Li Yang and Tong Shuya played in Tahiti for 20 days before returning to China together, and the hotel evaluation and promotional film shooting teams that followed Li Yang had already returned to China by plane a long time ago.

Some of the staff in charge of the hotel acquisition remained in Tahiti to assist Michiel in completing the subsequent acquisition of the holding.

And Li Yang took Tong Shuya and returned to China on his private jet.

After returning to China, Tong Shuya was invited to participate in the piano soundtrack of the single "Dream Catcher" as soon as possible, and even had to leave the country in the MV and add a piano piece solo.

Before returning to China, Tong Shuya had already submitted an application to the airline for resignation, and it had been approved.

A few days after Li Yang returned, he flew to Four Seasons Group in Toronto again to negotiate the acquisition of the Four Seasons Hotel George V, but the initial results of the negotiations were not satisfactory.

Four Seasons does not have plans to sell the George V Hotel, which is one of the major shareholders of the Four Seasons Group and is particularly favored by the Saudi Prince.

So in order to buy the George V Hotel, Li Yang needs to find a way to convince the Saudi prince - Alwalid bin Talal bin Abdul Azi al.

Li Yang also knows where the challenge of this mission is!

If you want to buy his favorite George V Hotel from Saudi Prince Alwaleed, I am afraid that money alone will not be possible, after all, people are the real top rich, and they are really not bad for money.

After returning from Toronto, Li Yang asked Mihir to help collect Alwalid's information, after all, knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent can survive a hundred battles, and before going to meet this prince, he still has to get to know him well, at least know what he should do, so that Alwaleed is willing to sell the George V Hotel to him.

Tong Shuya has completed the recording of the single "Dream Catcher" with singer Song Ziyu, and it has been launched.

With the popularity of "Dream Hunting" and Song Ziyu's fame, the data on the day the new song was launched was crushed all the way, directly topped the list, and even swept the major short video media in an instant.

After all, with the marketing team and professional operation staff of Dream Catching Group operating behind the scenes, it is easy to take advantage of the situation to help Tong Shuya win traffic and attention.

Taking advantage of the popularity of Song Ziyu's single "Dream Catching", Dream Catching Group took advantage of the trend to make a wave of publicity for Tong Shuya's concert "Dream Catching Journey", and successfully sold out the tickets for several planned concerts.

In addition to playing her famous works "Dream Catching" and "New Version of Praise of Love" and other original masterpieces, Tong Shuya will also cooperate with Langlang on a representative piece of Langlang's repertoire, as well as some classic world famous songs and other repertoire.

There will also be a symphony orchestra to accompany the performance, so the entire operation team has to do a lot of work in the early stage, fortunately, Dream Catcher Group has done many large-scale interactive meetings for Black Carbon, Doug and others, and has rich experience in organizing such large-scale events.

"Husband, husband, let's do it again!"

In the piano room, Tong Shuya pulled Li Yang to play "A New Version of a Praise of Love" again, which was one of the finale programs of her concert, and played "A New Version of a Praise of Love" with Li Yang's piano and violin ensemble.

In terms of attitude towards music, Tong Shuya always strives for perfection and does the best, and Tong Shuya also attaches great importance to this concert, but also a little nervous, so she always hopes to be able to connect each track to the best possible.

"Okay!" Li Yang can also understand Tong Shuya's mood, and he is actually more nervous than Tong Shuya, because he doesn't want to embarrass Tong Shuya, and he doesn't want to drag Tong Shuya back because of himself, after all, this is a track that the audience is looking forward to.

Therefore, in this ensemble, Li Yang also strives to do his best with an attitude of excellence.

The two played together again, and this time it was indeed better than the last time, whether it was in melody and rhythm, it can be said that it was seamless and complemented each other.

"It's good, it's really good to cooperate this time!" A voice came from the door, and Li Yang and Tong Shuya looked at it, it was the music director of this concert.

"Teacher Yu, you're here!"

