America’s Big Hero

The hors d'oeuvres became the chill drinks.

An old-fashioned white half-sleeved shirt with a beautiful woman on his arm...

All of them walked with crutches, and Xiao En, who was standing beside Bi Zhengchun, tried his best to hold back a smile.

When Bi Zhengchun was chatting, his eyes were always observing Xiao En's face, and he always felt that this guy actually knew everything, and he was deliberately watching everyone's jokes!

If you don't look at the obvious white face, you can't help but take him as a Chinese.

Of course, this is Morocco. Now that Sean is in charge, Bi Zhengchun can only sigh helplessly, thinking that the blond beauty holding his hand is a junior, but her daughter...

Daughter or something, why are you so awkward!

"Since the country is open for communication, it is certain that Western ideas will enter the mainland, and the impact will be beyond imagination." Sean held a wine glass, and Halle Berry in a swimsuit held his arm, "I know Now many people in the east yearn for the western world and the United States, and they are rushing to go abroad, mostly young people."

With that said, Xiao En raised his finger and pointed at those beauties, then looked at Bi Zhengchun, "Do as the Romans do, if you don't want to become an outlier, those girls who go abroad will become like this."

"I call them easy girls!"

Bi Zhengchun's face was ugly, he really has a daughter... Thinking about how his daughter would become such an immoral look, old Bi's head would start to smoke.

What a fart country, and then shout out the leg discount!

Sean successfully shattered a woman's dream of going abroad.

After chatting for a while, Bi Zhengchun still remembered the purpose of their visit, and gradually brought the topic back, "Sean, how do you think about sales, starting with official purchases?"

"Official procurement?" Sean felt that he heard it wrong, official procurement of vans?

Go crazy!

"You don't think that a product will be popular after the official sets an example, do you?" Sean smiled and spread his hands.

"What's good at the top will be bad at the bottom." Bi Zhengchun said naturally.

"That's right, the question is, who is the leader?" Xiao En shook his head with a smile and said, "In the east, the leader is the official. Doctrine has never been official!"

Bi Zhengchun was taken aback for a moment, and then he realized that their thinking had developed an inertia. They naturally used the East to apply the West, shook his head, and asked again: "Is it capital?"

"Somewhat general." Sean shook his head. "In the West, 'upper' is very broad. It includes the old aristocracy, including the royal families of various countries, European aristocrats, and old capitalists."

"Others include emerging capital, political families, and political upstarts."

"It could also be an idea, a trend, a racial notion, ... a lot."

"The social structure in the West is relatively complicated, and it is not like the East. There is only one concept, and everything is inferior, and only being an official is high." Xiao En shrugged with a smile.

"Everything is inferior, but reading is high!" Bi Zhengchun corrected.

"That's because you can become an official by studying, well, I'm not one of those foreigners who don't understand anything." Xiao En stretched out his hand and patted Bi Zhengchun's shoulder, "It's better to sell tea eggs than to make missiles, so the person who makes missiles is not reading ?"

"Yes, I'm not studying, it's just a craft, like a master craftsman in ancient times, no matter how ingeniously crafted, it's just a skill of obscenity in the final analysis, and he can't be an official, so it's only natural that he is not as good as a tea egg seller .”

Bi Zhengchun's face was a little dark, and Sean shrugged, "Okay, let's not talk about these conceptual things, let's talk about business. If you can come to Morocco again, then it is determined to form a joint venture company."

"Yes, you are an expert in the East, and I won't hide it from you." Bi Zhengchun calmed down and nodded, "We also have some companies abroad, but they are all aid-oriented and have political significance. Cooperation is a purely commercial act, and everything is based on commercial standards.”

"Crossing the river by feeling the stones." Sean nodded, "Then be more commercial, and I will tell you the requirements."

"The initial step is to set up a company to carry out a new sales model Automobile Sales Service Shop 4S, a car sales company that integrates vehicle sales, spare parts, after-sales service, and information feedback."

"I call it a 4S shop."

"Fourth son's store?" Bi Zhengchun repeated, "It is indeed a brand new model, and we have no problem."

"Well, let's talk about the shareholding ratio. What are your requirements?"

"In the new sales model, we come here with a learning attitude. What we pursue is not the controlling stake but how much experience we can learn. Therefore, the shares are mainly based on you. How about a 4:6 split?" Bi Zhengchun said with a smile.

Sean smiled and shook his head, "The market is mine, the channel is mine, the business philosophy is mine, I don't lack funds, I just need to import cars from Hafei, so give me a 4 The reason for the shares."

"Uh..." Bi Zhengchun was a little embarrassed, Westerners speak too directly!

"Then how much do you say?"

