Volume 6: The Great Change Chapter 0867: Emotions and Interests, Success
At six o'clock, Yang Kaiyan appeared in the yard of the old villa on time. Because there were other people there, she did not mention the serious matter she wanted to discuss with Nan Yi during the meal.
Ye Wei knew that Yang Kaiyan came to talk to Nan Yi about something, so he didn't drink to his heart's content. Everyone ate very quickly, and before 7:30, Ye Wei said goodbye and left, and Wu Xiaowei also returned to school.
"Yaqing Company now has 145 million in idle funds in its account. I plan to speed up its external expansion and build Asia in Shenzhen and Shanghai at the same time." Yang Kaiyan spoke when only two people were left.
"Has Asia in Yangcheng recovered its investment cost?"
"Not yet. Currently, there is still a loss of about 14 million."
Nan Yi thought for a moment and said, "You are the head of Yaqing Company. You have been in charge of Yaqing's business in recent years. I have not asked too much. You want to speed up the expansion. You want to grab the territory before foreign retail enterprises enter the country. This idea is not wrong, and I support it.
If we carry out the two projects at the same time, we will definitely not have enough funds, so we will have to borrow money from banks. At present, the real estate market in many parts of the country is overheated, and the country will definitely control it. The best way to control it is to tighten the money supply. You have to take this into account so as not to be caught off guard."
Asia Mall is no longer just a shopping mall, but has risen to the concept of a CBD business district. There will be office buildings and residences around the mall. An Asia project is a complex of buildings with large investments and a long construction period. Asia Qing Company has transformed from a retail company to a real estate company.
"I have thought about this. I will control the loan amount within the range that Yaqing Company can afford and will not affect normal operations."
"Not only that, you also have to consider the possibility that housing prices may stagnate or even fall." Nan Yi said earnestly, "Kai Yan, whether it is Yaqing Company or Genzhengmiaohong, I don't plan to continue to inject capital into them, but at the same time I cannot accept a reduction in shares, so don't be too aggressive, you must be steady."
"Don't worry, I will be cautious." Yang Kaiyan nodded and replied: "There is one more thing, I am getting engaged."
Upon hearing this, Nan Yi teased, "It's not easy, I finally heard about your marriage. Tell me, which young man is so lucky to marry our Miss Yang."
"Royalty."
"Wang Quan, are you moved by his sincerity?"
Wang Quan was the foreign exchange trader who pursued Yang Kaiyan at the beginning. Nan Yi never expected that the two of them could actually end up together.
“Yes, and no.” Yang Kaiyan picked up the wine bottle on the table, poured herself a full glass of white wine, picked it up, and drank it all in one gulp. She drank too quickly and coughed a few times. When she recovered, she said with moist eyes: “I am a proud person. I have always wanted to find a life partner who is better than me in all aspects. I met him, but unfortunately I met him too late and he was already married.
The education I received since childhood told me that you cannot hang yourself on one tree. If one doesn’t work, look for the next one. No man is indispensable (the earth will continue to rotate without anyone). Although I have him in my heart, I have not closed my own emotions and have been waiting to meet the next suitable person.
He is so good, he has raised my expectations infinitely. For many years, I have not met anyone better than him, not even close. I am tired and don’t want to wait any longer. It’s good to be with someone who loves me. ”
Nan Yi also swallowed a cup of sorrow, took out two pieces of paper to wipe his mouth, then folded the used paper into a square and put it aside, "People are the same, always thinking that the things that can't be grasped or obtained are good, but in fact, the real good things are visible and tangible. Instead of pursuing those that can't be obtained, it is better to grasp what is in front of you."
Yang Kaiyan was angry with a hint of sarcasm, "It's especially ironic coming from your mouth."
Nan Yi did not take it as an offense, but clapped his hands and said like coaxing a child: "Come here, let your brother Nan Yi give you a loving hug."
“Don’t give me that.” Yang Kaiyan spat, and after a while, she stood up and resolutely threw herself into Nan Yi’s arms, hugged Nan Yi tightly, leaned on his shoulders, and said resentfully: “When I get married, you have to give me a big gift, such as a legitimate share of the company.”
