Chapter 558: Accidents
"Dad, are you finally retiring?" Huang Tairen said.
"Retire, Xiao Ren ......"
"Dad, I'm not a villain, I'm an adult. Huang Tairen corrected. The beautiful wife couldn't help but be happy on the side.
"What kind of villain, I said Xiao Ren, for the sake of your boss, which broken car, you are so busy all day long that you can't even take care of your home?" Huang Gang watched his son eat in a hurry, and his heart ached.
"Dad, is this a broken car? Do you know how much it is worth, to say the least, it will cost more than five million!"
At this time, Rolls-Royce had not been acquired by BMW, and the purchase of Rolls-Royce had to investigate its identity, and the color was also strictly regulated, dark blue and black were only given to members of the royal family, and even Li Mo could not buy them. The second is yellow, and the car of business people can only be bought in white.
The colors are like this, not to mention the style, Li Mo's two cars are yellow and silver thorns, and their design style is three words, old gentleman, introverted, retro, and extremely conservative.
There is no domestic hotel for the time being, until next year Kyoto Wang Feng Hotel bought two cars to pick up foreign guests, because of its high price, caused a lot of sensation in Kyoto.
But I don't know the price, it really doesn't look too bright.
In fact, after it was acquired by BMW, it successively launched more fashionable and even glamorous series such as Phantom, Phantom, and Mulsanne, before it became a bestseller.
"This broken car is worth more than five million? Could it be that this car is made of gold?" Lao Huang was stunned, Huang Tairen's wife was also scared stupid, daring Huang Tairen never said to his wife, it was his wife who complained, Lao Huang said that the car was broken, and he wanted his son to work hard, at least he had to send a car.
It turned out that it was not a broken car, but why was it worth more than 5 million? Lao Huang really couldn't figure it out.
"Dad, this is called a brand, a few days ago, Yili sold two dresses for $200,000 each, and a car is more than 5 million yuan?" Huang Tairen said proudly.
Again, for a reason.
American dramas are generally filmed season by season, strictly or even episode by episode, if the ratings are not high, they will be cut for you immediately.
China, on the contrary, shoots it first and then sells it to TV stations.
It's hard to say which of the two has a better effect, like American dramas, although there will be no thunder dramas and bad dramas, even if there are, one or two episodes will be cut, where will it pollute the audience's sight? But because of too much attention to the audience's response, the screenwriter will make changes before each start of filming, change and change, and finally even change himself into the pit, and it is difficult to appear real high-quality products, watching one episode alone is many times stronger than domestic TV series, and some are often equivalent to the level of movies, but the overall coherence is generally poor. At least in terms of production costs, it is definitely more cost-effective in China.
The two TV stations took away the script, and Li Mo didn't care, but the two TV stations attached great importance to it, and they didn't shoot one episode at a time, but filmed one season first, and Li Mo only wrote an outline, and he had to write a season's script, project approval, and production, so it was delayed until this year. This is from Friends, and as for CBS's "The Lost World," it didn't start theaters until late next month.
Excellent production and excellent creativity have led to the acquisition rate of this TV series rising.
And Murdoch also invested some money in Li Mo's three fund companies for the sake of "friendship", of course, for his wealth, it may not matter, but he actually made a lot of money.
As a token of gratitude, Murdoch asked his wife, Anna, to order two of the most expensive dresses in Yili.
It's really expensive...... However, the cost of this skirt is also not cheap, it is all A5, A6 grade raw silk woven silk, this silk is far more expensive than the price of gold, Yili also sent two design masters, and invited two Suzhou embroidery masters from China to personally design two sets of dresses for Anna.
But in any case, if you sell it, it means that someone has recognized it.
With 200,000 dollar dresses available, is a $100,000 dress still expensive? As more and more customers order them, Bess can gradually become the top luxury brand.
Lao Huang's arithmetic ability is not bad, and now the domestic gold price is only a few dozen yuan per gram, and the international market is 340-370 US dollars per ounce (11-12 US dollars per gram). If two dresses kill no more than a kilogram, then not four hundred dollars per gram? It is almost thirty times more expensive than gold!
