Chapter 190: Lingxi Private Jet
"Well, anyway, I'm always the one who does the work. Melissa's tone was not like a complaint, but a little tsundere.
"Of course, you are the most important person around me, so you also have to set up your secretarial team, and while helping you break down the workload, you also need to train them, and then release them when the right time comes, which is conducive to us to strengthen our control over the investment and shareholding enterprises." It's easy to use the talent that you have cultivated yourself. β
"I heard you want to invest in a Fordman kid again?"
"What? Your family has something to do with the Fordemans?" asked Cang Yaozu, who really didn't know the relationship between these families in California.
"There are some business collaborations, all of which are local California families, and they don't see each other when they look down. β
"Look at what you mean, it's not going to be another bullshit marriage or something, right?"
"Isn't it normal to get married? People of the same class will have more common topics. My dad's new wife had some connections with their family, although it was a bit distant, and my mom was angry at the time, but after all these years, she also has a new family and children, and it doesn't matter. β
"Well, it's just an investment, the action camera is indeed a bit of a head, but it's not a key corporate layout, I mainly want to contact the lens companies in the cherry blossom country, by the way, the German Carl Zeiss company you also want to find a way to get some shares, and the lens is also a very key technology in the future. β
"You're going to enter the camera space? ZEISS is not listed, the shareholder structure is very stable, and it is very difficult to get a stake. β
"I'm not going to enter the camera industry, but I'm going to enter the mobile phone industry, which is an industry that I attach great importance to, and I started to acquire technology patents related to mobile phones as early as last year. In addition to the chip operating system, LCD screens, lithium batteries, and cameras are all important spare parts. β
"Do I need a camera on my phone? Why haven't I seen a phone with a camera?"
"Of course you haven't seen it, it's because it's not on the market yet, we're already working on relevant technology research and development, and you'll definitely see a mobile phone that can take pictures in the future, and it's not impossible to make video calls.
The mobile phone we want to produce is a new smartphone based on the RISC-V architecture, it has no physical keyboard, with front and rear dual cameras, has a large LCD screen, uses lithium-ion battery power, and is loaded with our own developed smartphone operating system, and so on for a period of development, the mobile phone can completely replace the digital camera, and even the MP3 player that we have developed and has not yet been on the market will eventually be replaced by the smartphone. β
"Wow, since the MP3 player has been developed, why don't you hurry up and distribute the goods, and when the smartphone is on the market, won't there be no money to make?"
"Not so fast, smartphones still have a long way to go, at least three years, at the same time, smartphones are much more expensive than MP3 players, and smartphones are certainly not as good as MP3 players in the early days, MP3 players have a good market in 5 years. β
"No wonder you and little Edgar spent money to buy Polygram, it turned out to be for music rights. β
"Yes, we also want to acquire some small labels of EMI Records, such as Viking Records, such as EMI's branch in Huaxia, and it is difficult to acquire EMI as a whole, first, it may be stopped due to monopoly issues, and we are not enough to have funds, so we have to slow down, so we can only make a small fuss first. Now the website and client are ready, the overall design of the MP3 player has been completed, the prototype has been produced, the next step is mass production, the first generation of MP3 player is metal, the shape is triangular, we call it the iron triangle. In a few days, some luxury custom models will be sent over, and you will be given a few to play with when the time comes, and the effect is really great. β
"How can there be a luxury custom model, is this also a luxury, how much does the luxury custom model cost?"
"The metal used in the luxury custom model is more expensive, that is, those metal alloys used in the aerospace field, thinner and lighter, the memory capacity is also larger, the decoding chip and LCD screen are specially customized, the cost of each MP3 player is about 500 US dollars, the cost of the ordinary model is about 150 US dollars, and so on after mass production, with the improvement of technology and component performance, the cost will be further reduced, this cost will be reduced to at least less than 100 US dollars, and the unified retail price of MP3 players in the market is 499 US dollarsγ β
"$499? Isn't that a bit expensive?"
