Su Yehao knew a lot about projects and never lacked ideas for making money.

Besides, Amazon was a pretty big company. Even if the Qiao family really invested one or two hundred million Hong Kong dollars, it wouldn't affect Su Yehao himself.

After shorting the market and buying at the bottom last October, he had used a large sum of money to invest in Yahoo and Amazon, and currently still held approximately seventy million Hong Kong dollars worth of Amazon stock.

If the Qiao family funded the purchase and held a batch of circulating shares for the long term, it would actually be a bit beneficial to Su Yehao and might slightly increase Amazon's stock price.

In 1998, the online shopping market was just getting started.

Amazon relied on hyping concepts and barely managed to attract the attention of a few investors. Coinciding with the increasingly popular internet industry, its performance on the Nasdaq market was indeed not bad.

Anyway...

As long as the young master of the Qiao family didn't touch his pie, Su Yehao would be happy to do him a favor and take him to play with investments, after all, the two families had a good relationship.

The market was too big to monopolize.

Taking the Qiao family to invest in Amazon meant earning money from others, but if they were to compete in the instant messaging market, it would be taking a bite out of his pie.

Su Yehao wasn't afraid of competition, but if he could develop steadily for another year or two, the situation would be more favorable to him.

To persuade Uncle Qiao, he started his brain at this moment, inconspicuously led Uncle Qiao to the living room, and pretended to sigh and said:

"Actually, last year when your son Qiao Yaohuo went to my dad's office to talk about cooperation, I was also there. At that time, I felt that the pager was an outdated technology and advised him a few times, but he didn't listen to me, his temper...is a bit stubborn."

"Yes, he's more stubborn than an ox. He wants to do everything, but he can't do anything well. It's killing me. How can I feel relieved to hand the business over to him?"

Uncle Qiao picked up a cigar, taking it directly from the coffee table, just like he was at home.

The relationship was good, and he didn't treat himself as an outsider at all. He continued to say to Su Yehao, "It's also my fault. There's only one son in the family, and I spoiled him since he was a child. When he was a child, his academic performance was good, and everyone praised my son for being smart. Over time, he became arrogant. Good academic performance is right, but doing business is another matter. If he could have half your ability, I would die laughing!"

"Well... investing with me at that time, with a capital of two or three hundred million Hong Kong dollars, it should have at least doubled by now."

Su Yehao reminded him quietly.

Seemingly for Uncle Qiao's sake, he actually didn't care how Qiao Yaohuo was doing, having only met him once.

If he hadn't seen that the other party was planning to stretch his claws into his bowl, he wouldn't have been interested in talking about this at all.

Continuing to probe, Su Yehao asked again:

"Uncle Qiao, how does he plan to develop this time, to do business in the United States? I also have a company in Silicon Valley, and one person's annual salary is hundreds of thousands of Hong Kong dollars. The competition is too great and it's very unstable. Actually... compared to starting your own business, directly investing in other companies is the safest. On the one hand, they are already relatively mature, and on the other hand, they have existing management teams. Since they can do it, it means there is market prospects, don't you think?"

Uncle Qiao didn't know anything about the internet business. After listening, he only felt that it made sense, nodded thoughtfully, not realizing that he was being tricked by the younger generation, and replied:

"Yes, I've already gone to the United States to recruit people. Now I'm getting flustered when I hear my son talking about starting a business. Since you have experience, that's great. It's good to find some time to teach him..."

Learning that Qiao Yaohuo was likely to focus his development in the United States, Su Yehao breathed a slight sigh of relief.

Thinking about it, it made sense.

There were only so many computers in the north, and the number of netizens was only a few hundred thousand. Any entrepreneur with a bit of ambition would generally aim at the American market first.

He couldn't figure out the specific situation for the time being. Uncle Qiao only knew a rough idea.

Therefore, Su Yehao agreed to meet Qiao Yaohuo when he had time, and got the other party's number from Uncle Qiao.

When he drove away from the Su family mansion at more than nine o'clock in the evening, Su Yehao thought that it was not realistic to eliminate all the signs of competition. He still had to rely on his own strength. As long as he developed his company and products well, why would he have to worry about market competition?

Thinking this way, he didn't feel any danger.

Taking a step back, even if all the entrepreneurial projects at hand were to fail, wouldn't there still be venture capital and private equity investment projects, as well as stock speculation, to support him? He could still profit from the development of the internet, and it might not be less than earning it himself.

...

On the way, he said Happy New Year to Nangong Tian, ​​and then called Nong Qingying, and arranged to accompany her to go shopping in Hong Kong tomorrow afternoon.

After dealing with personal matters, he went upstairs, carrying a bag, and came to the apartment he bought for Yin Liuli.

Yin Liuli thought Su Yehao had bought something. After taking the bag and looking at it, she said in surprise: "Why are they all red envelopes and money? Where did they come from?"

"New Year's money and the extra money from watching others play cards. A group of uncles, aunts, relatives, and elders are always embarrassed to come empty-handed when they see me. Help me count them later, how much is there in total."

After Su Yehao finished speaking, he thought of something, took out the pendant engraved with the Diamond Sutra from his pocket, and added, "And this, it's too heavy to hang around, or should I melt it down and make you a bracelet?"

"Why melt down something so good, the labor cost is very expensive."

Yin Liuli poured the money in the bag on the sofa, already sitting cross-legged, counting carefully.

She counts money in the store all day long, but she rarely sees such a large sum of money. The denominations are different, with Hong Kong dollars and US dollars, and there are also many local currencies.

Sorting and counting them, her expression was very serious.

Su Yehao shook his head with a smile, so he went to fill the tub first, ready to take a bath together.

They usually live apart more than they live together, and Yin Liuli's personality is especially pleasing, so the feeling of freshness is always there, and it's like they're really dating.

More than ten minutes later.

Su Yehao had just started taking a bath when she came over, opened the door and poked her head in and smiled: "I've finished counting, a total of ten thousand US dollars, one hundred and twenty thousand Hong Kong dollars, and two hundred and eight thousand patacas."

Locals are used to calling the currency patacas, but it is actually different from the official Pataca.

Su Yehao, who didn't care about this windfall, lay comfortably, beckoning and telling her: "Come in and wash together, is the money here enough for you? I'll give it to you as New Year's money, usually keep it for buying things? The ten thousand US dollars is the New Year's money my dad gave me. He's about to make a lot of money recently, so you don't have to save him money."

"What do you mean by making a lot of money?"

Like an old married couple, Yin Liuli began to unbutton her clothes. She used to be embarrassed, but now she was used to it.

"In the past, the mainland provided free housing for employees. There is news that it may be completely cancelled this year. In the future, if you want to buy or change houses, you have to spend money to buy them. It was just a pilot project before, but this time the movement is very big. When it is completely cancelled, the spring of the real estate industry is coming, and the land my dad bought will definitely appreciate in value."

After listening to Su Yehao, Yin Liuli smiled and replied:

"That's great, but take the money away, I don't need it. It sounds strange to take New Year's money from someone. The money earned by the restaurant this year is still with me. I've always wanted to ask you what to do with it, a total of more than one million and two hundred thousand patacas..."