I have a debt of 3 trillion, and my creditors are begging me not to die.

Chapter 122 The price of the house was brought down by Yang Chen

After finishing the video conference with the bank presidents, Yang Chen sent a message to Chen Chao.

"A Chao, collect company information on NBA sponsors, broadcasters, owners of major clubs and major shareholders, and screen out listed companies that can be shorted."

Soon, Chen Chao replied.

"Got it, I'll do it right away!"

After a while, Yang Min came to Yang Chen's office.

"Hello, Mr. Yang. I hope I didn't disturb you?" Yang Min said with a smile.

As the saying goes, a name may be wrong, but a nickname will never be wrong.

The nickname "Da Minmin" that Yang Chen gave to Yang Min became more and more appropriate, it was really big enough to be eye-catching.

"No problem. Is there anything you want to talk to me about?" Yang Chen asked with a smile, and gestured to Yang Min to sit down and talk.

Yang Min smiled and sat in front of Yang Chen, and said with a smile: "It's my birthday tomorrow, can I invite you to my birthday party tonight?"

Yang Chen nodded and replied: "Really? Happy birthday, happy birthday. Tomorrow night, right? Where?"

Yang Min smiled and replied, "In the apartment I rented, do you think it's convenient for you?"

Yang Chen immediately used his mind reading skills to read Yang Min's inner thoughts.

"It's just you and me tomorrow night, you must accept the invitation. Fatty has got you, so I want to get you too."

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The Hongmen Banquet.

A real man has to be brave and attend the banquet even if he knows it is the Hongmen Banquet.

Yang Chen smiled and said, "It's convenient. I will definitely go there tomorrow night."

Yang Min said happily: "Thank you, Director Yang. I won't disturb you from work then. See you tomorrow night."

Yang Chen nodded, and Yang Min ran away happily.

You can't go to someone's birthday party empty-handed. It's appropriate to bring a gift.

Yang Chen thought about it and decided to bring a box of high-concentration stamina-enhancing liquid to fulfill her wish.

Early on Saturday morning, Yang Chen gave the six beauties a day off, allowing them to go home and spend the weekend with their families.

Yang Chen himself was not idle either. He took advantage of his free time to go back and visit his grandparents, and then visit his parents' graves.

evening.

Yang Chen came to Yang Min's house.

Yang Min asked Yang Chen to sit in the living room while she went to the kitchen to fry steak.

Soon, Yang Min's birthday party was ready.

"Mr. Yang, I'm sorry. I originally invited other people, but they are all busy tonight. So I can only ask you to celebrate my birthday with me." Yang Min said calmly.

Yang Chen smiled and replied: "It's okay, it's fine just the two of us. If there are too many people, I might not be comfortable."

Yang Min nodded happily and said, "That's good. Then you wash your hands and prepare for dinner. I'll go change my clothes and come out soon."

Yang Chen got up and went to the bathroom to wash his hands. As soon as he entered the room, he saw Yang Min's underwear hanging on the hook on the wall.

“Damn, she’s so big! The name Da Minmin is so suitable for her.” Yang Chen couldn’t help but sigh.

Yang Chen quickly washed his hands, then went out to sit and wait for Yang Min to come out for dinner.

Soon, Yang Min, wearing a deep V evening dress, walked out of the bedroom.

Oh no, how can anyone concentrate on eating when they are dressed like this?
The key is to watch or not to watch?

If you don't watch it, you'll seem like a hypocrite.

If you look at it, you will appear to be unreserved.

It's really hard to be a man.

Yang Chen stared at Da Minmin boldly, and used his mind reading skills to read Yang Min's mental activities at this moment.

"Director Yang is a real man, hehe..."

Oh.

Yang Min thought so in her heart, so there was no need to pretend to be serious, just watch it boldly.

“Miss Yang is really beautiful tonight. This dress really shows off your figure.” Yang Chen praised.

Yang Min gently put her finger to her lips and smiled, then said: "Thank you for the compliment, Mr. Yang. I am a little proud. Let's eat."

For this birthday party, Yang Min started preparing many days in advance. She was not preparing the ingredients, but asking Fatty for advice on how to win over Yang Chen tonight without making a sound or being embarrassed.

Fat Di was very loyal and shared his experience with Yang Min without reservation.

