Top of the Great Era

Chapter 2912: Jianghu Business

Zhou Buqi actually already had an idea.

However, before that he had to ask Zhou Shaoning's opinion.

He was called over by a phone call.

"What's going on, Old Yan?"

When Zhou Shaoning came over, it was already noon, so Zhou Buqi simply went to the staff cafeteria with him to eat. As for the female secretaries in the office, they enjoyed better quality and more exquisite private dishes in the private kitchen in the office area.

Zhou Shaoning was a little confused, "Old Yan? What happened to him?"

Zhou Buqi asked: "I heard that his work is not going well?"

"No..." Zhou Shaoning didn't quite understand. "He is mainly responsible for the supply chain. This business is now very complete, much smoother than in previous years. In the beginning, Lao Yan really went out every day to seek connections and beg people, and drank every day. Now it's different. Asda has become a mobile phone giant, and the upstream supply chain is begging him to do things."

Zhou Buqi nodded, "His use of his skills is not as strong as in previous years, right?"

Zhou Shaoning said: "That's for sure. When we first started our business, Astar was just a makeshift team. He was really the core figure of the company. The market and supply chain all depended on him. But... Old Yan is good at underworld business."

Zhou Buqi clapped his hands, "You hit the point!"

Yan Guangming has little education and has not even graduated from junior high school.

Just a big rough guy.

The reason why I have achieved what I have today is that I have made my way through society. Choice is more important than hard work, and vision is more important than ability.

  In the early 1990s, he met a German and clung to him. He took out all his family assets and borrowed all the money he could to get a batch of equipment from Germany. He bought a piece of land in the capital to set up an electronics factory. More than ten years later, he clung to Zhou Buqi again, invested all the assets of the electronics factory, and participated in the entrepreneurial project of Aisda. This time, his bet was right again!

However, Asda is now one of the world's top mobile phone giants, on par with Apple and Samsung.

This means that ASD is a large international company with fully institutionalized and standardized operations.

The gangster-like attitude is no longer acceptable.

Yan Guangming does not have the talent that Estar needs; and Estar no longer needs the gangster spirit that Yan Guangming possesses.

Naturally, his status and voice within Estar will become lower and lower.

Zhou Shaoning was a little surprised. "Old Yan has other ambitions? Is he not satisfied with his current position in Estar?"

"Even if he is dissatisfied, it is definitely not towards the company or you, but towards himself." Zhou Buqi is very confident about this kind of thing. "Old Yan's vision is not that narrow. He has a good vision. For a rough guy like him to be where he is today, he has taken every step right."

Zhou Shaoning nodded. "Old Yan has a good personality. I don't think he has ever had a bad relationship with anyone in the company. He is friendly with all the guys in their twenties. Even when his ranking dropped and his voice weakened, he was always smiling. I never saw him fighting with anyone for anything."

Zhou Buqi said with a smile: "What is there for him to rob? He is the founder and major shareholder of Aisda!"

Zhou Shaoning hesitated for a moment, opened his mouth, but no words came out.

Eat silently.

What we eat is not rice, there are only vegetables but no rice.

People tend to gain weight when they reach middle age. Zhou Shaoning has reached the age where he needs to control his diet and no longer eats carbohydrates. He usually eats mainly vegetables, fruits, eggs, milk and meat.

Zhou Buqi was so young that it didn't matter, he didn't mind rice, flour or carbohydrates. His lunch was quite rich, a leek box, a beef bun, a lamb chop, a chicken wing, a piece of tuna sashimi, a small spoonful of eggplant rice, a small dish of pork head, a bowl of egg custard and a bowl of chicken breast milk soup.

There are many categories, but the total amount is actually not large.

There are also six exquisite side dishes for two people to share, all of which are Shandong cuisine.

This is a meal prepared specially for him in the private room kitchen, which is different from the staff meal in the hall.

Zhou Buqi had sharp eyes. Although he was eating quietly, he could tell that he was hesitant to speak, so he asked, "Just say whatever you want to say."

Zhou Shaoning said: "To be honest, Lao Yan's level... is not good enough for Esda now."

"Ah."

"He is the founder and major shareholder. If it weren't for this relationship, I would have fired him. In the early days of the company, he played an important role. Now he is no longer needed. His existence will dampen the enthusiasm of many other young people."

"It should."

Zhou Buqi had had this feeling a long time ago.

After a company succeeds, some of the founders and veterans who are no longer capable are fired. This is a process that all IT companies must go through. It is rare to be able to handle this matter as well as Alibaba's boss Ma. Even Ziweixing has dismissed several of them.

Zhou Shaoning said: "I didn't feel that Lao Yan had any emotions, at least the way he showed it didn't make me feel anything. But now you say that he might have some thoughts, I guess this is it."

Zhou Buqi knew that Lao Yan's level was not enough to be a senior executive in an international giant, but his ability to deal with people was not bad at all. "Well, that should be it. Even if you haven't expressed your opinion, I guess he has felt it himself. His existence has become a certain obstacle to Estar."

"It's possible." Zhou Shaoning agreed. "Didn't you come forward to deal with the Samsung and Hynix issues in Korea? After he came back, he laughed at me. I guess he had this idea since then."

Yan Guangming has a very accurate vision and a broad perspective.

It is impossible for him to do such a lowly thing as fighting for power and profit in the company. On the contrary, if he realizes that he is no longer needed by the company, he will most likely voluntarily withdraw, not causing trouble for everyone, and making everyone save face.

In fact, it is the chivalrous spirit in the world.

  I guess this is what Yan Gege was talking about, her father’s troubles!

Zhou Buqi said without hesitation, "Then I will tell Lao Yan to come and work with Chen Guohuan to develop the copycat phone industry."

"Hmm?" Zhou Shaoning raised his eyebrows and was very happy. "Great! This is a good thing! Keep Old Yan as a director of Estar, and let him focus his main business energy on making copycat phones. That's the real world, and that's what he's best at."

This is what Zhou Buqi meant. "Even if this copycat phone company succeeds and becomes a big company in the future, it will be hard to be like Estar. It will always be a hidden world."

The so-called Jianghu is the unofficial territory.

It is the gray area in society and the shadow area under the sun.

Those who serve the country and the people are considered heroes.

Aisda must do an honest business and target developed country markets such as Europe, America, South Korea and Japan. Its business operations must be in line with regulations and it must have a set of institutionalized business processes.

The copycat mobile phone industry is a little different. It targets underdeveloped and backward areas such as Africa, India, Pakistan, Southeast Asia, South America, and the Middle East. Some of these areas are still plagued by frequent wars... It is impossible to do business cleanly. There will inevitably be many special non-institutionalized and non-procedural means, which is very suitable for big men like Lao Yan who have emerged from the society.