(.) Li Haifeng estimated, with the current steel price market he made a profit far beyond the previous estimate of 200 million US dollars, after the increase in the more crazy steel market price has reached the receipt of 20 million US dollars, from this price, the total profit is more than 600 million US dollars, excluding warehousing and logistics turnover costs and Zhou Liwen's share, Li Haifeng's net profit is as high as 360 million US dollars.

Even, according to the current market momentum, when 200,000 tons of various types of steel are released, it is likely to obtain higher profits. But Li Haifeng's mind is not hot, shopping malls are like battlefields, he knows this truth very well in the business industry for many years, only the money earned in his hands is the real profit, and the stock market, the book funds will change unpredictably anytime and anywhere.

That's enough for him, and in just two or three months, what business can make so much money? And when Li Haifeng was overjoyed by this speculation, Zhou Liwen and his family had already left Japan and returned to the United States.

After two months of confinement in Japan, the family returned to the United States by private jet after Lin Yaxuan finished her confinement. Although Japan is quite comfortable to live in, after all, it is not my home, and the sale of Zhou Liwen's or6G mobile phone is imminent, so I have to rush back to deal with company affairs anyway, so I discussed it with my family and simply returned together.

returned to the United States in a very low-key manner, and Zhou Liwen devoted himself to intense and tedious work. At present, the construction of Xiangjiang and Ao Island 3 has been basically completed, and the cooperation project between Southeast Province and Unicom is also going very smoothly, coupled with the 3 networks in the United States and Europe, Zhou Liwen feels that the sale of new smartphones is mature. The company held a meeting to discuss it, and after discussion, it was decided to put the listing date on Christmas this year.

At present, Christmas is only a month away, and it is a little nervous in terms of new product release preparations. However, this problem is not difficult for the OR company, although the release time of the new smartphone has just been determined, but the whole plan has started a few months ago, and unlike the last tablet, the OR mobile phone is a mature product brand that has been accepted by consumers, and the preparation for the release is relatively simple.

Basically the same as Zhou Liwen expected, when he returned to the United States to determine the release time of the new product and announced it to the public, fans and users were excited about the news, and they had long been looking forward to the emergence of the new smartphone of OR company. Newspapers and media also reported the news vigorously, and some people were also commenting and predicting on TV whether the company's new mobile phone would be able to repeat the previous miracle and set off another wave in the whole world.

A few months ago, the popularity of tablets was still fresh in people's minds, and now OR has announced another smartphone that is even more powerful, more powerful, more convenient to use and more versatile. When Christmas arrives, will the world recreate the tablet mania it once had? Everyone is waiting to see what happens.

"Now that the outside world is paying attention to your new smartphone, bavc, aren't you worried about what if this product doesn't meet consumer expectations?" At the California horse farm, Zhou Liwen rode a horse and Chambers side by side, and the two horses that had just run fast for a while were panting slightly under their crotches, jogging to adjust their rhythm.

Hearing Chambers ask, Zhou Liwen smiled, at this time the horse had already turned onto the side of the side of the road, Zhou Liwen grabbed the stiff rope and got off the horse, handed the horse to the waiting horse trainer, and then patted the horse's neck affectionately, said hello to the horse, and then walked to the side of the rest.

Waiting for the chair in the rest area to sit down, he opened the water on the table and took a sip, and Chambers sat aside, picked up a towel and wiped the sweat from his face.

"We're partners John, don't you believe in OR plus Cisco's technology? The data of the new smartphone is not confidential to you, and you should know its advantages. Zhou Liwen put down the water bottle and said to Chambers with a smile.

Chambers said happily and nodded slightly: "I don't deny that the functions of this new phone are more powerful than the previous ones, especially the use of 3 technology is more convenient to use, in my opinion it is a very good smartphone." But as you know, the market is sometimes so strange, and a good product may not necessarily be recognized by the market, and that's my concern. ”

Zhou Liwen smiled, shook his head and said: "You are too pessimistic, I don't see it that way, let's see the market reaction after Christmas." How about John, why don't we make a bet, ten dollars? ”

Chambers thought for a moment and shook his head with a smile: "No, no, bavc, I'm not worried, let alone pessimistic, but out of caution." Like you, I'm personally very bullish on this product, so don't try to win my ten dollars this way, because I'm definitely not going to bet on it. ”

After saying that, the two looked at each other and laughed at the same time. The launch of the new mobile phone this time is not only an important plan for Zhou Liwen's OR company, but also pays great attention to Cisco. The key point is the formal use of the 3 network, although Zhou Liwen's smart phone supports 3 networks, but after all, there are some differences with the new 3 mobile phones, you must know that there is no unified standard for the world's 3 networks, whether it is North America or Europe, the operators attach much more importance to the 2 networks than the 3 networks.

