British 1986

"So what's the matter? He is hopeless. There is a full set of medical staff at home, and I can't help. He doesn't like me either. He only hopes that I will get married soon. I don't want to have a bachelor party quickly. Get married soon."

Spencer spread his hands, looking indifferent.

His appearance made Allen speechless. He wanted to refute him, but after thinking about it, there seemed to be nothing wrong with the logic.

It's a bachelor party.

I don’t know when it became popular. Anyway, the general meaning is that after this party, you will get married in the future. Let’s have some crazy fun first. This is not a necessary ceremony, but this kind of party is very popular in this era. Popularity!

But when you come to the aristocratic children, of course you have to be more high-end, for example, find some female stars or something, so you can have fun.

The quality of British female stars is really eye-catching, so Spencer thought of the French director in Allen's hands.

Thinking of Spencer's father, that old man should be named Edward Spencer. His life can be regarded as extremely unstable, but when he gets old, he actually becomes like this

Allen looked at Spencer in front of him and thought about his father. If he gets old, will his son be like now? He will not be sad, but will feel very happy. After all, he can finally inherit the title. .

Moreover, he had just personally handed over 120 million pounds in dividends to Spencer. He no longer had to worry about inheritance tax.

Damn it, why didn't I encounter such a good thing when I inherited the title?

He still wanted to pretend to express concern, but before Allen could open his mouth, Xiao Shitou ran over to the door of the hall in the distance without caring about his image.

When he ran to Allen, he was breathing heavily and said intermittently: "Master, come back and watch the news. Something happened! It's really gone!"

Because the time in Great Britain is two hours behind that in Russia, six o'clock in the afternoon here is eight o'clock in the evening there.

The news has just temporarily interrupted the heavyweight news. At 7:38 pm Russian time, their parliament ended, and then announced the news to the public. It really disintegrated, just so suddenly.

One second, many people were watching the host report news about the continued economic downturn in various regions. The next second, this news was suddenly inserted, which caught people off guard.

Just after the first day of Christmas, in the last few days of the year in 1991, it suddenly disintegrated.

Allen covered his mouth slightly with his hand, not knowing what to say. Even the host on the news was a little uneasy, and the tone of the broadcast was a bit awkward.

Although he had known that this day was coming soon, when it really came, Allen still had an unreal feeling, and it just disappeared.

From now on, we have to really look at the beauty’s face, right?

When I thought of this, I suddenly felt very stressed, and thought of Spencer who had just left.

Allen was even a little confused. In the future, would he be like Spencer, spending money and drinking, living a happy life without thinking about anything, or would he be like himself now, always thinking about evil things?

No, no, no

Allen shook his head hard. He couldn't be like Spencer. That would be too useless. Even if only Lao Mei is left in the future, so what. It's better to cause trouble for Lao Mei than to wait for death. Bar?

I want to be a new era imperialist aristocrat with great influence, I don’t want to be a loser who just eats and waits to die!

"Go and notify the kitchen to prepare some food and wine for me. They will be delivered to my study in a moment. I want a drink!"

As Xiao Shitou thought, Allen looked very happy and even needed to drink to celebrate.

"Okay! Master, you are busy, I will inform you right away."

Xiao Shitou came to his senses at this moment and looked at the TV happily before going to notify the kitchen to prepare wine.

Wow.

Back in the study, Allen flipped through a stack of documents. The document in front of him was this year's year-end financial report.

This information is about the food delivery company that Allen has great expectations for.

Looking at the string of numbers written on the last page of the profit report, it turned out that throughout last year, the Blue Knight food delivery company, which had expanded to 12 cities, had a total headcount of more than 3,000 people. Among them, only the riders were counted. Even the number of strong men taking out food has reached 2,100.

This was originally a very impressive figure, but last year the company suffered a net loss of more than three million pounds!

It’s not a profit, it’s a loss!

Although three million pounds may not seem like a lot, if divided equally into each city, it would only amount to hundreds of thousands of pounds, but every food delivery company that expanded to twelve cities suffered losses.

This is still the current situation where the expansion speed is slow. What if the expansion speed is fast in the future?

