Rebirth in 1985

Chapter 2: Phoenix Half a Year Later ()

Of course Lu Shaohua would laugh, and he was not just happy. According to the figures the three of them had summarized, the net profit for this month had reached more than 10.8 billion US dollars. More than billion US dollars, anyone who saw this figure would laugh happily, even Lu Shaohua, who was worth more than billion US dollars, would laugh happily.

The Fok family is considered a wealthy family in Hong Kong, but if you show this figure to Fok Ying-tung, he would probably gasp, because the Fok family's total assets did not reach this figure at that time. Don't forget that this was 91, and the Fok family's total assets entering the 21st century were only 3 to 4 billion Hong Kong dollars. According to Lu Shaohua's estimate, the Fok family's total assets are now estimated to be no more than 10 billion US dollars.

In just a few months, the net profit of the financial sector exceeded the total assets of the Huo family. How could Lu Shaohua not laugh? However, laughing aside, big investment will bring big returns. This is an eternal truth. Although more than 10.8 billion US dollars were earned in a few months, the initial investment was still a lot of money.

Take Li Zongen for example. Although he was in the training period, his initial start-up capital was more than 30 billion US dollars! Now he has made more than 2.9 million, nearly 3 million, which is 10%. Li Yunqing's profit is the smallest, more than 1.8 million. His start-up capital is also the 20 billion announced by Lu Shaohua after returning to Hong Kong. The capital is only more than 22 billion. Now he has made more than 1.8 million, which is less than 10%, but it is not far off.

The total amount of money contributed by Li Yunqing and Li Zongen was only nearly 4.7 million or 4.8 million. The rest was created by Liu Mingzhang. I still remember that when Liu Mingzhang asked Lu Shaohua how much money he would need to follow Soros, Lu Shaohua only replied that he could take as much as he liked. In other words, Lu Shaohua did not give him a standard answer, and it was up to Liu Mingzhang to take what he liked.

However, Liu Mingzhang did not take tens of billions at once, but only took 30 billion US dollars. In his opinion, it was not an action, so there was no need to move so much money. Besides, if the capital was too much, it might affect the original plan, so he only took 30 billion. However, this 30 billion created a net profit of more than 6.1 million in a few months, which was more than 20%. In the financial industry, it is rare to have a net profit of more than 20%. Even those super-powerful financial speculators in the world cannot create such a high ratio.

But Liu Mingzhang also reached this amount. What was the reason? Lu Shaohua thought about it and couldn't understand why the net profit ratio was so high. Finally, he had no choice but to ask Liu Mingzhang. Only then did he get the answer. It turned out that Soros leaked the news in advance in order to build his reputation, and Liu Mingzhang started to act before Soros did. When he was about to stop, Liu Mingzhang also advanced the amount again. Because of the two advances, the final ratio that made international speculators crazy.

Lu Shaohua was happy about the high profits in the financial sector, but he was just happy. He knew that there would be many places to spend money in the future, and this money was far from enough. To put it bluntly, Lu Shaohua invested nearly 300 billion US dollars in the secret base in Africa alone. 300 billion, if converted into RMB or Hong Kong dollars, it would fill up several rooms.

Of course, the financial sector is not just about what Liu Mingzhang and the other two earn. There is also a Phoenix Bank. Ever since the bank was acquired in full from Baochuanwang and his group, it has been under the Phoenix Financial umbrella. The headquarters in Hong Kong does not have limited profits, but the main branch is still the Soviet branch.

Speaking of the Soviet branch, Lu Shaohua felt a little funny, because the data there could not be counted, there were too many deposits and expenditures every day, and the bank's internal staff had no time to calculate those accounts. The computer software was not so advanced now, and manual assistance was needed to calculate the accounts. If more people were not sent to calculate the accounts, there would be no time to calculate them. Oh, even if people were sent to calculate, it would be difficult because the amount of funds changed too quickly in a day.

Faced with this situation, Lu Shaohua had only one order, which was to send someone over to slowly calculate the amount. If one month wasn't enough, then two months would be enough, and if two months weren't enough, then three months would be enough, until the accounts were settled. Lu Shaohua was not in a hurry to know the number anyway. The Soviet Union would still be in turmoil for a few years, and this situation would continue in the future. If he wanted to completely settle the accounts, he would have to wait until the Soviet Union collapsed and things returned to normal.

Although it was difficult to sort out the accounts, Lu Shaohua knew that the profit figure was definitely a terrifying number. When the bank branch was established, Lu Shaohua had already formulated the general direction, and the funds accumulated from the deposits were transferred to Chen Guobang. After the transfer, all the remaining funds except the funds required for normal operation were converted into US dollars.

The ruble depreciates very quickly. After exchanging rubles for dollars and waiting for them to depreciate to a certain percentage, they are exchanged back to rubles to earn the difference. Lu Shaohua believes that this difference alone is a huge number. Phoenix Bank is headquartered in Hong Kong, and the branch in the Soviet Union has suddenly become a multinational bank. Given the current situation in the Soviet Union, those wealthy people trust foreign banks more because the probability of foreign banks going bankrupt is very low, while domestic banks are different. Once the unrest escalates, it is not difficult for them to go bankrupt. This is why the Phoenix branch has become so popular.

