Under Fang Chen's surprised gaze, Duan Yongping's face turned slightly red. At this moment, he really felt like he was being slapped in the face.

But let's fight, we can't delay Qingtian's development for the sake of our own face.

From this point of view, he is still good. At least he can sincerely admit his mistakes and actively find ways to save himself. Duan Yongping comforted himself in his heart.

No way, who made the retail store smell so good!

The retail store system that he strongly opposed the construction of at the beginning has now become the largest electronic product channel dealer in China. It can even be said that its scale is only second to the supply and marketing cooperative system that the government has built for decades.

There are nearly 600 Qingtian retail stores almost all over the country. This is something that no channel dealer in the country can achieve.

It is these 600 Qingtian retail stores that enable Qingtian to sell all its products to consumers everywhere in a timely manner, and provide good after-sales service and product experience.

This has greatly increased consumers' recognition and viscosity of Qingtian's products, otherwise there would not be such long queues in front of us.

Moreover, these retail stores can also play a role in supervising local dealers to prevent them from vicious competition and damaging Qingtian's reputation.

All in all, it is much better than the previous agency system.

It's just that the investment was a bit large, at least from the perspective of the time. These 600 Qingtian retail stores cost Fang Chen more than 500 million to build, and the average cost of a single store was nearly one million.

However, more than half of this million was spent on purchasing shops.

There is no way, Qingtian's retail stores are basically located in the central business district of the city, and the area is often two to three hundred square meters. Otherwise, it would not be able to provide consumers with so many experience services, and it would almost become an entertainment venue.

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And with the increase in housing prices in recent years, it seems that the value of these retail stores alone can earn back more than 500 million.

At this point, he had to admire Fang Chen's foresight.

Looking across Duan Yongping's face, Fang Chen pointed at the retail store in front of him and suddenly said: "Old Duan, if you had to do it again, what would you choose? Will you agree to my investment of 500 million to build a retail system?"

Duan Yongping thought for a while, then shook his head silently, "If I go back to that time, I will probably still object."

Now Qingtian is a large company with an annual revenue of more than 20 billion, only one step away from the world's top 500 companies, and he can already say with certainty that Qingtian's revenue this year can definitely exceed 40 billion.

With the above, it has firmly become one of the world's top 500 companies.

Of course, these 500 million are nothing.

At that time, Xiaobawang's annual revenue was only one billion, and its net profit was not as much as five hundred million.

However, the most important thing is that at that time, not only could all the profits from Little Overlord not be fed back to Fang Chen, but he also had to take money from Fang Chen's pocket every month.

There is no way, if Xiaobawang wants to maintain such rapid development, it needs a lot of capital investment.

In other words, Fang Chen can only pay for the 500 million from his own pocket, which is really too much pressure.

Fang Chen smiled and said nothing more.

He was not surprised by Duan Yongping's answer. This is Lao Duan. If Duan Yongping didn't answer like this, it would be called strange.

"But no matter what, I think Qingtian's retail system has reached the point of expanding again. I think it is not an exaggeration to double the size." Duan Yongping said.

Because there are only one or two retail stores in each city, it is not just Qingtian's retail stores that are very popular now. Even on weekdays, the retail stores are almost at full capacity.

After all, Qingtian's retail stores are not only responsible for sales, but also for after-sales and consumer experience. There is really too much work.

And a store that is too full and crowded is not conducive for consumers to purchase goods. After all, Qingtian is not the kind of company that engages in hunger marketing and makes money by grabbing it.

Moreover, the employees are too tired, and every month a batch of retail store employees apply for job transfer.

"How about expanding it to all county-level administrative districts?" Fang Chen suddenly turned his head and looked at Duan Yongping with a playful expression.

Duan Yongping's face suddenly turned ugly, and he looked at Fang Chen with an unkind expression. Is it such a big deal?

He felt that it would be good to double the number of retail stores and ensure that all prefecture-level cities have Qingtian retail stores. Moreover, the investment would start at one billion yuan. After all, shops and the like were expensive.

