"I know you're smart, so I don't need to worry about you. Some connections don't have to be there, but they are necessary. Modern business, no matter what line it is, is related to finance. You don't have to work in finance, but you have to understand it.
Besides, you have set up a website to persuade people to invest. I have something to say in advance. When you return to China, don’t get caught up in the stock market. It’s best to keep a distance.”
"Yeah." Fan Hongdou nodded.
"I'm going to Hollywood the day after tomorrow. Who of you wants to go with me?" Nan Yi changed from point-to-point to face-to-face.
Nan Ruoyin: "Dad, what are you going to do?"
"Find suitable films for Master Fan to discuss advertising placement."
Nan Ruoyin curled her lips and said, "It's boring. I won't go."
"Godfather, I'll go with you." Since it was Master Fan's business, Fan Hongdou naturally took the lead.
"good."
After having lunch with the children at noon, Nan Yi went to the South Loft of the Columbus Apartments in Central Park in the afternoon.
Nantianmen Company has been split into three companies - Galaxy, the core company focusing on artificial intelligence and big data, Nantianmen focusing on programming language and database development, and Real Online focusing on news portals and search engines.
Today, only Nantianmen is still working in the South Attic, and Galaxy has moved to Lengquan Town. Out of respect for the "garage culture" of Internet companies, the registered address of Real Online is a garage in Chinatown, and of course, the office address is also there.
As soon as Nan Yi arrived at Nan Tianmen, Nan Tianmen's president, Ke Linghan, led Nan Yi to a computer and showed him Nan Tianmen's recent development results. "Boss, according to your request, the company has been developing South Server Pages, SouthSQL, and SouthScript. In addition, in order to beautify and modify HTML more conveniently, we also plan to develop a cascading style sheet, such as this..."
Klinghan opened an editor and entered ".south{font-size: 12px; color: #99000;}" in the editing area. Then he clicked preview and pointed at the screen and said, "Boss, look, just do this to change the color and size of the text. px stands for pixel, and the color is followed by RGB hexadecimal color information."
“…”
Nan Yi didn’t know what to say. He didn’t expect that because of his butterfly effect, CSS would appear earlier. The code looked really familiar.
"It's a good style sheet. Develop it as soon as possible, and then contact Tim Berners-Lee. The last time he wrote to me, he said that he was planning to set up an Internet standards organization. Nantianmen will participate in it and make SouthScript and CSS the standards for scripting languages ​​and HTML beautification style sheets."
Ke Linghan hesitated for a moment and said, "Boss, none of Nantianmen's current projects have any profit prospects. So how does Nantianmen make a profit?"
Nan Yi smiled faintly and said, "What do you think?"
"We can do a lot, such as developing a commercial relational database to compete with Oracle. What we are doing now is to make web pages popular earlier. Once web pages become popular, there will be a demand for web hosting, and we can also become a server provider.
As for domain names, I believe they will be commercialized in the near future, and we can also be a domain name registrar; other things include email, and we can provide both free and paid email to the public. "
"That's a good idea. I'll wait for your report. Next, you should continue to show me the results of your work during this period."
Nan Yi smiled knowingly, muttering to himself that there really wasn't much new about the Internet. Big data, artificial intelligence, cloud computing, the metaverse, etc., all these conceptual things already existed at this time, not to mention the application level. All kinds of fantastic ideas had already appeared, but the technology was not yet available. As long as the technology was available, the ideas would be implemented one by one.
Nan Yi can now say bluntly that the leaders of future Internet unicorns are not the ones who created the Internet era, but the era and capital have created these lucky people.
Robert Taylor, Leonard Kleinrock, and Tim Berners-Lee are the real pioneers and promoters of the Internet. Nan Yi is very fortunate to be one of the promoters of the Internet, and he is proud of it.
Colin Han then showed Nan Yi the results of the other three projects. After giving Nan Yi some encouragement, he left Nantianmen and headed for the garage in Chinatown.
Compared to Nantianmen, which has two apartments used as offices, the real online office is much more shabby. It has a garage, two computers, two people, a server, a microwave oven and a coffee machine. These are all the assets. In addition, Nan Yi generously invested 100,000 US dollars in the company.
