Chapter 1 The Beginning

October 10th, 2000.

Zheng Yongwen proactively invited Su Yehao to go to Si Jiu City together as an official delegation to discuss how to further strengthen cooperation between the two regions in terms of financial securities trading.

The mainland exchanges also arranged for senior executives to attend, so the specifications were considered relatively high.

The "Asian version of Nasdaq" that Su Yehao had been advocating, namely the Hong Kong Stock Exchange's Science and Technology Innovation Board, was officially included in the scope of discussion this time.

The Hong Kong Stock Exchange had already drafted relevant proposals, waiting only for discussion and research before formally launching them when the opportunity arose.

This time, Zheng Yongwen also hoped to orderly guide some mainland capital into Hong Kong, injecting new vitality into the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, while also attracting mainland companies to list in Hong Kong, increasing Hong Kong's position in the global financial market.

These headache-inducing meetings were mainly Zheng Yongwen's responsibility to worry about.

Su Yehao was more like a bystander, spacing out during every meeting, just helping to keep up appearances.

Considering that he was one of the major shareholders of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, and also owned many businesses in both regions, his arrival was not unexpected, but instead allowed several highly influential media outlets to seize the opportunity, inviting Su Yehao to do several interviews in succession.

According to his intentions.

The theme of the interviews mainly focused on the technology industry and asset management, and he also talked about his views on environmental protection, the Internet, and economic development in the next few years. Many of his answers seemed very generic.

The reporters didn't feel anything was wrong, after all, stability was more important than being interesting.

However, every time Su Yehao accepted an interview, he seized the opportunity to promote the *Myth* movie, which would be released in the New Year, as well as the 5s Asset Management's fund products, and the *Wind and Cloud: Storm Riders* TV series, which had already had its mainland broadcasting rights pre-booked by Yue TV, which left the editors in charge of writing the articles particularly speechless.

In addition to these projects that needed promotion, including tAt instant messaging software, tot browser, Huang鑽 (Yellow Diamond) computer, and Hei鑽 (Black Diamond) mobile phone, Su Yehao also repeatedly mentioned them whenever he had the opportunity.

As a result, rumors soon spread in the news industry, saying that no wonder Su Yehao agreed to be interviewed this time, his purpose was simply to use them to help advertise.

This view was well-founded.

After all, on Yinhai Weibo, Su Yehao had only posted twelve Weibo posts in total, and nine of them were advertisements.

The remaining three seemed to be talking about the prospects of the real estate industry, but they also seemed to be skirting the issue, cheering for Sihai International's real estate company.

As for other times.

Even if gossip and rumors about Su Yehao spread, he wouldn't come out to clarify, appearing quite zen.

Now that he was here.

Su Yehao took the opportunity to talk to people about the idea of establishing a large investment bank.

Now that the mainland was advocating revitalizing the market economy and guiding funds into the investment market in an orderly manner, his statement about assisting enterprises in financing and mergers, and providing credit ratings and investment analysis, happened to fill a market gap and avoid the monopoly of European and American multinational companies in China.

He simply said hello and successfully obtained an entry ticket.

Basically, there was no need to worry about things like subsequent business development and applying for license permits.

Su Yehao's 5s Asset Management Company had provided a full two hundred million U.S. dollars in financing to China Unicom, of which 50% belonged to 5s Asset Management's own funds. In addition, he had recently conducted a large number of surveys and inspections of many enterprises, which led to a further increase in his influence.

The development status of the companies financed by his family, such as Meidi Group, Maotai Winery, Bigui Garden, and Yinhai Network, could all be described as outstanding. They created a large number of jobs while also generating a lot of tax revenue.

Especially after the news of the "60 billion yuan in financing over three years" spread some time ago, dozens of companies, including Qingdao Brewery, Hongxing Winery, and Minsheng Bank, hoped to get in touch with him.

If his capital scale was limited before, now Su Yehao had another wealthy 5s Asset Management Company in his hands, so his influence naturally rose.

In this regard, it can only be said that respect is mutual.

Su Yehao's previous investments often tried to show the greatest sincerity. As the projects blossomed and bore fruit, good reputation spread like this...

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Nangong Tian has been on vacation in Monaco with her mother these past few days.

The Chinese names for Monaco and Morocco differ by only one character, but they are two completely different countries.

Morocco is in North Africa. Su Yehao just went on a trip there with Nong Qingying this year, while Monaco is located in Europe, surrounded by France on three sides, and is one of the countries with the highest per capita wealth in the world.

Mrs. Nangong wanted to travel, so the little girl accompanied her. If nothing unexpected happened, the mother and daughter planned to detour to Iceland to see if they could get lucky and see this winter's aurora.

This time, Jiang Yu accompanied Su Yehao to Si Jiu City and stayed in the quadrangle courtyard.

Before coming, she said that she had business to attend to, but Jiang Yu had been with Su Yehao for two days and hadn't received a single phone call from the company.

This made Jiang Yu start to doubt her life.

On the morning of the thirteenth, while accompanying Su Yehao for a walk in Beihai Park, she挽着 (wan zhe - linked arms with) Su Yehao's arm and asked sadly:

"Clearly I have so many things to deal with every day, why don't you look for me when you know I'm out? I originally said that I would be responsible for the F4's Pengcheng meet-and-greet, but when I checked my email this morning, I found that they had already arranged everything and had already produced a detailed event flow."

Su Yehao patted her hand and said with a smile, "This is what I often mention, the boss of a large company shouldn't be too busy. If the boss is always very busy, it means that there are no talents under his command, and there is no mature management structure. You should be happy."

"I understand what you mean, but this makes me feel like I have no sense of existence."

Jiang Yu wasn't complaining, it's just that Su Yehao had been busy with meetings and business talks, which made her a little bored in Si Jiu City.

She had been here several times before, and had seen most of the attractions and tasted most of the snacks. This city no longer had any novelty in her eyes, so naturally she didn't have the mood to go out and travel.

Su Yehao continued, "Isn't it easy to find something to do? Go to the major art schools, and you might be able to find a group of good seedlings worth cultivating. In the future, the company's focus will be on the mainland, and there are still too few actors under its banner. Also, there should be many screenwriters and directors here. You might encounter a good script."

Jiang Yu thought for a while and nodded, saying, "That makes sense. How many more days are you going to stay in Si Jiu City?"

"Yeah, I'm a business representative from Casino, 1997. A delegation from the United States has come, and I have to accompany them to meetings and dinners tomorrow. If you want to go, I'll say hello to someone later. The banquet at Diaoyutai is more exquisite, and you can taste famous dishes from all over the country."

Su Yehao unscrewed the lid of the double-layered glass and took a sip of tea before continuing to walk. He was wearing a black jacket, paired with slacks and black leather shoes, looking much more mature.

There was no way around it. The people he came into contact with in this place were either in their uncles' generation or their grandfathers' generation. If he dressed too young, he wouldn't be able to let go during interactions, and would always be treated as a junior.

For example, when he went to an old building to discuss things yesterday, someone even peeled an apple for Su Yehao, and said that if his little grandson hadn't died of illness, he would have been about his age.

Being young has its advantages, but Su Yehao always felt that something was strange, so he specially bought this outfit.

Jiang Yu leaned on the railing, looked at the游船 (yóuchuán - pleasure boats) on the lake, and then smiled, "Oh right, the songs you wrote are almost finished. When we get back, take some time to record an album."

"Okay, you can record together too. How about a duet of love songs?"

"..."

Jiang Yu was dumbfounded, and quickly waved her hand, saying, "I don't want to, I'll be laughed at..."