Shen Lang is planning to fight hard, and he is ready to put all his strength into the 200-meter freestyle and butterfly events, which he is currently best at.

Feng Jingyuan also agreed with this idea, no matter how talented Shen Lang is, he is not yet 16 years old after all, and it is too contemptuous to participate in four events at this level.

After the reception staff sent by the organizers of the event took the Chinese swimming team to the hotel, the four team members stayed in the room honestly, and the others went to contact the organizers and got the next itinerary and schedule, as well as the contact information and the pass to the training location.

I don't know how many people were invited to the competition, but in the end there were more than 600 swimmers who made it to Miami, and more than 30 participants in many events.

On the morning of the second day when the Chinese swimming team arrived in Miami, Shen Lang and three teammates went to the swimming pool designated by the event for acclimatization training.

Feng Jingyuan convened a meeting with everyone in the evening, and by the way, he sent down the schedule and the schedule of the four players.

Shen Lang also got his athlete card and schedule, and Feng Jingyuan only reported him for the 200-meter freestyle and 200-meter butterfly.

The official competition starts on April 8, with the first preliminaries of the 200m freestyle on the same day, and the semi-finals and finals on the 9th and 10th. The preliminaries of the 200m butterfly start on the 9th, and the semi-finals and finals take place on the 10th and 11th.

It's April 6th, and tomorrow there will be an underwater acclimatization session, and the day after tomorrow will be the first round of heats in the 200m freestyle.

If you can swim the top 16 of all players in the preliminaries, you will advance to the semi-finals.

"Half of the masters didn't come this time, but it's not that there is no chance!"

Wu Jie didn't think that Shen Lang had no chance to enter the semi-finals, now that it has been five months since he upgraded his talent, the four-star talent has been cashed in a lot, although swimming into the finals is definitely no fun, but swimming into the semi-finals is not an impossible task.

On the day of the competition, the Chinese swimming team became the most non-existent team, not only did the foreign media not pay attention, but also no one in China paid attention to the fact that there was a Chinese team fighting for the country in Miami.

There were no reporters in China for this event, because no one thought that the Chinese swimming team could achieve any results, and even swimming to the final was a luxury.

That's right, the Chinese swimming team almost wiped out on the first day, except for Shen Lang who swam a 1:51.22 in the 200-meter freestyle that Feng Jingyuan couldn't believe, which was two seconds faster than his best time before coming to the United States.

Obviously, Shen Lang, who went all out, surpassed all the domestic players in this event at the same time.

Unfortunately, this result was not enough to swim to the next round, and he only finished 23rd out of 29 players in the preliminaries.

Shen Lang did use his best this time, but after all, he was only 15 years old, and his physical talent had not yet been fully realized.

However, the result is already impressive, with the Asian 200m freestyle record of 1:49.25 seconds, which is less than two seconds away from the Asian record.

The next day was the preliminaries of the 200-meter butterfly, and this time Shen Lang once again exerted his strength to eat, and the result swam a 1:59.31 second that made Feng Jingyuan's eyes widen.

This time is only 1.5 seconds short of the Asian record of 1:58.84 seconds, and it is completely organic to compete for gold medals at the Asian Championships or Asian Games.

Shen Lang really used all his strength this time, and after swimming, he even felt a burst of detachment!

But tired and tired, Shen Lang immediately looked at his results after finishing the competition.

"It's dangerous, it's just 0.05 seconds away!"

He was the last group in the preliminaries, and after swimming to get the results of the other seven players in this group, he would know if he would advance to the next round.

He was relieved to see him finish fourth in the group, where only 12 men had done better than him in the previous three groups, meaning he reached the semi-finals of the 200m butterfly with a 16th place finish in the heats.

After Feng Jingyuan and the two coaches of the Chinese swimming team got this result, they were as excited as Shen Lang won a medal.

There is no way, the results of the Chinese swimming team are too poor.

After the preliminaries of the first two days, the Chinese swimming team was a "big failure", only Shen Lang barely swam into the semifinals of the 200-meter butterfly among the four players who participated in the competition, and the rest were wiped out, and no one could enter the semifinals.

But Feng Jingyuan still saw a glimmer of hope in the disappointment, don't look at Shen Lang only entered the semifinals with the 16th place in the preliminaries, but he was the youngest one among the semifinalists in various events.

Other countries are not without 15-year-olds, even 14-year-olds.

But a player of the same age who can achieve excellent results like Wu Jie is the only one in China.

The men's butterfly and freestyle competitors also remembered the name "Shen Lang", and if the 15-year-old didn't lie about his age, he would probably be everyone's rival in a year's time.