Yang Min was also very studious. Right from the start, she began to persuade Yang Chen to drink. As long as both parties had drunk enough, everything would be easy.

While Yang Chen was reading Yang Min's inner thoughts, he was doing the questions according to the "answers", and soon he created the right atmosphere.

At this time, Yang Min's cheeks were already red, and she looked very attractive.

"Mr. Yang, I recently learned a dance. To thank you for coming to celebrate my birthday, I'll show you." Yang Min said with a smile.

Yang Chen nodded, stood up and sat down on the sofa, admiring Yang Min's dance.

Yang Min did not learn any new dance moves, but just performed some simple dance moves that she had learned when filming a costume drama.

The drunkard’s real intention was not to drink, Xiang Zhuang danced with a sword, his target was Pei Gong, dancing was just an excuse, Yang Min’s idea was to find a suitable opportunity to fall into Yang Chen’s arms.

Yang Min saw that Yang Chen was fascinated, and thought: "Now!"

Yang Min did a big spin in the air and turned 360 degrees. After landing, she couldn’t stand steadily and threw her whole body towards Yang Chen. She very carefully propped her chin on the top of Yang Chen’s head.

I've been working on this all night just for this moment.

Burn it up.

At around ten in the morning, Yang Chen walked out of the bedroom.

At this time, Yang Min was limping towards the balcony carrying the freshly washed clothes.

"What's wrong with you? Why is your leg lame?" Yang Chen stepped forward and asked.

Yang Min rolled her eyes at Yang Chen shyly, and said, “You know it clearly in your heart.”

Are you clear about it in your heart?

At this time, Yang Chen saw the trash can full of empty bottles of high-concentration stamina growth liquid, and instantly understood what Yang Min meant.

Yang Min went to the balcony to dry clothes. Yang Chen took out a gift box from his pocket and walked over. He hugged Yang Min from behind and gave her the gift box.

"This is your birthday present. I was so busy admiring your beauty last night that I forgot to give it to you." Yang Chen said with a smile.

Yang Min opened the gift box, and inside was a gold bracelet, exactly the same as the ones in Chen Xi and the others' hands.

“Thank you. This table is beautiful and affordable. I like it very much.” Yang Min said happily, and raised her head to kiss Yang Chen.

Yang Chen quickly said: "You go and take a rest, I'll come and dry the clothes."

Yang Min smiled and nodded, then limped back to the sofa in the living room to admire the gold bracelet.

Yang Chen finished drying his clothes, walked over, hugged Yang Min and asked, "What else do you want? I'll give it to you."

"No, this bracelet is enough." Yang Min replied quickly.

Yang Chen smiled and said: "Birthday presents are birthday presents, I allow you to ask for another gift."

"I don't need anything, so I don't want it." Yang Min said.

Yang Chen immediately used his mind reading to read Yang Min's inner thoughts. At this moment, she really didn't want anything in her heart.

However, even if she didn't want it, Yang Chen still had to give her something, after all, she was his woman now.

"By the way, do you read online novels?" Yang Chen asked.

Yang Min nodded and said, "Read it! I read novels during my breaks on the set. I'm currently reading Ten Miles of Peach Blossoms, which I think is very well written."

Yang Chen immediately asked: "Really? Is it finished? Which website is it from?"

Yang Min quickly opened the Jinjiang Literature APP and clicked on "Ten Miles of Peach Blossoms" to show Yang Chen.

"It showed that the story was finished. I saw the part where the heroine's eyes were gouged out. It made me angry and sad. The hero is really a loser. He can't even protect his own woman." Yang Min said angrily.

Yang Chen smiled and said, “Is this true? Let me see how outrageous the plot is.”

Yang Chen hugged Yang Min and started reading from the beginning. This novel had a total of 30 words, and the two of them finally finished reading it at around a.m.

Yang Min rubbed her eyes, then asked with a smile: "How is it, is the male protagonist Mo Yuan useless?"

“It’s indeed a bit useless, but that’s how female-oriented novels are. If there’s no sadomasochistic plot, readers won’t read it. I feel it should be very popular if it’s adapted into a TV series. Do you want to play Bai Qian?” Yang Chen asked.

Yang Min replied seriously, "Ah? Can this be adapted into a TV series? If it can be adapted, then I would like to play Bai Qian. Mo Yuan is a waste, but Bai Qian is not."

