Chapter 243: You need to pay more!

The atmosphere at the scene became very heated because of Lu Yiming's impassioned speech. The originally scheduled speech time had long passed. Lu Yiming raised his wrist to check his watch and was about to make a summary when another person stood up and asked, "Mr. Lu, which industry do you think is the most promising? Is it the financial industry you are currently working in?"
Hong Kong is one of the three major international financial centers. Here, even the aunties selling goods on the street in the vegetable market are proficient in various unique postures and techniques for stock trading.
In the eyes of ordinary people, the financial industry naturally represents high-end and classy. It seems that as long as you enter this industry, you can make money quickly, live a carefree life, and after three years of employment, you can have a net worth of tens of millions and own luxury cars and mansions.
In the eyes of some people at the scene, this question was simply a meaningless one because the answer was self-evident.
Almost all of Lu Yiming’s assets were earned from the financial industry. Do you think he is optimistic about the financial industry?
It's like a person selling sweet tofu pudding. You ask him whether he likes sweet tofu pudding or salty tofu pudding. What do you think he will answer?
It can’t be that sweet tofu pudding is work and salty tofu pudding is life, right?
However, when Lu Yiming faced this question, which seemed to be answered as if it was obvious to everyone, his answer was unexpected and shocking.
"To be honest, if you want to find a job, I don't recommend the financial industry. It's a numbers game that only rich people can afford. Ordinary people will just become leeks if they enter."
This confused everyone.
Those who were not persuaded by Lu Yiming in the first place expressed disdain for this, thinking in their hearts, you are making a lot of money in the financial circle, and then telling us that finance is not a good business and ask us not to come, aren’t you kidding me?
Those who remained neutral were thinking about leeks and looking forward to Lu Yiming's next opinion.
Lu Yiming thought about it and finally told the truth: "If you really want to find a job, I think the Internet is a better choice. In the 21st century, human civilization will enter the information age, and the Internet is the largest information carrier, so there is a lot of room for development in this industry."
After all, Hong Kong is the frontier open position of Xiaguo and the capitalist world that communicates most frequently with the outside world. If you talk about the Internet in China, nine out of ten people will definitely not know what it is. However, in Hong Kong, there will not be such a basic cognitive problem.
However, although everyone knows about the Internet, they still find it hard to believe Lu Yiming's view that the Internet industry is more suitable than the financial industry.
“Is the Internet industry more powerful than the financial industry?”
"Internet? Are you talking about the thing called the Internet that the United States has been developing in recent years?"
"Is it the information superhighway project of the United States?"
In the information society, huge amounts of information data are exchanged every second between millions of computers in corporate research laboratories, factories and company offices, primary and secondary schools, universities and libraries, and increasingly in private homes, requiring transmission channels for these data volumes.
In 1992, Senator and former U.S. Vice President Al Gore proposed the U.S. Information Superhighway Act. In September 1993, the U.S. government announced the implementation of a new high-tech plan, the "National Information Infrastructure," which aims to build the "information superhighway," an information age highway, based on the Internet, so that all U.S. citizens can conveniently share massive information resources.
As the frontier of Asia in accepting Western technology and culture, Hong Kong has a good understanding of new technologies, especially the wealth myth of Yahoo and Jerry Yang, which is talked about with great relish by many young people in Hong Kong.
Lu Yiming couldn't help but take a look at this student who could talk about the information superhighway plan.
It has to be said that Hong Kong is indeed much more open than the mainland, which is an indisputable fact. When the mainland students were still very ignorant about the concept of the Internet, the Hong Kong students were already familiar with the United States' information superhighway plan. Their vision alone was better than that of the mainland students.
Lu Yiming coughed lightly and said, "The Internet is the most cutting-edge new thing now. The United States' information superhighway project has been underway for many years and can be said to have begun to take shape. But what did I say just now? It is precisely because there is no related industry in the mainland yet that there is great potential for development."
This is the truth, not misleading at all.
Lu Yiming was analyzing seriously: "In my opinion, the Internet is a gold mine of inestimable value, which contains countless wealth. The gold mines in the United States have been divided up by many giants, but the gold mine in China is an unowned land. Whoever enters first will have the advantage."
The ups and downs of his voice became more passionate as Lu Yiming gave his advice: "The financial industry is an ancient industry with a history of hundreds of years, and the traditional forces are extremely powerful. It's okay for new players to enter the industry and want to be content with a small fortune, but they can't make a lot of money. In comparison, the Internet is more worthy of investment and choice."
At the end, Lu Yiming even said something astonishing: "According to my estimation, within the next 20 years, the scale of Xia Country's Internet economy alone will exceed 30 trillion."
As soon as these words were spoken, there was an uproar in the audience.
"Three hundred thousand? One hundred million?"
Regardless of whether the unit is US dollars, even if it is Hong Kong dollars and Japanese yen, the amount is scary enough.
"This is outrageous. Are you sure you didn't pronounce the number wrong? Are you really not bragging?"
Facing numerous doubts, Lu Yiming responded with a confident smile: "How about carving my words on a monument and placing it somewhere in the school, so that everyone can come back to see it in 20 years. If I'm wrong, you're welcome to slap me in the face then."
Everyone laughed. Although they still didn't quite believe Lu Yiming's bold words, they were impressed by his wit and humor.
"Principal, hurry up."
"I'll come back and slap you in the face in 20 years."
"There will be a special program for the school anniversary after 20 years."
Lu Yiming looked around, feeling dry in the mouth, and quickly said, "Well, it's getting late today, so let's stop here. I hope that what I said today can bring some positive feedback to everyone, then I will really be very kind."
After saying that, he walked straight into the backstage without waiting for anyone to speak.
The applause lasted for a long time.
