It was late at night on Saturday on the west coast of the United States, and China on the other side of the ocean was already Sunday afternoon.

No. 18, Bund, Shanghai.

Chen Qing woke up from a nap, it was exactly 2:00 pm.

Ten minutes later, from the sixth-floor bedroom to a elegantly decorated home office on the third floor, Scooper's chairman Emmanuel Brandt and Charlotte Brinita from Switzerland were discussing something around a small conference table by the window. Behind the long desk, two assistants were busy facing their laptops.

There is also Ran Yue, the person in charge of daily affairs in China.

Ran Yue was originally flipping through a magazine on the sofa in the rest area. When she saw Chen Qing coming in, she quickly got up.

"Sister Ran, you sit down, you're welcome," Chen Qing smiled and stopped the other party. She first came to Lily Farville at the desk and asked, "Has the information I want passed by the Institute of Research?"

Lily Farville nodded and handed a folder to Chen Qing.

Chen Qing took the folder and did not greet Emmanuel and the others. She went directly to the single sofa next to Ran Yue to sit down. While opening the folder, she asked, "Sister Ran, is there any new problem with the launch ceremony tomorrow?"

Tomorrow is June 10th, and on Monday, China's first large-scale cloud computing data center in Shanghai is officially launched.

Simon just visited China with great fanfare more than a month ago. Such a large data center can show China's determination to develop the information industry. No matter from any aspect, the authorities attach great importance to this matter, so they took the initiative to contact and prepare a grand center launch ceremony, and a group of large local enterprises will be announced again on the spot.

It just so happened that Chen Qing and Lin Su were invited to participate together tomorrow.

Ran Yue called at noon and said something about the launching ceremony, so Chen Qing asked, and said: "That's right, Xiaoqing, a leader from above will come over tomorrow. I asked me to ask if I can arrange a connection and let Mr. Westeros say a few words through the video?"

Seeing Ran Yue speaking vaguely, Chen Qing shook her fingers and gestured a few times. Seeing Ran Yue shook her head slightly, she also shook her head slightly, and frowned slightly, saying, "Sister Ran, if it's not, don't mention this matter again."

Ran Yue seemed to have expected it and was not disappointed, and said, "In this case, Mr. Jeff Bezos, is it OK? Xiaoqing, listen to me, there are definitely only benefits to arrange this connection. I can't say much about it, you will know in the future."

Chen Qing looked at Ran Yue and said seriously: "Sister Ran, you should give me a clear idea, otherwise it would be really hard to deal with."

Seeing Chen Qing say this, Ran Yue hesitated for a moment, looked up at the other people in the office, took out a notepad from her bag, quickly wrote down a name, showed it to Chen Qing, and crossed it out again.

At this moment, Chen Qing could learn a lot more things than before. She just took a look, and nodded after a little consideration: "I will contact the boss directly."

Chen Qing said this, the matter was basically finalized.

Ran Yue was both relaxed and excited. She took the initiative to take over this errand. If she did it well, it would be beneficial to herself and her husband in the system. If she messed up, she would definitely be recorded. She was worried that the girl in front of her could not see some things clearly, but fortunately she did not see the wrong person or follow the wrong person.

After talking about the main business, Ran Yue glanced at the documents in Chen Qing's hand, but did not explore it, but asked: "Why didn't you see Xiaolin?"

"She took her brother and sister back to Hangzhou."

"Lin Dong?"

Chen Qing curled her lips slightly: "Yes, I'm going to the United States soon, and I'll take a look at my fellow villagers and the beautiful mountains and rivers."

Ran Yue could feel the little teasing in Chen Qing's tone, and she was not easy to comment, but just smiled.

The two chatted casually, and Chen Qing also focused more on this corporate research report from Cersei Capital China Economic Research Institute.

The content is about the operating conditions of Giant Group.

After reading the report for more than ten pages, Chen Qing only felt that a mess that was about to collapse was presented to her. The internal problems of this company were far more than just a large and inappropriate Giant Building project.

This is a small homework assigned by his boss earlier, and Chen Qing has been following him quietly.

Now I find that this company is almost a typical case of many domestic private enterprises suddenly rising and suddenly falling in recent years.

