Looking at Zhang Xuyao, Atletico asked lightly: "What do you think?"

Although it is a question sentence, the tone and expression are full of firmness, and he does not hide his disbelief and disdain.

Seeing that her expression was also unconvinced, he said with a smile: "Indeed, policy protection has indeed helped. But this thing is everywhere and not inside and outside, in fact, it is not as powerful as you think. The competition in the Internet industry is so fierce, those who can fight their way out of the encirclement must have real skills and are not afraid of international giants. ”

"Huh!" Zhang Xu Yao sniffled, "Is this a commercial blow?"

Atletico was so choked by her words that he turned his head to look at the last red glow outside the window, and then turned his head to look at the rising full moon in the eastern sky.

Although experts say that this year is "the 15th of the 15th and the 17th round", everyone is still looking forward to the moon on the 15th night. And God didn't make any trouble this year, the sky was clear and there were only a few clouds, which just constituted a classical picture of colorful clouds chasing the moon.

He stopped talking, but Zhang Xuyao still had a lot to say. turned his head to look at Tang Jiayi, but asked about a certain topic of mixed reform.

In August this year, the rumors of mixed reform that had been brewing for a year were finally officially announced. Interestingly, they claim to embrace change and actively transform the typical operators of the Internet, so they have introduced network companies as new shareholders, and AT has entered the game with lions, and even Du Niang, who has fallen behind in recent years, has also been involved, but the bees have not participated.

Such an anomaly naturally arouses curiosity. However, in the face of questions from the media and netizens, the management of Atletico Madrid and the bees has always been silent. Zhang Xuyao also asked before, and what he got was the same sentence without comment. Now that she thinks about it again, she wants to find a breakthrough from Tang Jiayi's side, after all, two months have passed, and some things should be said.

Tang Jiayi turned her head to look at Atletico Madrid, and said with a smile: "It's not that we don't want to participate, it's that people don't look down on us." ”

"How come?" Zhang Xuyao's face was full of disbelief, "There are three ATMs, the other two have entered, and a bunch of much weaker things have also entered, why can't they look down on it?"

Hearing this, Tang Jiayi directly waved her hand and pushed the question back, "Since you have seen their list of new shareholders, you should know the answer." ”

"Huh?" Zhang Xuyao tilted her head, grabbed the other party's arm with both hands, shook it vigorously and asked, "What do you mean?"

was shaken by her in a hurry, and Tang Jiayi spit out four words: "Listed company." ”

The enterprises participating in the mixed-ownership reform come from a variety of industries and have different scales, but they have one thing in common: they are all listed companies, or affiliated enterprises of listed companies. Although Bee also has a listed company Bee Tour Hong Kong Island, its scale and market value are very small, and its sense of existence is low.

Zhang Xuyao's eyes lit up, "You mean to join forces to stir up the theme?"

"I didn't say it," Mr. Tang shook his head decisively, "The decision-making logic of listed companies is different from that of non-listed companies, and it is normal not to talk about it." ”

The former was still to be asked, but the shuttle car had already driven into the bee garden and stopped in front of the bee center.

This Mid-Autumn Festival party, Bee did not go to great lengths to bring back the out-of-town employees, but held a global linkage network party like the previous opening ceremony of the Bee School, the whole event began at the main venue of Ludao and ended at the Vancouver branch venue, and the whole process will last for more than ten hours.

Of course, the employees of those foreign branches are mainly locals, and their participation in the Mid-Autumn Festival activities is just a surprise, and there is no need for Atletico Madrid's headquarters leaders to stay up late to participate in their activities.

Because of the Mid-Autumn Festival Gala, the bee garden has been closed since noon, and the exterior lights of the major buildings are turned on in the evening, including the one in front of you and the Bee Conference Center not far away, both of which are the main venues for tonight.

Under the canopy of the sky, which has not yet completely darkened, the red, orange, blue, green, pink and purple lights rotate endlessly on the outer hemispherical shell, turning it into a floating six-colored flower, and like a colorful windmill spinning in the wind, bringing a bit of fairy tale color to the bee garden at night.

Looking up for a while, Zhang Xuyao suddenly asked: "It's all balls, why is the Amazon one so expensive? 4 billion US dollars, the entire bee garden building is worth no one!"

In 2012, at the same time as the construction of the Bee Center began, the international e-commerce giant Amazon hired the well-known design company NBBJ to help them design a functionally similar building, consisting of three spherical glass structures of different sizes, and the name is also very straightforward "The Spheres", which is called "Amazon Balls" or "B Balls" (slightly derogatory from local residents because their taverns were demolished).