"Hehe, I just listened to you play at the door, I didn't come in for fear of disturbing you, and the cooperation just now was very good!" Mr. Yu clapped his hands and said.

With Teacher Yu's approval, Tong Shuya was very happy and relieved.

"But I still don't feel like I'm playing well!" Li Yang said.

"It's already very good, you two have a tacit understanding in themselves, the concert will be held in five days, you can practice again in the next few days, and it will definitely be no problem then!" Teacher Yu said.

"Husband, you are already very good, there are few people in our school who specialize in learning violin, and you can play it well!" Tong Shuya also gave Li Yang a great affirmation.

The reason why she pulled Li Yang to practice repeatedly was actually mainly to run in with each other's cooperation, even if two top artists get together, it takes a long time to cooperate and practice, and only after running in can they do their best.

In the evening, Li Yang received information from Mihir, which was about Saudi Prince Alwalid.

Li Yang took a closer look at the prince's information, and couldn't help but have a new understanding of this prince, in fact, Li Yang's impression before was that this prince was just a Saudi prince who became a rich man by relying on oil, as if he was similar to those coal bosses.

However, when he finished reading the prince's information, he sighed in his heart, this is also a legendary figure.

In addition to being a member of the world's richest and most mysterious Saudi royal family, he is also an excellent businessman and investor.

The name of Warren Buffett in the Middle East speaks for itself.

Despite the Saudi royal family, who live in extreme luxury with the help of rolling petrodollars, this prince is still considered a self-made man compared to other princes.

In fact, it is estimated that Saudi Arabia has between 10,000 and 12,000 princes, and petrodollars only guarantee them about $15,000 a month for living expenses. And Prince Alwaleed is the best of them all because he is also the hardest-working billionaire on the planet.

Alwaleed's noble grandfather was the founding monarch of Saudi Arabia, King Abdulaziz Al Saud, who unified and established modern Saudi Arabia in 1932.

The prince was born in March 1955 in Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia, to the 21st son of the king and to Princess Mona Soleh, daughter of Riyadh-Soleh, Lebanon's first prime minister after independence.

At the age of 14, his father sent him to study at the Riyadh Military Academy, and he became the youngest soldier in Saudi history.

In 1976, he went to study in the United States alone, during which he worked tirelessly and studied hard, never giving the impression of a gentleman.

In 1979, he received a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Management from Menlo College in California, magna laude. He then obtained a Master of Social Sciences from Syracuse University.

After returning to China, he received his first venture capital from his father, a loan of $30,000.

And he mortgaged a house his father gave him and got $400,000.

He used this capital and his network to start a trade agency and contracting business, and in just a few years, his annual profits reached tens of millions of dollars.

Then, he foresaw in time that the government's petrodollar-dependent high welfare policy would greatly stimulate the country's real estate market. He made a decisive move and bought a large piece of real estate in the capital, Riyadh, laying the foundation for him to become the largest private property owner in the region.

With the prince's success in construction and real estate, his wealth grew rapidly.

Later, he established the "Kingdom Holdings" and extended his tentacles to other fields.

In 1986, he became the largest shareholder of the United Bank of Saudi Arabia, which had been losing money for many years, and in 1989 he transformed the bank into the most profitable commercial bank in Saudi Arabia. These early business experiences have accumulated the "first pot of gold" for the prince to sell to the international market.

Since then, he has successively invested and held shares in a series of internationally renowned companies including Citibank, Coca-Cola, Pepsi, McDonald's, Disney, Motorola, Time Warner, Ford, Amazon, eBay, Kodak, Xerox, Four Seasons Hotel and a series of international well-known enterprises, becoming the largest foreign individual investor in the United States.

With the rise of China's economy, the prince also set his sights on China, spending $2 billion to buy a 2.7% stake in the bank when it went public, and held it as a strategic investment for a long time.

The stake in Bank of China is only the tip of the iceberg of Alwalid's strategic investment in Huaxia, where he has since made many investments and invested in a number of banks.

One of the investments that caught Li Yang's attention was his first direct investment project in mainland China many years ago, Swissotel Kunshan.

