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Xu Yike asked curiously: "Is a 1 million mansion worth it? Well, I'm not saying that Mr. Li didn't buy it, I just think he spent too much money."

Li Shuo smiled and explained, "After the 08 financial crisis, the domestic economy has just started to turn around, and the housing prices have only just started to soar. Besides, this is a luxury house!"

"What happened to the mansion?"

Before Li Shuo could speak, Zhang Yuyan, a former professional, continued, "In 08, the Lenghai housing market was in a state of turmoil. Many people sold their houses one after another. However, whether it was the common large or small apartments, commercial apartment buildings, or high-end large flats or complex buildings, the sales were very slow because no one was willing to take them. Only luxury houses such as single-family villas and super large flats not only had generally stable prices, but also could be sold quickly!"

"This is Lenghai, the national economic center, where a large number of wealthy people and capital are concentrated. There is an inherent demand for luxury homes, and luxury homes can effectively exclude ordinary people, so it has the attributes of financial speculation, and can maintain a compound growth of more than 20% every year."

Xu Yike was shocked: "A house worth 1 million yuan can increase in price by 20% every year. Doesn't that mean I can earn 2000 million yuan without doing anything in a year?"

Zhang Yuyan smiled and said, "What do you think? Not everyone is like Boss, who buys houses for living."

Xu Yike smacked his lips, and even Cui Yunzhen and Iwasaki Junko looked thoughtful.

Li Shuo didn't want to talk too much about the price of the mansion, and tried to change the subject: "Actually, I have to thank Ms. Iwasaki..."

It was Iwasaki Junko's recommendation that gave him the opportunity to invest in the SC club. It was also because of this that Qi Tianlin became friends with Li Shuo.

"Qi Tianlin would vomit blood if he heard you say that. He spent a lot of effort to give you the best project of Tan Palace, but he wants you to remember this favor!"

Iwasaki Junko said with a relaxed expression: "Besides, you are the one who paid the money, I dare not take credit for it. After all, this amount of money is nothing to you. I heard that Jingcheng Cultural and Creative's stock price soared by 50% after it went public. The shares you keep in your hands alone should be enough to buy a house in Shuoguo Manor!"

You even know this?

Li Shuo raised his eyebrows, then remembered that she was the investor behind Yu Nuannuan after all, so she naturally knew all this, so he smiled and said, "It's just average, not that much profit. After all, after the company goes public, there is a lock-up period..."

In fact, Li Shuo's shareholding in Beijing Cultural and Creative has now been reduced to zero, but his influence on Beijing Cultural and Creative has not diminished, because the Lan father and daughter did not sell much, and because the share price of Beijing Cultural and Creative has started to decline since the second day of listing, the father and daughter admired Li Shuo's "precise reduction of holdings", and his prestige in Beijing Cultural and Creative has even increased a lot.

As for how to “dump” during the lock-up period, this is too simple for “financial practitioners”, and it is completely legal and compliant. Well, you know what A-shares are like…

However, Junko Iwasaki was very curious and kept asking him how much he earned from this project.

Women naturally yearn for this kind of overnight wealth. The four women stared at Li Shuo:

"Boss, I don't know much about this. Can you let me see your style?"

"Mr. Li, it turns out that you have invested in more than one Lengwen Group? Is Jingcheng Cultural and Creative a listed company? It should be very large, right?"

"Li Shuo, can you tell us how much you earned this time? Let us open our eyes."

The four women asked in different ways, each reflecting a different style. Zhang Yuyan was flattering like a milk tea. Compared with her, the green tea Xu Yike seemed too straightforward. And Cui Yunzhen seemed to be asking from the perspective of a "second generation chaebol". She said it was "eye-opening", but in fact she was thinking about "whether she should follow Li Shuo".

In the magnificent mansion, surrounded by four beautiful women with different temperaments, exploring them with such admiring and curious eyes, even Li Shuo couldn't help feeling elated at this moment.

Considering that Beijing Cultural Creation has already been launched, it is not a big deal to talk about this now, so Li Shuo cleared his throat and highlighted the key points:

"About two months ago, I went to Beijing on a business trip. By chance, I invested 2 million yuan in a company called Beijing Cultural and Creative..."

"Later, Jingcheng Cultural and Creative announced that it would go public. Well, generally, when a company goes public, its valuation will be relatively high. But since there is a lock-up period after the listing, I sold part of it and made a profit of about 2 million..."

