wild 1995

Chapter 114
Xia Fangfei and Huang Ya visited the major attractions in Frankfurt these days, bought a lot of souvenirs, and prepared a surprise for Di Ye: a silver Porsche 911 30th anniversary sports car.

"Where did you buy it? I heard that this model is limited to 911 units worldwide, and it is very difficult to buy."

"It's not difficult to buy. We just found a store that sells cars and bought them."

"Porsche is a German brand. I guess the locals don't care about it. You can see that all the taxis on the street are Mercedes-Benz."

The commemorative 911 is not the same as the mass-produced Mercedes-Benz. Di Ye feels that this phenomenon is not quite right, but his thoughts are occupied by surprises, and he is too lazy to pursue it for the time being.

Before crossing, his family was in a good condition, he had a house and a car, but the house only had three bedrooms and one living room, and the car was just a grocery shopping cart. Now that he had a limited edition sports car, he was naturally itchy, so he drove out to experience it for a while. After running for 10 minutes on the street, I returned to the Steigenberger Court Hotel in the city center.

Steigenberger is a high-end hotel chain brand in Germany. The flagship store in Frankfurt opened in 1876. It is a historically protected building with an antique flavor and rich cultural heritage.

Xia Fangfei was held in the hands of her father and brother since she was a child. Although she is not spoiled, she is also carefree, so she is very playful. Wearing a traditional Bavarian dress, she sits on the sofa in the living room and studies the tourist map. look.

On the contrary, Huang Ya looked preoccupied and packed her luggage in the bedroom. After seeing Di Ye, she said, "I'm going to fly back to China from here tomorrow, and I won't accompany you to Paris."

"What?"

"When I called home last night, my dad said that Yingfeng had been seized. I was a little worried and wanted to go back and check the situation."

Di Ye was taken aback, and asked, "Wang Beilin has fallen?"

"No, my dad said yesterday that both the TV station and the newspaper reported that he participated in activities in the high-tech zone."

"Then why was Ying Feng seized?"

"According to Uncle Fan, the country recently launched a special action to protect intellectual property rights to crack down on the pirated CD business. Yingfeng was reported."

Di Ye snorted, took out a bottle of mineral water from the refrigerator in the suite, and said, "If this is the reason, there is no need to worry, it will be unsealed in a few days."

Huang Ya didn't understand, and asked, "Why?"

"Because this is one of the terms of the China-U.S. intellectual property negotiations, the Chinese side promised to focus on cracking down on infringements of records and CDs within six months starting from March 3st. It's LD, not VCD, because Americans don't even think of VCD."

Di Ye took a sip of water, and continued: "Yingfeng has Wang Beilin's backing, and there are many VIP customers in the system. Soon someone will take advantage of this loophole to help unblock them, and they will be fined at most."

Hearing his explanation, Huang Ya felt relieved, and said, "I was afraid that something might happen to Yingfeng, so I found out about our misappropriation of funds."

With Di Ye's current strength, he is not afraid of being investigated at all, and comforted him: "It's okay, Yingfeng is not a state-owned enterprise, even if it is found out, no one will sue us, after all, Fan, Zheng, and Zhong are not clean."

Huang Ya couldn't help laughing, looked at the suitcase that was basically packed, and said, "I've bought my air ticket, I'd better go back tomorrow, I'm a little homesick."

Xia Fangfei walked in with a map at this time, and said dissatisfiedly, "I've only been out for four or five days, what do I want to do? I'll refund my ticket later, and go to Paris with us tomorrow. There are still many places to visit."

"I don't think there is much fun. I don't understand the language. I can't do anything except take pictures and shop."

"You really have no interest, be careful to become a yellow-faced woman."

"Spending money everywhere like you, won't you become a yellow-faced woman?"

"A yellow-faced woman who is interesting will not be dumped, but one who is not interesting will be dumped."

"Hmph, it's only the prodigal yellow-faced woman who gets dumped..."

Huang Ya and Xia Fangfei have different personalities, hobbies and living habits. They often complain about each other, but their relationship is very good.

