Please make money.

"Yes, yes, then I'll make the contact. Should I meet Boss Jiang first or the princess first?"

"Come together, Boss Jiang and I will go to the Grand Palace to meet the princess."

"Princess Sirindhorn is a good person. She will definitely like you, Miss. You have helped Siam fight against international hot money and supported agriculture. Shouldn't she give you a big medal of friendship?" An Lele has already seen the future of Alia's popularity in Siam, just like she has gained enough reputation in the book.

Now Yuan Gu and Consortium B still receive dozens of letters to Alia every day, and the several houses she bought are full of them.

"Maybe." Alia scratched her face uncomfortably. This matter was a bit too ridiculous. "Well, change your clothes to black. Black shows respect."

"Black? Really?"

"Hmm... Do you think it would be a bit too conspicuous to put another white flower on my arm?"

"...???"

277-Boss Jiang! That's not allowed!

It was already afternoon when Alia saw Boss Jiang again.

Jiang Tianyi was very confused - what are you wearing?

Compared to Jiang Tianyi, who was dressed in a formal suit and looked very serious, Ailia was a little too serious.

This kind of black suit makes you look like you are going to pay your respects, and if you put some white on your arm, others will feel ashamed if they don't observe a few minutes of silence together if they see it.

The two met in the reception room of the Grand Palace. Boss Jiang was accompanied by Johnson and Broken Tooth, while An Lele was still by Alia's side as usual.

"I heard that you were bullied recently?"

Alia leaned over mysteriously and asked, "Did you offend a villain?"

Jiang Tianyi rolled his eyes, showing disdain for Alia who was not well-informed: "I have solved it."

Even Xinchai was killed and the Laofo Temple was destroyed. What else do you want after taking revenge to this extent?

But can I tell this silly girl all this?

Boss Jiang crossed his arms and said, "I am not interested in your direct purchase base plan, but I want to meet Princess Sirindhorn, so I'm on the way."

"Don't be like that." Alia rubbed her hands and said, "I think it's a good idea to set up a direct purchase base here, so that we won't be strangled by suppliers."

"First, there are so many suppliers in China. If the bottleneck group refuses to cooperate, we can just replace them with another group."

Jiang Tianyi picked up the teacup and took a sip, then frowned, looked at the cup, and put it down.

"Second, the number of goods that Siam can supply is too small. Apart from a small amount of agricultural products and fresh produce, there is nothing else. Tropical fruits are in season, and jasmine rice is too expensive and its sales are not high. Frozen fresh produce is not bad, but have you calculated the cost?"

"I've calculated it, I've made some money!"

"…What are you thinking? If you buy goods worth 100 yuan from the supplier, you can make 20 yuan, but if you buy directly yourself, you can only make 15 yuan."

“But if you buy directly, the quality is guaranteed!”

“Does this have anything to do with making money?”

“Business will be better if quality is guaranteed!”

"Business has something to do with customer flow, shipment volume, and product selection, but it has nothing to do with quality assurance."

It sounds paradoxical and counterintuitive, but this is indeed the current situation of fresh food.

Because fresh produce is not standardized and scaled, even if suppliers select, sort and grade the produce, there will still be differences in the products.

So many times, buying fresh food is like opening a blind box. The quality is particularly good one time, so you happily repurchase it, but you end up getting cheated the second time you spend money.

Or it can be said that it is not really a scam, it’s just that the quality is indeed defective. But the problem is that no one knows what the problem is until it is made and eaten.

The most typical example is crabs with shells, such as king crabs. If you are lucky, the meat is plump and each leg is worth the price of the ticket.

I was unlucky and ended up opening an empty shell. Its only purpose was to take photos, check in, and then curse the merchant for being unscrupulous in the comment section.

The quality of these agricultural products cannot be fully guaranteed. The biggest reason is that most specialized fresh food supermarkets lack a unified and stable supply chain of fresh products.

Without establishing its own fresh agricultural product base, it can only act as an intermediary in the entire process of purchasing and supplying goods, and has no ability to set standards.

But the problem is - supermarkets are intermediaries - why do they have to provide one-stop service from start to finish?

Therefore, you must have your own reasonable positioning when doing business. The final outcome of being both a father and a mother can only be a thankless task, with high costs and low profits, and the business will collapse.

Jiang Tianyi felt that Alia was very naive, even to the point of being laughable.

Tianrun Department Store’s procurement chain is already first-class in the country, and it has not said that it has any plans to become its own fresh product supply base. Hasn’t it assessed the risks?

