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Chapter 364 Press Conference

Although Lin Yaxuan hid out, this was not a solution to the problem, not to mention that she was pregnant. Besides, now that this matter was exposed all at once, it was not safe for them to stay in Shanghai. Zhou Liwen immediately decided to let Lin Yaxuan leave Shanghai and go to other places to avoid the limelight.

Not only his wife but also his children, but even the parents of both sides would be better not to stay in Shanghai. Zhou Liwen quickly made a decision and asked Lin Yaxuan to take them directly to the airport on the phone. His plane was on the other side of the airport. After getting on the plane, let's hide first.

When going to Japan, Zhou Liwen mainly considers that this matter is probably a big impact in the United States. Even if she returns to the United States, she may also inevitably be harassed by paparazzi. Moreover, it is not convenient to fly to the United States for too long, and Lin Yaxuan has a big belly. It is better to go directly to Japan. The place is close to you and it is not tiring to sit for two hours. Let Masayoshi Son help arrange it in Japan and find a quiet place to stay for a few days, so he will avoid this storm.

Just after I finished talking to Lin Yaxuan, Zhou Liwen had time to wash her face and brush her teeth, the phone suddenly rang again.

"Congratulations to Bavc" Richard said with a smile on the phone.

Zhou Liwen said a few words of joy. Richard is also an Or shareholder, but he has been eyeing real estate projects in the mainland these days, so he didn't watch the market together last night. It seems that he also knew about the stock listing situation and called him to congratulate him.

"I won't say much politely, I'll tell you something." Richard said mysteriously on the phone: "I just received the news that a reporter will soon come to your place where you live. If you don't want to be disturbed, I'd recommend you hide for the time being."

Zhou Liwen was stunned when he heard this, and then he was amused and laughed. The noses of these reporters were really more intelligent than dogs. They could even find out about their own people in Xiangjiang. It seemed that this place, like the home in Shanghai, could not stay for the time being, otherwise the reporter would block the door and would know what trouble would be caused.

Thanks to Richard, Zhou Liwen hung up the phone and cleaned up immediately. At the same time, he learned about this news that the friends in the guest room were all gone to sleep. He quickly got up and prepared. When Zhou Liwen and his friends were in a panic, they just drove out of the villa area, they met the reporters' cars. Fortunately, these reporters didn't know that the car they passed by was sitting in the car they were looking for, which made Zhou Liwen and the others have a "victory escape".

After leaving the villa, Zhou Liwen simply went straight to the airport, hung up the phone to Richard in the middle and borrowed his private plane. After arriving at the airport, Zhou Liwen got on the plane and headed straight to Japan. He was relieved after the plane landed in Japan.

In the next few days, Zhou Liwen stayed in the countryside of Nagoya, Japan. She said that it was the countryside, but it was not worse than the city. The quaint and peaceful buildings and the unique hot spring culture in Japan made it not only not inconvenient to live, but it was very comfortable.

This place was arranged by Masayoshi Son for Zhou Liwen. Zhou Liwen's family was very satisfied with the fact that fishing, taking a walk, or bathing in hot springs every day, which made people feel extremely relaxed and comfortable. Zhou Liwen and Lin Yaxuan, including their parents, suddenly had a "evaporation in the world", which made the reporters temporarily lose their goals. After searching for a long time, these reporters did not find Zhou Liwen and others.

As for Or's stock, after reaching the UU-USD price on the first day, it continued to rise the next day and rushed to the high of $6, but in the end the closing fell slightly and was at $3.6. In the following days, the stock price basically hovered around $3, which also means that Or's stock price has stabilized. According to the current stock price, the hat of the world's richest man on Zhou Liwen's head has been put on.

“Ah, it’s so comfortable…”

Shirtlessly, Masayoshi Sun buried his body in the steaming water, revealing his half-bad head on the water, exclaiming with an extremely exaggerated expression.

Zhou Liwen was right opposite him, also soaking in the comfortable hot spring water, watching the former richest man in the world "telling honestly" with him with a smile.

"Thank you so much this time. Thanks to your help arrange this place, otherwise you would have to annoy the reporters." Zhou Liwen picked up the sake placed on the water tray and made a thankful gesture to Masayoshi Son.

"You're welcome, you're used to living." Masayoshi Son reached out and wiped his face, took a towel and tied it on his forehead, waved his hand happily: "It's because you've been here for the past few days, I've been busy in Tokyo and have no time to come and see it. Don't worry about it anymore."

"How could that happen?" Zhou Liwen smiled. Today, Masayoshi Son specially took time to come to see him from Tokyo. This is already a great face. Moreover, the family has been arranged by Masayoshi Son in Japan these days, and this favor is great enough.

Masayoshi Son is very understandable about Zhou Liwen coming to Japan this time. He thought that when he became the richest man, he was also annoyed by the reporters even in a country with a strict class. Moreover, Zhou Liwen and Masayoshi Son have completely different personalities. Masayoshi Son is a person who likes to deal with people, which is also the main reason why he chose to do the investment industry. After he became the richest man, he still maintained a few people looking for venture capital with projects every day. But Zhou Liwen's personality is contrary to him. Zhou Liwen has never been a person who likes lively. In addition, he has always been low-key, so it is normal to choose to go to Japan to hide in this situation.