Di Ye didn't know how the two of them got together as girlfriends, so he didn't bother to ask. He stayed aside and looked at the travel photos taken by the two of them, and found that many of them were group photos, and sometimes a strange woman appeared, so he asked: "What is this?" Who is the person?"

"Her name is Yu Jinxin, and she is the tour guide introduced by the Chinese consulate."

"Are you an international student?"

"No, she is a reporter from International Business Daily."

Xia Fangfei took a pen to mark on the tourist map, and introduced: "International Business Daily, like the International Technology Exchange Center I was going to interview, is also a public institution under the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation."

"It's such a coincidence."

"By the way, Sister Yu thinks that the Internet is very helpful for the development of international trade. I want to write a related manuscript. I don't understand some technical issues. I would like to ask you to help with science. Are you free tonight? I will ask her to come out together Have a meal."

Di Ye held up a group photo of the three of them, looked at Yu Jinxin, who had short hair and glasses, and said, "I'm going to discuss business with Mark Anderson tonight, let her contact me by email."

"OK then."

After seeing the photos, Di Ye accompanied Huang Ya to the hotel reception to refund the air ticket for tomorrow, and rebooked the air ticket from Paris to Pujiang on the morning of April 4.

"That sports car can only seat two people, how do you go to Paris tomorrow?"

"Just buy two more, one for the three of us."

"Oh, why are you wasting money like Fang Fei! That car costs more than 100 million RMB, and it's very troublesome to transport it back to China. Not only do you have to pay for the freight yourself, but you also have to pay additional customs duties. It's a loss."

"Scarcity is the most expensive thing. The limited edition Porsche 911 is rare. If you buy it back and use it for a few years, not only will it not depreciate, but it will appreciate in value, and you will not lose money."

"you sure?"

"When did I lose money in business? Xiaoya, believe it or not, if Porsche were a listed company, I would buy them right now."

At this time, Di Ye already figured out why the 911 30th anniversary edition was easy to buy, because Porsche's operating conditions were very poor at this time, and it was only one step away from bankruptcy.

But it is a pity that Porsche is a family business, it is difficult for outsiders to intervene, and there are people behind the blood transfusion, so Di Ye can only think about it.

Although Huang Ya was persuaded by the reason of appreciation, she disliked the impracticality of the sports car and was still very conflicted, so Di Ye bought her a station wagon RS2 jointly produced by Audi and Porsche. More than 2800 units have been produced, and it is a generation of sacred cars that are highly sought after by car fans.

Xia Fangfei didn't like the shape of the 911, and didn't care about the appreciation in value. According to her preference, she chose a Mercedes-Benz SL320 roadster.

Due to the rush of time, there was no time to go through various formalities, and the two cars could not go to Paris. Di Ye had to let Huang Ya and Xia Fangfei take the train tomorrow, and he drove alone to compete with Anderson.

Huang Ya and Xia Fangfei had visited Darmstadt, so Anderson knew them. After hearing about it that night, he suggested: "Di, don't forget that there is a vacant seat in my car, I can help you Bring a girlfriend."

"No, they have too much luggage, which will affect the quality of our competition."

"Ha! You seem confident, but don't forget that I'm an American and I grew up on wheels."

"The steering wheel is more important than the wheels. You should pray that you don't get lost."

Anderson drove from Amsterdam to Darmstadt on April 4, but got lost inexplicably and ran to Karlsruhe. He made a big joke. Hearing the words, he was a little embarrassed, and changed the subject: "Di, the board of directors agreed You buy shares, but if you insist on making Athlon open source, you can only exchange up to 11% of Netscape shares.”

The so-called skyrocketing price and repaying the money on the ground, when Di Ye proposed to exchange Athlon for 20% of Netscape shares, it was purely a lion's mouth, and he didn't expect the other party to agree.

"So it's okay to buy 1% of the shares for $20 million?"

"No problem, but you have to make sure that $1 million is clean and legal."

"I guarantee that every penny will be as pure as a diamond."

The 5% stake has reached Di Ye's psychological expectation, but since there is no movement from Microsoft, he plans to wait a few more days, so he raised his beer glass and said with a smile: "Mark, I think we can have a good talk .”

(End of this chapter)