The fastest period for swimmers to improve is between the ages of 15 and 18, and there is a limit to improvement after that, so the next two years will be a period of rapid progress for Shen Lang, and it is likely to improve a lot every six months.

The Chinese swimming team will also be able to play in Miami for two more days, as Shen Lang reached the semifinals of the 200m butterfly on April 10.

But this time there was no suspense in the result, although Shen Lang swam a time of 1:59.08 seconds, which was a little better than the preliminaries, but unfortunately it was not enough to make him into the top eight, and finally ended the Miami Invitational with a score of 15th.

Shen Lang has no regrets, only he and a Japanese player have two yellow skins in the semifinals, and he at least squeezed the Japanese player to the bottom, in fact, he is already the first active person in the Asian 200m butterfly, because that Japanese is the gold medalist in the 200m butterfly at the last Asian Championships.

If Japan's player hadn't improved before this year's Asian Games, his current result would have been enough to win the title.

Feng Jingyuan is mixed after the excitement, the Chinese swimming team in the next three years, is likely to rely on Shen Lang as a single seedling.

As far as he can swim, the Chinese swimming team can go.

This is actually not a good thing, a genius may be able to win a few gold medals for China, but it will not improve the overall strength.

But it is really too difficult to have a second genius who can compete with European and American players for medals!

Wu Jie didn't know what Feng Jingyuan was thinking, otherwise he would have told him: This is not all your problem, but the problem of insufficient domestic chemical and pharmaceutical levels, don't you see that East Germany with a population of less than 20 million can get the top five results in the medal table in the Olympic Games.

But do you really think it's a Germanic race?

That's TM is awesome in the field of chemistry and pharmaceuticals!

The next day, the very naïve Chinese swimming team went shopping in Miami en masse, and their plane was not until tomorrow night.

Of course, they didn't go to the attractions that cost money to buy tickets, and everyone just walked the streets for nothing.

As a result, the country is short of foreign exchange, and they can only exchange up to $10 to buy souvenirs before leaving the country.

It's still the light of football, otherwise it wouldn't have been even ten dollars.

Now the Ministry of Sports has subsidized part of the income obtained from football to the rest of the sports, the most intuitive embodiment is that most of the athletes' food has been improved, the country has also used a small part of the foreign exchange earned by football to buy some advanced training equipment, and the athletes have a lot more tickets for the New Year's holidays.

But the $10 in this era can't buy anything in the United States at all, and only Shen Lang exchanged his manuscript fee for $50 in foreign exchange before going abroad through Li Xianru's connections.

So what can $50 buy?

Shen Lang had already figured it out in his heart, or Wu Jie had already made a decision for him.

At this moment, Wu Jie, who is far away in Germany, has just bought a "platinum-level" [Windfall Card], the effect of this card is: get a windfall once after use, and the effect cannot be stacked.

The size of this "windfall" is, of course, linked to the rank of the card.

Bronze-level cards, it is estimated that at most you can pick up a wallet, but there are only a few dollars in it.

But what happens to platinum-level cards?

Wu Jie decided to let Shen Lang try it, so the latter spent $2 to buy two "Mega Millions jackpots" that were drawn tonight while wandering past a spinach sales point with everyone, that is, "Mega· Millions”。

Only Mega Millions in the U.S. are now available for non-U.S. citizens to purchase, and can claim prizes as usual as long as they are purchased within the U.S.

But non-citizens are required to pay 30% of the national tax, which is a bit more than the 25% of U.S. citizens.

The current "Mega Millions" are not $2 a piece, but the second prize is still a fixed $1 million, and the jackpot will fluctuate based on sales.

The group didn't react much to Shen Lang's move, because instead of going straight to the spinach sales point, he first bought ten of the latest Marvel and DC Comics at the bookstore, each priced at $4.

With $10 left, he spent $2 on spinach as he stopped by a spinach shop.

The "Mega Millions" game is divided into "general number" and "special number", the general number should choose 5 numbers out of 70 numbers, and the special number is 1 out of 25 numbers, and the two form a 5+1 number arrangement, and the winning rate of the jackpot is 1 in 258 million.

The winning rate is outrageously low, and the jackpot often can't be won in several draws, or even a dozen draws, but as long as someone wins the jackpot, it is a super jackpot that starts at tens of millions of dollars.

At 8 o'clock that night, Shen Lang turned on the TV in his hotel room and watched American spinach, which was said to be an insider.

