Super Resort Tycoon

Chapter 273 My Celebrity Girlfriend
Li Yang and Tong Shuya played in Tahiti for 20 days before returning to China together. The hotel evaluation and promotional film shooting teams that followed Li Yang had already returned to China by plane a long time ago.

Some of the staff responsible for the hotel acquisition continued to stay in Tahiti to assist Mihir in completing the follow-up acquisition of holdings.

And Li Yang took Tong Shuya back to Huaxia in his private jet.

After returning to China, Tong Shuya was immediately invited to participate in the piano soundtrack of the single "Dream Catcher", and even appeared in the MV, adding a piano solo.

Before returning to China, Tong Shuya had already applied for resignation to the airline company and had been approved.

A few days after Li Yang came back, he flew to the Four Seasons Group in Toronto again to discuss the acquisition of the George V Four Seasons Hotel, but the preliminary negotiation results were not satisfactory.

The Four Seasons Group does not have plans to sell the George V Hotel, and the George V Hotel is one of the major shareholders of the Four Seasons Group and a hotel that the Saudi prince particularly likes.

Therefore, in order to acquire the George V Hotel, Li Yang needs to find a way to persuade the Saudi prince—Alwaleed bin Talal bin Abdul Azil Al.

Li Yang also knew where the challenge of this mission was!
If you want to buy his favorite George V Hotel from Saudi Prince Alwaleed, you may not be able to rely on money alone. After all, he is the real top rich man, and he is really not short of money.

After returning from Toronto, Li Yang asked Mihir to help him collect information on Alwaleed. After all, knowing yourself and the enemy is the only way to win every battle. Before going to meet the prince, you still need to get to know him well, at least know what you should do. Only then can Alwaleed be willing to sell the George V Hotel to himself.

Tong Shuya has completed the recording of the single "Dream Catcher" with singer Song Ziyu, and it is already online.

Relying on the popularity of "Dream Catcher" and Song Ziyu's fame, the data on the day the new song was released was smashed all the way, directly reaching the top of the list, and even swept all major short video media in an instant.

The popularity of the song "Dream Catcher" has also brought a large number of fans and exposure to Tong Shuya. After all, the marketing team and professional operation personnel of Dream Catcher Group are behind the operation, and they want to use this opportunity to help Tong Shuya gain traffic and Follow, easy.

Taking advantage of the popularity of Song Ziyu's single "Dream Catcher", Dream Catcher took advantage of the opportunity to make a wave of publicity for Tong Shuya's concert "Dream Catcher" and successfully sold out the tickets for several planned concerts .

And Tong Shuya also put her heart and soul into the preparation of the concert. In the concert, she will not only play her original masterpieces such as "Dream Catcher" and "New Version of Praise of Love", but also cooperate with Lang Lang. Lang Lang's masterpiece repertoire, as well as some classic world famous songs and other repertoires.

There will also be a symphony orchestra performing at the scene, so the entire operation team has a lot of work to do in the early stage. Fortunately, Dreamcatcher has done many large-scale interactive meetings for Heitan and Doug. Experienced in such large-scale events.

"Husband, husband, let's do it again!"

In the piano room, Tong Shuya pulled Li Yang to play "New Version of Praise to Love" again. This is one of the finale programs of her concert, "New Version of Praise to Love" with Li Yang on the piano and violin.

In terms of attitude towards music, Tong Shuya will always strive for perfection and do her best, and this concert Tong Shuya also attaches great importance to it, and she is also a little nervous, so she always hopes to connect every song to most.

"Okay!" Li Yang can also understand Tong Shuya's mood, and he is actually more nervous than Tong Shuya, because he doesn't want to embarrass Tong Shuya, and he doesn't want to drag Tong Shuya back because of himself. After all, this is the audience A track we've all been looking forward to.

So in this ensemble, Li Yang also strives to be the best with an attitude of excellence.

The two played together again, and this time it was indeed better than the last time. No matter in terms of melody and rhythm, it can be said that it is seamless and complements each other.

"It sounds good, the cooperation this time is really great!" A voice came from the door, Li Yang and Tong Shuya looked over, it was the music director of this concert.

"Teacher Yu, you are here!"