"The remaining shares were actually sold, but they were sold to people who were willing to take them. Well, they were the young masters of the SV Club. On the first day of listing, they saw the stock price rising sharply and clamored to buy it. So we made an off-market agreement. They bought the remaining shares I held at a 40% premium. After the lock-up period ends, the shares will be transferred to their names..."

In the expectant eyes of the four girls, Li Shuo said lightly: "In the end, these shares are very few, so I only sold them for 2 million, which is about the same as the previous profit..."

Zhang Yuyan was shocked and murmured, "Invested 2500 million, and the final profit was 4 million?"

"The final profit is 16 times!" Cui Yunzhen calculated the rate of return almost instantly!

Iwasaki Junko said calmly: "The financial industry is used to calculating the annualized rate of return. Li Shuo's transaction was completed within 2 months, which means that the annualized rate of return will increase by 6 times, and finally reach 96 times! It can almost be regarded as a hundred times!"

"Hiss" "Tsk"

Xu Yike kept taking a deep breath. Among all the women present, she was the only one who came from a lower class background. To her, each sum of money was an unimaginable astronomical figure.

Choi Yun-jeong smacked her lips in an unladylike manner and had not yet recovered from the extreme feeling of surprise.

Iwasaki Junko was also shocked, but she had great wealth and power, so she had self-control. After satisfying her curiosity, she changed the subject back to the game:

"Okay, we've played three rounds, now let's start counting the chips!"

"How about setting a minimum chip of 100 and a maximum pot limit of 10,000?"

Xu Yike and the other girls were novices after all, and they thought the minimum chip was only 100, so they didn't object. Li Shuo didn't think it was a big deal, but soon...

"Check and raise, add another 10,000!"

"Raise the bet, ten thousand!"

According to the rules of Texas Hold'em, there are several opportunities to raise the bet before the cards are opened. In other words, even if you are only playing a game of a few hundred dollars, you can quickly raise the bet to the maximum limit.

Therefore, even if you have good cards, if you are not brave enough to bear the loss of "ten thousand" or "ten thousand", they will still be beaten away before the cards are opened.

This was the case in the first game. Relying on her chip advantage, Junko Iwasaki easily swept the entire field, including Li Shuo!

After the first round, Zhang Yuyan looked at Li Shuo curiously and asked, "Boss, it's okay if we don't dare to call. Why don't you compete with Miss Iwasaki? Is your hand too small?"

Li Shuo shook his head and said simply: "No, the risk-return ratio is too low..."

Zhang Yuyan, Xu Yike, and Cui Yunzhen all had question marks on their faces.

Iwasaki Junko was slightly startled and exclaimed: "Mr. Li, I really didn't expect that you have already understood the essence of Texas Hold'em after just playing three games!"

Xu Yike curled his lips in disapproval, thinking to himself: It's just a game. Although Li Shuo is indeed very outstanding, this woman's flattery of Li Shuo is too much.

Li Shuo naturally understood. He shook his head and said, "I don't understand the essence of this poker game, but most gambling involves the theory of risk-return ratio."

Then he explained to the other girls, "Risk-return ratio is a financial term. If you take the risk of losing all your capital in order to earn 1 times the money, it is a 100% risk-return ratio. It involves precise mathematical calculations and is often used in advanced applications in investment and gambling..."

"I won't go into details about how to use it here. Let's just take this poker game as an example. If you have big cards in your hand, then you just need to imagine how many big cards are bigger than yours. If there is only one deck of cards, then your risk-return ratio is infinitely close to 1: that is, only that one deck of cards can beat you, so your risk is very small, but the reward is very large. In this case, you can bet your entire fortune on gambling!"

"On the contrary, if you have smaller cards and there are too many cards that can beat you, then your risk exposure becomes infinitely close to 100%. In this case, if you bet your entire fortune on 'fraud', you may succeed once or twice, but if you fail once, you will lose 1% of your chips."

"This is the ratio of risk to reward. If one's brain can quickly calculate how many chips to bet and how likely it is to get a profit, then this person can at least become a professional poker player. If one can consider betting every time according to computer-like thinking, then this person's long-term probability of winning will inevitably be infinitely close to 100%, which is a sure-win plan!"