But all the county-level administrative districts are crazy!

County-level administrative divisions are not just counties. They include municipal districts, county-level cities, counties, autonomous counties, flags, autonomous banners, special zones, forest areas, etc. All county-level administrative divisions in the country add up to two thousand seventeen.

One hundred and forty-eight, Qingtian currently has less than 600 retail stores, not even a fraction of the two thousand, seven hundred and forty-eight.

If the retail department really develops so much, not to mention that the investment alone will require at least 4 billion to 5 billion, the number of employees in the retail department alone will need to expand four to five times.

And now there are tens of thousands of employees in the retail department. Some people have vaguely called the retail department the sixth largest branch of Qingtian. If this expands further, the number of employees in the retail department will be at least 50,000 or 60,000.

The stable Qingtian Division has 30,000 to 40,000 people more than the current largest Overlord.

By then, the total number of employees in Qingtian will also exceed 100,000.

Duan Yongping felt shuddering when he thought that he would have to manage more than 100,000 employees in the future. Even among central enterprises, there are probably very few that can match such a huge scale.

Fang Chen glanced at Duan Yongping, saw his timid appearance, and said angrily: "I'm not asking you to fill all the county-level administrative districts with Qingtian's retail stores now, take your time,

It doesn't matter if you come here for two or three years."

Duan Yongping couldn't help but roll his eyes, seeing that Fang Chen's words were quite light. Even if the time was extended to two or three years, spending another four to five billion would still be a great pressure for Qingtian.

Furthermore, he really didn't think it was necessary. The stall was so big. In Fang Chen's words, the steps were too big and it would be easy to get caught.

Thinking of this, Duan Yongping glanced at Fang Chen subconsciously. It seems that Fang Chen often does this kind of things that are too big. Doesn't that mean that Fang Chen's balls are often...

Fang Chen didn't notice Duan Yongping's eyes looking at him maliciously, but said with a somewhat excited expression: "Although from now on, the financial pressure will be a little bit greater..."

Before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by Duan Yongping. Duan Yongping said bluntly: "I just made a mental calculation. To achieve your goal, it will cost at least 4 billion to 5 billion. The price of this shop

If it goes up again, maybe even four to five billion won’t be enough.”

Being robbed by Duan Yongping, Fang Chen not only did not get angry, but instead smiled and said thiefly: "Since you know that the price of shops will rise in the future, does it mean that the company is making a profit by buying the shops now?"

If you ask a person in future generations, what price has risen the most in the thirty years from 1990 to 2020, and what to invest in if you have money, I am afraid that nine and a half out of ten will answer that it is real estate.

But Fang Chen has never wanted to make real estate money. For this reason, he would rather give more shares of Vantone Company to Feng Lun, Pan Shiyi and others, and introduce Liu Yuanjun and others. He only holds 60% of the shares of Vantone Company.

This is completely different from the style of holding Qingtian's shares almost completely in his own hands, that is, giving Duan Yongping 1% of the shares.

Duan Yongping's 1% shareholding has not yet been secured. According to Duan Yongping's own requirements, it can only be regarded as dry shares.

There is no way, as a person who has experienced the harm of high housing prices in his previous life, he is really unwilling to touch things like real estate, and in the past nearly thirty years, there are too many dark sides hidden under real estate.

Moreover, he can be upright and have too many ways to make money while standing. There is no need to go into the muddy waters of real estate. If your hands are dirty, you can still wash them. If your heart is dirty, you can't even wash them.

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The most he can do now is restrain Feng Lun and the others from cheating on the quality of the project and not defaulting on the wages of migrant workers. Other than that, there is really nothing he can do.

In the future, he will dilute a part of Vantone's shares again, and ultimately achieve the goal of only holding a small amount of Vantone shares.

In this way, the opportunity for him to make money in the golden age of real estate for nearly thirty years is to invest in shops.

