Chapter 353: Introducing Foreign Capital, Becoming Increasingly International

Words : 1935 Updated : Oct 9th, 2025

"Losing over six hundred million all of a sudden, indeed it’s a bit much." Right after Zhang Jing walked out of the office, a little while later, Tang Caidie knocked and entered, bringing with her the tax details for a 30 billion dividend. The tax expected to be paid was 23%, of which a 13% rate was unavoidable, but an additional 10% could still be manipulated. For example, by purchasing houses, cars, raising employee wages, and renting office space to offset a part, although these expenditures were very limited and employee salaries could not be increased further. In recent years, their salary increases had been somewhat rapid, aside from the cleaning ladies, starting at a minimum annual salary of 400,000. Their efforts, did not deserve the current returns. Increasing it further would lead to undesired resentment, so it was necessary to find new ways to account for expenses. The fastest and most common method was doing charity, directly dividing with the group from Red Cross who were merely warming their seats. With Lu Liang gaining a good reputation, the company could deduct taxes, and they could line their pockets, a win-win for everyone. However, Lu Liang was unwilling to ally with them, otherwise, there wouldn’t have been such a fuss last year. Ultimately, Chen Jinchun acted as a representative, doing charity face-to-face, ensuring every penny went into hands that needed it. But that method was too time-consuming and strenuous, Also risking offending the people from Red Cross again. "Then let’s buy a plane," Lu Liang suggested with a smile. He had paid some attention to this market the last time he flew on Wanda’s private jet, Bombardier’s Global 6000 seemed quite good, with a market price of 370 million RMB. Like the Gulfstream G550, it belongs to the ultra-long-range business jets capable of flying directly from Modu to New York without stopping, the same model used by Little Ma. "Should we reserve one?" Tang Caidie confirmed again, with a cash injection of 30 billion, the company’s cash flow was frighteningly high. Although she was the financial director, the actual shareholder of the company was only Lu Liang, so she was more like an accountant in charge of the books. All decisions, even those involving funds exceeding ten billion, even a hundred billion, could be implemented immediately as long as Lu Liang agreed. "Make the reservation, the standard edition will do, when the time comes, entrust it to Pu Xin Airport to help with the decor." Near noon, Lu Liang completed the handover procedures. From this moment, he became a free man again, not holding any positions in the fund company, he could openly, without any need to avoid suspicion, go to the 22nd floor of Tianxing Private Equity. "Mr. Lu, good afternoon." Sun Yutao, all smiles, led the applause, and everyone else stood up in unison, welcoming the swift return of Boss Lu. "Good afternoon, everyone, go back to whatever you were doing. I’m just here as a shareholder to look around." Lu Liang said with a smile curling his lips, although his words might sound redundant, sometimes procedures are very important. "Welcome, Mr. Lu, to our company." Sun Yutao got the hint and promptly changed his approach, "Then let me show you around." Lu Liang nodded and went to the office originally belonging to Wen Chao, who had been dispatched to Tokyo. Sun Yutao did not promote anyone because this office was reserved for himself. Now that Lu Liang was back, he automatically demoted himself, and the office originally belonging to Wen Chao now had an owner. "Mr. Lu, please take a look, this is the asset detail of the fund, and the net value updated on the 1st of this month." In the past half year, apart from mid-March, relying on information from Lu Liang, they made a little over one hundred million dollars in the oil market, apart from that, they only made regular investments in US stocks. Old Te, having been in power for over half a year, implementing plans like quantitative easing of the US Dollar, industry fund repatriation, etc., successfully achieved results. In the past six months, the Dow Jones Index surged 3180 points, almost an entire A-share market’s increase, creating new historical highs every month. The Dow Jones Index grew from 19120 points at the beginning of the year to 22300 points last night, an increase of about 16.6%. Their main investments were in blue-chip tech stocks, led by Tesla, supplemented by Apple and Microsoft. The average stock gains were about 22.2%, with Tesla showing the most exaggerated increase of 98%. The net value also rose significantly, reaching 1.622, with total assets valued at 81.1 billion US dollars. S~eaʀᴄh the ηovёlFire .net website on Google to access chapters of novels early and in the highest quality. At the beginning of the month, through Wen Chao, Lu Liang conveyed that there would be big moves next month, advising him to redirect funds and prepare. Apple, Microsoft, NVIDIA, and other stocks were sold at high positions, now apart from Tesla’s 5.08% equity, valued at 50.012 billion US dollars, the remaining 30.088 billion US dollars were available funds. "30 billion US dollars still feels a bit less." Lu Liang aimed to make more money through acquiring land and building factories, the more the capital, the higher the profits, his gaze was on Tesla, but seeing only 5.08% equity left, he had to relinquish the idea. Selling more would necessitate a public announcement of reduced holding, also exposing that they had already quietly sold a lot. A voice from the future predicted that in four years, Tesla’s market value would rise to 1200 billion US dollars. It’s uncertain in this world, due to Lu Liang’s involvement, whether it would