Reborn Xiangjiang as a Tycoon

Chapter 215 Leaving Los Angeles

Starlight Company specializes in selling toys and other peripherals after purchasing stores.

Today, Starlight Company has more than 200 stores with thousands of employees, with an average of four or five employees per store.

This company has not brought much profit to Lin Baicheng. The US$50 million invested now does not know how many years it will take to recover the cost.

But this company also brought unexpected gains to Lin Baicheng. Because of its large number of employees, both the Democratic and Republican parties in Los Angeles and California offered him olive branches, and he finally chose to move closer to the Republican Party.

A company with a large number of employees can influence the votes of its employees, and what politicians and legislators need is the votes of the people, so the two parties will take the initiative to invite Lin Baicheng. If Lin Baicheng does not have this company, then he will have no influence on the legislators.

, even if he spends money, it will be difficult to get the congressmen to be polite to him.

As a foreigner, Lin Baicheng will certainly not participate in American politics, but it is still possible to maintain a friendly relationship with one of the parties. Although such a relationship is not necessarily reliable, it is better than asking questions when these relationships need to be used.

It’s good to have no way out.

The reason why he chose the Republican Party had nothing to do with the political views of the two parties. It was just because Lin Baicheng knew that the next president, Ronald Reagan, was a Republican, so he chose the Republican Party. There was no other reason.

Lin Baicheng maintained friendly relations with Republican congressmen in Los Angeles and California, and even made some political donations. Isabella followed Lin Baicheng and met with some congressmen. The congressmen also knew that Isabella was working for Lin Baicheng.

After the office software developed by New Century Software Company, in addition to cooperating with Apple, Isabella personally took part in public relations for the administrative units of Los Angeles and California, and won the market of administrative units through the Republican Party.

New Century Software Company's office software is sold for US$199 per set. Although this price is not low, it is not an unacceptable amount for enterprises, schools, administrative units, etc.

Although the external selling price is US$199 per set, the actual selling price for administrative units is US$149 per set, of which US$50 is the benefit fee.

This benefit fee will definitely not be given directly and openly. On the surface, the administrative unit still purchases a set for 199 US dollars, but 50 US dollars per set will flow into some private accounts through other channels or become political donations for Republican congressmen.

How the funds are actually operated has nothing to do with New Century Software Company. There are specialized companies doing this. This is already an industry chain. After going around and around, it will turn into clean money and be obtained by relevant people. This is good for

There are benefits for everyone.

By taking the high-level route, Isabella easily won orders for 30,000 units, which is more than 4 million US dollars in revenue. In fact, Isabella originally thought that selling 10,000 units would be very good.

Because she didn't think there were so many computers in use in administrative units and there were so many demands, but the other party purchased 30,000 sets directly, so Isabella naturally wouldn't refuse, and she didn't bother to care whether the other party would use so many.

Anyway, as long as there is money to be made, it is enough. As for whether the other party's large purchases will cause a waste of resources and whether it is a waste of taxpayers' money, that is not Isabella's consideration.

Lin Baicheng is very happy about the good start of New Century Software Company. Although it is only more than four million U.S. dollars, and the profit cannot be that much, if it captures the entire U.S. market, profits of hundreds of millions of U.S. dollars can still be expected.

A profit of hundreds of millions of dollars is already quite a lot. Don’t look at the hundreds of millions of dollars that Hutchison Whampoa earned last time, and there will be ten-digit profits in the future from gold futures, but after two or three years of normal business, it can

A profit of hundreds of millions of dollars is already pretty good.

Lin Baicheng left the management of New Century Software Company to Isabella without intervening too much.

On this day, Lin Baicheng called Isabella, Eric Davis, and Shirley Lansing to his Beverly Hills villa.

"Bella, Eric, Lansing, I'm going back to Xiangjiang, and I'll leave the company here to you."

Lin Baicheng stayed in Los Angeles for a long time to develop office software. Now that the software development is completed, he naturally does not need to stay for a long time.

"BOSS, we will manage the company well."

Isabella, Eric Davis and Shirley Lansing responded one after another.

Lin Baicheng said to Eric: "Eric, your task is still to expand the store scale of Starlight Company. I have invested a total of 50 million US dollars in this company. I hope you can create a channel covering the entire United States. The remaining amount will wait for

After the funds are spent, the profits will be used to purchase new stores. I will not take away a penny until this channel is established."

"BOSS, I strive to have Starlight Company's stores cover half of the domestic market this year."

Eric responded that if the store managers and employees didn't need some training, the expansion could actually be faster.

"I look forward to good news from you."

Lin Baicheng nodded, then looked at Shirley Lansing and said: "Lansing, I have already told you the development direction of Morningstar Pictures, so I won't say more here. All you need to remember is that films with a cost of more than 10 million US dollars are

The production must be approved by me, and the company’s major decisions must be reported to me. In the end, don’t forget what I told you to do, and find an actor suitable for the male lead in “Home Alone.”

Shirley Lansing responded: "It's not easy to find the right child actor for the lead role in 'Home Alone,' but I'll try to find it."

Lin Baicheng finally said to Isabella: "Bella, at New Century Software Company, in addition to selling office software, don't forget to supervise the development of new software by Adern and Peter. Then there are Apple and Microsoft.

Don’t forget to check it out from time to time, and pay more attention to Starlight Company and Morningstar Pictures.”

"The last step is to ask a headhunting company to find a secretary for me. I think you need someone to assist you in your work."

Lin Baicheng plans to find a secretary here in the United States, who will not only share Isabella's work, but also serve as a supervisor.

"Yes, BOSS!"

If possible, Isabella didn't want her boss to find another secretary, but she couldn't decide on this kind of thing and couldn't refuse, so she could only agree.

Everything that needed to be explained was done, and Lin Baicheng left Los Angeles the next day and returned to Hong Kong.

This time back to Xiangjiang, Lin Baicheng brought the team that developed the "Tank Battle" game back to Xiangjiang. In addition, two white bodyguards, Cliff Cooper and Brian Irving, were also brought back to Xiangjiang by Lin Baicheng.

Take them with you.

(End of chapter)