Great Power Reclamation

Chapter 2584 Expansion

"Uncle Liu, with so much money, I think we should expand immediately. Relying on interest is too slow to make money."

Yang Baodi looked at Liu Qinghua with some concern, fearing that he would be like many others, content with just having a profitable business.

Liu Qinghua waved his hand: "Go ahead and do it, but try not to exceed our current funding range. Borrowing money is not a good thing."

Yang Baodi is 22 years old this year. She is a child with a miserable life. She is from Jiangsu and was abandoned at birth. Then she was adopted by an old man.

The old man's family is very poor and his wife is mentally ill. After the reform and opening up, when every household began to live a prosperous life, they were struggling to make ends meet.

Yang Baodi has been a very good student since she was young, but the tuition fees at that time began to rise, and the school required her to buy some learning materials. Her adoptive father's waist was exhausted from trying to support her schooling.

The main reason is that he has been a farmer all his life. Even after the reform and opening up, he can only dig for food in the soil. How can he earn money by relying on that little bit of food?

Once, Yang Baodi saw her adoptive father working in the fields, so she dropped out of school and went to Yangzhou. She was only sixteen years old that year.

When she went out to work at her age, most people didn't dare to take her in, and she almost starved to death on the roadside.

Then he was taken in by the owner of a foot massage shop, where he did some odd jobs, and then he began to learn pedicure.

She worked in a pedicure shop for three whole years, and then the boss's son started a bathhouse, and she started making a living there too.

I worked in the bath city for another two years, doing almost every job, but in the end I was still a technician. I couldn't make much money, so I got angry and went to the military reclamation city.

At that time, people worked either in Jiangsu and Zhejiang or in military reclamation cities.

In fact, not many people from the south come to the military reclamation city, after all, they cannot adapt to many things such as the climate and temperature.

After coming to Junken City, Yang Baodi did not choose to work in the factory, but instead entered a newly opened bath city, where she applied for the position of technician supervisor.

Because of her excellent skills, almost all the technicians in this bath city were trained by her.

Later, the boss valued her and made her the manager of the bath city. Because of her hard work, the bath city opened three chain stores.

Just when she was preparing to make a big move and open bathing cities all over Northern Xinjiang, the boss's nephew came and replaced her within three months.

This was a big blow to her. Her adoptive mother had passed away and her adoptive father was seriously ill, and they both needed money. She sent all the money she had back home, asked her cousin to help take care of the elderly, and came to the UK herself.

It was probably a coincidence. She actually didn't know Liu Qinghua, but was recommended by one of Liu Qinghua's subordinates.

Yang Baodi knew that this was an opportunity for him. If he seized it, his life might be completely different. If he didn't, he would just be an ordinary worker in this life. So he worked almost non-stop for the past few months.

Facts have proved that not a drop of sweat was shed in vain. Thanks to her efforts, Sofia Club got off to a great start.

Moreover, Yang Baodi realized that it was easier to make money here than in Junken City, and this was the place where the saying "rich people make stupid people" came from.

People here generally care about face and would rather spend more money for some details of service.

For example, the locker rooms here generally require you to return the key to the bar after you leave.

However, in order to show their status, the guests here always want to have their own special changing boxes to store their bathing items here for a long time.

  Lily was worried about this, fearing that there wouldn't be enough lockers, but Yang Baodi was very happy. How much would it cost to have more lockers?

If these special changing lockers are charged separately, the cost for one person is enough to buy a whole row of changing lockers, which in turn adds an extra fee.

There are also toiletries and bathrobes, which were originally free. Naturally, the quality won’t be very good, so some customers are not very satisfied with them.

This is easier to do. Just get a batch of brand-name items and sell them to these people and put them in their special changing rooms.

There are also many people who like fitness, and the club is large, so we can just set up a free gym, which is included in the platinum and diamond cards.

It is precisely these thoughtful services that make people flock to such expensive cards.

In the past, discussing business and communicating relationships meant having meals.

And when you come to Sofia, you can eat, drink, and have fun all in one place. How prestigious is that?

