Chapter 1736 Rich but Not Rich (Part 1)
In fact, when Guo Tailai was going to build the world's largest yacht very early last year, when the project was approved and rumors about the design were released, many people who didn't know much about it expressed doubts. Or strictly speaking, not questioning, but mocking.
The world's largest yacht, is that something ordinary people can build? Paul's Octopus and Larry's Rising Sun are all behemoths with a cost of 250 million U.S. dollars directly quoted. This is just the cost, if you want to get it, you have to pay more.
The shipyard is not a charity, nor is it a transit agency, so they must be taking cash. With 250 million US dollars in cash, Guo Tailai wants to build a bigger one, it can't be less than 300 million US dollars, right? Can he afford that much money?
People who know Guo Tailai's nursing methods certainly know that this is not a big problem for Guo Tailai, but those who don't know will have a lot of weird words. It’s true that you, Mr. T, are rich and listed on the Hurun and Forbes rankings, but Mr. T, whose overall net worth is only 500 million U.S. dollars, why spend 300 million U.S. dollars in cash to build the largest ship in the world? yacht? Most of the 600 million U.S. dollars are real estate and film companies. How easy is it to get cash?
Especially when it was revealed that a yacht cost more than 800 million U.S. dollars a year ago, this kind of doubt was raised to the maximum. There are both at home and abroad. After all, design companies have designers from all over the world, and Guo Tailai also connives at some people deliberately leaking secrets, so people in many countries know about it.
The $800 million super yacht made Guo Tailai the biggest joke in the world. It's not a joke that a guy with a net worth of only five or six billion dollars buys a super yacht worth eight hundred million dollars? Even if many industries can be loaned, isn't James' film investment claiming to invest five or six billion? What's left? Some people who don't think it's a big deal to watch the excitement even made comments in the media or on the Internet, asking the bank that gave Guo Tailai a loan to thoroughly investigate Guo Tailai's asset status, lest the loan may not be recovered in time.
If you just follow the information on the surface, there is nothing wrong with the ridicule of these people. Look at Paul who is building the Octopus, and Larry who is building the Rising Sun. Which one is not worth tens of billions? Is it true that super yachts with hundreds of millions of dollars are affordable by ordinary rich people? Even if you can get a loan out of face, why don't you eat, drink or do other things? All his wealth turned into a yacht that became second-hand as soon as it was delivered to Guo Tailai and could only keep depreciating?
To put it bluntly, Guo Tailai's style of play is really a bit like a small horse-drawn cart. If the previous financial situation is still barely healthy, then with the 800 million US dollars in loans, I am afraid it will become a super negative man, a model of insolvency.
If Guo Tailai was not so extravagant and extravagant, he should be able to live a pretty good life relying on Taylor G and Tottenham Club, plus a film company. It's a pity that as soon as a person has money, he probably drifts away. He starts to pay for his comic idol, and also borrows more than 700 million US dollars to buy an AMC theater chain. Now, among the theater companies in the world, which one is making money? Aren't they all operating in debt?
If Guo Tailai continues to play so capriciously, he will definitely bankrupt himself. Counting his current loans, AMC originally borrowed 700 million, the yacht still needs to borrow 800 million, two movie investments, one "Avatar" needs to invest at least 500 million, and one "God's Sequel" needs to invest 100 million, of which at least Half of the loan is also required, which is another 300 million. The loan alone is 1.8 billion US dollars, which is definitely far more than Guo Tailai's current fixed assets.
This kind of voice is also getting louder and louder in China, even in several shipyards. Everyone wants to fight for this big project, but everyone is extremely disgusted with Guo Tailai's large-scale debt behavior. Therefore, several large shipyards are actively preparing to win orders, but at the same time they have made insurance plans. If they grab an order, they will definitely require an addition to the contract of the order. When signing the contract, there must be a state-owned four bank for fund custody guarantee.
That is to say, Guo Tailai must transfer the full amount of shipbuilding funds into a specific bank account at one time. No matter whether Guo Tailai has the money to repay the loan in the future, these custody funds cannot be moved, so as to ensure that the shipyard will not lose money because of this. suffered heavy damage to a yacht. In case Guo Tailai gets out of play, half of the ship is built and there is no money, who will take over? Whose is the loss?
However, this kind of voice could not be heard by Guo Tailai. As soon as the request from the shipyard below came to General Chu and Director Wang, they were directly scolded by the two of them. A bunch of bastards who don't have a good eye for price, we worked hard here to help you grab orders, why are you planning to push high-quality orders out together?
Although General Chu is always a kind and pleasant person in front of Guo Tailai, in the entire military industry system, General Chu is notoriously strict and has a bad temper. After making this suggestion, General Chu scolded everyone so pale on the spot.
After the meeting, a person in charge of the shipyard was a little dissatisfied, and made a phone call to the head of the final assembly to reflect this matter. I thought that General Chu would have to be reprimanded anyway, but he himself was called in front of the head of the general assembly, and he was severely criticized again. The tone was so serious that the person in charge almost collapsed. After that, he didn't mention it again, how to cooperate with his superiors to be the most active, if he didn't understand at this time, he would be a fool, Guo Tailai has the support of the whole assembly, not to mention 800 million US dollars, 8 billion is probably not problem!
There are many rumors that several major banks in the banking system have internal meetings because of this matter. Guo Tailai's personal deposits are not much, most of them are scattered in various investment companies by Lin Jiayi, and not much is known inside the bank. For the sake of loan security, if the branches in various places have loan applications for super yachts, they must immediately report to the head office for approval.
As soon as the bank's regulations were spread, it aroused an upsurge of discussion in the society. Although Guo Tailai is not considered an entertainment star, he is still a celebrity after all! This is out-and-out celebrity gossip! Although there is no official media breaking the news, there are heated discussions on the Internet.
Those who know don't talk, and those who don't know discuss happily. All the speeches basically have the same meaning. Mr. T is drifting away. If he has a little money, he doesn't know where to go. He is a prodigal son. Many people watched gloatingly, waiting to see how Mr. T's farce would end.
Just when everyone stretched their necks one by one and waited to see the good show, news came from abroad that Google went public, and its market value exceeded 40 billion US dollars overnight. The most shocking thing is that Mr. T is said to have 10% of Google's shares!