Having finished reading the relevant reports and news.
This is also the first ti Chen Yiyang realized Marte Bubble has such great appeal in Thailand.
But this also reminded him of sothing.
"Since your products are so popular in Thailand, opening a store there should absolutely not be a problem. Why do you still need my help?"
"Just because the products are popular doesn’t an we have connections in Thailand," Yang Ning said with a frustrated expression. "I thought the business environnt in Thailand should be decent, so I didn’t pay it much attention. I just sent a team to the capital, Bangkok, rented a building, and decorated it as our first Marte Bubble store in Thailand.
Now the store’s already renovated, and the products have been shipped over, but we can’t operate."
"Why can’t you operate?"
"The usual three reasons: hygiene standards not t, fire safety standards not t, and product safety hazards."
Once Yang Ning said this, Chen Yiyang understood.
When those standard excuses co out, the real reason for not letting you operate is usually none of those three.
Most likely, certain relationships haven’t been properly managed.
"According to my manager over there, after the store was prevented from opening, soone hinted that they’d like to acquire 50% of the store’s shares."
"They really dare to ask," Chen Yiyang gritted his teeth.
"Exactly, why not just tax like a luxury item instead? Taking 50% of the shares is like imposing a 50% tax. If I dare agree to that, how could I make any money in Thailand in the future?"
"Have you found out what their background is?" Chen Yiyang asked curiously.
"They say the other party seems to have military ties. But even if they’re not really military, their influence can’t be small, since my store being unable to open is already happening.
We’ve also hired lawyers to negotiate with various local governnt departnts, but they simply refuse to talk to us."
"Bangkok, huh?"
Chen Yiyang doesn’t have many connections in Thailand, but Tengxu does.
Chen Yiyang had previously asked Tengxu to help with acquiring the Rayong Auto Factory that General Motors left behind in Thailand.
Tengxu has been working on this for a long ti, and it’s unclear if there’s any progress.
He was even thinking about making a trip to Thailand himself.
"Here’s what we’ll do," Chen Yiyang said to Yang Ning, "I’ll try to figure sothing out; if nothing works, I’ll make a trip to Thailand myself. Keep updated if there’s any progress."
"Alright, I’m counting on you," Yang Ning could only stand up helplessly.
Chen Yiyang holds a 20% stake in Marte Bubble.
Among the people Yang Ning knows, only Chen Yiyang has extensive connections abroad.
In the business circles, tales of Chen Yiyang rushing to auto factories in Brazil, Russia, and helping the Lin’an Governnt solve the caviar crisis in France still circulate.
If even Chen Yiyang can’t help, then he might have to agree to relinquishing 50% of the shares over there.
After all, compared to that sum of money, if Marte Bubble performs well in Thailand, the market value it could bring to the company post-listing is more important.
After sending off Yang Ning, Chen Yiyang made a call to Wu Changxun.
"Thanks for handling the Science Ga Studio issue. I just wanted you to have soone lend a hand; I didn’t expect you to accompany Ji Feng and them to solve the problem personally."
"It was a convenient matter; I’m just working on cultural heritage digitization projects."
After finishing talking with Wu Changxun, Chen Yiyang paused for a mont and asked, "Oh, by the way, brother Wu, how’s the progress with Tengxu helping buy the Rayong Manufacturing Plant in Thailand?"
"They just reported to a few days ago, saying it has reached a critical mont.
But the people at the Thailand division are geographically distant, and aligning the content they’re reporting and the actual work they’ve done is challenging for us to confirm.
But rest assured, this matter is absolutely a priority for Tengxu, and I’m keeping a close eye on it.
I’ll be heading to Thailand myself in a few days to personally oversee this matter."
"You’re going to Thailand, when exactly?"
"In three days. Tengxu has an important partnership to finalize over there, and I’m going to sign on behalf of Tengxu."
"Can I tag along?"
"Why are you going too?"
"The toy store I’ve invested in encountered so troubles in Thailand, and I have to go and resolve it. So I’m considering hitching a ride with you to get there."
When people ntion Southeast Asia, the first thing that cos to mind is the developed tourism industry, implying it should be quite safe.
However, ironically, the characteristic of Southeast Asia’s tourism industry is affordability.
Security is only assured in specific key tourist spots.
Once you are lured to other areas, away from the governnt’s primary protection zones, anything could happen.
Therefore, Chen Yiyang was sowhat hesitant about going to Southeast Asia before.
But if he could catch a ride with Tengxu and then hire so bodyguards to go along, the situation would be different.
At the very least, there would be strong official assurance from the Thai governnt.
He could also hire so bodyguards from the international travel agency he has collaborated with several tis before, and as long as he didn’t venture into particularly remote areas, nothing would generally go wrong.
"A toy store?" Clearly, Wu Changxun wasn’t familiar with matters concerning Marte Bubble.
Nevertheless, he welcod the idea of Chen Yiyang going to Thailand with him.
Later, Chen Yiyang could directly talk to the local contacts in Thailand to see if he could accelerate the purchase progress of the Rayong Automobile Factory.
After agreeing on the timing with Wu Changxun.
Chen Yiyang had not even rested a full day when the historian ca to find him again.
"What’s up?" Chen Yiyang asked curiously.
Shouldn’t the historian be busy studying those sixteen volus of Xu Wei’s Book of Rites these days?
How does he still have the ti to co and see him?
"Regarding your digital heritage project, many local museums are now interested in cooperating with you, so I ca to ask if you have enough manpower."
"Why the sudden change in attitude from these museums?" Initially, when Chen Yiyang asked the historian to help reach out to local museums, many agreed to cooperate mainly out of respect for the historian.
But whenever it ca to discussing the cooperation thods, it beca challenging, and progress was slow. Why are they now eager to collaborate with him?"
"Because sothing happened that made everyone notice the advantages of digitized heritage," the historian explained.
"What happened?"
"A debate over when the world’s first stirrup really appeared."
"Tell more," Chen Yiyang asked.
He was quite familiar with the stirrup, mainly because he had read a lot of ti travel novels.
Many protagonists who traveled back to the Three Kingdoms period loved inventing stirrups to enhance cavalry combat effectiveness and overpower opponents.
It was basically considered essential knowledge for those traveling back to ancient tis.
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