After the plane landed in Casino, 1997, Su Yehao remembered that he hadn't brought gifts for the girls on this trip.

Fortunately, there were gift shops in the airport.

For example, the newly launched Canadian Lapins cherries happened to be a favorite of Nangong Tian's. He bought a Winnie the Pooh doll for his son, and a white baseball cap for Jiang Yu.

Anyway, most of the toys, shoes, and hats of this era were produced in the mainland, and it was difficult to see the difference from the labels.

As for Nong Qingying's gift, he could pick a case of Screaming Eagle red wine from the Napa Valley region of California in his wine cellar when he got home. She always liked to have a few sips when she was tired from work, living a refined and elegant life. Other gifts might not be practical.

Zhao Yimeng hadn't left yet.

In order to avoid being recognized and causing a scandal, she wore sunglasses while choosing gifts at the airport and deliberately kept some distance from Su Yehao.

It wasn't until she got into the Rolls-Royce that this girl sneered and teased:

"I thought you were really so amazing, a chauvinist at home, saying one thing and meaning it. I didn't expect you to live so tiringly, it took you so long just to pick a gift."

"What do you know? If you put a little thought into it, you can maintain harmony and stability at home. This is the most rewarding investment. You can search online for news about me. Apart from some fabricated fake news, have Jiang Yu and the others ever had conflicts? No, that's what's really amazing. Gifts are just a token of affection, just to let them know that even when I'm away, I'm thinking of them."

Su Yehao didn't think this was a shameful thing.

Zhao Yimeng felt that it made sense after listening. It was impossible for her to praise him to his face, so she said instead, "No wonder you can make Jiang Yu so happy. Every time I see her, I can feel the word 'happiness'. You spend all your time on women, but your business is still so big. It's just outrageous."

Shrugging with a smile, Su Yehao said:

"Your Hao-ge will always be your Hao-ge.哄女人 (hǒng nǚrén -哄: to coax/哄骗: to deceive) is similar to doing business, both require talent. You should at least be good at one of these two things."

Hit where it hurt, Zhao Yimeng looked at him with unkind eyes and replied, "I've earned two or three hundred million, at least. How can it become worthless in your mouth?"

"Two or three hundred million... Hong Kong dollars? I've been chasing you, feeding you, and you've only earned so little. I'm ashamed to show my face. It's like putting the exam answers in front of you, but you choose to guess randomly and still fail."

After Su Yehao finished speaking, Miss Zhao was speechless.

It wasn't that she didn't agree, but this was too accurate, and there was no way to refute it.

Back then, after listening to Su Yehao talk about so many projects, even if Zhao Yimeng only grasped one tightly, she shouldn't be in such a "miserable" state now.

Fortunately, her family's Donghuang Group had indeed increased its investment in the real estate market in the north starting at the end of 1999.

Although it didn't learn from Su's father's Sihai International Group, whose head was always hitting the ceiling, borrowing as much as they could from the bank to hoard land worth that much, Donghuang Group had experience in developing high-end projects. The properties developed in Pengcheng and Guangzhou sold very well.

Donghuang Group's performance and profit increase gave shareholders a lot of room for imagination, and with an additional HKD 2 billion in financing, the stock price naturally rose.

Basically, the performance of real estate companies doing business in the north in the past two years has been good. Whether it was the signboard of Casino, 1997 or Hong Kong City, it was still relatively useful in this era.

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After first sending Zhao Yimeng home, Su Yehao went to his own mansion and found that his father and second aunt were not there. He didn't ask the nanny to call his second aunt. He sat in the yard and contacted Yin Liuli, learning that she had just helped a little girl raise money for surgery this morning, which was relatively timely.

Honestly, saving people from the edge of the cliff all day long, Su Yehao was a little worried that Yin Liuli's mental state would be a problem. Helping others would certainly make her happy, but the vast majority couldn't be helped, which would bring her a lot of pressure.

Su Yehao still believed that only by developing the economy could universal health care be achieved, realizing a sustainable and virtuous cycle. Giving money and donations was a temporary solution.

Fortunately, he had the ability to stimulate the mainland economy to a certain extent, such as the ongoing financing of bank shares, which might retain two or three hundred billion RMB in assets.

And the Internet projects in the mainland had already retained hundreds of billions of U.S. dollars.

The current hundreds of billions of U.S. dollars, put in ten years, might be trillions of RMB. Taking BBA as the main body, with a combination of a certain tuan, a certain dong, and a certain qiyi, the principal and interest would be worth five or six trillion RMB, to say the least.

But seeing Yin Liuli working so hard, he still felt a little softhearted. Therefore, he promised on the phone that he would donate 200 million RMB to the Internet crowdfunding project through the family charitable trust fund.

Hearing Su Yehao's words, Yin Liuli asked in surprise, "Really? That's great! I'm worried that the funds are always not turning over. The company itself doesn't make money and can only rely on the love donations of others."

"Well, the number of netizens is still small, and most of them are poor and white young people. They may even be taking their internet fees from their parents' pockets, so they can't be counted on for the time being."

Su Yehao was not the type to dwell on things. He wasn't confused about the future either. After a few seconds of pause, he added:

"I want to transfer you away from the crowdfunding project. It just so happens that our daughter is about to go to kindergarten. You should spend more time with her. Whoever you trust, I will hand over the team to that person to manage. You can rest assured about the next things. If you are really bored, go improve desertification, or plant trees in the middle and upper reaches of the Yangtze River. Strictly speaking, this may concern the fate of all mankind and is also a charitable cause worth investing in."

"...If I go to plant trees, I still have to run around everywhere. Where would I have time to accompany my daughter?"

Yin Liuli was slightly helpless. It wasn't the first time she had heard him talk about changing jobs. It didn't matter before when her daughter was young, but now she should spend more effort.

Su Yehao laughed:

"Did I ask you to plant trees yourself? It's okay to stay in the office to process some documents, or even work from home via email. Don't interfere with environmental pollution. I will hand it over to others to be responsible for. Many things that involve interests will be troublesome and need to be dealt with harshly."

Some troublesome things that Yin Liuli couldn't handle were not a big problem for Su Yehao.

Previously, she felt that the import of foreign garbage should be prohibited and wrote a letter suggesting that it be completely terminated in three years. The higher-ups were discussing and researching it, and the media was also actively responding.

Compared to some people who just talked, Su Yehao was obviously much more practical.

Because he bought one-third of the water turbine generator sets of the Three Gorges Dam, the Luoxi Ferry Hydropower Station was expected to be completed ahead of schedule, and the Baihetan Hydropower Station project was about to be officially launched.

He had already promised in advance that he would continue to purchase their power generation equipment through the Yangtze River Power Generation Group, avoiding a large amount of capital being tied up in the project or being dragged down by high interest rates.

Hydropower, wind power, solar energy, and other clean energy sources would inevitably become the mainstream in the foreseeable future. Su Yehao personally, as well as 5s Asset Management, had selected some projects to invest in.

As for electric cars, Su Yehao had seen two in Silicon Valley yesterday and personally drove them for a few kilometers.

He found that their driving experience was still far from traditional gasoline cars, which made him lose interest in investing. It was more like assembling a bunch of lithium battery packs to create a 老头乐 (lǎotóulè - mobility scooter).

Compared with the mobility scooters of later generations, the only difference was that the hand-made shell looked slightly novel. As a major automobile country, the United States had a lot of great car modifiers.

This made Su Yehao only slightly interested in the talents in those two teams. He had already handed it over to KOKO Ventures to negotiate the acquisition. If they couldn't acquire it outright, starting from scratch seemed okay too…