The Goddess Shines on America

On January 3, 1987, the weather was fine, the southeast wind was five to six, and the temperature was minus three degrees to minus four degrees.

Location, Tokyo, Japan.

It is still the New Year's season at this time. Although it is completely different from the Chinese New Year, the Japanese New Year's day will not end until the 15th, and the entire month of January is collectively called January by the Yamato people.

From the 1st to the 3rd of the first month, it is called the Sanhe Day. On the first day, the younger generation must first go to their parents to pay New Year's greetings, greet their parents, and then go to relatives and friends' homes to pay New Year's greetings. At the gates of many company buildings and in the streets and alleys, pine, bamboo and plum are used to set up novel and unique archways to celebrate. It wasn't until the 5th that the shops started to open, the stock market opened, the wholesale market was crowded with people, the new year was new, and everyone was thinking about what happened last year.

But Sun Zhengyi has no intention of celebrating the new year at all. He is now sitting in a black Mercedes-Benz, heading for the target hotel.

On the way to his destination, he was flipping through a mystery novel that was released last December.

It's called "After School".

Sun Zhengyi, as a Japanese and Korean, is of course also very interested in mystery novels. As for whether it is traditional reasoning, or the abnormal style that focuses on describing abnormal psychology, or other types, it is within the scope of his dabble. Therefore, this novel aroused Sun Zhengyi's interest at the first time. As the winning work of the Edogawa Ranpo Award last year, the author's conception of the plot was beyond everyone's expectations, and the author's name is naturally deep. deeply imprinted in his mind.

It's just that Sun Zhengyi never imagined that he could rely on him to build a relationship today.

Not long after, the car stopped in front of the target hotel, which is a top luxury hotel located in Ginza, surrounded by the most upscale and bustling shopping malls in Japan. After getting out of the car, Sun Zhengyi carefully arranged his clothes, and then he came to the front desk very calmly.

"Hello, my name is Masayoshi Son, and I have an appointment with Ms. Alice Wang."

Just as she was waiting for the lady at the front desk to check the names, the girl nodded directly and said, "Mr. Sun, Ms. Wang has already ordered you to go directly to the business meeting floor on the third floor of the hotel, just meet at the Ying Ying Pavilion."

"Oh, that's really my favor."

Sun Zhengyi did not hesitate immediately, and immediately took the elevator to the third floor. After asking the waiter for the location of the relevant meeting room, he quickly came to the closed door.

Then, he didn't go in in a hurry, but first took advantage of the mirror in the hallway to tidy up the newly bought suit and the meticulously cut short hair again.

Then, he knocked on the door politely, and finally walked into the room when the "please come in" sounded.

The size of the reception room is not bad, the table can probably accommodate twelve people, the wallpaper pattern matches well with its name "Hina Sakura Pavilion", and it matches the surrounding environment very harmoniously.

Then there was the young girl who was standing up.

It is completely different from the Japanese girls I see every day. First of all, she is tall. Although she should only be fifteen years old, she is obviously half a head taller than most Japanese adult women. She was wearing a Chanel beige windbreaker, her exquisite curves were even tougher, her slender hair hung behind her, and a three-quarter hair accessory was combed in front of her forehead. She had a slightly mixed-race face with piercing eyes. Sun Zhengyi has long been used to seeing business people, and he can't help being intimidated.

"Hello, Ms. Wang, my Masayoshi Sun Zhengyi, it's the first time we meet, please give me your advice."

"Here it is, please give me your advice."

She bent her body slightly, or it would be more appropriate to say that she nodded thirty degrees, and speaking fluent Japanese, Alice smiled and said, "Just call me Alice, you are twice my age, Sun Sang."

Sun Zhengyi immediately stopped being polite. After all, the other party was an American. After sitting down, he took the initiative to raise the topic: "It's really unexpected that Alice-san actually has plans to cooperate with me, and she can speak Japanese so proficiently. You should now It's the age of high school, I don't know if this is...?"

"It's winter vacation,"

Alice smiled easily: "Then I happened to have some spare money, so I wanted to take advantage of this investment boom to visit Japan. But Sun Sang, do you hold on to your purse a little too tightly?"

Sun Zhengyi was stunned for a moment before realizing what posture he was in now.

Because of being too nervous, even after he sat down, the briefcase was not placed on the table, nor even on the sofa, but was still held tightly in his hand.

"Ah! That's right, I almost forgot, Alice-san."

Sun Zhengyi opened the bag non-stop, and took out the library-sized "After School" inside: "This book! Alice-san, I bought it on the day it was released, and I have read it three times. I really didn't expect that just after I finished reading this book for the second time, the author himself came to the door in person, this is really, this is really..."

"Oh, you can have this."

