Chapter 868: Rich or Not (Part 1)
In fact, when Guo Tailai was going to build the world's largest yacht very early last year, when the project was launched and the design was released, many people who didn't know much about it expressed doubts. Or strictly speaking, it was not a question, but a ridicule.
Can ordinary people build the largest yacht in the world? Paul's Octopus and Larry's Rising Sun are all behemoths with a cost of $250 million. This is just the cost, and if you want to get it, you may have to pay more.
The shipyard is not a charity or a transit agency, so they must receive cash. In the cash of $250 million, Guo Tailai would not be less than $300 million if he wanted to build a larger one? Can he take so much money?
Those who understand Guo Tailai's nursing methods certainly know that this is not a big problem for Guo Tailai, but those who don't understand it may have many strange things. It is true that Mr. T is rich, but he is on the rankings of Hurun and Forbes. But Mr. T, whose overall net worth is only 500 million US dollars, why should he use 300 million US dollars in cash to build the largest yacht in the world? Most of the net worth of 600 million US dollars is real estate and film companies. Is cash so easy to take out?
Especially when it was revealed that a yacht cost more than 800 million US dollars a year ago, this kind of doubt was the biggest. There were both at home and abroad. After all, design companies are designers from all over the country, and Guo Tailai also indulged some people to deliberately leak information, so people from many countries know about it.
The 800 million dollar super yacht made Guo Tailai the biggest joke in the world. A guy with a net worth of only 500 million or 600 million US dollars to buy a 800 million US dollars. Isn’t this a joke? Even if many industries can borrow money, isn’t James’ movie investment claiming to invest 500 million or 600 million? There are still some leftovers? Some guys who don’t care about the big deal even commented in the media or on the Internet, asking the bank that borrowed Guo Tailai to thoroughly investigate Guo Tailai’s assets and avoid being able to recover the loan when they get it.
If we only follow the superficial information, these people laughed at it without any mistakes. Look at Paul who is building the Octopus and Larry who is building the Rising Sun. Which one is not worth tens of billions of dollars? Do you really think that a super yacht worth hundreds of millions of dollars can be afforded by ordinary wealthy people? Even if face-saving and powerful people lend money, they don’t eat, drink or do anything else? All their wealth becomes a yacht that can only be depreciated once and once delivered to Guo Tailai, it becomes a yacht that can only be depreciated continuously?
To be honest, Guo Tailai's way of playing is really a bit like a small horse pulling a big cart. If his financial situation was barely healthy, then with this $800 million loan, he might become a super poor man and a model of insolvency.
If Guo Tailai was not so slutty and not so extravagant, relying solely on Taylorg and Tottenham Club, plus a film company, would have a very good life. Unfortunately, when a person has money, he probably became arrogant and started to pay for his comic idols. He also borrowed more than 700 million US dollars to buy an amc theater chain. Now, which theater chain companies around the world make money? Are they all operating in debt?
If Guo Tailai continues to play so willfully, he will definitely go bankrupt. Count his current loans. Amc originally borrowed 700 million yuan, yachts still have to borrow 800 million yuan, two movies invested, one "Avatar" requires at least 500 million yuan, and the other "Sequel to God" requires at least 100 million yuan, of which at least half of it also requires a loan of 300 million yuan, which is another 1.8 billion yuan. The loan alone is definitely far more than Guo Tailai's current fixed assets.
This voice is also getting louder and louder in China, even among several shipyards. Everyone wants to fight for this big project, but everyone is extremely disgusted with Guo Tailai's behavior of large-scale debt. Therefore, while several large shipyards are actively preparing to fight for orders, they make plans for insurance. If they grab the order, they will definitely ask to add one in the order contract. When signing the contract, four major state-owned banks must guarantee funds.
In other words, Guo Tailai must transfer the sufficient shipbuilding funds into the specific bank account at one time. Regardless of whether Guo Tailai has money to repay the loan in the future, these custody funds cannot be moved to ensure that the shipyard will not suffer major losses due to such a yacht. If Guo Tailai takes off his boat and has half of the ship has no money, who will take over? Who will calculate the losses?
However, this voice was not heard by Guo Tailai. As soon as the shipyard request arrived at General Chu and Director Wang, they were scolded by the two of them. A group of bastards who were not sensible, we worked hard to help you grab the orders, and together, you are planning to push high-quality orders outward?
Although General Chu was always a kind-hearted and kind person in front of Guo Tailai, in the entire military-industry system, General Chu is famous for being strict and has a bad temper. The heads of several shipyards jointly proposed this suggestion when the assembly and dispatched capable personnel to attend a meeting. General Chu scolded him on the spot and all his face was pale.
After the meeting, a shipyard manager was a little dissatisfied and called the chief of the assembly to report the matter. He thought General Chu would have to be scolded, but he was called to the chief of the assembly to criticize him again. He was so harsh that the in charge almost collapsed. After that, he never mentioned this again. How to cooperate with him to be the most active? If he didn't understand at this time, he would be a fool. Guo Tailai had the support of the entire assembly, let alone the 800 million US dollars, 80 billion would probably not be a problem!
There are many rumors. Several major banks in the banking system held meetings on or after the New Year. Guo Tailai had not much private deposits, and most of them were scattered by Lin Jiayi in various investment companies, and not much knew about them within the bank. For the sake of loan security, if branches in various places have loan applications for super yachts, they must report to the head office immediately and the head office will approve it.
As soon as the bank's regulations spread, it caused a wave of discussion in society. Although Guo Tailai is not an entertainment star, he is still a celebrity after all! This is also a true celebrity gossip! Although there is no formal media leak, there are people on the Internet discussing it in full swing.
Those who know don’t speak, and those who don’t know talk happily. All the speeches are basically the same. Mr. T is floating, and if you have some money, you won’t know the southeast, west and north. There are many people who are gloating and waiting to see how Mr. T’s farce ends.
Just as everyone stretched their necks one by one to wait for a good show, news from abroad came that Google went public and its market value exceeded 40 billion US dollars overnight. What was most shocking was that Mr. T was said to have 10% of Google's shares!
Chapter completed!