"After I received your call, I went directly to Mr. Huo, and he was very supportive of your idea, and also agreed that the acquisition of an F1 team can promote the development of domestic motorsports and the automobile industry."

"But the need for $30 million is too high, and Mr. Huo's industry has nothing to do with the automobile industry, so he sponsors you in the name of the sports fund, and the upper limit is $10 million."

$10 million?

Hearing this number, Zhang Yifei was not disappointed in his heart, on the contrary, he was grateful to Mr. Huo for making a decision so quickly.

Mr. Fok is the most famous "red" capitalist on Hong Kong Island, and since the 70s, he has set up a personal foundation and began to donate to the mainland, with a cumulative investment of more than 6 billion Hong Kong dollars. In the 80s, a special sports foundation was established to support the construction of sports venues in China, as well as the funding and establishment of athletes.

For example, in 08, the largest private donation from the Yanjing Water Cube was from Mr. Huo's foundation.

Therefore, Mr. Huo's great help, this was expected by Zhang Yifei, otherwise Lu Ningping would not have gone to Mr. Huo first. It's just that Zhang Yifei didn't expect that Mr. Huo would sponsor in the name of the sports fund, not in the name of the company.

You must know that the sports fund is a non-profit fund, which belongs to the kind of profit that has no share and loses a pure loss. And with as much as 10 million US dollars, this requires entrepreneurs with family and country feelings to do, so it is not for nothing that Mr. Huo can finally get the state funeral-level treatment.

"Uncle Lu, I want to thank Mr. Huo in person when I have an opportunity."

"Hmm."

Lu Ningping nodded, and then continued: "Later, Mr. Huo helped me introduce some Hong Kong Island entrepreneurs, including the Kwok Group that I sponsored before. However, most of them are not enthusiastic about the plan to buy F1 teams, and a few who have ideas also have a lot of concerns. ”

"Because the premise of all this has to go according to the process you envision. For example, whether Prost Racing will actually sell its shares, whether the price will be as low as you expect, and so on. ”

"Even after buying the shares, you have to think about whether the team will be competitive next season, because the results are related to the future development and profitability of the team. You should know that businessmen are profit-seeking, and if you want them to invest in holdings, you must show attractiveness and value. ”

"I understand."

Zhang Yifei responded that entrepreneurs like Mr. Huo on Hong Kong Island are very few after all, and most of them are pure capitalists. Especially under the special system of Hong Kong Island, what kind of family and country feelings are completely useless, and if they want to invest, they must give real benefits.

For this kind of thinking, Zhang Yifei will not stand on the moral high ground to accuse, and can even say that he understands. After all, businessmen are pursuing profits, and it is impossible to draw a big pie, so let others throw real money into it, which is the normal mentality of the vast majority of capitalists.

However, Zhang Yifei's standard for himself is that he will never be such a person, otherwise he will be at ease to be a driver and retire after becoming famous, instead of doing these seemingly thankless things now.

People, after all, still have a little feelings, especially after experiencing life and death, Zhang Yifei understands that there are too many more meaningful things in life.

To be honest, if it weren't for the private car companies in the mainland at this stage, they were all in their infancy, and they didn't have the ambition and strength to build their own factory teams in F1. Otherwise, Zhang Yifei's priority object is definitely not a capitalist on Hong Kong Island, but a mainland car company.

Because many of the technologies of F1 are epoch-making, it is definitely not an exaggeration to casually lead civilian cars by 20 years. It may be that after becoming a shareholder, due to many regulations and patent factors, it is not as easy as imagined to get some technology.

But whether it's copying or copying, you can always steal something by sneaking in. Especially for the automobile industry, which is not tens of billions of R&D investment, the tuition fee of 30 million US dollars can really be described as high-quality and cheap.

It can only be said that in this era, Zhang Yifei really doesn't have much choice.

"Uncle Lu, I'm glad for you today, I'll try my best to interview these entrepreneurs on Hong Kong Island to see if I can get their investment."

There is no way, these questions of the Hong Kong Island boss, Zhang Yifei is really difficult to explain. It is impossible to say that he knows the historical process, and the Prost team has no money, so he will sell his shares at a low price, right?

It is impossible to say that Ferrari racing is invincible in the world next year, so hurry up and buy a Ferrari engine to install it while no one knows, right?

Therefore, Zhang Yifei can only try his best to lobby and give full play to his talent for fooling, just like those entrepreneurial young people who attract venture capital. How much money can be fooled in the end depends on the level of Zhang Yifei's empty gloves and white wolf!

If it really doesn't work, Zhang Yifei and some mainland companies will contact him, but it will be more difficult.

"By the way, Uncle Lu, how is the matter that I asked you to inquire about, is there a young man named Ma Teng who came to Hong Kong Island to invest?"

"You mean the company called Penguin?"

"That's right, this is it!"

Zhang Yifei instantly became excited, compared to the current tens of millions of dollars in sponsorship, this is a big deal of hundreds of billions of dollars!

