The Young Lion

Perhaps at this time, Aldridge led the whole team to vacation in the United States, which seemed unique. But ten years later, twenty years later, this situation is not special.

In the middle of the season, many clubs will take a holiday for the team, or officially arrange some business activities, commercial games, go to a horse race, go to the NBA, or baseball games, etc.

Aldrich mainly relaxes the players, the most important thing is to relax their minds and get a period of adjustment in their mentality.

At the beginning, the players were having a lot of fun on the special plane under the package. The women gathered together to chat, the men played cards, and Aldridge and the coaching staff teamed up to play poker and make small bets.

But soon, as soon as the excitement passed, everyone put on their blindfolds and went to sleep. The flight time was not short enough for them to sleep well.

Because of the time difference, when the plane landed in New York, it was 8 pm at the beginning of the Chinese lantern, while Aldridge boarded the plane in London at 5 pm, flying for seven or eight hours in the middle.

Outside the airport, Aldridge was shocked by the scene before him when they came out.

Ten Lincolns were waiting outside, the car door in the middle was opened, and Barnett in suit walked out, smiling and beckoning to Aldridge.

"Boss, what's going on?"

Schneider blinked with his German girlfriend, and the scene of the local tyrant going out really surprised him.

"Get in the car."

Aldridge waved his hand and saw the people behind him hesitated. He had to take Melanie to Barnett first, and then got into the car, so that others could make sure that the extravagant Lincoln extension was to pick up Their.

"It's not necessary to be so grand? Is it just to travel?"

Aldridge sighed when he got into the car. Barnett smiled and nodded at Melanie, then opened the small refrigerator in the car and said, "Please feel free."

Melanie sat down next to Aldridge a little crampedly, waving her hand with a smile.

Barnett turned his attention to Aldridge just now, and said, "Rent a few cars, not buy. Now go to the hotel and play in New York for the first two days. We will go to Arizona the day after tomorrow. Miss Chisholm, I have some personal business and I want to talk to Aldridge. Will you please go to the hotel and rest with others first?"

Although Barnett's tone was bland, she had been in the mall for many years and had been in the top position for a long time. If she came out of his mouth, there was an irresistible majesty. Melanie nodded and promised that she was not a girl who didn't know anything Will not make yourself a trouble.

Soon, the convoy stopped in front of the hotel, everyone else got off and settled in the hotel, Barnett arranged it properly, the hotel restaurant was ready for a grand dinner, but he took Aldridge to continue on the road, Came to Manhattan, the commercial center of New York.

The night was dark, and the two got off in front of a modern office building. Barnett walked side by side with Aldridge and said softly: "The next door is Wall Street. I wanted to put the branch there, but I remembered what you said. Make a fortune low-key, so I bought three floors here as a North American branch."

"What are you doing here with me?"

Entering the elevator, Aldridge was still confused.

Barnett said truthfully: "There is a high-level meeting, I want you to participate."

"I don't know anything about business."

"It doesn't matter, just listen to it and say whatever you want."

Aldridge raised his eyebrows and said nothing.

Although it was evening, the employees of Barnett Company were still at work. They didn’t seem to be busy, but there was an obvious solemnity in their looks. Especially when Barnett walked in, his eyes were full. respect.

Pushing open the door of a conference room, Aldridge saw that there were not many people sitting in it. There were only eight people in total. They were young in their thirties and had gray hair in their elders. All of them stood up to show respect. Barnett closed the door and pressed his hand to signal everyone to sit down. He deliberately opened a chair next to the chair and let Aldridge sit down.

Everyone's eyes were on Aldridge, curious about the young man's identity.

After sitting down, Barnett raised his head slightly and said lightly: "This is my younger brother named Aldridge. Well, the meeting begins."

This meeting is like a general company's annual summary and new year's outlook. Adrich also placed a document in front of him. After opening it, he glanced at his eyes and felt dizzy. Then he closed the document and closed his eyes.

The attendees should all be senior executives of the company, make plans for the company’s investment and management in the coming year, analyze the prospects of various industries in the market, and come up with market reports and research results from the past year.

In real estate, finance, industrial investment, etc., Barnett’s company investment has not always been a single type, and these are not interesting to Aldrich.

I don't know how long it took. After the participants expressed their opinions, the meeting room fell silent, and Barnett sat on the throne and meditated.

