Chapter 260: Calculate the whole world!
In the northeast corner of the Jianchuan Airport work area, across the street from the Muhua Airlines Jianchuan base, stands a tower building. It stands out among the square buildings in the airport work area and is very recognizable. This is the headquarters building of Jianchuan Airport Group.
The entrance of the Jianchuan Airport Group headquarters building is not as grand as the Muhua Airlines Jianchuan Base, but it is also quite luxurious. Looking inside from the gate, the first thing you see is the circular fountain. The surrounding ones are slightly lower, and the main fountain in the middle is estimated to be two meters high, which is quite spectacular.
At this moment, at the edge of the fountain, a man wearing glasses and a plaid shirt, about fifty years old, sat quietly on the edge of the fountain, not caring about the faint water vapor floating behind him. He half-closed his eyes, as if he could fall asleep at any time.
If you are not in the know, it is really hard to imagine that this man is the general manager of Jianchuan Airport Group, Ye Shengning.
Suddenly, the man shuddered all over. He looked up and found that his secretary had come to his side without him knowing when. He rubbed his eyes and asked, "What's the matter?"
The secretary lowered his head and whispered, "Boss Ye, Boss Yao has approved Blue Sky Airlines' Cebu route without permission. Do you need me to stop it?"
Ye Shengning raised his eyelids, as if this news did not cheer him up at all: "He did it privately. No one else got involved?"
"Well, President Yao approved it privately. However, the document has not yet been sent to the bureau for collection, so it can still be retrieved." The secretary said, "Do you want it?"
Ye Shengning yawned: "No need, just send the document out."
The secretary was stunned: "Boss Ye, in principle, we need Spring Airlines' consent to sign the document. Boss Yao signed it privately without Spring Airlines' approval, and then pursued it..."
"The pursuit was Yao Binghua's personal behavior." Ye Shengning said calmly.
The secretary was still worried: "But our airport group will also be held jointly liable."
"Xiao Li, why was Sun Wukong unwilling to follow Tang Sanzang at first in Journey to the West?" Ye Shengning suddenly asked.
The secretary was puzzled, but still tried to answer: "Because of the golden hoop, Tang Sanzang put a golden hoop on Sun Wukong."
"Yes, no one likes to be bound, but the authorities put a golden hoop on our heads."
The secretary immediately understood, instinctively looked around, and then lowered his voice: "But this is a direct order from the General Administration."
"So we can't openly resist the decision of the authority, but we have to carefully test what kind of person this Spring Airlines with a tight ring is. If the decision makers of Spring Airlines are resolute and resolute, then we should give up other ideas and just listen to what Spring Airlines says."
"What if Spring Airlines is weak and can be bullied?" the secretary said with a gleam in his eyes.
Ye Shengning was very satisfied with his secretary's reaction: "We can't take off the golden hoop, that would be against the will of the General Administration, but we can control the people who have the golden hoop. In this way... we will be free."
It can be seen that not only the airlines operating at Jianchuan Airport have a grudge against Spring Airlines, but even Jianchuan Airport itself is dissatisfied and hopes to find a way out. However, the General Administration's intention cannot be directly disobeyed, otherwise the consequences will be serious. Therefore, they made a second choice and began to test Spring Airlines' bottom line.
"Mr. Ye, although Mr. Yao should bear the main responsibility this time, what if the General Administration is furious and imposes the maximum penalty? Even if it is joint liability, our group will not be able to afford the maximum penalty." The secretary said worriedly.
The situation Ye Shengning described was normal, but this move angered the General Administration, so they ignored the so-called normal standards and directly imposed the maximum penalty, which was unbearable for anyone.
Of course, civil aviation is a very professional industry with its own standards for punishment. There are clear provisions on the degree of punishment for the degree of error. It is rare for the standards to be ignored and the degree of punishment to be increased on one's own.
All I can say is that the secretary is still young, his psychological quality is not very good, and he is inherently afraid of this kind of behavior of stroking the tiger's beard.
"It's okay." Compared to the secretary's worries, Ye Shengning seemed calm and composed: "Yao Binghua is a man of many minds. He must have thought of an excuse and will not anger the General Administration too much. Of course, the situation you described is indeed possible, although the probability is very small. Let's do this. We can expose this matter at the right time. This will be equivalent to our own discovery, which falls into the category of active reporting. Then Yao Binghua will be dealt with more severely. With a good attitude, I think the General Administration will not make things difficult for us."
The secretary thought for a moment and said, "What about Mr. Yao?"
Ye Shengning glanced at the secretary: "What's wrong?"
"Boss Ye, actually, getting the documents back now can achieve a similar goal. We just need to let Spring Airlines know that Boss Yao wants to do this. There's no need to actually make it happen, right?"
Ye Shengning raised his eyelids and said calmly, "This is not enough to stimulate Spring Airlines. If you want to test it, you have to touch the bottom line. Otherwise, what can you test? Let the document be sent out and create a fait accompli."
The secretary was terrified when she heard this. She knew that Ye Shengning and Yao Binghua had a good relationship in private.
