Volume 3 Summer Rain Chapter 0307: Not much, less than 2,000 tons
Soon, Pan American Investment Holdings signed an agreement with the Bosacks, whereby Pan American Investment Holdings and the richest man Wei Ye jointly invested in the Bosacks' newly registered company "Cisco", with Pan American holding 25% and the richest man Wei Ye holding 20%.
As for the name Cisco, it is simply the last five letters "Cisco" extracted from the name of San Francisco "San Francisco". The company's logo is simply an abstract graphic of the Golden Gate Bridge, a representative building in San Francisco. It has to be said that the name and logo are quite random.
Although the signed contract contains a clause that "Pan American Holdings' shares will be diluted according to Cisco's development financing needs," there are also other clauses that are beneficial to Pan American. Simply put, the right of interpretation as to when dilution is necessary lies in the hands of Pan American.
Of course Pan Am's shares have to be diluted, but when to dilute and who the new financiers will be is a matter of debate. Oil miners have money, coal miners have money, and dictators of small countries have money, but no matter how rich these people are, they can forget about investing in Cisco.
Cisco will certainly be able to raise funds smoothly in the future, but the new financier must be beneficial to Cisco's listing, and must be a company that is friendly to Pan American Holdings, or even a strategic partner of Pan American.
McDonald's is a restaurant brand founded by the McDonald brothers, but it was able to grow into what it is today thanks to Ray Kroc.
Ray Kroc was originally the owner of a milk mixer dealer. He found that the restaurant opened by the McDonald brothers in San Bernardino ordered eight milk mixers at one time.
Kroc was shocked by the large purchase volume. In order to find out the reason, he rushed to San Bernardino.
This McDonald's restaurant looked no different from the countless hamburger restaurants at the time, but Kroc was deeply shocked.
It was noon, and the small parking lot was packed with people, as many as 150 people, lining up in front of the McDonald's restaurant. McDonald's waiters worked quickly and could deliver the food ordered by customers within 15 seconds - Kroc had never seen such a business model before.
Kroc immediately decided to cooperate with the McDonald brothers to jointly operate the McDonald's brand, and in 1961, he even bought the McDonald's brand.
Therefore, the current McDonald's and the McDonald's family actually have nothing to do with each other. The reason why McDonald's is McDonald's should be attributed to Ray Kroc.
Coincidentally, Ray Kroc's legendary story will be replicated by another person.
This person is Howard Schultz , who will be known as the founder of Starbucks in the future. In fact, the real founders of Starbucks are a well-known writer Gordon Bowker and two not-so-famous teachers - English teacher Jerry Baldwin and history teacher Jeff Siegel.
When he was young, Schultz originally wanted to be a football player, but later he found that his athletic career was not promising, so he focused all his energy on studying.
After receiving his bachelor's degree in business in 1975, he joined Xerox's New York branch and got a job as a salesman, which was a good job for a student who had to repay school debt at the time.
But soon, he switched to a company that imported Swedish kitchenware and became the vice president of the company's American branch.
While selling his products, he discovered that a small company called Starbucks in Seattle had purchased a lot of coffee makers from him. He was very curious and went to Seattle to see for himself.
After seeing this, Schultz regarded himself as a Starbucks person and became the director of retail operations and marketing of Starbucks.
Today, Starbucks is still a chain store that only focuses on selling high-quality coffee beans and has never thought about providing beverage services.
But not long ago, Schultz went on a business trip to Milan. When he walked into a local coffee bar and drank his first cup of latte, he formed the idea of founding what would become Starbucks.
However, the three founders of Starbucks scoffed at Schultz's ideas and did not agree with them at all.
Just when Schultz was about to resign in anger, start his own coffee chain, and wait until he had accumulated enough strength to come back and acquire Starbucks, he saw a report on the press conference of the richest man Wei Ye in the newspaper.
Although the richest man Wei Ye only invests in high-tech fields, its parent company Pan American Investment Holdings is not the same. They have invested in Best Buy and Walmart.
Schultz stayed up for three nights, worked on his computer and came up with a plan for the Starbucks coffee chain. He then immediately flew from Seattle to New York.
Naturally, he told his story himself to the staff of Pan American Investment Holdings. His plan was also handed over to Rachel by the staff, and Rachel reported the matter to Nan Yi.
Nan Yi listened to the recording of the conversation between Pan Am staff and Schultz.
When the staff of Pan American Investment Holdings receives people who come to seek investment, the entire reception process is not only recorded in audio but also recorded on video. This is to accumulate materials for future corporate publicity, as well as to identify gaps and ensure that responsibilities are fully implemented.
