Chapter 189: It's Better to Rent than to Buy [Ask for Collection, Ask for Subscription]
North of Seattle, Everett Payne Airport.
In the northeast corner of Payne Airport is Boeing's Everett final assembly facility, which manufactures and assembles the 747, 767 and 777 models, and the 787 Dreamliner in the future.
Cang Yaozu, Lu Chuqing and Melissa, led by Steven Hill, the head of Boeing's business jet division, saw their custom-built private jet at Payne Airport.
This plane is indeed very large, Lu Chuqing feels that it is several floors high, and as a private jet, it is really a bit big.
"Miss Melissa, Mr. Cang Yaozu, the interior of this plane has been completed according to the requirements, the whole plane has also been strictly inspected, and now it is completely ready to take off, and later, I can arrange for our pilot to take your crew for a test flight. ”
"Mr. Hill, could you please give us a brief introduction to the plane?"
"Ha, beautiful young lady, old Hill may not be familiar with this plane, let me introduce it to you, I am the ace test pilot of Boeing, the all-round captain, my name is Steve Taylor, if you can drive this plane away, it is the best, if not, I can help you drive to any corner of the Azure Star." "It was a guy who was following Steven Hill and seeing him start to behave himself, Steven Hill didn't mind.
This kid's father is a senior designer at Boeing, a very senior employee, and his position is now at the vice president level. Steven Hill can be said to have grown up watching Steve Taylor, this kid is indeed very talented, and his ability to fly planes is even more powerful.
"Ladies and gentlemen, this Boeing 777-200ER is one of the first aircraft of this model, originally produced for British Airways, after receiving your order, it was evenly released, and then after more than half a year of interior engineering, it was officially delivered today.
With a round fuselage design and a landing gear of 12 wheels, the aircraft is currently Boeing's largest twin-engine medium- and long-range wide-body airliner. With a length of 63.7 meters, a wingspan of 60.9 meters, a height of 18.5 meters, and a cabin width of 5.86 meters, the aircraft has 68 fully flat luxury seats, and of course several sets of sofas, which can carry up to 120 passengers in principle.
The overall decoration of the aircraft is very luxurious, with carpeted bedrooms and meeting rooms, and solid wood floors in some places such as a bar and a cinema room. There are two bathrooms on the plane, a sauna, three bedrooms, two large and one small, a study, a conference room, a movie screening room, a bar, a kitchen, a restaurant, and a wine cellar. There are 3 private wardrobes and 5 toilets on board. Not only that, but there are also garages and stables on board to carry a car or your beloved racehorse to race. ”
Lu Chuqing listened to Steve Taylor's gushing introduction, and began to visit on the plane, touching and experiencing everything she heard with her own hands, it was incredible, there was a wine cellar on the plane, and there were stables, and cars could be transported, which completely broke through her imagination.
In fact, the Boeing 777 can carry more than 400 passengers, but because of the setting of some rooms, the number of seats has been greatly compressed, and if there are many people, sofas, cinemas, bars, conference rooms and bedrooms can actually seat people, so the maximum can carry 120 passengers.
Boeing's business jet division, now independent Boeing Business Jet Company, is a joint venture between Boeing and GE in the middle of last year, the company is using the Boeing 737-700 as a prototype to develop the Boeing BBJ business jet, of course, in Cang Yaozu's view, whether it is a BBJ1 or BBJ2 business jet, it is too small, at most 50 people. Far less spacious than the 777-200ER's cabin, which has a cabin area of nearly 260 square meters, it is definitely enough.
The interior design of this private jet is very unique, but it cannot be said to be luxurious, because it must be in line with Cang Yaozu's aesthetics, low-key and elegant, and full of a sense of technology, such a requirement is really difficult for the designer. However, Boeing has also accumulated a lot of experience in the process of this interior, indeed, there is nothing that can't be done, only unexpected, as long as you dare to spend money, go to the sky and go to the underground sea, someone will help you achieve it.
