The richest man

Chapter 275 Energy Innovation Revolution!

"It's gone up, it's gone up, my god, Weibo has been listed for a month, and it's skyrocketing every day, it's like a demon stock!!!"

Countless people were amazed.

In just one month, the market value of Weibo has reached 2920 billion Hong Kong dollars, tens of billions of Hong Kong dollars higher than the market value predicted by experts.

It's really nothing.

The influence of Weibo in Asia far exceeds that of Sina Weibo in the previous life, and the boss behind it is Zhang Jun, so the market value of Weibo has been greatly increased.

However, this is actually not a real demon stock.

I'm afraid everyone hasn't seen the real demon stocks.

At the same time, in 2022, Li Jiacheng's behind-the-scenes investment in AMTD Digital Technology is an epic monster stock. It soared 13 times in 214 days after listing. Employees of less than 4727 people. In fiscal year 50, fiscal year 2019 and fiscal year 2020, the total revenue of AMTD Digital is approximately HK$2021 million, HK$1455.4 million and HK$1.68 million, respectively.

How does 2 million revenue support 2 trillion market value?It's terrifying to think about it carefully, it's really scary!

Li Jiacheng issued an article, wanting to get rid of the relationship urgently, but AMTD Digital directly evaporated 1.1 trillion yuan.

At this moment, Weibo and Twitter are both listed. The financing amount of these two companies exceeds 300 billion Hong Kong dollars and 50 billion US dollars respectively. They will not lack funds in the future. In addition, their own profitability is not bad, and they will not need capital injection for many years to come. , but can also distribute dividends to major shareholders.

The listing of Weibo Twitter was so successful.

The capital circle can't help but be full of anticipation and curiosity about Uber's IPO.

Uber's valuation and development potential are higher than those of Weibo and Twitter, and the legendary technology company has made it clear that Uber will go public in an IPO.

Presumably, when Uber goes public, it will definitely cause a huge sensation.

However, now is not a good time for Uber to go public.

Because the US subprime mortgage crisis has arrived.

Recently, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said that the global subprime mortgage losses amounted to US$[-] trillion.

Goldman Sachs also announced layoffs.

The U.S. passed a housing market rescue package worth more than $41 billion.

……

"Boss, you hit the spot again this time!" Kirin Financial CEO Zhao Wen was extremely surprised. The outbreak of the subprime mortgage crisis was only a slight symptom at first, and then it became more and more serious. Until now, the subprime mortgage crisis has seriously affected the US economy. economy.

Zhao Wen sighed: "Merrill Lynch, one of the world's largest financial management consulting companies, recorded a total asset write-down of more than 65 billion US dollars in the first quarter, and will lay off another 3000 people. It is expected that the situation in the next few months will be even more difficult! !!"

Zhang Jun smiled lightly.

Because of the advance layout, this time, at least tens of billions of dollars can be earned. Of course, the most important thing is that this time the subprime mortgage crisis, many financial companies are on the verge of bankruptcy, which happens to be a good time for Standard Chartered Bank and Kirin Financial to expand!
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Following Merrill Lynch, in less than a week, Citigroup announced that after writing down more than US$130 billion in losses, it had a net loss of US$51.1 billion in the first quarter, or a loss of US$1.02 per share.

Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group expects losses related to subprime loans to be 3 billion yen in the fiscal year ended March 31.

The Bank of England announced that it will use 500 billion pounds of government bonds to replace mortgage assets held by commercial banks to help the banking industry recover.

Bank of America is planning to sell its stake in China Construction Bank to raise funds to strengthen its balance sheet in the face of a credit crunch, the Financial Times reported...

As more and more news about the subprime mortgage crisis broke out, it caused global panic.

"Oh, it's over, the U.S. subprime mortgage crisis is so serious that banks or certain financial institutions in other countries have also purchased U.S. subprime mortgages, and the losses are also extremely serious! Now the world's major banks are unwilling to borrow from foreign countries, and instead want to call for debts. As a result, countless companies went bankrupt! Alas, the impact of the subprime mortgage crisis is getting bigger and bigger, and business is hard to do!"

"The news said that the United States, Europe, Japan and other countries are trying to find ways to rescue the market."

"Saving a woolen yarn, using billions of dollars to rescue the market, what effect can it play. This amount of money is not as much as Zhang Jun, so let Zhang Jun come to rescue the market directly."

"Cut, the US subprime mortgage crisis has relatively little impact on our China. Zhang Jun has no need to rescue them. The European and American economies are going backwards, and our Chinese economy can catch up!"

"Hehe, the United States has been unlucky in recent years. It was hit by a building before it was hit by a plane, and now it is facing the subprime mortgage crisis. In contrast, China's economic development speed is changing with each passing day. The GDP is almost catching up with the United States! In 2007, China's GDP was as high as 10.4 trillion US dollars, the United States is only 14.2 billion US dollars! In 2008, the subprime mortgage crisis broke out in the United States. It is difficult for the US economy to improve for at least two years! Perhaps within these two years, China’s GDP will overtake and become the world’s largest economy !!!”