If you don’t make any money every year, you’ll lose all your money?

Damn, all the money I earned after working so hard for a whole year will have to be paid to the food delivery company in the end?

Doesn’t this indirectly benefit ordinary people in Britain?

Damn it

Although this is his own character design, Allen really never thought about actually benefiting the British people, but now by some strange combination of circumstances, he is benefiting.

How does this work? This won't work!

Allen refused to give up and looked through the information again. Every step and every time the money was spent was spent on the right place. However, not only did the expected cash flow not come, but he lost money. What was the problem? ?

Yes. It is true that my outsourcing company has not entered big cities yet. At that time, the main consideration was that the passenger flow was too large when big cities were busy. The company has just entered the right track and needs to settle for a while. It cannot rush into big cities like London. , but do small places lose money?

Is it because you purchase cars and use them for delivery, which increases the cost?

wrong

Allen looked at the expenses on the list. It did cost a lot of money to buy a car, but it provided safety and a lot of equipment. In addition, the current gas price is not expensive. In comparison, the real cost is the toll of each order. It’s really no more expensive than using an electric car, and there aren’t so many pure electric cars for you to purchase.

You can’t let delivery people ride bicycles, right?

That's so inefficient. You only deliver the lunch that someone ordered at night?

Wouldn’t that starve customers to death?

There are only a few people in Wales. If there are fewer people, there will be no one left.

After looking at the several things that needed attention summarized in the information, Allen always felt that something was wrong.

Thinking back then, when the competition in the food delivery industry was so fierce, how did they make money?

If you don’t make money, how can you compete so fiercely?

Does it all depend on cutting leeks on the market?

Although I don’t have the advantage of the Internet now, the difference can’t be so big, right?

For the first time, Allen had so much self-doubt about his plan.

Thinking about it over the years, it seems that all the money I have earned has been obtained through crooked ways. If I want to do a decent business, I have never been completely successful. It's either this way or that way. Isn't it true that I am not a business person? ?

No, even though his ability is average, he still has so many subordinates who are checking for his mistakes and filling in his gaps. Are these people just following the crowd and not daring to speak up if they have any problems?

"Dong dong dong!"

There was a knock on the study door, and Allen groaned and signaled to come in.

Xiao Shitou personally pulled the dining cart, walked to the desk, kicked Xiao Huang away, and then started serving food to Ellen.

Four dishes, one fried peanuts, one sliced ​​braised beef, one fried tripe, and finally one fried fish nugget.

The wine was four ounces of white wine, an oriental white wine. When the young master drank by himself, he liked this sip.

After laying out the dishes, Xiao Shitou looked at Allen, who was frowning, and said somewhat strangely: "Master, has something happened?"

The young master who was quite happy just now, why did he become like this again when he was just serving food?

"It's okay, go ahead and get busy."

Allen waved his hand, without using utensils, he just pinched a piece of beef and stuffed it into his mouth. He was still thinking about takeout.

Could it be that the difference lies on the Internet?

What the Internet has brought to food delivery is only a doubling of the order volume, but the money earned is still the same, so the difference won't be so big, right?

In other words, is he superficial and has some inside information that he doesn’t know?

Thinking of this, Allen picked up the wine cup and took a sip of wine. Suddenly he saw the working hours of the delivery boy on the document, which was six hours a day.

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Allen seemed to have finally thought of the key point of the problem, which was not a network problem, but a human problem!

In the future, delivery people will be more involved, and delivery companies do not treat their employees as human beings. When they are busy, they would like to have each delivery person carry more than a dozen take-out orders at the same time.

When it comes to my own place, the efficiency is definitely not as good as that of the future Internet era. Being able to deliver two or three orders along the way is already the limit. Under normal circumstances, every delivery person delivers one order every time and goes to work. The time is limited, six hours a day. Excluding the rest time, everyone's orders are really distributed, which is dozens of orders.

In this way, with many people and few orders, coupled with low efficiency, it is reasonable to lose money, right?

And thinking of this, Allen's eyes narrowed slightly, and he also thought of an issue that he had ignored before. In the Internet era, there is a side job of delivering food.

