Yang Mi got some benefit today.

It’s a rare opportunity to taste such expensive red wine. After I took a sip from the glass, my eyes sparkled, for I was afraid that I would end up like Zhu Bajie eating the ginseng fruit and not knowing the taste at all.

A bottle of Lafite worth thousands of dollars is like a cow chewing a peony to Fan Wumian. He really can’t taste anything special about it.

If he took a red wine that cost only a few euros and poured it into a bottle of Lafite, he probably wouldn’t notice anything unusual.

However, since Yang Mi’s parents spent a lot of money to treat him, he naturally didn’t say much. He just focused on eating and drinking, which was much more relaxing than a drinking party.

Some people call certain liquor brands “Chinese version of luxury goods.” The fact is that some big-name red wines, champagnes, whiskeys, etc. are also true luxury goods in Europe and the United States.

Many luxury goods companies and wealthy businessmen like to allocate a winery for long-term holding, which can not only bring relatively stable asset growth and high profits, but also allow them to go on vacation for a while when they have nothing to do, and use it for socializing and entertaining guests.

For example, the Rothschild family, which is inexplicably praised to the sky, owns Lafite and Mouton, two of the eight major wineries in France. The family’s total assets add up to billions of dollars, but they have long been dispersed among many family members. There are few family representatives who are richer than Fan Wumian.

The two bottles of red wine that Yang’s father brought today will contribute several thousand dollars of pocket money to the Rothschild family. In the long run, how can they not be rich and well-off?

Countless middle-class people envy the wealthy lives of others while being sucked in to buy all kinds of high value-added goods. It really feels like a modern version of “indulgence”.

The Roman Church in the Middle Ages sold indulgences to believers, making people believe that they could obtain spiritual salvation and improve their social status after purchasing them.

Luxury goods companies sell consumers a sense of identity and the illusion of high society by selling their products at high prices.

Some products of modern technology are expensive, but at least a lot of real money is invested in research and development, which can improve and enrich the lives of consumers.

For example, the latest average cost price of women’s bags produced by Fan Wumian’s own company is only about 16 Euros, and it can be further compressed when the quantity increases.

These women’s bags can be sold for hundreds of euros in the store. Even if additional costs such as taxes, transportation, store, labor, and marketing have to be paid, the gross profit can still reach 60% to 70%, which makes Fan Wumian feel a little guilty.

It’s just a little painful. At least his company’s bags are made of real cowhide, crocodile leather, and lambskin. Some companies choose to use lower-cost plastics, or so-called environmentally friendly recycled materials, which are not only wrinkled and easily deformed, but also smell a faint odor.

For the middle class and those who have just crossed the threshold of high income, it is very necessary to be thrifty in the field of consumables, otherwise they will fall into the trap in minutes.

Typical examples include the two groups of people who chose to buy houses or cars in the early years. With the appreciation of real estate, the properties of many residents in first-tier cities are now worth millions. However, for many people who used the money to buy luxury cars for enjoyment at that time, the value of their vehicles has shrunk by more than half, and the wealth gap was immediately widened.

In addition, there are two groups of customers who choose to buy gold or diamonds when getting married. If they both spend 1 yuan, the gold has a chance to slowly appreciate in value to tens of thousands, but the diamond itself may not be as valuable as the ring setting, and in total they can only recover a few hundred or a thousand yuan.

Collection-level diamonds and ordinary small diamonds are two completely different things, and the former are more scarce.

The batch of high-quality jadeite that Fan Wumian stored in the bank vault is also scarce. When the big jade king was just cut, it might be worth only 12 billion or 13 billion Hong Kong dollars. As jadeite is accepted by more and more people, Eastern Gem Co., Ltd. has once again offered 15.5 billion yuan, hoping to acquire this batch of raw materials.

During the same period, the price of ordinary jadeite hardly increased, and its price even dropped as the rainy season in its place of origin ended.

However, if you calculate and see some things too clearly and thoroughly, it will actually be very tiring. After all, most people simply do not have the power to change anything, so it is better to just muddle through and be happy.

Even though countless customers know that they are being treated as leeks, they will still think about enjoying themselves in the moment and are willing to package themselves as fat sheep and send themselves to the door in order to get a little happiness in their boring lives.