"Hehe, I just listened to your performance at the door. I didn't come in because I was afraid of disturbing you. The cooperation just now was very good!" Teacher Yu clapped his hands and said.

With Teacher Yu's approval, Tong Shuya was overjoyed and relieved.

"But I feel that I still haven't played well!" Li Yang said.

"It's already very good. You young couple have a good understanding. The concert will be held in five days. If you practice again in the next few days, it will be fine by then!" Teacher Yu said.

"Husband, you are already great. Few of the violin professionals in our school are as good as you!" Tong Shuya also gave Li Yang great affirmation.

The reason why she dragged Li Yang to practice repeatedly was mainly to hone their coordination. Even if two top artists get together, it takes a long period of time to cooperate and practice, and they can do their best after they hone in.

In the evening, Li Yang received information from Mihir, which was about Saudi Prince Alwaleed.

Li Yang looked carefully at the prince's information, and couldn't help but have a new understanding of the prince. In fact, in Li Yang's previous impression, the prince was just a Saudi prince who became rich by relying on oil. The coal boss is about the same.

However, when he read the information about this prince, he felt a sigh of relief in his heart. This is also a legendary figure.

In addition to being a member of the richest and most mysterious Saudi royal family in the world, he is also an outstanding businessman and investor.

The name of Buffett in the Middle East is enough to explain everything.

Although he is backed by the Saudi royal family who lives an extremely luxurious life with the influx of petrodollars, the prince is still considered a self-made man compared to other princes.

In fact, there are an estimated 10000 to 12000 princes in Saudi Arabia, and the petrodollars only guarantee them a living allowance of about $1.5 a month.And Prince Alwaleed stands out among them precisely because he is also the hardest working billionaire on the planet.

Alwaleed is of noble blood. His grandfather was King Abdulaziz Al Saud, the founding monarch of Saudi Arabia, who unified and established modern Saudi Arabia in 1932.

The prince was born in Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia, in March 1955. His father was the 3st son of the king, and his mother was Princess Mona Soleh, the daughter of Riyad Soleh, the first prime minister of Lebanon after independence.

At the age of 14, his father sent him to the Riyadh Military Academy to study, and he became the youngest soldier in Saudi history.

In 1976, he went to the United States to study alone. During this period, he worked tirelessly, studied hard, and never gave the impression of a playboy.

In 1979, he received a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Menlo College in California, cum laude.He later earned a master's degree in social science from Syracuse University.

After returning from his studies, he received his first venture capital—a loan of $3—from his father.

And he got $40 after mortgaging a house his father gave him.

He used these capitals and his own network to start a trade agency and contracting business. In just a few years, his annual profit reached tens of millions of dollars.

Then, he foresaw in time that the high welfare policy implemented by the government relying on petrodollars would greatly stimulate the domestic real estate market.He made a decisive move and bought a large piece of real estate in the capital Riyadh, which laid the foundation for him to become the largest private real estate owner in the area.

With the prince's success in construction and real estate, his wealth has grown rapidly.

After that, he established the "Kingdom Holding Company" and extended its tentacles to other fields.

In 1986, he became the largest shareholder of the United Bank of Saudi Arabia, which had been losing money for years, and in 1989 transformed the United Bank into the most profitable commercial bank in Saudi Arabia.These early business experiences have accumulated the "first pot of gold" for the prince to sell in the international market.

After that, he successively invested and held shares in a series of well-known international companies including Citibank, Coca-Cola, Pepsi-Cola, McDonald's, Disney, Motorola, MOL-Time Warner, Ford, Amazon, eBay, Kodak, Xerox, Four Seasons Hotel, etc. The largest foreign individual investor in the United States.

With the rise of Huaxia's economy, the prince also set his sights on Huaxia. When Bank of China went public that year, he spent US$20 billion to purchase a 2.7% stake in Bank of China and held it as a long-term strategic investment.

The investment in Bank of China is only the tip of the iceberg of Alwaleed's strategic investment in China. He has also made many investments in China and invested in many banks.

One of the investments that attracted Li Yang's attention was his first direct investment project in Mainland China many years ago - Swissotel Kunshan.

