Chapter 111: Boss Xiao's Thoughtfulness

Xiao Gang smiled at Tao Qian's confused look, pointed at the place name in Cao Shen's email and said to Tao Qian:

"Go find a map."

"Hey!" Tao Qian hurried to ask the administrative assistant for it.

The assistant finally found a map in the warehouse and hurriedly brought it to Xiao Gang's meeting room.

The map was spread out on the big desk, and Xiao Gang took out a pen and marked the warehouse locations that Cao Shen asked for on the map one by one.

"Do you understand?" Xiao Gang said to Tao Qian.

Tao Qian's throat rolled, swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and nodded solemnly:

"I understand!"

Pointing to the mark on the map, his fingers were shaking:

"All the points are exactly in the most efficient geographical location connecting manufacturers and consumers, and the surrounding road network is well-developed and highly cost-effective, and there are also efficient routes to the airport and railway!

From the overall layout, the hub, transit and large and small satellite positions interact reasonably to maximize efficiency. "

Looking up and looking at Xiao Gang excitedly: "He has thought it through, he has thought it through! ”

Xiao Gang nodded: "This is his business plan, very detailed. So Cao Shen is not unprepared and inexperienced, he has studied it in detail.

And I simply calculated that this geographical distribution map must have been accurately and carefully calculated, and the actual operation efficiency will be higher than our current rough calculation based on the map!"

Cao Shen's Youxin seems to be a blockbuster, but a careful analysis reveals that he is laying out the final net step by step. After the previous battle, Xiao Gang has a high degree of trust in Cao Shen's ability.

This little guy does things in a very methodical and rhythmic way. And it is very rare that he soars to the sky without being inflated at all, which is simply not in line with his age.

Reaching out and patting Tao Qian on the shoulder: "It's true that Cao Shen is a newcomer in warehousing and logistics, but I am very much looking forward to his use of technology to upgrade this traditional industry, and I am very much looking forward to how far his technology can go.

The significance of our investment this time is no longer to make money, but to buy a hope for the future, a hope for industrial upgrading!

Tao Qian, you have some experience in studying the warehousing and logistics industry, I hope you can help him, do a good job! ”

"Okay! "Tao Qian clenched his fists, his whole body boiling with blood.

So, a few days later, Cao Shen directly received a payment of 1 billion yuan from Boss Xiao, accounting for 10% of the shares of "Haina Network".

That is to say, Cao Shen has not done anything yet, he is still a commander without troops, but Boss Xiao has already given a valuation of 10 billion.

Cao Shen originally thought that this project was an angel round, even if the land was included, the valuation would be at most 1 billion, and in 2018, when Milk Tea's father's logistics valuation was 93.8 billion, he already had 550 warehouses and more than 40 billion in revenue.

This unhesitating trust suddenly made Cao Shen feel great pressure. Originally, he thought that if he played too much, he would admit it, but now Cao Shen has a responsibility.

Money can be betrayed, but trust is hard to come by.

The land issue was settled, and Cao Shen said to the system:

"System, I want to exchange for the intelligent warehousing system now. ”

Before, there was no exchange, but the system was fooled to choose a site first. The main reason was that Cao Shen was not sure whether the land in this world was easy to get. What if the capital demand was large, it would be difficult to approve the land, and the process was long. Then the warehousing and logistics business would have to be slowed down.

Life is still very precious. What if the things are exchanged, and it turns out that this business cannot be started for three years and three years? Wouldn’t it be a waste?

So he asked Boss Xiao for help with the site selection, which was also a test.

Now that Boss Xiao has taken over the land issue and got the money, Cao Shen can start to build a warehouse.

The entire warehouse The design of the warehouse needs to be arranged according to the entire warehouse management system provided by the system. What kind of shelves should be used, how to plan the warehouse functions, how large the area of ​​each functional area is, how many floors should be made, how high the floors are, whether special building structures or materials are needed, what hardware equipment needs to be purchased, cost budget, etc.

[Host! You only want one of the three sets? You don’t want the others? Don’t scare me, I’ve been thinking about it for a long time, sob] The system said anxiously, with a panicked crying tone.