"what……"

Aldridge yawned untimely, which made everyone's eyes turn to him, and many people's eyes showed dissatisfaction.

But Barnett smiled and said to Aldridge: "What do you think?"

"No opinion."

"Aldrich, are you alienating me?"

Aldrich scratched his head, thought for a while, and said, "Internet."

the Internet?

The people looked at each other, and Barnett asked with interest: "Can you tell me more?"

Aldrich casually said: "The current Internet technology has not been popularized, but with the rapid development of the IT industry, computers will enter thousands of households, the operation is simple, and ordinary people get started very quickly, Microsoft's new operating system has been foreshadowed This, and next, I think the Internet will become the trend."

"What about commercial value?"

Asked half a hundred men today.

Aldrich shrugged: "There is a computer connected to the Internet, you can browse the latest news from all over the world anywhere, you can watch all kinds of videos, movies, variety shows, and even adult shows. You can also use the Internet platform for Chatting with friends makes it easier to speculate at home, etc. This is a trend, and the foundation of the Internet will be a computer for a period of time in the future, and it may become a mobile phone in the future, and the mobile phone is a portable A computer can also achieve the above-mentioned functions. Of course, I am a layman, I don’t want to argue with you, it doesn’t make sense, but think about a computer that occupies the space of a basketball court half a century ago, and Today, a computer can be placed on a square table. This is evidence of the development of technology. The future world will become a global village. Without the Internet, creativity cannot be achieved. Only you can’t think of it. Of course, if you can think of it, you can make a fortune.”

The meeting room fell into silence again. Aldridge did not want to look at other people's faces. He never expected that any amazing words from his mouth would be embraced by everyone. That is impossible, even if future history will prove His prediction was correct, but in the present, there will always be doubts of mixed praise.

Barnett smiled at Aldridge after a moment of contemplation and asked, "Is there nothing else?"

"No, can I go now?"

"Tom, help me send Aldridge back to the hotel."

Barnett got up and sent off, and Aldridge left without looking back.

Barnett stood in front of the window and watched Audrey sit in the car before taking back his eyes. Behind him, someone frowned: "Boss, IMHO, what is your brother's education?"

"Education? Ha ha ha ha, ha ha ha ha!"

Barnett seemed to hear the most ridiculous joke in the world, laughed alone for a long time, and then turned around and reached down on the man's shoulder, and said a meaningful sentence.

"Nine years ago, I studied on the London Stock Exchange, where everyone has a higher education level than me. Everyone who knows me will teach me with the tone of my predecessors. They are more serious than me, smarter than me, and harder than me. , I have more connections and resources than me. I have nothing. I watch them cheer every day for the rising stocks. I can go to the high-end restaurant for dinner while embracing a beautiful girl, and then spend the spring snacks together. I know a fact. It’s impossible to be smarter than them in life, and it’s impossible to spend at least five years to catch up with their academic qualifications. But, on a Monday eight years ago, the seniors around me laughed that I took out all my net worth to buy the stock market. Peeing, I sat honestly in the seat and deliberately spilled coffee on my pants to cover up my gaffe, but that week, I witnessed three people jump off the top of the trading building, and I earned nearly Millions of pounds, almost all the seniors around me are bankrupt. Only me, even in urine, can raise my head to accept the worship of the surroundings and walk out of the exchange. Do you know who told me to do this? Just after I graduated from elementary school My brother who is no longer studying. In the past ten years, I understood two things. First, any investment is gambling, education, and experience cannot guarantee a stable victory. Second, hard work is no match for luck. God let you lose everything, you It is impossible to win! And I am sure that my brother is the messenger God gave to the Hall family, just like the word contained in his name: RICH, will make the Hall family rich!"

These business elites listened intoxicatedly and changed to others, they must sneer, but Barnett's success is full of legend, which is enough to make them awe-inspiring.

"As my brother said, you turned my eyes to the Internet. I think what he said makes sense. At least Microsoft has made me taste the sweetness."

When Barnet ordered it, the others immediately solemnly agreed to come down.

Aldrich didn't know that he came to the United States and went to the conference with vacation ghosts. He seemed to have to say a few words to deal with the errands, but he succeeded in the rise of the future Internet empire of the Hall family.