Chapter 431 Goodbye to Midsummer (Subscribe for monthly tickets)
This kind of thing requires consultation.

Liu Minsheng naturally did not give Zhang Yunqi a clear answer.

On the phone, he said he would find an opportunity to report to Hu Xianxun.

Zhang Yunqi expressed his gratitude.

After hanging up the phone, he saw that Ji Lingchujian, Lin Shiyu and the other two girls had already found a stall to eat.

Dongguashan is an old alley in Lijin City.

In later generations, this is the most famous late-night snack landmark in the nationally renowned internet celebrity city of Lijin, and is as famous as Fisherman's Wharf. However, compared to Fisherman's Wharf, which is famous for its unique style and bustling nightlife, Donggua Mountain has a stronger sense of historical accumulation and has the most flavor of the old Lijin.

At this time in the 90s, this place was just an ordinary shantytown. Outside the old buildings on both sides of the alley, there were many night snack stalls. At this time, it was already very late at night. The dim light shone through the old wooden windows and illuminated the bluestone slabs, which were paved with traces of time. The picture was peaceful and full of warmth.

Lin Shiyu found an open-air food stall. When Zhang Yunqi closed the car door and rushed over, a lot of food had already been ordered on the table, including Dongguashan sausage, lard rice noodles, stinky tofu, sugar-coated rice cakes, mango snowballs, etc., all of which are Lijin's specialties.

The first time I saw her was my first time in Lijin.

Lin Shiyu was enthusiastically introducing to her what fun and delicious things there were in Lijin.

Zhang Yunqi interrupted, "Tomorrow and the day after tomorrow are weekends, big reporter, you don't have to go to work, right?"

Lin Shiyu asked: "You want me to be your laborer again?"

Zhang Yunqi said: "What kind of coolie is that? How vulgar! We are clearly serving the people."

Lin Shiyu stuffed a piece of mango into her mouth: "I'm afraid it's to serve you, a capitalist?"

Zhang Yunqi was so hungry that he buried his head in the rice noodles mixed with lard. "I don't need it. You are a native of Lijin. Are you going to accompany them to play tomorrow? Look at Ji Ling. She calls me Sister Lin all the time. How affectionate she is."

Ji Ling, who was eating a mango, rolled her eyes and said, "Sister Lin is so kind."

Lin Shiyu smiled with her teeth shining, and reached out to touch Ji Ling's delicate face: "You can have this, I'll go play with you tomorrow."

Lin Shiyu already knew that Chu Jian was Zhang Yunqi's girlfriend. She was a little surprised at first because she always thought that the relationship between Ji Ling and Zhang Yunqi was extraordinary. According to Ji Ling's family conditions and the fact that they had been friends since childhood, they were indeed a good match.

But matters of the heart are hard to explain, and it’s not a pity.

When I first met this girl, she seemed pretty nice, but a little too quiet. She was very polite and didn't like to talk.

The college entrance examination had just ended. While eating, Lin Shiyu inevitably became concerned about Chu Jian and Ji Ling's college entrance examination results.

She kept talking about how you did in the college entrance examination, what university you were going to attend, and she also told Ji Ling that you must have a relationship in college, and what kind of boys are reliable and suitable...

Zhang Yunqi listened to their conversation and said, "I have seen such a topic in a literature psychology textbook before. Do you want to hear about it?"

The three girls turned their heads at the same time and looked at Zhang Yunqi.

Zhang Yunqi smiled and said, "A long time ago, there were two boys, one was A and the other was of course B. They both fell in love with a girl, W..."

"Why W?" Lin Shiyu asked immediately.

"Woman."

"Woman, how ugly! It should be called G."

"Okay, big sister, you have the final say. Two boys fell in love with girl G at the same time. G knew that A and B both had a history of love, so she asked them to talk about their ex-girlfriends. A foolishly told her all about his past in vivid detail, and was so moved that he burst into tears. G felt very uncomfortable. B, who was quite experienced, told G that his story with his ex-girlfriend was just a rumor and it never happened. He had liked G for a long time, which made G feel very comfortable."

At this point, Zhang Yunqi asked: "So, G starts to choose between A and B, which one do you think the answer is?"

"What do you say?"

