The world of film and television begins from childhood

Although many people think that it is difficult to expand a family business, they have to admit that in most cases, family members are more trustworthy than outsiders.

"I always keep my word, but do you really want to go into the sea? Can you handle your old man? I don't want to be visited by your old man because of cooperating with you."

Mao Tutu rolled his eyes and said, "Don't bring up that. I'm already married and my son is going to be born soon. I'm the head of the family. Do you understand?"

"Okay, I'll treat you as the head of the family."

Zhou Chen understood who Mao Ditu was. Mao Ditu definitely had the ability, but his character was not as decisive as Han Chunming's, and his connections and tact were not as extensive as Yang Huajian's.

However, Zhou Chen, who had worked with Mao Tutu on the supply and marketing cooperative business, knew that Mao Tutu had many good qualities. He was able to listen to others and would not expand to the point of becoming a dictator.

To put it simply, from his perspective, Mao Tutu is the type of person who can share wealth and adversity with others, and is also a very good executor.

Yang Huajian and Han Chunming are both too opinionated. No matter what they do, they want to be in control. So Zhou Chen is not very willing to partner with them because he is also a person with his own opinions. Once he makes a decision, it is difficult for others to make him compromise.

Mao Tutu was able to listen to him, so Zhou Chen was willing to cooperate with him.

"Since you want to go into the entertainment industry, you must have your own ideas. Tell me, what do you want to do?"

Mao Tutu said, "I have a few ideas. What do you think of real estate?"

"Real estate, yes, you have good vision."

Zhou Chen was a little surprised. In fact, at that time, the domestic real estate industry had not yet become popular, and there were not many real estate companies. Mao Dihua could see that there was potential in the real estate industry, which showed that he had a good vision.

"But it's not that easy to deal with real estate companies, especially these days. If you want to get land, you need to have quite a connection."

Mao Di said, "So which industry do you think we should go into?"

"supermarket."

"Supermarket? What's that?"

Mao Map looked confused. In the country now, food coupons and other tickets have not completely disappeared, and there are very few shopping malls like supermarkets.

Zhou Chen explained: "A supermarket is a hypermarket. In fact, our country already has supermarkets, but they are not called supermarkets now, but self-service shopping malls."

"Supermarkets generally sell food and daily necessities. Their main characteristics are small profits but quick turnover. They basically do not have salespeople to sell low-end and medium-end goods. Goods are packaged in small packages with weights, specifications and prices marked. There are small carts or baskets for customers to choose goods. Customers can pay once they leave the store."

"Isn't this a shopping mall? I see there are many such shopping malls now, and the business seems to be just so-so. Can we make a lot of money doing this?"

Mao Ditu also has some assets and often goes shopping, so he feels that this business has absolutely no more prospects than real estate.

Zhou Chen said: "You think too simply. There is no industry that can guarantee to make a lot of money, but no matter which industry it is, as long as you can make it bigger and stronger, you will definitely make a lot of money."

Mao Ditu looked disdainful and said, "Brother, I am not a young man who has just entered the society. Can you tell me something honestly? Just tell me, can this supermarket you mentioned make a lot of money?"

"vulgar."

Zhou Chen was speechless. This kid didn't play by the rules.

"The reason why I mentioned supermarkets instead of real estate is not because real estate is not as good as supermarkets, but because I am currently running a small commodity chain store. Supermarkets and my small commodity store still have something in common, and we can get on the right track faster; if I were to do real estate, everything would have to start from scratch."

"The most important thing is that supermarkets are retail businesses. When customers come to the store, there will be no delays in borrowing money, which is conducive to the recovery of funds. Also..."

Ten minutes later, Mao Ditu was moved by what Zhou Chen said.

"Okay, then let's do as you say. You have experience in this area, so I'll listen to you."

"Since you have no objection, we will take action soon."

So the next day, the two of them began to take action.

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In a gorgeously decorated villa, a woman is chasing and beating a little boy, and there is a dirty child sitting on the ground next to her.

"Stop, Zhou Xuanyu, I told you to stop, do you hear me?"

"I'm not. If I stop, you'll kill me."

"If you don't stop, I'm going to beat you to death too."

Hearing this, the little boy ran even more happily, and ran around the hall on the first floor. His nimble steps made it impossible for the woman to catch up with him.

At this moment, the door of the villa was suddenly opened.

Zhou Chen walked in and saw this scene of people chasing each other, with a confused look on his face.

"What's going on here?"

Han Chunyan stopped, still holding the broom in her hand, panting: "You, you ask your son."

Zhou Chen looked at his son Zhou Xuanyu. Zhou Xuanyu was immediately startled when his gaze came over.

"Dad, I didn't mean it."

Zhou Chen saw that there was white powder on Zhou Xuanyu’s head, face, and clothes, and the floor of the house was also covered with white powder.

"Did you spill your brother's milk powder?"

