Volume 8 Final Chapter Chapter 1097: Riding on the Heat
Nanwu was quite effective in coaxing Liu Zhen, and he could coax Liu Zhen into submission with just two or three words.
The family huddled in the old house and chatted for a while, then headed to Grandma Fang Mengyin's courtyard.
When there is good news, especially great good news, naturally several tables have to be set up. Those from the Nan and Liu families who should come, who can come, and who can come, including Fang Mengyin, Fan Hongdou, Nan Ruoyin, Nan Ruochan, Ke Jianzhen, Sun Muxi, and Liu Feibao's family of five, have all come, not to mention the others who were in the capital.
A great happy event happened, followed by several more great events.
After dealing with the affairs in the United States, Fan Hongdou returned to China and went to Shanghai to establish the Nanfang Hongdou Group, which consists of the Fan Master Group, Hongdou Network, and Aiwa Communications. It is based in the food industry and has entered the Internet and communications industries. At the same time, it has also begun to slowly take over all of Nan's domestic business. In three to five years at most, Nan Yi will hand over all domestic business to her, and he will completely hide himself.
After Fan Hongdou had set up the business of Nan Guo Hongdou, Nan Yi took her to visit her connections in China one by one and to check out every business in the country.
By mid-October, Fan Hongdou began to take on multiple roles and had multiple identities, including head of Nan's Greater China business, head of the Greater China region for the Information and Policy Committee's Glove Group, vice president of Green Core Development, chief accounting assistant of the Nanchen Village Committee, chairman of the Nanguo Hongdou Group, president of Akesa Vegetable Company, boss of Quanjun Investment, and a master's student at Hudan University.
Nan Ruoyin also graduated from Harvard and went to neighboring Massachusetts to study for a master's degree. At the same time, she began to take on multiple roles, including head of Nan's Asia-Pacific financial business (internship), member of the Financial Group of the Information and Strategy Committee, first secretary of Nan Yi, president of Wanhu Space Exploration Company, chairman of the board of directors of Lincoln University in New York, president of Mingyuan Capital, owner of GA Service, and shareholder of the Burlington Northern & Santa Fe Railway (BNFS) formed by the merger of two railway companies.
Nan Ruoyin is already a rising financial and business elite among the minority groups in the United States. She is often reported in financial magazines, and it is just a matter of time before she appears on the cover of a major weekly magazine.
Nan Ruochan is also very extraordinary. Elias J. Corey always brings her to important academic conferences and treats her as his own disciple. It is a foregone conclusion that she will become a young chemist. As long as she achieves something in chemistry, it will not be a problem for her to get the title of chemist.
After October, Nan Yi shifted his focus to his children and took Nan Ruoqi on a cruise to London. They lived in London for a while and then went to New York, settling down in Scarlett Manor.
Nan Yi's running around like this made Ding Mian very anxious. The Yan Nanfei plan had been underway for a while, but he couldn't find a chance to get close to Nan Yi. If he continued to wander around, he would easily be noticed by the mainland intelligence agencies. He had no choice but to take a gamble and rented a few houses opposite Jiuzhangji and opened a trading company.
Nan Yi didn't know that a comrade Ding had suffered because of him. He is living a happy life now. He handles official business in the morning, hangs out in the Qidian Orphanage in the afternoon, and in the evening, he opens a sister vegetable garden next to the brother vegetable garden. In his spare time, he also does some carpentry work to hone his skill in building wooden houses.
One day, he even set up a "Nan Yi Retirement" preparatory committee under the South Office to prepare for his retirement life in advance.
In this way, Nan Yi lived a happy life. Occasionally, he would attend some financial lectures to learn about the subprime mortgage crisis in the United States and study how to profit from it.
Lewis Ranieri was the first person to come up with the idea of packaging mortgages into bonds and selling them. He could also be said to be the founder of the subprime mortgage crisis in the United States. Nan Yi had talked to him about this, and he was well aware of the possible crisis caused by the subprime mortgage crisis.
Nan Yi also talked to several other vested interests in subprime loans. They also knew that this thing would explode sooner or later, but the benefits were too tempting, and they were deeply trapped in the situation. It was very difficult to jump out. Just to find a ladder to escape from the deep pit, Wall Street capital has already fooled European capital into joining the game.
