The "Four Seasons Hotel" located at No. 8 Financial Street, Hong Kong Central was officially opened. Guests from all over the world gathered at once. As the three major shareholders of the "Four Seasons Hotel" - Lin Zuhui, Bill Gates and Waleed, also attended the opening ceremony.
The Four Seasons Hotel Hong Kong is divided into two parts. The first is the 45-storey Four Seasons Hotel, which has 399 guest rooms. Most of the rooms have 180-degree views of Victoria Harbor and the coast of the Kowloon Peninsula; the second is the 60-storey service building.
The Four Seasons Residence is provided for guests staying in Hong Kong for a long time. It has 519 rooms and the monthly rent ranges from HKD 50,000 to HKD 200,000.
This is the only hotel in the world that has two Michelin three-star restaurants (in the future). Its shopping mall is directly connected to the International Financial Center Mall, so guests can buy all the big-name luxury goods on Hong Kong Island without leaving home.
But beautiful scenery, delicious food and convenient shopping are not the core competitiveness of Four Seasons Hotel Hong Kong. It is best known for its unique geographical location - living there, looking north, you can see the mainland across the water.
You can reach the Hong Kong and Macau Ferry Terminal by walking downstairs for 10 minutes. Whether you want to gamble in Macau or take a trip to the high seas, it is very convenient here. If you take photos of the night view of Victoria Harbor, the Four Seasons Hotel Hong Kong will definitely be in the frame.
Four Seasons Hotel itself is the luxury positioning of five-star hotels in the world, and "Four Seasons Hotel Xiangjiang" will become the best representative of Four Seasons hotels in the world.
There are only a handful of five-star hotels on Hong Kong Island, originally the two hotels in the Convention and Exhibition Center - Marriott Harbourview and Grand Hyatt, and the two hotels in Pacific Place - Shangri-La, JW Marriott, and
Mandarin Oriental.
Now, the opening of the Four Seasons Hotel has suppressed all these hotels in one fell swoop, making it the most luxurious hotel in Hong Kong.
"Hey, why hasn't the master Lin Sheng arrived yet?"
"That's right, the guests here today include Dong Sheng, Bill Gates, Prince Walid, Prince of Monaco, etc. Why doesn't Lin Sheng receive them?"
At this time, many guests were arranged by the organizer in the 'disc-shaped square' outside the hotel's main entrance. Everyone was also curious about Lin Zuhui's figure.
suddenly.
A helicopter flew in the sky, attracting everyone's attention. Everyone was surprised and wondered if this was the organizer's program?
A group of bodyguards quickly ran towards the open space in the garden next to the disc square, forming an open space for the helicopter to land.
"It's Lin Sheng!"
"Lin Sheng arrived in a helicopter, it was so cool!"
"As expected of the young richest man in the world, his thinking is always so surprising!"
"Drive yachts, fly planes, surf, dive... Mr. Lin is an all-around rich man!"
Bill Gates and other distinguished guests couldn't help but smile when they saw Lin Zuhui's impressive appearance. This is probably the most outstanding super-rich person in the world; I'm afraid, only Oracle boss Ellison can barely compare with him.
The helicopter stopped steadily in the open space. Lin Zuhui walked down in a suit and leather shoes, giving people a spirited and temperamental state. He looked like a thirty-year-old young man, which gave people a great contrast.
, because he is also a self-made richest man in the world.
“Hello everyone, welcome to the opening ceremony of Four Seasons Hotel today!”
Lin Zuhui's energetic words came from far and near.
"Lin Sheng, congratulations!"
Next was the ribbon-cutting ceremony. Since there were so many big names and distinguished guests, there were a total of 5 people participating in the ribbon-cutting ceremony.
Ribbon-cutting, speeches, cocktail receptions, performances, after all, the reporters really saw what pomp and circumstance meant.
Not to mention the participating dignitaries, business tycoons, and many big-name stars from Hollywood.
