Chapter Eighty-Six: A Bite Back
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Wang Rongchang couldn't stay in Shanghai for a long time, after all, he still had a heavy responsibility, so on August 15, the city held a symposium for him and invited many people.
Since it was a forum, it was not so restrained, and the leaders at the meeting made two polite words, and then everyone walked around, talked to people they knew well, and discussed the current situation and the latest situation in the political and business circles.
"Mr. Fan----" Fan Wuxian was talking to Maximos, discussing where he should go to find the talents he needed after returning to the United States, when he suddenly heard someone calling him, and when he looked back, it was the deputy mayor of the municipal government Wang and the heads of several functional bureaus and offices, and walked over with a smile on his face.
"Good ---- leaders" Fan Wuxian saw this posture and knew that the other party was coming.
The two things that bother Fan Wuxian the most at the moment are, of course, the problems in Shanghai, one is to build a building, and the other is the matter of the city's media group.
As for building a building, Fan Wuxian does not have the patience to invest a lot of money at one time and wait for several years to see the building ready, and when it comes to the media group, Fan Wuxian is not very enthusiastic.
After all, the new Silk Road Entertainment Company he started was an interest in playing tickets at the beginning, and he didn't invest a lot of energy, but now it is gradually becoming a leading boss, and Fan Wuzhi can't bear to see the foundation that Xia Donghai and his family worked so hard to establish be given to the group by the city.
\//\ Although Fan Wuxian took the responsibility on himself and reduced the burden on Xia Donghai.
But if you really want to deal with these bureaucrats, it's still a bit of a headache. As we all know, these officialdom people, the most lacking is cheeky and black-hearted, after the original leader of the Thick Black Sect Li Zongwu summed up the four-character mantra that those who want to achieve great things must be thick-hearted.
There are many people who are late and enlightened who take it as a guideline, and they do their best to obey it, and they want to achieve great things for the sake of the earth. Therefore, Fan Wuxian was a little annoyed with these people.
You're short on time, but they have a lot of time to spend with you! What a hassle!
Sure enough, after Vice Mayor Wang pulled Fan Wuxian to sit down, he mentioned the matter of building a building, but he didn't care about the affairs of the New Silk Road Entertainment Company, after all, no matter how much it was tossed, it was a small fight, although the cultural industry is also known as an industry.
But the output is not large, and it is just a little more reputational.
"Mr. Fan. The municipal government plans to come out to develop a piece of land in the Pudong area, I wonder if you are interested? "Vice Mayor Wang asked more skillfully, and did not get involved in building a building at the beginning.
\\\\\ the problem of the real estate market, Fan Wuxian does not want to be involved, this is a decision made from the beginning, the water is too deep, and once involved in the real estate market, it is impossible to avoid formal and in-depth contact with officialdom, which has too much impact on his image.
People have no windfall and no wealth, and horses have no night grass and no fat. The real estate market is a battlefield for landlords who collude with officials and businessmen to make profits.
This kind of place, Fan Wuzhi is afraid of it. How could you take the initiative to fall into their trap? Even if the return in this is relatively large, it can earn tens of billions or even hundreds of billions of yuan.
It is only a maximum of 10 billion US dollars, Fan Wuxian has worked hard in the financial market, and he can earn it back without much effort, why do you have to do this troubled water?
Therefore, Fan Wuxian immediately replied clearly,
"Within five years, our company will not be able to get involved in real estate development."
Why? Is there no confidence in the city's policies? Vice Mayor Wang is a slick guy, and when he heard this, he immediately asked with a very surprised expression.
\\\\ This man is so bad! As soon as Fan Wuxian heard this, he couldn't help but scold him secretly. Don't have confidence in the city's policies?
Is this kind of hat also casually buttoned up?! If he was an ordinary businessman, or he would be frightened by him, but Fan Wuxian was not an ordinary person, so he would pull out a reason at the moment.
"Our company is a private company, a large part of the shareholders are foreigners, the situation is more complicated, they are still suspicious of the current domestic reform and development policy, deeply suspicious, uncertain, so I make a major decision, but also to convene the board of directors to coordinate, make a feasibility report, the board of directors approved, it can be implemented, this is different from the domestic company, so please also ask for your understanding. The purpose of the company is to work hard for high-tech and important infrastructure in Chinese mainland, as for the real estate market, there is no technical content, this kind of business is not accepted. As soon as Fan Wuxian said this, the faces of the people present were a little embarrassed, and they all ignored one point before, that is, although Fan Wuxian was in China, he was holding an American passport, although his father was a ministerial-level official, but it did not mean that his son had to buy the government's account, and according to the grapevine, it seemed that even when Boss Zhu used Fan Wuxi, he used a consultative tone to ask for his opinion.