After understanding these circumstances, Nan Yi realized that it was simply wishful thinking to reap huge profits from the subprime mortgage crisis. It would be OK to find other banks to sign some betting agreements and make a small profit of a few hundred million or tens of billions. If he wanted to make more, he would have to hit other capitals with a blow, and this blow would be difficult to hit. The subprime mortgages concerned the interests of most of the capital on Wall Street. The boats were connected by iron chains, and hitting them would be like stirring up a hornet's nest. It would be strange if others did not rise up to attack him. The Nan family could not withstand a counterattack of this magnitude.
Therefore, Nan Yi put this relatively distant matter aside for the time being and was not in a hurry. The subprime mortgage market was still in a very stable period and Americans still had great potential to buy houses. He could first think about speculating in real estate and continue to wait and see, waiting for the more greedy and deep-vesting capital to appear. Then he would focus on this target and start to slaughter it.
During this period at the end of 1996, Scarlett was quite active, often attending cocktail parties in the financial industry, and especially frequently contacting investment banks that had made large investments and loans in South Korea. She also had contact with the World Bank's President James David Wolfensohn, Vice President Finn Sams, and several chief economic advisers.
The opportunity to reap the benefits of South Korea is coming. Before the harvest, we must communicate well with other investment banks with the same purpose, and first unify the general direction of how to eat this piece of cake. When competing for a share of the cake, we must not affect the overall size of the cake. In simple terms, we must compete on the basis of cooperation.
Nan Youqiong was also very active. When Nan Yi was attending a meeting of the New York Intelligence Committee, he publicly proposed giving Nan Youqiong $500 million to invest in American real estate in three years to see how much profit he could make.
Naturally, no one objected to this proposal. 500 million US dollars is not a lot of money, and it is very cost-effective to use it to test the prince's talent. If he cannot be helped, persuade Nan Yi to start a new account as soon as possible, or persuade Nan Yi not to think about retiring too early, and it is not impossible to work until he is in his eighties or nineties, or... find a successor with a different surname.
After the proposal was passed, Nan Yi transferred a person from the strategy team to follow Nan Youqiong, who was responsible for teaching Nan Youqiong knowledge and supervising him. Nan Youqiong's investment behavior was not only for the Nan family to see, but also to put some pressure on himself. If Nan Youqiong himself was useless, forcing him to take the position would not have any good results.
As time approached the end of 1996, Nan Yi, who was sitting in the glass house in the garden and leisurely drinking tea, opened the stock software on his computer and looked at the US stock market.
In March and May of this year, Real Online and Adam Search Engine went public respectively. The market value of Real Online exceeded US$700 million just after its listing. It has more than doubled to US$1.927 billion now, which is simply incredible.
Despite its high market value, Real Online's revenue is a mess. From its listing in March to the present, Real Online's revenue is less than US$26.7 million, of which less than US$8 million is real revenue. The rest comes from a combination of face given by connections, advertisements from sister companies, and fake orders.
If the revenue is still presentable, the profit is really terrible. Not only did they not make a penny, but they also lost more than 700,000 US dollars. Servers, bandwidth, staff salaries, no matter what, are all rising in price, and the expenses are not small.
However, such achievements are instead praised by some institutions. Not to mention Real Online, even Yahoo, which was often suppressed, went public in April this year. Its market value soared to 310 million US dollars on the first day. This shows the power of the Internet concept.
However, Yahoo's stock price has been relatively weak since its listing, and its current market value is only US$540 million, far behind Real Online.
This situation is normal. Even if we leave aside Nan Yi, who has made in-depth research on the Internet, Real Online has the support of Nan Tianmen and the entire semiconductor system of the Nan family, as well as a series of capital support led by Pan American Investment. It has never worried about funds. All advantages are in Real Online. Defeating Yahoo can only be said to be an unfair victory.
Compared with Real Online, the market value of Adam search engine is very average. It was worth 170 million US dollars when it was first listed, and has just risen to 260 million US dollars now. This market value is because Adam's search box is placed in a prominent position on the Real Online page. Otherwise, the market value would be even uglier.
This is also good. Before the search engine can really make a breakthrough, let it work hard to improve its internal strength. Advertising alliances, Adam Adwords, Adam Adsense, Adam Map, Adam Earth, each application will surely shock the world.
TTM has not yet been launched on the market. It is currently being promoted in other countries around the world that have access to the Internet, except China. It plans to consider launching the product after the number of users reaches more than 500,000.
When the domestic Internet becomes more mature, Hongdou Network will launch its own chat software "Doudou", and the domestic market will be captured by Hongdou Network. TTM does not intend to stir up trouble in the domestic market.
While Nan Yi was paying attention to the stock market of Internet companies, two mergers were taking place in the country.
