Chapter 1401 First Voyage Far Away

The first self-owned base of Yuanfang Airlines was actually converted from an abandoned military airport.

In Minghu, everyone knows that there is a Wanli Airport.

But in fact, because of the development over the years, it is no longer suitable to build an airport in the bay, and there is no secrecy at all.

The military has long thought about the issue of relocation, and even selected several backup bases in more remote areas.

And what Yuanfang won this time was not Wanli, which has not yet decided whether to move or not. Even if it does, this important military base will not be sold in a short time.

What Yuanfang Airlines won was a backup base.

It is actually not accurate to say that it is abandoned, but the number of times it has been used over the years is too little, and now even the Wanli Airport is about to be relocated, let alone these backup bases.

Considering that Yuanfang solves the employment problem of a large number of veterans for the military every year, and the Lan Xingguo and Jiangbei governments have stepped forward.

In the end, this alternate airport was taken down by Yuanfang.

It's a real suburb, unlike the development that's been going on in the bay.

The entire alternate airport was empty, with few buildings nearby.

When Li Dong got out of the car, Lan Xingguo greeted him with a smile and said, "You've arrived. I'm worried that if you haven't come before the maiden voyage time, it will be delayed."

Li Dong looked at his watch and said, "The maiden flight is at 10:18, and there is still more than half an hour left.

Take me to have a look, I've never been here before.

Having said that, it's not far from Dongping, right? "

Lan Xingguo smiled and said: "It's not far, it's only an hour's journey by car, why don't you go back and have a look when you return?"

"talk later."

Li Dong walked and said, "Is the maiden flight route arranged according to what I said?"

"It was arranged according to what you said, from Minghu to Shenzhen.

But there is a slight turn in the middle, passing through Lin'an.

For this reason, when I applied for routes from the Civil Aviation Administration, I was often laughed at. "

Lan Xingguo looked helpless. From Minghu to Shenzhen City, this is a normal route arrangement.

According to the direct flight route, it does not pass through Lin'an.

In the end, Li Dong wanted to make such an arrangement, and Lan Xingguo spent all his time talking about the application for the maiden voyage.

Fortunately, Lin'an is also an important city, and Yuanfang chose this place as a node, which can barely make sense.

Lan Xingguo also had a lot of connections with the Civil Aviation Administration, so he was finally approved.

However, the Civil Aviation Administration also has some understanding of Li Dong's character.

This guy knows from the time he names the planes that he's not a low-key guy.

This time I have to pass through Lin'an, maybe I'm holding back.

However, there are standard arrangements for the route and flight standards. If Li Dong doesn't want to die, he'd better not mess around, otherwise he will really become Li Dapao if he is bombarded by someone in the end.

Taking this into consideration, the Civil Aviation Administration is not too embarrassed.

Li Dong's head was submerged again. He wanted to die, but others didn't want to die.

"What's the joke? It's just a normal route, do you stop in the middle?"

"Non-stop, direct. It took about 160 minutes in total."

Li Dong raised his eyebrows and said: "It's almost 1 o'clock, is it time for lunch?

Forget it, call Ma Huateng and ask him to treat him. I'll come back after dinner. "

Lan Xingguo didn't answer, this was Li Dong's own business, whoever he liked to eat with and whoever he wanted to eat with.

However, Lan Xingguo still reminded: "The plane returns at 2:00 p.m. and arrives in Pingchuan at 5:00 p.m. It's best not to delay. Of course, you can come back by civil aviation."

"Let's talk about it, by the way, when will my private jet arrive?"

"This will have to wait until the end of the month at the earliest."

"..."

The two walked and talked,

When he got to the apron, Li Dong glanced at it and asked, "It seems that there are not 25 planes?"

Lan Xingguo nodded and said: "No, the scale of the backup airport here is not large, and 25 planes can't park.

We also rented some places to stop at Jinling Hepingchuan Airport.

These two places are also the capital cities of East China, not far from Minghu Lake, forming an air transportation hub with Jinling, Pingchuan, and Minghu Lake as the core of the triangle.

In this way, we can easily cover the entire East China region.

As for East China, we are still unable to achieve full coverage, and we can only wait for the follow-up to continue to expand. "

Li Dong raised his eyebrows and said: "The scale here is still too small, can it be expanded? If it cannot be expanded, then this side cannot be operated as a core base, but can only be operated as an auxiliary airport."

Lan Xingguo said with a smile: "The key to expansion is... money."

Li Dong glanced at him, the old man learned how to be a general.

If I have money, what do you need to say?

You don't even think about how much you overspend!

Too lazy to answer this question, Li Dong walked towards the rest area not far away.