reach that high, but one thing was clear, Tesla had that potential. Good steel needs to be used on the blade’s edge, and pigs also need to be fattened until the New Year before slaughtering, he couldn’t bear to cut now. Recently, Tesla’s market value fell below one hundred billion, and for the sake of current small profits, ruining it might result in losses of several hundred billion US dollars. "Let’s launch a new project," Lu Liang finally decided, after much deliberation, to initiate another private equity fund with a scale of 3 billion dollars. The fee structure would be 3+20N, with a basic management fee of 3% and a performance fee of 20%, applying a tiered approach to management fees. Based on a 30% profit benchmark, for each increment of 30% in profit, the management fee would increase proportionally by 5%. Thus, if the return reached 60%, the management fee would be 25%, 30% at 90%, 35% at 120%, with a cap at 40%. Upon hearing this, Sun Yutao was astounded, "Mr. Lu, will they agree to this?" "If you had the money, would you invest?" Lu Liang asked with a smile. Sun Yutao thought for a moment, then smiled sheepishly, "I definitely would." The current fund was a 3+25, and it had already distributed a dividend of 31%, now with an additional return of 62.2%, achieving a composite return rate of 93.2%. That is, each 100 million dollars invested had so far made a profit of 93.2 million dollars. Even under the new rule, taking 30% of the profit as a management fee, the investors would still be willing. The higher the management fee, the more they earn, and although they might grumble privately, ultimately they would agree. "That settles it then." Smiling, Lu Liang thought for a moment and added, "This time, we will only release 1.5 billion dollars worth of shares domestically." Caught off guard, Sun Yutao asked, "Are you planning to bring in foreign capital?" Lu Liang nodded, "I met quite a few new friends in New York; let’s give half of the shares to them as a favor." Over the years, he had offended numerous Wall Street institutions, but his recent trip to New York went smoothly, and he was warmly welcomed by the gentlemen there. It was only right he returned the favor. From now on in international markets, unless ideological differences between countries were irreconcilable, they would not deliberately target him under normal circumstances. Making money together, why not? Sun Yutao understood completely and looked at Lu Liang deeply, noticing his style was maturing. This maneuver would not only set him on good terms with Wall Street institutions but also help bring substantial US Dollar investment to the country. Since their registration was in Modu, foreign investors wanting to subscribe for fund shares would at least have to set up companies in Xiangjiang. Although the Hong Kong Dollar is pegged to the US Dollar, when it comes time for dividends, local taxes are inevitably required. If they weren’t willing to just pay the 20-25% tax, they would need to invest in industries, or offset via purchases. That too would drive consumption. "By the way, don’t release the news too quickly, let’s hold off for a few days, any time before September 6th would be fine." Today is July 27th, and Lu Liang would be traveling to Beijing on August 7th to attend a national celebration of youth representatives, so there wasn’t a rush at the moment. By delaying a few days and releasing the news just before his trip to Beijing, it would also gauge the reactions of related agencies. Introducing foreign capital, Lu Liang wasn’t sure about the national stance. Because this time, the parties involved were essentially model Wall Street institutions like JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs, unlike the Saudi fund’s wealth with no strings attached. It also meant that Lu Liang was officially stepping onto the international scene, no longer purely domestic capital. Flatteringly, it’s becoming more international. Unflatteringly, it’s a bit of pandering. ... As the two talked, it was already two o’clock in the afternoon. There was just one hour left in this week’s trading session. The market was exceedingly quiet; in the past ten minutes, the combined trading volume of the three markets, including the Growth Enterprise Market in Shenzhen and Shanghai, didn’t exceed 80 billion. As closure neared, everyone had no intention of making moves, only hoping to get through the weekend steadily and peacefully. However, the markets didn’t cooperate, and Tianxing System’s stocks, which had been declining all day, suddenly surged. Tianxing Mixed Fund’s 15 billion capital violently entered eighteen stocks, including Ningde. In just five minutes, all eighteen stocks, which had fallen by 2%-5% on average, turned from red to green. The selling pressure accumulated over the past three hours was like fragile paper, easily punctured by the massive influx of funds. "The first fire of the new officer is finally lit, charge~~" "It’s foreseeable, this is just the start, Liangzi is poised to solve the puzzles today~" "Aren’t you worried it’s another lure?" "Have you ever seen a lure take place on a Friday at two in the afternoon?" Since New Year’s Day last year, with two circuit breakers within four days, holidays had also become perilous, evolving from being limited to the traditional holidays to frequent mini-crashes on regular weekends. With the T+1 trading system, once the money was invested on Friday, it would have to wait at least until Monday to sell. Zhang Jing’s choice of timing was impeccable, Friday at 2 PM, convincing enough to believe that this time it was not a ruse but a genuine attempt to bottom-fish and save the market.

Chapter 353: Introducing Foreign Capital, Becoming Increasingly International

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