"After I received your call, I went to see Mr. Huo directly. He was very supportive of your ideas and agreed that acquiring an F1 team could promote the development of domestic motorsports and automobile industries."

"But the demand for 30 million US dollars is too high. Mr. Huo's industries have nothing to do with the automobile industry, so he sponsors you in the name of sports funds, and the maximum amount is 10 million US dollars."

Is it ten million US dollars?

Hearing this number, Zhang Yifei was not disappointed. On the contrary, he was very grateful to Mr. Huo for making the decision so quickly.

Mr. Huo is the most famous "red" capitalist in Hong Kong. Since the 1970s, he has established a personal foundation and has begun to donate to the mainland, with a cumulative investment of up to 6 billion Hong Kong dollars. In the 1980s, a special sports foundation was established to support the construction of domestic sports venues and fund and establishment of athletes.

For example, the largest private donation of Yanjing Water Cube in 2008 was from the foundation owned by Mr. Huo.

So Mr. Huo's strong help was expected by Zhang Yifei, otherwise Lu Ningping would not have gone to Mr. Huo first. But Zhang Yifei did not expect that Mr. Huo would sponsor in the name of sports funds, not in the name of the company.

You should know that sports funds are non-profit funds, and they are the kind of people who make no profit and lose purely. Moreover, they spend as much as 10 million US dollars, which requires entrepreneurs with a sense of family and country to achieve. Therefore, it is not without reason that Mr. Huo will eventually receive national funeral treatment.

"Uncle Lu, I want to thank Mr. Huo in person if I find an opportunity."

"Um."

Lu Ningping nodded and continued, "After that Mr. Huo helped me introduce some Hong Kong entrepreneurs, including the Guo Group, which I had sponsored before. However, most of them are not keen on the plan to acquire the F1 fleet, and a few have ideas and have many concerns."

"Because the premise of all this must develop according to the process you expected. For example, whether the Prost team will really sell equity, whether the price will be as cheap as you expect, etc."

"Even after buying the equity, you have to consider whether the team is competitive next season, because the results are related to the team's future development and profitability. You should know that businessmen are profit-seeking. If you want them to invest in holding, they must show attractiveness and value."

"I see."

Zhang Yifei responded, after all, entrepreneurs like Mr. Huo in Hong Kong are extremely rare, and most of them are pure capitalists. Especially under the special system of Hong Kong, the feelings of family and country are completely useless. If they want to invest, they must give real benefits.

Zhang Yifei would not blame this idea at any moral high ground, or even understand it. After all, it is impossible for businessmen to pursue profits, so they can't draw a big pie, just let others throw money in with real money. This is the normal mentality of most capitalists.

However, Zhang Yifei's standard for himself is that he will never be such a person, otherwise he would be at ease to be a driver and retire after he succeeded, rather than doing these things now, which seems to be thankless.

After all, people still need to have some feelings, especially after experiencing life and death, Zhang Yifei understood that there are too many more meaningful things in life.

To be honest, if it weren't for the current stage of private car companies in mainland China, they were all in their infancy and did not have the ambition and strength to build their own factory team in F1. Otherwise, Zhang Yifei's priority would definitely not be a capitalist in Hong Kong, but a car company in mainland China.

Because many technologies of F1 are epoch-making, it is definitely not an exaggeration to be ahead of civilian vehicles for 20 years. Perhaps after investing in the stock, due to many regulations and patent factors, it is not as easy to develop some technology as imagined.

But whether it is copying or copying, you can always steal some things when you get in. Especially for the automotive industry that is not a billion-dollar R&D investment, the tuition fee of 30 million US dollars can be described as high-quality and low-priced.

I can only say that in this era, Zhang Yifei really doesn’t have many choices.

"Uncle Lu, I'm lucky to be in trouble today. I'll try to interview these entrepreneurs in Hong Kong to see if they can attract their investment."

There is no way, it is really difficult for Zhang Yifei to explain the questions of these Hong Kong bosses. It is impossible to say that he knows the historical progress. If the Prost team has no money, they will sell their shares at a low price, right?

It is even more impossible to show that Ferrari racing is invincible in the world in the year. Hurry up and buy the Ferrari engine and install it while no one knows it?

So Zhang Yifei could only try his best to lobby and use his talent for deceiving, just like those entrepreneurial young people who are good at venture capital. How much money can be deceiving in the end depends on Zhang Yifei's ability to make money!

If it really doesn't work, Zhang Yifei and some mainland companies will contact each other, but the difficulty will be a little more difficult.

"By the way, Uncle Lu, what happened to me? Is there a young man named Ma Teng who came to Hong Kong Island to invest?"

"You mean that company called Penguin?"

"Yes, this is the one!"

Zhang Yifei was instantly excited. Compared with the current sponsorship of tens of millions of dollars, this is a big deal of tens of billions of dollars!