Zhou Xuanyu answered carefully: "I didn't mean to do that. I was trying to mix milk for my brother, but I accidentally spilled it, and then my brother messed around, spilling it everywhere, and he even fell down."

Han Chunyan said angrily: "This brat spilled a whole can of milk powder all over the house and broke my brother's head. I scolded him a few times, but he still didn't admit his mistake. I have to teach him a lesson today, otherwise he will go to heaven."

When Zhou Xuanyu faced his mother just now, he dared to run away and play, but now facing his father, he stood where he was and didn't dare to run at all. When he heard his mother complaining, fear appeared on his face.

Zhou Chen's face darkened. He walked to the sofa and sat down, waving at Zhou Xuanyu: "Come here."

Zhou Xuanyu didn't dare to disobey and walked to Zhou Chen nervously: "Dad."

Zhou Chen said: "It's okay to make mistakes, but you have to know your mistakes and correct them. But why did you talk back to your mother?"

“I’m afraid of being beaten by my mother.”

"This is not an excuse. A man should admit his mistakes and acknowledge them when he is wrong. But it is wrong to talk back to your mother."

"I know. I'm sorry, Dad."

Zhou Xuanyu bowed his head and apologized. In this family, the person he feared the most was his father. Although his father basically didn't beat him, he was just afraid of him. He dared to talk back to his mother, but as soon as his father's eyes changed, he would become timid.

"Don't apologize to me, go apologize to your mother."

After hearing this, Zhou Xuanyu walked towards Han Chunyan with grievance and began to apologize.

Although Han Chunyan was very angry, she had calmed down a lot by now. After hearing her son's apology, she was no longer angry and cleaned up with the nanny.

Zhou Xuanyu is eight years old this year and has started primary school. However, he has been spoiled by many people since he was young, so his personality is a little bit arrogant, but fortunately it is not serious and Zhou Chen can easily control it.

It’s just that Han Chunyan can’t control Zhou Xuanyu, mainly because she dotes on him and doesn’t want to beat or scold him since he was a child, so Zhou Xuanyu is not afraid of her.

In the evening, Han Chunyan coaxed the two children and talked with Zhou Chen while leaning against the head of the bed.

"Chunyan, don't spoil Xiaoyu anymore. You have to scold him when it's time."

Although Han Chunyan was very aggressive today, Zhou Chen knew that she had never thought about fighting. Otherwise, how could Han Chunyan, an adult, not be able to catch up with an eight-year-old child?

"Before he was young, I could spoil him a little, but now he is in school and sensible, so I can't spoil him like before, otherwise he will develop a habit, and it will not be so easy to control him in the future."

Zhou Chen doesn't object to his family spoiling their children, but even if they do spoil them, they have to consider the situation and spoil them in the right way, not spoiling them badly.

Han Chunyan said: "Xiao Yu is still good, look at my eldest sister's child, he even dared to fight with his father."

Zhou Chen covered his forehead and said, "Can you compete with a good person? Why do you have to compete with a bad kid like that?"

"No, I was just making an analogy. You're a university professor and you know more than me. I'll listen to you."

In fact, Han Chunyan is quite satisfied with her son. Although he is a little naughty, he is really smart and better than the children of his three brothers and sisters.

"I deposited one million yuan into your card. Didn't you say last time that you wanted to buy some new furniture for your mother's place? Just use this money."

Han Chunyan was shocked when she heard this: "Why did you save so much money for me? Don't you need to keep your money? Last time I heard that you were going to open a branch in Shanghai?"

"That's the company's account. The money I gave you is my personal money. It's not the same thing. As for going to the Magic City, I'll just stay for a while. Mao Tutu will mainly be responsible for opening up the market."

In recent years, Chenxing Supermarket has developed very well. It now has three stores in Yanjing, each of which is a large supermarket with an area of ​​more than 5,000 square meters. There are even two stores in Shanghai that are under renovation.

A supermarket of 5,000 square meters is much smaller in area than the later large supermarkets of more than 10,000 square meters, but it is already considered huge in that era.

In Chenxing Supermarket, Zhou Chen holds 60% of the shares, and the remaining 40% belongs to Mao Ditu. Zhou Chen is the chairman and is only in charge of the general direction. He does not participate in management on a regular basis. Mao Ditu is the general manager and is in charge of all supermarket affairs.

The two have been partners for seven years and can be considered close friends. They only have occasional disagreements, but basically they still develop in the direction specified by Zhou Chen.

At the beginning, Mao Ditu might have felt that he was not much worse than Zhou Chen, but as Chenxing Supermarket became more and more prosperous, he admired Zhou Chen more and more.

The good thing about Mao's map is that he can recognize his own shortcomings and will not be jealous or dissatisfied.

He was very clear-headed and knew that he had his current assets and status entirely because of Zhou Chen. Zhou Chen accounted for more than 70% of the credit for the success of Chenxing Group.