"OK! I'll give Ma Tengfei a call. The first project of the company I'm working with him on is to adapt this novel into a film or TV series!" Yang Chen said.

Yang Chen immediately called Ma Tengfei and said straight to the point: "Boss Ma, there is a novel called "Ten Miles of Peach Blossoms" on Jinjiang's website. I think it's very good. Let's make it our first project. Let's make it into a TV series to test the waters. If the response is good, we'll make it into a movie. Let's use Yang Min as the female lead and Di Li as the second female lead. I won't interfere with the other actors." Ma Tengfei immediately smiled and replied: "The novel selected by Boss Yang must be fine. Okay, I'll listen to you. Let's make it our first project. I'll ask someone to contact Jinjiang and sell the copyright of the novel to us at a lower price. Boss Yang can take a look at the novels at Qidian when he has time, and we can adapt them if there are any suitable ones."

Yang Chen replied: "Well, I'll take a look when I have time. Hang up."

Yang Chen hung up the phone, and Yang Min said with admiration: "Director Yang, you are really amazing. It seems that Ma Tengfei listens to you."

Yang Chen smiled evilly, picked up the stamina growth liquid on the bedside table and gulped down a few sips, then said with a smile: “I will also make you obedient now.”

Yang Min immediately got into the bed shyly, and Yang Chen also got in immediately.

……

As a new week begins, Yang Chen, who is burdened with huge debts, has to work hard to make money again.

Chen Chao brought the collected information on the shares of listed companies held by NBA sponsors, broadcasters, team owners, and shareholders.

Yang Chen looked through it carefully three times and picked out the company he wanted to take action against.

Currently, there are two largest NBA broadcasters, namely TNT and ESPN.

TNT is a subsidiary of Time Warner, which was acquired by AT&T after Time Warner delisted.

AT&T is the United States Telephone and Telegraph Company, which has a monopoly in the United States telephone and telegraph industry. It is also a listed company with a total share capital of 71.75 billion shares, a current share price of 23.5 Eagle Coins, and a total market value of 1686.125 billion Eagle Coins.

Therefore, Yang Chen can directly short AT&T and order TNT to teach Xiao Hua how to do things.

ESPN is a subsidiary of the Walt Disney Group. It is one of Disney's main sources of revenue, accounting for more than one-third of the media network sector.

The Disney Group is the company that owns Disneyland. It is also a listed company with a total share capital of 18.11 billion shares, a current share price of 120 Eagle Coins, and a total market value of 2173.2 billion Eagle Coins.

Nowadays, NBA players' salaries have skyrocketed, and even non-first-tier superstars can get an annual salary of more than 3000 million or even 5000 million.

Ten years ago, only players like Kobe and James could get this annual salary.

The reason why players' salaries have skyrocketed is that TNT and ESPN signed a broadcasting contract with the NBA worth 240 billion Eagle Dollars.

It may be a bit of an exaggeration to say that these two broadcasters control the lifeblood of the NBA, but it is not an exaggeration either.

If this broadcasting contract is gone, the owners will not have the money to pay the players premium salaries.

If the players cannot get the agreed salary, the union may intervene at best, or the game may be suspended at worst.

Anyway, we have already taken action. Shorting two companies is shorting, and shorting 20 companies is also shorting.

Yang Chen continued to select suitable companies to start with.

Clippers owner Bowmore is the president of Microsoft and holds a 4% stake in Microsoft. If Microsoft's stock price plummets because of him, he will definitely compromise.

Knicks owner Dolan is the president of Bald Eagle Cable Television and holds a 20% stake in the company. His main wealth comes from these shares and the valuation of the Knicks.

As long as the cable company's stock price plummets, Dolan will definitely compromise.

There are really a lot of companies that can be shorted. Yang Chen needs to communicate with the five major banks to determine how much funds they can take out for the operation, and then determine the final short-selling list.

Chen Chao submitted another work report, briefly introducing the process and results of shorting Penguin Holdings last week.

Sihai Investment has returned all the stocks it borrowed from companies such as BlackRock and paid them a 6% fee.

The total profit from shorting Penguin Holdings this time was about 450 billion. According to Yang Chen's instructions, all of this money has been used to buy Penguin Holdings' stocks, with an average price of 235.5 Xiangbi, totaling about 1.91 million shares, accounting for about 2% of the total share capital.

