Victoria Peak, the sun sets on the horizon.
"This is the last villa selected according to your requirements. How about it? Have you decided which one to choose?"
Xu Xin put the real estate agency information on the table, including Deep Water Bay, Victoria Peak, and Repulse Bay.
"How much is this set?"
Lu Fei looked down from the balcony to the 2,320-square-meter mansion.
"9.8 billion Hong Kong dollars, which is 40.7 billion RMB."
Xu Xin hugged her arms.
"That's enough to buy two sets."
Lu Fei curled his lips and picked out the 1,211-square-meter mansion on Headland Road from the documents, "Let's take this one, HK$7.8 billion, and then choose another one from Repulse Bay or Deep Water Bay."
"That's still Deep Water Bay."
Xu Xin suggested that Victoria Peak and Deep Water Bay are the oldest and most recognized traditional wealthy areas in Xiangjiang. In addition to maintaining and increasing value, they also have complete facilities, gardens, swimming...
"Then this is it!"
Lu Fei chose another Deep Water Bay villa worth HK$800 million. Not only does it have a private pier and a helicopter pad, but it is also neighbors to the families of Zheng Yutong and Li Zhaoji.
This set is for Gao Yuanyuan, the Empress of the East Palace.
The set at Victoria Peak is the same as that of Zeng Li, Empress of the West Palace.
"Then let's go down, the agent is waiting downstairs."
Xu Xin followed him to the first floor with brisk steps.
The real estate agent rubbed his hands excitedly and saw Lu Fei take out his checkbook and pay the deposit, "You can handle the follow-up procedures for me."
Xu Xin nodded, "What are you going to do with Li Zekai's house? Since you don't want to live in it, just put it up for sale."
Lu Fei walked out of the villa, "Let's keep it for now. Dubai, Saudi Arabia gave me a few limited edition luxury cars. Those two sets still need to be renovated and they can't fit in, so I'll use Li Zekai's set as a garage temporarily."
Xu Xin glanced at the slowly approaching car, "Indeed, in the future, you won't need to take this kind of car when traveling in Xiangjiang on business trips."
"Sister Xin, it's the same for you. It's time to change your car. Friends in the Middle East just give me a lot of gifts. They have Maserati, Ferrari, Rolls-Royce, all brands. Just drive away in whichever car you like."
A smile appeared on Lu Fei's lips.
This time the Penguin short squeeze also brought the United Arab Emirates...
Making money is not important to the tycoons in the Middle East. What is important is that the money is earned from Wall Street, especially Goldman Sachs.
I have become addicted to revenge!
After all, after the Dubai debt crisis, the Goldman Sachs group was the most aggressive in pressing for debt, and they had to retaliate with tooth for tooth and blood for blood.
On the contrary, Lu Fei not only provided Dubai with a loan of US$1.5 billion, but also provided an additional loan of US$500 million and an investment of US$1 billion.
A total of 3 billion US dollars is more than just a timely help!
Mr. Lu is simply Luo Tuo’s half-brother!
"Then I'm welcome."
Xu Xin was not polite, "But compared with ports, luxury cars are trivial. Dubai has agreed to jointly develop Dubai Port with us. As long as Saudi Arabia is willing to cooperate and opens up the Middle East leading to Piraeus Port, your Eurasian ocean routes can be considered
It’s basically done.”
"We have oceans, but we also need offshore seas. I'm going to open a new route including Xiangjiang. It just so happens that the Zheng family's shipping business can come in handy." Lu Fei smiled and opened the car door.
The maritime e-commerce road of Feigou.com coincides with the future strategy of the Maritime Silk Road and is equivalent to a pioneer.
"The international logistics has been solved, all that's left is payment. Is there any news from the Middle East?" Xu Xin got into the car.
"Of course, it's been settled."
When Lu Fei mentioned that Caifubao was taking root in the Middle East, he thought that the global online payment market share was far ahead of Paypal.
Feigou.com has made breakthroughs in all core issues such as logistics, payment, and merchants that restricted Ali's overseas e-commerce in the previous life.
Like a bird ascending to the sky or a fish entering the sea, it is no longer fettered!
Even if it is Amazon, Feigou.com is still far ahead!
"That's good."
As a director of Caifubao, Xu Xin was full of expectations. At this moment, she suddenly heard that Lu Fei said that he would establish a fund specializing in technology investment with the Middle East Consortium. The first project was——
Help the UAE win Singapore Chartered Semiconductor.
"A Fei, are you kidding?"
"Sister Xin, do you think I am?"
"But...but why are you getting involved with the Middle East consortium again?"
"It's not forced. If our Chinese capital can directly acquire ARM and AMD, I will be too lazy to put on a vest."
Lu Fei shrugged. Ange and America are father and son to each other. The acquisition of ARM is much more complicated than the acquisition of Qimonda.
But the tycoons in the Middle East are different. If a person is stupid and money is easy to deceive, ARM does not need to worry about losing its independence, and Europe and the United States do not need to worry about being threatened. Instead, they can sneak into the village.
Just like Mentor International, slowly digest and absorb...
