When Li Mu's plane landed at Yanjing Airport, domestic reports about him were already overwhelming.
However, the protagonist who attracted national attention passed the airport quietly in the business terminal, and then quickly left the airport in a Makino Technology fleet.
Li Mu asked Anne Hathaway about her upcoming schedule, and Anne told him: "I may take a day off in Yanjing, and then book a flight back to Spring City tomorrow. I will start work in two days."
Li Mu asked her: "You haven't booked the hotel or air tickets yet, right?"
Anne Hathaway nodded and said: "You should just go to the hotel directly. Just ask the hotel to help you book the air tickets when the time comes."
Li Mu thought for a while and then said: "My house in Ziyun Villa has several guest rooms. If you are willing, you can stay at my place. I will have someone book a flight for you and ask the driver to take you to the airport tomorrow."
After all, Anne Hathaway is a girl, and she is alone. For her, a foreigner, this is Li Mu's home in China, so she naturally has to act like a landlord. Anyway, there are many rooms in the house, so there is nothing wrong with letting her live at home. It is convenient, safer and can be taken care of more thoughtfully.
However, Anne Hathaway had some misunderstandings in her heart. She felt that Li Mu's invitation was full of vague ambiguity. After a slight hesitation, she suppressed the shyness in her heart and nodded lightly, saying: "Then Please trouble Mr. Li."
Since he had just experienced a long transoceanic flight, Li Mu was not ready to go to the company, so he said to Li Ziwei: "Ziwei, you must be tired from traveling back and forth these days. Go back and rest first. I will go back to Ziyun Villa to rest for a day. I won’t be busy with work today.”
Li Ziwei nodded and said: "Then I will accompany you to Ziyun Villa first, and then I will go home."
Li Ziwei's home was not far from Ziyun Villa, so Li Mu did not refuse. He just waited until he got home and asked the driver to take her back.
On the way home, Li Mu, Anne Hathaway, and Li Ziwei were in a commercial car. When the motorcade just entered the airport expressway, hundreds of kilometers away in Bincheng, Dong Fangzhuo was meeting with his agent , sat together with the club owner and head coach to discuss the trade-off between Manchester United and Manchester City.
In fact, there is nothing to discuss about this issue.
Whether it is Dong Fangzhuo himself, his agent, or the club's owner and head coach, they all chose Manchester City Club deep in their hearts.
After all, it is Li Mu's football club. No matter from any aspect, Dong Fanzhuo should not give up this choice.
So, there are only two questions left.
When will the transfer take place and how much will it cost
Previously, the club had been asking for an offer of around 4 million pounds from Manchester United. Manchester United had always found it too expensive, and according to Manchester United's expectations, they did not even want to pay 1 million pounds.
Manchester United understood the deepest thoughts of Dong Fangzhuo's agent and the club. They are all face-saving people who like to pile up the numbers higher and then leave it to the media to hype up and pursue them, so they proposed a transfer that is extremely stupid. In this way, the transfer fee was announced to be 3.5 million pounds, but the Manchester United club actually paid only 500,000 pounds. The rest was all written into additional terms, such as future bonuses, expectations of goals, etc.
However, Dong Fangzhuo's club was quite tempted by this proposal. Although it only received a few hundred thousand pounds, when it was announced to the outside world, it can be said that the city's 3.5 million pounds was not wrong. The worth of 350 pounds can be said to be broke by Chinese football players. His net worth is recorded, which in their eyes is a particularly honorable thing.
Therefore, Dong Fanzhuo's club owner gave his request: "Dong Fanzhuo's actual worth will be quoted as 1 million pounds, and the remaining terms will be consistent with Manchester United."
Dong Fanzhuo's agent was anxious at the time and said: "Mr. Chen, with Li Mu's ability and connections, it is very convenient to find out the actual price quoted by Manchester United to Xiao Dong. If we let him know, the price we will give him will be higher than that given to Manchester United." Double, then this is outrageous! If the people across the country knew about it, they would poke us in the back."
Mr. Chen said: "Li Mu is so rich that he won't care about this, but this money is too important to our club!"
The agent immediately said: "No one's money comes from the strong wind. Mr. Chen, you are very rich, but will you buy a pack of cigarettes at twice the price? If you go to a fellow villager's store to buy cigarettes, How do you feel when the other party charges you twice the price?"
Mr. Chen couldn't help but smacked his lips.
He wanted to make money from Li Mu, because he felt that a person like Li Mu, whose social status had reached the top in the business circle, could actually pay attention to Dong Fanzhuo. This meant that Dong Fanzhuo was indeed of high value. With his financial status Strength, spending hundreds of thousands of pounds more on players you like is nothing, right
So, he said firmly: "That's it. The actual transfer value is 1 million pounds. The remaining 3 million pounds will be written into the contract in the form of bonuses, and the value will be announced to the outside world as 4 million pounds."
"Mr. Chen..." The agent was dumbfounded and blurted out: "How about we quote the price negotiated with Manchester United."
"No." Mr. Chen waved his hand and said firmly: "That's how I repay, and every cent is the same."
After that, Mr. Chen said with a smile on his face: "If you want to win, make a big deal. If you succeed, you will make money. If you don't succeed, step back and talk to Manchester United!"
For entrepreneurs who are more gambling and greedy, there is no middle value between 50 and 100. Either make 100 or make 50. There is no other middle number. Instead of struggling to negotiate 60 with the other party, In his eyes, it would be better to directly quote 100 to ensure that he can grasp the other party's pain points.
