A rich man who only spends money and does not make money is not a rich man, but a loser.

Link, as the most famous rich generation in the world, is naturally not a loser. He is definitely the most profitable man in the world.

Link's income is so high that the annual statistics will not be counted until the year after the year.

His assets are still largely managed by the team at Hans Investments. Today, Hanse Investments is already in charge of Ames.

As soon as Link's income from last year came out, Ames came to report to Link with the papers.

Hanse Investments is entirely Link's private company. There are no shares in the company, not even employee options, so there is no need to disclose the company's revenue.

It is also the company that Americans most want to know about the specifics.

In order to avoid being snooped on, the summary of Hanse Investment's assets is not allowed to be sent by e-mail.

Ames used to be Link's special assistant and frequented Hannah Castle. He was quite familiar with the place.

By the time he arrived at the castle, Link was already waiting for him in the castle's study.

He was led by his successor into the study.

Link saw him coming, and asked him to sit down.

Ames sat down and took out two slowly stuffed file bags from his briefcase, put them on the table, and said, "Boss, these are all the statistics and summary documents of the assets managed by Hans's company. ”

Link watched as he took the papers out of the portfolio, and they were all papers. He had a headache at the large stack of documents: "Where's the general table?"

Ames handed him the top paper. I also took a backup and opened it and said, "Boss, I'll report to you." Your income and expenses for the last year. ”

Link flipped through the papers, looked at it and nodded, "Let's get started!"

Ames is not an asset to Count Link.

Link's assets have grown faster over the past two years. The stock prices of his companies have risen a lot because of the overall rise in the market and the fact that his company's returns are quite high. Now his assets are more than $800 billion.

However, both Link and Ames knew that there was a lot of moisture in it. There's no big point in calculating those.

So Ames reported Link's income. and not an increase in assets.

"Boss, the highest income in your name is Hank Farm. In last fiscal year, Hank Farms generated more than $16,835,130,000. Crude oil sales accounted for the vast majority, reaching more than $14.9 billion. This was followed by seed cultivation revenues, which accounted for more than $1.21 billion. The rest of the revenue comes from alpaca wool and alpaca calf sales, as well as electricity, biomass natural gas, fresh water, and beef sales. ”

Link found what he said, and the summary was a little more detailed. There's a lot more to analyze.

"Then there's wine, and last year your wine revenue totaled $8.94 billion, down $300 million from last year, mainly due to an increase in the proportion of mid-range wine sales and a decline in low-end wine shipments. ”

Because the Blue Lagoon grapes are all about the same grapes, those winemakers put a little care, and as a result, there are fewer low-grade wines. Although the middle and high-end liquor is more expensive, the market is relatively small, and the proportion of low-grade liquor sales has declined, which is actually the same number of high-end liquor but the number of low-grade liquor sales is less. Then the total sales will naturally be less.

Then there was Strus, where the boss received a $4.9 billion in dividends. ”

"The Benehans Group paid a dividend of $2.9 billion. ”

"The unmanned logistics industry received 2.3 billion dividends, and there are also $1.8 billion in patent fees. ”

"In addition, a total of 1.1 billion dollars was received from the boss's bank. The gold mines in Alaska received 314,000 ounces of gold. "The price of gold changes every day, so it's hard to figure it out.

In the report, there are also earnings from several farms, Westward Group, Fox Foods Group, Sea Ranch, Power Company, Tricolor Grass Restaurant, and so on.

It can be said that in addition to the income of the security company and the Venetian Hotel, Link's other income is included.

In addition, Ames's report also mentions Link's expenses.

The first is investment, and last year Link personally invested $12.6 billion around the world.

Link's biggest net expenditure is, of course, taxes. He avoided taxes in many ways last year, but in the end he still had to pay more than $4 billion in personal income taxes.

In addition, he has invested more than 5 billion yuan in charity.

Of course, he also spent more than $1 billion on family living expenses last year. One of the biggest household expenses was the second payment he had to make for a 23,000-ton supership. The supership cost $1.3 billion, and the second tranche cost $700 million.

After listening to him, Link nodded and said, "I probably understand." I'll send it to you after I've read the documents. He paused and then said. "What was the total amount of special public affairs spending last year?"

