industrial overlord

Chapter 616 Santa Cruz
Jin Jianbo won a bet with Lin Zhenhua when he was young, and finally bet himself in prison.After squatting in a dark room for several years, his personality has become much calmer, and he has gained more understanding of the world and human relationships.

After he was released from prison, he rejected Lin Zhenhua's offer to hire him to manage a factory in the Northeast, and insisted on going to Africa to develop, which is also with the intention of making a comeback.For Lin Zhenhua, although Jin Jianbo has long lost his jealousy, he still regards him as his target of pursuit.He is determined to rely on his own strength to make a career that is not weaker than Lin Zhenhua, so as to wash away the shame on himself.

Africa is fertile ground for entrepreneurs.The economy here is underdeveloped, the per capita income is not high, but at the same time there are few competitors, and many markets are in a vacuum, which is suitable for starting a business.Jin Jianbo spent several years in Africa very difficult years, but also achieved fruitful results.Now he already owns a large company with assets reaching tens of millions of dollars, and its business scope covers seven or eight countries in West Africa.

As he said to Lu Qihong and others, in addition to the trade he did when he first made his fortune, he is now also involved in real estate and infrastructure projects, which are very profitable.Jin Jianbo's own ability is still very strong, and there are no constraints in interpersonal relationships in his company, so he has done smoothly, and his business volume has almost doubled year after year, with a bright future.

This time I ran into Wang Shuijin on the street, and Jin Jianbo felt kind, but also showing off.He specially invited Wang Shuijin and his party to his company, in order to let him see his current situation, and then use his mouth to go back to the original Jiang Shidian to promote it.The last memory that Jin Jianbo left for Jiang Shidian was the image of being handcuffed by the police. He hoped that the news that Wang Shuijin brought back would make everyone forget that memory.

Jin Jianbo has such thoughts, but it cannot be regarded as vanity or hypocrisy. Everyone has self-esteem, and people like Jin Jianbo who have achieved success at a young age have especially strong self-esteem.Of course, Wang Shuijin is indeed a big talker. Afterwards, he used the opportunity of returning to China for vacation to talk about his experience in the former Jiangshidian and the current Hanhua Refrigeration Equipment Company, which won a lot of praise and envy for Jin Jianbo.

Jin Jianbo really cared about the affairs of Hanhua. He told Lu Qihong that his company had a blood relationship with Hanhua. Lin Zhenhua had lent him the 10 yuan of capital when he first started his business, so he had to give it to Hanhua. some return.

After a sumptuous luncheon, Jin Jianbo personally accompanied Lu Qihong and others to Lagos to choose the venue of Hanhua Sales Center.As expected, his local connections are much wider than those of newcomers like Lu Qihong. Without much effort, he found a real estate with good quality and low price, including facade, office space, living space, parking lot, etc. Including, it is only more than 20 US dollars a year, which is completely in line with Lu Qihong's original budget.

"Thank you very much, Mr. Jin. This has helped us a lot." Lu Qihong shook Jin Jianbo's hand, thanked him repeatedly, and said that he must report to the headquarters as soon as possible, especially to Mr. Lin about Mr. Jin's kindness.

"Hehe, if you write a report to Zhenhua, don't forget to say hello to him for me." Jin Jianbo said.

"Definitely, definitely." Lu Qihong replied.

"By the way, are you going to recruit some local employees to open a sales center? What are your plans in this regard?" Jin Jianbo asked again with concern.

Lu Qihong said: "As soon as the venue is confirmed, we will start publishing recruitment notices in newspapers and prepare to recruit 20 local employees."

Jin Jianbo thought for a while and said: "Africans are relatively simple and honest, and their way of thinking is simple. This is their advantage. But the disadvantage is that the spirit of bearing hardships and standing hard work is not as good as our Chinese, especially because they don't like to use their brains. It's embarrassing to use them. Of course, this It's just a common phenomenon, and it doesn't rule out that there are some smart and hardworking black people, but you have to screen them, and the cost is a bit too high.

If Manager Lu doesn't mind, I can recommend some of my capable employees to you. First, I will help you lay the groundwork. In the future, if you cultivate suitable people yourself, then let them come back to me.what do you think? "

"This is really a timely gift, Mr. Jin, you have considered us too thoroughly." Lu Qihong said sincerely.

The most difficult part of operating in a foreign country is cross-cultural management.Prior to this, Lu Qihong and others had been worrying about how to recruit black employees and how to manage them.In the past, Hanhua had the experience of recruiting black employees in Africa, but there were very few people with this experience, and they could not be assigned to various sales centers.Among the three members of Lu Qihong and his party, only Wang Shuijin had done projects in Africa and had little contact with black people. As for the experience of managing black people, it was completely blank.

