Chapter Forty-Nine: Two New Assistants

If Zhou You heard this, he would definitely feel that this old boss who had never had a formal meeting was the one who knew him best

。 Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info re-walk the life of more forward-looking for the future than others, like a prophet, can see the future of the road, so travel more smoothly than others.

However, it also made it a lot less fun to travel around, especially after he became the richest man in the world. Now you really feel that life is a little lonely like snow, this is not a pretend, but a real feeling.

Walking a tightrope between major powers, although it is a little dangerous, but the pressure they bring makes Zhou You feel very energetic, otherwise, it is really too boring.

On August 9, Zhou You arrived in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, with Volando Sr., Rhodes, and the former president of Colombia to negotiate further cooperation between the two sides.

On 10 August, Zhou returned to London alone, complimented Sanchez, recognized his role in the acquisition of Santander Bank ABN AMRO and Bank of England, and sent him to Africa to participate in negotiations with the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Now Sanchez has been cultivated, although sometimes the heat of doing things is still a little uncertain, but he can also take charge of himself. Zhou You is going to let him be in charge of the preliminary preparations in the DRC.

He left Zhou You's side, and Zhou You lacked a personal assistant again. Rodriguez was a woman who was in charge of menial procedural matters well, but lacked a pioneering role.

Ma Hongtao also has the disadvantage of not having enough vision of the overall situation, he is very relieved to be a financial officer, but as an assistant, he needs to represent Zhou You to contact leaders of various countries, which is a bit insufficient.

During this time, Sanchez has been staying in London, and many people also know that Zhou You wants to find a new assistant, and many countries have recommended many candidates.

However, Zhou You no longer wants to find an all-round assistant like Sanchez, because the conditions for the assistant are very demanding, and more importantly, Sanchez's loyalty is also unmatched by others. It's really hard to find a good and loyal assistant like Sanchez.

He has decided to split Sanchez's position, with Rodriguez in charge of trivial matters and Ma Hongtao in charge of financial and managerial matters. And the more important agency work will be handled by a few more people.

His first assistant candidate was Kofi Annan, the former secretary general of the United Nations. The African-American UN secretary-general, who retired from the pinnacle of his career just last year, was embroiled in the oil-for-food scandal in Iraq, and while he was not corrupt, his son and nephew had smeared him.

Zhou You, however, took a fancy to his rich experience in handling international relations and wanted him to become the spokesperson for his African affairs. Specialized in investment in Africa, as well as in balancing international relations.

Annan very much agrees with the plan to develop Africa on his travels, and he has been very satisfied with the previous contacts. On 11 August, Zhou You and Annan jointly announced in London that former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan had officially assumed the post of General Adviser for African Affairs of Nanyang Holdings, with full authority to handle all foreign affairs of Nanyang Holdings in Africa.

The news immediately caused an uproar around the world, with the AU, as well as much of Africa, highly applauding Zhou You's decision to choose Annan as an adviser to Africa. It is believed that Annan's rich diplomatic experience can help the development of Nanyang Holdings in Africa.

However, before everyone could recover from this shock, another even more bombshell news completely stunned the world.

On 15 August, former US Secretary of State Kissinger, who is already 84 years old, accepted Zhou You's offer to become his special adviser on North American affairs, an appointment that was even more surprising than Annan's appointment.

Who is Kissinger? He is the most important figure in the diplomatic history of China and the United States, and it can be said that without him, there would be no modern diplomatic history between China and the United States. Although he has never served as president of the United States, his political position in the United States is much more important than that of many presidents.

The vast majority of people in the current US political arena are his juniors, not to mention the current President George W. Bush, even his father George H.W. Bush, when facing Kissinger, he also shouts out to his seniors.

No one thought that the 84-year-old Kissinger would go out of the mountains again and accept the invitation to travel. However, Zhou You knows very well that Kissinger is getting more and more refined as he gets older, and when he was reborn, Kissinger was still active in the world political arena at the age of 94.

