Be reborn and be happy to the fullest

Seeing Li Shuo leaving in the car without any response to her, Kim Ji-eun was so angry that she almost screamed again!

But she knew that she needed help from the other party, so she could only suppress her temper and said to Yuan Ke, "Ms. Yuan, is this your attitude towards cooperation? You drove our team out of Shuoguo Manor without any reason, and now you don't even want to meet with us?"

As she spoke, her voice gradually weakened: Yuan Ke was looking at her with a half-smile, his eyes were clear, and it said, "If you keep talking, I will believe you, you are an idiot."

Kim Ji-eun was speechless: In the final analysis, I had offended others too much before, and saying these things now is just "barking" and has no effect at all.

Taking a deep breath, Jin Zhien finally put aside those unrealistic fantasies and took a real negotiating attitude:

"Ms. Yuan Ke, our company has revised the bottom line of the negotiation. We are considering giving Mr. Li the franchise rights. Of course, the relevant amount needs to be discussed with Mr. Li in person. This is why I came to you today. Please be sure to arrange a meeting between me and Mr. Li..."

Afterwards, Kim Ji-eun read a new meaning in Yuan Ke's eyes: This is more like it.

She clenched her fists, not daring to show any movement on her pretty face. After about 10 seconds, she heard Yuan Ke say, "Sorry, Mr. Li is busy with official business. As you just saw, he has to receive a group of people from Fruit Technology Company. Standing with our Mr. Li is Mr. Hain-Rip, the president of Fruit Technology Greater China Retail. To be honest, things over there are more important."

I will endure it! Kim Ji-eun continued to clench her fists and said nothing.

Then, I finally heard a "human" word from Yuan Ke: "Of course, Mr. Li also attached great importance to the cooperation with your company before. Although there were some twists and turns in the middle, if the negotiation is successful, he will also make efforts for it. Therefore, Mr. Li has granted me the relevant authority. You can tell me about your new conditions..."

Jin Zhien looked around at the people coming and going and said hesitantly, "Here?"

Yuan Ke shook his head, smiled and said, "Of course not here. Tomorrow morning at 9 o'clock, at the Shuoguo headquarters at Hongqiao Airport, I will invite the shareholders and executives of Shuoguo Group to participate in the negotiation. Please have your team arrive on time!"

"Okay, we'll be there on time!"

"Good-bye, then!"

Jin Zhien watched Yuan Ke wave his hand gently, and the Shuoguo security personnel surrounding him dispersed. Soon, only passers-by were left on the street.

She stood there feeling lost, waiting for her team to come over before turning back to the Mercedes-Benz.

"Team leader, how did the talk go?" the subordinate asked impatiently.

Jin Zhien smiled bitterly, repeated Yuan Ke's words, and finally said:

"It seems that she is still upset about the scam, so she deliberately invited us to the Shuoguo headquarters. Tomorrow, I'm afraid we will have to undergo another 'baptism of strength'!"

The subordinates were silent.

"This is my fault. I made a wrong prediction, but fortunately, things have not developed to an irreversible point. When you go back tonight, reorganize the materials for me, evaluate the strength of Li Shuo and Shuoguo Group, and then prepare new negotiation documents!"

"At the same time, Schmidt and I will hold an emergency telephone conference with the headquarters to strive for greater autonomy!"

After hearing Jin Zhien's order, everyone agreed in unison. Everyone knew that Jin Zhien said that in tomorrow's negotiations, they would definitely make greater concessions to Shuoguo Group...

Kim Ji-eun's appearance midway was just a small episode for Li Shuo. He was doing business at the time: the reason why Hae-en and others wanted to inspect Fruit Store 1 was an extension of the "Beijing agency rights" matter.

Today, Fruit Technology Greater China invited 8 potential partners from Beijing to gather in Lenghai, so Li Shuo actually took these people to visit the Fruit Mobile Phone Experience Store 1.

On the one hand, Fruit Technology needs to demonstrate its strength and business model to these people, allowing potential partners to evaluate agency costs and profits. On the other hand, it also allows Li Shuo to make corresponding evaluations of these people.

As early as a month ago, Hain invited Li Shuo to join the "Beijing Agent Evaluation Group", and Li Shuo agreed without hesitation.

Now, in addition to retail president Hain and Li Shuo, there are three other senior executives of Fruit Technology in the car, who are all members of the "Agency Evaluation Team".

"These agents in Beijing are quite capable. Just now, they all said on the spot that they could decorate according to the template of store 1..."

