Hong Kong, China's first investment bank CICC is located in the conference room of the headquarters of Central Plaza. The meeting that lasted for an hour and a half has just ended.
The time is already Thursday, August 28th.
This was a meeting with only a dozen participants, but the standard was very high, because the content of the meeting was to discuss the introduction of cornerstone investors for China Telecom's listing in Hong Kong. The so-called cornerstone investors mean that during the IPO process of a company, some highly credible investment institutions, well-known companies or wealthy celebrities are identified in advance for guaranteed subscription in order to further strengthen market confidence.
Most of the participants in the just-concluded meeting were potential cornerstone investors for China Telecom's overseas listing. However, they were basically all Chinese businessmen in Southeast Asia who had good relations with China.
Except for two women.
Among a group of middle-aged and elderly men, Chen Qing and Lin Su, who have outstanding appearance and temperament, are quite eye-catching. The two women participated in this meeting as Simon's direct personal representatives, and the Westeros Company will also Participate in early subscription as a cornerstone investor.
Compared with Chinese businessmen in Southeast Asia, just the name "Westeros" is actually enough to support the cornerstone investor role of this IPO on its own, both in terms of credibility and capital strength. Simon doesn't have the idea of monopolizing the role entirely, though.
Whether it’s meat or soup, sharing it with everyone is the way to go.
Of course, after all, the size is here. Compared with the total subscription quota of US$1 billion from all Chinese businessmen convened by CICC, Westeros Company alone has spent US$500 million.
According to the currently basically determined listing plan, the total financing amount of China Telecom's IPO, which will be listed ahead of the end of the year, is about US$5 billion. Now, the IPO plan is still advancing, and the subscription share of US$1.5 billion has been determined in advance, and The subscribers all have quite strong international appeal, basically announcing that this IPO will be smooth sailing.
After the meeting, everyone stood up one after another. As juniors, Chen Lin and the two girls originally planned to fall behind, but unexpectedly a group of middle-aged and elderly men also took the initiative to slow down. When the two girls approached, one of them invited in Mandarin: "Xiao Lin, tonight Do you have time? Zheng Sheng is having a cocktail party in Repulse Bay tonight. If you are interested, you can go and have a look."
Feeling the friendly tone of the tall, thin man wearing glasses, Lin Su instinctively felt a little uncomfortable and declined: "Sorry, Mr. Li, Xiaoqing and I will return to the mainland soon."
"Oh, it's okay. I hope I have a chance next time."
As the other party spoke, not only did he not feel displeased at all, he also took out a business card and handed it over. Lin Su took it politely, not forgetting to take out his own business card and exchange it with the big guys present.
After greeting each other like this for several minutes, the two women were able to get away.
Accompanied by four female maids and guards, they came downstairs and got into the car. Looking at Chen Qing, who had just been acting like a follower, but now he grabbed her handbag and started to check the business card, Lin Su gave her a weak look: " Since you are more interested in these, why push me out?"
The news that Lin Su has entered the Forbes 400 list of the richest Americans, ranking 387th, has spread rapidly in recent days.
Of course, the reason why a group of Chinese businessmen took the initiative to get close to Lin Su was not because of her personal net worth of 500 million U.S. dollars. After all, this amount of money was not high on everyone's list just now. The key lies in the well-known man standing behind Lin Su. , in this world now, no one can ignore the name 'Simon Westeros'.
Chen Qing smiled like a little fox, and stuffed all the business cards into her bag without politeness, and then said: "Because I want to be the mastermind behind the scenes."
Lin Su was speechless, and inexplicably thought of someone again, and muttered: "You... know how to bully me."
With that said, the car just left the building's underground parking lot. Lily Fawell, who was sitting in the front passenger seat, felt something. She took out a vibrating mobile phone from her bag and handed it to Lin Su: "Lin, your father's phone number. He already hit you once during a meeting with Chen.”
Lin Su raised her hand subconsciously, winced again, and finally took the phone over and pressed the answer button: "Dad... yes, I'm still there... I'll go back soon, um, I mean, Xiaoqing and I are going to Beijing... Fake, how can I have 500 million US dollars... No matter how authoritative the magazine is, it will make mistakes. Dad, please don't listen to other people's nonsense... I'm not sure. Maybe I will go back to the United States after staying in Beijing for a few days... Dad, he It’s my boss’s boss’s boss, I don’t know how much higher it is, and I won’t be able to see them for months… Okay, I’m going to get on the plane, that’s it for now.”
