Silicon Valley

After New Oriental received Henry's investment, it immediately caused a huge sensation in China, even the central government was alarmed, and the "News Network" even gave a one-minute report that night, which made Henry extremely stunned.

In 2001, "News Network" was still the most influential and highest-rated program in China, with over 100 million viewers. New Oriental can appear on the show for a minute, which is more effective than spending money on advertisements. Overnight, New Oriental has become a household name! The next day, Xindong Convenience received tens of thousands of consultation calls! Yu Hongmin and a large number of friends were shocked...

The Chinese government thinks this way. Henry Williams, the richest man in the world, came to invest in China, and what he invested in was China's education. How much does this play in China's development? I must express my strong support here! Therefore, not only did the "News Network" vigorously promote and praise New Oriental, but it also opened the door to New Oriental. As for the school land, as long as New Oriental wants it, it can get it at a very favorable price. At the same time, it also expresses to the outside world the attitude of the Chinese government towards foreign investors!

New Oriental has strong financial resources of 12 billion yuan, so it can naturally enclose land in major cities across the country. Build a school with an average cost of 300 million RMB, and plan to build 40 schools across the country.

With the school, the faculty must catch up.

In addition to recruiting people from outside, New Oriental's main method is to train its own students and let them stay in school to teach. Firstly, these students are familiar with New Oriental's teaching mode, and secondly, under the guidance of New Oriental, they are also qualified enough to be teachers. It is always easier and more useful to pay attention to the cultivation and reserve of talents in the company than to recruit people from the outside world! In today's China, the number of teachers is insufficient, and good and bad are mixed. Naturally, it is undoubtedly the best choice to train relevant teachers by yourself!

At this moment, New Oriental is in pain and happiness.

Too many students and too few teachers.

Too much funding and too few schools.

New Oriental had to restrict the enrollment of new students to avoid a decline in the quality of teaching.

One of the purposes of Henry's investment in New Oriental is for Madagascar, but he has not mentioned anything about Madagascar to New Oriental for the time being, so as not to make the outside world suspect that he has plans for Madagascar. The way Henry chose to rule Madagascar was the same as Zhao Kuangyin's being "added in yellow robes" by his subordinates in Chenqiaoyi. They were all "forced"! Henry wants the people of Madagascar to take the initiative to let Henry take over Madagascar. In this way, the international resistance will be minimized, and the United States has nothing to say. Even if it wants to find fault, it has no excuse.

Therefore, before that, Henry can't show any signs of wanting to seize Madagascar! As for how to be "added in a yellow robe", well, Henry has already planned...

Subsequently, Henry prepared to merge the New Oriental Cooking School.

However, if you don't investigate, you don't know. Henry was really surprised by the investigation. It turned out that New Oriental Cooking School is one of the brands under the "Xinhua Group", a large private enterprise in Anhui. Founded in 1988, Xinhua Group owns four vocational education brands: "Xinhua Computer Education", "New Oriental Cooking Education", "Wantong Auto Education" and "Paris Clothing Education".

Therefore, Henry transferred the object of merger from New Oriental Cooking School to Xinhua Group.

It is impossible for Henry to do everything by himself. Henry handed over the merger of New Oriental Group and Xinhua Group to Yu Hongmin. He himself went to Shandong by plane, of course, for the purpose of investing in Lanxiang. In China, Henry has never heard of other excavator schools. It is only because Shandong Lanxiang is too powerful that other excavators School is overshadowed!

Henry once thought about how many excavator talents needed to be developed in a place as big as Madagascar, at least tens of thousands...

Two days later, Henry came to Shandong Lanxiang School.

The person who came to receive Henry was Lanxiang's principal, Rong Lanxiang. Because of New Oriental's "lesson from the past", Rong Lanxiang could easily guess Henry's purpose.

However, it is not difficult to see from his warm reception of Henry that he welcomes Henry to invest in Lanxiang School. Under his leadership, Henry visited Lanxiang School. However, the feeling to Henry was different from the legendary Lanxiang, and he felt a little disappointed. This may be because the current Lanxiang is still small...

Rong Lanxiang introduced Lanxiang's history to Henry while walking.

