Chapter 245: You can earn 70 to 80 billion
After a busy night, Lu Yiming didn't lie down until 4:30 in the morning and was woken up after sleeping for less than two and a half hours.
While eating breakfast, Wu Qiuya saw that Lu Yiming had two dark circles under his eyes, and immediately had a distressed expression on her face: "Lu Yiming, did you not sleep well last night? Are you feeling unwell or are you missing home? Do you want me to ask for a leave for you? If you are afraid of the dark at night, I will come over and chat with you."
Lu Yiming thought, if you come to chat with me, then I don't need to sleep anymore. He immediately responded, "It's okay, it's just that I stayed up late last night, it's okay, no need to ask for leave."
Lin Yuzhen stared at Lu Yiming's face suspiciously, looking left and right: "What bad things have you done in the dark night?"
Lu Yiming took advantage of the time he yawned to swiftly take a fried dough stick from Lin Yuzhen's plate, and then he weakly answered her question: "Talking about business, what else can I do? Look at me, I am so handsome and elegant, do I look like the kind of person who would do bad things?"
The food was snatched away, and Lin Yuzhen was so angry that her cheeks bulged. She had no choice but to get up and go to the buffet area to get a fried dough stick. When she came back, she glared at Lu Yiming and said, "In the middle of the night, are you negotiating business with a ghost?"
Lu Yiming ate until his mouth was full of oil, and then he drank a few cups of freshly squeezed soy milk: "If you say so, you are really negotiating business with a foreigner. Hey, that guy is in the Western Hemisphere, and the time difference happens to be nearly twelve hours. It's night here and it's day there. What can I do?"
Lin Yuzhen seemed to have caught the loophole in Lu Yiming's words. Thinking of the revenge of having her fried dough sticks stolen just now, she attacked Lu Yiming and said, "Humph, that's because you are too weak. If you were strong enough, he would have come to you in the middle of the night to discuss business."
Lu Yiming thought about it and couldn't help but fall into deep thought: "What you said makes a lot of sense, I'm actually speechless."
Wu Qiuya was quite curious: "You are so rich now, shouldn't you enjoy your life? What other business can attract you to stay up late to discuss? Can you make a lot of money?"
When this was mentioned, Lu Yiming seemed to float up: "It is certain that you can make money, but it is just average. If it succeeds, you can probably make 70 to 80 billion. And it is not something that can be achieved in one or two days. It is like laying a long line to catch a big fish. It is hard to describe the hard work involved."
"puff……"
The soy milk that Lin Yuzhen had just drunk with the fried dough sticks sprayed directly onto Lu Yiming's face.
Seventy or eighty billion?
Hard?
How can you even say such a thing?
Even Zhu Hanwen, who had been pretending to be calm and maintaining his dignity as a teacher, was choked by the tea and started coughing continuously. His eyes were red and he kept coughing, looking very embarrassed.
Indeed, Lu Yiming's remarks were so wise that even Zhu Hanwen couldn't tell whether he was joking or not.
Lu Yiming looked at Lin Yuzhen speechlessly, the milk slowly sliding down his face, he looked so miserable.
Lin Yuzhen stuck out her tongue awkwardly, then couldn't help laughing out loud. Lu Yiming looked so funny right now.
Lu Yiming's face suddenly turned dark: "I'm in this state, and you still have the nerve to laugh?"
Lin Yuzhen didn't repent at all. Instead, she blamed Lu Yiming: "Why am I embarrassed to laugh? It's obviously your fault. Who told you to tell jokes while I was drinking milk?"
There was no doubt that she took Lu Yiming's words just now as a joke.
Although she admitted that Lu Yiming could make money, she could at least tolerate a few million, but he was talking about tens of billions. How could that not be funny? Most people wouldn't dare to brag so exaggeratedly. What kind of business could make 70 or 80 billion?
However, Lin Yuzhen didn't know that Lu Yiming was not bragging. On the contrary, this number was Lu Yiming's conservative estimate.
In the time and space when Lu Yiming lived, up to the time when Lu Yiming was reborn, Google's stock price was US$2,300 per share, with a market value of more than US$1.5 trillion.
