Tao Liangchen

Chapter 660 The Land of California

They finished their conversation.

Su Yehao excused himself, saying he had something to do. He told Larry Page to relax for a while, planning to take him out for beef brisket hotpot in the evening and stroll along Victoria Harbour to enjoy the night view.

Having lived in Hong Kong for a long time, everything seemed much the same, without many scenic spots to choose from. The natural scenery was far inferior to places like Yosemite National Park and Redwood National Park in California.

Larry Page was a grown man and wouldn't be interested in shopping malls. Su Yehao, as the host, was at a loss for what to do, so he simply let his partner enjoy some free time. If he needed anything, he could contact the hotel staff. Cars and guides were readily available.

Around three in the afternoon.

Su Yehao received a call from Zhuang Wei's assistant on his way home.

Zhuang Wei reported on the phone, "Boss, the forum's event schedule has been finalized. Accommodation is arranged at your Shahe Golf Club Hotel, and the club will be used for meetings. What do you think?"

"I'm fine with anything. The scenery there is good, and the transportation is convenient. Is the list of invited guests finalized as well?"

"Well... we've tentatively decided on a batch of people. The remaining list still needs to be discussed with companies like tAt and tot. We don't have enough complete information, and there are no relevant consulting companies in the mainland to help," Zhuang Wei said.

Su Yehao calmly said with an indifferent attitude, "Alright, it's not too urgent anyway. Release the relevant arrangements first, and send the information to my email."

"Okay, I've already sent it to you..."

After arriving home.

Su Yehao took a shower first, changed clothes, and lay on the big bed in the bedroom for a while.

A man in the martial world can’t control his own destiny.

He clearly only wanted to be lazy, but due to the increasing number of companies under his name and his growing influence, he had to run around.

More than half an hour later, he got up and went to the study, opened his computer to process the files in his email, and checked the latest trends of the Nasdaq index and numerous listed companies.

Zheng Yongwen sent the position and capital change data.

Leibs from Silver Sea Network Group also sent a file reminding him that the scale of the network virus was expanding and its impact was intensifying, requesting five million RMB in funds to update the antivirus software.

Su Yehao directly typed a reply, telling him to handle it himself.

In the blink of an eye, more than an hour had passed.

Logging into the Silver Sea Weibo account, he discovered that the posts mentioning the Internet forum had exploded, with more than 30,000 likes and over a thousand comments.

The most liked comment, however, had nothing to do with the forum. A user wrote, "When will the *Chinese Paladin* television series be released?"

Another highly liked comment read, "Looking up to the richest man in Hong Kong, please take me to sea, big brother."

Su Yehao smiled wryly.

Mainly because the phrase "going to sea" later became lewd, giving him a strange feeling of being a pimp.

Silver Sea Weibo, in an effort to flatter him, had almost all newly registered users automatically follow Su Yehao.

Now his number of followers had exceeded one million, making him the undisputed number one on Weibo. This showed that with the price of internet access decreasing in the mainland and the promotion of the internet continuing for more than a year, the number of internet users had indeed increased significantly.

Of course.

Although the number of internet users was much higher than last year, the number of active internet users was clearly not as high as the claimed fifteen million.

This number clearly included students who could only access the internet during computer classes.

Primary and secondary school students were "reserve leeks," and couldn't be harvested for the time being, so they were of little help to Su Yehao's business in the short term, but they were extremely important in the long run.

Picking out the important points, Su Yehao released information such as the date and location of the forum, and then ignored it again, running off to view other Weibo content.

Humorous jokes, diary entries, and posts complaining about the world were all kinds of things. The top trending topic was surprisingly the content he had just released, with a "New" tag behind it.

Seeing this, Su Yehao suspected that Silver Sea Weibo was monitoring his account in real-time, otherwise, how could it be so timely.

Below were things like a sequel to *Journey to the West*, and Hong Kong's ATV buying the broadcasting rights to *Young Justice Bao*.

A topic "If you could go back to 1990, what would you do?" successfully caught Su Yehao's attention.

It wasn't about the things that had happened to him, but Su Yehao suddenly realized that the potential of穿越 (chuanyue) [time travel] themed scripts was far more than just *The Myth* and *A Step into the Past*. He could completely film some more romance films.

In an instant.

He thought of things like *A Love Before Time*, a remake of the foreign film *Frequency*, and the Japanese drama *Operation Love*, which had kept him up all night.

Since he was planning to invest more money in Sweet Fish Entertainment recently, Su Yehao opened a document and recorded the creative ideas for the works in one or two hundred words. The task of writing the script would be handed over to professionals to help.

He sent the email to Nangong Tian's email address and gave her a call.

After the completion of Hong Kong's broadband construction, the internet experience was much more comfortable. Su Yehao browsed until almost six o'clock before going out to find Larry Page.

......

It was the same beef brisket rice restaurant where Lin Baojian had been invited before.

While entertaining guests, Su Yehao also had Nong Qingying come over. This girl had been strictly controlled by the nutritionist found by the old man recently, and had complained about it more than once on the phone.

Thinking that the occasional indulgence wouldn't be a big deal, and that a bad mood would affect her health, Su Yehao helped her out with a little treat, which made Nong Qingying extremely excited.

Equally excited was Larry Page. After tasting the Hong Kong-style beef brisket hotpot, his eyes lit up. He praised it as incredible and even invited the chef to go to Silicon Valley with him to invest in opening a restaurant together.

The boss just smiled after hearing this. His beef brisket hotpot restaurant in Central was extremely popular every day, turning over three or four tables of customers and easily earning a few million a year. He wasn't interested in doing business in Silicon Valley.

During the meal.

Larry Page also told a story as an interesting anecdote:

"Last month, I was vacationing at a ranch near the Bay Area. It has a vast area of eighty square miles, and everything seems primitive and natural, not much different from when the Native Americans lived there. It raises more than 3,000 cattle, and also has hunting cabins and a beautiful oak forest. The owner learned that I was working with you and asked me to ask if you had any intention of buying it. The land has been held by their family for more than sixty years."

The United States has no shortage of land. Although vast ranches for sale are rare, you can find them if you look for them.

Su Yehao's mansion in Silicon Valley was often left idle. He had no intention of going there to raise cattle. Nong Qingying, however, became interested and asked, "Is it very beautiful there, and how far is it from Silicon Valley?"

"It's about a fifty-minute drive. The scenery is really very beautiful. If I had the money, I would definitely buy it, but the seller's asking price is $36 million."

After Larry finished speaking, Nong Qingying pressed him, "Since it's so good, why sell it?"

"Cattle farming is probably not very profitable. The family that owns it is developing a community in Santa Clara. As you know, now that Nasdaq has crashed, the number of people buying houses has plummeted and prices have fallen."

Beside them.

Su Yehao asked Nong Qingying after hearing this, "What are you asking all this for? Do you want to buy it?"

"I'm a little tempted. If I lived in a place with such beautiful scenery, it would be very good for my... health." Nong Qingying almost blurted out the fact that she was pregnant.

Thirty-six million dollars wasn't much pressure for her.

Just like Su Yehao wanted to build buildings after he had money, Nong Qingying was also particularly interested in vast lands with beautiful scenery.