Our Rise Era

Chapter 71 Mr. Zhang, I want to hang out with you (two in one)

[That day, Zhang Yang lay in bed, tossing and turning, unable to sleep...]

[Faced with the huge debt, faced with the disappointed eyes of relatives and friends, faced with everyone's pointing fingers...]

[He couldn't sleep all night, thinking, is this how your life will end? ]

【…】

The evening of April 12.

Pengcheng, inside a rental house.

Night gradually fell.

It's another day without the private server of "Legendary Continent".

However, at this moment, Xu Yunlong has completely lost interest in "Legendary Continent".

He was staring at the computer, reading an article titled "If you feel it is difficult, then read Zhang Yang!"

This is a story about Zhang Yang's rise to wealth. It uses a method of first suppressing and then praising to show how Zhang Yang fell from the bottom of the valley after failing in stock speculation, and then how he climbed out of the quagmire in the desperate situation...

The article is ordinary, but it is very inspirational and encouraging.

After reading that story, Xu Yunlong couldn't calm down for a long time.

He smoked one cigarette after another.

Am I going to live my whole life in this muddle?

Just like this, my whole life is over?
Just like this, doing nothing, being a wage earner, working like a beast of burden, is this how it will end in this era?
During this period, he could always see various news about Zhang Yang. The news was always controversial and abusive, but Zhang Yang became more and more popular, and the discussion about him became more and more frequent.

Along with the heated discussion, he watched "Pope Power" move from the county-level TV station to the stage of the nationally renowned children's channel "Golden Wing Cartoons", and the ratings have always been high during this period.

He saw that the toys of Popeye were selling very well, and the children in the next door rental house were holding the toys that had just been delivered and couldn't put them down every day...

He also watched as "Zhang Yang Takes You on a Cut" emerged along with the ratings of "Pope Immortal", and began to use a set of magical rhetoric, hysterically selling toys like a clown. The discussion on the Internet was getting higher and higher, especially the latest episode. On the Internet, Xu Yunlong was stunned!

Even after watching it, he couldn't control his emotions. He even searched for the video online and watched it again. The more he watched, the more he enjoyed it!

Is it that the lines are so fascinating that after reading it once, my mind is filled with all kinds of numbers 88? No!

Is it because the products brought by the program are of good quality and he likes them very much? No!
what is that?
Zhang Yang understands men too damn well!

The latest episode of "Zhang Yang Helps You Bargain" is no longer just about Zhang Yang bargaining with the bosses, but there is also a group of girls in beautiful clothes!

Pure, mature, beautiful, long-legged, cute...

Every once in a while, a few girls would appear in front of the camera, showing off their New Bee brand women's clothing...

After seeing these girls, Xu Yunlong felt his brain went blank, and then his eyes could hardly move. Especially the 88 sounds shouted by the girls, made him feel like his ears were brainwashing.

If he didn't really need it, and if there was nothing wrong with his fetish, he might have uncontrollably ordered women's clothing under the slogan of 88.

After calming down, Xu Yunlong stared at Zhang Yang on the computer and took a deep breath.

He instantly realized that a bright and prosperous road was slowly unfolding before his eyes...

He wants to find Zhang Yang!

He wants to make money with Zhang Yang!

12 month 20 day.

It rained in Pengcheng.

After the rain, Xu Yunlong, a young man in the mobile phone store, finally resigned and left Pengcheng with his luggage, the newly made mobile phone and the network access license, and headed for Taifeng County...

As everyone knows...

The gears of fate began to turn at this moment.

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12 month 21 day.

The night sky is like a deep gem, dotted with stars.

The weather is getting colder in mid-December.

Even Fatty Yuan felt a biting chill.

"Mr. Yuan, are you really going to Hangzhou?"

"Yes, I went to Hangzhou."

"What about here?"

"Here, let's rent it tomorrow. I'll stay for one night and leave tomorrow."

"it is good!"

"..."

Fatty Yuan hung up the phone with the landlord and silently looked at the bustling street.

This street is still very busy.

There is an endless stream of traffic.

However, the shops on this street close and open almost every once in a while...

In the past six months, just like a quick tour, most of the stores have been completely renovated.

A few months ago, he and Zhang Yang ran around for this store, watching the stock market all day long, and fantasizing about what would happen if they had money.

Now, a few months later, he is moving away too.

Since the beginning of this month, several [overseas purchasing shops] have appeared next to this store.

One of the shops hired a black man who stood in the shop every day, chattering in an African dialect that frightened the customers. Some customers seemed to have lost their self-judgment and bought things without saying a word...