The kind that needs to be taken as a warning.

Thinking about annotating the last document, closing the document, Chen Qing looked up at Ran Yue again: "Sister Ran, Lin Mingtian and I went back to North America after attending the launch ceremony. How much trouble do you need to worry about the matters over Excellence."

On Friday just past, Chen Qing quietly prepared for the official launch of Excellent Computer for half a year, with a basic configuration price of RMB 4,999.

Machine code name Excellent b-10.

The b here is the first letter of barrel (bucket; wooden barrel), and the complete concept is the famous "barreltheory".

Because the price is not mentioned, the performance is always worse than Intel's top PC chips. Therefore, due to the occasional reminder of its own boss, the team of Zhuoyue Technology decided to use the wooden barrel theory as the promotion focus of the first PC product. The marketing direction is that although the CPU is not the strongest, Zhuoyue B-10 is the "bucket machine" with the strongest comprehensive configuration at this stage. There are no shortcomings, and there are no manufacturers that only highlight the CPU and simplify the materials used in other components.

After marketing for more than half a month in advance, the results were good.

A total of 12 direct-operated excellence computer stores opened in South China on the same day, and received 239 excellence B-10 orders on Friday, with a turnover of 1.2 million yuan.

A good start.

Moreover, the reason for this is an order is that only 120 of them are in stock, and the rest of the orders will be delivered within half a month.

This is also an operational focus of Excellent Computer.

Because the materials are used too much and the profit is too low, in order to avoid risks to the greatest extent, only a small amount of spot is provided regularly, but reservations are accepted at any time.

To be honest, it's hunger marketing.

The effect is also good.

This is the mentality of consumers. The more difficult it is to get it, the more they want it. Even if they don’t buy it, they will be unable to help but take a look at it a few more times.

Therefore, whether it is the butcher price of Excellent B-10 or the hunger marketing that was out of stock on the day of the sale, it has attracted widespread discussions from media around the world, and some other computer manufacturers have also begun to pay attention.

Except for CPU, the others are all top-level configurations that only have 10,000 yuan machines. Now they are directly dealt with to 4,999 yuan. If you follow up, there is no way out. Fortunately, even if you notice the background of this company, Zhuoyue Technology is still a very small company after all, and the sales market is limited to several provinces in South China, so the threat seems to be small.

Due to the strong government's promotion of the information industry, China's PC market began to explode last year. In 1995, the annual sales reached 3.2 million units, which was more than four times higher than 700,000 units in 1994. The growth rate this year is not as exaggerated as last year. Judging from the sales volume in the first five months, it is expected to reach about 5 million units throughout the year.

Excellent Computer sold 239 computers on the first day. Because of the early marketing components, even if they remain so level in the next year, the shipment volume is expected to be only 87,000 units in the first year. Based on the shipment volume of 5 million units this year, it has a market share of 1.6%.

Not worth mentioning.

This is also the goal that Excellent Technology hopes to achieve.

In fact, on the first day, sales results of about 250 units more than doubled compared to expected, and Zhuoyue began to quietly expand the scale of its own assembly factory.

Chen Qing's cost control over excellence is harsh, including the personnel, and even the lack of sufficient staff. Therefore, she said that excellence requires Ran Yue to bother with it, and she is not polite at all. When the company is running, because of the lack of staff, the small team of the China Daily Affairs Office, including Ran Yue, was arranged by the men.

“This is what I should have done.”

After all, Chen Qing did not treat them badly in her salary at all. Ran Yue agreed and stood up with the flow, knowing that it was time to say goodbye.

Actually, I really want to stay in this luxurious building for more time.

But it's not inferior to this after all.

Although the girl in front of me was so intimate that she called "Sister Ran" in her daily life, she was definitely not so approachable at heart. Ran Yue was not so naive that she really treated herself as an outsider if she called her a few times.

After saying goodbye, he couldn't help but ask, "Xiaoqing, when will there be news over there?"

"It's midnight in North America now," Chen Qing sent Ran Yue out, thought for a while and said, "There will definitely be a reply before 12 o'clock in the evening. The time there is different. As long as you agree, the connection will not be delayed tomorrow."