"The standard answer from the Ministry of Education is A." Zhang Yunqi said, "Although A makes G uncomfortable, he is honest and upright. Although B makes G comfortable, he is scheming. He clearly has an ex-girlfriend but says that this is not the case. He is not reliable."

Lin Shiyu's face showed resistance, and she obviously disagreed: "I think this answer is a bit abnormal. If it were me, I would choose B. Because A is silly, reckless, and doesn't understand women's hearts. It would be incompatible with him. B knows how to take care of women, knows what to say and what not to say, and has a sense of propriety."

After hearing this, Zhang Yunqi said nothing more.

Lin Shiyu didn't want to let him go, so she asked with a smile, "Zhang Yunqi, are you A or B?"

Zhang Yunqi was choked to death.

Chu Jian and Ji Ling were both looking at him at this time.

He put down his chopsticks and said, "Actually, the process of every boy turning into a man is a process from A to B, a process of knowing women, respecting women, and cherishing women."

"Applause!" Lin Shiyu clapped her hands with a smile. She sighed, "That's emotional intelligence. When you first meet Boss Zhang, you'd better keep an eye on him. With his financial resources, age, and emotional intelligence, all the pretty girls in Lijin University Town would be so excited when they see him."

When I first saw you, I just smiled and then shook my head slightly.

Zhang Yunqi picked up a piece of stinky tofu and threw it into Lin Shiyu's bowl: "Big sister, eat more."

He has known Lin Shiyu for many years. She has always been cheerful and lively, and has a strong humanistic spirit. However, he had never realized that this beautiful reporter was such a gossiper.

I still have things to do tomorrow, so I only ate for an hour or so.

Zhang Yunqi was full and even sleepier. He paid the bill and drove Lin Shiyu and Ji Ling home. It was already early morning when he returned to the hotel with Chu Jian. Zhang Yunqi was exhausted that day.

He fell onto the bed and fell into a deep sleep.

Early the next morning, Zhang Yunqi called Xiao Wu over.

Although he said he would bring Chu Jian and Ji Ling to the provincial capital, he actually didn't have the time now. He would have to wait until he was done with his work to see if he had time. Today, he asked Xiao Wu to bring a few security guards and ask Lin Shiyu to accompany Ji Ling and Chu Jian to the Friendship Mall for food, drinks, entertainment and shopping.

After breakfast, Zhang Yunqi sent Chu Jian to the car and asked Xiao Wu to pick up Ji Ling and Lin Shiyu.

Shuntian Case Hotel has a conference room, and Aiwa Electronics temporarily rented one. Zhang Yunqi asked Yang Jin to call Hu Zhibiao, Wang Guibing and his team to a meeting to discuss the next work.

The top priority here is Aiwa’s marketing.

The reason is simple: good wine needs a bush. In the era of market economy, product quality must be excellent, and bragging skills must also be excellent, which cannot be separated from some commercial operations.

This part is handled by Hu Zhibiao.

Zhang Yunqi asked him to lead the team to connect with newspapers, television and other media, as well as advertising companies, and to be fully responsible for the future advertising marketing and market operations of Aiwa Electronics. As for the advertising sample, Hu Zhibiao had already asked an advertising company in the province to produce it, but Zhang Yunqi had not seen it yet, so he asked Hu Zhibiao to get it out as soon as possible.

In short, Zhang Yunqi fully trusted Hu Zhibiao's market operation and marketing planning capabilities, and handed over the most important operating segment of Aiwa Electronics to him. As the general manager of Aiwa Electronics, he took the biggest piece of the equity option pie.

After all, the examples from previous lives are here.

Zhang Yunqi had read Hu Zhibiao's materials on this matter. In his previous life, Hu Zhibiao's Aido Electronics was just a small factory with no money and no people at the beginning. It made 20 million from dealers by making money out of nothing, and then launched wave after wave of marketing operations.

Among them, there is a classic case that has been mentioned repeatedly. He still remembers that after Hu Zhibiao got the money, he first bought half of the space in the "Yangcheng Evening News" for four consecutive days. In the first three days, he only published the two big words "Aido" on it. After whetting everyone's appetite, he promoted and introduced Aido on the fourth day. This move made Aido famous and the sales of VCD players soared.