However, it is not the same thing to always hide like this. Today, Masayoshi Son came to meet Zhou Liwen with a sensation on the IT company. Zhou Liwen’s Taobao, Alipay and Ali have already launched a comprehensive cooperation, and the power of the merger of the three was suddenly revealed. In addition, Liu Ting’s project to open overseas shopping in China during the establishment of Xiangjiang has officially started, which has allowed Masayoshi Son to see another business opportunity.

"Do you plan to get Kyoto to approve the establishment of the Shanghai-Sea free trade zone through channels and influence?" After hearing Masayoshi Son's proposal, Zhou Liwen frowned.

Masayoshi Sun nodded and said with confidence: "This is not my idea. The establishment of a free trade zone in Shanghai was proposed a few years ago. You see, although our current overseas shopping projects were established in Xiangjiang, in the long run, it is better to use Xiangjiang as a transit point directly to use the free trade zone in Shanghai. If this free trade zone can be established, it will not only be of great help to us, but also be very beneficial to the local governments in Shanghai."

Zhou Liwen smiled unanimously. He didn't want to express any opinions on this matter, because he knew very well that this matter was impossible for the time being. If there was no accident, this matter would have to be put on hold for at least several years and would not be started until the team retired. Because it involves the political sidelines, everyone on earth knows what it is.

Of course, Masayoshi Son's proposal is that he doesn't understand a major event that will happen in Shanghai, but Zhou Liwen will never tell him. He will not interfere in such a thing, nor will he remind him that since Masayoshi Son wants to give it a try, let him try it, even if it fails, there will be no loss.

"How is your SoftBank's investment funds currently?" Zhou Liwen avoided the other party's topic and instead asked another thing.

"What? Are you still lacking funds?" Masayoshi Son looked at Zhou Liwen with a little strange look and said with a smile: "If your Or needs investment, I am of course happy, I'm afraid you won't want to."

Zhou Liwen smiled and waved his hand, shook his head and said, "Of course I am not referring to this. I want to ask you, after all, you are engaged in investment, and you are more professional than me in this regard. If I have a large amount of available funds in my hand, how much profit can you guarantee if you hand it to SoftBank?"

After hearing this, Masayoshi Son sat up from the water, took off the towel and wiped the sweat and asked, "What do you mean... Shanghai Bank?"

"That's true, or not."

"How do you say this?"

Zhou Liwen Chen Ning said: "At present, Alipay's users are already very large. Just based on Alipay's daily turnover and cycle, a huge amount of funds will be shelved. This is a waste for the banking industry or the investment industry. What do you think?"

Masayoshi Sun nodded and agreed: "This is indeed a waste. I have understood the operation of Alipay clearly. I have to say that as the funds increase in the future, the amount of idle funds will become larger and larger. However, is this not a good thing for Shanghai Bank? I remember that Alipay's partner is Shanghai Bank, and you are also the major shareholder of Shanghai Bank. It is inevitable to obtain profits according to the bank's operating income."

"But the problem is that Shanghai Bank is too small." Zhou Liwen sighed and said, "With the increase in the amount of funds, the shortcomings of Shanghai Bank have emerged. Although Shanghai Bank has developed rapidly in recent years, it is just a domestic commercial bank in China. From the perspective of bank users, market share, investment channels, etc., they are much worse than the four major banks, not to mention SoftBank. I think so. I hope that your SoftBank and Shanghai Bank, including Alipay, will cooperate comprehensively in this regard and use this part of the spare funds to do something."

Masayoshi Son tilted his head and nodded, "This kind of cooperation is OK. SoftBank has a wide range of investment channels in China, so there is no problem with the two parties in terms of fund lending and lending. However, relying solely on Alipay's turnover may not play a big role, right?"

Zhou Liwen smiled and said his final plan. This plan was not a novel thing, it was Yu'ebao created by Alipay in the later stage in history. To put it bluntly, this so-called Yu'ebao is a low-level financial game, which is actually no different from fundraising. If its income is particularly high, and the investment and transfer are not so convenient, and even restrictions are set, it will almost be similar to the Ponzi scheme.

But no matter what, the essence of financial games is not much different. The connotation is basically the same, but the appearance is dressed as a high-end thing and fooling people. This is something financiers often do. As the head of SoftBank, Zhou Liwen immediately understood it after saying this. And after calculating it in his mind, he found that the benefits of doing this thing outweigh the disadvantages under the current circumstances.

Immediately, Masayoshi Son agreed with the project. Seeing that there was no problem with Masayoshi Son, Zhou Liwen smiled and asked him to find time to arrange it. He discussed in detail with Liu Ting, Ma Qingyang and Shanghai Banking in three aspects, how to operate it in detail, and after discussion, come up with a plan.

