Get rich quick starting with buying a house with zero down payment

Chapter 91 Overseas Expansion

Shen Mo is like a tireless war machine, working more than eighteen hours a day and keeping his mobile phone on 24 hours a day to handle various emergencies and make decisions at any time.

She wants to deliver the most explosive performance growth data in the shortest amount of time, to prove to Lei Guoliang and everyone else: I, Shen Mo, am the fiercest wolf that can continuously create miracles and expand the territory towards the goal of 10 billion!

However, she also placed greater emphasis on rules than ever before. All acquisition contracts had to be remotely reviewed by the headquarters' legal department.

All marketing activities are strictly prohibited from making any false promises or exaggerating the store's business. Standardized processes and risk control checklists from headquarters must be enforced.

She even set up her own internal risk control officers to conduct spot checks on the compliance of each store.

"Anyone who dares to cause trouble for me at this critical juncture, to hold me back," she said viciously at an internal meeting, "I'll personally send him to President Lu, and while I'm at it, I'll stomp on him a thousand times!"

Fear and greed were perfectly balanced and driving her. She wanted Lei Guoliang to see that she could not only be crazy, but also steady; not only conquer, but also abide by the rules.

A week later, Shen Mo's blitzkrieg began to show its effectiveness. Eight new prime retail spaces were signed in Guangzhou and Shenzhen, and the Anjiaquan promotional campaign attracted hundreds of thousands of online viewers, resulting in a surge in viewing appointments.

The asset hunter team also successfully acquired a small apartment building in a prime location outside Shenzhen town at a 10% discount, and expects to make a considerable profit after renovation.

She compiled these results into a report filled with tension and impactful data, and sent it directly to Lei Guoliang's encrypted email address, ending with: "The guns are loaded and the cannons are set up in South China. On this journey to billions, our unit requests to take the lead!"

Just you wait and see!

Lei Guoliang looked at the report, which reeked of gunpowder, and smiled. Shen Mo's reaction was exactly what he expected, even more intense than he anticipated.

The knife, in the way he had hoped, was becoming sharper and more adept at aiming. He replied with two words: "Granted. Be careful."

With the front lines engulfed in flames, the pressure on headquarters reached an unprecedented peak. Lu Chaoyang's risk control center and Ji Fanyin's administrative and human resources center were like two CPUs running at high speed and overheating, processing the surging flow of information, decision-making needs, and personnel changes from 518 nodes across the country.

In front of Lu Chaoyang were eight monitors, displaying real-time transaction data, fund flows, and contract risk warnings for each region.

Following the Han Mei incident, his risk control authority was elevated, and any contract or expenditure exceeding one million yuan now requires his department to conduct a compliance scan.

Every day, dozens of special approval applications are placed on his desk, with all sorts of reasons, but the core of them all is that market opportunities are fleeting.

"Mr. Lu, Mr. Shen from the South China region has applied for a special approval of 800 million yuan in bridge financing to acquire a factory renovation project in Bao'an. The documents show that the other party must pay within a week, otherwise it will be resold to someone else."

"Mr. Lu, Mr. Su from the East China region has submitted the preparatory budget for the Yangtze River Delta Alliance, which involves cooperation agreements with several external organizations. The legal department has objections to the definition of responsibilities in some clauses."

"Mr. Lu, the new head of the North China region reported that the Chang'an branch has discovered new potential litigation risks while clearing up old accounts, involving an amount that may exceed five million."

Lu Chaoyang, like a calm surgeon, handled each case quickly and precisely. Approval, rejection, revision, reporting. He had to ensure that, amidst the frenzied expansion and profit-seeking, the company's ship wouldn't capsize due to some hidden loophole.

Lei Guoliang's rules and bottom lines are to be implemented by him, the surgeon.

Ji Fanyin, on the other hand, is mired in a talent war. Su Wanqing's Deep Blue Project needs to recruit top financial and legal talent, as well as high-end service concierges, and the salary levels offered are directly comparable to those of foreign investment banks and consulting firms.

Shen Mo's blitzkrieg strategy requires a large number of experienced store managers, salespeople, and asset hunters. The commission rates and bonuses she offers make her peers envious and also attract competitors to frantically poach her.

Following the cleanup, the North China region has a large number of key positions vacant and urgently needs to be filled.

Every day, she has to interview dozens of executive resumes, coordinate the personnel competition between different war zones, approve a flood of transfer orders and new funding plans, and also advance the preliminary framework design of the merit list assigned by Lei Guoliang.