If a person seeking investment does not get it from Pan American Investment Holdings, and the company founded by this investor is eventually successful, the entire process can be traced back through audio and video recordings to determine who is responsible and where the mistake was made, and this can be summarized and analyzed to avoid making the same mistake in the future.
Of course, it is usually not possible to reach this step. Every week, all the staff of Pan American Investment Holdings will review the video and audio recordings together to discuss whether the person seeking investment is worthy of investment.
In addition, rejected investment applications must be reported to Nan Yi as soon as possible, and those well-known companies will never be missed by Nan Yi.
Nan Yi is very familiar with the development history of Starbucks.
Every time the winter begins and the weather starts to get colder, Nan Yi in his previous life would go to Starbucks and look for girls who were "working" in Starbucks with their Apple laptops, pick a suitable target, and develop a pure friendship with her.
Nan Yi is a true bachelor. When he wants to be pure with a girl, he is usually successful.
Yes, don't doubt it, she just wants to make friends purely. As long as you remove the double quotation marks around "office", such girls often have something in their minds and can chat with Nan Yi.
The buildup to his conversation from the opening remarks to the climax is often about the history of Starbucks, his experience of buying coffee beans at the first Starbucks store in Seattle, and so on, both true and false.
Being rich, experienced, knowledgeable, and romantic, Nan Yi would usually be pounced upon by girls after chatting with them once. Even those who were a little reserved would often run into Nan Yi later.
Just like when he goes to the gym, he can "accidentally meet" a few girls with good figures and looks every time. He never needs to apply for a membership card at the gym. The gym owner will take the initiative to give him one, and also provide private training courses that are not cheap.
After waking up from his memories, Nan Yi called Rachel back.
"Promise Schultz that Pan Am will provide him with funds to acquire Starbucks, but he must sign an unlimited liability contract with him. As compensation, we can make appropriate concessions on shares."
Companies are basically limited liability companies. To exaggerate a little, if a company is poorly managed and owes 380 million yuan, it does not need to run away with its sister-in-law. It can directly file for bankruptcy with a registered capital of only 1 million yuan, pay off the funds in the company's account, and then pay out another 1 million yuan.
Even if the company boss personally has assets worth 3.8 billion, he does not have to use them to pay compensation.
Of course, this is just the legal statement. If you really don't pay compensation, it depends on whether the creditors will hire someone to kill you.
If Nan Yi is the creditor, don't talk to him about limitations and infinity, or about laws and regulations. Just tell him directly whether he will compensate or not. If he doesn't, there are eight old men lying in front of the wheel every day waiting to scam you.
The unlimited liability that Nan Yi is talking about here is very simple. It means that if the job is not done well, it includes but is not limited to legal liability. Pan Am has invested money, and Schultz will have to put his life and property on the line.
At the end of the call, Nan Yi told Rachel to keep an eye on Apple and Jobs.
Jobs had a bad temper and was autocratic. It was only a matter of time before he was kicked out of Apple. When the day came when he made a mistake and was kicked out, he would probably sell his shares.
Of course, Pan American Investment Holdings must first collect some chips in the secondary market and become a shareholder of Apple. Even if it is a small shareholder, as long as it can exercise its rights and participate in the shareholders' meeting, it does not need any voting rights.
Nan Yi hung up the phone and jumped down from a pile of rotten wooden boxes. As the external force disappeared, the wooden boxes fell apart and the golden bricks inside fell to the ground.
Nan Yi pulled his feet aside in disdain and said to the colonel beside him: "Have you finished the statistics? How many tons are there in total?"
The colonel thought for a moment and replied, "Boss, a total of 17,254,900 tons."
"Today's London gold price is 391.41 US dollars per ounce, 0.172549 * 10000 * 2000 * 500 / 28.34 * 391.41... 23.8 billion US dollars is a little bit over the limit, so-so." Nan Yi quickly calculated the amount, patted the colonel on the shoulder and said, "You should know how I behave and do things. I'm telling everyone not to think about things that shouldn't be thought about.
Each person who participates in this operation will receive $500,000. In addition, you will be given a week's vacation after the work is done. Go to Hollywood and have some fun. With luck, the girl you are dating now will become a big star on the big screen in the future."
"Boss, I have a family," the colonel said seriously.
"I'm not talking about you. Go back and spend some time with the children." Nan Yi patted the colonel's shoulder again and left the underground cave that opened on the cliff.
He has already counted how many gold bricks have been dug out. The colonel and his men are all smart people. As smart people, they know what to do and what not to do.
How many gold bricks can you take away if you are blinded by money and lose your mind?