After seeing Ran Yue off, Chen Qing came to Emmanuel and sat down: "What are you talking about?"

"Business," said Emmanuel, who came to attend a VCD industry gathering this time, and waited for Chen Qing to sit down and explained: "The Shanghai data center will be launched tomorrow. Inspired by this incident, Xia Li felt that the Internet technology tutorial books should be very popular. It just so happens that there are already many similar publications in North America, and maybe we can translate them and sell them in China."

Chen Qing took a cup from the desktop tray and poured himself a cup of coffee, while saying, "This is publishing. Don't you know how strict China's control over the publishing industry is?"

Emmanuel said: "Chan, don't think we don't know anything. This is a tutorial book and does not involve politics."

"But this is also the business of the publishing house, not what we can do, and you have also ignored the problem of piracy. In short, don't think about it, there is no future," Chen Qing picked up the coffee and took a sip. After all, it was a flash of inspiration: "By the way, you can do training classes, this is a big business. After all, just like North America, many people will flock to the Internet industry to make gold, and there will definitely be a huge demand for professional training."

The two girls didn't expect Chen Qing to suddenly become excited. Charlotte Brinita said: "The training class should be more difficult, just like the international school project we are preparing for, which requires a very professional team."

"It's different. This is vocational training. Just pass it well. You don't know how scams those vocational training schools are now... making money. And we have the advantage of ready-made ones. You can get an Igrit qualification certification, find a university to associate with, and teachers can poach from universities. Now there are many talents who want to go into business. Occasionally, some technicians or venture capital executives from Silicon Valley come to give lectures, and their reputation will be immediately exaggerated."

“…”

Both girls were a little speechless.

Sisters, do you think we didn’t hear the word “deception” that just put the finishing touch?

Even though they had experienced it when discussing the preparation of an international school, Emmanuel and Charlotte, who had a very positive outlook on some aspects, were still not easy to accept Chen Qing's concept of completely treating education as a business.

Chen Qing became more and more interested. She took the paper and pen and started brainstorming the business plan at the conference table. She also brought the two women who came to their senses to discuss together.

After all, judging from the recent understanding of various domestic vocational training industries, it is really profitable.

As we were chatting, Chen Qing's cell phone rang and it was Lin Su who called.

Chen Qing kept writing on her hand and clamped her phone under her ear: "Hmm?"

“…”

"It's useless to find you. The boss made the decision in Geely. We all know the reason... It's not okay to help contact other investments. Whether it's direct or indirect, it will always be involved in us. What you consume is our resources... Why are you so stupid and brainy... Okay, okay, the boss has said it all, I remember you were there at that time? Tell Li directly, wait for another four or five years, and wait for China to join the WTO. If we still have the heart there, we will have the opportunity to cooperate, and it will definitely not work now."

The same time.

It is over 9 a.m. in Ukraine thousands of kilometers away.

On the north of Rifni City, next to a residential street, Eve Besonoskova, who received a call temporarily, rushed over and took another female guard to get off the car. It happened that another black sedan was also parked on the side of the road. Two young men with tall horses and strong temperament were coming down.

Seeing Eve, the two of them came over respectfully: "Miss Besonoskova?"

"Thank you for coming here, I don't know what's going on."

Eve said, looking left and right to confirm the address, and quickly walked towards a courtyard not far ahead. Several others followed. After approaching, they soon heard the woman's cry. Eve quickly accelerated and rushed into a courtyard along the sound.

Seeing Eve and others appear, the man in the yard, who was obviously drunk, took advantage of the situation and used the thorns in his hand to suck the three women who were holding each other in front of him for a few more times. Then he looked at Eve and others who showed up with a fierce look: "Who are you?"

Eve spoke at the same time: "Stop."

As he said that, he was about to stop the other party from continuing to commit crimes, the two young men who followed him had already snatched the thorns from the middle-aged man's hands, and easily pressed the same tall middle-aged man to the ground, twisted his arms and looked at Eve, waiting for her to fall.

"Eve!"

One of the three girls on the ground suddenly shouted, got up and rushed over crying.
To be continued...