American Ranch

Chapter 507 Dragon Boat Race

The qualifiers for the first Coconut State International Dragon Boat Race started in March.

It is conceivable how many participating teams and attention can be attracted by a competition with a prize money of 10 billion yuan.

After May, enter the official competition.

Early in the morning, Chen Mo drove Ellie to Haikou Airport in a Maybach Zeppelin.Ellie is more than six months pregnant and almost seven months old, Chen Mo must be careful every time he drives her out...

At the airport, Ellie saw a man and a woman standing at the airport gate, and shouted: "Li Meitong, hi, here..."

Li Meitong...

Ellie's roommate at Princeton University, the girl from Wanwan Province who taught Ellie how to speak Chinese.

Li Meitong was slightly startled when he saw the car, and came dragging his luggage.

Ellie directly opened the car door, ran over with a smile, and hugged Li Meitong...

"How many months are you pregnant?"

"It's almost seven months." Ellie smiled, stroking her belly with the radiance of maternal love on her face.

"It's so annoying. It seems that I'm going to be an aunt soon." Li Meitong touched Ellie's belly carefully, and giggled: "Let me introduce you, Liu Zihao, my cousin."

Ellie went over and pulled Chen Mo out of the car: "My husband, Chen Mo."

"Hello, super handsome husband, my name is Li Meitong, from Wanwan, and I was roommate with Ellie at Princeton University." Li Meitong smiled and stretched out his hand to shake hands with Chen Mo.

"Chen Mo." Chen Mo smiled and shook hands with Li Meitong.

Li Meitong looked at Ellie miserably as if she had been shocked: "The super handsome husband looks better than on the camera."

Li Meitong grabbed Chen Mo's hand and refused to let go, Ellie patted her hard twice: "Let go, let go."

The small suitcase they carried just fit into Zeppelin's trunk...

Liu Zihao sat in the passenger seat, Ai Li and Li Meitong sat in the back.

"Wow, this car is so cool, it doesn't feel bumpy at all."

"It's okay. By the way, you graduated from college, right?"

"Well, I just got my diploma. You transferred to Stanford, didn't you graduate?"

"No." Ellie puffed her face and said, "I met him not long after I went to Stanford. Then he abducted me, and I didn't graduate yet."

Chen Mo smiled, but did not expose Ellie.Where is she who was abducted by herself? She is the one who is so shameless, okay...

Along the road of Dongzhou, they came to the coconut corridor and arranged them to the coconut oasis resort...

"Old Mo." Bai Xiaoou walked over with a smile while holding Bai Xue.

Bai Xue is one and a half years old, when she saw Chen Mo, she bit her finger and stumbled towards him...

Chen Mo smiled and picked up the little girl, kissed her on the face, and gave it back to Bai Xiaoou: "I was looking for you. Is there anything?"

"It's okay. Why don't you bring the children to play here?"

"Let's watch the dragon boat race together later. In the 500-meter final today, it seems that a team from the Huafeng Group has entered the final."

"Well, the game starts at 10:20."

The 500-meter race is a 20-meter dragon boat, with 23 people on board, one helmsman, one gong player, one drummer each, and 1 rowers.There are also 20 substitutes... This is a standard competitive dragon boat team.

The unified competitive dragon boat is for the convenience of the competition.

But when it comes to rally, traditional small dragon boats and big dragon boats are needed.

A small dragon boat with 26 gears and 36 rowers.One for flag control on the deck, two for the tail, one for singing, two for drumming, two for palming gongs, two for holding incense buckets... [-] people.

The big dragon boat has 36 stalls, 12 people rowing on both sides, and 48 deacons including drums, shoots, gongs, flags, singing gods, and incense buckets, and [-] people are needed.

In the final 17 kilometers, there were only 36 people on the small dragon boat, and only 26 people rowed.

As for the big dragon boat, there are 48 people on board and 36 people rowing.

