Era: Starting from divorce from female college student

Chapter 296: Various new plans are launched one after another, and the general direction is being adjusted
"The drone project is about to start a new plan, and sales of the old version of the drone have begun to decline. This data is not what I want."

In the conference room, Zhao Mancang stared at the person in charge and said.

The relevant persons in charge of Mario Airlines, Aviation Engine R&D Center and other companies all sat upright and listened to Zhao Mancang's speech, and no one dared to be absent-minded.

Since the past few years, the drone project has become a new profit growth point for Mario Aviation, but since this year, its growth has been sluggish.

The reason is very simple, that is because the shortcomings of drones have been exposed.

The display is too large, which is very inconvenient for soldiers using drones and puts a lot of pressure on logistics.

Zhao Mancang came here to promote a new product, which is a plasma display.

This new product comes from Shaya Laboratory. After more than a year, the plasma display can finally enter the market.

However, it did not enter the TV market, but entered the military field first.

Previously, Zhao Mancang planned to let Sam's Club consume more black and white televisions, color televisions, etc., and then allow plasma displays to enter the TV market.

It turned out that Sam's TV market was amazing, especially after the release of "Sadako" in January, Sam's demand for TVs actually revived.

This has forced the University of Tokyo to export a large number of televisions, otherwise the supply will not be enough to meet the demand.

In this case, plasma displays are even less anxious to enter the TV market and can simply continue to increase inventory.

"Boss, using a plasma display can indeed reduce weight and greatly increase display clarity, making it more convenient for soldiers to maneuver, but isn't such a display too expensive?"

Just after Zhao Mancang finished speaking, one of the responsible persons couldn't help but retort.

A plasma display costs as much as $80,000, which is much more expensive than previous displays.

"You all don't agree with using plasma displays, do you?"

Upon hearing this, Zhao Mancang looked at the others expressionlessly.

Upon hearing this, the other responsible persons some shook their heads, some nodded, and some remained silent.

This group of people represent their own interests and have their own little plans.

The drone costs over one million U.S. dollars, of which the imported parts cost over two hundred thousand U.S. dollars, while the self-developed and produced parts cost only one hundred and fifty thousand U.S. dollars.

Some people outside even believe that this is not a product of Mario Airlines because many products are purchased from outside.

But what does this mean?

As long as I can make money, that's all.

However, Mario Aviation and other executives did not want to pay the $80,000 price of a plasma display because it was too expensive.

With such funds, it is better to develop it on your own.

After all, everyone can imagine that in the next period of time, drones equipped with plasma displays will have great advantages, and a new round of procurement plans will be launched.

Then, Mario Air will be able to make more money.

If the outside world wants to purchase a drone, they cannot just buy a plasma display directly, because the whole machine is sold, and no individual components are sold separately.

In other words, even after deducting the "gifts" to politicians, the cost of each drone for Mario Aviation is less than $500,000, and the gross profit should be around $500,000.

Quite profitable.

But these responsible persons are still not satisfied, they all want to get more money.

"Okay, since you don't want to, that's fine. When a competitor shows up, you can submit your resignation letters and compensate me for my losses. Is that clear?"

Zhao Mancang's words immediately silenced everyone in the conference room.

So a group of people hurriedly apologized and said that it was okay, $80,000 was fine, and at most they would increase the price of the drone by $100,000.

Zhao Mancang was speechless after hearing such shameless words from these people.

This group of people are quite greedy. Zhao Mancang even thinks that some of the "gift money" may have been embezzled by them.
However, it doesn't matter. Zhao Mancang only needs to ensure that Mario Airlines' drone sales meet the target. If it fails to meet the target, then don't occupy the magpie's nest. Those who should leave should leave.

The capital world doesn't care about human feelings, it only cares about interests.

The plasma display for the drone was sold, and Zhao Mancang immediately received an order for 50,000 units.

Only he, the boss, can have such great power.

These subordinates must sell 50,000 drones equipped with plasma displays this year, otherwise they will be laid off.

With an order of 50,000 units and a unit price of US$80,000, the total revenue is US$4 billion.

So whether the relevant person in charge of Mario Aviation can sell 50,000 drones has little to do with Zhao Mancang. It all depends on the efforts of these people.

