The scale of acquisitions between most companies does not reach hundreds of millions of dollars, and Fan Liancheng admits that this is a good ship, but the price is too high.

He knew what he wanted, so after the conversation collapsed and went ashore, it didn't affect his emotions because of this incident.

A little regret is for sure, if I didn't win the Banyan Tree One project, maybe I would have considered it, and now I prefer to buy a boat while leaving some money for emergency or investment.

Look at August of this year.

Fan Liancheng is interested in this company and has not been in contact with the founding team of Jingdong, but has been in contact with Today's capital, hoping to buy out this batch of shares from them at a premium and take over the venture capital project.

The reason is that it is not interesting if the shares are too small, and Fan Liancheng is worried that he will be opened by this "peer" lion and slaughtered when he comes into contact with the founding team of this e-commerce company.

The second company he pays attention to is called Soufun.com, which is currently valued at $6 or 700 million and has the opportunity to go public at any time, which is more like PE (private equity investment) than VC (venture capital).

All in all, there are too many places to spend money, and there may be more places to spend money, so you have to save a little.

After going ashore, I found a café to sit in, discussed the details with the people in the shipyard, and wanted the shipyard and the design team to help make a plan first, listing the construction cost and internal and external drawings, and the size design was about 68 to 70 meters, and the shape must be beautiful.

This is to compare to the ship that is being built in New Zealand.

The preparation process may cost a little money, it is difficult to avoid, and the conversation with the business manager is more pleasant, and it has not yet been decided whether to fund the construction, and it will be said after the quotation is given.

Cai Jiarong knew the approximate range of Fan Liancheng's budget, and didn't dare to try to influence his thoughts, so she just took them around for the next few hours and went to the National Archaeological Museum.

After browsing the flowers, I continued to go out and hang out that evening.

The next morning, I left for Southampton, England, to visit a shipyard, where the M5 hybrid sailing ship was being repaired at the shipyard, and I heard that it had not been put away in time and had hit the dock.

When he came to the UK again after half a year, he learned that Fan Liancheng was studying at Imperial College, and the shipyard manager was pleasantly surprised, saying that his daughter was also in that school and had just enrolled this year.

Opening the chatterbox, the rest is a little easier to talk about, showing the manager the pictures of the Vertigo and the other Falcon horses, saying that he wants a similar cool sailing boat, about seventy meters long.

The other party admits that the cost will be different depending on the material, and as for the automatic sail system, instead of spending a lot of money, it is better to hire a few experienced sailors, the effect is the same, but it is possible to save millions or even tens of millions of pounds.

The M5 sailboat stopped there, and Fan Liancheng felt that there was a lack of technology after getting on the boat, and the interior did not satisfy him, but the advantage was that the cost was cheap, and many things could be improved through design.

Stop by to visit another luxury yacht about 80 meters long, the space is slightly depressing, and it has been in the water for more than ten years, and it feels average.

In the end, the shipyard also asked the shipyard to come up with a design plan, thinking that it would be compared with each other before making a decision.

Serendipity.

During the tour, I also met a group of fellow villagers, several of whom spoke Chinese.

Fan Liancheng didn't know them, and he didn't say hello to them, but some of them recognized Fan Liancheng.

This group of people came from the mainland to study and exchange, and after the team leader surnamed Gao asked the translator, the translator finished communicating with a foreman of the shipyard, and learned that Fan Liancheng wanted to build a sailboat parked next to the dock, and the price could be as high as tens of millions of pounds, and he was immediately frightened.

......

I've never been to Southampton, so I can't talk about revisiting.

has lived in the UK for so many years, Fan Liancheng and Zhao Sturgeon seem quite calm, Cai Jiarong is also calm, and only Lao Feng and the bodyguards are interested.

The next stop is London.

Before it passed, Zhao Sturgeon had already called his old friends one after another, Fan Liancheng's friends and his friends mostly overlapped, such as the iron buddy Li Xiao, who called back soon after receiving the call, saying that he had specially asked for leave and was free today.

At this moment, strolling in the center of Southampton, Zhao Sturgeon said lazily: "I have only been back for a long time, and several girls have already fallen in love, so they should still come and walk around often." Your family and my family have become partners, and when the plane is in hand, it will be okay to borrow it from me occasionally, right?"

"There's a problem, you have to worry about the plane before you get it, who knows what kind of moth you will do in it, rent a business jet yourself. ”

Fan Liancheng feels that Lao Fan's investment in Zhao Sturgeon's construction company is quite reliable, so that the second phase of the Houtan Riverside Apartment and Banyan Tree One project should save some money.

Like his own investment in the decoration team, he is also developing upstream of the real estate industry, which is a private investment and has little to do with Longcheng Group.

Zhao Sturgeon didn't care when he heard it, and said: "By the way, isn't your Hermione in London, if you don't film today, call out to play together at night?"

"I've met twice before and after, how good the relationship is, and I'll get in touch next time I have the opportunity. Your friends will call other friends, and I guess it will end up with a big party, and I will say in advance, I don't want to drink, and if I don't feel well, I will go on a plane again, and it will be terrible. ”

"I'm sure I won't force you to drink, don't worry, I will knock some money before I come out, I'll have a treat tonight, just lend me your house for a party." ”

Fan Liancheng refused again, and told: "I haven't lived in it since I finished cleaning, and now I'm leaving it to the real estate agent to take care of, and someone will look at the house at any time, and a boss in Hong Kong City is already considering signing a contract, don't make me."