In the next few days, apart from accompanying Tong Shuya to rehearse the concert performance every day, Li Yang carefully studied the information about Alwaleed, thinking about the starting point and method of negotiating with him.

As time passed day by day, the first concert of Tong Shuya was successfully held in Mingzhu City, and received a lot of applause, whether it was a solo "Dream Catcher", a ensemble with Langlang piano, or a ensemble with Li Yang's violin. It was the highlight program of the concert and was loved by the audience.

With the holding of concerts one after another, Tong Shuya's reputation in the circle is also steadily increasing, and the popularity of the song "Dream Catcher" has also made this piece of music, which has perfectly transformed from a piano piece to a song, completely become the most popular song of the year. Explosive.

In the blink of an eye, it was already November, and the David TVs began to prepare for the work plan for the New Year's Day and Spring Festival Gala. As one of the phenomenal music on the Internet this year, "Dream Catcher" was also included in the program list by the David TVs.

Various applications for copyright authorization poured in, and Pearl TV, Shanghai TV, Mango TV, and even CCTV all sent invitations to Tong Shuya to perform.

In the CCTV Spring Festival Gala program, Tong Shuya and Song Ziyu collaborated to perform the song "Dream Catcher" live.

This made Tong Shuya really excited for a long time. Being able to appear on the Spring Festival Gala is a dream opportunity for many entertainment stars, let alone Tong Shuya.

Li Yang also knows that Tong Shuya is really going to be popular this time. In fact, through the operation and packaging of the team at this stage, as a player in the field of piano, Tong Shuya's domestic reputation is almost as good as Langlang's. The attention and fame of the TV series have even surpassed Langlang, of course, this is only at the level of fame and traffic.

At present, Tong Shuya has nearly 700 million fans on Weibo, nearly 2000 million fans on Douyin, and millions of piano-related derivative works and short videos of "Dream Catcher". Shu Ya's road to fame.

It is estimated that after the Spring Festival Gala, Tong Shuya's fame will be close to that of a first-line star.

At that time, I really want to have a celebrity girlfriend, think about it...it's pretty sweet!
With the end of Tong Shuya's concert performance, the rehearsals for the various New Year's Day galas have officially begun. In addition, Tong Shuya has also received many invitations to record interviews and variety shows, and even beat advertise.

Compared with before, Tong Shuya seems to be busier, but fortunately, they are all in China, and will not fly around the world like before, so Li Yang and Tong Shuya want to meet or get together, or Easy.

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"Mr. Li, the meeting with Alwaleed is scheduled for December 12 at 8:14 Saudi time!" Mihir said as he walked into Li Yang's office.

At this stage, with the completion of the holding acquisition of the two hotels in Tahiti, Mihir also came back from Tahiti specifically to assist Li Yang in researching and meeting with Alwaleed to discuss the acquisition of the George V Hotel.

With the help of Mihir, Li Yang finally smoothed out some ideas and found some methods, although he didn't know whether it would work or whether he could successfully complete the negotiation.

But instead of talking about war on paper, it is better to actually meet this Saudi prince once and have a real face-to-face communication. Even if this time is not successful, at least it can better understand some of the other party's psychology, even if it is good to make friends.

"Okay, let's arrange the itinerary!" Li Yang said.

Three days later, Li Yang and Mihir embarked on a trip to Saudi Arabia by private jet, and their destination this time was Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia.

Riyadh used to be a small desert city covering an area of ​​less than one square kilometer, but with the wealth brought by oil, it has been built and developed for decades.

Here has become one of the most famous garden cities in the Arab world. It has the prosperity of an international metropolis and a unique cultural and religious atmosphere unique to Arabia.

It happened to be noon local time when they arrived in Riyadh. Li Yang and Mihir had lunch at the hotel where they stayed, and then drove to Alwaleed's residence.

It was a manor built in the desert, not too far from Riyadh.

Li Yang’s meeting with the Saudi prince this time is actually through the Four Seasons Group. After all, Li Yang is also one of the current shareholders of the Four Seasons Group. In addition, he has been very active in the global resort hotel industry recently, so Alwaleed is very interested in this Chinese man. The arrival of newcomers in the hotel industry is also full of expectations.

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(End of this chapter)