For these two advisers, the trip paid a lot of price, and the Elizabeth became Annan's special plane, for which it was also renamed Africa.

Kissinger was also assigned a special plane here, which was the old Barron's special plane, and was temporarily allocated to him. Zhou You also ordered five G650s from Gulfstream at one time, an order of more than $200 million that also made the American media praise Zhou You's behavior.

Of course, there is still a lot of public relations expenses behind this.

The advent of the subprime mortgage crisis has made life difficult for many American companies, and many wealthy people are also selling their houses and planes. Paris gave his grandfather's plane to Kissinger for use, and bought another Boeing 737 private business jet that someone else had canceled the order, and named it Paris.

Of course, in the end, the plane was paid by Zhou You, and for this reason, Zhou You's current Boeing 747 was renamed the Gracia, which made Gracia's little mood dissipate.

With such a high cost, of course, Zhou You will not do a loss-making business. His relationship with the United States is now very tense, and he needs an experienced politician like Kissinger to mediate in the middle. To be honest, the old Volando and Rhodes were originally a little lower, they did not have Kissinger's sophisticated experience and vision, let alone Kissinger's international status.

In the past, their role was very effective, but when Zhou You's social status became higher and higher, they could no longer help Zhou You. It is true that people like Annan and Kissinger need to be on their side to guide them.

On August 20, the Disney Company held a grand opening ceremony in Los Angeles, and the fourth and fifth parts of Pirates of the Caribbean were launched at the same time. This start-up is full of gimmicks, because in the fourth part, although there is no rivalry between Gracia and Paris, this drama will be a play played by Zhou You and his two wives at the same time.

The second part of the prequel has not yet started filming, but the script has already been written. In the second part of the prequel, Gracia's character will die, which triggers a major change in Zhou You's personality.

In the fourth story, Zhou You's nostalgia for Gracia leads to conflicts and misunderstandings between him and Paris, making Paris hesitate between him and the little blacksmith. At this time, the pirate role played by Jessica Alba will appear, and the character played by Captain Jack's old lover Penelope Cruz will appear, which will complicate the relationship between them.

In terms of storyline, the current fourth part is completely different from the original fourth part, the mermaids do not appear at all in the fourth part, and the main contradictions focus on the disagreements within the pirates and the search for the fountain of immortality and the struggle with the British fleet.

But in the fifth part, the mermaids still appeared, and Garma Ward wanted to play one of the mermaids like in his previous life. Although this role was fought for by Zhou You, the relationship between the two of them has been broken. Because she, like in her previous life, fell in love with Heath Ledger.

Hopefully, Heath Ledger won't die next year like in her previous life, otherwise, it will bring her a lifetime of damage. Zhou You actually likes the actor Heath Ledger, he plays the clown, and he is one of the evil characters that Zhou You likes very much.

The actors and crew involved are all big names, but the biggest name is Zhou You, the whole crew was formed according to his time, and Zhou You persuaded Bruckheimer to try to use 3D technology to shoot the film.

Although this is not the first 3D film, it can steal the reputation of Avatar's first 3D film. Because the release date of this film will be in the summer of next year, and Avatar will not be released until the year after that.

To this end, Zhouyou's AMC has accelerated the pace of transformation, and strives to transform more 3D theaters next year, although these investments are expensive, so that Zhouyou's investment has lost a lot this year, but everything is worth it, because this is the general trend, the sooner the transformation, the faster the investment will be recovered.

Seeing that Zhou You really put aside his business and came to participate in the filming of the movie again, many people in the United States were really relieved. They are afraid that Zhou You will disobey the yang and yin and make bad things behind their backs, but now that Zhou You has come to the United States and is still fully engaged in the filming of the movie, it means that Zhou You does not have this idea.

In September, the children went back to school in Singapore. Gracia only made a cameo in this film, and after a few shots, he had already left the United States. Except for a team of secretaries following Zhou You, Zhou You became more and more honest, except for filming movies, he almost didn't ask about the world.

