I once heard that down-and-out European nobles could find treasures left behind by their ancestors by searching through the warehouses in their ancestral estates.
The sale of the Vera family is basically the same.
Digging out the items at the bottom of the box, she earned a total of more than five million euros, which was enough to cope with her family's current difficulties.
In the early years, Chinese cultural relics were not valuable, and many people never thought of selling them, but only kept them as interesting decorations.
Prices have skyrocketed in the past twenty years, and items such as faucets with animal heads from the Old Summer Palace, large Yuan blue and white jars that have been dumped overseas, Ru kiln porcelain, etc., are gradually being dug out of the junk pile, and have even triggered a craze for overseas treasure hunting.
They began to appreciate in value, and Su Yehao's interest in picking up missed investments became less intense, and he paid little attention to new news about the auction.
Had it not been for Vera's initiative to invite it this time, even if he encountered the Chicken Jar Cup at the auction, he might not have taken action to win it.
The ancestors were so awesome that they left behind a huge number of objects from past dynasties, and the moisture inside them was particularly sufficient.
Unless you encounter some rare items that you really like and reach the level of high-quality national treasures, you may or may not buy other items.
There are already a bunch of objects placed in the small castle.
For example, that Van Gogh oil painting, the last time I saw it was a few months ago, it didn't mean much.
Their investment attributes are only average, and their practicality is basically non-existent. It is difficult for Su Yehao to have the desire to buy them.
Both items were very small, so I just signed a check to buy them and packed them in boxes to take away.
Come all come.
After discussing it during lunch, we decided to visit Rome, Italy.
Continue on to Vila and take the train to Rome. This city with more than 700 churches and monasteries has a rich cultural atmosphere and is very suitable for vacation.
On the train to Rome, while Su Yehao was having afternoon tea, he accidentally discovered that the photo of himself taking the girls shopping had become a hot search on the Internet.
Feng Tiancai also called and told him that because Laos and the United States were unable to completely stabilize the situation, crude oil futures prices rebounded 5% in two days, which was less than $210 million.
This time Su Yehao was worried about falling into the same pit twice, so he immediately asked Feng Tiancai to close his position and cash out.
During the cash-out process, the price of crude oil continued to rise. In the end, he actually made a total of more than 260 million US dollars, which made him extremely happy.
With Nangong Tian and the others, they went shopping like crazy. They didn't have any big expenditures and only spent hundreds of thousands of euros...
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Three months have passed in the blink of an eye, and life during that period was very ordinary.
The Three Gorges Dam was officially filled with water on June 1. Su Yehao, as the majority shareholder of the Yangtze River Power Generation Group, went to the dam to attend the celebration ceremony.
According to the result of negotiation.
He took loans from several banks and invested a total of more than 1.3 billion yuan, accounting for 60% of the company's shares.
It is also agreed that within six months, institutions such as 5S Asset Management will be introduced to continue to purchase new generating units, and a total of at least RMB 80 billion will be injected within ten years.
The financing problem has been over-solved, so both parties are not in a hurry to go public on the A-share market for the time being.
The water storage has just started and the "money printing press" has not been used. However, summer is coming and the water will be released soon.
The Three Gorges Dam has become a super-large piggy bank in Su Yehao's eyes, with a low-risk rate of return of about 9% per year.
After excluding expenses, it will theoretically take more than ten years to recover the capital. Su Yehao has signed an entrustment agreement with 5S Asset Management. By then, only the money will be left on the books to cover daily expenses, and the remaining income from electricity sales will be temporarily used for fund management.
Regardless of the fact that the official still holds 40% of the shares, if the company does not follow Su Yehao to add additional funds later, the shareholding will be diluted soon.
The Three Gorges Dam has realized its strategic value, which is equivalent to installing a water valve on the Yangtze River to store water for flood control and avoid natural disasters.
As for power generation, the higher-ups don't pay much attention to it, and it doesn't matter who takes over.
Su Yehao took the initiative to stand up and actually saved some people a lot of trouble. At least they didn't have to worry about losing money and got rid of some risks.
In the future, the government will only need to be responsible for collecting taxes and can easily make a net profit of 20 points. This can be called a real steady profit without losing money.
Mid-June.
The plan for King Crab Island was finally approved, the preparatory team was cancelled, and people began to be sent to find a construction company, trying to build the island as soon as possible.
The cost of this link is limited, which puts little pressure on Su Yehao. The total budget is only about one billion Hong Kong dollars.
the other side.
The WHO announced that SARS was successfully under control. Although there were still some sporadic cases, it did not cause any further disturbances. The situation was much weaker than Su Yehao had imagined. A total of more than 100 people unfortunately died.
In the blink of an eye, the third part of "My Fair Princess" was released, and Microsoft also canceled technical support for Windows 98.
Even Su Yehao secretly lamented that time flies by so fast.
Wait until July 17th.
Apple CEO Steve Jobs came to Hong Kong City Central to preside over the opening ceremony of the first overseas Apple retail store, and then rushed to Big Wave Bay to visit Su Yehao.
Last week.
Nangong Tian just found out that she was pregnant, and her mood has been fluctuating a lot these days. She often feels that her youth has suddenly ended, and she feels like she has grown up overnight.
Su Yehao is relatively calm about this. In his opinion, puberty and so on...are clearly over long ago.
She probably protected them too well and had not experienced many beatings from society, so she had the illusion that she was still very young even though she was twenty-four years old.
The group of people who entered the University of Hong Kong at the same age had already graduated and worked for two or three years, and some of their children had already gone to kindergarten.
Su Yehao was very happy about the arrival of Jobs. The two occasionally exchanged emails and met only a few times.
In midsummer, the sun outside is too harsh.
At this moment, the two of them were sitting in the study drinking tea, and Jobs said to him:
"Su, I have a great idea. The previous Newton handheld computer product line was cut off by me in 1997 mainly due to insufficient technical level. Now I plan to re-implement it and combine the iPod with it.
Launch a new product that can listen to music, play games, and watch videos.”
"...Why not go a step further and add phone functionality?"
After a few seconds of silence, Su Yehao was considering whether to remind Jobs. After getting a positive answer, he added:
"In this way, you will get a smartphone that may not be successful at the moment, but it has great market prospects. If you are willing to work hard in this direction, I will fully support you on the board of directors, even if it involves short-term losses, it doesn't matter."
Jobs was not surprised. He seemed to have already thought of the idea of a smartphone. He shook his head and said: "The company's computer products are not successful enough and we are losing money every year. The iPod Walkman series alone does not have enough funds to complete your idea. If
If all shareholders were as visionary as you, my job would be much easier."
Su Yehao's shareholding in Apple has further increased to about 24%. Even so, he still does not have much say in the board of directors and cannot dominate the company.
Limited by his technical level, he had not had much involvement in Apple before. It was not until he heard Steve Jobs' words today that he started thinking about researching and developing smartphones in advance.
Su Yehao continued to persuade:
"By coincidence, I have money and the Black Diamond brand that manufactures mobile phones. What I lack is just a R&D team and an operating system. Maybe Apple can cooperate with my Black Diamond phone to create an epoch-making product. I will share the risk and it will be better."
It’s easy to get the support of the board of directors, isn’t it? I think it can be done..."