She felt like a firefighter, rushing to wherever there was a shortage of manpower, but the fire seemed to grow bigger and bigger the more she tried to put it out.

What exhausted her even more were the invisible pressures. Su Wanqing and Shen Mo communicated with her more and more frequently, their words implying that they hoped headquarters resources would be tilted in their favor.

She had to maintain absolute impartiality, but she couldn't offend either side. She began to understand how difficult and delicate the word "balance" Lei Guoliang spoke of truly was.

Late at night, she delivered a well-organized "Analysis Report on the Needs and Conflicts of Core Talents in Various Theaters" to Lei Guoliang's office at home. Lei Guoliang was looking at a stock trading platform and gestured for her to place it on the table.

"Guoliang, if this continues, our salary system and recruitment costs will be stretched to the limit. Moreover, internal poaching of talent is already showing signs of becoming malicious." Ji Fanyin's voice sounded somewhat tired.

Lei Guoliang switched screens and looked at her, asking, "What do you think is most important to them right now?"

Ji Fanyin thought for a moment: "It's about performance, proving one's worth, and getting on that list of meritors."

"That's right," Lei Guoliang nodded and said, "So, they're willing to pay any price to snatch people and get things done. That's a good thing; it means they've made a good promise."

"But the cost—"

"Cost is secondary," Lei Guoliang interrupted her. "As long as the people they poach can generate profits far exceeding the cost, it's worth it. As for poaching people from within—set the rules."

Starting next month, for core staff store managers and above who are transferred across regions, the receiving party will need to pay talent compensation to the sending party, with the amount calculated based on the staff member's performance contribution over the past year.

This funding will come from the receiving party's budget. In addition, a nationwide store manager pool program will be launched, with headquarters recruiting and training a pool of reserve store managers who will be allocated according to the needs of each region, with ownership remaining with headquarters.

Ji Fanyin's eyes lit up. Using economic means to regulate internal competition while strengthening headquarters' control over key personnel was a very clever approach.

"I understand. I'll go and draft the details right away."

"In addition," Lei Guoliang added, "the preliminary framework of the merit list can be leaked out. It doesn't need to be specific; just say it's a dynamic evaluation mechanism based on a multi-dimensional performance model."

Let them guess, let them rush, let them strive to do every task to the extreme in pursuit of those vague standards.

Ji Fanyin felt a chill run down her spine. This was a more advanced technique for managing subordinates, using uncertain rules to drive certain, desperate struggles.

After leaving the study, Ji Fanyin walked to the window, looked at the dazzling night view of Shenzhen outside, and gently exhaled.

Guoliang always manages to provide the clearest direction and the most effective solutions during the most chaotic times. Following such a man is incredibly stressful, yet it also gives her a chilling excitement of participating in the creation of history.

In this burning era, everyone must ignite themselves to emit enough light to illuminate the path ahead. And she is at the very heart of this light and heat.

Just as war raged both inside and outside Anjia Tianxia, ​​a silent nuclear explosion of wealth was quietly taking place in the command center of the Ghost Fleet.

By mid-November 2005, after a sharp correction that began in October, the A-share market had begun to bottom out and rebound.

Meanwhile, the Ghost Fleet has secretly completed its position building. With the injection of 1 billion yuan, the net asset value of its A-shares has reached 2 billion yuan.

In addition, it also bought 1000 million shares of Penguin Holdings in the Hong Kong stock market, with a cost basis of HK$6350 million.

Although investing this money in the A-share market might yield higher returns, Lei Guoliang needs a large amount of foreign exchange for future plans, but China's foreign exchange controls are very strict, making it difficult to apply for a foreign exchange quota.

The HK$6350 million mainly came from the purchase payments received by Anjia Tianxia Company from customers in Guangzhou, Shenzhen, and Dongguan.

Lei Guoliang opened a bank account in Hong Kong City, and Hong Kong City customers could pay for their homes directly in Hong Kong dollars, with the payment being deposited directly into his Hong Kong City bank account.

He then used RM to pay the secondhand homeowner who was selling the house.

Otherwise, he wouldn't have been able to get 6350 million Hong Kong dollars. Although Hong Kong belongs to China, it is under the "one country, two systems" principle, and the Hong Kong dollar is a foreign exchange and is still subject to foreign exchange controls.

In 2005, individuals in mainland China could only exchange a quota of HKD 5 per year.