But in order to test the bottom line of Spring Airlines, Ye Shengning could betray Yao Binghua without hesitation, without any emotional fluctuations at all. This is really scary.
"Mr. Ye, it's time for us to meet with the people from Spring Airlines. If you think it's appropriate, I will contact Spring Airlines to arrange a time."
Ye Shengning thought for a moment and said, "Okay, it's time to meet. You can communicate with Spring Airlines. You know my schedule anyway, so just decide when the time is right and let me know at the end."
The secretary nodded: "I understand."
"By the way, who will represent Spring Airlines then?"
The secretary immediately said: "It should be President Qin Xin."
Ye Shengning smiled and said, "Okay, that little girl, it's okay."
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In a corner of the restaurant on the second floor of the Spring Airlines new base, Xu Cang changed back into his more common casual suit and sat leisurely drinking tea, while Xiao Lingyun was sitting opposite him. It was not a regular meal time, and the restaurant was empty, which was a good place to talk.
"All previous investments in the United States have been recovered. You can withdraw them at any time if you feel it is necessary," said Xiao Lingyun.
Xu Cang put the teacup down: "Put it aside for now, it will be useful soon. It's a pity that after saving it for so long, it will be used up all at once."
"Xu Cang, if you want to acquire Asiana Airlines, you wouldn't withdraw all the funds now, right? I feel that Asiana Airlines can still hold on for a while. The previous investment returns in the United States were quite good, and they could make a lot of money every day. You bought it so early, in a sense, it's also a loss-making deal."
Now Xiao Lingyun no longer objects to Xu Cang's acquisition of Asiana Airlines, but he is confused about Xu Cang's eagerness to recover all the funds.
It must be said that Xu Cang had a good eye, or it could be said that he was very lucky. The investments he instructed Xiao Lingyun to make in the United States were all very high-quality assets, and they had been able to continuously generate a lot of profits in a short period of time.
He knew that Xu Cang was planning to withdraw funds from the United States to acquire Asiana Airlines. However, from the information he had received, the fate of Asiana Airlines was basically doomed, but it was still possible to struggle a bit, so withdraw funds so early?
In addition, Xiao Lingyun roughly calculated that the funds from the United States that Xu Cang recovered were actually higher than the current acquisition price of Asiana Airlines. Even if Xu Cang was afraid that Asiana Airlines would change and recovered the funds in advance, he didn't have to recover all of them. It was also feasible to keep the extra funds in the United States to collect profits.
Anyway, no matter from the timing of recovering funds to the amount of recovery, Xiao Lingyun did not agree with Xu Cang's operation.
"Xu Cang, wouldn't it be better to do it later?" When Xiao Lingyun thought about the money he could earn from the American investment market every day, he felt it was a great pity.
"No." However, Xu Cang said it very affirmatively.
Xiao Lingyun frowned: "Why."
Xu Cang smiled and said, "Avoid suspicion."
"Avoid suspicion? Whose suspicion are you avoiding?"
Xu Cang blinked: "SEC."
"SEC? Securities and Exchange Commission?" Xiao Lingyun was stunned. "Why should we avoid the SEC? We are all investing legally, why should we consider the SEC?"
Xu Cang took a sip of tea and said, "One cannot wear shoes in a melon field."
Xiao Lingyun was stunned for a moment, and then he instinctively continued, "Li Xia doesn't adjust his hat. No, what do you mean? Are you playing dumb?"
"It's okay, it's okay, you caught it well." Xu Cang laughed.
Xiao Lingyun did not ask any more questions. He felt that Xu Cang had already answered him, but he just did not understand the deeper meaning.
"What about the extra money from the acquisition of Asiana Airlines? You want to avoid the suspicion of the SEC. It seems that you are not planning to invest in the US market in the short term?"
"We will eventually return to the US market. It's a good place to make money. I'm very satisfied." Xu Cang said with a smile: "Most of the money we get back will be used to acquire Asiana Airlines, and the rest will be used to build the tourism industry in Jeju Island."
"Huh?" Xiao Lingyun immediately remembered the holiday estate he had taken over from Asiana Airlines, and asked curiously, "Isn't there a ready-made one somewhere? It looks quite new, and it still needs to be renovated, right?"
Xiao Lingyun didn't know that Xu Cang had bought another piece of land in Jeju Island, so naturally he didn't understand what Xu Cang said.
"I bought another piece of land in the east of the island. There is nothing there for now, so I need to spend some money on construction to maximize its value."
"What's the value?"
"The value as a bargaining chip." Just as Xiao Lingyun finished speaking, a strong voice rang out in the restaurant. Xu Cang looked in the direction of the voice and found it was Qin Yi.
Qin Yi came in expressionlessly. As soon as he sat down, he asked, "Xu Cang, did you buy the land on the east side of Jeju Island?"
Xu Cang smiled and said, "I bought it. Didn't I tell you?"
"How could you buy that piece of land?" Qin Yi suddenly became emotional, but fortunately he was very self-disciplined and quickly suppressed it: "That piece of land should have been worthless, why did you suddenly buy it?"
