buying T-shirts early and go back to play poker.

   Then he saw that Yunhai Convenience Store thoughtfully had a small shelf selling T-shirts near the counter, and there were various styles of T-shirts on it.

   After thinking for a while, Xiao Yun took five boxes directly, and then saw various brands of cigarettes on the cigarette cabinet behind the salesperson.

   Afterwards, a cigarette, quick piston fairy!

   Then I bought another pack of cigarettes, and when I was about to leave, I realized that I hadn’t eaten dinner yet, and then I saw the quick-frozen dumplings on the shelf of the Yunhai convenience store, and took two bags without any explanation.

  Everything is so natural.

   After returning to my residence, my girlfriend complained, "Why have you been here for so long!"

   "It will take longer in a while!" Xiao Yun couldn't wait to prepare for the two of them to play poker!

  That's it, Yunhai Convenience Store has entered the life of Xiangjiang people in a silent way.

  At this time, at the headquarters of Yunhai Chain Store, Zhu Xiaozhao was reporting to Chu Huan the current situation of Yunhai Convenience Store.

"I got the 10 million cash that you put into the company's account, Brother Huan, and the company's remaining 1 million cash, a total of 11 million cash. The company used this fund to establish a total of 55 cloud seas in the past two months. Convenience stores, plus the previous ten, now the company has a total of 65 convenience stores.

When Chu Huan opened his first convenience store in Causeway Bay, he spent HK$700,000 just to buy properties. But today is different. Under the stock market crash, everyone is selling properties crazily, hoping to get cash to support themselves. After passing this level, land prices will naturally fall crazily.

In addition, the crazy expansion of Yunhai Chain this time is no longer limited to the bustling areas such as Causeway Bay and Central. There are also Yunhai Convenience Stores in other areas. On average, each store only costs 300,000 Hong Kong dollars. That's all, as for the rest, it is naturally a bank loan!

The monthly sales of each convenience store is about 90,000 Hong Kong dollars, and the profit after excluding all costs is about 10%, which means that the monthly profit of each convenience store is about 9,000 Hong Kong dollars. We now have The monthly profit of 65 convenience stores is about 585,000 Hong Kong dollars, and the annual profit is 7.02 million Hong Kong dollars! "

  In the profit that Zhu Xiaozhao said, it actually offset the rent. All the properties of Yunhai Convenience Store were bought by Yunhai Chain Store.

  Chu Huan is quite satisfied with the current profit. After all, it is only Xiangjiang in 1973, and the price of Xiangjiang is not that high. When the price of Xiangjiang rises in the future, the profit of convenience stores will be more.

   "How is the staff?" Chu Huan asked out loud.

  Zhu Xiaozhao said with a smile: "Fortunately, we spent nearly a year training talents, so the staff of the new convenience store did not have any problems."

Chu Huan nodded and said: "Yes, but this opportunity is rare now, Xiangjiang's housing prices are still falling, and those large consortiums have not noticed this, so the company's future development route is to use the profits to continue to expand our business. The number of convenience stores and the most important thing is not to forget the training of personnel, every employee of Yunhai Convenience Store must be trained!"

  Zhu Xiaozhao showed a look of surprise. In her opinion, 65 convenience stores are already quite a lot, yet Chu Huan wants to expand.

  Thinking of this, Zhu Xiaozhao asked in a low voice: "Brother Huan, how many companies are we going to expand to?"

  Chu Huan said with a smile: "In Xiangjiang, there must be at least 400 stores!"

  Zhu Xiaozhao was really shocked by Chu Huan this time. Based on the current profit calculation, if Yunhai Chain really expands to 400 stores, then the annual profit will be astonishing. 432 million Hong Kong dollars!

   "Will this be too exaggerated!" Zhu Xiaozhao couldn't help speaking, and then he said with some worry: "And I'm worried that the purchasing power of the current Xiangjiang population is simply not so much?"

  At this time, the population of Xiangjiang as a whole is only about 4 million.

  Chu Huan is not worried about this, the population of Xiangjiang will only increase, especially in this era, the population will increase by 1 million almost every ten years.

"Don't worry, I'm not asking you to expand so many convenience stores overnight. I'll give you three years. Within three years, I won't use a penny of the company's money. You can Use it all for expansion!"