Alice didn't show any surprise, and when pouring a cup of tea for Masayoshi Son, she said relaxedly: "If I remember correctly, because Kodansha used my best-selling things in the United States as a promotion, this book was released on the first day of its release. The sales in one week exceeded 10,000. Well, although it is a new market, it is much better than many ordinary new writers."

Both of them knew why they took out this book. Anyway, there was enough time now, and Alice was happy to let Sun Zhengyi praise this debut novel belonging to Keigo Higashino. However, the chat always comes to an end. After Alice glanced at her watch seemingly casually, Sun Zhengyi changed the subject wisely.

"Actually, I've always been curious, Alice-san, why did you choose me as the initiator of your business in Japan?"

He asked cautiously but slightly excitedly: "In Japan, there are countless investment companies larger than me, and my software banking company is still in a state of debt crisis. You are also aware of this."

"Of course it's for potential, Sun Sang."

Alice smiled softly: "If the information I got is correct, you should have come to the University of California, Berkeley to study at the age of sixteen."

Sun Zhengyi said very modestly: "Yes, I am majoring in economics."

"Well, then I interviewed your mentors back then, it seems... in the third year of school, that is, when you were eighteen years old, you made a full one million profit by importing a video game from Japan Dollars?"

"Where is it? It is far worse than Alice Sang. I was eighteen years old and only had one million. You are only fifteen years old now, and you are already a billionaire."

Sun Zhengyi said this sentence sincerely and excitedly. Although he is now a thirty-year-old man, he is already the boss of a large investment company, and indeed, as Alice said, he easily earned millions when he was eighteen. However, compared to the achievements of the girl in front of him, he can't even keep up with flattery.

"Well, I'm an exception."

Alice lightly smiled and waved her hand: "From a macro point of view, successful people like you are very rare. It just so happens that you are also in the venture capital industry. Venture capital, isn't it the potential? Although you are currently You're in debt, but I'm still very optimistic about you."

As she spoke, she took a sip of tea and said, "This time I came to Japan, my main investment area is real estate, but I am also very interested in other areas. So in this way, the amount of principal is the key, and some investment is really needed Shang can lend me money. It just so happens that you are also in a debt crisis, if you invest with me, at least it is much better than making decisions alone, right?"

Hearing Alice's words, Sun Zhengyi finally relaxed.

As early as he learned that the founder of Cisco and a shareholder of Microsoft wanted to find him as an investment consultant for investing in Japan, Sun Zhengyi kept beating his heart.

He knew something about Alice Wang. The founder of Cisco, the shareholder of Microsoft, even personally revealed the IBM matter at the press conference, and he is also a best-selling author and movie director, so he is really all-rounder.

But according to the current information available to the mainstream media, this girl is nothing more than a technical nerd with a literary nature. Of course, writing novels, making movies and programming are very different, but at least they can be classified as creative work, and they are not without commonality.

But when it comes to investing... that's a real problem.

Although the current economic situation in Japan is very good, it is not easy to make money by investing casually. Although Masayoshi Son has been a venture capital broker for several years, he has only come into contact with entrepreneurs. Although he can do such a thing as providing investment advice to a high school girl, but the other party is a girl after all, what if he insists on going his own way and blames himself after losing money, what should he do?

But since it is real estate, it seems that you can rest assured.

"Oh, Alice-san, you didn't say it earlier, real estate is a hot topic. I have a lot of information about national housing prices in my office..."

"This is not urgent, this is not urgent."

Alice waved her hand and said, "There are still a lot of things to do, step by step. When I buy a house, I don't just want to make a difference by selling the house, so Sun Sang, first find me a piece of land with the lowest price in Ginza... ..."

"There's no space in Ginza, Ellie..."

"cheapest!"

When the conversation was interrupted, Alice glanced at him dissatisfied, and Sun Zhengyi quickly shut up: "Find the cheapest house and land, if the area is not enough, buy them consecutively, and get me a whole... ten hectares of land Come."

Sun Zhengyi couldn't help but took a deep breath: "Ten hectares!? Alice-san, are you sure it's such a large area!?"

"Well, 100,000 square meters, I know what you mean, the price of Ginza is indeed expensive, and the housing units in Japan have always been small. If it is 100,000 square meters... it seems that the side length of the square in front of the Imperial Palace is only four to five hundred meters Right? Hmm..."

"No, no, the area is okay. If you want to build a square, the area is understandable. But Alice-san, this is Ginza! It is a shopping paradise on the same level as the Champs Elysees in France and Fifth Avenue in Manhattan ! Buying a whole 100,000 square meters here, are you planning to build the most expensive leisure plaza in the world!?"

Seeing Sun Zhengyi's neck flushed with excitement, Alice burst into laughter, looking at him with a half-smile.

"Well~ Sun Sang's words are right, I'm going to build a square."

"Well, the Commercial Plaza."