50s: Starting with a storage ring

Chapter 634 Huang Mingyu is a lucky guy
Following Chinese tradition, Sun Zhiwei and Huang Mingyu enjoyed a table full of delicacies while discussing business.

After several rounds of drinks and dishes, the two ate some staple food and waited for the fruit platter to be served. Two hours had already passed.

Finally, the two agreed to hold a general meeting three days later to formally appoint Huang Mingyu as the CEO of the Robert Group.

The meeting location has been confirmed: 212 East 42nd Street, Midtown Manhattan.

The land there was another victory that lawyer Smith had brought him some time ago.

Of the eight plots of land that LaGuardia Airport manager Davis embezzled to purchase, three have already been recovered; this is the fourth.

Manhattan's neighborhoods resemble a chessboard, with straight roads dividing each block into standard squares.

Sun Zhiwei's plot of land is one of those squares. The plot is 200 meters long and 80 meters wide, which is a standard plot in Manhattan.

After Davis passed away, the land was inherited by his descendants, and after decades of development, three skyscrapers have now been built on it.

One of them is the 42-story Westin Central Hotel in New York, and the other two are high-rise apartment buildings, one 45 stories and the other 35 stories.

Because the land itself was illegal, the buildings on it were also illegal, and Sun Zhiwei's claim was supported by the judge.

However, the judge did not completely favor Sun Zhiwei, and also gave Davis's descendants another option, which was to pay for the land, including the buildings on it.

When Sun Zhiwei heard this, he almost burst out laughing. These plots of land and buildings had been built decades ago.

What were the costs and land prices back then, and what are the costs and land prices now?

At current prices, Davis's descendants would need to be on the richest list in the US (400) to afford them.

This was clearly impossible, so the judge ultimately awarded the entire plot of land and the three buildings on it to Sun Zhiwei.

In this one instance, Sun Zhiwei acquired two apartment buildings worth a total of $1 million, as well as a 45-story skyscraper leased to the Westin Central Hotel in New York.

Just then, he was setting up a group company and was worried about not having a place to work, so he got this batch of houses.

After negotiations with the Westin Central New York Hotel, Sun Zhiwei secured a 10-year rent-free period to allow them to vacate floors 1-3.

This place will become the headquarters of the Robert Group.

Thus, today's meeting has come to a successful conclusion.

Three days later, all the managers from various industries who had arrived were present, and the Robert Group held its first all-staff meeting.

Sun Zhiwei solemnly handed over the company's account, seal, and letter of appointment to Huang Mingyu in front of everyone.

From that day on, Huang Mingyu became the CEO of the Robert Group, with full authority over all of Sun Zhiwei's businesses at home and abroad.

Cheng Chia-fa, president of Cathay Bank, who was attending the conference, looked at Huang Ming-yu on the stage with a complicated expression. He couldn't help but sigh that Huang Ming-yu was a lucky guy.

According to last year's Forbes rich list, Sun Zhiwei's total assets have exceeded US$15 billion, successfully ranking him among the top ten of the world's billionaires.

Human destiny is truly amazing. This former subordinate at Cathay Bank, who had no ambition, remained in the position of branch manager for over a decade without ever moving.

But he followed the right person, and now he has taken off overnight. From now on, he will be in charge of this huge asset of $15 billion.

If Sun Zhiwei knew his thoughts, he would definitely correct him; his total assets certainly weren't $15 billion. Last year, Forbes only calculated Sun Zhiwei's assets within the United States. His overseas assets also include gold and iron ore mines in Australia, Africa, and Borneo, as well as two islands.

His assets in the United States have also been growing rapidly this year.

This includes Cathay Bank shares that were not previously accounted for, as well as new assets: LaGuardia Airport and Pinkerton Detective Agency.

The newly acquired land assets include three islands in the East River in New York and three skyscrapers in Midtown Manhattan.

The cash assets include $22.2 billion in cash and 160 tons of gold from the previous sweep of the oil futures market. (Of this, 100 tons of gold were only used temporarily and then returned to their original positions.)
According to his calculations, his total assets must now exceed those of the person at the top of the rich list.

I wonder how capable Forbes is at uncovering hidden assets.

When he swept through the oil futures market, he operated under the name of Cathay Bank, and the people in charge of execution were Huang Mingyu's subordinates, so theoretically it shouldn't be considered his assets.

If Forbes cannot find these, it means removing the three main assets: Cathay Bank shares, $22.2 billion in cash, and 60 tons of gold.

So last year, his publicly disclosed total assets were indeed only around $15 billion, since his shares in Cathay Bank were not publicly disclosed.

After the group's founding ceremony, all company staff went upstairs to the Westin Central Hotel in New York for a celebratory banquet.

It wasn't until the banquet ended that evening that Sun Zhiwei, still drunk, was taken home by Dong Haoyang and others, finally bringing the day to a close.

The next morning, Sun Zhiwei woke up in bed and opened his eyes.

He could hear the sounds of Tong Jiajia, Du Qiaoqiao, and Zhao Wanting preparing breakfast in the kitchen downstairs.

Wait, something's not right. Why is making breakfast making such a clattering sound? He quickly opened his spatial storage and looked downstairs.

In the kitchen, Tong Jiajia was tending to the pancakes on the stove while trying to direct Du Qiaoqiao and Zhao Wanting with a helpless expression.

Unfortunately, things didn't go as planned. The kitchen novices, Zhao Wanting and Du Qiaoqiao, didn't have much talent in cooking, but they simply had none.

Medical expert Du Qiaoqiao was frantically fiddling with various kitchen utensils, trying to wash the vegetables repeatedly like a scalpel in an operating room.

Close combat expert Zhao Wanting, holding two kitchen knives, stared at the onions on the cutting board as if facing a formidable enemy, as if confronting a biological bomb.

She brandished her twin swords, creating dozens of afterimages in the air as she slashed at the purplish-red onion-shaped dome from all sorts of impossible angles.

Half a second later, all the knife shadows landed on that onion.

If this were an enemy's head, it would definitely be slit in the throat, the head falling to the ground, a beautiful sight indeed.

However, the onions on the cutting board showed no mercy.

It started releasing a large amount of sulfide gas as soon as it was cut by the kitchen knife.

With dozens of slashes, countless sulfides shattered, and pungent gases attacked everyone in the kitchen indiscriminately.

Immediately, the kitchen was in complete chaos.

(End of this chapter)