The lottery process of American spinach is similar to that of China in the future, Shen Lang watched the number balls sift out of the lottery machine one by one, and there was no ecstatic feeling in his heart, even if the first five numbers were exactly the same as the one he chose, until the special number was finally selected wrong, the excitement in his heart did not increase much, and his face was even more unfazed.

"It's only two million dollars, and it's not much after taxes!"

Shen Lang and Wu Jie behind the scenes both secretly thought in their hearts.

The reason why they are not excited is very simple, Wu Jie is not short of money now, and Shen Lang will definitely not be short of money in the future.

He didn't know how much that ancestral house would be worth in the future, let alone the comics that could be copied in the future.

These two million dollars seem like a lot, but they are just icing on the cake for Shen Lang.

Wu Jie used a platinum-level card for him to do this kind of thing, mainly because he wanted to have money to redeem part of the ancestral industry and land, and by the way, save the process of earning the first pot of gold.

Although he can earn this money with his ability, it can now help him reduce his time by a few years.

"Coach, I won the second prize...... No, not a prank...... You and the team leader say that they can come to my room together. ”

Shen Lang picked up the phone in the room and calmly called Feng Jingyuan's room.

But as soon as these words were finished, Zhao Xuebing, who was about to watch a movie, almost rolled off the bed next door.

Won the lottery?

Or the second prize?

How is this possible, when he watched the lottery just now, Shen Lang's face did not change, and he thought that he had not won the lottery at all.

Feng Jingyuan was almost so shocked that he dropped the phone on the ground, with a shocked expression on his face.

How is it possible, just buy two spinach and win the lottery?

Are you sure this kid is not joking?

Shen Lang put down the phone and ignored Zhao Xuebing in a room, and began to think about how to use the money.

The $2 million is taxed first, and there are three types of taxes – national, state, and personal income taxes.

Personal income tax varies depending on the amount of winnings, but as long as it exceeds $300,000, it is 36% personal tax, which is the figure in 1982.

After paying personal income tax, you will also have to pay the national tax, which is a fixed 25%, and 30% for non-US citizens.

The final state tax varies from state to state, generally around 5%, with some highs and some lows, and Florida is one of the few states that does not charge a lottery tax, which means he can pay one less tax.

But even with only two taxes, it adds up to 66%.

Of course, if you can divide it into 20 years or 30 years, then you can enjoy a certain degree of tax reduction, and the after-tax amount will increase by 5% per year.

If you are a U.S. citizen who is not short of money, this is not bad.

Shen Lang would definitely not consider doing this, so he could only receive an after-tax bonus of $680,000.

In this way, there is not so much money, and he can't swallow it alone.

Now there is a "sports development fund" in China, and any athlete has to donate half of all the income abroad in addition to his domestic salary, so he can only get 340,000 US dollars.

This kind of clear price regulation is actually a kind of protection for athletes.

Otherwise, if the body is a little bit, the national swimming team will be divided into a little bit, and the Shanghai swimming team will be divided a little more, then there will definitely be no fifty percent left, and it will not be easy to have two percent left in the end.

But as Shen Lang, who is not particularly bad at money, he is ready to give a little more and give half of his fifty percent to the Shanghai Municipal Government.

When Feng Jingyuan and the team leader came to his room in pajamas, Shen Lang quickly told the two of them about his winning, and Zhao Xuebing had been tactfully invited out of the room by Feng Jingyuan.

"Taxes in the U.S. are so high?"

When the team leader heard that he had to pay 66% of the tax, he almost shouted that "all evil US imperialism eats people and does not spit out bones."

"Shen Lang, you have $680,000, are you really willing to donate half of it?"

Feng Jingyuan was surprised by Wu Jie's ideological consciousness, and he definitely had to fight hard.

"People are sometimes very satisfied, sometimes they are difficult to satisfy, my greed is not in money, an Olympic gold medal is worth more than a million dollars in my heart. Half of the prize money was donated to the Development Foundation, and the rest of the money was wanted to do something for my hometown. ”

Shen Lang began to pretend, but these words made the two of them awe-inspired, although the person in front of him was only a 15-year-old child, but this realm was really much higher than them.

If they win such a jackpot, they will choose to leave the team and stay in the United States, and then apply for a U.S. green card, so that they don't have to share a penny.

However, what Wu Jie behind him thinks is: donate half of the 340,000 US dollars, still be able to register a comic company in Hong Kong, and cooperate with Shanghai Fine Arts Film Studio to launch animation in China.

Besides, this money cannot be donated in vain.

Even if the ancestral property is not wanted, how can the wasteland by the river have to be returned? Otherwise, it's a waste!