Lin Su finished speaking in a hurry and hung up the phone. Seeing that Chen Qing was still watching the fun, she casually threw the Nokia over: "Here you go, all of them."
Chen Qing took the phone with a smile and joked: "You lie quite smoothly."
Lin Su glared at her: "When did I lie?"
Chen Qing blinked and then nodded: "Yeah, you're not lying at all. You really don't have 500 million US dollars. You only have 410 million US dollars in cash in your account now. Other company shares and the like, together, should be more than 500 million US dollars." 500 million U.S. dollars, I really didn’t lie.”
“…”
After Simon's proposal last time, the two women have successively cashed out the 2.65% of Scotopia shares they held. With the continued explosion of China's VCD industry and the aura of Westeros concept stocks, even according to this "Forbes" According to the closing data of the 400 richest people in the United States on August 16, Scoop's market value had reached US$19.1 billion at that time.
2.65% of the shares is $506 million.
Therefore, if the two women did not cash out, the statistics on the "Forbes" list would not be too biased.
As for why Lin Su only has US$410 million on her books at this time, the main reason is that it is impossible to choose a high point like August 16 during the cash-out process. Moreover, this money has not yet been taxed. If the 15% capital that needs to be paid is deducted, Profits tax is probably only $350 million left.
In any case, a woman who had only immigrated to the United States for two years suddenly had hundreds of millions of dollars in cash in her personal account. Even Lin Su herself was at a loss. What she didn't even expect was that her friends and a certain hateful man would work together to secretly push her onto this year's Forbes 400 list of the richest Americans.
Seeing Lin Su's dazed look, Chen Qing was about to say something more when the cell phone she had just received rang again. She answered it without thinking: "Hello... Oh, Minister Wu, this is Xiao Chen... Asu Ah, she fell asleep. She has been a little tired these past few days. Do you need me to wake her up... Oh, that's good... Yes, the meeting has just ended and we are rushing to the airport... Tomorrow morning... No problem, um, wait until she wakes up. , I will tell her, that’s it.”
After hanging up the phone, Chen Qing saw Lin Su looking over and said: "From the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications, I hope that we... um, no, it's Miss Lin. We can attend a seminar on China's information industry tomorrow morning. I have agreed for you." "
“…”
Chen Qing looked at her: "How about I go for you?"
Lin Su glared at her: "I don't plan to take you."
Chen Qing immediately approached her aggrievedly: "Asu, how could you do this to me..."
Lin Su, who was all hairy, raised his hand and hit her a few times.
Chen Qing was not angry after being beaten. Instead, she laughed and said, "It seems like I made a mistake. If I had known earlier, I would have taken the initiative myself."
"You only understand now?"
"I'm kidding you," Chen Qing immediately changed her tone: "I don't intend to get into this kind of limelight, um, Asu... Okay, ok, Susu... Oh, no more fights, I mean, from now on. I will be your assistant, so you can stay in the mansion and be your mistress, and I will try my best to help you with other matters."
Lin Su angrily hit her again, thought for a while, and said, "By the way, in the media, I mean, I don't want to cause a fuss in China."
"Don't worry, I have taken care of it in advance. This matter will definitely not appear in the public media."
Lin Su immediately asked: "What about privately? Why did my father suddenly find out?"
Chen Qing smiled and said, "You must know everything you should know."
Lin Su curled her lips and wanted to say something, but she didn't say anything.
Chen Qing waited for her to calm down for a moment before saying again: "Hey..."
"Um?"
"How about I help you take care of your money?"
Lin Su paused and said, "I want to ask his opinion."
"What does the boss have to say? Do you think he values your little money? We men have 1.5 trillion US dollars?"
Lin Su ignored Chen Qing's words like 'our men', but didn't say anything more.
Although... such a huge amount of money was lying in her account, deep down in her heart, Lin Su always felt that she was just helping him keep a sum of money. After all, she had never thought about her... Will be a billionaire one day or something.
Seeing that she didn't answer, Chen Qing suddenly thought of something else: "By the way, I'm telling you, don't donate this money as you did in the past."
Lin Su just rolled his eyes at her.