"I will give you 20% because of friendship, which is an expression of goodwill, not because I have needs in this regard. Suzuki has GM among its shareholders, and GM has Rockefeller among its shareholders. Whether it is technology or production lines, I think If it's all a matter of one sentence." Sean pointed it out directly, of course, things are definitely not that simple.

Bi Zhengchun bowed his head and pondered for a while. Before coming here, he set the tone that cooperation must be facilitated, even if it is a disadvantage.

To lose money is to take advantage. For Dongfang, this is a brand new attempt. Whether it succeeds or fails, it will learn some experience. State-owned enterprises, making money has never been the most important thing, serving the country and the collective.

so……

"Thank you very much for Mr. Xiao En's help. He has always said that you are an old friend of the Chinese people, and the Chinese people will never forget you." Bi Zhengchun said solemnly.

"I hope so." Sean replied with a smile.

"Speaking of help, we have a small request, that is, can we increase the proportion of Chinese personnel in the company's personnel composition."

"Hehe, how appropriate." Sean didn't care too much about it. The Chinese one was also pretty good, smart, hard-working, obedient, and didn't make trouble when working overtime.

"As much as possible, it can be regarded as the Chinese commissioned trainees, and the Chinese side is responsible for the salary."

"I understand that the necessary local people are still needed. I will try my best to help you, about 70% of the middle and lower levels of the company." Sean seemed to have made a lot of determination.

Bi Zhengchun seemed very happy. Everyone agreed that this aspect was more important than how many shares they had.

"At the top...?"

"This won't work. Eastern management philosophy is not applicable to Western society. For the normal operation of the company, up to 30% of the top management can hire Chinese personnel." Sean shook his head. What a headache.

"As for the distinction in wages, I don't think it's very good, as if I discriminated against Chinese personnel."

"No, no, no." Bi Zhengchun shook his head hastily, "You don't have to worry about this, we will bear the salary."

"Am I short of money?" Sean looked dissatisfied.

"It's not about money, Mr. Xiao En, if you really follow your salary system, it will be a kind of harm to us." Bi Zhengchun said with a serious look: "Now the domestic salary is about 400 a year. Temporary workers are around 230, if the wages of these people working abroad are really calculated according to your standards, more than 1,000 US dollars a year, how does this make the workers who are still in domestic factories think?"

Sean blinked. The salary of the American staff is at least 1,000 a month, not a year.

"We are a developing country, and cheap labor is our advantage. It is this advantage that keeps our products competitive enough. Workers' wages are high, so how to ensure the profits of state-owned enterprises."

"It's going to break the wage structure system and it's a serious injury."

Raising workers' wages is harmful to the company. After summarizing, Sean swallowed a mouthful and nodded heavily, his face full of affirmation, "You are so right, your understanding is too deep!"

Capitalists dare not be so whimsical, this awareness is simply amazing!

"In the United States, due to the excessive increase of workers' wages, a large number of manufacturing industries have been outflowed. The employment environment for the people is very poor, the unemployment rate is high, the law and order are chaotic, and the society is unstable!" Sean grasped Bi Zhengchun's hand, full of emotion, "This It’s terrible, you must learn a lesson and resolutely keep the workers’ wages unchanged for 100 years!”

"Is work just to make money? Narrow!" Xiao En's words resounded loudly, "Work overtime for the rise of China!"

Bi Zhengchun blinked, this sounded very mainstream, but for some reason, it always felt a little bit wrong?

"According to your requirements, I will cooperate with you to work. Of course, after all, we are working for our company, and we still pay the wages. Well, the soft sister currency is directly distributed in China." Sean said along the lines: "As for the money in Morocco During the period, I will arrange staff dormitories and canteens, and I will also cooperate with local medical institutions in terms of medical treatment, so as to absolutely solve all the worries of Chinese personnel who come to work in Morocco!"

As far as this salary system is concerned, Xiao En feels that it is actually quite good to hire all Chinese personnel.

It's really not that he's a capitalist. His own experts have said so. What else can Sean do?

He is just a capitalist, what bad thoughts can he have.

We have discussed the shareholding ratio, the employment and wage system, and the rest is the price of vehicle imports.

"We all agree on the price, 35,000 RMB." Bi Zhengchun looked calm, but secretly glanced at Xiao En.

"Gift crab?" Shock was written on Sean's face, "Are you kidding me? I paid $11,600 for this crap, and that's not counting the import duties, investment costs, labor costs, and profits of the fourth son's store. Aren't I To start at $15,000?"

"Moroccans are crazy to pay $15,000 for something like this?"

"Uh... I'm making it easy, that's the domestic price." Bi Zhengchun was a little embarrassed, 35,000 is the unified domestic sales price.

