Li Mu drives Zhao Ziqiu's Mercedes Benz S-class and follows Zhao Xianliang's Rolls Royce to his company.
Zhao Xianliang's company name is Zhongliang trading group. It sounds like a trade company that buys and sells. But unexpectedly, the company has a huge comprehensive building complex in the outskirts of Hangzhou.
The whole Zhongliang Trading Group has two 12 storey high-rise office buildings, and the two storey high-rise office buildings are linked with a six storey building, which can accommodate at least thousands of people to work here.
Zhao Xianliang, as the chairman of Zhongliang trading group, has a dedicated floor here, even his own dedicated elevator. Just his office, the actual area is more than 100 meters, which is extremely luxurious. This also makes Li Mu really realize the biggest difference between the entity entrepreneurs and the Internet entrepreneurs, that is, the former is the real rich people, surrounded by piles of them All of them are real gold and white gold; the latter, like himself, can only be regarded as Mr. digital, which is really powerful.
Because all the way is a special channel for Zhao Xianliang. Until he sits in Zhao Xianliang's office, Li Mu doesn't really see the scale of the company's personnel. He just guesses from his heart that it's nothing to plug 5000 people into such a huge office. The per capita office area of an Internet company is no more than five square meters. If you use that density, it's Basically, we can plug in half Zhongguancun.
Zhao Ziqiu followed his mother Xieyun to her office at this time. The two women did this to leave room for two men to talk about their careers in private. Zhao Xianliang took two bottles of imported bubble water from the refrigerator of his office, handed one of them to Li Mu, and asked him, "guess how many people are staying in the headquarters base?"
Li Mu said, "look at this scale, say at least a few thousand people?"
Zhao Xianliang smiled and said, "more than 500 people."
After hearing this, Li Mu's eyes almost dropped: "more than 500 people?? Is that two or three floors enough? "
Zhao Xianliang nodded: "yes, if it is properly arranged, three levels are enough, but the whole China Liang trade group has more than 10000 employees nationwide, but most of them are scattered all over the country."
As Zhao Xianliang said, "most of the business of Zhongliang Trading Group is coal and iron and steel. In terms of coal, there are coal mines, coal preparation plants and coal mine self built power plants that have their own investment or share, and at the same time, they also derive investment in electrolytic aluminum production enterprises; in terms of steel, we also invest and share in some private steel plants, iron ores, and also import iron ores."
Li Mu is astonished. He didn't know the scale of Zhao Xianliang's industry before. Today, he knows that the industry he was engaged in is so huge. It's all about energy and steel.
However, Li Mu was also surprised that Hangzhou is not a resource-based city. Why is there such an energy and steel industry group as Zhongliang trading group?
According to Li Mu's superficial understanding of the Chinese economy, most of the coal industry and steel industry in China are concentrated in the north, while the South accounts for a relatively small proportion. Because he is engaged in the coal industry, Li Mu knows that there are almost no large-scale coal mines in the south of the Yangtze River, most of the coal is concentrated in North China, a small number in the southwest, and the number of coal mines in East China is still small The coal reserves are very low.
In addition, the steel industry is the same. There is only one Baosteel in East China and in Shanghai, HANGGANG is very small and its share in the whole Chinese steel industry is negligible.
Therefore, on the whole, enterprises like China Liang trade group should appear in North China rather than here.
Zhao Xianliang also seemed to see his doubts and said with a smile, "you must want to ask me why you put Zhongliang Trading Group in Hangzhou, right?"
Li Mu said, "you must have your consideration in doing so. I don't know much about the real industry and dare not speculate."
Zhao Xianliang said with a smile, "actually speaking, it's just a trick."
Zhao Xianliang then said, "I don't have any special feelings for Hangzhou. I don't want to root my career here, but for many objective reasons."
"First of all, the business relationship I have been operating in Hangzhou for so many years is here. In Hangzhou, the whole Zhejiang Province, I will have a lot of convenience in doing things."
"second, enterprises like Zhongliang are common in the north, but they are very rare in Hangzhou. Although the industry of Zhongliang is all over the country, except that the business tax of local enterprises is declared locally, All the taxes related to trade are declared from Hangzhou. For Hangzhou city government, Zhongliang trade group is a rare energy enterprise and a big taxpayer, and all kinds of preferential policies are very easy to operate. "
"In addition to these two points, the rest is that their wives like Hangzhou better. I also think Hangzhou is more livable and more comfortable to live here than in the north."
Li Mu nodded his head. It seems that Zhao Xianliang managed Hangzhou as a base camp.
