Chapter 2420 The Great Collector

Although Silicon Valley is in the Greater Bay Area, it has warm winters and cool summers.

But this is winter in the north after all.

Zhou Buqi made arrangements and asked the women and children at home to live in Australia for two months. It happened to be summer there and the stay would be more comfortable.

Wait until the Spring Festival, and then go back to China to celebrate the New Year.

Zhou Buqi himself also started a new business trip, first going to London.

After Ziweixing Digital Media went public, it did a major event that caused a sensation in the football world. It signed Cristiano Ronaldo and Messi at the same time. The two of them joined forces to endorse the product Goal. The fee was not low, each of them paid 4 million pounds per year. .

This is always an eye-catching event.

Today's football world has formed a pattern of "double pride" competing for hegemony, and the choice of endorsements has also shown polarization. If one side signs Cristiano Ronaldo, the other side will sign Messi; if one side signs Messi, the other side will sign Cristiano Ronaldo.

The two manager teams are also very good at grasping the pulse of the market, and they rely on competition with each other to create gimmicks. It is rare for a brand to sign two people at the same time.

Even Pepsi-Cola hasn’t done it yet.

Ziweixing Digital Media has taken the first step, and its stock price has increased as a result.

In order to thank Ziweixing Digital Media for its huge contribution to the British technology industry, the authorities seem to want to commend him with some kind of grand award and also award Zhou Buqi with the title of an Honorary Citizen of London.

Zhou Buqi had no interest in these at all.

But he has to go.

We need to have a good relationship with the British authorities.

Masayoshi Son has already notified that he will cash out part of MSI Global's shares and then launch a privatization acquisition of the British semiconductor company ARM.

We also plan to involve Zhou Buqi.

This is amazing.

ARM is not a manufacturer of chips, but the underlying architecture of chips. It almost dominates the entire mobile phone chip market. Whether it is Apple, Qualcomm, Samsung, or the 4G chips under development by Asda, they all use the ARM architecture.

The general logic here is - half of the profits earned from selling mobile phones are earned by chip manufacturers; half of the profits earned from selling chips are earned by manufacturers selling the underlying architecture of chips.

That is ARM company.

However, ARM is obviously not developing so well now. Its management is chaotic, its strategy is unclear, its organization is bloated, and its revenue is slowing down. Even under the current wave of smartphones, the stock price is still sluggish for a long time.

This gives those who are interested an opportunity.

There are many capital giants who want to acquire ARM, buy it at a low price, and then radically reform the company. Son Zhengyi is also interested in it, but he is not guaranteed to win it. There are many competitors.

So he found his old friend Zhou Buqi.

The two parties have cooperated too many times.

A pleasure every time.

This time I want to join forces to win ARM.

Zhou Buqi had no reason to refuse, and was even a little worried... After all, this is already the lowest level in the chip industry, and it is the core technology.

It doesn't matter if Masayoshi Son is an American.

Zhou Buqi couldn't do it. He was worried that his nationality would affect the deal.

So try your best to have a good relationship with the British authorities.

In addition to business matters, there are also personal matters.

In addition to Ning Lu, Han Yalan, Zhang Zetian, and assistants Guan Nanqing and Yan Qiqi who had just arrived from China a few days ago, Wu Yu was also on the plane.

She's in big trouble.

Sitting next to Zhou Buqi, he opened the photo album on her mobile phone and handed it over like a treasure, "Look! Isn't it beautiful?"

Zhou Buqi glanced at it, "Tea cup?"

Wu Yu nodded gently and said accurately, "This is called the Mingcheng Hua Dou Colorful Flower and Butterfly Pattern Cup."

"Ah?" Zhou Buqi is a complete amateur in antiques, but he has also heard of a famous and similar name, "Doucai Chicken Cup?"

"Huh?" Wu Yu was a little surprised, "Hubby, do you know all this?"

"heard about it."

