Super Resort Tycoon

Li Yang and Tong Shuya played in Tahiti for 20 days before returning to China together. The hotel evaluation and promotional film shooting teams that followed Li Yang had already returned to China by plane a long time ago.

Some of the staff responsible for the acquisition of the hotel continued to stay in Tahiti to assist Mihir in completing the subsequent acquisition of holdings.

Li Yang took Tong Shuya and returned to China on his private plane.

After returning to China, Tong Shuya was immediately invited to participate in the piano score for the single "Dream Catcher", and even went abroad in the MV with a piano solo.

Before returning to China, Tong Shuya had already filed a resignation application with the airline and had been approved.

A few days after Li Yang came back, he flew to the Four Seasons Group in Toronto again to negotiate the acquisition of the Four Seasons Hotel George V, but the initial results of the negotiations were not satisfactory.

Four Seasons Group does not have any plans to sell the George V Hotel, and the George V Hotel is one of the major shareholders of Four Seasons Group, a hotel that the Saudi prince particularly likes.

Therefore, in order to acquire the George V Hotel, Li Yang needs to find a way to persuade the Saudi prince-Alwaleed bin Talal bin Abdul Aziz Al.

Li Yang also knows the challenge of this mission!

If you want to buy his favorite George V hotel from Saudi Prince Alwaleed, money alone may not be able to do it. After all, people are the real top rich, and they are really not short of money.

After returning from Toronto, Li Yang asked Michelle to help collect Alwaleed’s information. After all, knowing oneself and the enemy can survive all battles. Before going to see the prince, he still has to get to know him, at least know what to do. Only in order to make Alwaleed willing to sell the George V Hotel to himself.

Tong Shuya has completed the recording of the single "Dream Catcher" in collaboration with singer Song Ziyu, and it has been launched.

With the popularity of "Dream Catcher" and Song Ziyu's reputation, the data on the day the new song was launched was crushed all the way, directly reaching the top of the list, and even instantly swept major short video media.

The popularity of the song "Dream Catcher" has also brought a large wave of fans and exposure to Tong Shuya. After all, the marketing team and professional operators of the Dream Catcher Group are operating behind them, and they want to use the opportunity to help Tong Shuya gain traffic and Attention is simply a breeze.

Taking advantage of the popularity of Song Ziyu's single "Dream Catcher", Dream Catcher took advantage of the trend to promote Tong Shuya's concert "Dream Catcher" and successfully sold out the tickets for several concerts planned. .

And Tong Shuya also devoted herself to the preparation of the concert. In the concert, she will not only play her famous masterpieces such as "Dream Catcher" and "The New Love Praise" and other original masterpieces, she will also collaborate with Langlang. Lang Lang's representative composers, as well as some classic world famous songs.

There will also be a symphony orchestra on site to cooperate with the performance, so the entire operation team has to do a lot of work in the early stage. Fortunately, Dreamcatcher Group has done many large-scale interactive meetings for Heitan and Doug. Rich experience in this large-scale event.

"Husband, husband, let's do it again!"

In the piano room, Tong Shuya urged Li Yang to ensemble again "New Love's Praise", which is one of the finale of her concert, "New Love's Praise" with Li Yang's piano and violin.

In his attitude towards music, Tong Shuya always strives for perfection and does her best. Moreover, Tong Shuya also attaches great importance to this concert, and she is also a little nervous, so she always hopes to be able to connect every song as much as possible. the best.

"Okay!" Li Yang can also understand Tong Shuya's mood, and he is actually more nervous than Tong Shuya, because he doesn't want to shame Tong Shuya, he doesn't want to drag Tong Shuya back, after all, this is the audience We are looking forward to the tracks very much.

Therefore, in this ensemble, Li Yang also strives to do his best with an attitude of excellence.

The two played together again. This time it was indeed better than the last time. Whether it was the melody and rhythm, it could be said to be seamless and complement each other.

"It sounds good, this time the cooperation is really great!" A voice came from the door, and Li Yang and Tong Shuya looked over. It was the music director of this concert.

"Teacher Yu, you are here!"

