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One month after Ziweixing Global went public, its market value finally reached Zhou Buqi’s expectations, exceeding US$150 billion for the first time. This is related to the strong performance of two recent Hollywood blockbusters, "007" and "Jurassic World" in the market.

The former has a global box office of US$860 million, and it should not be a big problem if the global box office exceeds US$1 billion. The latter is even more impressive. After 5 weeks of release, the global box office has even exceeded 1.16 billion US dollars.

Before this, Hollywood had not had blockbusters with a global box office of more than 1 billion US dollars, but those were rare and hard to come by.

It's different when you get to Ziweixing Global.

It seems that they have grasped the secret of making high-box office movies, and are using assembly line industrial production to produce a large number of shocking movies with a global box office of more than 1 billion US dollars.

The benefits are exciting.

With the clear data, it is difficult for Ziweixing Global not to lead Hollywood.

After Zhou Buqi was busy for a while, he returned to Australia.

I plan to pick up my wife and children and then return to China.

It’s time to celebrate the Spring Festival!

We can’t just go back. We need to go to the Northeast to tidy up our old house, prepare some New Year’s goods, and get in the Spring Festival spirit. Then take grandpa and mom and dad over.

It is not good to let elders do these things every year.

When I arrived at my home in Australia, I found that Liu Qiangdong next door was also there.

Zhou Buqi's family has too many people, and although this house is a luxury house, it is not too big, so it is difficult to set aside an entire floor for guests.

It is not convenient to receive outsiders.

Just like the ancient emperor's court, foreign men were not allowed in or out of the harem.

Zhou Buqi was alone, carrying two bags of lobsters and crabs, which are specialties here in Sydney, and came to visit as a guest.

These are all real guys.

Liu Qiangdong didn't see him outside. When he saw him bringing two bags of seafood, he said with a smile: "If you want to give a gift, just give me a few more boxes of your collection of fine wines."

Zhou Buqi does have a lot of good wine at home.

Neither his grandfather nor his father were big drinkers, but when business came and went, they still couldn't avoid drinking. Since the late 1980s, the Zhou family has been continuously purchasing many well-known domestic liquors, such as Moutai, Xifeng Liquor, Wuliangye, Jiannanchun, Gujing Gong Liquor, Luzhou Laojiao, Wenjun Liquor, Fenjiu Liquor, etc.

There are probably more than 700 boxes stored.

Generally they are twenty or thirty years old.

Not only that, the protection of wild animals in the Northeast was not strict at that time, so we could get a lot of tiger bones, tiger whips, bear bile, deer antlers and other things, plus wild ginseng, wolfberry, yam and the like, and put them in a winery With the help of friends, I also made several large pots, ranging from ten thousand to several thousand kilograms.

The wine library of the Zhou family is simply dazzling.

Zhou Buqi has little interest in wine. He drinks occasionally, but he doesn't have any dedicated hobbies.

Liu Qiangdong is different. He likes wine very much and is very envious of him.

Zhou Buqi was not stingy, and said with a smile: "Okay, when will you return to Beijing? When it's over, you can go to the warehouse and take away whatever you like."

Liu Qiangdong was not polite to him, "Okay, I'll keep the tiger penis wine for you. I won't use it. You can make up for it, and I'll pick the rest."

Zhou Buqi had a black line on his forehead, "I can't use it either!"

Liu Qiangdong laughed and remembered something, "Who is that... did you get the milk tea you talked about last time?"

Zhou Buqi was a little embarrassed and said "hmm".

Liu Qiangdong gave a thumbs up and said, "I guess so, what do you think?"

Zhou Buqi felt embarrassed to discuss this topic with him and asked: "By the way, isn't there a Maotai club in the capital, and you didn't participate? If you join, you can get dozens of boxes of wine from Maotai every year. "

"Didn't participate." Liu Qiangdong asked back, "Did you participate?"

"Me?" Zhou Buqi shook his head, "I don't have to, Ziweixing is all purchasing."

