Volume 4: The World of Great Conflict Chapter 0424: Minister of State
After the meeting, Nan Yi asked Huang Yingzi to stay and the others left first.
"Are you still used to staying in London?"
"It's OK. It's more comfortable than New York. The Chinese food here is better than that in New York."
When Huang Yingzi speaks, she habitually pulls the long hair on her big mole, which makes others unconsciously pay attention to her big mole.
"But that's all. I often cook and make myself a bowl of noodles with soybean paste. The cucumbers here taste different from those in Beijing. They're a little different."
"There are different varieties. If you want to be more particular, you can start your own vegetable garden and learn how to grow vegetables. Vegetables you grow yourself will taste better."
Huang Yingzi did not get the chance to go to the countryside, so she directly took the college entrance examination for fresh graduates.
"That's too much trouble. Although I like to eat good food, it's not worth it for me to grow my own vegetables. If I can buy them outside, I'll buy them. If I can't, forget it."
"You decide for yourself. I'm not keeping you here just to chat with you. I want to tell you that according to my plan for you, you will have to return to China in ten years. If you have not thought about changing jobs, you should work in China until you retire or go out to work on your own."
"Brother Nan, no way, after I finish my work as a pioneer here, I have to go back to my country to continue working as one?" Huang Yingzi exclaimed loudly.
" Why yelling? I know how hard it is to be a pioneer. Just don't worry. The more you give, the more I will give you. Your alley was not included in this year's demolition. I have arranged a 78-square-meter two-bedroom apartment for Aunt Huang. She can move in in two months."
"My mother told me about this. She said that furniture and electrical appliances would also be provided?"
"Well, everything will be complete. You don't need to pay for it yourself. Just consider it a gift from me."
Huang Yingzi said with a grin, "Well, that's just a few dollars, just two months' salary. Brother Nan, if you really want to reward me, why not buy me a house in London?"
"Come on, stop talking nonsense. Aunt Huang has been dreaming about this building all her life, so let her enjoy her life in peace. Besides, a house in Beijing is worth much more than a house in London."
Huang Yingzi nodded seriously. She knew that Nan Yi was not talking about the current value, but the future.
Pan American Investment Holdings often organizes salons, sometimes inviting experts in economics and finance to give lectures, but most of the time it is just discussions among everyone.
As each salon draws to a close, the topic for the next salon will be decided, such as discussing the rise and fall of oil prices in the next five years, or the future development of a certain field in a certain country, etc.
Everyone will collect information and do in-depth research, and try to come up with novel and data-supported ideas at the next salon.
Doing this will not only make you look good, but also bring you considerable profits.
Ideas that are favored by the majority of people at the salon will be submitted to the company's senior management, and then more detailed data collection will be carried out. Once the company adopts the idea and makes an investment, the person who proposed the idea will receive a substantial bonus.
Moreover, when the investment generates huge returns, you can also receive even more substantial investment dividends.
The future development of China's real estate has also been discussed at the salon. Most people are optimistic about the future development of China's real estate and believe that it will be another hot spot for real estate investment after Japan.
Due to Beijing's special historical and political status, Huang Yingzi is very optimistic about the future housing prices in Beijing. She has already made a good calculation and plans to return to Beijing once she has saved enough money to buy a few courtyard houses and wait for them to appreciate in value.
Her salary was very good, and it was easy for her to buy a half-decent courtyard house with one year's salary.
"Brother Nan, what will I go back for in ten years? Capital?"
"Not only that, in addition to capital, there may be many other areas that need attention. Of course, if you go back, it's mainly to be a nanny. Forget it, I'm going to say something more advanced, that is, to let you go back and be a minister of state...
Fuck, that's not right, after ten years, I still can't die." Nan Yi came to his senses and felt that this statement was not right, so he quickly changed his words, "Forget it, no matter what it's called, it's just to help my daughter get on the horse and send her off."
"red beans?"
"Yes, that's her."
Huang Yingzi suddenly realized, "I was wondering, why did you introduce her to me for no apparent reason? It seems like you thought I was her nanny."
"It's up to you. You can call it whatever you want. Just know that London is not where you should settle down. When you make plans for yourself, just be clear about this. Especially when you are looking for a husband, tell others that you will be returning to the capital."
Huang Yingzi sneered when she heard Nan Yi's words, "Who are you trying to fool? You chose me because you thought I wouldn't be able to find a husband, and I wouldn't have anything to worry about after ten years, so I could go back to China at your will."
"Oh, you're not stupid." Nan Yi said playfully, "Since you're so smart, I'm relieved. Go back and study how to grow vegetables. I'll arrange a part-time job for you at Akesa Vegetable Company."
"I will take up the position of nanny right now?"
