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Zhen Yu has long been paying attention to the bankruptcy case of the Los Angeles Dodgers. This is a major event in the California sports circle.

In fact, last year, the news came out.

The owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers no longer wants to play and wants to sell the team.

But for a team of this level, the price is too high.

Looking at the 30 teams in the entire American Baseball League, the first team is the New York Yankees, and the second team is probably the Los Angeles Dodgers. You can't eat it without spending a lot of money.

In recent years, the sports market in Los Angeles has been sluggish.

It's not just the Los Angeles Dodgers who are in trouble, the Los Angeles Galaxy has also issued a bankruptcy signal, the Los Angeles Lightning's performance has declined, and the Los Angeles Lakers have also gradually declined.

This has caused many big investors to be worried.

In recent years, the American sports industry has experienced an overall decline due to the economic crisis. However, after a few years of getting rid of the economic crisis and truly emerging from the economic crisis, the sports industry will be great.

For example, the NBA league's current annual revenue is more than 3 billion US dollars. But after the economy recovered and the sports industry flourished, annual revenue soon reached 10 billion US dollars.

Of course, this is related to the referee's court control strategy formulated by the new head of the NBA, which greatly improves the viewing and excitement of the game. The so-called "field control strategy" means that when a strong team competes with a weak team, it should favor the weak team, so that the game will always be an anxious, see-saw, and fierce confrontation situation.

In this way, the game will be exciting and fans will be willing to pay more for it.

The Premier League can stand out from European football and start a money-absorbing model, which largely draws on this sports ethics, abandoning fairness and justice, and focusing on creating exciting games. There are many royal referees who specialize in officiating focus matches and have rich experience in field control. The more intense the competition for the championship, the more intense the competition for the top four, and the more intense the competition for relegation, the more fans and viewers will pay.

Zhou Buqi is the boss of Manchester United. As an insider, he has felt the rise of the Premier League and the field control strategies behind the Premier League.

The Premier League only learned a little bit from American sports and was able to crush all of Europe. This made Zhou Buqi full of confidence in the American sports industry.

Also confident about the Los Angeles Dodgers.

Difficulties are short-lived and the future is bright.

Now is the best time to buy the dip.

At present, the only one who has publicly expressed interest and wants to acquire the Los Angeles Dodgers with great fanfare is the legendary Lakers star "Magic" Johnson.

But he is also a pauper. His total net worth is only US$100 million, so he can only find ways to find external partners.

This gave Zhou Buqi the opportunity to cut through the mess quickly.

Zhen Yu was a little worried, "Will it cost a lot of money?"

"Huh?" Zhou Buqi glanced at her and said easily, "Don't worry, this investment is definitely a good deal. It's not only a good financial investment, it's also an investment in brand and social status."

Zhen Yu asked a very crucial question, "Where's the money? If you want to buy the Los Angeles Dodgers, you may have to prepare $2 billion."

"It's a bit expensive, but it's understandable." Zhou Buqi nodded, "If you're short of money, just take a loan. Our family will be under a lot of financial pressure next year?"

Zhen Yu said with a headache: "According to the current situation, the annual dividends of Pluto Capital and Neptune Capital should be gone, but they can get a management fee of about 2%. After removing all expenses, it is estimated that there will be a balance of US$150 million. We have to raise the rest of the money ourselves. We received US$350 million from the sale of Jieyu Media's shares, and US$900 million in repayments from Jieyu Media and Taizun Real Estate, which can be received in January next year. There are also There are some balances on the books now. It is estimated that by next year, the total funds will be about 1.5 billion US dollars, but the expenses will also be huge..."

"Let's go back to the study to discuss the account analysis." Zhou Buqi interrupted her, "Didn't I borrow another US$1 billion this year? Part of it was used for real estate. You took US$500 million to invest in European debt. Wait. When the indicator line reaches, sell the European debt.”

"That's not enough."

Zhen Yu's eyes flashed with a bit of timidity.

Now, the total loan size of the Zhou family has reached 5.6 billion US dollars. Loan another $2 billion to buy the Los Angeles Dodgers? Debt pushed up to $7.6 billion?

It’s so stressful to have such a huge debt on your shoulders!

The interest expense alone is US$500 million a year.

Zhou Buqi said lightly: "It's just a small loan, can't our family pay it back? Now is the final stage of the economic crisis, and there are fewer and fewer bargain hunting opportunities left in the market. At this time, the more loans there are, the better The better the deal.”

Zhen Yu was helpless, "That's it, you don't care about finances. Just now Aunt Xue asked me how much money was owed on the family account and that she had secretly saved some money over the years. I didn't even dare to tell her To be honest, I'm afraid of scaring her."

Zhou Buqi couldn't laugh or cry, "As for that."

Zhen Yu rolled her eyes at him, "Don't hold us to your standards, okay? I'm just a little woman, and I don't want to be burdened with so much debt that I can't breathe."

Zhou Buqi looked at the happy look of Senior Sister Zhen Yu holding the child in her arms and pondered for a moment.

He has already planned to let Zhen Yu and Shi Jinglin conceive a child together. If you are pregnant, it is not good to be worried about money.

"By the way, do we still have some Facebook stock?"

"Um."

