If we had to compare spending money with investment, Fan Liancheng prefers the latter, because investment can bring returns.

It's not just about monetary returns, it's about accomplishment and satisfaction, which is probably the reason why many rich people whose names are high on the rich list still haven't stopped going home to retire.

Sleep until you wake up naturally every day, eat and drink without worry, travel where you want to travel, such days are very comfortable, and they will be tired after a long time, after all, they are not the same as ordinary people, and the goals in front of them are only so much, nothing more than a "wealth" word, a "right" word, and a "name".

With the former, often the latter two are also available, in fact, the resources you have are already enough to live happily for a lifetime and find a small goal to strive for.

For example, Lao Fan took it as a joke in private, saying that he wanted to try the taste of Mr. Zhang of Manyuanchun Real Estate that "the height is unbearable, and he will be the top of the mountain", and then there is the desire to let Longcheng strive to be the leading big brother in the private real estate circle, whether it is realized in his own hands or in the hands of Fan Liancheng, it is no different to him.

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A large net has been sown one after another, and a total of nearly 200 million yuan has been given to start-up small and micro Internet companies in half a month alone, and it is difficult to say how much it will gain in the future.

However, with the gradual recovery and adjustment of the local market after the panic plunge in October, Fan Liancheng did seize a rare opportunity to get a large amount of money, almost 600 million yuan in RMB.

On the Dragon City side, in addition to those investments, the previously invested Jeron Real Estate also benefited from the Disney concept and exploded, with a book income of almost 100 million.

After Fan Liancheng commanded to go to Disney to take a piece of commercial and residential comprehensive land near Disney, he didn't know if it was the autumn cool, or if his head moved too much some time ago, and he was seriously ill, with a maximum fever of 38 and a half degrees, and he lived in a high-level ward for three days, and he really didn't like the smell of disinfectant water, and he didn't have a place to take a bath, so he turned back to the mansion next to the golf course to recuperate.

His son is sick, and Lao Fan, who is the president of the group, of course can't let him go back to work as soon as possible at this time, saying that he will rest for ten days and half a month if he is willing to rest, and he will be responsible for it in Longcheng.

A real estate project, a personnel department, plus the investment department's Qian Hai and the financial department, almost all have the same heart as Lao Fan, and it is no wonder that Geng Niu, as the chairman of the board, personally came to visit the patient, and said to Fan Liancheng that he was ready to continue to go back to raise cattle and plant flowers, after all, there are not many places to rely on him, just leave everything to Lao Fan, and ask Geng Lao Man to "go out of the mountain", and the agreement is that he can leave at any time after Lao Fan returns.

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In Fan Liancheng's view, it does not matter what the economic environment is in the short term, and with the current scale, even if it falls slightly, it is acceptable.

After recuperating from his illness, he did take a rented Gulfstream G550 across the Pacific Ocean to Los Angeles, but after seeing it at Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, he felt that the house was very good, and the price had dropped a lot and it was more appropriate, but he still didn't buy it.

The house with an infinity pool, directly overlooking downtown Los Angeles, sold for almost $40 million, and the original owner did not move in after renovating it, and was listed on the market for trading.

Mainly during the hesitation to go to an ordinary restaurant around Beverly Hills to eat, maybe the waiter was in a bad mood, or maybe there was a problem with his head, the group spent more than 180 US dollars to eat, and the rest of the money was given to the waiter as a tip, and the waiter actually said to his face that Fan Liancheng was stingy, and asked him if he had a place of poor service, and his attitude was very poor.

I think I also follow the local customs, according to London's "service fee", that is, the tip standard, but it just happened to be rounded, and I didn't give enough ten percent, I was too lazy to care about the other party, and I directly asked for change and left, and I didn't mention the matter of buying a house, just went to Hollywood, Universal Studios, the Walk of Fame and other places to go around.

Influenced by the British atmosphere since childhood, he has no good impression of the arrogant and rude old United States, just because of a waiter, Fan Liancheng feels that even if he lives in the future, he will not be comfortable, stay in Los Angeles for two and a half days, take a helicopter detour to Silicon Valley, visit Apple's headquarters through Goldman Sachs, and be received by the product director and chief operating officer, after learning about the next-generation products and operating concepts under development, Fan Liancheng feels that his investment is right and should have a future.

It was also through Goldman Sachs' arrangement that Fan Liancheng went to Facebook's headquarters as a potential financier, and in December last year, Lao Li of Hong Kong City raised $120 million from this company through Victoria Harbour Investment, accounting for 0.8 percent of the shares at a valuation of $15 billion.

That was last year's price, and now the economy is sluggish, and the valuation of Internet companies has also plummeted, really speaking, Lao Li's investment is still a little bit at a loss, and Facebook's total valuation is less than 10 billion US dollars.

After the visit, Fan Liancheng felt that this company was very good, but unfortunately he couldn't find the profit point except for advertising, even if it was worse than the Tencent benchmark, the main advantage was that the market size was wider, because the mainland Internet environment was not open, and it was destined to be limited by invisible boundaries to develop, and Facebook did not have this trouble.

The other party did not plan to accept financing, the money in the account was enough, and Fan Liancheng happened to not have enough money, so he just visited to understand the forefront of Internet companies, so that he could start the layout next.

After spending three days in Silicon Valley, and then a day of shopping in San Francisco's Old Chinatown, I didn't spend much money except for daily expenses, and I ended the harassment of the real estate agent in Beverly Hills under the pretext that I wanted to buy a house in New York.

If you have money and time, you will find that the world is really not big, and the idea of adding real estate to avoid taxes has not been achieved, so before going back, I contacted a German website called Vilardi Private Islands through the computer, and found that many private islands are for sale, with prices ranging from tens of thousands of euros to tens of millions of euros, which is much cheaper than buying a house in Beverly Hills.

After checking it, it was found that it was easy to buy an island, but it was not easy to run it, especially those undeveloped primitive islands, where fresh water, electricity, materials, etc. were indispensable, which did not make Fan Liancheng feel how difficult it was, but he had some financial resources.

It looked like I was tempted to call and inquire, because the buyer is facing the world, and there are people online almost 24 hours a day, and soon I hooked up with the staff of this said to be the most professional island sales platform, selected a few high-end islands marked as five-star, and asked the other party to send the photos to his mailbox after identifying himself.

Han Xiaowen was busy with her graduation project, and she didn't accompany her to the United States to play this time, Fan Liancheng was thinking that if she fancied any island, she could arrange a plane to pick her up for a few days to visit and visit together......