Cheval Cheval covers an area of 38 hectares, with an average age of more than 40 years of vines, with an annual output of about 6,000 cases for the main wine and about 2,500 cases for the second wine.

The list of the top five wineries in France may not have its name in it, but if you relax to the eight major wineries, there will be a place for Château Blanc.

Its owner, who was not a member of the Rothschild family, who were known for their shrewdness in business, had managed to expand at the end of the previous year, and had managed to buy half of the shares of Château Romanée Conti from its shareholders.

In the early years, Château Romanée Conti was jointly managed by two shareholders, named Henri Lever and Dievo Brochet family, and it was Henri Leverix who chose to sell the shares, so Han Chudong's acquisition of Château Blanc was equivalent to 50% of the equity of Château Romanée Conti, otherwise the value of a Château Cheval Cheval would not reach this figure.

In addition, it also includes a mansion in the 16th arrondissement of Paris, covering an area of more than 1,300 square meters, built in 1967 and currently leased to a wealthy British businessman, as well as a castle in Nice, France, and a hotel by the sea in Cannes.

Interestingly, the original owner of Cheval Blanc was rather old-fashioned, but since the death of the original owner five years ago and the management of the winery was handed over to the family's son-in-law, the industry has suddenly diversified.

Especially in the past two years, it has even bought three office buildings in London, England, but they are not within the scope of this transaction, most of them are stimulated by the success of Château Lafite, and it is said that many wineries have been trying to get involved in other assets recently.

The tragedy is that the son-in-law of the family did not choose a good time, not only the price of land in France fell, but also the price of land in London, and it seems that he lost a lot of money.

Flip through the asset list.

At this moment, Han Chudong looked at the photos of the new hotel, and then looked at the beautiful Paris manor, and said: "If the number of houses continues to increase, I should set up a real estate company to take care of these assets, 66 million US dollars...... The numbers are auspicious, a part of the premium, but still within my acceptable range, so be it, it would be better to allow me to pay in installments and settle it all in a year. ”

"I don't think they will accept it, the currency is depreciating too fast now, especially in dollars. ”

The person who said this was named Sam, who was also a secretary in the secretary's office, and was in charge of following up on the acquisition of the winery recently, and his expression was a little embarrassed, mainly because he was afraid that Cheval Blanc would not accept the installment payment method and then negotiate the agreement that had been reached with great difficulty.

"Don't worry, the asking price is so high, I will pay half of it first, and then pay the other half after half a year or a year, which should be acceptable. Han Chudong didn't have much impression of the secretary in front of him, how could there be so many people in the company, how could he be comprehensive, on weekdays, it was mainly Assistant Arthur who helped manage the secretary's office, found a comfortable position, put his feet on the desk, looked at Assistant Sam and asked, "What about Château Margaux, still no news?"

"Yes...... But the bad news, Château Mouton de Rothschild has been in contact with Château Margaux recently, and recently we have been in frequent contact with the people at Château Margaux, and yesterday our people met Baron Philippe de Rothschild over there, and he had someone tell you that in the wine world you don't have to be rich to do whatever you want. ”

After Secretary Sam said this, he carefully observed Han Chudong's expression, and then quickly withdrew his gaze.

Han Chudong said speechlessly: "The members of the Rothschild family, who have been rich for so many years, actually said that I can do whatever I want after I have money......? I'll just praise me, more than a hundred years ago, and the way they bought wineries like Lafite and Mouton was not unlike what I do now. ”

A wave of wealth skyrocketed, giving him the capital to expand his industry.

In the eyes of others, he has been buying and buying lately, and it seems that he has indeed become a little arrogant, and most likely this has caused the displeasure of the Baron Philip.

Secretary Sam is not very good at sycophancy, and asks in a proper manner: "If there is a competitor, the price of acquiring Château Margaux will definitely be higher, what next?"

"Continue to talk according to the previous plan, even if we can't buy Margaux, we have to block the Baron of the Rothschild family, but don't be rash, we don't want the price to be too high, let them think that we can do it if we want, like deliberately bidding a high price at the auction, understand?"

"Understood. ”

"Okay, you go and discuss with Cheval Bor first, and feel free to tell me if you have any news. ”

Han Chudong lowered his head and continued to read the information that he hadn't finished reading yet.

Since late January, he has been personally responsible for the formation of personal computer research and development projects, and last year he bought a full set of Otto computer technology from Xerox, and needed to redevelop the system, transform and upgrade the hardware before it can be marketed, which is a lot of work.

Up to now, we have planned out projects such as mice, keyboards, motherboards, sound cards, network cards, etc., and tried to develop modems and memory, etc., while cooperating with a number of headhunting companies, we are also trying to contact with a number of universities and research institutes, trying to jointly set up a project team, such as the research institute under Xerox, since it has the ability to develop an immature Otto computer, it means that the ability must be very good, and there are ready-made resources.

This is likely to be his focus for the next period of time.

A full $30 million was intercepted through the Mason United Group, ready to be invested in the Mason laboratory as research and development funds, and it was only start-up capital, and if he wanted to develop a finished product that was enough to satisfy him, this money may not be enough.

The scale of Mason Lab is really not small, quietly the number of employees has reached nearly 600 people, and the monthly personnel expenses are a huge amount of money, divided into multiple projects, including a toy laboratory that develops products for Mango Toy Company, an electrical laboratory that develops products for Baofeng Electric, and a beauty laboratory that develops products for rainbow beauty.

Take the electrical laboratory as an example, it is currently developing projects such as electric bicycles, lithium batteries, audio tape players, home video players, etc., more than 200 high-achieving students gathered in a small building near Echo Park, all day long in accordance with Han Chudong's ideas to research and explore new products, before drumming out some ovens, table lamps, electric kettles, etc., have been produced through third-party manufacturers, into the storm electrical store for external sales.

Not to mention the beauty side, at the beginning of the year, 20 different shades of lipsticks were launched at once, all of which were the result of laboratory researchers, in addition to the so-called seaweed soft mask, which was positioned as the main product of the year.

Developing a personal computer is much more difficult than other projects now, and recently the laboratory director and Han Chudong have been busy together, working hard and labor......