SAM is so big and has so many military bases around the world, so it should be able to consume so many drones, right?

Zhao Mancang didn't care about that. After the meeting, he left Mario Airlines because he had to inspect the next company.

Wanjia Supermarket now requires him to worry about almost nothing, because the company has entered a management model with a relatively mature institutional operating mechanism.

He only needs to manage the two major powers of personnel appointments and finance, ensure that the management can complete its annual tasks normally and no major mistakes occur, then there will be no big problems with steady development.

The system is very good, and everyone just needs to move forward according to it.

Stephen Farm Group is also developing rapidly, and the scale of the acquired farmland is now quite large.

A large amount of land is used to grow food. These foods are not genetically modified or technologically advanced foods, but traditional carefully selected soybeans, rice, etc.

There are a lot of fertile lands along the Mississippi River, all of which are black soils, perfect for growing rice.

In addition to growing rice, we also grow some economic crops, such as fruits and some extremely valuable wood.

Forget about the golden nanmu. The planting conditions for this thing are too harsh, and it takes more than a hundred years to grow, so forget it.

However, economic timber such as spruce, walnut, etc. can still be planted in large quantities, as well as eucalyptus, which are all extremely valuable economic crops.

Although Sam has a lot of virgin forests and the neighboring Maple Leaf Country has extremely rich forestry resources, it is not possible to cut down trees just because you want to.

Because the land on Sam's side is all private. Once someone buys the land, it becomes their private property.

Stephen Farms Group has acquired so many fields and mountains. If they are just left idle, why would they waste that money?

A long time ago, Zhao Mancang had already formulated a food invasion plan.

It now seems that initial results have been achieved.

There are a lot of good food here at Sam's, but not many really good ones.

As the number of Wanjia supermarket stores increased, a large number of Chinese people were hired in the food area, resulting in more and more shelves appearing in the food area simply because there was too much food.

There are endless varieties of fried foods, such as fried dough sticks, frosted bananas, fried chicken fillets, crispy pork, fried cod, fried sweet potato balls, etc. It can be said that there are many varieties.

The key is that these delicacies are not expensive.

Even Wanjia Supermarket takes into consideration that Sam's locals may be lazy and may not come to the supermarket several times a week, so it has placed many kinds of frozen foods that they like in the frozen area.

Not to mention frozen dumplings, there are countless frozen pastries.

There are also quite a few fried frozen foods.

In short, the food area in Wanjia Supermarket definitely occupies more than half of the store area.

Especially in areas where white people, black people, coffee lovers, etc. gather, the fresh fruits and vegetables are not that large, and the frozen food and food areas are the largest and have the most complete variety.

The reason why Zhao Mancang did this was to cultivate these people's eating habits and let them develop such habits from an early age.

Of course, corn syrup wasn't on the shelves yet, so Sam's weight was still pretty normal.

However, due to the increase in the number of delicious foods in Wanjia Supermarket, many black Sams who cannot control their mouths have begun to develop in the direction of fat uncles and fat aunts.

From what we can see so far, the food invasion plan is quite successful.

There are also many delicious foods in the Chinese community, but the fresh food area is the focus because many Chinese still maintain their previous eating habits.

The key to health preservation is to combine meat and vegetables. Overeating is not allowed, especially eating too much at night is not a good thing.

As a doctor, Zhao Mancang knows very well that after a person is over 30 years old, his body's metabolic function will decline, so loss of appetite is normal.

It’s impossible that a middle-aged man in his thirties or forties still has a big appetite like an eighteen-year-old, right?
If this is the case, then most middle-aged people will start to gain weight, and gain weight very quickly.

Once people become fat, they will increase various survival crises, and the risk of illness and death will increase much more than that of people with normal weight.

In addition to Wanjia Supermarket, some acquired companies such as Target Supermarket are also now undergoing major changes.

In short, using delicious food to siege Sam is really effective so far. In Los Angeles, at the Robot Computer Company, Zhao Mancang is in a meeting, listening to a report.

After the person in charge finished speaking, he spoke:

"The decline in revenue is a normal economic phenomenon, but you can't just sit back and enjoy the fruits of your labor. You need to conduct research as needed."

