“NBA？” Henry was stunned for a moment, not reacting.

"The NBA is the basketball league of the United States." Chen Zhiwen smiled helplessly and said that in the current United States, basketball is definitely not the most popular sports event, and before Jordan appeared, his popularity was too low.

"Oh, they, I knew, but I didn't think about it." "But basketball isn't well-known in the U.S., so it's useless to use them to increase the reputation of your product, so why don't you think about baseball or football?" ”

"These two hot teams, are you sure to buy them?" Chen Zhiwen asked rhetorically.

"It's a bit difficult, and it can take a long time." Henry thought for a moment and said.

"Let's think about basketball first, I know that basketball is not popular in the United States, but it is a little famous internationally, and my products should also consider the global market, and the football and baseball you are talking about are basically useless outside the United States." Chen Zhiwen shrugged and said that the United States, a country far away from the Eurasian continent, has many cultures that are completely different from Europe, and they always like to play different things from other countries.

Fortunately, after the mid-80s, the NBA, the American basketball league, began to develop, and then the top players led by Jordan began to make basketball famous, not only in the United States, but also abroad, although in the end it is still not comparable to football in the United States, and it is not as good as football abroad, but it is also one of the most well-known games, with a large number of fans.

"Okay, anyway, a basketball team doesn't cost much, what team do you have that you are more optimistic about? I'll ask. Henry didn't care to say, the game team that is not famous will not be worth much, and many rich people buy teams just for hobbies, Chen Zhiwen, as an Asian, likes basketball is also normal.

"I don't say which one you want to choose, the American basketball game is based on the city, just choose from big cities like New York and Los Angeles, and a few can buy a few." Chen Zhiwen said.

The current NBA team, not badly, he is buying now, also because the NBA is about to change the league CEO, the next one will lead the entire NBA to rise, now is the best time, and some of the future stars, the first is naturally Jordan, but he should still be in school, and when he buys the team, it is not too late to find him again.

"OK, leave this little thing to me." Henry Morgan nodded and smiled.

"There's one more thing that might need a little help from you." Chen Zhiwen said again.

"What's the matter?" Henry asked.

"This year, the price of grain in the United States has plummeted, exports are unsalable, and the interest rate on bank loans is still high, theoretically speaking, a large number of farms will not be able to support it, you should understand what I mean." Chen Zhiwen said with a smile.

"Understand, you want to buy more farms, it's not a problem, I'll arrange it." Henry Morgan nodded and said: "I didn't expect the U.S. government to make a fuss and think about suppressing polar bears, and as a result, I almost killed my country's agriculture." ”

"How can it be so easy to block the whole world together." Chen Zhiwen smiled and shook his head and said.

The natural environment of the United States can be said to be very friendly, the east and west are the ocean, except for a few places, there is no shortage of rain in other places, and the whole continent is a plain, which is very suitable for agricultural mechanized planting, so the annual grain production capacity is very high, and the local market in the United States cannot be digested at all, and it needs to rely heavily on the international market.

The oil crisis in previous years led to an increase in transportation costs, a decrease in the purchasing power of international parties, and an increase in the cost of loans, which led to poor business on all farms in the United States, but these are all calculated reasons, and there are also external ones.

As early as 1980, polar bears due to climate reasons, resulting in a large-scale reduction in grain production, is estimated to need to import more than 35 million tons of grain, which was known by the U.S. government, immediately summoned all the world's major grain exporters, absolutely to impose an embargo on polar bears.

At this time, the polar bear was very terrifying in terms of strength, so strong that the whole of Europe was trembling, and could only plan to rely on economic means to deal with polar bears, and food was more important than the economy to a certain extent.

It's a pity that the ideal is beautiful, but the reality is cruel.

After Argentina signed the contract, it was the first to default, because South America's own economy was damaged by the United States, and it was about to default on its sovereignty, who cares what embargo agreement you have, so 4 million tons of grain were sent to the polar bear openly, and because of the embargo, the price given by the polar bear was very high, which made Argentina make a soft hand, which made others red.

After this incident, Argentina was immediately cleaned up by the United States, all kinds of blockades, and it was cleaned up miserably, Canada and Australia are still very dependent on the United States, but they don't dare to really be disobedient, but the United States can control other countries, but it can't control the big capitalists in its own territory.