Maybe he had the confidence that he could succeed on his own, but he would definitely not be as successful as he is now. It's only 92 years old, and he's already worth over million. He's a successful person and a business elite.

"Zhou Chen, I also want to equip my mother with a mobile phone. Xiao Wuzi is not at home all day long. My mother is old and alone at home. I am really worried about her. I want to buy her a mobile phone so that I can call her if something happens."

This year, small mobile phones have been launched on the market and are gradually replacing brick-sized mobile phones.

But even in a capital city like Yanjing, there are very few people who can afford mobile phones nowadays, because mobile phones are really expensive nowadays and the communication charges are also scary. Ordinary people would rather use public phones than use mobile phones.

"Of course it's okay, but after buying a mobile phone, you may have to teach for a long time, so don't regret it then."

At this time, Han's mother was almost seventy years old. She was uneducated, and it was definitely not an easy thing for her to learn how to use a mobile phone.

To young people, it’s just a few buttons, but to older people with more stubborn ideas, even if there are only a few buttons, many people cannot learn it.

Han Chunyan rolled her eyes at Zhou Chen and said, "Don't underestimate me. I don't mind taking care of two children. It's just teaching my mom how to make phone calls. It's absolutely no problem."

"Haven't you agreed to what Xiaowu told you last time he came over? He called me several times and asked me to persuade you."

Han Chunyan changed the subject and talked about Han Chunming.

Zhou Chen sighed and said, "It's not that I don't want to agree to him, but I can't. Shipping things from the north will definitely make at least double the money, but the risk is also very high. Your brother's business is already very large, with restaurants and real estate companies. It's best to maintain this and develop slowly."

"But he is so good. He is used to reselling and now he wants to transport things by train. I can only say that he is taking an extreme approach. If nothing goes wrong, everyone will be happy. If something goes wrong, it will be too troublesome. I promised my second uncle not to do such business, so I really can't agree to Chunming."

This period happened to be a time of unrest in the north, where supplies were extremely scarce. A little reselling could really make several times the profit.

Although profits exceeding 100% are enough to make people take risks, that is when they have no choice.

And now, Zhou Chen owns several large supermarkets and countless Zhou’s small commodity market chain stores, with assets worth over 100 million yuan.

He still had countless business opportunities to make money in his mind, so there was really no need to take risks.

If it were Han Chunming, it would not be a big deal if the scale of transportation was smaller, but the problem was that Han Chunming wanted to use him to make a big deal, then the risk would be great.

He himself didn't want to do it, nor did he want Han Chunming to take risks. However, Han Chunming kept bragging in front of Han Chunyan about how much money he could make, which made Han Chunyan tempted and wanted to persuade Zhou Chen.

But in such a big matter, Zhou Chen would definitely not be disturbed by pillow talk.

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 670 Seven years, respective development

Seven years is a very long time for many people, but for Zhou Chen, he has long been accustomed to the passage of time.

A lot can happen in seven years, for example, Zhou Chen had another little son, and Han Chunming and Su Meng did not get married in the end.

Zhou Chen was not surprised at all that Han Chunming and Su Meng broke up and did not get married.

This is their normal operation, okay?

As for the border trade business that Han Chunming wanted to cooperate with him in, Zhou Chen finally did not agree. Han Chunming had no choice but to look for someone else.

"Brother, where is sister-in-law?"

Zhou Qingqing came to Zhou Chen's house, called out to Zhou Chen, and then sat down next to Zhou Chen. She looked very relaxed and did not consider herself an outsider at all. She picked up the banana on the table and started eating.

"She took the children to her mother's house to play."

"Oh."

More than ten years ago, Zhou Qingqing was just a little girl in junior high school, but now, she is a mature woman of thirty years old.

Compared to her initial shyness and timidity, she has undergone tremendous changes after several years of experience in society. Her personality has become much more cheerful, and her every move is full of confidence.

The reason for this change is that Zhou Chen focused on training her. After she graduated, he let her go to work at Chenxing Supermarket. Now she is the general manager of a store, so she can have such a big transformation.

My second uncle and his wife are also very happy about their daughter's transformation. They spoiled her when she was a child, but the older she gets, the more worried they become, fearing that she will suffer in society.

Fortunately, with Zhou Chen's help, she suffered less and changed very quickly.

However, the only thing that made the old couple dissatisfied was that although their daughter was no longer as timid and shy as she was when she was a child, she had become a strong woman.

She is already thirty years old, and she doesn't even have a boyfriend, let alone getting married. Naturally, the old couple who only want to have a grandchild are very dissatisfied.

Because of this matter, second uncle Zhou Liangping often complained to Zhou Chen, saying that it was all Zhou Chen's fault that his daughter was so busy every day that she didn't even have time to find a partner.

What could Zhou Chen say but smile bitterly. What did it have to do with him if Zhou Qingqing didn’t find a partner?