Business is like this sometimes. When you see that your business is doing well, a lot of other companies will copy you and do better than you...

Moreover, it seems that all these stores have united to squeeze in people...

Whenever a customer approaches their [ZY Grocery Store], there will always be a group of middle-aged women who will run out excitedly and shout things like "Come and have a look at my store", "My store is better than his", "My store sells authentic foreign goods, which are cheaper than his", "Their store sells fake foreign brands".

Fat Yuan was at a loss for a while when faced with such shameless and blatant solicitation. He had fought for it and defended his brand, but he didn’t have the thick skin to show off, nor the ability to play tricks like those uncles and aunts, so he was completely defeated by these people…

In early December, the sales exceeded ten thousand almost every day, and anything purchased from France could be sold at a high price.

But since mid-December, the business has gradually slowed down.

In fact, it is not only other stores that have fewer orders. When the craze for “foreign goods” has passed, or many people realize that the so-called “foreign tools” are no different from their own tools, the sales have increased several times, or even ten times. Many customers who got excited about it have gradually calmed down…

Fatty Yuan naturally realized this problem.

He also realized that they needed a larger market, better customers, better products, and even had to redefine what the [ZY] brand was going to sell.

In difficult situations, in order to repay their debts, they can take advantage of information asymmetry and use popularity to make money, but if they want to truly run a brand and keep it going, blindly taking shortcuts will not work.

He looked back at the empty shelves again, and many scenes of his entrepreneurial journey with Zhang Yang came to his mind.

He took out his cell phone and stared at the familiar number in a daze.

It seems like I haven’t contacted Brother Zhang for a long time.

Ever since he told Zhang Yang that he wanted to move the store to Hangzhou and reposition the brand [ZY Department Store], he never contacted Zhang Yang again.

After hesitating for a long time, he put down his phone again.

In fact, he wanted to call Zhang Yang more than once.

He really wanted to talk to Zhang Yang, just like before, drinking tea and talking about the future...

But every time I took out my phone to make a call, I ended up putting it down again.

It's not that I suddenly became unfamiliar.

It's not that he's worried that Zhang Yang won't answer his calls now that he's rich...

[Brother Zhang is currently working on something important, and it’s a critical moment. If he gets distracted… forget it, forget it…] [We’ll talk about this matter when we’re free]

【…】

Under the light.

After putting down his phone, Fatty Yuan quietly walked to the table and sat down. He lowered his head, opened a notebook, and silently summarized his experience in opening a store during this period. He would also ask Zhang Yang about business issues when he had time to see him next time.

After writing it, he looked at the questions above again and breathed a sigh of relief.

……

"The stock market exploded in December! It rose from 12 to 4870. Experts predict that it will reach 5522 points, a record high!"

"Many stock markets are packed with customers opening accounts. A new round of bull market is coming!"

"Famous stock expert Li Dequan conducted a detailed analysis of the turbulent stock market yesterday, saying that this year-end bull market will continue to 8000 points, or even break through tens of thousands of points! He also expressed an optimistic and positive attitude towards the whole nation's stock trading..."

"..."

8 o'clock in the evening.

Fatty Yuan, who couldn't sleep, silently watched a stock market news broadcast on TV.

After experiencing a brief downturn in December, the stock market suddenly surged upwards again in the past few days.

During this period, when Fatty Yuan went out every day, he could still hear people around him talking about how awesome some stocks were, how powerful some stocks were, and how people should hurry up and open an account, as if as long as you entered the stock market, you could make a lot of money.

Countless stock traders seem to have forgotten the lessons of losing all their money in the past, and rush into the stock market again like crazy, dreaming of getting rich overnight.

The temptation of these news and the surrounding people making a lot of money by selling stocks is very great.

Even Fatty Yuan had some unrealistic fantasies about entering the market after reading the news.

But then he suppressed this thought and decisively turned off the TV, not listening to the nonsense of those so-called experts on TV.

I still remember vividly how I once traded stocks with Zhang Yang and lost everything I had...

That was a bloody lesson!
"People can't make money beyond their knowledge. How can I, who don't even understand how to run a business, think that I can make a lot of money by entering the stock market?"

"What I want to do is not to get rich overnight, but to move forward steadily step by step with my feet on the ground..."

Fatty Yuan shook his head in self-mockery.

Then my future positioning gradually became clear.

He walked to the mirror and looked at himself silently.

"no problem!"

"I'll be fine!"

“Smile, smile, and stay positive!”

"I can do it, I can do it!"

"..."

Fatty Yuan looked at himself in the mirror, smiling and talking to himself.