Your Aili supermarket has more than 30 small chain stores with a total of 7,000 to 8,000 employees. Even if they are open, they cannot meet Tianhai’s consumer demand. How much goods can they consume?

If she wants to do direct purchasing, she can only produce high-quality products and go the high-end route, but her brand Aili is well-known for its good service and fair prices.

If she does it well, she will damage her own reputation. If she doesn't do it well, it will be just throwing money away.

After all, consumers vote with their feet. When choosing between premium shrimps at 80 yuan a pound and frozen shrimps at 30 yuan a pound, it is okay to grit your teeth and eat the former occasionally, but the latter is the one that can really sell in large quantities. Supermarkets should focus more on shipping and controlling suppliers, rather than being the invisible mother in consumers' homes and worrying about it.

Ailia didn't understand this logic. In the past, the more than 30 supermarkets only had an annual profit of 100 million yuan, but this year they probably lost even 100 million yuan and had to lose money.

Jiang Tianyi picked up the teacup, then put it down again - this stuff tasted like Fengyoujing...

Ailia held the teacup and sipped it. Jiang Tianyi's eyes widened at her indifference to the food.

The green tea in Siam has a lot of strange spices added to it, such as lemongrass, so people who are not used to it really can't drink it.

As for Alia... there's probably nothing she can't eat.

There were some snacks on hand in the reception room - of course not durian cakes, but chestnut cakes, mung bean cakes and the like.

I have to say that the pastry chef at the Grand Palace is really good. Alia enjoyed the meal very much.

Jiang Tianyi sat nearby and waited. Seeing that Ailia had biscuit crumbs all around her mouth, he sighed and took out a napkin very naturally.

"I've told you so many times, don't rush, eat as much as you want..."

She muttered, reached out to wipe the biscuit crumbs from the corner of Alia's mouth, and then froze on the spot.

--broken!!

She mistook Alia for Ye Tianxin!

Ailia was also stunned. She blinked, looked at Boss Jiang, and then looked at the napkin in the other's hand.

There were even saliva marks on it from the corners of his mouth - is this an appetizer that can be broadcast to a healthy age group? !

Alia suddenly jumped three feet high and retreated in panic, like a frightened little rabbit.

Let’s put it this way, the black boxing champion Tasong’s legs have titanium alloy plates embedded in them, but they are no more powerful than a napkin.

If he had been able to force Alia to retreat three steps away, he would have been able to brag about two and a half boxes of wine before the King of Hell.

An Lele looked at Boss Jiang, then at Alia, then at Boss Jiang again, and took a breath.

But immediately he showed a hehe expression.

It’s not impossible, right?

At that time, Emperor Wu of Han Dynasty was able to find Wei Zifu, and she brought the largest dowry in history. After all, Boss Jiang has a net worth of at least 200 billion, which is not inferior to the eldest lady.

Johnson's eyes widened, as if he was surprised as to why His Majesty surrendered first.

Only Beng Ya Xiong was calm, saying that it was possible that the eldest lady had mistaken the person for Miss Xin?

He even had time to yawn secretly, his eyes glancing at the guards patrolling outside the window.

I don’t know if it’s an illusion, but the guards in the Grand Palace are so tight. Are they guarding against someone?

He just vaguely saw the roof of an armored vehicle passing by the edge of the wall...

Jiang Tianyi took back the napkin and forced himself to sit down: "Don't embarrass the Chinese people outside. Do you want others to think that we can't afford it?"

Alia heaved a sigh of relief...

So that's how it is. Why didn't you tell me earlier?

I thought you were going to seduce me, but it turns out you just want to save face. That's easy.

Alia quickly wiped her mouth and sat up straight: "Hmmmm--"

Jiang Tianyi awkwardly lifted the hair beside his ears to hide his slightly hot ears.

She has never wanted Ailia and Ye Tianxin to meet, and this time she didn't even bring Ye Tianxin out. It's hard to explain the reason.

If I have to say something, it is probably because Ye Tianxin and Alia are so similar. Except for a birthmark at the corner of their eye, they are almost the same person.

You said that you finally have a sister, but she is more like someone else's sister. How can this be?

Boss Jiang, who has been strong all his life, cannot accept that Ye Tianxin has turned to Alia's arms, even though they seem to be unaware of each other's existence.

But now she is like the overbearing prince, emperor, president, etc. who takes care of the amnesiac heroine in the female-oriented novels. She would rather hide Alia's existence from Ye Tianxin than let her become curious and get into trouble.