"When I met with the rich people on Hong Kong Island two days ago, I inquired by the way, and there is indeed a mainland entrepreneur named Ma Teng who wants to attract investment for the penguin company he founded."

"Penguin is doing very poorly, and Lenovo, Sina, Yahoo and the company have all refused to invest or buy. These wealthy people on Hong Kong Island also think that penguins have no profit points, and most of them are not even seen. ”

However, Li Zekai, the son of the richest man on Hong Kong Island, seems to be pulling IDG Capital to steal some money together, probably more than two million US dollars, and the two sides are already in the negotiation stage. This money is nothing to them, and it should be able to talk about success. ”

Hearing Uncle Lu say that he could talk about success, Zhang Yifei was even more excited, and even poked his head directly from the back row to the front row!

"Uncle Lu, no matter what way you use, find a way for me to meet Ma Teng, I invested this money, even if I smash the pot and sell iron, I will give it!"

When he graduated from high school before, Zhang Yifei joked with Wang Glasses, giving him the opportunity to hug Xiao Ma's thighs in the name of his younger brother in the future, and maybe he would become the veteran of Penguin Company.

At that time, Zhang Yifei didn't attach much importance to money, thinking that enough to spend was enough, and no matter how much it was, it was just a number.

But now it's different, Zhang Yifei is very short of this number, if there is any normal industry in this era that can get super profits, it is undoubtedly to buy shares in Penguin!

In 2000, the penguin company founded by Brother Xiao Ma came to the most difficult moment and could hardly operate. He began to beg his grandfather to sue his grandmother, find venture capital from major companies, and sell 40% of the company's shares, hoping to get investment from all the bigwigs.

As a result, no one in the mainland was optimistic about him, so Xiao Ma set his sights on Hong Kong Island, and as a result, Li Zekai and IDG Capital bought 40% of Penguin's shares at a very low price.

And after buying it, I was very disgusted, and I always wanted to find an opportunity to sell it, and when the South African MIH Group was willing to take over the project a year later, Li Zekai hurriedly made a move. At that time, I was still happy, thinking that I bought for $1.1 million and sold for $12.6 million, which increased 11 times in one year, which was simply the level of an investment genius.

But the development that followed was beyond imagination, and just a dozen years later, Penguin became a super enterprise with a market value of trillions. The investment genius has also become an "investment genius".

This incident is very famous in later generations, and Zhang Yifei naturally knows it, and it happens that this year is 2000. This lack of money made Zhang Yifei have to put his mind on Brother Xiaoma.

It's just that Li Zekai bought it in April, and now more than a month has passed, and Zhang Yifei is not sure whether he can still buy the original shares of Penguin. If you really can't buy it next year, it will cost more than 10 million dollars.

Of course, more than 10 million US dollars to buy 20% of Penguin shares, Zhang Yifei absolutely did not hesitate. But if you can save some money, why send it? And with the change of history, Li Zekai and IDG Capital may not necessarily sell.

So he asked Uncle Lu to inquire, and it turned out to be true! This Hu Zhang Yifei must be intercepted, and being bought by himself is better than being bought by South Africa's MIH in the future.

Zhang Yifei's excited performance also frightened Junko Takeda and Uncle Lu.

"Be careful of your leg injury!"

Junko Takeda hurriedly supported Zhang Yifei to prevent him from moving too violently and affecting the injury to his right leg.

"Don't get excited, I'll help you get in touch when I get back."

Lu Ningping also hurriedly reassured, he didn't understand why Zhang Yifei was so excited, Penguin is obviously a company with no prospects, and all major capitals are not optimistic, does Zhang Yifei have any special business talent?

When I returned to Uncle Lo's home on Hong Kong Island, it was already close to night. Seeing Zhang Yifei come in, Aunt Lu was happy and distressed, since Uncle Lu retired, she hadn't experienced this kind of fear for many years.

If she could, Aunt Lu really didn't want Zhang Yifei to become a professional driver.

But there is no if, Zhang Yifei is currently the only seedling of Chinese formula racing, and he has taken on too many things. At this point, Zhang Yifei even went to Liu Xiang's spiritual symbol in a sense, if he withdrew from the competition or something else as he wanted, he might also encounter the same situation as Qianfu pointed out.

When Lu Jingjing saw Zhang Yifei coming to the house, she was excited at first and planned to jump up and give a hug directly, but was stopped by Uncle Lu, after all, Zhang Yifei is now "lame".

However, when Lu Ningning saw Junko Takeda standing behind Zhang Yifei, the previous excitement instantly cooled down, and even faintly angry.

Regarding Lu Ningning's change of attitude, Junko Takeda, who has experience in team public relations, naturally understands what she thinks. It can only be said that the little girl is like this, she has a kind of "beloved toy" mentality, and she is not allowed to get involved!

After eating, Zhang Yifei also made a phone call to He Lang in China, he is very familiar with domestic companies engaged in the automobile industry, and his family itself is a company.

If Hong Kong Island does not attract investment, it will be necessary to find a way from the mainland.

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