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Zuckerberg acted very quickly. Within a few days, he contacted a private equity institution to take over the approximately 1.4% stake held by Big Boss Zhou, with a total value of US$1.54 billion.

When a big boss does things, he doesn't have to worry so much.

Zhou Buqi had settled this matter before going to Japan. He couldn't let Senior Sister Zhen Yu be so pregnant that she was about to give birth and still worry about the family's financial deficit.

Once this is done, everything will be fine.

With this money, the US$3.7-3.8 billion needed to help Boss Ma redeem his shares is guaranteed.

At the beginning of the year, the Zhou family had US$1.95 billion on their books. Senior Sister Zhen Yu sold European debt and collected US$950 million. During this period, she continued to sell Google stocks and cashed out US$320 million.

There is a lot of money, but the family's expenses are also huge.

Just for the principal and interest on the debt, the total repayment this year will reach $550 million. In addition, the Zhou family owns so many properties that the annual property tax exceeds US$20 million.

The family is booming, and they need to hire security guards, chefs, nannies, personal assistants, legal advisors, financial experts, and spend a lot of money to hire many young and beautiful girls as maids... This year's family expenditure budget has reached 280 million. dollars.

Recently, Wu Yu has become obsessed with art collection and applied for a US$200 million fund.

This money should indeed be spent. Many people in the family have artistic temperaments, such as Wen Zhixia, Ning Yameng, Shi Jinglin, Ning Lu, Aunt Xue and Xue Baoshan, and even Yang Mi, Jiang Bingjie, Dili Reya and others. The girl herself is engaged in literary and artistic work, and Li Xinwan was once a much-discussed boudoir in Kun Opera.

Sister Wu’s collection mainly focuses on antiques, antiques, and works of art that have been lost from China to overseas, which makes more sense. Putting these national treasures in the hands of foreigners, they are really like pearls covered with dust.

After this operation, Zhou Buqi emptied all the Facebook stocks he held, which made him a lot of money, which could be regarded as solving his family's small financial dilemma.

For Boss Zhou, money has never been a problem.

An agreement was reached with Zuckerberg, and both parties smiled and shook hands.

However, it will take some time for Facebook to completely get rid of the clutches of Boss Zhou. Zhou Buqi's personal stocks have been emptied, but Ziweixing International still has a lot on its account, which is enough to give Zuckerberg a headache.

The two companies are bound to have a lot of business frictions in the future.

A head-on war is inevitable.

Zhou Buqi has been focusing on cloud computing and artificial intelligence in the past two years, led by Kurian and Shen Xiangyang respectively, and both have achieved good results that have been amazed by the entire industry.

With these two major businesses in hand, Ziweixing International has overtaken Facebook at the technical level.

The technology is there.

The product concept is closer to human nature, and the business model is more innovative...

Zhou Buqi is very confident.

As for Facebook's stock, even if Zuckerberg doesn't urge him, he will find an opportunity to sell it all. What if Ziweixing International defeats Facebook in the future, causing Facebook's market value to plummet? It is better to take action early and cash out at a high position.

After settling this matter, Zhou Buqi is about to leave for Japan.

Bring a few secretaries around you.

Unexpectedly, Wen Zhixia also came out.

In the past few years, Wen Zhixia has been busy taking care of her daughter. My daughter is now 5 years old and will start elementary school in the fall.

Wen Zhixia began to make some personal considerations.

The last time Zhou Buqi stayed in Teacher Wen's room, she had a pillow breeze and wanted to get back to her career. This made him sigh a little.

This is probably a hurdle that is difficult for women in the workplace to overcome.

Once you have a child, it is difficult to balance work and life, and the child will always come first.

Not only Teacher Wen, but also Ning Yaxian?

She was originally Zhou Buqi's secretary, but after giving birth to his child, she took a back seat to the "second line". Now Sun Wanran dominates his secretariat.

After Wen Zhixia got on the plane, she was somewhat emotional, "It feels like I haven't flown on a business jet in a long time. Before I took a plane, I went to other places for vacation."

Zhou Buqi held her hand and said with a smile: "What do you want to do when you come out this time?"

Wen Zhixia shook his head gently, "If you don't do anything, Nian Nian is still young."

Zhou Buqi said confidently: "I have worked hard for so many years to find so many good sisters for you. Isn't it right for you to help take care of the children?"

Wen Zhixia rolled her eyes at him, "Who are the good sisters? Bao Shan is one, does Aunt Xue count?"

Zhou Buqi coughed, "It's nothing."

"No shadow?" Wen Zhixia glared at him fiercely, "You can just do it. I saw it with my own eyes last time."

Zhou Buqi didn't feel guilty at all, "What did you see? Aunt Xue and I are innocent."

Wen Zhixia said angrily: "In the gym, you hugged her and kissed her! I saw it!"

"Kissing ceremony, right?" Zhou Buqi didn't take it seriously, "What a fuss. This is called doing as the Romans do when you're in the country. Isn't this kind of social etiquette popular in Europe and the United States?"

Wen Zhixia laughed angrily: "That's not a kiss, right? A kiss for several minutes? French wet kiss?"