"Mr. Lin, every time I come to Hong Kong, I feel that the place has changed a lot. The atmosphere of technology and culture is getting stronger and stronger, which makes people look at me with admiration!" Bill Gates said with admiration while holding a glass of wine.
Lin Zuhui glanced at Hong Kong's political leaders and said seriously: "The Hong Kong government's support and guidance in this area are the key to Hong Kong's success. It is precisely with good policies that we, as investors, can invest funds in the technology industry.
"
With the development of Xiangjiang's technology industry and cultural industry, the whole world has begun to pay attention and study; in this way, everyone will actually find that the origin of all this lies in the media group, Xiaomi Technology, which is obviously closely related to Lin Zuhui
.
Because of this, Lin Zuhui is actually very high-profile.
Being high-profile is not necessarily a bad thing, and being low-key is not necessarily a good thing. In short, Lin Zuhui does whatever he wants.
Bill Gates did not discuss 'electric vehicles' and 'online games' in depth because these two industries have just begun and Microsoft has not yet targeted them. Of course, Microsoft's gaming department was established a few years ago, but it has not yet
Involves online games.
His real purpose in coming to Xiangjiang is ICQ.
"Lin Sheng, ICQ's success in the blog field really impressed me."
ICQ established a blog department this year, adopting the social model of "140 words plus photos", and through the participation of Hollywood stars and media, the number of users has skyrocketed.
"It is not complete yet. We are considering adding video sharing, live broadcast and other functions. It will become the world's largest social software..." Lin Zuhui dropped the bait.
At this time, he actually wanted to sell ICQ. The social software in this world is a little different. ICQ is like a complex of social software such as QQ, YouTube, Facebook, and MSN.
If he were an American, then ICQ might become the "Penguin Group" of the United States, not to mention monopolizing social networking, but it would definitely achieve higher achievements such as Facebook in its previous life.
Bill Gates immediately said: "The copyright issue is enough for you to have a headache. But I hope to have a formal discussion with you. Do you have time tomorrow?"
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! He can’t wait to win the ICQ because he discovered a problem. Lin Zuhui has a very deep understanding of the Internet and is also very confident.
This made him afraid to wait any longer, so he wanted to talk about the acquisition. Because Lin Zuhui had previously revealed his intention to sell, he was not worried about Lin Zuhui not selling.
What's more, when it comes to videos, music, etc., European and American copyright requirements are strict, and Lin Zuhui may not be happy to continue doing it.
"certainly!"
The two had a brief exchange, and Lin Zuhui began to entertain other guests one after another.
........
In the evening, after finishing his social activities, Lin Zuhui came to the presidential suite of the Four Seasons Hotel.
This presidential suite is exclusive to Lin Zuhui and is not open to outsiders. Of course, Lin Zuhui pays for the annual stay.
When it comes to annual packages at Four Seasons Hotels, there are many famous examples in the past:
First, in the TV series "A Certain Name", the Four Seasons Hotel in Hong Kong is alluded to. Zhao Ruilong, played by Feng Lei, uses "Three Seasons Hotel" to allude to the Four Seasons Hotel in Hong Kong and calls it "Wangbei Tower": a group of brothers from the mainland live here.
, looking north, looking at the North Tower. Coming out is not a simple matter. In the play, Zhao Ruilong said that he changed 5 passports, 2 airports, and changed the destination from Singapore to Hong Kong before he came out. It took so much effort, because Hong Kong
The common law system is implemented, and there is no extradition agreement with the mainland. Coming here to look at the north is to wait for the return date to continue to make a fortune, and more importantly, for self-preservation.
Second, just 2 months before the broadcast of "A Certain Name", Xiao Mouhua, the helmsman of the Tomorrow Department, was brought to justice. In less than 10 years, he controlled 6 listed companies, participated in and controlled 9 commercial banks, and 4 securities companies.
