Just after Christmas, Link suddenly got busy again.

Before the New Year, he had two invitations that conflicted over time. One is an invitation to the Washington Bankers' Annual Meeting, and the other is an invitation to the American Wine Industry Annual Meeting. It's all the same night.

After thinking about it, Link decided to turn down the invitation to the bankers' annual meeting.

In the banking industry, it's not like you're great if you're rich. It's what the money in your bank can do. Although he founded the investment bank of Ozette, the bank had little to no business. He went to participate, and it didn't make much sense.

The annual meeting of the American wine industry is more meaningful to him. For this reason, he not only resigned from the bankers' annual meeting, but also could not attend the premiere of the movie "God of Gamblers in Las Vegas".

This year's annual meeting of the American wine industry is scheduled to be held in Las Vegas, and it mainly invites some of the more prominent wineries, winemakers and wine critics in the United States. The main topic of talk is the prospect of American wine. But there is also the meaning of communication within the industry.

Link just socialized inside.

He did not return to Huazhou the next day, and most of the newly drilled wells at Hans's farm were already producing water. The outlook is very optimistic, with the new wells not having much impact on the existing wells. In the morning, he consulted with Las Vegas about the water.

And his business is also going to be summarized at the end of the year. Previously, his business was mainly handed over to two teams.

Martha's management team, which is responsible for his main business. Teresa Snotton's marketing team is now primarily responsible for the marketing and sales of Blue Lagoon wines.

And Link's business is actually quite a lot.

In the afternoon, in the conference room of the Martha's team studio, the main leaders of both teams came. The members of Martha's team were all in Las Vegas, so they all came. Snapton's team was in New York, so she was the only one who came.

Seeing that everyone was together, Link sat down in the middle of the conference table and said, "Okay." Everyone's time is precious. I'm not either. Martha, I would like to know exactly how much I have earned in the past year. "His business started to make a profit, which started in the second half of this year. So Martha's team knows it.

Martha said, "I think Miller can explain the problem. ”

Miller is the accountant on the team, and is indeed the one on the team who knows the income and expenditure of Link's business. She didn't shirk either, she took out the account book directly, opened it and said, "Boss." The income from all your property investments this year comes mainly from wine, crude oil, and the sale of produce from several farms. Plus, there's the recent increase in freshwater sales and the return on investment of a movie. As for your investment in the financial industry, it is not within the scope of my statistics. ”

Link nodded for her to continue.

"According to the report of Teresa's team, as of yesterday, Blue Lagoon wine sales were about $516.49 million, and more than $148 million had been collected. The remainder should be fully recovered by March next year, with gross profits expected to be more than $480 million. The total sales of crude oil amounted to more than 2.47 billion yuan. 763 million collected. The balance will be recovered within three months, resulting in an after-tax profit of about $1.76 billion. It should be noted that the income from crude oil varies from month to month due to changes in oil prices. I will submit the specific report to you for review on the last day of this year. ”

The gross profit from wine sales is only deducted from marketing expenses, and the cost of brewing and sales taxes are not included. The operating cost of crude oil from the blowout well is very small. The biggest expense is taxes.

Link asks, "What are the highest and lowest crude oil prices so far?"

"The price of crude oil was affected by your reason, and the international crude oil price fell to $36.3 per barrel at the lowest point, but because OPEC made the decision to cut production, the price of crude oil quickly rose, and the highest price was $62.9 per barrel in late November. ”

Link nodded and said, "You continue!"

"The total sales of agricultural products other than wine on your three farms are about $33.96 million, and the after-tax profit is about $6.39 million. Hans Farm's profit from the sale of fresh water has not yet been counted. Your investment in "The Red-Necked Knight" has not yet been painted, but so far, it has grossed $160 million and is expected to make a partial profit. But not much. ”

She flipped another page and said: "In addition, the wind turbines in the Hans Farm have already started to be connected to the grid. However, it has not yet entered the settlement cycle, so it is not included in the accounting. As for the spending. ”

She paused for a moment and said with a smile, "As for the spending side." In my books, boss, your expenses this year far exceed your profits. ”

Link has a general idea of last year's spending. The main ones are his investments: the first advance payment for wind power on several farms, the additional investment from Benehans, the investment in the alpaca project, the purchase of new land, two new companies and two films. There are also reserves for the investment bank of Ozette, which does not count the actual expenditures. In addition, there is West Hollywood Media, which completed the signing yesterday. These expenses do add up to more than he makes in these properties.

But there's more to him than just what she said. His investments in the financial markets have also been profitable at more than $2 billion. And he won a huge prize this year, which is also a lot of income.

He asked Miller to report profits, mainly to let them know that they could make a profit, which would give them more confidence to follow him. As for other operating costs that have already generated revenue, he can just look at the statement. However, others also know that his spending last year was mainly investment, so no one will think that he is losing money.

