Reborn since 1993

Chapter 668 Picking up the leaks
Ronaldo has entered his peak period in the old European football. His transfer to the super giant Barcelona this year has brought his fame to its peak.

Ronaldo has won the La Liga top scorer, European top scorer, Spanish Super League championship, etc.

If nothing unexpected happens, this year's title of "World Footballer of the Year" will also fall on Ronaldo, and his title of alien will begin to resound throughout the football world.

The title of Ronaldo the Alien was coined by Dongling Hi-Tech back then. With Ronaldo's explosive performance on the court, this title has now become known to fans around the world.

Dongling Hi-Tech had already registered the Alien brand before. The Alien brand has long belonged to Dongling Hi-Tech. Of course, Dongling Hi-Tech also gave Ronaldo 5% of the shares.

After all, this brand was created because of Ronaldo, and Ronaldo will be needed to continue to support this brand in the future. It would not be good to kick Ronaldo out.

When Ronaldo and his agent signed the equity, they did not hesitate at all, because the brand was worthless when it was registered.

The marketing department of Dongling Hi-Tech also gave Ronaldo a signing fee of US$300,000, allowing Ronaldo to sell the brand to Dongling Hi-Tech. According to the market price at the time, it was already a sky-high price.

Dongling Hi-Tech still pays great attention to its appearance. For example, the domestic sports company with the same name as NBA's Jordan has been involved in a lawsuit with Jordan for decades, but ultimately failed to get it listed, and there is no way to talk about the overseas market.

Of course, things are different now. As Ronaldo’s fame grows, the Alien brand’s fame is also growing.

In recent years, many sports brand companies, including sneaker and jersey companies, have wanted to buy this brand from Dongling Hi-Tech, but Dongling Hi-Tech has never sold it.

In the future, Dongling Hi-Tech will have great use for the "Alien" brand, such as launching high-end desktop computers, laptops and other electronic products of this brand in old Europe. With Ronaldo's popularity, products with the Alien brand will naturally be well-known in old Europe.

For Ronaldo, this 5% stake may be the biggest gain in his life, or even for his entire family in the future. It can bring him a steady stream of income even after he retires.

Just like the old rogue Jordan in the basketball world, he has retired for many years, and the pair of sneakers named after him has earned him more than one billion dollars in revenue. Jordan also owns 5% of the dividends from his pair of sneakers!
This year's World Footballer of the Year came to Pingyang in person to support the Oriental Times Shopping Mall. Are you still worried that it won't be popular?
Football now has no presence in our country, like in later generations, it has become a rat crossing the street, carrying the title of "national destiny balancer". Fans can only comfort themselves that this thing is to balance the national destiny. The worse the national football team is, the better the national destiny will be, otherwise it really cannot hold on.

Domestic football is very popular now. Although there are various weird operations, almost every province has its own football team, and the football atmosphere and popularity are quite high.

But no matter how popular domestic football is, can it be higher than Ronaldo? As long as he comes to the Oriental Times Shopping Mall, not to mention domestic football fans, they will come from afar to catch a glimpse of the alien.

There are more than three billion overseas football fans. Even if only a small part of them come here, it will be enough to fill up the Oriental Times Shopping Mall and even the entire Pingyang!
Li Dongshan, Miao Jiahui and others are not football fans and do not know much about Ronaldo's influence, but after hearing what Li Dongling said, they know that Ronaldo's coming here should be able to enhance the reputation of the Oriental Times Shopping Mall.

"Brother, you should have a good rest tonight. The logistics department of Dongling Hi-Tech will also help the Oriental Times Mall. What you need to do is to let the managers of each department of the Oriental Times Mall perform their duties!"

Li Dongshan's identity has changed, but his thinking has not yet changed. This needs to be done slowly. This Oriental Times Shopping Mall is more of a training ground for Li Dongshan. It is better to make mistakes now than to have problems later when the Oriental Times Shopping Mall becomes a chain shopping mall.

Once the Pingyang Oriental Times Shopping Mall becomes stable, Li Dongshan can go to some business school or something like that and study for a while, and then he should be able to basically get the hang of it.

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The next day, Li Dongling rushed to the headquarters of Dongling Hi-Tech. For the whole morning, Li Dongling basically turned into a signing machine and also attended meetings of several departments.

The most important thing, of course, is to determine the distribution of this year's year-end bonuses and dividends. This is what the entire Dongling Hi-Tech is paying attention to now.

"Let's distribute the year-end bonus according to this plan!"