Sofia did her best to develop all the meticulous services she knew and thought of.

This is also the reason why Sofia Club became so popular all of a sudden.

After opening for more than half a month, seeing that the business was not only stable but also the customer base was increasing rapidly, Yang Baodi realized that he had to open a branch now, otherwise this place would soon be unable to accommodate the customers.

You know, London has a population of more than 8 million. Even if only one-tenth of the population comes to the club, there are still more than 800,000 people. The only way to deal with it is to limit the flow of people.

Instead of that, it would be better to open a branch store quickly to prevent such a thing from happening. After all, turning away customers is a taboo in the service industry.

The branch location was quickly chosen, and this store currently located in central London will serve as the headquarters location.

Yang Baodi plans to open four more branches, located in the southeast, northwest, northeast and southwest of London city.

You know, London is a world economic center on par with New York, and it is home to countless business elites.

What these people have the most is money, so it is undoubtedly most suitable for them to do this kind of business here.

Moreover, Yang Baodi also realized a truth: when dealing with this group of people, the essence of service is not to seek the best, but the most expensive.

In other words, the word "good" actually means humanity. People don't necessarily require you to be high-end, but you must provide them with very thoughtful service.

The specific manifestation is that you must make customers pretend to be awesome in front of others. Only then will they be willing to give you money and not care about the amount at all.

Because when money reaches a certain level, it has lost its original value and becomes just a symbol of status.

Their only requirement is to be different, or at least to be separated from ordinary people.

  Instead of squeezing in the crowd and being an ordinary citizen, why would you need money?

In view of this feature, Yang Baodi’s branch targeted high-end people during the decoration.

As for ordinary customers, the lobby is enough.

Liu Qinghua was very supportive of her plan. He was not outstanding in terms of ability, but his greatest strength was that he knew how to use people and was willing to delegate power.

If he had not discovered Ye Yuze and regarded a child as his backbone, there would have been no military reclamation city.

Lily was obviously a little worried. The business had just opened, and although a large sum of money had been raised, this was money saved in advance, and she had just started spending.

If a Diamond Card member has 10 million in funds and spends a minimum of 100,000 per month, it will take him ten years to spend it all.

If you spend all the money now, what will you do if the business is not good in the future? She is also straightforward and directly expressed her objection and expressed her concerns.

Liu Qinghua just pondered for a moment and then made a decision.

"How about this, when we open a new store in the future, you don't have to participate anymore. I will invest alone and increase Yang Baodi's share to 5%. What do you think?"

Lily blushed slightly: "That's not what I meant. I just don't want to take a big step, not that I don't want to do it."

Liu Qinghua nodded and discussed with her: "How about you and Yang Baodi each take 5%, and the rest of the shares are mine."

Lily thought about it and finally agreed. After all, she didn't want to take such a big risk.

Seeing Liu Qinghua's body beginning to hunch over, Yang Baodi wanted to throw himself into his arms and kiss him hard.

In Junken City, her identity meant that she could not come into contact with Liu Qinghua. She had only heard of some things about him.

It was not until then that she realized that the old mayor was more decisive than she had heard.

Today, she is the second largest shareholder of Sofia Bath Club. Although her shares are the same as Lily's, she is also the CEO, so naturally her weight is much more important than Lily's.

The three people redrafted the contract and asked a lawyer to sign and seal it, and the contract came into effect.

At this time, Warrior electric vehicles have begun to be sold on a large scale in Europe and the United States.

Unlike the United States, winters in Europe are still very cold, especially in Northern Europe, where it can be as cold as half a year.

In their place, if the temperature reaches over 20 degrees in summer, it can be considered high temperature weather, and many people can't stand it.

Because private homes there generally don't even have air conditioning, and mainly because they don't need it.

The batteries of electric vehicles are greatly affected by temperature, especially in winter. When the temperature drops below minus ten degrees Celsius, the mileage will be shortened.

This point was made clear before the Warrior Car was sold, especially for those people in the small towns in the Northern European Alps. It is not recommended for them to buy.

