Walking in the corridor is like traveling through time and space to the old Shanghai Stock Exchange at the beginning of the century.

The geographical location happens to be at the bottom of the curved shoreline of the Huangpu River on the Bund. Fengshui masters once regarded this curved curve as a treasure pot. The Huangpu River at the door kept bringing wealth here.

When building this building, HSBC Bank people also specially invited Feng Shui masters to see it. It is said that many foreign gold coins were buried under the foundation, but they are still buried deep underground.

The heroes and celebrities and tycoons of the Shanghai Stock Exchange in those chaotic eras also walked the same path as Han Xuan. Just a few decades ago, this place was still in the concession. The land near the Bund was occupied by foreigners, and the shameful sign "Chinese and dogs are not allowed to enter". With the passage of time, it has now become a well-known landmark building community in the Shanghai Stock Exchange.

Although the building is called Snow Mountain Investment, Han Xuan’s private family offices, Star Investment, Animal Protection Charity Foundation, and even Trump’s real estate companies, the New York Times and Bloomberg News, have offices here.

Except for the companies he controls, other companies need to pay a certain amount of rent every year, not for them to use for nothing.

No. 12 Bund covers an area of ​​more than 9,000 square meters, with a construction area of ​​more than 20,000 square meters, with a total of five floors. It usually accommodates about 900 employees.

More than half of them are Chinese employed in China. They are elite figures of this era, and many of them have been studying.

Proficiency in English or other foreign languages ​​is a necessary requirement for most Chinese employees.

Starbucks, Hans Automobile Group, Hope Technology Group, Xueshan Real Estate and other Han Xuan companies are distributed in well-divided areas, and each company has a supervisor working here.

There is a total of one and a half floors of space underground. I wanted to transform it into a server storage library of Hope Technology, but the nearby parking spaces are difficult to find, so I need to keep them and convert them into underground parking lots for use by internal employees of the company.

On the other side of Lujiazui on the other side of the Huangpu River, the newly built building will be put into use in another two or three years. Therefore, some of the company's servers are currently temporarily stored in a warehouse in Baoshan District...

Mr. Mark Gronkowski, head of snow mountain investment, is the highest decision-maker of the head office in China. He is directly appointed and governed by CEO Anthony. Regional supervisors like him now have several continents except Africa and Antarctica.

When he arrived at the door of Mr. Gronkowski's office, he found that the door was not closed. Han Xuan personally interviewed the senior vice president who had jumped from HP last year. The two had met several times when they were in the United States.

After he went in, he casually said, "It's about to get off work. Are you free at noon? Let's go to the nearby meal together?"

Gronkowski was looking at the report. He had just been transferred to China for more than a month. Because of his unfamiliarity, he often worked overtime until late at night and looked haggard.

He looked up and saw Han Xuan and was very surprised and asked, "Boss, when did you come to China?"

I heard someone talk about you in Xiangjiang two days ago. There is an Italian restaurant next to you. The food is very delicious. I will book a location for you."

After saying that, he picked up the phone and asked his assistant to arrange it.

When he finished his work, Han Xuan sat on the sofa, looked up at the medals and certificates awarded to his company by the municipal government last year, turned around and asked Mr. Gronkowski, "How are you doing after coming to China? Do you have any business problems?"

“It’s awful.

It is very different from Europe and America, especially in governments, where the procedures are too troublesome at some point, and local businessmen don't like to abide by time and contracts.

Take Starbucks paper cups for example. After we customized 300,000 pieces, we realized that the quotation given by the manufacturer was 70% higher than that of the other one.

When I refused to cooperate with them again, the people from the factory came to me again and the offer I gave was only about 35% of the previous price, and I had no integrity at all.

The biggest headache for those salesmen is eating. They eat wherever they go to discuss business. They also like to drink red wine as water, and they can drink one cup at a sip.

Since the beginning of this year, more than a dozen people have been to the hospital because of this. One of my assistants has been drunk four times and resigned."

Mr. Gronkowski complained: "I read books about how to do business in China before, but later I found that it was not useful at all. Some of them can be changed here.

The advantage is that there are many consumers, very, very many. We previously expected Kirin Auto to sell 100,000 units this year, but the sales volume in the first quarter exceeded this number.

The business experience I learned at HP is not useful in China at all. I once thought that the market would be larger if the population is large, but now when I really come to China, I have a concept that is not yet clear.

Two weeks ago, our company held a coffee trial. We were going to deliver 5,000 servings, but later we found that it had not lasted for two hours, so we rushed to provide more.

I drank all the coffee beans in the warehouse in three days. This was still the case of reducing the supply. At first, the cup was full, but later it turned into half a cup.

Almost 120,000 people tasted Starbucks’ coffee in those days. After the news reports, Starbucks’ sales soared by 87% this week, which was unimaginable!

It feels that after multiplying all the numbers envisioned in the United States by ten, it is more in line with China's ideal scale.

In addition, I also learned a Chinese word called relationship. It turns out that it is not just about human interaction, but it is so complicated.

It took me a week to understand all the business forms in China, such as national, national and private cooperation, private and private cooperation, private and foreign cooperation, national and foreign cooperation, etc.

The law is incomplete and often involves the political level. Some 4S store franchisees have signed contracts with us and even demanded a price reduction.

My God!

Even if God comes to China to do business, he will be driven crazy!”

Han Xuan couldn't help laughing when he saw Gronkowsky's painful expression.

It is easy for Chinese to adapt to the Western business order because everything is prescribed and whatever is said is what it says.

As with all developing countries, China is currently not perfect in establishing business integrity, and coupled with the unique business model that has lasted for thousands of years, it is not surprising that foreigners are confused after the arrival.

“You should find more excellent Chinese people as assistants, who are more familiar with the rules.

I'll come this time and help you bring good things that can reduce a lot of trouble. If you bring them with you in business in the future, it will be much more convenient."

Seeing Secretary Dawson open his briefcase, Gronkowsky stretched his neck to see what it was...
Chapter completed!