The first was that under the help of Zhao Yu, Lemon Tree took the initiative to invite Hongrun Holdings to transfer 51% of its shares at a low price, thus achieving a change in the nature of the enterprise from a joint venture to a joint-stock state-owned enterprise, and also giving Lemon Tree the wings to take off.
After the nature of the enterprise changed, Meerkat Technology traded 29% of the remaining 49% of shares to Ganfeng Technology, leaving it with only 20%. The holders of these shares became Meerkat Technology Xiangkeng Company, and Lemon Tree completely eliminated foreign investment.
Then came the personnel changes. All R&D personnel who were not suitable to stay at Lemon Tree left the country, and their personnel relations were transferred to Meerkat Technology Xiangkeng Company. They became its backbone and rushed to Lijiaopo to set up a new laboratory to carry out the re-development of "face recognition", one of the links of the Skynet project.
The second case is the Kenzhi Group. The plan that has been brewing for many years has finally begun to be implemented. Ge Cuizhu took the initiative to contact Hualiang and invited the other party to invest. The communication is still in progress. However, like Lemon Tree, the goal is to hand over the controlling rights and realize the transformation of the nature of the enterprise. Similarly, when the nature of the enterprise changes, equity transactions will be carried out internally again to reduce the equity of foreign capital.
Wencui Group, which was established by Nan Yi and Ge Cuizhu outside the Kenzhi Group, was listed. The Cowherd and Weaver Girl Flowers and Special Vegetable Company (Cucumber Youth No. 1), which was previously managed by the Kenzhi Group, was separated and incorporated into the Wencui Group.
A new company, Zhuxian, was registered under Wencui Group to enter the field of landscaping engineering.
At the same time, the Reclamation Group carried out personnel transfers. The Wenchangwei elders who had first followed Ge Cuizhu to establish the Reclamation Group were given space to choose freely: one, continue to stay in the Reclamation Group; two, the group bought their shares and transferred their personnel relations to the Wencui Group.
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On the first day of 1997, Sophie Marceau called Nan Yi and said that she was going to Rosarito to attend a criticism meeting against Cameron, a truck driver, and asked Nan Yi to hurry over to meet her.
Although all investors were aware of Cameron's work style when the "Titanic" project was launched, and room for additional funds had been reserved when making the budget, no one expected that this bastard Cameron would dare to add more money again and again, almost driving the investors crazy.
Nan Yi had to accept Sophie Marceau's invitation, as the two hadn't seen each other for quite some time.
Rosarito is a relatively famous tourist coastal city in Baja California, not too far from Mexicali and even closer to Tijuana.
Nan Yi flew from New York to Tijuana. When he got off the plane, not only was there a convoy arranged by Ueto Masami waiting for him, but also Monica Bellucci, whom he hadn't seen for a long time.
Fate is amazing. Before, Monica Bellucci's journey in Hollywood was not very smooth. She could only develop in many places. She did not lose contact with her hometown in Italy. She shot two Italian movies and went to France to film. Somehow, she signed a contract with Liberty Pictures Capital.
So, in a sense, Monica Bellucci is now an indirect employee of Nan Yi.
"Hi, Monica, you've become more beautiful." Coming to Monica Bellucci, Nan Yi greeted her, then hugged her, kissed her on the cheek, and then bit her cheek.
"Adam, you are so good at talking."
Monica Bellucci was not angry when she was kissed suddenly. To her, Nan Yi's behavior was not enough to be considered as taking advantage, let alone molestation.
"So, why are you here, to see DiCaprio?"
Leo, who was just in his early twenties, was very popular among women, and many models and actresses threw themselves at him. Sophie Marceau once told him a piece of gossip that when the roles for "Titanic" were being decided, Cameron was extremely optimistic about Johnny Depp playing the role of Jack, but the latter was not interested and did not even show up for the audition.
Later, during the audition, it was Leo's turn who was cut in line. The female employees all crowded into the audition room just to catch a glimpse of Leo. Seeing that Leo was so popular with the women and his favorite actors didn't like him, Cameron finally decided that Leo would play Jack.
There is another important reason why Leo was chosen: it is cheap, only $1 million, and he is promised a tiny percentage of the box office dividends. The female lead, Kate Winslet, is more famous than Leo, having been nominated for the Best Supporting Actress at the Oscars and Golden Globe Awards, and her pay is comparable to his.
Generally speaking, unless it is a chick flick, the female lead's pay is often much less than that of the male lead. The pay of the male and female protagonists is the same, it can only be that the female lead is more powerful than the male lead.
