Global monopoly of technology

I talked with Yao Jianhong for about half an hour. As soon as he left, Luo Sheng took care of some things, took a look at the company's account and operating expenses, and immediately called Qin Weimu.

"what's up?"

Qin Weimu asked neatly as soon as he came in.

"money!"

Luo Sheng looked at him and said, "I looked at the materials you sent. There are now more than one billion funds left in the company's accounts. Money is used in all aspects. The remaining liquid funds can last at most for half a month. ."

Qin Weimu stood in front of him gracefully, his exquisite hands naturally embraced him, "I have contacted many banks a week ago for the issue of funds. I am preparing to draw up a plan based on the current development speed of the company. I plan to reach a preliminary consensus with the bank for a debt of 17.8 billion yuan, and then come back to you for approval."

Luo Sheng smiled and said: "I know my heart deeply, I am so relieved."

Qin Weimu gave him an angry glance, but quickly skipped it, and then said: "The bank is very enthusiastic about lending money."

After hearing that Luo Sheng smiled and did not speak, it is of course. If the previous borrowings are largely indirect endorsements, then this time the debt issuance, Luo Sheng is the biggest guarantee by virtue of the title of the richest man in the country and the richest Chinese. , As long as the intention to borrow money is expressed, there is no need to worry about borrowing money.

But just when he was thinking this way, Qin Weimu, who was turning his head, poured cold water on him.

"But banks almost all have the same condition, that is, this loan can only be used for domestic related investments."

"Huh?" Luo Sheng was stunned for a while, and then reluctantly said: "I can only invest in the country? Is there such a big market in China? I'm all invested in the domestic market, don't I need to pay it back? "

Qin Weimu calmly said: “The reasons are slightly complicated. One is that the amount of borrowing is too high. Second, although the country’s foreign exchange has more than 800 billion, there are very few that can actually be used, and the country needs a large amount of foreign exchange for international investment. Purchasing all kinds of bulk commodity resources to meet the needs of the country’s development, so there is not much remittance to you in exchange for billions of dollars."

Luo Sheng sighed rather helplessly. He thought of Bluestar Technology Group, but the company's current development has no additional cash flow. It must be rich in funds if it does not engage in cloud computing services, but this cannot be left, and the market share will be later. It may not occupy the leading position.

At the moment, Bluestar Technology has just IPO, and it is impossible to issue bonds externally.

Otherwise, after some capital operation, the Blue Coast Company can find the Bluestar Technology Group to borrow money. After all, more than 70% of the company's income comes from overseas, which is plainly earned in US dollars.

The transaction can be completed offshore.

Bluestar Technology Group is a non-financial institution. If you borrow money, you can add other receivables and other payables in the accounting.

However, Bluestar Technology does not have any spare money. Because of its own development, Luo Sheng's private offshore trust fund has a large account to solve this problem.

But this money can’t be moved. This money is for the future harvest of a wave of subprime mortgage crisis credit default funds. I can’t pick the sesame seeds and lose the watermelon. I will burn a lot of money in the future. It is not made out of thin air, and it takes a lot of money to burn it.

"In this way, you can borrow about 3 billion from a domestic bank. The company's current domestic development should be enough." Luo Sheng thought for a while and added: "As for overseas development, look to Wall Street and borrow 2 billion in my name. U.S. dollars, just ask me to borrow the azure coast."

If you don't earn money for money, there is nothing to say.

This is so set.

There is no doubt that Luo Sheng is now at the peak of his career, and his assets have begun to diversify. It is really not a problem that he wants to raise money. There is no way to go, and there are more channels.

So when news came out that Luo Sheng was willing to issue large debts to Wall Street, old friends directly called his private number.

Goldman Sachs' investment banks, J.P Morgan and other banks or investment banks are very eager to provide Luo Sheng with relevant financial services. Such low-risk and high-yield high-quality large customers are not many in the world, and they must be scrambling. Object.

They don't care about what Luo Sheng wants to borrow money for. They only care about two issues. The first is the amount of borrowing, and the second is the debt repayment ability.