That is to say, before Zhou Liwen's smartphone still used 2 and 3 in mobile Internet technology, and basically used 2 to access the network. This time, the new mobile phone fully supports the existing 3 networks in various regions, and has also signed network access agreements with various operators, which is a major improvement in mobile phone network access. In addition, as a high-tech company, Cisco's main product and service business is closely related to 3 networks, and Zhou Liwen's new mobile phone is on the market, which is very good news for Cisco. What's more, Zhou Liwen is currently building three networks in Xiangjiang, Aodao and including Southeast Province through Xiangjiang Telecom, and most of the technologies and equipment are supported by Cisco. This is also the strategy of Zhou Liwen to further cooperate with Chambers in business strategy

No matter how you say it, don't forget that Zhou Liwen is also a shareholder of Cisco. After the listing of the company's shares, Zhou Liwen has sold and reduced some of the shares in his hands in these days, although it is not much compared with the proportion of shares he occupies, but the sale of these shares has made Zhou Liwen's direct wealth skyrocket, and the cash flow in his hands has been billions of dollars.

Theoretically speaking, Zhou Liwen's personal assets have reached the height of the world's richest man, but everyone knows that most of this wealth is virtual. The conversion of stock prices and cash are completely two meanings, and Zhou Liwen, the richest man, is not as good as Bill Gates and others in terms of the amount of funds in hand, so holding or reducing some stocks is also a very normal way of operation in business.

In the past few years, Bill Gates has sold some of his shares every year, and has continued to reduce his shares to make cash. Zhou Liwen has no objection to this, not to mention that the proportion of shares he sells is not large, which does not hinder his control of the company in the slightest, from this point of view, Bill Gates is much more crazy than him.

After taking out cash, Zhou Liwen withdrew some funds to invest in IT companies, and quietly acquired some high-tech companies in the market, such as Cisco, Microsoft, IH and even Apple and other stocks. In addition, he also took out part of the shares and Cisco to further exchange shares, increasing his equity ratio in Cisco, for Zhou Liwen to do this, Cisco and Chambers are very welcome, as long as Zhou Liwen's equity ratio does not affect Cisco's decision-making, it is a win-win good thing for the two sides to further strengthen cooperation.

This is also the main reason why Zhou Liwen proposed that Heung Kong Telecom carry out three business projects in Heung Kong, Ao Island, including Chinese mainland, and asked Cisco for technical and equipment support, and Chambers was very enthusiastic to join immediately. In his opinion, this is not only a very good project, but also a springboard to open up the Chinese market through Heung Kong Telecom. Cisco and OR have joined forces on this project, each with what they need, and Chambers is very pleased with the progress of the project, and he seems to have seen a bright future for Cisco to enter the Chinese market in a big way.

The two chatted a few words about the 3 project, and then talked about the tablet before. Zhou Liwen told Chambers that he will launch an upgraded tablet with 3 support after the new phone goes on sale, that is, around February next year, Chambers was not surprised to hear this news, it seems that he had already guessed Zhou Liwen's move.

"What's Apple's plan? Did I hear that Steve Jobs went fishing with you last week? ”

"You're well-informed, John, and I sometimes think you should go to work at E, maybe you will become a second Hoover." Zhou Liwen laughed and joked, and Chambers laughed at the same time.

"Then I still like my current job, and I like women even more." Chambers winked at Zhou Liwen, knowing that Hoover was a homosexual in history, this remark suddenly made Zhou Liwen laugh.

"Steve Jobs was a brilliant technologist, he had big ideas, and he was a great manager." After taking a sip of water, Zhou Liwen said, his evaluation is quite high, and it is also his heart, Jobs who single-handedly built Apple is Zhou Liwen's idol to some extent, and his contribution to the high-tech industry, especially the IT and computer industries, is even far greater than Microsoft's Bill Gates.

Chambers nodded slightly, acknowledging Zhou Liwen's assessment. Chambers and Jobs were no strangers to each other, and he was well aware of Jobs' abilities and intelligence. It can be said that if it weren't for Steve Jobs' dizziness and decision-making mistakes on Apple computers, perhaps the current IT industry and computer industry would be a completely different situation. This person is a pioneer and a changer, although Chambers mastered Cisco is more powerful than the current Apple, but for Apple, which owns Jobs, no one in the whole world dares to underestimate it.

At first, most of the people thought that Apple would break out a huge lawsuit war for the tablet, but who would have thought that the final result was beyond everyone's expectations, and it was actually a tacit drama between Jobs and Zhou Liwen for a long time.