Now, Jin Jianbo expressed his willingness to send a few black people from his company to help Lu Qihong, which solved Lu Qihong's biggest problem.The people sent by Jin Jianbo are naturally honest and reliable, and they have been used in Jin Jianbo's hands for such a long time, and they have been fully adjusted.Letting these people be the core of the black workforce in the sales center can reduce many communication troubles. Jin Jianbo is indeed too thoughtful in this regard.

While Lu Qihong and the others are slowly taking root, other sales teams of Hanhua are also traveling around the world, preparing to set up camp.A four-person team led by sales manager Fang Lei had just arrived in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, South America.

Santa Cruz is the provincial capital of Santa Cruz Province in eastern Bolivia. The province covers an area of ​​37 square kilometers and is the largest province in Bolivia. It is geographically part of the Amazon rainforest.The province has a population of more than 200 million, with well-developed agriculture and mining, but its industry has just started.

A few years ago, the sales team led by Chu Hongyang signed an order to build a large-scale fertilizer plant in Santa Cruz Province, which opened the door for Hanhua to enter this area.In the following years, Hanhua Group built a pharmaceutical factory and several machinery factories here, gradually opening up the situation.During this trip, Fang Lei and others will establish a sales center here. In addition to providing technical services for the previously built factories, they will also continue to expand the market and strive for more orders.

There is no direct flight from Santa Cruz to China, and even the whole of Bolivia has no direct flight from China.Fang Lei and his party first flew to Peru, then changed trains and cars, and finally came to this city located on the plateau on the east side of the Andes Mountains.

The city of Santa Cruz covers a large area, and the roads in the city are criss-cross, like a maze.Sitting in the taxi, Fang Lei counted curiously. Within less than a mile, he saw six intersecting roads, and the entire city was cut into thousands of small squares by these roads.

The chatty taxi driver introduced them like tongue twisters: This is Parl Street, this is Rene_Moreno Street, this is Independercia Street, this is Velasco Road, this is Colon Road... Cui Linmei, the Spanish translator in the team, only translates It takes only a few minutes to lose the battle. This kind of work is really not humanly capable.

Looking through the car window, there are no tall buildings on both sides of the road, and there are dotted with South American-style pointed huts. There are big trees with luxuriant branches in front of and behind the houses, which looks quite wild.The pedestrians on the side of the road are all potbellied and leisurely, and they don't see the scene of people coming and going in a hurry like in the capital city of China.

"This city is really big." Fang Lei said with emotion, "It's been so long and we're still in the suburbs.... Uh, Mr. Driver, how far are we from the city center now?"

He asked the driver the last sentence through Cui Linmei. Before this trip, he had practiced Spanish for several months, but he was still a little powerless when it came to applying it.

The driver turned his head and looked out the window, and said proudly, "This is the city center!"

"This is the city center!" The people in the car were shocked, and they all went to the window to look out. Well, it seemed that they saw some light box advertisements in front of the small bungalows, and there were supermarkets like canteens. It's neat enough, and the other thing is that it's quiet... Or call it deserted.

"Manager Fang, did we get the wrong place?" Dong Yongjian, a young technician, muttered, "This place, not to mention Nandu, is not as good as our hometown Fenghua."

Fang Lei and Dong Yongjian are both the children of the original Hanhua Machinery Factory, and they have some feelings for Fenghua.As a small county, Fenghua has gradually developed in the past few years. Dozens of 10-storey buildings have been built, which indeed look much more modern than Santa Cruz.

"You don't understand this. Foreign cities focus on natural beauty and idyllic life. Unlike our Chinese cities, each one is a jungle made of steel and concrete. I am so aggrieved. I like Santa Cruz. This place." Cui Linmei said with an obsessed look on her face.She is worthy of a foreign language background, and her mood is obviously very different from that of Fang Lei.

"But we're here to sell equipment, okay?" Dong Yongjian retorted, "It's just a city like a big village, it doesn't look like an industrial city. In my opinion, our business will definitely not get better."

"This is what Manager Fang is thinking about." Cui Linmei said with a smile.

"That's not true. If our performance is not good, the bonus will be reduced. This is a matter that involves the vital interests of each of us." Wang Yumei, another technician, said.

As the leader of the group, Fang Lei naturally wanted to put on a show, and he said to everyone: "What do you know, the group sent us here not just to sell machines, our main task is... "

Speaking of this, he drew a long tone and put on a sophisticated look.

"What is it?" The other three asked together.

"Iron mine! Mutong iron mine!" Fang Lei said, shaking his fist.

(End of this chapter)