Chapter 636 - 365: You’re Aiming for the Heavens

Chapter 636: Chapter 365: You’re Aiming for the Heavens

After their morning workout, Lin Chu and Gao Haitao continued the conversation they hadn’t finished yesterday at the breakfast table.

They had already discussed the future development plans for Daber Island in detail yesterday, but there was another matter to address.

Namely, the future development path for LC Security.

Lin Chu had already laid this out for him before the new year. The plan was to mirror the expansion of the retail business; wherever a physical retail store was established, a security branch would be as well.

The general idea was set, but now that Lin Chu was on the island, Gao Haitao wanted to discuss it in greater detail.

At that moment, a world map hung on the wall, covering it almost completely. Nearly every major city in the world was marked on it.

"The retail side will definitely start by opening stores in prosperous urban areas. Poor, remote regions can’t support luxury boutiques. But for our security division, while big cities are good, operations there come with many inconveniences, and regulations are much stricter."

"I’ve been mulling this over for a long time. I think the security division can follow a two-pronged approach. One path follows the footsteps of the luxury stores, while the other sends our guys to open up broader frontiers and expand our operational space."

"Africa, especially North Africa and Central Africa, has vast, open hunting grounds. The issue of weapons can be solved as long as you have money. It could serve as a foothold."

"South America is similarly a lawless land in some ways. I actually have a few ideas. I want to send people over to take a look and establish roots there locally."

"As for the area around Southeast Asia, that’s even more convenient. We can easily support operations there from either the mainland or the island."

Gao Haitao spoke slowly, his expression slightly unnatural.

It was a massive plan, one that made him feel a little unconfident. Moreover, there didn’t seem to be any possibility of short-term profit. But based on his understanding of Lin Chu, this was undoubtedly in line with his boss’s previous way of thinking.

To put it bluntly, Lin Chu’s strategy was to amass manpower and seize territory.

Money was a secondary consideration.

"It’s up to you. I don’t see a problem with it."

Lin Chu said nonchalantly, as if it were no big deal. ’The strategy is sound, perfectly suitable in my opinion. It’s nothing more than a supplementary plan for this year’s expansion,’ he thought.

What should they do if the security division had too many people and not enough jobs?

Simple. Just buy more assets.

Whether it was hunting grounds or any other kind of industry, as long as he bought it, it would require people. And as long as there were people, there were jobs. For him, this was a classic case of the more, the better.

The more he spent, the more he earned.

"I’ll add two points. First, if you’re establishing local roots, you can also consider setting up factories—the most basic kind, like for processing agricultural products or raw materials. Build good relationships with the higher-ups, hire a lot of locals. No matter where you go, that kind of investment will be welcomed with open arms."

"Second, buy more ships and more planes. I plan on churning them out this year, so just go place the orders. You can buy secondhand ones, too. The more, the better."

Ships and planes were among the most advanced industrial products, and their prices were exorbitant. Not to mention the benefit of getting rebates for giving them away, simply owning a lot of them gave one a powerful sense of resource control.

Even if they were just civilian ships or planes.

"Get into the shipping business?"

Gao Haitao asked, trying to probe deeper into Lin Chu’s thoughts.

"If there’s business, we can take it. If there isn’t, we’ll create our own."

"You’re using the island as our main base now. If you don’t have enough ships, what the hell are we supposed to accomplish?"

"Just start buying. It’s the off-season, so prices are cheaper. We’ll figure out the rest after we’ve bought them."

Lin Chu was taking his "buy, buy, buy" philosophy to the extreme. Many things might only exist on a PowerPoint slide before you start, but once you get going and accumulate enough assets, you never knew what sort of marvelous chain reactions might occur.

For him, buying ships was basically the equivalent of building infrastructure.

After all, for him, every purchase was literally a profit.

"One more thing. Later, help me look into companies, either domestic or American, that can launch a space station for us. Just have them give us a quote. As long as it’s a problem money can solve, it’s not a problem."

Lin Chu added.

Almost all the land on Earth, as far as the eye could see, was already spoken for. But in the vastness of space, entry was a right anyone could exercise. No one could control it.

It was just that most people and organizations lacked the capability, or the need, to do so.

But for him, he had both.

"Brother Chu, you want to go to space?"

Gao Haitao looked at him, a little stunned. He always thought of himself as aggressive, but he still often felt like he couldn’t keep up with Lin Chu’s thinking.

"Of course I do. If it weren’t so difficult to assemble a research team from scratch, I’d want to do it myself. The low-altitude aircraft is just a substitute. Once the research on that is complete, there’s no reason we can’t aim for high-altitude development in the future... Besides, our luxury brand promised its customers we’d leave their names in the starry sky. This was always part of the plan."

"Whether it’s a satellite or a space station, the official story will always be framed from the luxury brand’s angle."

Lin Chu said with a half-smile.

A flicker of understanding crossed Gao Haitao’s eyes as he instantly grasped Lin Chu’s meaning. That was a completely new frontier, one destined to capture the attention of all humanity.

As it stood, those who went to space were mostly astronauts and researchers. Not a single one of the world’s top billionaires had been willing to risk their life on such a venture. After all, it was still a risky endeavor.