Arriving in the capital, Lin Su did not continue to dwell on some emotions, and after getting off the plane at the capital airport in Shunyi, he hurried to the nearby Chaobai River bank.

A site survey meeting is underway here.

Among the many cooperation agreements signed between Westeros and China on Tuesday, one of which is to build a second Chinese data center in Eaglerett in the capital area.

Moreover, compared with the first data center in Shanghai, which will be officially opened in June this year with an initial investment of 30 million US dollars, in order to show China's determination to promote the development of the information industry, the investment scale of the Beijing data center will reach 100 million US dollars.

Whether it is 30 million US dollars or 100 million US dollars, converted into RMB, the amount is very large.

However, compared to the large data centers invested and built by Egrett in Europe and the United States, these two data centers are actually nothing. After going public last year, Igrett announced a plan to build eight data centers around the world, with a total investment of 2.5 billion yuan, and an average cost of more than 300 million US dollars per data center.

Of course, whether it's $30 million or $300 million, it's quite expensive.

Therefore, at this stage, only a few large technology giants such as Igrete can play with this important Internet infrastructure, and the data center that uses more mature cloud computing technology is currently the only one in the world.

Other competitors either have no money or no technology, and even a few of them are not lacking, and it is inevitable to see that Igrete is already far ahead.

Lin Su actually felt that this project was a bit big and inappropriate.

China's Internet industry is just in its infancy, and one data center in Shanghai will be enough in the short term. In fact, Igrete believes that even if it agrees to build a second data center in China, it will only be about the same size as the first one.

However, the Chinese side has investigated the scale of Igret's overseas data centers and feels that the investment of 30 million US dollars is too stingy, after all, a data center in Europe and the United States is 300 million US dollars, how can it be ten times worse?

So it was raised to $100 million.

Like many other projects signed this time, the $100 million investment, half of which is a low-interest loan from the Chinese government, the land is also given away, and a number of large domestic enterprise customers who are expected to use the data center have been signed in advance with the government.

Busy until the evening, back to the city, the evening is another unavoidable social.

In recent days, a South African investment company has quickly finalized a construction machinery manufacturing joint venture project involving $100 million with the capital side.

According to the news from all parties, the agreement was reached to a large extent due to the influence of Simon Westeros's trip to China, a large number of overseas capital began to pay strong attention to China, and the South African side was worried that competitors would intervene in the project, so they abandoned some details that were still being negotiated repeatedly and reached an agreement decisively.

This is a microcosm of the immediate stimulus brought by Simon's trip to China to attract foreign investment.

Yesterday the contract was signed, and today the city government held a celebratory dinner, and the South African side expressed its hope that representatives of the Westeros system would participate.

Simon Westeros is definitely not invited.

Then, some of the other core executives who remained in China also all declined, and none of them were invited.

Where is South Africa?

All right.

So it fell on Lin Su.

Lin Su was not interested, but others hit the nail on the head, so she found her father to help lobby, as Simon Westeros' assistant for Chinese affairs, she could not give face to others, but it was impossible for a daughter not to give face to her father.

So I was reluctant to attend.

She was also greeted and hoped that she could speak English throughout the whole process, so that her South African friends would not suspect that she had been brought in.

Let's talk about it.

At first, I thought I was going to entertain a group of black people, but when I arrived at the dinner scene, I found that they were all white, which was a bit surprising. And apparently there was full communication in advance, but no one doubted her identity, and the other party did not take the liberty of asking her to help introduce Simon Westeros or the like, and the dinner was quite pleasant.

The banquet was over, and it was already nine o'clock in the evening.

Returning to the courtyard of Mao'er Hutong in Nanluoguxiang, a girl named Jiang Shanwu and another maid greeted her, accustomed to the inseparability of this girl and her sister Jiang Yuanchi, at this time there was one less, Lin Su was slightly strange, and asked casually while walking towards the inner courtyard: "Where is your sister?"

