Chapter 23 The rich have distant relatives in the mountains
"You want me to help you make false accounts? How do you do this?" Luo Haili sat opposite Gu Kun with a plate of banana slices, teriyaki chicken breast, and a cup of yogurt.
Having worked in Lanfang for more than half a year, she has become accustomed to the chaos and randomness of this small country with boogers.
Lan Fang basically does not have the so-called corruption problem, or in other words, because it is a small country with few people, public funds belong to the same family anyway, and the prince has to help the people when there is a disaster, so it is a mess at all.
The people don't care how the taxes collected are actually spent, as long as they ensure that they only collect this amount each year and don't add any more money, and at the same time maintain public services, that's all.
Gu Kun swallowed a piece of steak and lowered his voice and said: "I have nothing to do now. In a few years, I may be blacklisted by Ocean Dog, so I don't want to hold the property here in my name, lest I become enemies in the future and be frozen. As for
It's also not convenient for my other employees or my women.
But don’t worry, I won’t give you a house or do anything to you. I’m going to pay to buy a place here and put it in your name. I’ll sign a loan mortgage with you in private, so you can ask
I borrowed the full amount to buy the house and used the house as collateral for repayment."
Gu Kun is well aware of Oceania's cruelty to anti-Oceanic people, and its long-arm jurisdiction is not just talk, so he will never buy property in such a country in his life.
After all, Luo Haili is not his employee. She is nominally the official seat of the Olympic Committee and deputy director of the Culture, Sports and Tourism Department of Lanfang. She can borrow money to buy a villa.
There are no opportunities for people in the cultural and sports fields to make money. Even if Oceania relies on the long-arm jurisdiction of the Foreign Corruption Act to deal with it in the future, there is no excuse. Being ugly can easily damage the international image of American imperialism. In order to
This little profit is not worth it.
After all, Luo Haili is also a graduate of Jiaotong University, and she still has some cultural literacy. She is no better than other pure sports students with well-developed limbs and simple minds. So after thinking about it for a while, she found the crux of this method:
"You secretly borrowed a mortgage and asked me to buy it. That's no problem. What if the value of the house increases? The increased value will belong to me? What if the house price drops? I can't pay it back."
Gu Kun smiled nonchalantly: "Of course you won't lose money if it falls. It's said that this is a mortgage loan. If you execute the mortgage, you won't be able to pay both sides. I mean, if I want to execute it.
As for the price rising, you do get a bit of an advantage, but as long as you don’t sell it, you won’t be able to cash it in. I may still be of use then, so I hope you will listen to my advice and not sell it.”
We have trained together and fought together. With this kind of friendship, it would definitely not be appropriate to send her to a villa directly. Luo Haili would still worry about the consequences and think that Gu Kun wanted to support her.
But just giving away the "value-added part", and still unable to sell the value-added part for cash, is almost worth the friendship between senior sister and junior brother. There is no need to think too much. This is also the price Gu Kun should pay to find White Gloves.
Luo Haili was not a pretty girl, she just had a pair of exaggeratedly long legs. Gu Kun also wanted to maintain this pure friendship between comrades.
"Okay, then it's settled. You think it's necessary, and I don't want to take advantage of you. But since it's mine in name, when you don't need it in the future, I may come to stay when you're on vacation." Luo Haili told the truth.
Agreed truthfully.
"Come on, then I'll let Xiaoying go look at the house in the next few days, and you just need to sign and pay the money."
With that said, Gu Kun also finished his breakfast and put the plate in the recycling area of the cafeteria in a very professional manner. Shi Shiran left.
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In the next few days, Gu Kun's two women, secretly protected by the new female bodyguard Natalia, visited houses around the Bay Area and had some fun.
Natalia is not a bodyguard or a killer, so her fighting ability is not very good, she is not good at fighting, and her marksmanship is only a glimpse of the skills in the eyes of professionals.
Her advantage is insight. She has some counter-espionage and criminal investigation training, and is good at discovering potential dangers. Therefore, she can only serve as the commander leading a small team of bodyguards. Specifically responsible for the task of thugs are two men trained by Gao Jianxiong.
bodyguard.
After all, it is a bit inconvenient for a man to directly protect his woman. Gu Kun has not seen many wealthy royal families who can't be satisfied because there are too many women. In the end, women and bodyguards train something. In the middle, a woman can be used as a commander.
Separated by a layer.
Of course, Gu Kun is definitely not a weakling like "there are too many women and he can't be satisfied". He has a magnificent penis and is extremely talented. None of the bodyguards around him can find anyone who is more manly than him.
Lin Ying knew that this house was bought for Gu Kun himself, so she asked her boyfriend in advance what specific requirements he had.
Gu Kun reluctantly said: "Whatever, just don't buy a sea view house. I'm tired of it. Don't buy one in the center of the Bay Area. Just follow Highway 101 and find a country town."
Check out the cheap and quiet country houses.”
In Gu Kun's eyes, the so-called sea view here in San Francisco is just a piece of shit. It's not pretty. The sea view means that the warmer and hotter the weather, the better.
