Yu Li's childhood sweetheart and I in the courtyard

Chapter 175 See You Again

On this day, Zhang Ming, the general manager of Phoenix Clothing Company, called Yu Wei. Chateau Romanée-Conti and Chateau Leroy were both willing to transfer part of their shares, but they needed to have a personal interview with Yu Wei.

Yu Wei has been diversifying the Phoenix Clothing Group, and now it has developed to include luggage, leather bags, clothing, footwear, perfume, silk scarves, red wine and other companies under its umbrella.

Other companies are easy to manage, but red wine wineries cannot do business without experienced grape growers and top winemakers.

As for the world's top ten wineries, carefully check the background of the owner, unless they take the initiative to sell or transfer some of the shares, otherwise, don't even think about it.For example, Château Lafite is actually owned by the Rothschild family.

Therefore, Yu Wei can only let Zhang Ming take advantage of the collapse of the Bretton Woods system in the past two years and the economic problems in Europe and the United States, and first purchase wineries in France except for the top ten wineries.

And asked Zhang Ming to approach the top ten wineries to see if he could get shares in these wineries.Now Zhang Ming has acquired more than 20 wineries, large and small, in France.

Today I finally got the news that I have the opportunity to get the shares of Romanee-Conti and Leroy Chateau. Yu Wei is very excited.

Yu Wei knew that Chateau Romanée-Conti was originally owned by the Divaux Blocher family.

But in 1942, Henri Le Roy (owner of Château Le Roy) bought half of the shares in the Romanee-Conti winery from the Divaux Blocher family.

Today, the Romanee-Conti Winery has been jointly owned by two families.

Yu Weigang took advantage of dinner at home and said that he planned to go to France to buy some of the shares of these two wineries, and Qiao Yue immediately said that he must follow.

All the girls saw Qiao Yue's excited face and knew that she was a super red wine lover, so they all laughed.

Qiao Yue loves to drink red wine, and has always wanted to visit the top wineries. This time, her wish can be fulfilled.

The next day, Yu Wei and Qiao Yue flew directly to Paris in a private jet.

As soon as he arrived in Paris, after Zhang Ming received Yu Wei, he immediately told Yu Wei that the newly elected French President Giscard d'Estaing, who took office on May 5, asked him to meet him tomorrow morning.

Yu Wei immediately asked Zhang Ming to find some information about the new president and some of his policies after taking office.

In the afternoon, Zhang Ming sent some materials to Yu Wei.Yu Wei and Qiao Yue didn't go out, so they went through these materials together in the presidential suite of the Peninsula Hotel.

As soon as Yu Wei read these materials, he immediately understood why the two wineries transferred some shares!

The current world economic environment itself is not good. As soon as this Giscard d’Estaing took office, he planned to carry out some reforms. He not only increased the pensions and family allowances of the French, but also adopted freezing prices and wages in order to cope with economic stagflation. Purchasing power, and even measures such as higher taxes on high-income earners.

"Hey, no wonder these two families are planning to transfer some shares!" Qiao Yue also understood after reading it.

"Honey, shall we still buy it?" Qiao Yue then asked.

"Buy, why don't you buy, it's best to sell them all to us! With this little money, do you still need to think about it?"

"Didn't you start to bring all the income from the Hung Hom Tunnel to your family this month? Use the family funds managed by Li to buy it, and let the purchased winery shares also belong to your family!" Yu Wei replied.

"Where is this? In the future, France will be publicly owned and privately owned for a while. Every time someone changes to go up, there will be a whole lot of work. That's why I don't dare to build Disneyland in Paris as I knew in my previous life." Yu Wei said in his heart. .

"That's fine, anyway, the family in charge of the eldest sister has enough funds, and she discussed with us last week to consider investing in some projects." Qiao Yue thought about it.

The next day, Yu Wei and Qiao Yue met the new French president and his wife at his residence and chatted for over an hour.

Mainly, President Giscard d'Estaing was introducing some new policies in France and invited Yu Wei to invest more in France.

And Yu Wei also said that he is optimistic about the French wine industry and will increase investment in this industry.

The next day, Yu Wei, Qiao Yue and Zhang Ming visited Leroy Chateau and Romanee-Conti Chateau.

Qiao Yue was so excited that Yu Wei, a lady who loves red wine, finally got her wish and visited two top wineries in the world.

That night, the three of them attended a dinner co-hosted by the Leroy family and the Divo Blocher family, during which the principals of the two families also clearly expressed their willingness to sell part of their shares.

The next day, the three of Yu Wei started negotiations with the Leroy family and the Divo Blocher family.

Yu Wei wholeheartedly wanted to buy more shares, so he made more concessions in terms of price, and said he would not participate in the management. He only asked the two wineries to get the same proportion of red wine shares according to their own shares every year.

It was much easier to talk about it now, and it was settled quickly. Yu Wei holds 40% of the shares in the two wineries each, and does not interfere in the management of the wineries. 40% of the red wine quota is given to Yu Wei.

As for how to distribute the shares of the two wineries between the two families, Yu Wei ignored it.