Yunhai Chain is one of Chu Huan's trump cards. Its role is not only in retail, but also in the future. In fact, let alone the past three years, Chu Huan will not use the funds of Yunhai Chain. After two years, Chu Huan will not use the funds of Yunhai Chain, because at that time, the target of Yunhai Chain will no longer be limited to Xiangjiang, but the entire Southeast Asia, Taiwan Island, Japan, South Korea and other regions!

  When Yunhai Convenience Store has seized the market in these places, Yunhai Convenience Store will face the challenge of 7-11, the overlord of the retail industry!

  In Chu Huan's plan, Yunhai Convenience Store will become a large global chain of convenience stores in the future!

  But this plan is still too far away, so now Chu Huan only told Zhu Xiaozhao about the Xiangjiang market.

  Hearing that Chu Huan would not use the company's funds, Zhu Xiaozhao was relieved when the time came, so he also put forward his own opinions later.

"Brother Huan, three years is not enough. In the process of expansion, the company must not only train employees, but also establish its own warehousing, transportation and other related supporting facilities, so I hope that Huan Brother, you can give me five years.

  Five years later, I will definitely hand over the 400 Yunhai chains to you completely and completely! "

  Hearing Zhu Xiaozhao's words, Chu Huan fell silent.

  Seeing this, Zhu Xiaozhao lost his self-confidence just now, and once again regained his weak temperament in front of Chu Huan, "Brother Huan, is there something I said wrong?"

  Chu Huan laughed, and said: "No, you said very well, I am very happy, can think of these things, it shows that you have grown up, this is very good!"

   "So, Brother Huan, do you agree with my idea?" Zhu Xiaozhao said excitedly. This was the first time she had put forward her idea in front of Chu Huan, and she was very happy to get Chu Huan's approval.

  Chu Huan nodded and said, "Of course I agree!"

   "Thank you Brother Huan!" Zhu Xiaozhao said happily.

  Chu Huan rubbed Zhu Xiaozhao's head habitually. Although Zhu Xiaozhao was a little shy about Chu Huan's intimate gesture, he enjoyed it very much.

   "Why are you being so polite with me!"

   "Understood!" Zhu Xiaozhao nodded.

  Chu Huan withdrew his hand and said with a smile, "There is one more thing I want to tell you."

  Zhu Xiaozhao nodded and said, "Brother Huan, tell me!"

   "It's your personal business"

   Before Chu Huan finished speaking, Zhu Xiaozhao hastened to preach: "Brother Huan, I already have a lot of labor, and I don't have anything to spend!"

  Although Chu Huan enjoys being an exploitative capitalist, and Zhu Xiaozhao didn't take the initiative to ask for a raise in his salary, Chu Huan can't really treat these things as invisible.

  Zhu Xiaozhao is one of the people he trusts the most, and he doesn't want Zhu Xiaozhao to feel dissatisfied because of this kind of thing in the future.

  Of course, Chu Huan would not do the kind of thing that the Holy Mother gave away shares for free.

"This matter is settled like this. The labor is increased by 50% on your original basis. If you can complete the number of convenience stores on time in the future, not only will the labor increase, but the company's profit dividend will also be distributed. Refuse, you also know that this is the treatment that the president of every company will have!"

  Under the current operating environment of the company, Chu Huan will definitely give Zhu Xiaozhao the best remuneration, but it will definitely not exceed the highest level.

  Many things have proved that no matter how much you trust a person, if there is no reward to give, it is very likely to bring a series of vicious reactions.

   Seeing that Chu Huan had already made up his mind, Zhu Xiaozhao couldn't say anything more.

   Now that the business is over, the next thing is some personal matters.

  Of course, it’s not about love, Chu Huan just chatted with Zhu Xiaozhao about the past, and then got up and left Yunhai chain!

  Chu Huan, who left the Yunhai chain, came to the brother audiovisual in charge of Chen Haichao!

Like Zhu Xiaozhao, after Chen Haichao received Chu Huan's funds, he also started his own expansion path. However, Brother Audiovisual, which has more liquidity, only chose to expand the same number of branches as Yunhai Chain. stopped.

   Didn't spend all his money on company expansion.

  After meeting Chu Huan, Chen Haichao expressed his thoughts without hesitation.

