Reborn in 2010, the AI ​​in my mind is too powerful.

Chen Yiran stayed at the Jianhu Hotel for one night. Since Olson was spending Thanksgiving with his family and couldn't come to visit her, he had a good, in-depth conversation with his two assistants about their relationship.

The next morning, we had breakfast by the lake, then strolled around the ancient city. At noon, we took Xu Li's car to his house for lunch.

Chen Yiran doesn't really like going to other people's homes. After all, talking to elders can be quite annoying sometimes. It's not that you have to be overly cautious, but you can't be as casual as you would with your peers.

However, unable to refuse such hospitality, Xu Li practically dragged him into the car, while the bodyguards beside him, recognizing them as acquaintances, followed along with amusement.

Xu Li's family does not live in the city, but in a self-built house in their hometown village.

The plot of land was quite large, and a three-story villa was built on it.

The villages here are indeed not poor. Although it's not as exaggerated as in Fujian, every house is well-built, and many houses have BMWs and Mercedes-Benzes parked in front of them.

As soon as he entered, Xu's father came over very warmly to shake hands with Chen Yiran: "I'll call you Yiran from now on. Xu Li is so lucky to have had you take care of him in America. I know my son well. He would never have thought of a parallel import car business on his own. Even if he did, he wouldn't have been able to find the connections. You must have taught him all of this."

Xu Li stared wide-eyed at him and said, "It's not like I didn't tell you; Chen Yiran taught me."

"What did you say? You said Chen Yiran had a great idea, and then you two did it together. What exactly did you do?"

Xu Li blushed and said, "I drove him! I drove him to New York every time! And when he asked for leave, I even taught him how to fake being sick."

Chen Yiran thought for a moment and said, "No, no, you did drive a few times in New York, but when we asked for leave, I faked being sick."

Watching the men chatter on the side, Mrs. Xu smiled and said, "Alright, come and eat quickly. It's all local home-style cooking. I'm afraid you won't like it. If you don't like it, just tell me, and I'll have someone go out and buy something else. There's a KFC just a ten-minute drive away, which I quite like."

After everyone sat down, they began to eat. It was supposed to be home-style cooking, but the nanny's skills were quite good. The steamed whitebait was fresh and very tender.

The poached chicken is also very good; there's a thin layer of aspic under the skin, which is very fragrant.

Of course, Chen Yiran's favorite is the Chinese sausage, which Xu Li's family makes themselves. They put it in when steaming rice and cook it together, making the rice oily and fragrant.

While eating, Xu's father sighed, "Sigh, Yiran, you are really capable, unlike the rest of our family. We haven't produced a single college student yet, and my two brothers don't know how to raise children. It seems like they won't be able to get into college, and their grades aren't even as good as Xu Li's. I don't even know if they can graduate from studying abroad."

Xu Li, now, hasn't finished his studies because of this situation either. Sigh, the whole family is uneducated.

Chen Yiran looked embarrassed: "Uncle, strictly speaking, I didn't go to university either. Xu Li studied for at least one semester, but I didn't study at all."

Mr. Xu was taken aback: "That's right, everyone keeps saying you're a genius, how amazing your skills are, but you haven't actually gone to school. But didn't the news the other day say that a university was going to give you a degree?"

"An honors degree, to put it bluntly, is just an honor. It doesn't mean I actually went to school. To put it bluntly, even if I wanted to go to school now, there aren't many people in my industry who could teach me."

"Sigh, they're still quite knowledgeable, much better than our family."

Xu Li muttered to himself, "That's how my dad is. He's a bit obsessed with not having gone to school. He originally wanted to support my second and third uncles' education, but they didn't do well in school and didn't finish. By the time it came to my generation, I probably only got into a third-tier university. My cousins ​​didn't even get into high school; they paid money to get in."

Mr. Xu, standing nearby, said, "What's wrong? Studying definitely has its benefits. If I had studied more, our family wouldn't be in this mediocre situation now. You always thought business was easy, but you'd probably be having a headache if you took over."

Chen Yiran asked with some curiosity, "Tell me, where exactly is your headache? I really don't know much about the textile industry."

Xu Li picked up a piece of chicken and ate it while saying, "There are many annoying things, but what bothers me the most is the inventory. This stuff is so hard to manage. You can't just wait for orders to come in and make it, or it'll be too late. You have to make it in advance and then wait for people to choose it."

Half of my family's funds are tied up in the warehouse, maybe even more. How can I not be worried? What if something goes wrong?

Mr. Xu added from the side, "My family is stuck in the middle, all because I'm timid. I don't dare to take on big debts, and I don't dare to stock up on too much inventory, so sometimes we can't compete with other companies. But there are advantages too; many people who take on big debts end up collapsing in the end."

Mutual guarantees are common in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, but I've always been hesitant about them. Although this means fewer business partners and no one to help if problems arise, it also makes it easier to avoid incurring debt.

I knew a backpack company that got saddled with over a billion yuan in debt because they guaranteed loans for someone. Even though they had good relationships with others and managed to postpone the debt, it'll still take them at least ten or eight years to pay it back.

Xu Li said from the side, "I'm not very brave either. Right now, I just hope for a stable harvest regardless of drought or flood."

Thinking about the information she had found the night before, Chen Yiran tentatively asked, "Where do you mainly sell to now? Do you sell to the United States?"

Xu Li nodded: "Mainly for Europe, but we also sell in the US. I specifically looked for them before and found curtains made by my family in a supermarket. It's a Japanese brand that commissioned us to make them and then sold them to American supermarkets."

We don't have direct channels in the US; even Walmart sources its products from Keqiao, but only larger factories can handle that. In European supermarkets, we only carry our brand.

Chen Yiran took out his phone, opened a webpage and showed it to Xu Li: "Take a look, this is Amazon's current global store strategy."

Xu Li opened the package and hesitated for a moment: "Amazon is definitely better, we've used it before. But what about the delivery time if it's shipped from China? It'll take at least half a month to twenty days to arrive. When we were in the US, things we bought arrived the next day."

Chen Yiran nodded: "That's the idea, but I think they will definitely allow Chinese merchants to participate in Amazon's US warehouses in the future. That way, the timeliness will be no different from that of American merchants, and the warehousing will be much cheaper."

Also, you need to take the initiative. Amazon doesn't really have a grasp of how powerful Chinese manufacturing is. Here's what I'll do: I'll get you the phone number of an Amazon executive, and you can talk to them yourself. Whether it works out or not is up to you.

"Okay, I'll think about how to talk to him later. To be honest, our curtains are of very good quality. Without middlemen, how could they be more than half the price of those in American supermarkets? They should sell well."

Xu's father looked at the two young men without saying a word, then smiled and started drinking his wine.

Chen Yiran didn't stay in Keqiao for more than two days. After receiving news of progress on the next project, he took his team and flew back to the south.

This time, we went to Huizhou, which is known as the "Hegang of Guangdong" in the Internet of Things in 2026. In terms of batteries, A123 is still a bit weak, but Huizhou is an important lithium battery industry base in the country. We can acquire one as a supplement to battery manufacturing.