However, Xu Cang did not answer Qin Yi immediately. Instead, he turned over a teacup and leisurely poured a cup of tea for Qin Yi: "When people get angry, their minds are easily not clear. Drink a cup of tea and talk slowly."
Qin Yi looked at Xu Cang's calm appearance, then looked at the cup of tea, took it and drank it all in one gulp.
After waiting for a while, Qin Yi adjusted his emotions and spoke in a much calmer tone: "From a rational point of view, I think your purchase of that piece of land was simply an accident. However, my intuition tells me that it is not that simple. I came here from Shanghai specifically to get an answer in person."
After hearing this, Xiao Lingyun asked in a low voice: "Xu Cang, did you really buy land in Jeju Island? So when you asked me to ask about South Korea's land purchase policy, you weren't just saying it casually."
"What is South Korea's land purchase policy?" Qin Yi frowned.
Xiao Lingyun glanced at Qin Yi and said nothing until Xu Cang smiled and said, "Nothing. A long time ago, I asked him to go to Korea to do some things and learn about the land purchase situation in Korea. It was then that I started to buy real estate in Jeju Island."
"This..." Qin Yi was stunned. "You mean you planned to buy land in Jeju Island a long time ago, not just on impulse. But that doesn't make sense. A long time ago, Jeju Island had no investment value from any angle. And the local natural conditions are not the best choice. Even for personal reasons, you would not buy land in Jeju Island."
"Maybe it was just an accident." Xu Cang shrugged. "It has already happened. What's the point of talking about the cause? What really matters is not how much your group is willing to pay for Jeju Island's tourism resources."
"Damn it!" Even a calm person like Qin Yi couldn't help but feel disturbed at this moment. From this incident alone, he felt that the entire Spring and Summer Tourism Group was being led by Xu Cang.
In fact, Qin Yi didn't think Jeju Island had much innate conditions. However, the Korean Wave has become increasingly strong in recent years, and the group can almost conclude that Jeju Island will definitely soar to the sky with the support of the Korean government, at least in East Asia, where the Korean Wave has the most profound influence.
As a company that started out as a tourism company, Chunxia Travel does have this sense.
However, such a strong profit growth point in the future was completely grasped by Xu Cang, which made Qin Yi very uncomfortable.
This has almost strangled a major weakness in the spring and summer travel industry.
"I said, there is more than one way to success." Xu Cang's smile faded: "Open all offline sales channels. You will have exclusive rights to the best tourism resources in the east and west of Jeju Island."
This time, Qin Yi's expression finally changed.
Xu Cang meant that in the future he would only receive tour groups sent by Chunxia Travel, and would not receive other tourists. This was an extremely huge temptation. As long as they could cooperate with Xu Cang, they would almost monopolize the domestic high-end tourism market for Jeju Island in disguise.
No matter when, monopoly means super high profits.
However, Xu Cang's conditions were also quite harsh. Offline sales channels were the foundation for the survival of Chunxia Travel, and if they were opened to Xu Cang, it would undoubtedly be a huge concession.
"Xu Cang, you should know what our group's offline sales channels mean." Qin Yi said solemnly: "If you only use the future Jeju Island tourism market in exchange, it will not be enough."
Hearing this, Xu Cang leaned back slightly and suddenly asked, "Do you think civil aviation makes money?"
Not to mention Qin Yi, even Xiao Lingyun felt that he could not keep up with Xu Cang's pace.
However, Qin Yi still expressed his opinion: "It makes money, but it's just ordinary money."
"That's right!" Xu Cang snapped his fingers. "Civil aviation is still an industry after all. It can make money, but in terms of speed, it makes money much faster than civil aviation. When you came in just now, you must have heard our conversation. So why do you think I want to acquire Asiana Airlines?"
Qin Yi was stumped by the question, and it took him a long time to say, "Isn't it normal for airlines to merge and acquire each other? Isn't this the way airlines expand?"
"No, no, no, you still don't understand what I mean." Xu Cang shook his head: "Civil aviation or airlines are the bottom line for me. They are the basis of my existence. It's like a foundation. The foundation must be there, but it doesn't need to be too big. After all, the house on it is where people live and it shows one's status. One Spring Airlines is enough to be my foundation, but why should I acquire Asiana Airlines, which has a uncertain future?"
"This..." Qin Yi felt like a child who knew nothing in front of Xu Cang. He was completely unable to digest the content of Xu Cang's words in such a short time.
Not to mention Qin Yi, even Xiao Lingyun who was following Xu Cang didn't understand.
"Xu Cang, are you saying that Asiana Airlines is not the target?" Xiao Lingyun asked.
"Of course! I spent so much effort just for Asiana Airlines. Do you look down on me or do you think too highly of Asiana Airlines?" Xu Cang turned to Xiao Lingyun and said, "In this world, it is the safest way to grasp both ends. Now, I intend to take over the foundation of Asiana Airlines, so what should be the building on it?"
Xiao Lingyun looked at Xu Cang, then at Qin Yi. For some reason, he felt a chill, the kind of horror that comes from calculating everything in the world. And Xu Cang at this moment was giving him exactly that feeling.