"Oh, this is not a chicken vat cup, it is a flower and butterfly pattern cup. It is worth more than the chicken vat cup. But I also contacted the collector of the chicken vat cup. When I went to London this time, I bought this flower cup. The butterfly pattern cup, next I will buy the chicken vat cup. Doucai, Ming Dynasty, Qing Dynasty, Yongzheng."

Wu Yu spoke eloquently.

Recently I have taken up a new hobby, and finally started collecting antiques. And he made a big move at first, directly playing with Chenghua's Doucai porcelain.

Zhou Buqi twitched his lips, "How much?"

Wu Yu felt a little guilty, "Well...it's a bit expensive."

Zhou Buqi was a little funny, "How expensive is it?"

Wu Yu pointed at the mobile phone picture, "The other party offered 25 million pounds for this small cup. Even at this price, the other party was reluctant."

"I go!"

Zhou Buqi opened his eyes wide and stared hard at the photos on his phone. He really couldn't feel the beauty of antiques. Although he was rich, he still felt a little nervous about spending 200 million Chinese coins on a small teacup.

Wu Yu said softly: "I see you like drinking tea. How distinguished does it look to drink tea with this? This is actually a wine glass, and you can drink it too."

Zhou Buqi couldn't laugh or cry, "I wouldn't dare!"

"What's this?" Wu Yu snorted lightly, not taking it seriously, "I'm going to buy the chicken cup in a while and give you tea. Only in this way can you be worthy of your status."

"What's my identity?" Zhou Buqi didn't think this was a good idea, "Forget it, let's protect it well. If an antique of this level is damaged by a bump, it will not only be a financial loss, but also a loss to China. Cultural loss."

Wu Yu said "Oh", and then said with a smile: "I want to be a great collector, okay?"

"Okay!" Zhou Buqi has always been supportive of her personal hobbies, as long as she doesn't play sports cars like she did at the beginning. "Just buy whatever you like."

Wu Yudao: "There was an auction in the summer, and an American brought a top-quality blue and white vat. The collectors went crazy. It is a rare and top-quality vat. I also want to buy it."

"Then why didn't you buy it?"

"It's too expensive!"

"How expensive is Gui Neng?"

Zhou Buqi never thought money was an issue.

Wu Yu glanced at him weakly, "It costs 100 million U.S. dollars. Didn't our family spend too much money to buy Alibaba's stocks this year? We have no money."

Zhou Buqi said angrily: "How much money is this? From now on, just buy whatever you like without thinking about money. If you are short of money, I will solve it and you will be responsible for spending it! If you want to be a collector, then Just become a great collector!”

Wu Yu laughed and hugged his arm, "My husband is mighty and domineering!"

…

When I arrived in London, I first met Tang Binchen, who was in charge of European business.

This man, who had a long history, said he had just come from Germany and said happily: "Now I am rich!"

"What's wrong?"

"I just signed a big deal with three big cities in Germany. They intend to promote the government cloud and want to cooperate with Ziweiyun. Each city will charge 120 million euros."

"fine."

Zhou Buqi nodded.

Germany is the center of the European continent and has very strong bones. It is the mainstay of the EU's conflict with the United States. It purchases communication equipment from either Huawei or ZTE. It has also built a natural gas pipeline with Russia despite criticism from the United States.

Tang Binchen said: "But they have one condition. They hope that Ziweixing will increase its investment in Germany. Ziweixing's core in Europe is the United Kingdom, and they hope that Germany can have a higher status."

Zhou Buqi said: "There's nothing to be hesitant about, just agree first! As long as Ziweixing International develops well, there will definitely be more and more investment in the future. If it doesn't develop well, who will be able to take care of so much?"

"Well……"

Tang Binchen was speechless at this irresponsible argument.

Zhou Buqi smiled and said: "By the way, let me tell you about the Yahoo App. You need to help me more! How about... why not go to Germany to buy a poorly managed newspaper first, reciprocate the favor, and publish the German version?" Let’s build Yahoo App.”