Wind Rises 2005

Chapter 540: Can’t Pee in a Pot

The dinner was not affected by Zhang Sanshi's deliberate efforts to please Ma Liang. It was still lively and enjoyable for both the guests and the host.

The investors here are all very high-spirited because they have caught up with the best of times.

The next ten years will not only be a time when China's economy will take off completely, but also a time when the entire local venture capital circle will make a lot of money.

As the saying goes, times make heroes, and this is especially true in the business field.

If we are facing the Great Depression, no matter how talented you are in investing, you will not be able to invest in many unicorn projects.

Although the global economy was affected by the subprime mortgage crisis at this time, the investors at the dinner were not too worried because most of them were focused on China's local venture capital circle.

The phenomenon of tight money does exist, but it does not prevent everyone from being confident in China's development.

After all, for a country with a population of more than one billion, the economy has just begun to grow at a rapid pace, so how can it stagnate due to a mere subprime mortgage crisis?

Difficulties are only temporary, and once you get over them, you will have a new world.

Even if the global economy will fall into a recession, everyone present is full of confidence in China's economy in the next ten years and firmly believes that our country will have unique scenery.

The dividends brought by the era of wind are very terrifying. All developed countries have experienced this process, and this time it is finally our turn.

The explosive power generated by the urgent desire of more than one billion people across the country to pursue a better life is simply unimaginable.

Therefore, a group of investors got close to each other and built relationships at the dinner party, hoping that in the future they could be like Chai Daguan and make decisions for the projects they invested in.

But this is just a good wish. It is impossible for all entrepreneurial projects to have this kind of treatment.

Only projects with exciting stories can attract investors.

If Chai Jin hadn't invited Ma Liang to the capital under the name Kaixin.com as a copycat of Twitter, he wouldn't have been able to summon so many investors in today's capital bureau.

If other investors want to copy this operation, it will probably not be that easy.

However, this does not prevent the investors here from continuing to YY, imagining that they can also invest in a project like [Kaixin.com].

The dinner ended in such a cheerful and enthusiastic atmosphere, and everyone felt that they had not enjoyed themselves to the fullest.

Chai Daguan was a very perceptive person, so he waved his hand and asked everyone to change places and continue having fun.

As the saying goes, when you are full and warm, you naturally want to engage in entertainment activities.

For dinner, I rushed from Chaoyang to Xicheng, and now I rushed from Xicheng to Dongcheng. I even traveled across half of the capital while eating and playing.

Chai Jin arranged for three commercial vehicles to take everyone directly to Chaoyangmen Nei Street.

Just across the road from here, the Galaxy SOHO construction site owned by Boss Pan is under construction in full swing.

Real estate in Beijing is also developing rapidly. Once 2008 is over, housing prices will jump a lot every year.

The profits gained from buying and flipping houses make many traditional business owners jealous.

As a result, factories were closed, businesses were closed, and everyone invested money in real estate. After all, working hard for a whole year is not as good as buying a house and earning more.

It has to be said that the next ten years will be both the best era for the economy and an era for the economy to get worse.

The commercial vehicle slowly drove into the underground parking lot of a certain building and stopped next to an elevator.

On the 7th to 9th floors of this building, there is an extremely mysterious top club, which can be said to be the strongest existence in the club circle in Beijing.

This club has no door number at all, and there is no button on the elevator.It can only be reached directly by taking a secret elevator next to the underground parking lot.

If a member is not the leader of an important department, he is not even qualified to recommend other members and can only bring his female companion in to spend money.

General members who want to bring men with them must apply in advance and must be approved before they can be released.

The teahouse inside this club is breathtaking.Looking around, there is not a single piece of furniture or utensils that was made after Daoguang.

This is just a tea house, but when it comes to the restaurant, it is even more unthinkable for most people.It's not that the food is delicious, but the utensils inside are all of extraordinary value.

Even the chopsticks used for eating are horned rhinoceros chopsticks.

What are "horned rhinoceros chopsticks"?
Du Fu satirized Yang Guifei's three sisters and Yang Guozhong in "Beauty's Journey", and once wrote such a poem:

"The rhinoceros chopsticks are disgusting and have not been cut for a long time, and the luan knife cuts through the empty space."

Not long after King Zhou of Shang came to the throne, he also ordered someone to cut ivory chopsticks for him. The wise minister Qi Zi felt an ominous fear and predicted that he would be equipped with a rhinoceros horn bowl and a white jade cup.