"There's no need to waste time on the spending side," he said with a smile. I would like to know what new ideas you have for next year's work. ”

This is up to Martha, the leader of the team, to report to him. She smiled and said, "Link, your current business, except for wine sales, is already on track, and we have no better advice." The only thing you need to promote and market is the produce from your farms. However, we also noticed that you seem to have an idea. ”

Link nodded and said, "At least for now." ”

"Then we don't have much to suggest for your current business. Because even the farm's agricultural products, you have actually found a stable market. It may not be a good thing for us to change. We mainly have some new ideas for the alpaca project that will actually be up and running next year. In addition, we have some advice on the operation of your charitable fund and the investment bank of Ozette. ”

"You say!"

"In the alpaca project, the key is the breeding of alpacas. We need a lot of alpacas to complete the program to roll out in the United States. If the artificial breeding of alpacas is delayed, the roll-out of the project will not be able to go as planned. We recommend that you set up a dedicated alpaca artificial breeding institute to attract professional scientists who will work on artificial embryo transfer techniques for alpacas. We estimate that the project will cost between $10 and $20 million a year before the study is successful. ”

Link asked, "Didn't we recruit a group of scientists and send them to a breeding ground in Peru to conduct research?"

"Link, that's just the initial research. Unless we intend to leave those techniques in Peru for the end, we don't have enough facilities and equipment to do real artificial embryo transfer research. At most, scientists are there to study how to improve the natural conception and birth rates of alpacas, and to do some technical accumulation for embryo research. True artificial embryo transfer technology requires more specialized equipment and facilities. ”

Link nodded and said, "OK, that's a good suggestion." You can do it early. ”

"Okay. Our plan is to recruit scientists to Peru in batches for research, and then recall them to the U.S. research institute when we have a certain amount of technical reserves. In addition to researching artificial embryo transfers, we also recommend hiring professional biological scientists to research techniques to increase alpaca wool production, including genetically modified technologies. Of course, that will also require additional expenditures. ”

"Anything else?"

"We think it will take at least two years for us to have a large-scale rollout of the alpaca industry in the United States. However, we were able to generate benefits in the first year. Because alpaca wool can be sheared every year. So, we thought we needed to build a textile mill for alpaca. The scale doesn't need to be too big, as long as it can meet our alpaca production needs. ”

Link agreed with her suggestion. Since he is going to start an alpaca industry in the United States, he should think about how to stand on the commanding heights of this industry as soon as possible. Provenance and product processing. As long as he can grasp these two keys, then he can control the industry to a certain extent. Setting up an alpaca processing plant early on would allow his team to gain experience.

"Is there anything else?"

Martha said: "The alpaca project, we only think about so much for the time being. She paused and added. "The two companies you have recently invested in will have independent management teams in the future, and they haven't been put into production yet, so we didn't consider them. However, we found that Ozette Investment Bank does not have professional talents in the financial industry. We recommend that you recruit a professional management team as soon as possible. This is because the business model of banks is different from that of other industries. We are completely unable to give you professional support in this regard. ”

Link nodded and said, "I'll consider your suggestions." ”

The operation of a bank does need to be run by more professional people. The main reason why he, the boss, can do well now is because the bank has no business at all.

"What about charitable foundations?"

"We believe that the low-rent apartment model can be very beneficial to your social reputation. Moreover, the Hans low-rent apartment in Las Vegas, which works well, has also accumulated some experience for us. We recommend that you consider building the same apartment in other cities. Our recommendation is to have three to five of the same low-rent apartments this year in cities with large homeless populations in the east. ”

Link nodded again and said, "Then you can help me choose the right target city." As for the number, set four first, and the scale refers to the Hanse apartment. His philanthropic funds are in the hundreds of millions, and he has no problem keeping five low-rent apartments running. Next year he can donate a few hundred million more. By the way, a little tax is reduced.

As he spoke, he turned to Dill and asked, "Diel, how is your psychological questionnaire system doing?"

"I'm planning to compile 50,000 questions for this system, and there are five areas in total, and each person surveyed needs to randomly select 50 of them for each aspect," Dill said with a smile. I think it will take another half a month at most to complete the size of the 20,000 question bank, and then it will be ready to use. In the future, I will continue to slowly improve the question bank and increase it to 50,000 as soon as possible. ”

Link smiled and said, "Good job! When the system is complete, I'll have a plan for the residents of the low-rent apartments." Your question bank is very important to the sustainability of my project. I want it to objectively analyze the psychology of the person being tested. ”

"I promise it will be done. ”

Link went on to say to Catherine and Morris: "The West Hollywood Media takeover is complete. Catherine, I ask you to be its president. Morris, I would like you to help Katherine in the restructuring process. ”