"No, I'm here to study." Monica Bellucci replied a little annoyed.
Two years ago, she met Leo at a fashion show. At that time, she half-jokingly asked Leo if he would mind a girlfriend older than him. Leo's answer was, "My girlfriend is 17 years old this year."
Leo's answer offended the old woman Monica Bellucci.
"Oh, Winslet's acting is good."
British actresses are indeed very capable. Generation after generation, there are always many actresses with top acting skills emerging. Although Winslet is still very young, when it comes to acting skills, she is definitely qualified to be a mentor to Monica Bellucci.
Let’s not talk about Monica Bellucci’s acting skills, her expressionless acting style. The director who previously worked with her in "Tomatoes, Potatoes and Love" once said privately that she was just a vase and he didn’t want to work with her again.
In fact, the film "Tomatoes, Potatoes and Love" did not perfectly meet Nan Yi's original demands and did not attract enough female audiences. Instead, many male audiences who were not the main potential customers were attracted by Monica Bellucci's figure.
"Don't I have any acting skills?" Monica Bellucci was dissatisfied.
Nan Yi answered truthfully, "Yes, you didn't."
"Adam..."
Monica Bellucci's resentful voice sounded.
Nan Yi gave Monica Bellucci a hug again and comforted her: "It's okay, you have beauty and a good figure."
"Adam!"
Monica Bellucci's voice became more resentful.
Nan Yi let go of Monica Bellucci and said with a smile: "Haha, it's just a joke. Actually, your acting skills are pretty good."
The two chatted for a while, and Monica Bellucci was not very happy on her own. Then, Monica Bellucci's car was driven by her bodyguard, and she got into Nan Yi's car herself.
The two chatted about light topics along the way and arrived at the hotel in Rosarito Beach in about fifty minutes.
The two separated in the lobby and agreed to meet on the beach an hour later.
After entering the room and putting away the luggage, Nan Yi found the hotel manager and asked the hotel to make some romantic arrangements - flowers, fine wine, music, candlelight dinner and other rather cliché arrangements that women really like.
Before coming, Nan Yi also prepared a necklace, which he made by himself. The gem of the pendant was carved into the shape of a rose. The workmanship was very rough and the gem was not top-quality. The total cost was about US$10,000. Although the price was not expensive, it was full of sincerity. Nan Yi also thoughtfully named the necklace the French Rose.
After discussing the details with the hotel manager, Nan Yi changed into a set of casual clothes suitable for the beach, went to the beach outside, searched for a while, and saw Bellucci drinking cocktails with another woman.
Apart from being 175 cm tall, the woman has no breasts, an uneven belly with a faintly visible baby bump, and round, perky buttocks and straight, slender thighs. These two things do not exist.
The face is familiar. Yes, it’s Ruth. She is taller than Liu Zhen, and everything else is about the same as Liu Zhen.
Nan Yi was very upset that he was qualified for the title of national first-class breeder, but he raised a malnourished little girl into a plump and beautiful girl. She was beautiful for only a few days, and then she turned into a fat woman.
After the thought about obesity passed, Nan Yi thought to himself that it was just right.
He took two quick steps to the beach chairs where the two women were sitting and said hello: "Hi, ladies, may I join you?"
Bellucci giggled and said, "Adam, you are late. It is very ungentlemanly to make a lady wait for you."
"You know, I take our date very seriously." Nan Yi said, pointing to the clothes on his body, "Look, I'm dressed up carefully ."
"Aha." Bellucci smiled teasingly and pointed at Winslet next to her. "Kate, the leading actress of Titanic; Adam, Sophie's boyfriend."
"Hi."
"Hi."
Nan Yi and Winslet greeted each other, looked around, found the waiter, and gestured to him to bring a beach chair.
After they sat down, Nan Yi said to Winslet, "Kate, the crew doesn't have to shoot today?"
"No, Director Cameron is meeting with investors."
"Oh." Nan Yi reached out and picked up the cocktail from the waiter's tray, raised his glass to Winslet, and said, "Cheers to your vacation."
After saying that, he brought the cup to his lips and took a sip.
"Monica, just now in the room, I thought of a movie, Hibiscus Town, which won the People's Award at the 32nd Valladolid International Film Festival in Spain in 1988. I'm sure it will be a perfect fit for you if I adapt it into a story that takes place in Italy."
Bellucci was immediately intrigued, "What kind of movie is it?"
