At this point in time in October 1999, most domestic Internet companies had convenient and suitable financing. And it makes sense that Huang Yi is not very convenient.

According to the NASDAQ review rules, there can be no new financing within six months before the IPO, and there are many operational actions that cannot be taken, so as not to interfere with the IPO, which is equivalent to a "freezing period".

Even if it is half a year before the freeze period, that is, 7 to 12 months before the IPO. Although it is not strictly forbidden to accept investment during this period, the money that goes in at this stage will have a longer lock-up period than other original stocks in the future, and it will not be able to be cashed out for several years after the IPO, and there are a bunch of other prohibitions.

At the same time, if you throw money into it now, Huang Yi's valuation will also be at a very high level (it was a high level before the IPO), which will not give you the opportunity to be much lower than the future public offering price, and even you will become the pricing benchmark for the future public offering price.

In a word, if you don't enter early or late, if you enter Huang Yi now, you will be a pick-up man.

Ding Sanshi himself may think very highly of himself, and thinks that pulling new financing at the moment can be regarded as a win-win cooperation and giving the other party an opportunity to make money together.

But Gu Kun knows history better than most people, and he knows that even if Huang Yi survives, it will only be just before the Internet bubble bursts at the last moment, and the IPO will succeed.

If you don't catch up with the IPO, maybe history will be changed, and Huang Yi will be wiped out directly.

Even if the history has not changed and the IPO is still there, then in the cold winter years, Huang Yi's stock price will fall to a few cents a share, falling below the issue price and cutting in half.

Who would cooperate with him at this time?

Even if Gu Kun wants to buy Huang Yi's shares, or better control the pace of domestic media in the fields of tourism luxury, literature and art, etc., and symbolically make a few percentage points, he will not buy it at such a large time.

However, it is too early to say anything.

Everything depends on how Ma Feng helps the center to say yes.

Whether Ding Sanshi felt almost confident and wanted to turn into a fate has not yet been decided. Gu Kun's blind guess is useless, no matter how much he makes up.

This matter is put behind me for the time being.

......

Two or three days passed quickly, and just when Gu Kun was almost about to forget, Ma Feng finally gave Gu Kun a reply letter, and sincerely invited Gu Kun to return to China for a trip:

"Xiao Ding said that there may be some misunderstanding here, and he wants to meet with you. ”

Since the other party hadn't shown obvious malice, Gu Kun didn't mind talking about it.

With his status and status, he should have slipped Ding Sanshi to Lan Fang and Gu Kun's home court to negotiate, and he was not worthy of letting Gu Kun go on a trip in person.

However, considering that Ma Feng, the middleman, was also in Ark City, and it was still relatively hot in Lan Fang now, Gu Kun should have stopped by to go to Ark City to escape the heat.

He didn't bring his own woman, so he brought two beautiful secretaries, and then chartered the first class the next day and flew directly to Donghai Province.

The A330 special plane I bought from Airbus at the beginning of the year has not yet been renovated and will be delivered next year. Therefore, Gu Kun had to endure a civil aviation flight for half a year, or a temporary charter flight.

Early the next morning, Gu Kun wore a cool hat and sunglasses, a light plaid shirt and beach sandals, and took a few beauties to board the plane through the exclusive channel.

Lanfang Airport has been in operation for more than two full years, and the number of routes has skyrocketed several times compared to the beginning of operation.

After all, when it opened in July 97, the Southeast Asian financial crisis had not yet come, and the main currency of the Lan side at that time was still the ringgit, and the prices in Southeast Asia were generally relatively high.

With the popularity of Lanfang tourism at that time, the domestic routes to China could only afford the three first-tier cities of Beijing, Guangdong and Hujiang, and each line maintained a passenger flow of about two flights a day.

However, since the second half of 98, with the full switch to RMB and the materials purchased from Malaysia have become cheaper due to the depreciation of the ringgit, the number of domestic tourists to Lanzhou has tripled compared with the previous year.

In the whole year of 97, there were only 300,000 tourists from China to Lanzhou, and the cruise ships and flights were about half open. In 98, it rose to 800,000 people at once, and in the first three quarters of 99 this year, it has exceeded 1 million people, and in the last three months, there were at least 1.3 million people.

Of these 1.2 million people, about 300,000 are on cruise ships, and 1 million are on air trips. The number of tourists flying has increased sixfold compared to more than two years ago, and the number of routes has naturally skyrocketed.

Today, Lanfang International Airport receives 40 international arrivals and international departures every day, of which 30 waves are to and from mainland China, and 3 waves are daily commuter flights to and from Lijiapo, Kuala Lumpur, Bangkok and other Southeast Asian countries, and Tokyo, Osaka, Seoul and Busan in Japan and South Korea also have two waves a day.

There are more flights to Huaxia than 30 per day, and domestic tourists have a wide range of travel options, so they no longer have to take hundreds of kilometers of trains and rush to the three first-tier cities to take off.

Shudu in the southwest, Chang'an in the northwest, and Wuchang in the middle, these newly rising tourist outflows, now have two flights a day, and the thunder cannot be moved.

Even Jinling City, Fangzhou City, and Shenzhen City, which were originally affiliated cities within the radiation coverage of Shanghai, Jiangsu, and Guangdong, also have their own independent routes, but there are fewer guests, one flight a day.

