Demons Beside You (The Demons Beside Me)

In fact, a single butler system can already meet the various needs of Chen Zhao's family.

Other black technologies are just the icing on the cake.

There are no truly epoch-making technologies, let alone any revolutionary products.

Some of them are already known technologies, and then we introduce new ones.

For example, the satellites of Security Systems Company are actually government and military satellites that have been modified and put into the civilian market.

It’s just that ordinary companies are unable to obtain satellite operating licenses.

What is truly advanced is the intelligence of the butler system itself.

The sub-item pet management system is just a modified version of the face recognition system.

Of course, there are more functions that need to be experienced by Chen Zhao and his family after they move in.

Commonly used functions are facial recognition, voice recognition, and fingerprint recognition.

A relatively small butler system has turned Mingyue Villa into a small science fiction city.

Li Qiong spent a week debugging the housekeeper system for Chen Zhao.

After completing the commissioning, she received a check for half a million dollars.

It was a pity for Li Qiong that Chen Zhao did not express any intention of going further with her.

After all, the two of them are not the same person.

But a check of half a million dollars was enough to satisfy her.

During this period, Dashan Beer’s market valuation reached US$1.3 billion.

Mainly because after the tropical storm passed, Dashan Beer had a strong market performance after re-listing after a brief suspension of production.

With daily sales of more than one million cans, it has formed a dominant position in California, and there is news that Dashan Beer will be sold across the United States, which has attracted the attention of investors.

No less than twenty investors have inquired about Dashan Beer, wanting to acquire or inject capital into Dashan Beer.

The bank is more eager to negotiate and will acquire 20% of the shares at a pre-agreed premium of 200%. If the negotiation cannot be concluded, the market valuation of Dashan Beer is likely to exceed US$1.5 billion.

Then the bank is likely to end up paying a much higher price for the shares than originally budgeted.

By then, the negotiations to acquire the shares are likely to fail.

Therefore, the bank finally acquired 22% of the shares at a market valuation of US$1.4 billion plus a 200% premium.

That is US$924 million to purchase 22% of the shares.

Although the bank will help Chen Zhao start a tax avoidance plan, Chen Zhao still needs to deduct part of the tax in the end, which is unavoidable. In the end, the money Chen Zhao can get is about 800 million US dollars.

However, this money does not come in all at once. After all, tax avoidance requires a little effort and cannot be done all at once.

Currently, US$200 million has entered Chen Zhao's account.

This is the first time since Nanqi Island that Chen Zhao has received such a large sum of money.

And in the next six months, about US$800 million will gradually enter Chen Zhao's personal account.

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"Mr. Chen, what do you think of this design plan?" Ofer Le Beer asked.

"If I say I want to increase the budget, can I modify the plan?" Chen Zhao asked.

Now that he has money on hand, Chen Zhao can't help but want to spend money.

Ofer Lebier was a little embarrassed. After all, it took more than a month and a design team of dozens of people to complete the design.

If it's a small modification, he can accept it.

But overturning the design plan would be unacceptable to him.

"I wonder how much budget Mr. Chen wants to increase?" Ofer Le Beer asked.

"I want a $300 million yacht."

Ofer Lebil almost squirted: "Mr. Chen, are you serious?"

"Yeah." Chen Zhao nodded.

A $300 million yacht? That's $200 million more than originally budgeted.

And this 300 million US dollar yacht is enough to rank the yacht among the top ten yachts in the world.

"Mr. Chen, no problem, we can come up with a new plan, but it will take a month."

"Okay, let's redesign it." Chen Zhao nodded.

This man is not only rich, he is super rich.

Originally, Ofer Le Beer thought that Chen Zhao would only increase his salary by 10 to 20 million US dollars.

The efforts of his team of designers for more than a month cost millions of dollars from design cost to labor cost plus time cost, so of course he was unwilling to overturn and redo it.

But now, Chen Zhao actually wants to increase the budget by 200 million US dollars.

That's no problem at all. Just thinking about it, he took the lead in bringing such a business to the company, and Ofer Lebier felt his blood boiling.

Yachts are currently one of the most valuable luxury goods in the world, with a value retention of up to 90% within five years.

And the value preservation within twenty years is 70%. You must know that in twenty years, the speed of technological upgrading and currency depreciation far exceeds the value preservation of the yacht.

In other words, if Chen Zhao had a yacht design budget of US$300 million, it would still be possible to sell it for US$200 million in twenty years.

So rich people like to play with yachts. When they get tired of playing with yachts, they just sell them and get a new one.

Or if you need emergency funds, you can get them through specialized yacht sales.

Don't think that rich people are unreasonable. You can buy a new one at this price.

In fact, not everyone is willing to wait one or two years, or even three or four years.

Nowadays, the construction technology of yachts has been updated. Unless it is manufacturing a super cruise ship, it takes more than three years.

If it is just a yacht, the construction period will not exceed one and a half years at most, including the design time.

In other words, Chen Zhao will be able to get his own yacht by the end of next year at the latest.

"By the way, does your company have any ready-made yachts worth tens of millions of dollars? Before the customized yacht is completed, I need a replacement."

"Yes, of course." Ofer Lebier said excitedly.

In more than a year, this man was actually willing to spend tens of millions of dollars to buy a replacement.

The world of rich people is indeed unreasonable.

Of course, Ofer Lebier would definitely not be able to make money on this yacht.

After all, Chen Zhao needs to be given a little kickback.

"What's Mr. Chen's budget?"

"Within fifty million dollars."

"Yes, I will deliver the finished yacht models and quotations currently stored by our company to you in the shortest possible time. It will not take more than three days at most. Please wait."

Ofer Lebier sent the news back to the headquarters that day. The deal was worth US$300 million. This was also Seagate's largest deal since its establishment. No one would take this deal lightly.

In the past, Chen Zhao actually didn't pay much attention to yachts, because Chen Zhao felt that he spent so much money and didn't live on the sea.

However, after Chen Zhao went to sea many times from last year to this year, Chen Zhao felt that a yacht was also a necessity.