A brand-new Airbus A330 landed steadily at the Xiaoshan International Airport in Ark City, which had just been built but not yet put into commercial use.
This newly released Gu Kun special plane can be regarded as a breakthrough for this airport, becoming the first aircraft to visit this place. Of course, the right to use it must be paid separately and applied in accordance with the legal process. It includes the route of the private jet.
It was also applied in accordance with the law.
Today Gu Kun will take this new plane to Xiangjiang to participate in some unexpected business activities. It can also be regarded as a road show for future bargain hunting against Ding Sanshi and other rebels.
"Boss, be careful. I'm really sorry. The boarding building here can't be used yet. We have to use the emergency ramp first. The wind is a bit strong."
Female secretary Saranova, wearing high heels, led Gu Kun in the front and explained apologetically.
There were four bodyguards in black suits on both sides. They used long poles to carry black umbrellas tied to the poles and stretched them on both sides of the gangway to protect the hollow gangway from the wind. Every time Gu Kun took a step up, the four bodyguards held up the umbrellas.
He also stretched half a meter diagonally upward, protecting Gu Kun until he entered the cabin.
It was still relatively cold in Ark City at the end of February, and it was still raining lightly. It may not be a big deal to northerners, but Gu Kun was born in a tropical country, so he would definitely feel a little uncomfortable. This kind of pomp and circumstance naturally has a certain degree of discomfort.
It's necessary, not fussy.
Saranova, who was walking in front of him, was only wearing a short skirt and thin stockings, but she didn't need anyone to cover her at all. She even subconsciously used one hand to spread her skirt wider, so that she could use the short skirt to protect her boss.
Block more wind from the front.
Obviously, as a black-haired girl from a bitter cold land, she is not afraid of the cold at all.
"Okay, put down your skirt. I am also a world champion after all. Winter swimming is easy and I am not so squeamish. Go back and ask your sister Midrova what kind of heroic figure I was when I was swimming in Nikolayev."
Gu Kun was also a little awkward and tried to dissuade the female secretary.
Just kidding, I didn't have to spend any money at all back then. Just relying on her heroic figure in winter swimming in the Black Sea, I made Midrova, who had never done business in person, volunteer her life. This was the first time for this young lady.
Gu Kun relied on his masculine dominance, how could he let Mao Niuer block the wind like a sissy?
After entering the cabin, Gu Kun wanted to walk around and see the decoration of his new toy.
However, because a thought suddenly flashed in his mind, he couldn't help but turned around and told Saranova: "In the future, you should never use the boarding building at other airports. In this way, it doesn't matter whether the airport has a boarding building or not.
I saw on TV that when foreign heads of state visit abroad, there is no boarding building. Aren't they all taking the gangway? This is so that the honor guard and military band can line up to welcome them. I think they imitate the Saudi royal family and build a gold-covered elevator.
We’ll bring it with us on the plane.”
I have already bought an A330, and it is not a dwarf like the Gulfstream G550. It is a large aircraft designed to carry just a few dozen tons of passengers. Now it is used only for Gu Kun and his party to travel. There must be a lot of redundancy. Install another one.
Gold-covered escalators should be fine.
"Okay, I'll make the arrangements right away." Saranova took advantage of the time to prepare for takeoff and while there was still signal on the ground, and hurriedly made two calls to the supplier to confirm.
The supplier was very helpful and responded very quickly. He gave us a confirmation soon after, saying that there was enough room for weight modification. All he had to do was to replace the marble-topped bar in the main living room of the cabin or the triangular massage bathtub in the secondary bathroom.
Made of light and thin material, the load can be freed up to install a gold-coated escalator.
An Airbus technical director also apologized on the phone: "It was our fault in confirming customer needs that caused you trouble."
Saranova was polite: "It doesn't matter, it's not your fault. It's because we didn't let the boss personally confirm the decoration plan before - you know, the boss is busy and usually doesn't have time to confirm every detail personally. He
Only when he saw the real thing did he realize that this was what he didn't like."
How can Party A, who really has enough money to burn, confirm Party B's design plans one by one? What a waste of time.
You must wait until Party B has finished building it, and the big boss feels uncomfortable after using it himself, so he immediately smashes it.
Didn't you know that later Cao Dewang went to Oceania to open a glass factory? He didn't have time to see the factory design plan in person at the beginning. He had to inspect it on the spot after it was completed, and then he said that the door was facing the wrong way. The Oceania designer didn't understand Feng Shui, so he completely ruined it and redone it.
, go to the Finance Office to receive reimbursement.
Gu Kun's current level of prowess cannot be lower than that of mere Cao Dewang.
If you buy an airplane and a gold Maybach, and if you don't take a ride on it and then smash some of the unsatisfactory parts and redo them, how can you still call it upper class society?
Of course, Party A will still despise Party A who does not reimburse additional expenses and is just picky about the wording of the contract. Even if it is legally defensible, it will damage the persona of the rich and the reputation of the world. But Gu Kun obviously belongs to that group.
Party B must be very fond of this kind of father who "will definitely reimburse you for the extra expenses if you let him smash it."
Saranova told Gu Kun the feedback from Airbus and asked him to weigh it himself. Gu Kun thought about it for two seconds and chose to abandon the marble-topped bar in the living room.
"After arriving at Kai Tak Airport, I asked people to throw away all the marble furniture and replace it with lighter ones to free up space for installing elevators - what kind of marble is used on the plane?"
"Gu Sheng is so brave. You have to sit through it yourself to know how to change it." Liang Jinsong, who was sitting on the sofa opposite Gu Kun, couldn't help but praise him.
This time, he specially came to Fangzhou City from Xiangjiang to explain the situation in Xiangjiang to Gu Kun, and then accompany him to hunt for bargains.
