The private rooms on the sixth floor of the "Yunding" club are magnificent: soft dark wool carpets, gorgeous crystal chandeliers, and expensive furniture. There is also a chess and card room and a reception room. The floor-to-ceiling windows show the bright night view of Beijing.
At about 10 o'clock in the evening, the private room was brightly lit. The large round mahogany dining table was decorated with wine and food, all of which were the signature dishes of the club: a hot pot, a seafood tiger stripe, a pair of Australian green dragons, and a few companions.
The wine is Moutai.
“Come, let’s get to know each other today, let’s have a drink first!”
Jing Gao raised his glass with a smile and looked at the man in front of him who suggested a toast, Wei Huandong. He was the son of one of Tan Qin's uncles. He was in his mid-thirties. He was a rather wealthy middle-aged man and wore a pair of glasses.
A little older than him, but a little younger than Tan Qin. But he did his part at the dinner party at this time, and he was indeed a strong person.
It is said that he is quite famous in several circles among the children of aristocratic families in the capital.
He had just finished reporting the affairs of Zhaoshi Group to his boss, and when he came out, he took a car to the suburbs to attend Tan Qin's dinner party.
Genting Club is located in the northern suburbs of Beijing. It does not have a golf course, but the environment inside is really first-class: there is a majestic Roman column foyer, and there are also elegant and quiet private rooms where no one is seen.
Jing Gao couldn't just use Tan Qin to help send a message to Ma Yun two days ago, and now he turned his back and refused to recognize anyone. Therefore, he had to be present at this social dinner. However, he had already told Weiwei on the way here
Sent a WeChat message asking Weiwei to sleep first.
He has been in the capital for the past few days since he returned to China.
Tan Qin was also stomping his feet in the magic city. He was a man who would tremble in the business world. At this time, he smiled and raised his glass. There was nothing unusual about it, and said: "Huandong, Mr. Jing, please!"
It also roughly means neither humble nor arrogant.
At this moment, there was a beautiful young woman with elegant demeanor and jewels at the same table. She was Wei Huandong's sister Wei Minjun, who worked in a state-owned enterprise and was 32 years old. She looked like a woman in her twenties.
She raised her glass with a smile and said, "You men drink white wine, and I drink red wine. Mr. Jing, are you surprised?" As she spoke, she looked at Jing Gao with interest.
Jing Gao was dressed very formally: shirt and trousers. He was slim and well-proportioned. He was tall and had a calm demeanor and the charm of a mature man. He smiled and said, "Miss Wei, you're polite, of course not!"
"cheers!"
After drinking a few glasses of wine, we ate the food and wine, and then talked about Jing Gao's business wars and encounters in Europe. Rumors about him being shot had spread all over the place, and the atmosphere at the wine table slowly heated up.
Wei Huandong put down his wine glass and said with a smile: "Mr. Jing, I'm actually quite curious about what happened to Zhaoshi Group. What do you think? How should I put it? What you did is actually quite strange.
First, most domestic foreign trade companies actually paid more attention to overseas markets in the early years. There were export subsidy policies. There was also the reason why the domestic consumer market had not taken off before. Very few exports were converted to domestic sales.
Domestic sales business is now forced by the general environment. This is a major change that can only happen in a century!
Second, most companies have switched to “waistcoats” for exporting because of sanctions imposed by the European and American markets, so they can only export through Vietnam and other places.
Mr. Jing, you are doing the opposite! Wearing a French vest and selling domestically."
Jing Gao has been listening to Wei Huandong's words, holding a wine glass in his hand, his expression calm and steady.
Wei Huandong’s words are actually the biggest criticism of Zhaoshi Group in current public opinion. It is certainly an exaggeration to say that Zhaoshi Group is treating the French as a dog, but it is indeed enough to be “dishonest”.
This has a huge impact on consumers’ minds!
Co-author, I spend money to buy packaged domestic products? If it is a purely domestic brand, such as Li Ning, Anta, etc., this can be called supporting domestic products. How can you just hide it and collect the IQ tax?
The situation of Zhaoshi Group in France has stabilized and it is preparing to go public, but the reputation of its brands has been really affected. At least, it cannot take the "high luxury" route in a short time. First-tier brands will never be able to squeeze in. In the past,
It still had a quasi-first-tier status, but now it is really a second-tier or third-tier brand, and some brands are moving towards niche, affordable luxury.
This is still the first level. The second level of harm is endangering Jing Gao’s personal image.
