"Forget it, Liu Chu, you take this money back. I will sponsor the men's and women's basketball teams every year in the form of medicated oil and medicated baths." Wang Tiejun pushed the money back to Liu Yumin, shaking his head and sighing.
road.
"To be honest, we who are engaged in sports do not produce a single nail or a grain of grain. The country allocates so much funds to us every year, which is already very good."
Liu Yumin pushed the money back again and said: "The fifty thousand you take is the cost price. I know your price in the United States. How can I still get you for free?"
"Liu Chu, don't be polite. I'm really sponsoring it. You can take it back." Lao Wang pushed it back again.
"Then why are you so embarrassed?"
After being polite twice, Liu Yumin was no longer polite this time and actually took it back.
She couldn't help it. Who would be willing to be so embarrassed in front of a young man if he had money?
There is no money from above, CBA has not yet opened, and there is no other source of income in the office. Every penny in her hand has to be broken in half and spent. The 50,000 yuan has been misappropriated for other purposes, otherwise it will not be available at all.
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On October 1st, before dawn, Wang Tiejun got up and drove to Tiananmen alone to watch the flag-raising ceremony.
At nine o'clock, he drove out of the capital with his parents. This time he planned to return to his hometown. He was about to return to the United States and planned to stay in his hometown for a while.
As soon as they returned home, their home immediately became a bustling place, and the threshold for relatives in the village, neighboring villages, and even those who could not be reached before was lowered.
Every time they go back to their hometown, Wang Aiguo and Liu Damei enjoy this kind of life at first. Everyone compliments them, but they can't last more than a few days each time.
In the capital, Yu Feihong's Feige Film and Television Company has hired a manager named Zhou Qing. She is about to go to the United States, and Zhou Qing will help her manage the company.
This person was also from Nortel. He was in his forties. He used to be the sales section chief at Beiying Film Studio. He went to work the year before last and was now hired by her. He has good connections and abilities.
On October 5th, Wang Tiejun's K Pharmaceutical Company opened for business.
The company's pharmaceutical factory has a staff of 100 people and more than a dozen salesmen, who are responsible for purchasing medicinal materials from all over the country.
As for the establishment of a base of Chinese medicinal materials, it will also be carried out gradually.
From now on, all medicines used in the United States will be purchased from domestic companies. However, it will not be available within two months for the time being. After the medicinal materials come in, it will take time to brew.
On the 6th, he rushed back to the capital and obtained the plans for the National Institute of Architecture.
Anyway, it looked good, but he didn't understand this thing. The expert team formed by Bai Changsheng passed it, so he passed it.
Next, Bai Changsheng will preside over the bidding for basketball stadiums and hotels. He has no time. The new season is coming and he has to return to the United States.
…
On October 8th, Wang Tiejun and Yu Feihong set off for the United States. A new season is about to begin.
The two were accompanied by Liu Changfeng and his wife, as well as Ma Jian. The Clippers and Suns simultaneously gave him a chance to play in the preseason.
Wang Tiejun did not interfere with his choice, and he finally chose to represent the Suns in the preseason.
Lao Wang still has no change in Ma Jian's NBA career. Ma Jian has gained weight in order to enhance his resistance ability, and his walking speed is not as fast as before. However, his height is only 202 centimeters, so this height can only be neither three nor four.
Playing power forward, as an interior lineman, height is too disadvantageous.
Playing as a small forward, he has no ball-handling skills and his mid-range shooting is unstable.
Anyway, he is not optimistic about Ma Jian and thinks it is better to stay in the country and play CBA.
After all, Ma Jian can be regarded as his senior in the provincial team. He has already discussed this issue with Liu Yumin. Liu Yumin promised to give him a chance. The first season of CBA will not start until December. Some teams are not full yet.
, there was still a chance to join a team, but it was a pity that Ma Jian was unwilling to do so.
At this time, the NBA preseason is about to begin.
Ben Wallace caught up with the Suns for two summer league games, playing one at the fifth position and one at the fourth position. His performance was better than that of playing guard in the Green Team. He was able to carry the ball and help defend pretty well. He only participated in
The defense, except for the secondary attack, almost does not participate in the offense.
However, the summer league didn't have much gold content. Colangelo wanted to continue and gave him a contract to play preseason games on behalf of the Suns.
On the afternoon of the 8th, the five people arrived in Los Angeles.
