Chapter 102: Opportunities obtained by chance

"It's so extravagant!" Zhang Mei looked at the dishes, cups and plates all over the table and said with some distress.

Fan Heng had eaten Donglaishun several times with Fan Wubing, and was already relatively immune at this time. Fan Kang was indeed here for the first time. Although he lived well when he was at home, he did not have such extravagant performance. At this time, he saw the tender mutton slices, tempting seasonings and side dishes, Fan Kang's mood suddenly improved.

Fan Ting said casually, "Everyone hurry up and start the meal. The mutton here is quite good. We recently invited customers, one to come here to sauté mutton, and the other to go to Quanjude to eat roast duck. Although they also go to other places, they are not as popular here. Especially those foreign customers, they even thought about the next meal after eating the last meal. The food culture of our 5,000-year-old in China is indeed not something that those who only know how to eat raw meat and drink blood can understand."

"You come here to treat guests every day. Is the store's income enough?" Zhang Mei didn't know what this PCfans club is doing. Although people came and went, there were no shelves. Everyone sat down to drink and chat, and then left. They had never seen anyone pick up the goods. So they felt very suspicious, suspecting that the place was so big and employed so many people. What should they do if these people's expenses were done?

Fan Ting understood the questions in her mother Zhang Mei's mind, and then slowly explained to her.

The pcfans club is actually just a large agency, mainly coordinating the buying and selling relationship. First, it understands domestic needs, makes orders, and then receives goods from several major foreign manufacturers according to the demand, pays taxes after arriving at the port, and notifies the party who wants the goods to pick up the goods.

To put it more clearly, the PCFans Club is actually a relatively large second-hand dealer, but it has legal procedures, pays taxes according to the rules, and complies with the requirements of laws and regulations, so it is called an agency.

"Is there such a big profit?" Zhang Mei asked, pointing to the food on the table.

Fan Wubing laughed, "Don't worry, mom! You can have no problem coming here for three meals a day!"

It should be said that there are private rooms in Donglaishun, but not often. This time, I came in a hurry and could only make do with it in the lobby. However, each table was separated by a screen. Although I could not see people, I could hear people around me talking. There were all kinds of things, and everything was done, so my words were quite complicated.

Everyone was eating enthusiastically, and Fan Wubing heard a younger voice talking on the table next to him, talking about some recent international affairs.

"The world today is the market dominates everything," the voice said. "In the global business world, like China in a drastic change, it is entering a year of reshuffle. Some large companies in the traditional sense may be split or in trouble, while new industries are in full swing, and new corporate heroes are about to emerge. The most sensational corporate news in the world this year is that AT&T was split."

Bell was split?! Fan Wubing was stunned. He was very busy this year and he had never noticed this problem.

The company, founded by telephone inventor Alexander Bell, was once the symbol of the United States and was once the largest company in the world. In the early 1980s, the company's total assets reached US$150 billion and annual sales revenue reached US$70 billion, accounting for about two percent of the United States' GDP. By this year, the total number of employees in the company reached one million and shareholders exceeded three million.

Long-term monopoly operation turned this great company into a giant. According to an example, the Panasonic telephone produced in Japan sold for only 20 US dollars, while the manufacturing cost of At&T's telephone was more than 20 US dollars, and the maintenance cost was as high as 60 US dollars.

Starting from New Year's Day in 1984, Bell's twenty-two subsidiaries distributed across the United States were split into seven independently operated companies. This is a signifiable event that broke the long-term monopoly of the US telecommunications industry and also loosened the ties for the At&T giant.

In the long run, Bell's spin-off has completely activated the growth of its electronics business and provided a broad market space for breakthroughs in Internet technology.

Fan Wubing was still pondering, and the people over there were saying, "The situation in China is still not suitable for our development. I plan to go to the United States to have a look."

The others immediately agreed, "Haha, your brother is a highly educated talent, and only by going to the United States can you realize your life value. When you are developed, don't forget your brothers!"

After hearing the words opposite, Zhang Mei said with some contempt, "A group of guys who forget their ancestors all day long want to run abroad. What's the best thing about abroad? Is the moon in foreign countries really rounder than China?"

Fan Wubing smiled and said, "The moon in foreign countries may not be rounder than that in China, but the investment environment of foreign countries, especially the United States, is definitely much more formal than that in China. If we simply say it is economically speaking, the country is really not a good place."

