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In the next few days, Zhou Buqi stayed in New York.

First, he paid attention to Changyou's business. Recently, Nasdaq sent a letter saying that Changyou's board of directors lacked independence and hoped to reorganize it at a later date to ensure the interests of small and medium shareholders. Now Changyou's stock price has been growing rapidly, which can cover up many problems. Once the growth of stock prices stagnates in the future, the existing board structure will be easily criticized, and more independent directors need to be introduced to supervise. The official suggestion is to introduce at least four independent directors, at least three of whom should be foreigners.

The second thing is to help several domestic companies listed in the United States as an intermediary to match them up and introduce some large capital institutions on Wall Street to them.

The third thing is to meet Pan Shiyi and his wife, who just spent 27 million US dollars to buy an Italian-style townhouse in New York.

Zhou Buqi and Lao Pan are old acquaintances.

Lao Pan is Lao Zhang's good friend. After meeting more and more for a long time, they naturally become familiar with each other.

It's just that Lao Pan is a henpecked husband. Even the company is ruled by his wife, which makes it difficult for Lao Pan to be as carefree and happy as Zhou Buqi and Lao Zhang. Many times when he goes to KTV to sing, his wife always accompanies him. He has no chance to be carefree and happy.

Many of the top Weibo influencers are top entrepreneurs, and Lao Pan is one of them.

However, unlike Liu Qiangdong and Li Guoqing, Lao Pan's Weibo focuses on social topics and is listed as a "public intellectual". In particular, as the initiator, he has attracted the attention of the whole nation to smog, constantly provoking and questioning official statements. With his influence as a well-known entrepreneur and top influencer, he quickly made this topic known to everyone and even became an international event.

Then he encountered many restrictions at the business level.

Lao Pan realized the crisis and began to prepare to run away. Last year, he spent $700 million to buy 40% of the ownership of the General Building, one of Manhattan's landmark buildings. Recently, he spent a huge amount of money to buy a family mansion. This means he plans to settle down in the United States.

SOHO is the leading real estate giant in China and one of the earliest large companies engaged in commercial real estate. But now the times have changed. While other real estate developers are excitedly borrowing and leveraging to acquire land, Lao Pan is already selling assets to repay debts and is ready to stop.

Zhou Buqi brought Baoshan and picked two French oil paintings from the Salon period that were not too large in scale from his home in New York as souvenirs and visited him.

Lao Pan and his wife didn't know much about oil paintings. When they heard that they were French oil paintings from more than 200 years ago, they thought they were worth tens of millions of dollars and didn't dare to accept them.

Xue Baoshan was embarrassed to fool people, so she said very honestly that there were too many such oil paintings in existence and they were not worth much.

The market value of these two paintings may be only 300,000 US dollars.

This made everyone happy.

Going to the house as a guest, first of all, everyone is friends, and they can build relationships. In addition, there are also business considerations.

Old Pan is going to sell his property. SOHO buildings in various places can be said to be the best office buildings in China, especially in places like the capital and Shanghai. The locations are excellent. When the land was acquired ten years ago, no real estate developer was able to compete with SOHO.

Ziweixing is interested in selecting a location in Shanghai to prepare for the headquarters of "WeChat Finance".

This business is not only WeChat Finance, but also the Internet financial business of the entire Ziweixing. Since it is a financial business, it must be high-end and stylish, and it must have a certain landmark nature in terms of location. It is better to choose a SOHO building with a good location and buy it.

This is of course a suggestion that both parties need and both parties are willing.

Mrs. Pan smiled and said, "If you want to buy it, the price will definitely be cost-effective!"

Zhou Buqi smiled, "The price is easy to talk about, the most important thing is to be fast, the company is preparing to use it. The current Internet financial business is developing very fast. When I confirm the news from Qualcomm, I will return to China and implement this matter at that time?"

"Okay, it won't delay your big thing!"

Mrs. Pan acted decisively.

Lao Pan was laughing. It was not his turn to make decisions on such a big matter. He just paid attention to some minor details and said strangely: "I also saw the news. It seems that you have some disagreements with Qualcomm?"

Zhou Buqi nodded, "Yes, Qualcomm sells chips, but it has been using its monopoly position to play some forced bundling sales strategies, which has caused great damage to the development of the mobile phone industry. Now half of the global mobile phone industry is in China. From the perspective of national interests, I will not allow Qualcomm to continue like this."

"Oh! This is a big deal!" Lao Pan slapped his thigh with an exaggerated expression, "You have feelings!"

Zhou Buqi smiled, "It should be done."

Lao Pan was a little silent, hesitant, and hesitant, "That...you...are you...afraid..."

Zhou Buqi asked: "What's wrong?"

Lao Pan said in a joking tone: "By the way, I also sold apples, did you know?"

"Apples?" Zhou Buqi vaguely remembered something, "You gave me apples before."

Lao Pan said with a smile: "Yes, those apples!"

"Why haven't you given them in recent years?"

"I have entrusted it to a fruit buyer and distributor. I will not participate."

"Business is bad?"

"What kind of business? It's my hometown." Old Pan smiled and looked happy as if he had won the lottery. His expression was exaggerated. "I am rich now, so I want to set an example to help my old family get rich. I will let them grow apples and then I will help them sell them."

Zhou Buqi smiled and said, "This is a good thing!"

Old Pan said, "Yes, it was good at the beginning. Gradually, there were apple orchards everywhere in the village, and apple trees were everywhere. Later, when I went home one time, I found that most of my family's ancestral graves had been flattened, and they planted apple trees, and then asked me to help them sell the apples."

"Haha!"

Zhou Buqi also laughed.

"Haha!"

Old Pan seemed to laugh even more exaggeratedly.

...

Just as Zhou Buqi guessed.

As expected, there would be no result from Qualcomm. Out of courtesy, the CEO of the other party called Zhou Buqi to apologize, saying that seven days was too tight and it was impossible to promote such a big thing.

I hope he can be given three months.

This is simply wishful thinking.

Zhou Buqi was ready to return to China and explain the Tesla Super Factory and Qualcomm's patent monopoly to the authorities.

Qualcomm is very tricky. Europe and the United States have been fighting against them for ten years and still can't do anything about them.

Since it is a hard bone to chew, Zhou Buqi doesn't mind setting an example and then setting an example for antitrust agencies around the world!

However, before leaving, Zhou Shaoning suddenly called and asked him to stay in New York and not move.

"What's the matter?"

"BlackBerry just changed its CEO."

"Ah?"

Zhou Buqi was a little touched.

It can be felt that the changes in the mobile phone industry are really big. Qualcomm just changed its CEO, and then BlackBerry also changed its new CEO.

Zhou Shaoning said, "He is a Chinese."

"Oh?"

Zhou Buqi was quite curious.

Zhou Shaoning said, "The first thing he did after taking office was to visit you."