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Because of this incident, Ye Jianchuan decisively blacklisted the alien and filed a lawsuit. Whether he won or lost the case was no longer important to Ye Jianchuan; his main goal was to teach this two-faced guy a lesson.

And then... there was that classic moment from the 98 World Cup, where the alien who had been phenomenal in so many matches turned into a complete idiot in the World Cup final against France.

This was something that should have happened in history, and had nothing to do with Ye Jianchuan. However, under the propaganda of the European "Mothers of the Nile," it became a story that Ye Jianchuan kept the aliens busy with courtroom troubles through constant lawsuits, ultimately leading to his poor performance in the finals.

Ye Jianchuan could only ask a series of question marks at such a statement. Unfortunately, what did foreigners know? They believed everything they heard. As a result, the sales of this clothing brand, which had been doing quite well in Brazil, were instantly halved.

However, every cloud has a silver lining, and every silver lining can a cloud. After this unexpected disaster, good news came from the Pampas, the neighboring country of Samba.

It's unclear whether the rivalry between Beckham and Maradona for the title of "King of Football" has created some animosity among fans of both countries. However, for the same reason, Ye Jianchuan's clothing brand saw a significant drop in sales in Samba, but a corresponding increase in sales in the Pampas.

Of course, after such an incident, it will be much more difficult for Ye Jianchuan to promote his clothing brand to other parts of the world.

Ultimately, at the beginning of the new millennium, Ye Jianchuan had no choice but to 'abandon' the clothing brand. Of course, this abandonment was actually just abandoning the brand name itself.

As for the original factory buildings, they can certainly continue to be used. However, even if it's just giving up a brand name and logo, it's already a huge loss for Ye Jianchuan.

When the brand was being established, Ye Jianchuan had the clothing brand run a lot of advertising and promotional activities.

These things, which cost money but lose money to gain publicity, wouldn't have been too bad if they had helped build brand awareness. But now that they're abandoning the brand name and logo, that awareness is naturally worthless.

This is one of the few 'failure cases' among Ye Jianchuan's many investments.

Unfortunately, the reason things have come to this point is because Ye Jianchuan was too confident in his 'foresight'.

He learned how amazing the aliens' performance would be in the future, and then tried to take advantage of the situation by offering a long-term contract at a low price.

However, Ye Jianchuan underestimated the fact that Europeans and Americans have very flexible standards for judging the 'spirit of contract', which is why, under the guidance of various parties, such a thing happened.

Of course, there is another very crucial issue, which is that Ye Jianchuan should never have even thought about making money from those old scoundrels in Europe and America.

It shouldn't be phrased differently; it should be that one shouldn't think of using the same 'alias' to make money in China and Southeast Asia while also trying to make money in Europe and America. Those old scoundrels in Europe and America are capable of doing anything shameless.

This time, Ye Jianchuan only gave the other side a little room to exploit, and then he was directly defeated.

Through this incident, Ye Jianchuan learned his lesson. Since you are all so shameless, then I can only use some less-than-clean methods to do business and make money off you.

Therefore, when Ye Jianchuan later developed the 'high-end mineral water' and high-end red wine, he had no psychological burden at all.

Moreover, Ye Jianchuan also realized that if he wanted to make money off these guys, foreign agents were indispensable, and at this point, the selection of these agents became a crucial matter.

If this were someone else, it would be extremely difficult to choose someone who meets their expectations and can help them complete various tasks as an agent, including frequenting high-society places and socializing with so-called 'celebrities'.

Even if you can find someone who meets these criteria, you still need to consider another issue: whether this person is trustworthy.

However, if this problem were placed in front of Ye Jianchuan, it wouldn't be a problem at all, since Ye Jianchuan possesses the most advanced 'lie detector'—the system.

With the system's help, Ye Jianchuan was able to easily select people who were truly devoted to him, train them, and then send them abroad to become his agents. This was the case with the person in Russia, and it was also the case with the person in Europe who was involved in the mineral water and wine businesses.

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Fortunately, apart from these highly competitive industries, Ye Jianchuan has also achieved technological leadership in some of them. This technological leadership has enabled Ye Jianchuan to successfully sell his products overseas under his own domestic brand name.

One of the most prominent industries is the household appliance industry, although the fact that household appliances are actually entering thousands of households in China is only just beginning.

In contrast, while many countries in Europe and America were using convenient household appliances, people in China were still cooking with firewood.

However... who could blame Ye Jianchuan for having the support of a system? So around 1995, Ye Jianchuan successfully improved the practicality of the household appliances he manufactured to a level far exceeding that of foreign products.

For example... Before this, refrigerators basically used refrigerants like Freon to cool and preserve the food, and at most, they could only produce refrigerators with two different temperatures coexisting: a freezer and a crisper.

However, Ye Jianchuan quickly upgraded the refrigerator technology, making it able to regulate its internal temperature and adding an internal air circulation function to prevent odors from developing over time.

Chapter 384 Seizing the Market with Future Technology

The technology behind this refrigerator was actually not expected to be developed until after 2010 in the rest of the world, but Ye Jianchuan brought it out so far ahead of schedule.