Jiang Shanwu followed Lin Su and explained: "My sister is going to the Chinese opera, Mr. Ella Deutchman is holding an exchange meeting over there tonight, well, it was a girl sent back by Sister Chen today who wanted to see it, and my sister accompanied her." ”

The famous Chinese opera campus is more than 100 meters away from this house, and Lin Su also knows about the arrangement of this exchange meeting of Doichman, but what he paid attention to when he heard the words was another thing: "What girl?"

Jiang Shan Wu said: "Her name is Li Youhu, Mr. Westeros took a fancy to her to participate in a show, and was sent back to receive acting training, and Sister Chen also arranged for her to live here for the next few days." ”

The first reaction was that some guy was messing around again.

Sour.

Then I realized that I wanted to be bad.

If he's going to mess around, where do you need to send that girl back?

Thinking back a little, there are too many girls in 100, and this matter is mainly Chen Qing's concern, she only cares about money, so she doesn't remember what the girl named 'Li Youhu' looks like.

Just ignore it.

Sent the two maids who followed her around for a day to rest, passed through the deep courtyards of the courtyard, and came to the inner courtyard. ”

Jiang Shanwu didn't leave: "Sister Lin, you're tired for a day, do you need my help to prepare the bath water?"

Lin Su opened the door and entered the suite in the west wing, shook his head and said, "No, I still have something to do." ”

Jiang Shanwu took a step forward, but he didn't follow the door rashly, but said, "Then, I'll help Sister Lin make a pot of tea." ”

The girl's attitude was earnest, and Lin Su did not refuse after a little hesitation.

Jiang Shanwu sent away the other girl behind her, followed the room alone, walked to the small bar in the corner of the living room and started to get busy.

This is a connected suite, in fact, it is a room shared by Lin Su and Chen Qing, with a living room at the entrance, a study on one side, and a bedroom on the other, and a spacious independent bathroom next to the bedroom.

After Lin Su entered the door, he turned to the study on the left, turned on the computer after turning on the light, and took out a stack of documents from the briefcase he brought in.

As Simon's temporary assistant for China affairs, Lin Su needs to pass various work updates and some important documents of the Westeros system team to him every day, which is actually equivalent to his eyes, and has no decision-making power, but he has to follow up on everything.

In ancient times, it was probably the role of the military supervisor who usually played the role of the villain.

After combing a little, Lin Su began to sit in front of the computer and knock and type, and after a while, Jiang Shanwu brought over with a cup of tea and a fruit plate. Quietly placed in Lin Su's hand, the girl hesitated a little, and said: "Sister Lin, why don't I accompany you here, this house is so big and empty at night, it may not feel good." ”

After Simon left, only the seven maids such as Jiang Shanwu and Lin Su who lived here were left in the huge courtyard.

In fact, there are also the security personnel of the Westeros family, but they live nearby, and they monitor the surroundings of the mansion through a connected security system, and the Chinese government's attention to this courtyard, even if the mansion is full of women, there will be no problems in terms of security.

It's just that it's really empty.

You know, not to mention the Keyuan next to it, but the Wujin Courtyard here, there were more than a dozen families living in the beginning.

It's been a busy few days, and I don't think much of it when I rest quickly after finishing work every day. At this time, listening to Jiang Shanwu say this, Lin Sucai felt really empty.

Seeing that Lin Su did not refuse at the first time, Jiang Shanwu said softly: "Sister Lin, I will sit outside and accompany you, and I will not disturb you." ”

Lin Su paused and said, "Okay, you can watch TV outside." ”

Jiang Shanwu showed a somewhat sweet smile: "Then I will make a little quieter, and I will be alive when there is a voice in the room." ”

As he spoke, he walked to the outer living room.

A moment later, the subtle sound of the TV came that didn't bother people.

Lin Su continued to be busy, and he also received several phone calls during the period.

Chen Qing called her and talked to her about some work and Li Youhu.

