"Shareholders? That's too much trouble, it's not for me and Ballmer to have the final say! What about preferred stock? $100 million of preferred stock! It won't be in circulation for three years. Yes, that's a good idea, come on, let's have a drink, we will be shareholders of the same company in the future, it's worth celebrating! Okay, it's almost time, let's go up, don't look at Casey is a person who never thinks about others, but she is very demanding of others, and if you are a minute late, she will be very dissatisfied. Bill was very satisfied with his idea, he pit Hong Tao for 100 million US dollars in vain, and he was not given the right to vote, he could only pay dividends, this kind of passive investment is painful for anyone, Hong Tao's expression also confirmed his judgment, he was in pain!

"Er, I'm really sad for you, you brought it on yourself!" The expression on Hong Tao's face at the moment was as entangled as if he couldn't pull out, but it wasn't pain, but he was trying to hold back his laughter. He was worried about how he should invest, and now Bill sent him a big piece of meat, $100 million in preferred stock! In addition to having no voting rights, a qiē treatment is better than that of ordinary stock, and he is not allowed to sell it for three years. I want you to vote to be a hairy? Whoever sells before the end of 1999 is a grandson!

In fact, even if Hong Tao is not cheap, he has to pay for this 100 million US dollars. Although it is said that the words of two people talking like chatting in the lounge have no legal effect, Hong Tao has a lot of knowledge of Bill Gates's way of acting, and it can even be said that he is the person who knows Bill Gates in the world at present. Under his leadership, Microsoft has hardly stopped fighting various lawsuits in the next N years. Even broke hands with the U.S. government, but in the end it was not considered a loss. He just said that he would use hundreds of millions of dollars to smash himself to death. It's not funny at all, and it's likely to turn out to be true.

If you look at the big picture. Bill is much smarter and ruthlesser than himself. He was able to agree to inject $150 million into Microsoft's biggest rival at Apple's most difficult time, helping to bring Steve Jobs, who was back in charge of the company, back to life. And his ultimate goal is not because he has a good personal relationship with Jobs, nor is it to compensate for his original behavior of plagiarizing Jobs's ideas, but to deliberately establish a competitor for Microsoft in order to deal with the U.S. government's lawsuit accusing Microsoft of monopoly. Because Apple's operating system is alive, Microsoft is not 100% monopolized in the market, and it is technically how to use lawsuits to drag opponents to death, fatigue, and collapse. Bill should be regarded as Hong Tao's grandfather.

So whether he likes it or not, the preferred shares of this 100 million US dollars are considered to be bought, which is equivalent to protection money, Bill now has the qualifications to be the boss, as long as he says that you need to pay protection money, Hong Tao can only pay it first. You have to pay it if you lose money or not, otherwise you don't want to eat on the boss's territory. Of course, if Bill knew Hong Tao's inner thoughts, and the changes in the next 5 or 6 years. Then he will definitely strangle Hong Tao to death on the table in the lounge!

The Starlight Roof is not on the top floor of the Waldorf Astoria, but on the 27th floor. The hotel occupies a large area, from 49th Street to 50th Street, an entire block of it. It's on the 27th floor, though. Its building suddenly shrunk, as if the 27 floors below were a pedestal, and then a tall building rose from the ground on this pedestal. That's how the tower comes from.

After talking about serious things, Bill became the easy-going science man again. While walking, he also served as a free tour guide for Hong Tao, and fully introduced Hong Tao to the strange things in the Waldorf Astoria Hotel. For example, President Hoover lived in a suite for 30 years. Cole Porter lived upstairs from President Hoover, and a group of literary and artistic people met in the room until late all day, and Hoover had to endure the noise. The strange thing that the president of a country keeps a playwright awake and has to swallow his anger can only happen in a place like the United States.

"It's over, we're both so bad luck today, not only Mr. and Mrs. Richard, but also their baby daughters! Do you know what Paris is holding in his arms? I don't think it's a dog, right?" Bill led Hong Tao into the Starlight Roof, and saw the Hilton family sitting next to the piano in the middle of the room. Don't look at him wearing glasses, his eyes are quite sharp, and at a glance he saw the girl in red, and the small animal in his arms was not a dog.

"It's probably a mink or a ferret, they have sharp teeth, and you'd better be careful with your fingers...... Why don't I go over by myself and say that you have something urgent to go back to Seattle?" Hong Tao looked at this starlight roof, which was actually just a name, and it had nothing to do with starlight. The rectangular room is covered with a milky white and black striped carpet, the curtains on the floor-to-ceiling windows are also of this color, and even the flower baskets are white chrysanthemums. According to the customary aesthetics of the Chinese, the decoration here is one word:!

