2003: Starting with Foreign Trade

Chapter 377 Orange Logistics
As soon as Tan Jincheng pushed open the door, he smelled a strong yet familiar scent in the air.

This is the aroma of dark roast coffee beans, which Tan Jincheng is very familiar with; they must have come from his own place.

Gu Qingqing lay exhausted on the sofa, a cup on the coffee table steaming.

The sound of the door opening woke her up. Gu Qingqing opened her eyes and looked over, forcing a smile as she said, "Jin Yue is here. Come on over."

Tan Jinyue sweetly called out "Sister!" and was about to run over when Tan Jincheng grabbed her from behind: "Go play for a while, your sister is very tired right now."

"It's alright, let Jin Yue come over and play." This little one's fans are no longer limited to people like Beicang.

“Then go and give your sister a back massage, future Tan Dehua.”

Gu Qingqing chuckled, then asked with some confusion, "What does Tan Dehua mean?"

"It didn't mean anything, I just said it offhand."

The sister-in-law is taking care of the baby, also known as Dehua taking care of the baby. Isn't that a ready-made solution? However, it seems that if you get married too early, Dehua might not be able to take care of the baby.

Gu Qingqing didn't ask any more questions, assuming that Tan Jincheng meant a future superstar.

During the Spring Festival, the Tan family and the Gu family did something big together: Tan Jincheng took his family to Yiwu to pay New Year's visits, and the parents of both sides officially met.

The relationship between the two was officially settled, and they were just waiting for Gu Qingqing to graduate so that they could get engaged.

The Tan couple and the Gu couple both came from rural areas. Although they developed in different ways, their shared childhood experiences gave them a lot to talk about.

With the adorable Tan Jinyue lightening the mood, Gu Hongshun, who had been worried that Tan Jincheng would turn bad, felt much more at ease.

Marriage is a matter between two families. Tan Jincheng's parents are very fond of their daughter, so even if Tan Jincheng does something wrong in the future, it will not affect their daughter's status.

In fact, it was Li Jinzhen's words that dispelled even more of Gu Hongshun's concerns.

"Have you ever seen a famous entrepreneur marry a female celebrity? With Xiao Tan's current achievements, do you still consider him just an ordinary businessman?"

It has to be the future mother-in-law who sees things clearly. He was named one of the Top Ten Outstanding Youths and appeared on CCTV as one of the Top Ten Economic Figures of the Year. Aren't all the people selected with him well-known figures from various industries?

According to data released by FlashTech, the company achieved sales of over 7 million RMB in its first year of regular operation. Can you still consider the founder of such a company as a simple businessman?
Li Jinzhen was somewhat skeptical if you said that Xiao Tan could remain chaste, but she definitely didn't believe that Xiao Tan would marry the female celebrity with whom he had a rumored affair or any other woman who suddenly appeared.

To have achieved such success in business at such a young age, one must be ambitious, and an ambitious man is bound to be self-disciplined.

Marrying a celebrity requires considering how people in the industry view him. Which super-rich boss can tolerate his wife being affectionate with other men on screen?

As for other women, there's even less to worry about. Unless they're the daughters of some high-ranking leader, they won't have a chance. As for the daughters of ordinary businessmen or common people, the probability is really low.

Xiao Tan runs an upstream supply chain business, and her customers are all at the market end. She doesn't need to cultivate relationships with any businessmen through marriage or other connections.

His daughter's advantage lies in the fact that she has grown up alongside him, and now she manages a company valued at over several hundred million for him, while he also owns shares in it. In reality, they have long been bound together.

Therefore, in Li Jinzhen's view, her husband's worries were completely unreasonable. After meeting her future in-laws, Li Jinzhen became even more certain of her inner thoughts.

Men can be strange sometimes. They can have a good time themselves, but if their son-in-law is having a good time and is betraying their daughter, they'll punish him severely.

Gu Hongshun probably had this kind of mentality.

Tan Jincheng noticed Gu Qingqing's fatigue; she had indeed been working very hard lately.

"Would you like to come with me to Shenzhen for a few days to relax?"

“You’re going to work, where would you find the time to play? Besides, I can’t leave here either.”

Tan Jincheng did not personally participate in the acquisition of Dexian Electronics, but when acquiring a company, taking full control of its resources, and meeting with the team members, Tan Jincheng would definitely be the one to do so.

Founded in 03, Dexian Electronics' business scope is not very wide at present. Focusing on 3C peripheral products, its brand Pisen is far from being known throughout the country.

What Tan Jincheng valued was not the brand itself, but rather the 50-acre electronics factory and technical team at Dexian Electronics.

The only thing Pisen can be proud of right now is its batteries, which are sold under the name of being the designated equipment for the Antarctic mountaineering expedition team. In reality, they are the prototype of the power banks that became popular a few years later.

The fact that they were able to develop a prototype of a power bank in the early 2000s and achieve mass production shows that the technical team at Dexian Electronics is quite capable.