Therefore, this type of refrigerator can basically only be produced by Ye Jianchuan's company. So, if those old rogues in Europe and America want to boycott Ye Jianchuan's products, they can only use those older refrigerators.

But... after experiencing these new technologies, who would want to continue using those outdated methods?

Aside from refrigerators, there are also super smart rice cookers, which are the kind that you can pre-set to the type of food you want to use, and then prepare the necessary ingredients. The rice cooker will know what heating method to use and how long to heat it, so you don't have to keep an eye on the stove.

In the future, this kind of rice cooker will only be considered a low-end product. Basically, any rice cooker that sells for around two hundred yuan can achieve the same effect.

However, at that time, achieving that level was something that even the Americans couldn't figure out no matter how hard they tried.

As for other aspects, smart washing machines, ultra-thin LCD TVs, and other 'future technologies' were gradually developed by Ye Jianchuan during the three years from 95 to 97.

Moreover, Ye Jianchuan firmly held all the related patents associated with these products. In this way, even if the Americans wanted to copy them, they would only have to obediently pay the patent fees.

Actually, those old rogues in Europe and America had their eyes on Ye Jianchuan before. At first, they wanted to directly acquire the technology in Ye Jianchuan's company, but Ye Jianchuan rejected that offer. After that, they wanted to acquire Ye Jianchuan's company.

Moreover, it wasn't just one or two people who came, but wave after wave of them. At first, when they realized that using foreign faces wouldn't achieve their goal, they even turned around and learned how to 'find an agent' themselves.

They brought in a few Chinese people to talk business with Ye Jianchuan, wanting to acquire his company. But how could such a petty trick possibly fool Ye Jianchuan? So in the end, they could only helplessly watch Ye Jianchuan make money on their turf.

Besides the ordinary home appliance industry, Ye Jianchuan also wanted to further venture into the aerospace industry. To this end, Ye Jianchuan spent a lot of money in China to support the country's aerospace industry.

Unfortunately, China's aerospace industry started relatively late, and Ye Jianchuan was unable to obtain the relevant technical data. Therefore, China's aerospace capabilities could only proceed according to the original plan, step by step, to complete the scheduled test launches and the like.

However, as time went on, the advantages of having financial support gradually became apparent, as exemplified by the manned spaceflight program, which was originally scheduled to be completed in 03.

With the substantial financial support of Ye Jianchuan, coupled with the country's use of battery patents to exchange for some valuable technologies, China's manned space program succeeded in the year 2000.

Ye Jianchuan was so obsessed with the aerospace project because he thought of the guy in his previous life who had become the world's richest man.

Ye Jianchuan felt that Ye Jianchuan's forward-thinking approach of starting out with electric vehicles and later establishing a private "space exploration" company, with its focus on unexplored areas, was worth studying.

Moreover, another reason is that Ye Jianchuan felt that these things inside the Earth were just a soap opera, and such a soap opera was obviously unlikely to reach its final conclusion under the nuclear deterrence of several major powers.

This is why the most powerful of them, the Americans, are able to recklessly break some of the rules that were originally established under their leadership.

But... what if one day the Americans discover that others possess power far greater and more terrifying than their own? Would they still dare to be so arrogant? Probably not.

Therefore, Ye Jianchuan believes that if we can usher in the 'space age' ahead of schedule, and enable our country to possess super weapons such as 'space-based weapons' as a deterrent force, then those old rogues in Europe and America should no longer dare to act so recklessly...

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Of course, aside from these money-making areas, Ye Jianchuan also has projects that cost money. In fact, Ye Jianchuan has a lot of projects that cost money both domestically and internationally.

In China, most of the money spent on projects are charitable projects. Around the turn of the millennium, Ye Jianchuan funded the establishment of a charitable organization specifically for various charitable causes.

Of course, the main reason for establishing this charity was to compete with that certain color Red Cross for business, because Ye Jianchuan's charity directly submitted its accounts to the higher authorities.

Furthermore, the higher authorities will send special personnel to supervise and publicize the donations. In this way, all the donations will have a clear record of their origin and destination. If you want to know, you can even find out how much rice your donation turned into and ended up on the dinner table of that poor family.

Of course, it's impossible for such charitable organizations to make a profit. In addition, during the millennium, most people were still just barely able to make ends meet, so donations were relatively low.

2.5 So after Ye Jianchuan established such a charity, he basically needed to put tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of yuan into it every year.

Of course, these investments are just a drop in the ocean compared to the money Ye Jianchuan earns every year. After all, Ye Jianchuan can earn more than a small fortune just from instant noodles in the domestic market.

Aside from charitable organizations, Ye Jianchuan's funding projects also constitute a separate expense, as he has been cultivating his own 'confidants' for the sake of his business empire.

Ye Jianchuan would select some of the children from the welfare homes for special training. While not all of these children would be 'grateful,' the proportion of ungrateful children would certainly be much lower.

