Volume 5: Blossom and Fruit 2018 Chapter 907
Looking at Lu Sifang's happy face, Zhou Dongsheng couldn't help but laugh. He tapped the table casually with the gadget in his hand and joked.
"It seems like this year has been pretty good."
"It's all thanks to the chairman. To be honest, this year is definitely the happiest I've ever had in my life!"
Lu Sifang smiled happily. Even though the Lantern Festival had passed, he was still secretly happy in his heart.
Although Lu Sifang had worked in the financial industry for many years and could be considered a high-income earner, compared with his relatives, he was only middle-income.
It can be said that it is not as good as the best but better than the worst.
But this time, he returned home in glory and truly became a respected figure in front of others!
After all, with just one thousandth of the profit, Lu Sifang earned more than 10 million US dollars in commission income, not to mention other types of income.
Don't forget that as one of the senior executives of Dongsheng Group and the manager of Dongsheng Investment, Lu Sifang also holds certain equity incentives, and the dividends from this part are not small.
Just with a rough calculation, Lu Sifang conservatively estimated that his income last year had exceeded a small goal!
You should know that according to incomplete statistics of relevant data, the number of people in the country who can reach the standard of annual income of over 100 million is only around 10,000 at most.
With a population of 1.4 billion in the country, the probability is not one in ten thousand, but one in 140,000!
It is definitely a rare existence.
Therefore, it can be imagined that Lu Sifang's status in the family has soared and directly risen to the leading position. Looking at his distant relatives and neighbors, naturally no one can match him.
Especially when Lu Sifang stated that he worked for Zhou Dongsheng, countless relatives showed envy, jealousy and hatred in their eyes, and they all sighed: Lu Sifang has met a noble person!
Even during the Chinese New Year, Zhou Dongsheng's family affairs caused heated discussions across the Internet, but this did not affect Zhou Dongsheng's success at all. In fact, the twists and turns and ups and downs of his development actually highlighted Zhou Dongsheng's success from the side.
If he hadn't been successful at a young age and hadn't been worth hundreds of billions, how could he have gotten into such a big trouble? Even his biological father had become covetous and came to him shamelessly to try to get a piece of the pie.
This kind of thing that naturally cannot be hidden from some smart people.
With a good income and the ability to follow a wise leader, Lu Sifang undoubtedly became the envy of his relatives and friends.
Under such circumstances, people will naturally be full of ambition and high spirits during this year.
After a year of recuperation, Lu Sifang is now ready to go and has made plans to make further efforts in the new year.
After all, whether it is the future development of Dongsheng Overseas Investment Fund or the situation where many institutions are scrambling to become LPs, the future is promising.
Staying on this giant ship of capital that is riding the wind and waves, and achieving complete financial freedom within two or three years is definitely not a fantasy, but a real reality!
A classic line suddenly emerged in Lu Sifang's mind.
"You'll stop after you earn 30 million? You're still young. 30 million isn't enough. 300 million! You'll have no worries for the rest of your life if you earn 300 million..."
It has to be said that these words are very consistent with Lu Sifang’s true thoughts now.
Through Lu Sifang's eyes, Zhou Dongsheng felt as if he could see the surging emotions in his heart.
Obviously, after receiving generous benefits, most people's first reaction is to want more, rather than stop while they are ahead.
Greed is human nature, and it is also a major source of motivation for progress.
Zhou Dongsheng naturally had a deep understanding of this. If he had met such a boss in his previous life, he would definitely be willing to sacrifice his life for him...
After all, in many cases, it is also a luxury to hope that hard work will be rewarded.
"That's good. It looks like you've had enough rest. I have something I want to entrust to you..."
"I am always ready to serve the chairman at all times!" Lu Sifang was shocked when he heard this, and he puffed out his chest and said seriously.
Zhou Dongsheng threw the gadget in his hand forward and said casually.
"Look, do you recognize this thing?"
Lu Sifang picked it up and took a look. This thing was flat, very small in appearance, and brightly colored. At first glance, it looked like some kind of chewing gum or candy product.
However, the difference from the former is that this thing is made of metal and feels harder.