This is also to save Gu Kun's time. Those who work in this industry must spend several times the time of the younger brother in exchange for the time of the boss himself.
Just like every time Bill Gates attends those forums, his assistant has to rehearse the person he plans to meet, walk the route Bill Gates wants to take several times, and count the stopwatch each time to determine how long it will take.
Gu Kun responded lightly: "It's nothing. The maximum limit for a set of furniture is several million yuan. How can the time wasted by asking me to review the plan in advance is worth it. Let's get down to business first. Why did the situation at HSBC suddenly change this time?
It has deteriorated so much that it has to go to the point of forcing the auction of Yingke Digital shares."
It turned out that the main purpose of Gu Kun's flight to Xiangjiang this time was to see if there were any valuable organs that could be sold individually when collecting the body for Mr. Li's Yingke Digital.
When things developed to this point, he felt that he was caught off guard, and it was a pure butterfly effect that was beyond the scope of the reborn prophet.
When Liang Jinsong first informed him of the relevant news last week, the situation had not deteriorated to this extent. At that time, he only said that because Internet stocks continued to fall, Yingke Digital had liquidated its position.
As for why he came to the stage of liquidating his position, Gu Kun himself also found it very strange——
In July last year, when Gu Kun held Yingke Digital's stock at its highest level, the market value was close to 20 billion U.S. dollars, and he held shares of Xiangjiang Telecom worth 7 to 8 billion. Together with several other Hong Kong network concept stocks and telecommunications concept stocks, all
Together, the highest total market value is close to 40 billion US dollars.
As mentioned before, Liang Jinsong helped him get 30 billion U.S. dollars of cash out of this part of the equity. In other words, from July to early December, he paid a total of 20% off before he successfully ran away.
At its peak, $8 billion in paper wealth was lost.
Of the US$30 billion that escaped, 20 billion came from Mr. Li’s series of bubble companies, and about 10 billion came from other people’s Hong Kong Internet stocks.
What Gu Kun didn't understand was that even when he ran, Mr. Li didn't react quickly enough and still rushed to run. Then why didn't he run away when the stock price clearly started to trend downward?
This time Liang Jinsong came and had a detailed interview with Gu Kun, and then he uncovered some of the inside story.
"The first reason is that he is too greedy. You know, Mr. Li doesn't actually understand the Internet very well. He just uses others who don't understand it to speculate on concepts. Young people suddenly burst into the limelight than he has struggled for his whole life.
His father is still very popular, so it’s inevitable that he will drift away. When Yingke Digital’s total market value was 500 billion Hong Kong dollars, he was still not satisfied. He always felt that it could reach 600 billion or 700 billion...
So when I ran according to your instructions, the Li family even thought that we were timid and were afraid, so they gave the bolder person a chance to increase their chips again, and he even took over my multibillion-dollar offer."
Liang Jinsong said this eloquently.
One side was already running, while the other side was still receiving orders and pallets. The time difference in cognition, combined with the enthusiasm of the environment and the arrogance of the authorities, contributed to the first wave of reverse operations.
However, this kind of reverse operation only has a transaction scale of several billion US dollars, accounting for at most less than one-third of the overall running volume.
This still doesn't explain the slow response that occupies the main part later.
Gu Kun bluntly pointed out this doubt: "The cognitive difference and time difference cannot be this big. They completely discovered that we were really going to run away. When did they? Why didn't they follow us during the following period?
Have you tried your best to find a taker?"
Liang Jinsong shrugged helplessly and secretly: "Not all investors in the world are as calm as you. You are so indifferent in the face of such a big storm. There are too few gentlemen who do not use leverage.
The asset-liability ratio and operating-liability ratio of the Li family are both very high. Mr. Li’s shares in Yingke Digital were covered by several layers of equity pledge financing under the name Qiaoli, and the money raised was invested in other projects. This was because his father
Because of his prestige, HSBC also provided him with a lot of financing for illegal operations.
Therefore, as soon as there is a downward trend, they cannot sell directly. They must unwind layers of equity pledges and debt financing before they can escape. Otherwise, if HSBC sees through it and asks for additional guarantees in advance, it will be a disaster -
—Unless they are really willing to increase the guarantee.
But now it turns out that Boss Li has no intention of saving his youngest son, and has secretly stated through some non-public channels that he will clean up his son. In this way, HSBC was willing to lend him money before, and it was illegal financing, and it was HSBC itself.
I was deceived and failed to fulfill my due diligence obligations.
Some of the illegal operators at HSBC thought, 'Because he is Boss Li's son, Boss Li will definitely save him' and illegally accepted invalid mortgages/duplicate mortgages. In fact, they are cheating outside by relying on their identity as Boss Li's son.
, Boss Li doesn’t know about it at all’.”
Liang Jinsong said this coldly, and even Gu Kun took a breath.
This courage... is really incredible.
Gu Kun couldn't help but wonder: "If Boss Li himself is asked to provide additional guarantees for Yingke Digital's repeated pledge losses after the liquidation, how much money will they have to lose?"
Liang Jinsong: "At least 9 billion U.S. dollars, and the upper limit may be 12 billion U.S. dollars. After all, when Yingke Digital was at its peak, the equity pledge was based on a market value of more than 500 billion Hong Kong dollars, which is equivalent to more than 70 billion U.S. dollars. Now the company's market value has dropped to 20 billion U.S. dollars.
All related collaterals have been enforced, and the pure deficit will still be at least that much."
Gu Kun touched his beard and said: "In other words, after weighing it up, the old fox has lost at least 9 billion US dollars at the cost of losing a son? This is a good deal, his son is really valuable."