Chapter 503: The Temptation of the Castle

Although Xiangjiang has become an international metropolis, it is still difficult for some strong people to quickly collect complete information about Dikoma Castle. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Therefore, after learning that the castle has a long history, is located in the Bordeaux region of France, and also has a red wine named after the castle, Fu Zhengyi became interested and called Guo Jianmin in London to ask him to help collect more information.

What surprised Fu Zhengyi was that this guy turned out to be a senior wine lover, and even told the situation like a few treasures.

The Château du Comar belonged to the Count of Saluces in the early days, which was one of the largest castles in France during the period from Louis XVI to Napoleon III, and most of the red wines that can be named after the castle are the star products of the Bordeaux wine region, and the most important thing is that the 400-year-old château is still managed by the descendants of the Count of Saluces, and it is a second-class château according to the level of the winery.

Guo Jianmin also knew that Dikoma Castle had long suffered from high repair costs, so since more than ten years ago, the descendants of the Count of Saluces have opened the castle to the public on a limited basis to obtain a certain amount of rental and ticket income.

The difference between a first-class winery and a second-class winery, Fu Zhengyi knows a little, that represents the degree of market recognition, as well as the price of each bottle of red wine.

Built during the Napoleonic period, the Château di Coma has a deep historical and cultural heritage, and has been in charge of the descendants of the Count of Saluces for hundreds of years.

As soon as he thought of the castle full of historical vicissitudes in the propaganda color page, Fu Zhengyi felt that the house he built in Hanzhou was simply rubbish.

With its grape plantations and a long history of producing red wine named after the castle, the Château de Decoma successfully aroused Fu Zhengyi's interest, so he asked Guo Jianmin to collect as much relevant information as possible.

"Boss, French wineries are generally reluctant to sell to foreigners. In 1963, the Sigan family sold 75% of Château La Tour to two British companies, causing a national uproar in France as a traitor. Although Château Latour has been bought back by the Pinault family of Printemps after 30 years, the Château has always been the pride of the French and cannot be touched......"

The speaker is unintentional, but the listener is intentional.

Guo Jianmin's original intention was just to euphemistically express that French wineries are difficult to be acquired by foreigners, but Fu Zhengyi was more concerned about Château Latour and the Pinault family, and after carefully inquiring about the history of the Pinault family and Château Latour, he became more and more interested in French wineries. "How much does it currently cost to buy a winery like Latour in France?"

"Top wineries? Oh my God! Top wineries are not for sale, and as long as the owners of the eight major wineries leak the slightest news that they want to sell, their wineries will be crowded with French people with checks! And the low-end wineries are only a few million dollars cheaper than tens of millions of French francs according to the difference in planting area and vintage wine stock......

Fu Zhengyi was a little surprised. "What a difference?"

"Hmm. In the case of Château Latour, a top winery, the Pinault family paid for about 700 million French francs, which is equivalent to about 600 million US dollars......"

"So cheap?"

Fu Zhengyi's surprise made Guo Jianmin, who was standing by the office window holding the phone, unstable at his feet, and said in his heart that only the rich would think that hundreds of millions of dollars were cheap, right?

The futile silence on the other end of the phone made Fu Zhengyi think that there was a problem with the phone line, and after feeding him twice, Guo Jianmin, who reacted, hurriedly spoke up. "Boss, the value of wineries in Bordeaux, France varies greatly, some of the castles in the winery can only live, but can not change any structure, even the installation of air conditioning needs to submit documents for strict verification and research, and the cost of repair and maintenance is a lot of money, some castles in the UK only need to pay one pound to become their owner, but in fact, do not invest millions, tens of millions of pounds for repair, those castles are simply dilapidated ......"

Regarding Guo Jianmin's 'buying an ancient castle with one pound', Fu Zhengyi believes it.

But the temptation of owning a big winery in France with a historic castle is not ordinary.

Therefore, Fu Justice also explained. "In this case, you arrange for someone to collect information about the winery, such as the valuation of the winery, what kind of procedures are required to buy it, and what price to pay......

"Just the details of Dikoma Castle?"

Remembering that the original leaflet was from Delphina, a blonde girl who worked for McKinsey & Company, Fu Zhengyi said. "Not only the Château di Comar, but also the Bordeaux region is a good winery, you can provide a copy!"

The inexplicable task assignment made Guo Jianmin a little speechless, so he had to arrange the following people to collect information.

After ending the call with Guo Jianmin, Fu Zhengyi remembered that he still had some things to deal with, so he specially asked Ran Ying what other things he still needed to deal with.