Two people, one named Kamal and the other named Chance, chose to come to Real Online when Nantianmen split up because journalist was their second career choice. If they didn't become programmers, they would become journalists.
The two people were very idle. The language and database at Nan Tianmen were not ready yet, so they could not build the platform. Besides, the real online construction of the first version would not be too difficult and the workload would not be large. If they worked hard, they could complete it in half a month.
Limited by network bandwidth, it is impossible to have a very exquisite design online, and there will not be too many functions. The general structure is news list and news details, the simpler the better. The text on a page will be as little as possible, and the paging function will be used well. There are more pictures, and they are not planned to be included in the first version. The actual workload is pitifully small.
There is no need to worry about server configuration. The big data project team has already thoroughly studied TPS, concurrency, and number of threads. As long as there is enough funding, a server group that supports millions of people online at the same time can be configured at any time.
There are only a little over 300,000 Internet users in the United States right now, and only a few hundred thousand worldwide. It will take at least three to five years for us to have to worry about servers.
Nan Yi took a look at the garage door and saw Kamal and Chance playing games happily. He did not go in. Instead, he quietly turned back to the car, found a comfortable position to lie down, and fell into deep thought.
He has already written the script for the path of Real Online in the next three years. When it shows signs of taking off, an investment elite on Wall Street will give up his annual income of millions of dollars and join Real Online for a monthly salary of $500.
Then, the company went public, developed further, and its stock price soared, with its market value reaching hundreds of billions of dollars. Nan Yi could see all of this, but he was a little confused about what came after that. He didn't have much idea about how to go from hundreds of billions to hundreds of billions.
Therefore, he was very conflicted about whether to focus on developing Real Online, or to take advantage of Yahoo to make Real Online more pure, or to strangle Yahoo in the bud, let it successfully raise funds in the Angel Round and A Round, and then deal a heavy blow in the B Round.
It is extremely difficult to create an Internet unicorn, but it is only slightly difficult to destroy a unicorn in its infancy. The adjective "very" cannot even be used. If you cut off the financing channels when the old money is about to be burned out and the new money has not yet arrived, not to mention the unicorn, even the Qilin will be finished.
After weighing the pros and cons for a while, Nan Yi still felt that changing the future Internet landscape too much would do more harm than good to the Nan Group. Without making major changes, the unicorn would most likely develop along the proper trajectory, or even develop better. By taking advantage of the situation and investing, Nan Yi could easily reap huge profits.
"If Yahoo goes away, several unicorns related to it may go off track, and I, as a prophet in the Internet field, will be in trouble."
After hesitating for a long time, Nan Yi decided to let Zhenhai Online develop on its own, and put aside all the shady tricks of cutting off the source of funds, only engage in normal business competition, and interfere less in the development of Internet applications.
"School Beauty... No, Tiger Cub, do you know how many children Jin Yan has now?"
Tiger cub: "Yes, I won the lottery. I gave birth to two babies. The first one was two sons, and the second one was twins, a boy and a girl."
"Is her husband's last name Zhang?"
Tiger cub: “Yes.”
"Oh, let's have someone send some aphrodisiac supplements to Mr. Zhang this Christmas. I hope he will stop being arrogant and keep working hard to give birth to a football team."
Tiger cub: "Nansheng, according to their speed, 11 won't be difficult."
"What do you mean 11? A standard football team has 23 people." Nan Yi smacked his lips, "Send some supplements to my ex-sister-in-law as well. Giving birth is harmful to the body."
Tiger cub: "Nansheng, how much do you want for 23?"
"Who knows? I just said that number casually. I didn't even analyze whether the formula was correct or not. Anyway, if it really reaches 23, it will definitely be an astronomical number. I am willing to give it, but Mr. Zhang has to dare to ask for it. In fact, there is no need to worry about this. With Jin Yan's health, she can only have one more child. Mr. Zhang should be almost useless, right?"