"how many?"

"It's quite a lot, about..." Zhen Yu thought for a moment, "about 2% of the total share capital."

Zhou Buqi said grandly: "Just in time, if we sell all these stocks, we will probably be able to get back 2 billion US dollars. Won't we have the Los Angeles Dodgers?"

In the past few years, Ziweixing and Facebook have launched a wave of close cooperation.

He personally invested US$230 million to acquire 2.27% of Facebook shares. After several rounds of dilution, there is now 2% left. Just take advantage of Facebook's upcoming IPO to cash out all these shares.

This wave of investment is very profitable, with a 10-fold return.

Zhen Yu was slightly reluctant to give up, "Sell them all?"

Zhou Buqi said: "Sell it, there is no need to mess with Zuckerberg. In order to get Ziweixing to reduce its holdings of Facebook stocks, he sent me dozens of emails. Give him a personal favor and give us our personal The stocks were also sold.”

Zhen Yu breathed a sigh of relief and said softly: "We should withdraw gradually. There will be more and more competition between Ziweixing and Facebook. It is inappropriate to hold so many stocks of competitors, and it will easily lead to speculation from the outside world."

The main thing is that you can greatly reduce the financial pressure on your family by cashing out Facebook stocks.

As the chief housekeeper of the Zhou family, Zhen Yu was afraid that the family finances would collapse under her management.

Zhou Buqi said: "The listing of Facebook will have to wait until next year. Let's take out a loan first. Then quickly find a team to communicate with the Los Angeles Dodgers and buy the team to avoid long nights and dreams."

Zhen Yu suggested: "How about finding a partner? Just like the Warriors."

Zhou Buqi said: "It doesn't matter, you can figure it out. Well... don't look for someone like Magic Johnson."

Zhen Yu asked: "Why can't he?"

Zhou Buqi snorted coldly: "He has a bad style. He slept with hundreds or thousands of women. He only restrained himself a little after he got AIDS. He and I are not the same person!"

Just then, when he saw Aunt Xue passing by the door of the toy room, Zhou Buqi rushed over.

"Aunt Xue!"

"What's up?"

Aunt Xue subconsciously took two steps back and looked around, feeling as guilty as a thief.

Zhou Buqi winked and raised his hand towards her, "Come here."

"what?"

Aunt Xue became increasingly vigilant.

Zhou Buqi kept talking about the train, "I love you."

"How can you love a woman like this?" Aunt Xue gritted her teeth in anger, looked around again, and lowered her voice, "You are almost here, and if people find out, how can I still behave?"

Zhou Buqi suggested, "How about going to your room?"

Aunt Xue gave him a hard look and whispered: "I'll go first, and you'll come back in a few minutes. Be careful when you come, don't let anyone see you."

Although there are many people at home, the house is very big.

It's not too difficult to avoid other people's eyes.

After a while, Zhou Buqi slipped to Aunt Xue's door and knocked gently. After just one knock, the door opened quickly, and then Aunt Xue stretched out her hand and pulled him into the house.

He moved quickly, for fear of being seen.

As soon as she entered the room, Aunt Xue said angrily: "I'll just give you five minutes to play. Stop immediately when the time is up. I'm going to the kitchen. If you disappear for too long, it will be misunderstood."

Zhou Buqi was slightly startled, "What are you playing for?"

Aunt Xue said angrily: "Okay, stop pretending, it's only five minutes anyway, I'll be standing here, hurry up, I'm going to make a nutritious meal for Baoshan later."

"So easy this time?" Zhou Buqi was surprised and a little amused, "It seems like you don't have to work hard every time to gain a little advantage."

Aunt Xue hummed: "I'm in a hurry, there are still 4 minutes left."

Zhou Buqi smiled and said: "I just want to tell you that after a while... next month, I will find an opportunity to hold a wedding with Baoshan. If you are free, you can go and see her. Wedding dress."

"Ah?" Aunt Xue's beautiful eyes were shining, and there was a surprise that could not be concealed between her brows, "Really? Are you trying to coax me?"

"Why are you coaxing me? Really!"

Zhou Buqi told him his plan. He wanted to borrow a private island and hold a simple wedding in a closed and deserted place with his family behind closed doors.

But even this is enough to make Aunt Xue happy and happy.

She had never worn a wedding dress in her life.

She really wanted to see her daughter in a wedding dress.

After saying this, Zhou Buqi opened the door and said, "That's it, nothing else. Go and make a nutritious meal for Baoshan."

Aunt Xue was very happy, a smile flashed between her brows, and she praised: "This time it was okay, I performed well, and I will do this in the future. Don't touch a woman when you see her..."

Before he finished speaking, the bastard boy came over, stretched out a finger to pull off the sling, looked inside, and then wanted to touch it.

"It's really unworthy of praise." Aunt Xue was angry, annoyed and amused. She clapped his hand to stop him, "Is there anything good to see? It's not like I haven't seen it before."

Zhou Buqi said with a smile: "Aunt Xue, let's take a mandarin duck bath when we have time?"

"You are so beautiful!"

Aunt Xue reached out and pinched his waist, then left the bedroom and went to the kitchen. Thinking of her daughter's happy life, her heart was filled with joy and her steps were brisk.