Fight to the third generation

The group went directly to the entrance of the hotel, got in the car and went to the small manor of Vera's family again.

The torrential rain still had no intention of stopping, and there was already water in many places on the road. When we arrived at the destination, we found that the grape fields in the depression were almost submerged, and there was a long line of cars parked in front of Vera's house.

The Andrade family is relatively well-known in Portugal. Recently, it became popular again due to its involvement in the Ponzi scheme.

Knowing that the Vera family held an auction and tried to raise funds through the sale to tide over the difficulties, many interested people came to join in the fun, hoping to discern the pearls and find some treasures that had been missed, even if the rainstorm couldn't stop them.

With the appearance of Su Yehao, many local rich men and antique dealers from surrounding countries were all taken aback.

They were whispering.

An antique shop owner in Lisbon whispered to his friend, "It's unbelievable that the third richest man in the world actually came to this kind of auction in person."

"That's right. Could it be that someone discovered a treasure of amazing value from the history of the Andrade family?"

"Impossible. If there is such a thing, it will definitely be sent to Sotheby's or Christie's auction house. Only then can it sell for a higher price. Su in Asia is a top collector of oil paintings by Van Gogh and Monet. His appearance must not be a coincidence..."

Just when people were wondering, they accidentally saw Su Yehao smiling happily and talking to Vera.

Behold such a pretty Miss Vera.

Everyone's curiosity was immediately answered. After all, the news about Su Yehao had already reached Portugal, and people had heard more or less about the private life of this super rich man.

At the beginning, because of the illegitimate child, it attracted global attention, but it is still occasionally discussed by people.

Invariably.

The guests present suddenly felt that the Andrade family might be able to tide over the difficulties. After all, they had gained the friendship of a super rich man worth more than 300 billion U.S. dollars. As long as they leaked some wealth from Su Yehao's fingers, the trouble would be over. can be settled.

At nine o'clock in the morning, the auction started on time.

Among the collections of the Villa family, there are some works of second-rate and third-rate painters, with prices ranging from a few thousand to 10,000+ euros. In addition, there are also jewelry that once belonged to the Portuguese royal family, mainly from Europe.

There are three other items that will not be auctioned today. According to Vera, they were just taken out of the bank vault in the morning, and they were probably specially displayed for Su Yehao to see.

Considering that the payment period for sending to auction is too long, and you need to pay a handling fee, it is normal to take it out and sell it directly.

Among them is a frightening Buddha statue mentioned by Vera yesterday. Its head seems to be a dragon head. According to the introduction, it is a gilt bronze Dawei De Vajra from the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty. It has an authentication certificate from the Forbidden City and is priced at 60 euros.

The other is a chicken cup in a box.

The appearance of this thing surprised Su Yehao. There seemed to be only a dozen of them in the world, and most of them were in museums. I didn't expect to see another one here. It was priced at 150 million euros and also had an authentication certificate from the Forbidden City.

As for the remaining sketches of Peter Paul Rubens, the price tag was as high as 200 million US dollars. Although it looked very powerful, Su Yehao directly chose to skip it because he did not know this master artist.

Picking up the chicken cup to have a look, there is no obvious defect, the chicken pattern on it is different from the cup Su Yehao used to drink tea, and the base model is "Made in Chenghua, Ming Dynasty", so I decided to buy it on the spot. Plus the gilt bronze statue of Yamantaka Buddha.

It should be regarded as a mistake, and it took advantage of Vera's family.

However, even if Su Yehao doesn't buy it, it is estimated that it will be cheaper for others in the end. At least for now, it is the market price, so there is no need to worry about it.

Antique dealers felt that the profits of Buddha statues and cups were already very small, and they would compete with Su Yehao for more money if they had a lot of money.

They were so interested in the sketch that a businessman called and a wealthy French businessman was willing to pay 200 million euros for it.

This surprised Su Yehao, and felt that he had underestimated this "unknown painter".

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Chapter 879

In the past, I heard that the poor European nobles could find the treasures left by their ancestors in the warehouses of their ancestral manors.

The sale of the Villa family is basically the same.

After digging out the items at the bottom of the press box, I earned a total of more than 500 million euros, which was enough to deal with the current difficulties of her family.

In the early years, Chinese cultural relics were not worth much, and many people never thought of selling them, they only kept them as interesting decorations.

Prices have skyrocketed in the past [-] years. Things like faucets with animal heads in the Old Summer Palace, large pots of Yuan blue and white flowers drifting overseas, Ru kiln porcelain, etc. have gradually been dug out from the pile of sundries, and even sparked a wave of shopping abroad.

When they started to appreciate in value, Su Yehao became less interested in picking up missing investments, and seldom cared about the new news of the auction.

If it wasn't for Vera's initiative to invite this time, even if he encountered a chicken cup in the auction field, he might not necessarily take it.