The soft decoration on the plane is made of special materials, although it looks similar to ordinary furniture, but in fact it is much lighter, and it is fixed with some special bolts to ensure that it will not collapse in special circumstances, so it is several times more expensive, Cang Yaozu's requirements are still very high, after all, more than 200 million US dollars have been spent, and he will not be stingy, so Cang Yaozu has smashed nearly 80 million US dollars in the aircraft interior.
When you step into the cabin, the first thing you will see is a rotunda. Pushing the door into the back cabin, there is a large living room, two luxurious sofas facing each other, and a long coffee table in the middle. Across the living room is a spacious and bright office, with a luxurious desk and chairs and a computer. Further back, a master bedroom is no less than a five-star hotel bedroom, with its own bathroom and function areas such as changing rooms, walk-in closets, refrigerators and safes.
The master bedroom has the most luxurious of the five bathrooms on board, with two sinks for men and women, automatic heated floors, a spacious bathroom that doesn't look cramped, and a sauna. In addition to the master bedroom, there are also secondary bedrooms on the plane, and the soft furnishings of the second bedroom are slightly simpler and more low-key. These two bedrooms are larger and more private. There is also a small bedroom on board, which does not have a bathroom and toilet and can be shared.
Private jets have a large lounge with a small cinema in the front with a small curtain and several sets of comfortable sofa seats, the rear seats are much simpler and can be used for dining or meetings, the wall behind the lounge is also equipped with two TVs, and a circular VIP toilet full of personality is located at the back of the lounge.
Cang Yaozu is very satisfied with the soft decoration of the private jet, although he has already seen the renderings, at that time, under his critical eye, but it has been changed almost seven or eight versions, but now he sees many details that are still beyond his expectations, such as all the TVs on the plane are LCD TVs, although they are not big, but this is already great.
You must know that the current LCD technology is not very mature. Cang Yaozu also wants to lay out the production of LCD screens, but he hasn't found a breakthrough yet, wait, wait for the financial crisis to continue to rage, there will always be a chance.
Cang Yaozu also went to look at the cockpit, the various buttons and avionics systems in it are quite complicated, it seems that if you want to learn it, it is estimated that it will take a lot of time. Steve Taylor said that he could personally teach Cang Yaozu to fly the plane, and Cang Yaozu directly finalized it with him.
The captain, co-pilot, Boeing staff and Steve Taylor exchanged a lot of time, in fact, the two of them have flown many times with other models of 777 aircraft, and the cockpit layout of the 200ER has not changed much, and the staff mainly introduced them to some of the improvements made by the 777-200ER.
Cang Yaozu decided to fly back to Los Angeles in the afternoon, and the flight attendant went to apply for the route and notified Los Angeles International Airport.
"Ah Yao, it's only been a year, you've bought a private jet, and you're still such a big guy, so let me ask you, has your dream come true?"
"No, my dream is not to own a private jet, and certainly not to own money, I'm a big loser right now, and I owe tens of billions of dollars. Of course, the main thing is that I don't live for money, if it's really for money, I just buy more Apple or Amazon stocks, and I can become a billionaire by sitting down. ”
"I'm your chief financial officer, I know all about your investment and profit in foreign exchange, if you close the position now, even if you still have some arrears, it's not much. Your debt ratio is not high, every investment has a lot of returns, in addition to the investment in research and development is a bit large, is betting on pure electric cars I can't understand a little, and then investing in daily chemicals and supermarkets does not match your investment style.
Ah Yao, are you dazzled by women? Also, you are very optimistic about the development of Apple and Amazon? These two companies are not in a good situation, Amazon has been burning money, and Apple has been losing money. Of course, the shares of these two companies are not easy to buy, and most of them are held by institutions for a long time. ”
"Okay, forget you know all my finances, I'm also used to keeping a low profile, so I have to live a life with money and no money, and women have to chase after it, right, this big guy is just a toy, although it's a bit expensive, but it's still tax deductible.
The reason why pure electric vehicles are not optimistic is mainly caused by the suppression of public opinion, those energy companies and oil-producing countries do not want pure electric vehicles to develop, and the layout of this industry is definitely no problem.
Daily chemicals, beverages, supermarkets, and logistics can be effectively linked, and at the same time, these industries, plus consumer electronics, can lay a solid foundation for our development of e-commerce in the future, which should be considered holistically.