Several major companies under the Hong Kong Phoenix Group are all profitable, but it is different in Shenzhen. Some of them just invest, invest, and increase investment. It is a bit like a bottomless pit. They invest desperately, especially in the production base. They invest a lot of money all the time. But it’s okay, as there is a return if there is investment. According to the news sent back by Chu Lei, the project has entered a white-hot stage. Both the automobile research laboratory and the research laboratory of other electronic products have been put into use long ago to provide research and testing for technicians from the Soviet Union.

The production workshops have also been built by technicians who have combined their previous experience to come up with the best plan. So far, 50% of the production workshops have been completed, that is, half of them have been completed. Yes, all workshops are being built at the same time, whether it is the automobile, computer, or electronic product workshops, they are all started at the same time. If necessary, they can be put into use now, but unfortunately, the technicians are stepping up the test and testing, and it has not yet reached the production stage.

Developing a mature product is not as simple as imagined. Take cars for example. The engine is the most important part of the whole car. Development is very cumbersome and requires repeated research and testing. Fortunately, the technical talents recruited from the Soviet Union are all professionals with a lot of experience. Development is relatively easy and the progress is quite fast. Lu Shaohua has reason to believe that it will not be long before the first car of the Phoenix brand will be on the market.

Lu Shaohua was very satisfied with the progress in the automotive field, and the same was true for computers. Although the progress was much slower than that of automobiles, Lu Shaohua was already quite satisfied with the current progress. In this era, the replacement of computers was not fast, but Lu Shaohua still gave those technical talents a task, which was to try to develop hardware that was higher than the market.

Only by developing hardware that is better than the market can Lu Shaohua quickly occupy the market in the computer field. As the technical director of an Internet cafe in his previous life, Lu Shaohua knew better than anyone that people like "speed" whether playing games or surfing the Internet, and the hardware controls the rhythm of speed. If the hardware is high-end, the Internet speed will be fast, and everything will run faster. If the hardware is low, the Internet speed will be fast, but the operation will also be slow. Therefore, Internet speed and hardware complement each other, and both control the speed.

By the end of the 90s, computers had become increasingly popular, and computer hardware was being replaced as fast as a rocket. Lu Shaohua clearly remembers that at one time, the highest memory stick on the market was 2g, but within a few months, 4g came out. With the advent of 4g, 2g became obsolete.

The situation is different now. The speed of generation change is not very fast. As long as we develop hardware that is one level higher than the market, we can maintain the leading position in the market for a long time, and this long period of time is just right for researching the next level of hardware. As long as this cycle can continue, Phoenix's products will be in a leading position, and it goes without saying that they will occupy a share of the market. In two words, it is "easy".

According to Lu Shaohua, no matter what kind of precision instruments the technicians in Shenzhen or the technicians currently staying in the secret base of the Soviet Union need, Chen Guobang will find a way to get them. All the technical talents are from the Soviet Union, so the instruments they need are all in the Soviet Union. To put it bluntly, Chen Guobang can even get the technology of aircraft carriers, so getting some precision instruments is as easy as eating.

As early as when Lu Shaohua decided to recruit Chu Lei, he gave Chu Lei the contact information of Chen Guobang, and also informed Chen Guobang. So, no matter whether Shenzhen is researching cars, computers, or electronic products and needs any precision instruments, technical talents will report to Chu Lei, and Chu Lei will contact Chen Guobang who is far away in the Soviet Union by phone. In less than a week, the precision instruments will arrive at the Shenzhen production base.

The construction of the production base consumed a lot of manpower and material resources, especially the large engineering team formed by Lin Qiquan. Building a base for his own company did not make any money, but the employee salaries and materials did cost money. Fortunately, it was 91, and the domestic employee salaries and construction materials were not high, so the money spent was not much.

Once, Lu Shaohua deliberately called Lin Qiquan. According to Lin Qiquan's estimation, it would take more than two months to complete the construction of the entire production base. Oh, more than two months refers to 24-hour non-stop operation. If it does not operate 24 hours a day, it will probably take more than half a year.

In this regard, Lu Shaohua had only one request, that it should be built as soon as possible, and if it was necessary to operate 24 hours a day, it should be operated 24 hours a day. The wages of domestic employees were not high, and the cost of hiring more people was not much, but the base could be built as soon as possible. As the saying goes, you can't catch a wolf if you can't catch a child. Maybe one day a mature product will come out and can be produced, but the factory workshop has not been fully built, which will delay the progress and cause indirect losses!

The Shenzhen production base is progressing well, and the secret base in Africa is also progressing well. According to Li Zhijie, if it is necessary now, they can move there directly, but Lu Shaohua did not ask Chen Guobang to arrange for those technical personnel to move there immediately. Instead, he told Li Zhijie to continue to improve the base, and let him think about when to move.

Yes, if they want to move, they have to find a good day, a suitable day, a day when no one can notice their movements. But how easy is it to find such a day?