When Bincheng Club's offer for Dong Fanzhuo reached Sun Jihai, Sun Jihai was shocked.
Outsiders don't know the situation of the Premier League and Dong Fanzhuo. Sun Jihai has been in the UK for so long, so he naturally understands it very well.
Even though Manchester United has not yet confirmed its cooperation with Bincheng Club, the transfer fee that Manchester United may pay for Dong Fangzhuo is only a maximum of 6.7 million pounds.
But now, the other party actually quoted Li Mu a higher price than what he negotiated with Manchester United. This is so fucking familiar!
Sun Jihai had no choice but to persuade Dong Fanzhuo on the phone: "You must make it clear to the owner of your club that Li Mu is not a bully. If he treats Li Mu as a bully, he will only be the one who suffers in the end."
Dong Fangzhuo said helplessly: "Brother Hai, I have nothing to do. The club owner insists on this offer and will not let me go if it is lower than this. Please tell Mr. Li or the club leaders to see what they mean."
Sun Jihai let out a long sigh and said, "Zhuo Zi, your boss is such a fucking bastard!"
After hanging up the phone, Sun Jihai called Li Ziwei. Li Mu once told him that if there was any news about Dong Fangzhuo, he should call her directly.
At this moment, Li Ziwei and Li Mu were sitting in the car together, driving on the Fifth Ring Road. Suddenly, they received a call from the UK, and they realized that it might be Sun Jihai.
After getting through the phone, Sun Jihai conveyed Bincheng Club's offer for Dong Fanzhuo to Li Ziwei, who then immediately reported it back to Li Mu.
After Li Mu heard the offer of 1 million pounds + 3 million pounds, he had some doubts in his heart. Then he remembered that Dong Fangzhuo's transfer value in his previous life was announced to be 3.5 million pounds. How come it increased by 500,000 pounds to him
After Li Mu carefully speculated for a moment, he realized that this matter was probably caused by the club. The club must have thought that it wanted to buy Dong Fangzhuo, so it temporarily raised the offer.
This approach made Li Mu instantly feel chilled. I worked so hard to get a Premier League club. It was originally intended to train Chinese players. Now I want to buy a Chinese player to try to prevent him from repeating the mistakes of his previous life. I didn’t expect that China would This club actually took the opportunity to rip off themselves!
Thinking of this, Li Mu felt a little annoyed.
Li Ziwei saw that Li Mu's expression was not right and asked hurriedly: "Mr. Li, what's wrong with you? Is the price quoted by the team a little outrageous?"
Li Mu nodded and said, "It's probably several hundred thousand pounds higher than the market price."
Hundreds of thousands of pounds? Li Ziwei was stunned. This amount of money, converted into RMB, would be several million yuan.
Nowadays, the house prices in many places in Yanjing are less than 5,000 yuan. If the price of a house is 500,000 yuan, the other party will add almost ten houses to the price.
Li Ziwei couldn't help but said: "If it's not suitable, we don't have to buy this player."
Li Mu sighed and said: "Many businessmen only care about making money and have no sense of nationality at all. They only care about personal interests in everything and have no national sentiments. Such a guy must be punished to let him know that money is important. But some money can be earned, and some money can’t.”
Seeing that Li Mu was not in a good mood, Li Ziwei hurriedly advised: "Mr. Li, some people have narrow visions. You'd better not be like them. At worst, we can just buy other players."
Li Mu said to Li Ziwei: "But if this kind of thing is not controlled, it will inevitably happen again and again in the future."
After that, Li Mu continued: "Let me tell you a story. In a certain university in the United States, there were dozens of Chinese students. Because they missed the flavor of their hometown, some of them suddenly decided to start making various domestic foods on their own one day. , and then sold them to classmates who were also Chinese and missed the taste of their hometown. However, it didn’t take long for them to do this before they became completely obsolete. Even these international students were repatriated directly because they did not have food business documents. They usually only I did business with Chinese people in school, but I was discovered and arrested by the police not long after I started doing business. Do you know why?"
Li Ziwei shook her head gently.
Li Mu said: "This is because they were reported, and the person who reported them was the owner of a Chinese restaurant near the school. He felt that these international students were buying Chinese food in private, which affected the business of his restaurant."
"Ah? Why are you so selfish..." Li Ziwei was surprised when she heard this.
Li Mu said with a smile: "This is nothing. The most selfish thing is that he knows that these students have no documents, knows that they will be arrested once they are reported, knows that they will most likely face deportation after being arrested, and he is not allowed to He entered the country, but he still called the police, and then all these twenty or thirty students were deported, and their studies were ruined."
Li Ziwei was silent for a moment and then said: "Actually, if you really tell the truth, the person who reported the report did not do anything wrong. After all, he complied with the local laws. It's just that his behavior is so chilling to the Chinese people."
"That's right!" Li Mu nodded and said, "This is what I mean by the sense of nationality. I personally feel that everyone must have a sense of nationality, whether at home or abroad. Only in this way can Chinese people overseas be able to We are really in a knot, but if you look at us, whether at home or abroad, we are all cheating our own people, and we are simply a mess."
Speaking of this, Li Mu added: "If the proportion of national feeling among Chinese can increase, then the degree of unity and social status of Chinese overseas will definitely be higher than it is now!"
Li Ziwei said in agreement: "You are right, we like to deceive our own people too much."
Li Mu snorted softly at this time and said: "Call the editor-in-chief of YY.com, tell him what happened, and ask him to write a sharp and stern article. I want these familiar guys to be killed. Despised by the whole people!"
(End of chapter)