When I go to Los Angeles in Southern California in a while, I might consider a villa in Long Beach, but forget about San Francisco.
As for the rural towns along Highway 101 south, they are actually Silicon Valley. Housing prices in Silicon Valley were already more expensive in 1996, but after all, the Internet was only two years old, and housing prices were at least several times higher than those four or five years later.
Room for growth.
For him, as long as he has a place to stay and interact with friends in Silicon Valley and Hollywood in the future, that's all.
In the future, after 1998, the relationship with Oceania officials will be bad, which does not mean that we will isolate ourselves from the global economy, nor does it mean that we will isolate ourselves from Oceania's cultural tourism and information industries. The people of Oceania still have something worth taking advantage of.
Lin Ying spent a week sightseeing in the Bay Area, and finally selected a country estate in Mountain View, which was about a dozen acres. The house was actually not that big, and the main reason was that the Sunkist orange orchard attached to the estate took up a lot of space.
Gu Kun didn't even look at it. He just took the cash and asked Luo Haili to come forward to sign the contract and pay. It cost more than two million US dollars in total.
During this time, Gu Kun himself was mainly busy with another thing.
He wants to take advantage of the current bull market trend in Internet stocks and make some money by following the trend. Although Gu Kun has always rejected Western financial dogs, he will not be troubled by the money he makes in vain.
As a reborn person, due to professional issues, he actually doesn't remember much about the financial stock market in his previous life. He only knows that "after the birth of the Internet, this bull market craziness lasted until 1999, accumulating a large number of bubbles."
The earliest Internet companies, such as Netscape, began to accept external investment in 1994, but they accepted venture capital at that time. It was not until 1995 that it spread to the primary market for preparatory IPO fundraising.
But it is impossible to share the dividends in these links if you are not an insider, a venture capital fund owner or a securities firm. Of course, Gu Kun also wanted to make some money earlier, but he had no way at the time.
At that time, the capital was not large enough, so we had to make some choices.
It was only after 1996 that early Internet stocks officially entered the secondary market, and only small investors like Gu Kun were eligible to enter the market and get a share of the pie.
Gu Kun actually had no idea which stock to buy.
But that doesn’t matter. As long as you are sure of the general direction and buy a fund of funds in a fixed sector, you will definitely make money.
Just like those new investors who entered China A-shares in early 2006, even if they didn't understand the principles and bought a few blindly, as long as they could exit before the big bull ended at the end of 2007, they would most likely make a profit. (Buying PetroChina
Except for those, let’s have a moment of silence)
However, Gu Kun himself would not stay in Oceania for a long time, nor did he want to open a secondary market trading account to keep an eye on it, so he decided to find a more professional one near Silicon Valley that only invested in the Nasdaq version.
fund.
Then he buys shares of this fund and asks the fund manager to buy specific Nasdaq stocks for him. This kind of fund usually focuses on a portfolio of 30 to 50 Internet stocks for investment, which also dilutes the fluctuations of a single stock.
risk.
In this case, as long as you don't add high leverage and just use margin trading, you can still completely avoid the risk of liquidation.
Gu Kun is also very stable. He has no intention of buying into the future bubble peak. He will just ride the bull market for a year. Next year, when Hong Kong returns, he will withdraw his funds and do other things before and after the Southeast Asian financial crisis breaks out.
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In this way, we only eat the most stable rising period, and we are not afraid of changing the historical trend after the amount of funds on hand is large - because if you really hold it until 1999, the funds on hand may indeed reach the level of one billion US dollars by then. But the problem is
If billion-dollar funds want to sell out, the bubble may burst in advance.
When the bubble is at a high level, the trading volume is actually not large. If you accidentally become an important part of the market, then stop trading.
In contrast, if it had been launched before 1998, even if you had several hundred million US dollars, you would easily have enough follow-up to take over.
The financial investment industry here in the Bay Area is not developed, and there are no global investment funds. However, it is quite easy to find professional funds that focus on the Nasdaq sector.
Gu Kun spent a week doing homework and research and selected a company that could be entrusted. It was a subsidiary of Sequoia Capital, focusing on the secondary market and digesting some of the reserves under the name of Sequoia Capital.
Gu Kun first bought 30 million US dollars on entrustment. During this period, he used some of his fixed assets and the equity of Lanfang Culture to do some mortgage financing, and invested another 20 million US dollars.
After finishing all this work, it's basically already the end of June. In the spare time every day, Gu Kun of course has to continue training to warm up and maintain his condition.
During this time, Gu Kun, who was in San Francisco, also received calls from several friends he met in the Netherlands last year.
One was the German director Emmerich whom he met in the Netherlands, and the other was Richard Hilton who was there to inspect the European hotel industry and travel for business expansion.
Coincidentally, they are both in Oceania these days, in Los Angeles not far away to be exact.
They knew that Gu Kun was coming to participate in the Olympics, so they wanted to say hello. When they learned that Gu Kun was still in San Francisco, they invited Gu Kun to visit nearby and have a get-together.
Of course, Gu Kun readily agreed. Although these friends only met once, they had kept in touch with each other by phone throughout the year, which was a useful network.