At any rate, it was also the maiden voyage ceremony. A few leaders of the Minghu local government came, and some official media also came.

For this maiden voyage, the Minghu government will definitely publicize it.

Minghu is also an old and famous city, but there really is no civilian airport. In fact, the far side is not a civilian airport, but a cargo airport.

But anyway, the opening of the cargo airport has greatly helped Minghu!

Becoming a freight transfer center will soon form a scale around this area, which is equivalent to developing an area for the local government for free.

Such a good thing, of course, the government supports.

...

When Li Dong was communicating with the local leaders.

at the same time.

Lin'an.

Ma Yun couldn't help looking at the sky from the window several times.

Yuanfang Airlines made its maiden voyage today, and the guy said that he would pass by Lin'an, so don't really do anything to him.

After watching it a few times, Cai Congxing, a high-ranking Ali executive who was talking to him, Cai Chongxin couldn't help but said, "Old Ma, what's wrong?"

Within the Ali Group, there are not many people who can directly call Ma Yun an old horse.

Of course, there are still some explanations, and Cai Chongxin is definitely one of them.

It's not disrespect. In fact, the relationship between Cai Chongxin and Ma Yun is very good, so good that Ma Yun won't let him call him chairman, even in the company.

Without Cai Chongxin, there would be no Ma Yun and Ali today.

Speaking of importance, in the early Ali, Cai Chongxin was even more important than Ma Yun.

Ali went from a grassroots team to a formalized one, all thanks to Cai Chongxin.

Ali's several financings were all invested by Cai Chongxin's contacts.

Don't look at the fact that Yahoo is dragging Ali's hind legs now, but without the support of Yahoo's 1 billion US dollars and the support of Yahoo China's industry and talents, Ali would not be able to get to where he is now.

And this financing, which is considered a large sum in the financing history of Huaxia's Internet industry, was completed under the leadership of Cai Chongxin.

Because of this, within Ali, Ma Yun has a high degree of trust in Cai Chongxin.

Currently, Cai Chongxin is also the chief financial officer of Ali. Before that, he was also the chief operating officer of Ali.

At this moment, the arrival of Cai Chongxin, the chief financial officer, is naturally related to money.

Li Dong has Li Dong's troubles, and Ma Yun has Ma Yun's troubles.

And both of them have one thing in common, they are most afraid of seeing these financial executives, trouble!

Ma Yun stopped looking out the window, turned his head and said, "It's okay, you continue."

"The privatization has now entered the formal process, but regarding the issue of Yahoo's share repurchase, Yahoo's asking price has remained high.

When it comes to 12 billion US dollars, it is already the limit..."

"12 billion!"

Ma Yun gritted his teeth and said, "It's really enough to look up to Ali!"

Yahoo currently holds 40% of the shares of Ali Group, and is the largest shareholder of Alibaba Group.

According to the other party's bid, that is to say, Ali is now worth more than 100 billion U.S. dollars.

If this was put at the beginning of 2008, Ma Yun didn't think much, and even extremely underestimated Ali.

But in the past year, there has been another economic crisis, b2b business has shrunk, Taobao business has shrunk, Alipay business has shrunk...

Can Ali still reach the value of 0 billion US dollars now?

It's not that Ma Yun looked down on Ali and himself, it's really not worth it now.

When Ali's b2b business was listed in 2007, at its peak, just one b2b business was worth 26 billion US dollars.

At that time, Ali had a great reputation, even surpassing the combined market value of Baidu and tengxun!

You know, that's just one part of Ali's business, not all of it.

Of course, Ali's b2b business is the largest in China, and it is even well-known in the world.

In 2007, the b2b business accounted for more than half of Ali's business.

In other words, if Ali was valued at that time, the total value would not be less than 50 billion US dollars.

This is a terrible thing!

The market value of 50 billion US dollars is comparable to three tengxun at that time.

And that was 2007!

However, after one year in 2008, the market value of Alibaba Network Company, which is listed on the Alibaba B2B business, has dropped to about US$8 billion.

According to the original proportion in the group, the current total value of Ali is less than 20 billion US dollars, or even less.

At this time, Yahoo’s 40% stake actually offered a price of 12 billion US dollars, which was too much of a premium.

Moreover, they privatized and repurchased Ali Network, which cost nearly 2.5 billion U.S. dollars this time.

A total of 14.5 billion US dollars, nearly 100 billion yuan, where did Ali get so much money!

Seeing that Ma Yun was annoyed, Cai Chongxin said softly: "Yang Zhiyuan thinks Ali is worth the price, but actually I also think Ali is worth the price.

0 billion US dollars, not inflated.

