I'm in the county town, and you say I'm a big shot?

Chapter 621 The First Wuzhen Internet Conference
"Hey, Xiao Ye, when are you going to let Xia He bring Qingqing back so Mom can have a good look at her?" Zhang Meili said enthusiastically.

“Xia He doesn’t want to come back. She said that if others find out about this, it will have a bad impact on me,” Fang Qingye explained.

"Xia He is a very thoughtful woman. I'll visit them in New York next year!" Zhang Meili said.

“Hey, Xiao Ye, you and Xia He have a daughter. If Xiao Ou has a son, you’ll have both a son and a daughter! That would be wonderful!” Zhang Limei said, getting more and more excited.

"Mom, please don't tell Dad about this, I'll get a real scolding," Fang Qingye quickly reminded him.

"Don't worry, only I know about this, and I'll keep it to myself!" Zhang Meili said.

"Okay, I'll go change my clothes now." Fang Qingye said and stood up.

Little did he know that his mother told his father, Fang Jianwen, about it on the phone that very night, which angered Fang Jianwen so much that he yelled at his son over the phone.

"I, Fang Jianwen, have stood up to Shirakawa Zhe for half my life, but I never expected this kid to do something so disrespectful to his daughter! How am I supposed to face Shirakawa Zhe after this?!"

"Just meet her however you want. Xiao'ou didn't mention her son, so why are you, as her father, talking about him?" Zhang Meili said dismissively, "This is something only you and I know, it's a secret."

"Isn't that obvious! It concerns my son's reputation, who would I dare tell?! I wouldn't tell my parents or Jianhua!"

"That's good. Let me tell you, Qingqing is so pretty and cute." Zhang Meili said enthusiastically.

"Really? Send me a photo so I can see it too."

"Hehe, I never thought we'd be grandparents already!"

In the evening, Bai Ou returned home on time. Although she was wearing office lady attire, her lower abdomen was already slightly protruding.

After dinner, although it was winter and the weather was quite cold, Fang Qingye accompanied his wife for a walk in the neighborhood. Bai Ou only asked a few simple questions about the situation in New York before quickly steering the conversation to work.

"Regarding the construction of Tuofang Building, I have communicated repeatedly with the relevant leaders of the Shanghai Free Trade Zone Management Committee, and they have agreed to grant us land. It is located on Xinjinqiao Road, opposite Yindong Building. The land area is 5.6 acres, and the land price is 1.8 million yuan. If we build 50 floors, the preliminary estimate is 12 to 15 billion yuan."

“I roughly know the location, that’s good.” Fang Qingye nodded.

As for construction costs, Fang Qingye had no worries at all. Just from this recent CET market raid on Panshi Agriculture, Tuofang Technology's Hong Kong branch netted a profit of $3.51 million, while Tomorrow Cube made $1500 million shorting Panshi Agriculture, and also manipulated its own personal accounts to ultimately earn $1.8 million. Funding was no problem at all.

"ByteDance's financing plan has been completed, and the company's latest valuation is 52 billion RMB. This time, it raised 15 billion RMB, which will be mainly used for the promotion of Toutiao, algorithm optimization, and the purchase of hardware equipment."

"Currently, investors include our Tuofang Technology, as well as Tencent, Alibaba, Sina Weibo, Sequoia China, and of course, Dahai's company has also invested. He even established an investment company called Hongjing Investment specifically for this purpose. The financing is waiting for you to come back and hold a shareholders' meeting to approve it."

"Heh, Alibaba and Tencent are joining in the fun too?" Fang Qingye laughed.

“Yes, knowing you’re in the US, they entrusted me with this matter entirely. Both companies sent executives to Shanghai to find me, and both Mas called me, insisting on getting involved. I couldn’t refuse,” Bai Oujiao said with a smile.

"They can invest if they want, but it can only be a financial investment. They absolutely cannot interfere with the company's normal operations!" Fang Qingye said.

“ByteDance is different from Ele.me. I don’t need strategic investment. It must be completely controlled by us.”

"Don't worry, I made it very clear when I communicated with them, and they agreed."

"Then notify Zhang Yimin to convene the meeting as soon as possible!"

"Tomorrow Cube's Model 2 team has basically completed its recruitment of 31 employees, all of whom have master's degrees or above, with half of them being doctoral students, mostly in mathematics."

