Time flies, and another two weeks have passed.

Koko's Vice President, Lin Youfeng, as a representative, has held several rounds of negotiations with Apple.

There were minor frictions along the way, but overall, things went relatively smoothly.

Su Yehao chose a good time. Jobs was just beginning to become interested in smart devices, but Apple's strength was insufficient to support Jobs' ambitions, so finding someone to cooperate with became the next best option.

The two parties hit it off and established a new company called "Apple Intelligence."

Apple invested with $10 million in cash, plus an exclusive license fee of $50 million for system patents. Su Yehao put up $120 million as R&D funding. Apple holds 33% of the shares, while he holds 67%.

The previous friction was mainly due to the deadlock over patent licensing fees.

In fact, for Apple, it only cost $10 million. After all, the mobile operating system for mobile phones had to be developed from scratch, which would not affect Apple's existing personal computer business at all.

After the signing, both parties felt they had gotten a good deal. The Apple Intelligence R&D center was located in Silicon Valley, across the street from the Black Diamond mobile phone North American R&D center.

As soon as the news came out.

Apple's stock price rose for four consecutive days, with a total increase of more than 8%.

This data alone made the members of the Apple board of directors feel that they had earned back the money invested in Su Yehao with interest, and they were all smiles...

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After wandering around the north for more than half a month, Father Su once again selected several plots of land for the construction of Sihai International Shopping Center.

When he returned to Hong Kong, he brought back some fresh watermelon and said:

"This time during my inspection in Hu City, I saw other people growing watermelons. After tasting them, I found them to be particularly sweet. It seems they're called 8424, so I bought three boxes, which only cost ninety-odd yuan."

Su Yehao knew about this variety of watermelon. The weather in Hong Kong was hot at the end of July. He unpacked a box, picked up a melon, and handed it to the butler to cut it. He asked, "How did you end up inspecting watermelon fields? Are you going to tear down someone else's watermelon field to build a building?"

Father Su shook his head:

"The land I took is in Pudong. The watermelon field is used to build a new factory for the Meade Group. Home appliances seem to be selling particularly well in the north. People are starting to have money in their hands, and they are finally willing to replace the old antiques in their homes."

"...Tsk, another expansion of a new factory. It seems that the home appliance business is really starting to take off."

Su Yehao was particularly calm.

A few years ago, if he heard that his family had made money, he would have been happier than anyone else. But after making money all the way to the present, he's almost numb to it.

His old man said to himself:

"Watermelon fields are boring. One of our projects in Suzhou has a pond that hasn't been drained for decades. When the water was drained, there were several large, meter-long black carp. Nearby residents caught hundreds of pounds of wild fish."

Remembering something, Su Yehao said:

"Those fish were also unlucky, being caught so easily. When will the land I took in Xinjiekou in Jinling be developed? The last time the boss of Suning called me, he said he wanted to reserve a shop to open a new flagship store."

"It will probably take a while. Soon after construction started, we dug up someone else's ancestors, and even people from the Cultural Relics Bureau were attracted. They said it looked like an official from the Song Dynasty, and it may not be completely excavated within a year."

Father Su felt unlucky when he mentioned this matter. He happened to see a Ming Dynasty gilt bronze statue of Yamantaka Vajra on the shelf. While burning incense, he said, "Oh, this Buddha statue of yours is interesting. What Buddha is it?"

"...You started burning incense without even knowing what Buddha it is?"

"It's never wrong to worship. It doesn't hurt to be polite to the Buddha."

"..."

Su Yehao had learned something new. He rolled his eyes at his old man and asked lazily:

"I saw my mother a few days ago. She said you were in Chang'an. What did you go there for so far away? When it comes to underground tombs, Chang'an ranks second, and other places don't dare to rank first. With your level of superstition, you'll probably throw away the land when the time comes."

"How is that possible? It's land I bought with money, and besides, I don't live there myself."

After saying it in a matter-of-fact tone, Father Su continued, "That Datang Sleepless City project is almost completed in its first phase. After I went, I found that it was very hot to stroll around outdoors, but it looked a bit interesting at night."

The Datang Sleepless City project in Chang'an was planned as early as the 1990s. After Sihai International was invited to invest, it borrowed money from banks for development, with a total investment scale estimated to be as high as 3 billion RMB.

The family's business is now numerous and complex.

If you really want to talk about it, it may not be possible to finish in three or five hours.

Nangong Tian and Jiang Yu went to work, leaving only Su Yehao and his father at home. Both of them were free, so after eating watermelon, they went to the Shek O Country Club to play golf while listening to the cicadas.

Su Yehao and his old man were both amateurs.

This proves that whether a family has a golf course or not has no direct relationship with golf skills.

Just as he came to the lounge to sit down, Su Yehao unexpectedly received a call from Miss Vera.

The other party told him:

"Just now, my mother received a message from my uncle, saying that he was found in Colombia and has been put in prison."

"They finally caught him again? That guy is like a mouse, there's been no news for so long."

In fact, more than two months ago, the people Su Yehao sent had already caught her uncle once.

However, Vera's uncle had taken a large amount of property with him when he ran away. He accidentally bribed the escort team and disappeared without a trace for a long time.

Vera was slightly speechless and reminded him, "That's my uncle, we're related by blood. I'm not a mouse. In any case, I really want to thank you this time."

If his old man wasn't by his side, Su Yehao would have said a few words. Just moving your lips and saying thank you is too insincere.

He replied:

"There's no need to thank me. I don't know how much of the money he took away is left now. You and your family better be prepared. You may only be able to get 10 or 20 million Hong Kong dollars in the end."

"...I know."

He hung up after chatting.

Father Su suddenly leaned over, looked at his son's phone screen, and asked suspiciously, wiping the sweat from his forehead, "Why did I hear a woman's voice? What's this about money being taken away?"

Su Yehao wasn't caught off guard and briefly mentioned Vera's family being scammed.

Ponzi schemes are common in wealthy circles. After listening, his old man only sighed and said:

"Madam Andrade, I met her a long time ago. I went to their house for dinner with your mother. Why believe in something bad? It's better to invest the money in your hands to buy internet stocks."

Su Yehao snorted and brought up an old issue:

"I almost wore out my lips back then, but you didn't believe me either. If you had invested more in Amazon stocks earlier, would our chain shopping center need to borrow money from the bank?"

"You can't say that. If I had bought it back then, you might not have your current fortune. People can't always look to the past."

"..."