With a monthly salary of more than 30 yuan, it is strange that the car can be sold for 35,000 yuan.

"Well, our domestic price is generally higher than the export price." Bi Zhengchun added, "There is a tax rebate for export."

Xiao En curled his lips, so there is no need to tell him such words to prevaricate the common people.

During this period, the price of internal products was higher than that of foreign countries, and it was much higher, so it was not a tax issue.

In the 1980s, smuggling was rampant, Panyu, Nansha, Wenzhou, Weihai...

From large TVs, washing machines, and tape recorders to small watches and sunglasses, you can buy goods at normal prices abroad and ship them to the east for wholesale.

Those who have lost their goods will buy from these places and bring them back to the city to make a fortune, which is still cheaper than similar domestic products from the supply and marketing cooperatives.

The labor cost is more than 30 times lower than that of the notebook, and when all aspects of the product are more than 30 times lower, the price is 1-3 times more expensive than the foreign original.

"You know, it's not that I don't know anything about Dongfang, but I actually don't understand why the final product is so expensive when your labor cost is dozens of times lower?" Sean asked curiously : "And on the basis of such a high profit, why are many factories still losing money?"

"Uh...we are a state-owned enterprise, and we still have to pay the wages of retired workers." Bi Zhengchun didn't know how to explain to Xiao En, and his words were very vague.

"That's not right. At most, the labor cost has doubled. You guys are dozens of times lower than us." Sean shook his head. I know that one plus one equals two. You can't fool me!

"Uh, there are many benefits, meals are cheap, and medical expenses are reimbursed, um, yes, that's it." Bi Zhengchun nodded stiffly.

Sean curled his lips. It's not that he doesn't know the level of medical care and living standards.

It is enough to ask here, and to ask again is to expose the shortcoming.

In fact, decades later, it will be the same in many cases. When you go abroad, you can’t avoid the topic of shopping. Well, it’s like shopping, not only luxury goods, but many products are also cheaper than domestic ones.

For example, purely original cars are also cheaper abroad, much cheaper, because of the high import tax, the purpose is to protect car companies...

The market is exchanged for technology, the market is given, but the technology has not developed.

You can make money with protection, so why invest large sums of money in improving technology?

It’s not good to do something with money. Is it sick to invest in a technology that I don’t know if it can be researched?

Can you wait, wait until someone else researches it and use it?

Don't say anything about using other people's patents, the cost is high.

No one's patents were brought by strong winds, but were invested in a large amount of real money to start research from scratch. Who has no cost?

Who held your hand and prevented you from studying?

Don't say that the computer system is researched and there is no platform for installation, and there is no supporting software, and the research is useless.

This kind of difficulty has already been mentioned by the loyal family. Before Hongmeng was installed, it was only running in the laboratory. Isn’t that money?

(ˉ▽￣～)cut~~

Closer to home, anyway, Sean will definitely not do 35,000 soft sister coins.

"I need a reasonable price." Sean said deadpan.

"30,000?" Bi Zhengqing tentatively said that it doesn't matter if he makes money or not, but, as we all know, Sean is very generous.

Sean squinted at the past, too lazy to speak.

"2.8?"

"US$3,800, CIF, I can't accept any higher price." Sean gave a price, which he calculated after investigation.

And it left some profit points for Hafei.

If he is more ruthless, he can completely reduce it to 3,000 US dollars, and he is sure that Hafei will also endure it. Exporting to earn foreign exchange is better than anything else.

Due to some special reasons, except for some parts that need to be imported, a small part of parts are purchased locally, and the rest of Hafei are all self-produced!

They even have their own power plant, their own hydraulic forging machines, electronics manufacturing, including glass production lines, and they can produce as small as a screw.

These factories have greatly increased costs due to underutilization.

If procurement channels are opened up and market competition is introduced, the cost can be reduced to less than 2,500 US dollars according to the current salary level.

This price is already lower than Hafei's own bottom line. Of course, there is still a certain distance from the bottom line set by the Ministry of Industry, and Bi Zhengqing did not agree on the spot.

As soon as I came up, I was bargained for more than half of the price, so I agreed on the spot.

Things can be done here, and commercial negotiations, no matter how fast they are, cannot be settled at a reception, especially the Chinese side, which needs to listen to everyone's opinions.

At this moment, the cruise ship has already sailed a long way. After a period of familiarization, coupled with the language barrier, many people are not as cautious as they were at the beginning.

Anyway, these women can't understand what they say.

Sean raised his hand and made a gesture, and immediately a band came out and started playing, relatively soothing piano music, the atmosphere should be stirred slowly, and it will scare these guys if it is too hot.