Li Dongling signed the document that Hu Zixian brought over. This year's year-end bonus given by Dongling Hi-Tech to its employees is still the same as last year. It is still a one-time payment of nearly four months' salary as a year-end bonus!

In the technical department, the annual bonus has reached six months. In addition to the year-end bonus this year, they will also give out outstanding employee awards, gold medal individual awards, gold medal team awards, best sales awards, etc.

All in all, Dongling Hi-Tech employees can basically get five months' salary as year-end bonus this year.

As for manager-level executives such as Ren Yuefeng, Hu Zixian, and Zhang Ao, they will each receive a dividend as a year-end bonus.

But to be honest, these executives at Dongling Hi-Tech's headquarters did not care much about the year-end bonus this year. After Feiyan Technology went public, their net worth almost skyrocketed. Isn't this better than the year-end bonus? The year-end bonus is only a few dollars, while the equity of Feiyan Technology is worth hundreds of millions of dollars!

Dongling Hi-Tech was able to pay out so many bonuses this year, and of course its revenue skyrocketed. This year, Dongling Hi-Tech, while maintaining its basic business of Shenzhou digital cordless phones, PHS mobile phones, Shenzhou USB flash drives, and Silver Sable mice, launched new products such as electronic dictionaries.

In addition, some of the companies invested by Dongling Hi-Tech include Feiyan Technology, Focus Media, Nippon Bandai, Tianjin Yipintang, and Deweis, etc.

The rest include Dongling Hi-Tech's auto parts industry chain companies in which Dongling Hi-Tech has invested, which have begun to contribute revenue to Dongling Hi-Tech.

Although the proportion of this income is not large yet, it is very likely to bring huge returns to Dongling Hi-Tech in the future!

This year, Dongling Hi-Tech's revenue reached US$32.8 billion, a % increase compared to last year, which is quite impressive in the entire technology industry.

But compared with the revenue, Dongling Hi-Tech's profit has doubled to 1.66 billion, almost doubling compared to last year!

Among these, in addition to the increase in revenue, the most important thing is that Dongling Hi-Tech's parts industry chain has begun to control costs, especially for PHS mobile phones.

Now the cost of producing a Xiaolingtong phone by Dongling Hi-Tech has actually dropped to less than 1,000 yuan. Although the price of Xiaolingtong phones in China continues to drop, Dongling Hi-Tech's profits are constantly increasing.

Moreover, although the sales volume of PHS mobile phones under Dongling Hi-Tech has been declining in China, it has taken away most of the profits of other PHS mobile phones in China by relying on patent fees, technology fees, key components, etc.

Although it is not the case that Dongling Hi-Tech is like Apple, taking away 90% of the profits from the domestic PHS mobile phone industry, it is still around 60%.

That is to say, UTStarcom, Xaomi, BBK and other mobile phone companies are basically working for Dongling Hi-Tech.

The profits in the overseas PHS market are much higher than those in China. The entire mobile phone business currently accounts for more than 60% of Dongling Hi-Tech's profits.

Following closely behind is the Shenzhou digital cordless phone, which has entered thousands of households in old Europe and America. Shenzhou digital cordless phones are not very popular now, but they can bring Dongling Hi-Tech a revenue of more than one billion US dollars every year, which is quite stable!

According to the current digital cordless phone market, Dongling Hi-Tech will be able to earn this income for many years to come.

After Li Dongling put down his pen, he asked Hu Zixian, "How many US dollars are in the Dongling Hi-Tech Port City account now?"

Since last year, Dongling Hi-Tech has been desperately borrowing money from various Southeast Asian countries, almost from all over the world, and has to pay a considerable amount of interest every month.

Even Hu Zixian, who attached great importance to cash flow, didn't quite understand why Li Dongling was like this.

But at Li Dongling's request, Hu Zixian still asked Dongling Hi-Tech Port City Company to borrow US dollars from Siam, South Korea, Malaysia, Japan, the Philippines, Singapore and other places.

“At present, Dongling Hi-Tech Port City has a cash reserve of nearly 35 billion US dollars in its account!

But, Mr. Li, I want to say one more thing. Although the loans of Dongling Hi-Tech Port City Company are all long-term debts and do not need to be repaid immediately, the interest pressure is also very high! "

Hu Zixian spoke to Li Dongling with a serious expression.

Many companies know that Tanglin Hi-Tech is raising US dollars, but most of them believe that Tanglin Hi-Tech is preparing to acquire Hongcheng Telecom.

Hu Zixian also speculated that Li Dongling borrowed so many US dollars in order to acquire Hongcheng Telecom, but he didn't think that was the case.