In the long-distance competition, there are many people and few people, and each has its own advantages and disadvantages... Anyway, the dragon boat team under the Yunshan Group has prepared a 48-person dragon to participate in the final.But now, the Yunshan Group dragon boat team has not yet qualified for the finals...

After arranging the residence of Li Meitong and the others, Chen Mo wanted to go to Houhai now. After sitting in the car, Chen Mo accepted Li Meitong and the others from Bai Xiaoou.

"You are the chairman and founder of Huafeng Group?" Li Meitong had noticed Bai Xiaoou just now. She had seen Bai Xiaoou in the American Fortune magazine... Bai Xiaoou was still on the cover, but it was just the first time she met him. Not sure.

"Well, you know me?" Bai Xiaoou turned to look at Li Meitong and said with a smile.

"I saw you on Fortune, you were on the cover of Fortune. Omg, didn't expect to see you in person..."

Bai Xiaoou smiled hehehe: "You're talking about the issue in mid-March..."Fortune" originally wanted to interview Chen Mo, but Chen Mo didn't want to accept the interview, so he took advantage of me."

Li Meitong opened her mouth...

"Chen Mo...Mr Chen?" Li Meitong hugged Ellie's arm: "Oh my God!"

According to reports, Chen Mo has a net worth of nearly 300 billion US dollars.

Chen Mo holds more than 7 million shares of Hegu Animal Husbandry, and each share is now worth 30.62 US dollars, which is more than 200 billion.However, the current market value of Hegu Animal Husbandry is not equal to its real value, it is just being sought after by the market... His shares in Hegu Animal Husbandry cannot be cashed out in a short time... By July, Hegu Animal Husbandry raised funds before going public. The stock is about to be unfrozen. At that time...the stock price of Hegu Animal Husbandry must fluctuate violently... Only after that can the real value of Hegu Animal Husbandry be detected.

Li Meitong was a little dizzy, looking at Ellie, waiting for Ellie's answer...

Ellie shrugged and spread her hands.

"Wow."

In Houhai, many people came to watch the dragon boat race.

For this competition, Brother Xiaohu will broadcast the whole process on the web, and a large team will do various publicity and promotion.Anyone who surfs the Internet should know that there is an international dragon boat race being held in Coconut State, and the total prize money of the race is 10 billion yuan...

A total bonus of RMB 10 billion seems like a lot.

But in dragon boat races, there are 23 people on a competitive dragon boat.In the competitive segment, the highest prize money is the 1000-meter round-trip race, and the prize money for a single champion is 1 million.And the runner-up, 1 million, the third runner-up, 500 million...

Followed by 1000 meters, the champion is 1 million, the runner-up is 500 million, and the third is 300 million.

In today's 500-meter final, the champion reward is 500 million yuan.In a regular team, there are 25 players, and then there are coaches, assistants, etc. A team that comes over has about 30 people, at least...

30 million for 500 people, less than 17 per person.

Of course, the top five in each event will be eligible to participate in the rally, and the rally champion reward is 3 million yuan.But there are 36 players on a dragon boat, even a small dragon boat...

Huge bonuses will attract attention and more people will participate.

For example, in the International Dragon Boat Race held in Wannian County last year, the maximum prize money for the champion was 180 million yuan. Even if it was divided equally among 23 contestants, each person would get no more than 8 yuan.Dragon boat races... it's a very expensive race.A competition is said to be less than a dozen days long, and it takes a month to come. It costs money to come to board, lodging and accommodation... Moreover, the teams participating in the dragon boat race are basically sponsored by the local government. If you win the championship, you may lose money throughout the game.

Dragon boat racing is not like football or basketball.In China, there are not many people who pay attention to dragon boat races... To be honest, it is very difficult for a professional dragon boat team to get sponsorship.

But this year is different.

There is a bonus of 10 billion.Coconut State also invested a lot of energy in organizing this competition... 786 teams from more than 30 countries signed up for the competition.There are more than 400 teams in China, some representing cities, enterprises, and townships...

(End of this chapter)