"I will. When your baby is one month old, I will give all my shares to your child."
“Go to hell.” Yang Kaiyan broke through her resentment and smiled like a flower. The depression in her heart was relieved. The bad mood hidden deep in her heart was much better. She let go of Nan Yi’s hand and said, “I’m leaving. See me off.”
"good."
After seeing Yang Kaiyan off, Nan Yi went to Baiwanzhuang. On the way, he kept wondering how real and fake Yang Kaiyan's "performance" was.
It is not surprising to say that Yang Kaiyan had been attracted to Nan Yi at some point in time and had a good impression of him. There is no need to belittle herself. If you don't peel off the outer layer, you will find that Nan Yi is a good man.
But to say that Yang Kaiyan has deep feelings for him is impossible. Yang Kaiyan and he are the same type of people. When it comes to interests, they will not be swayed by personal emotions. Love only accounts for a very small proportion in life. It can only be said that there was real emotion and calculation just now.
"You little bitch, Yaqing Company hasn't grown into a towering tree yet, and you're digging a hole for me now."
While Nan Yi was muttering, the school beauty had already parked the car, got out, and looked up. Warm light was shining through Gong Xue's window.
Going upstairs and opening the iron door in the corridor, Nan Yi saw that the kitchen door was open. He walked in and saw Gong Xue holding a bowl and putting it on the dining table. She looked up and looked at Nan Yi, "Here it is. This is the winter melon and pork ribs soup that has just been cooked. Would you like some?"
"Didn't have dinner?"
"I ate some fruit and I'm hungry again." Gong Xuesheng prepared two bowls of soup and placed one in front of Nan Yi. "The house in Austria will be renovated by the end of this month. I want to fly over to take a look. Do you have time to go with me?"
"It's fine for me to go to Austria with you, but I can't stay there for long. I'll be in Moscow in two days at most."
Although Nan Yi's people were not in Moscow, he was very clear about Russia's political and economic trends. After the disintegration, the official exchange rate lost its disguise, and the Russian Central Bank made the more realistic foreign exchange rates public. The exchange rate of the US dollar against the ruble dropped from a high of 1 to 140 to around 1 to 70. Although it was slightly worse than the real exchange rate of 1 to 30 before the disintegration, it was stable.
At present, there is no sign of major changes in the exchange rate in the short term. As for the shock therapy that was implemented in January, there has been no major movement so far, and the focus is only on "small privatization."
The changes in property rights in commerce, services, construction, transportation, and small industrial enterprises are just small fish and shrimp, and they are also the private domain of the Russians. Nan Yi doesn't want to worry about them, so he doesn't need to rush back to Moscow.
"It's good that you can accompany me. Two days will be fine." Gong Xue felt happy immediately when she heard Nan Yi agree.
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After Wu Xiaowei left the old house, he called home and told Wu Renpin about the conversation between him and Nan Yi.
After listening to this, Wu Renpin thought about it for a while and immediately understood Nan Yi's intention to teach his son carefully. He was very pleased that Nan Yi was still the same Nan Yi, and he felt relieved to leave his son to him.
"Xiao Wei, since your uncle Nan has given you a task, you should overcome all difficulties to complete it. Not only should you complete it, but you should also do it beautifully."
"Dad, it's impossible to finish the paper in a week, and a year may not be enough." In the phone booth, Wu Xiaowei showed a bitter face.
"Then do you think your Uncle Nan is playing a joke on you?" Without waiting for Wu Xiaowei to answer, Wu Renpin continued, "Your Uncle Nan is very busy. He doesn't have the time to deliberately make things difficult for a junior like you. Since he asked you to do it, there must be a reason for it, and it can definitely be done.
If you feel you can't do it, it only means you haven't grasped the core of the problem. Instead of complaining, you might as well think about how to get things done.
Well, that's all. Go back to school early and don't hang around outside."
"Old Wu, why don't you remind Xiao Wei?" Wu Meifeng, who had been listening at the side, said as soon as Wu Renpin put down the phone: "Nan Yi gave Xiao Wei money so that he could find someone to help, didn't he?"
