Even with Director Peng's help saying good things, the others remained skeptical.

There was no helping it.

They had been tricked and deceived too many times, receiving too many empty promises. Over time, they had gradually become immune to others' pie-in-the-sky talk.

Now it was 1999, different from the situation a few years or even a decade ago. Many people had become a little more hesitant when faced with attracting investment.

No matter how flowery the rhetoric, it ultimately depended on how much money was actually brought to the table.

Su Yehao had just invested more than 20 billion Hong Kong dollars in the Kai Tak Digital Port project in Hong Kong, and then immediately rushed to Pengcheng to stake his claim, setting up what seemed like an exaggerated "Thousand Core City" plan. It was inevitable that people would feel apprehensive.

You should know, the Sihai International Cultural Tourism City, next to Pengcheng Bay, had been acquired almost two years ago.

Recently, the shopping mall had just been built and had started decoration. The two office buildings, each more than a hundred meters tall, had only been framed, and large tracts of land remained vacant.

Instead of rushing to continue building, they were busy with landscaping, creating scenery by the lake.

The same went for the Guangzhou Cultural Tourism City, which was slowly leveling the land, constantly planning and constructing, but the progress couldn't keep up.

If you said they had money, the development intensity was clearly insufficient.

But if you said they didn't have money, Sihai International had acquired a large plot of land next to the Guomao in the Fourth-Ninth City.

The news had already made it into the newspapers. The estimated total investment was as high as 6.5 billion RMB, even including a skyscraper planned to exceed 340 meters, plus two office buildings of 290 meters and 260 meters respectively, connected by high-altitude corridors to form a three-tower conjoined structure.

In the eyes of outsiders, it seemed like a lot of thunder but little rain, so it was normal for people to suspect that they were speculating in land.

Thus, during the inspection of the Qianhai land, someone indirectly asked:

"Young Master Su, the urban area and surrounding land haven't been used up yet, and separately approving this new industrial park will inevitably cause trouble. May I ask in advance, what is the approximate amount of initial start-up capital that can be guaranteed? Give us a number, so that we can take the documents for approval, and not feel insecure when arguing with people."

"Haha! Yes, as long as the promised investment amount can be implemented, I will definitely do my best to promote the implementation of this industrial park, even if I have to roll up my bedding and sleep in someone's office!"

After hearing this, Su Yehao instantly guessed something, and told them with a smile:

"Real estate projects need to consider the development cycle and returns. This time, there are more factories involved. Let me guarantee it. No problem."

"A single wafer foundry requires an investment of approximately eight to ten billion US dollars. The assembly and research and development of computers and mobile phones each require an investment of about 500 million RMB. In addition, there's the e-commerce business. In the initial stages, including logistics and promotion, I'm afraid we'll have to invest about 500 million first, plus the land for office buildings and shopping malls, and other miscellaneous expenses. Let's transfer one billion US dollars within the year. This can be written into the contract..."

There is no unprovoked love in the world.

Since he hoped that the local government would help him strive for policy support, Su Yehao naturally had to put their minds at ease first, otherwise, the progress would definitely be delayed if they risked getting nothing in return.

After saying this, he continued:

"As long as the approval for the factory buildings, logistics park, and office buildings is approved, construction will start immediately. I hope that the land price can be more favorable, or the same as the plan I provided to Hong Kong, you can invest in land and jointly establish a company, and then jointly develop the residential part. Considering the economic benefits created by developing a business district, selling commercial land, attracting large companies to settle in, and developing residential properties, the economic benefits created will be at least tens of billions. You definitely won't lose out."

The tone was light, but the weight in other people's ears was not light at all.

Faced with such a large-scale development plan, it was unlikely that Su Yehao would put all the promised funds in place in one step. An initial guarantee of one billion US dollars was already very sincere.

Ten billion US dollars out of his own pocket was more than eighty billion RMB.

With this start-up capital, he could borrow at least another sixty billion from the bank. Adding the two together, there was certainly no problem with the funds for land acquisition and factory construction.