Assuming that Lu Yiming can eventually acquire 10% of Google's shares, as long as they are not diluted, the total value of these shares will exceed 150 billion US dollars in more than 20 years.
The Internet is so crazy and so unreasonable.
With wet hair and dirty clothes, Lu Yiming had no choice but to stand up: "You guys eat, I have to go take a shower and change clothes. Lin Yuzhen, I'm telling you, you have to wash my clothes when you come back this afternoon, they are all filled with your vomit."
Lin Yuzhen stuck out her tongue at him and refused without hesitation: "I won't! Lululu~"
After returning to his room to wash and change clothes, Lu Yiming went to school with everyone.
As the saying goes, if you don't sleep at night, you will collapse during the day. Lu Yiming seemed drowsy throughout the morning and naturally didn't pay much attention in class.
After finally making it to the afternoon school day, Lu Yiming suddenly received a call from Li Yiwen.
Li Yiwen said on the phone that Larry Page's flight was about to arrive at Hong Kong International Airport.
This speed, even though Lu Yiming was mentally prepared, still felt a little incredible: "So fast?"
Li Yiwen didn't know whether to laugh or cry. "You gave a lot. They are probably afraid that you will regret it. After all, it's rare to find a fool who can casually pay five million dollars these days."
Five million dollars is naturally a very attractive sum, so Larry Page acted swiftly and decisively, buying a ticket to Hong Kong that very day. It was only after Sergey Brin called and informed Li Yiwen that he learned the whole story.
Lu Yiming frowned slightly: "Being able to take out five million dollars shows that I am awesome, but cousin, don't think I didn't hear you secretly calling me a fool. You will lose your bonus this month."
Hearing that his bonus was deducted, Li Yiwen, who was already financially independent, didn't take it to heart. Instead, he angrily scolded his cousin: "Aren't you stupid? Why did you make such a bet with him? If I were Larry Page, no matter how wonderful your words were, I would just say that I was not satisfied, wouldn't that mean I would have taken your five million dollars for free? This is not a bet, it's clearly giving away money."
He really couldn't understand why Lu Yiming, this guy who usually behaved more cleverly than a monkey, would make such a weird bet this time?
Lu Yiming laughed and said, "Even you can see that there is something wrong with this bet, what does that mean? It means that I did this on purpose. Just tell me, have you ever seen me make a loss in the past six months? I can even pull out a handful of hair from a bald man, let alone a good prey like Google?"
Seeing Lu Yiming so confident, Li Yiwen felt something was a little strange, but he didn't say much. He just warned him, "It's good that you know. I thought you were so overwhelmed by victory that you lost even the most basic thinking ability. I know you are a capable person. Since you have already made up your mind, I won't say anything more. Come on, I'll wait for your good news."
"Um."
In the evening, Hong Kong International Airport.
Because the flights were officially opened in early July this year, even the smell of paint in the waiting area hasn't dried yet, everything is really new and shiny.
The 4F-class civil international airport is as big and sizable as a miniature city. It has complete facilities, numerous shops, and even some internationally renowned luxury brands, which dazzled Larry Peggy.
Whether it is the brand new decoration or the extremely modern architectural style, they all show the amazing industrial beauty.
Compared with the modern airport , Larry Page felt that many of the old airports he had seen in the United States were more like garbage disposal stations, especially the toilets there, which were even more terrible than hell.
Larry Page suddenly felt that the East was not as poor and backward as described in the newspapers and media. At least Hong Kong was a place that was so prosperous that it was amazing.
In his opinion, in the entire West Coast, only Los Angeles, California, could surpass this port city in terms of prosperity.
He even thought that if Google could enter Xia Country, it would definitely be able to develop faster and better in the future.
After expressing his feelings for a few minutes, Larry Page finally remembered to call Sergey Brin to let him know he was safe and to chat about his experiences in Hong Kong and his expectations for this trip to the East.
"Fortunately, I always carry a camera with me. I can't describe what I saw in words now. You'll understand after I get back. I think Google really needs a shareholder who is familiar with Xiaguo. If Mr. Lu doesn't perform too badly, we might consider giving him a chance to join."