"But there are only three places available. If there are more, it will squeeze the sales space of the directly-operated stores..."

"Three is not enough. We can just choose the best one from the eight..."

"Counselor Li, what do you think?"

While everyone was chatting, Hain suddenly asked Li Shuo.

Li Shuo thought for a moment and replied, "Store 1 is the first store opened by Shuoguo. In fact, it is a bit outdated in all aspects. Since it is a new store, I think we can increase the cost of opening the store by 50% on this basis, such as making the new store in Beijing bigger, decorating it more appropriately, and so on."

Haien raised his eyebrows and said hesitantly: "But I think this is actually quite good. There is no need to deliberately increase the cost of the agent."

Li Shuo smiled and said, "There are eight companies competing now. We should raise our cost line. This is also a way to select the best from the best. After all, it is a Beijing-only store, and the strength of the agent will be the only selection criterion!"

Hai En is also an expert on China. Hearing this, he realized something. After thinking for a while, he said, "But this can only evaluate the financial strength. In Beijing, we should pay more attention to the potential strength... Unfortunately, we don't have a good enough intelligence channel in this regard, so we can't conduct an in-depth assessment of the eight agents..."

Someone nearby immediately said, "Don't we have a ready-made candidate here? Mr. Li, I heard that your Shuoguo Group has opened a branch in Beijing. I guess you are very familiar with the situation there, right?"

Li Shuo responded: "Well, I do know a little about this..."

"So, what do you think of these eight agents?"

"Since Assistant Xin asked, I'll throw out some ideas... Overall, the agents are all very strong, but if we talk about their potential strength, Chen, Qi, and Bai are the strongest. They are all..."

Li Shuo talked eloquently, and Hai En nodded repeatedly. When Li Shuo finished, Hai En smiled and said, "Advisor Li, you Chinese are too modest. You obviously already know the details of these agents. According to what you said, Chen, Qi, and Bai are ready-made agents!"

Even though the foreigner said so, Li Shuo remained modest and said, "Well, I just gave my own ideas. In the end, Fruit Technology needs to make its own judgment."

"Okay, I understand. Thank you for your advice, Consultant Li."

"This is what I should do."

A moment later, the business car arrived in front of a hotel. Everyone got off the car and went into the hotel to eat with the eight agents who followed behind...

This was a business dinner hosted by Fruit Technology. Li Shuo considered himself a mere passer-by and wanted to be invisible throughout the whole process, but the agents kept inviting him, pushing him to the forefront every time.

"Boss Li, I have heard of your great name in the capital. This glass of wine is for you!"

"Boss Li, my name is Qi Xuan, Tianlin is my nephew, let's get closer in the future..."

There were eight candidate agents in total, three of them were particularly enthusiastic towards Li Shuo. Two of them were led by Bai He and Qi Xuan, who sat on Li Shuo's left and right, and bombarded Li Shuo with nice words.

Li Shuo responded with a smile, and said to the two, "We are all family, no need to be polite," and then showed a knowing smile.

Qi Xuan has made their relationship clear. She is Qi Tianlin's aunt, but only a cousin and not the main branch of the family, so she focuses on the business side.

Bai He's situation is similar to his. He is Bai Xiaolong's uncle. The Bai family is considered a middle-class family in Beijing, and this time they benefited from Qi Tianlin.

The first contributor was Qi Tianlin rather than Li Shuo, because the "Assistant Xin" who had just asked Li Shuo for his opinion in the car was Qi Tianlin's relative.

To put it bluntly, he was playing a double act with Li Shuo!

Of course, it was also because of the cooperation of the internal executives of Fruit Technology that Li Shuo's opinions were fully approved.

This is a typical "you are good, I am good, everyone is good" transaction.

The only benefit Li Shuo got from this was a little favor...

"Sister Chen, I'll toast you a glass!"

After dealing with Qi and Bai, Li Shuo took the initiative to pick up the wine glass and walked to Chen Guanwei who was sitting next to Hai En!

The third agent is Chen Guanwei, one of the two bigwigs in Beijing’s literary and art circles, Shao Yiying’s aunt and a professor at the Beijing Film Academy.

Hearing his address, Chen Guanwei glanced at him with a hint of anger, but this time she raised her glass to be polite. Li Shuo quickly lowered the mouth of his glass to be slightly lower than the other person's.

"Thanks for the recommendation, Mr. Li. Otherwise, I wouldn't have known that Fruit Technology would be moving to Beijing!"

