Chapter 425: Ornaments, Lessons Learned
When it comes to those jadeites that cost more than 300 million to cut, the most economical way should be to make bracelets, nothing cards, ring noodles and the like, which are easy to be digested by the market.
However, who made the Fan family not lack this money, so Lao Fan discussed with Fan Liancheng, and found a local carving master in Shanghai who had won the Tiangong Award, and helped carve an ornament with the green raw materials of the high water species.
At the beginning of September 2014, after several months of careful carving, the news finally came that it had been made, and Lao Fan made a special trip back from the field to accept it.
On the same day, a bunch of jewelry made of leftovers, as well as an ornament called "Qinglong Zhenhai", were displayed in front of Fan Liancheng's eyes.
It is about thirty-five centimeters long and thirty centimeters high, and the cracks and variegations are removed, leaving only two pieces of heavier color as the dragon's eyes.
A green dragon is lifelike, especially after being placed under the light, it is even more eye-catching, hollowing out a long dragon going out to sea, with five claws and long beards, and fierce eyes.
In order to carve this thing, Master Cui lost seven or eight pounds, in his original words, he will never be able to carve such a perfect work in his life, it is already the peak of his life.
When the time comes, I will find someone to order a bulletproof glass, carefully store it in the future, don't sell it if you can, keep it as an heirloom, and put it in your house in Sheshan, I am tired of seeing other objects, and when the time comes, I will send it over together, and find more security guards to guard. ”
Lao Fan looked at the Qinglong-shaped ornaments from time to time, far more than seeing one or two hundred million in cash, and he didn't need to take the thoughts of ordinary people to understand his way of thinking, which made him happy.
Fan Liancheng picked up other small objects casually, and after taking a closer look, the carver had nothing to say, and replied:
"Things are good things, but unfortunately there is no background, it should be more valuable if you put it for a hundred years, I heard that there is a jade cabbage that Cixi likes in another Palace Museum, how much are these things worth, mainly depends on fame, I can release pictures now to lay the foundation, so that others can also appreciate it, anyway, the news of spending a lot of money to cut Asia No. 1 has become news, there is no need to hide.
The study room of that house is just empty, and whatever you fancy will help me search for it, and then bring people to visit it, and I will have a face, and many big families abroad have done this, and many of the modern art museums in New York are private collections of the Rockefeller family, and it didn't cost much money to invest in the collection back then. ”
The news did go out a long time ago, but people didn't care about Lao Fan, and only said that Fan Liancheng spent money to buy the original stone that was originally placed on display in the museum.
With the disappearance of such a large piece of eye-catching rough stone, there is naturally no way to keep a low profile, so Lao Fan doesn't mind his son's high-profile once, and not speaking is already equivalent to acquiescence, and he said with a smile:
"What do you mean by looting, you treat me as a bandit? I'm just a son like you, my things are not yours, moving around is nothing more than moving a nest.
I'll take it away after I've finished reading it, so that you don't have to be fussy, and when the display cabinet is ready, I'll send it directly to your house. ”
In recent months, he has been tossed by new plans, new businesses, and countless affairs of Longcheng Group, large and small, at least three or four official receptions a week, although Fan Liancheng can push and let his executives take the money to do things, he is still very tired.
Fan Liancheng sat in the office and continued to chat with Lao Fan for a few words, only to go to the door and come back to sit down, with a bunch of documents in front of him, waiting for him to sign it.
Since last year's decision to let Longcheng Group try to transform, it has smashed more than 17 billion yuan into the investment field this year.
Alibaba Group is about to go public this month, and Fan Liancheng also has to take time to go to New York, when Longcheng Group was seriously divided, and finally pinched its nose and invested $1.5 billion, and now the stake is expected to be worth about $3 billion, and if it performs well, it may exceed $3.5 billion.
It can be said that Longcheng, Liancheng International, Fans Holdings, and a number of fund businesses under Fans Holdings have already invested in half of the Internet companies with excellent performance in China, and are also trying to develop upstream enterprises such as semiconductors and microelectronics.
Speaking of the envisaged integration plan, it is not too smooth from the current point of view, only to pull SMIC, Huawei, Rice Technology and other companies together, set up a chip research institute, and also set up a research and development laboratory for artificial intelligence core chips, mainly focusing on cloud servers and peripheral equipment.
Speaking of the current project leaders in these businesses, it is actually Zhang Jing, the founder of SMIC in the early years, with the help of three vice presidents, and they are all managerial technical talents.
Fan Liancheng is very self-aware, he didn't do the stupid thing of a layman managing an insider, more often than not, he was only responsible for paying money, looking for someone to find a way to acquire useful technology patents, trying to find a way to integrate a competitive semiconductor company, and taking advantage of his advantages, and now he really only has money.
Not to mention MediaTek, which was targeted by him and tried to contact a number of major shareholders.
Lao Fan had just walked on the front foot, and soon someone came to visit.
LeEco's boss Jia Xiazhou, who just announced his entry into the car-making field in a high-profile manner last month, announced an emergency suspension of trading while the stock price fell.
Hearing that this person came to see him, Fan Liancheng already understood what it was probably for.
Last month, he didn't sell less LeTV stocks,The reason is that someone told him that LeTV's capital chain is not good,And the idea of combining online and offline is not good,TV is not good、Sports are not good,Mobile phone business is also not good,Even the base camp video website business is average,Burning money is too bad,The return is too low。
Under this premise, Fan Liancheng heard at first glance that he was going to build a car again, and it was strange that he could be optimistic, not to mention that Lao Fan was moved by this person at the beginning, and he has made a lot of money by investing in it, he is trying to reduce the risk, and he does not plan to fully withdraw his capital, otherwise it will be more than 20% of the total position.
It's okay for Boss Jia to fool the layman, Fan Liancheng has always valued the long-term prospects of the investment object, rather than the immediate financial report, and saw that he was killed in many fields to lose his armor and have no core business, so he has not seen anyone yet, and he has been mentally prepared to say "no" in advance.
When Jia Xiazhou was brought in by the secretary, he really brought some door-to-door gifts, which was a very cool car model, about half a meter long, specially customized by someone, and the material was titanium alloy.
After taking a seat, Boss Jia saw that Fan Liancheng was slightly vigilant, and his heart suddenly felt a little chilly, but he still smiled and said: "Our company plans to develop and produce electric vehicles, thinking that you are an expert in this industry, and you are one of the major shareholders of our LeTV, so I made a special trip to visit you and learn from you." ”
If you really want to learn from the experience, you won't announce the plan to the public first, and then find Fan Liancheng instead.
Fan Liancheng decided to sell some stocks, which has already explained his unoptimistic attitude, and at this moment he looked at Jia Xiazhou, and felt that this person was arrogant, powerful, and capable, but he was a little unreliable, and he had been gambling.
This is not a good character for a businessman.
Although Fan Liancheng is more involved, it is because of confidence, and LeTV's net profit in the first half of this year was more than 150 million, but the market value was as high as 30 billion yuan, which was obviously overestimated.
Of course, he is not very optimistic, but it is not so bad that Fan Liancheng feels that he should run quickly, Boss Jia's temper and personality are not to his liking, but his ability is okay, and the fund companies are also paying attention to LeTV.
Therefore, reaching out not to hit the smiling person, Fan Liancheng took the initiative to say:
"Since 2012 to the present, your company's stock price has increased a lot, and I haven't thanked you well for helping us make a lot of money in Longcheng.
Last month, our company reduced its holdings, which is just a normal adjustment, the investment department draws blood hard, and the real estate business has some capital turnover, don't think about it......"