Rebirth of Hong Kong 1981

   Chapter 834 Bad old man

  It is still a bit far from New York to Azerbaijan. It takes almost four hours by plane to arrive at Little Rock, the capital of Azerbaijan.

  Little Rock, a very common name, is located in the central part of Arkansas, the United States. It is the capital and largest city of the state, and the county seat of Pulaski County.

  A state has a small population, and the total population of the entire state is less than 2 million people.

   However, this is an important grain-producing area in the United States.

  The land is fertile, so agriculture is very developed, and Little Rock is an industrial center in the middle of the United States. It is the transportation center in the middle of the United States. The construction and management of transportation facilities are relatively complete.

   After getting off the plane and getting into the vehicle prepared by the security company, Yang Chen asked Frank beside him, "Frank, how far is it from the town of Bentonville?"

  Frank: "The town of Bentonville is more than 300 kilometers away from Little Rock. If there are no accidents along the way, it will take about three hours."

  Sam Walton's original birthplace was in a small town in Oklahoma. After World War II, the retired Uncle Sam family moved to the small town of Bentonville, Arkansas.

  In European and American countries, as long as we pay a little attention, we will find that many big brand companies in Europe and America, especially those with huge influence, are often headquartered in some unremarkable small towns.

   This is a very common phenomenon. The bigger the company, especially the manufacturing industry, the more reluctant European and American capitalists are to put their headquarters in the metropolis.

  In addition to the large cities, various costs are relatively high, and the other is the administrative pressure.

The economies of large cities are relatively comprehensive, and all walks of life are gathered together, and will not be affected by a single economy to a large extent, especially those large cities with many financial enterprises, their administrative power will not be affected by the manufacturers. Solving the problem of how many people eat will tend to favor the owners.

  In European and American countries, many manufacturing industries even need subsidies from the state. Therefore, in developed capital countries, the voices of manufacturers are not loud.

   The ones who really speak loudly are the financiers who hold huge amounts of capital and the union leaders who hold votes.

   For manufacturers, the government not only ignores them in many cases, but the trade union forces also like to make troubles from time to time. Various factors make those large companies generally reluctant to put their headquarters in big cities.

  Leaving the big city and being located in an unremarkable small town, not only will it not be resisted by the trade union forces, but also get strong support from the local government.

   In the political systems of European and American countries, local governments still have a lot of dominance. Many European and American countries have different laws and regulations in each state, as well as different taxes.

   Local governments have great power. For well-known brands such as Walmart, companies with huge influence, local governments will greatly facilitate the owners in order to attract them and increase local employment and tax revenue.

   In this way, there is no need to say much about the relationship between the local government and these enterprises.

   On the way to the small town of Bentonville, Yang Chen was thinking about what that Uncle Sam was like, and what the scene would be after the two met.

  Although he got a lot of news about Walmart in the United States through channels, he alone did not introduce much about Walmart founder Uncle Sam and the Walton family.

   At this stage, the Walton family is still very low-key.

   The media's attention was not focused on a family that only sold department stores.

   It took almost three hours for Yang Chen and his group to finally reach the small town of Bentonville.

   Yang Chen's group of more than a dozen cars poured into the town, which made the town that used to be calm suddenly surge.

   There were no flowers as imagined, and there was no welcome ceremony in line. After Yang Chen and his party entered the town, they stopped in front of a store with a Walmart logo.

   Getting out of the car, Yang Chen raised his head and looked at the supermarket facade that was no different from the one in the small county town in the future. Yang Chen couldn't help but wonder if this was the legendary Wal-Mart headquarters?

   didn't make him wait any longer. After a few minutes, Frank, who went in to look for someone, quickly walked out with an old man with gray hair wearing a Walmart salesperson costume.

   Before Yang Chen could open his mouth to ask, Frank quickly walked to his side, lowered his head and muttered a few words in his ear, then stepped aside.

   At this time, Yang Chen was a little stunned in his heart, and there was a bit of disbelief in his eyes, and he looked at the bad old man standing in front of him with a kind of kindness on his face.

   took another serious look at the old man in front of him, dressed in cheap clerk clothes, wearing a baseball cap that I don't know how long ago, with worn corners, obviously the owner of the hat usually wears it.

  It is hard to believe that the founder of a business empire like Wal-Mart in later generations would look like this.

This way of appearing is indeed beyond Yang Chen's expectations. It is completely incompatible with the muscular man he thought before, or the business tycoon in a suit and leather shoes, who would give each other a spitting momentum when he met them. .

   Dressing up as a pig and eating a tiger, Yang Chen had never seen such a person in Xiangjiang, but that was only on weekdays, and the big guys would be so casual in private.

  Yang Chen didn't know whether the other party did this on purpose, or just himself, which made him a little at a loss as to how to describe this big man who has a decisive influence in the United States.

   Seeing Yang Chen staring at him, Uncle Sam smiled and said: "Hello, guest from the East, I'm glad you can come here to see me, I hope your precious time is not wasted."

   "I'm also very happy to meet Mr. Sam in person."

  Uncle Sam apologized: "I didn't expect you to come so soon. My sons are all working outside, not in Bentonville. I have informed my little daughter that she will be back in a while."

   "This is not the place to talk, Yang, if you don't mind, how about visiting my house first?"

  Yang Chen smiled and said: "Of course, I really want to try the catfish that Mr. Sam mentioned, to see if it is as delicious as what Mr. Sam introduced."

   Uncle Sam said happily: "I will let my wife do it for you herself, her craftsmanship is very good."

  Agriculture and animal husbandry are relatively developed in the state, and the output of rice, cotton and soybean ranks first, fourth and ninth in the United States respectively.

  At the same time, the poultry industry in Alabama is also very developed, and its meat and poultry production ranks second among the states in the United States, and the production of catfish ranks third.

  Because catfish is abundant and cheap, many families in Azhou take catfish as one of the main foods.

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   (end of this chapter)