He really doesn't need it.

Ever since he said that he would purchase some Moutai and Wuliangye every year and keep them for future company events, Meng Houkun took action. Since 2007, Moutai and Wuliangye have been purchased in batches every year. Now, there are at least two to three thousand boxes in Ziweixing's warehouse.

However, these two to three thousand boxes of wine are all basic models, including Puwu and Feitian Moutai.

Meng Houkun has strong connections and is also an executive of Ziweixing. He has huge financial resources that are open and transparent. He also bought dozens of boxes of rare high-end wines, such as Mao 30, Mao 50, and Mao 80, as well as Wuliangye gold wine, Wuliangye treasures, etc. wait. These are special supplies for the company, and Meng Houkun purchased them out of his own pocket.

However, for people like Zhou Buqi who don't drink liquor for a long time, drinking these is a bit wasteful.

The difference between Mao 80 and Feitian Maotai is hard to tell.

There may not be much difference between Feitian Moutai and Moutai Prince.

Seeing that Liu Qiangdong seemed very interested, Zhou Buqi smiled and said, "It's okay. I have wine there. The company buys it every year. The more we buy, the more we buy. When you are free, go over and take a look. Take whatever you need." ."

Liu Qiangdong was waiting for his words and said with a smile: "Okay, this is what you said!"

Then, the two briefly talked about some business matters.

Jingdong's life is still not easy, and the financial pressure is quite high.

Fortunately, due to constant price wars, JD.com has unified the domestic Internet B2C market and become the second largest e-commerce platform after Taobao.

Liu Qiangdong sighed, "The e-commerce business is actually easy to handle. The most difficult thing now is logistics. This business is really... much more expensive than I thought."

Zhou Buqi asked: "Have you ever considered going public?"

"Ah?" Liu Qiangdong was slightly startled, "When?"

Zhou Buqi thought for a moment and said, "It would be best this year."

"This year?" Liu Qiangdong was a little surprised, "Isn't it a bit rushed?"

Zhou Buqi said: "This year is the best time. If we don't go public this year, many super giants may go public in the next two years. Such high financing requirements will have a serious impact on the market. Ziweixing will be in It will be listed this year, and next year...if nothing else, Alibaba and Ziweixing International will definitely be listed."

Liu Qiangdong said half-jokingly: "Compared to you, JD.com is just a small company. Just get a little bit from the market and it will be enough. There is not much pressure."

Zhou Buqi said: "Then it would be best to go public this year. Ziweixing will be listed in August, and JD.com will be better off completing its listing in October. By then, with the help of Ziweixing's spring breeze, JD.com will also be able to speculate in the capital market. Bundle."

"Really want to go?"

It’s not easy for Liu Qiangdong to act arbitrarily.

Although he can do whatever he wants with JD.com's business, when it comes to capital operations, personal relationships and favors aside, he must fully respect the opinions of the employer out of morality and rationality.

Zhou Buqi nodded, "If you want to go, it will be this year."

"Damn!" Liu Qiangdong was very irritated, "I'm still in school!"

Zhou Buqi said with a smile: "Just go to school, and don't delay becoming a school beauty. I have a good relationship with Nasdaq, and JD.com's listing process and approval process can go smoothly. As long as you don't play with finances Fake.”

Liu Qiangdong said speechlessly: "Fake what is fake? We are all serious businessmen."

Zhou Buqi said: "Well, let's do it this way. Go to Nasdaq and get ready quickly. Try to get listed in September or October. The domestic express delivery business is developing too fast, you have to hurry up. You need to go public to raise funds and get enough money before you can compete with them. Competition in the express delivery industry may be even more intense than in the e-commerce industry."

Liu Qiangdong didn't take it seriously and snorted coldly: "What JD.com does is not express delivery. What we do is logistics. Don't compare JD Logistics with those companies that run errands and deliver express delivery."

Zhou Buqi laughed and said, "Yes, logistics."