The first negotiation failed.

When he came back after the call, the other party was only willing to make a concession of 20 million US dollars, 1.98 billion US dollars, but Ye Dongqing did not agree, so it ended like this.

With nearly $2 billion involved, it is not a small amount of money no matter where it is placed, and Mr. Becker has the intention to facilitate the deal, but the price has not yet been negotiated, so when he left, he told that he would talk to the company's shareholders first and negotiate a mutually acceptable price.

Ye Dongqing politely sent them out of his office, without making a clear statement, sat back in his office chair again, and asked Assistant William to help bring a map of New York.

Mr. Becker's attitude was intriguing, and he felt the need to prepare an alternative, and McCord listened all the time, and asked, "What do you want a map for, can you fill in the East River and make a piece of land?"

"I wasn't prepared enough, they obviously didn't feel the pressure, and I was still more optimistic about the Vonardo Real Estate Company's land, but I had to create some of their competitors so that I could keep the price down, provided that the shareholders of the company were really eager to sell the land, otherwise I would have to really think about building Cobra elsewhere. ”

It's a very good idea, and it's often used when doing business, but it's just that it has become buying land, changing the soup instead of changing the medicine.

Unlike investing in crude oil futures, there is at least land and buildings to build a building, Mr. McCord was successfully scared by Ye Dongqing, and inexplicably felt that it was good to invest in this kind of real estate, at least there was no need to be afraid, for fear of being trapped and falling sharply.

Encountering such a young boss who is not worry-free, this guy is not having a good time, he is unwilling to turn back into a salted fish after the salted fish turns over, so he has to retreat again and again without angering Ye Dongqing, the real estate project in Manhattan is not risky, but the price of taking the land is too high, at this moment he tentatively said: " Wouldn't it be nice to go to the lower town near the Hudson River, summing up the experience brought by the collapse of the World Trade Center last time, there is news that as long as there is a suspicious risk of passenger planes, the military fighters will shoot them down, there is no reason to have a similar accident, it is safe to build the building there, and there is suitable land, you can see the new World Trade Center or the Hudson River. ”

"By the way, in addition to the low cost, the company's employees can also rent cheap houses, and it is definitely not possible to continue to give rental subsidies, do you know how much money you have to subsidize every month? Nearly 600,000 US dollars! That's about 7.2 million US dollars a year, which is cheaper for those landlords. ”

Mr. McCord said that he had a house in Midtown, so he couldn't get the housing subsidy from the company, let alone this little money, so he made this proposal for the sake of Ye Dongqing's interests.

Last year, the company moved from Wall Street to Midtown, and wanted to keep the old employees, so they were willing to pay part of the rent in the name of the company, and now with the increasing number of employees in Freshwater Investment Group, it will definitely be a loss to continue to implement, don't look at the high salaries of those financial white-collar workers, almost one-third to one-half of the monthly salary, into the pockets of the landlords, mainly depending on the location and living environment of the Puchuan Building.

Moving the company to South Central Park still can't reduce the rent expenses of employees, and the rent in Downtown will be slightly cheaper, which is conducive to retaining the company's employees, and Downtown's place near the Hudson River is also one of the CBD of Manhattan, and the land price is about 40% cheaper than the one next to South Central Park.

Ye Dongqing can also calculate this account, hesitated for a moment after listening, and said in his mouth: "Let's see when the time comes, I'll try it first, if it doesn't work, go to the city, or wait a few more years." ”

Building a building is impulsive, and it is more in his personal interest to save money at present, Mr. McCord thought that he wanted to wait until he made more money, and then decide whether to build a building or not depending on the situation, in fact, Ye Dongqing was talking about the subprime mortgage crisis.

If the subprime mortgage crisis occurs as usual in this life, the turmoil is enough to bring the land price of Manhattan back to the level of the nineties and even eighties of the last century, and it is obviously more cost-effective to buy land at that time, but with the emergence of Ye Dongqing, it is difficult to say whether there will be another subprime mortgage crisis.

A stable global economic environment is more suitable for doing business, maybe Ye Dongqing will take the initiative to help step on the brakes when the subprime mortgage is overheated, mainly depending on the specific situation in the future, at present, it is still mainly wait-and-see, maybe you can make a profit from it by shorting, not only the subprime mortgage market itself, but also the financial tsunami caused by the subprime mortgage crisis, it will not be possible to assess the impact in a few years, after all, the subprime mortgage business is still relatively healthy, and the impact is not large.

"It's better, I mean really, Leo. ”

Mr. McCord stood up, buttoned up his suit, and told him the good news: "There is another thing I must tell you, that Alibaba and the Forty Thieves Company in Huaxia have agreed to accept our financing, a full 500 million US dollars, in exchange for 43 percent of the shares, which is the best we can get."

I don't know why you're so optimistic about it, but at least it's what you want, and you've seen it at least five times in front of me since I took over my predecessor's position, and you've only had that enthusiasm when you're facing Apple or Amazon. ”

"Really?!" Ye Dongqing was pleasantly surprised.

"Of course it's true, what am I teasing you with this kind of thing. ”

"Alibaba, not Alibaba and the Forty Thieves?"

“...... You should know it's just a joke, and if you think you can, I'll be able to sign them right now, and the guys from this company are now living in the hotel next door. ”

After Ye Dongqing heard what he said, he smiled: "You should have told me earlier that the company sent someone, is there a strange-looking guy among them, named Jack Ma?"

After a little thought, Mr. McCord affirmed: "There is no such person, the team leader studied at Yale, and I had dinner with him yesterday. I was going to tell you, but you just moved into a new house, and we didn't bother you with your horseback riding, so I thought it would be better to wait until the results were out before telling you, and you agreed to the deal?"

"Just agree, give me all the operating data of that company since its establishment, as well as the future development plan, that hateful guy at SoftBank doesn't agree to sell the shares to me, and now it's not for me to succeed?"

Ye Dongqing was naturally happy, because he had won another company with high growth potential, which was a surprise.

From the time he went to Tencent to investigate, he sent someone to contact Alibaba and try to talk about financing, Alibaba Group was very short of money these years, and it has been a long time since Masayoshi Son invested 20 million US dollars......

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