Yu Feihong stayed here to continue studying, and at the same time, he would represent K Martial Arts Hall and Cheng Long to establish their martial arts agency, while Wang Tiejun and others flew to Phoenix.
The K-Martial Arts Gym in Phoenix is now hosted by Wang Tieshu, who drove to the airport to pick up Wang Tiejun and others.
"Brother Tieshu, how has business been in the past few months?" Wang Tiejun asked on the way.
"Tiejun, the information has been transferred to the Los Angeles branch. There are only 235 customers left, and some of them can't make money." Wang Tieshu said with some frustration.
Lao Wang laughed and said: "Those celebrities are in Los Angeles. They have opened a branch there and they will definitely transfer it. Just maintain the business here."
Phoenix is still a bit small, and people who can’t make millions of dollars a year simply don’t have the financial strength to spend money in our martial arts gyms. But you can develop into surrounding cities and develop more or less customers.”
Wang Tieshu nodded and said: "The Yangtze River side and Brother Tielong's side are fine. We have more than 800 customers, and Brother Tielong's side is about to exceed 600."
"Eight hundred plus six hundred plus two hundred, one thousand... one thousand six?"
Lao Wang calculated on his fingers that the annual membership fee for customers is 48 million U.S. dollars. He now has a total of 1,400 people here, which can basically guarantee one-on-one service, but the manpower is still insufficient. Customers
, he needs 2,000 people on hand to be able to turn around, and he has to continue to mobilize people.
Two thousand people, with a salary of US$60,000 a year, is US$120 million?
"I x!"
At this point, he was shocked. He had to pay so much salary in a year? Did he have to pay for a Fengshen Street Sports Center in a year?
Wasn’t it calculated at tens of millions of dollars last time? Why was it so much more this time?
"Count again and again!"
He became anxious, it was too much, and there was no gold mountain at home. No, there was still the deep pit of Fengshen Street at home, which he couldn't bear!
"By the way, the fee income has not been calculated yet."
Thinking of this, he quickly asked: "Brother Tieshu, are you charged for your service? Please give me a per capita rate."
"It's hard to calculate this. Some have been members for several months, while others have just joined." Wang Tieshu said.
Lao Wang thought, forget it, the number here is indeed inaccurate, because the previous consumption of more than a hundred Hollywood stars was counted here, but now it has been transferred to Los Angeles, and the previous consumption has not been transferred.
But thinking about it, he shouldn't lose money, because last time he went back, he drew 20 million US dollars, so he should be able to make a profit.
"Tie Jun, you want money. There are still more than 20 million in the account now. You can go through the procedures yourself. The accounts on both sides of the branch library are not in the main library, as you know." Wang Tieshu said.
Lao Wang breathed a sigh of relief. There was still money left, which meant there was no loss.
He thought that he should make statistics on the amount of money spent by customers at the martial arts gym to estimate his income.
There are now 1,600 customers, and if each customer consumes 100,000 US dollars per year, that is... 1.6 billion.
This should be achievable. After all, the membership fee is 30,000 US dollars a year. If you don’t spend 100,000 US dollars every year, you can’t afford the 30,000 US dollar membership fee.
If you calculate it this way, it's almost done, and there is still money to be made.
"By the way, Tie Jun, the people for the fight you want to engage in have already been selected. Brother Tie Long is in charge of it, thirty people. We have also hired a dozen trainers for fighting and mixed martial arts. They are training with us now."
Wang Tieshu said.
"If they can practice well, let them go to a kickboxing gym every day, whether it's a taekwondo gym or a karate gym," Lao Wang said with a smile.
"Haha..." Several other people laughed.
When we arrived at the martial arts gym, there were still two to three hundred people taking martial arts classes. Martial arts classes are the best-selling in Phoenix, because the two branches in Los Angeles and New York have not developed martial arts classes at all. This also shows that martial arts classes are promoted.
potential.
Dozens of brothers who had been selected for fighting were doing various training in a corner, and he walked over.
"Brother, you are back."
"Brother Tiejun."
A group of young people greeted him quickly after seeing him.
He nodded and asked about their situation. The selected people were all around 20 years old. The tallest one was about 1.85 meters and the shortest one was about 1.7 meters. They had all practiced martial arts since childhood.
far longer than him.