In the following days, in addition to accompanying Tong Shuya to rehearse for concert performances, Li Yang carefully studied the information about Alwalid and thought about the entry point and method of negotiation with him.

Time passed day by day, Tong Shuya's first concert was successfully held in Mingzhu City, and received full applause, whether it was the solo "Dream Catcher", the piano ensemble with Langlang, or the violin ensemble with Li Yang, all became the highlight of the concert and were loved by the audience.

With the holding of concerts, Tong Shuya's fame in the circle is also steadily improving, and the popularity of the song "Dream Catching" has also made this perfect transformation from a piano piece to a song a hit of the year.

In the blink of an eye, it has come to November, and each David TV has begun to prepare for the work plan of the New Year's Day and Spring Festival Gala, as one of the phenomenal songs on the Internet this year, "Dream Catching" has also been included in the program list by each David TV.

Various copyright authorization applications have come one after another, and Pearl Satellite TV, Modu Satellite TV, Mango Satellite TV, and even CCTV have sent invitations to Tong Shuya to perform.

Among them, the CCTV Spring Festival Gala program is Tong Shuya and Song Ziyu working together to perform the song "Dream Catching" on the spot.

This made Tong Shuya really excited for a while, and being able to appear on the Spring Festival Gala is a good opportunity for many stars in the entertainment industry, let alone Tong Shuya.

Li Yang also knows that Tong Shuya is really going to be popular this time, in fact, through the operation and packaging of the team at this stage, as a performer in the piano field, Tong Shuya's fame in China is almost the same as Langlang, and even the attention and fame on the Internet have even surpassed Langlang, of course, this is only at the level of fame and traffic.

At present, Tong Shuya's Weibo fans are almost 7 million, Douyin fans are nearly 20 million, and the piano-related works and short videos related to "Dream Catching" are as many as millions.

It is estimated that after the Spring Festival Gala, Tong Shuya's fame will approach that of a first-line star.

I'm really going to have a celebrity girlfriend by then, think about it...... It's quite fragrant!

With the end of Tong Shuya's concert performance, the rehearsals for the major New Year's Day parties have officially begun, in addition, Tong Shuya has also received many interview programs, variety show recording invitations, and even beat some advertisements.

Compared with before, Tong Shuya seems to be busier, but fortunately, they are all in China, and they will not fly around the world like before, so it is still easy for Li Yang and Tong Shuya to meet or get together.

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"Mr. Li, the meeting with Alwaleed is scheduled for 14 pm Saudi time on December 8!" said Mihir as he walked into Li Yang's office.

At this stage, with the completion of the acquisition of the controlling interests of the two hotels in Tahiti, Mihir also returned from Tahiti to assist Li Yang in studying and meeting with Alwaleed to discuss the acquisition of the George V Hotel.

With the help of Mihir, Li Yang finally smoothed out some ideas and found some methods, although he didn't know if it would work and whether he could successfully complete the negotiation.

But instead of talking on paper, it is better to really meet the Saudi prince once, and really communicate face-to-face, even if it is not successful this time, at least you can better understand some of the psychology of the other party, even if it is good to make friends.

"Okay, let's go arrange the trip!" Li Yang said.

Three days later, Li Yang and Mihir took a private jet to Saudi Arabia, this time to Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia.

Riyadh used to be a small desert city covering less than a square kilometer, but it has been built and developed over decades thanks to the rolling wealth brought by oil.

It has become one of the most famous garden cities in the Arab world, with the prosperity of a cosmopolitan city and the unique cultural and religious atmosphere that is unique to Arabia.

It was noon local time when they arrived in Riyadh, and after having lunch at the hotel where they were staying, Li Yang and Mihir drove to Alwaleed's residence.

It was a manor built in the middle of the desert, not very far from Riyadh.

After all, Li Yang is also one of the current shareholders of Four Seasons Group, and he has been very active in the global resort hotel industry recently, so Alwaleed is also full of expectations for the arrival of this rookie in the hotel industry from China.

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