"Hehe, I just listened to your performance at the door. I didn't come in for fear of disturbing you. The cooperation just now was great!" Teacher Yu clapped his hands.

With the approval of Teacher Yu, Tong Shuya was very happy and felt relieved.

"But I feel I still haven't played well!" Li Yang said.

"It's already very good. Your young couple themselves have a good understanding. The concert will be held in five days. If you practice again these few days, there will be no problem at that time!" Teacher Yu said.

"Husband, you are already great. Few people in our school who majored in violin have played well with you!" Tong Shuya also gave Li Yang a great affirmation.

The reason why she pulls Li Yang to practice repeatedly is actually mainly to run the degree of cooperation with each other. Even if two top artists come together, it takes a long period of time to cooperate and practice, and the best can be achieved after running in.

In the evening, Li Yang received the information from Mihir about the Saudi Prince Alwaleed.

Li Yang took a closer look at the prince’s information, and couldn’t help but have a new understanding of the prince. In fact, Li Yang’s previous impression of the prince was nothing more than a Saudi prince who relied on oil to become a rich man. The coal boss is almost the same.

However, when he read the information about the prince, he felt a sigh in his heart. This is also a legend.

In addition to being a member of the richest and most mysterious Saudi royal family in the world, he is also an outstanding businessman and investor.

The name Buffett in the Middle East speaks for itself.

Although backed by the Saudi royal family, who lives an extremely luxurious life with billowing petrodollars, this prince is still considered a self-made man compared to other princes.

In fact, it is estimated that there are 10,000 to 12,000 princes in Saudi Arabia, and petrodollars can only guarantee them about 15,000 U.S. dollars in monthly living expenses.And Prince Alwaleed can become the best among them because he is also the most hard-working billionaire on earth.

Alwaleed has noble blood. His grandfather was King Abdul Aziz Al Saud, the founding monarch of Saudi Arabia. He unified and established modern Saudi Arabia in 1932.

The prince was born in Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia, in March 1955. His father is the 21st son of the king and his mother is Princess Mona Soleh, the daughter of the first Prime Minister of Lebanon after independence, Riad Soleh.

At the age of 14, his father sent him to the Riyadh Military Academy to study, and he became the youngest soldier in Saudi history.

In 1976, he went to the United States to study alone. During this period, he worked tirelessly and studied hard, and he never gave the impression of a dude.

In 1979, he received a Bachelor of Science in Business Management from Menlo College of California with honors.Later, he received a Master of Social Sciences from Syracuse University.

After returning from school, he obtained his first venture capital-a loan of 30,000 US dollars from his father.

After he mortgaged a house his father gave him, he received 400,000 US dollars.

He used this capital and his own network to start a trade agency and contracting business. In just a few years, his annual profit reached tens of millions of dollars.

Then, he foresaw in time that the high welfare policy implemented by the government relying on petrodollars would greatly stimulate the domestic real estate market.He acted decisively and bought a large area of ​​real estate in the capital Riyadh, laying the foundation for him to become the largest local private real estate owner in the future.

With the success of the prince in construction and real estate, his wealth grew rapidly.

After that, he established the "Kingdom Holding Company" and extended his tentacles to other areas.

In 1986, he became the largest shareholder of the United Bank of Saudi Arabia, which had been losing money for years, and in 1989 transformed the United Bank into the best profitable commercial bank in Saudi Arabia.These early years of business experience have accumulated the "first pot of gold" for the prince to sell to the international market.

After that, he continued to invest and held shares in a series of well-known international companies including Citibank, Coca-Cola, Pepsi, McDonald's, Disney, Motorola, American Online-Time Warner, Ford, Amazon, eBay, Kodak, Xerox, Four Seasons, etc. The largest foreign individual investor in the United States.

With the rise of China's economy, the prince also set his sights on China Xia. When Bank of China went public that year, he spent US$2 billion to purchase a 2.7% stake in Bank of China and held it as a strategic investment for a long time.

The investment in Bank of China is only the tip of the iceberg of Alwaleed’s strategic investment in China.

One of the investments that caught Li Yang's attention was his first direct investment project in China Mainland many years ago-Kunshan Swiss Hotel.

