Volume 3 Summer Rain Chapter 0359 Universe Brand Cigarettes
Nan Yi still remembered a few gold mines, diamond mines and oil wells that had not been discovered yet and that he had the chance to occupy. The number was small, so he had to take his time.
Nan's development in the mining industry mainly depends on head-on battles with others. He originally wanted to leave a few more mines he knew about to his sons, and take advantage of the good opportunity now to go international to grab mineral resources.
Several major countries have not yet turned their attention to Africa. Nan Yi can fully support and invest in several armed forces behind the scenes. They gain political power and Nan Yi gets the mineral deposits. It can be said to be mutually beneficial.
But that is in the future. The primary issue is how to solve the current difficulties.
This cannot be said to be that Nan Yi was too impulsive when he decided to acquire 20th Century Fox. It was really a rare opportunity. There is a big difference between someone actively wanting to sell and a malicious acquisition.
Regardless of the amount of capital investment or whether the acceptance is smooth or not, it will be much easier to operate if someone else takes the initiative to sell.
A hostile takeover not only requires making enemies with others, but is also extremely difficult. There is either a high probability of failure or a huge budget is required. Moreover, a takeover war can easily take a long time, and the costs in both money and time are huge.
Of course, the most important thing is that it's not that the Nan family has no money, but that Nan Yi doesn't want to transfer the money back to the Kingdom of Xian. It took a lot of effort to get the money out of the Kingdom of Xian, and he's bringing it back, isn't that stupid?
However, when things are critical, Nan Yi is not unable to take this step.
In addition, Pan American still has a lot of shares, which can be mortgaged with the bank. He can get money anytime he needs it. It is precisely because he has this confidence that he decided to let Rachel acquire the company even though he did not have a penny in his hands.
It’s all because he has a good idea in mind and won’t let the worst happen.
After talking with Rachel, he took Nan Ruoyin to the airport. Today was already the afternoon of January 31st in Los Angeles. There was a sixteen-hour time difference between Beijing and Los Angeles. It was impossible to rush back for the New Year's Eve dinner, but it might be possible to catch up with Liu Zhen to open the store on the first day of the first lunar month.
The plane refueled once during the flight and changed to civil aviation in Xianggeng to fly to Beijing, which delayed some time. It was more than twenty hours later when Nan Yi and Nan Ruoyin arrived at the old villa.
"Happy New Year, little girl."
Flying in the air, it was time for the New Year’s Eve dinner, and Nan Yi sent his blessings to Nan Ruoyin.
"Dad, Happy New Year, Wish you good luck and prosperity, give me the red envelope." After a few heartfelt blessings, Nan Ruoyin stretched out her little hand.
Nan Yi took out the big red envelope he had prepared in advance and placed it in Nan Ruoyin's hand.
Nan Ruoyin hurriedly opened the red envelope to see what gift her father gave her this year. Last year it was shares of Tesco, what would it be this year?
Nan Ruoyin was full of expectations, but when she pulled out a piece of paper from the red envelope, it looked like it was torn from a notebook.
Unfolding the paper, there were a few words written on it: "A piece of land in Beverly Hills, I owe you first."
"Dad, you're so miserable. You can't even afford a red envelope this year?" Nan Ruoyin said after reading the words on the paper.
"Yes, Dad is very short of money this year, but no matter how hard it is, we can't let Ruoyin suffer. Don't worry, Dad will definitely fulfill his promise in three or four months at most."
"Yeah." Nan Ruoyin nodded and asked, "Dad, what red envelope did you prepare for Fan Hongdou ?"
Nan Ruoyin now calls Fan Hongdou by her name and no longer calls her Sister Hongdou.
"She has an old house in Shanghai. Dad hasn't bought it yet. He owes her the money first and will pay her back later."
"Oh." Nan Ruoyin stared blankly, "Dad, I'm sleepy."
"Then you go to your room and sleep, and Daddy will take care of it at the seat."
"Okay, Dad, I'm going to bed."
"Good night."
After Nan Yi's repeated stern teachings, Nan Ruoyin no longer brings up the topic of Nan Yi sleeping with her, which allows Nan Yi to avoid embarrassment.
While he was sleeping, the plane landed at Kai Tak Airport. The school beauty bought a ticket to Beijing, and then quietly adjusted the time on Nan Yi's watch.
At 9:20 in the morning on February 2, Nan Yi and his companions boarded a plane to Beijing, and did not return to the old house until 2:00 in the afternoon.
