Chapter 104: Refusal to accept the prize
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However, anyone who lays down their arms will be allowed to enter the camp, but these soldiers will be subject to stricter management.
Because of this refugee camp, which has more than 300,000 refugees, the reputation of Zhou You received the most publicity in 2011. In September, Zhou You was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize as a candidate nominated by the European Union.
His nomination immediately caused a global sensation, even surpassing the Libyan war, which was coming to an end. As for the 2011 Peace Prize laureate, which was revealed in October, no one paid attention.
According to the rules of the Nobel Peace Prize, the nominations for Zhou You, which are accepted by the Norwegian Nobel Foundation, will be evaluated by a selection panel in February of the following year and announced in October.
What is certain is that, with the support of European countries, Zhou You has already booked the Peace Prize for the coming year.
On October 20, when Colonel Ka was captured in his hometown of Sirte, the war in Libya officially came to an end. Neither NATO nor Zhou You wanted him to continue to live, so after capturing him, they shot him directly on the battlefield.
And before that, Khamis had already been killed in NATO bombing. Even if Colonel Ka had told the others the news, at this time, no one would have dared to ask him for this batch of gold. So, these forty tons of gold became a traveling private wealth.
More than 140 tons of gold, he now only needs 40 tons, which is enough to be worthy of NATO countries. I just don't know if they will pursue it if they seized the bank's vault and found that a small half of the gold was missing.
Already in May, Zhou You shipped the gold to Singapore and put it in his warehouse on Blarney Island. When the rumor passes, it will be deposited in the bank's vault, and whoever wants this batch of gold now will not admit it.
Even though he is now rich and rivals the country, these forty tons of gold can also be used as a legacy for his descendants. He doesn't have the "noble" sentiment of the European and American gentlemen, and he donated all his wealth.
What's more, Singapore has abolished the inheritance tax, and he is not worried at all that half of his wealth will be taxed by the government when it passes into the hands of his children and grandchildren.
The civil war in Libya has ended, and this time, there was no war led by the United States, and it was completely completed in just nine months. However, the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan is still mired in a quagmire, and even Iraq is now unstable.
This time, France, Britain and they are in the limelight.
Now that the war is over, although Libya is not yet safe, it is time to reward merit and deeds, or to divide up the benefits.
Although the traveling military service company has not been directly involved in the war, it has protected many oil facilities and, more importantly, saved the lives of hundreds of thousands of Libyans. Therefore, no matter what aspect it is, there is a position in the seat of dividing interests.
What's more, European countries still expect him to continue to escort European and American companies in Libya, and of course they will not cross the river and tear down bridges.
After a noisy November, by December, the decisions were finally made. Zhou You not only won a large order for reconstruction in Libya, but also signed a transfer agreement with the new Libyan government for two oil fields and two oil refineries.
Over a three-year period, Zhou You will invest no less than $2 billion in Libya for post-disaster reconstruction, as well as $3.4 billion in transfer funds for the two oil fields and two refineries.
Of the two oilfields, the smaller one has proven reserves of more than 400 million tons, while the large Jelf oilfield has reserves of more than 1 billion tons.
Although the scale of the two refineries is not very large, Zhou You also obtained the right to operate the port of Brega, which means that Zhou You has mastered a complete set of oil assets from upstream to downstream.
In fact, Zhou You didn't pay a penny, because these two oil fields were directly subcontracted by Zhou You to the oil companies in the mainland, and all the funds were provided by them. Traveling around is equivalent to getting half ownership of two world-class oil fields without spending a penny.
Of course, the oil companies on the mainland do not suffer a loss, because in reality, the value of these two oil fields is much higher than the price they offered.
The Libyan side did not suffer either, because although the oil fields were handed over to foreign companies, they received sufficient funds and funds for reconstruction provided by Zhou You. What's more, the agreement Zhou You signed with them is to distribute the ownership of the oil according to the distribution ratio of 5 to 5, and the two oil fields will provide the government with a steady stream of funds in the future.
The gold of the Libyan treasury was secretly divided among the European countries, of which the United States did not contribute much, but it received more benefits. The family shared about half of the gold, which was paid for by European countries to get their support at the United Nations.
For the sake of Libya, Oguanhai has been criticized from all sides in the country, and if he doesn't get some benefits, he will jump even more.
The European countries are not at a loss, although they have less gold, but now the reconstruction of Libya, including most of the gold mines and oil in Libya, has fallen into their hands. More importantly, Libya is now almost in their hands, and they don't have to worry about Libya anymore.
After traveling in Africa for more than half a year, I was finally able to find time to reap the dividends in the United States. Two years ago, he invested a huge amount of 100 billion dollars to save the American economy, and now, it is time to pay off.
In the past two years, the U.S. economy has risen steadily, and the investment in the U.S. economy has also gained tremendous value. These investments have given the trip a good return. But the Americans still have no opinion at all, and are willing to pay these dividends to Zhou You, after all, Zhou You can be regarded as helping them a lot.
In April 2012, the Forbes list was released again, and for the first time, the richest people in the mainland became losers on the list, with 40 people falling off the list. However, the assets of Brother Xiaoma and Li Shuai, who are in the top few, have almost doubled.
Zhou You was also excluded from the list for the first time, because after his assets were integrated into private bank management, it was difficult to calculate a specific number of his wealth.
Of course, the more important reason is that many of his companies are not listed at all, and the difference in the calculation method will also cause a huge difference in his wealth statistics.
In the case of his development group in South America, this group not only directly affects the economies of the five South American countries, but now it has also developed into Europe, where tens of thousands of enterprises have 20 percent of the equity, and ordinary people simply do not calculate how much wealth there is.
