Era: Starting from divorce from female college student

In September 1979, a meeting was being held in the conference room of Sam Medford's Mario Aviation headquarters office building.

As the big boss, Zhao Mancang sat in the main seat and listened to the report from the person in charge.

"Boss, our company delivered 37 M-series aircraft in the first half of this year."

Mario Aviation's total revenue in the first half of this year was US$6.78 billion, a year-on-year decrease of 19.5%.

The decline in performance made the executives in the conference room embarrassed, but they were helpless.

The strength of their competitors and the change in market trends have given them a lot of headaches.

That's what running a business is like, it's full of difficulties.

In fact, the newly established Beijiang Airlines in Beijiang City has already purchased fifteen aircraft of different types from Mario Airlines.

Ten medium- and long-haul passenger aircraft and five short-haul passenger aircraft were purchased, which is already a lot.

After all, there are not many tourists in Beijiang City nowadays, or there are not many passengers taking planes.

Yunlan City is also one of Mario Airlines' clients, but similarly, they don't need many passenger planes.

With the support of the wave of economic globalization, Mario Airlines should have been doing better and better, but it's a pity.

Now, Mario Aviation can only focus on the research and development and improvement of civil airliners, and is committed to developing more low-fuel-consumption, low-noise economical airliners, rather than drones or other things.

Focusing on civil aviation passenger aircraft may be the future development path of Mario Aviation.

Boeing and McDonnell Douglas are currently Mario Aviation's biggest competitors. As long as Mario can defeat these two companies, it will be able to monopolize the global market.

McDonnell Douglas' DC series and MD series passenger aircraft still have a very high market share in the global civil passenger aircraft market, which is slightly lower than even Boeing.

However, in the market in 1979, Mario Aviation's market share had gradually increased, and it was not a problem to defeat McDonnell Douglas.

As for Boeing, let it focus on researching military aircraft and stop messing around in the civilian market.

Therefore, at today's Mario Airlines executive meeting, Zhao Mancang once again emphasized:

"Don't be so pessimistic. Competition in the drone market will definitely continue. If we can't catch up with others in this field, then we should admit it openly. There is nothing to be ashamed of."

"We can also make progress in the battery field, but it depends on whether the technology research and development department can create miracles."

"But going forward, we at Mario should focus even more on the civil aviation passenger aircraft sector, especially in terms of economic efficiency. We must continue to lead the market and force our competitors to withdraw from this sector and give us the market."

After hearing Zhao Mancang's words, all the executives present couldn't help but applaud excitedly.

This is indeed a path of sustainable development, and it can be said to be a bright road. So we should move forward quickly along this path and work hard to develop.

After coming out of the conference room, Zhao Mancang was filled with emotion.

He came to North America in the early 1960s and founded companies such as Mayflower Media Group, Wanjia Supermarket, Mario Aviation, and Robot Computer Company. He also successively acquired companies such as Paramount, Bunge, and Fairchild Semiconductor.

It can almost be said that his current industries are spread across many industries in Sam's group, affecting the economic lifeline of this country.

Without having time to express his feelings too much, Zhao Mancang rushed to Wanjia Supermarket for inspection.

Wanjia Supermarket is no different from before, with its performance growing steadily and the number of supermarket stores still increasing, but it is undergoing simultaneous adjustments.

In addition, Wanjia Supermarket has incubated another retail brand: FamilyMart!

FamilyMart is a small store that focuses on retail business within a one-kilometer radius. It sells only a few products, but they are of a wide variety.

These small stores are very concentrated in big cities, and their revenue is also very considerable.

Major cities like New York, Washington, and Los Angeles already have hundreds of FamilyMart retail stores.

Thanks to Wanjia Supermarket’s rich logistics system, the transportation of goods for FamilyMart retail stores is very convenient.

Many urban white-collar workers can completely buy some hot buns, bread and other food slowly after arriving downstairs of the company, and then take the elevator to the company after eating.

Because FamilyMart retail stores not only sell daily necessities such as tissues, soda, and chocolate, but also sell brunch and provide heating and small dining tables.

Under such circumstances, to be honest, FamilyMart's sales will certainly not be bad.

This type of retail store model has become popular in many major cities around the world, and even the city of Beijiang already has such a store operation model.

Of course, not the whole family.

Although the domestic market has just begun, how could the city of Beijiang miss out on such a market?
The retail market is still very large. If Beijiang City wants to develop rapidly, it must rely on the city government to promote it in the early stage, and Zhao Mancang will also work behind the scenes.

Zhao Mancang spent a week inspecting Wanjia Supermarket, FamilyMart retail stores, Stephen Farm Group, etc., and then he went to New York.

"It's really strange. During the economic crisis, Sam's economy is still so active?"

Walking on the streets of New York, Zhao Mancang frowned.

Many people are still willing to come out and spend money, which shows that Sam's economy is indeed very strange.

After all, the unemployment rate is rising and inflation continues to rise. Logically, no one has money, so there should not be much active economic activity.

Zhao Mancang didn't understand what was going on, so he didn't bother with the matter any further.

It has nothing to do with him anyway.

Financial companies such as Mayflower Media Group and The Wolf of Wall Street were the focus of Zhao Mancang's inspection in New York.

Especially companies like The Wolf of Wall Street, which is one of his money bags.

In the headquarters office of Aucma, Zhao Mancang was looking through the company's current revenue status.

The oil crisis began last year, but the most stable and peak oil price increases began at the beginning of this year.

Therefore, it was from this time that Aucma Company began to sell off the oil and other related products that it had previously purchased at low prices.

During the first oil crisis in 1973, Wall Street wolf companies such as Aucma and Stratton made a lot of money from major capital giants.

As a result of this year's oil crisis, many big capitalists followed suit and bought oil products before last year.

