Chapter 534: The Youngest Son of a Wealthy Family

Jiang Shixi originally thought that Nongfu Sanquan would happily agree to let Fan Wumian invest.

However, after asking, I got a negative answer.

The marketing manager in charge of the liaison soon called and told me that their boss had declined the offer, but the price could be raised a little.

After hearing the news, Fan Wumian just laughed and didn’t take the matter to heart at all. Doing business requires bargaining, and it is impossible for everything to go smoothly.

Pu Jiajing, who was standing by, felt a little strange and asked:
“That doesn’t make sense. You can use the endorsement fee to invest in the company without losing anything. If you become a shareholder, you can also help them sell more products. Isn’t that a good thing?”

Fan Wumian didn’t know what the boss of Nongfu Sanquan was thinking, but as a businessman himself, he could probably guess the reason and explained:
“Look at this company, it’s willing to spend tens of millions of dollars every year to invite me to be the spokesperson. You can guess how much money this small bottle of mineral water can make. I heard that the cost of the bottle is actually more expensive than the water, and the gross profit can exceed half.”

“Some businesses are inconspicuous but very profitable, and selling beverages is obviously one of them.”

“Businessmen often make decisions based on profit. He is unwilling to exchange the endorsement fee for equivalent shares, which shows that in the eyes of the boss of this company, shares are more valuable than cash. But it is also true that shares worth 2000 million now may be worth 2 million once they are successfully listed.”

The boss of Nongfu Sanquan is very low-key, so low-key that most people didn’t even know he was so rich before he became the richest man for a period of time.

However, Fan Wumian knew that the other party was not only rich, but would also invest in pharmaceutical companies and earn hundreds of billions of RMB in the future. With his extremely high shareholding ratio in Nongfu Sanquan Company, when this company went public, he jumped to the top of the mainland rich list.

If the other party hadn’t come to him on his own initiative, Fan Wumian would have almost forgotten about Boss Zhong’s existence. It can be said that he has completely understood the essence of the phrase “make a fortune in silence”. The fact that he can endure the emptiness and travel at night in gorgeous clothes shows that he is a deep-minded person and is most likely a ruthless person.

said with no exaggeration.

If there are no major changes, investing in Nongfu Sanquan now can earn more than a hundred times the return.

As the boss of this company, he is like holding a money printing machine in his hand. It is not surprising that the other party would choose to reject the olive branch thrown by Fan Wumian.

I can’t take care of this company for now, and I don’t have much interest in it.

The difficulty Fan Wumian faces in the short term is that he has too little cash.

In the same period of time, if the funds are invested elsewhere, the return rate is likely to be higher than that invested in Nongfu Sanquan, so there is no need to tie up a large amount of funds in this company.

It would be great to wait until the fund company develops, earn some dividends through private equity investments in Nongfu Sanquan, and enjoy the dividends brought by the company’s growth.

therefore.

Fan Wumian made a decision and said to Jiang Shixi:
“Help me find an excuse to turn down the invitation from Nongfu Sanquan. I’ll take the endorsement of Sprite first.”

Pu Jiajing asked again:

“Why do you want to turn it down? One is mineral water and the other is a carbonated drink. They don’t conflict, right?”

Without hiding anything in front of them, Fan Wumian smiled frankly:
“Because I want to invest in Nongfu Sanquan, I can’t increase their performance too much, so as not to lose the big picture while picking up sesame seeds. This endorsement fee is not scary, but if the valuation increases rapidly, my loss will be huge.”

Done.

Fan Wumian thought about it again, and felt that it was a pity to push the money away in vain, so he said:

“I’m not an endorser, but I can ask if other artists under my company are interested. Feng Ying’er will be back soon. Her endorsement price will be raised to 6-7 million per year. You can discuss it among yourselves.”

“My Love from the Star” is currently on air.

In order to accommodate students’ holidays, only two episodes are broadcast each Friday and Saturday every week, which has made countless adult viewers anxious.

The new drama was a huge hit, with ratings soaring to 17% and never dropping. Even many middle-aged women and men began to imitate the young people in chasing stars, writing many letters to Fan Wumian, and attracting more tour groups to check in at his home in Beiyan, Houhai.

Fan Wumian has deeply experienced the disadvantages of having a house in a scenic area and having no property management to help keep outsiders out.

As the leading female role, Feng Ying’er naturally benefited from the fame. She appeared in the news and on hot searches one after another in a short period of time, and her fame was almost as popular as that of first-line actresses.

