Early the next morning, Gu Kun woke up in the sunny East Palace of Zhaoming Palace. All the fatigue in his body was gone, but he was still a little unaccustomed.

"Fuck, I've been sleeping on a yacht for a month. If the bed doesn't shake a little, my biological clock is out of whack. You won't get acne on your face."

Rubbing his face in a daze, a palace maid immediately came over to help him wash, change, and have breakfast.

The first half of Zhaoming Palace to the south is the "palace" for handling government affairs, and the second half to the north is the "palace" for accommodation.

So the East Palace is a group of palaces in the northeast corner of Zhaoming Palace, covering an area of ​​less than one hectare. In fact, no one has lived there for more than ten years. After all, according to etiquette, it is for the princes of the Grand Duke to live here. In 1984, Zhu Youdong’s two sons

After all died, the East Palace was of course empty. Zhu Youran was still young at the time, and the Grand Duke's family was very small, so he didn't have much use for the palace, so it was normal for the younger daughter to live with her parents.

After the 1998 Southeast Asian financial crisis passed, the royal family's assets also made a fortune with Gu Kun's investment. There was so much money that they had nowhere to spend it for the time being, so when they renovated the Zhaoming Palace, they renovated the East Palace with special emphasis.

It was completely renovated last year or so, and the smell was gone. After Gu Kun came, he could live there if he wanted to (actually, the royal classic decoration does not have formaldehyde, so you can live in it without the smell, which is very environmentally friendly).

Breakfast is all Chinese desserts, steamed cakes with pine nuts and chestnut flour with osmanthus sugar, Lipu taro rolls, and amber walnut flower cakes. There is almost no meat or seafood in the dry dishes, which can be regarded as recuperating Gu Kun's stomach - floating on the sea

After more than a month, I will get tired of eating seafood every day. It is rare to go ashore, so I need to lighten it up.

As for the soup, it is a dish of gnocchi with lotus leaf chicken soup. Although the name of gnocchi is rather vulgar, the workmanship is not vulgar.

First of all, the chicken used in the soup is a mountain chicken from Borneo, and the gnocchi is made with fresh lotus leaf dew as the kneading water, plus freshly roasted matcha powder, and finally pressed into round pieces using a lotus leaf mold.

Thin textured gnocchi.

After the chicken soup is boiled, all the gnocchi should float on the surface of the soup and be shaped like a lotus bonsai. This is the Ming Dynasty etiquette that can be used as a royal soup. If there is a piece of lotus leaf gnocchi that is too thick and sinks to the bottom or the shape is out of shape, it must be returned to the imperial meal.

The room cannot be used for meals.

In fact, if we go back a few years, the luxurious etiquette in Zhaoming Palace was not so particular, mainly because they were not so rich at that time. It was only in the past two years that the royal family followed Gu Kun and became more and more famous, so ancient etiquette was included in the list.

All those places that can be paid attention to are found again.

Gu Kun had breakfast and was about to ask about exposing the Australian kg seafood group and Indonesian slaves. But before he could start work, he received an international call from an old friend.

The call was from Liang Jinsong from Xiangjiang. The conversation was about acquiring Huang Yi’s tradable shares on Nasdaq at a low price.

Gu Kun thought about it for a while before reacting.

Ding Sanshi’s Huang Yi was “bleeding IPO” on Nasdaq on April Fool’s Day on April 1st. The “Xiaofei” in the “Big and Small Fei” have a six-month lock-up period, but the ban will be lifted on October 1st.

Counting the days now, it has only been half a month since the ban was lifted, and Gu Kun happened to have been floating on the sea for the past half month, almost isolated from the world, without any media appearances or any public news actions. Ordinarily, his imaginary enemies should also

It is the most relaxed state of vigilance.

Liang Jinsong said on the phone: "In just the past ten days, the number of Huang Yi's circulating shares that have changed hands has exceeded 15% of Huang Yi's total share capital, and more than half of them were sold by Murdoch's Fox Group. The average price is you

Guess how many."

Gu Kun: "Damn, what's the point in this? Just quote it directly. Is there anything lower than 60 cents per share? It can't be 50 cents, right?"

Gu Kun casually guessed a number. It was obvious that he was influenced by historical data, so he subconsciously guessed the range of five and six cents, because in the previous Internet winter, when Huang Yi's stock price fell the worst, it only fell this far.

Low. Gu Kun would be satisfied if he could buy the bottom at the lowest level.

However, Liang Jinsong's answer still exceeded his expectations: "More than that, if I only get 50 cents, I have nothing to show off. In fact, the most expensive transactions are only 40 cents per share.

Some of the chips are over 30 cents.”

"Holy shit, it's so cheap? Isn't it like cutting off Murdoch's flesh? It's not even the capital he paid when the venture capital came in," Gu Kun couldn't help but blurted out in surprise, "I remember Huang Yi's issue price was only 56

It’s about US$4, and the opening transaction price on the first day was probably more than US$4.”

Gu Kun should be shocked, because this number is too low.

You can imagine that based on the underwriting price of the underwriting brokerage during the IPO, a transaction of 3 cents per share is equivalent to a 94% drop from the internal price in the primary market on March 30!

It has also dropped 92% from the first purchase price of retail investors on the secondary market on April 1.

This can almost be described as a bloodbath. The US$2 million in venture capital Murdoch invested in Huang Yi two years ago is equivalent to not even getting back the capital.

It is such a travesty to invest in an Internet company and successfully list it in an IPO, but then the money cannot be recovered when the company is finally sold.