"When I met with Hong Kong Island's wealthy two days ago, I asked by the way that there was indeed a mainland entrepreneur named Ma Teng who wanted to invest in the Penguin Company he founded."

"Penguin Company's current operating conditions are very poor. Lenovo, Sina, Yahoo and the company in the mainland have refused to invest or acquire. Hong Kong Island's rich people also believe that Penguin has no profit points and most of them are not even seen."

"But Li Zekai, the son of Hong Kong's richest man, seems to be pulling IG Capital to steal some money together, which is about 2 million US dollars. The two sides are already in the negotiation stage. This money is nothing to them, and it should be successful."

When Zhang Yifei heard Uncle Lu say that the talk could be successful, he was even more excited and even directly touched his head from the back row to the front row!

"Uncle Lu, no matter what method I use, I will find a way to meet Ma Teng. I have invested this money, and I will pay even if I sell it!"

When he graduated from high school, Zhang Yifei joked with Wang Yanjing, giving him the chance to hug Xiao Ma Ge's thighs in the name of his junior, and might become a veteran of Penguin Company.

At that time, Zhang Yifei didn't value money very much, thinking that it would be enough to spend it, and no matter how much it was, it would be just a number.

But now it’s different. Zhang Yifei is short of this number. If there is any normal industry in this era that can make super huge profits, it is undoubtedly buying shares of Penguin Company!

In 2000, the Penguin Company founded by Brother Xiao Ma came to the most difficult time and could hardly continue to operate. He began to ask his grandfather to sue his grandmother, find major companies to attract venture capital, and sell for 40% of the company's shares, hoping to get investment from all the big guys.

As a result, no one in the mainland was optimistic about him, so Brother Ma focused on Hong Kong Island. As a result, Li Zekai and IG Capital purchased 40% of the shares of Penguin Company at a very low price.

And after buying it, he was very disgusted and always wanted to find an opportunity to sell it. When South Africa's Mih Group was willing to take the deal a year later, Li Zekai quickly took action. He was still happy at the time, thinking that he would buy it for 1.1 million US dollars and sell it for 12.6 million US dollars, which increased 11 times in a year. It was simply the level of an investment genius.

But the subsequent development was beyond imagination. Just over a decade later, Penguin became a super company with a market value of one trillion yuan. Investment genius also became an "investment genius".

This incident was very famous in later generations, so Zhang Yifei naturally knew it. This year was 2000. In this shortage of money, Zhang Yifei had to put his ideas on Brother Ma.

But in history, Li Zekai bought it in April. More than a month has passed. Zhang Yifei is not sure whether he can still buy Penguin original shares. If it really doesn't work, it will cost more than 10 million US dollars.

Of course, Zhang Yifei would never hesitate to buy 20% of Penguin shares for more than 10 million US dollars. But if you can save some money, why do you need to give it? And with the change of history, Li Zekai and Idg Capital may not be able to sell it.

So he asked Uncle Lu to inquire, but he really found out! Hu Zhang Yifei had to intercept and was bought by himself. It was better than being bought by MiH in South Africa in the future.

Zhang Yifei's excitement also shocked Junko Takeda and Uncle Lu.

"Be careful of your leg injury!"

Junko Takeda quickly supported Zhang Yifei to prevent his movements from being too intense and affecting the injury to his right leg.

"Don't be excited, I'll contact you when I go back."

Lu Ningping also quickly comforted him. He didn't understand why Zhang Yifei was so excited. Penguin was obviously a company with no prospects and major capitals were not optimistic about it. Does Zhang Yifei have any special business talents?

When she returned to Uncle Lu's home in Hong Kong Island, it was almost evening. Seeing Zhang Yifei come in, Aunt Lu was both happy and distressed. Since Uncle Lu retired, she had not experienced this feeling of worry for many years.

If possible, Aunt Lu really doesn't want Zhang Yifei to become a professional driver.

But there is no if, Zhang Yifei is the only one in Formula Racing in China, and he has taken too much responsibility. At this point, Zhang Yifei even walked towards Liu Xiang's spiritual symbol. If he withdrew from the race as he pleased or something, he might encounter the same situation as thousands of people were pointing to it.

When Lu Ningjing saw Zhang Yifei coming to the house, she was excited at first and planned to pounce on her and give her a hug, but she was blocked by Uncle Lu. After all, Zhang Yifei is now "lame".

However, when Lu Ningjing saw Junko Takeda standing behind Zhang Yifei, her previous excitement instantly became cold and even a little angry.

Regarding Lu Ningjing's attitude change, people like Junko Takeda who have experience in public relations in the fleet naturally understand what she is thinking. I can only say that this is the case for the little girl, with a "love toy" mentality and she is not allowed to get involved!

After dinner, Zhang Yifei also called He Lang in China. He was very familiar with domestic companies engaged in the automobile industry, and his family owned a company.
Chapter completed!