The total assets of the company and four trust companies, the core institutions of Tomorrow, exceed one trillion yuan. Baoshang Bank alone, which was ruled bankrupt, created a huge hole of 200 billion yuan. Before being brought to justice, Xiao Mouhua had lived in the Four Seasons in Hong Kong for a long time.
In the hotel, according to Hong Kong media reports, he is often followed by eight female bodyguards, making it difficult for ordinary people to approach.
Third, like Xiao Mouhua, there are many mainland wealthy people who use the Four Seasons Hotel in Hong Kong as a hiding place. For example, Xu Moudong, the former actual controller of Beida Jade Bird Group, the nominal president of Beida Jade Bird, and political and business broker Su Mouren were taken away for investigation
Later, Xu went to Hong Kong and stayed at the Four Seasons Hotel, where he stayed for two years. In 2016, he left Hong Kong for Japan and later resigned as chairman of Peking University Jade Bird. Even after his father passed away, he did not return to China and only asked someone to bring him a piece of cake.
He wrote a eulogy on paper, stating that he would definitely come back. "There is not much way to go from Pengshan, and the blue bird is diligent to visit." Xu Moudong once used this poem to explain the origin of the name of Peking University's blue bird. Now it seems that this poem is more like
It is a portrayal of him staying in Hong Kong and taking refuge in Japan.
When these half-brothers with the same experience gathered at the Four Seasons Hotel in Hong Kong, they knew each other's past tacitly. They just soaked in the infinity pool, enjoyed Michelin three-star cuisine, and inquired through various channels.
news, secretly planning his own way.
.......
When Joey Lam walked into his exclusive suite, a scent of fragrance hit his face. It was none other than Erica ‘Sophie’ from “Tomorrow Never Dies”.
The two didn't care about anything and separated after a French romance.
"Dear, what do you think of my suit?" Sophie turned around proudly, with deep love in her eyes.
This is Lin Zuhui's super ability and charm, which gives him a "golden finger" when it comes to women. Whether it is an oriental beauty or a Western beauty, as long as he wants to, it will be difficult for any woman he has messed with to escape his spell.
Grasp.
Of course, he must want to keep the relationship for a long time, otherwise there will still be a 'breakup' situation.
For example, the Hilton sisters, due to Lin Zuhui's long-term neglect, they finally broke up amicably.
But Sophie was different. First of all, Lin Zuhui didn't neglect her very much and often invited her to go with Monica. Secondly, Lin Zuhui made certain financial and verbal commitments. Finally, Lin Zuhui used the "Holy Spirit in Beauty"
as bait.
In short, as long as Lin Zuhui manages relationships, he is equivalent to a protagonist with a "golden finger", and there is no problem of being betrayed by a woman.
Lin Zuhui said in surprise: "This is your bad girl look in "007 Tomorrow Never Dies"!"
"So, am I bad?" Sophie came up, put her hands on Lin Zuhui's shoulders, and said in a seductive tone.
Lin Zuhui put his arms around her black lace waist and said, "I like women who are a little bit bad, only they have taste!"
"Then I'll make you look good later!" Sophie smiled evilly, then turned and walked towards the living room.
Next, the two of them drank red wine and enjoyed the suite and the scenery outside.
"Where is my son?" Lin Zuhui asked.
"Why, do you remember that you have a son?" Sophie said with a smile.
Lin Zuhui nodded and said, "Of course I miss him very much!"
Sophie suddenly looked happy and said: "It's at Monica's place!" After saying that, she showed a playful expression.
Lin Zuhui's eyes lit up and he said, "So, Monica is also in the hotel?"
"I won't tell you!" Sophie said mischievously.
No need to guess, Monica also came to the hotel.
Lin Zuhui took Sophie's black silk thighs into his hands and slowly admired them, and this woman's lace clothes even revealed a 'black widow'-like temptation.
"I'm not tied up yet!" Sophie said eagerly.
"NONO, I want to tie you up today!" Lin Zuhui's eyes glowed green with excitement.