"A Fei, you got the nickname 'Lu Xiaoji' right."
Xu Xin rolled her eyes, "What a thief!"
Lu Fei smiled and said, "It was all forced by some bastard. He talks about free trade, but he never allows others to trade freely. If he could buy it directly, he would have bought all ARM, NVIDIA, and ASML.
!But the problem isn’t that we won’t give in.”
"Then you bought ARM and still insisted on developing your own GPU?"
"Of course, this is the core project of the 'Spare Tire Plan'. In a few days, Su Zifeng will report to me with the results, the first mobile phone GPU jointly developed with Nvidia."
Along the way, the two talked about semiconductor investment and planning in the Internet, electronic information, artificial intelligence and other fields.
Tired of talking about serious topics, Xu Xin opened the car window and got some air. She caught a glimpse of "Next Weekly" out of the corner of her eye and picked it up.
On the cover, there is an eye-catching gossip headline——
Lu Fei, Huang Xiaoming, fellow human beings, who created artificial humans?
"The moral bottom line of these media in Xiangjiang is inversely proportional to their courage." Lu Fei's mouth twitched.
"We have always been weak in terms of Hong Kong's mouthpiece. Except for China Mobile's investment in Phoenix TV, there are almost no Chinese-funded media outlets." Xu Xin looked sideways, "Do you want to give it a try?"
"Is there any chance?"
Lu Fei raised his eyebrows.
"Are you interested in TVB?"
Xu Xin is serious.
TVB's stake sales can be traced back to 2006.
Shao Yifu and Fang Yihua, the major shareholders and actual controllers, have long been interested in selling their shares because of their advanced age, but they have never found a suitable buyer. Li Jiajie also has this idea.
He planned to form a consortium with mainland wealthy people to acquire Shaw Brothers in his own name, and Mr. Lu was naturally one of the best candidates.
"If the Li family takes the lead and we just mix in the shares to make a little money, then there is nothing going on." Lu Fei's eyes flashed.
“You want us to lead the acquisition?”
"Yes, I have the largest telecommunications company in Hong Kong, the strongest film and television company in China, and the most Internet resources in the world. If I can have a TV station and integrate the three networks..."
"In that case, how about I contact Mrs. Fang for you?" Xu Xin nodded in agreement and cast an inquiring look.
"Hong Kong media keeps saying these days that I want to buy the entire Hong Kong, so I'll buy it and see." Lu Fei smiled and spread his hands.
"After you buy it, will you hand over TVB to your Mrs. Gao just like Boss Shao handed over TVB to Mrs. Fang?"
Xu Xin teased in a joking tone.
"As long as you can do the job, it's not impossible."
Lu Fei raised the corner of his mouth and looked out the window.
Peak of Victoria Peak is destined to be difficult to achieve "peace".
A storm is quietly "passing" Victoria Harbor.
The next day, after Xu Xin and Fang Yihua met, the two parties decided to meet at St. Teresa's Hospital in Kowloon City.
That is where Shao Yifu was hospitalized.
At the beginning of the year, he resigned from TVB and retired at the age of 102, with "Sixth Aunt" Fang Yihua officially taking the helm.
"Uncle Six, Mrs. Fang."
Lu Fei came to visit with a fruit basket and a small gift.
"Teacher Shao kept saying in the hospital that he must meet you, Mr. Lu, if he had the chance." Fang Yihua praised him fiercely.
"Those are just false names."
Lu Fei should be generous when he should be generous, and be humble when he should be humble.
Shao Yifu has great difficulty speaking. He may have to take oxygen to speak a word. He has reached the point where he cannot do without a ventilator, and his body can only rely on various high-tech means in the hospital to maintain his health.
After a while, the nurse in charge of the care politely suggested that the patient should rest. Lu Fei stood up and held his hand:
"Uncle Six, please take care of yourself."
"Okay, okay, Miss Fang, send Lu Sheng and the others off."
Shao Yifu watched Fang Yihua and others leave the ward.
The three of them walked on the empty lawn of the hospital. Fang Yihua walked and said, "Sheng Lu also saw it. Teacher Shao is suffering from all kinds of diseases. I am also getting old. I want to retire and spend more time with him. TVB I don't want to
I don’t have the energy to take care of it anymore.”
"Xu Xin must have said on the phone that I am indeed very interested in acquiring TVB. However, I have also heard that TVB has made several acquisitions, but in the end it seems that they all fell through."
Lu Fei stopped and got straight to the point.
"Yes, once Blackstone Group wanted to acquire it, but Mr. Shao's personal wish was to sell TVB to a Chinese-funded institution."
Fang Yihua said: "So it's useless no matter how high the bid is."
"The core of the consortium I formed is all Chinese capital, and there is absolutely no foreign capital." Lu Fei vowed that one of the original purposes of investing in TVB was to seize this biggest public opinion "throat."
"Another time, Country Garden prepared to invest HK$12.5 billion in acquisitions. The talks were finalized, but unfortunately they did not succeed."
Fang Yihua couldn't help but sigh.