The reason why it is so complicated and troublesome is that there are no private jet routes in the mainland, and Nan Yi does not want to be too high-profile in the mainland.
"Aunt Liu, Happy New Year."
"Ruoyin, Happy New Year. Auntie will give you a red envelope."
"Thank you, Aunt Liu."
After receiving the red envelope and pretending to be well-behaved, Nan Ruoyin sat obediently on the sofa and watched the Spring Festival Gala replay on Chaoting Channel 1.
"How is it? Was the reaction strong?" Nan Yi walked up to Liu Zhen and said.
"It's nothing. I just dry-heaved a bit one morning. No big reaction. Why did you come back so late? Not even a day earlier?" Liu Zhen complained a little.
"You know I don't have any idea about Chinese New Year or other festivals. I just remembered about Chinese New Year the day before yesterday, but my schedule was already arranged yesterday, so it's hard to change it."
"Didn't you sleep last night?"
"I slept on the plane. It happened to be across several time zones, and it was night time. I slept a little longer, so I'm not tired now."
"Oh, watch TV with me. I went home for the New Year's Eve dinner yesterday and didn't watch the Spring Festival Gala properly. This year's Spring Festival Gala had a lot of good programs, which were quite interesting. There was also a Hong Kong singer who sang a patriotic song."
"Zhang Mingqi, right?"
"It seems to be him, you know?"
"I heard it from Wang Qi. You know he's a wild man in the arts world. He already knew most of the programs for the Spring Festival Gala rehearsal. But he may not be able to perform in the end. He may be eliminated."
Nan Yi said as he sat down next to Liu Zhen's sofa and looked up at the TV.
The Spring Festival Gala is broadcast live on New Year’s Eve and rebroadcast on New Year’s Day. This seems to have been a tradition since the first session. As to whether it has changed in later generations, Nan Yi is not quite sure.
In his previous life, after entering the 21st century, he seemed to have never watched the Spring Festival Gala.
At this time, Ma Ji's "Cosmic Brand Cigarettes" was being broadcast on TV. This stand-up comedy was quite interesting and very forward-looking, revealing some of the practices of future businessmen in advance.
For example, if a brand becomes unpopular, they can change to another one and continue to do business. Another strategy that Nan Yi is preparing to use is to collect cards to increase sales, such as The Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea, The Twelve Golden Hairpins of Jinling, The Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji, The One Hundred and Eight Generals, The Five Hundred Arhats, and The Million Heroes Marching South.
Except for the last two, Nan Yi can take advantage of this opportunity to encircle Wenchang immediately.
"Hehe, how come Teacher Ma Ji is actually smoking?"
"To shake things up." Nan Yi agreed, but he was thinking, "Watch it while it's still interesting. In two years, even if I beg you to watch it, you probably won't watch it anymore."
Ma Ji's stand-up comedy ended with a clown performance, followed by another song "Where is Happiness", and then another song.
Nan Yi regained his childhood mood and wished he could kick them off and give the stage to the crosstalk performers.
"Please come to the ends of the earth, where spring is always here, and Teacher Shen sings beautifully."
"Yeah, it sounds very nice." Nan Yi answered sincerely but a little impatiently.
After more than an hour of waiting, I finally saw an interesting program - "Eating Noodles".
It was from this program that a new stage program format, "sketch", was born, and Chen and Zhu began to dominate the Spring Festival Gala sketches.
After "Eating Noodles", it was another garbage time for Nan Yi. Then a song called "The Girl from Alishan" came on which cheered him up. After a while, he was no longer in the mood to watch it.
Hard Qigong came on stage, with little kids splitting walnuts with their bare hands, little girls stepping on eggs, and old men breaking steel bars as thick as their arms. Nan Yi remembered that there were hard Qigong programs for several years in a row.
Nan Yi scoffed at this. What's the point of practicing this? It would be better for him to practice the Lead Pot Kung Fu with him, and work for the country together in the future, using their collective kung fu to escort satellites into space.
What a pity, what a pity, I missed the Long March 3 launch two days ago.
"Nan Yi, I'm hungry."
Nan Yi looked at his watch. It was almost five o'clock in the afternoon. It seemed that he had spent almost two hours to practice this technique.
“Are there any vegetables at home?”
"Yes, I asked Zhiling to buy a lot. There are 300 kilograms of cabbage piled in the yard. Didn't you see it?"
"Why buy so many cabbages? We're not going to make kimchi. If you want to eat fresh ones, just ask Ge Cuizhu to send some over. The Reclamation Group has a vegetable greenhouse, so we don't have to worry about vegetables in winter."