Many of Valentino’s new products have just started pre-sale. The total amount of orders in both sides of the Taiwan Strait and Hong Kong and Macao has exceeded 8200 million US dollars. Some products are expected to take four to five months to deliver.

The limited edition Sanxingdui gold mask bag containing 66 grams of gold has attracted many wealthy ladies who love pursuing fashion to snap it up, and they don’t even blink when swiping their credit cards.

Seeing that the brand’s popularity was beginning to take off and the situation was better than expected, Fan Wumian began to consider whether he should pay more attention to Valentino’s wine business as soon as possible.

When I have extra money, I will buy a few more wine and champagne estates and sell them under the Valentino brand.
After having a good meal and a few drinks, I left Dongshunlai Restaurant and went home to lie down and watch TV.

Yang Mi sent a message and asked him
——”Boss, are you home? I’m very happy today. My mom said that you are such a big boss but you don’t have any airs at all. She asked me to learn more from you.”

Fan Wumian typed a reply:
——”Why are you learning from me? Why are you skipping classes all year round?”

Yang Mi replied with the message
——”Hahaha! By the way, boss, do you know that there is a very beautiful junior school girl in school? I am already very fair, but she is so fair that she glows. She often has an S600 to pick her up after school.” Fan Wumian asked, recalling a piece of news.

——”Her name is Ying Tian? I know her. Someone even sent her a generous gift and asked me to help take care of her. Don’t tell anyone.”

“So amazing? How could you find me here?”

“It’s okay, just take care of it a little, I’m just lucky.”

It’s not uncommon to know noble people.

Ying Tian really got help from a noble person, who spent a lot of money and tried every means to pave the way for her, so Fan Wumian said that she was lucky.

Faced with Yang Mi’s gossip-filled questions, he did not continue to ask, and instead reminded Yang Mi to delete the text messages she had with him to prevent her phone from being lost or her QQ number from being stolen and spread out to affect her future.

the next day.

It was just after 9 o’clock in the morning.

Fan Wumian came to a recording studio in Xidan, Yanjing.

He didn’t want to travel all the way back to Hong Kong to record new songs, so the Sapphire Blue Records Studio sent several employees on the trip, rented brand new equipment, and provided nanny-like service throughout the process.

In order to prevent the audio source from being leaked in advance, no one from the recording studio was allowed to handle any links. When the local employees saw Fan Wumian, they all looked at him with admiration and were particularly polite.

After meeting with several old acquaintances from the Sapphire Blue Music Studio, Fan Wumian asked them, “How are the equipment here?”

A tuner with a beard named Zhang answered:
“The equipment is good, all of them are the latest and very expensive models, so we rented this place. But I’m not used to it, so it may take some time to debug it. I just connected the computer.”

He said “hmm”.

Fan Wumian then asked the team’s top composer:
“As for Jane Zhang, I’ve listened to her new album. Has she recently found two more songs?”

“Yes, they were both given to me. I feel both songs are pretty good, but definitely not as good as the ones you wrote for her. Mr. Fan, which song are you going to record first?”

“.Let’s record ‘Blowing Dreams to Xizhou’. Let’s get through the hard parts first, and the rest will be easy to record.”

After saying this, Fan Wumian smiled and said:

“The lyrics of this song are a bit complicated. I don’t know if others can understand them. After I release this song, I think someone will take the initiative to help me analyze and explain it. I’m worried that people will criticize me for using flowery words but piling up too much.”

The other party smiled and said:

“I am only responsible for writing the music according to your ideas. I can’t help you with changing the lyrics. As long as the song is good, that’s all. The lyrics of some American pop songs are embarrassing, but they are still popular all over the world.”

As they were discussing, Zhuang Muxi came over accompanied by his assistant and bodyguards. He raised his arm and moved his fingers, then greeted Fan Wumian with a smile: “You’re here so early today. I was stuck in traffic and wasted time.”

“No hurry, I’ve only been here a few minutes. Have you mastered the song?”

“. Not necessarily. You won’t know until you try it.”

A few days ago, Zhuang Muxi received a sudden message that she was invited by Fan Wumian to sing the song “Blowing Dreams to Xizhou” together.

After all, she had released a pop album, so she thought she might as well give it a try.

After reading the lyrics, I realized that I didn’t even recognize some of the words, let alone understand their meaning. It took me a long time to memorize all the lyrics. (End of this chapter)