"We talked well, exchanged a lot of opinions, and an agreement was reached on the upgrade of tablets in the 3 project." Zhou Liwen turned the plastic water bottle in his hand, and said with a smile on the corner of his mouth: "In addition, Apple also intends to enter the smartphone market, or there will be a stronger opponent in the future." ”

Seeing Zhou Liwen's plain appearance, Chambers also admired this young man who was much younger than himself, although he said it lightly, but as long as people who know Apple and Jobs know how powerful Apple is under the leadership of Jobs. If Apple also enters the smartphone market, the impact on the current smartphone boss or company is very large, and it will even be higher than Samsung, which is currently the second largest smartphone company.

But that's it, Zhou Liwen still said this sentence as if he didn't care about himself, which is enough to show Zhou Liwen's inner strength and his confidence in his own products.

In fact, Zhou Liwen was not as determined as Chambers thought, in fact, he felt like a storm when he heard Jobs playfully tell him about this decision. The Apple mobile phone that has been in the limelight in history is finally about to appear, and unlike the original history, due to Zhou Liwen's turmoil, Jobs' Apple mobile phone will start higher and stronger, as for whether it will sweep the world like the original history, and seek defeat alone? Even Zhou Liwen himself couldn't know the answer.

Jobs is not Tsai Mingjie, and Apple is not MediaTek. Zhou Liwen couldn't change Jobs' decision at all, and after a short period of panic, Zhou Liwen quickly calmed himself down. That's right, Apple is indeed powerful, but now its own OR is not bad at all, and even in the field of smartphones, the OR company has occupied the first position in the world, beating the former overlord Nokia to the ground.

In this case, what if Apple enters the smartphone industry? It's just one more opponent. And with the advancement of science and technology and the opening of smartphone chip systems, more and more companies will enter this ranks in the future. For example, in the original history, the later Xiaomi, Hammer or something, these companies are not the same under the premise of Apple's mobile phone as the boss, are they not the same to live very moist?

Thinking of this, Zhou Liwen was also appropriate. If he was able to share the market with Steve Jobs' Apple in the tablet, why couldn't he share the same in the smartphone market? With such a huge market, the situation of one dominance has passed, and the next thing is the situation of a hundred flowers blooming and competing for hegemony. With Apple's joining, ORE himself will not be lonely, not to mention that Zhou Liwen has allowed the OR company to reserve strong technology and resources in recent years, and from this point of view, he has too many advantages over Jobs.

In addition, in addition to the two major businesses of OR company and domestic IT companies, Zhou Liwen also has a good card of Huhai Bank, and the current domestic real estate market can bring huge profits to Zhou Liwen. In addition to these, Zhou Liwen and Li Haifeng's speculation in this cooperation has made him profitable, and he has returned to the United States this time to prepare investment projects for bulk products, which is another important investment point in addition to the industries he currently owns. For this project, Zhou Liwen even proposed cooperation intentions to the board of directors of Wells Fargo as a shareholder of Wells Fargo, intending to borrow the powerful channels of Wells Fargo to carry it out.

Of course, Chambers also knows that the relationship between Cisco and rich countries has always been close, otherwise Chambers would not have acted as a lobbyist for rich countries and matched the two. Today, everyone comes to the racecourse for leisure, on the one hand, to talk about the arrangements for the launch of new smartphones, including the cooperation of the three networks, and the attitude of Jobs' Apple and so on. In addition, Chambers also heard the information about Zhou Liwen's decision to enter the bulk product market and wanted to ask him what he thought.

In this regard, Zhou Liwen did not hide it, and told Chambers about his speculative operation in China's steel market, and when Chambers heard that Zhou Liwen had earned 20 profits with an investment of 260 million US dollars in less than three months, his eyes were about to pop out.

"Don't look at me like that, it's just a special case, this kind of opportunity may only happen once in decades, and it's very risky." Zhou Liwen explained with a smile when he saw his surprised expression.

Chambers nodded and sighed: "It's a pity, otherwise I would have to plug in anyway, 20 profits in three months, where is this business, it's just a money grab."

"Hehe, John, you're the head of Cisco, what? When did you become interested in this kind of speculation? ”

Chambers was amused and laughed, "You're right, this kind of speculation doesn't suit my style, but then again, I'm very interested in the bulk product project you propose, on a personal level." Chambers added at the end, and Zhou Liwen certainly understood what he meant, and nodded with a smile to show understanding

"To be honest, I only scratch the surface of this kind of investment, and everything is still in the pipeline, but one thing I know for sure is that China is developing very fast, and the huge amount of infrastructure has led to a surge in resource demand, which is only confirmed by the success of my speculation. But how to do it, I am still thinking about it, the whole preparation work may take half a year or even more, if you want to join me of course I will not object, but also in this project I need your channels and influence.

Chambers smiled understandingly, "Of course, so let's do it, it's lunch time, I know there's a restaurant that has a very good steak, I invite you to try it?"

Zhou Liwen smiled and agreed to the other party's invitation, and the two got up and went back to the room to change their clothes, and then left together in the car.

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