At that time, the income from selling land would be enough to fill in several square kilometers of tideland, and slightly improve the roads, landscaping, and docks. Even if they didn't achieve much, at least they wouldn't lose money on paper.

Thinking of this, the few people who received Su Yehao suddenly became much more enthusiastic.

Then, they talked in depth about the possibility of establishing a joint venture. The land-for-equity joint venture scheme was relatively mature in Hong Kong, and there were actually related cases in Pengcheng.

As early as the 1980s, there were examples of using land as equity or as capital to establish joint ventures with foreign businessmen, injecting new vitality into local economic and social development, but with the current marketization of the real estate market, it would be more troublesome to use land as equity.

If the official set up a city investment company to raise funds and jointly acquire land with Su Yehao, and then develop the residential properties, this plan would be easier to implement.

Anyway, after reaching an agreement on the issues of funding and business settlement, and reaching a certain consensus, other troubles could only be considered minor troubles.

Once the Thousand Core City Industrial Park was approved, there would be plenty of time to talk slowly.

...

Jack Ma had recently recruited some people and, according to Su Yehao's suggestion, established a company called "Tao Bao E-commerce".

In order to launch the website as soon as possible, a group of software and hardware engineers were specially recruited from Silicon Valley and officially entered the development stage. The current progress was about 30%, and they would have to wait another two months or so before the website could be launched for trial operation.

Upon learning that Su Yehao was inspecting Qianhai, Boss Ma drove his newly bought Audi A6 to Qianhai to join in the fun.

After getting out of the car, he took a box of mineral water from the trunk and said with a familiar smile:

"The purified water company invested by our Director Su has just extracted its first barrel of mineral water from the ground a few days ago. It tastes particularly sweet and refreshing! Don't be polite, everyone. Come and take a bottle to try."

Su Yehao was worried about a cold reception.

He had specifically called him earlier to ask him to help set the atmosphere.

So-called specialization in specific fields, Boss Ma's social skills were enough to beat ten Su Yehaos.

Taking the glass-bottled mineral water, which was labeled "Nongfu Spring Special Supply Water", had no production date, no place of origin, and no certification mark, it was simply a product without any information.

The others didn't know Boss Ma, and were a little confused for a while.

Su Yehao twisted open the cap and tasted it, and said with a smile: "It really is a company I invested in, in Qiandao Lake, Lin'an. Is it so extravagant to use glass bottles? The cost must be high. Doesn't a bottle cost eight or ten yuan?"

Boss Ma replied:

"It's a special supply version that money can't buy. Only one hundred bottles were produced in total. I wanted to bring it to Hong Kong for you to try, and specifically asked their boss to customize the bottles, which are more upscale."

Looking at his Audi car, Su Yehao said:

"The water is very good, and the bottles are excellent. Thank you for the trouble. Did you buy this car yourself? I saw it in the news, saying that the Audi A6 started domestic production this year. Is this one of them?"

"The domestically produced ones haven't been released yet. This one is an imported version. It wasn't easy to get a job under you and live a comfortable life. It's my reward to myself, thanking myself for not giving up all these years."

As soon as Boss Ma finished speaking, Su Yehao joked: "It's a pretty good car. Since you bought it yourself, it saved me the money to buy you a company car, saving me another expense."

"?????"

With great doubt in his small eyes, Boss Ma said in surprise:

"Director Su, is it still too late for me to return the car? Cash is also fine. It's not easy for me to earn a little hard-earned money!"

As soon as these words came out, everyone laughed.

As expected of a social butterfly, he instantly gained a batch of goodwill.

Looking at these faces that often appeared in the news, Boss Ma only felt that it was worth it to come today. He quickly distributed his business cards, even to the accompanying secretaries and drivers.

His emotional intelligence was particularly high.

A business card wasn't worth a few cents, but if he neglected someone, wouldn't that be causing trouble for Su Yehao?

When Boss Ma talked about e-commerce, he talked about hundreds of billions, full of confidence in his words, which was much more exciting than Su Yehao's own introduction...