Wu Renpin picked up the Sanwu cigarette box, took out a cigarette and lit it.
There is a saying about cigarettes in the Northeast: poor people smoke Changbai, rich people smoke Sanwu, and bastards smoke bats. Wu Renpin often went to enterprises, and in order to get close to the masses, he often carried a pack of Sanwu with him. Over time, he got used to the taste of Sanwu.
"What you can think of, Xiaowei should have thought of as well. Otherwise, he is not suitable for business. Let him give up the idea, obey the assignment, and work in an office in the company."
"That's the logic, but Xiaowei has never done business before, so he may not be able to think of it," Wu Meifeng said in a troubled tone.
"Unite all the forces that can be united and mobilize all the positive factors that can be mobilized. This is the golden rule for those who achieve success. Xiaowei will not engage in business in the future. He should understand this principle. Just wait and see. Whether Xiaowei can complete the task or not, Nanyi will make arrangements and will not let Xiaowei down."
"That's right, Nan Yi always does things in a very considerate way."
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the next day.
Nan Yi and Leng Yan made an appointment to have dinner together at Zhongyuan Hotel. The reason why they made the appointment at a hotel that provides food and lodging instead of a special restaurant is because today, Zheng Dekai, President of Saturn's Asia-Pacific region, will sign a cooperation agreement with Shi Guofeng of the Reclamation Group to jointly establish a Nanniwan Seed Company.
Nanniwan not only develops its own "Nanniwan" brand varieties, but also acts as an agent for selling various types of seeds of Saturn .
The signing was not conducted in private. The signing ceremony was held in the conference room of the hotel, and leaders from the investment promotion and agricultural departments were also present. Nan Yi has always been unwilling to participate in such public scenes.
Nan Yi came here to feel the atmosphere of impending storm up close. Yesterday he talked to Wu Xiaowei about the General Agreement on Trade and mentioned "patent protection for agricultural chemical products and medicines." Behind this clause, Nan Yi could smell the shadows of Monsanto and DuPont.
There are many companies in the United States that deal in pesticides and fertilizers, but at present, Monsanto and DuPont are the largest. Monsanto also operates in the seed business, and DuPont is eyeing Pioneer Seeds, which is currently ranked first in the world.
Just in the past few days, the country has just issued the "Decision on Accelerating the Development of the Tertiary Industry", which points out that the tertiary industry focuses on: commerce, materials, foreign trade, finance, insurance, real estate and tourism, resident services, etc.; consulting, information and technical services, etc.; industries serving agricultural production; transportation, post and telecommunications, scientific research, education and public utilities, etc.
Among them, industries serving agricultural production refer to industries that provide services for all aspects of agricultural production, including improved varieties, agricultural supplies, agricultural technology, information, circulation, finance, insurance and other services.
As a major agricultural country, seeds have always been China's most important agricultural production material. China's agricultural seed industry ranks second in the world after the United States. The total seed demand between China and the United States accounts for 60% of the global seed industry.
The two items of high-quality seeds and agricultural supplies include almost all the services that can be provided to customers besides Shennong Nanliang planting. This means that 80% of the world's agriculture-related companies can enter the Chinese market immediately or are preparing to do so.
Seed industry, as the starting point of the entire agricultural industry chain, is the foundation of food. Food security cannot be ignored. As the "chip" of agriculture, the world seed market is undergoing profound changes. In the past, the entire market was flourishing, but now large seed companies are gearing up for large-scale mergers and acquisitions.
Through external mergers and acquisitions, the concentration of the seed industry will continue to increase, and seed companies are moving towards diversification, groupization and internationalization.
China is the home turf of the Reclamation Group. From the perspective of personal interests, the Reclamation Group and Shennong Nanliang must get a big share of this fat meat; from the perspective of national interests, Nanyi must contribute to the national seed security.
After seeing Leng Yan off, Nan Yi went from the restaurant to the cafe, found a seat near the piano and sat down. He drank tea and listened to "Adeline by the Waterside", a song that was still relatively new in China at the time but which Nan Yi had already heard so many times that his ears were callused.