Not only him, but many domestic companies also don't understand why they solve the problem of shoes, pull-back shoes, sea soul shirts, snakeskin bags, crossbody bags, these things that are considered very old-fashioned in China, can be sold so expensive in Yili's hands, and they can still be sold, and some people in China buy them...... This confuses the entrepreneurs who have just opened their eyes.
Of course, if you copy it, it is pure death.
Even Bess and Li Mo plan to supplement a certain amount of funds for this brand every year in the past ten years.
Huang Tairen didn't explain much, his father's thinking had been solidified, and it was difficult to adapt to this "new economy, new ideas".
He said: "Dad, the company is selling houses, you quit anyway, I'll buy two houses, you and your mother will come to live in the magic capital for a while when you are free." ”
"You're selling houses?"
"It's not the commercial house you think, it's the housing of your own company's internal employees. This time, Huang Tairen gave a detailed explanation.
I didn't take it down some time ago, but it was designed a long time ago. After the land was taken down, construction began, because the quality was important, the price was not too cheap, many workers hesitated, and many people thought that it was better to spend tens of thousands of yuan to buy a house than to go back to their hometown to build a beautiful small building. But there are also ways to deal with it, when each company signs a contract, it is clearly explained that the house is built for their convenience and family reunion, and the community ...... It's not a neighborhood, it's a new town, with a shopping street, a school, a hospital, and twenty years later, they don't want the house, and the companies are willing to take it back for ten times the price. Now I bought it at a price of 300 yuan per square meter, and after 20 years, if I don't want it, the company will take it back at a price of more than 3,000 square meters...... In 11 years, in the magic capital, even a toilet in the countryside is more than 3,000 square meters.
After the introduction of this regulation, it caused a rush to buy, but it was not as much as you wanted, with Huang Tairen's position, at most you can buy two sets, and ordinary workers are only allowed to buy one set. At the same time, it is also stipulated that after the house is bought, it cannot be resold to anyone for ten years, unless it is fired by the company, and it can be subleased to others.
Although Huang Tairen thinks that his father's thinking can't keep up, Lao Huang still has a vision, and the money is getting worse and worse, and after 20 years, the price of the house will increase tenfold, which is about possible.
Huang Tairen hurriedly ate and went to work.
But he went to Yile.
In the morning, there was another serious water traffic accident at Yile Pier.
At this time, in order to save costs, inland river vessels are mostly on-hook ships (ships propelled by one to five 12 or 15 small diesel engines and drum-hanging rudders), and there is also a kind of wheel tug.
Some ships can carry twenty or thirty ships behind them.
In fact, this kind of wheel towing is very dangerous, the straight river is a little better, if the river is not wide, and there are many bends, it is easy to have an accident.
In the morning, a ship towed more than a dozen fully loaded cargo ships from the upstream with the help of the low tide, but because of the negligence of the workers, at the turn of the upstream, a cable did not know whether it was broken or loosened, and all six or seven cargo ships behind it suddenly "derailed", and the cargo ship towed by the ship was a hull without any power equipment.
Now it is the end of the fifth month of the lunar calendar, the tide is big, and it happens to be the place of the turn, for a time people shout horses, Yile Wharf is still a long distance from this bend, but the tide is fast, the ship continues to fly downstream, and due to the inertia brought by the bend, several fully loaded cargo ships crashed into an ocean freighter that was unloading.
The steel plate of the ocean freighter is very thick, but it can't withstand such an impact, and it was knocked out of a big black hole all of a sudden, and the water poured into it vigorously, which has been parked on the wharf, and the problem is not big, the wharf sent people to rush to hang the goods up, and sent people to plug the holes. However, the damage is immeasurable. Two cargo ships also sank, and three people were missing...... And in this way, the two cargo ships sank here, and the entire wharf did not dare to moor the ships, and those who came to unload had to anchor in the Huangpu River, and the loaded ships also stopped, and did not dare to sail out, so as not to "run aground", and had to send people to salvage them immediately. Not only the goods in and out, but also the construction materials needed for large-scale construction, as well as disaster relief materials, are stopped together, how much delay is this?
Zhou Guoqing stood by the dock and scolded his mother vigorously.
Huang Tairen squeezed in and said: "Zhou Guoqing, stop scolding, quickly send someone to salvage the sunken ship first, otherwise the loss will be even greater." ”
It's not the loss of the wharf stopping, the wharf stops, and many goods have to be transferred to other small wharves, loaded onto small boats, and then transported to Wusongkou wharf, just the transportation cost, which will skyrocket these days.