After hearing about the embargo, they immediately sent their grain to the polar bears, and after the embargo, they continued to sell it to polar bears at high prices through Asian transit, and the U.S. government couldn't control it at all, which made Canada very unhappy and strongly demanded that the United States agree to let Canada get more grain quotas for exporting polar bears.

In order to stabilize this neighbor, and because he is not kind, the US government can only agree, and Australia still does not speak at this time.

But last year, the United States signed an export agreement with China for 6 million grains, which suddenly made the kangaroo country jump, because in the past ten years, China has been Australia's main grain exporter, and it is not allowed to export polar bears, and now it has grabbed its own big customers?

This time, the United States could only acquiesce in Australia's continued grain exports to polar bears, and many other small countries saw this situation, and also bypassed the embargo restrictions one after another, and then transferred polar bears by exporting Warsaw Pact countries, and the entire embargo existed in name only.

And the polar bear fears that this kind of thing will happen again in the future, so in the last two years, it has bought twice the usual amount.

Last year alone, there were 17 million tons of grain stored in the country, and the US government had to buy it at a high price, although it relied on hegemony to force Japan, South Korea, and some Asian countries to buy some, but most of it still had to be digested at home, which led to a sharp drop in grain prices in the United States.

Even in the following years, it was difficult to sell grain, because of the two-year embargo, so that American grain customers in the international market were robbed of Canada, Australia, Brazil, and so on. Throughout the early '80s, U.S. farm prices plummeted.

Of course, polar bears, which do not pay attention to food, actually suffer heavy losses.

"Do you really want to make a difference in the agricultural market when you buy so many farms?" Henry Morgan asked again, if you buy a farm to play, a few are enough, but what Chen Zhiwen wants is obviously different.

"Yes, that's the idea." Chen Zhiwen nodded, at present, his major industries such as electronics, beverage and food, infrastructure real estate, and financial investment can develop normally and generate a lot of profits. Investment in agriculture is one of them.

"I don't know Eric, do you know, the agricultural market, the most profitable is not the farm, but the major trading giants that control the global grain trade." Henry Morgan said.

"I know that I will also be ready to do this part of the trade, but this does not prevent me from buying large farms at low prices, so that I can hold them myself if I want to hold them in the future, and if I don't want to, then I can also take advantage of the high price to sell, and I won't lose anything." Chen Zhiwen smiled and said.

Investing in farms, this kind of income is certainly not as good as some stocks or industries, but at present, we can know the future investment targets with high returns, such as Hong Kong real estate, Japanese real estate, and some technology company stocks in the United States, he has been laying out, investing in farms, does not affect these, and financial operations, mainly using other people's money, the acquisition of large farms, may be one or two percent of the funds are his own, and the rest will go from the bank, otherwise, the investment bank will not be so willing to help you persuade those farmers.

As for agricultural trade, the global market is basically saturated, and it is relatively difficult to get a piece of the pie, and it needs to be done slowly.

"Okay, you know." Henry said, "How long are you going to stay in the United States?" This matter may be the same as on Jason's side, and it will take a while to get a response. ”

"It won't be long before I'm going to go to California to meet someone, and I'm going to go back to Hong Kong when I'm done." Chen Zhiwen said.

"It's going to end so soon in Hong Kong?" Henry asked curiously.

"No, but the time for the most popularity has passed, and I can't never go back to Hong Kong forever." Chen Zhiwen said with a smile.

It will take another 2 years to determine the situation in Hong Kong, although it has not yet reached the most serious time, but the initial stage has basically passed, and this time he left Hong Kong at this time, and his attitude is very clear that he does not want to participate.

Ordinary tycoons, maybe the Hong Kong British government can still Kia, but at the level of Li Jiacheng, the Hong Kong government will basically not be good, as long as it does not openly oppose Hong Kong and Britain, and the same is true on the mainland, if you have a neutral attitude, you can do it.

"Yes, Britain, I still think I lived before the First World War, and I can't recognize my true situation, hahaha." Henry Morgan said with a laugh.

"That's what I said, but why is my company still in other people's current territory, I still have to give a little face." Chen Zhiwen said.