   "Brother Huan, I want to set up a record company!"

  Chu Huan sat there, did not comment on Chen Haichao's thoughts, but only asked, "Tell me your thoughts."

"With more and more chain stores, we have become the audio-visual store chain with the most chains in Xiangjiang, which has actually mastered the distribution channels of record companies. With such convenient conditions, if we don't open a store that belongs to us own record company, I think it's a waste of resources!"

  Chen Haichao preached calmly.

Chu Huan said with a smile: "But the record company is not very profitable? And if you start a record company, the record company in Xiangjiang will be hostile to you now, so even if Brothers Audio is the largest chain video store in Xiangjiang now, think To deal with the censure of those record companies, I am afraid it is not an easy thing to deal with, right?"

   Seeing that Chu Huan didn't refuse immediately, Chen Haichao understood that Chu Huan had no objection to his idea, but he also needed to come up with a suitable reason.

"I've already thought about it. When the record company was established, it could completely put aside the relationship with Brother Audiovisual. Although this situation can't be hidden for a long time, what we need most now is time. As long as there is this time difference, Brother Audiovisual will be able to do so. Then we can continue to expand, and when we have an absolute monopoly in Xiangjiang's record sales field, those record companies will have nothing to fear!"

   Having said this, Chen Haichao was silent for a while, and then continued to preach.

"I guess, according to Brother Huan's personality, you will definitely not only satisfy the Xiangjiang market, so in the future, Brother Audio will definitely develop towards Taiwan, Southeast Asia and other regions. Naturally, you will not make money simply by looking at the Xiangjiang record market. How much is it, but if it includes Taiwan Island, Southeast Asia and other places, it will be different.

   Moreover, we can also interact with black and white images in this way. After all, the stars of Xiangjiang are now popular for multi-dwelling development! "

  Chu Huan agrees with Chen Haichao's thoughts very much. In fact, what he said is also what he thought before.

"Okay, since you already have an idea, I won't say anything, but most of the singers in Xiangjiang have signed contracts with major record companies. Store relationship, then you will lose the biggest trump card in attracting singers, and in this way, it is not an easy task for record companies to develop."

  Chu Huan raised his concerns, and at the same time wanted to see how Chen Haichao was going to deal with it.

  Chen Haichao is different from Zhu Xiaozhao. When he told Chu Huan about this matter, he must have had his own overall consideration, so when Chu Huan raised a question, Chen Haichao immediately had his own thoughts.

"Although there are no large-scale singing competitions in Xiangjiang, various types of small competitions are emerging in an endless stream. My idea is that when the record company was founded, it first focused on signing new singers. Although we don't want other records The company knows the relationship between our own record company and Brother Audiovisual, but in some respects we can still take care of the company's singers.

In addition, I also got some inspiration from the black and white video Hong Kong Emerging Directors Contest before. I want to cooperate with Hong Kong's Li's TV to hold a Hong Kong Rookie Singing Competition. In this way, we can find More singers are coming! "

   Smart!

  Chu Huan couldn't help praising Chen Haichao's idea in his heart.

  Shaw Brothers also has its own record company, so cooperating with TVB may have greater influence, but the competition will be more intense. On the contrary, it is better to cooperate with Li's TV, which does not have its own record company.

  And just as Chen Haichao said, there is no real scale singing competition in Xiangjiang. The rookie singing contest that Chen Haichao thinks of now will definitely cause a sensation in Xiangjiang once it is launched.

   It's like the election of Miss Xiangjiang launched by TVB.

   "Okay, I don't have any opinions here, just do what you think!"

  Since Chen Haichao already had a complete plan, Chu Huan naturally didn't say anything.

  After confirming this matter, Chu Huan also told him about raising Chen Haichao's salary, and Chen Haichao readily accepted it!

   After finishing all the arrangements, Chu Huan made another trip to New York in late May and signed contracts with the five major oil companies to order oil.

  The two parties agreed to deliver the goods in mid-August. If the transaction cannot be completed in the middle, they will pay 5 times the liquidated damages. At the same time, Chu Huan also paid a 30% deposit in advance!

  After doing all this, Chu Huan was ready to take a good rest for a while, but at this time, another unexpected news came to Chu Huan.

   Also, at six o'clock in the afternoon~

  

  

  (end of this chapter)