Liang Jinsong also noticed Gu Kun's shock and explained straightforwardly: "Actually, the series of media work you did during the Sydney Olympics, including the operation to kill Nike, and the subsequent media followed suit, everyone also watched

In the eyes.

n is definitely speaking for you, Fox is a mad dog, and it is now known to everyone. In fact, I didn't play many tricks, but since then, I have been taking it upon myself to help you publicize the truth behind Huang Yi.

The funder was from the Fox family, and during this period of time, the domestic Huangyi portal traffic plummeted.

During the Olympics, your ability to define the life and death of those luxury fashion brands was so impressive to the Chinese people. Now in mainland China, almost any online media is behind it, and it is revealed that the employer is against you. Which online media is watching

The number of people will plummet, and the market value of the website is expected to fall accordingly.

In the past two trading weeks, those who hold Huangyi stocks on Nasdaq are all saying that if the Fox Group does not completely get out of Huangyi, Huangyi may be boycotted by the Chinese and never recover, so they are panicking.

Escape. Murdoch initially wanted to increase his holdings to save the market.

Later, he didn't want to wade into this muddy water anymore. He was afraid that even if he sucked up all the circulating stocks, Huang Yi's traffic performance would not be able to show up in the end, and he would just be slapped in the face, which might also damage his position in the field of public opinion control.

Because of his reputation, he also followed the low price and ran away."

Gu Kun clicked his tongue and finally figured out the logic behind it.

In the final analysis, this matter is due to the fact that his prestige in public opinion in the Chinese world is too high, and he has become an absolute idol for more than one billion people. Whichever media criticizes him will be despised.

There is no way, since the Opium War, who has seen a yellow-skinned Chinese who can make Addison and Nike die, just do what he says?

Which yellow-skinned Chinese can keep his word when he says let Armani live and let Givenchy die?

Which yellow-skinned Chinese said that if Rolls-Royce was used as a tool pilot for Maybach, he would be able to do what he said?

Gu Kun did it. In addition, he won more than a dozen gold medals and more than twenty world records in the Olympic Games. The global media bombarded him. Gu Kun is now in the eye of a typhoon that places national attention and spiritual support on him. How special is this to the people?

It's so frustrating.

Whichever media criticizes his subscription rate and viewership in the Chinese world will die.

Murdoch can continue to speculate in stocks and become a shareholder, hold on to it, and continue to throw money at anyone who throws it away. The problem is that this kind of tray has no end. As long as Murdoch does not quit for one day, because Murdoch

In the past, Huang Yi was boycotted by the Chinese world for his dark history of confronting Gu Kun in the public opinion war.

Over time, Murdoch will be ridiculed, and it may damage the credibility of Fox's parent company. In this case, it is better to cut the knot with a quick knife and stop dwelling on it.

Ever since, at the end of March, when it was underwritten by brokers, Murdoch's Huangyi shares should have been worth tens of millions of dollars at the time, and he lost some money for the pallets. In the end, he fled to cut meat, but he didn't even get back the two million dollars.

Coming back was so miserable.

According to Liang Jinsong's operation, Gu Kun only needed to spend 5 million US dollars to acquire all 10% of Murdoch's shares and 20% of the Huangyi shares held by retail investors circulating in the market. Three stones more than Ding's original shares.

The price offered to him before the Internet winter was much lower.

Saving money is not the key, the key is that after this battle, media people in the Chinese world must consider this lesson learned from the past: Gu Kun was also tricked by you? Did you accompany him? There will be retribution in the future!

Of course, as of now, this fund-raising operation has not been completely completed. Liang Jinsong said that it has only attracted about 15%, and there is still half of the work. It is estimated that the transaction will be completed within a few days.

For this kind of transaction in which "one party wants to cut off the flesh at any cost, and the other party only has certain shareholders who dare to take over", the transaction is always very fast. Because except for Gu Kun, other shareholders need to worry about "if Fox's shares are not sold out, Huang

It is easy to be boycotted, and the days of worthlessness will never end." Therefore, even if they feel that the price is already very low, they do not dare to act rashly.

Only Gu Kun himself can offset the market's expectation that "the website is worthless because of Gu Kun's hacking", so there is no risk that he will fall short for Shan Jiuren.

To put it bluntly, even if Fox refuses to sell out after holding on to two or three points, Gu Kun can still announce that he is already a shareholder of Huang Yi, and Huang Yi has reconciled with him. The previous "Huang Yi is a chess piece of Fox"

"Cooperating with Fox to blackmail Gu Kun" is all a misunderstanding.

Then the market's bearish expectations will disappear.

This is a unique advantage that is irreplaceable and cannot be taken away by others.

"Very good, then continue to collect money according to the rhythm. As long as it is 30 cents a share, I can get as much as I want. Help me get it done within this week." Gu Kun finally told Liang Jinsong.

Liang Jinsong estimates that he will not be able to work in the Asia-Pacific region of Blackstone Fund for long. This may be the last time he personally works for Gu Kun.

"I know, don't worry, I will operate it well. I am a person who has to start things right and finish them right. Next time, if you still need equity investment, I guess Boss Su will help you with it himself." Liang Jinsong promised on the phone.

The Boss Su he mentioned is Su Shiming, the CEO of Blackstone Fund, which is also the Chinese name given by Schwarzman. If Gu Kun's current business scale continues to expand, it is indeed beyond Liang Jinsong's ability to control it well.
Chapter completed!