"If you want to give face, forget the rest." Henry nodded.

After negotiating with the two Morgans about the need for cooperation, Chen Zhiwen stayed in New York for another two days.

At the same time, in the New York Stock Exchange, Chen Zhiwen's investment fund company Blackstone Fund in the United States officially announced that it has held 5% of the shares of Coca-Cola and Pepsi, which caused quite a stir. Everyone is trying to find out who is behind the fact that he is the majority shareholder of two American food giants at the same time.

On the second day of the announcement, Chen Zhiwen received a call from the CEOs of the two cola companies, and Chen Zhiwen also politely expressed his intention to invest, very optimistic about the future of the two cola companies, and had no other ideas.

There is nothing to doubt about this, although Chen Zhiwen's Red Bull Group has a little competition with the two cola companies in the functional drink market, but this is a very small segment, and the relationship between the two sides is not a competitor until Red Bull grows into a giant, because Red Bull is not worthy of it.

After a few polite conversations, Chen Zhiwen was invited to visit the company, and Chen Zhiwen agreed to end the phone call.

Subsequently, the market also knew that Chen Zhiwen was behind it, and only because of the investment purpose, the stock price then returned to normal.

After the New York affair was over, Chen Zhiwen came to Los Angeles and met a Chinese here, one of the most influential Chinese in Asia in the future.

"Mr. Zhang, please be seated." Chen Zhiwen waved his hand and said that the person who met him was Zhang Zhongmou, the founder of the future TSMC.

"Thank you." Zhang Zhongmou then sat opposite Chen Zhiwen and asked, "I don't know what Mr. Chen asked me out, why?" ”

"I heard that Mr. Zhang is going back to Wanwan to start a business?" Chen Zhiwen asked quietly.

"Mr. Chen is really well-informed." Zhang Zhongmou said without denying that he had this idea in the past two years, and recently he had looked for other Chinese colleagues and tried the idea, but he didn't expect that this kind of thing would be discovered by Chen Zhiwen thousands of miles away.

"Mr. Zhang, as the most powerful Chinese technician in the semiconductor industry, we are naturally very concerned about Midea." Chen Zhiwen said.

"Then Mr. Chen wants me to join Midea Group?" Zhang Zhongmou asked, in fact, Midea had approached him a long time ago, at first he commissioned a headhunter, and later Midea's senior management came to him in person, but he refused, and he didn't expect that Chen Zhiwen would come in person.

"No, I know that you have the idea of starting a business, and this kind of person will not be willing to work for other people, so I came to you to support you to start a business." Chen Zhiwen said.

In this world, the first echelon of talents are generally those successful entrepreneurs, and the second echelon is the emperor of work, and the first echelon of people want them to work for themselves with peace of mind, unless they take the route of foreign technology companies and let the CEO hold a large number of share awards, so that it is possible, but the current beauty does not need to be like this.

"You're looking to invest in my startup?" Zhang Zhongmou was stunned, this is a good thing, the chip industry, even the most basic factory, requires millions of dollars in upfront capital, and the follow-up investment is higher, without enough capital, it is indeed difficult to succeed.

Chen Zhiwen nodded and said: "Yes, the chip industry in the United States has obviously been squeezed by Japanese chip counterparts to squeeze the market, and the memory is even more defeated, and it is only a matter of time before the future enters the steel and automobile industries, and the most fundamental reason for this is that the working ability of American workers is far inferior to that of Japan, and the research and development ability of engineers is not as good as that of engineers.

Not to talk about beating Japanese chips, let's say that if you want to get a stable market, then the factory must be placed in Asia, because only Asians have the potential to compete with their Japanese counterparts, and in the case of Chinese areas, there are too few professionals in Hong Kong, and various hardware facilities cannot keep up, only Wanwan is the most suitable place.

But the chip industry is very sensitive, you should also know some of the situation in Hong Kong, if I invest in person, I will only encounter a lot of problems, many equipment may not be able to buy, although I also have a chip factory in Hong Kong, but that is only for the home appliance industry services, or for some initial R & D business services, there is no way to make it bigger, so I need to invest in a person who has the ability to build a world-class chip factory in Wanwan, this person is Mr. Zhang. ”

(End of chapter)