"Tie Jun, these are their physical test data, take a look." At this time, Wang Tieshu brought a folder.
He took it and flipped through it, and found that it was indeed pretty good. Selected from hundreds of people who had practiced martial arts since childhood, it was not bad at all.
"Brothers, you have to practice hard and don't be afraid of hardship. In the future, it's up to you whether our martial arts gym can stand in the United States, whether it can develop to the world, and whether it can stop those opponents who want to join the gym.
” he said to them.
"Brother Tiejun, don't worry, we will definitely practice to death."
"Brother, I didn't say anything. If anyone wants to kick our gym, we will kill him."
Thirty young men immediately roared.
They are all from Cangzhou, and many of them have martial arts gyms in their families. They understand very well that if K martial arts gym collapses, they will have to go back to their hometown in despair.
Nodding, Lao Wang looked at the dozen trainers again and asked Wang Tieshu: "Brother, do they have a leader?"
"No, they were poached one by one by Brother Tie Long. I heard they are all the best in the industry," Wang Tieshu said.
Nodding, Wang Tiejun said to the dozen trainers: "Everyone, show your true skills. If the people you train achieve good results, I will reward them. The better the results, the higher the rewards. If you lead
If a world-class fighting champion emerges, I will give him one million US dollars as a reward."
"Oh, my God, a million dollars?"
"Old K, don't worry, we will never hide anything."
"Old K, they all have good talents, no problem."
Lao K's name is also resounding in the fighting world. This is the influence of being out of the circle. Coupled with the stimulation of high rewards, the dozen or so people immediately roared with excitement.
In the current fighting world in the United States, boxing is not included. Other sports are still in the early stages of development, and there is no money to be made at all.
The first UFC fighting competition held in 1993 had a total prize money of only US$500,000. First-class and top coaches and trainers like them did not earn much money.
Now Lao K has spent one million U.S. dollars for a world fighting championship. This is already more than double the total prize money of UFC competitions. Each of them has tens of thousands of U.S. dollars. This is a huge reward, so everyone
They are very excited and excited. Now they want to train all these thirty people into fighting champions. How much bonus can they get?
"Brother, you are going to build a special fighting base. The place here is a bit small and it is not suitable for being crowded with martial arts students. The training environment here is also a bit simpler. How to arrange it and what equipment is needed? You can ask these trainers
, they are more professional." Wang Tiejun said.
"Okay, I'll make arrangements right away," Wang Tieshu said.
Wang Tiejun pulled Wang Tieshu aside and asked in a low voice: "Brother, did you pick out the thirty of them, or did you sign up yourself?"
Wang Tieshu said with a smile: "After the notification, you explained that the fighting hall salary is one hundred thousand dollars a year. There are many brothers rushing to sign up. These are all selected."
"That's good." Lao Wang nodded. He was worried that these people would run out of energy after working as massage therapists for a few days.
We will only select thirty people now, but we will definitely develop it on a large scale in the future. We can even build our own fighting event brand with the influence of K martial arts gym.
Then he called to inform Wang Tielong and Liu Changjiang to return to Phoenix to attend a meeting at the K-Martial Arts Gym. He planned to reorganize the martial arts gym according to his original idea.
The next day, Lao Wang sent Ma Jian to the headquarters, and then a group of players participating in the preseason flew to Salt Lake City to play preseason games there.
Before leaving, Danny Ainge, who was leading the team, said to him: "Old K, your hometown's main competitor this time is Ben Wallace. You introduced both of them. The team will keep one to watch them.
Who performed better."
Lao Wang smiled and said: "Then I don't care. The management can sign whoever they want. I just give them a chance."
After sending Danny Ji and the others away, he and Colangelo Jr. went to the general manager's office. Colangelo Jr. took out a list of players and said to him: "Old K, this is what we have for the new season.
Let’s take a look at the lineup first.”
He nodded, took it and read it.
Insider: Wang Tiejun, Tisdale, Joe Klein, David Wood
Forward: Wilkins, Robert Horry, Mario Bennett
Outside: Kevin Johnson, Perry, Michael Finley, Person, Tony Smith
Colangelo Jr. introduced: "These are twelve contract players. Wilkins, David Wood, Joe Klein, and Tony Smith all have minimum salary contracts. Except for Wilkins, who has a three-year contract, the other three
They are all one-year short-term contracts, and two of them have non-guaranteed contracts and can be laid off at any time.