Now Penguin's stock price is recovering rapidly. So far, it has returned to more than 280 Xiangbi. It will only take two trading days tomorrow or the day after tomorrow for it to return to more than 400 Xiangbi.

Yang Chen nodded with satisfaction, and said, “Well done. We shouldn’t be too greedy, we should start clearing out our positions when the stock price reaches 600 coins. The highest record of Penguin Holdings’ stock price is 700 coins, we shouldn’t bet on whether it can break the record this time, clearing out our positions at 600 coins is enough.”

Chen Chao quickly wrote down the shipping price, and then said, "Okay, Director Yang, I'll remember that. Do you have any other instructions?"

Yang Chen shook his head and said, “No more, go and get busy.”

After Chen Chao left, Yang Chen immediately arranged a video conference with the presidents of the five major banks.

"Dear bank presidents, how much money are you going to use for this operation?" Yang Chen asked.

ICBC President Zhao Kun immediately said, "There is enough money. You can use as much as you want."

Wang Wanli, the president of Longguo Bank, followed up and said, "That's right! Director Yang can use as much as he wants. Funds are not something you should worry about. You only need to worry about which companies to short sell."

The other bank presidents had the same idea. They had enough funds and Yang Chen could use them as he pleased.

Yang Chen smiled and nodded, and said: "It's still the old rule, the profits will be split in half. Is that ok?"

Zhao Kun laughed and said, "Of course!"

"We are not afraid of you sharing the money, we are afraid that you will not share the money," said Wang Wanli.

"That's right! As long as you want to share the money, it means you are still willing to cooperate with us. If you don't want to share the money, you won't cooperate with us next time. Even if you don't say it, we will give you half." Li Baitao, the president of the bank, said with a smile.

Yang Chen smiled and nodded, and said: "OK! Work overtime tonight, get to work!"

"Haha... no problem! See you tonight!" Zhao Kun said happily.

These bank presidents are naturally happy because they will be able to make a lot of money again soon.

Yang Chen ended the video conference and immediately determined the list of companies to be shorted tonight.

Not long after, Adidas president Hebner called Yang Chen.

"Hello, Mr. Yang, I'll be arriving at Sihai Group soon. Will you have time to meet and chat with me later?" Hebner said with a smile.

Yang Chen smiled and said, "Yes. Come on, I'll be waiting for you."

Hebner brought a team of more than a dozen people with him this time. In addition to signing a cooperation agreement with the Sihai Basketball Team, he will also inspect the main stores in Longguo to see where the problem lies and why Adidas shoes are suddenly not selling well in Longguo.

Not long after, Yang Chen met Hebner.

"Wow, Mr. Yang is so powerful and his operations are ruthless and decisive. I thought you were a very experienced veteran, but I didn't expect you to be so young. It's incredible and scary. For the next half century, the global financial and capital markets will have to live in fear of you." Hebner said with a smile.

Yang Chen laughed loudly, and said: "Mr. Hebner is exaggerating. I'm not a demon, so why am I still living in my fear? Come, sit down and talk."

Everyone sat down, Yang Chen and Hebner chatted for a while, and then both sides got down to business.

Before Hebner left, Adidas and Sihai Sports had already finalized the cooperation agreement, and now the leaders of both parties just needed to sign it directly.

The main contents of the agreement are as follows:

First, Adidas pays 3.5 million euros in sponsorship fees to the Sihai Basketball Team every year, obtaining the advertising rights for the lower half of the jersey and one of the player's shoes.

Second, Adidas gives Sihai Sports 150 million euros every year to purchase community promotion services developed by Sihai Real Estate.

Third, the agreement is valid for 10 years, and all sponsorship fees must be paid in full at one time. If the cooperation is terminated midway, Sihai Sports will decide whether to refund the sponsorship fees.

In general, all the terms are beneficial to Sihai Sports. In particular, if the two parties terminate the cooperation, whether to refund the money will be decided by Sihai Sports. This clause ensures that once the money enters Sihai Sports’ account, it cannot be returned.

Hebner and Sihai Sports President Chen Yulong signed on behalf of both parties, and the agreement officially came into effect after being stamped.

Hebner made a phone call, and soon after, Sihai Sports' overseas account received two remittances of 35 billion euros and 1500 million euros.