But Huang Tairen asked in surprise: "Dong Li, why did you come back?"
"The banks forced me back. Li Mo said helplessly.
The news of his illness gradually spread.
First, the CEOs of various companies called to inquire, and then friends called to inquire, and even called above to ask about the situation.
The rumors are getting louder and louder, and some American media have reported on it.
As various banks also called him and expressed their dissatisfaction.
Li Mo is a billionaire and a billionaire.
The amount of money he borrowed was so large that he owed a large amount of loans to almost all the major banks in the world. However, he has not encountered too many difficulties in taking out loans. Banks are like that, whether it is domestic or foreign, the more you can make money, the easier it is to borrow, the less you will make money, the more difficult it is to borrow.
Li Mo does not reject loans, first, he does need a lot of money, second, there is value for investment, the more loans he has, the more cost-effective it is for him, and third, loans are also a kind of protection. If he can owe $40 or 50 billion in loans to major US banks, even if Truman comes to power, there is nothing he can do with Li Mo. Because they want to move Li Mo, the major banks will fight hard with Truman.
This good loan is mainly to see that Li Mo can make money.
However, Li Mo did this, which made the banks feel uneasy.
In ancient times, there were generally great epidemics, and in modern times, there are also dangers, for example, in the current disaster areas, there are not many dead bodies, dead people, dead poultry and livestock, drowned wild animals in that water, and they are not on the river, the water flow is slow, the weather is hot, there are dead bodies everywhere, there are bacteria and germs everywhere, and mosquitoes are flying all over the sky, in case Li Mo is in danger, their huge loans are in danger of not being recovered.
As a huge rich, you have to behave, just like some leaders in China, holding a sickle in their hands, on the rice, the leader personally did farm work, but it was a posing photo, after the shooting, each went back to his own home, each looking for his own mother, don't take it seriously.
Nor can we take it seriously, how many things does a qualified leader have to deal with in a day? Let him cut rice, will he cut half a field a day, or can he cut one part of the field?
Just like the ancient emperor held the plow handle during the sacrificial ceremony, I, as the emperor, all care about agricultural production, don't you still care? The same reason, so Li Mo said to Paul that day, you can't regard surface work as useless, as long as the mind is there, surface work also has some positive significance.
The matter is getting bigger and bigger, Li Mo makes these phone calls annoying, and many leaders of Su Province have come to see him every day for the past few days, he can't stay in the hospital anymore, only three days, the cold has not cleared up, so he ran back to the magic capital.
Who knew that just two days after returning to Moji, this incident happened.
Li Mo looked ahead.
Although these cargo ships do not have power equipment, they also have wheelhouses, steering wheels and rudders.
Each cargo ship must be equipped with three to four staff, the main responsibility is to take care of the cargo, cables, to prevent collision with other ships, especially when turning, must cooperate with the wheel tow to operate the steering wheel, otherwise this long snake formation will be thrown up, and I don't know how many ships will be encountered.
However, because of various irregularities, it is often not three or four staff members, but three or four lazy people, and what is worse is that now the technology is backward, and water law enforcement has always been a semi-blind spot. The situation of the wheel tow is even worse, because there are many people, it doesn't matter if they hit other people's boats, if other ships hit them, especially the wheel tow from the north, one, two, three, dozens of big men jumped up, first punched and kicked, and then extorted after the fight, and lost all kinds of money. If they encounter unreasonable people, it is obvious that they have hit someone else's boat, and they will jump into someone else's boat and forcibly extort them, and they will be able to kill people and set fire to them.
That's why we have today's accident.
For example, right now.
The ship in front had been caught up by the harbor supervisor and detained at a pier downstream.
Four more ships cut the cable in time, did not sink and were moored in the empty berths below the pier.
There were women crying on the boat, and several big men jumping.
As for this sad ocean-going ship is an American steamer, a few foreigners want to cry without tears, but they are baffled by these big men, so can it still be reasonable?
In fact, China already has a relatively complete law, but ......
Watching these big men jumping around, Li Mo was speechless, no matter how he jumped, this time Yile would not lie down, jumping into the sky would not work, the key to this tragedy happened, it seems that these people have not learned a lesson.