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The women in Zhou Buqi's inner house all entered the door cleanly and completely, not to mention the layers of checkpoints like the ancient palace draft, which had also been observed and tested for a long time.

The only exception is Ning Yaxian.

Not only had she been with a man before, but she had also been married.

Not only was she married, but she also had a child.

But even so, Ning Yaxian still entered the Zhou family's door.

This is certainly due to her sister Ning Yameng, but it is also inseparable from her personal efforts. In terms of loyalty, thoughtfulness, gentleness, sense of belonging and identification with Boss Zhou, Ning Da Mi is unparalleled.

I really can't find anything wrong with her even if I want to.

If it really comes down to a hard pick, it can be described in Aunt Xue's words, even if she is too spoiled to Zhou Buqi, she is not afraid of spoiling him.

That night, Zhou Buqi originally wanted to work as usual for a while and communicate with domestic business.

However, Ning Yaxian arranged it so well that she got a little carried away.

Fortunately, the next day's work cannot be delayed.

During breakfast, Zhou Buqi turned on the speakerphone and talked on the phone with Senior Sister Zhen Yu. While eating omelette, he asked: "Senior Sister, are you up?"

"Well, I'm awake."

"Let me ask you something, how much money does our family have in our account now?"

"Now?" Zhen Yu thought for a moment, and her light voice was like beads falling on a jade plate. "Last year, there was still a balance of 500 million U.S. dollars, plus the 1.5 billion U.S. dollars recorded this year, a total of 2 billion U.S. dollars. However, it must be reserved. $500 million in repayments and interest, plus property taxes, household expenses and pocket money, about $200 million. And...well, this time, the Miami property."

"Oh?" Zhou Buqi raised his eyebrows, "Are you sure?"

Zhen Yu smiled and said, "Well, Island Manor, do you know?"

Zhou Buqi blinked, "I think I've heard of it. It's very famous over there in Palm Beach, no worse than Mar-a-Lago."

Zhen Yu chuckled and said: "In terms of fame, it is still worse than Mar-a-Lago. After all, it was the residence of many presidents and the winter White House. However, Island Manor also has a big advantage. It is the only one in Palm Beach. A private island can achieve the ultimate in privacy protection.”

Zhou Buqi said: "That's great. What's the price?"

"It shouldn't exceed US$30 million."

"Isn't that high? What do you think?"

"No one has lived here for many years, and it is in disrepair...and the house is also small, with only 11 bedrooms in total. The main purpose is to buy a land. If you are interested, it needs to be renovated and designed."

Zhou Buqi smiled and said, "Okay, don't you like that kind of artistic architecture? Then find a master to renovate and rebuild this island to your liking."

The island manor was very famous and he had heard of it before.

The island is not too big, only about the size of two football fields. Therefore, the island is the manor, and the manor is the island, just like an independent kingdom. It is not far from the beach and can be accessed by bridge, as well as by boat and helicopter. Although it is an independent island, it has convenient transportation, which is much more convenient than many private islands deep in the sea.

The disadvantage is that this island is very small. Once it is hit by waves, it may be flooded, and the potential damage factors are too great. Moreover, the entire manor's facilities are too old, and they are all from seventy or eighty years ago.

If you want to live in luxury and also need to renovate the entire island, it will cost too much.

Zhen Yu said hesitantly: "Would you like to come over and take a look? If it really needs to be renovated, and a Pritzker Prize-winning architect is invited to design it, it may cost a lot of money, a lot of money."

"My wife is still short of money?"

"Pooh!"

Zhen Yu groaned.

Zhou Buqi said grandly: "When will our family be short of money? Do whatever you want and build the house you like! Okay, this matter is settled. I want to tell you, Changyou The IPO has encountered a little trouble, so you have to prepare $810 million for me."

"how?"

Senior Sister Zhen Yu is not a tool person, and the expenditure of such a large amount of money needs to be reviewed to prevent her men from becoming overheated or being deceived.

Zhou Buqi simply told Changyou that during the IPO process, many financial institutions thought the issue price was too high and were unwilling to take over the deal.

"Ah?" Zhen Yu was surprised, "So you want to accept the remaining part?"

"right."

"Is this legal?"

"It shouldn't be a problem. I'll go see Lao Zhang later and communicate with the investment bank and the relevant financial legal team. From what I said yesterday, it shouldn't be a big problem. I'm not a shareholder of Changyou. The family fund is a third-party institution that has nothing to do with Changyou. ."

Zhou Buqi has great control over Changyou.

However, he has no personal holdings in Changyou.

Changyou’s largest shareholder is Sohu, followed by Ziweixing. From this perspective, there is no direct equity relationship between Zhou Buqi and Changyou. Even if there may be suspicion of insider trading, there are ways to avoid it.

At 9 a.m., Zhou Buqi met Zhang Chaoyang at the Rockefeller Building.