He didn't ask about other expenses, but he asked about what they were. That, of course, is very important.

What Link calls "special public affairs expenditures" is a special account under the Hans Fund. This account is mainly set up for those community activities.

U.S. law restricts individuals from funding too much of a politician's political donation. But there is a hidden contribution in the United States. When those politicians want to put on a show, the money is naturally not from them.

For example, a councillor advocates what cares about children to please housewives for the sake of show.

It is always necessary to do something practical, such as sending some sneakers or school supplies to the school.

Another example is to curry favor with the unemployed, and hold free training courses for the unemployed.

Those will have to be funded by companies.

Of course, Link can't just fund the activities of politicians, he also funds all kinds of activities in poor communities across the United States.

The activities he finances are also mainly organized by members of the Democratic Party. Through those community activities, let the Democratic Party gain the favor of more voters in the community.

Link's account was specifically designed to fund those activities.

Last year, the Hans Foundation funded a total of 6,032 social welfare activities. A total of $860 million was spent. ”

Link dared to leave this account completely to the Hans Fund, so he was not afraid that others would get hold of those things. His account only funds activities organized by Democrats, but he does not only fund the election campaigns of politicians. Spending on community activities is higher.

Even if someone tried to catch him in this regard and accused him of violating the rules on political contributions, even if the operation of that account was fully disclosed, no one would be able to find out what was wrong with him.

He nodded, and he now sponsored more than sixty-eight lawmakers and hundreds of politically active people who could run for election. Hundreds of communities are also funded. More than $800 million is a lot. But that money is all charity funds, and it is not spent in vain.

That gave him a pretty good reputation with the American public. At the same time, Charlie, who is his main support, can have a higher status within the Democratic Party.

He asked, "Is there a breakdown of the expenditures?"

"It's still the same as last year, because there are too many forms, we have made a spreadsheet and sent it to you in the mailbox. ”

"I'll look at it when I have time. Link asked again. "In terms of investment planning, what are your plans for this year?"

Ames naturally had a plan. If he didn't have a plan, then Link would give him an annual salary of tens of millions of dollars a year and a bonus of hundreds of millions at the end of the year, would he be embarrassed to take it?

Link asked him to manage Hans Investment because he wanted him to manage Link's assets well, and also to let him use Link's money to the best effect.

So he needs to come up with a new investment or plan for the use of the funds every year, so that Link's idle funds can be used in the near future.

But he couldn't go into detail at this time. Because that kind of plan is a master plan, and there are many contents. They also didn't have time to talk in detail.

Ames pulled out a bound book from the documents and said, "Now we have a plan for this year's investment. ”

Link took it and looked at it, and the document was more than two hundred pages of A4 paper. He flipped through the table of contents again, and there were more than a dozen plans for entries alone. He put the document down first and said, "I'll read it before I make a decision." "Those plans, naturally, are not for everyone. He still needs to think carefully about which one to do.

Ames followed Link as a special assistant for a few years, so he naturally knew Link's style of doing things, and he didn't say anything about it.

He gave a brief explanation of the documents, and it took nearly two hours.

Link sorted the documents according to his habits, and finally said, "You can continue to do the previous investment projects that have achieved the goal." The investment in charity should be maintained to a certain degree. You can't shrink too much, you can't add too much. ”

Ames nodded in understanding and said, "I'll take care of it." ”

While Link and Ames were talking, the Venetian Casino in Las Vegas, thousands of miles away, was still full of lights.

The most in the casino are gamblers and tourists, as well as escort ladies.

In the casino, where the lights are dim, and the smell of music, wine, and the ink of the dollar makes it easier to let go of your inner desires[3]. Successful people who are well-dressed on the outside can also become terrifying here.

In a VIP gambling room, a middle-aged man sits in a corner, while two scantily clad women sit next to him. The man's hands were wrapped around a woman, both palms were empty, one hidden in the skirt of a blonde woman, and the other was prominently displayed in the clothes on the chest of another blonde woman.

Of course, his mouth didn't rest, and he drank occasionally, but more often than not, lingering on the bare skin of the two women.