Sergey Brin was born in Moscow. Both of his parents are senior intellectuals who graduated from Moscow State University. Therefore, he has some understanding of the situation in Xia Country. At least he will not believe the nonsense of Western media such as the BBC.
Although he was somewhat surprised at the speed of Larry Page's change of mind, he nodded and said, "The East is indeed a mysterious land. They have a long history and a once glorious civilization. Xia has a large population, a vast territory, and a complete industrial production system. As long as the economy can be developed, the market potential here will shock the whole world. If Google wants to survive and develop, it should not miss such an opportunity."
Larry Page said with emotion: "I am very glad that I came to Xiaguo in person and saw everything in front of me. BBC and CNN are simply a group of maggots with their brains filled with feces. They deceived me for so long! Forget it, let's not talk about these disgusting bastards. Let's talk about happy things. I am now looking forward to what will happen next."
Sergey Brin smiled and said: "Don't put too much pressure on yourself, just enjoy your vacation and relax."
Just then, a Rolls-Royce Silver Thor slowly drove towards the airport exit.
The scenery along the way flew past the car window. Lin Yuzhen asked Lu Yiming curiously, "Who is coming today? You are asked to pick him up in person. Could he be some big shot?"
Lu Yiming half-closed his eyes to gather his strength, and casually replied, "His name is Larry Page, the founder of Google."
Lin Yuzhen became even more confused, with question marks all over her forehead: "Who is Larry Page? What is Google? How come I have never heard of it?"
Lu Yiming didn't think she was being long-winded, and patiently explained: "It's an Internet company. It doesn't matter if you haven't heard of it now. I guess there are not many people in China who know Google now, but in the future, this name will definitely be known all over the world."
"What does this have to do with you?"
"I told you I would become a shareholder of this company."
"Earn hundreds of billions?"
"It's broken into pieces."
As we were talking, the car had already arrived at Hong Kong International Airport.
Hong Kong International Airport is one of the busiest airports in the world, with more than one hundred airlines operating from the world. It ranks fifth in the world in passenger traffic and has ranked first in the world in cargo traffic for 18 consecutive years.
Looking at the people coming and going around, Lin Yuzhen sighed sincerely: "There are so many people here, and there are quite a few foreigners."
Lu Yiming smiled and said, "That's just the beginning. If there aren't enough people, we won't even be able to make back our investment. This airport has been listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the most expensive airport in the world, costing as much as 20 billion US dollars. It's simply an architectural miracle built with mountains of gold and silver."
Lin Yuzhen couldn't help but open her mouth wide, her eyes widened: "20 billion? US dollars?"
"That's right. So, you may not even be able to imagine how rich the rich people in this world are. Many people say that I am young and promising and can make money. From the time I earned $300,000 from Microsoft to now, in less than a year, I have already made over 100 million. But if I compare myself with the world's richest man, I will not be able to catch up with him even in a hundred years at my current rate of making money."
After getting off the car, Lu Yiming took Lin Yuzhen to the international exit to meet them.
Soon after, he saw Larry Page, a lean, tall Jewish man, and said in fluent English, "Mr. Page, here."
Larry Page saw Lu Yiming waving, and he walked over dragging his huge suitcase, with a surprised expression on his face: "Are you Mr. Lu?"
Although he had known that Lu Yiming was very young, when he saw him in person, Larry Page couldn't help but marvel at the age of the boy in front of him.
He even recalled that when he was the other person's age, he seemed to be trying to make a programmable drawing inkjet printer using Lego bricks?
But the other party is so young, but he can already negotiate a big deal worth five million dollars.
Damn rich people!
Larry Page's eyes involuntarily fell on Lin Yuzhen. Seeing that Lu Yiming always had a beautiful "female secretary" with him when he went out, he couldn't help but feel jealous. If possible, he also wanted to have a rich father who would let him squander money to pursue his dreams.
It’s a pity that although his father is of Jewish descent, he is far from being rich.
So much so that in order to get $5 million in funding, Larry Page had to fly thousands of miles to Hong Kong.
