To order arms, I still have to talk to Commod.

After lunch, Zhong Yi rushed to Jiangbei and met Kang Maode.

"Zhong, you finally remember me again." As soon as we met, Commod gave Zhong Yi a warm bear hug.

There is a reason for Commod's enthusiasm. Firstly, it is because "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" and "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" are selling well. The 10 million copies of the first third version of the first and 10 million copies of the second first version have been sold. From this we can see that the market is almost saturated.

However, it is not easy to achieve such sales results in this economic downturn, which shows how popular Zhong Yi's novel is.

As a result, Commod also began to look forward to Harry Potter's third installment and another epic magic novel written by Zhong Yi - Song of Ice and Fire.

Of course, this is not the thing that pleases Commod the most.

No matter how popular Zhong Yi’s novels are, the only one who benefits are the Commod family.

What really excited Commod was the development momentum of Yinfa Bank!

Since the completion of Yinxi Industrial Park, dozens of enterprises have settled in every day. To this day, there have been more than 2,000 of these types of enterprises entering Yinxi Industrial Park, including more than 1,000 foreign-funded enterprises.

Such a huge entry of Chinese and foreign companies will inevitably bring huge loan demand.

Because enterprises need funds to build factories, purchase materials of production and develop business also require funds.

Since Yinfa Bank signed an agreement with the Yinjiang Municipal Government, all enterprises in the Yinxi Industrial Park must borrow from Yinfa Bank, which made Yinfa Bank's lending business unprecedentedly prosperous.

The unprecedented prosperity of lending business has given Yinfa Bank the confidence to offer higher annual interest rates, which in turn helped Yinfa Bank attract more deposit business today, which will form a virtuous cycle, with more deposits and more loans, and Yinfa Bank's profits have also surged in a leapfrog manner!

In just less than half a year, Yinfa Bank's loan scale has reached 100 million.

This 100 million is not fiat currency, but pounds, and Yinfa Bank is settled in pounds.

Seeing that Yinfa Bank was so prosperous, old banks such as Citigroup and HSBC finally couldn't sit still, so they took the initiative to extend an olive branch to Yinfa Bank and demanded cooperation with Yinfa Bank.

The specific way of cooperation is to invest.

Since it is a shareholding, it involves the bank's valuation.

In the first round of negotiations that just ended, representatives of Citibank and HSBC offered Ningbo Bank a valuation of up to 10 million pounds.

This means that if you sell your shares at this price, Commod will get 1.5 million pounds!

For Commod, this is definitely an astronomical figure, because the capital he invested in Yinfa Bank was only 150,000 pounds.

In less than half a year, 150,000 pounds became one.5 million!

Of course, Zhong Yi is the one who earns more, he can get a huge sum of 5 million pounds!

"Zhong, do you know, you're rich!" Commod couldn't suppress his joy and said, "Just just now, HSBC and Citibank representatives offered our Ningbo Bank a valuation of 10 million pounds! If you follow this valuation, your shares can be sold for 5 million pounds! My God!"

"Did you agree?" Zhong Yi frowned, "Commod, this is not so stupid, right?"

"Oh no no no no, Zhong, you misunderstood." Commod waved his hand repeatedly and said, "You are the controlling shareholder of Yinfa Bank. For such a big thing, if you didn't nod, we wouldn't have signed an agreement."

"It's good if you don't sign it." Zhong Yi said in a deep voice, "The valuation of 10 million pounds is low."

"I also feel it's low," Commod said. "If we get the New York Stock Exchange or London Stock Exchange listing now, our Yinfa Bank's valuation will definitely not be only 10 million pounds, or 50 million pounds are possible. Our performance is really excellent. Looking around the world, there is probably no second bank's performance that can be compared with us."

"Yes, don't sign it if the valuation is less than 50 million." Zhong Yi said, "After all, this matter was not something we took the initiative to ask for, so the ones who were anxious were Citigroup and HSBC."

"I think so too." Commod nodded when he heard this, and said, "Zhong, I have another good thing to tell you. The third edition of Harry Potter's first and the front edition of the second part have been sold out." After a pause, he said, "My grandpa asked me to ask, when will you finish the third part of Harry Potter?"

"It's almost done." Zhong Yi said, "How many volumes are printed in the third radical?"

"This time it's as you wish." Commod smiled, "The first seal is 20 million copies!"

In the first two movies, the Commod family finally became bolder.

Zhong Yi nodded and said, "Royalty payment is still the same rule, should you pay in advance?"

"No problem." Commod shook the check book in his hand and said with a smile. "The six million dollars paid in advance by the publisher has arrived. You can get the money when you submit the manuscript."

"This is great!" Zhong Yi was overjoyed when he heard this. This amount of money was really timely.

After pausing, Zhong Yi continued, "You don't have to give me this money, just call Winchester Arms Company, and then order the full set of equipment for twelve beggar versions of the American Armed Forces."

"Oh Tfak? Twelve American Machinery Masters?" Commod said, "Zhong, are you serious?"

"Of course it's serious." Zhong Yi said, "At the price we agreed on before, a division's equipment of 500,000 yuan and a division of six million dollars can be ordered for a full set of equipment for 12 American equipment masters."

"But the question is, why do you need so much American equipment?" Commod said in confusion, "Your Zhejiang East Coast Defense Corps only has three detachments, and the equipment of three divisions is enough, right?"

Zhong Yi sneered: "Have you forgotten that in addition to being the chief of staff of the Zhejiang East Coast Defense Corps, I am also the director of the staff of the Zhejiang Anti-Enemy Self-Defense Corps. The Zhejiang Anti-Enemy Self-Defense Corps is a group army, and the full set of equipment of 12 divisions may not be enough. If it weren't for the remuneration, I would even want to order equipment of 50 divisions."

"50 divisions of equipment? God, you must be crazy." Commod drew crosses on his chest and said, "You are not Chang Kaishen, this is not what you should do."

Zhong Yi said impatiently: "Stop talking nonsense, please contact me with Little Winchester quickly, and trade through the China-Italy Shipping Company according to the original channels."

"Okay." Commod shrugged, "but Harry Potter's manuscript..."
Chapter completed!