Then Yu Wei negotiated two things with the two families: one is to distribute 20% of the shares of more than 10 wineries acquired in France to the two families for free, and they will be responsible for managing these wineries.

Second, a big deal was negotiated with two wineries. Except for some collections left by the two wineries, Yu Wei wiped out the rest of the wine in stock over the years.

As a result, both families are very happy!I won 10% of the shares of more than [-] wineries for nothing. Although they need to be responsible for the management, it may be a problem for Wei, but for them, it is just a matter of catching up with one sheep, or a problem of catching up with a hundred sheep. That's all.

And although most of the winery's collections over the years were sold to Yu Wei, a lot of money was also recovered.

They were happy, and Yu Wei was even happier. In his previous life, he often heard on the Internet that the Leroy Wine King and Romanee-Conti Wine King from the 60s and [-]s were auctioned all over the world from time to time.

At this time, hey, what wine king?In the [-]th century, Le Roy and Romanee-Conti are all in my hands.

Thinking of this, Yu Wei had an idea. Since the two families agreed to this kind of operation, it seems to be very happy, what about other wineries?

So, as soon as the deal with the two families was completed, Yu Wei immediately asked Zhang Ming to ask the other eight wineries to see if they could do the same.

Zhang Ming's temptation was incredible. When the owners of the other wineries asked the Leroy family and the Divaux Blocher family about the truth, they invited Yu Wei and the other three to discuss it.

Now, Yu Wei, Qiao Yue, and Zhang Ming bought, bought, and bought all the way, and even Chateau Lafite transferred 20% of the shares to Yu Wei in the end.

Yu Wei and Qiao Yue were also invited to the Rothschild family, the actual owners of Château Lafite, to attend the banquet.

During this period, Yu Wei had a secret conversation with their contemporary patriarch in his study for more than an hour, but the content of the conversation has never been known to outsiders.

It's just that in the next few decades, there are several major economic events that happened in the world, and those who are interested have discovered that there are faint shadows of the Yu Wei family and the Rothschild family.

And also after this secret meeting, Yu Wei participated in most of the luxury brands in France and Italy.

Subsequently, the products of these luxury brands are also marketed all over the world through the sales channels of Phoenix Supermarket and Phoenix Clothing Group.

At this time, the London side saw that Yu Wei was buying and buying all the way in the European continent like a boy who spread money, and was anxious. This is a lot of small money!How good it is to vote in England!

These people know that Yu Wei has a good personal relationship with the Queen of England. The new Prime Minister Harold Wilson directly approached the Queen to learn about Yu Wei's investment interest in England.

The Queen of England just used Wei's tip to make a fortune in the World Cup, and gave Yu Wei a favor, telling Harold Wilson directly that Yu Wei was interested in the automobile industry.

Now, England's car brands are world-class, but now they are dying one by one. How much money does London subsidize every year to maintain it and not go bankrupt?
Harold Wilson immediately thought that this was a good opportunity to abandon this burden. Thinking of this, he discussed with the Queen about the current miserable situation of these English car brands, and elaborated on the current bad economic environment. He told the Queen that he wanted to get rid of it. This is England's current big burden.

Then he begged the Queen of England to support his decision and help invite Yu Wei to Buckingham Palace for a banquet.

At that time, I will help to test Yu Wei's meaning and see if Yu Wei has any intention of acquiring a car company.

The Queen of England thought for a while, and she was also aware of the dire situation of the automobile companies in England today, so she agreed to Harold Wilson's request and agreed to help invite Yu Wei to the banquet and build a bridge.

But Yu Wei and the others were heading to Marseille at this time. Yu Wei had asked Ye Qiang to arrange a temporary short-term rental of a large warehouse near the port.

Yu Wei has arranged for all the wines shipped by the major wineries to be delivered here, and the security personnel arranged by Ye Qiang are responsible for receiving and guarding them.

After going to the warehouse to check everything was correct, Yu Wei directly locked the warehouse, excused that he had found someone to transport it back, and then evacuated all the people.

Looking back, I found an opportunity to store all these famous wines that will be treasured in the future. These wines cannot be allowed to float in the sea for more than a month. If something happens, it will be a big loss!
After that, he took Qiao Yue to various European countries for more than a week. After receiving the invitation from the Queen of England, he flew directly to London that day, preparing to go to Buckingham Palace for a banquet the next night.

"Sir Yu, I haven't seen you for a long time! I think you are very leisurely now. You are traveling and vacationing around Europe. Are you enjoying your trip?" After seeing Yu Wei, the Queen of England smiled happily and said to Wei.

"Your Majesty, this is my wife, Ms. Qiao Yue. This time I came to Europe, mainly to accompany her and buy some good wine. She is a lover of red wine." Yu Wei introduced Qiao Yue, and then dealt with it casually road.

This sudden invitation to come over, if it is simply a matter of making money from the World Cup, I have to thank myself, then I have already invited through MacLehose, there must be other things, so Yu Wei can only do this when he does not know what the situation is Said.

(End of this chapter)