"Oh, why did it fail this time? Is the price inappropriate?" Lu Fei was surprised.
"The price is second, but the key is Liu Luanxiong. Because Mr. Yang purchased it in his own name, he couldn't use Country Garden's funds, so he asked many people to borrow money, including Liu Luanxiong."
Fang Yihua said helplessly: "I wonder if Lu Sheng has heard of Liu Luanxiong's gossip?"
"I've heard some."
Lu Fei smacked his lips, golf balls, right...
Fang Yihua said in a serious tone: "With his moral character, I'm afraid that he will enter the board of directors in the name of loans in disguise, interfere with the management, and if the time comes, he will mess around with TVB... In short, I will never allow people like him to harm TVB.
.”
"Understand, understand."
Lu Fei smiled and said, "What do you think of me, Mrs. Fang?"
"I have heard of Lu Sheng's name."
Fang Yihuadao: "Not only are you proficient in the Internet, you are also the boss of the Han and Tang Dynasties, and you have very deep media experience. It is said that Wangwang was able to win the CTV Group. You also played a big role?"
Lu Fei smiled and said: "It's just a small effort, just to preserve this one of the few mouthpieces that positively promotes the mainland. HTC's Wang Xuehong also contributed a lot. This acquisition just happened, and I am planning to invite her to join the consortium again."
"Can you tell me who are the members of the consortium?"
"Why not? I plan to join forces with Hantang, Wang Xuehong, Feigou, and Penguin, with me as the main player, to acquire the shares in your hands. I have thought about each member repeatedly, and they can all help TVB in the future.
The development of mobile Internet.”
"Lu Sheng, what are your plans for the future of TVB?"
"Mrs. Fang should know that I will be able to take over Xiangjiang Telecom soon. The only thing left is the approval process."
Lu Fei saw her nod and didn't hide it.
Feigou.com needs the purpose of TVB, just like the mainland's Tomato Channel, Mango Channel and other TV stations, it serves as a TV shopping and advertising channel. For the Han and Tang Dynasties, planting flags in North America, the mainland, Hong Kong, and even Southeast Asia cannot be missed.
.
Penguin Empire, too!
The world's largest video website, YouTube, mainly covers Europe and the United States. The world's second largest video website, Penguin Video, is concentrated in the mainland, competing with Feigou and Baidu.
Hong Kong, Taiwan, and even Southeast Asia rely on Line.
With its base in Bangzi, Li Yinxin, with the assistance of Li Fuzhen, not only invested in e-sports, but also entered the film and television media industry, especially the idol industry. However, the Korean Wave alone is not enough.
Mr. Lu also has to support China Entertainment, and in Southeast Asia, Hong Kong movies and Hong Kong dramas have had great success, and they are worth supporting!
"So Wang Xuehong, what Lu Sheng wants is her and her family's influence in Wanwan, right?" Fang Yihua asked with keen attention.
"That's right."
Lu Fei nodded. TVB, like the Han and Tang Dynasties, is an important puzzle piece for Penguin and Xiangjiang Telecom's streaming media layout in Asia.
"As expected of Lu Sheng."
Fang Yihua couldn't help but sigh: "If Teacher Shao and I were more than 20 years younger, we would never hand over TVB to you. We would cooperate with you, Lu Sheng, according to this plan."
"There is no need to rush to retire, Mrs. Fang. After the sale, you can continue to stay in office, and the leadership team can continue to be headed by you. In the short term, I will not interfere with the direct operation of TVB."
"Lu Sheng, I am determined to retreat..."
"Don't get me wrong, Mrs. Fang. I don't mean to test anything. I just hope that the handover will not cause too much turmoil and that the transition will be slow and smooth. What do you think?"
"Lu Sheng is still thoughtful."
The two communicated almost equally on the core details, and finally reached the most critical price link. Fang Yihua originally planned to sell out 9% of the shares at once, but because of Mr. Lu's drawings——
Decided to retain 99% of the shares.
Only 26% will be transferred for a price of HK$6.5 billion. If agreed, an agreement between persons acting in concert can be signed, which is equivalent to unconditionally supporting Lu Fei's resolution at the shareholders' meeting.
"Oh, but I heard that what Mrs. Fang gave Li Jiajie was not this amount. It seemed to be 9 billion Hong Kong dollars, right?" Lu Fei asked.
"Yes, but that is a piece of land in Clearwater Bay worth more than 2 billion. If Mr. Lu feels there is a problem, he can investigate at any time." Fang Yihua said straightforwardly.
"Why are you so generous to me?"
Lu Fei shrugged.
"I am very satisfied with your future development plan for TVB. I want to leave TVB to you. You will definitely be able to develop TVB to a higher level and perhaps create another golden era for TVB like the 1980s and 1990s.
Maybe."
Fang Yihua's eyes were filled with nostalgia.
"Mrs. Fang, can you let me go back and think about it?"
"Of course. If you have any questions about the price or conditions, just ask Ms. Xu to contact you."
Fang Yihua stretched out her hand.
"Thanks."
Lu Fei shook hands with her, and for a moment——
Chapter completed!