Zhao Xianliang then said: "take this headquarters base as an example. It was originally designed and built on the scale of 10000 people. The Hangzhou city government approved it with a very low price as a preferential policy. Compared with the actual value, that price is basically equivalent to free of charge. Although there are only a few hundred permanent staff in the headquarters, Zhongliang trading group actually has over ten thousand employees. I will build the headquarters base on this scale, and no one can say anything. ""Moreover, it is built here and put here. With the continuous growth of land price, its value is also rising. Coal and steel are two very complex industries, which are changing rapidly and changing day by day. However, no matter what, it's a real estate with extremely low cost and great space to rise. If I can't retreat in the future, this headquarters base alone will be enough for me to give Ziqiu and her mother a lifetime of stability. "
Li Mu admires Zhao Xianliang very much. Whether the real industry wants to be easy or not, it focuses on asset development in the whole process. Whether it's industry risk or policy risk, it's a very powerful thing to be able to achieve such a scale in this industry. What's more, his thinking is extremely agile and comprehensive, and he can live in peace and think of danger.
Zhao Xianliang can't help but remind Li Mu, saying: "taking advantage of the fact that your Taobao website is so valued by the government, you should also strive for some favorable resources from the Yanjing municipal government. It's better to build the headquarters base on one piece of land. In Yanjing, a piece of land plus office buildings will be a billion level asset in the future. Take advantage of the current domestic Internet The enterprise is short of venture and you are an outstanding one. Hurry up to get some resources and hoard them. "
Li Mu nodded and said: "you are right. I wanted to take the time to communicate with Yanjing municipal government to see if I could solve a batch of Yanjing settlement targets for my two major enterprises. I understand that my appetite is too small..."
Zhao Xianliang said with a smile, "you must have a big appetite. No matter how delicious or how bad it is, you can eat it first."
"Don't think that you are cheating and occupying national resources. As an enterprise with goals, ideals and aspirations, you should get the support of the government and use the support of the government to develop the enterprise better. This is the mutual benefit and cooperation between the enterprise and the government. If you don't try to fight for it, a large number of other enterprises will fight for it, Even for the support of the government
Li Mu agreed: "it is true that more and more enterprises rely on government subsidies to survive."
Zhao Xianliang said: "this kind of thing is so common that every enterprise needs sufficient resources to support its development. Why is the concept of high and new technology so popular? Isn't it because it can give local governments a high-level look and apply for more favorable resources? Now you two Internet enterprises are the top in China. Use the signboards of these two enterprises, find more local governments, show more kindness, communicate more and cry more with the local governments. If the local governments can give you two enterprises a lot of land, turn your head to find a bank, use a little relationship to lend money, and then find a suitable construction party to help you build the office buildings, Don't forget that crying children only have milk to eat and the longer and faster they eat. "
Li Mu was really inspired when he saw Zhao Xianliang, the headquarters base, and heard what he said. After all, Zhao Xianliang was a businessman for 20 years. Zhao Xianliang's experience in business was much better than his own, and the experience he taught was very practical. He had a plan to build an office building for a long time. The reason why he didn't get on the horse all the time was that he took the land and the land for his own use The construction cost is too high, and it takes up too much cash flow. But after he mentioned it, Li Mu wanted to understand that there was a way to build office buildings without spending money, but he had never studied it in depth.
So Li Mu was particularly grateful to Zhao Xianliang and said, "thank you uncle Zhao for reminding me. After I go back this time, I will try to communicate with Yanjing municipal government and try to apply for a piece of land for each of the two enterprises. First, I will build the headquarters base."
Zhao Xianliang, with a face and a willing face, nodded lightly, saying, "the Internet industry is developing fast, but the faster the development, the bigger the bubble. I do not understand the Internet, but I can also imagine that most of your manpower and resources are developing the virtual products. Hundreds of people are busy with computer for several months, and hundreds of millions of dollars are smashed into them. It's just some virtual products on the network. If there's a market for the products, it's OK to say, if there's no market? So much investment will leave a pile of computers in the end? "
Li Mu nodded repeatedly: "you are right. Our money and energy have become virtual data on the Internet. If the product fails, these virtual data will become worthless. Some Internet enterprises have spent tens of millions or even more money on it. After a period of time, they will go bankrupt and go into liquidation, not even hundreds of thousands of dollars."
"That's why we need to live in peace." Zhao Xianliang sighed and said seriously, "hurry to contact with Yanjing municipal government. Now that the state has just given you so many favorable policies, Yanjing municipal government is looking forward to your door-to-door requests."