"Beauties, move up and entertain our guests well." Sean shouted in French.

Immediately, the beauties started posting them, let's do a dance.

Singing and dancing, the beauties who kept interspersing in the crowd brought glasses of wine.

Cocktails, whiskeys, wines, liqueurs...

Mix it up, time goes by little by little, from rigid to relaxed, from sober to drunk, from serious to relaxed and laughing, from slow threes keeping distance to face-to-face with twisting limbs...

The music is matched with the lighting, the wine is matched with the beauties, and the atmosphere gradually becomes turbulent.

Huhuhahahaha! ! !

Sean didn't plan to go back, and would spend the night at sea today.

We must use this to test the cadres!

What an evil devil!

The cruise ship was borrowed from the Moroccan royal family. In addition to various entertainment facilities, there are a total of 12 rooms on the upper and lower floors. The distance between each other is relatively far when designing, and the top-level sound insulation design is added.

So much fun!

One night the spring breeze blows the earth, looking for fairy trails in the peach blossom garden...

When I woke up again, the boat had already reached the shore.

Two days later, news came from Bi Zhengqing that the shareholding ratio was 2:8, the personnel mix was 70%-30%, three models, the CIF price was 3800-4150 US dollars, and the Chinese party was responsible for the transportation.

For specific details, Sean will send a lawyer to negotiate with them.

In fact, Sean did not take all of the 80% of the shares, and the other investor was the Moroccan Investment Group.

The investment group provided US$2.8 million, and the top eight cities in Morocco provided a total of 14 plots, accounting for a total of 35% of the company's shares.

Sean holds 25% of the shares in the investment group, and he didn't spend a penny from the beginning to the end, accounting for more than half of the total shares of the new company.

Perfect!

In fact, 14 cars are not worth much, and they are not in the city center. Sean’s positioning of several cars is in the countryside, urban-rural fringe, self-employed households in the city, gangsters...

Cough cough, it seems that something strange has been mixed in.

However, the van is really suitable for gangsters. It has a large throughput per unit time and can release the attack power to the maximum. In addition, it is cheap and does not feel distressed if it is detained. The injured can lie down at critical moments, which is convenient for medical treatment.

Perfect!

Leaving the construction of the Four Sons Store, publicity and promotion, and commercial shooting tasks to the investment group, Sean turned around and went to Libya again.

The cargo ship delivering the planes and weapons from the east has arrived, and Sean will be there for the first reception.

To Xiao En's regret, no one robbed him, which made him very disappointed.

Accompanied by a large number of Chinese staff.

Rocket launchers, recoilless guns, etc. are purchased through regular channels according to civilian parts.

Professionals are needed to assemble it here, and Sean didn't count on Ka Dazuo, nor did he expect to hire people from Libya to assemble it.

He would rather hire Chinese personnel for a short period of time, not to mention the ridiculously high wages of Libyans, and the work attitude and assembly accuracy are also worrying.

I'm used to it!

After a short stay of three days, after completing the handover task, Sean left everything and took off again to return to the United States.

Finally, the manager of the personnel department needed by the umbrella has been found, and Xiao En wants to go back and have a look!

...

Van Wyck, a former member of the Marine Corps, retired at the age of 38 with the rank of major.

His father is a lawyer, his uncle is a city councilman, and his grandfather was also in politics. His family conditions are good. After retiring from the military, he re-entered school and obtained a double bachelor's degree in law and administration from Columbia University.

Engaged in administrative management after graduation, and transferred to the position of human resource management three years later. He is 53 years old and has rich management experience.

When Sean saw people, his first impression was very good. His silver hair was combed meticulously, his back was straight, he was wearing an ordinary military uniform, he had a gentle smile on his face, and his hands were generous and strong.

Regarding management matters, Sean didn't ask a single word, and if he asked, it was useless, and he didn't understand.

Sean is concerned about his family, the relationship with family members, the situation of his children, and his political leanings.

Those who have family have awe...

Ahem, of course, Sean has no intention of threatening him with his family.

Serious company!

"Who do you think the next two parties will win?" Sean chatted with Van Wyck while shooting targets in the umbrella military base in Newark.

"Xiangdang, our whole family is a staunch supporter of Xiangdang!" Van Wyck said with an affirmative face.

We talked about the Elephant Party, the situation in Southeast Asia, the situation in the Middle East, war, peace... Generally speaking, Sean is quite satisfied.

The appearance of the head of the personnel department means that the reorganization plan of the umbrella can be officially promoted.

However, Sean still has some things to deal with as soon as possible before that.

That is to cut the protective umbrella, and the old team who are not seen in the light will be independent.