“Yes, yes, yes, all of them, now you don’t have enough life, first give me a set to repair the warehouse. It will take time to repair the warehouse, including storage area, sorting area, transportation area, staff dormitory, canteen and other supporting facilities, comprehensive building and so on.

If I have to wait until I have enough life to exchange and build it, then when will it be done?

The time should be arranged reasonably, and it is best to have enough life when it is repaired and put into use immediately. ”

[Oh, I see, host, you are really smart. I can't think of so many things. You are worthy of being my genius host! Said happily] The system's tone was obviously happy, and it learned to blow rainbow farts.

[Ding! Congratulations to the host for obtaining a set of intelligent warehouse management system! One year of life value will be deducted!]

Maybe because it was too happy, the system also played a cheerful BGM.

Cao Shen felt that it was even more stupid...

"Wait! How can you move? Didn't you say it would take two years!"

Cao Shen watched the system stretch out its magic claws, grab the little princess and start to stroke it!

The system finally stroked the cat, it had been thinking about it for a long time!

Ah, so comfortable! Smooth and fluffy, it feels like this!

No wonder Cao Ze likes it, I like it too!

The usual nest was moved!

The little princess who was dozing on the system's legs sat up in surprise, and found that she was stroked! And it was not the master who stroked it!

Hair all over her body: "giao!giao!giao!"

However, the system didn't know where it learned the cat-stroking technique from. After the little princess screamed a few times, she actually began to purr in comfort, and then her hair became smooth and the cat lay down.

Cao Shen: "!"

I felt betrayed!

You are my little princess, how can others stroke her so happily!

Get up and tickle her!

"Little princess! Little princess!" Cao Shen began to call out the master's call. When the little princess heard Cao Shen's voice, she propped herself up and stood up. She shook her hair all over her body, staggered off the system's legs, and climbed onto Cao Shen's legs.

Cao Shen picked up the little princess and rubbed her face: "This is my father's sweetheart!" Finally recovered from the huge blow.

The system, which was originally stroking the cat's hair, grabbed nothing and pounced out to try to keep it, but fell to the ground with a plop.

"Hahahaha! It turns out that you can only move your upper body! You can't move your legs!" Cao Shen looked at the system with its face on the ground and laughed until tears came out.

[Host, help me...] The system called for help.

"That's it, you take a rest first!" Cao Shen turned around and left with the little princess in his arms...

Humph! Dare to compete with me for sovereignty!

"Little princess, I'm telling you, I'm your master, you can only be touched by me. Cao Shen took the time to do ideological education work.

[Host, you're so stingy!]

"Humph! ”

【And it’s so cheap!!!】

Cao Shen fed the little princess cat food, then hugged her and began to study the intelligent warehouse system.

It feels so complicated. It actually requires so many equipment to run. There are many things to pay attention to in the construction of this warehouse...

Ten days later, Cao Shen began to receive good news from Tao Qian one after another. Tao Qian was very concerned about this matter. He personally went to see the land and negotiate in one place after another. He became darker and thinner, but his mental state was better. He was energetic all day long.

Not only that, after receiving Cao Shen’s warehouse structure diagram, he also actively recommended infrastructure suppliers and volunteered to be a supervisor.

Cao Shen saved worry and effort this time, but he felt very guilty.

Would it be bad to use Boss Xiao’s people like this? No salary was paid, and it would be inappropriate to pay salary, which would destroy the management system of Boss Xiao.

It is equivalent to giving employees a head start to earn extra money, which is not good.

But Tao Qian is really useful. Not only is he very proactive, but he also has the resources and execution ability.

He is also very flexible in doing things, that is, he can use his brain but not be smart. He is also very hardworking. He was originally a delicate investor, but he spent all day on the construction site. His custom-made suit and leather shoes have long been replaced with dirt-resistant and wear-resistant work clothes.

Cao Shen wanted to use this person, but Boss Xiao provided money, resources and people, and poaching him seemed very unsophisticated. So Tao Qian, do you have a twin brother with similar personality and comparable ability?

While he was hesitating, Boss Xiao called:

"Xiao Cao, how is Tao Qian doing recently? Is there anything that needs improvement?"

Oh, this is the big boss asking about the work status of the employees, of course he must be praised! I wish you a promotion and salary increase!

"Very good! Very professional, positive and hardworking, it helped me a lot!

Boss Xiao, your post-investment management is really great!