There is also Lin Dong, the younger brother of Peking University, who asked her if she was free tomorrow and wanted to have lunch with her. Tomorrow is Sunday, but I am not free, I know my brother's purpose, I thought about it, about the morning, and said that I would send a car to pick him up early.

And then there are the other trivialities.

Occasionally pay attention to the girl outside, Lin Su also knows the other party's intentions with her, which is quite thoughtful, a bit like Chen Qing, but much worse than Chen Qing's rank.

Not bad enough.

And I don't worry about the phone call just being heard, it's nothing important, if something really goes wrong, it must be a guy's problem.

After all, this is a maid of the Wei family.

Lin Su still knew how strict the selection of the Wei family's maids was.

I was busy until 11 o'clock, finished the day's work summary, and scanned some documents into electronic documents and emailed them to Yangshuo together, which was the end of the day's work.

Seeing that she was busy, Jiang Shanwu took the initiative to prepare the bath water again.

After a tired day, Lin Su no longer refused.

Changed into a bathrobe and entered the bathroom, the bathtub was already filled with hot water, seeing that Jiang Shanwu had not yet left, Lin Su sent away: "Xiao Jiang, you can go and rest." ”

Jiang Shanwu looked over, with some flattery in her expression: "Sister Lin, do you want me to wash with you?"

Lin Suyileng: "......"

Jiang Shanwu and Lin Su looked at each other, their faces were delicate, their eyes were as bright as water, and their tone was soft and soft: "Sister Chen likes it very much." Or, I can call my sister to come along, she should be back. Wait, we can stay. ”

......

Early the next morning, Lin Su almost escaped from the cluster of two girls who were still sleeping.

Irritation, remorse, apprehension, weakness.

And so on.

Some don't even quite understand who took advantage of whom. Anyway, I must have been dizzy last night. If you let someone know, you may not know how to punish her, because subconsciously feel, and it is also a fact, that the women around him should be his, of course.

At a certain moment, it was because of the weird mind that wanted to take advantage of him that I couldn't suppress my thoughts.

was emotionally scattered, and had dinner with his younger brother Lin Dong and his girlfriend Bai Lan in the morning, but he still couldn't harden his heart.

Want to go abroad together?

Go, go, go.

After all, this matter is not difficult for her.

In the end, it's his own brother.

As for a man's hidden evil thoughts about this, she is just a little woman beside him who can't escape, where can she manage so much.

After breakfast, I sent my two younger brothers away, and forcibly cheered up to start another busy day.

In the morning, I discussed the cooperation plan with an English training school called New Oriental.

This is a project that Simon gave her and Chen Qing's small team, invested in the name of Apollo Management Company, but in fact it is directly controlled by a fund under the name of Westeros. The man became interested in China's vocational education industry last year, and New Oriental School was the first investment target after many investigations.

Because it has only been established for three years, the volume is not large, but the development momentum is very good.

There are also quite a few problems.

Equity disputes and management infighting.

In the face of the contact of Apollo Management Company, New Oriental gave a very positive response, so it began formal investment negotiations, and the framework has been basically finalized. Next, Apollo Management will redesign the corporate structure for the other party, and will also expel some restless executives in the form of a buyout of shares, eliminating internal problems.

At the same time, Westeros will acquire a 40% stake in the company, so the funds provided will support the company's next expansion, after all, China is still in the tide of going abroad, and the market demand for English training is huge.

In the longer term, it is to push the company to go public.

Lin Su followed up the project seriously, but he had his own opinion in his heart, and it was because of someone.

Speaking of English training, in essence, New Oriental is more like a professional overseas training institution. Someone indirectly supporting such a company through Westeros may have the purpose of investment, but Lin Su still always feels that someone is uneasy and kind.

Go abroad.

If all the talents go abroad, how can China develop?

This is the most superficial possible intention that Lin Su can think of, but she always feels that things should not be so simple. After all, there is really no shortage of people in China, and many people will come back after they go out.