Zhou Buqi laughed, "Did you see it wrong?"

Wen Zhixia gritted her teeth and said: "I may have seen it wrong in a flash. I stared at the door for several minutes, but I still saw it wrong? Your hands are not honest, and you are touching everywhere. Aunt Xue didn't stop you, and she was so angry. Enjoy it, it’s obvious that you’ve had adultery for a long time.”

"What? Sometimes what the eyes see may not be true." Zhou Buqi sighed, feeling helpless, "Aunt Xue and I are very restrained, and our relationship is still innocent now."

"real?"

Wen Zhixia looked suspicious, somewhat disbelieving.

At this level, can you still hold it back?

Zhou Buqi said sternly: "Really, I can't do anything to be sorry for Bao Shan. Aunt Xue said that in this life we ​​are destined to be together, but in the next life I will be a concubine to repay my kindness."

"Enqing, you..." Wen Zhixia was angry and funny. She stretched out her hand and pinched his arm, and said angrily, "Don't mess around in the gym again. Just go back to the bedroom to do whatever you want. If I hadn't given him a hand at the door that time You were standing guard and someone else came over and saw you, let’s see how you two explain to Bao Shan!”

Zhou Buqi said: "A family like ours cannot be viewed in terms of the ethical relationships of ordinary people's families. Wu Zetian is still the concubine of Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, and Concubine Yang is still the daughter-in-law of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty..."

"Are you the emperor?" Wen Zhixia rolled her eyes and snorted, "I don't care anyway, you can play whatever you want, as long as you can deal with Baoshan."

"Don't worry, I haven't played at all."

Zhou Buqi and Wen Zhixia were chatting as an old couple, so it was inconvenient for other girls to come over and eavesdrop.

Over the past few years, I feel that Teacher Wen has changed a lot.

In the beginning, she was also jealous.

It feels very immature.

She's much better now, she's gentle and graceful, and she has the demeanor of a harem master. Last time Zhou Buqi stayed overnight in her room, she took the initiative to call her good sister Wu Yu over to share the fruits together.

Zhou Buqi asked: "Then you want to go out, what do you want to do?"

Wen Zhixia said: "Go to the headquarters of Ziweixing International to open a milk tea shop."

"Milk tea shop? Yuanwei milk tea shop?"

"right."

"this……"

Zhou Buqi twitched the corner of his mouth.

It seems that Teacher Wen has really had no time to take care of her children in the past few years.

Wen Zhixia chuckled and said: "There are quite a few milk tea shops here in the United States, all opened by Chinese. But the threshold is relatively high and the audience is not wide. Ordinary people here in the United States are used to drinking coffee. But the employees of Ziweixing International The threshold is generally high and should be accepted.”

Zhou Buqi said with a smile: "The proprietress of the group is opening a milk tea shop in the park to do a small business. Who dares not to come and patronize the business?"

Wen Zhixia shook his head gently, "I don't need your help. It's boring to do centralized purchasing. I'll do it myself. When I was in college, I did a work-study program and opened a pastry shop in the school."

Zhou Buqi remembered it immediately and said with a smile: "Yes, I later bought that store and opened a milk tea shop."

Seeing that he still remembered, Wen Zhixia pulled her hair around her ears and smiled, "Yeah."

After arriving in Tokyo, Chen Dong came to the airport to pick him up.

This made Zhou Buqi somewhat embarrassed.

Not to mention Wen Zhixia, there are several beauties around her, including Sun Wanran, Guan Nanqing, Mai Feixue, Gu Zanli and Dilireya, each of whom is more beautiful than the other.

Anyone who is not stupid knows what is going on.

Fortunately, Chen Dong is not an outsider.

This is the direct line within the direct line.

Chen Dong also has the kind of personality that repays kindness, and he also has a bit of the ancient tradition of not seeing evil. He arranged a few cars to send all the beauties away.

Zhou Buqi and Wen Zhixia got into Chen Dong's car.

Not very impressive.

Just a local Honda.

After getting in the car, Zhou Buqi asked: "Why don't you get a better car?"

Chen Dong said with a smile: "Do as the Romans do. Driving a Honda will make the employees here feel more comfortable and have a sense of belonging."

Zhou Buqi nodded, "Well, now I find more and more that psychology is the true meaning of our business."

"Yes, the recent sharp rise in Jingtao's stock price is the blind box psychology you admire."

Chen Dong really didn't mean to compliment.

This is originally a product idea that Zhou Buqi has been promoting in the past few years. Don't make deterministic products. Only uncertainty is more exciting and interesting. In fact, it is "pornographic", "gambling" and "poison". "Gamble" among the three elements.

Blind boxes take this uncertainty to the extreme.

Even Shi Jingmei, Wu Yu and Ning Yameng cooperated under this idea and established Chaowan Commune, a company specializing in the production of blind box figures.

Net profit in the first half of the year reached US$420 million.

It is almost 5 times that of Yuanwei Group.

Selling blind boxes is more profitable than selling milk tea.

After Jingtao went public, it launched a long-planned plan - blind box unboxing activity.

Once launched, it became popular all over Japan.