........
The next day, Lin Zuhui and Bill Gates had a detailed discussion and reached a preliminary agreement on the ICQ transaction.
This deal still needs to be reached by the ICQ board of directors, but it is already a certainty because the media group holds 72% of ICQ's shares.
Lin Zuhui will gradually reduce his overt personal investment in the United States and gradually switch to covert investment.
Hold shares of promising U.S. companies through various models such as decentralization, offshore, and trust;
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! At the same time, the biggest secret agents are of course the foreign women and children.
...
In late October, the US media reported that "Microsoft will acquire the world's largest social software ICQ for US$8.2 billion." The news suddenly spread and caused a sensation in the world.
Of course, the American media also pointed out that half of the funds for this transaction will be paid in stock. After all, even Microsoft, with tens of billions of dollars in cash flow, cannot acquire ICQ with all cash.
Why is ICQ so valuable? People have discussed this question one after another.
In fact, it is easy to draw the conclusion: ICQ is the world's largest social software, especially the birth of the ICQ blog, which has made this company's social status as stable as a mountain; Americans' work and life are inseparable from ICQ, and voice services are even more important.
It is expected to break the monopoly of traditional telecommunications, as well as games...
In short, Microsoft's victory over ICQ has solidified its position as the Internet leader in one fell swoop, affecting all aspects of Internet users around the world.
As the news spread, Xiangjiang became the focus of the world, the media in Xiangjiang went into a carnival, and the citizens of Xiangjiang were proud of it.
The small city of Xiangjiang actually created a miracle in the history of the Internet.
Inspiring.
At the same time, the media group's stock surged by 15% in an instant, and its market value reached approximately HK$300 billion, making it a world-class technology giant.
Lin Zuhui’s net worth is close to 100 billion U.S. dollars, shocking the world!
.......
Media Building.
Lin Zuhui organized a meeting with senior executives of the media group's software department.
Software/games is one of the four major businesses of the media group, and it is also the business with the largest proportion of assets. It originally owned two major listed companies - ICQ, Sina.com, and also owned The9 City, 'Sitong Smart Payment', software
Outsourcing, software agency... and a series of Internet businesses.
The media group gained nearly US$6 billion from the sale of ICQ.
Sina's market value at this time was not low, as high as HK$60 billion.
"This sale of ICQ is not because I want to reduce Internet assets. On the contrary, we want to increase investment in the Internet. Next, I will talk about a few points for everyone to discuss together."
"First point, where is the growth point of Sina? At present, Sina's market value is as high as 60 billion, which is due to the surge in wireless growth business, combined with traditional media (outdoor advertising, publishing houses), new romantic paintings, Sina video and other businesses
, favored by investors.”
"However, the barbaric growth of wireless value-added services will inevitably lead to rectification by the mainland government. You must be mentally prepared."
Everyone looked at each other and lamented the boss's precautions. They even felt that Lin Zuhui must have gotten some information from the mainland executives.
In fact, Lin Zuhui just looked at this issue from the perspective of a person from the future.
At present, Sina is the first of the four major portals in China, but he understands that portals will decline; moreover, Sina is also subject to some restrictions in the mainland.
The president of New Romantic Painting said: "This year New Romantic Painting started a VIP system, and the growth of paying players is good... There is still a way to go to reach the scale that the boss talked about, mainly because the online payment system is not yet mature.
.”
New Romance is the 'online comic industry'. There is no VIP fee in the early stage. The cartoonists who create the comics rely on Taiwan, Hong Kong and other publishing houses to purchase copyrights to obtain income; of course, not all works can be published, and those who cannot be published can only rely on
Creative passion, and some subsidies from the new romantic painting website.
This model is similar to that of Diandian.com. It was not a VIP system at the beginning. The main revenue came from Taiwan Publishing House. Because Taiwanese people think that mainland works are cheap, they are also willing to buy and publish Yidiandian's works.