Although it is unpleasant to say the least, the comfortable driving experience of electric cars still cannot stop people's enthusiasm for buying them.

The main reason is that the power of electric vehicles is not inferior to that of fuel vehicles, and relatively speaking, not only is there no noise, but the safety factor is also greatly increased.

Isn't it just a little less mileage? Just charge more. So, although rational people choose not to buy enough, the sales volume is still not small.

If this trend continues, Warrior electric vehicles are likely to dominate the world.

Because of its appearance, the sales space of fuel vehicles will naturally be compressed. In response to this phenomenon, countries have been looking for excuses and started to increase tariffs.

There is no good way for Warrior Auto to deal with this kind of situation. This is somewhat different from the incident in the United States, where they directly banned sales and naturally had to file a lawsuit.

What European countries are doing now is just increasing taxes, and using various excuses, there is really no better way to deal with it.

  When Mei Ting reported this to Ye Yuze, Ye Yuze just smiled:

"Seek cooperation. No product can completely monopolize the global market. Unless it is very advanced, others cannot develop it."

Mei Ting naturally understood what Ye Yuze meant. If she was not allowed to sell the car, then she could just sell the battery, generator and controller.

An electric car only has these three major parts. As for the shell, everyone has their own manufacturers, so you can just make it yourself.

There have been cooperation models with Japanese car companies before, and they can just copy them. He can also use his own brand, but the main components must be from Warrior Group.

You can also research and develop, but the Warrior Group is also updated. Unless you can surpass it, you have to use it.

Of course, if you want to use products that are one or several generations behind Warrior Group, that’s up to you.

Wang Lina undoubtedly made a great contribution to the Warrior Group. She and Mei Ting, as well as several key R&D personnel, naturally received generous rewards.

During this period, Owen went to Junken City again and signed a contract to purchase core components of electric vehicles.

As for Bentley electric vehicles, a prototype was developed quickly following the signing of the contract.

After several senior executives of Bentley took a test drive, they were all shocked. The driving feeling was truly incredible.

They even wanted to reduce costs and turn Bentley into a people-friendly brand, but after several discussions among senior executives and consultations with Volkswagen's parent company, they gave up the idea.

A brand built over hundreds of years cannot change its style just for the sake of profit. Bentley is Bentley, a high-end product that ordinary people cannot afford.

Sophia was naturally the CEO of Sophia's Restaurant, while Allen became her assistant and Tom became the technical director.

Originally, Liu Qinghua wanted Yang Baodi to manage the restaurant together, but Sophia strongly opposed it, so Liu Qinghua did not mention it.

Now his mentality is completely different. He is in a foreign country. So what if he has several wives? I can afford them.

I make money from capitalism, so can't I be a little corrupt? Others can spend 10 million just to get a card, so I can do the same.

Although he is now the boss of Sofia Club, he has become Yang Baodi's assistant and is responsible for doing chores for her.

Lily is responsible for dealing with government departments, after all, there are a lot of procedures to go through.

Yang Baodi was very courageous. Liu Qinghua originally thought that he would open one store after another. Unexpectedly, after finding a suitable location and house, she actually chose to build several branches at the same time.

As a result, the funds pale in comparison. In order to support her, Liu Qinghua is ready to borrow money from Ye Yuze.

Unexpectedly, the continuous cash flow from the head office fully supported the expenses of subsequent branches.

But there are problems as well. Although the Sofia Club makes a lot of money every day, several of its owners are so poor that they can barely afford to eat.

At least Sofia Restaurant has independent accounting, so they won’t go hungry.

While Yang Baodi was busy running the branch, he also implemented a series of measures at the head office.

For example, she has strictly controlled the number of platinum cards and diamond cards.

First of all, this card is non-refundable, and once you apply for it, you must spend all the money in the card.

Of course, if you encounter difficulties and want to embezzle funds, you can transfer them, and the club can also help you find a suitable buyer.

  This regulation is naturally intended to avoid risks. If a group of people come to cancel their cards, the club will naturally not be able to bear it. Where will the money come from?

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