Chapter 385 Ye Jianchuan's 'Luxury Life'

Aside from the two types of things that should be considered 'charitable causes', there are also some 'investment' projects. However, these investment projects have not yet reached the stage of generating revenue, so Ye Jianchuan is still putting money into them.

For example, Ye Jianchuan would spend money to build roads in some remote and impoverished areas, and then promote a special type of fruit tree in the area for them to plant. After that, Ye Jianchuan would build a factory in the area to process the fruit he bought from them.

This line of thinking is actually somewhat similar to the poverty alleviation policies of later countries. However, Ye Jianchuan has also tied himself to this chain of interests. If he succeeds, not only will these poor families be able to escape poverty, but he will also be able to make a small fortune.

Moreover, Ye Jianchuan had communicated with his superiors about this project, and they also felt that the method was very feasible. However, at this stage, the superiors did not have the energy and funds to carry out this project, so they could only send Ye Jianchuan to "explore the way".

If Ye Jianchuan's method is truly feasible, it will be widely promoted in the future. However, at this stage, Ye Jianchuan has not yet seen any return on investment, so there is no follow-up to this matter for the time being.

Aside from these truly expensive stages, the remaining stages, while also costing money, are essentially profitable. For example, Ye Jianchuan knows that the real estate industry will create many 'top billionaires' in the future because the increase in housing prices is simply too exaggerated.

However, this was something Ye Jianchuan obviously couldn't change. Since he couldn't change it, Ye Jianchuan could only choose to hitch a ride with someone.

Therefore, Ye Jianchuan has actually spent money to buy a lot of real estate in China. Although these properties have indeed tied up a lot of Ye Jianchuan's 'cash', there's nothing he can do about it, since Ye Jianchuan is very profitable in many industries.

Moreover, unlike other companies, Ye Jianchuan's company did not actually consume any resources during the research and development phase, and there were no costs to speak of.

In this way, the money Ye Jianchuan earns is basically all the money he earns and he doesn't need to use any of it for research and development of new technologies. After all, all of these so-called new technologies are obtained by Ye Jianchuan from the system.

Without the so-called R&D costs, the cost of Ye Jianchuan's products was already very low. So even if those guys in Europe and America developed the same technology and wanted to compete with Ye Jianchuan on price and seize the market, they might not be able to win.

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Of course, aside from spending money on these 'official' matters, Ye Jianchuan did not neglect himself and his family in his personal life.

Putting aside everything else, Ye Jianchuan has bought dozens of luxury homes in various places. He owns a top-tier luxury home in almost every major city in the country.

These luxury homes are not like the CBD properties Ye Jianchuan bought before, which could be rented out immediately after purchase. Because there may be a need for occupancy at any time, these luxury homes not only cannot be rented out, but also require hiring people to clean and maintain them.

All these expenses add up to over a million yuan for Ye Jianchuan in a single year around the turn of the millennium.

However, this amount of money is only a drop in the ocean compared to Ye Jianchuan's income, and... these properties weren't just acquired by Ye Jianchuan to 'show off' and enjoy life.

Since it's a luxury home, it naturally falls under the category of real estate. The appreciation rate of this kind of property is much faster than putting all your money in the bank to earn interest.

Now that he owned the properties, shouldn't he also prepare some cars? So Ye Jianchuan prepared at least one car in the garage of each of these properties.

However, cars are not as precious in comparison, because these cars are all produced by Ye Jianchuan's own factory. In terms of quality and performance, they are basically the same as the mainstream models around 05, and can be considered as one of the most high-end cars at present.

However, since it is a domestic brand, it is still too difficult to promote it both domestically and internationally, given the exorbitant tariffs on automobiles.

Having a house and a car, what about other things? Of course, those also need to be prepared, such as matching home appliances, new and well-fitting clothes, etc., all of which are prepared in these properties.

Although it does sound a bit extravagant, Ye Jianchuan was able to "customize" most of these things directly from his own businesses, so in reality, he didn't spend too much money on these things.

Since Ye Jianchuan has one or even several properties in major cities, he can't possibly travel by squeezing onto slow trains, right?

So the nation's first private jet was soon unveiled. The luxury of this private jet was extremely extravagant. Not only was its size almost the same as three Boeing 777s, but its performance was also better than that of the Boeing A360.

So, from which company was this private jet ordered? The answer is still very simple... It was still sourced from Ye Jianchuan's own businesses.

Who made Ye Jianchuan successfully solve the major problem of engines? After all, Ye Jianchuan could even handle engines for military use.

Even the fourth-generation fighter jets in China use engines developed by Ye Jianchuan, so wouldn't it be a very simple matter for Ye Jianchuan to create his own private jet?

In fact, apart from this largest private jet, which is almost the same size as a 777, Ye Jianchuan could also procure several other aircraft of different sizes.

The slightly smaller ones are used for flights between two relatively close cities in China. These smaller private jets are slightly less stable when flying and can still experience some turbulence in strong convective weather, but fortunately they can land at most airports in China.

The largest private jet is so big that it can't land at some of the smaller airports in China. At present, such a plane is generally only used for international business trips.