The combined salary of the four of them for the new season is US$1.55 million, and the current total salary of the twelve is US$17.06 million. In other words, we still have nearly US$6 million in room.
It's just that we don't have a good opportunity to trade now. Our salary space must be reserved for several rookies next year. We cannot trade players who still have contracts for several years. We can only choose to trade players in contract years. But such players are not
There are many, but even fewer are suitable for us. Many teams are still reluctant to trade with us because they don't want to see us strengthen.
In terms of the free market, the biggest fish has already come in, and there are a few good ones who are not willing to come. The reason, as mentioned earlier, is because our salary space needs to be reserved, so we can only give them short-term contracts of one year, and we cannot give them any.
They have a long-term contract, so they don't want to come.
But don’t worry, Old K, we will try our best to conduct transactions in the next period before the transaction window closes, and try to sign one or two short-term contracts to fill up the space."
Wang Tiejun didn't say anything. After staying in this league for three seasons, he has understood many things. If the team wants to trade, it also needs opportunities. Just like the Bulls' lineup, it was finally formed after years of slowly building up. Come to him
You also need to be patient and give management time.
And if you are lucky next year and can pick a potential rookie out of the four first-round picks, or even be lucky enough to pick two, the team's reconstruction will be complete.
Colangelo Jr. added: "Coach Westphal and I have discussed this lineup repeatedly. The preliminary decision is that besides you, the other four players in the main lineup are power forward Robert Horry and small forward Wilkin.
Si, shooting guard Michael Finley, point guard Kevin Johnson.
Michael Finley will get some opportunities, and we hope to develop him. Robert Horry has two years left on his contract, and the last year is a team option. I want to give him another chance to see if he can play the main role.
Performance. If not, either trade or return to the bench.
In addition, we are planning to select one of Ben Wallace and Ma Jian to be an interior substitute to replace a marginal player on this twelve-man roster."
Lao Wang looked at the list repeatedly and suddenly asked: "Brian, is Kevin back?"
"It won't arrive in a few days."
Talking about the Lightning, Colangelo Jr. was obviously very happy and said with a smile: "Kevin actually did additional training this offseason. This is something I didn't expect. Obviously he wants to play well for two more years. In fact,
I also think he has the potential."
Lao Wang smiled and said: "If he can maintain his form last season, it will be good news for us."
Having said this, he raised the list in his hand and said: "The current main lineup has decent scoring ability, but the outside efficiency should not be as good as when the glider was there."
Colangelo Jr. nodded and said: "Wilkins's efficiency is indeed not as good as Drexler's. Moreover, when he replaces the glider, the team's tactical adaptability is also reduced, and the ability to open up is insufficient. You will be affected in the low post.
More double teams.
Rookie Finley, his development is hard to say, and his weaknesses are also obvious. If we want to win the championship, the Bulls should be a must-pass in the past few years. Facing height and Pippen, the outside must have strong ball-holding ability.
and singles ability, but this is precisely his weakness."
"Bryan, our substitute lineup is not very good either." Lao Wang shook his head.
"I hope that the next transaction can strengthen the depth of the board. We still have room and hope to sign a few short-term contracts." Colangelo said awkwardly.
He has no choice but to give promising players a long-term contract. How will he give the contract to the rookie next year? The potential rookie must be given a long rookie contract, at least four or five years, so that it can last longer.
Otherwise, if they have just been trained and the salary space cannot accommodate them, they will definitely fly away.
Unlike his father, his style is somewhat risky. He desperately traded Green and Dan Marley for next year's draft picks. It can be said that his style is more radical. He did not hesitate to sacrifice last season's lineup in order to rebuild.
Once the goal is achieved and the reconstruction is completed next year, the lineup will be stable, at least during the old K's contract, and there will be no need for major changes.
This season, old K. Wilkins is lightning. He believes that the lineup is still good, and with the strength of old K.'s leadership, he should still be able to maintain the competitiveness for the championship.
Wang Tiejun suddenly remembered something and asked hurriedly: "Bryan, isn't the alliance going to issue rules to restrict me? Is there any news?"
Colangelo Jr. said: "Oh, of course we have been paying attention to this issue, and my father has also communicated with Mr. Stern.
At present, although it has not been announced yet, it has been confirmed that the first one to be introduced will be the five-second violation rule."