Rebirth of the Republic of China: The Story of the Chaebol

"Lao Qu, what are you thinking about? Didn't you see your fishing rod move?"

Sun Tong, who was not very interested in diving, was currently fishing with Qu Hongxi and others at Chuanwei.

As a veteran fisherman, Sun Tong is actually quite addicted to it, but he can usually control this addiction, so in the eyes of many people, fishing is just a pastime for Sun Tong.

"Your Majesty, I am thinking about the work of the Supervisory Office."

When the dynasty was first established, although the Kingdom of Xihua had no shortage of talents after years of training, the problem was that these people were only suitable for middle and low-level government positions for the time being, so many high-level government positions are still vacant.

Sun Tong could promote talents to these positions by relying on his personal prestige, but if he really did so, it would be very likely that the old people under him would become alienated from him.

After all, he doesn't have a system to help him lock the loyalty of those under his command. In order to avoid problems, even though he holds great power, Sun Tong is extremely cautious in using it.

When it comes to the promotion of officials, even as a king, he has to follow the existing system.

It is precisely because of this that there are several cases in the government where one person is in charge of two departments.

For example, Karl's Foreign Office and Colonial Office.

As for Qu Hongxi, this guy's current official position is actually the Minister of the Interior of the Kingdom of Xihua and the Royal Steward, but at the same time, out of trust in him, Sun Tong also handed over the Inspection Office to him.

"Don't think too much now that you're out having fun. The Supervisory Office has done a good job recently, and the three deputy directors under you have also performed very well. Your main task here is to observe the three of them. After all, you are only temporarily in charge of the Supervisory Office, and you will eventually have to choose one of the three to take over your job."

"I understand this, but these three people each have their own characteristics and are not bad in ability. I am now having a headache about who will replace me."

"There's no rush for this. Take your time. Anyway, I don't plan to move the Inspection Office in the short term. It's good to maintain the current structure for the time being. Okay, let's not talk about work anymore. You should try this new sparkling wine from Johnnie Walker. It's quite delicious."

As one of the five major distilleries under APEX, Johnnie Walker is now not only one of the wine suppliers for the Ying royal family, but also the wine supplier for the Xihua royal family.

Even because Johnnie Walker is now one of the assets of the Western China royal family, Sun Tong will invest a large sum of money in this winery every year to enable the winery to continuously develop new products and expand the scale of the industry.

In fact, Johnnie Walker had gotten rid of the problems of single product and low factory production capacity as early as 28 years ago.

Today, Johnnie Walker not only has large-scale distilleries in six countries around the world, but its wine varieties have also expanded from one to seven.

Even Richard Charles, who is in charge of managing Johnnie Walker, recently came up with the idea of ​​adding a new sub-brand. Although Johnnie Walker Distillery is just a subsidiary of the Sun Group, due to the special circumstances of the five major distilleries, the people below also reported this matter specifically to Sun Tong.

Sun Tong naturally supported Richard Charles' idea. After all, the situation on his side was quite different from the other four wineries under Sun Tong's control.

The other four wineries are called factories but they are all single wineries. Whether it is Romanee-Conti, Screaming Eagle, Daly or Marcassonne, they all make wine from grapes produced on the existing land of the winery.

This situation prevents them from continuing to expand their business like Johnnie Walker Distillery.

Even due to land restrictions, the annual output of red wine from these four wineries is not enough. You must know that under the influence of the royal family and Sun Tong's continuous publicity over the years, the reputation of these five wineries in the world has always been top-notch.

In this environment, except for Johnnie Walker, the other four of the five wineries only supply a small portion of wine to the outside world each year, which has made the industries of these four wineries increasingly popular outside.

However, this situation also forced the Sherwood Royal Family to change the annual supply quantity of the four wineries. Originally, they were to supply more than 80% of their output to the Sherwood Royal Family every year, but starting this year, the Sherwood Royal Family can only get half of the winery's output, and the remaining half of the products need to be open to the global market.

"Is this Johnnie Walker's new Green Tong wine? It looks really pretty."

"Not only is it beautiful, it's also delicious. Anyway, I like the taste of this wine. By the way, I heard that Richard is now discussing the acquisition of Chateau Margaux. This guy is really bold. I wonder if the Gauls will let him, a guy from Yingguo, buy their top winery."

"I think this is a long shot. In fact, I think it would be better to let APEX directly take over the acquisition of Chateau Margaux than to let Johnnie Walker Distillery take over the acquisition of Chateau Margaux. This way, the success rate of the acquisition may be higher."

"Forget it, let's not worry about it. Let's let Richard try first. If it doesn't work, it won't be too late to let Peter step in."