Gu Kun had already talked about this, so the negotiation must have ended on bad terms.
Ding Sanshi's face turned slightly blue, and he pretended to leave as if nothing had happened, but in fact, it was unclear whether he wanted to hold back the tears in his heart.
Gu Kun didn't care.
In the Internet age, no matter how well you do, there will definitely be people who will criticize you. Gu Kun doesn’t expect everyone to like it, as long as his target customer base establishes a positive impression of him. That’s enough.
For some things, it is better to explode them early than to keep them under wraps and delay them.
In 1999 and 2000, when the scale of domestic Internet users was still small, if you wanted to be a leader, you could try a portal website that offended Gu Kun, and then try to offend him, and then Gu Kun would scare the monkeys, which would be considered a punch away.
To avoid a hundred punches.
In the future, other colleagues will naturally have an extra level of confidence in their minds and know who is easy to offend and who is in trouble.
After Ding Sanshi left, Ma Feng also felt a little embarrassed and sighed: "If I had known that your differences were so big, I wouldn't have mediated like this. If we change it, everyone would look better."
Gu Kun patted Ma Feng on the shoulder: "Don't think like that, think about the good news. What I told you at the beginning about the dangers of the Internet bubble, I still hold that attitude today. Today's Nasdaq, for painting
The imagination of the pie is too big, and it has reached the point where it does not do quantitative calculations and only looks at industry rankings. It is too dangerous.
I deliberately made Ding Sanshi angry today. He will definitely publicize my short-sightedness. I don't care. I just used him to let all the entrepreneurs and investors in your circle know what kind of vision I have. When it really collapses in the future
When the time comes, they will worship me."
Ma Feng smiled bitterly and shook his head: "You always tell me this point of view, which makes me sometimes unable to help but think about how to survive the winter. However, I still have something to advise you. Do you think your historical mission is...
It is to earn dignified money for the Chinese people, to earn luxury and high-end money that would have flowed out to France and Italy. This is correct.
But you yourself have said that the Chinese society will one day become a low-desire society like the Japanese, and the entire luxury industry will definitely decline by then. When that day comes, won't you consider the issue of transformation? And the Internet
, and the new technology industries derived from the Internet, the imagination space is endless and endless.
When I founded Ali Baba, especially after I heard you talk about the bubble winter theory and the cycle theory, I have been thinking about making Ali Baba a company that lasts 104 years and spans three centuries.
Your kind of extravagant business has only managed to survive in the end, and there is not much room for further expansion."
Gu Kun couldn't help laughing when he heard this: "Okay, then if I live for another 102 years, I will have to rely on Ali Baba's shares for the next 72 years to earn dividends despite droughts and floods."
Ma Feng's expression twisted: "That's not what I meant! I mean...don't you have ambitions that are hard to achieve, and don't you feel unwilling to do so?"
Gu Kun said matter-of-factly: "What is there to be unwilling to do? I know all this, but even if I know it, I am still willing to accept it. I am not a career fanatic in the first place, and I have never thought about working hard all my life.
The Chinese passed through our area, even for one more generation. When China's national power reached the first place in the world and its internal class was solidified, the trend of buying imported luxury goods because of admiration for foreigners stopped. In order to prove their class
The trend of transcending and buying luxury goods has also stopped. At that time, Chinese society will definitely become a low-desire society like Japan.
Let's assume that this step will take another 30 years, or even less than a little. Then at worst, I will retire completely when I am 50 years old. My historical mission has been completed, and the remaining money will be more conservative, and I will be able to earn basic dividends during droughts and floods.
You can't expect one person to be both Sun Dapao and Yuan Shikai. This is something that people who sell different personas will spend their whole life to complete, and they can't change the style.
When I am 50 years old, the Chinese society has developed to the point where people are proud to buy domestic products, and only rich people buy domestic products, but poor people buy imported goods, so I will quit my job and hide my merit and fame."
When the mountain flowers bloom, Gu Kun's historical mission will be completed.
Gu Kun will be 23 years old after the New Year. He doesn't have to work for 30 years before retiring. He can retire after working for another 27 years.
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Because it would take time to counter Ding Sanshi's plan, Gu Kun was not in a hurry.
He had not considered sabotaging Huang Yi's Nasdaq listing. After all, Ding Sanshi had not done anything evil to break the capital limit. He just had a personal grudge with Gu Kun, a typical attempt to step on others to get a higher position.
Not to mention anything else, compared to the unfortunate coffees of later generations, Ding Sanshi can be said to be a serious business with upright roots.
Therefore, if such a company is put on Nasdaq, Oceania investors can spend more than 6 US dollars per share to underwrite and subscribe for it first. After the bubble bursts, Gu Kun will take it over for 50.60 cents per share, and then squeeze it out.
Rounding it up is better than strangling it directly.
Oceania stock investors are not human beings, especially those on Wall Street, and their money is neither in vain nor in vain.
(But I don’t agree with the excessive analogy and promotion of this view that “losing money from Oceanic people is a good thing”. Unfortunately, things like coffee beeping and taxi rides break the lower limit of human personality after all. Giving money to fake traffic will reduce the overall Chinese people’s popularity.
The image of the world has harmed Chinese people in other industries, leaving the world with an image of "Chinese are just cheap sellers". Huang Yi's is just a normal false fire bubble. During the same period, the bubbles of Oceanic companies were worse than it, so there is no
Refresh the lower limit of human morality)
Ma Feng is quite good at getting things done. When Gu Kun first came here, he mentioned in a casual chat that he was not against buying property in Ark City.