"By the way, how's the development of miniaturized computers going? I need a computer that can play games properly. Has it been developed yet?"

The Robot Computer Company had received relevant scientific research tasks a few years ago, but it seems that the progress is not very good now.

Computer miniaturization is the future development trend. What Zhao Mancang needs is a personal computer, or a personal computer.

This type of personal computer not only needs to be low-cost, but also needs to be strong and durable enough, otherwise it will not be commercializable.

Because personal computers are sold to ordinary people, they must be developed according to the needs of ordinary people. The attributes of game consoles are the key point that Zhao Mancang can think of at the moment.

If it weren't for its entertainment attributes, Zhao Mancang would definitely not have let the Robot Computer Company develop such a computer.

Even if it is developed, the sales data will not look good.

"If you can develop it within two years, I'll give your R&D team a $500,000 reward. If you can develop it within a year, I'll give you $2 million. If you can develop it within six months, the reward will be $3.5 million."

Seeing this, Zhao Mancang had no choice but to use his trump card.

Use a stick in one hand and a carrot in the other, this is the way to control your subordinates.

After the reward and punishment plan was put forward, Zhao Mancang went to New York.

Although the Robot Computer Company has strong earning power, the era of great competition is about to come, so Zhao Mancang must start preparing in advance.

Stratton has moved into the top-floor office of a high-rise building on Wall Street in New York City.

"Boss, over the past six years, our total revenue has reached $6.78 billion, and our profit has reached $4.25 billion."

Sitting in the main seat in the conference room, Zhao Mancang listened carefully to his subordinates' reports, his expression not changing much.

To be honest, in his view, Stratton and other financial companies are just tools to make money.

If the profit is large, the reward will be larger. If the profit is small, Zhao Mancang will definitely take action.

Although he believes that financial companies such as Stratton and Aucma are money-making tools, if these tools are gone or fail to play their due role, then why keep them around?

"Very good, you did a great job. According to the company's reward and punishment system, you have done a good job in the relevant work. I will sign the reward and let the finance department send it to you. But I have to say in advance, if any of you dare to take it without permission, hmph..."

After a pause, Zhao Mancang continued:

"For the next few years, your focus will be on the three major areas of oil, futures, and gold. Other commodities such as foreign exchange will be temporarily reduced in attention."

For Zhao Mancang, making various arrangements for the financial company is a very convenient thing.

The general direction has been determined, and there will basically be no major problems in the future.

He will not make any changes to the overall world order. Moreover, history has a strong corrective effect, so he is not too worried about any deviations.

Even if there are deviations, they are within his acceptable range, so he has no regrets or regrets.

So far, no matter whether it is Stratton, Aucma, or other financial companies such as The Wolf of Wall Street, there has been no deviation at all, which is enough to prove that his general guidance is completely correct.

What's more, the Northwest is about to build a synchronous satellite, and Zhao Mancang is even more confident about realizing global real-time communication.

After finishing his inspection of the financial company, Zhao Mancang went to Mayflower Media Group.

This media group can be said to be the largest media company he has on Sam's side at present, and it also serves as a publicity tool for other companies such as Paramount.

It can be said that if Mayflower Media Group had not promoted it so hard, the three giants, Paramount, 20th Century Fox and Universal Pictures, would never have had so many movies with box office revenues exceeding 100 million.

If the quality of the film is acceptable and the publicity can achieve the effect of one plus one being greater than two, it will inevitably trigger various public opinions.

For example, the movie "Sadako" can be said to be a box office bomb pushed by public opinion.

Of course, the quality of "Sadako" itself is still very explosive, especially the horrifying scene of crawling out of the TV, which made many people believe it deeply. Many neurotic viewers ran to smash their own TVs, and thus the social phenomenon appeared.

There are tens of thousands of supermarket stores across the United States, and the television business is booming in almost every store.

So many social phenomena will certainly further promote the box office explosion of "Sadako".

And when "Sadako" has become the benchmark and banner of horror movies, it can certainly be shown in theaters for a long time and still earn millions of dollars in box office revenue every day.

"Boss, the daily circulation of the New York Times Post has exceeded 500,000. Our next plan is to exceed 1 million."