"Damn, our China is already so awesome, haha, Lao Mei is going to become the second, I'm so proud! I see those international students have sharpened their heads to apply for American citizenship. Let them Regret! Our country has a long history of 5000 years, and most of the time it was the most powerful country in the world. Now, our country is finally going to be revived!"

"Calm down, keep a low profile! Although our country's GDP may surpass that of the United States within two years, the population of the United States is only 3 million, while ours is 14 billion. The per capita GDP of the United States is four times that of ours. We still have a long way to go!"

"Actually, the scale and prosperity of our country's first-tier cities are not weaker than those of large cities in the United States. The main reason is that the countryside is relatively rich. However, since Zhang Jun launched the plan to build rural e-commerce service stations, he has helped local farmers improve the quality of agricultural products. and sales, and the rapid growth of the rural economy. Perhaps in a few years, the rural economy will undergo earth-shaking changes.”

"My family is from the countryside. I used to grow apples on several mu of land, but because there were no sales channels, I could only sell them to middlemen at a low price. Since the opening of the rural e-commerce service station in our village, with their guidance and help Next, my family opened a store on Taobao to sell apples, and the sales were very good!"

"..."

Chinese netizens couldn't help gloating when they saw the US subprime mortgage crisis.

The funds that Zhang Jun can mobilize at this moment are indeed more than the foreign exchange of many countries, but...

"Why should I help Europe and the United States to save the market? The bigger the loss, the better!!!"

Zhang Jun sneered and drank the cold Coke. In the scorching summer, he felt his heart almost turned upside down.

In fact, before the outbreak of the subprime mortgage crisis, many banks, including Standard Chartered Bank and Wells Fargo Bank under the name of Zhang Jun, purchased subprime mortgages on a large scale, fueling the flames, and then transferred these subprime mortgages at low prices before 2008, which caused this situation. The US subprime mortgage crisis in the first life was much more serious than the subprime mortgage crisis in Zhang Jun's previous life.

In addition, in this life, the emergence of legendary technology companies has made American technology lag behind China in the fields of computers, mobile phones, communications, automobiles, chips, artificial intelligence, batteries, new energy, robots, etc., resulting in slow economic growth in the United States, especially At this time, the subprime mortgage crisis in the United States is getting more and more serious, the number of unemployed people is increasing sharply, demonstrations and zero-dollar purchases are happening one after another, and chaos is rampant.

In the eyes of Chinese netizens, this is undoubtedly a beautiful landscape~
Of course, China is not completely affected. Due to the economic downturn in Europe and the United States, China's export industry has been hit.

Since export is not enough, then switch to domestic sales.

Zhang Jun ordered his supermarket or e-commerce website to launch various promotional activities, "6 Mid Year Promotion", selling goods at low prices for 16 days!
"Tell those companies that export products can be transferred to domestic sales, even if one can be sold, it is good. At this time, don't consider whether the profit is high or not. The main thing is to increase volume, and small profits can sell more!!!"

Under Zhang Jun's order, the entire retail industry in China has undergone tremendous changes.

Good guy, all Chinese consumers are in a carnival.

Many items are at least [-]% off, and some are even [-]% off.

With such a discount, how can consumers not buy it?

Online shopping carts are almost full, and many consumers have several pages of products in their shopping carts.

On June 6th, someone on Facebook began posting their shopping carts, which subsequently triggered countless netizens to follow suit.

"I fancy a pair of shoes, the original price is 265 yuan, the big sale at the end of June 6, only 16 yuan, 165 yuan cheaper, so affordable, if you don't buy it, you will lose money! In addition to this car, there are bags, clothes, Lipstick, skin care products, etc., I did a rough calculation and bought them all. In the past, I would have spent more than 100 yuan, but now I only need to spend more than 8000 yuan, saving almost 6000 yuan!"

"Haha, I also made a lot of money. I saved 1552 yuan on all the products."

"In the mid-June 6th promotion, you can earn money when you buy it. Many products are really cheap. I have a large box of toilet paper at home, and there are various retail outlets. I feel like I can eat these snacks for several months. ..."

"My mother bought more than 20 large bottles of peanut cooking oil to save money, and I can't use it up in a year..."

"It's the same at my house. Anyway, I just buy what I lack, and buy all kinds of things!"

"Hey, Alipay is just too user-friendly. Knowing that I'm short on money and can't buy much, I launched Huabei to enjoy the shopping experience of 'consume first, pay later', and you can also pay in installments. As a result, woo woo woo , I was impulsive and spent thousands of dollars."

"..."

China's "616 Mid-Year Promotion" shopping spree lasted for 10 days, and the transaction volume was as high as 2600 billion yuan. All countries in the world were dumbfounded.

The subprime mortgage crisis broke out in the United States, and everyone began to feel miserable. The economy suffered a serious downturn, but China's economy was not affected much, and it was still going on a shopping spree~
Moreover, many Chinese companies have cleared their inventory of products and returned funds during this promotional activity, and have overcome the difficulties.

In addition, many Chinese products have also begun to choose to export abroad at lower prices.

