Elizabeth came to Liang Yao's office with her slightly bulging belly.

Liang Yao walked up to Elizabeth and said with some distress: "The environment in San Francisco is not good, you should go to the small house in Sacramento to raise your baby first."

As the environment in San Francisco is getting worse day by day, Liang Yao is ready to move to Sacramento, but the construction of his estate in Sacramento has not yet been completed.

However, Liang Yao's parents already disliked the poor environment in San Francisco and had moved to the small house Liang Yao once built in San Francisco.

After discovering that Elizabeth was pregnant, Liang Yao repeatedly persuaded Elizabeth to move to Sacramento, but Elizabeth insisted on staying in San Francisco on the grounds that it was more convenient to handle the group's affairs in San Francisco.

"Koney has just completed the handover with Zeiss, and you usually have to deal with state affairs. How can you handle so many things within the Americas Group by yourself?" Elizabeth shook her head.

Liang Yao and his father are the same kind of people. When his father was young, he was often away from home for several months due to work problems. Elizabeth was mentally prepared before marrying Liang Yao.

Compared with his father, Liang Yao's work was more arduous, while Vanderbilt was totally focused on business and did not participate much in political matters.

And Liang Yao was not only involved in politics, he was also the military commander of the entire western region. God knows how Liang Yao survived alone these years.

If she can share some affairs with Liang Yao, the burden on Liang Yao's shoulders will be lighter.

Liang Yao knew that he could not persuade Elizabeth, so he gave Kony a wink.

Kony is a smart man and understood quickly.

Kony supported Elizabeth and said: "Sister, my brother-in-law and I are with each other. It's just a contract. We are all family members. It doesn't matter if I work for my brother-in-law for a few more months."

"Okay, okay, don't you just want me to move to Sacramento? I'll move to Sacramento in the next two days to save you all nagging in my ears." Elizabeth relented.

After promising to move to Sacramento, Elizabeth talked about work again: "The Americas Group has too many businesses and is too complicated. It is involved in almost all industries, and the management costs and difficulties have exceeded the limits that the group can bear. In a few months,

I inspected many branches under the group before, and the management was very mixed.

Our competitiveness in certain industries has become smaller and smaller, such as Nevada's Xiangshan Gold Mining Company. I think if the group wants to go further, we need to clarify the development direction of the group and concentrate on developing the areas in which we have comparative advantages.

field."

In this era, there are no telephones, no faxes, and no Internet. The management costs of companies, especially large comprehensive group companies, are very high.

The Americas Group is involved in so many industries, with business spread all over the country, and even touches Europe, the Qing Dynasty, and Japan. The management difficulty and cost can be imagined.

If it hadn't been for the gradual spread of telegraphs during this period, Liang Yao's America Group would never have survived today.

However, the ability and efficiency of the telegraph to spread information was still very limited.

This is also the reason why most of the giants of this era only work in one industry. For example, Vanderbilt is deeply involved in the railway industry, the Rothschild family is deeply involved in the financial industry, and Liang Yao, the steel king in American history, Carnegie, is deeply involved in the steel industry.

, Rockefeller was deeply involved in the petrochemical industry, etc.

A very objective and realistic reason is the limitation of information dissemination efficiency and management cost.

In this case, deep cultivation of a certain industry can save management costs to the greatest extent and improve competitiveness.

The ceiling of modern companies is constantly being broken through with information communication technology.

The emergence of the telegraph spawned a large number of large companies with tens of millions of dollars in the mid-to-late 19th century. The emergence of the telephone further raised the ceiling of these companies, raising the upper limit of companies to the level of hundreds of millions or billions of dollars.

After World War II, the emergence and popularization of fax and the Internet significantly reduced the cost of doing business across borders, and the ceiling of modern companies has also reached a higher level, reaching the trillion-dollar level.

At present, the total asset value of America Group has exceeded 100 million, making it the first giant in the United States with assets exceeding 100 million. It is already the ceiling for comprehensive group companies in this era.

If America Group wants to go further, it should indeed clarify its future development direction, divest some businesses whose competitiveness is gradually declining, and focus on developing the group's existing advantageous industries.
Chapter completed!