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In the past few days, Zhou Buqi has been involved in EU affairs, and he also worked with Zhou Shaoning to acquire some mobile phone-related patents in Europe.

It's going very well.

The original plan was for Asda to spend US$1 billion to acquire about 120 relatively important patents. There were no design patents, and they were all invention patents surrounding communications, chips, imaging, sound, data transmission and other fields.

In fact, it took only four days to basically negotiate 76 of them, and the transaction price of the preliminary agreement was only US$470 million.

Much cheaper than expected!

Zhou Buqi asked Zhou Shaoning to quickly ask the Intellectual Property Department to come up with a new plan, seize the rare opportunity now, and make more purchases. Judging from the current development situation of the smartphone industry, this will be the last opportunity to acquire patents at low prices on a large scale.

Be sure to catch it.

On this day, he returned to London from France. His schedule was arranged relatively early and he came back at noon.

After returning home, I found that the house was a little deserted.

After asking, I found out that Shi Jinglin had come over, and then she took everyone on a trip to Scotland. She took a dozen beauties with her in one breath, and she might not be able to come back at night. Even Yang Mi and Baoshan and her two pregnant women took them with them.

Zhou Buqi called Aunt Xue and went to take a mandarin duck bath. He sighed and said, "I finally found a good opportunity with you."

Aunt Xue first went to the bathroom, filled the bathtub with water, and said angrily: "Come and steal from me when Baoshan is not here, you are a scumbag."

Zhou Buqi said amusedly: "Who stole it from you? Just take a shower and I don't smell the cigarette smoke? When a man comes home from work, he takes a shower as soon as possible. This is a good man who cares about his family and loves his family."

Aunt Xue asked: "Why are you back so early today? Didn't you say you were going to France this morning?"

Zhou Buqi said "hmm" and said, "Suddenly I received a letter that I am going to the United States."

"Ah?" Aunt Xue was a little surprised, "Aren't you going on vacation?"

Zhou Buqi stretched out and lay down on her bed, "A job has come to my door. It's quite important. Let's wait until next year to talk about the vacation. There are good things going to the United States this time. I got a company to ask for." It’s sold, it’s been negotiated.”

“Panda Mobile?”

Aunt Xue asked tentatively.

Zhou Buqi laughed and said: "Aunt Xue, you have made progress! You also know how to pay attention to our family's business!"

Aunt Xue pursed her lips and smiled: "I just want to know how much money this business can make for our family."

"About 2 billion."

Zhou Buqi replied casually.

"Ah?" Aunt Xue was slightly startled, "U.S. dollars?"

Zhou Buqi said: "Well, cash. Either Zuckerberg is a brother, he is really loyal. If Facebook had not participated in the crazy bidding, it would not have received such good sale conditions."

Panda Mobile is being sold to Cisco.

It's been decided.

The agreement is signed.

Zhou Buqi went to the United States mainly to collect money and then affirm and encourage Fu Sheng's great achievements.

This case is so beautifully done!

Originally, the highest offer offered by Cisco was US$4.25 billion, of which US$3 billion was in cash and the rest was replaced by Cisco stock. However, because of Facebook's bidding, Cisco also learned from the experience and significantly increased its offer and came up with a final plan.

Still $4.25 billion.

However, it's all cash.

Another point is that all taxes and fees generated by the transaction will be borne by Cisco!

The previous $4.25 billion was a pre-tax quote.

This time, the US$4.25 billion is quoted after tax.

Transactions between companies are taxed based on investment logic. If there is a profit, a 20% capital income tax must be paid.

If it is replaced with stocks, it means that it has not been cashed out yet and is still in the process of investment, so no tax will be paid no matter how much the surplus is. However, once it is turned into cash, this is the process of exiting the investment, and it enters the settlement process, and you need to pay taxes on the profit part.

For example, Buffett makes tens of billions a year without paying taxes.

Because the money he makes is the appreciation of stocks, it is still in the "process" of investment and there is no settlement. However, if he sells the stock, he has withdrawn from the investment and entered the post-investment "settlement" process, and needs to calculate taxes on the profit.

As long as you don't cash out, you'll never have to pay taxes.