Lu Yiming took a sip of water and came out from the backstage. The students rushed towards him like crazy.
Seeing the scene in front of him, even someone like Lu Yiming, who was fearless, was frightened. He turned around and prepared to run, but he was trapped before he took a few steps.
"Student Lu Yiming, please sign an autograph for me."
"I want an autograph, too."
"Student Lu Yiming, you are so inspiring."
"Could Lu Yiming leave me a contact number?"
Faced with the notebooks that everyone handed over, Lu Yiming had no choice but to comply with every request and start signing autographs for everyone.
However, as he was signing, he felt like something was wrong.
"Wait, who touched my butt?"
"Hey, hey, it's fine if you just touched my butt, but you actually pinched it?"
"It's fine if you pinch my butt, but you pinch it so hard..."
Lu Yiming was so frightened that he dropped the ballpoint pen in his hand and ran away.
You know, this is a boys' school...
At this time, we are far away on the other side of the ocean.
Beautiful country.
California.
Town of Menlo Park.
Li Yiwen met Larry Page, the legendary founder of Google, in a simple underground garage. At that time, he was still a 25-year-old boy, wearing a T-shirt casually, with messy hair that had not been combed carefully for several days, as if there was a bird's nest on his head.
In Silicon Valley, it is common for technical engineers to be unkempt, and Li Yiwen is no stranger to this.
Seeing Li Yiwen appear again, Larry Page became quite impatient.
"Mr. Li, this is the fourth time you have come to see me this month. Although you are very sincere, I still regret to tell you that we at Google are not short of money right now, and we have no intention of selling our shares."
Li Yiwen remembered Lu Yiming's instructions, so he continued, "Dear Mr. Larry Page, I know that Google has just received an investment, but you also hope to have more money, right? I know that you are a person with ideals and ambitions, but you must know that only enough money can help you realize your ideal blueprint..."
Before Li Yiwen finished speaking, Larry Page interrupted him impatiently: "I still have a lot of work to do. If you have nothing else to do, please leave."
The other party directly ordered him to leave. Li Yiwen was helpless. He sighed and stood up: "Okay, but I still sincerely hope that you can consider my suggestion."
After leaving the underground garage, Li Yiwen took out his mobile phone and called his cousin Lu Yiming.
"He still refused to accept our terms."
It was still late at night in Hong Kong. Lu Yiming suddenly received a call from Li Yiwen. He yawned in his bed and said sleepily, "My dear cousin, do you know what time it is now? I have classes tomorrow morning. You are disturbing my sleep."
Li Yiwen then remembered that his cousin seemed to be still in high school, but since he had already called, there was no need to waste any time.
"They refuse to sell their shares. What should we do now?"
Lu Yiming got up from the bed, opened a bottle of happy water, and then sank into the sofa: "There is nothing in this world that cannot be bought with money. There is only one reason why he disagrees, and he has to pay more. Can't you raise the price until he agrees?"
Li Yiwen was very depressed and quickly explained: "Why didn't you increase it? I already offered ten times the price, but the other party still refused to give in. What else can I do? I can't force the other party to agree with a knife, right?"
In fact, if it were Lu Yiming, let alone ten times, twenty times, thirty times, or even a hundred times the price, it would all be worth it.
Google is still in its early stages, so buying its stock at this time will ensure a profit no matter what the price is.
Because no one knows better than Lu Yiming what a miracle this company has created. Twenty years later, the brand value of the word "Google" alone has reached 263.4 billion US dollars.
This figure exceeds that of Portugal, which ranked 47th in the world's GDP in 2021, and is truly rich enough to rival a country.
This is the advantage of the reborn. They hold the code to wealth, just like entering cheat commands in a game. They can easily convert the information in their minds into real money.
But now there is a small problem - the hen that lays the golden eggs refuses to sell herself.
Lu Yiming was also very troubled by this. For him, not being able to take advantage of Google would mean suffering a loss, and a huge loss at that.
Li Yiwen kept complaining to Lu Yiming, "Stop it, I've already tried everything I could. Or let's just forget it. There are so many companies in the United States, and we don't have to invest in Google. I've done an on-site investigation, and this Google is just a shady company opened in a garage. In the United States, there are so many such companies, and it's unknown whether they can survive until next month. And that man named Page has a terrible temper, and he doesn't look like a good businessman at all."
Li Yiwen was very , and naturally had nothing good to say about Larry Page.
Lu Yiming smiled and comforted him, "Cousin, you are wrong about this. I bet that Google is destined to be a company that can create miracles. If we miss it, we will definitely regret it for the rest of our lives. I tell you, I don't care about other companies, but I am determined to get Google's stock, no matter what the price."
Although he didn't understand why Lu Yiming said it so decisively, Li Yiwen didn't intend to delve into it. Thinking of the various setbacks he had encountered recently, he said in frustration: "Although I really want to believe in your vision, I really can't do anything about this situation. They just refuse to sell it, what can you do?"
Lu Yiming threw the trash can, and then sighed: "Sure enough, I still have to take action at the critical moment."
Li Yiwen asked in confusion: "You can't leave, right? Are you planning to come to the United States in person just for a small company with a market value of several million dollars?"
Lu Yiming, who was still in his third year of high school, naturally couldn't ask for leave to go abroad, but he was very confident about it. He smiled and said, "If I don't go, Shan will go. Shan can come to me. Give me that guy's phone number and I'll talk to him in person."
Hearing that Lu Yiming was planning to take action personally, Li Yiwen was skeptical, but when he thought of his cousin's seemingly omnipotent ability, he did not say a word of objection and quickly gave Lu Yiming Larry Page's contact information.
Li Yiwen was really curious about how his cousin was going to pry open the mouth of the stubborn Google founder.
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