Lu Sifang flipped through it, then showed a look of understanding and said as a matter of course.
"Of course I know it. Isn't it an e-cigarette? This thing is very popular in Europe and the United States, especially in bars and nightclubs. Even the financial industry has started a new trend of smoking e-cigarettes..."
"What era is it now? Are you still smoking traditional cigarettes?" Zhou Dongsheng echoed casually.
Lu Sifang couldn't help but laugh, "As expected of the chairman, you hit the nail on the head! That's basically what you mean. This trendy concept has a fatal attraction for people who like to be different..."
"Anyway, if you want to smoke, you should smoke something different to get more pleasure. When I first smoked, I was attracted by the pleasure of puffing out smoke, which was completely different from others. Nicotine and other things were secondary..."
Speaking of this, Lu Sifang couldn't help but become curious.
"Why is the chairman suddenly concerned about this? I remember that he doesn't smoke. Could it be..."
After all, with the rise of the new trend of e-cigarettes, there are indeed many people who did not smoke before but have embraced e-cigarettes out of curiosity.
It's still a good name, can smoking electronic cigarettes be considered smoking? How can cyberpunk be considered smoking...
Not only can it attract the original smoking group, but it is also backward compatible and can continuously attract new users. Moreover, with the iteration of technology, e-cigarette products are constantly upgraded and improved.
Therefore, in recent years, the user group of e-cigarettes has been increasing continuously, and it has become an incremental market with huge potential.
The most important thing is that compared with the strict control of traditional tobacco in various countries, there is also a complete set of mature management systems. E-cigarettes are undoubtedly a product in the gray area, and most countries still maintain a wait-and-see attitude.
After all, there is always a lag in policy making, and this time lag is undoubtedly the "newbie protection period" that allows any new thing to grow wildly.
"I'm quite interested in this thing, but I don't want to smoke it." Zhou Dongsheng said with a bright smile on his face.
Lu Sifang understood it immediately. Since it was not for drawing, then there was only one possibility left, and that was investment!
Otherwise, he wouldn't have called me over. Besides, Zhou Dongsheng is now doing very well in the investment field, and he has plenty of funds in his hands...
Under such circumstances, the natural thing is to find new growth points, become bigger and stronger, and create greater glory!
It seems that the boss has set his sights on this new emerging track?
As expected, Zhou Dongsheng immediately said: "The traditional tobacco industry is undoubtedly a behemoth. Looking at the world, it is definitely the most profitable industry. It is not undeserved to be known as a 'legal drug'."
"Our Huaxia Tobacco alone can generate trillions of tax revenues a year, enough to support the three armed forces. Smokers even joke that they smoked aircraft carriers one puff at a time..."
"Even if we only take a small bite of such a big pie, it is undoubtedly possible to reach a market size of hundreds of billions. Such a fast-growing track is enough to attract capital."
"As an investor , I am no exception."
Zhou Dongsheng said calmly, of course, for Zhou Dongsheng, e-cigarettes are just a cover, he has other intentions!
And Lu Sifang was not a worm in Zhou Dongsheng's stomach, so naturally he had no way of knowing the twists and turns, so he just followed Zhou Dongsheng's words.
“I understand, Chairman. I will do a detailed industry survey on the domestic and foreign e-cigarette industries and learn which emerging companies in the industry are worth investing in…”
Lu Sifang quickly entered working mode and spoke in an orderly manner.
Although Zhou Dongsheng, as a decision maker, only needs to make a decision, the large amount of preparatory work involved needs to be completed by their subordinates.
Zhou Dongsheng nodded helplessly, "Okay, give me the report after you finish it. Besides, after thinking about it during the Spring Festival, I have also become quite interested in the medical industry. You can also arrange some people to work on this aspect..."
Even Lu Sifang was a little confused by such ambiguous words with a very broad design scope.
It was as if Party A wanted a "colorful black" effect when making the request. In comparison, Zhou Dongsheng was undoubtedly more outrageous.
It's like drawing a circle on a globe and then saying that you want to develop real estate within this area.
It's just outrageous. It's outrageous to the extreme.