It doesn't matter if the profit is less, as long as you can make money.

And foreign consumers just need high-quality and cheap Chinese products, because they are either unemployed or wages have fallen under the economic crisis, and their lives have become very tight, so they can only buy Chinese products.

Chinese products can't help but sell well all over the world!

In fact, since 2008, China has established its status as the "world's factory", and its share of the global manufacturing industry has continued to rise.

And because China has a huge market and is less affected by the US subprime mortgage crisis, a lot of investment has flowed into China, further promoting China's economic development.

Of course, Zhang Jun is not far behind. How can he say that he is also a big boss? With too little investment, doesn't it seem that he is incompetent?
"Boss, the international oil price is still soaring!" Huo Jianning sighed, China Energy also owns an oil company, but as Zhang Jun deploys gas stations in the country and produces various chemical products, more and more oil is needed. The oil produced by China Energy Corporation alone is far from enough, and it still needs to purchase oil from all over the world every year, which costs a lot.

With the sharp increase in the number of private cars and motorcycles in the future, the demand for oil will also skyrocket.

However, Zhang Jun does not want to be exploited by oil-producing countries all the time.

China has a huge demand for oil. It has imported a large amount of crude oil from Saudi Arabia for many years, and the annual cost has exceeded [-] billion yuan!That’s all. It’s another big problem to ship it back to China. Once the United States blocks the Strait of Malacca, China is likely to face an oil energy crisis.

"Petroleum energy is a big problem!" Zhang Jun nodded, then said with a frown.

At this moment, he couldn't help thinking about how China could really break this situation. After thinking for a while, he said in a deep voice, "What China needs is an innovative revolution in the energy field!!!"

"Boss, how can we create a revolution?" Huo Jianning couldn't help asking after hearing the words.

Zhang Jun said lightly: "As we all know, the fate of a country is often closely related to the 'innovative revolution of the energy system'. For example, the rise of the United States in the second half of the 19th century is inseparable from the most contemporary 'crude oil' created by it. system':
On the production side, Rockefeller founded the Standard Oil Company, improved refining efficiency through improved equipment and efficient smelting technology, and then controlled 95% of the U.S. market. Controlled 85% of the global market;
On the transportation side, Rockefeller abandoned the widely popular railway transportation at that time, and pioneered the establishment of a huge oil pipeline, which greatly reduced the cost of oil;

On the consumer side, Henry Ford pioneered the production method of the assembly line, came up with a cheap Model T car, and digested Rockefeller's oil cleanly.

'High-efficiency refining technology-new oil pipeline-innovative automobile production line' finally formed a 'production-transmission-utilization' cycle system, which successfully replaced the 'coal system' dominated by the UK and greatly accelerated the development of American industry. The cycle system of 'production-transmission-utilization' has also become the cornerstone of US oil hegemony after World War II. "

"Although China is not an oil-poor country, China, as the factory of the world, imports more than 2000 billion US dollars of oil every year. Ports, etc., my country's investment in energy security is astronomical."

Speaking of this, Zhang Jun paused slightly, and said to Huo Jianning in a very confident and determined tone: "China's innovation revolution in the energy field should be a 'silicon energy' revolution, which consists of photovoltaics-UHV-new energy vehicles. , corresponding to a new 'production-transmission-utilization' cycle system!!!"

Huo Jianning heard this, thought about it carefully, his eyes lit up, and said: "The combination of photovoltaics-UHV-new energy vehicles is indeed feasible and can establish a new 'production-transmission-utilization' cycle system, but the problem is that these three items The technology is not yet mature enough.”

"It's okay to be immature. With our investment, we can speed up the development of these technologies!" Zhang Jun paused, and then said to Huo Jianning, "From now on, increase investment in these photovoltaics, UHV and new energy vehicles, spend more Tens of billions of dollars or hundreds of billions of dollars will do, and strive to realize the innovation revolution of energy as soon as possible!!!”

Instead of spending huge sums of money every year to purchase oil, it is better to promote the "silicon energy" revolution.In this new track, China will be the only one in the world!
In the following period of time, Zhang Jun frequently convened meetings of Legend Technology, China Energy and BMW to discuss the investment plan of the photovoltaic-UHV-new energy vehicle combination.

A month later, China Energy Corporation established a subsidiary, "Hanergy", planning to develop: electric tiles (Hanwa), power generation walls (Hanwall), solar power circuits (Hanlu), all-solar power vehicles (Han vehicles), solar power generation paper (Han paper), solar power generation bag (Han Bao), solar power generation umbrella (Han umbrella) and other products, which are applied in the fields of construction, transportation, facilities, emergency and electronics.

Hanergy's slogan: "Let everything generate electricity!"

After all, the establishment of Hanergy cannot be low-key. It has acquired other technology companies, recruited troops, built large laboratories and factories, etc., and invested hugely, so it cannot be low-key at all.

Hanergy's registered capital alone exceeds 500 billion yuan. Which new company can have such awesome starting conditions.

Therefore, Hanergy has attracted much attention from the very beginning, causing discussions all over the Internet...

(End of this chapter)