"Ying'er, thank you for your hard work. Isn't it very difficult to run Shengshi's business? Hey, all along, I thought that Shengshi's family had a great business and you were doing whatever you wanted. Who knew that it was actually a big business that was difficult, and you were made to live in a poor family!"
While talking, Xue Laosan patted the beautiful lady on the shoulder, showing infinite pity.
"I'm fine, why are you so sentimental?"
President Liu shook his shoulders and threw away Xue Laosan's thugs, but he was extremely moved in his heart.
To be honest, no matter how great the prosperity is, in Liu Ying'er's heart, it is still the property of the Xue family, and she is just helping the Xue family with the food.
To others, if there was a problem with a billion-dollar asset, they would not care whether the person managing it was in trouble, or they would have stared loudly and asked.
But the man in front of her didn't even inquire into the details, but came to comfort her first. How could President Liu not be moved?
I thought silently in my heart: It is easy to get priceless treasures, but it is rare to find a lover!
Xue Laosan said, "Talking about the prosperous age, I have always left it alone. I really don't know the way inside. Today, I will take the time to feel your pulse."
Liu Ying'er stretched out her wrist, shared another cup of tea for him, and said, "The situation is not as bad as you think. In fact, in the final analysis, it is because the prosperous age passed too fast and the shelves were too big..."
After listening to President Liu's explanation, Xue Laosan finally understood that it was not that Shengshi's management was poor, but that it expanded too quickly at his request.
Initially, the prosperity of the business was based on a famous painting that Xue Laosan brought to Hong Kong Island and pledged millions of Hong Kong dollars from Hong Kong gangsters. Later, with foresight, he intervened in Xu Mingyuan's acquisition of Hutchison Whampoa.
Get your first pot of gold.
After that, relying on the fact that there were many antiques in hand and Liu Ying'er had to stay in Hong Kong Island at that time, Xue Laosan set up Shengshi Zhonghua, whose main business was dealing in antiques, and handed it over to Liu Ying'er to take care of it.
Later, Xue Laosan called in Lai Lao San, a big figure in the capital's antiques industry, and moved the inventory he collected in the capital through secret channels. He also asked Mr. Li Si, Kang Xiaoba and others to continue to secretly use the secret door to collect money.
Old house, collecting antiques.
In this way, an antique transportation route is connected from Beijing to Hong Kong Island.
With its unique advantages and Lame Lao San's venomous eye, Shengshi's business has become increasingly prosperous.
Finally, relying on its unparalleled inventory advantage, it has created the largest antiques trading platform and auction platform in Southeast Asia in one fell swoop.
At this point, the prosperous age has a solid foundation.
Later, by chance, he met Henry, a foreign fraudster, and Xue Laosan remembered Microsoft.
Another Liu Yinger traveled across the ocean. With unremitting efforts, she spent 6 million US dollars to acquire 5% of the shares of Microsoft, which had not yet made its first pot of gold.
At this point, Shengshi had the opportunity to take off.
It can be said that today's prosperous age has such a large skeleton, basically all of it was forged by Xue Laosan.
From the acquisition of Asia Television and the development of Shengshi Media to Shengshi Venture Capital and Shengshi Communications, these are all Xue Laosan's strategic ideas.
And in the business process, it inevitably involves the investment of fixed assets. This is how Shengshi Real Estate came into being.
In addition to helping the Republic purchase petroleum equipment overseas and unexpectedly acquiring a 10% stake in PetroChina, Shengshi also entered the energy industry.
Only then did it reach its current scale.
In just seven or eight years, the prosperous times have grown from ants to elephants, and the powerful blood vessels are inserted into the 5% of Microsoft's shares.
Over the past few years, President Liu sold his shares in Microsoft and made a total of nearly 500 million US dollars in arbitrage profits. Today, President Liu's shares in Microsoft are only 1%.
It is these 500 million US dollars that forged the framework of Shengshi today.
It can be said that the scale of Shengshi is huge nowadays, but in fact, except for Shengshi China, which is generating hundreds of millions of Hong Kong dollars in profits every year and can continue to inject blood into the main group of Shengshi Tianxia, the situation of other sub-groups is really not optimistic.
Although Shengshi Media is developing well now, Asia Television has spent huge sums of money to buy out the copyrights of all the works of Jin Yong and Gu Long. Based on the adaptation of Jin Yong's special TV series, Asia Television's current ratings are on par with the behemoth TVB.
Moreover, following the same example, Asia Television has also created its own artist training class. In the past few years, several film and television superstars with wide appeal have grown up.
In addition, relying on the behemoth of Shengshi Tianxia, Shengshi Media used its power to suppress others and made brutal acquisitions, almost monopolizing the theaters on Hong Kong Island.
By controlling the output end, Shengshi Media has entered the film industry in a big way. In the past few years, the market has been extremely promising.
However, although the film and television industry, especially the film industry in Hong Kong Island today, is prosperous, it can't raise a dragon in the shallows.
Although the profits obtained every year are considerable, for ordinary businessmen, for the super giant Shengshi Tianxia, Shengshi Media's annual profits of tens of millions of Hong Kong dollars are really a drop in the bucket.
It can be said that this profit can only satisfy Shengshi Media's own expansion, and there is no need for the Shengshi Tianxia Group to provide blood transfusions.