Wouldn't it be more worry-free to go directly to the nightclub, stay at the Langham Hotel, live for free, just go to the dormitory to have a look, and go to the old man for a cup of coffee. ”

Working in a café for more than two years, although the old owner named Barton is suspected of hiring "cheap labor", the baked beans taste really good, and Fan Liancheng wants to stock up and take them back to China to drink slowly.

In the early years, he was too Buddhist, so that he didn't think of who to contact, and even the degree and graduation certificate became dispensable, after all, what he learned in class and what he used in practice are two different things most of the time, Fan Liancheng can no longer use it, let alone think about working for others.

Looking at it, in the end, I found that it is still interesting to invest in business, and there are more than 10,000 employees under his hands, and there is no reason to go back to become a dispensable member of it, and he is quite satisfied with his current life.

If you want to say that Zhao Sturgeon is worried, he does have a reason to be troubled.

There is also a more capable brother above, although he is not short of food and clothing on weekdays, but he is relatively marginalized in the family business, and there is no hope of turning over for the time being.

Occasionally, money is tight, like to take advantage of Fan Liancheng, once there is money on hand, in fact, there is no less hospitality to set up wine, this time chattering about the past, three sentences are inseparable from the girl and old friends, in the end is still young, but Lao Feng is more contented and happy, dare not bother Fan Liancheng to do it, from time to time ask the bodyguard to help him take a photo, choose gifts for the child and daughter-in-law.

With a bitter face, he said that gambling is really harmful, and he knew that he shouldn't play cards on the plane, and now he has saved all his hard-earned private money, and it is estimated that all of it will have to be taken into the hole, otherwise he will not be able to deal with his wife when he goes home.

It's like deliberately angry with him.

Fan Lian didn't plan to pay back the money, and said that he used the money to buy a lesson, and it was worth it......

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Travel from Southampton to London by car.

After the preliminary communication, Cai Jiarong saw that Fan Liancheng was busy traveling, so she simply left in advance to help other customers negotiate business.

Before leaving, she asked Fan Liancheng if he would buy a car, a limited edition British supercar under development, the brand is Aston Martin, and the number does not seem to be too much.

Some people heard that this manufacturer was preparing to develop an "ultimate supercar", and specially asked Cai Jiarong to communicate with the manufacturer in advance, wanting to know the shape and performance in advance, and asked Fan Liancheng if it was incidental to soliciting customers.

These limited edition supercars, the sales method is different from ordinary cars, it is difficult to get it due to lack of strength, a concept car that has not even come out with an official name, Fan Liancheng is naturally not interested, after owning that fat dragon, it has become general to see other cars.

The price of the car is limited, even if it is a classic collector's edition classic car, the price is difficult to compare with a superyacht, this thing is the best symbol of status.

Fan Liancheng asked the hotel to send someone to take her to the Aston Martin headquarters, and he rested at the Langham Hotel first.

As soon as I squinted in bed for a while, I received a call from the front desk, saying that someone had consulted the hotel and asked him if he was here, and left his contact information and the name of "Yantai Raffles Shipyard".

Confused.

If it's a business from the Longcheng Group, you should contact him directly through your mobile phone.

After checking the company on the Internet first, there is very little news, only a report about a catamaran Asean-lady, and the news from three years ago.

Waiting for the hotel manager to send the contact information they left, Fan Liancheng dialed the hotel phone.

After hearing "Hey?", he only asked, "You just came to me through the Langham Hotel?"

"Hey, Boss Fan of Longcheng Real Estate, right!"

On the other end of the phone, the voices of many people came first, and suddenly it was quiet again, and the man's voice continued to ring: "My side is Raffles Shipyard, four or five hours ago, we passed by the Wasbur Sonic Rotford Shipyard shipyard, I heard them say that you are going to buy a big ship?"

Fan Liancheng was even more confused, and replied: "Hmm." ”

The other party spoke in an excited tone and told him:

"Coincidentally, our Raffles Shipyard has also recently been preparing to start a very large yacht manufacturing business. The factory is located in Yantai, a few years ago the production of 88 meters of the factory catamaran luxury yacht, don't rush to sign a contract, we can also build the boat, and it is cheaper, to ensure that you are satisfied!"

“...... This, it's not that I didn't want to hand it over to domestic manufacturers for production, but I've checked, there is no company that produces such a large sailboat, it is different from ordinary cargo ships. ”

"It's really not right now, you can place an order.

Our company partners with many parts manufacturers around the world, you can purchase what you want, and ensure that you can build it in accordance with the world's advanced standards, CIMC will definitely acquire our company, financial resources and resources are guaranteed, and then develop exclusively in the direction of luxury yachts, at least 80 meters long The kind of big ship, benchmarking the world's top ten superyachts.

How much do the British pay an hour? How much do we pay an hour? How many man-hours do we pay an hour? When we build a million man-hours on a ship, the price gap is huge, and the price is cut down at once from the design to the direct purchase of the main parts, which will definitely save money! If you have a company outside, you can save a lot of taxes by purchasing parts, and now you are supporting this piece, and there is a subsidy, which is guaranteed to satisfy Boss Fan!"

The tone was very excited, which made Fan Liancheng feel like he had met a liar, and he hesitated and said: "I haven't signed a contract yet, and I'm traveling in London now." In this way, you will send someone to the Longcheng Group next Monday, and talk in person at that time?"

"Okay, okay, Boss Fan, you are busy first, we are ready to prepare, and then contact another person before the face-to-face detailed discussion, I will remember your phone number, and you can tell you a number......

This person is not a liar, the huge CIMC Group is really negotiating with their company to acquire and plan to build a domestic superyacht.

Inspected and tested a potential big customer, and came out halfway to steal business......

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