As a result, the significantly larger bee center, which consists of seven hemispheres, is already in use, but the glass greenhouse in Seattle is still in its final stages.

What is even more staggering is the high cost of a total of $4 billion reported by foreign media, which does not seem to be true no matter how you look at it.

Atletico looked at her for a moment, "Hey, I can't catch up now, but I will be able to catch up in the future." You have to have confidence in the growth of housing prices in our country! Okay, I'll go to the backstage first. ”

After saying this, he walked towards the crowd in front of him who were queuing up to enter, leaving only Zhang Xuyao standing in place and rolling his eyes.

Atletico Madrid wants to perform on stage at night, taking the specially divided "actor channel", but the other two women are just pure melon-eating spectators, and they take the other side of the channel.

Stretching out her hand to grab Zhang Xuyao, who wanted to chase the past theory, Tang Jiayi reminded her: "Don't be misled by those reports, the actual cost of The Spheres can't be as much as $4 billion, and all of Amazon's buildings in Seattle are about the same." You don't want to think about it, Lao Mei has a real estate tax, if it costs so much money to build three glass balls, how much should the entire Seattle headquarters be worth? How much will the annual property tax be? According to Amazon's financial report released in July, the cash flow on their books is only $9.7 billion, and they spend $4 billion to build a glass greenhouse and lay out an artificial rainforest, just because their company name is Amazon? Do you think Bezos is crazy, or is the dollar depreciating?

In fact, although it is not as large as the bee center, The Spheres is much more complex in structure and content, with 400 species and 40,000 plants planted in it, including a large banyan tree called "Rubi", which is almost 50 years old, which is why it took several years to fully build. In order to adapt the owner's old tree to Seattle's long rainy season, the tree was specially moved to a "shady place" for a year before being transported to Seattle and planted in this glass that mimics the rainforest climate.

Designed by well-known firms, worked by well-known horticulturists, sourcing plants everywhere, and high local labor costs, the total investment is not as exaggerated as $4 billion, but it is not a small amount.

After saying this, looking at someone who was speechless, Tang Jiayi glared at her with hatred, and woke up: "Now is the era of self-media, many people sit in the office and casually flip through foreign media reports, and they can concoct a news story with simple changes, but the quality of the report is getting worse and worse, you have to learn to distinguish by yourself." ”

Although the dollar is depreciating, its purchasing power is still guaranteed. In fact, Zhang Xuyao himself didn't believe that he would spend so much money, but after Tang Jiayi's cross-examination at this time, he immediately changed his attitude and accepted the other party's statement.

Pulling this sister to line up, she hurriedly changed the other party's question, "By the way, Sister Yi, is the property tax of the United States very expensive?"

Before flying over the Pacific Ocean to see the solar eclipse, Zhang Xuyao and Shen Xiaoni lived in the Eclipse Hotel under CH Company, so they naturally knew about the situation of Atletico Madrid's North American real estate.

Tang Jiayi summed it up in her heart and said, "Whether it's high or not, it depends on how you look at it." The real estate tax is mainly collected at the county and city levels, and the local government calculates the real estate tax rate of each region for the current year according to the budget deficit of the current year divided by the valuation of the housing in the region. In economically developed areas, the government has sufficient financial resources, and the housing prices are relatively high, and the tax rate is usually less than 1%, while the tax rate is relatively higher in those agricultural states in the central part of the country, and the housing prices are low, generally above 1.5%. Of course, the actual property valuation should be multiplied by the discount factor, and there are various deductions when paying taxes, and the effective tax rate is slightly less. ”

After a silent calculation in his heart, Zhang Xu Yao sighed: "It's less than 1%, it doesn't seem to be high!"

"You can't say that," Tang Jiayi shook her head, "The property tax is linked to the appraisal price, and if the surrounding land price rises, you will also rise, so it is nothing as an investment, and if you live in it, it will be a bit of a headache." What, you're planning to buy a property overseas?"

"No, no," Zhang Xuyao hurriedly shook his head, "I can't even afford a domestic house, how can I have the leisure to buy a foreign one." Anyway, the green pepper apartment is very good, the rent is cheap, and the people living around are colleagues, which is much better than going outside. I'm thinking about working for years now and buying the house I have now. ”

Tang Jiayi glanced at her, "Are you still going to continue to be a teacher?"