The current negotiation with Ding Sanshi is not very pleasant, and Ma Feng is looking for some opportunities to sell well in front of investors.
So just two days later, Ma Feng called Gu Kun very attentively and said that he had spotted a few mansions. If Gu Kun was free, he could go over and take a look at them at any time to make a decision.
Gu Kun was not polite to Ma Feng: "I don't want to buy a villa. I will only look at it if you want to bring a manor."
A villa is too demeaning. If I had just bought a villa three years ago, how can I still buy a villa now when I have tens of billions of dollars?
Ma Feng answered confidently: "It doesn't matter, the manor also has a Western-style flower garden or a Chinese-style garden. If you want to renovate it, I will send someone to help you get the approval."
After hearing the other party's kindness, Gu Kun didn't want to hurt his good intentions, so he asked the other party to take him to see it.
Ma Feng sent Cai Chongxin to accompany the guests personally and help with the formalities. He spent three to five days visiting many famous gardens in Ark City.
In fact, the domestic land policy in 1999 was relatively loose. When the local government heard that Gu Kun wanted to buy it, there was no obstacle.
He is a well-known patriotic overseas Chinese and an old friend of the Chinese people. In fact, relying solely on the social connections of the COSCO and CCB departments, there is no need for Ma Feng, who is still weak now. Ma Feng is nothing more than a matchmaker and errand boy.
of.
So Gu Kun spent money all the way and got the Geling Banshan Manor on Beishan Road, and the Western-style palace next to the Huaxia Academy of Fine Arts on Nanshan Road.
Finally, the generation in Maojiabu on the west bank of West Lake, which is still relatively desolate today, created a garden that combines Chinese and Western styles——
On the north side is a French-style palace, and outside is the Western-style garden of the Ark Garden. I also need to build an additional Western-style garden at my home.
On the south side is Guozhuang, which is a protected ancient garden. The garden bought by Gu Kun is next to the cultural relics protection unit. The style is very consistent. It is said that Professor Chen Congzhou and Chen Chen, who founded the Tongji Academy, restored Guozhuang in 1991.
The side is imitated.
All in all, Gu Kun only spent a few hundred million yuan to complete the four gardens. It would have been more expensive than buying an Airbus plane or a pure gold Maybach.
It can only be said that the late 1990s was a good time to return to China and buy Chinese gardens at a low price. If it were earlier, although the prices would be cheaper, there would not necessarily be such a relaxed trading atmosphere, and you would not necessarily be able to buy things with money. Those days were called courtyard houses.
It can be done for tens of thousands of dollars, but you still have to find so many courtyard houses waiting to be sold.
The comrades in charge of reception at the local level were originally worried that Gu Kun would lower the price and would not be able to handle the matter easily. But later they saw that this international friend was spending so generously, and they were completely relieved. No matter how much they sold, no one would jump out and stir up trouble, feeling that the state-owned goods were being sold at a low price.
of assets.
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After spending hundreds of millions to buy a house, Gu Kun couldn't live in it and just let it hang out.
Anyway, before winter comes, the weather in Lanfang is too hot.
In addition, Gu Kun may have more things to deal with in mainland China recently. While watching Liang Jinsong ship network board concept stocks, he discussed some business with Ma Feng to prepare for the Internet winter.
Therefore, he planned to live in Ark City until winter, and then return to the warm Lan Fang to spend the winter.
A few months passed by in a blink of an eye, and Liang Jinsong's shipments were very smooth, almost maintaining a cash-out rate of more than US$2 billion per week.
In the domestic Internet media circle, many voices began to question Gu Kun and make sarcastic remarks. Gu Kun also knew that it was Ding Sanshi who took the lead, but he never caused much waves.
Perhaps Gu Kun himself stayed in the mainland and acted as a deterrent. Especially when Gu Kun bought a house in Fangzhou City, he did not choose it randomly, and he did not just buy a house for the sake of buying a house.
He also took this opportunity to communicate with various local forces in Ark City, so that people from all regulatory departments could fully realize how deep Gu Kun had been with the COSCO Group, CCB Group, and Huahai Oil Group.
of friendship.
In this way, even if Ding Sanshi wanted to hack him, the local department would help Gu Kun, and Ding Sanshi would not dare to go too far.
Otherwise, you won’t be able to bear it even if you just go to your company every day to conduct tax inspections in accordance with the law.
In the blink of an eye, Christmas is approaching, and the Hong Kong network and telecommunications sector stocks that have accumulated more than 30 billion US dollars are finally sold out. Gu Kun's cash flow is once again approaching the 40 billion US dollars mark.
After Ding Sanshi tried to bite Gu Kun several times, he found that it had no effect, so he didn't take it to heart anymore, but quickly returned all his attention to Huang Yi's IPO.
The company's listing is the top priority.
Hurrying and hurrying, we have finally decided to launch it after the Chinese New Year next year, maybe in May, or at the earliest, April 1 or the end of March.
However, two days before Christmas, Liang Jinsong suddenly called Gu Kun:
"Mr. Gu, the Nasdaq fell by more than 700 points today! A 15% drop! I'm afraid that Hong Kong Internet concept stocks will also plummet! Fortunately, you ran early!"