Businessmen in small and medium-sized enterprises, or businessmen with annual sales of less than 100 million, they play this trick, "wearing vests", exporting to domestic sales, it doesn't matter. It's not shabby to make money.
A top businessman like Jing Gao, a first-class business tycoon, still plays like this and does business like this. It gives people the impression that the structure is too low!
After all, in order to increase the visibility of companies and products, Suning and Huawei have both set examples. Suning acquired Serie A giant Inter Milan and tried to let Inter Milan win another league championship and regain its former glory. Even the young master was sent to stay.
Huawei is joining forces with sports car brands at the top of the luxury food chain to create mobile phones. For example, the Porsche version of Huawei mobile phones.
There is precedent for this.
In order to make money, deliberately wearing a French vest and selling it back to the country to defraud compatriots is a loss of face.
For a businessman with such a structure and ruined reputation, no one at a higher level would be willing to speak for Jinggao, Phoenix, or Taichu Group!
Wei Min Junyan smiled, and the expensive pendant earrings on her fair earlobes swayed in the crystal lamp, adding to her graceful appearance as a beautiful young woman. She looked at Jing Gao and said more fiercely: "Mr. Jing, are you going to
Is it convenient to say?"
This famous lady from the capital is actually not an easy character to get along with.
Jing Gao said with a smile: "That's not true. The idea of going to France to form this Zhaoshi Group came to me when I was watching the European Cup in France in 2016. At that time, all my friends were interested in some relatively niche, second- and third-tier French companies.
The clothing brands are very familiar to me, so I was thinking of acquiring a group of clothing companies so that we could control the upstream and downstream channels of the clothing industry chain."
Wei Minjun smiled and added, "This friend of yours is Ren He's little sister Ren Jiahui, right?" Obviously, she has done her homework.
Jing Gao nodded in recognition and said with a smile: "As you know, I have a textile group under my control. I also have a clothing group in China. I have cooperated with Zhaoshi Group on design all the year round. We also invest in some domestic fashion magazines.
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So, what I do is, first of all, because my industry has this demand. It is blooming both at home and abroad.
Second, I thought that setting up a company in France would not harm the national interests, and I didn’t pay much attention to the affairs of Zhaoshi Group in Paris. I just checked the accounts regularly. This was my negligence!
After the rapid development of Zhaoshi Group in the past two years, it has achieved good results not only in clothing, but also in leather and other fields. So there is such a situation."
These words are true and false. He never mentioned that he wanted to make money. The reason was too low-level! He mainly talked about the layout of the industrial chain and personal negligence.
But actually, that’s not what he said in front of the big leaders.
Industry chain This is just the situation and background, not the reason why we must do this. What he said is:
First, the establishment of Zhaoshi Group was my attempt to expand, enter the European market, and invade the fashion industry chain. However, the world's largest luxury goods sales market is in China. It has developed to this point, which was a mistake in my personal expectations.
Second, I hope to reverse the Chinese voice that is missing in global clothing and popular aesthetics. It cannot be a small group of people in Europe and the United States. The so-called top designers in the fashion circle hold several shows in Paris, New York, London, and Milan. This year’s popular elements
Just settle it!
A bunch of Chinese and foreign fashion media followed suit.
Is what they decided correct?
Why should we follow them? Their only taste of the East is China Red.
I hope to make some of our voices heard in Paris. Before the Zhaoshi Group incident, we had held many solo exhibitions for Chinese designers at the four major fashion shows and advocated them in domestic fashion magazines.
Designers from Xia Shang Garment Group also sell clothing domestically based on these styles!
Such an intention is in line with his status as a powerful man with unlimited cards.
With the rise of great powers, the rejuvenation of China, and some soft cultural fields, as a person who strongly loves his motherland, of course he wants to compete in the wave of the times! Do something!
In the future, there will definitely be a place for the Chinese in the global fashion field! It is not up to a handful of European and American designers who don’t even understand traditional Chinese aesthetics to define what kind of fashion elements young people in our market should advocate.
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The ultimate goal of the road to greatness is not Mr.
In the lost confrontation, they contributed their own strength to restore the glory of the Han and Tang Dynasties, leaving their own traces for future generations to comment on!
In other words, after Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs theory reaches the top and is exploded, what he has to think about is not how I want to be a great person, but what kind of person I want to be!
This requires looking for answers in Chinese traditional culture and philosophy! It is still his consistent line of thinking: thinking on the shoulders of predecessors. Because, what you have thought about has been thought about by others in history.
And the answer he was thinking of was the ultimate goal of Confucianism: establishing virtue, meritorious service, and words to achieve immortality.
