Although an unrelated cold-faced woman moved into the Izumi B&B, it did not affect the good mood of Nan Yi and Hagiwara Sayuri, nor did it have any impact on Nan Yi's treasure hunting operation.

No matter what he does, Nanyi will anticipate all the difficulties he may encounter in advance, and take precautions if he can. If he can't, he will accept it calmly after bad things happen.

Nan Yi is a pessimist. He has always thought a lot. He has always had the consciousness of being a handsome man. He thinks about defeat before winning. The appearance of the cold-faced woman was unexpected by Nan Yi and was also within his plan.

, his heart was calm and unruffled.

It is said that Nan Yi also works hard. Although he is on vacation now, he has never put down his work in his mind.

He is now thinking about how to establish a logistics company to supply 1,327 7-eleven convenience stores across Japan. In his expectation, 7-eleven is his must-have.

In the 1920s, household refrigerators had just been around for a few years, and they were still a new gadget. Naturally, they could not "fly into the homes of ordinary people."

In 1927, the Southern Continental Ice Company (Southern Company) founded a store in Dallas, Texas that would later change the development of the industry. Its main business was to make and sell ice in response to market demand.

But naturally, as refrigerators gradually became a necessity for families, sales increased year after year. In addition, store operators found that customers who came to the store also had a need to buy other products, so they took advantage of the trend and expanded food categories such as poultry, eggs, and milk.

A year later, a store erected a totem pole at the entrance. This strange combination caught the attention of passing customers and brought actual benefits to the store. Later, the senior management decided to erect a totem pole next to each of its stores.

The shop began to be called a "totem shop".

In 1929, the country encountered an economic crisis, but the economy began to recover a few years later. The national unemployment rate continued to decline, GDP and other indicators continued to increase, and consumer demand was once again stimulated.

After the end of World War II, Totem Store expanded its business hours to 7 a.m. to 11 p.m., seven days a week in order to compete for more customers. This is also the origin of 7-eleven.

At that time, many shops in Gangguo were open from 8 am to 7 pm, and were closed all day on Sundays.

A simple calculation shows that 7-Eleven operates 112 hours a week, which is 70% more than its competitors' 66 hours. This strategy is simply crushing.

This adjustment allows the business hours to basically cover all non-rest periods. The convenience store has truly created convenience for customers not only in terms of product types, but also in terms of business hours.

The adjustment in business hours made the store very popular. After tasting the benefits, store operators naturally did not stop there. As more and more stores opened, in 1963, 7-Eleven was tested for 24 hours for the first time in Austin, Texas.

Business.

Later, Southern Company implemented a 24-hour business system in some stores in Dallas, Las Vegas and other places. At this time, the total number of 7-Eleven stores in various states in the country exceeded 1,000.

Immediately afterwards, Southern Company launched a "franchise operation" policy for further expansion.

In May 1974, Japan's Ito-Yokado Company, which obtained the franchise rights, opened Japan's first 7-eleven in Koto District, Tokyo.

To put it simply, the 7-eleven brand owned by Ito-Yokado actually belongs to the Southern Company of Kangguo. They are only franchisees, not the holders of the brand.

Ito-Yokado has made the 7-eleven business prosperous in Japan, but the life of the parent company Southern Company is not very easy, and it can be said that it is getting worse;

According to the information obtained by Nanyi, Southern Company will not be able to survive for many years before it will have to face bankruptcy or reorganization.

Scarlett has been quietly in contact with the shareholders of Southern Company, trying to acquire or control a company that holds shares of Southern Company first, using this as a springboard to become a shareholder of Southern Company first, and then slowly absorb the shares of Southern Company.

It is impossible for a retail company to expand slowly on its own. Acquisition and then merger are the rapid expansion paths that Nanyi wants to take.

7-Eleven does not have its own logistics and distribution system in Japan, and cargo distribution is outsourced to Yamato Transportation Company. This is an opportunity for Nanyi to get involved in the daily operations of 7-Eleven in Japan.

But it is impossible for him to establish a logistics company just to supply 7-eleven and get involved in the personal express delivery business. This is also the intended meaning of the question.

At present, Japan's personal express delivery business is mainly dominated by Yamato Transport Company and Japan Post. The two companies together account for more than 80% of the share, and the remaining share is divided between a dozen different express delivery companies.

Among more than a dozen express delivery companies, Sagawa Express accounts for more than 60% of the remaining less than 20%.

Yamato Transportation Company was originally mainly engaged in international logistics transportation and large-scale cargo transportation in Japan. In 1973, it began to enter the personal express delivery business.

Japan Post is a state-run express delivery company with a public welfare nature. It suffers from the common shortcomings of state-owned companies, such as low efficiency and bloated structure. After Yamato Transport Co., Ltd. became involved in the personal express delivery business, its market share dropped rapidly. The current market

The market share is only on par with Yamato Transport Company.

Moreover, Nanyi discovered that Japan’s current express delivery business is not as primitive as he thought. As early as the 1970s, Yamato Transportation Company began to learn from UPS Express, using barcodes for express packaging, and it became popular in a short time.

Come on.

Judging from the current maturity of Japan's express delivery business market, Nanyi's intervention in the express delivery business only requires the establishment of a few direct express delivery stores, and the rest can be collected by 7-eleven convenience stores. The widespread use of barcodes allows ordinary

Convenience store clerks can quickly receive and deliver express delivery in a short time.

Then the daily operating costs of the enterprise will be reduced a lot, and will be at a very low level compared to other express delivery companies. In this way, this part of the cost can be selectively fed back to users, and the price of express delivery can be reduced to

Close to the level of Japan Post.

Why is Japan Post's express delivery service so inefficient? Many users still choose to use Japan Post. It is precisely because Japan Post's express delivery prices are cheap.