Of course, the difference is that in the early days of New Romance, cartoonists could still get stable income with the support of large groups, so Sina also invested quite a lot in the early stage.
Lin Zuhui nodded and said: "The development of New Romantic Painting is still remarkable. With more and more Internet payment methods, there will be more and more VIP users; as long as you set your sights on the world, then we can grow to
That height.”
At present, the main Internet payment is online banking and even remittance, so the experience is really not good. But as Lin Zuhui said, the VIP system must be continued, which is related to the author's creative enthusiasm.
Next.
The president of Sina Video said: "Currently, Sina Video can only develop DVD rental and other businesses in Hong Kong, and piracy is rampant both overseas and in Hong Kong."
Everyone looked at Lin Zuhui. The establishment of Sina Video was the boss's idea, but they all felt that Xiangjiang was not the United States and that this business was a loss-making business.
Lin Zuhui said: "Sina Video is very important, extremely important. This is a more important industry than TV stations in the future. When the Internet speed reaches a certain level, Sina Video will be transformed into an online video website, equivalent to a TV station, and this
TV stations can develop overseas. Hong Kong streaming is Sina Video’s biggest competitiveness overseas, because it will have a large customer base in Asia, even Europe and the United States, so many netizens will use Sina Video.”
Everyone became excited, this was cultural export!
Lin Zuhui continued: "Now, Sina Video has two stages of tasks. The first stage is to find a way to hold a competition, invite global computing teams to compete, and design the best intelligent recommendation algorithm for us. The prize will be set at 1 million a year.
U.S. dollars.”
Sina Video is the Asian version of Netflix, and it has operations in many regions. It can only be said that it has little influence overseas.
Everyone looked at Lin Zuhui suspiciously, what kind of trick is this? Sina Video only has some business in Hong Kong, and it can't make more than 1 million Hong Kong dollars a year.
"We only need to invest US$1 million per year to obtain the best intelligent recommendation algorithm and make technological progress; at the same time, we can also increase our visibility overseas, especially business development in places like Taiwan and Singapore."
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Everyone suddenly realized that although 1 million US dollars is a lot for Sina Video, it is a small number for Sina.com. At present, Sina’s annual profit has been
It is as high as about 800 million Hong Kong dollars, which is very impressive.
Then, Lin Zuhui said: "In this way, in almost three years, I believe the network speed will have improved rapidly. By then we will enter the online video field, launch a monthly charging system, and spend huge bonuses to upgrade network technology. This is the second
stage of development. Sina video is the best weapon for Hong Kong to go overseas."
"That's right! Hong Kong Streaming and Sina Video complement each other. Those fans of Hong Kong Streaming will definitely be VIP users of Sina Video."
"It makes sense, Sina Video is worth the initial investment."
In fact, even if some countries are unable to enter, Lin Zuhui still believes that Sina Video is worth investing in. Even if it is only Xiangjiang, we must invest.
Of course, it’s definitely not just Xiangjiang, many countries in Asia are still easily accessible.
Next.
Lin Zuhui continued: "Sina is planning to build another department - cloud computing. The so-called 'cloud computing' means: decomposing huge data computing processing programs into countless small programs through the network "cloud", and then, through multiple servers,
The system processes and analyzes these small programs to obtain results and returns them to the user... This is a new revolution in the computer field. If Xiangjiang can take the lead in investing in research and development, it may be able to take the lead."
The primary concept of cloud computing has been around for a long time, but when Lin Zuhui proposed it, it is obviously the ultimate concept.
Everyone was fascinated by it, and then very excited.
At this time, there is no shortage of software talents in Xiangjiang, and developing cloud computing is not that difficult.
What's more, Sina also has a research and development center in the mainland.
And Lin Zuhui also plans to suggest that Penguin and Alibaba enter into research and development in this area in the past two years, and will inevitably compete with the United States in this aspect.
This conference is far-reaching and is very important to the entire Internet software industry in Hong Kong.