Tao Liangchen
Chapter 805 The Building Still Got Hit
At a little after three in the afternoon, So Yip-Hao sat at an open-air café next to the Doha Corniche, tasting a kind of fried patty made of hummus and fava beans.
The sea breeze was gentle and the scenery was pleasant. Across the sea were skyscrapers, which looked very prosperous.
Just like foreigners in the mainland who are curiously sized up, there were many passersby who glanced at So Yip-Hao from time to time. Of course, it was more likely they were looking at the bodyguards next to him, and the detectives in charge of security.
After Linda Yun finished reading a fashion magazine, she felt extremely bored and asked him lazily, "You came all the way here, why don't you take the opportunity to win over some local tycoons and get them to invest more money? I've been drinking coffee for an hour, and I'm almost frozen. How can a desert country be colder than Hong Kong?"
The temperature was around eighteen degrees Celsius, and the sea breeze was quite comfortable, so she wouldn't be frozen.
So Yip-Hao replied in an indifferent tone:
"After the 5S Asset Management incident, I've figured it out. I just need to manage my funds steadily. When I achieve enough success, even if I don't advertise, customers will still come to me and scramble to hand over their money. So there's no need to rush, just wait, I'm not in a hurry anyway."
"...Did the sea breeze drive you crazy? Didn't you say you wanted to cultivate a cash cow because you're short of money?"
"Yes, but I estimate that by the time I've cultivated this cash cow, I probably won't be short of money anymore. Only when it reaches a scale of several trillion Hong Kong dollars will it be useful to me. The current small change isn't even enough to fill the foundation of a skyscraper."
The landmark building of Qianxin City has basically finalized its plan.
Including the overly high antenna, the total design height is eight hundred and eighteen meters, and it is expected to dig eighty-five meters down, embed thousands of foundation piles, and consume one hundred thousand cubic meters of high-grade concrete for reinforcement, with an estimated cost of about one billion US dollars.
Even with a loan from the bank, it is still a bit unsustainable for the time being. The development plan is still progressing slowly, but the construction start date has been set for two years later, and it is only said to the outside world that the construction is difficult, without mentioning the funding gap.
So Yip-Hao said with regret:
"I missed a good opportunity. I should have attracted a large amount of funds and signed an agreement with customers for a profit split of 30/70 or 40/60 when I first emerged in 1998. If I had done that, with compound interest upon compound interest... I'm afraid it would already be worth seventy or eighty billion Hong Kong dollars."
Linda Yun immediately wanted to say that it was impossible.
However, after careful consideration, with the almost perverted super bull market of Nasdaq in 1999 and 2000, it didn't seem difficult to multiply the customer's profits by dozens or hundreds of times if leverage was added.
Especially for So Yip-Hao, investment opportunities in recent years have basically been seized.
Therefore, the words came to Linda Yun's mouth and turned into:
"Okay, you're amazing, alright? You're not just rounding up, even a profiteer can't calculate like you. Grasping 70% to 80% of the opportunities is already extremely lucky, there is no such thing as 100% perfection in the world. If you think about it from another perspective, maybe you would have been hit by a car and died the day after you started selling funds?"
"...You're really good at comforting people, and you even make me feel like it makes sense."
So Yip-Hao sat still and changed the subject, saying, "It's so comfortable. Do you think the scenery of Victoria Harbour is beautiful, or is this more beautiful?"
"The buildings on both sides of Victoria Harbour are too dense, and the pressure of life is also very high. This side should be more relaxed. Coming to a strange place always makes people feel refreshed. It's like when I moved from San Francisco to Casino, 1997, the first time I went to Hong Kong, I thought the scenery was particularly great, but now I'm tired of it."
Linda Yun propped her chin, took out her mobile phone and read it, and said:
"It's already four o'clock, do you want to buy some local specialties? By the time they finish the process, it should be after seven o'clock. At that time, the mainland will issue many new regulations, and tonight's business party will be lively. Boeing, Airbus, Ford, Audi and other companies have all sent people to compete for photos and interviews with mainland reporters. Even Ferrari has sent people."