Douglas saw this clearly on the monitor in the control room. He didn't want to see the man's indecent performance, but the man was somehow an ally of Link.

And those two women are escort girls who live in Las Vegas, a drunken and gold-obsessed city. They are usually active in casinos. Look for gamblers who are making hundreds of dollars or more with their bodies.

The man was a Democratic congressman from the South. This congressman is against the erotic industry, and is even more famous for advocating family morality.

But this gentleman, Mr. Senator, came to the Venetian Hotel three days ago. Today he has won more than a million dollars. However, in the first two days, Mr. Parliamentarian, who had good luck today, was very unlucky. He has lost nearly $1.3 million in the last two days. It's just that this gentleman seems to think that the losing chips were given to him by the Venetian Casino. The points he won today have already been redeemed, and he has no intention of paying the chips he lent before.

In addition, this gentleman is very extravagant in the Venice Hotel. Fooling around the room with more than two women every day. Naturally, the money to find a woman will not fall on the books of the hotel. But in just three days, he has spent more than $100,000 on various items in the hotel.

And this is the third time that the MP has done so since he was elected.

On two previous occasions, the congressman had "won" more than $300,000 from the casino, and had squandered more than $100,000 in the hotel without settling the bill. Douglas also reported those things to Link, and Link told him, "It's okay." ”

But now it seems that this gentleman does not seem to know what it means to stop from time to time.

He walked into his office, took out his mobile phone and dialed a call: "Mike, leave some video for Mr. Johnson in Casino F as a souvenir." Don't let him find out. ”

He hung up and dialed Link again.

Link was talking to Ames when he saw the phone showing Douglas's number and answered, "It's me!"

After listening to what he said on the other end of the phone, his eyes sank, and he said, "I know, I'll call you later." ”

He hung up the phone and said to Ames, "That's it for today." ”

Ames heard him say that and left.

Link waited for him to come out of the study, and then called Douglas back: "What the hell is going on?"

Douglas elaborated on the situation: "Mr. Johnson seems to have used the Venetian Casino as an ATM and, of course, his private hotel. I had someone stay and video him as a souvenir. ”

Link's eyes sank when he heard what he said, and he said, "Let him play first." Let's take a look at his performance. ”

Douglas immediately said, "I see. ”

After Link hung up the phone, a sneer tugged at the corner of his mouth.

The parliamentarians he financed, if they wanted to stay at the Venetian Hotel, he was welcome. It can even be free of charge, and VIP level service is provided. But those parliamentarians are smart people. Even if you go to check in, you won't mess around. They accepted Link's funding, not to make a good impression on Link, or at least not to let Link get caught and threaten them.

But Mr. Johnson seemed to take Link's funding for granted, and took Link for a fool.

If it's just once or twice, Link doesn't matter, greedy people aren't scary. As long as there is desire[2] desire, it is easy to control. But the insatiable desire is not what he wants.

He could even use the resources at his disposal to settle some minor problems for those councillors. For example, Mr. Johnson, who is having a good time at the Venetian Casino, has had people help him out of trouble a few times in the past two years.

But such a person, Link can also see it now.

Once you get your will, you will be rampant!

Again and again he was taken for a fool. Even if he has the other party's handle, this person is probably useless. Sooner or later, something will happen to such a rotten person. It would be a waste of money for him to continue funding.

Douglas is still very efficient.

Just as Link was about to take off for Geneva, his special assistant received a call from Mr. Johnson. Mr. Councillor asks Link to help him solve the scandal that suddenly arises.

It turned out that a website in the east had published a video. In the video, Mr. Parliamentarian, who is known for his seriousness and love for his family, almost takes off the blouse that he thought was a blonde companion girl, and the person buries his head in the girl's chest like a dog.

The personality of this parliamentarian collapsed abruptly, and the whole country was in an uproar.

The special assistant glanced at Link, saw that he closed his eyes and recuperated, and didn't say a word, and immediately understood what Link meant: "I'm sorry, Congressman Johnson." Mr. Hans is resting. I'll tell him when he wakes up that you've called him. ”

Link and the other special assistants hung up the phone with their eyes still closed, saying, "He won't have to answer the phone in the future." ”

"Yes, boss!"