Who would still start a business seriously after being reborn?

Chapter 258: Talk? Talk!
"One hundred million?" Chen Hui stood up in a flash and said angrily, "Why don't you just go and rob it?"

"I was planning to rob it originally. Didn't you insist on negotiating?" Cheng Yi stood up and said, "Well, since the negotiation failed, I'll go back first."

After Cheng Yi finished speaking, he turned and left.

"Cheng, Boss Cheng, wait a moment." Chen Hui shouted hurriedly.

He really didn't expect Cheng Yi to be so straightforward. It was obvious that he had no intention of negotiating with them.

Put yourself in his shoes. If it were him, he probably wouldn't be willing to negotiate either.

This is already a sure win.

talk?
Talk about nothing!
"Is there anything else?" Cheng Yi deliberately showed a look of doubt and looked back at Chen Hui.

Chen Hui said, "I really want to reach a conclusion this time. When it comes to negotiations, you can't just say whatever you want, right? You have to give us some room for explanation and negotiation, right?"

"Let me be frank with you. We didn't intend to negotiate with you in the first place." Cheng Yi looked at Chen Hui and said, "Our Honor Computer brand can produce 2000 computers a day. In just three months, hundreds of thousands of them will flood into Yantai, Lianyun, and Huaiyang. Then, using the free operation model you developed, we can instantly overwhelm your three most important internet cafe bases in Handong Province."

"After we take over these three cities, we only need to leave 20,000 computers in each city each month. The remaining computers can be loaded directly onto the train from Yantai City and sent south along the railway to Jiazhou, Ningzhou, Hangzhou, Mingzhou, Taizhou, Wenzhou, Dezhou, Fuzhou, Quanzhou, Chaozhou, and all the way to Huizhou. In order to expand rapidly, you chose cities along the railway. These cities are your internet cafe bases, right?"

"We'll operate it all for free and destroy the market share held by your Tianqin Internet Cafe! This is our entire plan at Momo Group!" Cheng Yi said, "Don't you like free operations? Then we'll play along for once! We'll also let you know that even honest people have tempers. From now on, wherever your Tianqin Internet Cafe goes, our Momo Internet Cafe will definitely follow. Let's be good neighbors for life."

After saying that, Cheng Yi sneered and said, "I came here this time just to convey our chairman's attitude."

He glanced at Chen Hui with contempt and left the teahouse.

Chen Hui's eyes were filled with deep fear. After a while, he finally reacted and immediately ran after him, saying in a trembling voice, "Boss Cheng, please stay. We can discuss your compensation plan."

"You have the final say? I don't want to waste time." Cheng Yi frowned.

"Of course it counts. I am fully responsible for the business in Handong Province." Chen Hui said quickly.

"Okay, then I'll talk to you." Cheng Yi looked at his watch and said, "I have a meeting this afternoon. I'll give you 20 minutes. Is that enough?"

"Enough, that's enough." Chen Hui nodded quickly.

"Okay, let your secretary go out first." Cheng Yi ordered.

"You go out first." Chen Hui looked back at the female secretary, who responded quickly and ran out of the room in a hurry.

At this time, Chen Hui was as docile as a sheep. He said politely, "Boss Cheng, what is the specific amount of compensation for your group?"

"We have calculated carefully, and our total losses in the past few months are 1.3 million." Cheng Yi said loudly.

Chen Hui's mouth twitched and he said, "This amount is indeed too large."

Seeing Cheng Yi's expression about to change, Chen Hui quickly said, "How about this? Our internet cafes in Jingzhou are valued at about 1.3 million yuan. We'll give your group a batch of internet cafes worth million yuan, and we'll just let this matter go. Is that okay?"

"A valuation of 38000 million?" Cheng Yi sneered, "Are you dreaming? Go out and advertise now and see if anyone buys for 3000 million. Over 1.6 computers, discounted by each, is already a sky-high price. Add in the miscellaneous equipment and internet cafe operating license, and the maximum is million. And that's just the cost alone."

"Given the current situation, you can go and ask, who would dare to take over your Internet cafe without our Momo Internet Cafe's approval?" Cheng Yi said domineeringly.

To deal with such business elites who are new to society, you must use a combination of coaxing and intimidation.

Most of these business elites are actuaries, and they calculate every factor that may affect revenue in great detail.

If the target was Chen Zhi, he would definitely slam the table and yell, "Fuck, you still want 1.2 million? Fine, then I'll give you another 1.2 million."