"Why bother? We can buy vegetables in the capital in winter, but there are fewer varieties."
"Oh, I'll go cook."
Nan Yi was busy in the kitchen for a while, enjoying the song "Unforgettable Tonight" sung at the first Spring Festival Gala. The two adults and one child, who were not together very much, made up for the New Year's Eve dinner they missed.
It's also new. Yang Bailao and Xier passed ahead early, while Nan Yi and the others were substitutes.
"Dad, do you still remember the content of the movie 'Cosmic Brand Cigarettes'?" Nan Ruoyin stuffed the fried pork with black fungus into the steamed bun, took a bite, and said with her greasy mouth open.
"Liu Zhen, I almost forgot to ask you, where did the steamed buns come from?"
"Men San'er sent it to me. I heard him say he went to Zhejiang Province and brought it back from there."
"He is in the capital?"
"No, I flew to Lijiapo with Emma before the New Year."
"oh."
"Dad, I'm asking you a question." Seeing that Nan Yi ignored her, Nan Ruoyin said sourly.
"What did you ask?"
"Do you remember the content of 'Cosmic Cigarettes'?"
"I remember, what's wrong?" Nan Yi picked up a piece of greasy meat and stuffed it into the steamed bun. He took a bite, and the oil burst in his mouth.
"Do you have this brand of cigarettes?"
"Not now, but there should be one in a while. With so many cigarette factories across the country, there must be a few factory managers who can think of this huge advertising effect, and this brand will most likely be registered." Nan Yi said disapprovingly.
"Dad, have you ever thought about registering first? Aunt Liu, you guys will start working the day after tomorrow, right?"
In the 1980s, there were only three days of Spring Festival holiday, from New Year’s Eve to the second day of the New Year, and people had to go back to work on the third day.
"Why register? Do you want to fight with the cigarette factory? Don't think about things that you shouldn't think about. Here, you can't just consider the business thinking, you also have to consider political factors.
We cannot make cigarettes, so if we want to register, we can only register one brand, Universe, and not more than one category. But no matter how many categories we register, other cigarette factories can still register Universe brand cigarettes.
Your idea of maliciously registering a trademark is completely useless for this. If you have an idea, you might as well analyze the well-known international brands and see how they would translate their Chinese names. It would be more promising to then register their Chinese trademarks.
For example, if you read the word "Benz", isn't it pronounced similarly to the word "Benz"? "
"[Benz], it's almost the same, but what if Mercedes doesn't use Mercedes-Benz, but uses the Mercedes-Benz translation of Hong Kong, or the Mercedes-Benz of Taiwan?"
"Then you just consider yourself unlucky." Nan Yi said with a smile: "Okay, don't think about it. You are a foreigner. You can't register a trademark without investing in a company in the mainland. You still have to find a mainlander to hold the trademark on your behalf.
Ruoyin, you are smart, but they are not stupid either. Those who need the trademark will not come to talk to you directly. They will go to the right person. Someone will put pressure on the person who holds the trademark on behalf of others, forcing him to hand over the trademark. "
"Dad, who is so awesome?"
"It's New Year's Day, let's not talk about this, let's eat quickly."
"Humph, it's the same again. You don't explain yourself clearly and just brush me off. A few years ago, you still didn't answer me what "having an affair" meant. Didn't you say you were going to the library to look up a book? But you kept searching and found nothing."
"Hey, little girl, you have a good memory. You still remember this. What? Don't tell me you don't know what a slut is."
"I know, but I know it myself, not you who told me. You are just coaxing a child." Nan Ruoyin pouted and said dissatisfiedly.
"Little girl, I didn't tell you for your own good, don't be so arrogant."
"Humph, you forgot what you told me again. You once said that when parents say "it's for your own good", it often causes the greatest harm to their children."
"Hahaha, Nan Yi, I think you can't stand our Ruoyin. Ruoyin, try your best to argue with your father and let him see what you can do." Liu Zhen said with a smile.
"Aunt Liu, I'm not trying to argue. I'm just presenting facts and reasoning."
"That's enough. Come on, eat your meal now and don't give me a stunt. If you keep talking nonsense, I'll wipe your mouth with toilet paper."
"Uh, I won't say anything anymore. Dad, eat. Aunt Liu, eat." Nan Ruoyin immediately acted well-behaved when she heard Nan Yi's words. She didn't want Nan Yi to wipe her mouth with straw paper again.