In the next few days, besides accompany Tong Shuya in rehearsal of concert performances, Li Yang carefully studied the information about Alwaleed, thinking about the entry point and method of negotiation with him.

Day by day, Tong Shuya’s first concert was successfully held in Pearl City, and received a lot of applause. Whether it was a solo "Dream Catcher", a piano ensemble with Langlang, or a violin ensemble with Li Yang, it became The highlight program of the concert was loved by the audience.

With the holding of concerts, Tong Shuya's reputation in the circle is also steadily increasing, and the popularity of the song "Dream Catcher" has also made this piece of music that has been perfectly transformed from piano music to song, completely becoming the annual Explosive style.

In a blink of an eye, it has reached November, and the David TVs have begun to prepare for the New Year’s Day and Spring Festival Gala. As one of the phenomenal music on the Internet this year, "Dream Catcher" has also been included in the program list by the David TVs.

All kinds of copyright authorization applications are coming, and Pearl TV, Modu TV, Mango TV, and even CCTV have sent invitations to Tong Shuya.

Its Central TV Spring Festival Gala program is that Tong Shuya and Song Ziyu work together to perform the song "Dream Catching" live.

This made Tong Shuya really excited for a long time. Being able to board the Spring Festival Gala is a coveted opportunity for many entertainment stars, let alone Tong Shuya.

Li Yang also knows that Tong Shuya is really going to be hot this time. In fact, through the operation and packaging of the team at this stage, as a player in the piano field, Tong Shuya's domestic reputation is almost equal to that of Langlang, even on the Internet. The attention and fame of has even surpassed Langlang, of course this is only on the level of fame and traffic.

At present, Tong Shuya has almost 7 million fans on Weibo, and nearly 20 million fans on Douyin. There are as many as millions of piano-related derivative works and short videos of "Dream Catcher", and the invitations to the Spring Festival Gala by all Davids this time will also be thorough. Lay Tong Shuya's road to fame.

It is estimated that after the Spring Festival Gala, Tong Shuya's reputation will be close to the first-line celebrities.

I will really have a celebrity girlfriend when I come, think about it... it's pretty fragrant!

With the end of Tong Shuya’s concert performance, the rehearsal of the major New Year’s party programs also officially began. In addition, Tong Shuya also received many recording invitations for talk shows and variety shows, and even beat some advertising.

Compared to before, Tong Shuya seems to be busier, but fortunately, they are all in the country, and will not fly around the world like before, so Li Yang and Tong Shuya want to meet or get together, or Easy.

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"Mr. Li, the meeting with Alwaleed was about 14:00 on December 8, Saudi time!" Mihir walked into Li Yang's office and said.

At this stage, with the completion of the acquisition of the holdings of two hotels in Tahiti, Mihir also specially returned from Tahiti to assist Li Yang in researching and discussing the acquisition of the George V Hotel.

With the help of Mihir, Li Yang finally smoothed out some ideas and found some methods, although he did not know whether it would work or whether he could successfully complete the negotiation.

But instead of talking on paper, it is better to actually meet the Saudi prince once and have a real face-to-face communication. Even if this time is unsuccessful, at least you will be able to better understand some of the other's psychology, even making friends is good.

"Okay, let's arrange the schedule!" Li Yang said.

Three days later, Li Yang and Mihir took a private jet to embark on a trip to Saudi Arabia. Their destination this time was the capital of Saudi Arabia, Riyadh.

Riyadh used to be a small desert city covering an area of ​​less than one square kilometer, but it has gone through decades of construction and development with the wealth of oil.

It has become one of the most famous garden cities in the Arab world. It has the prosperity of an international metropolis and its unique cultural and religious atmosphere that belongs to Arabia.

It was noon local time when they arrived in Riyadh. After having lunch at the hotel where they were staying, Li Yang and Mihir drove to Alwaleed's residence.

It was a manor built in the desert, not very far from Riyadh.

Li Yang actually contacted the Saudi prince through Four Seasons Group. After all, Li Yang is also one of the current shareholders of Four Seasons Group. In addition, he has been very active in the global resort hotel industry recently. The arrival of rookies in the hotel industry is also full of expectations.

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