037 It's going to rain (2)
An Kang saw that Zheng Lichen was obviously a little impatient.
In fact, Ankang at this time understood Zheng Lichen, but Zheng Lichen did not understand Ankang. An Kang also understood why Zheng Lichen didn't understand him. Because if this matter had been placed a year ago, Ankang's thoughts would have been the same as Zheng Lichen's, and if there was a person like Ankang who was now telling him the same thing at that time, Ankang would have laughed and put it away - investment, investment, is to get as much return as possible with the lowest possible risk, or to get an extremely considerable return with a relatively high risk. Other than that, don't mess with me.
Ankang's changes took place during the year, and it was after he came into contact with Chenhui's project. The chairman and general manager of Chenhui used to work in foreign-funded companies, and at that time, they worked together to import second-hand equipment from abroad and resell it in China. The profit of one in and one out is very considerable.
However, when they learned the true cost of the equipment, they were frightened by the huge profits of the business. In addition, there is another major change in their mentality: those manufacturers of processing equipment sell to China more than three times as much as they sell to other countries. This is not only technological discrimination, but also national discrimination.
Therefore, two enthusiastic middle-aged talents decided to use their time, energy and savings to develop a set of reasonably priced processing equipment to put into the domestic market, and make a modest contribution to the layout of China's electronics manufacturing industry chain. After the development of one product, they will immediately move on to the next product.
These are not the big words that Chenhui's chairman and general manager are saying in the face of investors. Ankang has been in contact with them again and again, and has fully felt their sincerity. They are truly gifted people.
Well-being is deeply affected.
Chenhui Technology's project is a perfect project for Ankang, which can not only allow entrepreneurs and investors to obtain excess profits, but also benefit people. Why not?
"Ankang, Ankang, please remember that we are an American company. You are doing something for the Americans. ”
"Mr. Zheng, what you said is wrong. It's true that I'm working for an American company, but I'm not working for Americans. I'm doing things for shareholders, whether they're Chinese or American. Is it wrong for us to do things for our shareholders and fight for some interests for our country and industry? Moreover, if the project is successful, the company and shareholders will receive greater benefits. It's a win-win situation. ”
Zheng Lichen reluctantly got up from the boss's chair and paced out of the window to look out.
Ankang also looked out the window, and a dark cloud was drifting towards them: it was going to rain.
It's really going to rain.
Two months have passed. Things are still not turning around.
November in Shanghai still has the residual temperature of summer. Although the temperature has dropped, many people still wear short sleeves according to the inertia of dressing, taking the "spring cover and autumn frost" to the extreme. Especially those girls who pursue beautiful "frozen" people, it seems that they still want to catch the tail of summer.
However, Ankang didn't want to catch any tail of summer, because he liked autumn.
Of the four seasons in Shanghai, Ankang's favorite is autumn.
Spring in Shanghai is actually the rainy season, there are few sunny days, and most of the memories are continuous rain, and it is the smoke and rain that can envelop the buildings. The continuous rain is especially severe during the rainy season in May and June. This kind of rain made Ankang very uncomfortable, and he would rather the rain fall happily. But the weather is so wet and very ambiguous.
The summer in Shanghai is as pleasant as Ankang likes, with a pleasant typhoon and a torrential rain, but the sunny days after the storm are unbearable. In the early years, people often said that the popularity of the three major furnaces of Nanjing, Wuhan and Chongqing has been surpassed by Beijing and Shanghai in recent years. The weather forecaster always announces the maximum temperature of 39.5 degrees with a mysterious smile, but in fact, everyone knows that the so-called 39.5 degrees is just a fig leaf for not skipping work.
Regarding summer, Ankang once had a rather dark humorous experience. At that time, Ankang was doing research on the e-commerce market. After referring to the development of the e-commerce market in the United States and China, Ankang predicts that the next e-commerce market will appear in Southeast Asia, especially in countries with a certain IT foundation such as India and Thailand.
However, Ankang quickly overturned his conclusions, as he learned the inevitable reality that in the hot climate of Southeast Asian countries, people have developed the habit of visiting shopping malls. Because you can enjoy free air conditioning when you go to the mall, and there is either no air conditioning at home or there is air conditioning, and the electricity consumption is too wasteful. Instead of shopping online from your computer at home, you should go to the mall.
Winters in Shanghai are mild. So mild that the opportunity to install the ambiguity is lost. The rain in autumn seems to have accumulated into winter. The cold rain not only makes pedestrians very embarrassed, but also makes everything in the house damp and cold.
Only autumn is the most pleasant. The sky is really high, the air is really refreshing, the only thing that is not happy is that the time is too short. Autumn in Shanghai seems to have passed in the blink of an eye. When people just realize that autumn has arrived, they suddenly realize that it is time to take out their winter clothes and quilts to dry.
In this favorite season of Ankang, he received a news that he didn't like very much - the headquarters issued an order for Ankang to complete the exit of the Chenhui project within a month.
Ankang didn't understand why the time limit of this order from the headquarters was so urgent, and what kind of judgment was based on this urgency. Ankang asked the headquarters, but the headquarters did not give him a clear answer except for asking Ankang to quit as soon as possible at the specified time.
Ankang has been following international news and the international economic situation lately, and he knows that on the other side of the world, there is an event happening that has a major impact on the U.S. economy — there are two real estate-related funds in the United States, one called Freddie Mac and the other called Fannie Mae, which are being investigated by rating agencies. Their ratings will affect the future of these two behemoths, and their future development will have a major impact on the US economy.
The US economic community is very worried about this.
But Ankang has his own understanding of this. He believes that the current form is affected by real estate, finance and traditional industries, rather than high-tech industries like Sunset.
The high-tech industry had a huge bubble a decade ago, but the risks were fully unleashed in the IT bubble at the end of the last century and the beginning of this century. Although there is still a bubble in the high-tech industry after six or seven years, it is not enough to cause economic disaster.
Ankang suspects that the people at the headquarters may be afraid of the IT bubble coming back.
Ankang had full communication with the people at the headquarters, and sent a very long email and a highly professional economic analysis report. This report was written by Ankang himself. As an investment manager, he has not written an economic analysis report for many years, but this report is still done by himself. He collected a lot of data and did a lot of analysis, and at the end of the report he formed his own opinion, and he was convinced that his judgment was correct.
However, Ankang's economic analysis report was ultimately ignored by the headquarters. The headquarters' reply was very tactful, hoping that Ankang would focus on its own asset portfolio, optimize asset allocation, and complete the exit of the Chenhui project as soon as possible, without any room for negotiation at all.
The next thing is that Ankang is unwilling to face it, unwilling to do it, but has to do it.
In the chairman's office of Chenhui Company, An Kang sat relatively silently with the chairman and general manager.
After a long time, Ankang had to leave the office and walk out of the company's door when the chairman and general manager hugged their heads and cried.
Looking at the bright sunshine outside the building, Ankang has a trance of the north wind blowing the snowflakes and the fluttering.
He seemed to think that the chairman and general manager of Chenhui, who was crying just now, were Yang Bailao and the white-haired girl, and he was the Huang Shiren who collected debts. And ironically, just now, he, Huang Shiren, clearly told Yang Bailao and the white-haired girl that they must repay the money before the end of the year.
Compared with Huang Shiren, Ankang's attitude is not the same mild, but the methods are the same cruel.