Chapter 1038 Rice Wine

Three days passed in the blink of an eye.

Maotai Town was just a small town surrounded by mountains. Zhao Yimeng, used to living in big cities, found the local customs and culture quite interesting. She tagged along for free food and drinks, even changed into local traditional clothes, and visited all the surrounding scenic spots.

Su Yehao wasn't as relaxed as she was.

He had contacted the senior executives of the Maotai Distillery multiple times, conducting a detailed statistical analysis of equity, debts, assets, and so on. Even the base liquor stored in cellars was assessed for its value.

The professionals under him, referencing other large domestic distilleries, crafted a simple development strategy plan for Maotai Distillery.

From quality management in wine making, fermentation, liquor blending, and packaging production, to supply chain management including warehousing logistics, store sales, and consumer purchases, everything was taken into consideration and sorted through. Finally, based on profit and growth rate, they valued Maotai Distillery at six billion RMB.

Considering that Wuliangye's current profit was three to four times that of Maotai, yet its market value was only around fourteen billion RMB.

The vast majority of Maotai Distillery's management, from top to bottom, had no objection to this valuation and were instead quite pleasantly surprised.

They probably hadn't expected that with a net profit of just over one hundred million last year, the valuation could actually be so high.

It was a very simple math problem. After all, even if they deposited six billion RMB into a bank to earn interest, they could earn at least three hundred million a year. Thinking this way, giving a valuation of six billion seemed pretty good.

In order to implement this financing project as soon as possible, Su Yehao didn't try to rip anyone off this time.

According to the formulas calculated by his people, it was worth at most four to five billion. To show his sincerity, he increased the projected growth rate and added a value of one billion RMB to the Maotai brand, which seemed quite generous.

Regardless of future development.

At least for now, the value of Maotai Distillery wasn't really that high.

As for the financing plan, after communicating with the distillery's executives, Su Yehao proposed a new idea. The main content was: he would invest three billion RMB, while the distillery would be valued at six billion RMB. The two parties would jointly invest to restructure and establish a parent company, with him holding 33.33% of the shares.

In addition, the compensation and benefits system would be calculated separately, expanding the workforce by thousands to solve the local employment problem.

While increasing the salaries of all employees, they would also raise the purchase price of brewing raw materials, that is, agricultural crops, by 20%, benefiting the twenty to thirty thousand farmers in the surrounding areas.

With Su Yehao's level, he was clearly superior to the distillery.

This financing plan seemed to be a negotiation with the distillery's executives, but in reality, it was to show sincerity to the higher-ups.

The previously prepared ideas for a Meidi Appliance production and assembly base, and the investment in a hydropower station, were also included as attachments in the plan.

Su Yehao had already had people do the statistics.

He learned that if an internet company had hundreds of millions of users, the annual electricity bill for the servers would be as high as nine figures, so building his own hydropower station in advance seemed very cost-effective.

Even if it wasn't needed in the short term, he could generate electricity and sell it to the grid. When he moved the servers over here in the future, he could save even more money...

After the preliminary plan was prepared, Su Yehao personally returned to the provincial capital and delivered the documents.

While continuing to hold meetings to study it, he also directly sought help from people in Si Jiucheng (Beijing), to get a heads-up in advance, so as not to waste time going through the process step by step.

The day after returning.

He had dinner with people in the evening, trying the local specialty, red date rice wine.

This kind of wine tasted a little sweet, and Su Yehao didn't take it seriously at all. Gradually, he realized something was wrong, but it was too late when he realized he was in trouble, and everything went dark.

Since he started doing business, he had rarely gotten drunk, except when he was with friends, to avoid being taken advantage of at the dinner table.

But tonight... he was squatting by the toilet in the hotel room again, throwing up until his face was flushed.

Zhao Yimeng was quite experienced with drunkenness, having taken care of her father with her mother since she was a child. She wrung out a towel to wipe Su Yehao's face while complaining:

"If you can't drink, just drink less. If you hurt your stomach like my dad, you'll suffer later. You didn't drink too much at the distillery, but you got drunk tonight after drinking some date wine..."

Su Yehao rinsed his mouth and wiped his face, walking unsteadily, and said, "Who knew rice wine had such a strong kick? It's my first time drinking this stuff... Everyone looked so serious, but they were so rowdy after drinking. Did I promise anything before?"

Zhao Yimeng couldn't help but laugh, answering, "Who can be more shrewd than you? You were already so drunk, but when they asked you to consider participating in the reorganization of the construction company, you still said you wanted to ask your dad for his opinion."

He was just about to go sit on the sofa.

It was a large suite for VIPs, and the hotel had just opened last year, so the environment was quite good.

Su Yehao slipped on the step, and subconsciously grabbed Zhao Yimeng, his hand grabbing where it shouldn't.

Just as Zhao Yimeng was stunned, he took the opportunity to pinch and said, "That's what you get for eating so little, you're obviously malnourished."

Could she tolerate this?

Could she tolerate this?!

Zhao Yimeng was about to explode with anger. She had clearly been taken advantage of by this drunkard, and was even being criticized.

Having her sore spot poked, Miss Zhao bit her lip, pushed him away, glared and lowered her voice: "You're pretending to be drunk, aren't you? You're such a scoundrel, you actually have ulterior motives towards me!"

Su Yehao looked at her blankly, looking puzzled: "Huh?"

"...You meow-ed."

Instantly filled with anger, Zhao Yimeng waved her hand and said, "Go to sleep!"