If Dongling Hi-Tech really wants to acquire Hong Kong City Telecom, the company it should look for is the domestic banking consortium such as Bank of China, and then seek authorization from the Foreign Exchange Department, the Economic and Trade Commission and other departments to obtain a low-interest or even interest-free loan.

With Dongling Hi-Tech's connections and relationships in the country, it is not difficult to achieve this.

But Li Dongling has never borrowed US dollars in China in the past two years. Instead, he has been borrowing US dollars from banks in Southeast Asia, and the interest rate is not low. This makes Hu Zixian a little puzzled.

After hearing what Hu Zixian said, Li Dongling just nodded slightly.

“Tell Dongling Hi-Tech Port City Company to borrow from Southeast Asia no matter what, even if it is a short-term loan of one year, and increase its US dollar cash reserves to more than 4 billion US dollars. It can use the shares of Nissan Bandai as collateral!”

With the popularity of Pop Mart and Pokémon, the share price of Bandai Nissan continues to soar. Using Bandai Nissan's equity as collateral can definitely be exchanged for US dollars, and there are banks willing to take over.

But when they heard Li Dongling's words, Hu Zixian and Ren Yuefeng in the office were both shocked.

"Do you want to borrow more money?" Hu Zixian couldn't help but exclaimed in surprise.

Li Dongling did not intend to explain, but just said, "Next year, Dongling Hi-Tech has many big projects, especially in overseas markets, which will have a huge demand for cash flow and require sufficient US dollars!"

After hearing this, Hu Zixian and Ren Yuefeng looked at each other. They both wanted to say something, but seeing that Li Dongling had made up his mind, they could only nod helplessly.

This is the influence of the first-generation founder and head of a company. Even if the decisions he makes seem somewhat unreasonable in the eyes of his senior executives, as long as he wants to do it, no one can stop him!

“What about Dongling Hi-Tech’s cash flow in the country?”

When next year comes, Soros will come to Southeast Asia to stir up trouble, and China will also enter a cold winter period. A large number of companies may collapse, especially those that have foreign trade transactions with Southeast Asia.

Dongling Hi-Tech will certainly encounter twists and turns. Dongling Hi-Tech's base will always be in China. Only by stabilizing its base in China can Dongling Hi-Tech obtain profits overseas. Otherwise, it will be like rootless water without duckweed roots, which will be scattered by the slightest breeze.

Therefore, next year Dongling Hi-Tech must gain a firm foothold in China before it can try to pick up bargains or even bottom buy overseas!
"It is estimated that by the first quarter of next year, the cash flow in Dongling Hi-Tech's domestic account will reach about 8.4 billion yuan!"

Hu Zixian said that this was because Dongling Hi-Tech had invested a lot of money to support its parts industry chain and invest in a number of projects including Dongxin Semiconductor, Dongxin Hanxi Chip Factory, and Oriental Optoelectronics. Otherwise, Dongling Hi-Tech's cash flow reserves would be even greater.

In recent years, the foreign exchange earned by Dongling Hi-Tech from overseas has basically been settled, converted from US dollars to RMB, and deposited in Dongling Hi-Tech's account.

“Starting next year, both the US dollar cash flow reserves of Dongling Hi-Tech Harbor City and the cash reserves of Dongling Hi-Tech in China must be increased!”

Li Dongling explained to Hu Zixian, "Also, apply for a portion of the foreign exchange quota from the Foreign Exchange Department next year!"

Dongling Hi-Tech has been sending foreign exchange to the Foreign Exchange Department. It is not excessive to ask the Department for a US dollar foreign exchange quota, right?

At the Foreign Exchange Department, no matter which company's people are being targeted, they will definitely not block Dongling Hi-Tech's foreign exchange quota!

After signing the last document, Li Dongling prepared to get up. This afternoon, he had to go to the Oriental Times Mall. In addition, many people from the Pingyang Municipal Government were also going there to discuss the opening and trial operation of the Oriental Times Mall. This was also a big event for Pingyang.

"Anything else?"

But seeing that Ren Yuefeng and Hu Zixian were still sitting there, Li Dongling sat down again and asked them.

"Mr. Li, we shouldn't have said this."

"But, I still hope you can take a look at this document prepared by the Ministry of Law!"

Ren Yuefeng placed a document produced by the legal department of Dongling Hi-Tech in front of Li Dongling.

Looking at the prenuptial agreement in front of him, Li Dongling glanced at Ren Yuefeng and the other person in front of him. Li Dongling could imagine how much pressure Ren Yuefeng was under.

(End of this chapter)