Xu Yike and the other two girls were completely confused when they heard this. Instead of having fewer questions, they had more.

Iwasaki Junko nodded and said, "That's right. If you don't care about the gains and losses of a single game and can raise your thinking to the entire poker career, then you can get a perfect winning plan!"

"In fact, this strategy is very common in professional Texas Hold'em games and is used by most famous poker players. However, even Mr. Doyle, the God of Texas Hold'em, cannot accurately calculate the winning rate for each game like a computer. Therefore, even famous poker players cannot get close to a 100% winning rate. Even more than 70% of the winning rates are rarely achieved!"

Li Shuo was somewhat stunned, then laughed and said, "I see, it seems like I'm not the only smart person in this world."

"No, they just stood on the shoulders of their predecessors and learned this strategy from them, but Li Jun used it accurately in his first time playing cards!"

The admiration on Junko Iwasaki's face was almost overflowing. The other three girls were inexperienced and they couldn't imagine how talented the person was who could understand this strategy the first time around!

On Wall Street and in Las Vegas, anyone who possesses Li Shuo's level of wisdom is a genius. They will become chief traders and chief consultants of casinos, and receive annual salaries of millions or tens of millions of dollars!

In fact, Li Shuo is just like most people. He himself does not understand that he has this talent - even though he was influenced by this talent in his previous life and successfully worked in the financial industry, and even rose step by step from a rural child to a top position in the industry!

It was just an ordinary game of cards for fun, but the next moment, the atmosphere was distorted by the girls who had no such thoughts at all...

Xu Yike pulled Li Shuo's arm and said coquettishly:

"It sounds really impressive, Mr. Li, can you teach us..."

Before Li Shuo could say anything, Cui Yunzhen immediately objected: "You are the dealer, how can you join the game?"

"Why don't we just deal the cards, Mr. Li? How about we go two-in-one?" Xu Yike was still pestering Li Shuo.

Cui Yunzhen immediately said: "Why don't you join me in two-in-one? Li Shuo, let's do it together? I also want to learn..."

Among the three girls except Iwasaki Junko, Choi Yun-jeong should be the most rational one. She was also the only one who slightly understood some of Li Shuo's words. At this moment, she really hoped to learn this strategy from Li Shuo, because she keenly realized that this strategy can not only be applied to poker games, but also to investment.

Thinking more deeply, Li Shuo was able to start from scratch to create the Shuoguo system and achieve an annualized rate of return of nearly 100%, perhaps because of the strategy he just shared? !

Seeing that the person competing with him was Cui Yunzhen, Xu Yike had an idea. He leaned forward while holding Li Shuo's arm, rubbing against him, and looked at Cui Yunzhen provocatively, "Little girl, do you know what two-in-one means? I can do this, can you?"

"I!"

Cui Yunzhen was furious at being scolded by her bestie. She gritted her teeth and immediately hugged Li Shuo's other arm. Of course, she was a girl after all, so she didn't dare to dawdle like Xu Yike did. She just looked at him with eyes full of expectation like a deer: "Li Shuo, please, I really want to learn..."

The two of them said different things, and Li Shuo was moved when he heard them. He asked the two women, "Then tell me clearly, what can you do after you merge with me? I can't just help you make money for nothing, right?"

He was talking about a card game. Based on 100 yuan chips, if everyone really played cards for an entire afternoon, the winnings or losses would start at at least tens of thousands.

Xu Yike immediately said: "I can help Boss rub his shoulders and legs. If you are tired, I can give you a massage..."

Cui Yunzhen said weakly: "Well, I want to learn Mr. Li's strategy. If I can achieve something, I will recognize you as my teacher!"

Having said that, Cui Yunzhen felt that her statement was too weak. She hardened her heart, stood up, bowed 90 degrees to Li Shuo, and said sincerely: "Please accept me, teacher!"

The attitude was very good, and Li Shuo was very satisfied, mainly because he knew Choi Yun-jeong's identity: a member of a chaebol family, she might not inherit the family, but after adulthood she would be allocated wealth that ordinary people could hardly dream of. If Choi Yun-jeong followed him in investing, and eventually started her own business and became a new generation of chaebol, this would surely be an inspirational story that would spread around the world, and would be of great help to Li Shuo's previous goal of "becoming the investment god of Asia."

Which master wouldn't want a pretty, well-behaved and intelligent female disciple?