Therefore, Zhou You's name is at the top of the list, but in terms of his wealth statistics, there are only more than 200 billion US dollars.
In May 2012, another major event attracted the attention of countless people, that is, the listing of Tmall. Since its establishment began in June 2004 and was launched at the end of 2004, Tmall has become a wonderful figure in the history of world business.
No company has ever been able to grow into the world's largest enterprise in eight years, which neither Wal-Mart nor ExxonMobil can match.
According to the conventional development, Tmall was already mature in 2008, but due to the arrival of the financial crisis, Zhou You deliberately delayed Tmall's listing development plan.
He also wants to use a few years to make Tmall a transnational cross-border retailer accepted by all countries in the world, so in the past few years, he has been sparing no effort to promote the internationalization process of Tmall.
In the last IPO before going public, Zhou You did not limit the scope of financing to Wall Street conglomerates, but targeted sovereign funds and sovereign banks in various countries around the world. Because only by bringing in governments from all over the world to become shareholders can the development of Tmall be truly unrestricted.
All of a sudden, governments around the world are in turmoil, and Tmall's shares have been warmly welcomed by countries around the world.
Tmall's annual sales now reach US$600 billion, half of which is contributed by the mainland market. Then, Asian countries contributed 30 percent, the South American market contributed 10 percent, and international direct shopping sales also contributed 10 percent.
As for the European and American markets, because they are all cooperative development, the performance is not directly included in the performance of Tmall. If we add that, we would add at least about $200 billion.
However, the rapid growth of sales through international direct channels can be seen directly by leaders around the world. Since it is difficult to restrict, it has become the consensus of everyone to become a shareholder of Tmall and directly follow the development of Tmall to receive development dividends.
As for Taobao, which developed vigorously in the previous life, it is difficult in this life. First of all, Zhou You controlled the bank's payment, Alipay was controlled by Zhou You in his own hands, and the bank was co-opted to sign an exclusivity agreement.
Secondly, Tmall has become the only online retailer, and Taobao has no ability to compete.
Of course, Taobao is not unable to survive, there are countless small businesses, or because of the cost, choose to open stores in Taobao, but they can only charge management fees, which for the development of Ali Group, it is simply not able to support their expansion like in their previous lives.
Tmall occupies most of the market, and they can only be a supplement to Tmall. The refusal to join Zhou You has created a Taobao's biggest opponent, which is probably the most regrettable thing in Lao Ma's life.
In early May, Tmall's IPO was held in Beijing, and due to the rather strict threshold, except for a few underwriters who were concerned about Wall Street, the shareholders were sovereign funds and state-controlled investment banks in more than 40 countries.
In order to envelop them, Zhou You set Tmall's share price not high, raising a total of $230 billion, giving up more than half of the equity.
This IPO also set the highest IPO amount in history, and this record, at least in the short term, has no hope of being broken.
Although Zhou You is still the largest private shareholder, the total direct and indirect shareholding is less than 10%.
The original Tengxun's shareholding was less than 10%, and Singapore's Temasek barely held 5%, but when it was listed, the shareholding would not exceed 4%.
At present, the largest shareholder is the mainland's China Investment Corporation, whose shareholding alone has reached 12 percent, and when it goes public, it will be diluted to 10 percent.
They had invested less than $2 billion at the beginning, and they had already earned back their capital in dividends over the years, and now they have 10 percent of the shares with a market value of more than $40 billion.
At the end of June, Tmall's major shareholders took out 10 percent of their shares and went public on Wall Street. The issue price is $20 per share, the total share capital is 30 billion shares, and the issuance of 3 billion shares directly pushes Tmall's market value to $600 billion.
With $600 billion, Tmall has directly become the world's most valuable company, but this is just the beginning.
Because as soon as Tmall was listed, the stock price continued to rise, and in a month, the stock price rose to $28 before it gradually stabilized, making Tmall's market value directly reach nearly $900 billion.
Whether it is Wal-Mart, Mobil, Shell, including Apple, whose stock price is now rising, they are completely incomparable in front of Tmall.
Listing is just a little sweetness for governments around the world, and when they raised money, they were raised according to a market value of $400 billion, but now it has risen to $900 billion, which means that the funds they have invested have more than doubled in two months.
In terms of international direct retail, countries around the world have also liberalized their policies, so that the internationalization process of Tmall has made a qualitative leap.
The popularity of Tmall's listing has gradually stabilized, and most of Tmall's shares have been purchased by some financial institutions.
In October, the Nobel Peace Prize Committee officially announced that the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize would be awarded to Zhou You, which immediately made Zhou You's reputation among the people much better.
Zhou You has now become a legend, but his reputation has not been good, mainly because he has caused a lot of trouble, killed more people, and ordinary people always have some fear of him.
However, this time he was a saint in Africa for a while, saving the lives of hundreds of thousands of civilians, and this kind act is even more dazzling than his previous bad deeds.
Zhou You also responded at the first time and expressed his gratitude to the Nobel Committee. However, he also made a high-profile announcement that he would not accept the award because he disdained to be placed alongside the likes of Tenzin Gyatso and Liu Xiaobo, which was an insult to his personality.
In front of countless journalists, he criticized the Nobel Peace Prize Committee in Oslo for being too involved in politics and interfering in internal affairs, which has become a disgrace to international organizations, and the awards they award have lost their original impartiality and fairness.
This attack immediately caused a sensation around the world, and the Nobel Peace Prize Committee in Oslo was also stunned by the direct blow of Zhou You.
The EU countries also panicked because of Zhou You's move, because of this peace award, but Zhou You wanted it very much at the beginning, who would have thought that he would fight back.