Some media even went all the way to the set of “The Piano Tuner” in Miami to interview her. Her salary, endorsement fees and commercial performance prices have all been adjusted accordingly.

After the chat, Fan Wumian returned to the study and continued to work on the outline of the script. The project he has been busy with these days is called “The Youngest Son of a Rich Family”. It is planned to be a co-production between the two places and is scheduled to start shooting at the beginning of next year. He will star in it himself.

As you can tell from the name of this drama, it also borrowed experience from South Korea. The original drama was called “The Youngest Son of the Chaebol Family”. The content at the beginning was quite exciting, but unfortunately it ended abruptly.

Knowing where the problem lies, Fan Wumian will certainly not make the same mistake again. He has used seven or eight thousand words to describe a complete story.

Busy until noon.

He got in the car and went out to have dinner at Dongshunlai Restaurant as scheduled.

The people who invited Fan Wumian to dinner today were Yang Mi and her parents.

The reason is that Fan Wumian has always taken good care of Yang Mi. Her parents’ generation has a different concept of life, and they feel it is necessary to be polite, otherwise it would seem very impolite.

Originally, Fan Wumian thought it was unnecessary, but Yang Mi’s parents were too enthusiastic and he couldn’t refuse, so he had to make some time to go to the appointment.

In the private room of Dongshunlai Restaurant.

Yang Mi’s father put the wine on the table and said happily:
“Mr. Fan has a lot of social events, so it’s understandable that he can’t drink white wine. I asked a friend to bring two bottles of Lafite. How about drinking some red wine? The alcohol content is not high, about the same as a beverage.”

Liquor has a high alcohol content, beer is drunk a lot, and a few glasses of red wine to moisten the mouth during a meal are indeed the same as drinking beverages in the eyes of many people.

Yang Mi couldn’t stop her parents, so she just laughed awkwardly and said to Fan Wumian:

“Boss, I’ll drink with you today. I bought a small house before, and the seller went to my dad’s workplace today to make a scene, saying that my family cheated him out of money. It was obvious that he regretted it because he was jealous after the house price went up. He didn’t respect the spirit of the contract at all. There were actually people at the scene who spoke up for the seller. It was really infuriating.”

“Okay, drink less then.”

Fan Wumian made a few polite remarks, but eventually sat in the main seat, and then said to Yang Mi:
“I remember that a French psychologist published a book hundreds of years ago called The Crowd, which explains why groups tend to be blind, impulsive, fanatical, and credulous.”

“Many people only look normal on the surface, and they don’t have any major problems in their daily lives, but they have no ability to think independently or to distinguish problems. So I always believe in people’s power, but not their IQ. Just like on the Internet, there are always people who like to argue, generalize, etc., which makes people feel that their values ​​are not normal.”

“Don’t underestimate this small problem. It contains a power similar to ‘dragon slaying technique’. Even now, some American institutions can still brainwash the masses through crazy arrangements, easily subvert a country, and reap huge profits from it.”

Father Yang applauded after hearing this:
“Boss Fan is really advanced! Mimi, you should learn from him. I’ve already said that my boss trusts me. I’m just afraid that this will get out and affect Mimi’s career. When you’re a celebrity, it’s easy for the outside world to magnify small things.”

Fan Wumian said calmly:

“It’s okay. I’ll talk to the PR department. If it doesn’t work, I’ll just leak the information myself to avoid being used by others to make a fuss. As for compensation, don’t give it. You’re in the right, what’s there to be afraid of? If you give money and think that the matter will be over, it will only give people something to criticize you.”

After he became famous and rich, he is deliberately reducing his exposure. His main concern is to guard against the “mob”. He is worried that many people will hate the rich and be hostile to him, and eventually his super high fame will backfire on him.

After all, it’s impossible to do business without offending people. Fan Wumian is in the open, while his competitors are in the dark, so it’s definitely a good idea to be on guard.

While eating and chatting, the topic turned to a case that Yang Mi’s father had just handled. He said that he caught a group of tomb robbers who came from the northwest. They dug out a lot of good things from a Tang Dynasty tomb. However, because they wanted to cheat the buyers of their money, the buyers reported them with the idea of ​​fighting to the death.

Father Yang was mainly responsible for the interrogation work. He was good at talking and had handled many cases. During the dinner, he introduced many cases he had handled to Fan Wumian, but he did not mention the cases he was currently handling.
(End of this chapter)