Tiger Cub: "Almost. The report says that he has been busy ever since he received the first $30,000. His body is almost drained."
"Oh, a poor man suddenly becomes rich, and he is so proud of himself. Money comes so easily, and it is normal for him to spend it on wine and women. Did Mr. Zhang take a few sips?"
Tiger cub: "It seems not."
"What a pity. I'll still give you this year's money. Let's see if Mr. Zhang can make me feel bad and force me to cheat."
The tiger cub laughed, "Nansheng, if Mr. Zhang can't do it, we can find external help."
"If we look for external aid, he won't have anything to do. It's just the right time to save some money. Let's not talk about this. There's nothing else to do. My hands are itching. I'll go back and get some."
Back at the manor, Nan Yi saw Nan Ruoyin and the other two playing an air battle at the beach. Three Apache models were flying in the air above the dock, with bullets flying everywhere. They were in a fight. Nan Yi exclaimed, "Three losers. Thousands of dollars are gone."
The three Apache models were customized by Nan Yi. Each one was equipped with two micro-turbine engines, which were very easy to break down. They had to be overhauled after every flight. After flying for 20 to 30 hours, the engine had to be replaced with new parts. After flying for 50 hours, the engine would be scrapped.
Each overhaul costs more than a thousand dollars, three engines cost four thousand five hundred, and replacing parts costs at least tens of thousands. Six new engines cost more than sixty thousand dollars. Nan Yi originally wanted to hide it and play with it secretly, but he didn't expect that the three little guys would find it out.
Shaking his head, Nan Yi entered his armory, took out a modified rifle that had the lever-type principle and outline similar to the Winchester M1894, and went to the shooting range to fire bullets happily.
When Nan Yi had satisfied his desire to shoot a gun and came to the dock again, Nan Ruoyin and the other two were already roasting rice husks on the dock - there was a burner with a chimney in the middle, surrounded by rice husks piled into small hills, which were lit inside. No open flames could be seen on the surface of the rice husk mountain, only black smoke coming out of the chimney.
A mountain of rice husks with a bottom diameter of less than 1.5 meters can be simmered for a whole day.
The three of them stuffed sweet potatoes, potatoes, sea fish wrapped in tin foil, shrimps, steaks and other ingredients into the pile of rice husks. Nan Ruoyin and Fan Hongdou each held a bottle of beer in their hands, while Nan Youqiong held a can of Coke pitifully in his hand.
Seeing Nan Yi, Nan Ruoyin took out a bottle of beer from the ice bucket and threw it to him. Nan Yi caught it, unplugged the bottle cap, took a sip, burped comfortably, and then walked to Nan Ruoyin with the beer in hand, "When did you learn to drink?"
"Dad, I'm an adult now." Nan Ruoyin said coquettishly.
"I know. I just asked when you started drinking."
"Not long after, I seldom drank." Nan Ruoyin tried to explain: "Dad, everyone in the sisterhood drinks, I..."
"No need to explain. It's okay to drink a little, just don't drink too much." Nan Yi said, clinking his bottle with Nan Ruoyin's. "Cheers, Hongdou, come over and clink glasses."
Fan Hongdou walked forward and bumped elbows with Nan Yi. Nan Youqiong saw this and came over with a Coke.
"PaPa, cheers."
"cheers."
After clinking glasses, everyone took a sip of the drink in their hands.
After taking a sip of wine, it indicates that Nan Yi, Nan Ruoyin and Fan Hongdou need to get along with each other in a more equal way, and the seniority needs to be downplayed.
"Hongdou, I haven't been to your house yet, how big is it?"
Fan Hongdou bought an apartment in the Tribeca neighborhood. Nan Yi only knew that it was roughly located in Park Square, but he was not sure which building it was.
"It's less than 320 square meters, so the property fees and land taxes are not high," Fan Hongdou replied.
Nan Ruoyin said disdainfully: "I don't know what you are thinking. You actually bought an apartment. I only spent a little more than you to buy a hilltop."
