To be honest, for most people in the Celestial Empire, watching the NBA is completely aimed at Da Yao, although Da Kongyi is also in the NBA, but he is only a rotation player, so he doesn't pay much attention.

However, there is no comparison, there is no harm, and the post-Da Yao era, recall that the Da Kong Yi at this time was already very powerful, the only pity is that he was born in the same period as Da Yao.

Arthur, who knew that Da Yao would retire in a year, naturally knew the value of Da Kongyi, which would be the only bright spot for the Celestial Empire market.

Although Dakongyi is a typical example of talent that overrides the CBA and fails to reach the NBA. And there is really a galaxy between the CBA and the NBA. But who made him the only person who could be saddled with a market, even if he was used as a mascot, Arthur would not let him leave the Nets.

Without Da Yao and Da Kongyi, the NBA will be farther and farther away from the Celestial Empire market.

"He's so introverted, he's not been able to fit in with the team, he can't do the same as Da Yao, a lot of people in the league like Da Yao because he's humorous, he's sincere, he's not adapted well to the intensity of the NBA, he's been suffering from illness... ”

Speaking of Da Kong Yi, Miles also told him what he knew, and he was worried that his boss had too much hope for Tian Chao Yi.

"No matter what the problem is, I believe it can be solved, Tianchao Yi will leave it to you, you go and communicate with him well, help him, I don't want to see him marginalized, and then run away with confidence, I want to keep him. Arthur said undoubtedly, in his understanding, his subordinate seemed to be very good and able to establish a very good friendship with the player.

"Okay, boss, I'll communicate well with him. Miles couldn't help but feel a little helpless in his heart, by the way, it seems that Tian Chaoyi's English is still very problematic.

"Boss, over there, are you... ”

"I'll go over and take a look at my territory in the afternoon, hehe. Arthur said half-jokingly, half-seriously.

"Okay boss, then I'll tell them to get ready. Miles said with a smile.

"Hmm. Arthur did not refuse the other party's flattering behavior, in his opinion, Miles's preparation is very necessary, as a boss, his subordinates have no awe, it is definitely not a successful entrepreneur.

What to say and mingle with subordinates is all nonsense, and enterprises without the concept of superiors and subordinates are just a group of rabble!

As the boss, Arthur, accompanied by Myers and a group of subordinates, began to inspect his territory, visit various departments, understand the Nets affairs in detail, and listen to the reports of his subordinates.

After a round trip, Arthur and Miles returned to the general manager's office, occupied the magpie's nest, and sat in the boss's chair belonging to the general manager Miles, Arthur explained the most important thing to Miles.

That is to buy 20% of the shares of the Nets that remain outside and the other half of the shares of the new arena Barclays Arena, Arthur just wants to own 100% of the Nets, he knows better than anyone that the NBA is a very successful business league, and in a few years, the market value of each team will skyrocket many times, even more than ten times, which is crazy.

Arthur naturally didn't want to spend a high price on the acquisition, taking advantage of the low price now, it was good to get all of it early, so as not to have too many dreams at night, besides, with other shareholders, there was no way to let him play freely, after all, there was a little constraint.

"Boss, if the other shareholders refuse to sell their shares... ”

"Then tell them, let them prepare the money, inject money into the Nets, there will be no profit to share in the next ten years, I will dilute their shares little by little and kick them out!"

Arthur knew that there was no more way for those shareholders who refused to sell their shares, but to squeeze out each other by diluting their shares, and continued with a sneer: "Is it to sell shares now to make a lot of money, or to make additional investments, and not see any gains at all, and finally see that the shares in their hands are getting less and less?

"Understood, boss. For the first time, Miles felt the sharp edge and decisiveness of the young boss, and finally understood that it was indeed not so simple for the young nobleman in front of him to achieve what he has achieved now.

"Okay, I'll leave the team to you, how to operate, I won't ask, I only have one request, don't be too bad for the results, just let me lose face, I don't want to really become the laughing stock of the world!" Arthur got up from the boss's chair, reached out and patted the back of the boss's chair, and looked at Miles with a faint smile.

"Thank you owner for your trust. Miles said with some excitement.

"Good job, it's up to you!" Arthur walked up to Miles' side, patted him lightly on the shoulder, and after encouraging him, he didn't stay any longer, and left the New Jersey Nets office building with Miles respectfully seeing him off.