This time Luo Sheng wants to borrow 2 billion US dollars, which is definitely a huge sum of money. As for the debt repayment ability, no financial institution will doubt that he will not be able to repay the debt. Even if his personal net worth has shrunk ten times, it will be repaid. It's more than rubbing.

Meng Qiu, the head of Goldman Sachs in Greater China, came to Sioux City to visit Luo Sheng. Naturally, he came to talk about this loan business. The reputation of Goldman Sachs may not be good, even in the eyes of some countries in Southeast Asia and the general public. A notorious multinational financial giant group.

But it can’t change the fact that he is a successful business giant. He has the strength, the ability, the means, and he can easily play it, either explicitly or implicitly. Therefore, Goldman Sachs is now the largest financial group on Wall Street. All pressed.

Moreover, the Goldman Sachs Group also favors investing in Internet companies in China. Many successful Internet companies have Goldman Sachs Capital, and they have been high-profile supporters since investing in Bluestar Technology.

This time he sent Mengqiu personally and successfully completed the business. Luo Sheng decided to find Goldman Sachs Capital to borrow US$900 million.In addition, 1.1 billion US dollars were selected by Deutsche Bank, Credit Suisse Bank, J·P Morgan and Bank of America.

This is also a way of indirect sharing of benefits, and many things can be spread more smoothly with benefits.

With this money, the Côte d'Azur company can quickly expand the market in overseas regions.

In fact, to a certain extent, cooperation with overseas financial groups can make it easier to open up the local market. The reason is also very simple. Who cares about the money, and the money is still invested locally.

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In April.

North America, Armonk, IBM headquarters.

"God! Are you sure you are not kidding? Your company wants to buy 2 million sets of servers?"

At this moment, Samuel Palmisano, the current CEO of IBM wearing a pair of glasses, looked at a Chinese in front of him in a circle, and this person was the second person of the Bluestar Technology Group Zhang Bowen.

"Of course, Mr. Samuel, didn't I come all the way to tease you?" Zhang Bowen answered him affirmatively.

"Does your company want to build a large-scale data center?" After confirming that it was correct, Samuel Palmisano became enthusiastic. 2 million server orders, a super large order worth 3 billion US dollars, if this The contract was negotiated and may be the largest single transaction contract in IBM's history.

"Yes, we plan to build 12 large data centers worldwide this year to next year to expand the company's cloud computing service business." Zhang Bowen said with a smile, and did not hide anything, because it just said what to do, but how to do it , Why do these are business secrets, it is impossible to disclose.

"CloudComputing (cloud computing)?" Samuel Palmisano looked at each other suspiciously when he heard this phrase for the first time.

"This is a new concept proposed by the founder of our company, Mr. Luo, at an internal meeting. In fact, it is just a further description of Sun's'network is a computer'." Zhang Bowen said with a smile, and then briefly introduced some The concept of innocence.

"That's it."

Samuel Palmisano was suddenly moved, and he couldn't help but say: "It's true that in February of this year, Amazon also bought IBM servers to build a data center, but it's not as exaggerated as you. Amazon only bought a few The billion-dollar order has been bargaining with us for more than half a year. So, your company is also going to launch an elastic computing cloud service similar to Amazon?"

"No! No! There is still a difference." Zhang Bowen explained: "We need IBM to build the required servers according to our requirements."

"This..." Samuel Palmisano looked hesitant. This will definitely increase additional R&D costs, and the customer's time is still in a hurry, so further investment must be increased.

Obviously, IBM wants to directly sell the same server that it bought with Amazon. It is very simple, so that the profits will be greater.

However, if the Bluestar Technology Group insists on the "special offer", Samuel Palmisano will also agree. After all, the US$3 billion super-large order is specifically for Bluestar Technology’s cloud computing server. No problem at all.

It's just that any company wants to maximize profits.

Seeing his hesitation, Zhang Bowen said slowly: "If IBM can't meet our company's requirements, then we can only talk to Intel."

"NONONO! NO——!" Hearing this, Samuel Palmisano hurriedly said: "Go to his well-trained Intel. I don't want to hear the name at this moment. We agreed."

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