The person in charge, Randolph Daniel, sat respectfully opposite Zhao Mancang and said seriously:
"Aside from the New York Times and Post, our other newspapers, including the Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Daily News, and Silicon Valley Tech News, all have circulation numbers that are still a little off, but we're working hard and believe breaking the 500,000 daily circulation mark isn't far off."

"What makes us happiest is Woman's Wear magazine. After so many years of hard work, it has now become the most circulated magazine in the United States. The circulation of the last issue has exceeded 1.8 million copies."

From a circulation of 680,000 in 1964 to the current circulation of 1.8 million, the publication "Women's Wear" is indeed becoming more and more awesome.

If we only talk about influence, then "Women's Wear" has indeed reached the peak and the ultimate!
At a selling price of US$2.50 per copy, the revenue from the distribution of each issue of "Women's Wear" alone reached US$4.5 million.

There are about four issues every month. In other words, the monthly distribution revenue exceeds 18 million.

That’s not even counting revenue from advertising and other sources.

Because of its huge circulation, the advertising revenue of "Women's Health" is also very terrifying. However, it is based on three different levels of advertising: monthly, quarterly and annual. A rough calculation shows that the annual advertising revenue exceeds 300 million US dollars.

Therefore, Zhao Mancang is very satisfied with Mayflower Media Group.

Randolph Daniel did a very good job, but Zhao Mancang still had no intention of giving him shares. So far, he had only given him a 1% dividend.

Even so, Randolph Daniel was already pleasantly surprised.

Just because Zhao Mancang had distributed dividends once, and took out 200 million US dollars, according to Randolph Daniel's 1% dry stock dividend share at the time, he received 2 million US dollars.

This is two million US dollars. Although he has to pay most of it in taxes, he is still very happy.

"Randolph, work hard. If you can achieve another breakthrough in Mayflower Media Group's performance within three years—not just a small one, but a 50% increase—I'll give you another 1% of your shares as dividends."

When Randolph Daniel heard what Zhao Mancang said, his eyes suddenly turned red.

Because the money is so much, how could he not be jealous?

According to this situation, when Mayflower Media Group's profits increase by another 50%, and he increases the dry stock dividend by one percentage point, then his bonus dividend will definitely exceed five million.

"By the way, when the time comes, you can set up a public welfare fund specifically for dividend distribution. We can then cooperate in other ways so that you can reasonably avoid taxes."

Zhao Mancang mentioned this again on his own initiative, and London Daniel nodded excitedly.

If you meet a boss like this, you really want to work hard for him until your death.

After finishing the Mayflower Media Group, Zhao Mancang started spending money again, preparing to set up another media group.

At this point in time, it is imperative to establish another media group.

He chose one from among many aliases, and then used this alias to take money and start acquisitions.

This time he will directly acquire some newspapers and magazines with poor performance, and will also acquire TV stations, and then quickly combine and organize them, and finally form a new media giant.

The name of this new media giant is Tulip Media Group.

Most of Tulip Media Group's future business will be in collaboration with MGM, Robot Computer Company, etc.

Anyway, Zhao Mancang currently has too many companies on Sam's side, and he must form a large enough network to form alliances, otherwise it will be a bit difficult.

Although so many companies do not have the same boss, the effect of their cooperation is still quite significant.

While Zhao Mancang was dealing with the affairs of Tulip Media Group, he also kept an eye on the lively summer season while waiting.

Ever since the release of 20th Century Fox's "Fast and Furious", the June summer blockbuster has become a hot trend.

The summer season usually begins at the end of June every year, but this year is different, it starts in early June.

The movie "Fast and Furious" was released on a Friday in early June, but the box office on the first day was not very explosive. After all, the single-day box office was only 15 million US dollars.

Compared with other movies that have grossed over 100 million yuan, such data is very average. Judging from its potential, it can only barely exceed 100 million yuan at best.

But with the success of "Sadako", which is still showing in theaters, many other film companies dare not underestimate it.

As a result, during the weekend holidays on Saturday and Sunday, "Fast and Furious" indeed boosted the box office, reaching US$20.8 million and US$19.3 million respectively.

Seeing such box office results, Jack, the major shareholder of Warner Bros. Pictures, was stunned.

(End of this chapter)