What's mine is mine, and you, Alia, can't take it away from me!

Arya—well, Arya knew nothing about it—and wouldn't have felt anything if she had known.

Ailia's perception has always been that what I give you is yours, and you can't take what I don't give you. She can't be said to be in sync with Boss Jiang, and they are basically in opposing camps.

You said that it's fine to cooperate occasionally, but if you meet each other normally and don't put any pressure on each other, that's a testimony of friendship.

This doesn't mean you and I are in love all of a sudden, right? It's not appropriate, it's not in accordance with Zhou Li...

The atmosphere in the living room gradually became subtle, mainly because Alia moved away a little bit every time she sat down.

Her behavior really made Jiang Tianyi feel embarrassed. The little bit of charm that he had at the beginning had long since disappeared, and now only anger was left.

Can I still eat you?!

Looking at Alia, who had already sat across the long table and developed an international style of two people sitting at a conference table, Jiang Tianyi clenched the napkin in his hand.

An Lele, the leader of the CP who doesn't care about food or drink, is thinking about how to support this couple. It seems that it is not impossible for them to love and hate each other.

It seems that I really need to cooperate more with Boss Jiang, so that I can contribute to Miss Hongzhuang's attack on seizing the other party's family business in the future.

After a short and agonizing wait, a young lady who looked like an assistant came in and took Alia and Jiang Tianyi to meet Princess Sirindhorn.

The latter was reading documents in a garden under the sun. She seemed to be in poor health as she sat in a wheelchair. She wore reading glasses and read the documents in her hands while talking to two middle-aged men in suits beside her. The latter nodded and bowed from time to time, looking very book-like.

Ailia pushed up her non-existent glasses and thought, isn't this the executive director of Sumitomo Bank?

It seems that Princess Sirindhorn has begun to intervene in the international hot money shorting the Thai baht...

After waiting for a few minutes, Sirindhorn watched the other party leave before receiving Alia and the others.

"You two, welcome to Siam." Princess Sirindhorn spoke in Mandarin with almost no accent.

If you just listen to the voice, it's hard to imagine that this is a foreigner.

Jiang Tianyi clasped his hands together and said, "It's a pleasure to meet you, Princess."

Alia followed suit, looking like Jiang Tianyi's little follower.

Jiang Tianyi originally had no intention of messing around with Alia, such as agricultural bases, direct purchase models, and central logistics warehousing.

But perhaps her previous actions made her lose her mind, and Ai Daji managed to beg for a little bit of preferential treatment from Boss Jiang.

Although the scale is much smaller than Alia's investment of tens of billions of hot money income, it is only tens of millions, but it is also a positive start, isn't it?

Princess Sirindhorn was very happy and seemed much happier than before when she was negotiating a business deal worth billions of dollars with those guys.

"That's right, that's right. Low grain prices hurt farmers, and high rice prices hurt people. What exactly went wrong? Perhaps through this excellent business model to allocate resources, we can solve some of the problems. To the best of my ability, I will give you my greatest support. I really hope to see good results. The quality of our agricultural products is excellent, and the whole world knows it!"

The gap between the export value of Siam's agricultural products and the terminal profit after sale is terribly large.

Although there are a lot of logistics, warehousing, transportation, selection and grading costs involved, it is also a fact that we have to face that the middlemen make a lot of money from the price difference.

Boss Jiang sighed imperceptibly - forget it, just consider it as a good relationship with Princess Sirindhorn.

The other side attaches great importance to agriculture, and what they are most concerned about is the issue of people's food. In this regard, Alia has a common language with them.

Princess Sirindhorn reluctantly held them and talked for a long time, especially about the direct procurement base plan brought by Alia. She looked at it again and again and was very happy.

"In this way, the annual income of farmers who provide agricultural products can even increase by 50%. Miss Ai, your plan is really great!"

How happy she was. The more she looked at Alia, the more she liked her - compared to those international hot money insects, such down-to-earth foreign businessmen engaged in industry were the foreign capital they needed. The previous preferential bank policies were all prepared for these people, but how did they become tools of international hot money financial speculators?

Arya smiled wryly, looking overly shy.

Jiang Tianyi glanced sideways repeatedly. Alia looked very strange, at least completely different from the Alia she had in mind.

In her mind, Alia was a person who was unbridled and would call and curse at her mother if she disagreed with something.

It's like now, no matter how you look at it, it's a white lotus that grows out of the mud without being stained...