There are people from Goldman Sachs and Citigroup present. The chief legal counsel of Ziweixing International has also come to New York from Silicon Valley, as well as two barristers who are proficient in securities law invited from Wall Street.

It only took less than half an hour to get the results.

It can be done!

There are probably three reasons.

First, as Zhou Buqi said, there is no relationship between his family foundation and Changyou. They are independent economic entities and the internal correlation is not strong.

Second, in this process, the controlling party of Changyou did not seek power for personal gain. On the contrary, it was selfless and took huge risks.

In other words, these more than 70 million shares were taken over by Wall Street financial institutions because they did not want them; it was not that other financial institutions wanted them, but Zhou Buqi did not sell them and transferred them to his own pockets. .

There is a lot of subjectivity in case law and it is not as dogmatic as in the civil law system.

The civil law system has very clear legal provisions. Violating the legal provisions is a crime. So it often happens that many people are doing good things but break the law.

There are no legal provisions in the maritime law system, and it is mainly a jury system. A big part of legal ethics is that law is the bottom line of morality. A morally noble thing cannot be illegal. If it breaks the law, then the law must be wrong, and a higher court or Congress must be asked to revise the legal interpretation.

What Zhou Buqi did showed true entrepreneurial spirit. He used his personal wealth to protect the capital market, rather than playing capital games to harm the interests of small shareholders. Such a noble behavior cannot be illegal.

Third, Changyou is a Chinese company.

These days, Sino-US relations are still very good. In order to attract more domestic companies to list in the United States, the United States actually has huge accommodations at the legal and policy levels.

Strictly speaking, any domestic company listed in the United States is illegal and does not comply with relevant U.S. laws and regulations. Many important information has not been disclosed.

The so-called important information actually has nothing to do with the personal data held by this company.

Personal data does not need to be disclosed at all, it is all on the dark web. There is no need for foreigners to steal it, many of our own people steal it and sell it everywhere.

Ordinary people's personal information is assets, and there is no privacy at all when it is sold and sold.

Moreover, Nasdaq has no right to request user data information.

The main thing they want to look at is shareholder data.

According to the requirements of Nasdaq, listed companies need to disclose information about all shareholders. This is the most critical point, and it is also the point that domestic companies are least likely to back down. I would rather not go public than dare to do this. Whoever dares to do it will die.

The United States is aware of such special national conditions. In order not to block the opportunity for domestic companies to go public in the United States and create value for American shareholders, it has made great accommodations and will allow domestic companies not to disclose a lot of information.

It can be regarded as having certain privileges.

It would be difficult if one day the U.S. policy changes and requires companies with Chinese concept stocks to adopt the same information disclosure standards as all other companies listed on Nasdaq.

Chinese concept stocks can only leave the United States one after another. They would rather lose American money than disclose the information of those people. Not to mention domestic companies, even Swiss banks dare not disclose it.

Therefore, for Changyou, even if there are some related-party transactions between shareholders, the United States will not pay too much attention to it. This is the default norm.

Everything went smoothly. Next step is to complete the formalities just in case.

At noon, Zhou Buqi invited Zhang Chaoyang to dinner.

Mexican style steak.

Talking about management changes.

"By the way, do you know Ren Yuxin?"

"Sounds familiar."

"Penguin's Game President."

"Oh!" Zhang Chaoyang suddenly remembered, "I've heard of him, he's very powerful! In the domestic game industry, he can be regarded as one of the top figures. He cooperates with Li... Li in Penguin's game business. What, a vice president of Penguin, they started it together."

Zhou Buqi nodded, lowered his head and cut the steak, "Have you ever been in contact with him?"

"No." Zhang Chaoyang shook his head, "Changyou's business has developed very well in the past few years, and it has even self-developed a national-level game, "Dragon Babu", but I haven't paid much attention to this business. Didn't you propose With a global mindset, I mainly focus on overseas markets.”

Zhou Buqi said: "How about digging him over?"

Zhang Chaoyang was stunned for a moment, "Ren Yuxin?"

"Can't you?"

"Yes, yes, but I'm afraid the price will be too high."

"How much price can it cost?" Zhou Buqi didn't care. "He is not the founder of Penguin. He usually gets salary and options, and he is not like Zhang Xiaolong of QQ mailbox who has the kindness to help in times of need. As long as he takes action, There is a chance! At Penguin, there are more than a dozen people above him. Come to Changyu, he is the CEO!"

Zhang Chaoyang was stunned, "You haven't even seen the person before, so you just decided like this? You... are you too arbitrary? How can you be like this?"

Zhou Buqi laughed and said, "Then you can secretly check this person's background later to see if he is qualified. Make tentative contact and keep it confidential."

Only then did Lao Zhang suddenly realize.

So angry!

It turns out that this kid is arranging tasks for himself again!

how?

Am I your subordinate?