"I'm happy with it, what's your business?" Fan Hongdou said to Nan Ruoyin, then said to Nan Yi, "Godfather, I think Tribeca Street has a lot of room for appreciation. It has a good chance of becoming an area where New Money is concentrated. I plan to buy a few more apartments and rent them out until they appreciate in value."
Nan Yi: "What's the current rent price over there?"
Fan Hongdou: "My room can be rented for about $3,000, and the surrounding rooms are between $2,200 and $4,500."
Nan Yi: "The main tenants are people working on Wall Street and in the entertainment industry?"
Fan Hongdou nodded. "Yes, it's mainly high-income people on Wall Street. Others can't afford it."
"If you want to buy, just buy it. Do some research before buying and weigh whether it is worth buying. Once you have chosen your favorite target, Godfather will pay for it for you."
As soon as Nan Yi finished speaking, Nan Ruoyin groaned, "Dad, I want one too."
"How dare you ask for it? You are the richest person in the family now." Nan Yi pointed at Nan Ruoyin's nose and said, "You are almost catching up with Mori Taikichiro. How about letting you take the position of the world's richest man next year?"
"Hehe, whoever wants to sit can sit. I won't sit. Dad, Japan's real estate is really strong. Last year, 7 of the top 10 richest people in the world were from Japan, and they are all real estate tycoons." Nan Ruoyin teased.
"You're the only one who talks too much."
Nan Yi nodded at Nan Ruoyin and started whispering to Fan Hongdou again.
When the sky was covered with red and colorful ribbons, two helicopters landed on the helipad of the manor bathed in the sunset. Scarlett got off the helicopter, walked straight to Nan Yi, snatched the bottle of wine from Nan Yi's hand, put the bottle mouth into her mouth, gulped down two gulps, and put it back into Nan Yi's hand.
"The Nelson family is shit and greedy."
Nan Yi poured a sip of wine into his mouth and asked, "What's wrong?"
Scarlett said nothing, just raised her legs and walked in one direction.
Nan Yi followed, and the two walked to the edge of the brother's vegetable garden. Scarlett picked a pepper and took a bite, then said unhappily: "Dlamini called me today. The Nelson family will hold 60% of the shares of the company that the two parties are about to cooperate. Not only that, they are also responsible for feeding other black families.
It’s shit, all the niggers are shit, 10% is not enough to feed them, our interests are not protected at all…”
Scarlett kept breathing sweet air for one minute and forty-seven seconds. After stopping, she snatched Nan Yi's bottle of wine and took several gulps.
Nan Yi waited until Scarlett calmed down before saying, "Is it necessary to be so angry? Didn't we already infer that the Nelson family would ask for a high price?"
"I know, if I don't vent, I'll feel bad."
"Uh-huh, okay now?"
Scarlett exhaled and said, "My schedule has been disrupted. I will fly to Johannesburg the day after tomorrow and stay there for a while. You go to Mexico. The public relations work in the three states of Baja California, Michoacan, and Sonora has been completed. The rest of the work will be handed over to you."
When talking about Mexico, it is easy to associate it with drugs. In fact, in addition to drugs, there are still some things worth remembering about Mexico.
Last year, Mexico amended Article 27 of the Constitution to privatize village land, allow farmers to transfer land through sale, lease, etc., and encourage commercial capital to invest in agricultural land, including foreign capital.
Except for national nature reserves, ecological and environmental protection areas, ecological forest areas, and military and other controlled areas, the property rights can be sold and leased to foreign businessmen and foreign-invested enterprises on the premise of complying with relevant laws and property rights regulations.
Moreover, according to Mexico's Expropriation Law, although the government has the power to expropriate all types of land, including land owned by foreign-funded enterprises, the purpose of expropriation must be for public purposes, such as building public infrastructure, etc. At the same time, the government must compensate for the expropriated land at market prices.
As soon as the news of the constitutional amendment came out, Shennong Nanliang had already sent people to Mexico for on-site visits and inspections, and only then did they decide on the three states for investment.
Baja California (Baja California) covers an area of ​​71,000 square kilometers and is located on the Pacific coast of northern Mexico. The main economic activities in the state are real estate services, construction , machinery manufacturing, electricity, transportation services, warehousing, etc., and it is rich in agricultural and fishery resources.