When a courier company with prices comparable to those of Japan Post and high efficiency appears, Nanyi believes that potential users will abandon the original courier company and choose the new company.

In this way, it will be easy to quickly seize a large amount of market share and quickly compete with Yamato Transport Company and Japan Post.

After that, the profits earned from personal express delivery business can be used to continuously expand into other logistics businesses. Nanyi believes that a monopoly effect will soon be formed.

As for the things about 7-Eleven that didn't belong to him yet, Nanyi selectively ignored them.

Cooperating with 7-eleven and using their stores as express delivery outlets naturally has to share profits with 7-eleven, but Nanyi doesn't care too much about this expenditure.

His calculations are very long-term and have extended his thinking to the future "Internet" era.

The problem with Nanyi's plan is that 7-Eleven ditched him and went directly to discuss cooperation with Yamato Transportation Company. After all, Yamato is already a logistics company with a long history and a high market share, not Nanyidu.

There are no companies that have yet appeared on paper that can be compared.

Therefore, the execution steps of the plan are very critical. Only after acquiring a majority of the shares of Southern Company can the personal express delivery business plan be implemented in Japan.

At the beginning, logistics companies in Japan were not allowed to engage in personal express delivery business and could only develop distribution business first.

After thinking for a long time, Nan Yi thought through most of the problems. Now there is still one biggest question before him - where does the starting capital come from?

Nanguo Bank's business has not yet been straightened out, and it is temporarily unable to provide him with loans. He has already decided not to invest another penny of Nan's investment funds into Japan.

Nanyi wants to develop new business in Japan, and the funds can only be found in Japan.

Funding is a huge problem for Nanyi at present.

Nan Yi frowned and worried, and Sayuri Hagiwara lay on his shoulder and asked with concern: "Nagao-kun, what's wrong?"

"It's nothing. I want to start a new business, but I'm worried about money."

"Short of money?" Sayuri Hagiwara paused and said, "I still have a deposit in the bank. If you need it, I can lend it to you first."

"Haha." Nan Yi stroked Sayuri Hagiwara's hair and said, "Do you have 5 billion yen?"

"5 billion?" Hagiwara Sayuri shouted: "How could I have so much money? I only have a total of more than 20 million."

"Not bad, the izakaya is so profitable? How can we have so much savings?"

Even though today's office workers in Japan have an annual income of three to four million yen a year, at the end of the year, how much they can save is a mystery. If you can save half, you are a family that knows how to manage money.

And 20 million yen is the savings of a family like this for ten years.

"My expenses are very small. I usually only buy food, daily necessities, and cosmetics. Most of the time I wear kimonos. Over the course of a year, I rarely buy clothes."

"We Lily-chan really know how to live a good life." Nan Yi touched Sayuri Hagiwara's face and said, "Okay, you don't have to worry about my things. Lack of money does not mean lack of money. Keep your money well, and I will also give it to you."

Put your heart in my belly, I won’t be unable to support you.”

"Keke, I haven't agreed to let you raise me yet." Hagiwara Sayuri said with a smile.

"Hey." Nan Yi's hand turned from touching to patting, and patted Sayuri Hagiwara on the cheek, "Go and make me a pot of barley tea."

"Hai, master."

Sayuri Hagiwara bowed obediently and took small steps to make tea for Nan Yi.

…

At this time, in a teahouse in Xiangguan, Fang Mengyin was sitting in a side room with someone.

"Master Wu, in what year did your ancestors go to London?" Fang Mengyin asked, leaning forward slightly.

"My ancestors went to Eagle Country in 1833." Wu Zaisheng said with emotion in his tone.

"It is now 1983, exactly 150 years from 1833." He quickly calculated the result in his mind. Not only was Fang Mengyin surprised, but even Xiang He who was standing next to him looked at Wu Zaisheng in surprise.

"It's been so long. Your family went there during the Daoguang period of the Qing Dynasty."

"Yes, that's what is recorded in the genealogy." Wu Zaisheng said calmly, as if he was used to others' surprise.

Suddenly, Fang Mengyin's heart moved and she thought of something, "Why did Wu Zaisheng's ancestors go to Yingguo from the Qing Dynasty and settle down until now? Being able to exist in Yingguo for 150 years without disappearing is a skill, but again

Thinking about that era, it was not easy to go abroad to work hard.

Wu family?

Your surname is Wu?"

Fang Mengyin's mind started spinning wildly. Soon, her eyes lit up and she thought of a possibility. She looked straight at Wu Zaisheng and asked, "Is your Wu family the Wu family from the Thirteenth Bank of Guangdong Province?"

Wu Zaisheng looked at Fang Mengyin with an surprised expression. He didn't expect that Ms. Fang Mengyin's thinking was so sensitive and she could guess it so quickly.

However, this is not a shameful matter. Many Chinese people in the entire Eagle Kingdom know this matter. It can be said to be an open secret. There is no need to hide it. Fang Mengyin will also know about it in the future.

So he nodded and said with a smile: "Yes, that's the Wu family. Our lineage comes from the third son of Dun Yuangong."

Hearing Wu Zaisheng's admission, Fang Mengyin's face became solemn and she said, "I have admired you for a long time. My ancestor was also the richest man in the world at that time."

Seeing Fang Mengyin become so solemn, Wu Zaisheng smiled bitterly and shook his head: "That was the glory of our ancestors. The incompetence of our descendants led to the decline of the family."

"No, it is a manifestation of strength that it can be passed down in the Eagle Kingdom." Fang Mengyin immediately shook his head and said.

Xiang He next to Fang Mengyin was shocked by the title of Thirteen Lines.
To be continued...