Let's unite and kill Nan Yi, and then transport the gold bricks away together?
The Quail Team is the team that does the most dirty work for Nan Yi. Having done so much, they have a thorough understanding of Nan Yi's working style. In which operation would Nan Yi not buy "insurance"?
Seeing so much gold, some evil thoughts may arise in my mind, such as how to kill Nan Yi, how to escape, etc. Everyone has a dark side, as long as this dark side is not exposed to the outside world.
Judge by actions, not by heart; no one is perfect when it comes to heart.
When Nan Yi found out that the coordinates on the shell of the alligator snapping turtle pointed to Tokyo, when gold was really dug out from the cliff, and when it was verified that the cliff had never been opened by anyone, Nan Yi's heart was at ease.
During the most difficult period for Japan in the 1950s, the gold here was not dug out, which shows that the gold did not belong to the Japanese government, but to the private collection of certain individuals.
It doesn’t matter to Nan Yi who these people are. They are not difficult to deal with, otherwise this place would have been discovered long ago.
If they have a chance to find the coordinates prepared by Nan Yi for them, they will all be buried there.
Nan Yi has seen photos of that place. The feng shui is very good, a feng shui situation where a dragonfly touches the water. After "they" die, Nan Yi will arrange for people to bury them upright.
As the saying goes, if ancestors are buried upright, descendants will surely prosper.
"Campus belle, my great-grandfather worked as a farmhand for a landlord all his life. He worked hard to save up 8,000 tons of gold, but they were all snatched away by the Japanese devils. We still have more than 6,000 tons to go, and I don't know where the Japanese devils hid them." After walking out of the cliff, Nan Yi said to the school belle with emotion.
The school beauty sneered at Nan Yi's words.
Walking back to the guesthouse, two wealth-making machines [high-frequency hydraulic impact hammers] were working nearby. The beach had been bought by Ikeda Company, and the construction team had already started to level the ground.
The huge noise was to cover up the work done on the cliff in the previous two days. In fact, the blueprints for the villa here have not yet come out, and the geology has not been surveyed in time, so it is not clear whether a manor can be built.
However, this is not important anymore. As long as he can make back the money he spent on buying the land, Nan Yi no longer cares about the amount of profit.
As for money, it’s good enough to have enough to spend. You can’t bring it with you when you are born and you can’t take it with you when you die.
Hehe, that’s all bullshit. No matter how good this project is, can it still make 23.8 billion US dollars?
After taking a walk to the construction site, Nan Yi waited at the Izumi B&B until two fishing boats sailed into the waters of Scarecrow Village and stopped on the sea not far from the beach. Then, he said goodbye to Izumi Sheng and left the Scarecrow Village.
These two fishing boats were brought here as a support for the holiday estate. In order to ensure the freshness of the food, the holiday estate will go out to sea to fish on its own in the future.
Of course, their task now is to transport the gold out first.
It is not difficult to transport the gold out. A rough way is to just throw it into the fish hold and cover it with some fish, or use a trawl to drag it to the bottom of the boat and move it bit by bit like ants.
If you are more meticulous, you can make the gold into metal accessories for fishing boats, whether it is anchors, sides of ships, or cabin covers. As long as you are careful and patient enough, you can send all the gold to the high seas in less than half a month.
Once it reaches the high seas, it can be transported openly by large ships and sent to the island purchased by Scarlett Food Group. In the future, part of it will be deposited into the vault of the Southland Bank as the bank's gold reserve.
Although a commercial bank does not need to have gold reserves, it needs to have a certain amount of reserve funds. Southland Bank directly uses its gold reserves as reserve funds, which is a guarantee of the bank's credibility.
The credit of currency will collapse, but the credit of gold will remain relatively strong, unless the technology of cheap gold synthesis is invented one day, or the earth's crust is opened up and the technology of cheap crustal gold mining is mastered.
There is no shortage of gold on the earth. There are at least 60 trillion tons of gold hidden in the earth's crust. Theoretically, if you buy a piece of land and drill deep into it, even if the land is only the size of a palm, you can announce to the public that you own a gold mine with reserves of tens of thousands of tons.
The idea of choosing one out of a hundred thousand or one out of a million is too outdated and too stingy. If someone sells a fat pig that they have raised for more than 20 years to you, shouldn't you give them more?
Nan Yi planned to build two gold mines for his son's in-laws when he got married, with reserves of no less than hundreds of millions of tons.
As a human being, you have to be like Nan Yi, you have to be generous and classy.
The gold was real, with guaranteed quality and quantity, but it was buried a little deep. With so much gold, Nan Yi believed that his relatives would not mind it being too difficult to dig.