Sitting in the car back to Manhattan, Arthur looked out the window, narrowed his eyes slightly, and began to think about his next step.

His first wonderful debut has been completed perfectly, he can now be regarded as a big celebrity in New York, and even in the United States, buying an NBA team, you can do this, for Arthur who wants to go all out to explore the American market, it is really worth the money.

Next, it's the second step of his plan to integrate into American high society...

Although Arthur is an English earl and a nobleman of noble blood, for the upper class of the United States, although he is a cross-river raptor, it is not so easy to integrate.

New York, said to be huge, is said to be so big that even the police in New York are made up of people from more than a hundred countries. Small and tiny, downtown Manhattan is a place where you can live primarily on foot. If you walk quickly, you can traverse in 2 hours and traverse in 40 minutes. This small area is divided into Uptown, Midtown and Downtown.

Uptown is a traditional wealthy neighborhood that guards Central Park, and the Upper East Side is often populated by "old money" families, with a pleasant environment and good schools, and is home to the top 1% of New York's wealth, nicknamed "the land of ultra-high-class whites."

If New York is the center of the world, then the Upper East Side is the heart of New York, a place known for its wealthy residential neighborhoods, fine dining restaurants, and luxury stores, where the air smells of money.

The neighboring Upper West Side, where a group of people who lived similarly to them but who became rich later, expanded to the west only because the Upper East Side gradually became full. Midtown is more of a commercial district and office building, but in recent years there have been new trendy areas. Some areas of the lower town are more artistic and vibrant, and are considered to be places where the nouveau riche live.

So, when someone asks you where you live in New York, they're asking where you are in the pyramid, and the place with the most distinct hierarchy is the place with the most address.

There is a saying in New York, "Except for the watering holes where thirsty animals grab water to drink in the dry season in the Serengeti grasslands of Africa, the most dangerous place in the world is Manhattan!"

And Manhattan high society is really suffocating, no one is not a pair of powerful and wealthy eyes, and your skin color, clothing, and taste are picked 800 times a day.

Starting from what you go to, what major you study, and what movies you watch, the template of class has been set on everyone's head, and there can be no deviation in every link.

Here, the temperament that is piled up with money is just a nouveau riche, even if they get a ticket to enter the upper class society and rush in, they are also the object of foolery and ridicule by those old money families and wealthy families, even if their money is not as much as that of the nouveau riche.

However, these Arthurs don't have to worry, after all, he is also a representative of Kai Life, a traditional British nobleman, an earl title inherited for hundreds of years, with the purest and most noble aristocratic blood, and a young and promising billionaire, it is simply a fairy tale background.

Coupled with his tall and burly figure and handsome and tough face, he has long become the target of many people, and the focus of discussion in Manhattan's high society.

How can a wealthy American family with a strong sense of class and family status be more qualified to talk about heritage and nobility than a pure British aristocrat like Arthur?

After all, if these old American rich families had mixed well in Britain back then, they would not have come all the way to land in the United States in the wilderness!

It's time to start farming for various events, party dungeons!

Back in his mansion, Arthur piled all the invitations he had received during this time on the table, and began to open them one by one with a smile on his lips.

With the invitations to the two large-scale spring auctions of "Christie's New York Classic Art Week" and "Sotheby's Blooming Art of the Times", Arthur had to sigh that these auction houses were so well-informed that they could send the invitations to him accurately.

Arthur knew that his address was no secret for a long time, and the people who should have known it had long known.

Continue to open those invitations, most of them are art exhibitions, art fairs, charity art receptions, Arthur is a little crying and laughing, these invitations on his table are simply an art feast.

However, this is exactly what Arthur needs now, he just wants to keep brushing these copies to reach more American upper-class people, and personally expand his network in the upper class of New York.

And the world is going on every moment of the art feast, top auction houses, art fairs, exhibitions are always the most eye-catching, for people living on each side of the earth, they have no "time difference". In May, there is no doubt that global art enters New York time.

Compared with the bidding between real money and silver on the surface of the auction hall, the art fair is more diverse, especially for a noble spectator like Arthur, which is more suitable for his thirteen styles, showing the nobility and elegance of the British aristocracy to these self-proclaimed upper-class turtles in the United States!

Get out of the way, I'm going to start pretending to be thirteen!