It’s not that delivery people can do side jobs, but delivery companies can do side jobs.

For example, selling user information and big data information is a source of income. In addition, advertising fees and the weight display order on the takeout software can also make money. The built-in small APPs on other APPs can also make money. There are even loans!

In addition, after deducting the dirty money from the foreign buyer's overtime, the total sum is more than what he earns now.

And there is another point that cannot be ignored. In the Internet era, there is no shortage of external capital. Competition among food delivery companies is fierce, and some are capital groups that provide funds for them to burn. However, his current food delivery company is private, and Allen has not burned any money!

There are not enough discounts, and the number of customers is relatively small. They are only engaged in the takeout business. In addition, the current comprehensive supermarket has not yet taken shape. The profit source of the takeout company is too single, and Allen's treatment for the employees of the takeout company is not very good. It was considered low, so I ended up losing money.

Looking at it now, it seems normal to lose some money, and Allen's purpose in setting up this food delivery company is not simple. He can also indirectly support thousands of strong men. This thing

He usually wears a blue vest and is the delivery boy. At critical moments, he puts on camouflage uniforms. What do you think they are?

If it were an online food delivery company in the future, would their delivery boys work so hard for the boss?

The two are not of the same magnitude at all!

Now Allen can see the problem, but there are two ways to break the situation in front of him.

The first is to move further into big cities, gritting one's teeth and spending all the funds to expand and attract new customers.

But in this way, many of his other plans would not have financial support. This was a bit too risky. Allen was very resistant. He didn't like this kind of all-or-nothing behavior, it was irrational!

The second point is to slowly expand and then think of some way to let the food delivery company do some part-time work. Even if it cannot create benefits in a short period of time, it must be done first to create long-term benefits. You cannot maintain the status quo.

Allen preferred the second method, but for a while, he couldn't think of what to do specifically.

These delivery guys are running on the streets every day, what can they do along the way?

After taking another sip of wine, Allen subconsciously grabbed a few peanuts and stuffed them into his mouth, then picked up a piece of beef and looked at the tendons on the tendons, which were transparent in color and a striped road, like a highway extending in all directions.

Um?

Allen looked at these lines and suddenly thought of something, or an idea.

Now that the Internet has just begun to spread, that means there are no electronic maps, right?

I have my own film and television company, and there is no shortage of various photography equipment in the company. Even if the quantity is insufficient, isn't it possible to use public funds to buy equipment?

In addition, my deliverymen all drive to deliver food, so installing a camera on the roof of the car is not a problem, right?

In this way, you can take pictures wherever you go. As you expand in the future, wouldn't you just make the electronic map of Great Britain first?

Can this thing be sold for money?

Even if you don't sell it for money and make it into a navigation in the future, you will not only have the upper hand, but you can also use this thing to make other money. Moreover, with the electronic map in the future, the delivery person will not have to find the way slowly with a paper map. , which is more conducive to the expansion of your own takeout company.

Although you won’t see any benefits in the short term, in the long run, this is definitely an important thing for you!

That's all!

After gulping down the remaining wine in the wine cup, Allen picked up the paper and wrote down his recent adjustment plan.

First, purchase equipment, and then launch an electronic map (street view) collection plan. However, this kind of map collection should involve national security. Then we will see who we can contact to see if we need any documents. Category.

"Haha, if you guys are gone, then we will be gone. Because you guys have a drink and you come up with a new project for me. This is not good. It is not good. This is indeed a new era. From now on, it will be the era of the Internet. ”

Allen was the only one left in the study. He stared at the new project on the paper and murmured happily to himself.

PS: I have finally finished this volume. I am almost bald thinking about various alternative words. Some words and names cannot be used, or they will become star characters and harmonize with them, or they will be a whole chapter. Harmonize, harmonize.

Don't write it. In my opinion, writing a chronicle without mentioning the times is tantamount to being a hooligan.

Some things can only happen in a specific period and in a specific era. If they happen in a wrong place, it will look very weird and inappropriate.

Fortunately, recently, I actually haven't been blocked for a week in a row, uh... no, it's been almost half a month since I was blocked. I'm happy!