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At a high enough level, life and work are inseparable.

For example, the real estate at No. 4 Cowley Street in central London that Zhou Buqi is about to buy.

This is the headquarters of the British Liberal Democratic Party.

In the past 100 years, every leader of the Liberal Democratic Party moved his family here after he came to power. There are three floors in total, the first floor is the working area, the second floor is the living area, and the third floor is the rest area. There is also a leisure area on the roof.

After stepping down, they will move out and let the new party leader move in.

Through this way of life and work integration, maximize efficiency. Otherwise, when there is some work, Mr. Party Leader has to go to the office for a meeting and then run back, which is not tiring enough. It's better to let the subordinates come directly to the house for a meeting.

The heads of state are basically in this mode, work in life and live in work.

Zhou Buqi is about the same now.

This time I flew from the UK to the European continent, mainly to travel with a woman. But in this process, it is not just a vacation, but also a part of work.

A trip to Sweden was rewarding.

When I came to Germany this time, I couldn't sit still.

Ning Yaxian is Zhou Buqi's great secretary, she has already communicated with Ziweixing's administrative department, contacted Germany's largest IT company SAP in advance, and arranged a time for Boss Zhou's friendly visit.

There are 7 people in their group, Zhou Buqi, Aunt Xue, Xue Baoshan, Wu Yu, Ning Yameng, Ning Yaxian and her daughter Ning Xinxin.

In the evening, two presidential suites were opened.

Very luxurious.

Aunt Xue, Ning Yaxian and Ning Xinxin lived together, and Zhou Buqi lived in another room with other girls. The main difference is that those who can serve the bed live together, while those who cannot serve the bed live together.

However, even if they live separately, Zhou Buqi can't neglect them too much. As the head of the family, as the only man in the family, he takes care of everyone.

Especially Ning Yaxian, she is pregnant, so she has to be more considerate.

Ning Yaxian is a mature and intellectual beauty, not hypocritical, after putting her daughter to sleep, she sat down and chatted with Aunt Xue.

Zhou Buqi appeared, "What are you talking about?"

Ning Yaxian said: "Tomorrow's arrangement, let's go to SAP's headquarters and let them go to Stuttgart. Well, the headquarters is in a small city below Stuttgart."

"It's so strange." Zhou Buqi couldn't understand the thinking of Germans. "This kind of world-class technology giant doesn't move to a big city, but stays in a small county."

Ning Yaxian pursed her lips, "The Germans don't care about that."

"I guess it's war trauma, and I don't dare to compare myself. It's good to be alive."

"How is it like what you said?"

Ning Yaxian rolled her eyes at him.

Zhou Buqi laughed, "Auntie, shall we have a glass of red wine?"

Aunt Xue said angrily: "What are you drinking? Ya Xian is pregnant with a baby."

Zhou Buqi said: "She won't drink it, let's drink it, it's not for a drink, go! This red wine is standard in the suite, and we spent money on it. Isn't it a waste if you don't drink it?"

Aunt Xue glared at him fiercely, but got up to open the red wine.

Zhou Buqi put his arms around Ning Yaxian's waist, put his hand into her clothes, and gently stroked her stomach, "How is it? Is there any reaction?"

Ning Yaxian said sweetly: "It's okay, the baby is very good."

Zhou Buqi frowned, "If you're so good, you can't be another girl, right?"

Ning Yaxian was angry and funny, "You don't favor boys over girls."

Zhou Buqi sighed, then slid his hands up, and said, "Forget it, I'll check our daughter so that she won't be hungry after birth. If it doesn't work, I have to hire two wet nurses."

Ning Yaxian was a little annoyed, "Fuck you, it's enough to feed you together!"

Zhou Buqi laughed loudly, "You said it!"

Aunt Xue might come over at any time, Ning Yaxian was not too embarrassed, so she pulled his hand out, and talked about the business, "Go to SAP tomorrow, you can talk more with their boss, Mr. Ditmar Hope football."

"Oh, he's also a fan?"

"Not just fans?"

Zhou Buqi was a little surprised, "He also has a team?"

Ning Yaxian pursed her lips, "Not only that!"

"What's the meaning?"

"When he was young, he was a striker for the Hoffenheim team. After he stopped playing football, he joined IBM as an engineer. Later, he left IBM to start his own business and founded the SAP software company. With the money, he bought Hoffenheim and is the big boss of the team."

"No wonder!"

Zhou Buqi is a fan, so he suddenly thought of something.

This Mr. Hope was miserable in Germany, and even encountered death threats at one point. Not for his tech career, but football club Hoffenheim.

The Bundesliga has a "50+1" policy, which means that the team should be decided by the fans, not the owner. As a result, Mr. Hope owns 96% of Hoffenheim's shares, but cannot have decision-making power over the team. He is obviously a super rich man, and he wants to invest more money in the team and buy some excellent players to make the team better and better, but he can't do it. Later, when he proposed to change the "50+1" policy of the Bundesliga, he was scolded by German fans, and extreme fans even threatened to kill him.

This is completely two extremes with the Premier League.

In Premier League clubs, fans have no right to speak at all, and the bosses are like vampires, constantly sucking blood from the club. The Bundesliga is completely the opposite. The boss wants to inject capital or give money.