Of course, from our current point of view, the more the opponent underestimates Ali, the better.

At present, the group can use no more than 2 billion US dollars of funds.

The gap is still huge.

However, our other plan has also been approved by Yahoo.

Before another IPO, we can repurchase half of the shares first, and the remaining 50% will be repurchased again when the IPO starts.

In this way, including privatization, the total funds we need to spend are only 8.5 billion US dollars.  …”

"$8.5 billion..."

Ma Yun's teeth are a little painful, only 8.5 billion US dollars!

A year ago, he believed that Ali could get the money out!

A year later, he really couldn't get it out!

Of course, since he has chosen to privatize and repurchase shares, he cannot really use the funds that the group can use.

Prior to this, he had negotiated with some institutions.

The CDB is willing to lend them US$1 billion, and some other Chinese mainland banks have also agreed to lend, with funds close to US$1 billion.

And some foreign financial institutions have also agreed to a quota of 1 billion US dollars.

0 billion US dollars, plus the current 2 billion US dollars left by the group, 5 billion US dollars is Ma Yun's confidence.

He has more money at his disposal now than Li Dong.

But even so, there are still gaps.

This kind of xianjin repurchase plan will not allow you to pay it back slowly for a few years.

Ma Yun breathed out and said, "12 billion dollars is still too high, let's continue the discussion.

Tell Yahoo that they will not retreat, and we will wait to die together!

Now that the b2b business is sluggish, Taobao and Tmall are also suppressed by Yuanfang.

The same is true for Alipay business!

Our decision-making body is infighting endlessly. If this continues, sooner or later it will be a dead end!

Of course, they don't want to hustle the shares, and that's fine with me.

But the partnership system must be passed!

I have to get the right to make decisions.

As long as Yahoo is willing to give up its veto power and second board appointment, I can continue to tolerate them.

As long as we Ali cheer up, the distance will not be our fatal poison.

External enemies can be resisted, but internal troubles are the root cause of the collapse of the group.

Yahoo doesn't understand the domestic market at all, and now pointing fingers is completely holding us back.

It's okay to buy back half of their shares, but it can't reach as much as 6 billion U.S. dollars. The original 1 billion U.S. dollars plus China Yahoo's industry will get a return of more than ten times in a few years.

As soon as it goes on the market in 2007, I can accept it.

I also hope to bring greater benefits to our investors, and it is no problem to multiply by a hundred times!

But not now, 8.5 billion US dollars has drained our blood, how can we compete in the domestic market next? "

Cai Chongxin said softly: "The price can still be discussed. As for the funding issue, your previous virtual currency fund may be our biggest bargaining chip."

When Ma Yun heard this, he immediately sighed and said, "In the end, it's up to him to solve the problem.

One step after another.

Today, we are always chasing after the footsteps of the distance, which is not normal.

This year is the tenth anniversary of our establishment, while Yuanfang has only been established for five years, and it has only been three years since we worked in the Internet industry.

This guy is putting more and more pressure on us.

A series of our plans have been unable to be implemented, and Yahoo has frequently used its veto power to negate my decisions. I really can't stand it!

In any case, we must take back the decision-making power this time!

anyway! "

Ma Yun emphasized his tone, he really couldn't tolerate Yahoo's behavior anymore.

Why didn't he mention Softbank?

Softbank has always been on his side. Ma Yun doesn't really care who makes money and how much. As long as these institutions listen to him, he will lead you to make money together.

It’s only been a few years for Yahoo, isn’t the rate of return low?

Even in the low period now, the return is not low.

But even so, she still kept rejecting herself, and the anger in Ma Yun's heart was simply uncontrollable.

Especially seeing that the distance is going faster and faster, he is determined to let Yahoo go out this time, even if he doesn't go out now, he has to let them go out before IPO again!

Cai Chongxin seldom saw Ma Yun get angry, and this time he seemed to be in a hurry.

Seeing his tone, Cai Chongxin nodded and said: "Then I will continue to talk with the other party, this matter has to be done slowly.

In addition, if it really doesn’t work, after this delisting, we can choose to raise funds again.

State-owned assets such as China Development Bank, CITIC Capital, and Boyu Capital are also very interested in us.

There was no Yuanfang before, so I don’t recommend introducing state-owned assets, but now Yuanfang continues to suppress us in the country and introduce state-owned assets. I think the advantages outweigh the disadvantages..."

Cai Chongxin analyzed for a while, and Ma Yun followed suit.

The two of them were talking about the most important stage, when suddenly there was a whisper from outside the door.

Ma Yun and Cai Chongxin frowned at the same time. Are there no rules?

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