Well, will still be back.

In the afternoon, there was a meeting between the Levison Group and the Hilton Group.

It all started with a series of agreements signed on Tuesday.

The agreement, which Simon signed on the second day of the April 23 public schedule of his trip to China, consists of five major projects.

The first, and largest, is the Levison International Center, with an investment of $1 billion.

Second, several major Chinese telecommunications giants and Westeros Systems Cisco and AOL have cooperated with two companies totaling $500 million in Internet equipment procurement and Internet technical support.

Third, Nokia is expected to invest $250 million in a large-scale manufacturing center integrating technology research and development and product manufacturing, located in the Suzhou Industrial Park.

Fourth, Apollo Management and First Boston signed a restructuring advisory and IPO underwriting agreement with China Telecom (the predecessor of Mobile), with a contract amount of US$200 million in publicly available data.

The fifth, the construction plan of the Beijing data center, is expected to invest 100 million US dollars.

The total amount of the five major cooperation is 2.05 billion US dollars, which is converted into about 17 billion yuan.

Among them, the Levison International Center, located at the intersection of Chang'an Avenue and Knitting Road in Chaoyang District, Beijing, is only 6 kilometers away from the Forbidden City and only one block away from the famous International Trade Center, with an estimated area of 25 hectares and a construction area of 2 million square meters.

Simon also knew that in the original time and space, this happened to be where the later Wanda Plaza was located.

On the other hand, the Levison International Center is exactly twice the size of the first phase of the International Trade Center, which is one block away, in terms of investment scale, floor space and floor area. The first phase of the International Trade Center, which was started in 1985, covers an area of 12 hectares, with a construction area of 1.1 million square meters and an investment of 500 million US dollars.

It seems to have doubled, but it's been 10 years, so it's not hard to imagine how favorable the Westeros system is.

In addition, Levison International is not developed next to the International Trade Center, but is separated by a block, and it is obvious that the Chinese side has the intention of appeasing the Malaysian Guo family behind the International Trade Center. If it weren't for the significance of this project, there would not be a second major commercial center in the area anytime soon.

Because the functions are similar, it necessarily means competition.

It is conceivable that China will definitely have more reassurance and compensation behind the scenes, in order to dispel the bitterness caused by Chinese businessmen in Southeast Asia.

This is off-topic.

The Levison International Center is expected to take 6 years to develop, two years to design and relocate, four years to develop and build, and complete in 2002.

However, according to the progress of development, it is expected that some buildings will be ready for use around 2000.

The large-scale investment in a commercial center is by no means something that ordinary people can imagine that they can start after completing the plan. Instead, it is necessary to attract investment in advance, lock in some important customers in advance, including collecting part of the deposit, etc., and some project plans must be adjusted according to the requirements of customers, so as to avoid risks to the greatest extent.

Otherwise, millions of square meters of building space will be completed, but no one will settle in, and it will be a laughing stock, and no one can afford to lose a huge amount.

Like the Beijing data center, the Chinese side has already matched a number of important enterprise customers in advance, but the rest has to be recruited by the Westeros system itself. As a result, in addition to some of Westeros' own companies, which will be stationed at the Levison International Center in the future, various other customers are being negotiated.

After all, Simon can't move all of Westeros' Chinese subsidiaries to Beijing, and it is estimated that no one can eat 2 million square meters of building space.

One of those with a clear intention is the Hilton Hotel.

The presence of this prestigious luxury hotel group in the heart of Levison will also be an important symbol for the future.

Of course, Hilton Hotels Group still takes a leasing approach.

The entire Levison International Center will also be rent-only in the future.

Just kidding, Simon is crazy to sell the golden property on Chang'an Street at this time. Even if you want to sell it, you have to wait until ten or twenty years later. At that time, not to mention the huge rent that has been collected for many years, just the value of the property itself will definitely increase to more than dozens of times the current level.