Su Yehao has just signed a contract with a mainland institution and decided to purchase a Dawn 4000A supercomputer with a peak computing speed of 11 trillion operations per second.
Before people left Sijiu City, they heard the news of a super tsunami in the Indian Ocean.
He immediately called Nangong Tian and asked about the situation on the Maldives resort island. It happened to be the Christmas holiday and there should be a lot of tourists.
Then he contacted Mr. Jiang and asked Jiang Yu’s father if he needed help liaising with charter flights to bring back tourists traveling to Thailand, Malaysia and other places.
After briefly understanding the situation, I learned that all of my islands in the Maldives had suffered.
Some water houses were washed away, and a building on the island shore also collapsed. In addition to the two snorkeling tourists who were killed, an employee was missing and his whereabouts are temporarily unknown.
Two of the five tour groups under the Hong Kong Tourism Group that traveled to Phuket, Thailand, suffered casualties.
Su Yehao vaguely remembered such a thing before, but could not remember the specific date. Natural disasters cannot be avoided, and all that can be done is to deal with the aftermath.
On the same day, he publicly announced a donation of HK$300 million, and privately asked Mr. Jiang to proactively contact the families of the dead and injured tourists, coordinate with insurance companies, and provide immediate relief and comfort.
There is a huge earthquake in the ocean, and there is obviously nothing Su Yehao can do about it.
Nangong Tian was extremely afraid of this, because if Jiang Yu had not taken care of the baby at home, Jiang Yu's belly had bulged again, making it inconvenient to live on the island. Their family might go to the Maldives for vacation during Christmas this year.
There is also a voyage in October, which happens to pass near Indonesian waters.
Su Yehao is not too worried about this. The main damage is to the coast. The waves in the deep sea are not big, so it is difficult to affect his super yacht...
Just started in 2005.
Tianyu Entertainment Company held a disaster relief benefit performance and promised that all proceeds would be donated. In mid-January, an investigation report appeared, stating that the total number of victims and missing persons may exceed 200,000.
As the days passed, by the beginning of February, there were not many media talking about the disaster, and Su Yehao also took the time to attend the farewell concert of Beyond.
After attending the concert that day, he went to Sijiucheng the next day to participate in a discussion on the development of the western region and delivered a speech on vigorously building photovoltaic power generation equipment to cover 1% of the desert to meet the country's electricity demand.
As soon as the news came out, the stock prices of the photovoltaic sector soared. A total of more than 20 listed companies went up to the daily limit. The news quickly spread abroad, making many environmentalists feel like they were on fire and regarded Su Yehao as the savior of the earth's ecological environment.
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There is of course a reason why I dare to give such a speech.
At the beginning of 2005, Su Yehao spent money to acquire several overseas photovoltaic companies. He has basically connected the upstream and downstream of the industry. He is only waiting for the idle funds in the future to be used to generate electricity and raise sheep in the sunny desert areas of the northwest.
As soon as the big news about photovoltaics subsided, Kaomoji Group made another move, acquiring Blizzard Games as a whole for US$5.5 billion, and announced that it would merge with Su Yehao's Valve Games.
Earlier, Su Yehao did not have the strength to annex Blizzard Games, which was worth two to three billion US dollars. Now that Blizzard Games has launched the popular new game "World of Warcraft", he may not be able to afford it if he doesn't take action.
This merger was suggested by other board members of Yanji Group, mainly to monetize traffic and further seize the global game market share.
In fact, it doesn't matter whether we buy Blizzard or not.
Su Yehao, as the major shareholder, did not intervene this time. The main reason is that Yanwen Group, with a market value of nearly 40 billion US dollars, has the strength to independently carry out financing and does not require additional support from him.
Also choosing to take action is Google.
Google merged and acquired three companies in four months.
Recently, he followed Su Yehao's suggestion and tried to contact the listed company Marvel, planning to acquire Marvel at a premium for approximately US$1.2 billion and directly privatize and delist the company.
Whether it makes money or not is secondary. The main reason is that Su Yehao hopes to increase the influence of Google and make it cooler in the minds of young people. At the same time, he can use it for personal gain and help Jiang Yu and Nangong Tian's Tianyu Entertainment.
that's all.
Big and small things kept happening, and in the blink of an eye it was June 2005.
Jiang Yu had successfully given birth to a little girl. Because the umbilical cord was wrapped around her neck, she chose a caesarean section and had to recuperate for a long time after the operation.
Before giving birth to a child, she was worried about gains and losses. After she actually had a daughter, small things like whether there would be scars were immediately forgotten by Jiang Yu.
Father Su once again made a big deal. During an interview with the media, he announced that he would give Jiang Yu one thousandth of the mainland high-speed rail shares.
People didn't think it was anything at first. They felt that Mr. Su was digging around. News about having a daughter who was not as popular as a son was flying all over the place in various gossip tabloids, causing a lot of discussion.
In the end, Su Yehao took the initiative to stand up and clarify.
Faced with reporters' siege, he said that he was discussing with Beifang to build a joint venture to build the Beijing-Shanghai high-speed railway with a total length of about 1,300 kilometers. The total cost is expected to be more than 200 billion yuan, and one thousandth of the shares are worth about 200 yuan.
One hundred million.
As soon as the news came out, the melon-eaters were immediately sour.
Some netizens left a message saying that because they gave birth to a daughter, they only ate chicken soup once during the confinement period, and it was only half an old hen. Another netizen left a message saying that when making milk powder, they scooped out a few more spoons of milk powder and were scolded as a waste of money.
When Su Yehao saw it on the screen, he couldn't help but sigh.
These days, the concept of favoring sons over daughters is still very strong. When housing prices rise, parents will probably burst into tears because they think it would be nice to have a daughter.
Therefore, defeating traditional concepts may not only rely on changes in social atmosphere, but also on high housing prices.
Discussions on the construction of the high-speed rail have just begun. If Su Yehao had not been willing to contribute one-third of the capital, the plan might have been delayed further.
Now that the issue of start-up funds has been settled, many foreign high-speed rail companies are trying their best to get information from Su Yehao through various channels.
Su Yehao knows that the Beijing-Shanghai high-speed rail thieves make money.
He also knows that land acquisition expenses, labor costs, and building material prices have been rising year by year, so in his opinion, the sooner construction starts, the better. The key is which company is economical and willing to transfer technology.
For the money to build the high-speed rail, he planned to pledge the equity of various Internet companies and borrow low-interest loans from banks. He had considered this project two years ago, but he did not expect to be able to spend such a large amount of money so quickly and easily.
money.
On the surface, it is said that one-third will be paid, but in fact, some start-up capital will be taken first, and the rest can be pledged with the equity of the Beijing-Shanghai High-speed Railway. As long as one's own strength is strong enough, investing in this project is a waste of money.
Even if others know that they are getting nothing, they cannot let banks rush to lend him money like Su Yehao did.
Being the real richest man in the world is not just a boast.
After only a few years of accumulation, the Su family's heritage is already amazing...