Not to mention how many benefits these retail stores can create for him, and what Hummer contribution they have made to Qingtian's sales and brand establishment, just saying that he has more than 500 stores now, and the future value of the stores will be at least 100.

Starting from billions.

In the next 20 to 30 years, it should be no problem for real estate to increase by 30 to 40 times.

Calculating it this way, Fang Chen spent more than 300 million to buy a shop before, which is not 10 billion. As for why the total cost was more than 500 million, not including decoration, recruitment of employees, training and a series of expenses.

And if another four to five billion is spent this time to purchase more than 2,000 shops, these shops themselves will be worth more than 40 to 50 billion in the future, which is really an astronomical sum.

Not to mention the benefits to the entire Qingtian system if more than two thousand retail stores are really established.

This not only means that Qingtian's flag can truly be planted all over China's north and south, in every county-level administrative region.

It also means that Qingtian's products can be delivered to every consumer quickly and accurately. Every consumer in China can buy Qingtian's products nearby and experience good after-sales service and pre-sales experience.

Furthermore, it can also increase Qingtian's profits, allowing Qingtian to have more money to do other things and engage in technological development, forming a positive cycle.

You know, in the past life, the ex-factory price of manufacturers was usually relatively low. The reason why it became so high was because agents at all levels increased prices step by step, and retailers had to pay a lot of store costs.

More than half of the profits of physical stores are swallowed up by rent. Can the prices of goods not be high?

This is also the reason why Taobao, which does not have physical stores, can sell goods at such cheap prices.

For Qingtian, since there are no layers of agents to increase prices, and the store properties are self-sustaining, the price of the products can naturally come down.

For the general public and consumers, low price is the attraction!

Moreover, Qingtian's low price is still under the condition of ensuring sufficient profits.

The sales of video disc players this time is a good example. Why is the price of the video disc player even though the product quality is better than that of the previous Wanyan video disc player, and it can still guarantee a 30% profit? Isn't it because of these retail stores?

It's all Qingtian's own.

When Fang Chen said this, Duan Yongping suddenly became speechless. What he said makes sense. The prices of these shops will increase in the future, and they can make money. I haven't seen the value of more than 500 shops before.

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"But if the prices of shops are rising now, it doesn't mean that the prices of shops will also rise in the future..." Duan Yongping said with a dying struggle.

As someone who has experienced two real estate turmoils in Tianya Province and watched the real estate market in Tianya Province rise and fall like a roller coaster, I really don’t think this real estate trend that has begun to blow across the country will last long.

"You haven't seen that even computer companies like Lenovo have gone to Lianghua City to buy land to build a computer city. How long do you think this real estate can continue to rise? Don't be like Dongwo, just throw it away and it's over."

Yong Ping continued to speak earnestly.

Now it was Fang Chen's turn to be speechless. He had no choice. The two examples Duan Yongping gave were really good.

Especially when Lenovo bought land and built a computer mall, it was similar to the previous life when gold skyrocketed and all the aunts went to buy gold.

Aunts all know that when gold can make money, is it possible that gold will not fall?

In the same way, Lenovo has bought a high-end computer mall, so will housing prices not fall?

And to be honest, before the "Notice of the Political Hall on Further Deepening the Reform of the Urban Housing System and Accelerating Housing Construction" was issued in 1998 in the previous life, housing prices fell and rose. It can only be said that there was an increase while falling, and it was not like that of later generations.

, running up like crazy.

Many of these companies died in this house. The more famous ones, besides Lenovo, include the now-famous Giant Building.

"This may be the case in the next few years, but if we take a longer-term view, investing in these shops will definitely make a profit in ten, eight, or even ten or twenty years, and even the value of these shops themselves will double.

Several times, even dozens of times..."

Immediately afterwards, Fang Chen will improve the retail system. For Qingtian, this includes expanding sales scope, enhancing after-sales service, improving pre-sales experience, and reducing costs, so that it can compete with other companies at lower prices while ensuring profits.
Chapter completed!