"No, no, no, it's better in New York, and Seattle also has a Hilton hotel. Hey...... Richard, it's been a long time, the last time we met was last year......" Bill showed Hong Tao his excellence in interpersonal communication at this time, and the smile on his face instantly became gentle and amiable, even if the mink suddenly noticed that the living person was approaching, he stood up vigilantly, and grinned less than half a meter next to him, he could still turn a blind eye.

"This is my new friend, Ait Hong, who needs no details, he is much more famous than we are, and has made headlines more times in a month than I have in my whole life. Come on, you sit next to Paris, you're both young people, you should be able to talk about more topics. Then he did a very fucked thing, and took the opportunity to introduce the two sides to pull Hong Tao to the girl who was holding a mink and staring curiously with big eyes.

Richard Hilton is a beautiful man with a very good look, a resolute chin, a broad forehead, a high nose bridge, and a slight smile is just like the male protagonist in the movie. And he also has a pair of very divine eyes, a little similar to Lada, with a blue-black pupil in the middle of the yellow eyeball, and when he looks at you, you will always involuntarily pay attention to him.

The Parris sisters combine the best of their parents, with melon seed faces, blonde hair, a high waistline body more like their mother, and eyes and nose more like their father. Compared with the pair of rebellious sisters in later generations, they are not so debauched now, but their temperament and personality obviously follow their mother, flamboyant and without eyes, they can't feel the attitude of others towards them at all, and they are very self-conscious.

"Can you show me the tattoo on your back?" was the first formal conversation between Paris and Hong Tao, who wanted to lift his shirt and expose his entire back in front of a crowd of well-dressed guests in a fancy restaurant, and the Richards had no intention of stopping it.

"Not today, because the mink is a natural enemy of rats, so let's see it when you don't have it with you. What's its name, what kind of breed?" Hong Tao definitely can't do this kind of thing that will make headlines tomorrow. If Paris was 20 years old by this time, he wouldn't mind showing his face and winning her favor. It's a pity that she is only 15 years old, she just graduated from the 8th grade, and no matter how good-looking a girl in high school is, she can't arouse Hong Tao's interest, she is too young.

"It's called Ike, can you let us get on that galleon of yours?" Nikki didn't lag behind, making a second request.

"Of course, it stops in Jersey City, ready to welcome you sisters, and, of course, Mr. and Mrs. Richard. Hong Tao couldn't refuse this request, and this request was not too much.

"Call me Casey, Richard's friends call him Ike. We're curious, too, why would you use a big mouse head as a emblem? It's cute, but it's ...... It ...... Mrs. Hilton took her daughter's words, and the question still revolved around Hong Tao's sailboat.

"It's so special......," Richard duly added to his wife's question.

"Everyone knows that I am a Chinese, and there is a custom in my country that will reduce everyone to twelve animals, a bit like constellations. For example, I was born in 1972, and all Chinese born in this year will be given an attribute, that is, a mouse! What year is Paris's birthday?" Hong Tao likes to talk about this kind of problem the most, because it is the most brain-saving and does not need to make it up.

"She's '81 and I'm '83!Which animal should we belong to?" Nikki was softer, less impulsive than Paris, and rushed to help her sister answer the question.

"Oh, in '81, it's a chicken, and in '83, it's a pig......" Hong Tao regretted that the two sisters were not too beautiful animals to let him play superfluously.

"Hahaha...... That's right, Nikki is a pig, and she eats more than I do...... Hahahaha!" As soon as Hong Tao finished speaking, Paris burst into laughter, ignoring the other guests in the restaurant.

"You're an idiot! Look at your laughter, it's like a clucking hen!" Nikki was laughed at by her sister and immediately fought back, and then the sisters started to fight under the table with you hitting me and I kicking you.

"As far as I know, my father also runs several hotels in China, but unfortunately I haven't been there yet, can Mr. Hong tell me about your country?" Richard didn't mind his daughter's upbringing, and he didn't care about the feelings of the other guests in the restaurant, and talked to Hong Tao about China casually.

Many of China's cultures and monuments are very mysterious in the eyes of Westerners, and there is Bill, an unscrupulous businessman, fanning the flames on the side, for fear that Hong Tao will not be able to attract the attention of Richard's family. So Hong Tao became a storyteller, everyone else listened while eating, and asked a small question from time to time, he could only talk like a river, he didn't eat a few mouthfuls of the dishes on the plate, drank a lot of wine, and said that he was too thirst......y!