But if the target was Chen Hui, a top student at Harvard, the result would be completely different.

Chen Hui understands the trade-offs and business operations. He will calculate the 1.2 million yuan in compensation and the possible losses.

If they lost the three cities in Yantai, the losses in one year alone would reach 3.3 million. If they followed Cheng Yi's suggestion and went south along the railway, their losses would probably be estimated in billions.

If the Internet cafe industry suffers losses for a year and a half, it will basically lose all its money because computers are updated too quickly.

Nowadays, opening an Internet cafe is purely for making quick money. Generally, it takes 8 months to recover the investment and then another 8 months of pure profit. After a year and a half, you need to use the money you earn to replace the computers for the second time.

After all this, Internet cafes actually don't make much money. With an investment of 1000 million, they can get back about 1800 million a year. After deducting the cost of upgrades, the annual return on investment is probably stable at around 50%.

Chen Hui looked at Cheng Yi and said, "Boss Cheng, since you're willing to come here, it means your group should have come up with a solution. You can just tell us directly."

"Okay, then I won't beat around the bush." ​​Cheng Yi felt that he had almost squeezed Chen Hui, so he said slowly, "All of your Tianqin Internet Cafe's internet cafes in Jingzhou City will be transferred to our Momo Group. We will give you 20% of the Internet profits of these internet cafes every year. Using 80% of the share of these half-dead internet cafes to compensate us for our 1.2 million losses, this shouldn't be too much, right?"

Chen Hui hesitated for a moment, then nodded and said, "Okay, but I have one condition: your business cannot enter Yantai City, Lianyun City, and Huaiyang City."

"Friend, what are you thinking?" Cheng Yi sneered. "The economies of Yantai City, Lianyun City, and Huaiyang City are no less than those of Jingzhou City. You don't think we would give up those three huge markets for a few crappy internet cafes like yours, do you?"

Chen Hui gritted his teeth and said, "Fair competition is always okay, right? We promised each other not to engage in a price war!"

"Of course." Cheng Yi smiled and said, "In fact, we also hate price wars. This kind of thing always hurts others and does not benefit ourselves."

"Okay." Chen Hui took a deep breath and said, "So, we have successfully reconciled?"

"Of course." Cheng Yi stood up and said with a smile, "You are much better than your brother, that young and foolish man. If you had come here earlier, Jingzhou City would not have become what it is now. We have both suffered heavy losses in the competition over the past few months." "Yes." Chen Hui was a little excited after receiving Cheng Yi's recognition and praise.

"Okay, I won't bother you anymore. I will arrange for the financial and legal affairs department to connect with you later." Cheng Yi said.

"Boss Cheng, since you're here, why not have a cup of tea before leaving? I've ordered the best Dahongpao." Chen Hui said with a smile.

He had just arrived in Jingzhou City and had already solved such a big problem, and he felt a sense of pride in his heart.

He felt that he was incredibly strong as he had resolved a multi-billion dollar financial crisis by using a bunch of internet cafes that had lost their income.

"Okay." Cheng Yi said with a smile: "I've made friends with Mr. Chen."

After drinking tea and returning to the group, Cheng Yi immediately arranged for Zhang Lingyu to bring three financial elites and legal elites to rush to the Tianqin Internet Cafe headquarters in Jingzhou City. With the cooperation of Chen Hui and these financial and legal elites, the handover of 271 Internet cafes was completed in just six days.

The contract that Cheng Yi signed with them only stated that 20% of the Internet fee profits would be distributed to Tianqin Group. However, the greatest value of these Internet cafes lies in the 271 Internet cafe operating licenses. After a few months when the Internet cafe industry came under the jurisdiction of the Cultural Industry Association, these Internet cafe operating licenses were officially stopped.

By that time, the price of an Internet cafe operating license had almost reached one million.

271 licenses, with a guaranteed profit of million yuan.

After taking control of these 271 Internet cafes, Cheng Yi immediately began to carry out drastic reforms.

According to the contract, the number of computers in these 271 Internet cafes cannot be changed, but it does not say that the computers cannot be replaced.

The computers in these 271 Internet cafes are all Pentium 3, which is considered to be the top configuration in the Internet cafe industry. After all, Pentium 4 has only been out for a short time, and only some computer enthusiasts will choose to use Pentium 4.