Deputy Mayor Wang and others were pampered by the people below, thinking of getting some oil and water from Fan Wuxian and building the tallest building in the country, purely for their own political achievements and face, and did not play much role in the economic development of the entire Shanghai, so when their proposal was categorically rejected by Fan Wuxi, they remembered Fan Wuxi's other identity.
I can't help but feel that I was a little dizzy at the beginning. However, some people don't think so, and a director probably doesn't know the situation, so he said with some dissatisfaction,
"Little comrade, the city has high hopes for you, hoping that you will make some contribution to the economic development of the city, this is the importance of you, why do you refuse without thinking about it? Although your company is now large-scale, it has also developed under the support of national policies. Fan Wuxian glanced at the man, didn't bother to talk to him more, picked up the teacup and took a sip of water.
The others looked at the director with a bit of a foolish expression, and one of them, who had a good relationship with him, pulled him and whispered,
"If you don't know the situation, don't talk nonsense, people are born in the United States, and they have nothing to do with domestic policies, even now, they hold American passports, don't mention the words of any little comrades, if you don't want to call people Mr. Fan, just call Mr. Fan. \\\\”
"Uh----" When the director who spoke just now heard that this was actually such a situation, he immediately blushed a little, it turned out that he had made a mistake in the situation, it seems that even if he looks like a Chinese and speaks Mandarin, he may not be a comrade.
Being so troubled by him, Vice Mayor Wang also felt a little embarrassed, and the atmosphere was a little embarrassing.
When Fan Wuxi saw this, he knew that it was inappropriate, and he offended a large number of people for no reason, so he opened his mouth and pulled it up,
"In fact, there is a compromise solution, but we have just recently ordered more than 4 billion aircraft orders, and there is not much liquidity." More than 400 million aircraft orders?
After hearing this, a director said,
"That's really not a small number, China Eastern Airlines seems to have purchased a plane worth 500 million US dollars, which is more than 400 million yuan, and Mr. Fan's company is very large." A person from China Eastern Airlines next to him happened to be here, and when he heard this, he immediately said,
"Mr. Fan is talking about US dollars, didn't Fan's Investment Group buy two billion US dollars of Airbus aircraft? How did it become four billion dollars again? When the people here heard this, their faces suddenly changed color, what a big stroke!
China Eastern Airlines and Northwest Airlines have only ordered a billion dollars in aircraft! Could it be that he really has so much money?
! Fan Wuxian replied with a smile,
"I ordered an order of two billion US dollars from Airbus, and then Boeing came to the door, which happened to be my old friend, who couldn't save face, and there was indeed a demand, so I ordered a Boeing plane of more than 2 billion US dollars." Then he said to himself,
"In fact, there is no way to do it, the domestic large aircraft project has never been able to stand, and the international routes are indispensable for large aircraft, so I have to order foreigners. Although I am now holding a U.S. passport, I still have a closer relationship with my motherland, otherwise I would not have returned to China for development. ”
"That's the ---- are all Chinese, the bloodline of the descendants of Yan and Huang, ----" As soon as these words came out, everyone naturally echoed with haha, who told people to get American passports now?
If you can come back and invest in development, you are already very conscientious, and you can't expect others to act according to your roadmap.
But in the end, Fan Wuxian still said,
"Although we can't participate in the media group run by the city government due to institutional differences, we can engage in some cooperation."
"Oh, please tell me about it." After all, Fan Wuxian has made it clear that he will not participate in the construction of the building, so if the media group can cooperate, it will also be an achievement for the municipal government, after all, this is the cooperation between foreign enterprises and state-owned enterprises in media and entertainment, which has never been done before.
Fan Wuxian has long had the idea of making the New Silk Road bigger and stronger, but this kind of bigger and stronger cannot be led by the local government, and to engage in media and entertainment, we must have our own position, and we can't be a sound worm, otherwise we can't do real entertainment programs, so we must insist on maintaining the independence of the New Silk Road.
But in addition to this, it is a very challenging undertaking to use the New Silk Road Entertainment Company as a base to influence and assimilate Shanghai's local media and entertainment industry.
Therefore, Fan Wuxian threw out a topic,
"I think the city can try something new, for example, the New Silk Road Entertainment Company will complement some of the high-quality resources by holding shares in the city's media and entertainment groups, which is very beneficial for both of us." After Vice Mayor Wang heard what Fan Wuxian meant, he was almost so angry that he vomited blood, he originally wanted to annex the New Silk Road Entertainment Company, but if he didn't succeed, Fan Wuxian wanted to come over and bite back!