"It's really a year a year, and it's all built by Lao Tzu. ”

Sitting in the first-class cabin, drinking the freshly squeezed orange juice brought by the beautiful flight attendant, and rubbing the armrests of the leather first-class sofa, Gu Kun felt quite relieved in his heart.

An international airport runway of the highest standard, the general stable flow configuration is 200 aircraft per day, and then to improve, it is time to distinguish the take-off runway and the landing runway, and the take-off and landing can improve efficiency.

Now this runway has reached more than 80 takeoffs and landings per day, and the airport itself can break even, and there is no need to spend money on subsidies - the so-called more than 200 flights a day per runway, which are all for places like Atlanta Airport or Heathrow Airport, which belong to the world record level, and the airports in those places are very profitable.

But the vast majority of airports, with only one-third of Heathrow's runway utilization, have been able to break even. Especially in countries like China, civil aviation infrastructure is sometimes not a complete economic consideration, but also serves as a benchmark for local level and political performance.

In later generations, many prefecture-level cities with poor economies, even if they knew that a runway would not be able to take off and land 50 times a day, they would definitely lose money and subsidize it, they still launched the project, and they did not hesitate to use a few planes a day after they got on it.

So Gu Kun felt that it was almost time to build a second runway. Because this kind of project itself will take two or three years to build, according to the current growth momentum, when it is completed in two or three years, the No. 1 runway of Lanfang Airport will definitely be overloaded with 240 takeoffs and landings per day.

After a two-and-a-half-hour flight, the plane landed at Cambridge Airport in Ark City.

This should be Gu Kun's first flight to this airport, and it will be the last. He came to Ark City from Hongqiao on the Hujiang River before, and even if he came to Ark again in the future, it should be converted to military use - the Ark International Airport on the other side of the river is about to be completed, and it will be put into commercial use next year, and then Cambridge, an old-fashioned historical airport, will be converted to pure military.

Ma Feng arranged very carefully and sent a car to the airport to pick him up, and he himself came. I also found the most high-end hotel I could find near the headquarters of Ahri Baba and Huang Yi in the west of the city, and chartered a presidential suite.

"The hotel grade in Qiantang is not as good as Xiangjiang and Hujiang, don't mind. Ma Feng knew that Gu Kun was very particular, and took the initiative to remind him.

Gu Kun smiled casually: "What does it matter, I don't live in a hotel in Hujiang, I live in a river-view villa - I can tolerate the stinky muddy soup in the Huangpu River." You can buy a lake-view house and a river-view room here. This time I'm here, you have to help me introduce you. ”

Ma Feng was really a little surprised: "I thought you didn't like to buy a house, you have been in Xiangjiang for so long, don't you all stay in hotels? I heard that the presidential suite of the Peninsula Hotel, you have been booking it for more than a year. ”

Gu Kun waved his hand quite magnificently: "That's different, Xiangjiang is because I don't think it's worth it, and when the house price falls in a few years and returns to reasonableness, I will consider it."

But I am optimistic about the development of your mainland, whether it is Hujiang, Guangdong, the Special Economic Zone, or even your Ark City, there is a lot of room for development in the future. Even if it is the kind of capital that is supported by policies, it should not be underestimated. ”

Ma Feng immediately breathed a sigh of relief: "This is easy to say, it's rare that you can afford our development here, and such a trivial matter as buying a house is on me, and I will help you contact it, and it will be more convenient later." ”

Saying that, the car had already driven to the hotel, and after settling Gu Kun to stay, Ma Feng's people left, and they didn't say anything all night.

......

The next day, Ma Feng invited Ding Sanshi to Ahri Baba's headquarters, and then asked Gu Kun to come over for an interview.

"Mr. Ding, it's really as young and promising as me, it's not easy. As soon as the two sides met, Gu Kun proudly praised Ding Sanshi.

This is the first meeting between Gu Kun and Ding Sanshi, when there was a reception in Lanfang before, Ding Sanshi did not go to the venue because the company was busy with business, but only went to a few staff members at the editor-in-chief level. After all, Huang Yi is now the only one left in the three major portals, and the boss's work rhythm and tension are completely different before and after the listing of these companies.

Before the listing, the boss was basically busy as a dog, desperately trying to pave the way for the listing to cheat money. Once he was on the market and cheated out of money, he began to be lustful, which was similar to the contrast between Zhang Chaoyang and Zhang Chaoyang.

This meeting really surprised him, because he had the impression that Ding Sanshi in the later life was a dead fat man.

But I didn't expect that Ding Sanshi, who was only 28 years old in 1999, was still very thin and handsome.

It seems that some people really have to encounter some setbacks before they become Buddhist, and young people are arrogant and domineering before they touch the nails.

If you are not vigorous, you are still called a young man?

"You said there was some misunderstanding between us, I don't know what the misunderstanding was?" After meeting and sitting down, Gu Kun first leaned on the sofa and lit a cigar.

Ding Sanshi didn't feel inferior at all, and sat down side by side next to Gu Kun with a big grin: "I don't know if Mr. Gu is interested in online new media? I heard that you have a lot of actions in the Internet stock sector of NASDAQ and Hong Kong stocks, I think you should have a vision." ”