The ancestors are too powerful, the number of objects left by the past dynasties is huge, and the moisture inside is particularly sufficient.

Unless you encounter some rare gadgets that you really like and reach the level of boutique national treasures, you can buy others or not.

There are already a bunch of objects in the small castle.

For example, the Van Gogh oil painting, the last time I saw it was a few months ago, so it was not very interesting.

Their investment properties are only ordinary, and they are basically not practical. It is difficult to make Su Yehao want to buy again.

Both items are very small, so I bought them directly by signing a check and putting them in a box to take away.

Come here.

After discussing during lunch, I decided to take a stroll in Rome, Italy.

Continue to turn to Villa, and take the train to Rome instead. This city with more than 700 churches and monasteries has a strong cultural atmosphere and is very suitable for vacation.

On the train to Rome, while drinking afternoon tea, Su Yehao accidentally discovered that the photo of him shopping with girls had already become a hot search on the Internet.

Feng Tiancai also called and told that due to Lao Mei's inability to completely stabilize the situation, the price of crude oil futures rebounded by 5% in two days, which was less than $1000 million.

This time Su Yehao was worried that he would fall twice in the same pit, so he immediately asked Feng Tiancai to close his position and cash out.

The price of crude oil continued to rise in the middle of cashing out, and at the end of the calculation, he made a total of more than 6000 million US dollars, which made him very happy.

They brought Nangong Tian and the others crazy to buy, buy, buy, and didn't spend a lot of money, only hundreds of thousands of euros...

……

In the blink of an eye, three months have passed, and life has been very ordinary during this period.

On June [-]st, the Three Gorges Dam was officially impounded. Su Yehao, as the major shareholder of the Yangtze River Power Group, attended the celebration ceremony on the dam.

According to the results of the negotiation.

He borrowed from several banks separately, and invested a total of more than 130 billion yuan, accounting for 60% of the company's shares.

It also agreed that 5S asset management and other institutions will be introduced within half a year, and new generator sets will continue to be purchased. A total of at least 800 billion yuan will be injected within ten years.

The financing problem has been over-solved, so the two parties are not in a hurry to go to the A-share market for the time being.

At the beginning of water storage, the "money printing machine" did not move, but summer is coming, and arrangements will be made to release water soon.

The Three Gorges Dam has thus become a super-sized piggy bank in Su Yehao's eyes, with a low risk rate of return of about 9% per year.

After deducting expenses, theoretically it will take more than ten years to pay back. Su Yehao has signed an entrustment agreement with 5S Asset Management. At that time, only the money for daily expenses will be left on the books, and the remaining income from electricity sales will be temporarily used for fund management.

Regardless of the fact that the official still holds 40% of the shares, if Su Yehao does not follow up with additional funds, the shareholding will be diluted soon.

The Three Gorges Dam has realized its strategic value, which is equivalent to installing a water valve on the Yangtze River to store water for flood control and avoid natural disasters.

As for power generation, the higher-ups don't pay much attention to it, and it doesn't matter who takes over.

With Su Yehao taking the initiative to stand up, he actually saved some people a lot of trouble. At least they don't have to worry about losing money, and part of the risk is thrown out.

In the future, the government only needs to be responsible for collecting taxes, and the net profit of [-] points can be called a real steady profit.

mid-June.

The plan of King Crab Island was finally approved, the preparatory team was cancelled, and people began to search for the construction party, trying to build the island as soon as possible.

The cost of this link is limited, so there is not much pressure on Su Yehao, and the total budget is only about one billion Hong Kong dollars.

the other side.

The WHO announced that SARS was successfully contained. Although there were still some sporadic cases, there were no further disturbances. The situation was much weaker than what Su Yehao had imagined, and more than 100 people died unfortunately.

In a blink of an eye, the third part of "My Fair Princess" was released, and Microsoft also canceled its technical support for Windows 98.

Even Su Yehao secretly lamented how quickly time flies.

Wait until July NO.17.

Apple CEO Jobs came to Hong Kong City Central to preside over the opening ceremony of the first overseas Apple retail store, and then went to Big Wave Bay to visit Su Yehao.

last week.

Nangong Tian has just found out that she is pregnant, and her mood has fluctuated a bit in the past few days. She often feels that her youth suddenly ends, and she feels like she has grown up overnight.

Su Yehao is relatively calm about this. In his opinion, puberty... It's clearly over a long time ago.

It is estimated that they are protected too well and have not experienced severe beatings in society, so she has the illusion that she is still very young even though she is 24 years old.

The group of people who entered HKU at the same age have already graduated and worked for two or three years, and some children have gone to kindergarten.

Su Yehao was very happy about the arrival of Jobs. The two of them occasionally communicated by email, and the number of times they met was not too high.