Flipping through the information of the seed companies, Nan Yi was screening merger and investment targets. All the seed and related companies that had a special skill and were not very large in scale were within his sight.
AgReliant, an American company, has its own unique features in the field of corn breeding. The company's valuation is not high, only $6 million; Cordier, an American company, has very in-depth research in the field of lettuce, bell pepper, and melon breeding, and is valued at $13 million;
Zeba, which develops water absorbers and soil moisture conditioners, particles that absorb water from the soil, thereby providing a water buffer in the root zone of crops, with an estimated value of $22 million;
Ambarino, which has the world's most advanced vegetable seed pelleting technology - vegetable seeds are encapsulated with nutrients to form pellets, which are more conducive to growth. It is valued at $35 million...
The names of companies came into Nan Yi's mind one after another, and the acquisition budget increased little by little, 100 million, 300 million, 500 million. When the number accumulated to nearly 1 billion US dollars, Nan Yi's eyes swept over the names of seed giants such as Bayer, Monsanto, Limagrain, KWS, Sakata Seed Co., Ltd., and Rijk Zwaan.
At the beginning of the year, Nan Yi and the Intelligence and Strategy Committee held a meeting and came up with a plan - to invest 15 billion US dollars in the next three years for Sturnus to implement its merger plan, including the merger of a giant or several seed businesses.
"Hello, Mr. Li."
"Hello, Mr. Li."
Just as Nan Yichen was thinking, the noise in the coffee shop pulled him back to the noisy reality. He looked up and found that the pianist had disappeared. Three or two waiters were greeting a very stylish gentleman.
This wealthy man is the other Li of the two Lis in Beijing, Li Chengnuo, a tycoon in the clothing and foreign exchange circles, and a top wealthy man who wouldn't even blink an eye when given a tip of twenty or fifty yuan.
"Damn, the information is outdated." Nan Yi complained in his heart, and saw the green Franklin and the waiter's happy smile, "You are so rich and inhumane. Call me Mr. Li and give me a hundred as a tip, and it's Meiko."
After rewarding the waiter, the high-spirited Li Chengnuo spotted Nan Yi at a glance, shook off his thin Zegna suit that cost more than 30,000 yuan, and walked towards Nan Yi with an Eight Banners bird-walking step.
"Hey, Master Nan, it's been a long time since we last met."
Nan Yi, who was sitting, looked at the unusual pager on Li Chengnuo's waist. He looked up at Li Chengnuo's face and said jokingly, "Master Li, are you walking around with your boss's phone?"
Li Chengnuo subconsciously lowered his head to look at his waist, then looked up, "Master Nan, you know your stuff. You have to check the market every day when you trade foreign exchange. One person?"
"Yes, one person, sit for a while?"
"Okay."
Li Chengnuo sat down opposite Nan Yi. He raised his hand and a waiter came trotting over.
"Mr. Li, what do you need?"
Li Chengnuo looked at Nan Yi, "Uncle Nan, the Blue Mountain coffee here is good, would you like a cup?"
Nan Yi held up his teacup and gestured, "I'll just drink tea."
"Okay." Li Chengnuo responded, turned to the waiter and said, "Give me a glass of Blue Mountain."
"OK."
Nan Yi saw that the waiter was so excited that he almost uttered "Leh" and his calves were lifted up so high that they almost floated up.
Li Chengnuo took out a pack of cigarettes and placed them on the table. They were white in color, with five red characters "Serve the People" written across the top of the cigarette case, and a red five-pointed star in the center. Seeing the cigarette box, Nan Yi's mouth twitched, and he felt surprised.
He had always thought that this kind of fake "special supply" only existed around the year 2000, but he didn't expect to see the real thing in 1992.
"Uncle Nan, have one. It's a gift from a friend. It's very rare." Li Chengnuo shook a cigarette out of the cigarette box, hung it on the mouth of the box, and said politely to Nan Yi.
"No, you know, I quit smoking a few years ago." Nan Yi waved his hand and suddenly felt a little regretful for inviting the other party to sit down. His grandson was talking too much and he could hardly catch up.