These two historical allusions fully illustrate the rarity of "rhinoceros chopsticks", which are not accessible to ordinary people.

You must know that rhinos are a highly endangered species, and the sale of rhino horns is strictly prohibited.A certain customs office once uncovered a smuggling case. 33 rhino horns of various sizes were worth more than 1700 million yuan, and the value of ivory was only a fraction of that of rhino horns.

So even if the restaurant in the club only has 10 tables, and each table only seats 8 people, it would still require 80 pairs of rhinoceros chopsticks!
How much rhino horn is needed to make chopsticks so long?Where did they collect so many rhino horns?
This alone makes all the clubs in the capital eclipse.

Even the four famous clubs in the capital such as [Chang'an Club] and [Huaxia Club] are not worth mentioning in front of this club.

What's even more luxurious is that the services at the club are also extremely exaggerated.

For example, a certain boss likes to smoke cigars and has requirements for the hands that cut his cigars. The club took the initiative to collect photos of many hands.

As long as he is chosen by a customer, no matter what the owner of the hands does, he will try his best to recruit him and only provide services to this customer.

Whenever a guest wants to smoke a cigar, those hands are always there to congratulate him.

But this customer may come only once a month, and the act of cutting a cigar is only a matter of a few seconds, and the club can reach this level.

These things sound exaggerated, but they are nothing at all.

There are more and more exaggerated things, far beyond the imagination of ordinary people. It can only be said that there are too many strange things that ordinary people cannot see.

For a top club like this, it no longer matters whether it is profitable or not.

It must only provide the most high-end services to the most high-end people, and it must seek extraordinary benefits.

If Chai Jin hadn't been cultivating connections in the capital all year round, he might not have been qualified to bring people in.

Many of the dozen or so investors today were coming to see the world for the first time. At this moment, they were really impressed by Mr. Chai Daguan.

This made Chai Jin very proud. If he had known it, he would have directly arranged for the Capital Bureau to come here to talk.

Ma Liang's eyes widened as well, like a country man entering the city, truly seeing the most unknown side of the top class of human beings.

There are always things in this world that ordinary people cannot access.

Just when they arrived at the 9th floor, there happened to be another wave of guests being led from the restaurant to the 9th floor by the club's service staff, and they passed by them.

Chai Jin immediately stopped and said hello to the middle-aged man in the lead opposite.

"Hey, isn't this Boss Wang?"

Ma Liang quickly recognized this person, and even most of the investors present knew him, because he was Wang Zhongjun, the helmsman of [Huayi Brothers] Company.

"Brother Chai, what a coincidence!

I have a few friends to entertain today, and I will treat you to dinner alone, brother, in a few days..."

Wang Zhongjun said hello very politely and hurriedly led people straight to the third box. He had no intention of introducing his friends behind him to Chai Jin.

Chai Jin replied without temper: "Put it down, why am I worthy of being treated to a meal by Boss Wang now?

You two brothers are now very prosperous, and capital is booming. I don’t see many people in the capital who can let you, the king, treat you to dinner..."

"Brother Chai, look at what you said!
No matter how good I am, I'm still nothing in front of you, brother.

Isn’t it easy to treat me to dinner tomorrow? Just tomorrow night?I must have made arrangements for you, brother..." Wang Zhongjun replied with a flattering look on his face.

Chai Jin waved his hand directly, not looking at the other party at all.

"You two brothers are going to do whatever you want. It's like you care about your meal. I can't urinate in the same pot as you Lao Wang family now.

Brother Ma, let’s go, there’s no need to deal with this guy…”

After saying these words, Mr. Chai took Ma Liang's hand and led the investors towards the innermost box.

Originally, he had a good relationship with the two old Wang brothers, so there was a reason why he didn't want to see each other so much.

Chai Daguanren had previously established [Tianhao Capital], and the two brothers Wang Zhongjun and Wang Zhonglei were recently planning the listing of [Huayi Brothers].

Originally Chai Jin wanted to pitch in, and the two Lao Wang brothers agreed at first.

But who would have thought that later Wang Zhongjun would rely on Ali Jackma's help and introduction to get close to a bigger capital boss, so naturally he would look down on Chai Daguanren, a new player who had just entered the industry.

Not long ago, Zheshang Capital, Jiang Nanchun, founder of Focus Media, Lu Weiding, CEO of Wanxiang Group, etc., all invested in [Huayi].

Chai Jin, who was let go, naturally had a bad temper towards the two Lao Wang brothers.

(End of this chapter)