Global Monopoly of Technology

After talking with Yao Jianhong for about half an hour, he left Luo Sheng to deal with some things, looked at the company's operating expenses, and immediately called Qin Weimu.

"What's up?"

Qin Weimu asked neatly as soon as he came in.

"money!"

Luo Sheng looked at him and said, "I have read the materials you sent me. There are more than one billion funds left in the company's accounts. Now the money is used in all aspects, and the remaining working capital can last for half a month at most. ."

Qin Weimu stood in front of him gracefully, with delicate hands naturally wrapped around him, "As for the issue of funds, I have already contacted many banks a week ago. Based on the current development speed of the company, I am going to formulate a With a debt of 17.8 billion yuan, I plan to reach a preliminary consensus with the bank first, and then come back to you for approval."

Luo Sheng smiled and said, "I know my heart well, I'm very relieved."

Qin Weimu glanced at him angrily, but quickly ignored it, and continued with the previous words: "The bank is very keen on lending."

Hearing that, Luo Sheng smiled and didn't speak. Of course, if the previous loan was largely indirectly endorsed by Wah, then this time, Luo Sheng's title of the richest man in the country and the richest man in China is the biggest guarantee. , as long as you express your intention to borrow money, you will definitely not worry about not being able to borrow money.

But just when he thought so, Qin Weimu, who had changed the conversation, poured a basin of cold water on him.

"But banks almost all have the same condition, that the loan can only be used for domestic related investments."

"What?" Luo Sheng was stunned for a while, and then he said helplessly: "I can only invest in China? Is there such a big market in China at present? "

Qin Weimu said calmly: "The reasons are a little complicated, one is that the amount of borrowing is too high, and the other is that although the country's foreign exchange has more than 800 billion, it can actually be used very little, and the country needs a lot of foreign exchange to import internationally. Purchasing various commodity resources to meet the needs of national development, so there is not much remittance that can easily be exchanged for billions of dollars.”

Luo Sheng sighed helplessly. He thought of Bluestar Technology Group, but the company's current development has no additional cash flow. If it does not engage in cloud computing services, it must be rich in funds, but this cannot be left behind, and its market share will be later. may not be able to take the lead.

At present, Bluestar Technology has just IPOed, and it is impossible to issue bonds externally.

Otherwise, after some capital operation, Azure Coast Company can borrow from Bluestar Technology Group. After all, more than 70% of this company's income comes from overseas, and to put it bluntly, it earns US dollars.

Transactions can be done offshore.

Bluestar Technology Group is a non-financial institution. If you borrow money, you can add other receivables/other payables in the transaction.

However, Bluestar Technology didn't have any spare money, because Luo Sheng's private offshore trust fund had a large account to solve this problem because of its own development.

However, this money cannot be moved. This money is to harvest the funds for a wave of credit defaults in the subprime mortgage crisis in the future. We cannot choose sesame seeds and lose watermelons. In the future, we will burn a lot of money for technology and require a lot of primitive accumulation. It's not created out of thin air, it takes a lot of money to burn it out.

"In this way, you can borrow about 3 billion from a domestic bank, and the company's current domestic development should be enough." Luo Sheng thought for a while, then added: "As for overseas development, look to Wall Street and borrow 2 billion in my own name. Dollars, the Côte d'Azur will borrow it from me."

If you don't earn money, there is nothing to say.

That's how it was settled.

There is no doubt that Luo Sheng is now at the peak of his career, and his assets have begun to diversify. It is not really a problem for him to raise money. This way is dead, and there are more ways.

So when the news of Luo Sheng's willingness to issue a large amount of bonds to Wall Street came out, old friends called him directly to his private number.

Goldman Sachs' investment bank, J.P. Morgan and other banks or investment banks are very eager to provide relevant financial services to Luo Sheng. There are not many high-quality large customers with low risk and high returns in the world, and they must be scrambling to win. object.

They didn't care what Luo Sheng wanted to borrow money for. They only cared about two things. The first was the amount of the loan, and the second was the ability to repay the debt.