Selling Panda Mobile this time is turning the investment into cash, which is an act of cashing out, and you need to bear a 20% capital tax.

In the new transaction plan, Cisco has significantly increased its bid price, and they are willing to bear this part of the capital income tax. This is obviously a red-hot plan, in order to seize Panda Mobile, a high-quality mobile Internet asset, from Facebook. It's really a big deal.

Aunt Xue was very happy and said happily: "Now that I have made so much money, can I pay off the family's debts?"

Zhou Buqi said with a smile: "Aunt Xue, your thinking is too traditional. Big capitalists should use other people's money to make money for themselves. Borrowing money is taking advantage. The more debt you have, the more advantage you will take."

"Why are you taking advantage? One year's interest is already five to six billion U.S. dollars. What can't you do with so much money?"

Aunt Xue snorted, feeling that there was foreign debt in the family and she was always worried.

Not to mention the foreign debt of six to seven billion US dollars.

Scared to death!

"But I have used the billions I borrowed to make tens of billions through investment. What does a few hundred million dollars in interest mean? Aunt Xue, your understanding is not enough..." Zhou Buqi waved his hand and didn't want to discuss it any more. "I'm going to the United States tomorrow. How will our family arrange it? Will you stay in the UK or go with me?" Aunt Xue said softly: "Follow you. You are the head of the family. Where you are, there is the backbone. Where you are, there is home." "Aunt Xue, your understanding is very sufficient and correct, then Come with me to America. London's weather is so bad, I don't know if it's fog or smog... Let's go to Miami!"

"Didn't you just say that I don't know enough?"

"You are always right about the relationship between men and women." Zhou Buqi praised, "When we take a bath together later, I will teach you a lesson?"

Aunt Xue pulled the hair by her ears and rolled her eyes at him, "Whatever, accept your fate." Zhou Buqi pointed at his feet, "Then come here?"

"What for?"

Aunt Xue blushed and was very alert.

Zhou Buqi said strangely: "Help me take off my clothes, take a bath with clothes on?"

Aunt Xue walked over, seeming a little hesitant.

Zhou Buqi took a pillow from the bed and handed it to him, whispering: "Be good."

Aunt Xue certainly understood what he meant. She glared at him with her beautiful eyes and snorted: "I've never seen you go so far!" Then, she put the pillow on the floor, knelt on the pillow, and said unhappily: "Lift your feet and take off your socks!"

Zhou Buqi smiled and said: "By the way, I'll ask you a question and see if you can answer it."

"I don't know how to do business."

Aunt Xue pouted, but her movements were very gentle, and she took off his socks first.

Zhou Buqi said: "Girls can easily choke when drinking water. Do you know why not?"

"Really?" Aunt Xue didn't know these unorthodox ways. She raised her head, blinked, and shook her head. "I don't know. What's going on?" Zhou Buqi said seriously: "Because the distance from a woman's mouth to her throat is about 13 cm, it's easy to choke when drinking water."

"Huh?" Aunt Xue was slightly startled, then her face turned red, and she stretched out her hand to pinch his calf, "I knew it was no good! Don't be so conceited! No!"

Zhou Buqi looked strange, "What am I conceited about? I just said a little common sense in life, this is all knowledge."

"Don't talk to me."

Aunt Xue didn't want to hear anything. This bastard boy was full of bad water.

I'll go to the bathtub to take a bath later. No need to think, he will definitely launch a crazy attack around this topic. It's really annoying! This is taking advantage of Baoshan's absence and wanting to go crazy.

Zhou Buqi asked, "By the way, I saw Yanan was at home too? Didn't she go to Scotland?"

Aunt Xue said "hmm" softly, "She heard that she couldn't come back today, so she said she couldn't go and wanted to stay to take care of you."

Zhou Buqi said with emotion, "So, people like you who have experienced it are more caring. How about... how about asking her to come over?"

"No!"

"Call her over!"

"No!"

"Oh, then there's nothing we can do. We can only rely on you."

"Hmm?"

Aunt Xue raised her eyebrows and opened her beautiful eyes wide, as if she heard the hidden meaning in his words.