Really sleepy and unable to keep his eyes open, Su Yehao took a few sips of water and immediately lay down on the bed.

Nothing happened overnight.

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The next day.

Originally, he was supposed to go to a meeting in the morning, but Su Yehao overslept.

By the time he got up, the restaurant's buffet was almost over. He ordered a bowl of beef noodles to fill his stomach, and drank several cups of yogurt before his stomach felt better.

Zhao Yimeng didn't want to reason with a drunk last night, and only now did she start questioning him, saying with a straight face and in a low voice: "You grabby hands! Remember?!"

"Who? Me? To you?"

Su Yehao's gaze shifted downwards, he chuckled and said decisively, "No way."

Zhao Yimeng, who hadn't slept well all night and felt unclean, was so angered by his attitude that her soul almost left her body.

She endured it again and again before finally saying: "If the noodles in my bowl weren't so delicious, I'd really want to dump them on your head. I've never suffered such anger in my life!"

"...I was drunk, be a little more generous, you didn't suffer any losses anyway."

Finding herself being subtly insulted again, Zhao Yimeng immediately retorted: "I suffered a huge loss, okay? How much longer will you be busy? I'm going home, I don't want to see you again anytime soon."

Seeing that she didn't seem to be joking, Su Yehao seriously recalled it, but really had no impression. He asked her with interest, "What did I do to you?"

"Hmph!"

When girls were in a bad mood, they didn't like to pay attention to people when they were angry.

Zhao Yimeng, holding her bowl, went straight to sit somewhere else... It seemed that she really liked this bowl of beef noodles, and couldn't bear to put it down even when she was angry.

With his head still hurting, Su Yehao was too lazy to coax her. After eating and tidying up, he went to communicate with the higher-ups again.

Things progressed very smoothly. According to them, it had been approved in principle.

With his plan.

Not only was there a chance to make Maotai bigger and stronger, completely solving the problem of capital shortage and lagging behind in competition, but it could also create jobs and drive surrounding farmers to make money together.

More importantly, Su Yehao also promised to invest at least one billion RMB in the provincial capital to build a Meidi Appliance production base, which was expected to provide thousands of jobs and drive the development of surrounding industries.

The plan was so good that it was impeccable, and seemed quite sincere.

Su Yehao promised that after financing, he would increase the salaries of Maotai Distillery employees by 5% every year, for eight consecutive years. Executives and sales personnel would sign separate agreements based on performance. Not only could they get seven-figure annual salaries, but they would also have the opportunity to receive equity rewards, directly copying part of the Meidi Group's incentive plan.

Since everyone benefited, of course no one would stop it.

As one of the largest representative enterprises in the province, Maotai Distillery's equity was quite clear, directly managed by the higher-ups. Compared with many companies in this era, there were fewer twists and turns.

Including the hydropower station project, a total investment of more than forty billion RMB, there was still an opportunity to profit from the internet data industry in the future.

If Su Yehao hadn't taken the initiative to mention it, they wouldn't have realized that the local temperature and cheap hydropower could actually develop this high-tech industry.

With approval in principle, and no problems in Si Jiucheng, it meant that as long as nothing unexpected happened, it was basically done.

Investing more than forty billion RMB in one go was equivalent to paving the way with money. Even if other potential competitors heard the news, they wouldn't have the strength to compete with Su Yehao.

Moreover.

Now Maotai was only used for drinking. In some small cigarette and liquor stores, the shelves were stocked with old wine that had been in storage for four or five years, and they wouldn't think of selling it at a higher price, and customers wouldn't spend that extra money.

Now that Su Yehao had raised the valuation so high, there seemed to be no room for speculation in Maotai Distillery's shares. Therefore, after the financing news spread, everything was quiet. Only a few people envied the small town of Maotai, which had attracted so much investment.

……

He had been in the Southwest for almost a week.

After finishing the financing for Maotai, Su Yehao was still constantly busy with trivial matters, but there were no major events to worry him.

He entered a period of calm that he hadn't experienced in a long time, enjoying life every day, shuttling between the girls.

Cyberport was still being planned, and Qianxin City was also being planned. The internet business was developing steadily, and Huangzuan computers were being trial-produced.

The Black Diamond mobile phone R&D center was also established in Silicon Valley.

There were more related technical talents there, which made it convenient for procurement and also made it less likely to be bottlenecked. Although the place of registration was in the Cayman Islands, it was nominally an American company, and it used Qualcomm's overall solution.

A slightly tricky thing was that Xiangcheng (Hong Kong) still hadn't passed the support plan for the semiconductor industrial park, which made Su Yehao almost go to talk to the casino.

Although the casino had no land, it could rent farmland in Hengqin next to it.

Fortunately, Vice President Zheng Yongwen was mediating, guaranteeing a response within a month, whether it was successful or not.

The foundry project in charge of Zhang Rujing was poaching people in Baodao (Taiwan) to build a new team, and there was still no movement on the collaborative R&D project for the next-generation lithography machine, but Canon of Japan had clearly stated its willingness to sell lithography machines.

In early September.

Perhaps due to the successive poaching of several project supervisors, the chairman of TSMC also said that "not everyone can easily enter the chip foundry market, and Xiangcheng (Hong Kong) does not have the foundation in this area, lagging behind us by twenty years."

As soon as the news came out, Zheng Yongwen seized the opportunity to publicize it, which instead provided Su Yehao with an opportunity.

Until this day, September 16th.

The Xiangcheng (Hong Kong) semiconductor industrial park plan was finally passed, and various support measures were quickly put in place…