Not only can Shennong Nanliang expand its business there, but relying on the US market, it can also develop export processing industries there.
Michoacan is located in the southwest of Mexico, with an area of ​​58,600 square kilometers and its capital is Morelia. Mining is the main industry in the state, and important mineral products include gold, silver, iron, coal, zinc, etc.
The state is a major agricultural state, producing temperate and tropical grains, fruits and vegetables. It ranks first in the country in fruit and vegetable exports, mainly to North America, Europe, Asia and Latin America. Avocado production ranks first in the world.
The industry is mainly steel, and hydropower generation ranks second in the country.
Michoacan is the main target area of ​​Shennong Nanliang, where it will plan the planting and export of vegetables and fruits, and establish a canned food production base.
Sonora is bordered by the Gulf of California to the west and the U.S. states of New Mexico and Arizona to the north. It covers an area of ​​179,400 square kilometers and is the second largest state in Mexico. Its capital is Hermosillo.
The state is rich in mineral resources, and ranks first in the country in the production of copper, gold, molybdenum, graphite, anthracite, etc. Agriculture, animal husbandry, mining and fisheries are the traditional economic pillars.
With its geographical advantage of being adjacent to the United States, Sonora is forming a number of new pillar industries such as aviation, automobiles, electronics, agricultural product processing, tourism, and biomedicine.
Sonora is the top priority of Nan's Mexican strategy. Agriculture is naturally important, and Shennong Nanliang will never let go of any area with the potential for long-term investment. Combining real estate and industry, Nan will establish an industrial zone in Sonora, which will not only be used for its own purposes but also to attract foreign investment.
In addition, there is a channel in Sonora State for illegal immigrants from South American countries to sneak into the United States. Every year, tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants appear there. To successfully enter the United States, you need some money to support yourself. Those who cannot enter can take some money back so that their trip is not in vain.
The Third Biopharmaceutical Institute is prepared to meet their needs and think about what they want, and to establish a drug clinical testing base in Sonora to conduct some drug tests with relatively high returns there.
Different races and different bacterial strains have different drug resistance. Some drugs may have good therapeutic effects on white Americans, but not on black people. This is due to racial differences. Some drugs are effective in the United States, but not in Asian countries. This is due to different bacterial strains in the body caused by different living environments.
If we want to develop a drug that is suitable for all human races and has fewer side effects, we must make the test subjects as diverse as possible during clinical testing, so that most of the existing problems will be exposed during the testing phase.
Of course, the reason why Mexico, Sonora State, was chosen is closely related to the rampant drug problem in Mexico. The Third Biopharmaceutical Institute has already started research on drug addiction treatment drugs, which requires in-depth research on drugs and follow-up observations on addicts.
It may also be necessary to analyze the terminal market data of drug trafficking groups. Once the drug research is successful, the product can be launched in the target market in a targeted manner.
"Okay, I will take over the work in Mexico. You haven't had a vacation for a long time. In the summer, we will find an island to stay for half a month." Nan Yi hugged Scarlett and said.
Scarlett touched Nan Yi's cheek, turned around, and put her back in Nan Yi's arms. "It depends on the situation. I may not be able to spare the time. When are you going to Mexico?"
Nan Yi ruffled Scarlett's hair and said, "I'll go there after I go to Hollywood. I'll change my schedule. I'll take inventory of the remaining properties after I finish dealing with the Russian affairs."
"Well, we haven't gone camping for a long time. Let's sleep in a tent tonight." Scarlett's face rubbed against Nan Yi's face.
"In the bedroom?"
"No, in the woods, Adam. Shall we build a cabin in the woods ourselves?"
"What's the point of building it in the manor? Let's go to Cold Spring Town and buy another piece of land near the river at the foot of the mountain. We can build a cabin ourselves. It doesn't have to be too big, just enough to fit a bed, a table and a stove. We can put a hammock at the door and a swing. We can go to see the stars in the summer and enjoy the snow in the winter."
“Not a bad idea.”