"It's okay, the follow-up will slowly launch a $399 style, but the initial price is such a high, high point, anyway, there are no competitors. β
"Did you get the music rights for Warner, EMI and Sony?"
This part was handed over to Edgar Jr., he negotiated with several music companies for a few rounds, Warner and EMI's music rights have been obtained, and Edgar Jr. signed a three-year exclusive music copyright authorization with these two companies, with an annual guarantee of 30 million US dollars, and the sales share is divided into 55 percent, and the fee will be paid if the minimum amount is exceeded.
Sony is still talking there, they have always wanted to promote their MD player, Sony wants to establish its own standards, and is not willing to exclusively license music rights to us, but if it is not exclusive, it should not be a big problem.
Now they can't figure out how much the market for digital music is, so they struggle for a while, and the worst result is nothing more than not signing us.
Of course, even if they are authorized, they should not sign an exclusive license, and if they don't sign an exclusivity, they can only share the achievements in three or seven points. Well, the liquidated damages of the contract signed by Ed Jr. are relatively high, 20 times the contract amount. β
"Did you use Universal Music to work with them?"
"Of course not, I work with them in MP3 music stores, which I own 60% of, Edgar Jr. 20%, Universal, EMI, Warner and Sony 5% each. By the way, this company is also going to be listed, and it will be completed by the end of next year at the latest, so you should pay more attention to this aspect. β
"Okay, it looks like the plane is about to land, this plane is really good, it doesn't affect the daily office at all. β
"Yes, private jets are the favorite of those executives, and those workaholics don't work for a while, and they feel uncomfortable. Of course, it's also my favorite, it's so good to be private and you can do a lot of things. β
"Don't do anything illegal or criminal, that's not going to end well. By the way, should the company buy more private jets?"
"I'm naturally measured and relaxed. Companies don't usually use such large private jets, and I've placed an order for 10 business jets with Gulfstream, but asked them to upgrade the GV to the G550, and who knows how long they can complete it. Boeing also has a BJJ business jet, and they are also working on a follow-up B777-300ER model, which I have already booked and will give up this one when the new private jet is delivered. β
"Then this plane can only be used by yourself?"
"How can you, you can all use it, and so can Sheryl or the Eggers, just this level. β
"I've heard that you promised Emily and Scarlett to take them on this plane and eat them, and you still say you're measured? β
"This has nothing to do with me, it is the two little girls themselves who strongly requested, I am completely passive, and besides, I will not do anything excessive, it's just a joke. β
"Then when are you going back to Huaxia? I'm going to go with you, I'm going to be the first on this plane." By the way, did Achu and you do that?"
"Uh, well, it's good if you're happy, oh, I'm happy too, I'm very happy, come, let's kiss one first. Hehe, Achu and I, not yet, she said that she would wait until the two of us got married, which was sad. β
"Haha, then you'll have to wait. Then will you marry Achu?"
"Well, for the time being, I'm not sure, after all, I have to think about everyone's feelings. β
At this time, Achu also came out of the cockpit of the plane, she went to visit the cockpit of the plane just now, and she was more curious about what the captain looked like when he flew the plane.
The private jet landed at Los Angeles International Airport, and the plane has no paint job, and it doesn't have a name, so what is the name, what is it called? Poseidon - Maserati - Google - Five Elements ?
It's not very suitable, oh, it can be called the Lingxi, although it is not as powerful as Princess Saltena's stick-shaped ship from the Lingxi Nebula, and it is powerful enough to shuttle between galaxies, but it is also a great plane.
Yes, it's called Lingxi, and the color is painted orange-red, well, the color of Lingxi Stone is the color of the sun, and a Lingxi Stone pattern is drawn on both sides, perfect. When the painting is completed, you can fly back to Huaxia.
Lu Chuqing has been on vacation for a month, and she has been playing here for a long time, and in a few days it will be her grandmother's seventieth birthday, and she has to go back to deal with the affairs of CQ Fashion Company, and she has to pay attention to Cang Yaozu's other industries in Yandu from time to time, and she can't delay it any longer.