Under the direction of Hu Zhibiao, the former Aido Electronics pioneered a major change in the marketing model of China's home appliance industry, created China's first giant outdoor advertisement for investment promotion, and innovatively designed China's first suspense marketing advertisement.

In that era, he was truly a genius.

In order to further expand Aido's influence, at the end of the same year, Hu Zhibiao bid a staggering price of 8200 million yuan for a 5-second advertisement after the weather forecast on CCTV. At the end of 1997, he again bid 2.1 million yuan, becoming CCTV's new generation "bid king" and becoming famous in the Chinese business circle.

Afterwards, Hu Zhibiao hired director Zhang Yimou and actor Jackie Chan at a large sum of money to shoot commercials specifically for Aido: "Aido VCD, great kung fu!", "No rainbow without wind and rain, no one can succeed easily - we have been working hard - Aido VCD" and so on.

In this wild era of Chinese business operations, Hu Zhibiao's advanced marketing ideas were fully demonstrated. In less than two years, Aido Electronics established a "marketing myth" for Chinese private enterprises.

This 26-year-old young man is really awesome.

Zhang Yunqi still remembers the following passage in Feng Lun's article "After being released from prison, the business genius made a comeback": "At that time, Huang Guangyu, Zhang Jindong, and Liu Qiangdong were all Hu Zhibiao's distributors."

But this 26-year-old young man is indeed very courageous.

Pure, high-profile, crazy, this distinctive character gene runs through his entire entrepreneurial history.

His names are getting more and more famous.

The "Godfather" of Chinese VCD, a sales genius, earned 27 billion at the age of 27, and married his beautiful secretary with 18 luxury cars and a million cannon salute.

Such anecdotes circulate on the streets.

However, the most outrageous thing he did was that in order to extend the life cycle of VCD products, when the East China faction including Xinke, Panda, Shanghai Media Group, and Hualu, whose chips were provided by ESS, and the Guangdong faction including Aido, BBK, and Xianke, whose chips were provided by C-Cube, were fighting each other over product standards, Hu Zhibiao actually regarded himself as the leader of the Guangdong faction, and through his powerful marketing planning network, he made this product standard dispute a national mess. Finally, when the relevant departments had to step in to mediate, he actually took the lead in raising the stern question "Is it the enterprises or the government that have the final say on product standards?"

Business celebrities in China's business history have repeatedly proved that this kind of behavior of leading the trend in a high-profile manner and making sure that the world knows about it is particularly prone to backlash.

If you have always been right and are in line with the trend of the times and the will of the people, there is nothing wrong with your approach. It can indeed earn you a reputation as a trendsetters of the times, but if you walk by the river often, you will get your feet wet.
If one day you ignore it, you will be punished by God!

The downfall of Hu Zhibiao and his Aido is a bloody proof of this.

Mr. Ma, who coined classic quotes such as "996 at work, 669 after get off work" and shouted on the Bund "If banks don't change, we will change the banks", also indirectly confirmed this truth.

Of course, having said that, at least for now, for the current Aiwa Electronics, Zhang Yunqi needs Hu Zhibiao's genius marketing ability and his high profile to increase the market visibility of Aiwa Electronics.

As for the future, Zhang Yunqi has a rope to tie up this wild horse that loves to run wild.

After the internal meeting, everyone went about their own business.

Zhang Yunqi, Wang Guibing and Yang Jin were going to the Lijin Municipal Government for a negotiation meeting. Hu Zhibiao took three Aihua Electronics employees on a different route, and they were going to the advertising company first.

Zhang Yunqi and the other two walked out of the gate of Shuntian Case Hotel and came to the open-air parking lot outside.

When Zhang Yunqi was about to get on the bus, he heard Wang Guibing beside him suddenly say, "Why are you here?"

He turned his head and saw a girl, and was stunned.

The girl was wearing a light pink tight vest and had long, clear hair with a pink Hello Kitty hairpin hanging on the end of her hair. She walked towards the two girls, facing the sunlight in front of her. She had a straw in her mouth and looked pretty and charming with a smile on her face.

The girl is Li Yufei.

Li Yufei also saw Zhang Yunqi and slowly stopped.

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