On December 28, Zhou You and his family arrived at the Keppel Shipyard in Tuas. www.biquge.info In the dock here, another cruising yacht is about to be launched.

Launching is not the same as completion, and according to the manufacturing plan, the yacht is currently only two-thirds complete. The hull has been completed, but the ship is still an empty steel structure, and every room needs to be carefully decorated. If you want to get your hands on it, you need to wait at least half a year.

Also, the yacht will not be decorated in Singapore, as Keppel Shipyard has no experience in this area. After the sea trials, the Keppel shipyard will sail to Italy in Europe, where the famous Italian yacht company Faraday will complete the final decorations.

Zhou You never wanted to build the world's largest private yacht, nor did he want to compete for the title of the most luxurious yacht, but from the moment the first keel was laid, the yacht still received a lot of media attention.

Compared to the Ranger, the length of this yacht has only increased by less than ten meters, only one hundred and eight meters, but the width has increased to twenty meters. In order to save fuel and increase power, the yacht is equipped with three 12,000 horsepower diesel engines, and there are also three gas turbines, so although the tonnage of this yacht has increased by nearly 2,000 tons compared to the Ranger, if it is at full power, it will run faster than the Ranger, reaching more than 35 nautical miles.

The yacht is also equipped with a swimming pool, helipad, tennis courts, a ballroom, a private cinema and even a children's playground.

But this yacht is different from ordinary yachts, there is also a 200-ton crane on board, and this crane is also designed in the shape of an amusement park pendulum, with a transparent glass cabin that can be hoisted up to 25 meters above the sea. And the main keel of the crane is not straight up and down, but a triangular slipway, which can slide directly into the swimming pool of the ship on one side and into the sea on the other.

At the same time, for security, the yacht is equipped with an intruder reconnaissance system, as well as a German-made missile defense system. Its most striking piece of equipment is the paparazzi's laser shield, which is made up of white semi-circular objects scattered across the hull of the boat and constantly sends out strafing waves around it. Once it detects the presence of a CCD image sensor (an important component of photographic equipment), it will immediately emit a beam of bright light directly at the camera, thus blocking its ability to shoot.

In addition to the two supply speedboats, under the eighth deck, which is the lowest level of the yacht, a 200-ton small submarine made in Singapore is also designed in the belly, which can accommodate at least a dozen people to leave the yacht by the submarine in case of danger.

However, because the yacht is now going to Italy for renovation after sea trials, much of the weaponry has not yet been installed.

In order to snatch the naming rights of the yacht, several women racked their brains to give the yacht a nice name. However, even for the sake of family harmony, Zhou You will not choose the names they give them. In his heart, he had decided to wait until the yacht was built, and named the new yacht the Ranger, and the original Ranger was renamed the Exploration.

Several of the women were very fond of the new yacht, as it would be much more fun than the Ranger, and it would also serve as a place for them to entertain their friends at sea.

Although it carries some functions as a salvage ship, this ship is a real yacht, not just a tool ship like the Ranger.

"Boss, today's affairs are over, and I don't have too many urgent arrangements here, so I want to ask you for a period of vacation."

Zhou You looked at Sanchez, who was a little shy, and smiled: "Are you going to arrange your own wedding?" I'll give you a month and a half off and come back to work in mid-February. If my business goes well in late January, I will also be in Spain for your wedding. ”

He nodded and said, "Although I will go back to Spain during this time, I will still help my boss organize work reports on the Internet every day." ”

Zhou You knows his concerns, and being an assistant for himself is an easy and glorious job. Although there are many seemingly trivial matters, as long as you master the rhythm and focus of the work, there is a team of more than 30 secretaries responsible for all aspects of business, so the work is still very easy.

Now that he is leaving, if Zhou You uses someone else, then even if he does not lose this job now, it will have a great impact on his status. Especially when the company's headquarters is gradually improving and everyone has their own positioning, he has been away for too long, and there is indeed this risk.

Zhou You smiled and said: "Don't worry, you have been working by my side for several years, I have been used to you, at least in the short term, I have no intention of changing assistants."

Sanchez is just 30 years old this year, and Zhou You is ready to spend a few more years by his side, and then arrange a more stable position for him, so that he can also have time to take care of his family, at that time, maybe only the general manager of a certain company is suitable for him.