In the foreign exchange operation of the Asian financial crisis, Cang Yaozu's financial team is already very proficient, and Cang Yaozu gave some of his judgments, and the general principles are set, and there is not much he can do, so Cang Yaozu gave the financial team greater operational authority.
After straightening out the major matter of making money, Cang Yaozu can stay in Huaxia for a while longer. In addition to Cang Yaozu, Lu Chuqing and Melissa, there are Jennifer and Charlize who returned to China together, Jennifer will join the group to shoot the next season of "Friends" in 10 days, Charlize has just finished filming the first "The Matrix", and after a break, he will start filming the second part, "The Lord of the Rings" has just started filming, and she has not yet filmed the role of the elf queen, in short, she may be resident in Australia and New Zealand in the past year.
This time Jennifer called her to accompany her, Cang Yaozu was also very happy, and getting along with Charlize too little is also a problem, I hope this trip to China can be improved. He took four girls to board the Lingxi plane, well, the painted 777 plane looks very beautiful, the whole is pink and orange, there are two pinkish gems in the middle and front parts, there are some gemstone cutting lines, the color is darker than the fuselage, it looks like a unity from a distance, and you can see the clear shape of the gem up close.
Also on board were more than 20 accompanying security and secretarial staff, as well as flight attendants. When Cang Yaozu and the girls are together, the number of corresponding security personnel will be reduced, and some security personnel will be given a holiday, after all, when the protected personnel are gathered together, they can cooperate to undertake security tasks. Cang Yaozu has always attached great importance to security, and after he established super security, the management of these security personnel has also been standardized.
When I returned to China this time, I had to take the time to go to South Korea to deal with the acquisition of Hynix by Shengdi Company.
Recently, the company has a very good life, the company's founder after a few months of research and development, conquered the NAND Flash multi-layer unit storage technology, in the future, the products of the company are mainly solid state drives, memory modules, flash memory cards and some control chips, Cang Yaozu's U disk and MP3 will bring a large number of orders to the Shengdi.
With the breakthrough in Shengdie's technology and the construction of wafer factories, Shengdie's stock price has also risen again and again in recent months, and has now exceeded $10, and the market value has reached $2 billion.
In the past year, Cang Yaozu let Shengdi Company accumulate hundreds of millions of US dollars, and then the market value rose sharply and got nearly 1 billion US dollars from the bank through equity financing, which has recently entered the South Korean foreign exchange market, and shorted the Korean won through financial leverage, this part of the funds of Shengdi only used 5 times the financial leverage, 6 billion US dollars to short the Korean won, and the position opening point was about 900 won to 1 US dollar.
This is just Shengdi's funds to short the Korean won, Cang Yaozu's financial team has other funds to enter the market to short the Korean won, the scale is several times that of Shengdie's 1.2 billion US dollars, South Korea is also a big fat sheep, Cang Yaozu will definitely follow up, and he must bite a big piece of meat.
The reason why Cang Yaozu let Shengdi also get involved in the financial market is because Cang Yaozu is ready to let Shengdie acquire South Korea's Hyundai Memory, that is, Hynix Company, which went public in 1996 and acquired LG memory in 1999, and changed its name to Hynix after reintegration, which will be a big competitor of Shengdie in the memory industry.
Taking advantage of the fact that Hynix has just been listed, its market value is not high, and it is catching up with the Asian financial crisis, which is the trough of the semiconductor industry and even all industries in South Korea, the Korean foreign exchange stock market has plummeted, so it would be a good time not to buy it.
South Korea's semiconductor industry is stepping on the body of the semiconductor industry in the cherry blossom country with the support of Citigroup to rise rapidly, in the future, Samsung Electronics and Hynix are among the leaders, Cang Yaozu can't gnaw Samsung Electronics, but Hynix can still be considered, Cang Yaozu is ready to sharpen the knife first, and then just let the bullets fly for a while, as long as you wait until November this year, it is a good time to start, it must be a good season for harvest. At that time, Cang Yaozu will personally go to South Korea to try to acquire a few more companies.
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