Another very important point is that I do these industries, the focus of development is Huaxia, one is that the Huaxia market is very large, and the other is that the competitors in the Huaxia market are not strong enough, I can use funds to crush those competitors.
I have Melissa for you to help me find money, and then I go to China to toss these dollars, which belongs to the flowering outside the wall and the fragrance inside the wall, and belongs to using our own strengths to compete with the shortcomings of those domestic enterprises, which is naturally invincible. ”
"Then why do you let those supermarkets try to implement the development strategy of only buying and not renting, so that there will be too much precipitated funds. ”
"You need to pay attention to the fact that the real estate industry in Huaxia has risen significantly, and in the next ten years, the price and rent of the property will rise by about 10 times, so it is better to rent than to buy. These properties are in our own hands, how much rent can be saved in the future, and our business will be more competitive.
Although I don't want to engage in real estate, I can't be tied up by the real estate industry, so I will invest more money in the mountainside real estate, whether it is large, medium and small shops, or science and technology park industrial parks, I will also hoard a certain amount of land, just so as not to be kidnapped by the real estate industry. Moreover, I allowed Yao Mengjin to go to the revolving mortgage, so the amount of precipitated funds is still acceptable. ”
"Okay, I understand, I will continue to strengthen the financial support for mountainside property in the future. So what are your dreams?"
"My ultimate dream is to make you happy, which requires me to be rich, and when I am rich, I will be remembered, in order not to be hurt by others, we must master a certain amount of power, so as not to be lambs to be slaughtered. ”
"You set up Super Security because of your insecurity?"
"There are some reasons for this, we have an idiom in China called Huaibi its sin, and there is an allusion to a child's gold in the city, when you have more and more wealth, it will attract the covetousness of others, if your own strength is not enough and the wealth is too much, then your danger will become very great, so big that some countries may come to rob you. ”
"So you use a very complex shareholding structure to hide in every possible way, and you never show up yourself, and the listing bell rings in the hands of people?"
"It's all forms, it doesn't matter at all, these false names are like clouds to me. But hiding is only temporary, or partial, the society is getting more and more developed, and your demands will be more and more, and I can't keep you in the shadows all the time, and now I'm not exposed to the public, and the newspapers are reporting that I'm a scumbag. ”
"That's what you deserve, who told you to mess with women everywhere. ”
"There's no way around it, if I want to do something, I'll naturally gather a group of excellent people around, and I'm so outstanding, it's natural to attract your admiration, I said, I want to defend your right and freedom to love and be loved, I will definitely do what I say. ”
"And what if your woman wants to leave you?
"Of course, but I will do my best to make amends, and if I really can't, I will give enough compensation, at least let her suffer less. ”
"Your efforts are really not small, Jennifer is so pregnant. ”
"Jennifer does want to end this relationship a little bit, she's insecure and she's a lot older than you, so she wants to get married, she doesn't want to go on with me like this anymore, this pregnancy is just an accident. My physique is a bit special, my life energy is consumed, and it is not easy to get a woman pregnant, so I attach so much importance to this child.
Speaking of the woman who left me, didn't Melanie leave me resolutely, she didn't want to marry outside France, and she didn't want to find a foreigner to fall in love with. I can't do anything, I gave her some financial security, so that she can live a better life, at least not to be bullied by others, and then I will let the agency take care of her acting career, and that's all I can do.
Charlize also has a slight tendency to leave me, maybe I don't care enough about her, maybe the two of us don't spend too much time together, she's too busy, I'm messing around here, it seems that I need to arrange some trips with her, and this plane came at the right time. ”
"Well, your affairs are really busy, no wonder you are so decentralized, but you are suffering from us. ”
"Haha, you have to work harder, so many companies, the financial problems must be clarified and understood, you can set up our private accounting and legal company with Sister Li, go to the big four accounting firms to dig up some people, and arrest the financial and legal affairs of all the companies we invest in and participate in." In the future, there will be more and more companies, and I will delegate more and more power, and it is inevitable that there will be discordant things, you need to take precautions, don't be blinded by the people below. ”
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