"It's better to quit. I want to quit, but unfortunately I can't."
Ding! Before Li Chengnuo finished speaking, the Dupont lighter in his hand was already lit. He tilted his head and brought the cigarette butt close to the flame. After it was lit, he took a puff, took the cigarette away from his lips, pressed his thumb on the cigarette butt, and the cigarette stood up. Then he blew a puff of thick smoke onto the cigarette butt.
The posture of lighting a cigarette looks strange, but the smell looks familiar, just like the pretentious scenes in Hong Kong movies. I don't know if it is a naturally generated pattern or a carefully designed action. It looks okay, but it seems a bit pretentious.
“How is the foreign exchange market doing?”
"It couldn't be better. The Japanese yen is rising all the way. I placed 200 orders at 5:30 yesterday. After dinner, I went to the sauna. Before 9 o'clock, the phone rang. I made a profit of 70,000 US dollars from the 200 orders. Do you want to sell it?"
Li Chengnuo said vividly: "Of course it came out. Now I have 70,000 US dollars. Whenever I have time, I fly to Macau to play for two days. It is so exciting to play in Macau. I killed a long dragon that day. I won 37 times in a row. On the 42nd hand, I killed it. It was so satisfying."
At this time, the waiter came over with a cup of Blue Mountain Coffee. As expected, Li Chengnao rewarded the waiter with another Franklin.
With many thanks, Li Chengnuo put the stack of US dollars back into his pocket with a stainless steel wallet which was not very popular in China, and said to Nan Yi with a smile, "The waiters here are good. You will remember them after coming here once."
"With the way you tip, it'll be hard for me not to remember you."
Facing Li Chengnuo, whose brain was boiling with anger, Nan Yi dealt with him in a perfunctory manner, and did not spoil the mood by saying any nonsense about quitting the foreign exchange market while one is ahead.
Firstly, their relationship had not reached that stage yet, so it was not Nan Yi's turn to persuade them earnestly; secondly, the other party would not listen to him either. He was in high spirits and thought he had found a shortcut to wealth. If cold water was poured on him, it would dry up in less than three seconds, and at most would make him reflect on whether he should let his kidneys rest for a while.
After chatting awkwardly for about twenty minutes, Li Chengnuo took a phone call and left, paying the bill before leaving.
Nan Yi sat in the coffee shop for a while, then went upstairs to meet Zheng Dekai. He just asked about the other party's work and life, but did not talk about the specific work content. There were several levels between him and Zheng Dekai, so it was not appropriate for him to interfere in the other party's work.
If the commander-in-chief's order went directly to the company at the forefront of the attack, skipping several levels, and instructing the company commander to fire five shots in the east and throw a grenade in the west, then it would be the end of the command system, and the troops would be finished sooner or later.
Similarly, Zheng Dekai's work is naturally managed by Hit Bader, the president of the Saturnus Group. Above him is the president of the Scarlett Grain Group, and above him are the presidents of Scarlett and Shennong Nanliang, and finally to the Intelligence Committee & Nan Yi. Orders are passed down one level at a time, and the management seems a bit rigid, but in fact it has its own operating rules.
Being too flexible is not a good thing. With special approval today and special recruitment tomorrow, the rules are simply thrown to the ground and trampled upon. In the end, there will only be rules but no one to follow them, and the situation will be completely chaotic.
In the next two days, Nan Yi met with Li Jing of Tota Construction and listened to his report on the business situation of Tota Construction. Tota Construction did not expand many new businesses. It was mainly revolving around the China World Trade Center, Fangzhuang, and the old city renovation project. It watched the opening of Liwu Garden, the approval of the Rose Garden project, and the construction of a building by Furama in front of Tiananmen Square.
After years of development, Tota Construction has ended its investment period and is making great strides towards breaking even. In addition, the company also owns a number of properties, which will generate annual income of over 10 billion yuan in rent in the near future.
After listening to Li Jing's work report, Nan Yi went to Wangfujing again. With the mindset of real estate development and comparing it with the current planning map of the capital, he observed the entire Wangfujing and its surrounding areas. He had two plans in his mind, which would not be implemented until two years later.