This time Luo Sheng wants to borrow 2 billion US dollars, which is definitely a huge sum of money. As for the debt repayment ability, no financial institution will doubt that he will not pay the debt. It is also more than rubbing.

Meng Qiu, the head of Goldman Sachs in Greater China, came to Sioux City to visit Luo Sheng in person. Naturally, he came to talk about this loan business. Goldman Sachs Group may have a bad reputation, and even in the eyes of some Southeast Asian countries and the general public, it is A notorious multinational financial giant group.

But it doesn't change the fact that he is a successful business giant. He has the strength, the arm, and the means, and he can easily play both overtly and covertly. Therefore, Goldman Sachs is now the largest financial group on Wall Street, and the current momentum puts Morgan. All pressed.

In addition, Goldman Sachs Group also favors Internet companies investing in Huaguo. Many successful Internet companies have Goldman Sachs Capital, and they have been high-profile since investing in Bluestar Technology.

This time, Mengqiu was sent over in person and the business was successfully completed. Luo Sheng decided to borrow $900 million from Goldman Sachs Capital. Another $1.1 billion went to Deutsche Bank, Credit Suisse, J.P. Morgan and Bank of America.

This is also a way to indirectly share benefits. With the bond of interest, many things can be rolled out more smoothly.

With this money, Côte d'Azur companies were able to quickly expand their markets overseas.

In fact, to a certain extent, cooperation with overseas financial groups can make it easier to open up the local market. The reason is very simple. Whoever has the money should worry about it, and the money is still invested locally.

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April.

North America, Armonk, IBM headquarters.

"God! Are you sure you're not kidding? Your company wants to buy 2 million servers?"

At this moment, the current CEO of IBM, Samuel Palmisano, wearing a pair of glasses, looked at a Chinese man in front of him in a dazed circle. This person is Zhang Bowen, the number two person of Bluestar Technology Group.

"Of course, Samuel is realistic, didn't I come all the way to tease you?" Zhang Bowen answered him affirmatively.

"Does your company want to build a large-scale data center?" After confirming that it was right, Samuel Palmisano became enthusiastic. 2 million server orders, a super large order worth 3 billion US dollars, if this The contract was negotiated, possibly the largest single deal in IBM's history.

"Yes, we plan to build 12 large data centers around the world this year to next year to expand the company's cloud computing service business." Zhang Bowen said with a smile, and did not hide anything, because he just said what to do, but how to do it , why do, these are commercial secrets, impossible to disclose.

"Cloud Computing (cloud computing)?" Samuel Palmisano looked suspiciously at the other party, he heard this phrase for the first time.

"This is a new concept proposed by the founder of our company, Mr. Luo, at an internal meeting. In fact, it is just a further description of the 'network is a computer' proposed by Sun." Zhang Bowen said with a smile, and then briefly introduced some to him. Innocent concept.

"I see."

Samuel Palmisano was stunned, and he couldn't help but say: "To be honest, in February this year, Amazon also purchased IBM's servers to build a data center, but it's not as exaggerated as you are, Amazon only bought a few. We have been negotiating with us for more than half a year for an order worth US$100 million. So, your company is also going to launch an elastic computing cloud service similar to Amazon?"

"No! No! There is still a difference." Zhang Bowen explained: "We need IBM to build the required servers according to our requirements."

"This..." Samuel Palmisano looked hesitant, as this would definitely increase additional research and development costs, and the customer was still in a hurry, so he would have to further increase investment.

Obviously, IBM wants to directly sell the same server that Amazon bought, very simple, so the profit is more profitable.

However, if Bluestar Technology Group insists on a "special supply version", Samuel Palmisano will also agree. After all, the super large order of 3 billion US dollars is specially used for the cloud computing server of Bluestar Technology. Totally fine.

It's just that any company wants to maximize profits.

Seeing his hesitant look, Zhang Bowen said slowly: "If IBM can't meet our requirements, then we can only talk to Intel."

"NONONO! NO--!" Samuel Palmisano said in a hurry after hearing this: "Go to his dog-raised Intel, I don't want to hear this ranking at this moment, we agreed."

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