Before 1988, Lan Xiang was not Lan Xiang and was unknown. This year, the army began to engage in "tertiary industries". Rong Lanxiang seized this opportunity and cooperated with the army to open Lanxiang School. There are many benefits to cooperating with the army. Not only can it provide a factory site, but more importantly, it can also bring in students, all of whom are transferred from the army and need training skills! Since then, Lanxiang Technical School has embarked on the road of "myth" step by step.

After the visit, everyone came to Principal Rong Lanxiang's office. He poured Henry a glass of water and said, "Mr. Williams, I heard that you just invested in New Oriental Group..."

"Yes, China has a population of 1.3 billion. I think China's education industry has great potential for development!"

Henry looked at him, smiled, and said, "Lanxiang Technical School is also good. We all know that China's development can be described as changing with each passing day. All major cities across the country are engaged in development. There are many high-rise buildings, and a lot of excavation is needed. Machine talent!"

"That's right, in recent years, China's development speed is indeed very fast, and the number of students who come to Lanxiang to study is several times more than in previous years!"

"Principal Rong Lanxiang, with all due respect, although Lanxiang has tens of thousands of students, the school is simple and the place for students to practice excavators is too small, which completely limits the development of Lanxiang Technical School. So..." Henry paused Dun, asked with a smile, "I wonder if your school needs investment?"

Rong Lanxiang nodded and said: "Mr. Williams is willing to invest, of course I welcome it!"

"Principal Rong Lanxiang can agree. I am very happy. As far as I know, Lan Xiang's legal person is the army, and you are just the administrator of the school! If Lan Xiang wants to accept investment, I am afraid that he must first obtain the consent of the army!"

When Rong Lanxiang heard this, he laughed, "Mr. Williams, you are right. But since 1997, **** has restricted troops from engaging in tertiary industries, so in 2000 , I bought 50 acres of land at the foot of the Yaoshan Mountain in Jinan, built a new campus, and prepared to go it alone and decouple Lanxiang Technical School from the army!!!”

This is good!

Henry also doesn't want to deal with the military, trouble!

Rong Lanxiang continued: "If you can get your investment, not only can the construction of the new campus be accelerated, but also the area of ​​the campus can be expanded, and the entire Lanxiang Technical School can be moved there very quickly!"

"Well, I can invest in you now!" Henry thought for a while and said, "Is 1 billion RMB enough?!"

"Enough is enough!" Rong Lanxiang nodded again and again, thinking to himself, he deserves to be the richest man in the world.

"Mr. Williams, how many shares do you plan to own?"

"60% is not much!" Henry laughed.

"Not much, not much!" Rong Lanxiang agreed without even thinking about it. With the 1 billion yuan of development funds, he can buy land, expand the campus, and recruit more students. Food, clothing, housing, transportation, entertainment consumption, etc., Lanxiang Technical School can participate in it, and it will make a lot of money!

"Then I'll ask the lawyer to draw up the contract and sign it tomorrow!" Henry said.

"Ok, no problem……"

So, on the second day, Henry completed the investment plan for Lanxiang. At the same time, Yu Hongmin has already contacted the Xinhua Group. Of course, the result of their negotiations is not as fast as Henry's. How much are the assets of the two sides? After the merger, how many shares will each hold? In short, it is a lot of troublesome things Usually, such large-scale mergers and acquisitions will ask professional investment banks or financial consulting service agencies to help, such as Goldman Sachs Bank, Citibank, Blackstone Investment Asset Management Company, etc. Henry recommended Blackstone to Yu Hongmin, because Blackstone Group is also Henry's estate.

After finally coming to Jinan, Shandong, Henry naturally wants to travel here. Jinan is also known as "Spring City", because "every family springs, every household weeps willows", there is the famous 5A-level scenic spot of the first spring in the world, including Baotu Spring, Daming Lake, Heihu Spring, Pearl Spring, Baishi Spring and other seven springs. Twelve springs are named after the scenery in the south of the Yangtze River. Of course, the most famous one is Daming Lake. Right now, the trilogy of "Han Zhu Ge Ge" is being rebroadcasted, and the ratings are still extremely high!

Just one sentence, "Do you still remember Xia Yuhe by the Daming Lake?" has attracted countless tourists.

The scenery of Daming Lake is beautiful and beautiful, with kites flying and fish jumping on the lake, ponds full of lotus flowers, painting boats passing through, willows and willows on the shore are full of shade, flowers are blooming like brocades, and tourists are like weaving. Blending into one color, it is like a huge color scroll. Henry was in it, and he felt like he was in a fairyland. At this moment, Henry couldn't help but think of Zhao Wei, Fan Bingbing, and Lin Xinru. They will all be big stars in the future, so it's better to sign them to his company as soon as possible.