Lu Sifang weighed his words carefully and said cautiously: "Chairman, your opinion is great! The medical industry has always been in urgent need. As long as human civilization exists, the demand for medical care will never dry up..."
"Please forgive my ignorance. The medical industry is all-encompassing. I don't know what specific aspect the chairman is referring to?"
"It's mainly related medical industries that do research on the respiratory tract and lungs, such as ECMO, ventilators and so on..." Zhou Dongsheng said.
"When any new thing grows wildly, it is easy for it to breed some unpredictable risks. Traditional tobacco has been developed for so many years, and its harmfulness is already a well-known fact."
" Even so, it still cannot stop the enthusiasm of smokers. In comparison, let's not talk about the addictiveness of e-cigarettes. As a new thing, there is probably no accurate conclusion on the harm of e-cigarettes..."
"But based on my intuition, I think that e-cigarettes are like traditional cigarettes, and are very likely to be a double-edged sword. It's just that their harms have not yet been known to the general public!"
“Therefore, if e-cigarettes are the upstream industry, then the related medical facilities are the downstream industry…”
"Since you are optimistic about this new track, you must take a two-pronged approach. Only children make choices, I want them all!"
Zhou Dongsheng clenched his fist with full confidence, and for a moment he exuded an aura of looking down on the world. Lu Sifang couldn't help but be stunned and was secretly amazed.
The boss's appetite is... too big!
Moreover, such a unique investment idea...if it was said by someone else, Lu Sifang would definitely sneer at it.
After all, everyone invests in unicorns, and the principle of biting off more than you can chew also applies to investment philosophy.
Even if it is to cast a wide net to catch more fish, the investment philosophy of not putting all your eggs in one basket is to disperse funds into unrelated tracks to avoid being caught in one pot.
It cannot be said that there are no ideas like Zhou Dongsheng's, which involve layout of upstream and downstream industries, but they are indeed rare, and they are more often targeted at relatively mature traditional industries in order to achieve the effect of industrial clusters.
But for someone like Zhou Dongsheng, who invests in e-cigarettes and can expand his investment ideas to the medical field, he is simply fresh and unconventional, and is completely different from other slutty people.
If Zhou Dongsheng wasn’t the chairman, Lu Sifang would have wanted to say: Isn’t this too far-fetched?
But with so many successful cases as a foundation, Lu Sifang felt for no reason that there was actually some truth to it?
After all, Zhou Dongsheng is a recognized investment genius!
As a genius, he naturally doesn't follow the usual path. If his investment ideas were to follow the same rules as ordinary people...
How could he have accumulated a fortune of hundreds of billions and become famous around the world in just a few years?
If I think there is something wrong with my boss’s investment ideas, then it must be me who has the problem, not the boss!
There must be something that mortals like us cannot imagine. It must be like this...
Lu Sifang successfully completed his psychological construction in his heart, and at the same time prepared to go back and study it carefully.
"You are worthy of being the chairman. I admire you! I will organize some people right now and make a detailed report that will satisfy the chairman!"
Lu Sifang made this promise solemnly, and then left the office in a high-spirited manner.
At this time, Zhou Dongsheng breathed a sigh of relief and couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat. Although it was a bit far-fetched, it was something he had to do.
Everything must be done with a legitimate reason. If you want to do some preparation work in a year or two, it is naturally impossible to rush to the goal right away and stockpile all kinds of necessities.
Given Zhou Dongsheng's current status and position, such a mysterious operation would undoubtedly attract considerable attention. He might be blamed for some unfounded crime.
Zhou Dongsheng naturally had to be on guard against this, after all, human hearts are unpredictable.
Therefore, in order to make everything as reasonable as possible, it is natural to make some corresponding preparations.
E-cigarettes were the entry point that Zhou Dongsheng thought of. After all, in his memory, he vaguely remembered that there would be a very mysterious "e-cigarette pneumonia" sweeping across the ocean.
"At first, no one cared about the disaster. It was just a wildfire, a drought, or a new disease, until the disaster became relevant to everyone!"
Just like the lines in "The Wandering Earth", no one thought that this would become a major turning point for the entire world and even for human civilization.