Masayoshi Son agreed immediately, but unexpectedly he had a good deal when he was in a hot spring, which made him feel extremely comfortable. He smiled and said some interesting stories he heard in Tokyo. It is said that Or Company is now called the "millionaire" maker after Microsoft back then.

On the second day after Or's stock was listed, dozens of luxury cars were added to Or's headquarters. Due to the listing of stocks and the cashing of stock options by employees, all the company's owners became rich. The worst of them were millionaires, and the better ones were millionaires. As for senior executives like the company, such as Bill and others, they even became billionaires at once, and became interesting things that the entire Silicon Valley talked about.

"The news in the United States is still reporting on this. There are contents of people from your company being interviewed everywhere in the newspapers and the Internet. You don't know about this yet, right?" Son asked with a smile.

Zhou Liwen really doesn't know that these days he has been living in the countryside. He has never read the newspaper or surfed the Internet. He lives very leisurely every day. Apart from remote phone calls and communicated with the United States and China, no one told him about this. He heard this, Zhou Liwen also found it funny, but it is normal. How can this person not spend money if he makes money? Moreover, the Americans are extroverted and are not inferior to Chinese people at all.

"In my opinion, it's not a matter of keeping away like this. In my opinion, it's better to find a press conference at the right time to show up." Son Son patted Zhou Liwen's shoulder and suggested. Zhou Liwen's heart was moved after hearing this. It's indeed, as he said, it's not the same thing for him to hide. Bill Gates, including Son, and have all been in the position of the richest man, and they didn't see them hiding.

It is better to be annoyed for a while than to be upset. Even if you hide yourself, this family can't hide with you, right? I have never shown up. God knows when this wind will pass. Zhou Liwen thought about it and accepted Masayoshi Son's suggestion and planned to hold a small-scale press conference. As for what you are afraid of, then please ask the reporters to delete it and keep it a close.

Since you are in Japan now, you can just hold a press conference in Japan. Although the Japanese are not very good, there is still a way to follow the rules, and there is also a way to do it. Moreover, there is also a helping Son, so it is not difficult to hold this press conference. After Son returned to Tokyo, he quietly contacted several reliable media with good relationships and started working for Zhou Liwen. When the arrangements were almost done, he sent invitations to some international media, and of course, Chinese media were indispensable. When he learned that Zhou Liwen was going to hold a press conference in Tokyo, all the media of all sizes, whether they received the invitation or not, they had not received the invitation.

On the day of the press conference, Zhou Liwen appeared as scheduled, causing a stir. According to the arrangement, Zhou Liwen first released a set of business views on Or Company, as well as opinions on stock listing, etc. Next, the reporter asked the reporter's questions. The question was not long, and a special person named him and asked questions one by one. The atmosphere on the scene was very good.

"Bavc, Silicon Valley now says your Or company has become a millionaire maker. What do you think about this comment?" asked a reporter from afar from the United States.

"Aren't you a millionaire maker?" Zhou Liwen asked in surprise, then touched her head and suddenly realized: "It seems that the company's employees have squandered too much these days. They have replaced all their money with good cars and houses, and then they have dropped from millionaire to millionaire?"

This immediately caused everyone to burst into laughter. The reporters present knew about the situation where dozens of luxury cars appeared in the parking lot of Ot Company overnight.

"Mr. Zhou, who do you want to thank the most for your becoming the world's first richest Chinese man?" Needless to say, it must be asked by the domestic media, and only they will ask such unnutritious nonsense.

Zhou Liwen had a faint smile on her face: "This is wrong, I'm not the first one."

"No? But..." The reporter who asked was obviously stunned, his expression seemed a little confused.

"Don't forget that before me, there was Yang from Yahoo. In addition, the ancestral home of Mr. Sun Masayoshi, the director here, is also from China. Before me, how can I say that I am the first? If we include the Wu family during the Qing Dynasty and the famous and adults in history, my wealth is not worth mentioning compared to them."

Zhou Liwen choked the other party so much that he could not say anything. Who asked him to ask such a brainless question? Before the reporter could come back to his senses, the host then called the next reporter's name.

The next few reporters were not as naive as the reporter just now. The content of the question could not be said to be tricky, at least it was just a matter of course. In the end, when he was nominated for a reporter from the New York Times, the reporter suddenly raised a question, which made Zhou Liwen stunned.

"According to the news we have received, Apple is preparing to sue Or, your tablet has stolen Apple's design patents. What do you think about this issue of Bavc?"

"Is there such a thing?" Zhou Liwen reacted immediately after briefly being in a daze. He said in surprise: "I'm sorry, I don't know if what you said is true. At least I haven't received such news yet, so it is impossible to give any answer to this matter."

"On the Apple company..."

"If Apple formally sues Or, you can get information from my lawyer. This is no longer the content of today's press conference. I'm very sorry." Zhou Liwen smiled and said this without waiting for the other party to finish speaking. Then the host announced the end of the press conference. Zhou Liwen nodded to everyone, turned around and left, and when he left the venue, his expression became solemn, and he said to the people around him: "Investigate me immediately, what was going on?"
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