"The capital injection of eBay and Amazon requires the establishment of a new offshore company to hold shares and sign the relevant agreements. In addition, you asked me to remind me after arriving in Xiangjiang that I need to go to Pengcheng after watching the return ceremony, and then contact the domestic public security personnel......"

"No! I should contact the public security first, and then go to Pengcheng!"

Fu Zhengyi's correction made Ran Ying quickly open her record book, and when she saw that the original request was indeed as Fu Zhengyi said, she couldn't help blushing and quickly apologized.

Waving his hand to signal her to continue reading the information, Fu Zhengyi returned to the room and first called Kong Weiguo from the Human Resources Department, asking him to recruit a few more experienced assistants for Ran Ying, the gender can be unlimited, but the age should not exceed thirty-five, the place of residence must not be the same, and there can be no intersection between work and life between each other.

Kong Weiguo was about to get off work, and he was stunned when he heard such a request, and he wanted to ask what the reason was, but when the words came to his lips, it still became 'Is it urgent'?

"It's best to recruit one or two to come to work within half a month, and there should be no too much contact between these assistants......"

Kong Weiguo immediately understood. "Then the personnel relationship will be placed into Yuyao Technology and Yuyao Real Estate respectively, in addition to Ran Ying directly leading them, will their management be placed here with me or will it be handed over to Director Ke?"

"You and Mr. Ke work hard to manage separately, the treatment is preferential, but you must sign a strict confidentiality agreement!"

After explaining, he dialed Ke Yayuan's mobile phone.

It's just that she didn't expect that she didn't stay in Yuyao Technology, but was in Pengcheng.

"Boss, your cousin Fu Zhengming is a little troublesome......"

Ke Yayuan's first sentence made Fu Zhengyi taken aback, and asked what the situation was, but Ke Yayuan is not particularly clear at the moment, but she knows the relationship between the boss and Fu Zhengming, so she said. "Boss, the current situation seems to be related to a premeditated loan fraud case, a real estate company forged procedures and borrowed more than 500 million from Pengcheng Bank, the land was taken down, and construction began, but the person in charge of the company fled with all the money on the books before May Day......"

"And what kind of punishment will my cousin receive?"

"I only rushed here at noon yesterday, and what I know so far is that this loan was released by you through your cousin, and it stands to reason that he is the first person responsible, but Pengcheng Bank insiders say that he is actually a scapegoat, and Pengcheng Bank is also conducting a thorough internal investigation, and there is no clear conclusion......

Fu Zhengyi believes that his cousin Fu Zhengming will not collude with the loan fraudster, but since something happens, it will definitely be affected.

"I'm in Xiangjiang, you continue to follow my cousin's affairs! I will go to Pengcheng after July 1st. In addition, you can arrange to set up several offshore companies, and I need one of them as a new umbrella holding company to hold the shares of some companies......"

Ke Yayuan asked. "Still in the British Virgin Islands?"

"How to hide how to come. It is also possible to register in other places that are suitable for setting up an offshore company. ”

"Understood. I will complete the registration as soon as possible!"

ended the call with Ke Yayuan, Fu Zhengyi wanted to call Liu Meijia to understand the connection between the fraudulent loan and the bank manager and the determination of responsibility, but after looking at the time, he saw that it was one o'clock in the morning, so he told Ran Ying to remember to remind himself to call Liu Meijia seven hours later, and then went back to the room and turned on the computer to check the status of Hong Kong stocks and the trend of the foreign exchange market.

Hong Kong stocks are indeed rising.

With barely a correction more than doubling in a few months, and the state-owned enterprise red-chip index rising even more sharply, the entire market is filled with feverish optimism, all waiting for tomorrow's handover ceremony to witness Hong Kong stocks continue to break through all-time highs.

Stock commentators from all walks of life, the lowest prediction of the Hong Kong stock index will reach 20,000 points, and those who have no score and want to attract attention directly shouted the absurd words of seeing 30,000 points this year and 50,000 points next year!

However, this is also a normal phenomenon in the market.

Although Hong Kong stocks have long been internationalized, the actual scale is far from comparable to the New York Stock Exchange in the United States and London in the United Kingdom.

However, there are old high-performing stocks such as Cheung Kong and Hutchison in Hong Kong stocks, but more pitiful penny stocks can also be seen everywhere, which makes the Hong Kong stock market full of opportunities and all kinds of traps.

Clearly know when Hong Kong stocks will peak and when they will bottom, and even at the specific point, Fu Zhengyi clearly remembers that he didn't want to get involved in this market too early due to the limited capacity of Hong Kong stocks, but this time, since Xie Yunpeng has the intention to participate, Fu Zhengyi feels that if Xie Yunpeng chooses the right direction, then he might as well draw some funds to partner with him and make a fortune...... (To be continued.) )