"En!" Zhang Xu Yao nodded, "How good it is to be a teacher, no one usually urges you to work overtime, statutory holidays are off as usual, and there are more than two months of winter and summer vacations every year, except for low wages and poor benefits, there are almost no shortcomings." ”

"How can it be as good as you say?" Shaking her head slightly, Tang Jiayi stepped forward and stuck behind the long queue.

Walking through the gradually brightening passageway, the two walked into the Bee Center.

In addition to the not bright lights, there is also a faint sweet fragrance of flowers and fruits and the sound of clattering, the former comes from the flowers and fruits on the tree and the food on the table, but the latter comes from the dice.

Bo cake is a Mid-Autumn Festival custom in southern Fujian, people gather together, throw six dice into a large porcelain bowl in turn, arrange the order according to the final number of points thrown, and take the prizes on the table in turn. In recent years, with the emphasis on traditional folk customs, cakes have become more and more common, and bees hold cakes competitions every year, especially this year.

Teacher Zhang is a fun-loving and noisy person, seeing everyone having such a good time, he couldn't stand anymore, and dragged Tang Jiayi over to join in the fun. Fortunately, the latter does not have much of the chairman's wife, otherwise such a reckless person will definitely be recorded in black accounts and wear small shoes.

Strictly speaking, the seven spherical shells of the bee center are independent of each other, and there are a large number of plants inside that can block the view and absorb sound, so there is no problem in using it as an office, meeting, and leisure place, but it is not suitable for use as a party venue.

However, there is one advantage that other large venues do not have, and that is the transparent membrane spherical shell.

Although the ETFE film inflatable air pillow of the same style as the "Water Cube" is used, the bee center is a "beggar version", and there are no silver plating dots on the film to reduce light, and the light transmittance is much higher. This naturally caused some trouble for summer use, but it also provided convenience for watching the clouds and admiring the moon.

Sitting in the flowers and plants, listening to the sound of water and insects in my ears, and looking up at the bright moon rising in the east, it is a different artistic conception.

In this way, those who look at the scenery look at the scenery, and play the dice and play the dice, until the time quietly goes to eight o'clock, and the party officially begins. Everyone put down the dice in their hands and turned their chairs to look at the stage or the nearby screen. The logistics department hangs a laser projection screen inside each spherical shell, and there is a large-screen TV as a supplement when it is too far away, but there is no need to worry about not being able to see the performance.

The accompaniment music of the opening dance came out from many stereos, and after being reflected by the grass and wood walls, it became a little blurry and chaotic and not refreshing, but fortunately, everyone didn't care about it, and still watched it with relish.

Stained with Tang Jiayi's light, Zhang Xuyao sat in a prime position close to the stage, and could see the performers on the stage clearly when she raised her head slightly. But looking at the girls bouncing on the stage, she couldn't help but pout.

In addition to inviting celebrities to perform on stage, the company also issued a call on the intranet to solicit programs for employees. As a well-known amateur dancer, Zhang Xuyao also signed up for a house dance program, but unfortunately it was brushed off by Tang Jiayi, and it was naturally her legs. Although she felt that everything was normal and could run and jump, her mother and Sister Yi didn't believe it, and they had to let her be honest for a hundred days, so she could only stay in the audience at this time.

The girl idol group who performed the opening dance bowed down, and six employees in bee blue T-shirts took the stage with musical instruments that looked like rock bands. However, the track they played was Atletico Madrid's "masterpiece" "Unboxing and Drawing March", and the original ghost animal video screen was played simultaneously on the big screen behind them, which looked quite joyful.

With a move in her heart, Zhang Xuyao took out her mobile phone and planned to send this scene to her neck.

As soon as I took out my phone, the phone vibrated slightly, and a push news popped up on the screen.

"Huh?" looked down, only to see that it was written "On the night of the full moon, a meteor suddenly landed in Shangri-La, and a meteorite fell event, and the explosive yield was equivalent to 540 tons of TNT" with a picture of a meteor streaked across the sky.

When he clicked on it, this meteorite actually fell just now, Zhang Xuyao suddenly became excited, and handed the mobile phone to Tang Jiayi, "Sister, look! A meteor fell just now!"

Many meteors fall to the ground every year, but only a few can be seen, and there are only a few that fall near a well-known city during a festival like tonight. Fortunately, she is not a "star chaser", otherwise I am afraid that she would have packed her bags and flown over.

(End of chapter)