In order to ensure the safety of funds, these funds will not stay in the account, but will be directly transferred to the accounts of the five major banks in Europe. The five major banks will then convert them into Dragon Coins according to the real-time exchange rate and transfer them to Sihai Sports’ account in China.

This series of operations may sound complicated, but they are not complicated at all. In less than an hour, Sihai Sports received funds from the five major banks.

Sihai Sports and adidas jointly issued an announcement, officially announcing that adidas and Sihai Basketball Team have reached a partnership.

"After friendly negotiations, Sihai Sports and Adidas reached a cooperation agreement. Adidas will pay Sihai Sports 3.5 million euros per year to obtain the advertising rights for the lower body jerseys and one foot of the Sihai basketball team. At the same time, Adidas will spend an additional 150 million euros per year to purchase the promotion services of communities developed by Sihai Real Estate across the country. The agreement takes effect immediately and is valid for 10 years."

Sihai Sports, Sihai Real Estate, and Sihai Property immediately jointly issued a new announcement.

"Sihai Sports will spend 1 million dragon coins to purchase community promotion services developed by Sihai Real Estate across the country. This service is only used to promote the Adidas basketball series. The funds will be taken over by Sihai Property, and dividends will be distributed to owners at the end of the year based on the actual advertising fees generated."

Soon, these two announcements were sent to the hot search lists of major platforms by netizens.

"Adidas is really sensible. As soon as Boss Yang saved its stock price from Wall Street, they immediately came to pay the protection fee."

"Sihai Basketball Team has just been established. The sponsorship fees they received must be more than the sponsorship fees that CBA has received since its establishment, right? After all, they are all paid in Eagle Coins and Euro Coins. Converting them into Dragon Coins is really a sky-high price."

"According to Boss Yang's plan, other companies that continue to sponsor the Sihai team will definitely purchase community promotion services, which means that the dividends for Sihai's owners will increase. If this continues, the money the owners receive every year will be enough to pay off their mortgages."

"Since the announcement of dividends for Sihai's owners, the prices of second-hand houses in Sihai have generally increased by 10%, and even then the supply still cannot meet the demand. There is no doubt that the prices of second-hand houses in Sihai will continue to rise. I now hope that Sihai will launch new properties as soon as possible. I must buy one."

……

When Huo Qiuyan, chairman of Baoli Real Estate, saw the news, her brows furrowed in depression.

The policy of joining hands with other real estate companies to force Yang Chen to cancel the dividend distribution to the owners has been confirmed to have failed. Huo Qiuyan can only find ways to deal with Yang Chen's competitive method from her own perspective.

After much thought, she realized that the only option was to reduce prices and offer promotions.

"Asshole, bastard, how can you do business like this! You have so much debt, but you still have to share the profits with the owners. You have these sponsors paying you advertising fees, but we don't have sponsors paying us advertising fees. You'd better not let me catch you, otherwise I will take you down in one go!" Huo Qiuyan said to herself.

Baoli Real Estate had a net profit of more than 200 billion yuan last year, so it has plenty of room to cut prices.

At the same time, Yu Hongliang, chairman of Wangke Real Estate, also saw the relevant news. He was originally hesitant about whether to lower the price, but now he dares not hesitate at all. Apart from lowering the price and promoting sales, he has no other way to compete with Sihai Real Estate.

Other real estate companies have also made similar decisions. They have quickly cut prices on their properties while Sihai Real Estate has not yet been revived. Otherwise, their houses will be even harder to sell when Sihai Real Estate's new properties are listed.

As a result, major real estate developers immediately sent price reduction notices to their branches.

Real estate consultants, agents, etc., immediately call potential customers to inform them of the price reduction.

Such a large-scale wave of price cuts across the industry quickly became a hot topic, and major media outlets rushed to report the related news.

Caixin.com: The power of Yang Chen's dividends to the owners gradually increased. Major real estate developers were forced into a corner by him. All of them reduced prices for promotions, at least 95% off, and some even sold houses at 8% off. Who would have thought that the high housing prices would be brought down by Yang Chen's strategy of dividends to the owners. Even if you don't buy a house, you have to thank Yang Chen, because when the housing prices come down, the rest of the economy will improve, and everyone will benefit.

(End of this chapter)