During this period, no matter what grievances he suffered during the day, he would sum up his experience and adjust his mood at night, and greet every guest with the best attitude the next day.

Just at this moment, there was a knock on the grocery store door.

His smile faded and he walked to the door and opened it.

"Fatty, you seem to have lost a lot of weight recently..."

"Brother Zhang, why are you here? Why didn't you call me when you came?"

He was stunned, but when he saw who it was, he was suddenly surprised!
"How's the cleanup going?" Zhang Yang looked Fatty Yuan up and down, was slightly stunned, and then nodded: "Not only has he lost weight, but he's also become much stronger and in good spirits!"

"I'm done packing, Brother Zhang. You said that we should greet every day with our best appearance. These days, I've been running and exercising like you, and I'm trying to lose weight to 2 pounds by February next year!"

Looking at the high-spirited Fatty Yuan, Zhang Yang's expression gradually became serious. After a moment, he said seriously, "You can succeed!"

"Haha, Brother Zhang, stop laughing at me. I'm still a long way from that...Brother Zhang, come in. I just happen to have a lot of business questions that I want to ask you."

"it is good……"

When he saw Zhang Yang, Fatty Yuan was very excited. He quickly asked Zhang Yang to sit down and excitedly told Zhang Yang what had happened here recently.

As he spoke, he picked up the notebook and told Zhang Yang about the confusion and thoughts in his mind over the past few days.

Zhang Yang looked at the questions on the notebook one by one, and when he looked at Fatty Yuan's silly face, he felt a little relieved.

In the subsequent conversation with Fatty Yuan, Zhang Yang realized that Fatty Yuan had made amazing progress during this period.

After answering Fatty Yuan's questions one by one, Zhang Yang looked at Fatty Yuan and handed him another plan.

"Brother Zhang, here are some of my plans for the new store. Brother Zhang, before the new store opens, I plan to go to France by myself. I want to pick out some suitable, cost-effective goods... I want to run our brand down to earth. Besides, some time ago, I heard that you registered for an award [Paris International Art Design Award]... I thought about it carefully. Although this award is currently empty and more of a gimmick, I guess that since you registered this thing, it must be paving the way for the future..."

"..."

"Brother Zhang, you've been asking me to pay attention to the news recently. I've been paying attention and found that Europe and the United States are paying more and more attention to environmental protection. At first I didn't have any ideas, but just now, I suddenly realized that it is possible that under the so-called environmental protection, our traditional Chinese bamboo art can be more valued by the West?"

"..."

"I think we can hold a small bamboo art exhibition in Paris in the name of the award. Well, I've learned that the rent there is expensive, but it's still affordable..."

"..."

"Moreover, Brother Zhang, I have discovered that bamboo products have a wide range of uses, are green and low-carbon, have a sustainable development model, and are highly biodegradable. They can replace many things. As long as we combine them with international trends, maybe we can succeed!"

"..."

Under the light.

Zhang Yang silently looked at Fatty Yuan who was talking nonstop.

He narrowed his eyes.

Suddenly I realized that Fatty Yuan had changed a lot in about half a month.

Although it is a bit exaggerated to say that he has been transformed, it definitely makes Zhang Yang look at him with new eyes after three days of absence.

After Fatty Yuan finished speaking, he looked at Zhang Yang nervously: "Brother Zhang, do you think these ideas of mine can work?"

"It can happen!"

Zhang Yang nodded.

Just when I was about to say something else...

There was another knock on the door.

Fatty Yuan hurried to open the door...

After the door opened.

Fatty Yuan saw a young man looking at him.

"Are you, Mr. Yuan Wangyuan?"

"Yes, you are..."

"Mr. Yuan, hello. I'm from Pengcheng. My name is Xu Yunlong. I sell mobile phones. I have made several models of mobile phones. I want to find Mr. Zhang to cooperate with me. I have called Mr. Zhang's company and himself, but the phone is always busy. I have also contacted other people, but no one is willing to introduce Mr. Zhang to me. Mr. Yuan, you must be able to contact Mr. Zhang, huh? Mr. Zhang? Mr. Zhang, you are here!"

"..."

"Mr. Zhang, after I read your profile, I wanted to start a business, but I didn't know how to start one, so I came to you. I want to work with you. I can do any dirty or tiring work, as long as you give me a meal..."

"..."

"I used to be a clerk selling mobile phones in a mobile phone store. However, I can disassemble and assemble various mobile phones. I have created my own mobile phone brand. My personal skills are absolutely good. Mr. Zhang, I think the next era will be the era of smart phones. I have an idea. Give me ten minutes, no, five minutes, I want to talk to you about my idea..."

"..."

(End of this chapter)