Chapter 239: Yang Zhiyuan's Envy and Job Exam

"Hey Jerry, are you up so early?"

Jerry Yang greeted on the phone: "Good evening, Affan. I just received an email from Mr. Sun of SoftBank Group in Tokyo. He said that he might come to Singapore for a business trip next week to attend an investment forum and asked if he could arrange with you through me. Meeting. Affan, are you free to meet this Mr. Sun in Singapore?”

Li Xiaofan smiled and said: "No problem, everyone here is a guest. Jerry, you can reply to Mr. Sun and welcome him to Singapore. I can treat him to a seafood dinner from the east coast of Singapore. Let Mr. Sun arrive then Just contact me directly, call me on my mobile phone or via email.”

"OK, that's great! Affan, Mr. Sun has been in contact with me recently. I feel that he is quite sincere..."

"Well, Jerry, I understand your mood. At present, the business of my two Yifan companies in Singapore is quite good, and the profits are also considerable. Jerry, by the end of the year, our Singapore Yifan companies are fully capable of continuing to increase capital in Yahoo company. Of course, we also welcome powerful strategic investors like SoftBank Group, but Jerry , we must not be impatient now, I believe that the valuation of our Yahoo company will get higher and higher, even if we want to introduce strategic investors, we have to wait until the second half of the year to get a good price! According to recent online news reports, Marc Andreessen’s Netscape will be listed on Nasdaq in early August!”

"Well, yes, we haven't seen Marc Andreessen in that Taco Bell Mexican restaurant recently for a long time. It is said that he has been to New York, San Francisco, Boston, Chicago and Los Angeles under the arrangement of investment banks recently. He has launched a pre-IPO road show, and reports about him and Netscape have been everywhere in newspapers, TV and other media recently..." There was a sense of envy in Yang Zhiyuan's words.

Roadshow in English is called RoadShow, which is an important promotion method for investors and securities issuers to promote the successful issuance of stocks under the condition of full communication.

In the United States, before an IPO, securities issuers generally, under the arrangement of investment banks, go to major financial centers in the United States such as New York, San Francisco, Boston, Chicago and Los Angeles to conduct roadshows to promote potential investors. . Indicate the value of the securities to be issued, deepen investors' awareness, understand their investment intentions, discover needs and value positioning, and ensure the successful issuance of securities.

Li Xiaofan encouraged: "Jerry, now our Yahoo search engine is in a leading position. If nothing else happens, I predict that after New Year's Day next year, you may also have to go to the United States for roadshows like Marc Andreessen..."

Yang Zhiyuan said happily: "Haha, Affan, with your kind words, I hope our Yahoo company can be listed on NASDAQ next year!"

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Two days later in the afternoon, after Guo Hanyue and Liu Mengchen switched to late-night shifts with other colleagues, Li Xiaofan took them to visit the Singapore Optometry Association.

In the training department of the association, after they learned more about the qualification application procedures for optometrists and optometrists, Guo Hanyue and Liu Mengchen each signed up for an optometrist and optometrist training course.

The course training for optometrists and optometrists is conducted in spare time. It will start next week and last for two months. After two months, you will take a unified examination. After passing the examination, you can obtain the qualifications of optometrists and optometrists.

After coming out of the Singapore Optometry Association, Guo Hanyue and Liu Mengchen looked at the training materials in their hands and said to Li Xiaofan: "The content of this training is very simple. Maybe we need to memorize these professional terms and English words, because we have None of them are ophthalmology nurses, so I don’t have much exposure to this profession..."

"Then you should prepare well and work hard to pass the optometrist and optometrist qualification exam! In a few days, our opticians will also arrive in Singapore and will also register for the optician qualification exam."

They asked curiously: "Who is the optician? Where did he come from?"

"There is a handsome young man from our mainland named Xiao Tianming."

At the beginning of last month, when Li Xiaofan returned to Mingzhou, he asked his old classmate Pan Zhenming, an optician at the Siming Watch and Optical Store, to introduce a capable apprentice to Li Xiaofan.

This apprentice is called Xiao Tianming, a graduate of a mechanical technical secondary school, and his hometown is in the countryside. After Xiao Tianming graduated five years ago, he followed Lao Pan in the profession of opticians. He is currently an optician expert at Siming Watch and Optical Store and Lao Pan's protégé.

When Lao Pan heard that Li Xiaofan was going to open an optical shop in Singapore, he was very supportive: "Afan, if I were twenty years younger, I would follow you to Nanyang to open an optical shop in Singapore!"

Siming Watch and Glasses Store is a state-owned enterprise, and technical secondary school graduates like Xiao Tianming only earn 500 yuan a month.

When he heard that he could work in Singapore, accommodation included, and Li Xiaofan offered him a monthly salary of SGD 600, his eyes lit up! Li Xiaofan agreed without saying a word.

When Lao Pan first told him about this matter, Xiao Tianming also went outside to inquire about it. The market price of labor export to Singapore alone was between 20,000 and 30,000 yuan in agency fees, and the basic salary was about 500 Singapore dollars. Now he is given a basic salary of 600 Singapore dollars, overtime pay for regular overtime work, and a bonus at the end of the year. There is no need for any overseas labor agency fees, and accommodation is included. Where can I find such good things!

After the negotiation, Li Xiaofan returned to Singapore and went to the Singapore Ministry of Labor to help Xiao Tianming apply for the SWP skilled worker pass in the name of Singapore Yifan Technology Pte. Ltd.

In early June, Li Xiaofan received a letter of approval in principle from the Singapore Ministry of Labor, approving Xiao Tianming's SWP skilled worker pass in principle.

After receiving the letter of approval in principle from the Singapore Ministry of Labor, Li Xiaofan sent it back to Xiao Tianming and asked him to go to the immigration department to expedite the application procedures for a private passport...

Liu Mengchen smiled and said, "Wow, that's great, another handsome guy is coming, and the yin and yang in our dormitory can finally be balanced!"

"Who said Xiao Tianming is coming to live in our townhouse dormitory?" Li Xiaofan smiled.

Liu Mengchen asked curiously, "Where will he live when he comes?"

"I recently bought a HDB flat in Tampines in the name of a Singaporean friend. Then, our first optical shop in the future will be in the Tampines Community Center block near that HDB flat..."

Liu Mengchen was surprised and said, "Wow, Mr. Li, you are so rich that you even bought a HDB flat?"

Half a month ago, seeing that the funds on hand were getting more and more abundant, Li Xiaofan finally asked Tang Jiaming and Irene to help him buy the four-room HDB flat with a usable area of ​​105 square meters located on 12th Street next to Tampines MRT Station in their names.

In the end, all taxes and agency fees were added up, and Li Xiaofan spent 65,000 Singapore dollars to get this house.

In the middle, Li Xiaofan signed a proxy holding agreement with Tang Jiaming and Irene. In any case, with this proxy holding agreement and the receipt of 65,000 Singapore dollars, if something unexpected happens in the future, Li Xiaofan can still get back the principal of 65,000 Singapore dollars.