If the "Three Sisters Returning the Pearl" were all their own... Uh, artists, how would it feel like? !

Since Henry invested in the establishment of Hengdian, he has laid out the IMDB Plaza in China early in the model of Wanda Plaza, and established IMDB China Cinema, IMDB China TV Drama Business Company, IMDB China Film Investment Company and IMDB China Brokerage Company. Under Henry's sheep-herding management, these companies have developed impressively. Some popular TV dramas and movies in China, and IMDB have participated in the investment. For example, the TV series "Deep Love and Rain" that is currently on the air in 2001 will definitely be the top ratings TV series. Hidden Dragon was invested by IMDB China Film Investment Company, and the Lunar New Year blockbuster planned to be released at the end of 2001 - "Big Wrist" directed by Feng Xiaogang also had IMDB China Film Investment Company participated in the investment.

It is a pity for Henry that although the IMDB agency signed many actors, Zhao Wei, Fan Bingbing and Lin Xinru did not.

Zhao Wei did not join a brokerage firm, but she has an independent broker—her sister-in-law Chen Rong.

Ruby Lin signed a contract with Zhongjie Cultural Communication Company to become an artist under it. The strength of this company does not seem to be very good, and it is not well-known.

Although Fan Bingbing is the least popular among the three, in 2000 he chose to sign in Huayi Brokerage Company, which is one of the best in China.

The importance of the agent or agent company to an artist is self-evident. In the following years, Zhao Wei was stable and full of ups and downs, but Ruby Lin's stardom gradually declined, but she was the "Golden Lock" who had few roles in the past. Fan Bingbing is in full swing in the future. It is not difficult to see that choosing the right agent is very important!

The next day, Henry set off for Shenzhen, not intending to intervene in the merger between New Oriental Group and Xinhua Group. Henry intends to train Yu Hongmin so that he can be independent in the future and help him manage the company!

Henry called the IMDB China Brokerage Company on his private plane and asked them to recruit Zhao Wei, Fan Bingbing and Lin Xinru as much as possible. If the other company can't let them go, it doesn't matter even if they breach the contract. It's just a big deal to pay compensation!

The headquarters of ICQ China Branch is located in Shenzhen, which is the first place Henry went to after arriving in Shenzhen.

Here, Henry met Ma Huateng face-to-face for the first time. He was good-looking, tall, and wearing a pair of glasses. He looked a bit young. However, he was far from the demeanor of a big boss in his previous life. He was very excited to see Henry at this moment, like a pilgrim seeing Allah.

"Ma Huateng, hello, nice to meet you!"

"Mr. Williams, hello, nice to meet you!"

Henry patted Ma Huateng on the shoulder and said, "How is it? Are you doing well in ICQ?"

"Very good! After I joined the company, I just realized that I was a frog at the bottom of a well. I didn't expect ICQ to have so many researches in high-tech fields, especially in artificial intelligence. The research is so deep that no company in the world can do it. It is comparable to the artificial intelligence siri program!!!" Ma Huateng said with great emotion.

"Hehe, it's okay, Google is also developing artificial intelligence, and its strength is also very strong, so it should not be underestimated!"

"Google company? Isearch's parent company?" Ma Huateng took a deep breath and thought to himself, if Google enters the artificial intelligence program, with Google's strength, it will undoubtedly be a strong enemy of ICQ.

"Yes!" Henry nodded and smiled faintly.

At this time, Henry and his party had already arrived inside the company.

"Mr. Williams, you must have something to do with your visit to ICQ this time?" Ma Huateng asked.

"Yes, that's right." Henry paused and said, "Shanghai Shanda Network Development Co., Ltd., have you heard of it?"

"Shanda? Isn't that Chen Tianqiao's company?" Ma Huateng asked suspiciously, "Mr. Williams, I heard that Chen Tianqiao spent all his assets to represent a game in Korea, which seems to be called "Legend"... Could it be?" Are you interested in this game? However, as far as I know, this game is not popular in Korea..."

Henry showed a mysterious smile: "You are right, but maybe you will achieve unprecedented success in China!"

(Update at 11:30 p.m.)

(to be continued ~^~)