Such a big goal, he will definitely not be able to achieve it. But in life, you must leave some traces! Only in this way will your journey in this world be worthwhile!
The banquet ended at about 12 o'clock in the evening. Wei Huandong, Wei Minjun, and Tan Qin walked downstairs to the Jinggao Hotel together. Wei Huandong smiled and shook hands with Jinggao and said: "Mr. Jing, goodbye!"
After watching Jing Gao leave in his black Mercedes-Benz and seeing off Tan Qin affectionately, Wei Huandong lit a cigarette and returned to the suite with his sister. After pondering for a moment, he asked: "What do you think of Jing Gao?"
The reason?”
Wei Minjun sat on the sofa and said with a smile: "False and false, true and false! Brother, you don't think he is a simple person, do you?"
Wei Huandong smiled and shook his head, smoking a cigarette, "That won't happen."
Wei Minjun rolled his beautiful eyes and said with a smile: "Brother, is what you just said true?"
Just now her brother "warned" Jing Gao that Fan Yang's ex-wife Dong Lingxi followed Jing Gao, which made many children of aristocratic families in Beijing who had admired her very dissatisfied. It would be okay if they got married, but Dong Lingxi was his mistress.
Furthermore, her brother also "warned" Jing Gao not to take Ning Xunchang, the upstart in the circle, too seriously. "He is not qualified yet." These are the original words.
Wei Huandong smiled slightly, lit a cigarette in the ashtray, turned to look at his sister, and said, "Minjun, can you take what you say while drinking seriously?"
Wei Minjun chuckled and rolled his eyes. He didn't know what this well-known socialite in the capital circle was thinking about.
How could this meal be just a meal?
It’s the hottest summer in Beijing in early July. In the woods between high-rise buildings, the green willow trees are listless, and cicadas are neighing, announcing their presence.
At noon, Jing Gao hosted a banquet in Hall 2 of the Capital Club for Liu Feifei, her manager Sister Liu, Zhang Mingyue, Zhao Qinghan, Phoenix Film and Television CEO Fang Shaofan, and a rising star from Phoenix Film and Television, and now
Liao Rong, the person in charge of Tiangong Games and the former person in charge of Phoenix Entertainment, had dinner together.
Domestic security cannot be compared to that of France. Jing Gao had Chen Aiyang with him.
Tai Chi master Chen Aiyang was used to seeing the beautiful women in this room. He was waiting in the small room next door with Liao Rong's assistant, a tall young man who was handsome and fair but obviously a little weak.
The banquet was filled with cheers and laughter.
Liu Feifei's agent, Sister Liu, is about forty years old, wearing an off-white suit. The bottom is of course a hip-covering skirt, paired with stockings. She still has charm and is pretty and fair. She is generous and generous, and does not taboo on meat and vegetables.
Drinking is also very generous.
She stood up a little excitedly and toasted Jing Gao for the second time: "Mr. Jing, thank you for taking care of Feifei all these years. As her agent, I toast you again. I'll do it, you can do whatever you want."
She really didn’t expect that the big boss would be inviting her to dinner today. She originally thought it was “Miss Zhao” hosting an internal dinner party within the company. After all, the former first-line actresses Zhang Mingyue and Liu Feifei are the two biggest names in “Miss Zhao’s” company.
Of course, meeting the powerful boss in Europe did not make her, a woman in her early forties, so excited that she kept toasting. It was because the boss made it easy for Fei Fei to get the endorsement of Hermès.
You know, more than a month ago, after Feifei's Hermès endorsement was suddenly removed, what was the news in the circle? This also made Feifei look bright, and cast a shadow on her frank stardom.
But, as the saying goes, the weather in June is a slap in the face!
How did Hermès resign Feifei's endorsement contract, and how did it bring it back now! The big boss had contact with Hermès boss Axel Dumai in Europe. According to the news in the circle, Hermès would rather spend money to terminate the contract that was just signed
A top actress with a one-year contract also has to change her spokesperson to Feifei.
Liao Rong was wearing an embroidered cheongsam, with a curvy figure, and she shouted with a smile: "Xiao Liu, why do you propose a toast on Feifei's behalf? Tell Feifei to toast by herself, and have a drink with Mr. Jing."
She is of course not as old as Sister Liu. She is only thirty-six years old this year. However, she once ran Phoenix Film and Television and took good care of Liu Feifei.
Liu Feifei stood up with a smile, shy and bright-eyed, and said softly: "Brother Jing, I respect you."
This chapter has been completed!