"Are you really going to spend $100 million to buy this plane?" On the way back, He Chaoqiong asked with a smile, you must know that the original plan was just a 737, worth almost 200 million Hong Kong dollars, this price is a lot of money even for her from a wealthy family, not to mention that what she wants to buy now is a 747.

"It's more than 100 million dollars, and the price of decoration for this kind of large aircraft can be worth 1/4 to 1/3 of the price of the fuselage. Xu Zhi explained with a smile: "The 747 is now the only aircraft in the world that can fly across states, which will be much more convenient." ”

"Doesn't it affect your company's funds?" He Chaoqiong asked.

"It doesn't matter, the funds for the purchase of aircraft will also go through the loans of commercial banks in the United States, and I have a lot of industries in the United States, these companies have to pay taxes every year, and buying one of these aircraft can also be used to deduct taxes. Xu Zhi said with a smile. Midea's business in the United States alone involves arcade games, home game consoles and cassettes, handheld consoles, television businesses, etc., most of which can be profitable, and according to US law, they have to pay taxes every year.

According to the U.S. tax law, not only do you not need to pay profits and taxes this year, but you can use it to offset part of the tax in the next few years, and because the aircraft belongs to the U.S. branch, the future refueling, maintenance, and employee wages can be used to make the company's operating consumption.

"It's nice to be able to avoid taxes. He Chaoqiong said with a smile: "It is indeed convenient to have your own plane, you can go wherever you want." ”

Xu Zhi took out a business card from his pocket and said, "Of course, you can contact this design company in the next few days to learn more about the decoration style of the aircraft." ”

"Aren't you together?" He Chaoqiong asked after taking the business card.

Xu Zhi said with a smile: "You contact first, I have other things to deal with first, I invested in a company in Seattle two years ago, and now that I have come here, I am ready to take a look." ”

"What company?" He Chaoqiong asked.

"It's called Microsoft, it's just a small company now, you haven't heard of it. Xu Zhi said.

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In 1978, Microsoft made millions of dollars in profits that year thanks to its partnership with MITS.

Later, Microsoft's headquarters moved to Bellevue, Seattle, Washington, where it has a large number of skilled programmers, and Microsoft is also thriving rapidly, and last year, Microsoft struck a partnership with the blue giant IBM to develop an operating system for IBM's PC5150.

IBMPC5150, it was the most popular personal computer in the 80s, with total sales exceeding 1 million units in just a few years, and it was also the "originator" of the information age by Time Magazine in the United States in 1982.

But that's the original history, since the second half of last year, Midea released the first Honor No. 1 computer, although the price is more expensive, but the internal applications are very sufficient: simple text table processing software, text editing software, small games, English text correction software, and so on.

These are simple applications from later generations, but in this era when many people don't know how to use computers, they are very advanced, simple Word, Excel software provides great convenience to countless office workers, and the abundance of games is to meet the needs of everyone.

Two months after the launch of Honor Computer, a large number of orders were sent from the United States to the headquarters in Xiangjiang, and even in Europe and Japan, which were not listed, some dealers came to discuss cooperation.

Knowing that Xu Zhi was coming, Bill Gates was already ready and personally came to the door of the company to greet the shareholder, who had never met before.

"Mr. Xu, welcome to Microsoft. After seeing Xu Zhi and his entourage get out of the car, Bill Gates and Paul Allen walked up to shake hands with a smile and smiled.

Xu Zhi smiled: "It's a pleasure to meet the two." ”

"Inside please. Bill Gates beckoned.

Microsoft's current headquarters is not bustling, but it has rented the third floor of an office building here, and when the elevator doors open, a large hybrid office is in front of you.

Xu Zhi followed the two to an open corner, where there were several sofas and coffee tables, and it seemed that it was a place to meet guests.

Xu Zhi smiled and asked, "Your place is not small, isn't there a conference room?"

"Nope. Bill Gates scratched at his somewhat messy hair, shook his head, and said, "We don't even have an office, we all work together." ”

“OK。 Xu Zhi smiled and sat down, Gates and Allen also sat down, Gates said: "Mr. Xu, I invite you here this time, I hope that you and my company can reach a cooperation?"

"Speak. ”

Bill Gates said: "I hope to be able to get a license from QDOS, or we can also pay for it. ”

"QDOS is our company's core product and will not be sold or licensed. Xu Zhi shook his head and refused.

QDOS is a set of simple operating systems bought by the United States branch from the "Seattle Computer Company" at the beginning of last year, in the original history, Microsoft bought the software for $50,000, and then repackaged it, changed it to MS-DOS, and then put it on the IBM5150 computer, which is also the most important step in the history of Microsoft's rise in later generations.

After Midea bought QDOS, the R&D department of the branch in the United States spent a lot of effort to further optimize the program according to Xu Zhi's requirements, and placed it on the first-generation Honor computer.

Microsoft lost the opportunity to buy QDOS and had to redevelop it on its own, and although it also made samples, IBM was not satisfied with Microsoft's products because of the various high-performance features of the Honor computer.

Because of the competition, IBM is not willing to buy software licenses from competitors by the number of times, and Midea naturally does not agree to sell operating systems and office software at one time, and the negotiations between the two sides are not smooth, which also gives Microsoft further plans, after learning that Xu Zhi came to Seattle, Bill Gates sent a fax asking to meet.

"Mr. Xu, you are also a shareholder of our Microsoft, Microsoft's profit means that you make a profit, and you can say what you want. Paul Allen took over and said that he was better suited to negotiate than the two people who started a business at Microsoft.

Xu Zhi smiled: "It's true that I am a shareholder of Microsoft, but I only have 10% of the shares, if this proportion can be increased, I can consider the cooperation plan you mentioned before." ”

Paul Allen frowned and said, "Then how many shares does Mr. Xu want?"

"30%!" Xu Zhi smiled and gave an answer.

"No, that's too high. Bill Gates shook his head and refused.