Super first-tier cities: Starting from village committee secretary

Xiong Xu scratched his head, feeling a sudden pang of envy for some reason.

"Can you handle it all, 123456? Do you even get Sundays off?"

Xiong Xu teased with a smile.

"Come join me then, we've got bull penis pills anyway."

Sun Zecheng said nonchalantly.

"I feel like you won't live much longer. You should be thanking Buddha if you make it to fifty."

Sun Zecheng didn't care at all. "It doesn't matter. Heaven has treated me well. I was born into a wealthy family, and my family is great. I've never known what worries are from childhood to adulthood. As for love, I can't even count all my soulmates on one hand. And for my career, Jiuri Technology Group is already the world's largest corporation. I'll have no regrets when I die."

Sun Zecheng was now most unafraid of death, or rather, he was afraid of nothing. Because he had everything that others had, and he had things that others didn't. He was enjoying all the most enjoyable things in the world.

With a life like this, what does death matter?

"The way you say that makes me want to hit you."

Xiong Xu rubbed his fists, annoyed by Sun Zecheng's boasting.

"Why would you hit me? I'm working for you. Those trillions of dollars are all your money." Sun Zecheng said, smiling as he smoked.

Xiong Xu smiled and then got down to business. "How's the company relocation going?"

"Don't even mention it."

Sun Zecheng looked troubled. "When we got there, there was no place to live. Our tires were slashed more than a dozen times. They didn't even spare the rental cars. Even taking a taxi was impossible because as soon as we entered the city, people were watching us and sending warnings. It was impossible to move an inch."

Xiong Xu listened without saying a word.

Sun Zecheng continued, "But it's not a big problem. Since it's difficult for us to go to them, we'll have them come to us. I've already notified the relevant company leaders to come over. I refuse to believe that the local authorities can detain people and prevent them from leaving."

Xiong Xu said expressionlessly, "If the local authorities detain people and prevent them from leaving, tell me. Party discipline and national laws are not just for show."

Sun Zecheng nodded. Xiong Xu's words were enough.

"I'm giving you a mission this time." Xiong Xu stubbed out his cigarette in the ashtray and took out another one to smoke.

"A mission?"

Sun Zecheng pondered. "It wouldn't be another acquisition, would it?"

The previous times he was told there was a mission, it was always an acquisition.

Xiong Xu nodded to confirm, saying, "This acquisition is different from the previous ones. The previous acquisitions were all of domestic companies, but this time, it's an acquisition of a Fortune Global 500 overseas company."

"That's interesting."

Sun Zecheng became interested. If they could acquire a world-class Fortune Global 500 company, the strength of Jiuri Technology Group would undoubtedly increase significantly.

"Which one?" Sun Zecheng immediately asked.

"Walmart." Xiong Xu said casually.

"Cough, cough."

Sun Zecheng choked on his smoke, coughing until his face was red, and it took him a long time to recover.

Seeing Sun Zecheng's strong reaction, Xiong Xu couldn't help but laugh. "What's wrong? Did I scare you?"

Sun Zecheng threw away his cigarette, drank a glass of water, and after recovering, said, "How could I not be scared? Do you know how much Walmart's annual revenue is? Eight hundred billion! And that's in US dollars! Converted to RMB, that's more than five trillion, only one trillion less than us."

"Its market value is currently also six hundred and forty billion US dollars. If we want to acquire them, we'll have to spend at least four or five hundred billion US dollars, three or four trillion RMB."

Walmart Group had been the number one company in the world rankings since 2020. If Jiuri Technology Group hadn't suddenly emerged, it would still be number one today. Its group size has reached an unprecedented scale, a miracle in the retail industry.

And acquiring such a group, even for Jiuri Technology Group, would be very difficult.

"We have four trillion in our accounts. We can afford it," Xiong Xu said.

"Brother, don't we need circulating funds? Jiuri Technology Group is such a large entity, with monthly circulating funds of hundreds of billions. If we use four trillion to acquire Walmart, and something unexpected happens, our cash flow will have problems."

Sun Zecheng opposed the acquisition of Walmart for a simple reason: not enough money.

Xiong Xu listened to him first, not rushing to speak.

"Brother, why not acquire some other company? Why acquire Walmart?" Sun Zecheng asked, puzzled and curious.

Xiong Xu smiled slightly. "To dominate America."

This sounded like a joke, but that was exactly what Xiong Xu was thinking. There are many Fortune Global 500 companies, in Germany, France, and the UK, but why choose the one in America, and the number one, Walmart? Why?

It was to dominate America. How to dominate?

Walmart is the largest physical retail company in the United States and even the world. It has opened more than 10,000 stores in 27 countries around the world, with 69 brands and a total of more than 2.2 million employees worldwide. Two hundred million customers visit Walmart every week.

For any product, except for military use, from investment to profit, retail is a crucial step. A product can be very good, but if it doesn't have a retail channel, even the best product can only sit in a warehouse gathering dust.

And Walmart Group is the world's largest retail channel. Mastering Walmart Group basically means mastering the power of life and death for most companies in the United States.

For example, if Jiuri Technology Group successfully acquired Walmart Group, it could replace American and German goods with domestic goods. As the sales of domestic goods increase and domestic companies make money, foreign companies would not make money, and over time, they would go bankrupt one after another. Domestic goods would become bigger and stronger, thereby dominating the American market.

"As expected of a cadre of our Party, what a vision."

Sun Zecheng also knew the power of acquiring Walmart Group. He could only say that Xiong Xu had a grand vision and couldn't refute Xiong Xu's words.

Xiong Xu smiled without speaking. If the system hadn't issued this mission, he wouldn't have thought of this. It was the system that issued the mission, so he thought about maximizing the benefits, both completing the system mission and helping the Chinese economy, so he chose to acquire Walmart Group.

"With our current economic strength, acquiring Walmart is a bit difficult, but the lung cancer drug will soon be conquered," Xiong Xu said after a few seconds of silence.

Jiuri Technology Group doesn't have enough money to acquire Walmart Group right now, so it needs to release a special drug to harvest a wave of global wealth. The lung cancer drug is the best wealth harvester.

There are more than 20 million lung cancer patients worldwide. Once the special drug is released, it will be trillions more in wealth. Moreover, the launch of the lung cancer drug can make the US government hesitant to interfere with Jiuri Technology Group's acquisition of Walmart Group.

"When the lung cancer drug comes out, will the tobacco companies have to send us a banner?" Sun Zecheng said with a smile.

"That's true, haha." Xiong Xu couldn't help but laugh.

Many people don't smoke, partly because they don't like the smell of smoke, and partly because they're worried about getting lung cancer. With the lung cancer drug out, some people will be unscrupulous, and tobacco sales will increase by at least 20%.