"Why, do you want to go abroad too?" Zhang Mei glared at her eyes.

"Haha--" Fan Wubing smiled and said, "I can't catch up this year. I will definitely have to go to the United States and Japan next year."

Seeing that Zhang Mei was still sarcasticating Fan Wubing, Fan Ting hurriedly said, "Mom, don't underestimate your third brother. You should know that Wubing is making money every day, and he said he would earn at least hundreds of thousands of dollars a day. This is not the profit from Jianlibao. What he is doing now is international investment, and the United States has spent 10 million dollars in it with a big pen!"

"What you said is true or false? Why do I think it's getting more and more outrageous when you've been in Beijing for only a year? Just like your small place, you can earn 180 yuan a day, but you dare to say hundreds of thousands?" Zhang Mei didn't believe it. You have to know how much income it takes for a factory as big as a plain factory to earn in a year?

Fan Heng waved his hand and said, "Don't talk about these useless words." He paused for a moment and said, "But your son's ability to make money is indeed extraordinary. It's not nonsense to talk about hundreds of thousands a day."

Fan Kang was picking mutton there, and while eating it, he said, "Anyway, 1,000 yuan and 10 million yuan are the same for me, and it doesn't matter to me."

When Fan Wubing heard the brother say this, he immediately said, "What are you saying this? If you have mine, you can just open your mouth as much as you want. Isn't it just a few dollars? If you don't spend it all, would you keep it and pay the inheritance tax for others?"

"Ph, ph, ph, ph, ph, ph, ph, children's words, the wind blows away-" Several people immediately knocked Fan Wubing's head with chopsticks.

However, what I heard during the meal was still very reminded of Fan Wubing.

This year is a very important year for domestic and foreign companies. The 19-year-old Dell should have started the entrepreneurial process with his $1,000. Unlike the channel business model that Fan Wubing has developed in China, Dell's most successful thing is that he subverted his previous business model and no longer delivers goods directly to consumers through distributors and agents at all levels.

But as Fan Wubing said, the direct sales model can be implemented in the United States, but it is a dead end in China.

The basic industry in the United States is very developed. Express delivery companies can easily deliver anything to consumers, and consumers can also use various payment methods to consume their orders. These are very comfortable things like living a home-based life.

However, it is not possible in China. In today's China, there is only the post office logistics channel, and it is very inconvenient. The path and time of mail going through on the road are uncertain, not to mention that the mailing fee remains high, which makes the direct sales model only have one end in China, that is, failure.

The deeper requirement is that there are too many people in China to support you, and you cannot implement the most efficient method at once, which will lead to many people being unemployed. Therefore, direct sales, which obviously bypasses many intermediate links, will definitely encounter huge resistance or will not be popular at all.

For Fan Wubing, these are not problems, because the cost paid by consumers is high or low, and it has nothing to do with him. All industries that are basically in a monopoly position make him not need to worry about these things at all.

What Fan Wubing is most concerned about at the moment is the opportunity brought by Bell's split, and the Internet era is coming.

In China, because the telecommunications industry is a sensitive government-monopoly industry, Fan Wubing cannot expect to get a share of it, but the big cake of the US network communications market is too tempting.

Meanwhile, in San Francisco, a couple named Sandy and Leonard registered Cisco Systems for five dollars. They are working on a new product called router. This small white box allows multiple computers to communicate and share information. It is this revolutionary product that makes the future Internet wave possible.

In fact, the emergence of Dell and Cisco basically represents two growth paths for new technology companies in the future, namely a unique business channel model or a highly monopoly core technology advantage. It can be seen that the distance between Chinese companies and American companies does not lie in the size of founding capital, but in the gap in their respective vision and understanding of industrial growth.

Fan Wubing felt that he was full of fighting spirit and for nothing else, this era was really too challenging. A large number of American companies were waiting to acquire them, countless commercial giants, and the leader of the electronics industry were waiting to acquire them as their younger brothers. This was indeed an extremely glorious thing.

"Our career cannot always be focused on low-tech things like raising pigs and making soda! It cannot be limited to selling computers for foreigners! Our eyes should be more strategic and forward-looking!" Fan Wubing said to his sister Fan Ting after dinner.
Chapter completed!