"Yes, with cabbage in one hand and high technology in the other, both hands are not empty, how nice."
Although Huang Yingzi has a big mole on her face, she has high requirements for her partner. In addition, she has a good financial condition and is an independent woman, so it is even less likely for her to settle for her partner. She is also a professional woman, so it should be very difficult for her to find a partner who can satisfy her.
A very capable, extremely ugly old maid with a weird temper. These should be how her subordinates would describe her after dinner ten years.
Such a person is just right to be reserved for Fan Hongdou.
After the meeting at Boleyn Castle, Nan Yi returned to Downton Abbey and continued his conference call.
After the business discussion was over, Nan Yi proposed a new idea. "Except for some emerging economies, the threshold for traditional manufacturing industries will become higher and higher. It will be more and more difficult for entrepreneurs who start from scratch to succeed, and the chances of success will not be too high. Rachel, which industry do you think will be the next hot spot for entrepreneurship?"
"In the PC industry , or more precisely the software industry, Oracle is in contact with the richest man Wei Ye recently. I am optimistic about its development. As long as the valuation and share quota are agreed, I will decide to invest.
In addition, since last year, the richest man Weiye has tended to focus on software companies. I have already mentioned it in the report. Last year, we invested in SAP in Waldorf, Germany. This company was founded by five young engineers who jumped from IBM. We hold 22% of the shares.
We also own 25% of CA Technologies in Long Island, New York, and 32% of C&E in Cupertino..."
"Rachel, wait, I have no impression of C&E company. Can you tell me about it?" Nan Yi interrupted Rachel.
“C&E is a company that specializes in data processing. Its main client is IBM. The company is relatively small. However, after receiving investment from us and another person named John Doerr, it is planning to merge with another company, Symantec.
Symantec was founded by a group of Stanford language processing researchers who have creative programming skills and have received funding from the National Natural Science Foundation. Although no product has been launched yet, I am still optimistic about its potential. "
"Symantec, Symantec..." Nan Yi tried to spell the word and quickly realized, "It's not Symantec, it should be Symantec, this is familiar, anti-virus software."
Nan Yi was somewhat familiar with anti-virus software. In the two or three years after the year 2000, computers could not be used without anti-virus software installed because there were too many viruses and scripts.
Especially in India, there are several antivirus software companies and the competition is very fierce. In order to sell their own software, they often release viruses on one side and launch special killing tools on the other side.
It's the same for ghosts and humans, and the way they eat is so ugly.
Later, if it weren't for a "righteous man" who made his fortune by using rogue software and turned the table over, transformed himself into a network security expert, and launched free antivirus software, who knows how many more years this farce would have continued.
"Rachel, go on."
"In addition, the richest man Weiye also invested in MacroMind and Adobe. Adobe is the company you mentioned, Boss. We didn't find it at first, but they came to us on their own initiative."
"Um."
Nan Yi responded, chewing on the name "MacroMind", and began to recall in his mind. Soon he remembered that MacroMind should be the predecessor of Macromedia.
Among Macromedia's products, the most well-known are the three web musketeers - Dreamweaver, Fireworks, and Flash.
Nan Yi is very familiar with these three softwares. In his previous life, he earned his first pot of gold by using these three softwares.
I rented a one-bedroom apartment, used the bedroom for sleeping and the living room for working, bought a well-configured computer for 4,000 yuan, and spent more than 1,000 yuan to buy a decorative computer, and that's how I started an Internet company.
I go out to visit clients during the day and work at night. A corporate website can be completed in two nights. I spend seventy or eighty yuan to buy a domain name and one hundred yuan to buy a virtual space. I charge clients four to five thousand yuan for one corporate website, but the actual cost is less than five hundred yuan, and I make a net profit of three thousand five hundred yuan.
As for the mental and physical efforts, well, which grassroots entrepreneur dares to regard himself as a human being, dares to count his labor as cost input? They are all treating themselves as donkeys that are used for free.
Nan Yi recalled that he really encountered a good time at that time. The Internet had just become popular and clients did not understand the significance of having a corporate website, nor did they have any design or functional requirements.
Nan Yi still has some professional ethics. He will find three or four beautiful corporate websites on the Internet and piece them together like a tailor to create something of his own. Those who have no professional ethics will simply copy other people's corporate websites, change the text and use them to fool customers.
That was a wild Internet era, when a monthly salary of 3,000 yuan in first-tier cities was considered a high salary, and Nan Yi was already earning several thousand yuan a month.
It’s a pity that he became complacent with the hundreds of thousands of dollars he earned from running corporate websites, and did not study the Internet more deeply, thus missing out on the easiest opportunity to rise in the Internet industry.
Nan Yi woke up from his memories and continued to listen to Rachel's introduction...