"Ferrari? What are they doing here?"
So Yip-Hao answered himself: "Oh, right, the tariffs are estimated to drop a little..."
His mobile phone was on the table.
At this time, it suddenly vibrated, and it showed that it was Lin Youfeng, the vice president of KOKO Venture Capital, calling.
Lin Youfeng was still working at the Silicon Valley branch. Calculating the time difference, it was still early morning on the west coast of the United States. So Yip-Hao was puzzled and answered the phone. He was about to ask what was going on.
He only heard Lin Youfeng's urgent tone, saying:
"CEO So! I'm on a business trip in New York. I just heard an explosion. The TV shows that the World Trade Center was attacked. A plane crashed into the building! Both buildings were hit! The stock market may have big problems on Monday!"
"???"
The first thing So Yip-Hao thought of was how dedicated this guy was.
Then he was stunned, completely unexpected that after two months, what should have happened still happened.
In early August, he once invested in commodity futures, using 50 million US dollars with leverage to bet on oil prices rising on the London Futures Exchange.
As someone who had been through it before, So Yip-Hao knew how big the whole thing was.
In order to avoid being targeted, he didn't dare to make too many moves. He just wanted to test the waters and earn some pocket money back, so as not to lose big because of small things, be caught by the tail, and cause trouble for his business in the United States.
He waited until September 15th, and there was no movement, but the price of crude oil did rise slightly, allowing him to earn more than 30 million US dollars.
Thinking that the 911 event had been fanned away by his wings, So Yip-Hao believed that his influence was already very terrifying. Several Internet products covered hundreds of millions of people, and the changes caused should not be underestimated. It was actually very normal for changes to occur.
By now, he had long forgotten about it, and was even mentally prepared for the world格局 to change as a result.
He never expected that on this Saturday, November 10th, those two buildings in Manhattan, New York, still couldn't escape. This shows that there may have been related plans as early as before So Yip-Hao changed the world, but the date of execution was changed.
In an instant, many things flashed through So Yip-Hao's mind.
For example, his business basically had no problems, for example, the future world格局 would most likely remain the same, because the United States shifted its focus, resulting in the mainland having an extra period of golden development.
As for other messy conspiracy theories, those were not the focus of his concern. The ambition to speculate and make a quick buck was just generated, and was curbed by So Yip-Hao. The main reason was that he was worried about being dug up in the future, and the loss would outweigh the gain.
On the other hand, it seems that something can be done about oil at the right time, such as the possibility that oil prices will fall in the short term due to problems with the economy and the aviation industry next.
While he was in a daze, Lin Youfeng on the other end of the phone thought that So Yip-Hao hadn't heard him, and then said, "CEO So? Are you there?"
"Oh, continue, were those two buildings just hit or did they collapse?"
"Just hit, the lower city is full of smoke, I have already seen..."
So Yip-Hao hurriedly got up, said to the bodyguard to return to the hotel, then interrupted Lin Youfeng and said:
"This matter is a bit big, even if I can make money, I dare not earn it, it's too hot to handle. If I am scolded for blood money in the future, no matter how 牛x Yanwenzi Group is, it will probably cool down in the end. I'll talk to you later, the mainland's accession to the WTO tonight cannot go wrong, this is more important than anything!"
"Uh... the mainland's accession to the WTO tonight? Who picked this day?"
After hearing Lin Youfeng's sentence, So Yip-Hao's mouth twitched, only worried that tonight's meeting would be suspended.
Fortunately, except for him, probably no one has realized how important today's changes are.
When the United States recovers and the news spreads around the world, it is estimated that the activities in the Sheraton Hotel have already been completed. It is necessary to remind the delegation to speed up the pace, submit the official documents, and complete the process...