I feel very lucky to be your invested company! ”

“Oh, it’s good to help without causing trouble.” Helping but not causing trouble is the principle of post-investment management of Obsidian Asset.

Many investors see and hear a lot on weekdays, and they are indeed very knowledgeable and have a solid theoretical foundation, but when it comes to the operation of specific things, they tend to be idealistic.

But they often like to give suggestions or even point fingers to companies because of their own advantages. Although their intentions are good, it is easy to cause trouble instead of helping.

Xiao Gang knows this very well and is very smart, so he set the first rule of post-investment management for Obsidian Asset to be not to cause trouble, and then to help.

“Help! Tao Qian is basically in charge of the construction of the warehouse now. He is helping me lead the people I recruited, which saves me a lot of worry and effort! "So can you give me the person, Boss Xiao!" Cao Shen roared inwardly.

"Can Tao Qian go to Haina Network to work? He is a man who loves to make trouble, and he is also capable. In addition to acquiring land, his second uncle is the chairman of Guangtong Logistics, so he should be able to help with other things. ”

Guangtong Logistics!

The total annual logistics cost of Dongguo is about 10 trillion yuan, of which the cost of logistics transportation is about 5 trillion yuan, but the market structure is extremely fragmented, and there are more than 13,000 logistics and transportation companies involved in the LTL business alone.

The top 30 companies in terms of revenue scale only account for more than 4 points of market share.

Guangtong Logistics is currently ranked first and is the only LTL logistics company with an annual revenue of over 10 billion yuan.

The transportation in the logistics industry is divided into full truckload and LTL. Generally speaking, in road transportation, if the consignor's consigned goods are greater than or equal to 3 tons at a time, or less than 3 tons, but its nature, volume, and shape require a vehicle of 3 tons or more to transport, they are all full truckload transportation, otherwise they are LTL.

Of course, for special goods, no matter what the quantity, volume, or shape is, they will be transported as full truckload.

For e-commerce, inventory turnover rate is an extremely important indicator. E-commerce platforms cannot stock too many sellers' goods in the warehouse at one time.

So most of the sellers' freight to the e-commerce warehouse adopts LTL transportation, that is, the goods of several or even hundreds of nearby production places are put together into one truck and transported to the warehouse.

Guangtong Logistics is engaged in LTL, and it has a history of more than ten years. In the future, "Haina Network" cannot do everything by itself, so it naturally needs companies like Guangtong Logistics to join and become its own strength.

There are more than 10,000 companies in the logistics and transportation industry, which is too many. Cao Shen cannot attract and recommend them one by one.

Therefore, it is extremely important to have high-quality cooperation cases in the early stage, and this cannot be a cooperation case of a small company. A leader like Guangtong Logistics is particularly suitable as a typical example.

Cooperating with Guangtong Logistics, running the cooperation model, and connecting the logistics system smoothly, with a demonstration effect, the following partners will naturally follow in.

In addition, the logistics and express delivery industries have a characteristic, that is, related expansion.

Several fellow villagers or even a family first work in the same logistics company. After becoming familiar with it, they find that they can do this thing, so they split it up and start a new company. There is a high-sounding term for this kind of thing, fission.

For example, the origin of the original world's four express delivery companies was "Tonglu", a small county with a population of less than 400,000.

The earliest one to rise was "Shentong", founded by Nie Tengfei and Zhan Jisheng.

A year later, Zhan Jisheng left Shentong and founded Tiantian Express. Nie Tengfei's brother-in-law Chen Dejun took over Zhan Jisheng's original job at Shentong.

Five years later, Nie Tengfei died in a car accident. His brother Nie Tengyun left Shentong and founded Yunda Express. Shentong was taken over by his wife Chen Xiaoying and his brother-in-law Chen Dejun.

In 2000, Chen Dejun's elementary school classmate Zhang Xiaojuan, who was also the financial officer of Shentong, persuaded her husband Yu Weijiao to establish Yuantong Express.

Two years later, Lai Haisong, a childhood friend of the two, founded ZTO Express.

In 2012, Shentong acquired Tiantian Express, and the second husband of the wife of Shentong founder Nie Tengfei served as chairman.

So, you see, it was this group of people who only walked a few steps away from each other who assembled the national express delivery network.