The only thing that Tan Jincheng found a little regrettable was that Zhao Wu, the boss of Dexian, wasn't particularly attached to the company and had no intention of being subordinate to anyone. He was only willing to retain 10% of the shares and transition from the role of company owner to that of investor. After the transition was complete, Zhao Wu would leave Dexian Electronics and would no longer hold any position there.

Tan Jincheng could understand Zhao Wu's choice. Some people just don't want to work for others. Even someone as poor as Dong Jinggui tried every means to start his own business, just wanting to try and make things happen.

In fact, Tan Jincheng himself is the same kind of person. Needless to say, in his previous life, as soon as he got ashore, he started a business with Zhang Xupeng and never went to a proper job.

After cashing out and leaving Dexian Electronics, Zhao Wu will start a second business.

However, having signed a non-compete agreement, even if he were to start a new business, he wouldn't be able to create a business in the same industry as Dexian Electronics. He would have to look for opportunities in other industries.

For Shenzhen, a city brimming with opportunities these days, this wasn't a particularly difficult task. Zhao Wu understood that without signing this agreement, no one would dare to buy his company.

Tan Jincheng wasn't as foolish as the boss of Storm in his previous life, who didn't even conduct a background check before buying a foreign sports company and didn't even know how much time was left on the broadcasting rights for the sports events.

Furthermore, they didn't even sign a non-compete agreement, which led to the other party's executives opening an identical company after he completed the acquisition and taking away all the broadcasting rights from him.

He lost billions of dollars for nothing, and these billions were borrowed from investment institutions, and he also signed a betting agreement with them privately.

The final outcome was that he was imprisoned.

Such bizarre and amateurish investment behavior, putting himself into sewing machines, is truly an outrageous occurrence in the investment world.

Tan Jincheng said softly, "Work is work, but we can't always work. Let's go to Shenzhen to stroll around, do some shopping, or we can visit Tencent."

As a major metropolis at the forefront of reform and opening up, Shenzhen was a place where Tan Jincheng had only passed through Hong Kong a few times and had never really explored it. Gu Qingqing had never been there either.

Let's go to Shenzhen, go shopping on the other side of the river, and stroll around together. It's been a long time since the two of us went out together.

"You even went to visit Tencent? Last time our server crashed, they were the ones who hacked it the most. Aren't you afraid they'll detain you if you go?"

"Haha, they wouldn't dare. Besides, we've brought Brother Li and Sister Liu with us. If you're still upset, we can poach some of their people when we go for a visit. Tencent seems to have set up some kind of game studio."

It should be called the Interactive Entertainment Business Group now, not the future Tianmei Studio. Learn from Lei Jun and poach them to make Pony Ma furious.

"When are you going to change this habit? When you visit other companies, you always bring a few people with you. If you keep doing this, who will dare to do business with you in the future?"

"Hehe, this time is different, consider it revenge; besides, we haven't gone out together in a long time."

Hearing this, Gu Qingqing was somewhat tempted: "But Orange Logistics is really busy, I really can't leave."

You only realize how difficult a project to help farmers is once it's actually implemented. It's not as simple as just delivering fruits and vegetables to users.

In the logistics and transportation process, fresh fruits and vegetables are the most difficult part. You have to ensure that the fruits and vegetables do not spoil or get crushed during transportation, so both the packaging method and the delivery speed have extremely high requirements.

The supply chain, fast logistics, cold chain, express delivery, and warehousing involved are essentially a scaled-down version of Beijing's winter logistics, making the difficulty unimaginable.

To be honest, when it came to actually doing it, not only was Gu Qingqing extremely busy, but even Tan Jincheng was starting to regret it.

This is indeed a bit too ambitious, especially since there isn't even a high-speed rail yet, and transportation is still in a relatively inconvenient era.

The fruit delivery event held in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai before the Chinese New Year was just a trial operation.

Orange Technology is not capable of independently operating such a large project. Fortunately, it has the strong support of Ningbo University. Ningbo University clearly understands the profit chain behind the agricultural assistance project. In addition, the good reputation of helping farmers alone is enough to make the well-funded Ningbo University happy to open its wallet.

The newly established internal logistics system, Orange Logistics, was created specifically to address the issue of fruit and vegetable transportation.

During the trial operation in the Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai area, many problems were discovered. In areas that were even slightly far from the storage center, fruits and vegetables could not be delivered in time, and when they were delivered, the quality was not good.

Thankfully, netizens these days are tolerant, or rather, easily fooled. Helping farmers is a new thing, and it doesn't cost any money. Even if the fruits and vegetables they receive are not of good quality, people may feel a little uncomfortable, but they just let it go because they think of it as helping the farmers.

However, the launch of the agricultural assistance project is not just about giving away fruits and vegetables to Happy Farm users for free; the goal is to sell them later.

If the service quality remains the same when users spend money, then it's not so easy to complain.

Tan Jincheng's decision to partner with SF Express, rather than choosing a courier company within Zhejiang Province, was based on this consideration.

(End of this chapter)