However, Zhou Buqi also discovered the power of German football from this incident.

Can a professional player go to IBM as a technical engineer after retiring? Can you still succeed in starting a business and make SAP, the world's largest software giant?

Football is a brain game.

The domestic players are all stupid kids who know nothing about learning, and they can only play football when they can't learn. How can you play creative and imaginative balls on the court if your brain is not working?

Another example is the son of Manchester United CEO David Gill. He is currently the best player in Manchester United's youth training, no worse than Welbeck. However, the club did not pay enough attention to him. Because this kid doesn't want to play professional football, he will retire after graduating from high school, and then go to the United States to study in college. He wants to work in the financial industry.

Basic education and football still have to be deeply integrated and developed simultaneously, and it is impossible to fall behind at all.

Zhou Buqi also had to sigh with emotion, the influence of football in Europe is too great!

Wherever you go, football will come in handy.

The acquisition of Manchester United is really the right move.

With the common hobby of football, Zhou Buqi can establish a personal friendship with Mr. Hope, and then promote a series of business cooperation between Ziweixing and SAP.

At this time, Aunt Xue came over with two glasses of red wine, handed Zhou Buqi a glass, and asked incomprehensibly, "Isn't Ziweixing an Internet company, and they also want to make software?"

Zhou Buqi said with a smile: "It's not software, it's... well, they mainly make ERP software, oriented to enterprise users. Ziwei Star has also established a new enterprise service department. It wants to develop cloud computing. It has customers and Data has resources and can help them sell software."

This is only one aspect.

SAP is a world-class software giant with strong management experience and technical engineering. This is Germany, not Silicon Valley. Germany has always been very friendly to China, and the technological blockade is not so strict. Domestic high-speed rail projects rely on their help. If the two parties deepen their cooperation, maybe Ziweixing can send a technical team to study in the future.

Moreover, Ziweixing was originally a major customer of SAP, and the company's human resources system was purchased from them.

Aunt Xue didn't understand even more. She is a pure layman, so she is easily influenced by domestic public opinion. "Aren't you going to promote domestic software? You help foreign companies sell software like this, okay?"

"Well……"

Zhou Buqi didn't know what to say.

Ning Yaxian chuckled and said, "Then it must be at the same level, right? You can't just use inferior domestic software to make the company's business mess up in order to support domestic production, right?"

"Really?" Aunt Xue was a little confused, "Didn't it mean that domestic software is already very powerful?"

Ning Yaxian shook her head, "The ones that are truly powerful don't need publicity at all. Choose Huawei for base stations, Lenovo for computers, Gree for air conditioners, and Haier for refrigerators. Because they are not powerful, they have to constantly use public opinion to guide them. Non-market competition. It doesn’t cost money to shout slogans, but you have to pay real money for consumption, and you have to vote with your feet.”

Zhou Buqi added, "The gap between domestic software and the world's software giants is no smaller than that of the chip industry. Moreover, it is not only a technical issue, but also a business environment, brand and credibility issues."

"What's the meaning?"

"That's... Well, in fact, in the field of ERP software, domestic software has already accounted for half of the country, which is a crushing advantage to foreign software giants. But after refining the data, you will find that small and medium-sized enterprises often choose domestic software, because of the price. It is cheap and easy to operate. However, big companies, not only foreign companies and private companies, but also central and state-owned companies, all choose foreign software. Mainly SAP, Oracle, and IBM.”

This time, even Ning Yaxian didn't understand much, and asked: "Why? Even state-owned enterprises have to purchase foreign software? Many domestic ERP software companies are themselves state-owned enterprises, right?"

Zhou Buqi paused, "Because it's not safe."

"What?"

Ning Yaxian was a little puzzled.

It’s not easy for Zhou Buqi to say more, this is the privacy of the industry, and it would be bad if Aunt Xue leaked it, so he gave an example: “For example, our Yuanwei milk tea shop is a national chain and digital office. It uses SAP’s financial ERP software that integrates , personnel, procurement and marketing. If you use domestically produced software, guess what will happen?"

Ning Yaxian looked surprised, Aunt Xue was at a loss.

Zhou Buqi said: "A lot of data are commercial secrets. For example, if the data in Wudaokou area is particularly good and eye-catching, it means that a branch can be opened in this area. If the data in Liudaokou, Qidaokou, and Badaokou areas are compared Poor, it means that these places cannot open branches. This is the most valuable business data obtained from the personal experiments of Yuanwei Milk Tea Shop. But this kind of thing often happens, some companies’ business data is leaked through ERP software, and is The competitor bought it from the software company. Putting it on the Yuanwei milk tea shop, it may be that the competitor opened a branch in Wudaokou in advance and avoided all areas with poor sales. In this way, the competitiveness of the competitor It will be greatly improved, and it is possible to use the data of Yuanwei milk tea shop to destroy Yuanwei milk tea shop.”

Ning Yaxian exhaled and nodded lightly, "Yes, the development time of the domestic commercial market is too short, and business ethics have not been established, so we can only use foreign products. Now the domestic shelves are all foreign products. milk."

Aunt Xue also understood, she had experienced it herself, "It's true, I met a wife in a beauty salon, and her family made dairy products. She said that she only eats her own products overseas and sells them domestically. never eat it."