In the past two years, it can be said that Lin Su has donated a lot of money to various domestic charity organizations, but it is basically just her salary. As for the money in her hand, for some reason, she has no intention of using it randomly. , and even thought that she should return it to him. After all, the money was too much and she felt that she could not afford it.
After Chen Qing finished speaking, she carefully looked at Lin Su's expression, relaxed a little, leaned on the leather chair, mentioned the meeting she had just participated in, and couldn't help but said: "I don't know what the boss is thinking this time. Instead of subscribing in the name of Stroll Company, we choose a third party as the medium, and maybe we can get a lower discount."
As a cornerstone investor, you often have to bear higher risks, and at the same time, you will naturally enjoy corresponding discounts.
Of course, these discounts are generally not displayed openly.
When Lin Su heard Chen Qing's words, she turned her head and looked over. She subconsciously wanted to say something, paused, and fell silent again.
Chen Qing noticed Lin Su's expression and raised the corners of her mouth slightly.
Arriving at the airport, they boarded a Gulfstream V business jet that was almost their personal car. They departed from Hong Kong, arrived in the capital in the evening, and then drove back to Simon's courtyard house in Maoer Hutong, Nanluogu Lane.
Recently, there are no longer just a bunch of maids in this courtyard.
Zhu Momo and his party returned to China a few days ago, and were personally arranged here by Chen Qing, who was also the housekeeper of Simon's various properties in China, under his nose.
As a result, in the current courtyard, in addition to the original maid team, there are five more people, namely Zhu Momo, Jill Peckett, Zhao Anni, Li Youhu and Teacher Yu. Of course, given the size of this courtyard, let alone five more people, even if it were doubled several times, it would still be more than enough.
"Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", which is in the final stage of preparation, is expected to start shooting in late September. It is planned to shoot some scenes in Beijing first. Therefore, the crew is currently stationed in the capital, so Li Youhu and others can stay here.
When the filming of the movie starts, everyone will start traveling across the country.
Compared to China, where the news was not spread quickly, Gil Peckett and others had already received the news that Lin Su had entered the Forbes list in advance. .
Therefore, when Chen Qing and Lin Su returned, they happened to meet Zhu Momo, Li Youhu and others who had just returned from attending a nearby Chinese opera class all day long. When they saw Lin Su, the one who felt the deepest impression was Jill. Peckett.
Although, Girl C, who is tied for third place on the Forbes 400 list of the richest Americans with a net worth of US$29.5 billion this year, together with the other founder of Tinker Bayer, is Jill Peckett’s ultimate goal, but, not to mention her net worth Girl C, who already has close to 30 billion US dollars, even the other three girls A, B, and D are really far away from her.
Coincidentally, Simon set her career goal in China, so Lin Su, the woman ranked 387th on this year's list, unknowingly became Jill's most direct target.
And it's relatively promising.
After all, it has only taken Lin Su two years from scratch. Gil doesn't think he will be much worse than his opponent.
No matter what they were thinking, after meeting, the women were very warm to each other. After a while of greetings, they came to the inner courtyard together. Chen Qing, Lin Su and others still lived in the west wing, while Zhu Momo and the others moved in. In the east wing, no one lives in the main house, and no one has asked to live in it. After all, that place belongs to a certain man by default.
Unless the other party arrives, they can only go in at night.
From evening to dinner, Teacher Yu and Li Youhu felt that they should not ignore it. After all, they had become Simon's women a few days ago. But, well, transparent people also have the advantages of being transparent. It is quite interesting to watch Chen Qing and Zhu Momo secretly tit for tat.
"I've also read the script of "Speak Well". It's a very interesting story." At the dinner table, everyone gathered together. Compared to the quieter Lin Su, Chen Qing naturally took the initiative in the confrontation. , said to Zhu Momo: "However, at this stage, China's film industry, well, basically there is no film industry, including Youhu's "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", which is actually a good movie, so, Mo Mo, you don’t need to take it too seriously.”
Zhu Momo just talked about her upcoming cooperation with Zhang Guoshi. Of course, she couldn't help but show off a little bit, but she didn't expect that she would immediately receive such a comment from Chen Qing. With the girl's character, of course she would not give in. She counterattacked: "Chen Qing Sister, according to you, isn’t Simon’s emphasis on the Chinese film industry completely unnecessary?”