"It's a film that explores the complexity of human nature..." Nan Yi told the two girls the general content of "Hibiscus Town". "Sicily is a mysterious, beautiful, and isolated island. If the story is set in Syracuse, Sicily, on the eve of the Allied landing in 1943, and you are the wife of an Italian soldier, a beautiful and sexy lady named Monica, or Malena.
There was a thirteen-year-old boy named Adam. When he got his first bicycle in his life, he wanted to show off to his friends, but he found that his friends were obsessed with showing off another asset - the beauty of Monica, the most beautiful young woman on the island.
There is no doubt that Monica is beautiful. Adam, who is in the period of hormone secretion, is also tempted by Monica's incomparable beauty and can't help but join the discussion of Monica. Monica's beautiful figure makes Adam deeply attracted to her and unable to extricate himself.
The men in the town are obsessed with Monica's beauty and fantasize about having her for themselves one day, while the women in the town are jealous of Monica's charm and slander her character, fantasizing about stepping on her one day.
One day, Monica received the news that her husband had died on the front line. The women in the town gloated over the misfortune, while the men in the town immediately realized that this was a good opportunity to get Monica...
Adam really wanted to help Monica, but he was just a teenager, and he could only punish those who slandered Monica in the way a thirteen-year-old boy could think of and do.
Under the pressure of survival, Monica had no choice but to become a prostitute, which made the men in the town cheer and finally they could possess Monica's beauty openly. At the beginning, Monica dealt with the residents of the town, the postman, the police, and later when the German army deployed in Sicily, she began to deal with the German army.
Because Monica was protected by the German army, the men in the town no longer dared to approach her, and the women in the town could only slander her secretly.
Later, when the Allied forces landed, the women in the town humiliated and beat Monica because she had served the German army, and even drove her out of the town.
Adam knew that Monica's downfall was caused . Adam hated himself for not being able to protect Monica. With Monica's departure, Adam's first love also ended.
At the end of the story, Monica's husband, who was not killed in the war, returned to the town to look for Monica, and Adam told him what had happened to Monica.
Another year later, Monica returned to the town with her husband. She was no longer sexy and beautiful, just like other women in the town. The women in the town began to accept her, and Sicily returned to its pre-war calm, as if nothing had happened.
After listening to Nan Yi's story, Bellucci instantly felt that this story was very suitable for her to perform. It could be said that it was tailor-made for her and cleverly avoided the shortcoming of her lack of rich facial micro-expressions.
Nan Yi wiped a sweat in his heart. It was not easy, it was really not easy. He had never watched "The Beautiful Legend of Sicily" in its entirety. He always fast-forwarded to watch a few wonderful scenes. He only roughly understood that this was a film that explored human nature. He just spoke while organizing his thoughts and narrating according to his own understanding.
Nan Yi's story was not clear enough, but Winslet still roughly understood what the story was about. She thought it was a good story, but it was not suitable for her.
Having been fat since she was a child, she knows very well that the evaluation of being beautiful has nothing to do with her. She does not care about her appearance, nor does she feel inferior because of her plumpness. She is just a little disappointed that she heard a good story but was not qualified to perform it.
"Adam, do you want to invest in this story?" After calming down from the excitement, Bellucci asked suspiciously.
She had already worked together on "Tomatoes, Potatoes and Love" and had heard the crew discussing where they could add another advertisement. After asking, she learned that it was Nan Yi's idea. She began to doubt Nan Yi's motives for investing in the movie. Later, after they became familiar with each other, she asked Nan Yi very directly and got a truthful answer.
That's why she was suspicious as to why Nan Yi would want to invest in a film that was not convenient for product placement.
"I won't be the one investing. I will tell Sophie about this idea and let her invest in this project. In return, you can help me shoot two commercials, and the fee can be a little higher." Nan Yi chuckled.
There was cunning and playfulness hidden in his smile, because he wanted to invite Bellucci to shoot an advertisement for Pillow's "Wild and Tough Series". He believed that the marketing effect would be very good and might bring in hundreds of millions of dollars in sales.
"What advertisement?" Bellucci asked warily.
"A good ad, a very well-paid ad, with a cut of the sales. We'll discuss the details later."
Bellucci's film was just a side job, a gift to Sophie Marceau. Winslet was his target. On the way here, he had already had an idea to take advantage of the popularity. While Leo and Winslet were still playing small roles, he would find one of them to make a movie, and it had to be released when "Titanic" was at its peak.
He already had the story, and Winslet was perfect for the role of the heroine.
Leaving Bellucci behind, Nan Yi looked at Winslet, "Kate, after finishing this film, do you have any other work?"