Then, Nan Yi went to Peking University and told Wu Xiaowei that he would be going south soon, and asked him to write his paper to catch up with his pace. Although Wu Xiaowei was about to take the final exam, Nan Yi did not give him a few more days to write the paper.
After going south, Nan Yi first jumped back to Shanghai and stayed there for two days. While accompanying his son, he talked with Huang Xie of Chunshen Construction about the auction of the Pudong land.
At the beginning of this year, Chunshen Construction and Fang Group acquired two good plots of land from Lujiazui respectively. Together with the previous factory land of Nanfang 010, Nan’s now owns a total of three plots of land in Lujiazui. This is enough. Nan Yi does not plan to take any more land in Lujiazui from the government. Lujiazui is the plane tree of Pudong, and it still has its golden phoenix. It cannot be occupied entirely by Nan’s.
Besides, you can’t occupy it even if you want to.
By coincidence, a Taicun boss named Tang bought the land adjacent to Nanguang 010 and said he was going to build a high-end building, which he called the first or second grade. Coincidentally, Chunshen Construction's plan for the Nanguang 010 land was also to build a high-end residential complex, which might be called "Nanwang Jiuding".
After leaving Shanghai, Nan Yi went to Ningbo and met Matthew Winters, the president of Zheng Guogaoma. In order to facilitate his work, Winters also took a Chinese name "Sun Ce".
Zhengguo Gaoma is no longer a wholly-owned enterprise of Nan. In recent years, Zhengguo Gaoma has continuously absorbed funds from Wall Street, the City of London and Southeast Asia, and Nan’s share of it has been less than 30%.
The company has transformed from an independent investment enterprise into an investment management and intermediary enterprise, and its main profit model has also changed from simple project returns to charging management fees and agency fees.
Although highways and ports are lucrative businesses, they require too much capital and have too long a payback period. It is not cost-effective for Nan to invest too much money directly. It would be more promising for Nan to patchwork and manage the funds and projects and make the PPP model bigger and stronger.
Zhengguo High-speed Code currently only operates in Guangdong and Zhejiang provinces, and actively participates in PPP model investments in ports and highways in the two provinces. As long as it is a highway or port in the two provinces, even if the conditions are a bit harsh, it will actively invest blindly. As for projects outside the two provinces, Zhengguo High-speed Code may never get involved for the time being.
When Sun Ce had nothing to do, he found a blind fortune teller. The blind fortune teller gave him a proverb: Zhao Tuo is gold, Xi Shi is silver, they draw a circle on the ground and the mountains are covered with gold; the mountains are dark, the waters are deep, the swans fly into the sky, and they are tattooed.
Because of this, Sun Ce only traveled between the two provinces. In a few days, he would go to Shencun to discuss investment matters with Dongpeng Industrial. Dongpeng Industrial currently only operates one project - Yantian Port.
In Yongcheng, Nan Yi also visited Han Guoren, who invited Nan Yi to his home in Yongcheng and introduced his "second wife" in Yongcheng to Nan Yi. During the dinner, the two men drank and reminisced about the past, sighing.
Continuing south, Nan Yi stayed in Shencun for a day, visited Nanchen Village's property in Shencun, turned back to Yangcheng, met up with Wu Xiaowei who had flown over, and moved into the old villa in Xinhepu.
After washing a set of tea sets, Nan Yi sent Wu Xiaowei to tidy up the house. He sat in the yard drinking tea and reading the paper Wu Xiaowei gave him.
Nan Yi was not concerned about the arguments of the paper. The theme was a castle in the air and very vague, and the content compiled on this basis did not have much practical value. What he cared about were the "citations" and "data", as well as the way Wu Xiaowei completed the paper.
When he was halfway through reading, Wu Xiaowei had already tidied up the room, moved a stool and sat next to Nan Yi, paying close attention to Nan Yi's expression. Whenever Nan Yi frowned, his heart would tighten. In great anxiety, he waited for nearly three hours before Nan Yi put down the paper in his hand .