Sanchez left Singapore and traveled around to attend a series of New Year's receptions held by the Singapore government, but other than that, he became more and more secluded.

This is because the influence of Time magazine's cover character has already been emanated, and in 2004, the glory of this person of the year was still very great.

In the original world, because there were not too many people with advantages in this year's Man of the Year competition, the final selection was American GIs in the war. But in this time and space, Zhou You became the Man of the Year with his dominant investment plan in Colombia, the groundbreaking Tmall Mall business plan.

Zhou You is also the fifth Chinese to become a man of the hour, and the only Chinese American to influence the world with business. Before him, Mr. and Mrs. Jiang who resisted Japan in 37 years, became the chief designer of the people of the year twice in 78 and 85, and He Dayi, a Chinese doctor who discovered the treatment of HIV in 96.

Therefore, Zhou You became the Person of the Year, and the pride and pride brought to the whole Chinese people was also unparalleled, countless reporters wanted to interview Zhou You, but he was refused, and during this time, he has been negotiating with Temasek how to expand Tmall's sales model to Southeast Asia.

Copying Tmall abroad is not a simple copy that can be successful, because it involves the export of many goods, as well as the resistance of local protectionism.

To give a very simple example, very good brand home appliances sold in China will have different import quotas in different countries, and the tax ratio in each country is also different. In addition, there is still a part of the export tax rebate in China, which makes the domestic white electricity very competitive in price, if these goods can be sold casually in Southeast Asian countries, it will affect the production of household appliances in their own countries.

Therefore, all products throughout Tmall will go through such an audit, and the pricing will also vary, and more importantly, the purchase in various countries will be rearranged to buy local products for sale.

Liu Qidong heard Zhou You's arrangement and complained again and again, Tmall has not yet gained a firm foothold in China, so he is in a hurry to go out, this pace is a little too fast, and in his hands, there is no extra manpower at all.

Zhou You also felt that he was a little too anxious, because in his opinion, the current Tmall is not stable, and more importantly, the equity allocation is not reasonable.

If Tmall absorbs retailers such as Carrefour, Walmart and Metro as minority shareholders, they have rich experience in the retail industry and a global sourcing network, which will be fundamentally helpful to Tmall's development.

However, Tmall has not yet developed, and there is no shortage of money at this time, so if they are easily made to become their own antiques, it will also have a significant impact on the development of Tmall.

So, that's a big contradiction. Until a suitable balance is sought, any shareholder should be cautious.

After an online meeting with Temasek and CICC shareholders, Zhou You finally decided to wait for a year of Tmall's development and stabilize in the mainland before expanding abroad.

Anyway, in the original history, neither Amazon nor Ali had the ability to achieve global sales, and he was not afraid of competition at all. With these shareholders, when the time comes, we will introduce a few shareholders with greater regional influence, no matter which company's competition, you will not be afraid.

However, before that, the promotion of Alipay can already be launched.

Before the Chinese New Year, Xiao Ma ended his trip to the United States and first came to Singapore. On the whole, the trip to the United States was relatively successful, but many differences between them have still not been resolved.

First of all, the spin-off of Tencent's core business, Alipay project, video website project, Xiaoma and Zhou You will definitely not be included in the listed business. Because these are all promising projects for future development, packaging and listing now is equivalent to exchanging watermelons for sesame seeds.

After difficult negotiations, this was finally recognized by the American institutions, but they were also very interested in these projects and hoped to participate, which Xiao Ma and his followers refused, and only agreed to sign an endorsement with the other party, and when it came to the IPO before the listing, they had the right of first refusal.

At present, the main contradiction is concentrated in the subscribed share capital of Tencent's IPO, the listed share capital, and the agency fees of various institutions.

At this point, Zhou You and Brother Xiao Ma insisted that even if they used the highest agency fee, they could not give them too many shares in these institutions. Because no matter how much cash is given directly, it is a number, but Tengxun's share capital, everyone knows that it will rise sharply in the future, and Zhou You and Brother Xiao Ma are unwilling to let these institutions account for too many shares.

This kind of negotiation cannot be successful at the first time, not to mention that Google is now seeking to go public and is preparing to set the listing date in the first half of the year, so there is no rush to travel and prepare to arrange Tencent's listing to the second half of the year.

(To be continued.) )