Slightly closer to Shengshi Media are Shengshi Venture Capital and Shengshi Real Estate.
This Shengshi Venture Capital can be said to be the most valuable asset of Shengshi Group in the future. Shengshi Tianxia's shares in Microsoft and Cisco are controlled by this Shengshi Venture Capital.
In addition, Shengshi also has shares in Hutchison Whampoa and Bao's Shipping.
Of course, Xue Xiang in his previous life was not familiar with all business stories. Therefore, except for Microsoft, Cisco, and a few famous big names in Hong Kong, the venture investments made by Shengshi in other companies were basically managed by Shengshi Venture Capital itself.
Made by the team.
Without Xue Laosan's foresight, the venture capital investment made by the Shengshi Venture Capital team would naturally be accompanied by profits. Generally speaking, the profits are quite considerable, especially the annual profits of several big bulls that Xue Xiang has captured.
Dividends amount to hundreds of millions of Hong Kong dollars.
However, for the expanding Shengshi Venture Capital, this amount of funds is barely sufficient for secondary investment.
Shengshi Real Estate is even simpler. It has the name of real estate, but in fact, except for a company involved in real estate development in Pengcheng, the bridgehead of the Republic's reform and opening up, the rest of its subsidiaries are only responsible for managing President Liu's properties around the world.
As well as two islands in the Pacific, plus the Victoria hotel chain business.
Let’s not talk about President Liu’s fixed assets around the world. These are basically input-only parts with no output unless they are sold to obtain appreciation profits.
The real estate company in Pengcheng is not small compared to today's Republic of China, but its annual profits are only tens of millions of yuan.
The Victoria Hotel is in the expansion stage, and its annual profits are not enough for investment. Relying on the profits of Pengcheng Real Estate, it can only barely maintain it.
Except for Shengshi Media, Shengshi Venture Capital, and Shengshi Real Estate, which do not need blood transfusions, the remaining Shengshi Energy and Shengshi Communications are terrifying and huge vampires.
Shengshi Energy's main focus now is oil. Among them, Shengshi's 10% stake in PetroChina is listed under Shengshi Energy. Until PetroChina is listed, Shengshi Energy is basically invincible in the world. But now Shengshi Energy is making a big move.
Hundreds of millions of dollars have been invested in oil exploration and development in Siberia, but subsequent development may still be a bottomless pit until the giant oil field discovered in Shengshi, which caused Akio Morita to take murderous measures and whose reserves are no less than those in Daqing, begins to produce.
Before that, Shengshi Energy will inevitably require continuous investment from Shengshi Group.
And Shengshi Communications is where Xue Laosan places his hopes for the future of Shengshi, and his future investment will definitely be huge.
Just talking about the development of unlimited paging business in mainland China, Shengshi Communications has invested more than 50 million yuan in just three years. The unlimited paging business is nothing more than a pearl. It has only been developed in Beijing and Beijing to generate profits.
Generally speaking, the development of Shengshi Communications still requires a huge amount of monetary investment.
After figuring out the current situation of Shengshi, Xue Laosan couldn't help scratching his head, "Ying'er, let's put it this way, our Shengshi is completely relying on Microsoft's arbitrage."
After saying this, he remembered something again, slapped his forehead, and said, "No, I just saw that the large oil field in Siberia won the lottery, exploration, and development, and invested nearly 400 million U.S. dollars. According to this financial analysis, where did it come from?
So much money.”
President Liu said, "You forgot, last time I told you that we had no money, didn't you suggest that we package and list the auction platform of Shengshi China? With this listing, we cashed out nearly 700 million U.S. dollars, oil field development and mainland wireless exploration.
This money is the foundation for business development."
"What! Is an auction platform so valuable?"
Xue Laosan was stunned.
To put it bluntly, Xue Laosan really doesn’t understand business operations.
The current Shengshi Group is not without money, but according to the landowner idea of Xue Laosan, all the shares must be in his own hands, making Shengshi like a puffy giant, with plump skin and thick bones, but in his veins.
Always ischemic.
If this guy hadn't positioned Microsoft shares as a cash-out tool early on, Shengshi wouldn't even be where it is now.
"What do you think? The reputation of our Shengshi Auction Station in the antique industry is much stronger than that of Sotheby's or any other international auction house. After all, when it comes to antiques, we must be authentic people from the Republic of China. Even if it is just an auction station, then
However, the trading centers recognized by Southeast Asian circles have piled up auction tables, and their profitability has always been extremely impressive. This time, a full 40% of the share was delivered to the underwriters, and the exchange was worth 700 million US dollars. I still feel that it is a loss."
President Liu said angrily.
At this point, Xue Laosan suddenly realized!
Earlier, Liu Ying'er complained to him about the lack of cash flow, but he had no choice but to hold it in and came up with the idea of spinning off the auction platform and packaging it for listing.
When Xue Laosan thought about it, even if it was listed on the auction block, it would only be exchanged for a few hundred million Hong Kong dollars. Who would have thought that this guy could get 700 million US dollars.
In his poor business knowledge, today's prosperous times are just big and the overall assets are not much. If it really wants to flourish, it will take time to accumulate until Cisco and PetroChina go public.
How did you know that a mere auction platform could bring back so much cash? (To be continued...)