"The equipment needed is mainly high-performance servers, which use NVIDIA Tesla K40 chips and are imported from abroad through Brother Qiao's company."

"There's also Zhiyun Technology. The company has been recruiting a large number of financial professionals recently. After training, they will promote the SCP payment system to various banks in China. I also suggested to Xin Tiejun that they could rely on Tuofang Technology's offices in the United States and its branch in Hong Kong to conduct market research and promotion in these two places."

"Also, the People's Bank of China has approved the payment license for Baopay. The company is now cooperating with Ele.me, Jinghai Bank, and Zhiyun Technology to establish platform interfaces, as well as program and data debugging. According to Mr. Ren's estimate, it can be officially launched before the Spring Festival next year." Bai Ou spoke very carefully, and Fang Qingye listened very attentively.

He realized that he had been in New York for almost two months, mostly busy with Xia He's affairs, and hadn't really been involved in the business of the various companies. However, under Bai Ou's leadership, everything was proceeding in an orderly manner.

"It seems I can retire early," Fang Qingye said with a smile.

Bai Ou rolled her eyes at him and said reproachfully.

"You want to slack off as soon as you get back? No way! Come with me to the hospital for my prenatal checkup tomorrow!"

"Okay! No problem!"

Fang Qingye only stayed in Shanghai for three days over the weekend and rushed back to Nanxin early Monday morning.

It wasn't that he didn't want to spend time with his wife, but he had a lot of things to deal with at Jinghai Bank.

Jinghai Bank is also preparing to build a new office building, and Fang Qingye instructed Zhao Wenjun to be in charge of this matter.

It's very convenient to handle affairs in the county town. I quickly found a piece of land in the new urban area. The Nanxin County government is planning to build a CBD here. The five-star Yangtze River Hotel is located here. I heard that the county government signed a contract with Xincheng Holdings Group to build Wuyue Plaza, which includes a shopping center, commercial street and high-rise residential buildings.

Jinghai Building is designed to have 30 floors, making it the tallest office building in Nanxin County.

Just as Fang Qingye returned to Nanxin to handle various bank affairs, the first World Internet Conference was held in Wuzhen, Zhejiang Province, with more than 1000 political figures, business leaders, experts, scholars and representatives of international organizations from more than 100 countries and regions around the world attending.

Chinese and foreign internet leaders, including Ma Yun, Ma Huateng, Li Yanhong, ICANN President Fadi Chehad, and Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs, delivered speeches to discuss digital economy trends.

Midway through the meeting, NetEase CEO Ding Lei hosted a private dinner at the "Jin Yi Inn" in the Xizha Scenic Area of ​​Wuzhen.

The attendees were all very famous:
Ma Huateng, Li Yanhong, Zhang Chaoyang, Lei Jun, Yang Yuanqing
Ma Yun did not participate.

Rumors suggest that Ding Lei extended an invitation, but Ma Yun declined due to other commitments.

At this moment, Ma Yun was chatting with Zhang Xuhao in her room.

Zhang Xuhao also didn't receive an invitation from Ding Lei. Although he felt a little uncomfortable, he understood:
I am here in place of Fang Qingye to attend the meeting. Ele.me has developed rapidly in the past two years, but it is still a small player compared to big companies like Tencent and Baidu.

He was naturally pleased to receive Ma Yun's private invitation, as the unpleasantness he had felt earlier had vanished without a trace.

The two chatted while drinking tea, but it was mostly Ma Yun who did the talking, and Zhang Xuhao listened attentively.

There's no way around it, Jack Ma's aura is just too overwhelming.

I felt like a primary school student in front of them, and their eloquence was superb; they spoke fluently and fluently. I, a science and engineering student, was filled with admiration.

Towards the end, Ma Yun suddenly asked, "Has Chairman Fang returned from America?"

“I came back last week and have now returned to Nanxin to handle matters related to Jinghai Bank,” Zhang Xuhao said truthfully.

Ma Yun sighed after hearing this.

"Your Chairman Fang's acquisition of Jinghai Bank is a brilliant move. Our Alibaba's online bank still hasn't received a license from the central bank."

"That's true." Zhang Xuhao had to admit.

By connecting with the central bank's leadership, the third-party license was successfully obtained!
“Mr. Zhang, how about we go to Nanxin to meet Chairman Fang after the conference tomorrow? I heard his nursery has beautiful scenery,” Ma Yun suddenly said.

(End of this chapter)