This situation is also very common in the LTL transportation industry. Tao Qian can count a lot of relatives in the top 20 companies by counting his fingers and toes.

And if he really wants to recognize relatives, he can also recognize 80% of the express delivery companies in Dongguo as cousins, and Tao Qian has a high generation in the family, so he may even recognize a large number of distant grandchildren.

This is why Xiao Gang asked Tao Qian to be in charge of the research of the logistics and warehousing industry. Isn't this just studying his mother's family!

However, Tao Qian's parents took the official career, and it was a three-generation official career. So facing these elders or juniors of his mother's family, Tao Qian's status is a little higher.

The reason why he didn't "go into the sea" with the elders of his mother's family was because his father's family felt that the logistics business was too hard and he couldn't bear to leave. And there are traditional concepts of the older generation. With so many fathers in the family paving the way for you, wouldn't you be able to rise to the top as a civil servant?

But Tao Qian didn't want to be a civil servant. His family couldn't persuade him, so they found a compromise and gave him to Xiao Gang.

Then, after Xiao Gang had trained him, he gave him to Cao Shen.

So after many twists and turns, Tao Qian still fell into the trap of logistics, so this is fate.

Cao Shen was overjoyed that Boss Xiao gave him a head in the snow, and he immediately agreed and solemnly stated that he would treat Tao Qian well.

"You don't need to give him a high position at the beginning. He is a director in Hei Yao, so you can give him a director in the future. I have already discussed this with him.

When your Haina Network develops to a larger scale, there may be more powerful talents. You have to reserve a position to avoid conflicts in the future. As for Tao Qian, he can fight for a higher position with his ability."

This is where Boss Xiao is thoughtful. Tao Qian is his man. If he doesn't point it out, Cao Shen probably has to give him a vice president for Boss Xiao's sake.

But as Xiao Gang said, maybe there will be stronger people in the future, and when they find that their positions are not as good as Tao Qian's, or they are at the same level, both of them will feel uncomfortable.

The newcomer will think that the old man is taking advantage of his seniority, and the old man will wonder why the newcomer has any right.

Moreover, if the new commander is not handled well, he may become a commander without anyone under him.

This is how the team and internal friction will begin.

Although to be fair, based on Tao Qian's current ability and merits, Cao Shen thinks he can still sit in the position of vice president.

But Tao Qian did more industry research before, and practical experience still needs to be accumulated, but Cao Shen is very optimistic about Tao Qian's growth potential, and a higher position should be a matter of time.

As for Zhang Beixin's ability to be the general manager, her situation is different from Tao Qian's.

Zhang Beixin does more work at the execution level, and Cao Shen is standing behind her.

Moreover, Cao Shen has seen her rocket-like progress and understands her temperament. It is also a step-by-step process to let her make her own decisions and do things, such as the entertainment company that is now truly under the sole responsibility of her senior sister.

As for Tao Qian, he will not only need to execute many things in the future, but also need professional judgment and autonomy, and some even need more professional opinions than Cao Shen.

For things that Cao Shen cannot fully control, he cannot be given too much power. Too much power will increase the cost of trial and error, so he must take it step by step until his ability matches his power.

This is not because Cao Shen has any feeling about power, but this itself is an opportunity for Tao Qian to try and error at a low cost and continuously improve his level.

For example, if Tao Qian becomes the vice president and makes a mistake while exercising this level of power, it is likely to have a great impact. When neither he nor Cao Shen can afford it, Tao Qian will have no chance to correct it and can only leave.

But if he does not have such great power and makes some small mistakes, Cao Shen can afford it, then he can accumulate more abilities to take the right path through constant setbacks and correctness.

And Boss Xiao is considerate in that Cao Shen's suggestion of this matter may hurt Tao Qian's enthusiasm. But Boss Xiao, as an old leader, has done it, and Cao Shen only needs to be a good person.

So it is really comfortable to work with Boss Xiao, Cao Shen sighed again.

Because the warehouse involves construction issues, it has to proceed step by step. Even if Cao Shen is rich and requires the fastest speed, the pits have to be dug one by one.

While busy on the construction site, Cao Shen also ushered in his second summer in this world.

In May, the scenery on the road began to become cool.

Two important things happened this month.