"With these 38970 computers, Jingzhou City is as solid as a rock, and we can start implementing the second step of the plan." In the office, Cheng Yi drew his idea on paper and called Du Yusheng and Zhang Lingyu in.

He handed the drawn paper to Du Yusheng and Zhang Lingyu and said, "During this period of time, you need to make some adjustments to our internet cafes."

"What is this?" Du Yusheng and Zhang Lingyu looked at the two pieces of paper with two floors drawn on them with some curiosity.

"This is called a VIP seat." Cheng Yi said, "We have a total of 371 Internet cafes in Jingzhou City. You have a lot to do during this period, so you'd better take notes."

"Okay." Du Yusheng and Zhang Lingyu immediately took out paper and pen.

"The first thing we did was to replace all the 271 internet cafes we had just acquired with Momo internet cafe signs, replace all the network administrators with our own people, and install the Moco-OS system, membership system, and Momo Legend on all the computers."

"Okay." Du Yusheng and Zhang Lingyu took notes.

"Secondly, except for the internet cafe at our headquarters, all 99 Momo internet cafes will be removed. The computers will be shipped back to Honor Computer Company for distribution, and the network cables will be transferred to the 271 new Momo internet cafes."

"Yes!"

"The third thing is to gradually replace the computers in these 271 Internet cafes with Pentium MMX computers."

"Yes!"

"The fourth thing is the blueprint you have in your hands. Set up a VIP area in each of these 271 internet cafes. Based on the number of computers in the cafes, place 20% of the total number of Pentium 3 computers in this area. This VIP area must be comfortable and upscale. Only members with Gold membership cards can enter. A Gold member can bring two regular members in to use the internet."

"Gold membership card?" Du Yusheng said in surprise, "Boss, we don't have a gold membership yet. It takes 500,000 points to get a gold membership."

"There weren't any gold members before because the VIP internet area hadn't been released yet. It will be available when it's released." Cheng Yi said with a smile, "500,000 points, as long as they work hard, they can still get it."

"The last thing is..." Cheng Yi said slowly, "Call back the dispatched leaders from all districts and counties in Handong Province. It's been three months now, and it's time to evaluate them and assign them positions according to their rankings."

"The top-ranked person will be appointed director of the Momo Internet Cafe's comprehensive business department. The second-ranked person will be appointed deputy director. Ranks 3-20 will be appointed general managers of the city-level internet cafes in Handong Province's 17 prefecture-level cities. Ranks 21-55 will be paired up in pairs to serve as deputies to these general managers. Those ranked above 55 will all be fired."

"After that, we'll restore the number of computers in each assessment internet cafe to 10, recruit 111 new candidates, and continue to place them in these assessment internet cafes to screen for elites. Fatty will still be in charge of this."

"Okay." Du Yusheng agreed readily. In the past few months, he has gained a lot of capable helpers, and he can handle these matters with ease.

"Okay, get busy. Remember, if you can let others do something, try not to do it yourself. Only when you let go, the people under you will grow. If you do everything by yourselves, you will be destined to work all your life." Cheng Yi gave another warning.

After Du Yusheng and Zhang Lingyu left, Cheng Yi called Li Xiang and rode his bike to Honor Computer Company.

Today, Honor Computer Company is even more famous in Jingzhou City than Momo Group. Their sales representatives are spread across several surrounding provinces, and a steady stream of MMX computers are shipped into the factory every day.

Cheng Yi seldom comes here. With the centralized accounts and operating system, he is not worried about anyone selling Honor computers privately.

As soon as Cheng Yi arrived at the factory gate, Li Xiang and a group of executives were waiting at the door. As soon as he saw Cheng Yi, Li Xiang hurried over and said as Cheng Yi instructed, "Vice President Cheng, welcome!"

"Mr. Li, you are so polite." Cheng Yi said with a smile.

He smiled falsely and parked the pedal car next to the wall on one side of the factory.

"Let me introduce you. This is Vice President Cheng from our group headquarters." Li Xiang said to the executives around him.

During this period, Honor Computer Company has recruited a lot of managers and has gradually become more formal. Except for Li Xiang and his wife and a few elderly people who know Cheng Yi, most of these new managers do not know Cheng Yi.

Although they didn't know Cheng Yi, they were still very wary of his title as vice president of the group. The vice presidents of the group were all powerful figures, and their status was no less than that of Li Xiang, the big boss of their Honor Computer Company.

(End of this chapter)