Chapter 1 Casino, 1997

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

Luckily, there were gift shops in the airport.

For example, the Canadian Lapins cherries, which had just started to be sold, happened to be Nangong Tian's favorite fruit. 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 in this era were made in the mainland, and it was difficult to see the difference from the labels.

As for Nong Qingying's gift, he could just pick a case of Screaming Eagle red wine from the Napa Valley region of California in the 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.

To prevent being recognized and causing a scandal, she wore sunglasses and deliberately kept a distance from Su Yehao while he was choosing gifts at the airport.

But when she got into the Rolls-Royce, she chuckled and teased, "I thought you were really that powerful, a domineering man at home, always having the last word. I didn't expect you to live such a tiring life, spending so long just picking out a gift."

"What do you know? Spending a little time and effort can maintain harmony and stability at home, which 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 impressive. Gifts are just a small token of affection, just to let them know that even when I'm away, I'm still thinking about them."

Su Yehao didn't think this was embarrassing at all.

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

Shrugging his shoulders with a smile, Su Yehao said: "Your Hao-ge will always be your Hao-ge.哄女人(hong nv ren,哄 means to coax or humour, implying to please a woman) is similar to doing business, both require talent. You should at least be good at one of these two."

Being hit where it hurt, Zhao Yimeng glared at him and replied, "I've earned two or three hundred million, at least. How did it become worthless in your mouth?"

"Two or three hundred million... Hong Kong dollars? I practically spoon-fed you, and you only earned this much. I'm embarrassed to even tell people. It's like having the answer key in front of you, but you choose to guess randomly and still fail the exam."

After Su Yehao finished speaking, Miss Zhao fell silent.

It wasn't that she was unconvinced, 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 had only grasped one of them, she shouldn't be in such a "miserable" state now.

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

Although it wasn't like Su's father's Sihai International Group, which always had its head in the clouds, hoarding land worth as much as it could get in credit from the bank, Donghuang Group had experience in developing high-end projects. The properties it developed in Pengcheng and Guangzhou sold very well.

The increase in Donghuang Group's performance and profits gave shareholders a lot of room for imagination. Coupled with the issuance of 2 billion Hong Kong dollars in financing, it had plenty of funds on hand, and the stock price naturally rose.

Any real estate company that went north to do business had generally performed well in the past two years. Whether it was the Casino, 1997 or Hong Kong brand, it was still relatively useful in this era.

...

After dropping Zhao Yimeng off at home, Su Yehao went to his own mansion and found that his father and Second Madam were not there.

He didn't ask the nanny to call Second Madam. He sat in the courtyard and contacted Yin Liuli, learning that she had just helped a young girl raise money for surgery this morning, which was quite timely.

Honestly, Su Yehao was a little worried about Yin Liuli's mental state, saving people from the edge of a cliff all day long. It was certainly happy to help others, but most of them 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 insurance be achieved, realizing a sustainable virtuous cycle, and that giving money and donations was a temporary solution.

It just so happened that he had the ability to stimulate the mainland economy to a certain extent, such as the ongoing financing of bank stocks, which might retain two or three trillion RMB in assets.

And the internet projects in the mainland had already retained tens of billions of dollars.

The current tens of billions of dollars might become trillions of RMB in ten years, equivalent to a BBA-based entity, combined with a certain Tuan, a certain Dong, a certain Qiyi, etc., worth at least five or six trillion RMB, including principal and interest.

However, seeing Yin Liuli working so hard, he still felt a little soft-hearted, so 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 have been tied up. The company itself doesn't make money and can only rely on the love donations of others."

"Well, there are still few netizens, and most of them are poor young people who may even be taking their internet fees from their parents' pockets. We can't count on them for the time being."

Su Yehao was indeed not the kind of person who liked to dwell on things, and he wasn't confused about the future. 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, and you should spend more time with her. Whoever you trust, I will hand the team over to them to manage. You can rest assured about the next things. If you're really bored, go improve desertification, or plant trees in the middle and upper reaches of the Yangtze River. Strictly speaking, this may be a matter of the fate of all mankind, and it is also a charitable cause worth investing in."

"...If I go to plant trees, I still have to run around everywhere. Where will I find the time to be with my daughter?"

Yin Liuli was a little helpless. It wasn't the first time she had heard him talk about changing jobs. It didn't matter when her daughter was young, but now she should indeed put more thought into it.

Su Yehao smiled and said:

"Did I ask you to plant trees yourself? It's no problem to stay in the office to process some documents, or to work from home directly via email. Don't interfere with environmental pollution and the like. I will hand it over to others to be responsible for. Many things involve interests and will be troublesome, requiring a heavy hand to deal with them."

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

Previously, she felt that the import of foreign garbage should be banned, and wrote a letter suggesting that it be completely terminated in three years. The above was discussing and studying it, and the media was also actively responding.

Compared to some people who just talk the talk, Su Yehao was obviously much more pragmatic.

Since he bought one-third of the water turbine generators of the Three Gorges Dam, the construction of the Luoxi Du 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 Power Generation Group to avoid a large amount of funds being tied up in the project, or being dragged down by high interest rates.

Hydropower, wind power, solar power, and other clean energy sources will 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 of them in Silicon Valley yesterday and drove them for a few kilometers himself.

He found that their driving experience was still far from traditional gasoline cars, and he couldn't raise any interest in investing in them. It was more like assembling a bunch of lithium batteries and piecing together an old man's joyride.

Compared with the old man's joyrides of later generations, the only difference was that the hand-made shell looked slightly novel. As a major automobile country, the United States has a lot of powerful car modifiers.

This made Su Yehao only slightly interested in the talents of the two teams and had already asked Koko Venture Capital to negotiate the acquisition. If a full acquisition was not possible, starting a new business seemed to be no problem...