In midsummer, the sun outside is too harsh.

At this moment, the two were sitting in the study drinking tea, and Jobs said to him:

"Sue, I have a great idea. The previous line of Newton handheld computers was cut off by me in 1997 mainly due to insufficient technical level. Now I plan to re-implement it and integrate the iPod with it. Launch a new product that can listen to music, play games, and watch videos.”

"...Why not go a step further and add the function of the phone?"

After a few seconds of silence, Su Yehao was considering whether he should remind Jobs, and after getting an affirmative answer, he added:

"In this way, you have gained a smartphone. It may not be successful at present, but it has great market prospects. If you are willing to work hard in this direction, I will fully support you on the board of directors, even if you suffer short-term losses."

Jobs was not surprised. He seemed to have thought of the idea of ​​a smart phone. He shook his head and told, "The company's computer products are not successful enough, and it loses money every year. Only relying on the iPod Walkman series, the funds are not enough to realize your idea. If With all shareholders as visionary as you, my job would be so much easier."

Su Yehao's shareholding in Apple has further increased to about 24%. Even so, he still does not have much say in the board of directors and cannot be the only one.

Restricted by his technical level, he hadn't been involved with Apple much before. It wasn't until today when he heard Jobs' words that he started thinking about researching and developing smartphones ahead of schedule.

Su Yehao continued to persuade:

"Coincidentally, I have money, and I also have a Black Diamond brand that manufactures mobile phones. What I lack is an R&D team and an operating system. Maybe Apple can cooperate with my Black Diamond mobile phone to jointly create an epoch-making product. I share the risk, and more It's easy to get the support of the board of directors, isn't it, I think it can be done..."

Chapter 880 This is how mobile phones should be

The mention of the joint research and development of mobile phone projects is purely temporary.

Su Yehao had almost guessed it.

If it was only the opening of the Apple retail store in Hong Kong City, it would not be worthwhile for Jobs to travel all the way in person.

Look and go.

It seems that only Su Yehao himself can attract the attention of Jobs in Hong Kong City.

Therefore, he felt that Jobs probably cared a lot about the so-called "Newton Handheld Computer" project, which led to today's visit.

Needless to say, the purpose is nothing more than to gain support on the board of directors.

You know, the personal computer business is Apple's old business. Although the market share is a little low, there are still some customers. The sales of the iMacG4 desktop computer launched last year are good. Bigger and stronger.

With Apple's financial resources on the verge of bankruptcy a few years ago, it was difficult to support several R&D projects at the same time.

From the point of view of Jobs, it is obvious that he wants to go further on the basis of the iPod Walkman and launch a product similar to the iPod Touch. Su Yehao has seen this thing before, and his college roommates used it in his previous life. It's almost like a mobile phone except that you can't make calls, navigation, and cellular data.

That's why Su Yehao wanted to do it in one step, and directly persuaded the other party to try the mobile phone project and make some preparations in advance.

The proposal of cooperation was too sudden. Jobs was stunned for a moment, and then asked, "Su, are you serious? If the two sides cooperate, how will it be carried out?"

Without even thinking about it, Su Yehao replied decisively:

"This is not a trivial project. There must be a lot of investment. If we can achieve some results, we have the opportunity to become successful people who create a new era and lead the trend. If we really want to do it, of course we should do our best Go, adopt the method of in-depth cooperation.”

"For example, your black diamond mobile phone is responsible for funding, production and sales, and Apple is responsible for the software part?" Jobs moved his head quickly, and instantly thought of the possibility of cooperation between the two parties.

Su Yehao nodded:

"Yes, Apple's R&D department is also very powerful under your management. They can provide some help. I hope to build a subsidiary that will not be affected by the board of directors as much as possible. The board of directors will often only hold back and only focus on immediate interests. , ignoring the real gold mines, technology is moving fast, and I've been looking at PDAs and smartphones for a while."

These words really touched the heart of Jobs. Back then, he was kicked out by the board of directors in despair, and even basically emptied Apple stocks in a fit of anger.

In recent years, Apple's performance is still not particularly good. Even with the successful example of the iPod, some shareholders still do not approve of his new handheld computer plan, and feel that they should continue to focus on the personal computer business.

At this moment.

The more Jobs thought about it, the more he felt that with Su Yehao's capital and strength, coupled with Apple's system and software, it was impossible to create an epoch-making new product.

In fact, in this era, the positioning of smartphones has gradually become clear. Nokia is ambitiously trying to promote the Symbian operating system, making mobile phones more interesting, adding functions such as surfing the Internet and taking pictures.

In order to attract Jobs' attention and get his help, Su Yehao struck while the iron was hot, adding:

"The smartphone I imagine should have a colorful ultra-clear screen, cancel most of the physical buttons, and use a multi-touch capacitive screen."