Chen Guanwei spoke very frankly. She learned that Li Shuo had revealed the news of her becoming an agent for Fruit mobile phones when he was in Beijing last time. Afterwards, Chen Guanwei asked someone to do a market research and felt that this was feasible, so she submitted an application to the Fruit Greater China headquarters through Li Shuo.

But this statement also made the other agents' faces change slightly: they are all well-known people, who doesn't have some connections? Chen Guanwei was telling everyone directly that her connection was with Li Shuo, which could easily arouse public outrage, and it didn't seem to be very friendly to Li Shuo.

Li Shuo didn't care about it and said bluntly: "For others, this is naturally a good business, but it is an honor for our fruit company that you can become the agent of Fruit Technology. Don't you agree, Mr. Hain?"

Haien nodded and said, "Yes, it is our honor to have a relationship with Mr. Chen..."

In one word, no one dared to respond.

Everyone was slandering in their hearts: It’s okay for this foreigner to speak directly, but why are you two so blunt too!

But there is no way. The Chen family is a top-tier family. Even the Qi family is not easy to mess with. Haven’t you heard that multinational groups say that it is an honor to have a relationship with them?

Li Shuo coughed and quickly changed the subject.

In short, by letting Chen Guanwei join the game, it seems that Li Shuo has not gained any benefit at all, and even has a bit of a bootlicking odor.

But Li Shuo knows very well what is most important in China...

Having said that, Shao Yiying was standing in the middle after all. He had been kneeling and licking Shao Yiying countless times since his rebirth, so this time wouldn't be a big deal.

Fortunately, Li Shuo's kneeling and licking angle was accurate enough, and Chen Guanwei also had some good feelings for him. After the banquet, she actually stopped him and asked, "Do you have anything else tonight?"

"Even if there is something, if you have any instructions, I will naturally do my best to follow your instructions..."

Chen Guanwei rarely showed hesitation and said, "Forget it, I don't have anything serious to do. I just want to hear your thoughts on some cultural matters..."

Hearing this, Li Shuo's mind moved: Cultural things? Thinking of Chen Guanwei's certain identity, she is someone who can influence the big scissors!

"It's not convenient here, shall we get a private room?" Li Shuo immediately became excited.

Chen Guanwei shook her head and said, "Come back to the room with me."

"what?"

"Why? Didn't you call me aunt?"

"Well, actually, seeing your beautiful face that is as pretty as a flower and as beautiful as a young girl, I would rather call you sister!"

"Tsk, it's not like you didn't scream just now."

"Ha~ There are so many people at the table, I can't expose my relationship with you..."

Chen Guanwei is two years younger than He Yun, and she has never been married. Her figure and skin are all well maintained, so Li Shuo's words are not pure flattery, but are very sincere.

Chen Guanwei glanced at him with her insightful eyes, curled the corners of her mouth, turned around and got on the elevator.

Li Shuo hurriedly followed, and heard Chen Guanwei saying as they walked:

"The domestic cultural situation is very bad, and there is Hollywood invasion in the film industry..."

"In terms of television, South Korea has risen. We introduced it for a while, but now we finally realize that it is a bad thing when these things are too popular... There is also the messy boy band idol culture..."

"Besides, there are online games. What are they called? E-sports, right? Do you know anything about this? I heard that our country has a 'non-Olympic champion'?"

Li Shuo has been listening to Chen Guanwei's complaints patiently. Standing from Chen Guanwei's perspective, he feels that he sees things very clearly: these foreign cultural dregs are obviously inconsistent with mainstream values, but are mindlessly pursued by many people. It really makes people feel like they want to control them, but don't know where to start.

Wait, are you asking yourself “how to manage”?

Thinking of this, Li Shuo's expression became serious, but he soon smiled again, and said as if he was chatting:

"I have some say in this matter"

"Oh?" Chen Guanwei opened the door and looked at him in surprise: "What do you mean?"

"The first person who is not an Olympic champion was selected through an online poll conducted by the central media in 10. In the poll, e-sports player SKY emerged as a dark horse, surpassing Go masters, snooker geniuses, chess masters and other veterans who were highly regarded in traditional fields, and won the first place in popularity. When the results were released, there was an uproar in the media. It was not until then that the government and public opinion noticed that the domestic e-sports industry had already become a new blue ocean that had separated from the game industry..."

After listening to Li Shuo's brief narration, Chen Guanwei was a little surprised: "I didn't expect you to know so much about this..."

Li Shuo smiled reservedly: "Because SKY is a contracted player of Shuoguo Esports and my friend..."