Therefore, this time, companies such as Aucma were preparing to sell when oil prices were high, which led to a brief price fluctuation.

Because everyone was eager to make a profit, some people dumped the stock beforehand, causing prices to plummet. This was something Zhao Mancang hadn't anticipated, but there was no need to rush. This wave of economic crisis would continue, and international oil prices would continue to rise. It had already lasted nearly a year, so Aucma and the others had almost sold out their petroleum products.

Now is the time to see who has more clever means and better vision.

Aucma's revenue in the first half of this year was not high, totaling just over 3 billion US dollars, but its profit was very high, with a profit of nearly 2.9 billion US dollars.

Zhao Mancang took this part of the funds without thinking too much and took it away directly.

After all, Aucma is now well-funded, and although this profit may seem like a lot, it actually doesn't help much.

Besides, Zhao Mancang has a lot of places to spend money now.

For the next half month, Zhao Mancang stayed in New York and took away more than 20 billion US dollars in profits from companies such as The Wolf of Wall Street.

And the money was quickly spent.

A large amount of raw materials such as steel, grain, oil, fertilizer, etc. are purchased directly from Sam and then transported in two parts.

Part of it was transported by Zhao Mancang himself using the system space, and the other part was transported through normal shipping.

All these raw materials and commodities are what Beijiang City and Yunlan City currently need. Without these raw materials, the construction of the two cities will come to a standstill.

In addition to these raw materials, you also need to purchase some equipment.

Therefore, although more than 20 billion US dollars may seem like a lot of money, in fact, the money cannot be spent easily.

For example, coal is good.

The current electricity demand in Beijiang City is actually not that large, but compared with other cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, and Baiyun City, the electricity demand in Beijiang City is already very terrifying.

Although the population is not large, there are more than five large-scale projects in Beijiang City, which is almost half of the country's total.

Just because this year, the country has invested huge amounts of money, responded to the policy of reform and opening up, and established many medium and large projects, a total of thousands.

The city of Beijiang alone has more than 500 projects, so you can imagine how awesome it is.

With more projects, the consumption of various energy sources will of course surge to a very terrifying level, such as the demand for electricity, and the demand for construction materials such as asphalt, cement, sand, and steel bars.

After Zhao Mancang took the time to purchase these materials, he returned to Beijiang City.

Lin Wan and the others were all at the Limidong Villa. When Zhao Mancang came back, he was welcomed by them.

"Aren't you guys in Hong Kong Island? Why are you all here?"

Zhao Mancang was very surprised to see all his family members here.

But the little buns came forward and sniffed in front of him like puppies, which made Zhao Mancang laugh and cry.

"You want a beating, huh? Get out of here!"

The children all thought he was fooling around outside. After all, after he went to Sam's, he stayed there for a full month and a half. It was such a long time, maybe he had a home there.

But in fact, Zhao Mancang has restrained himself a lot. Who made him experience that woman Maggie before?
None of the women on Sam's side were trustworthy, so Zhao Mancang had no intention of provoking them again.

Even if they want to satisfy their physical needs, they will only look for those Hollywood female stars who are chaste, because these female stars have needs and they are famous, so they will be very concerned about this aspect.

After all, once rumors about them spread outside, it would not be a good thing for them.

Lin Wan and Liu Baochan had no expression on their faces and did not say anything.

After all, they already knew what kind of person Zhao Mancang was, so they didn't bother to care about him.

After staying at home for one night, Zhao Mancang went to work the next day.

Beijiang City has large-scale highway, high-speed railway and other projects with several surrounding provinces. Zhao Mancang wants to build Beijiang City into a well-connected city, similar to Jiangcheng.

Only when the transportation is developed can we attract more people to come to Beijiang City to work and settle down.

If not, forget about doing any of this.

"Leader, we're running low on sand and steel for the highway to Gan Province."

In the municipal government office, Lu Shengwen felt a headache as he listened to his subordinates' reports.

Logically speaking, this kind of thing should be a headache for the contractor responsible for building these roads. How come the second-in-command of Beijiang City was found to handle this matter?

In fact, this is normal because the contractor below does not know how to solve this problem.

There is not enough raw materials, not because they are unwilling to spend money to buy them, but because various large-scale projects are now being carried out all over the country. However, the steel mills that produce steel bars, the sand pits that produce sand, etc., simply do not have enough time to produce so many raw materials.

Add to that issues like transportation and it can be said that this is the inconvenience of the move, not the price.

In this case, even if those companies have funds, they cannot buy it.

At this time, Zhao Mancang appeared in the city government office building and met Lu Shengwen.

"Xiao Lu, is there any trouble in Beijiang City right now? Nothing has happened while I've been away, right?"

Zhao Mancang is still very concerned about the development of Beijiang City. Although he has started a new business in the Somali region, he has not given up on Beijiang City.

At the same time, he also wanted to prevent the leaders in the capital from getting suspicious, so he would not take the initiative to reveal the secret that he was the real mastermind behind Yunlan City.

In short, the current strategy is to conceal this matter as much as possible.

The Black Cross Force has arrested many agents. These agents come from all over the world. They all want to explore the secrets of Yunlan City, but the Black Cross Force will definitely not give them such an opportunity.

As for when Zhao Mancang was inspecting Yunlan City, these people came to assassinate or kidnap him in order to get specific information from him.

That is impossible.

"Leader, I'm glad you're back. The truth is, Beijiang City hasn't had any negative events recently, but we're running low on construction materials in many areas. Sourcing from abroad is too slow, and we may not be able to procure enough."

Lu Shengwen was overjoyed and immediately laid out his current difficulties:

"Take Jiangxi Province, for example. Road construction materials, including steel bars and sand, are in dire shortage right now." (End of chapter)