However, the traveling business kingdom did not stop because of this, but took advantage of the subprime mortgage crisis to develop faster and faster.

Among them, the fastest growing ones are Tmall and Tencent. Tmall, which has been established for three years, has gradually stabilized its own business kingdom, and in the course of three years of development, it has cultivated its own management team, and its development is getting faster and faster.

From the mainland to Southeast Asia, Singapore, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, and Indonesia have joined forces to form a Southeast Asian business circle. In this business circle, because of the existence of ASEAN, goods from many countries can be exchanged duty-free, and the labor cost here is not high, so the delivery service is getting faster and faster, and it is developing very rapidly.

Tencent's main business in Southeast Asia is not developing fast, but Alipay's development is very fast, this payment platform has been licensed by most Southeast Asian banks, becoming the fastest growing business in Southeast Asia.

In addition to Southeast Asia, the development of South America is also the same, the five countries in South America, plus the three countries of ABC, a total of eight countries have become another business district of Tmall, and they are also actively promoting the integration of this business district and the mainland business district, because they need cheap small goods in the mainland, and they hope to sell their own country's goods directly to the mainland, the world's largest market, through the Internet.

The development of Tmall has also contributed to the development of Alipay, a South American market that has almost become a tourist in the bag.

In North America and Europe, Tmall's development is not going well, because neither North America nor Europe will allow cheap small goods from the mainland to impact their own business. But there is Walmart in North America and Carrefour in Europe.

In its previous life, Walmart was robbed of the market by Amazon and eBai because it did not pay attention to online services at the beginning. But in this life, they have seen the development of Tmall, and they are also shareholders of Tmall, and they know very well that the profit ratio of picking, which is much higher than their offline profits, so they vigorously develop their own online services.

Both of them have mature logistics networks, and the distribution is very convenient, which also allows them to quickly seize the territory after making efforts online.

In this way, Amazon and Wal-Mart are incomparable, and Carrefour's development in Europe is also unstoppable. Although it is difficult for their business district and Tmall to integrate, because they hold shares with each other, Tmall can be regarded as taking this express train.

At a time when the world is in business, Tmall has become the fastest growing company in the world, which is not even comparable to Apple and Google.

Zhou You first founded Tmall because he was rejected by Lao Ma Ge and founded it in anger. Due to the abundant funds, Zhou You attracted all the domestic brand products at the beginning, which was much smoother than the development of Jingdong in the previous life.

But at the beginning, Zhou You didn't think too much about this company, and at the beginning he thought about relying on this company to go public and make money. Because this company does not have its own special technical advantages, even Alipay did not put it into this company, but set up a cooperative company with Tencent to control Alipay in its own cooperative company with Tencent.

However, when Tmall almost monopolized domestic online sales, the power it showed made Zhou You discover Tmall's biggest advantage, that is, market share and customer monopoly.

Coupled with the fact that he was in prison in the United States, when he did not operate the listing of Tmall, and now he has encountered a subprime mortgage crisis, the listing of Tmall has been delayed.

But now because of a blessing in disguise, investors in the world have seen the power of Tmall in the market monopoly, and this data and customer bonding are more terrifying than Tmall's own sales of more than 100 billion US dollars.

Tmall's shares are becoming more and more popular, and the appraised value is getting higher and higher. Although it has not yet been listed, it has been valued at more than $200 billion.

At this time, no one doubted that the Waltons were doing a loss-making business, but highly praised their accurate vision. Of course, more people envy CICC and Temasek, who were involved in the first place, with one of them giving up $1 billion and the other $1.2 billion, each accounting for 20 percent of the shares, and now they have a market value of $40 billion.

In just over three years, the book profit is 40 billion US dollars, which is a rare investment in the world.

Now, no one envies Zhou You, who has the most shares in one person, because money is just a number for Zhou You.